Chapter 258: Wonderful Night at the Museum (4)
Quest's suggestion is not unreasonable.
In fact, before the visitors to the museum arrived, the meticulous Commander had already carried out many inspections of tonight's security work, but he wanted to leave any omissions.
"I am going to greet Your Majesty, and if Your Excellency Pasha is interested in this place, you may visit it, as long as you don't miss the dinner. β
It didn't seem to mind that the young blue dragon was wandering around the museum alone, and when he saw the golden ship at anchor, Davish politely said hello and retired first. Before teleporting away, he also thoughtfully summoned two attendants for Quest to serve as tour guides.
Without refusing this "kindness", expressing his intention to visit the glass pyramid in advance while the dinner had not yet started and there were not many visitors, Quis followed the attendant who led the way down the tower, through the courtyard, and into the pyramid-shaped greenhouse.
They walk into a palm-lined green passage filled with large tracts of carefully cultivated ferns, making one feel more like they are entering a new world, a prehistoric tropical world, while leaving the real world behind.
At the end of the green passage, there is a large parquet floor with beautiful drawings carved with great skill: crocodiles crouching around the pond, lions chasing antelopes, and warriors in heavy armor fighting each other.
Many seats and tables were laid out here, and some attendants, visibly dressed as court servants, were diligently adjusting the angles of each tablecloth and every seat, and carefully filling the containers on the tables with visibly chilled drinks.
"We'll wait about another hourglass hour," the guide leaned down and explained to the dragon Pasha, "and the dinner will be held here." β
Nodding his head, indicating that the timing was clear, Quest's attention was already drawn to something else interesting.
With a loud roar, a fierce lion suddenly leaped from behind a fireplace clinging to a marble column, opened its bloody jaw, and pounced on Quest and his two guides with a bloody wind.
Although they knew that it was actually a pet kept by the general of the Duty Sect, the two tour guides were still so frightened that they almost didn't throw the dragon Pasha and fled first.
The Niroa lion certainly doesn't want to hunt its prey. In fact, it just wants to scare strangers who have just arrived on its turf. When he reached the side of the blue-striped stone road for people to walk on, the big cat stopped his steps and revealed his original form.
Proudly, it glanced at the three people standing in place, flicked its tail, patted its buttocks, and prepared to turn away. But at this moment, a coercion that could not be resisted was enveloped in his whole body, and if it weren't for his face, the Niroa lion would not have and urine flowing together.
Like its most annoying, hot copper bump, the monstrous creature reached out and wrapped its arms around its neck, pulling it to its side, and began to rub it against its proud, shiny mane.
"It's really a kitten in a greenhouse," Quest let go of the Niroa lion after playing like a cat for a while, and the latter scurried into the grass without looking back, "but it seems to be an extinct creature, right?"
Faced with the question of the dragon Pasha, which was actually a secret that was about to be revealed, the two guides naturally knew everything, "Erudite as you are, it is indeed an extinct lion, it is a Niroa lion less than a year old......"
As he listened, listening to the explanations of the two tour guides, Quest immediately remembered his previous doubts about the fossils and amber becoming hot sellers in the Grand Bazaar's "Buying and Selling Guide". Looking at it this way, this sudden extinct creature should be inseparable from it.
"Davishur, how exactly did he 'resurrect' several extinct creatures, and what are they?"
The young blue dragon suddenly became interested, judging from his past contacts, Alan was the reincarnation of a soul-binding mage, and he had always been a person who made up his minds. It should be impossible for him to expend so much energy and resources just because of a whim.
"As you know, the creatures that have been resurrected by the Great Veilleur are mainly divided into two categories: plants and animals. There are slightly more plants among them, more than a dozen species of ferns planted in this greenhouse, two or three kinds of lichen mosses, plus some trees. There are only six types of resurrected animals: the eight-legged crocodile, the spiny-tailed lizard, the fire-clad salamander, the velociraptor dragon, the dinosaur, and the Niroa lion you have already seen. The two guides complemented each other, answering the questions posed by the dragon Pasha in as much detail as possible.
While talking, they walked along the bluestone pavement to the depths of the glass pyramid. The path beneath its feet is much stronger than the surrounding soil due to its spell reinforcement.
Many kinds of animals, not just resurrected ones, roam the small forests. But the five resurrected animals at the top of the food chain, like the Niroa lion, consciously avoided the bluestone paved path.
According to the two attendants who acted as guides, they were alienated from the path because Davishur had failed so many times when he resurrected them, and the fossil waste was all mixed with other substances by the fire dwarves to make the binder of the bluestone slabs.
"For animals that are already extinct, it may be uncomfortable to be close to this pathβ"
"It is also possible that His Excellency the Great Vishur cast a spell to protect us who work here," another tour guide added, but he also admitted: "Many of those abandoned fossilized bones are indeed buried here. β
Quiz was now a qualified listener, noncommittal to the explanations offered by the guides. In fact, Davishur's resurrection of extinct creatures reminds him of the famous "Jurassic Series" movies in his previous life.
What really surprised him was that in addition to the five reptiles, Davishur actually used the Soulbinding Mage's method of making synthetic beasts to resurrect the Niroa Lion, a mammal.
Mammalian red blood cells don't have a nucleus β it's almost impossible to extract any genetic material from an insect trapped in amber that can replicate the Niroa lion. And to extract enough protein from fossils to reverse replicate it, even with the help of magic, the technical and amount of work required is probably quite staggering.
Why resurrect the big cat?
As he pondered, the sound of cymbals and drums sounded from the entrance of the glass pagoda behind him.