There are still some details that need to be confirmed in order to determine the specific identity of this behemoth.

So Wu Liang continued to explore around this "little mountain ridge" and slowly came to the other end of the "little mountain ridge". Until he saw the huge head that had also turned into rock, the answer was finally revealed.

Wu Liang's guess was right, this was exactly a dinosaur!

A giant dinosaur with a length of about fifteen meters, a height of about five or six meters when standing, and a weight of six to seven tons!

As for what kind of dragon it is.

Wu Liang already had the answer in his heart...

"Wu Taishi, you seem to have discovered something. Can you tell me about it?"

When Wu Liang walked around to this end and saw the huge head, the witch Hu could also see the expressions on Wu Liang's face that were excited, confused, and suddenly enlightened, so she couldn't help but ask.

"If I guess correctly, this is actually the remains of a dragon."

Wu Liang turned back to look at the witch Hu and said confidently.

In fact, the more common name in later generations of the Celestial Dynasty was "dinosaur", but this was a name translated from Western languages, meaning "terrible lizard".

Wu Liang didn't like this name, and he didn't want it to appear too early and have a preconceived influence on the culture of the Celestial Dynasty, so he simply omitted the word "terror". Furthermore, people in this era simply didn't

I can't understand the concept of "dinosaur", but the concept of "dragon" has already been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Although, the dragon in front of me and the "dragon" in the minds of the people of the Celestial Dynasty are completely different concepts.

"dragon?!"

Miko Hu's eyes widened immediately, and she quickly looked at the "little mountain" in front of her carefully, and still said in disbelief, "Is this the supreme dragon in your country's legend?"

"This dragon is not that dragon."

Wu Liang smiled and shook his head, beckoned the witch to him, pointed at the behemoth's head the size of a millstone and said, "This dragon is called the duck-billed dragon, and it is an ancient ferocious beast that lived more than 100 million years ago.

, at that time, as long as we could see the place, whether on land or in the sea, there were such ancient ferocious beasts living everywhere. They were big and small, some could fly, some could swim, and some preyed on other ferocious beasts.

For food, some even feed on plants and fruits. The lifestyle of animals and birds we can see today is actually not much different. It’s just that at that time, we didn’t have people like you and me who could use fire sources to cook and weapons to kill.

, they are just people who use their wisdom to scheming."

"..."

After listening to the words, the two willow eyebrows of the witch were slightly frowned, obviously not fully understood. After all, this information is no more than a brainstorm for anyone in this era, and there is really no way to say a few sentences.

This subversive content can be digested in just a few words.

However, the word "duck-billed dragon" is easy to understand.

Because this behemoth's head does have a large, flat mouth about half a meter long. This mouth does look like a duck's mouth, and it is very similar to the weird stone fish we saw in the reef pits before.

It's similar, but it looks like it's magnified hundreds of times.

That's why Wu Liang didn't go into detail.

As far as Wu Liang knows, the dinosaur in front of him also had a rather famous name in later generations, Shandongosaurus.

The origin of this name is actually very simple, because the fossils of this duck-billed dinosaur were found in Zhucheng, Shandong Province, and were discovered together with many other types of Cretaceous dinosaurs, such as Ceratopsaurus, Ankylosaurus, Microcephalosaurus, and

The ferocious and bloodthirsty tyrannosaurs, etc., were collectively called Shandong dragons by the archaeological community in later generations.

And this is also one of the reasons why Wu Liang is certain that this behemoth is the "Shandong Dragon".

Because the current location of the Hu army belongs to the ancient Qi State, which means it is still within the jurisdiction of Shandong Province in later generations, it is 80% close relatives of the "Shandong Dragon Group" discovered in later generations, and at least belongs to the same ecological circle.

After a moment of silence.

"According to your statement, those weird stone fish we just saw should no longer be called 'fish', they should also be called 'dragons', just slightly smaller 'duck-billed dinosaurs'. Am I right?"

?”

The witch asked in a deep voice. Unexpectedly, she accepted the brainstorm very quickly and even learned to draw inferences from one example.

"You can say that."

Wu Liang nodded slightly, and then combined some of the details he discovered before and said, "Do you still remember the reef group we just passed by? There were many strange but neat scratches on those rocks, and I have been thinking about these scratches just now.

How did it come about? After seeing the remains of this duck-billed dinosaur, I can finally confirm that those scratches must be glacial scratches, left by the ice age that led to the extinction of this ancient beast."

"Ice Age..."

Miko Hu got into brainstorming again. This was also a word she had never heard of.

"To put it bluntly, it means that we have experienced an extremely long winter, so the temperature dropped sharply, causing almost all places to be covered with snow and ice. The vegetation that originally grew on the ground was frozen to death, and many dragons were also frozen to death.

, those dragons that are barely alive, those that feed on vegetation can only starve to death without the vegetation, and those carnivorous dragons, because there are fewer and fewer prey, will eventually be unable to escape the fate of starving to death.

"

Wu Liang said eloquently that this is a common problem among all archaeologists, and it is good to be a teacher. "You can imagine, for example, if we have such a long winter one day, even the oceans will freeze together, and everywhere will be frozen."

Covered by thick ice, what kind of survival pressure we will face is the survival pressure these dragons faced at that time."

"this……"

The witch Hu Ye is indeed a very cooperative student. Following Wu Liang's careful guidance, she muttered, "If that's the case, many fish in the sea will freeze to death. Once our Japanese country is unable to fish, more than half of the people will not survive."

Now, if the land is also covered by thick ice, then naturally we cannot continue to plant the food crops brought to us by Xu Jun of Qin... When I think about it carefully, it seems that there is only one word that can describe this situation,

The word is 'catastrophe'."

"Exactly, once the ice age comes, all people, animals, plants, in short, everything you can think of will experience a catastrophe."

Wu Liang nodded and said, "And this is the reason why this ancient beast became extinct. Nowadays, we humans dominate many things around us. At that time, these ancient beasts were also the undisputed overlords, but no one could

Competing with the Ice Age... Because this world-destroying power comes from heaven, it is the category of the 'way of heaven' in our country's Taoist culture, and it cannot be reversed by human power."

"I see……"

The witch Hu seemed to understand, but she didn't seem to understand it particularly. She just frowned and said, "But the era Wu Taishi mentioned doesn't seem too far away from us, right? It's more than 100 million years, even for our lifespan.

It’s very long, but it shouldn’t be too long for this world. Even if these dragons have been extinct due to the Ice Age, these behemoths will always leave some traces. Why have we never seen them on ordinary days?”

More than 100 million years is not a long time?

Wu Liang almost laughed out loud. This girl really knows nothing about time...

But then Wu Liang realized another problem.

The "hundred million" in this era seems to be completely different from the "hundred million" he mentioned. Therefore, the "more than 100 million years" understood by the witch Hu is not at all the "more than 100 million years" mentioned by Wu Liang.

The original meaning of the word "billion" in the Celestial Dynasty was stability and stability. It was not until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that it was used as a counting unit.

For a long time after the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, "billion" was the counting unit after "ten thousand", but it did not represent "ten thousand" in later generations, but "hundred thousand".

The Japanese country was deeply influenced by the culture of the Celestial Dynasty, especially in this era, almost all culture came from the Celestial Dynasty.

Therefore, their understanding of "billions" should be the same as that of the Celestial Empire.

That is to say, the "more than 100 million years" mentioned by Wu Liang is actually only hundreds of thousands of years ago in Miko Hu's understanding. The difference seems to be hundreds of times different...

Thinking like this, Wu Liang had to say again: "I have to correct one thing. The era when this kind of dragon lived was not hundreds of thousands of years ago, but more than ten million years ago. Can you understand this?

"

"More than ten million years ago..."

Although Miko Hu didn't count her fingers, she frowned more tightly like a math idiot, with her eyes turned back as if she was calculating in her head. After doing this for a while, she showed a give-up expression, nodded and said, "That's indeed quite good."

It's been a long time, but I'm very curious about one thing. How did Wu Taishi know what happened ten million years ago? These dragons shouldn't leave books or murals on the walls like humans.

Besides, even if we stay, we may not be able to understand it, but Wu Taishi can know everything about that time..."

"Some things can be conveyed without words or murals. Even if you don't understand them, don't ask any more questions."

Wu Liang was instantly stopped by the question, and was freed from the state of "wanting to be a teacher", and then he made a vague statement, and then looked at the mottled jade seedlings exposed on the remains, and murmured to himself the questions in his heart,

"What I'm more concerned about right now is that since these two giant duck-billed dinosaurs have turned into this appearance, it means that the 'Yangshenzhi' existed as early as the era when they lived, and the 'Yangshenzhi' is obviously an ancient weapon.

thing, then what is the relationship between 'Yangshenzhi' and hadrosaur, and has it had any impact on dragons?"

Later research showed that although this Shandongosaurus was huge, it was actually a herbivorous dinosaur.

In other words, Shandong dragon may feed on "Yangshenzhi", but it is hard to say whether it will be poisoned like humans after eating "Yangshenzhi".

The two Shandong dragons in front of us were obviously not poisoned to death. They should be the black soil produced after eating the "Yangshen Zhi" and resurrected animals. Therefore, as recorded in Xu Fu's "Yangshen Zhi Tongyao", they died after death.

Only then did it become petrified, and finally became like this forever.

However, this still cannot directly explain the cause of death of these two Shandong dragons.

The only thing Wu Liang can guess now is that the two Shandong dragons may have experienced the Ice Age and died after the Ice Age came, or they may have died before the Ice Age, and only the remains left behind after their death have experienced

During the Ice Age, it was perfectly preserved during the Ice Age, and it still retains its appearance after death.

There is another very important point.

"Yang Shen Zhi Tong Yao" emphasizes that although people and some animals who eat black soil can live a long life, they will lose their fertility. This should be the reason why the old macaque king rejects black soil.

So will the dinosaurs bear the corresponding price, or will they be repelled like the macaques?

The only thing Wu Liang can be sure of is:

Regardless of any species, if it has to bear such a price but does not know how to control the black soil, even if there is no ice age, this species will eventually go extinct.
To be continued...