Chapter Eighty-Six: Between Gains and Losses
The ground shook and the mountains shook, in the chaos, Zhang Muzi thought about it, put his hand into his jacket, gently pinch it on his chest, touched out an oval ball the size of an egg and the shape of a beehive, and quietly took it and gently wiped it on the thick juice of the gravel flowing on the mountain road, and saw that the juice was swallowed up in an instant, and he couldn't help but grow his mouth in surprise.
"It's incredible that it is really an embryo fossil of an ancient 'oviparous', and that it has been buried underground for so long, and it still retains biological activity!
I just don't know what kind of species genes I got this time..."The bizarre guess in my heart was verified, Zhang Muzi flashed a question in surprise, but suddenly came back to his senses in surprise by a shout from the handheld megaphone, "Don't panic, squat down or kneel on the ground immediately, and try to lower your center of gravity to maintain balance."
We are already in sight of victory, and we will soon be able to successfully descend the mountain, so everyone muster up the courage and hold on..."
The caller was a professional rescuer in a red vest, who didn't look much older than the college students, but his calm and calm appearance when in distress showed a strong psychological element.
Holding the megaphone to his mouth, he lowered his body, and walked on the shaking mountain path with difficulty but determination, as if he had some kind of magic, and soon calmed the surrounding students from their panic.
After thirty or forty seconds, the earthquake, which lasted for nearly two minutes, finally stopped slowly, and everyone stood up in fright, and continued to stagger downward, and when the lucky one finished the rest of the journey, most of the students were excited, and they wept silently and shed tears on their faces.
After that, the students who escaped were quickly shunted back to their respective schools, except for the injured who began to receive emergency medical treatment, and they learned from TV and the Internet that the cause of the thrilling shaking they experienced on Gwanyue Mountain was actually only affected by the traditional Gyeonggi area of the Korean Peninsula with a magnitude of 8.
This explains why the government's rescue efforts are so weak that the government is trapped in the mountains.
Even the treatment of the injured after escape is largely due to the fact that medical students are responsible for it.
At this moment, the emergency rescue and medical forces of the entire Seoul or the entire Republic of China have been concentrated in the three cities in the Gyeonggi area, where at least half of the buildings in the urban area have collapsed, and there is no time to pay much attention to the other areas affected by the aftershocks.
Under these circumstances, the colleges and universities in Seoul University Street had to take precautions on their own, and the possibility of recurrence of aftershocks and various secondary disasters caused by the earthquake, which caused a tense atmosphere that permeated the campus for a long time.
In the panic, many students began to live in dormitory buildings that were very sturdy and did not even have a crack in the walls, and set up tents on the empty playgrounds.
But unlike the chaotic lives of other people around him, Zhang Muzi has lived an extremely fulfilling and happy life recently.
Ever since he accidentally found an ancient beast egg that miraculously maintained its biological activity in the mountain disaster, he began to quietly climb the 'Guanyue Mountain' every day because the cracked appearance of the mountain was too terrifying, and suddenly turned into a forbidden area of life, using the 'mother nest' to create hundreds of clever monsters, trying to search for other beast eggs that had appeared due to the earthquake, and the results were extremely rich.
Every day, there are as few as twenty or thirty species, and as many as hundreds of ancient animal embryos are devoured by the 'mother nest';
Curious, he tried to replicate the species contained in the eggs, and the result was a situation that far exceeded the best he had ever imagined.
Although the addition of ancient animal genes does not make the 'mother nest' evolve early, such a species accumulation is equivalent to completing the growth conditions of the 'mother nest' after the first evolution in advance, so that it can quickly move towards the peak state of its own body after completing the evolution, such a harvest is actually more precious in the long run than shortening the first round of evolution when everything is ready.
When people feel happy, the days always pass quickly, and in this way, a month and a half passed unconsciously, and after more than 40 days of calm, the shadow of the earthquake that enveloped the entire Gyeonggi region of the "Korean Dynasty" slowly dissipated, and the mentality of the general public gradually returned to normal, and Jang Muzi began to become less easy to sneak out of the university.
After the greater 'bad news' came, after the people's hearts calmed down, they began to have the courage to restore the habit of mountaineering in the early morning, when climbing the 'Guanyue Mountain', they found that there were petrified animal remains and animal eggs in the mountains, and after the research and judgment of paleontologists, they were identified as biological fossils in the 'Cretaceous' era of the earth.
Soon after, some geologists put forward the theory that the 'Guanyue Mountain' served as a natural pontoon bridge connecting the ocean and the ancestral waters of the Han River for a long time during the evolution of the submarine ridge into a surface mountain range.
According to this theory, during the millions of years in the late Cretaceous period, the Guanyue Mountains, which spread for hundreds of miles, connected the land from east to west, and the north and south ends stretched into the seabed and the newly formed Han River, and the natural environment was extremely favorable, becoming a paradise for countless marine, terrestrial, freshwater, and amphibian ancient animals.
About 60 million years ago, when the mysterious cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs and ended the 'Cretaceous' era came, due to the drastic changes in the earth's crustal movement, the entire Guanyue Mountain suddenly collapsed and overturned in a very short period of time, and all the life it carried was buried in the ground in an instant, along with hundreds of millions of tons of seawater and fresh water.
Therefore, in a near-vacuum environment, and under the condition of underground water vein infiltration and replenishment, this 'biological treasure' left by nature was soaked in the still underground lake and miraculously preserved, so that hundreds of millions of years later, when the new owner of the earth was exposed to human beings due to earthquakes, most of the ancient animal fossils still maintained a completely good 'waxed' state of skin and flesh.
In fact, as the first person to discover the 'Treasure of Guanyue Mountain', Zhang Muzi had already seen these ancient animal corpses that looked oily and slippery, like wax statues, but unfortunately let the 'mother nest' try to devour but got nothing, so in his eyes, the strange 'wax corpse' was worthless at all.
However, in the eyes of geobiologists, these fossils in a near-perfect state of preservation are one of the most important biological discoveries since the beginning of human civilization, so in just one week, the entire Guanyue Mountain Range was occupied by thousands of researchers.
In this case, Zhang Muzi continued to use the mother nest to create a monster to search for ancient beast eggs on the mountain, which is tantamount to asking for self-exposure, but fortunately, in addition to arousing the interest of a large number of scientists, the biological fossils of Guanyue Mountain have also attracted countless 'treasure hunters' to flock to the entire mountain, picking up something that looks valuable and selling it to sellers who are willing to pay for it.
Whether it's biologists, quirky collectors, or fossil resellers, these people are unfussy about their 'patrons', and the only thing they care about is the price.
According to the relevant laws of the Republic of China, unless there is clear evidence that the sold fossils are sufficient to cause damage to national interests and were purchased by foreign sellers, the responsibility for such acts cannot be regulated by law.
So after a few days of depression, Zhang Muzi was pleasantly surprised to find that although he could not continue to dig the 'treasures' on Guanyue Mountain with his own hands, he could get what he wanted through other ways, and the price he paid was just money.
Although Li Shansan has been reinvesting most of the funds he received from Shenluo Island into the construction of the island for decades, in order to reap the benefits of rolling development, Zhang Muzi has relatively little cash left, and his two-month trip to Africa has almost been spent.
At this time, if you invest a large amount of money to buy ancient beast eggs, you can only use the 'Shenluo' construction fund this year, which is likely to affect the speed of the island's development, but for Zhang Muzi, the loss of time at this point now cannot be compared with his future harvest at all.
So after communicating with the asset manager who had tried hard to persuade him not to kill chickens and eggs, he forcefully pumped out enough cash flow and began to quietly contact sellers through the guò network to buy paleontological eggs frantically.
In this way, time flies, and two months have passed in a blink of an eye.
In Seoul, which is about to enter November, the weather suddenly becomes cold, and at this time, since the beginning of the school year, he has devoted most of his energy to increasing the number of 'mother nest' devouring species, and often skips class every morning and returns late, and Zhang Muzi, who does not communicate much with his roommates in the dormitory, has already become a strange person in the eyes of his classmates.
And if it weren't for the fact that the 'Department of Media and Video' is a practical technical major, and the students usually have a lot of independent time and the coursework is not heavy, maybe he would have been sentenced to 'failing the course' in advance, and he would have to prepare for the make-up exam without even taking the final exam.
For the strange eyes of his classmates, Zhang Muzi, who can't explain it, has slowly become accustomed to it, and the otaku personality he has cultivated since childhood also makes him not feel too uncomfortable, but the incomprehensible complaints and questions from Ahn Tae-hee make him very worried when he first tastes love.
In the afternoon of this day, a ringing of 'Ringing Ringing Ring...' ended the day's schoolwork, Zhang Muzi walked out of the classroom and stepped into the circular corridor with a few thick books and tablets, and was suddenly surprised to find that Ahn Tae-hee was chatting and laughing with a group of second- and third-grade seniors at the campus flower bed, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone and dialed it out.
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