Nine hundred and sixtieth chapters ancient treasures
&Chapter 966 Ancient Relics
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Accompanied by a slightly harsh friction sound, the second bottom plate of the copper lion was pulled open by Liu Dong, and a slightly old red silk cloth inside appeared in the eyes of the two of them.
Soon, Liu Dong, who was excited, pulled out the rusty floor from the copper lion base. This was another two-millimeter-thick copper sheet, which covered it like a drawer cover. Now it was
After Liu Dong pulled it out, the things hidden inside were completely exposed to the two of them.
After uncovering the old silk cloth covering it, it was well preserved. After seeing clearly what was inside, both Jiang Tingting and Liu Dong, who had been prepared, were a little stunned.
"Liu Dong, what's inside?" After being stunned for a while, Jiang Tingting asked slightly dullly.
"This, it should look like a dinosaur?" Liu Dong was not particularly sure.
But at this moment, the creature is wrapped in golden translucent beeswax, with even bones and flesh, as if it has just died. It looks somewhat similar to the Lesognathosaurus in Jurassic Park.
But compared to Lenognathus, the dinosaur in this piece of beeswax is even smaller. Without the curly tail, it is only about centimeters.
Compared with Liu Dong who calmed down from the initial surprise and carefully observed the dinosaur fossils in the beeswax, Jiang Tingting still couldn't believe that what she saw was a dinosaur.
"How could it be a dinosaur? Didn't dinosaurs become extinct as early as the White Period? And the dinosaurs that have been handed down to this day are all fossils, but look at it, it seems to be intact, with no signs of decay at all?"
In fact, Liu Dong couldn't answer Jiang Tingting's question, but he knew that if the conditions were right, the dinosaur would not completely decay.
"Although I don't know why this dinosaur carcass did not rot, we know that under vacuum conditions, anaerobic bacteria and aerobic bacteria inside the intestines and stomach will multiply in large numbers, causing the intestines and stomach to rot, but because of the lack of air, bacteria cannot survive, so the intestines and stomach
The decay will stop when it reaches a certain level, allowing the body to be preserved.”
"The yellow crystals wrapping this dinosaur carcass are called beeswax in the collecting community. Beeswax is a branch system of amber. Beeswax was formed during the Eocene and Cretaceous Era between 30 and 40 million to 100 million years ago.
There are a large number of cypress and pine trees growing on the earth. These trees contain fatty sap. During a certain geological period, they were strongly stimulated by the outside world and secreted a large amount of sebum that fell to the ground. As the geological layers changed, it was buried deep underground and then passed through the earth for three to four thousand years.
With more than 10,000 years of formation pressure and heat, these fats have petrified into amber."
"I think this dinosaur corpse is just like the mosquitoes preserved in amber. It was preserved because of the sudden secretion of a large amount of pine and cypress sap, which blocked oxygen and created a vacuum condition."
As he spoke, Liu Dong picked up the beeswax from the base. Using the light, you could clearly see every inch of skin on the dinosaur's body, almost completely retaining its shape after death. Moreover, Liu Dong was still surrounding the beeswax.
Many cutting marks were found. Obviously, the piece of beeswax was bigger at the beginning, but its previous owner thought that the excess part was cut off, leaving only the part full of dinosaurs.
"It's incredible. This is the first time I've seen such a completely preserved dinosaur."
Obviously Jiang Tingting also accepted Liu Dong's explanation
"This is a superb treasure that nature has nurtured for hundreds of millions of years. It is the only one in the world. It is so precious," Liu Dong couldn't help but say.
Jiang Tingting, who was next to her, nodded seriously. She was used to seeing dinosaur fossils with skeletons, and when this dinosaur fossil with such well-preserved flesh and bones and lifelike appearance appears again, it will undoubtedly cause a sensation all over the world. This is a biological creature.
The miracle of science is also a miracle of geology and a miracle of nature.
"You said that if we can get the cells from this dinosaur corpse, can we clone this dinosaur?" Jiang Tingting suddenly wondered.
Apparently this idea was influenced by Jurassic Park
After thinking for a while, Liu Dong slowly shook his head, "I don't know if it depends on whether the dinosaur cells inside are still active. If they are active cells, the current cloning technology should be able to kill this creature.
But after being resurrected more than 100 million years ago, even in a vacuum environment, I doubt whether the dinosaur's body still has active cells."
After thinking about it with her head tilted and frowning, Jiang Tingting obviously agreed with Liu Dong's analysis.
"Whether I can clone a dinosaur in the future or not, I want to see it now." As she said this, Miss Jiang snatched the beeswax fossil from Liu Dong's hand.
Looking at the amazed Miss Jiang, Liu Dong was afraid that she would accidentally break this priceless beeswax fossil, so he carefully looked after it.
Fortunately, this was neither jewelry nor a fluffy animal, so Miss Jiang quickly lost interest.
A few minutes later, Liu Dong stuffed the fossil into Liu Dong's hand and turned around to watch TV arrogantly.
Liu Dong was left to admire the entire piece of valuable beeswax and the dinosaur fossils with great interest. After nearly half an hour, he received the Mustard Seed Space with unsatisfied satisfaction.
And at night, Liu Dong, who had been serving Miss Jiang, finally turned into a serf and started singing, thus maintaining his status as the head of the family in politics.
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Time passed quickly. When Liu Dong and Jiang Tingting packed up and went out after breakfast the next day, Zhou Bin, Li Yuncong, and Li Zekai were already waiting for them on the apron on the top floor of the Peninsula Hotel.
With Liu Dong's current status, he can fully enjoy the Peninsula Hotel's helicopter transfer service.
"Isn't Sister Qiong here?" Liu Dong looked around and saw no figure of He Qiong, and couldn't help but asked in surprise.
"She is waiting for us at the Lisboa Hotel," said Li Zekai next to him
The venue for this gambling license battle is the Lisboa ** under the Lisboa Hotel
"Xiaodong, this time it's all up to you." Zhou Bin came over and patted Liu Dong's shoulder, saying with expectation.
"Don't worry, Brother Zhou, I'll take care of it," Liu Dong said confidently
"Xiaodong, let those so-called gambling kings know how good you are." Li Yuncong clenched his fist towards Liu Dong and looked at the expression on his face, as if he was more confident in himself than Liu Dong himself.
"Xiaodong, come on"
Lu Mingyuan and Zhuang Wen also encouraged Liu Dong.
And Jiang Tingting took the initiative to hold his hand in front of others.
"Haha, don't worry, I promise it will be absolutely foolproof this time." After saying that, Liu Dong took Jiang Tingting and boarded the helicopter.
Li Zekai, Zhou Bin and others took another helicopter to go there.
There is only a water barrier from Hong Kong to Macau. After taking a helicopter, in less than half an hour, we had landed on the rooftop apron of the Lisboa Hotel.
To Liu Dong's surprise, the place was quite lively, but within a few minutes of approaching, Liu Dong had already seen three or four helicopters carrying passengers parked here.
"Xiaodong, Tingting, here"
After Liu Dong got off the helicopter with Jiang Tingting, he saw He Qiong standing next to him waving.
“I’ve waited for you to come”
Seeing the slightly anxious look on He Qiong's face, Liu Dong couldn't help but said in surprise: "Don't the gambling card competition start at nine o'clock? It's still very early now."
"It's still early, but can't you come and get familiar with the venue first?" He Qiong said angrily.
"Haha, no need, we were already familiar with it last time."
Moreover, what he relies on is relic Yuanguang and not gambling skills, so the venue and other things have no impact on him at all.
Seeing Liu Dong's disinterested look, He Qiong couldn't help but shake her head. If Liu Dong's performances at the gambling table hadn't been so amazing a few times before, she would have doubted whether working with Liu Dong this time was a mistake.
"Hurry up, the other contestants are here, you are the last," He Qiong said
"Aren't you going to wait for Brother Zhou and Zekai?"
"No, when they arrive, someone will take them there. Now let's go first."
Hearing this, Liu Dong didn't object. He took Jiang Tingting and followed He Qiong down the rooftop and came to the gambling hall that he had visited last time and had been well-decorated.
But what is different from last time is that this time there are 0 gaming tables in the center of the venue, and there are not too many viewing seats around for guests.
And soon Liu Dong also understood the reason.
Because the competition for gambling licenses is different from the Gambling King Competition. The registration requirements for the Gambling King Competition are relatively low. Hundreds of people may participate at a time, but the competition for gambling licenses is different.
The purpose of the Macau government's issuance of three gambling licenses this time is to break Lisboa's monopoly on the Macau gambling industry and prosper the Macau economy. Therefore, the requirements for businesses participating in the competition for gambling licenses are very high. There is no investment of more than one billion US dollars, or even
No chance to even participate
Therefore, in addition to Lisboa Casino, which has already decided to get one gambling license, the remaining two gambling licenses will be competed by 20 wealthy people who are interested in entering the gambling industry.
"According to the regulations of the Macau government, the competition for gambling licenses adopts an elimination system. This morning, 20 will advance to 0, and in the afternoon, 0 will enter, and 3 will advance. Finally, in the evening, three people will compete. The person who loses all his gambling money first will
After being eliminated, the remaining two people get two gambling cards."
After nodding, Liu Dong said: "So when entering the third round, one person will get a bye?"
"That's right, I just don't know who will be so lucky in the end and be able to directly enter the decisive game," He Qiong said with emotion.
Liu Dong is not too interested in who will be lucky enough to get a bye. Anyway, he will not lose.