Thinking of this, Lin Yi's brows furrowed, and he quickly searched the surroundings.

The cave is well organized, and the area is very large, from the inside to the outside, the bones of the elephants are one after another, densely packed, neatly arranged, and even between the two bones, there is not a trace of gap.

The bones are white, and under the illumination of the light, it is indescribably cold and terrifying.

This should be what every new elephant does, sorting out the bones of their predecessors.

After years of accumulation and sorting, this place will be so organized.

In the field of vision, the bones range in color from white to yellow, to purple, and even the innermost colored bones, which are at least hundreds of thousands of years old.

The bones here are arranged according to the time of the elephant's death, so it is easy and easy to find.

Soon, Lin Yi found what he was looking for at the edge of this forest of bones, some fresh, as fresh as the ivory in his hand at a glance.

These tusks have not been baptized by age like other ivory, and they are as fresh as three pairs of milky white tusks.

This means that in recent years, at least three elephants have been buried in this elephant tomb, and if you add the two elephants who have been here in the past few days, five elephants have died in turn in recent years.

This means that the previous herd has lost five elephants in recent years.

Of course, it is also possible that these corpses are not all from the previous herd. Or that the former elephant herd is divided, and it is possible for several elephant herds to share an elephant tomb, after all, although the previous elephant herd is said to be huge, but the number of elephants that died so many at once is still a bit more than balanced.

Lin Yi played with these pairs of tusks and put them aside, these ivory tusks had no attraction to him. Because it's new teeth.

Such a new tooth is not only banned in China, but even in many countries, if it is discovered, it will only be destroyed, and Lin Yi will face this great trouble, even if it is not banned, if you sell and use it, you will be annoyed to death by those animal protectionists, and your reputation will stink for you.

Don't underestimate animal protection organizations, they may not be as powerful in China, but in the Western world, the capabilities of animal protection organizations and their influence are terrifying.

Not only do they have some rights, but they also have a lot of influence on public opinion, and in this era of propaganda, it will be troublesome if the reputation is stinky.

In the market, the new ivory can not be taken out, but the old ivory, no one cares, to say that the protection of rare animals and plants, the laws of some Western countries, are stricter than China, but in these countries, the ancient ivory products of China can be circulated.

Not only China, but also old ivory in many countries can be bought and sold, after all, because of the influence of the general environment. You can't ban all of them.

Some countries want to ban the ivory trade, but some countries are not willing to! Especially some countries in Africa, they still rely on ivory products to stimulate their domestic economies!

Of course, these are nothing to Lin Yi, after all, these are not poached, but found in the elephant tomb, and when the news is released, there will definitely be many people and institutions interested.

And so many ivory corpses here, and even these bones arranged by age, are simply a history of elephants, the history of elephant evolution, with which you can see the evolution of elephants, this is a living history.

A natural museum.

"When the time comes, we can build a museum of elephant fossils on Treasure Island. It must be fascinating. At that time, I don't know how many experts and scholars will come to study and investigate. ”

Lin Yi said softly.

Yes, in the history of elephants, no researcher can refuse.

The bodyguards shouted excitedly when they saw the neatly arranged and densely packed elephant carcasses, because this represented countless tusks, because this was an African elephant, not an Asian elephant.

All elephants have tusks, but not every elephant has long tusks.

And when we talk about ivory, it is precisely the fangs that are exposed.

African elephants, both male and female, have large tusks. Asian elephants are only available to male elephants, and female elephants do not have exposed tusks.

Even due to poaching, some Asian elephant bulls now have no tusks, which must be the result of human selection, because bulls with tusks are hunted, and only the occasional bull elephant without tusks is spared.

Nowadays, even African elephants are trending like this, and some elephant tusks are starting to get shorter.

And if this trend continues, the result is that more and more of their offspring, due to genetic reasons, will not grow that long tusk.

Animals in the natural world don't know how much harm they have done, but they still don't repent.

Under such circumstances, it may be decades, thousands of years from now, elephants will lose their teeth, and future elephants may abandon their teeth that have evolved over thousands of years.

When the time comes, the descendants will see elephants without teeth.

Because of the popularity of ivory and the ban of the world environment, many people have opened up new sources of ivory.

One is old ivory, which is not prohibited, so many people nowadays trade old ivory, or old ivory products. Just like the ivory that Lin Yi obtained this time belongs to the old ivory.

The second is mammoth tusks.

Mammoths, roughly extinct about 10,000 years ago, bone things have been fossilized for a longer time, so the tusks of mammoths have not become fossils today, and the number of mammoths has accumulated over countless years, and there are many of them.

So mammoth ivory is now the new darling of the market, especially in cold Siberia, where a huge number of mammoth carcasses are buried, and countless treasure hunters go to dig for ivory.

However, the local government has banned such practices, but poaching still occurs regularly.

Several bodyguards ran around, almost running around these elephant bones, and even climbed directly on top of the elephant bones, bouncing and jumping, and Lin Yi's eyelids jumped when he saw it.

Because these are bones that have been around for many years, no one knows how hard the bones that have not been fossilized are, and they may even break with a slight force.

These intact elephant bones are worth a lot of money, and if they were destroyed, it would be a great loss.

"Are you excited enough, if you are good, hurry down from the bones, be careful that the bones are broken, and the ivory will give you a bowel piercing. Lin Yi looked at these bodyguards and said suspiciously.

As if in response to Lin Yi's words, at this moment, an elephant bone made a rattling sound and suddenly collapsed.

The bodyguard on the elephant bone fell. If it weren't for the quick eyes of a bodyguard next to him who grabbed the other party at once, Lin Yi's prophecy would have come true.