In addition to Kleiman, the three professors who entered the cave afterwards were the paleontologist Forde, the botanical Quranji (biology can be subdivided into many species, and botany is one of them), and the geologist Beech.

It is a low limestone cavern that has expanded to about four meters wide and three meters high, and about 50 million years ago, groundwater from the tropical world flowed through it and eroded into its current channel.

Two days earlier, they had found a large pile of shells and bone fossils, probably more than the entire team could have counted or classified in a year, and there were countless fossils of all kinds of species, such as mollusks, crustaceans, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and even birds and early mammals.

Generally speaking, each type of fossil mound is located in a different location or rock formation, and there is rarely overlapping, but it is inconceivable that not only overlapped, but so many types of organisms overlapped together, and it is difficult to imagine what happened in ancient times to bring these fossils of different ages together.

The fossils had clogged up the entire cavern, and they would have almost missed it if it hadn't been for the fact that the probe had found a much wider space behind the fossils.

Stepping into the cavern after the blast, they carried their flashlights and walked forward.

Sure enough, the space inside was much larger, like an empty block, and the light of the flashlight could not illuminate all the darkness, although it was no more than five or six meters high, it stretched in all directions, and the faint flow of fresh air indicated that this cave should belong to a larger underground passage system. The top and ground of the cave are covered with stalactites, some of which are connected to each other to form stone pillars.

Professor Beach took a flashlight to carefully observe the surface of the stalactites and said: "It takes at least hundreds of thousands of years for a stalactite to form, and from the preliminary analysis of the appearance, these stalactites have existed at least in the White Period. ”

Their feet clattered on the craggy ground, and Fude shone the flashlight downwards to find that all they were stepping on were bare fossilized bones.

"Come and see!"

Fude crouched on the ground and beckoned to his companions.

After some inspection, they identified the fossil remains as early shellfish such as nautilus, as well as the bones of sclerofish and shield fish...... All the way down to Paleogene fossils such as dinosaur vertebrae and bone plates, saber-toothed beasts, pterosaurs, and even thunderbeasts.

There is a difference of about 400 million years between the Ordovician and the Paleogene period, so why are these bones stacked in this cave?

If the initial discovery made them cheer, then this discovery made them feel creepy.

This is simply subverting their scientific perception all along!

The empty caverns have remained in their current state of dryness, dead silence, and untouched by living beings for at least thirty to forty million years, and their arrival is like unraveling the mystery of that crazy history.

Based on the current situation, they inevitably speculated in their minds the absurd idea that in the period between 30 million years ago and at least 500 million years ago, the life of this cave site had reached an astonishing level, until one day 30 million years ago, the terrible ice and snow weather destroyed all the primitive life in the Infinity Ice Field, and these creatures should have lived longer without this accident.

Before they could begin their discussion, the cavern reached out, and a human scream erupted.

"It's Kleiman's voice!"

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

Searching for the voice, the five of them saw Kleiman in a corner of the cave, and Fude asked loudly, "What did you find?" He picked up speed and ran that way.

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

"This, this is ......"

Fude looked at the scene in front of him, stunned.

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

It's all barrel-shaped, grotesque fossils, about two meters tall, of a completely unknown species. From the middle of the barrel, the tentacles full of strange folds stretched out horizontally, with a thin wing membrane, looking like a pair of wings, but no matter how you look at it, it does not have the ability to fly, from the top of the barrel body, five raised nodules, and from the nodules grow five round limbs full of wrinkles, which spread out in all directions, and have a striking resemblance to starfish.

Several of these fossils enclosed in an empty hole**, coupled with their incomprehensible appearance, are easily reminiscent of the evil gods that humans once worshipped when they were still in ignorance.

Kleiman was stroking a barrel fossil with his hand, and Fude wanted to step forward, but he tripped over something, and when he looked down, it turned out to be a long tentacle, spread on the ground, and the tentacles came from those barrel fossils!

"Is this a plant, or is it an animal?"

Qu Lanzhi couldn't help but stand on a barrel-shaped fossil and touch it with his hand.

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

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

The geologist, Professor Beech, was also stunned, and began to stroke one of the fossils, and at this point, no one cared about Kleiman's madness, because everyone was about the same.

The only one who is still rational is Professor Fude.

He woke up an assistant who also wanted to come and make contact with the fossils, and instructed, "Call the people outside in and transport these fossils out first, I always think this cave is a little weird." ”

Seeing the assistant seem to reluctantly walk towards the outside of the cave, Fude took a deep breath, he was in his forties since he entered this mountain range, he was full of enthusiasm for science, and he had never felt cold, but the scene in front of him where everyone was holding a fossil to observe made him inexplicably feel a chill down his spine.

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

What everyone didn't expect was that as soon as they came out of the hole, the originally tame huskies in the base suddenly turned into a violent state, gritting their teeth and barking wildly, while running towards the specimens, because it was a rest period, so the assistant did not give the huskies a leash, dozens of dogs surrounded the hole, barking indiscriminately, while making an attack posture, wanting to attack those fossils, the scene was chaotic.

Everyone didn't understand why the well-trained huskies went crazy at this time, but fortunately they didn't attack the personnel in the base, and the assistants didn't have much effort, so they drove the dogs away and tied them with ropes, otherwise they would probably tear the fossils that everyone had found so hard to pieces.

Kleiman couldn't wait to dissect a fossil quickly, which was also the idea of all the scientists present, they used the gasoline stove in the base to heat one of the fossils, but the surface of these fossils looked rough, and when they actually started to dissect with a scalpel, they found that the surface of the fossil seemed to secrete some kind of oil, which was both tough and smooth, making it difficult for them to start, although there were other ways to dissect it, but if the cutting method was too violent, it might disrupt the internal structure of the fossil, That's something they don't want to see.

The assistant had no choice but to heat the specimen by the gasoline stove and turn his head to study the other fossil samples.

Only Kleiman remained in front of the gasoline stove, staring at the specimen.

No one noticed that some strange purple lines had begun to appear under his eyes, but because the color was relatively light, it was covered by the dark circles caused by staying up late, and he couldn't see it at all, and I was afraid that he wouldn't be able to notice the changes in his body.

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

Looking around, he didn't tell everyone about the phenomenon, but continued to look back at the fossils.

“…… The Ancients...... Our City ...... Will...... Recovery ......"

He muttered to himself.

There was madness in his eyes.

……

……

"Can't wait any longer."

As soon as she finished taking a hot bath, Lanaya's face was flushed, and she sat by the door of the base with Xia Ren, looking at the majestic snow-capped mountains above her head and the huge whirlpool that kept swirling, and before she could say a word, she heard Professor Qin's announcement.

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

Professor Qin said, handing the text message he had just received and printed out to everyone for circulation.

"Let's go along!"

Wen Yan took the lead and said.

"I'll go too."

"It's a great opportunity."

"It's hard to come here, of course I have to learn something."

Everyone agreed, and then unconsciously set their eyes on Xia Ren and his wife.

"You two don't go, it's tiring enough to travel this month, take a good rest in the base." Professor Qin said in an unquestionable tone.

Xia Ren's eyes kept looking at the text message in his hand, and when he heard the words, he raised his head and said, "I want to go with you." ”

His brow furrowed.

Others may not know, but Xia Ren has been exposed to pollution, and those strange-shaped fossil samples are definitely not that simple, maybe they are what the system calls the old rulers.

"Then I'll go too!"

Lanaya did not hesitate and directly chose to follow Xia Ren.

"You are a woman's house, what kind of fun, and these two days are uncomfortable, just wait for me in the base, rest assured, I'm just going to see, nothing will happen."

He comforted him and finally persuaded Lanaya.

"Well, you must come back."

Lanaya held Xia Ren's hand, her face faintly worried.

"Yes."

"Call me by name, or wife."

Lanaya bit her lip, she noticed that in the past month, Lin Xiao always used "you" when communicating with her.

She didn't know if her husband was still worried about the divorce before, so she could only bury it in her heart and not take the initiative to mention it, but today she didn't know what was wrong, she just couldn't control her mouth, she wanted to say it, and she wanted to talk to him a lot.

Looking at her anxious and somewhat hopeful gaze, Xia Ren hesitated for a moment and showed a smile:

"Yes, Lanaya."