When I woke up, the sun was streaming in through the window.
When we went to the cafeteria, the hall was almost decorated. As long as the final modifications were made, it would become a good venue for the party. It seemed that the group of people worked overtime last night. There was a band there trying out
During the rehearsing of the party's repertoire, there were passengers nearby who stopped to admire it and asked what they were doing here.
Unfortunately, there is no detailed map of the empire for sale in the store. What Cassia has in hand is only an abbreviated version with a more objective resolution. He thought about sneaking into the control room of the airship to call up their route map for use, but
Later, he gave up this plan. Anything suspicious might arouse the enemy's suspicion, but what Cassia needed was to delay the enemy from finding him as much as possible.
"Mr. Tussos, it's so early." Shako stood at the door and said hello. Her appearance changed a little without wearing glasses, but from outside the door, she could see the books on the table in the room. She didn't have a good rest, and from Cassia
After getting a series of strange words in his hand, Shaco studied them late into the night last night.
"I wanted to come over and ask you about the place names." Cassia said, shaking the map in her hand, "I still haven't found it. I hope you can help me mark a rough range on it."
"Okay, okay." Shake nodded repeatedly, took the map, and let Cassia enter the house.
The bulging bag was placed on the chair next to the bed. Except for a few simple clothes, the rest were books of different thicknesses. Cassia glanced at the names of the books, and Shake also
After putting on the glasses, push a piece on the table and spread out the map.
"This is it." Shake pointed at the map and drew a circle with a pen. "It's in the southern part of the empire, close to the huge forest."
"Where is the southern forest?" Cassia looked over.
"This map looks very close, but in fact it is still a long way away. The southern forest is a primitive forest. It was marked as a very dangerous area as early as the Mano Kingdom. If you are in it, Mr. Tussos, you
You can’t get past it.”
"That seems to be the case." Cassia replied with a smile, "By the way, Shaco, do you usually read books on ancient creatures? I accidentally took a look at it just now. You seem to be very involved."
Shake looked back at her bag and thought for a moment: "It seems that as long as it is anything related to ancient times, I am very interested in it." She walked to the big bag and took out a book with yellowed pages.
A thick book came out. The writing was so corroded that the specific names could not be clearly seen, and it looked like it would fall into pieces at any time due to frequent flipping.
"This is my favorite book. No matter where I go, I almost always take it with me." Shaco showed off to Cassia like a child. "Maybe there is only one book like this in the empire. It was given to me by Grandpa Dullison.
mine."
Shako turned to a chapter at random, and the ink text on it also faded to gray. The title was - The White Behemoth on the Ice Field.
"It is said to be an introduction to paleontology, but Grandpa Dullisen and I both think it is a wonderful fantasy created by a zoologist when he was bored. There are many, many short stories in it, and each of them is very attractive. And the author's descriptions are extremely realistic, which makes people laugh.
It feels just like the real thing." Sha Xiaoxiao said, "But it's definitely not real. There are zoos of different sizes all over the empire, but I have never seen an animal like the one described in this book."
"For example, this,,,, white giant beast on the ice sheet." The Klans Kingdom in the northern part of the Houxiang Continent, bordering the Endless Sea, began to purchase a large amount of squid from the Sacred Shiluo Kingdom of the Zuoxiang Continent via waterways in 187 AD.
Engineering machinery and mining giant machinery mined the necessary meteoric copper ore on the uninhabited frozen soil in China, and the harvest was huge. One day in the winter two years later, after three days of heavy snowfall, Laikawei, a geological engineer in the mining area,
He and his assistant Milo went out to explore other mineral veins, and saw huge fresh footprints on the frozen soil for the first time on the way. After reporting it to the management, they went to explore again as a team the next day, and this time they followed the footprints for about
It’s ten kilometers away,,,’.”
",,,In order to capture this strange huge white beast (which was finally identified as a strange tundra white bear by professors and experts, and classified separately in the animal family), the Kingdom of Klans sent troops three times to transport supplies.
It was enough to support a small battle, and all four round-up operations ended in failure, but they also severely damaged the white giant beast. Five months later, the white giant beast retaliated and attacked the mines of the Klans Kingdom there.
More than half of the machines were destroyed, and more than a third of the army was damaged. The news later leaked out for unknown reasons, and the country was shocked. The current king was condemned and was replaced by the new king three months later. Subsequently, all the machines in the mining area were moved away and listed there.
For no one's restricted area,,,"
",,,,Five years later, due to the shortage of domestic meteorite copper resources, the permafrost mining area was restarted. However, less than two months after the reconstruction work, the white giant attacked again. This time, the size of the white giant increased by about five points.
One of them, completely destroyed the mining area within three days. And then, a white giant beast turned into two heads (the other one was later believed to be its mate), left the mining area one after another, and began to attack the nearby cities of the Klans Kingdom.
The army went to encircle and kill, but it did not stop the giant beast. A week later, because it could not bear the huge losses, the Kingdom of Klans asked its ally, the Kingdom of Mano, ah, it is our empire, for help. But there was no
After receiving the response from the Kingdom of Mano, the cities around the tundra began to evacuate as a last resort. Three months later, the army sent out an exploration team and found that the white giant beast had left.
"Then there was the reconstruction of the destroyed city, and the Kingdom of Klans asked the Kingdom of Mano as an ally why it didn't help them." Shako glanced at Cassia, "Actually, I am also very confused about this place, as an ally, such a disaster.
We were supposed to help before. But soon afterwards, the Kingdom of Mano tore up the alliance agreement and started a war of expansion. The Kingdom of Klans was the first country to be invaded by the empire."
After speaking, Shake sighed, and his face turned red because of the faint excitement.
"There are many, many little stories like this, such as the deep underwater shadows of fishermen in awe, the red-eyed wolves in the wilderness, the bronze island floating among the clouds, the strange sound of falling leaves in the wind, etc. In short, they are all above
Some wonderful fantasies, but they are really beautiful. This is how my interest in paleontology came about. By the way, here are the paintings of the white giant beast. Here, here,,,"
Cassia looked at the place Shake was pointing at. It was a very simple sketch with good foundation. With just a few lines, the specific appearance of the white giant beast was outlined. There was an adult next to it as a reference.
The white giant beast is about seven meters tall, and it is indeed huge. But what attracts Cassia the most is the most detailed part of the sketch, which is the pair of eyes, a standard cross star.
"Is it a second-category creature?" Cassia already had the answer in her heart.
"Actually, sometimes I really hope that the things mentioned in the book will appear. This is where my initial interest in paleontology originated. When I think about it before going to bed, I feel,,,well, it makes me unable to sleep..."
Shako nodded in self-recognition, but then thought that he seemed to have said something wrong, so he quickly added, "Actually, I can sleep."
"The author of this book is also someone I admire very much. He is obviously a zoologist, but he can have such imagination. Ah, he seems to also like ancient things. He also has other books about the study of ancient ruins.
Speaking of which, I like history, ancient cultural relics and paleontology, all because of this author's books." Shake carefully turned the book to the end. Although this is not the original, the handwriting has been somewhat blurred by the erosion of time.