With the giant snake leading the way, Chen Ran easily found the warehouse of the underground fortress. Although most of it collapsed, it could be seen that the warehouse was divided into several parts.
The first thing Chen Ran saw was Warehouse No. 5. The materials inside were still piled high, but the cement wall on the other side was turned upside down and hit it. When he saw this, he didn't bother to look through it, and just scanned it with golden light energy.
After taking a look, I found that there were army coats, boots, military quilts, lunch boxes, gas masks and other daily necessities piled up. Perhaps because of the good design of this fortress, most of these supplies were still intact.
But Chen Ran obviously has no interest in these.
Since there is Warehouse No. 5, there are obviously Warehouse Nos. 1, 2, 3, and 4, and even Warehouse No. 6. Chen Ran found Warehouse No. 4 first.
Warehouse No. 4 contained canned food and other foods, and Chen Ran even found beer and Japanese sake inside.
After passing Warehouse No. 4, we turned around and arrived at Warehouse No. 3. Warehouse No. 3 contained grain and rice. This warehouse was the most severely bombed and was completely buried. Then Warehouse No. 1 and No. 2 were the giant warehouses.
Snake found the place where the weapons were stored.
Both warehouses were filled with boxes of arms. Chen Ran took a cursory look and found that there were at least hundreds of boxes. Each box was either a machine gun, rifle or bullet. Such a large amount of arms could equip at least one division.
Although there were a lot of arms, Chen Ran was not interested. Although he could get a lot of money by selling these arms secretly, it was not troublesome enough for him, and it was not cost-effective.
However, now that it has been discovered, it cannot be left here. It would be okay if someone with good intentions discovered it, but if it was discovered by a crazy person, it would undoubtedly be bad.
Chen Ran then went to look elsewhere, but found nothing.
This underground fortress obviously has more than this level, but the ones below were blown up and buried. Chen Ran didn't want to bother cleaning the exit, so he simply released the golden light energy and inspected the entire fortress.
Under the inspection of the golden light energy, it was found that this fortress has three floors. The first floor is the one above, the second floor seems to be for people, and the third floor is for prisoners.
"Eh..."
After checking all the places, nothing was found. Just when Chen Ran was about to take back the golden light energy, he suddenly discovered a storage room in a room that immediately attracted his attention.
"Fossil? Specimen?"
The golden light energy went in and took a look, and found that the storage room was filled with various stones, which really made him interested.
This storage room is in the innermost room on the second floor. Chen Ran checked that the second floor was buried. If he wanted to go in, he would either clear the passage on the second floor or go directly through the first floor.
, but it also needs to be cleaned up.
In comparison, it is undoubtedly easier to go through the first floor.
The giant snake obviously also discovered that Chen Ran was not interested in the "things" it regarded as treasures, so it lost interest and stayed beside Chen Ran.
Although Officer Yuan knew that the giant snake would not hurt her, he was obviously still a little frightened in front of the giant snake and grabbed Chen Ran's arm and did not dare to let go.
Chen Ran led Officer Yuan towards the room, and the giant snake followed slowly behind.
With a "boom", Chen Ran kicked a hole in the wall that was blocking the wall. The cement walls were shaken by the explosives, and now they are no longer very strong. Chen Ran barely exerted any force.
Passing through the hole made by the kick, we didn't walk too far before reaching the top of the room. This room was the innermost room, and the other side was the stone wall of the mountain, so it was only half collapsed. Chen Ran happened to be stepping on it.
The collapsed half went down to this room on the second floor.
The storage room that Chen Ran discovered was in this room. It was a large room and it should have been an official's residence before the fortress was blown up.
The storage room was dug out of the stone wall against which the room was built, so the storage room is still well preserved.
Chen Ran squatted down and cleared the bricks and rubble blocked in front of the secret door of the storage room, and then opened the secret door.
There were desktop lamps in the storage room. Chen Ran tried to turn on one, and there was still electricity, so he turned on all of them one by one.
Officer Yuan also followed in with a flashlight, and the giant snake following behind poked his head in to watch.
The storage room is not big. There are display cabinets on both sides, and there is also a display cabinet in the middle. Chen Ran looked at them one by one. These stones are all fossils of various animals. There are all kinds of animals, and there are even many dinosaur fossils and dinosaurs.
Egg.
Dinosaur fossils and eggs are rare items in the world, but they are very common in China. The number and types of dinosaur fossils and eggs unearthed in China are second to none. They have been unearthed in many places such as the Central Plains, Sichuan, and Guangdong, and some
They can be found in concentrated places or even everywhere. You can pick them up casually, and you can often see them in the cultural relics market. Sometimes you can buy one for two hundred yuan.
But these are all low-grade. There are low-grade ones, and naturally there are high-grade ones. The high-grade ones are rare treasures. Each one is worth a lot of money, and even if you want to buy it, you can't buy it.
Chen Ran didn't know much about this kind of things, so he couldn't see the value of these fossils for a while. In addition to fossils, there were some artificial animal specimens in the cabinet. Chen Ran also found a Yushu fossil.
There is no doubt that the owner of this room should be a fan or expert in this field.
Chen Ran opened the cabinet doors and took a look. In addition to fossils and specimens, there was also some information, but these information were all in Japanese.
In the cabinet door below, Chen Ran also found two white wooden boxes, one large and one small. He also opened them and took a look. Inside were cotton bags one after another. The top one should have been opened and then casually removed.
It's wrapped up, so it's not very tightly wrapped.
Chen Ran took it out and opened it and looked at it, only to find that there was a skeleton inside, which should also be a fossil.
The same was true for the other box. Seeing this, Chen Ran wrapped the bones again and put them in the box. Although he was interested in these fossils, he was only interested and had no intention of collecting them. Obviously, these fossils were
The value of research on similar cultural relics is greater than the value of collection, so it is better to leave it to those experts for research.
Originally, Chen Ran was about to close the box again, but when he closed it, he released golden light energy and casually scanned the cloth bag underneath. As a result, this scan immediately stunned him.
"How is that possible?"
Chen Ran stared at the box in front of him in shock, and then hurriedly checked other cloth bags and another box.
As the investigation continued, the shock on his face gradually turned into dumbfounded.
"Why is this thing here?"
"Isn't it on the Awa Maru?"
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No matter how rich Ren Chenran's imagination was, he could not imagine that this thing would be hidden in such a small storage room, nor could he imagine that a rare treasure that attracted the attention of the whole world would be discovered by him.
This feeling is as if something in a world other than your own suddenly happened to you.
Although Chen Ran had also imagined discovering some treasures with his own powers, he never dared to think about the treasures in front of him. He felt that they were too far away from him, but now they suddenly appeared in front of him.
No matter what, it feels unreal.
Chen Ran didn't think too far ahead. Although what he saw in front of him felt a bit unreal, the fact did happen. Putting the flashlight aside, he took it out of the box with an indescribable feeling.
A larger tarpaulin bag.
Carefully placing the oilcloth bag on the display cabinet in the middle, Chen Ran unwrapped the oilcloth bag.
Chen Ran moved very lightly, and the oilcloth bag obviously contained more than one layer. Chen Ran first opened the outer medical cloth, then opened a layer of white powder paper, and then opened another layer.
Cotton gauze, and then another kind of cotton cloth. This is not over yet. Then it is white cotton paper, and then fine cotton cloth. It is wrapped in six layers in total. It is only then that the things wrapped in layers are exposed.
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But it's a skull.
To be precise, it is a skull fossil, also called the "Peking Man" skull.
That's right, what Chen Ran found in this box was the "Peking Man" skull.
Everyone in China must have heard of the name of the "Peking Man" skull. In the 1920s, scientists discovered two teeth belonging to early humans in Zhoukoudian. In October of the same year, the Beijing scientific community reported this important
When discovered, it immediately caused a sensation at home and abroad. Later, scientists decided to name the owner of these two teeth "Peking Man", and later "Peking Man".
Later, China Geological Survey and Union Medical College jointly excavated the Zhoukoudian Peking Man site. In the second year of the excavation work, two capable young paleontologists in my country, Yang Zhongjian and Pei Wenzhong, participated in the excavation work at Zhoukoudian They were full of energy and brought vitality to the entire scene. In 1929, a miracle that shocked the world's academic community finally happened: the first complete Peking Man skull was discovered in Zhoukoudian.
It was early winter this year. During the excavation process, the staff suddenly saw a small hole. The crack at the entrance was so narrow that only one person could enter and exit.
In order to find out the truth, Pei Wenzhong came to the cave and took a closer look. He was very happy. It turned out that many animal fossils were unexpectedly found here.
He ignored the cold and decided to continue the excavation work. By four o'clock in the afternoon on December 2, the sun had already set, and the sky outside the cave was gradually getting dark. The howling cold wind was blowing in the mountains. It felt even colder in the cave, but people
Still working attentively under the dim candlelight.
Suddenly, Pei Wenzhong shouted happily: "It's an ape-man!"
Everyone gathered around and found that half of the skull of an ape-man was exposed from the ground, and the other half was still buried in the hard soil. People were extremely excited and stared at it intently.
It was getting darker and darker at this time, but everyone was already impatient. Pei Wenzhong decided to continue digging until the first Pekingese skull was completely unearthed. Everyone did not sleep well that night.
Early the next morning, Pei Wenzhong sent a special person to report the great news to the Geological Survey in Beijing. A few days later, on December 6, Pei Wenzhong personally took a car and used his own two quilts and
They wrapped this rare treasure in mattresses and felts and escorted it to the city.
In 1936, Jia Lanpo discovered three skull fossils of "Peking Man" in Yuanman Cave. A total of 6 skulls, 12 skull fragments, 15 mandibles, 157 teeth and broken femurs, fishy bones, etc. were unearthed.
More than 40 individuals of all ages, including men, women and children.
The discovery of Peking Man sites and fossils is a major event in the history of paleoanthropology research in the world. So far, no ancient human site has so many ancient humans, ancient cultures, ancient animal fossils and other materials as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man site.
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The fossils of Peking Man have thus become a rare treasure that has attracted the attention of the world's scientific community. Although "Peking Man" is not the earliest human being, as a representative of the intermediate link from apes to humans, it has been called "the most meaningful and most significant in the entire history of ancient humans".
"A touching discovery". Therefore, one can imagine the preciousness of the "Peking Man Skull".
Such things can no longer be measured by national treasures, and the significance they represent cannot be measured by money or even value.
However, precisely because of its preciousness, it has also become the object of coveted by some speculators and imperialists.
The five Peking Man skulls and a batch of fossils unearthed by Pei Wenzhong were strangely "missing" during the Anti-Japanese War.
This incident became a theft case that shocked the world. For decades, not only the Chinese, but also scientists and scholars from other countries have been searching, but so far, no results have been found.
However, who would have thought that the Pekingese skull that the whole world is looking for would be lying quietly in such a small storage room without anyone noticing...
