Another world conquest manual - #479 - Chapter 472 Abnormal Skeleton (3600 words please subscribe!!)

Within the Qingqiu space.

After assigning the tasks, the exploration team immediately started taking action.

This exploration team has a total of two goals:

The first is to collect information from different spaces as much as possible.

There is a Qingcheng Mountain Heavenly Palace on the mainland, but the energy inside is too violent:

Apart from anything else, no one else can withstand the annihilation of positrons and negative electrons.

In addition, it is located in the mainland, within scenic spots such as Qingcheng Mountain.

Whether it is organizing actions or various technical support, there is a certain degree of difficulty.

Therefore, now that a movable space entrance like the ice coffin has been discovered, the command department must investigate it carefully.

For example, what are its boundaries?

Is it also a case of high-energy radiation connected to outer space?

Or is it a physical boundary that can be touched with hands or a stick?

As for the second goal?

Naturally, I wanted to collect information about Qingqiu civilization and see if I could find any signs.

The short peak is about a hundred meters above the ground, and the trail is not very rugged.

Lin Ziming and others walked along the mountain road and soon reached the ground of Qingqiu.

be honest.

Qingqiu, a rumored mythical place, has actually been discovered, opened and stepped into. Lin Ziming and others feel quite subtle.

Qingqiu nine-tailed fox

When myths shine into reality, everyone who walks in will feel a sense of heaviness.

to some extent.

They are witnessing and excavating another piece of ancient history that has been buried in the ages.

Da da da–

After leaving Xiaofeng.

Lu Chaoyang first poked the ground with his toes, making a small hole.

Then he leaned down, twisted the kicked away clods of soil with his hands, shook his head and said:

“Very ordinary sand and gravel has no spiritual energy left and no feedback on spiritual energy.

If nothing unexpected happens

This should be the original founder of Qingqiu space. Well, let’s call him the Lord of Qingqiu.

It should be sand and gravel dug by the Lord of Qingqiu from the outside world. “

Then he stood up and said to a bucket boy accompanying him who looked very earthy:

“Xiao Sun, you collect some soil samples and send them back to the laboratory now.

Ask experts to identify the composition of the soil.

See if it is the soil of the earth, and if so, how many years ago it was.

If we can catch up on time, it should be released at the same time as the identification report of the footprints in the cave.

With any luck.

Maybe we can determine when Qingqiu was first built. “

Xiao Sun, who looks to be in his forties but is actually just over 25 years old, is holding a total station in one hand and patting his chest one by one:

“Professor Lu, don’t worry, leave this place to me!”

Lu Chaoyang thanked him politely, turned to Lin Ziming and said:

“Colonel Lin, let’s move on.”

Lin Ziming also nodded:

“good.”

Then the group of people walked straight forward for about seven or eight hundred meters and came to a dead tree.

There is a ravine about three meters wide on the left side of the dead tree. The depth of the ravine varies from a dozen centimeters to one meter.

The sandy soil is barren of grass, desolate and cracked, with a few lonely stones embedded in it.

However, it is not difficult to judge based on some faint signs of layering on the edge of the gully and the length of the gully.

This was once a clear river a long time ago.

The source of the river should come from a distant mountain peak, with an unknown end.

At the peak of Qingqiu’s glory.

Maybe there are many young foxes who like to play here.

But now Qingqiu is silent,

The once happy figure has also disappeared in the long river of history.

There were only a few shallow footprints left on the edge of the ravine, and…

Three to five skeletons.

These skeletons, some large and small, are scattered around the trees, and some of their joints have been lost over the years.

Lin Ziming first looked around vigilantly and checked the surrounding area with his spiritual thoughts.

After finding nothing unusual, he looked at fox expert Yi An:

“Professor Yi, please excuse me.”

Yi An on the side nodded slightly, put on his gloves, and took out a pair of magnifying glasses.

Then he walked over to several fox skeletons, lowered his head and began to examine them.

Fox studies.

This is a very, very unpopular subject here.

How unpopular is it?

It is so cold that it takes an average of 3.4 years to publish an SCI article. It is so cold that the number of domestic professors engaged in related research is only 8.

Even worse, there are only four independently established fox research laboratories in China.

Of course.

There are quite a few research and breeding bases.

But these bases only count as one, and almost all of them only focus on breeding without research, and are purely commercial.

no way.

The plate of the fox family is too small.

Most experts directly cover it within a certain research topic and will not study it independently – this is the case for Cui Xiaofeng, for example.

That’s why.

The importance of Yi An in the Qingqiu project is naturally self-evident.

About ten minutes passed.

Yi An raised his head thoughtfully, frowned and said to Lin Ziming:

“Colonel Lin, there’s something wrong with these skeletons.”

When Lin Ziming heard this, he immediately raised his eyebrows:

It’s good if something is wrong. If it is right, how can we find the problem?

Of course.

Such words are just his psychological thoughts, and of course he will not express them, so on the surface he is still quite curious:

“Oh? Professor Yi, what’s wrong with this method?”

Yi An pushed up his glasses and explained:

“Foxes are actually a family and genus that have a lot of doubts in the local area.

You may not believe it when you tell me – there is currently no widespread recognition of the specific time when foxes appeared on the earth.

Some say five million years, some say three million years, and some say half a million years.

The latest inference is that the ancestors of modern carnivores were ancient cats, probably about 40 to 50 million years ago.

Then it was gone. Can you believe it? “

Lin Ziming was stunned for a moment:

“Um, no? What does this mean?”

Yi An smiled bitterly and shook his head:

“Literally speaking, we know nothing about the differentiation gradient after the ancient cats, and even the current evidence for the ancient cats is not very sufficient.

The most recent common ancestor of the cat-type suborder and the canine-type suborder is just like who the big boss of the Conan winery is, no one knows.

What we can be sure of is that the cat-type suborder first differentiated into the Civetidae family, and the canine-type suborder divided into the Canidae family.

Then it was divided into the subfamily Caninoinae, the subfamily Canininae and the subfamily Canininae.

Then the Canine subfamily is divided into the fox family-that is, foxes and raccoon dogs.

And we only know the process. There is no substantial evidence for each differentiation time point. We can only guess by examining fossils. “(I specifically checked an SCI article, which is also the article with the highest impact factor in the fox category. TM is a rare Spanish language and cannot be translated with screenshots. I translated it word by word in Spanish at night. )

The edge of the ravine.

Hearing Yi An’s introduction, Lin Ziming couldn’t help but widen his eyes:

“Let me take it for granted, that means there is no public opinion on the time when foxes appeared on earth?”

Yi An nodded heavily, indicating that he was right.

Then he picked up a fox skull from the ground and made several gestures to Lin Ziming:

“Compared to foxes on Earth, Qingqiu foxes are obviously a bit special.

Take this skull, for example.

Colonel Lin, have you seen this area?

This is its brain, with two raised peripheral nerves on the left and right.

From this, it can be judged that its brain capacity is approximately 130 grams. “

Seeing that Lin Ziming was a little confused, Yi An continued:

“Generally speaking, the brain of a modern human weighs about 1,400 grams, that of a mouse about 2 grams, that of a cat about 30 grams, and that of a dog about 70 grams.

As for a standard red fox, the brain capacity is only about 60 grams.

130 grams of brain capacity, what do you think this means? “

Lin Ziming blinked:

“Does it mean he is well-known among foxes?”

Yi An nodded slightly and said:

“Well, this can be said to be a big step in evolution.

There is a model for native foxes called foxtilo. According to the model calculations, it would take another 700,000 years for foxes in the natural state to reach this level.

Even if we artificially intervene in cultivation, conservatively it will take hundreds of thousands of years – the evolution of species is much more difficult than technological advancement, and ten thousand years is the most basic number. “

Then Yi An turned the skull over again, pointed at the teeth and said:

“And here, too, is its jaw.

The cleft teeth are extremely forward-moving and are formed by the fourth upper premolar and the first lower molar, which represents a more efficient hunting method.

This degree of evolution is metaphorized by the level of science and technology.

It was almost as outrageous as when we were still in the early stages of researching AI, and a company released a brainwave holographic game online – and that company was a pig farm. “

After saying these words.

Yi An carefully put down the skull and picked up a skeleton similar to a leg bone:

“The other more important point is”

“The way these foxes died was not from natural aging, but”

“Killed by other creatures!”

I said I wouldn’t stay up all night, but I couldn’t hold it back and stayed up all night anyway.