Chapter 1264 Borrowing Flowers to Present Buddha

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Since Fina agreed to go back to the camp together, other things are easy to talk about. As for how to find a reason with Professor Wei Kang, you can think about it slowly on the way.

"These cats are..." Zhang Zian pointed to the cats that were cowering aside as if they were ready to run away at any time.

"They have always lived here, always..." Fina's eyes filled with rare regret and nostalgia, "I also lived here at the beginning. Huge monsters with their own scales and armour, all kinds of small animals are running in the swaying date palm forest and bushes. Lost travelers in the desert will occasionally break into this place. Before they drink the clear water of the lake, they always think it is Mirage-like hallucinations..."

It was an idyllic era, at least for Fina.

"What happened later?" He asked, in fact, he had vaguely guessed some clues.

"Later, people discovered gold mines here. The reason seems to be that a traveler caught a piece of gold dust the size of a fist in the lake." Fina looked sad.

Is it a gold mine?

Both ancient Egyptians and modern Egyptians have an unusual obsession with gold. After discovering gold, this place will obviously be included in the Pharaoh's forbidden area, and no one else will be allowed to touch it.

Thus, the idyllic era is over.

The rest can be imagined.

The mining of gold mines has caused the deterioration of the environment, and the lakes and oases have rapidly shrunk in size and become barren Gobi in the days to come.

The large animals and the hungry beasts disappeared, and only these cats and other small animals adapted to the harsh environment survived.

In this way... Those honeycomb-shaped dunes may not have been formed naturally in the first place, but the sand accumulated by mining.

"Can we let them follow us back to the camp? Professor Wei Kang must really want to see them, no matter whether this is what he is looking for or not, but he finally has an explanation for this scientific expedition." Zhang Zian pleaded for Wei Kang .

There are failures in scientific research, and most of them are failures. This is normal, but not everyone can look at success or failure with a normal mind. Most of them are promoted by the administrative department or simply airborne. They pay more attention to the result rather than the process.

If Wei Kang’s costly scientific expedition fails to produce any decent results, it will be difficult to obtain a scientific research budget in the future, and if natural science research cannot obtain a budget, it will be difficult to publish influential papers It is even more difficult, and it is impossible to expect to be promoted, and it may be impossible to remove the word "deputy" from the title in a lifetime.

Although this has nothing to do with Zhang Zian, he has owed Wei Kang several times, and if he can help, he still wants to help as much as possible.

Taking Wei Kang's attitude towards the fennec fox as a reference, Fei Na felt that Wei Kang was quite a principled person, so she agreed after a little thought.

"Well, anyway, they always follow me, and I can't shake it off." It snorted and said indifferently.

On the way back, the cats were far behind. Zhang Zian thought they had run away several times, but after a while he saw their shining eyes again.

Before returning to the camp, he made the elves invisible, thinking about what to say to Wei Kang.

"Meow meow! Your Majesty! I miss you so much! Let me lick your fur to calm you down!"

As soon as he saw the bright light of the camping lantern, the white shadow flickered in front of his eyes, and the snow lion rushed up with its tongue out, desperately sticking to Fina's body, but Fina raised one of its front paws to hold its face, and the snow lion Her legs were too short, and she couldn't touch Fina even if she kicked and planed.

Zhang Zian glanced at the camp, the camp was still quiet, no different from when he left, only the intermittent snoring came from Xiao Tianyu's tent.

Looking at the time, he was gone for almost an hour.

A few wild cats seem to be afraid of the light of the camping lights, so they only dare to wander far outside the camp.

You have to do a full set of acting.

He asked Fina to instruct the wild cats to go to the infrared camera installed by the scientific expedition team and leave some images in the camera, so that it would be easier to win the trust of other scientists when publishing papers in international journals in the future.

After preparing, he hurried to Wei Kang's tent, slapped the tent door a few times, and said eagerly, "Professor Wei, wake up! There is something urgent!"

Wei Kang's response came from the tent almost immediately: "What's wrong? What happened?"

Before he finished speaking, Wei Kang stumbled out of the tent while wearing his glasses, not even putting on his coat in time.

Wei Kang thought something was wrong, his heart was beating loudly, and his face was as white as paper. He took these children to a foreign country thousands of miles away, and went deep into the wilderness. If something happened, how would he explain to the parents of the children?

Zhang Zian shook his finger at the darkness, "I was on vigil just now, and I saw a few animals running towards the infrared camera with the night vision binoculars, so I woke you up and asked if I wanted to go over and have a look?"

"Oh? Really? It really scared me..."

Wei Kang put his heart back to his stomach first, and then cheered up in surprise, "Have you seen what animal it is?"

"No, it's fluffy, I can only see some kind of small animal." Zhang Zian replied vaguely.

"Go! Go and have a look!"

Wei Kang went back to the tent and took out the camera, and waved decisively.

Nabari was awakened by the sound of the two of them talking.

Nabari never dared to sleep deeply, for fear that the devils in the sea of ​​devils would come out, so he kept sleeping with his clothes on.

He got out of the tent and asked, "What's wrong?"

Zhang Zian said briefly.

Nabari also breathed a sigh of relief first, and then decided to go and see with them.

Years ago he had encountered some kind of feral cat in the neighborhood, and seeing those elf-like phantoms again the last time he guided into the desert would be a happy ending to his guiding career.

As for the other team members, they probably slept relatively deeply. Only He He's tent made some noises, probably because she was awakened, but she also chose to stay in the tent, after all, she was the only woman left.

The three ran across the camp to where the infrared cameras were set up.

Wei Kang rushed to the front in a hurry. He wished he could get there in one step, but he was afraid of scaring the little animals away.

When he got close, he gestured to the two people behind him, telling them to walk lightly.

They saw Fina first, and then several pairs of shining eyes playing around it.

Wei Kang squatted on the ground, raised the camera, and observed the appearance of the cats through the telephoto lens of the camera.

His heartbeat increased as he recognized an extremely rare sand cat, and one of its undiscovered subspecies.