Another world conquest manual - #471 - Chapter 464 Suspected Qingqiu! (Please subscribe)

“Professor Lu, I have discovered something here!”

Inside the cave.

After hearing what Cao Yi said, Lu Chaoyang quickly looked at him:

“Comrade Cao Yi, what’s new?”

Cao Yi lowered his head to observe again, pointed at the ground and said:

“Professor Lu, there is an animal-like footprint here.

Although it was very big, I couldn’t tell what kind of animal it was, but it probably wasn’t a fat tiger. “

Upon hearing this, Lu Chaoyang and Ouyang Yuanshan looked at each other, and they both stepped forward to check.

At this time, Cao Yi’s position was in front of the right side of the groove. The top of the cave was more than two meters above his head, surrounded by some messy and protruding rocks.

The location Cao Yi pointed to was about 20 centimeters above the ground, and there was a clear footprint there!

This footprint is about the size of an adult’s hand and is deeply embedded in soft soil. It looks a bit old.

But maybe it’s because of the extremely low temperature inside the cave.

This footprint is very well preserved, with almost no signs of sand filling.

Looking at this footprint, Lu Chaoyang’s expression couldn’t help but become solemn again.

If the footprints were left in a very old age, even before the emergence of ice coffins or low temperatures in caves – for example, 30 million years ago, a certain beast was full of food and drink, and stepped into the ground out of boredom. .

So there’s nothing to say, it’s just a new archaeological discovery at best.

But if there are imprints left after the low temperature appears in the cave, then it is worth exploring the specific circumstances.

To know.

Su Bai and the others had previously measured that the temperature at the end of the cave had reached minus 102.7°.

This kind of temperature can be described as being so light that it can freeze people into popsicles. Basically, no known animals can survive in it – including fat tigers.

Even if those animals 30 million years ago had rough skin and thick flesh, theoretically only Tiga could do such a thing.

Therefore, the appearance of this footprint is obviously abnormal.

Then Lu Chaoyang turned around and said to Cui Xiaofeng beside him:

“Professor Cui, come and take a look.”

Cui Xiaofeng nodded, walked forward quickly, and carefully observed the footprints.

But soon.

His brows furrowed even more than Lu Chaoyang’s, and he murmured:

“This is strange. How is this possible?”

When Lu Chaoyang saw this, he quickly asked:

“Professor Cui, do you recognize the footprints of what animal these are?”

Cui Xiaofeng pondered for a while, pointed at the footprints and said:

“Professor Lu, although I don’t know why the footprints are so big.

But if you look at the front of it, there are four claws here, in a narrow diamond shape.

This is a very typical fox footprint. The stress point is in the back half. It should be a snow fox. “

Then Cui Xiaofeng made a sign with a width of more than one meter on his chest and explained:

“The snow fox is what we call the white fox. Of course, in some movies and TV dramas, Samoyed is used instead.

Generally, the snow fox has a body length of 50 to 60 centimeters, a tail length of 20 to 25 centimeters, a weight of 2.5 to 4 kilograms, and the fur on its soles is particularly thick.

Therefore, the footprints of snow foxes are generally not large, which is why the tracks of snow foxes in winter are often called “plum blossoms”. “

After speaking, Cui Xiaofeng paused and his tone became a little solemn:

“The largest fox ever found in the world is a red fox discovered in Copenhagen in 2003.

The red fox together with its tail reached 1.76 meters, which was 13 centimeters longer than the second-ranked fox.

But even for a fox of that size, the maximum length of the footprints is only 9.4 centimeters.

According to visual inspection, it is probably less than half of this footprint. “

Lu Chaoyang glanced at him thoughtfully:

“A footprint of 1.76 meters is 9.4 centimeters

Professor Cui, in other words, the creature that left the footprints is likely to be more than 3.5 meters long? “

Cui Xiaofeng smiled bitterly and shook his head:

“I’m afraid there’s more to it than that.

Foxes are animals under the genus Fox of the family Mammalia, order Carnivora, order Canidae, and there is a correspondence formula between body length and footprints.

Let me just do the math.

Calculated based on 20 cm, Σ takes 9

Hmm, maybe 4.8-5.2.

In other words, if it is really the mark left by a fox, then the length of the fox may be close to five meters.

Five meters.

The legendary nine-tailed fox may not be this big. “

Lu Chaoyang was thinking about the problem of detecting footprints in his mind. When he heard Cui Xiaofeng’s last words, he suddenly felt excited:

“Professor Cui, what did you say?”

Cui Xiaofeng blinked in confusion:

“Huh? I said the fox’s body length may be five meters.”

“I meant the last sentence!”

“Back there? Oh, the nine-tailed fox”

Lu Chaoyang’s eyes suddenly lit up:

“Yes, it’s the nine-tailed fox!”

Then he quickly took out a map from his backpack and read it on the spot:

“This is Xinxiang

To the southwest is Luoyang

160 kilometers due east is Heze. It is located at the junction of Zhongzhou and Haidai.”

Lu Chaoyang became more and more excited as he spoke, and Zhu Yuhao on the side gradually realized something.

Cui Xiaofeng and others are members who have just become regular members, so they currently know nothing about many research directions in the Great Mo Realm and the local area.

But Zhu Yuhao is different. He is the person in charge of scheduling this project!

Therefore, he is very clear about the true intention of the Qinling Project:

First, because the precedent of the Tiangong in Qingcheng Mountain is there, the local people are searching for other possible relics in the Dragon Vein area.

The second is.

Looking for Qingqiu!

According to the original positioning of experts.

Qingqiu should be within 150 kilometers with Heze as the center, and the probability will be smaller in the southeast direction, which is the junction of Zhongzhou and Haidai.

Among them, the cave where Fat Tiger is located is within this radius!

But at first, it was considered that Fat Tiger’s physique was suspected to have been transformed by the spiritual fruit, and it seemed to be related to spiritual energy.

So base camp is included.

Everyone is subconsciously analyzing the situation of ‘Tiangong’, ‘Ruins’ or Wulong’s Tomb.

The base camp even deliberately researched the myths and legends in the Zhongzhou area to prepare for the possible “xx ruins” or “xx tomb”.

Especially after learning that an ice coffin was found in the cave.

Even the core layer is considering whether there will be any relationship between the local area and the Great Mo Realm.

The result was unexpected.

This cave is actually related to Qingqiu?

Is this or the surrounding area Qingqiu, or is the fox in Qingqiu related to the target who left the footprints?

Then Lu Chaoyang suddenly thought of something that happened not long ago, and his scalp suddenly went numb:

When he first entered the cave, Ouyang Dongshan once judged the wind direction!

The direction of the wind should obviously be from the outside to the inside, but it has become from the inside to the outside!

Finally, Ouyang Dongshan came to a conclusion:

An area at the end of the cave.

There seems to be another air outlet!

However, this judgment may be biased due to the special circumstances in the cave. In addition, ice cubes and footprints were later discovered, so Lu Chaoyang gradually ignored this possibility.

And if that judgment is true, there is a completely closed whole at the end of the cave.

Then there is only one possibility:

Under the ice coffin, there is an unknown entrance!

and

Suspected of Qingqiu!

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