When Wang Xiaoshan came out of the pit to rest, all the old experts who had studied fossils in the barren mountains gathered around him.
These experts want to talk to Wang Xiaoshan about the fossils he dug up this time. This is the first time for the veteran experts to see such a large turtle shell fossil.
If the veteran experts want to know more about the turtle shell fossils in the pit, they can only talk to Wang Xiaoshan. Others in Huangshan have too little knowledge, and the experts don't want to talk to them.
The live broadcast was almost over, and Wang Xiaoshan was not ready to continue digging, so he chatted with the old expert for a while. He did most of the talking when chatting with the expert.
Several experts felt that they benefited a lot from what Wang Xiaoshan said. The senior experts found that he knew too much and he could answer no matter what the experts asked.
Wang Xiaoshan chatted with the expert for a while and then made an excuse to leave. The expert was so good at chatting that he couldn't handle it any more. If he continued chatting, he might have to have dinner at Barren Mountain.
The live broadcast was almost over. Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and showed the audience the existing fossils in the barren mountain.
"Today's live broadcast is about to end. Viewers who still want to see fossils can only wait until tomorrow. Those who want photos of fossils can download them from my blog."
[This is the end of the live broadcast. I feel like watching Lao Wang’s live broadcast every day goes by so fast. I dig in the morning and dig in the afternoon and the day passes. 】
[Lao Wang will continue digging like this tomorrow. It is really a joy to see so many precious dinosaur fossils. 】
[When can Lao Wang finish his live broadcast during the day? He can spend another hour in the evening chatting with us live! 】
[Now that Lao Wang has become popular, Lao Wang will not have any rest on Saturdays and Sundays in the future. He might as well chat with us online while resting at home. It’s great to chat with thousands of people!]
[Let Lao Wang rest on time. If Lao Wang collapses from exhaustion one day, we won’t watch the live broadcast. We’d better be nice to Lao Wang! 】
The audience became addicted to watching the live broadcast and wanted Wang Xiaoshan to work overtime to chat with everyone.
Wang Xiaoshan now has a family, so it is impossible to work overtime. After finally leaving 996, it is impossible to work overtime again.
After saying that, Wang Xiaoshan left the broadcast. There was one more thing he had to do before going home, which was to take photos of fossils. Many viewers were waiting for him to upload photos every day.
Some of Wang Xiaoshan's loyal fans even made him a fossil atlas, which records the various fossils he dug up after he came to Barren Mountain.
When Wang Xiaoshan came down from the barren mountain, he found that Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing were writing manuscripts in the camp. These two girls were extremely active today.
Cao Bingbing said she wanted to treat Wang Xiaoshan to a meal, but the fossils were dug out in the afternoon every day. If the manuscript could not be written in advance in the afternoon, she would not be able to treat Wang Xiaoshan to a meal.
Today's excavation work went very smoothly. Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing had already written part of the manuscript at noon.
In the afternoon, after seeing the turtle shell fossils, the two of them hurried down from the barren mountain to write a manuscript.
The two beautiful reporters are both foodies. They had delicious food in the evening and they wrote the article very quickly.
Now in Huangshan, if Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing have something they don't understand, they can ask Wang Xiaoshan directly, and if they have questions about other staff members, they can ask Captain Shi.
After Wang Xiaoshan came back, he did not disturb the two girls from writing the manuscript, but went to rest.
Captain Shi: "Old Wang, you are so awesome. I have been digging fossils for so many years, and this is the first time I have seen such a big turtle shell."
Wang Xiaoshan: "Just good luck!"
Captain Shi: "Luck is also a part of strength. I just reported this matter. If nothing happens, the turtle shell will be transferred tomorrow."
Wang Xiaoshan: "It's better to move away, so that there will be a lot of people coming to see the turtle shell fossil tomorrow."
Captain Shi smiled bitterly and said, "A lot of people may come tomorrow, but they should be some old experts."
Wang Xiaoshan scratched his head, why was he afraid of something coming: "The fossils are all being transported back. Why are so many people coming? Isn't it a good idea to go back and study them?"
Captain Shi: "These experts are quite anxious. When they hear that very rare fossils have been discovered, they all want to come and take a look."
Captain Shi doesn't know exactly how many experts will come tomorrow, but Director Wei told him to prepare more lunch at noon tomorrow.
Since more lunch is prepared, it means that there should be a lot of experts. Captain Shi didn't ask about the specific number.
Captain Shi also knew that Wang Xiaoshan was most afraid of a bunch of people coming to the barren mountain to watch, so he told Wang Xiaoshan in advance today.
The turtle shell fossil was dug out of the pit, and it will be difficult to transport it to other places. Captain Shi estimates that it will be transported tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, but he is not sure on the specific day.
The turtle shell fossil Wang Xiaoshan excavated this time had cracks in many places. He tried to ensure the integrity of the fossil when digging in the pit.
But once the fossil is removed from the pit, it needs to be put back together again.
The shell is severely cracked and it will be very difficult to put it back together. The fossils will not be transported away unless preparations are made.
Wang Xiaoshan: "Well, these experts are really anxious. The fossils can't escape. It's so comfortable to transport them back. They have to come to the barren mountains to suffer!"
Captain Shi smiled and said nothing. Some old experts who study fossils have become obsessed with fossils. When they encounter rare fossils, they want to see them on site.
There is a difference between viewing fossils on site and transporting them back. Fossils viewed on site will still maintain their original appearance. Once moved, the fossils will be damaged to some extent.
There's nothing you can do to stop Wang Xiaoshan from coming. Just come, as long as it doesn't affect him digging holes.
After more than forty minutes, Li Miaomiao and Cao Bingbing finished writing their manuscripts, and they arranged a place to have dinner and everyone separated.
After a busy day in the barren mountains, he was covered in stinking sweat, especially Wang Xiaoshan, who was covered in dirt. He had to go home, take a shower and change clothes.
Sitting in the car, Wang Xiaoshan asked: "I wrote very fast today. It seems that eating can improve my writing ability."
Li Miaomiao said while driving: "It's okay to write like this once in a while, but if you write like this every day, your fingers and brain will become useless."
Wang Xiaoshan: "I'll give you some chicken feet to replenish your fingers later, and then I'll give you some brain flower to replenish your brain."
Li Miaomiao: "Stay there for a while, you are just filling up on fat."
After going back and washing up, the two of them rushed to the place to eat. When the two of them arrived, Cao Bingbing was already waiting for them in the box.
During dinner, Cao Bingbing specially thanked Wang Xiaoshan. If it hadn't been for Wang Xiaoshan, she wouldn't have been able to go down to the pit to see the fossils.
The manuscript Cao Bingbing wrote in the past two days also focused on a lot of things about Wang Xiaoshan. Wang Xiaoshan gave her so much help, so she must write the manuscript so that more people can understand Wang Xiaoshan.
We had a very pleasant dinner today. We were all acquaintances and the conversation was about young people. If you were to have dinner with an expert, the conversation would probably be fossilized.
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The next morning the two of them had breakfast and went to the barren mountain early.
Wang Xiaoshan already knew that many people would come to Barren Mountain today, so he could only leave early. If he arrived late and was surrounded by people, he would not be able to live broadcast.
When Wang Xiaoshan arrived at Huangshan, he did not see a large crowd of people watching. The staff who came yesterday were busy digging holes.
Wang Xiaoshan glanced over the barren mountain and saw no experts. He estimated that the experts were already studying fossils under the pit.
At present, almost all the fossils that have not been transported away from the barren mountain are under the pit, and the smaller fossils will be transported away on the same day.
Wang Xiaoshan came to Captain Shi: "Today is not bad, there are not so many people as expected."
Captain Shi nodded and said, "Well, seven or eight experts have arrived just now. After those experts arrived, they went directly to the pit to study the fossils."
"I don't know if there will be experts coming soon, but their arrival should not affect the progress of our excavation."
Captain Shi, the expert who came to the barren mountain, greeted each one one by one. It was okay to study fossils, but it could not affect the normal excavation progress of the barren mountain, especially Wang Xiaoshan's.
The experts who come to Huangshan all come to see fossils and to find Wang Xiaoshan and talk about fossils with Wang Xiaoshan, a master.
Wang Xiaoshan: "That's good!"
Now that Captain Shi has made arrangements, Wang Xiaoshan is not in a hurry to go to the mountains. He plans to take a rest first and avoid strenuous exercise after meals.
As soon as Wang Xiaoshan sat on the stool, a staff member from Huangshan ran over. This staff member originally came to see Captain Shi, but when he saw Wang Xiaoshan was there, he came directly to him.
Staff: "Lao Wang, we dug out a strange thing in the pit. I don't know if it is a fossil. Could you please help us take a look."
When a group of workers were digging for fossils in the mountains, they dug out something that looked like a fossil and a stone. The workers were unsure and had to go back to the camp to ask for help.
Fossils from ancient times were strangely shaped, and some were almost as long as rocks. Captain Shi told everyone that he would report back whenever he unearthed anything uncertain.
It doesn't matter if there are uncertain fossils. Wang Xiaoshan is in the mountains anyway, so just let him judge whether they are fossils or not.
Wang Xiaoshan responded and asked the staff to lead the way. The live broadcast hadn't started yet, so he could go see this peculiar fossil first.
When Wang Xiaoshan arrived at the pit, the workers who were digging in the pit had already come out of the pit. It was unclear whether it was fossils or stones. The staff did not continue digging.
Wang Xiaoshan went down to the pit and saw something that troubled the staff. He took a brush to clean up the soil on the things that looked like stones.
Wang Xiaoshan already knew what it was after taking a closer look. He cleaned up the surroundings of the thing and then took it out directly.
Just when Wang Xiaoshan was about to speak, Li Miaomiao checked the time on his phone. It was two minutes before the live broadcast.
The staff surrounding the pit subconsciously checked the time. After reading the time, no one urged Wang Xiaoshan. Everyone stood silently waiting for Wang Xiaoshan's explanation.
Two minutes later.
"Good morning to everyone in the live broadcast room. Let me show you something first."
Wang Xiaoshan took the camera and showed the audience what looked like a stone that he had just moved out from the bottom of the pit.
[Old Wang, why do you want us to look at a stone? Except for the special color, there doesn’t seem to be anything special about this stone.]
[What's going on? A fossil was discovered early in the morning. It's a bit fast. Lao Wang, please tell us whether it's a fossil or a stone. 】
[I think it should be a fossil. Lao Wang digs fossils every day. If it is an ordinary stone, Lao Wang doesn’t need to show it to me in the live broadcast room. 】
[Is this the fossilized meat of what kind of animal? There are no traces of bones on it. If it is a fossil, it must be fossilized meat.]
[Maybe it’s the belly part of the turtle shell. Who said fossils must have bones? Yesterday’s fossils didn’t have bones! 】
The audience has already guessed what kind of animal and plant fossils Wang Xiaoshan should be showing to everyone. If it was an ordinary stone, he would not let the audience see it in the live broadcast room.
What Wang Xiaoshan took out of the pit was indeed a fossil. The fossil was brown in color and looked just like an ordinary stone.
The fossils that can be seen today are all in the form of shells or bones, but this time the fossils Wang Xiaoshan showed the audience were a bit special.
For a while, the audience didn't know what exactly Wang Xiaoshan dug up.
Yesterday I saw the fossil of a turtle shell. Some viewers thought that this should be a turtle shell. The belly of the turtle shell is flat, which is very similar to this fossil.
"What I just showed you is indeed a fossil, not a stone."
As soon as these words came out, the surrounding staff were a little confused. When they found this fossil in the pit just now, it looked like a stone.
But these workers knew that there must be fossils underneath where Wang Xiaoshan asked them to dig, but they were not sure what fossils they were.
After Wang Xiaoshan finished speaking, several staff members took a closer look at the fossil. One staff member even touched it with his hand, but it looked like a stone no matter how he touched it.
"This is no ordinary fossil, this is a skin fossil."
The words "skin fossils" shocked everyone. They had seen dinosaur bone fossils, dinosaur egg fossils, and dinosaur smelly fossils.
But this was the first time for everyone to see dinosaur skin fossils.
There are some traces of skin on this fossil, but if you don't look carefully, it can easily be mistaken for scratches on stone.
Moreover, very few skin fossils themselves have been unearthed, and many people have never heard of such fossils, let alone seen them.
There are very few skin fossils preserved in ancient times. Skin fossils are too difficult to preserve. Most fossils are preserved in the form of bones.
A staff member quickly brought tools and started cleaning the soil on the fossilized skin.
There are some traces of skin on the skin fossils, but they are covered with soil, so it is difficult to see them unless they are cleaned.
[Skin fossils, this is the first time I have heard of such fossils. Today is really an eye-opener.]
[I’m so excited now. Coming early really has the advantage of coming early. If you come late, you won’t be able to see it!]
[Now just wait for the staff to clean up the soil on it, so that you can clearly see what the skin looks like! 】
[If you see stones in the wild in the future, you should study them carefully, or you might throw away the fossils as stones!]