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Chapter 754 Shandong Dragon (4000)

Now there are still some details that need to be confirmed, so that the specific identity of this behemoth can be judged.

So Wu Liang continued to explore around this "small mountain", and slowly came to the other end of the "small mountain", until he saw the huge head that had also turned into a rock, and the answer was finally revealed.

Wu Liang's guess was right, it was a dinosaur!
A giant dinosaur with a length of about 15 meters, a height of about five or six meters when standing up, and a weight of six or seven tons!
As for what kind of dragon it is.

Wu Liang already had the answer in his heart...

"Wu Taishi, you seem to have discovered something, can you tell me about it?"

When Wu Liang walked around to this end and saw the huge head, Miko Hu could also see the excited, puzzled, and suddenly enlightened expressions on Wu Liang's face, so she couldn't help asking.

"If I'm not mistaken, this is actually the remains of a dragon."

Wu Liang looked back at the witch and said confidently.

In fact, the more common name of later generations in China is "dinosaur", but this is the name translated from Western languages, meaning "terrible lizard".

Wu Liang didn't like this name, and he didn't want this name to appear too early, which would have a preconceived impact on the culture of the Celestial Dynasty, so he simply omitted the word "fear". I can't understand the concept of "dinosaur", but the concept of "dragon" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Although, the dragon in front of him and the "dragon" in the hearts of the people of the Celestial Dynasty are completely different concepts.

"dragon?!"

Witch Hu suddenly widened her eyes, quickly and carefully looked at the "small mountain" in front of her again, and said in disbelief, "Is this the supreme dragon in your country's legend?"

"This dragon is not that dragon."

Wu Liang shook his head with a smile, beckoned to call the witch to his side, pointed to the huge head of the huge monster and said, "This dragon is called Hadrosaurus, and it is an ancient beast that lived more than 1 million years ago. At that time, as long as we could see, no matter the land or the sea, such ancient beasts lived everywhere. They were big and small, some could fly, some could swim, and some preyed on other beasts. For food, some of them are plants and fruits, which is actually not much different from the way of life of animals and birds we can see today, but at that time there was no such thing as you and me who could use fire to cook and use weapons to kill , People who use their wisdom to intrigue."

"..."

After listening to the words, the two willow eyebrows of the witch have been slightly frowned, obviously not fully understanding, after all, this information is no different from a brainstorm for anyone in this era, there is really no way to do a few words The subversive content will be digested in a short time.

However, the word "hasbill" is easy to understand.

Because there is indeed a large flat mouth about half a meter long on the head of this huge monster. This mouth is indeed very similar to a duck's mouth, and it is very similar to those strange stone fishes seen in the reef pits before. Looks like it's just magnified hundreds of times.

That's why Wu Liang didn't go into details.

As far as Wu Liang knew, the dinosaur in front of him had a rather famous name in later generations——Shandonglong.

The origin of this name is actually very simple, because the fossils of this hadrosaur were found in Zhucheng, Shandong, and many other types of Cretaceous dinosaurs were discovered together with it, such as ceratopsian, ankylosaurus, microcephalosaurus, and The ferocious and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs, etc., are collectively called the Shandong Dragon Group by the archaeological world of later generations.

And this is also one of the reasons why Wu Liang is sure that this behemoth is the "Shandong Dragon".

Because the current location of the Tauren Army belongs to the ancient Qi State, that is to say, it is still within the jurisdiction of Shandong Province in later generations. This is probably close relatives with the "Shandong Dragon Group" discovered in later generations, at least belonging to the same ecological circle.

After such a moment of silence.

"According to what you said, those weird stone fish we saw just now should not be called 'fish' anymore, they should also be called 'dragon', just a slightly smaller 'hask-billed dragon', am I right? ?”

The witch asked in a deep voice, unexpectedly, she received the brain storm quite quickly, and even learned to draw inferences about other cases from one instance.

"you can say it this way."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, and then combined with some details he found before, he said, "Do you still remember the reefs we passed by just now? There are many strange but neat scratches left on those reefs. I have been thinking about these scratches just now. How did it come here? After seeing the remains of this hadrosaur, I can finally be sure that those scratches must be glacier scratches, left over from the ice age that caused the extinction of this ancient beast."

"Ice Age..."

Miko Ho got into brainstorming again, which was also a word she had never heard of.

"To put it bluntly, it has been an extremely long winter, so the temperature has dropped sharply, causing almost all places to be covered with snow and ice. The vegetation that originally grew on the ground was frozen to death, and many dragons were also frozen to death. , Those dragons who are barely alive, those who feed on vegetation have no vegetation, and can only starve to death, while those carnivorous dragons, because their prey is getting less and less, will eventually be unable to escape the end of starvation to death. "

Wu Liang said eloquently that this is a common problem of all archaeologists, and he is good to be a teacher, "You can imagine, for example, if we have such a long winter one day, even the oceans are frozen together, and everywhere Covered by a thick layer of ice, what kind of survival pressure will we face, that is the survival pressure that these dragons faced at that time."

"This……"

The witch Hu Ye is indeed a very cooperative student, following Wu Liang's careful guidance, she muttered, "If that's the case, many fish in the sea will freeze to death. If we cannot fish in Japan, more than half of the people in Japan will not be able to survive. Well, if the land is also covered by thick ice, then naturally we cannot continue to grow the food crops brought to us by Qin Zhixu Jun... I think about it carefully, and it seems that there is only one word to describe this situation, The word is 'destruction'."

"That's right, once the Ice Age comes, all people, animals, plants, in short, everything you can think of will experience a catastrophe."

Wu Liang nodded and said, "And this is the reason for the extinction of these ancient beasts. Nowadays, we humans dominate many things around us, and in that era, these ancient beasts were also the undisputed overlords, but no one could Contend against the Ice Age... because the power to destroy the world comes from the sky, which is the category of the "Way of Heaven" in our Taoist culture, and it cannot be reversed by human power."

"I see……"

Witch Hoo seemed to understand, but she didn't seem to understand it very much, but she still frowned and said, "But the era Wu Taishi said is not too far away from us, right? More than 1 million years, for our lifespan, although It's very long, but it shouldn't be too long for this world, even if these dragons have been extinct due to the ice age, these behemoths will always leave some traces, why have we never seen them on weekdays?"

More than 1 million years is not long?

Wu Liang almost laughed out loud, this girl really doesn't know anything about time...

But then Wu Liang realized another problem.

The "billion" of this era and the "billion" he mentioned seem to be not the same concept at all, so the "1 million years" understood by Miko Hu is not at all the "1 million years" that Wu Liang said.

The original meaning of the word "billion" in the Celestial Dynasty is stability and stability, and it was not used as a counting unit until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

For a long time after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "billion" was the counting unit after "ten thousand", but it did not represent the "ten thousand" of later generations, but "one hundred thousand".

The Wa country was deeply influenced by the Chinese culture, especially in this era, almost all cultures originated from the Chinese dynasty.

Therefore, their understanding of "billion" should be the same as that of the Celestial Dynasty.

That is to say, the "more than 1 million years" in Wu Liang's mouth is actually only 10,000+ years ago in Miko Hu's understanding. There seems to be a hundred times difference between them...

Thinking of this, Wu Liang had no choice but to say again: "There is one thing I have to correct. This kind of dragon lived not 10,000+ years ago, but more than [-] years ago. Can you understand that?"

"More than ten million years ago..."

Witch Hoo didn't snap her fingers, but she frowned more tightly like a math idiot, and she seemed to be doing mental calculations with her eyes turned backwards. After doing calculations like this for a while, she showed a give up expression, nodded and said, "That's really quite It's been a long time, but I'm very curious about one thing, how did Wu Taishi know about the events of [-] million years ago? These dragons should not leave books or murals on the walls like humans. Besides, even if we stayed, we might not be able to understand it, but Wu Taishi was able to know everything about that time..."

"Some things can be conveyed without words and murals. If you don't understand it, don't ask too much."

Wu Liang was instantly stopped by the question, and pulled away from the state of "being good at being a teacher", and then spoke vaguely, then looked at the mottled jade seedlings exposed on the remains, and said to himself the question in his heart, " What I am more concerned about now is that since these two giant hadrosaurs have become like this, it means that "Yangshenzhi" already existed when they lived, and "Yangshenzhi" is obviously an ancient thing , then what is the relationship between 'Yangshenzhi' and hadrosaurs, and did it have any impact on dragons?"

Later studies have shown that although this Shandong dragon is huge, it is actually a herbivorous dinosaur.

That is to say, Shandong dragon may feed on "Yangshenzhi", but it is hard to say whether it will be poisoned to death like a human after eating "Yangshenzhi".

The two Shandong dragons in front of us are obviously not poisoned to death. They should be the black soil produced after eating the "Yangshenzhi" resurrected animals. Petrification happened, and it ended up like this forever.

However, this still cannot directly explain the cause of death of the two Shandong dragons.

The only thing Wu Liang can speculate now is that the two Shandong dragons may have experienced the Ice Age and died after the Ice Age came, or they may have died before the Ice Age. The ice age, and it has been well preserved in the ice age, and it still maintains its posthumous appearance until now.

Another point is very important.

It is emphasized in "Yang Shen Zhi Tong Yao" that although people and some animals who eat black soil can live a hundred years, they will lose their fertility. This should be the reason why the old macaque king rejects black soil.

So will the dinosaurs bear the price, or will they be as repulsive as the macaques?
The only thing Wu Liang can be sure of is:
No matter it is any species, if it needs to bear such a price, but does not know how to control the black soil, even if there is no ice age, this species will eventually go extinct.

So the question comes back again, what is the truth about the extinction of dinosaurs?
Most of the later generations believe that it was caused by the glacial age. Of course, the dinosaur period is divided into several different periods. The Cretaceous period is only the last dinosaur period. The dinosaurs in the previous period were also extinct due to climate change caused by the impact of asteroids on the earth.

Of course, these are actually speculations by the scientific community in later generations, and some of them cannot produce definite evidence.

Then "Yangshenzhi", or the black soil produced by "Yangshenzhi", can it be the main factor that makes a species extinct?
Just when Wu Liang was thinking so.

"Shusha...Shusha...Shusha..."

The strange voice entered Wu Liang's ears again.

"?!"

Wu Liang's heart tightened, and he instantly recovered his senses and looked around.

This time he finally saw it!

On the sand behind Witch Hu, a row of clear footprints were appearing out of thin air, and they were spreading towards Witch Hu and Wu Liang step by step!

But above this row of footprints, there was nothing.

"Girl, be careful behind you!"

Wu Liang quickly reminded him, and at the same time took out an "innuendo".

Some sci-fi movies of later generations have told him that the most effective means to deal with "invisible people" are paint and powder, these things can make "invisible people" invisible, and compared with these things, "innuendo" is obviously more powerful. Advanced, after it is activated, it will form a dense rain of needles. In fact, it will make the "invisible person" invisible, and it will directly cause the "invisible person" to be seriously injured and lose the ability to move, and may even die suddenly.

at the same time.

The old macaque king also screamed "ahhh", pulling the rope and trying to dodge away from the row of footprints, making it difficult for the weaker witch to maintain her figure.

But what puzzled Wu Liang was.

Miko Hu had obviously noticed the strange footprints that suddenly appeared behind her, but her face looked very calm, showing no sign of fear at all.

(End of this chapter)