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At night, when everyone was surrounded by tents, Professor Qin made an exception and asked the team to set up camp half an hour earlier.

They could already see the mountains clearly, but there was still a long way to go.

At this moment, the scientific research team sent another text message to exchange information with them:

"Yesterday our plane returned and successfully found more valuable things. Flying over the mountains on the edge, we saw some peaks in the depths. Although the observation with the naked eye may not be accurate, I still want to say, The height of the main body of those peaks is even higher than the highest mountain in the world, Mount Maya!

The initial flight was not smooth, all the mountain tops were pitch black, without snow cover, and there was a strong wind blowing in the valley, it was difficult to find the landing point. Just when we were about to turn back, we finally found a hilly area , landing there.

The mountain peaks here are layered, and the Cambrian rock formations may have been mixed with other rock formations. The silhouette of the mountain peaks against the sky is a bit strange, with many regular cube sections surrounding the highest peak, and even the entire ridge has a huge square shape. It is blocky, but the hillside is almost vertical, and it looks like some kind of huge building complex. Therefore, Kleiman believes in the existence of prehistoric intelligent creatures even more. He is really crazy to have this idea since yesterday!

We got off the plane and found what appeared to be Permian and Triassic schist on an exposed rock face, later inferred to be hard slate coal, a discovery that dismayed Kleiman, who had been anticipating the exploration. The fossil specimens unearthed should be at least [-] million years ago.

We then discovered a cave under the hill. The rocky sand on its round edge actually contained some limestone from the Paleogene Period 300 million years ago. The rock formations were full of various small fossils, including heads. There are pods, corals, sea urchins, etc., occasionally mixed with skeletal remains similar to siliceous sponges and marine vertebrates. This is the first time that we have unearthed fossils of marine vertebrates. This is only at the entrance of the cave. This lunatic, Leman, desperately wanted to enter the cave, but I forcibly stopped him.Due to the fact that the landing point was not selected, and the time was almost at night, the fierce cold wind was blowing at the entrance of the cave, making creepy and weird noises. If we don’t return as soon as possible, with the small amount of equipment we carry, it is very likely that we will freeze to death here. .

We are making some adjustments and plan to set off again tomorrow. This time we will carry the camp materials and set up a station there to facilitate the next research.The investigation work has been going well so far. I look forward to your arrival and to reconnect with the outside world. "

Chapter 1 Crazy Mountains: The Rescue Team Arrives!

According to the coordinates provided by the scientific research team, Professor Qin led the team to start towards the mountains.

It is worth mentioning that they just set off the next day and found an incredible scene not far ahead.

The hundreds of kilometers of snow became so hard that even the well-maintained claws of the huskies could not draw any marks on it. The surrounding temperature was also affected by it, dropping by about five or six degrees.

"There was an ice storm here not long ago."

Professor Qin, who has studied the Wuji Ice Field in advance, explained.

Xia Ren took out the ice ax and tapped on the snow surface, but the sound of "bang bang" made his hand hurt from the shock.

"The power of the ice crystal storm is so great..."

The power of this natural disaster once again refreshed his cognition.

Fortunately, their team is lucky, if they run into each other on the way, I am afraid there will only be a dead end.

It is estimated that the communication base station of the scientific research team was destroyed by this kind of storm.

Now the team is facing a problem. The snow here has become like a smooth ice surface. Huskies can’t pull the sled and run on it. In desperation, Professor Qin had to take a detour. The itinerary that could be reached had to be extended for another two days.

Four days later, they crossed the last slope, and finally at the foot of the mountain, they saw the base where they were stationed.

After one month and five days, the 13-member rescue team finally joined the 28-member scientific research team!

The task of negotiation was handed over to Professor Qin. Xia Ren and the others lived in tents for more than a month. Although they could withstand the cold wind at night, they slept in the snow after all. Both eyes shine.

There are beds in it!

The scientific research team had a very good impression of their rescue team, and immediately prepared a sumptuous meal for him, and extravagantly boiled hot water for them to take a bath.

For this meal, they ate barbecue!

The scientific research team carried enough food for 28 people for a year. Their original task was just to lead the charge, to explore the situation inside the Promise Ice Field to a certain extent, and prepare for the subsequent teams.

Since the communication base station was destroyed, and they have obtained enough fossil specimens for research these days, the scientific research team originally planned to wait for the official rescue team to arrive, and then go back by themselves. After all, they represent the ultimate goal of human science. Top-level power, if any accident occurs to any personnel, it will be an irreparable and huge loss to the entire human science community.

Before the meat was roasted, the saliva of more than a dozen people drool all over the floor.

They ate canned and dehydrated vegetables for more than a month. Although they can change the taste, the canned food can't compare with the barbecue no matter what!

The babbling hot oil dripped down, splashing sparks, and everyone gathered around to warm up while waiting, Xia Ren looked outside the room, Professor Qin and an assistant in the base were talking, and he didn't know what they were talking about The content, in short, Professor Qin's face is not very good.

Xia Ren then noticed that, as the current base camp of the scientific research team, there were too few active personnel in this base. Apart from the assistants who provided them with food and hot water, he only saw less than four people active.

Keeping this matter in mind, Xia Ren planned to find another opportunity to ask after a while. The meat was roasted in a short while, and Professor Qian came to eat with him, but compared to when he first entered the base, his interest was obvious. After a lot of reduction, Xia Ren realized that his wife, the biologist Qu Lanzhi, had never appeared.

"Is everyone else in the base resting?"

Xia Ren asked.

Professor Qin swallowed the meat in his mouth, wiped his lips, and told everyone what the assistant outside said just now:

"Just two days ago, after returning from their third survey by plane, Professor Ford and Kleiman proposed to build a new base in that hilly area for observation. They seem to have discovered a new type of fossil there. , If you want to analyze it, the workload is huge, and the fuel consumption of the plane back and forth is a horrible figure. All the professors agreed with his proposal, and set off on a sled with equipment and construction materials at noon the day before yesterday. Now this base There are only five left-behind assistants."

Ford is a paleontologist and the person who has been responsible for sending messages to Professor Qin.

"What did they find? They could make all the professors put down the work they were doing and go together?" Wen Yan asked.

Professor Qin pondered for a moment, then said with some uncertainty: "It seems to be a fossil tomb."

"Fossil mound?"

"You found this?"

Everyone looked at each other, and they all saw the shock in each other's eyes.

"What is a fossil mound?"

Xia Ren and Lanaya were the only ones present who didn't understand what was going on.

Facing Xia Ren's question, Wen Yan explained: "Most creatures in this world have their own tombs, just like people have mass graves, elephants have elephant tombs, so far, scientists have unearthed many. Fossil mounds, every time they are discovered, can fill in many blank periods in history. Having mounds means that at least a certain type of fossils have appeared in one place on a large scale and in a concentrated manner. Through in-depth research, it may be possible to Find out the cause of a certain mass extinction in history!"

From this point of view, it does require a lot of work, and people who study science are usually paranoid and will never let go of such a good opportunity.

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The real situation was far more complicated than what Xia Ren and the others knew.

150 kilometers away from them, in front of a cave in a hilly area, a total of eight tents, large and small, have been set up. Some of the yurts have been reinforced with hard ice. The people who built them planned to use a lot of them. time.

Now there is no one in these tents except for fossils and instruments, and everyone stands outside the cave, waiting for something.

"Is it set up?"

asked Professor Ford.

One of the assistants replied: "Well, the amount of explosives and the location of the burial have been accurately calculated. In addition, several simulations have been carried out. This blasting will only cause a slight vibration to the cave. Although it will destroy some fossil specimens, But just being able to see what's behind it makes it all worth it."

Several professors nodded, and the assistant squatted on the ground and pressed the detonator.

With a muffled sound, the ground shook only slightly.

A group of people walked into the cave, looking at the broken stone wall inside and the dark scene behind the stone wall, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

The blasting was successful.