America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

At the time, the Sorcerer Supreme, who was guarding the Sanctuary of the Dead in New York, noticed the riot. He intervened and quelled the incident, erasing the memory of the "resurrection" incident from everyone's minds using Kafka's spell.

His Holiness later appointed three Kamar-Taj monks to work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York as security guards, watching over the Akhamara gold medals day and night, a task they still perform to this day.

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On the school bus, Li Qun and Peter sat together.

A week has passed, and today Liqun and his friends are taking the school bus to visit the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

On the school bus, Dr. Otto and his wife, Ms. Rosie, kept the students completely silent, making them feel utterly uncomfortable.

"arrive."

Dr. Otto and Ms. Rosie got off the bus first. After they got off, the two teachers stood by the door and counted the students one by one, and then had the students line up behind them.

"I'll remind you one more time: don't wander off, stay with the group. I don't need to remind you of the consequences of violating the rules, do I?" Dr. Otto warned the students.

"Looks like you all heard me clearly. Now follow me."

Dr. Otto led the team into the Natural History Museum.

The museum arranged a guide for them, and Li Qun and his group followed the guide to begin their visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Dr. Otto moved to the very back of the student group to fulfill his supervisory duties.

“You’re too serious. The children are afraid to speak,” Ms. Rosie whispered to Dr. Otto.

“You have no idea how disobedient they are, especially the boys. If you don’t be serious, they’ll scatter and disappear immediately,” Dr. Otto replied to his wife.

“That Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton is huge,” Harry said, standing behind Peter.

Upon entering the museum, the first exhibit you see is an upright Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton.

Harry broke away from his own class and joined Peter and Lillian's group.

Chapter 50 begins with the first budding life underwater...

"Peter, take a picture of me with the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton."

Harry posed in front of the Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil skeleton, and Peter snapped a photo of him.

"Liqun, would you like a picture?" Peter asked Liqun after taking a picture of Harry.

"I don't need it, Gwen, do you want to take a picture?"

“Never mind.” Gwen shook her head.

“Harry, take a picture of me.” Liz and her friends stood under the Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton, and Peter spotted Mary Jane in the middle and nodded in agreement.

Dr. Otto's authority did indeed keep the students under his supervision from wandering off, but the students in the other classes were a different story. In the first three minutes of their museum visit, the students from the other classes were all mixed up in a chaotic mess, and the teachers in charge could only shake their heads helplessly and follow behind the students like sheep to herd them.

"It seems like there aren't many tourists besides us," Li Qun said to Gwen, somewhat puzzled.

Peter is very busy right now. He's busy taking photos of other students. After taking photos of Liz and Mary Jane, he took photos of Frye and his group. After taking photos of the school football team, he took photos of the school basketball team. Finally, he was also asked by students who were writing for the school magazine to take photos.

“Liqun, don’t you think this place is boring? If you want to see animals, you might as well go to the zoo next door. Even the skeletons on display here are fake,” Gwen said.

"Are they going to put real dinosaur fossil skeletons at the museum entrance for people to see? There's no display stand or railings, it would be terrible if someone pushed the skeleton over," Li Qun complained.

At the information desk, students visiting today were lining up to receive thin guidebooks, which contained general introductions to each exhibition hall. For more detailed information, they needed to ask a guide to explain on-site.

A quick visit to all the exhibits takes two hours, while listening to the guide's explanations takes four hours. Today, Li Qun and his friends will spend the entire day at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.

The museum's main color is warm yellow, like loess, seemingly trying to make visitors feel the weight of natural history.

"I am your guide for today, Wang. Please follow me to the right. We will start with the exhibition hall on the right and end on the left."

Wang held up a small flag and spoke to the chattering students with a meticulous and serious expression.

The students in the museum's entrance hall began to walk around with several guides, and the once quiet museum became more lively.

Wang led his students into the vertebrate origins exhibit, where all they could see were bones.

Vertebrates that predate or coexist with dinosaurs are on display here. At the top of the exhibition area are ancient fish models restored by scientists, with placoderms and lobe-finned fish hanging above visitors' heads, their bodies twisting.

"This is Dunkleosteus, the dominant fish of the Devonian period. Its head and neck armor are connected by joints..."

Wang stood before the fossilized skeleton of Dunkleosteus and spoke eloquently. He had spent a week studying the relevant knowledge in the library in preparation for today's lecture.

“What a big head, with its mouth wide open like that.” Harry opened his mouth wide at Peter, imagining himself as a Dunkleosteus.

The class moved forward slowly. Wang would casually mention some of the exhibits in the display cases, but would explain a few more points about the items that the students were more interested in.

The exhibits in the Vertebrate Origins Hall are displayed according to the process of species evolution. After passing through the exhibits of ancient fish and ancient amphibians, you enter the exhibit of the star exhibit, the dinosaurs and sauromorphs. The huge dinosaur skeletons in the dinosaur exhibit are slightly more interesting to students than the fish bones in the previous exhibit.

After leaving the dinosaur exhibit, the group entered the world bird exhibit. In glass display cases close to the walls, exquisite and small models simulated the living scenes of various birds from around the world, like three-dimensional picture books.

“How boring…” Harry looked around.

“I think it’s quite interesting,” Peter said, taking another picture.

After seeing the birds, we went to the mammal exhibit. The modern animal section of the mammal exhibit consisted entirely of specimens, and Gwen complained that she had seen a lot of "corpses" that day.

"Look, it's a giant panda!" Gwen excitedly pointed out the black and white giant panda specimen in the Asian Animals exhibit to Liqun.

“I saw it.” Li Qun’s reaction was indifferent.

“Liqun, there are no giant pandas at the New York Zoo. The nearest zoo where you can see giant pandas is in Washington, D.C.,” Gwen said.

"Seeing the giant panda specimen made me a little sad," Li Qun said.

Wang glanced subtly in the direction of Liqun.

After seeing most of the animals, the next exhibit was on the development of human civilization.

In the cultural exhibition area, the Neanderthals, Mayans, Huns, and other figures on display are all wax figures, while iconic figures from history books, such as Columbus, have bronze statues.

"Wait, why is this on display too?" One of the items in the display case made Li Qun's expression freeze.

In the last glass display case in the Asian Humanities Exhibition Area, a red lacquered memorial tablet is placed high, with a black-and-white portrait of an elderly man hanging in the center. Below the portrait, on an altar, are an incense burner and offerings, with three incense sticks inserted in the burner—a rather eerie scene. A plaque in the lower right corner explains that this display case showcases the ancestral beliefs of China.

The students all looked at Li Qun, and one of the bolder students asked if what was displayed in Li Qun's showcase was real. Li Qun nodded helplessly.

The earlier displays of Aurora culture included terracotta warriors, stone lions, porcelain, and Buddhist statues. With the addition of the items in the last display case, this truly showcases what stereotypes about Aurora culture mean.

After entering the adjacent European and American cultural exhibition area, Liqun discovered a blind spot.

When we were in the Asian cultural exhibition area, there were no models of historical figures related to China; but in the European and American exhibition area, there were miniature models of people like Octavian from Rome.

Li Qun thought about it and realized that it was obvious that this was a design with Western history as the main narrative.

"Students, welcome to the Ancient Egypt exhibit. The figures on both sides of the gate are jackals guarding the entrance. We have arranged this area according to the layout of the pyramids. And in the coffin at the very back of the exhibit, the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Achamana lies asleep."

"Fifty-four years ago, Pharaoh Akmanra traveled all the way from England to New York, along with his most prized possession, the Akmanra Gold Medal," Wang explained to Li Qun and the others.

“Your Majesty!” Harry raised his hand; he had a question for the king.

"Is that the real thing?" Harry asked, pointing to the gold Akamara medallion.

“Guess,” Wang said with a smile to Harry Osborne.

"It's fake. It's impossible for it to be displayed like this."

“It’s true.” Wang blinked.

Chapter 51 The Mummy Returns

The school bus stopped in Chinatown. Li Qun was the last student on the bus. After dropping Li Qun off, the school bus driver's work for the day was done.

After visiting the American Museum of Natural History in New York, all students got off at the same place they boarded. The school bus did not return to the school but instead took the students directly home.

They arrived at the American Museum of Natural History in New York at 10:30 a.m., and their visit lasted exactly four hours. They finished their visit in the afternoon and returned home around 4 p.m.

After visiting the museum, there was homework to be done. The school hadn't just organized the trip to the Natural History Museum without any requirements; every eleventh-grade student had to write a reflection. While her memory was still fresh and her mind was still full of inspiration, Liqun went home and immediately started her homework.

From the first budding life underwater to the giant beasts of the Stone Age... to the first upright walking of humankind...

After burying himself in writing for an hour, Liqun finished his reflection and put the assignment in his backpack.

Li Qun lay down on the bed and looked through the photo album on his phone.

Peter took a lot of photos with his camera today. Liqun guessed that Peter was probably developing the photos when he got home. Peter would do his homework based on the photos after they were developed.

Li Qun selected a few photos from his phone's album and sent them to Gwen. Gwen soon sent him more than a dozen photos in return.

"I'm exhausted today. I wish I hadn't gone."

Gwen was lying on the sofa sending a message to Li Qun.

"More importantly, they didn't let us have lunch," Li Qun replied.

"I don't have the energy to eat dinner anymore. All I want to do now is lie down and do nothing."

"I've decided, I won't participate in any extracurricular activities next year."

"Gwen, why did you take a picture of that display case? Delete that photo from your phone right now."

"What's wrong?

Beware, wild ghosts might crawl out of your phone.

Don't scare me.

"I've already deleted the photo you sent me."

Li Qun got out of bed, walked out of the room into the living room, pointed his phone camera at the Zhong Kui painting hanging in the living room, took a picture of Zhong Kui, and sent it to Gwen Stacy.

This is Zhong Kui, the god from Chinese mythology who listens to all prayers. He can drive away evil and protect your soul.

"He...scars me."

"He's a good man. Let me tell you the legend of Zhong Kui..."

My uncle's house has a painting of Zhong Kui hanging on it, while my father's house has a statue of Zhong Kui.

The Aurora Museum of Natural History in New York didn't impress Li Qun as much as some of the pawned items in his father's pawn shop. If his father's pawn shop had a larger space, Li Qun felt he could turn the pawn shop's items into a museum-like exhibition area.

While chatting with Gwen about the restaurant's busy dinner hours, Liqun went downstairs to help out at the restaurant, and ended up working until 10:30 p.m.

Li Qun went to bed at 11 p.m. to rest...

Midnight...

A portal silently appeared above Li Qun's head, and the Akamamra Gold Medal fell out of the portal, hitting Li Qun squarely in the face!