At this moment, Zhuang Rui's heart was filled with emotions. If it weren't for the depth of the sea, he would just want to look up to the sky and scream. Only in this way can he express the heavy feeling of discovering history in his heart.
I don’t know when, tears welled up in Zhuang Rui’s eyes. Looking at these two skull fossils that had been protected by many people with their lives, it was as if time went back, allowing Zhuang Rui’s mind to travel through the long river of time and witness the historical changes.
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The emergence of the skull fossil of Peking Man once played a very important role in the study of the history of human evolution and civilization. Now that the skull fossil has been rediscovered, it will surely stir up the entire human world again.
Although the two divers were not archaeologists, they had also engaged in underwater archaeological work. After seeing the box rupture, they immediately stopped what they were doing.
So only two skulls rolled out of the box, and the other objects were still intact in the box. Both of them were well-trained professional divers. They did not move at this time, and they were all waiting for Zhuang Rui's instructions.
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Zhuang Rui took off his backpack and threw out all the sea clams he picked up on the way here. Then he gestured to a diver to help him hold the backpack.
Although they don't know as much about skull fossils as Zhuang Rui, during the salvage operations in the past few days, these divers also knew what Zhuang Rui, Professor Meng and others were looking for. Now that they saw this jade-like object, they also
Seeing Zhuang Rui's excited expression, I understood something in my heart.
When the next diver helped Zhuang Rui hold the backpack, Zhuang Rui carefully picked up the two skulls that fell on the seabed, rubbed them gently with his hands, put them into the backpack, and then reached into the box.
Inside, he took out another lower jaw.
This lower jaw has been completely petrified and shows a blue luster in the sea water. Zhuang Rui knows that this is due to the color of the seabed and the refraction of light.
After carefully taking the chin in his hand and looking at it, Zhuang Rui carefully put it into his backpack.
This is a human being who lived 600,000 years ago and can definitely be called the ancestor of humankind. Zhuang Rui's movements were so gentle. Although he knew that these fossils would not be damaged in the water, he still did not dare to be careless at all.
In fact, although Zhuang Rui had some guesses in his mind before, he was not sure that the things inside were "Peking Man fossils", so he was not fully prepared.
These Peking Man fossils were too valuable. To be honest, he was not very confident about the other two divers, so he did not dare to leave now and could only put them into his backpack one by one.
The box not only contains complete skull fossils, but also many mandibles, teeth, broken femurs, fishy bones, etc. Every object is priceless, so Zhuang Rui is very slow to clean it up.
"Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Zhuang, it's been forty minutes, it's time to float, it's time to float..."
While Zhuang Rui was carefully cleaning the fossils out of the box, Xiao Yao's voice came from the headset.
Since this is a reef area, cruise ships cannot enter, and the distance is a bit far, so Zhuang Rui and others did not carry cameras, so the people above could not detect their behavior on the seabed.
"Xiao Liu, go up and tell them that there is an important discovery, an extremely important discovery, and ask Professor Meng to come over on a speedboat immediately! By the way, leave your oxygen bottle for me..."
After Zhuang Rui heard Xiao Yao's words, he remembered that there was a group of people above him, and quickly wrote out the above words with hand gestures. Zhuang Rui could not control others, but he must notify Professor Meng as soon as possible.
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Zhuang Rui has already made up his mind that he will never leave before the cleaning work of these Pekingese skull fossils is completed. You must know that even if one fragment is lost, it will be a major irreparable loss.
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"Playing the piano randomly, messing around on your own, and not telling us to go?"
After receiving the communication from the speedboat, Director Wu on the cruise ship said to Professor Meng very dissatisfied: "What is this small village doing? The salvage is over, what other major discoveries can be made?"
Because of Zhuang Rui's persistence, Director Wu was very embarrassed in front of the leader. In the end, the excuse he made was that according to Zhuang Rui, there was a malfunction on the ship and it would not be able to return until tomorrow. Although the leader didn't say anything, Director Wu felt
The pressure is on.
Therefore, although Director Wu does not dare to offend Zhuang Rui too much now, his promotion has little to do with Zhuang Rui, so he does not have a good look towards Zhuang Rui.
"Reporting to Commander Wu, I saw what Mr. Zhuang found. It seems... it seems to be a stone. By the way, it looks a bit like the skull that Professor Meng mentioned a few days ago..."
The diver's voice came out from the walkie-talkie. Professor Meng, who was sitting aside and didn't pay much attention, suddenly opened his eyes. Before Director Wu could react, Professor Meng had snatched the walkie-talkie in his hand.
"You...what did you say? Say it again and describe the shape of the object to me..."
Professor Meng's voice was a little trembling. Originally, he had given up on finding the "Peking Man skull fossil", but now the sudden news made Professor Meng a little stunned.
After the diver recounted what he saw again, Professor Meng could no longer sit still and threw the walkie-talkie back into Director Wu's hand. His whole figure seemed to be several dozen years younger, rushing like the wind.
Left the room.
"Hey, hey, let me say, Professor Meng, what... is going on?"
Director Wu had never seen Professor Meng lose his composure before. He subconsciously felt that something big had happened, and he didn't care to criticize Zhuang Rui, so he quickly followed him and ran out.
"Hurry up, hurry up, why is it so slow?"
There are a total of six lifeboats on the cruise ship, and there are also four speedboats. These small boats are placed on the cruise ship, and it takes a certain amount of time to put them into the sea.
Professor Meng stood at the bottom of the spiral staircase of the cruise ship, looking at the speedboat slowly lowering above his head, wishing he could just jump into the water and swim across.
Along with the speedboat arriving at the reef area, there were two paleoanthropologists. After they heard the news about the "Peking Man skull fossil", they were also inexplicably excited and followed them without saying a word.
The three old men sat on the speedboat and looked at each other. They were all uneasy and the tension on their faces was palpable.
They were afraid that their discovery this time would end in disappointment again, because they had been disappointed many times when they were cleaning up the corpses of Japanese victims in the past few days.
Will the pursuit of generations of people come to an end here? Can the souls of those seniors in the scientific research community be comforted? Hope... lies in Zhuang Rui at the bottom of the sea.
After arriving at the reef area, Professor Meng snatched the walkie-talkie from Xiao Yao's hand and said in a trembling voice: "Xiao Zhuang, Zhuang Rui, listen... please answer me when you hear it. What you found... is a skull fossil."
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Xiao Yao on the side didn't know why Professor Meng was so excited, and reminded him: "Professor Meng, Mr. Zhuang is not using a closed diving helmet. You can't speak under the sea..."
"Then... what should I do? Do you have any diving equipment? I... I want to go down..."
Professor Meng became anxious when he heard this. He didn't even think about whether his nearly seventy-year-old body could withstand the water pressure at the bottom of the sea. However, the old man's urgent mood was clearly revealed.
"Professor Meng, I'd better do it..."
Xiao Yao took the walkie-talkie in Professor Meng's hand and said: "Mr. Zhuang, Mr. Zhuang, please tap the microphone when you hear it..."
Zhuang Rui had already heard Professor Meng's voice, but was unable to answer. Now that he heard Xiao Yao's words, he quickly tapped the microphone with his finger.
"Mr. Zhuang, Professor Meng asked if the fossil below is a Peking Man? If so, please tap the microphone three times..."
Xiao Yao's words made Professor Meng and others' eyes light up. Then they stared at the walkie-talkie and pricked up their ears, fearing that they would miss the sound coming from the microphone.
"Ta-ta-ta-ta!"
Three coherent voices came out from the walkie-talkie. In the ears of Professor Meng and the two paleoanthropologists, these voices were like the sounds of nature, making the three of them look ecstatic on their faces.
"Old...Old Meng, this...is this true?"
An old man, who also had white hair, shed tears of excitement in his eyes. Before he reached out to wipe them, he saw that Professor Meng and his old friend were also smiling and shedding tears on their faces.
The mystery that lasted nearly a hundred years, and the pursuit that lasted nearly a hundred years, will be revealed at this moment, making the three old people, whose combined age exceeds 200 years, extremely excited.
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When Professor Meng and others came over just now, another diver got on the boat once, and brought a hand-held underwater camera and two bottles of oxygen back to the bottom of the sea.
Zhuang Rui specifically asked him to bring the camera with him. Zhuang Rui wanted to record the moment when the skull fossil was revealed. This will become important data in the future.
At this time, a diver was filming with an underwater camera on the bottom of the sea. Zhuang Rui and another diver were working nervously, groping inside the box bit by bit with their fingers.
The contents of the box have basically been cleaned, and the backpacks carried by the three divers are full. Because they contain tooth fossils, they are small in size.
In order to avoid any omissions, Zhuang Rui checked the box again and again, and used a strong flashlight to illuminate all the cracks in the rocks under the box, for fear of losing any "Peking Man Fossil".
It lasted more than three hours, and when all three bottles of oxygen were almost exhausted, and Zhuang Rui could no longer sense objects in the box with his hands or spiritual energy, the "accidental" salvage work was finally concluded.
"Wow!"
The calm sea surface became rippled, and Zhuang Rui's head emerged from the sea, immediately attracting the attention of everyone on the small boat three or four meters away from where he floated.
