Chapter 447

Chapter 447 Prehistoric monsters under the ice

As the largest island in the world, more than 80% of Greenland is covered by ice.

The thickest area of ​​the ice is 3,000 meters thick, and the lowest temperature in winter is lower than that in the Arctic Ocean, especially in the northernmost part of the island.

According to Yang's mother's description, she and Yang's father accidentally fell into an ice hole about five meters deep when they passed by the northern ice field.

Yang's father's leg was also scratched by one of the sharp pieces of broken ice.

So as long as we find it there, we can find the original sample of the ancient virus.

Looking at the white ice field in front of him, Yang Lin scanned it and said to Goudan beside him:

"Smell it and see which area it is in."

As soon as the order was issued, the two brothers started searching on the ice field.

It only took them five minutes to circle a rough range for Yang Lin.

Considering that there might be many similar ice holes under this ice field, Yang Lin did not approach rashly, but took out a long branch from the sled.

When he knocked on the ice surface, the seemingly thick ice surface instantly shattered, and then a dark and deep cave appeared in front of him.

Looking at this ice hole with signs of refreezing, Yang Lin guessed that this might be the ice hole where his father accidentally fell into.

When he turned on the flashlight and shone the light in, he became more convinced of his guess.

Because at a place less than two meters deep from the cave entrance, a pool of completely solidified blood was clearly visible.

"Found it!"

Looking at the pool of blood, Yang Lin's eyes lit up and he hurriedly took out the ice pick and climbing rope.

After tying the climbing rope around his waist, he slowly descended to the bottom of the ice hole.

In a short while, he had landed at the bottom of the hole.

What surprised him was that there was an extremely wide space under this ice hole.

The ice layer, which should have been extremely thick, had actually begun to thaw, so that you could see some structures such as ant caves.

But Yang Lin didn't care about it at the moment.

After finding the broken ice that scratched Yang's father's mouth, Yang Lin took out the test tube he carried with him and carefully put some ice debris on the surface into it.

Considering that the virus on the surface might be necrotic due to being exposed to the air for too long, he used an ice pick to peel off a part of it and tried to take some more samples from the center of the ice layer.

But when he used the ice pick to knock open layer after layer of ice, a hard object suddenly collided with the ice pick.

When he first touched this hard object, Yang Lin subconsciously thought it was a stone frozen under the ice layer.

But as soon as this idea came up, he felt something was wrong.

According to common sense, the area he is currently in is still an ice cover area, and he has to dig down at least dozens of meters to touch the permafrost layer.

Where does the stone come from in a normal ice layer?

After realizing this, he quickly pointed the flashlight at the hard object.

When he used leather gloves to clean the ice debris on the surface of the hard object, the thing in front of him immediately made him widen his eyes.

Following his gaze, he saw that the stone that was frozen in the ice was not a stone, but a sharp tusk.

"This..." Looking at the long tusk in the ice, Yang Lin didn't know what to say for a moment.

After he reacted, he immediately searched around the tusk.

Sure enough, at a distance of about one meter from the tusk, the second complete tusk appeared there.

Looking at these two symmetrically distributed tusks, a bold guess came into his mind.

"It can't be a whole mammoth corpse frozen here."

When he saw the appearance of the first tusk, Yang Lin knew that this was definitely not an ordinary tusk.

Because ordinary elephants cannot live in this high latitude area, only cold-resistant mammoths can live here.

Once this guess came up, Yang Lin could no longer suppress his excitement and waved the ice pick in his hand to dig.

Perhaps because the ice surface had begun to thaw, the ice layer was not too hard.

After digging for half an hour, a huge head appeared in front of him.

As Yang Lin had guessed before, the owner of this huge head was a prehistoric creature that lived tens of thousands of years ago-the mammoth.

It was frozen in the ice layer and there was no difference between it and when it was alive, even its eyes were open.

From its eyes, Yang Lin could feel its fear of death.

Perhaps tens of thousands of years ago, it also fell into the water accidentally, and then due to the sudden drop in temperature, it was forever frozen in this ice field, turning into a lifelike ice sculpture.

Yang Lin even had an illusion that it was still alive, of course, this was just an illusion.

The moment it froze, it had lost its vitality forever, leaving only a well-preserved shell.

Just as Yang Lin was looking at the mammoth corpse in front of him with a mentality of witnessing history, the system prompt sound suddenly rang.

"Ding! The creature is detected as an unrecorded species, and the system is automatically recording it."

"Inclusion completed, the current species is the Emperor Mammoth, and the reward is 100,000 achievement points."

"Emperor Mammoth - Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Eutheria, Proboscidea, Euproboscidea, Elephantidae."

Yang Lin was not too surprised to hear this prompt. After all, even if it was a dead mammoth, it was still a mammoth.

What's more, the one in front of him can only be said to be brain dead, and the body should still have extremely high activity, which is not much different from when it just died.

That is, human technology is not up to standard. If it is up to standard, maybe we can try to revive it.

But just when he was thinking about this, the next system prompt made him a little uneasy.

"It is detected that the animal is about to die. Is the host willing to spend 200,000 achievement points to exchange for a special talent rebirth, so that it can be resurrected in another way."

This system prompt sound was like a bolt from the blue, which caught Yang Lin off guard.

"Imminent death, what does that mean? Does it mean it's not dead?"

After a careful understanding, Yang Lin's eyes were full of shock.

He then thought of a technology that was once popular in the scientific community, human cryonics.

It's almost like freezing a dying person with a terminal illness using rapid freezing technology, and then unfreezing him when technology is developed enough to cure the terminal illness.

There are even real cases of this technology, but it has not been tried to unfreeze it so far.

If the mammoth had been frozen in that instant, it might have retained a trace of life.

But this trace of life is not enough to revive it again.

Thinking of this, Yang Lin's eyes flickered and he immediately chose yes.

And the next second after he made the choice, a ball of light that ordinary people could not see flew out of the mammoth's body and flew east in an instant, where the Dragon Kingdom was.