treasure hunt god pupil

Chapter 550 Marine Paleontological Fossils

It was another new day, and the temperature on the isolated island remained at around 28°C, which was very comfortable and comfortable.Li Mo looked up at the blue sky, and took a sip of mineral water. The days of transporting treasure all day were really boring.

The poisonous snake followed him, and seeing him bored, he couldn't help but said, "Boss, why don't I accompany you to the sea? You don't eat crabs as big as washbasins and lobsters with long arms, but we are all rare, and we can't eat enough." Why don't we catch more and put them in the cold storage of the ship, and we can use toothpicks on the way back to satisfy our hunger."

Li Mo turned his head to look at him and said with a smile: "We have been mopped up too much these days, and it is more difficult to catch such a big one. Let's go, accompany me to the cave where I lived before. The cave wall with the inscriptions is almost It was cut and removed, so be careful when shipping it."

"Good boss."

When the two were about to leave the valley, Qiu Guangyao's voice came from the intercom, telling him to hurry to the north of the isolated island.There is also a gold treasure hidden by pirates there, which should not have been discovered by the people of the Ming Dynasty before, but was found by Li Mo.

"Brother Qiu, what happened? I'll rush over immediately."

"Nothing happened, just found some very special things, you are an expert, come and see if there is any value."

As long as nothing happened, Li Mo got nervous for a while.He and the poisonous snake rushed to the back, and saw Qiu Guangyao squatting on the ground looking at a stone

"Brother Qiu."

Qiu Guangyao looked up at him and waved, "Look at these stones."

There are more than a dozen stones of different sizes and shapes on the ground. Li Mo can tell at a glance that the stones are a bit unusual, and there are many unknown paleontological fossils on the surface.

Holding up a head-sized stone, the surface seems to be a dozen or so worm-like fossils.He didn't study these things, and he could see that they were fossils of marine paleontology, but he didn't know which time period they belonged to, how many years ago?

Li Mo looked at other stones and probably could identify more than 20 fossils with different shapes of marine paleontology.

"Brother Qiu, where did you find these?"

"In the cave, there are a lot of them, and there are also on the cave wall."

"Let's go in and take a look." Li Mo followed Qiu Guangyao into the cave, and said as he walked, "It seems that this isolated island was also formed by the extrusion of oceanic crustal movement, and it is normal for marine paleontological fossils to appear. I just don't know how much research value it has. Later, I will take more pictures and send them back, so that domestic paleontology experts can take a closer look."

"Boss, if there are so many fossils like this, we can dig them all up and take them back. At that time, we will open a museum of marine paleontology and fossils in Yanjiao. I believe children will like it very much, and it will be very educational. meaning of learning."

"I've thought of this too, but I don't know much about it. After taking it back, I need to invite experts in this field to do research and appraisal one by one, so that tourists who open museums in the future can know what this marine paleontological fossil really is."

Some of the caves are natural, and some were artificially created later.When Li Mo was alone in Dokdo, he almost ignored this area. After all, the caves here were covered by dense bushes and forests.

Fortunately, Li Mo was really bored, he used his different pupils to scan the isolated island casually, and then found these hidden caves in front of him.

A soldier was carrying out the hidden treasures inside. Not far into the cave, Qiu Guangyao bent down and picked up a fist-sized stone. With the light of the flashlight on it, he could clearly see another ancient creature The fossils look a bit like algal fossils.

Li Mo used a flashlight to illuminate the surroundings, then went to a corner and squatted down, and took a look with the flashlight. Many fossils of paleontology appeared on a huge rock. If you look at it with a macroscopic perspective, it looks like a very strange painting.

The three of them walked further inside, and Li Mo shined the flashlight on the cave wall, where there were many traces of fossils.

"Poisonous snake, Brother Qiu, let's pick up more fossils and go out. I'll take some high-definition photos and send them to China."

"it is good."

The three of them moved four or five yuan of large and small stones one after another, and under the sunlight, various strange-shaped fossils appeared in front of them.

Li Mo called a professional photographer, along with Zheng Bin and the other six. They probably heard the news that there were many marine paleontological fossils here, so they all came to see what happened.

"There are a lot of marine paleontological fossils, Associate Professor Li, this trip to ocean archaeology is really worthwhile. Among other things, even if these paleontological fossils are brought back, it is enough to shock the domestic archaeological community." Associate Professor Zheng Bin looked at it. He said excitedly, "Everyone come to see this fossil. I have never seen it in the National Institute of Paleontological Fossils. It should be a new fossil specimen."

Li Mo asked in surprise: "Associate Professor Zheng, do you still have research on marine paleontological fossils?"

"I don't have that kind of ability. My wife is only interested in this kind of fossils. When I was chasing my wife, I often accompanied her to see those fossils. I have seen a lot so I know a little bit."

"Associate Professor Zheng, please spread the knowledge with us." A teacher hurriedly said.

"Then let me briefly talk about it. Among the ancient marine fossils, the oldest fossils are the fungal algae and ancient algae stromatolite rocks of the Jixian period of the Proterozoic from 10 billion to 8 million years ago. In addition, It is a large number of Paleozoic calcium carbonate sedimentary rocks, including corals, sponges, ammonites, crinoids, brachiopods, gastropods and other organisms that lived [-] to [-] million years ago. After death, these organisms preserved the strata of their bodies , After great changes, the stone was finally formed. This isolated island is in the middle of the Indian Ocean, and nine out of ten it was formed after the crustal movement at the bottom of the ocean."

After Zheng Bin finished speaking, he looked at other fossils.

"This fossil is quite strange, and I have never seen it before. Associate Professor Li, after these fossils are brought back, several good papers can be formed just by studying these marine paleontological fossils."

"This is only a small part. There are so many in the cave. I guess it will be no problem to open a museum of marine paleontological fossils if I take them all back."

Li Mo said casually while assisting the photographer to take pictures.

"a lot of?"

Zheng Bin was slightly stunned, then took a flashlight and walked towards the cave, and the other five teachers quickly followed.

In the evening, Li Mo, who returned to the ship, connected with Professor Zhu Changping in China while eating a bowl of rice.The video phone rang for a while before it was connected, but it was not Professor Zhu who appeared in the camera, but a conference room with more than ten people sitting there, and they seemed to be in a meeting.

Li Mo was chomping down on rice bowls. Seeing the people on the opposite side looking at him, he quickly put down his plate and smiled and said, "It's not the right time to connect, so I'm disturbing everyone. You have a meeting first, and I'll call later."

"Come on, you haven't contacted us since you've been out at sea for so long, and you just contacted us once to ask about the situation." Professor Zhu said hurriedly, "Is everything going well there now?"

"Everything is going well. At present, [-]% of the treasures have been unearthed, and it will be finished in about five or six days." Li Mo turned his head to look at the rice bowl on the table, reached out to pick it up and continued to eat, "Professors, this time The harvest of archaeological research abroad is wave after wave. We also found the Xuande furnace among the treasures of the isolated island."

"What, Xuande Furnace?"

"You heard me right, it's a genuine Xuande stove."

Li Mo nodded affirmatively.

The professors in the conference room looked at each other, and Zhu Changping said: "The Xuande furnace was cast in the third year of Xuande, and Zheng He's seventh voyage to the West was in the fifth year of Xuande. It seems that Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty was also very supportive of the policy of voyages to the West." , what Zheng He brought on his seventh voyage to the Western Seas were all the most precious treasures of the Ming Dynasty."

"From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, until the Republic of China, the imitation of Xuande furnace has never stopped, and some imitations are hard to distinguish. But you found the tripod Xuande furnace on an isolated island. It must be no problem. I regret not following you Let’s go to sea together for archaeology.”

"Old Zhu, don't say you regret it, we also regret it now."

The meeting room burst into laughter. Li Mo is an associate professor at Peking University. When he returns with the treasure, he still needs their help in the follow-up matters, and the credit bonus will not be less.

"College leaders, professors, I mainly contact the teacher at this time because I have important matters to ask." Li Mo ate the rice in two mouths, wiped his mouth and said seriously, "I found a lot of ocean in the cave on the isolated island. Paleontological fossils, but I have never been in contact with this field, so I took some photos and sent them to you, and I would like to invite experts in this field to take a look."

The meeting room immediately fell silent, and everyone stared at the camera.

(End of this chapter)