Chapter 692: Fossils
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With the giant snake leading the way, Chen Ran found the warehouse of the underground fortress very easily, although most of it collapsed, it could be seen that the warehouse was divided into several pieces.
Chen Ran saw the No. 5 warehouse first, the materials in it were still piled up, but the cement wall on the other side turned upside down and smashed on it, seeing this, he didn't bother to look through it, and directly scanned it with golden energy, and now there are army coats, boots, military quilts, lunch boxes, gas masks and other daily necessities, it may be that this fortress is well designed, and most of these materials are still intact.
However, Chen Ran obviously had no interest in these.
Since there is warehouse No. 5, there is obviously warehouse No. 1234, or even warehouse No. 6, Chen Ran found warehouse No. 4 first.
Warehouse No. 4 was filled with canned food and other food, and Chen Ran even had beer and Japanese sake in it.
After passing the No. 4 warehouse, I turned a corner to the No. 3 warehouse, which was filled with grain and rice, and this warehouse was the most bombed, all of which were buried, and then the No. 1 and No. 2 warehouses were the places where the giant snake stored the munitions.
The two warehouses were full of boxes of munitions, Chen Ran took a cursory look, there were at least hundreds of boxes, each box was either machine guns, rifles or bullets, so many munitions could equip at least one division.
Although there are a lot of arms, Chen Ran is not interested, although it can be sold for a lot of money if he sells these arms secretly, but it is not troublesome enough for him, and it is not cost-effective.
But since it is present, it cannot be left here, if it is manifested by a well-intentioned person, it is fine, but if it is manifested by a mad person, it is undoubtedly not good.
Then Chen Ran went to look at other places, but nothing appeared.
This underground fortress is obviously more than this layer, but the lower part is blown up and buried, Chen Ran didn't want to bother to clean up the exit, so he simply released the golden light energy to investigate the entire fortress.
Under the investigation of the golden light energy, this fortress has a total of three layers, the first layer is the upper layer, the second layer seems to be inhabited, and the third layer is for prisoners.
"Huh......"
After checking all the places, nothing came to fruition, and just when Chen Ran was about to take back the golden light energy, a storage room suddenly appeared in a room and immediately attracted his attention.
"Fossils? Specimen? ”
The golden light energy poked in and scanned it, and it turned out that the storage room was now full of all kinds of stones, which made him interested.
This storage room is in the innermost room on the second floor, Chen Ran checked that the second floor has been buried, and if he wants to go in, he must either clear the passage on the second floor, or go directly to the first floor, but he also has to clean it.
In contrast, it is undoubtedly a little easier to go past from the first layer.
The giant snake also apparently showed that Chen Ran was not interested in the "things" it regarded as treasures, so it was not interested in staying by Chen Ran's side.
Although Officer Yuan knew that the giant snake would not hurt her, he was obviously still a little frightened in front of the giant snake, grabbing Chen Ran's arm and not daring to let go.
Chen Ran took Officer Yuan to the room, and the giant snake followed slowly behind.
With a "boom", Chen Ran kicked out a hole in the blocked walls, and these cement walls were shaken by explosives, and now they are not very strong, Chen Ran hardly used much force.
From the kicking opening, I didn't go far, and I reached the top of that room, this room was the innermost room, and the other side was the stone wall of the mountain peak, so it was only half collapsed, and Chen Ran just stepped on the collapsed half and went down to this room on the second floor.
Chen Ranxian's storage room was in this room, the room was very large, and it should have been an official's residence before the fortress was blown up.
The storage room was dug out of the stone wall against which the room rested, so the storage room is still well preserved.
Chen Ran squatted down and cleaned up the bricks and gravel blocked in front of the secret door of the storage room, and then opened the secret door.
There were those desktop electric lights in the storeroom, and Chen Ran tried to turn on one, and there was electricity, so he turned them on one by one.
Officer Yuan also followed in with a flashlight, and the giant snake that followed behind poked its head in and watched.
The storage room is not big, there are showcases on both sides, and then there is also a showcase in the middle, Chen Ran looked at them one by one, these stones are fossils of various animals, all kinds of animals, and even a lot of dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs are rare items in the world, but they are very common in China, the dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs unearthed in China are second to none in terms of quantity and type, the Central Plains, Sichuan, Guangdong and many other places have been unearthed, some concentrated places are even everywhere, you can pick up at will, and you can often see it in the cultural relics market, sometimes you can buy one for two hundred yuan.
But these are low-grade, there are low-grade, naturally there are high-grade, high-grade ones belong to rare treasures, each of them is worth a lot of money, and you can't buy it if you want to.
Chen Ran didn't know much about this kind of thing, so he couldn't see the value of these fossils for a while, in addition to the fossils, there were some artificially made animal specimens in the cabinet, and Chen Ran also found a jade tree fossil, from here it can undoubtedly be guessed that the owner of this room should be a lover or an expert in this area.
Chen Ran opened the cabinet door and looked at it, in addition to fossils and specimens, there were some materials, but these materials were all in Japanese.
In the cabinet door below, Chen Ran also found two white wooden boxes, one large and one small, he also opened them and took a look, inside were cotton bags, the top one should have been opened and then wrapped casually, so the package was not very tight.
Chen Ran casually took it out and took it apart and looked at it, but now it turned out to be a bone, which should also be a fossil.
The same is true of the other box, seeing this, Chen Ran wrapped up the bones and put them in the box, although he is also interested in these fossils, but he is only interested in it but has no intention of collecting it himself, obviously, the value of this kind of cultural relics research is greater than the value of the collection, or leave it to those experts to study.
Originally, Chen Ran was about to close the box again, but when he closed it, he released the golden light energy and glanced at the cloth bag below casually, but this sweep immediately made him stunned.
"How is that possible?"
Chen Ran looked at the box in front of him in shock, was stunned, and then hurriedly checked the other cloth bags and another box.
As the investigation continued, the stunned on his face gradually turned into stunned.
"Why is this thing here?"
"Isn't it on the Awa Maru?"
……
No matter how rich Chen Ran's imagination was, he couldn't imagine that this thing would be hidden in such a small storeroom, let alone that the rare treasure that had attracted the attention of the whole world would be revealed by himself, this feeling was as if something that was not the same world as himself was suddenly born in him.
Although Chen Ran also imagined that some treasures appeared with his own abilities, he couldn't even think of this kind of treasure in front of him, he felt too far away from him, but now that it suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, it felt unreal.
Chen Ran didn't think too far, although the things in front of him made him feel a little unreal, but the facts were indeed born, put the flashlight aside, and he took out a large oilcloth bag from the box with an indescribable mood.
Carefully put the oilcloth bag on the display cabinet in the middle, and then Chen Ran unwrapped the oilcloth.
Chen Ran's movements were very light, and there was obviously more than one layer of things wrapped in this oilcloth bag. Chen Ran first dismantled the medical cloth outside, then a layer of white powdered paper, then another layer of cotton gauze, and then another cotton cloth, which was not over, and then white cotton paper, then muslin, a total of six layers, until this time, the things that were wrapped in layers were considered bare.
But it's a skull.
To be precise, it is a fossil of a skull, also known as a "Peking Man" skull.
That's right, what Chen Ran found in this box is the skull of the "Pekingese".
The name of the "Peking Man" skull must have been heard by every Chinese, and in the twenties of the last century, scientists found two teeth belonging to early humans in Zhoukoudian. In January of the same year, the Beijing scientific community reported this important moment, which immediately caused a sensation at home and abroad. Later, scientists decided to name the owner of these two teeth "Peking Man", and later named "Beijing Chinese Ape Man". ”
In the second year of the excavation, two capable young paleontologists in China, Yang Zhongjian and Pei Wenzhong, participated in the excavation of Zhoukoudian. They are full of energy and bring life to the whole scene. In 1929, the miracle that shook the world's academic circles was finally born: the first complete Peking Man skull was found in Zhoukoudian.
It was the early winter of this year, and the staff suddenly saw a small hole during the digging process, and the crack at the entrance of the hole was so narrow that only one person could enter and exit.
In order to find out the truth and reality, Pei Wenzhong came to the cave, took a closer look, and was very happy, it turned out that many animal fossils had unexpectedly appeared here.
Ignoring the cold, he decided to continue the excavation. By four o'clock in the afternoon of December 2nd, the sun had already set, the sky outside the cave was gradually darkening, and the howling cold wind was blowing in the mountains, and the cave felt even colder, but people were still working intensively under the dim candlelight.
Suddenly, Pei Wenzhong shouted happily: "It's an ape!" ”
Everyone gathered around, and sure enough, the skull of an ape-man was visible, half of which was exposed to the ground, and the other half was still buried in the hard soil. People were so excited that they couldn't take their eyes off it.
At this time, it was getting darker and darker, but everyone's mood was already impatient. Pei Wenzhong resolutely decided to continue digging until the first Peking Man skull was completely unearthed. No one slept well that night.
Early the next morning, Pei Wenzhong sent a special person to report the good news to the Geological Survey Institute in Beijing. A few days later, on December 6, Pei Wenzhong personally escorted this rare treasure to the city in a car, wrapped in his own two quilts, mattresses, and felts.
In 1936, Jia Lanpo successively found three fossilized skulls of "Peking Ape Man" in the Ape Man Cave. A total of 6 skulls, 12 skull fragments, 15 mandible bones, 157 teeth, broken femurs, and bloody bones were unearthed before and after, belonging to more than 4o men, women, and children.
The discovery of Peking Man ruins and fossils is a major event in the history of paleoanthropological research in the world. So far, there is no ancient human site with such a large number of ancient humans, ancient cultures, ancient animal fossils and other materials as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man site.
As a result, the Peking Man fossil has become a rare treasure that has attracted the attention of the world's scientific community. Although "Peking Man" is not the earliest human, as a representative of the intermediate link from ape to man, it is called "the most meaningful and moving present in the entire history of ancient mankind", so the preciousness of the "Peking Man skull" can be imagined.
Such a thing can no longer be measured by a national treasure, and the meaning it represents cannot be measured by money or even value.
However, it is precisely because of its preciousness that it has also become the object of coveting by some speculators and imperialists.
Pei Wenzhong's exhumed five Peking Man skulls and a batch of fossils were strangely "missing" during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
This incident became a theft case that shocked the world. For decades, not only the Chinese have been searching, but scientists and scholars from other countries have also been searching, but there is still no result.
However, who would have thought that the skull of the Peking Man that the whole world was looking for would lie quietly in such a small storage room without anyone caring......