Ancient Invasion [End Times]

The 140th and fifth day after the invasion·【First update】The cluster of fiery red flowers seemed to emerge out of nowhere

Fossils older than the dinosaurs?

The others stood beside Cheng Sheng in a daze. According to their limited understanding, dinosaurs may be the oldest species on this planet.

"Before the appearance of the first dinosaur, there was the explosion of life in the Cambrian period." Cheng Sheng said, there was a kind of hot and obsessive brilliance in his eyes, and at the same time, there was a strange determination that seemed to be so.

He suppressed the doubts and eagerness in his heart, and looked at the doubtful people standing beside him.

Cheng Sheng spoke very fast: "Darwin's theory of evolution is well-known, and it is believed that the evolution of organisms is a slow, continuous and gradual accumulation process, but another 'intermittent equilibrium theory' exists at the same time, and refute Darwin's theory of evolution. View."

"The theory of punctuated equilibrium holds that evolution and the emergence of new species occur in the intersection area where marginal groups are located." Cheng Sheng said, "there is a high pressure for survival and a complex environment. The so-called survival of the fittest means that species are more likely to mutate in order to survive. .”

Duan Yi looked at Cheng Sheng after hearing the words: "Just like what you and Dr. Shao Chengyang proposed, is it the same as the genetic dominance of ancient organisms? Will it be stimulated under extremely harsh living conditions?"

Cheng Sheng nodded slightly: "That's right, the theory of my tutor and I is based on the theory of punctuated balance."

"The isolation of the edge allows mutations to accumulate and develop, and then become new species." Cheng Sheng's voice raised slightly uncontrollably.

"There are many gaps in the global geological record, which are created by alternating long periods of stability with short periods of upheaval."

He said with a little exclamation and emotion in his tone: "As one of the most astonishing scientific discoveries of the 20th century, the Chengjiang fauna in China shows that the evolution of organisms is not always gradual, but a process of coexistence of gradual and leap forward."

Cheng Sheng didn't touch the huge skeleton fossil anymore, but pointed out: "The fossil in front of you is far earlier than the time when dinosaurs existed. It should have occurred in an era of drastic changes."

"And here, we have witnessed such incredible alternation and evolution."

Lin Qian took a deep breath. What the doctor said was something he had never heard before, as if it opened the door to a new world.

He turned his head and saw Du Nanrong staring at the huge ancient fossil just as dazed as he was.

The ancient fossil miraculously preserved a large number of soft tissue imprints, and even its intestines, stomach, eyes, and mouth can be seen.

Lin Qian turned to Duan Yi again, and saw Duan Dui standing beside the doctor.

Different from other people's bewilderment and surprise, Duan Yi didn't seem to care about the origin of this huge fossil in front of him at all.

He just stood there, watching the doctor talk, focused as if there was only one person in front of him.

"An ancient skeleton that has completely become a fossil can only mean something that once appeared here. Although its value is priceless, it actually doesn't mean much to us right now." Cheng Sheng said, changing the subject , very realistic.

——Lin Qian didn't even come back to his senses, he was a little surprised that the words came from the doctor's mouth.

Although not without reason.

Lin Qian pulled up Yang Mucuo who was still kneeling in front of the fossil. Although no one could understand what Yang Mucuo was saying, the young man obviously regarded such a huge skeleton as some kind of god belief.

Cheng Sheng quickly stood up and shook a little.The sun is hot on their heads, and after entering the desert area, they seldom eat normal food, and their blood pressure is slightly low.

Duan Yi supported himself, Cheng Sheng turned his head to look at him, and nodded slightly.

Since Cheng Sheng said that there was nothing worth paying attention to, the others dispersed again.Soak in the lake to cool down, find a way to find food and continue to look for it.

Cheng Sheng didn't leave for a while. He stood in front of this huge skeleton fossil half buried in the yellow sand and half exposed, staring deeply at it.

"What's wrong with it?" Duan Yi didn't leave either, he asked Cheng Sheng in a low voice, he was very clear that Cheng Sheng must have hidden something and didn't say anything, he noticed that the moment Cheng Sheng came into contact with this fossil was unnatural.

Cheng Sheng pursed his lips slightly, and said, "It gives me a very familiar feeling."

"The moment I touched it, it was as if something was trying to tell me..." He murmured unconsciously, then suddenly paused, retracted his scattered thoughts, looked at Duan Yi and said, "I know this It’s unbelievable what he said.”

"Have we encountered too many incredible things?" Duan Yi asked back, and he looked at Cheng Sheng, "Since you have such a wonderful feeling, then try again to confirm whether it is an illusion or something real."

As he spoke, he held Cheng Sheng's hand and gently placed it on the fossil.

Cheng Sheng took a deep breath, nodded slightly, and did not resist.

Duan Yi observed Cheng Sheng's situation.

Fossils are smoother to the touch than rocks, although both are essentially rocks, but the latter is just calcified bone.

Cheng Sheng put his palm on the group of fossils, and the feeling that made his heart palpitate emerged again, as if something was hitting his heart, making him curl up slightly involuntarily.

He frowned, and soon the feeling of palpitations disappeared, replaced by a blank, nothing, it seemed that even the palpitations just now were an illusion.

Cheng Sheng opened his eyes suddenly and looked in front of him suspiciously.

"What's wrong?" Duan Yi asked.

"...Nothing." Cheng Sheng pursed his lips.

He snorted suddenly, shook his head and said, "I probably got a little crazy when I read my tutor's notes recently. I think it's crazy to think that an ancient skeleton fossil can tell me about the past."

Duan Yi rubbed Cheng Sheng's heart twice: "Have you deciphered all Dr. Shao Chengyang's notes?"

Cheng Sheng shook his head slightly: "It will take some time."

Duan Yi responded.

He saw that Zhang Jiuzhang and the others were still soaking in the lake, as if they were trying to catch fish or something else.

But seeing Zhang Jiuzhang over there, Duan Yi thought there would be no problems. He looked away and asked Cheng Sheng, "Do you plan to stay here or go back?"

"I want to stay with it for a while longer." Cheng Sheng looked at Duan Yi.

This answer was expected by Duan Yi, he smiled slightly: "Okay, then I will accompany you."

Cheng Sheng looked towards the lake: "What are they doing?"

"Catch fish." Duan Yi said, and as soon as he finished speaking, he saw Lin Qian and Du Nanrong scooping up a large fish with shiny scales from the water, which was as big as the two of them could hold in their hands.

They finally picked it up, and just about to throw it ashore, the big fish suddenly twisted its body, slipping back into the water again.

"It seems that it will take some time." Duan Yi continued.

"The sun is scorching right now, so it's not suitable for hiking. Let's take a rest here, replenish some energy, and start our journey again at three or four in the afternoon."

Cheng Sheng nodded in response.

Among the experts in the same field, he has handled a lot of fossils. This is thanks to Shao Chengyang who always took him to the fossil discovery site.

At this moment, Cheng Sheng felt as if he had returned to a few years ago. On an ordinary day, he was working on a newly discovered huge fossil.

He lay down on the ground again, and gently stroked away the fine gravel floating on the fossil with his fingers, being careful and gentle like treating a graceful and beloved lover.

Duan Yi has no doubt that his biggest rivals in love in the future may only be these fossils who can neither speak nor do anything.

But what can I do, I can only accompany her.

He slowly imitated the doctor's appearance, lying on the ground as well, and was reminded by Cheng Sheng, be careful not to crush it.

As if he were a big, bulky bear.

Duan Yi twitched the corner of his mouth, propped his chin to look at Cheng Sheng, and casually sized up the surrounding fossils.

This may be a four-legged mammal, the largest living species on Earth.

The size of the fossils is about the size of a football field, and they lie on the ground, only big enough to see a bone.

Some of the skeletons are still buried under the soil.

Duan Yi had to imagine how big such a creature would be when it was alive, and why it would perish and disappear.

"Look here." Cheng Sheng said suddenly, attracting Duan Yi's attention, he pointed to a huge gap between the bones: "This should be its jaw bone, it may be its fatal wound."

"A gap of this size must be caused by a creature with a large caliber?" Duan Yi frowned.

Cheng Sheng gestured and shook his head slightly: "It is impossible for any known ancient creature on land to cause such a wound, maybe it was in the water."

Duan Yi raised his eyebrows, in the water?

"Like the mosasaurs encountered in the miasma forest?" he asked.

Cheng Sheng paused, thought for a while and still shook his head: "It's bigger than it."

He walked around the fossil, as if he wasn't enjoying himself, and soon found a higher place, climbed up a few times, and looked down at the whole picture of the fossil.

He took a deep breath and called out to Duan Yi: "Duan Yi! Look!"

"It's different from what we thought, it's not a mammal!"

Duan Yi immediately climbed up the hillside and stood beside Cheng Sheng. Looking down, he saw that the whole skeleton was like a giant bird with wings spread.

His pupils narrowed violently, the pair of fossilized wings could only see the roots connecting to the back, and the tips of the spread wings extended into the dense palm forest, so big that it seemed that even the forest couldn't support it.

What kind of creature is this?

"This fossil...is a brand new species that has never been recorded in history." Cheng Sheng murmured in Duan Yi's ear with admiration.

Duan Yi turned his head to look at him.

"Doctor! Team Duan! Come and eat fish!" The voices of Lin Qian and Du Nanrong came from far away from the lake, full of aura.

Cheng Sheng came back to his senses, stood on the high ground and looked over, and saw two more big fish on the shore, each less than two meters in size, and they were the spoils of war for these people just a while ago.

"Go ahead." Duan Yi said.

Cheng Sheng responded, and with Duan Yi's outstretched hand, he easily jumped down the high slope.

He took one last look at the fossil and let out a sigh of relief: "It must have been beautiful when it was alive."

Duan Yi narrowed his eyes slightly, noncommittal.

If they continued to dig deeper under the soil layer, they might also find feathers that were almost completely protected by the soil layer, which was blue.

Cheng Sheng and Duan Yi quickly returned to the lake.

Zhang Jiuzhang and Yang Mucuo have already dealt with one big fish and are now dealing with the second one.

The lake is not disturbed by humans, and there are few natural enemies. In addition, the lake is deep and large, and all the fish in it are not small.

Du Nanrong and Lin Qian were building a fire, fixing the bottom of the fire with stone chips, and putting branches into the fish's mouths.

"Doctor! Hey, help me grill a fish?" Lin Qian rubbed his hands in anticipation.

Cheng Sheng was funny, he dug out from his backpack the two pieces of black flint that Uncle Tashi had given him earlier, and threw it to Lin Qian: "Try this."

The flint given by Uncle Tashi was also found in Dunzhekang, but they walked all the way, but they didn't find it, probably because they took a different route.

Lin Qian started the fire easily, and quickly followed it with tinder, blowing out the fire little by little.

Lin Qian wanted to roast the fish directly on the fire, but Du Nanrong hurriedly stopped him.

The broad fallen leaves that can be seen everywhere will be cleaned up once they float in the water. He wraps the fish with broad leaves, and then uses the branches to lift the stone slices that have been roasted by the extremely high fire temperature, and buries the fish under the stone slices and suffocates them.

"The temperature of a fire like this in the wild is at least [-] to [-] degrees, and the temperature of a stone like this is also extremely high, enough to cook a fish." Du Nanrong said.

Grilled fish is easy to dry out the moisture of the fish itself. Wrapping it with leaves like this can greatly lock in moisture and nutrition, and the taste can also be greatly improved.

Sure enough, after more than half an hour, Duan Yi dragged the grilled fish out from under the stone slab. The outer layer of broad leaves was half black and not burnt, and the fish inside was completely cooked and tender white, with a delicious taste. Tangy.

Du Nanrong took out the salt shaker from his backpack and sprinkled it on it.

A little salt easily brought out the umami taste of the fish. Lin Qian couldn't wait to tear off a piece of fish, puffed and puffed, and praised while eating: "This is the best meal I've had in the past few months Picnic."

The fish meat is firm and elastic, and its own moisture is retained. You can even feel the juice overflowing in your mouth after one bite.

Zhang Jiuzhang glanced at Lin Qian's exaggerated expression with disgust, and when he bit the fish, he paused slightly.

——I have to say that it is great to have an extra cook in the team.

They sat around the shore of the lake, eating grilled fish, and no one noticed that in the center of the lake, a cluster of fiery red flowers quietly emerged from under the lake, stretching out their delicate and beautiful petals.

It wasn't until Yang Mucuo was full, feeling his bulging stomach, and lazily turned to the lake, wanting to scoop up some more water, that he suddenly saw the change in the center of the lake——

The cluster of fiery red flowers seemed to appear out of thin air.

Yang Mucuo's expression changed, and he jumped up suddenly.