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"Turn on the flashlight and pay attention to your feet. This time, a few people go in first, and the others are waiting outside."

Before Professor Foder finished speaking, Kleiman, who was small and thin, had already walked in first.

Qu Lanzhi smiled, and the others did the same, obviously they were no longer surprised by this little old man's behavior.

Without unnecessary nonsense, after discussing the candidates, the three professors and two assistants walked into the cave together.

Chapter 1 Mountains of Madness: The Old Ones

In addition to Kleinman, the three professors who entered the cave later were paleontologist Fude, Qu Lanzhi who specialized in botany (biology can be subdivided into many types, botany is one of them), and geology Home Beach.

This is a low limestone cave. After initial discovery, it has expanded to about four meters wide and three meters high. About 5000 million years ago, groundwater from the tropical world flowed through here and eroded into the current channel. .

Two days ago, they discovered a large pile of shell and bone fossils here. The number of specific species may be more than what their entire team can count or classify in a year. All kinds of large, small, and known There are countless fossils of new and unknown species, such as molluscs, crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and even birds and early mammals. I still remember that they saw such a pile of fossils placed two days ago. When in front of him, what a shocked expression.

Generally speaking, each type of fossil mound is distributed in different positions or rock formations, and there is rarely any overlap, but here not only overlap, but so many types of creatures overlap together, it is unimaginable, unimaginable in ancient times What kind of changes happened in time to bring these fossils of different ages together.

These fossils blocked the entire cave. If the detectors hadn't discovered that there was a wider space behind the fossils, they would have almost missed it.

Stepping into the cave after blasting, they carried flashlights and walked forward.

Sure enough, the space inside is wider, like an open space, and the light of the flashlight can't illuminate all the darkness. Although the height here is only five or six meters, it extends in all directions. The slight flow of fresh air shows that this cave should belong to a cave. Larger scale underpass system.There are many stalactites growing on the top and ground of the cave, and some even connect up and down to form stone pillars.

Professor Beach carefully observed the surface of the stalactites with a flashlight, and said: "It takes at least several 10 years for a stalactite to form. From the preliminary analysis of the appearance, these stalactites have existed at least since the Bai Dynasty."

Their feet stepped on the rough ground, and they kept making crisp sounds. Ford shone the light of the flashlight down, and found that what they were stepping on were all exposed bone fossils.

"Come and see!"

Ford squatted on the ground and greeted his companions.

After some inspection, they identified the fossilized remains as including early shellfish such as the nautilus, as well as the bones of sclerosids and placoderms... all the way down to the vertebrae and bone plates of dinosaurs, sabertooths, pterodactyls , and even Paleogene fossils such as thunder beasts.

From the Ordovician to the Paleogene, there is a gap of more than 4 million years. Why are these bones piled up in this cave?

If the first discovery made them cheer, then this discovery made them feel horrified.

This simply overturned their scientific cognition all along!

The empty cave has remained dry, dead, and untouched by living things for at least 4000 to [-] million years. Their arrival is like unraveling the mystery of that crazy history.

According to the current situation, they inevitably conjectured an absurd idea in their minds. During the period from 3000 million years ago to at least 3000 million years ago, the reproduction and prosperity of creatures in this cave site had reached an astonishing level. , until one day [-] million years ago, the terrible ice and snow weather destroyed the original life inside the Wuji Ice Field. Without this accident, these creatures should have lived longer.

Before they could start discussing this, the cave protruded, and suddenly there was a human scream.

"It's Kleiman's voice!"

The screams pulled everyone back from their chaotic thoughts, and they went to the front together to find out.

Finding the sound, the five of them saw Kleiman in a corner of the cave, and Verd asked loudly, "What did you find?" while speeding up and running over there.

As soon as they walked around a few stalactites, the five of them froze in place as if they had been struck by lightning.

"This, this is..."

Looking at the scene in front of him, Ford was stunned.

"Prehistoric intelligent creatures, prehistoric intelligent creatures really exist! Hahaha!"

Here are all barrel-shaped weird fossils, about two meters high, belonging to a completely unknown species.From the middle of the barrel body, tentacles full of weird folds protrude horizontally, with a thin wing membrane, which looks like a pair of wings, but no matter how you look at it, they don't have the ability to fly. From the top of the barrel body, extend five The protruding tumor-shaped object grew five round limbs full of wrinkles from the tumor joints, and spread out in all directions, strikingly similar to a starfish.

Several such fossils are surrounded by an empty cave, and with their incomprehensible appearance, it is easy to remind people of the evil gods that humans once worshiped in the ignorant period.

Kleiman was stroking a barrel-shaped fossil with his hands, and Ford wanted to go forward, but he was tripped by something, and when he looked down, it turned out to be long tentacles spread on the ground , the tentacles are derived from those barrel-shaped fossils!

"Is this a plant, or an animal?"

Qu Lanzhi couldn't help standing on a barrel-shaped fossil, and touched it with her hands.

It is unbelievable that despite tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years, the surface of these fossils still retains amazing elasticity, the appearance feels like hard leather, and the surface is full of weathering marks.

But from the outside, she couldn't tell whether the fossils were of plant or animal origin.

Geologist Professor Beech also started to caress one of the fossils as if in a daze. At this time, no one cared about Kleiman's crazy performance, because everyone was similar.

The only one who remained rational was Professor Ford.

He woke up an assistant who also wanted to come in contact with the fossils, and ordered: "Ask people from outside to come in and transport these fossils out first. I always feel that this cave is a bit weird."

Watching the assistant walking out of the cave with reluctance, Fude took a deep breath. Since he was in his 40s, he has been full of enthusiasm for science since he entered this mountain range, and he has never felt cold. The scene where everyone was holding a fossil to observe in front of him gave him a chill down his spine for no reason.

Soon a large group of assistants arrived and began to move fourteen large fossil samples to the base outside the cave.

What no one expected was that as soon as they got out of the cave, the docile huskies in the base suddenly turned into a violent state, gnashing their teeth and barking, while running towards the specimen. Since it was a rest period, the assistant did not The huskies were tethered, and dozens of dogs surrounded the entrance of the cave, barking and attacking, trying to attack the fossils. The scene was chaotic.

Everyone didn't understand why the well-trained huskies would go crazy at this time, but fortunately, they would not attack the personnel in the base. The assistants drove the dogs to a distance without much effort and tied them with ropes. , if not, they are likely to tear the fossils that everyone finally found into pieces.

Kleiman couldn't wait to dissect a fossil quickly. This was also the idea of ​​all the scientific researchers present. They used the gasoline stove in the base to heat one of the fossils, but the surface of these fossils looked rough. When digging, they found that there seemed to be some kind of oil secreted on the surface of the fossil, which was both tough and smooth, making it difficult for them to start. Although there are other ways to dissect, if the cutting method is too violent, it may disrupt the inner structure of the fossil. Structure, this is what they don't want to see.

So the assistant could only continue to heat the specimen by the gasoline stove, and turned to study other fossil samples.

Only Kleiman was still guarding in front of the gasoline stove, staring at the specimen.

No one has noticed that some strange purple lines have begun to appear under his eyes, but because the color is relatively light, it is covered by the dark circles caused by staying up late, and it is impossible to see it at all. I am afraid that he himself will not be able to find it on his body. Variety.

Somewhat abruptly, Kleiman seemed to see the tentacles on the fossil tremble.

Looking around, he didn't tell everyone about this phenomenon, but continued to turn his head and look at the fossil.

"...the ancients...our city...will...resuscitate..."

He muttered to himself.

Madness loomed in his eyes.

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"Can't wait any longer."

Just after taking a hot bath, Lanaya's face was rosy, and she sat with Xia Ren by the door of the base, looking at the majestic snow-capped mountains above her head, and the huge vortex that was constantly rotating. Hear Professor Qin's notice.

"The new base of the scientific research team has been built, and new research progress has been made. I want to go and see, who of you will be with me?"

Professor Qin said, and passed the short message that he had just received and printed out to everyone for circulation.

"Let's go together!"