Zhuang Rui opened his mask and softly uttered a few words from his mouth, which made the old experts tremble involuntarily as if they had been struck by lightning.
Compared with the three knocks from the walkie-talkie, Zhuang Rui's words really made a big stone fall in the hearts of these strong old people.
"Hurry... bring it here quickly, no... no, slow down, slow down, be careful..."
Professor Rao Shimeng has handled countless precious cultural relics in his life, but when faced with the "Fossil Peking Man Skull", which has special significance to the history of human evolution, he is still overwhelmed with excitement and can't help himself.
The skulls of the three backpacks were carefully carried to the speedboat. Zhuang Rui and others also boarded the speedboat and headed back to the cruise ship. Of course, with this discovery, Zhuang Rui would not bother with the matter of salvaging pearls anymore.
Already.
After returning to the cruise ship, Professor Meng asked Zhuang Rui to find a room. The door was guarded by security guards. Except for the other two experts on ancient humans, only Zhuang Rui and Director Wu were allowed in.
There was no need to question the authenticity of the skull. Zhuang Rui felt a little sad when he saw the several old people being ecstatic with surprise, so he simply left the room to spend time with his wife and children.
"Not out yet?"
Zhuang Rui walked outside the room where Professor Meng and others were standing, and asked the security guard at the door. It was already past one o'clock in the night, and Professor Meng and others had been in the room for more than 10 hours.
"No, the meals are all delivered according to your instructions..."
The security guard at the door shook his head. He also admired these old experts. Even the security guard had changed two shifts, and the people inside were still doing research.
After knocking on the door, Zhuang Rui walked in. The three old men in the room who were immersed in the fossils just raised their heads and glanced at Zhuang Rui without even saying hello. They turned their attention to the fossils on the table.
middle.
Zhuang Rui saw that on the table on one side, several portions of food were already cold, but there was no trace of use. He couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said: "I said, three teachers, if you have to sit down for this matter, you have to eat it, right?"
?”
"Xiao Zhuang, don't be in a hurry to eat. Do you still remember how many fossils we collected in total?"
Professor Meng waved his hand and motioned for Zhuang Rui to walk over. He had been immersed in the fossils just now. Now that he saw Zhuang Rui, he happened to have some questions that needed Zhuang Rui to answer.
"I remember there were five skulls and three mandibles. As for the teeth and bone fossils, there must be more than a hundred. I can't remember exactly..."
Zhuang Rui shook his head. He had to maintain balance underwater and be careful not to damage the fossils. How could he find the time to check them one by one? Besides, many tooth fossils were only the size of a small fingernail, so it was very troublesome to count them.
"Xiaozhuang, you have made a great contribution!"
The man next to him, Mr. Zhao, also raised his head from the pile of fossils at this moment and looked at Zhuang Rui with eyes full of relief and admiration.
"Haha, it's just luck. Who would have thought that the objects in the Awa Maru that exploded dozens of nautical miles away would be washed away by the sea water?
But if it hadn’t been caught by the reef, I’m afraid these skull fossils would really be impossible to find. By the way, Professor Meng, this fossil was also found by two other divers..."
Zhuang Rui said a few words modestly. Although he also knew that this explanation would not clear up others' doubts, Zhuang Rui had no better answer and could only attribute it to luck.
Moreover, Zhuang Rui also specially roped in those two people to help him share some of the credit. This happened to him, so there must be people who are thinking about it. If possible, Zhuang Rui would rather give all the credit to those two.
"luck……"
Professor Meng muttered something, with a strange look on his face. As a disciple, he was too lucky.
From the Dingguang Sword to the Pirate Island Treasure, from the Song Dynasty shipwreck to the Peking Man skull fossil, any of these discoveries will be a major event that shocks the industry, but they all appeared in Zhuang Rui's body.
But if you think about it carefully, Professor Meng can't find any other possibility besides luck. After all, these things are very random. Professor Meng doesn't have the imagination of contemporary Internet writers to imagine Zhuang Rui.
A pair of magical eyes.
After muttering a few words in his mind, Professor Meng looked at Zhuang Rui and said, "Zhuang Rui, you found a total of five skulls, three mandible fossils, seven skull fragments, 98 teeth and 138
A piece of femur, a fishy bone fossil...
We made a rough calculation and found that these should be human fossils belonging to more than 30 individuals of men, women, old and young. Although there are some fewer than those recorded in the data, most of them have been found. These fossils are enough to comfort the spirits of the teachers in heaven.
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Even though more than 10 hours have passed since the fossil came out of the water, and it was actually in front of them, several old professors still felt as if they were in a dream.
I was completely disappointed at first, but I didn't expect that after Zhuang Rui wandered around in the water for so long, there were unexpected twists and turns, which made people feel a little unreal.
"Well, Xiaozhuang? Are you here too? Just in time, I just wanted to go find you..."
Just when Zhuang Rui wanted to persuade the elderly people to rest, Director Wu walked in from the door. Different from the bitter face that looked like his parents had died in the morning, Director Wu now had a red face and was full of energy.
"Director Wu, haven't you rested yet?"
Zhuang Rui didn't really want to deal with Director Wu. Anyway, the thing was found. According to the agreement, after the scientists finished studying it, it would be kept by his museum for five years. With Director Wu's identity, he couldn't interfere with it.
Director Wu seemed to have forgotten the unhappiness in the morning and said with a smile on his face: "Haha, Xiaozhuang, I have something to talk to you about. Let's go out and talk..."
Zhuang Rui nodded and said: "Okay, teacher, you guys should go to bed early. This knowledge cannot be completed in one day..."
"You brat, is this teacher you or me? He's teaching us a lesson..." Professor Meng scolded Zhuang Rui angrily and waved his hand to let him out.
…
"Huh? Director Wu, what are you doing?"
Zhuang Rui followed Director Wu to a room on the ship. After entering, he found that two people were already sitting in the room. Zhuang Rui knew both of them. One of them was Director Wu's secretary and the other was from the Maritime Safety Administration.
staff of.
However, the arrangement of tables and chairs in the room made Zhuang Rui a little unhappy. There was a table in front of the room, and directly opposite the table, there was a chair, which looked a bit like a three-chamber meeting.
"Xiaozhuang, don't get me wrong. This is a record that I was assigned by the organization to record your discovery of the skull fossil. It's just a formality, just a formality..."
Director Wu got a huge credit for nothing this time. He knew how the credit came from. He was afraid that Zhuang Rui would say something bad about him in the record, so when he spoke to Zhuang Rui, he actually used
Honorifics.
"Okay, you can ask..."
Zhuang Rui looked at the chair in the middle of the room, walked straight to the sofa on the side and sat down. He didn't want to be interrogated like a prisoner.
"Okay, Deputy Commander Zhuang, please tell us in detail how you discovered the skull fossil..."
Director Wu changed his usual name of Xiaozhuang and became more official. In fact, he himself was puzzled by this matter today, and he has been wondering in his heart until now.
The reef area and the shipwreck site are dozens of nautical miles apart. How could it be such a coincidence that Zhuang Rui found this skull fossil?
In the afternoon, Director Wu had already talked to the two divers respectively. They all said the same thing, that Zhuang Rui found the box first and called them over later. This made Director Wu have endless doubts in his heart.
Not only that, Director Wu also found Old Li Tou who was leading the way, and learned that it was indeed the first time for Zhuang Rui to enter the reef area, which puzzled him even more.
If Zhuang Rui and his father had not been in their infancy when these skull fossils were not lost, Director Wu would have even suspected that Zhuang Rui had hidden this box of fossils.
"When I went down, I was looking for sea clams..."
"Wait a minute, Mr. Zhuang, needless to say, that reef area is still the place where we search for sunken shipwrecks..."
As soon as Zhuang Rui opened his mouth to speak, he was interrupted by Director Wu. What kind of international joke are you kidding? Could it be that he reported to the leaders that these skull fossils were found by Zhuang Rui when he was looking for Haizhu for his wife? Then Director Wu is really stupid.
political achievements?
"Uh, okay, when I went down to the bottom of the sea, I saw an object sandwiched between two rocks. I went over to take a look...
Well...that's what happened, Director Wu, you don't have anything to ask anymore, right?"
Zhuang Rui told what happened when he went down to the bottom of the sea. Except for seeing the box in advance, he told it in detail without reservation. Director Wu couldn't find anything wrong with it. It was exactly what the two divers said.
consistent with.
"Okay, Mr. Zhuang, you have made outstanding contributions to the national scientific research this time and made great contributions to the country. When you return to Beijing, Vice Premier x will meet you..."
Director Wu said these words sincerely. This is Zhuang Rui's opportunity, and he cannot envy him. Who is so lucky that he can fish out national treasures when fishing for pearls for his wife?
"Haha, these are all achievements made under the leadership of Director Wu. I will tell the truth to the leader when the time comes..."
As the saying goes, people carry people in a sedan chair. Zhuang Rui doesn't care at all about which leader receives him, but anyone can tell him to be obedient, so he doesn't mind selling this favor.
"Xiao Wang, Xiao Li, okay, you can go out..."
Director Wu waved his hand, and after the two record-keepers went out, he immediately stood up, held Zhuang Rui's hand, and said: "Mr. Zhuang, you... look at this... it was me, Old Wu, here this morning. No, I'm here."
I apologize to you..."
Director Wu is worthy of being a man in the officialdom. He is called someone who can stretch and bend. He is almost 20 years older than Zhuang Rui. This bend has brought his posture to the lowest point.
