Chapter 468 The Shadow of Death (Part 2)
The British Museum of Natural History exists independently of the British Museum. From the open-air activity area of the main museum, you have to go up an escalator. The entrance looks spherical, like it is leading to outer space, and it emits red light. The children found it exciting, but Pomona didn't like it, it reminded her of Voldemort's red eyes.
Some knowledge should not be mastered by his kind of people, but this worry was quickly washed away by what was displayed in the central hall.
It is a huge skeleton, it looks like a whale, but the whale is not as big as it is, it is fixed in mid-air by steel wires, it looks like it wants to float, and the blue light hits it, as if the ocean The giant beast is still swimming in the sea.
Surrounding it are Victorian buildings, vertical, diagonal and linear decorations that are both functional and aesthetic, where masterpieces of nature and man come together, and more importantly, they are all stone.
The whale, or should I call it an ichthyosaur, has become a fossil. Its original color cannot be distinguished by the light, and the stone used in the building is yellow, with a heavy sense of history. The elegant curves of animals and buildings The straight lines blended perfectly here, and she felt a heartbreaking shock.
The humans had won, and now they were the masters of the surface, and they ruled the world instead of the dinosaurs, which was all she could think of.
She glanced back at Iris, who wasn't surprised by the size of the creature.
"It's dead." Sensing Pomona's gaze, he said with a smile, "I heard that during the Battle of the North Sea, Mister rode a dragon."
"He didn't." Pomona said blankly, "Dragon is not so easy to tame, and it is impossible for someone who is not familiar with them to let him ride."
"I'm not good at paleontology, I hope you don't find me boring."
"How come?" Pomona said with a smile, "I'm glad to have you by my side."
The two of them smirked and wandered along the signs in this medieval church-style building built during the Industrial Revolution. Unlike the London Zoo, the collections here are all animals, insect specimens, and many dinosaur skeletons. They are all dead and will not escape. It is impossible to cause a commotion like Harry did in the reptile hall.
The buildings here are very similar to the stone walls of Hogwarts. Looking at them, Pomona felt the hoarse voice of the Parseltongue begin to echo in her ears. After looking for the mammoth in the mammal hall on the left side of the second floor to no avail , she seemed to have heard some kind of call, and walked along the long and narrow corridor to the lecture area.
The British Museum of Natural History is the largest natural history museum in Europe. In addition to security guards and scientists, the staff here organize and participate in outdoor research in addition to indoor research in this discipline, just like professors.
The materials of the research center in the museum are used by scholars from all over the world. The research results of scholars, such as the relationship between different species and the theory of biological evolution, can be devoted to solving practical problems in various fields such as medicine, agriculture, forestry and mining.
This is also the main place for mass scientific activities in London. There are many spectators and various activities every year. It stands to reason that the oriental mural exhibition held in the City Hall is more suitable to be held in the British Museum, but they obviously don’t like this place. There are only many tourists in it. Take pictures everywhere.
The lecture hall can be used for scholars to give lectures to the public, imparting natural history and scientific knowledge. Now the lecture hall is giving lectures. The speaker is playing a movie. There is a falcon hovering high in the blue sky, overlooking the red earth , Its shadow was cast on the ground, scaring away the rabbit in the grass, and as the rabbit ran, a colorful fountain suddenly appeared.
"This is the Yellowstone Park in the United States. It is located in Wyoming, the United States. The colors you see are all left by minerals. They are the same substance that is added to the pigments you use for painting."
A bald man with all white hair said in English with an American accent, "These minerals come up to the surface with hot springs. You can't take a bath in these hot springs. They are very hot and contain acid. If you If you see such springs in the park, you should stay away from the ground, because they will erupt intermittently, and the high-temperature steam and hot water will burn you. Do you know the difference between an extinct volcano and an active volcano?"
Many people under the podium raised their hands. They reminded Pomona of Hermione, and she also liked to raise her hands in class.
"You, young sir," the speaker said, pointing to a boy in a baseball cap, to whom his assistant handed the microphone.
"Extinct volcanoes refer to volcanoes that have erupted in prehistoric times but have never been active in human history. Active volcanoes are volcanoes that are still active or periodically erupt."
"You look like an idiot!" Someone shouted in the crowd, and everyone looked in that direction, only seeing a few mischievous children, and they didn't know who said it.
"That's right." The bald man said as if saving the scene, Pomona looked at his bald and reflective forehead and felt emotional. Severus was not bald despite his greasy hair, thank God.
"But besides extinct volcanoes and active volcanoes, there are other types of volcanoes, such as composite volcanoes. The recurrence cycle of composite extinct volcanoes can be hundreds of thousands of years or hundreds of years. The volcano in Yellowstone Park is a composite volcano. The super volcano erupts periodically every 600,000 years. The material erupted from the crater covers an area of nearly 9,000 square kilometers, with a thickness of more than 1,500 meters, forming large areas of basalt, andesite, and rhyolite. A lava plateau at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. The crust here is still unstable, and this erupting hot spring can be seen everywhere in the park. Since 1923, the ground here has risen by 2 feet, and there is a tendency to accelerate, which also shows that Yellowstone The super volcano in the park is already in an active period. We have no power to prevent this super volcano from erupting. We detected this super volcano and predicted that the eruption is only a matter of time, or it may erupt at any time. Half of Yellowstone Park is built On the crater, under the crust is a magma column leading to the mantle. Multiple earthquakes and non-explosive lava flows filled the crater, forming a "resurrection dome" that rises and falls with the magma chamber! With the fluctuation amplitude The increase in the number of small earthquakes and the continuous occurrence of various small earthquakes, the possibility of this super volcano eruption is gradually increasing in the future. According to research, the eruption 2.1 million years ago had caused similar disasters, and the species in the entire North America is extremely large. Some of them were wiped out..."
"Sounds like alarmism, doesn't it?"
Pomona was concentrating on listening to the song when she was startled by the sudden voice beside her. She followed the sound and looked over, and it was Zhang Tao who had met once.
"I hope you're not offended, ma'am, but this is a public library and I think I have a right to be here."
"Oh, of course," said Pomona dryly.
Zhang Tao looked at her for a long time, and then said in a hoarse voice, "That day at the cinema, what movie are you going to watch?"
"The day after tomorrow," said Pomona uneasily, as the Muggle scholar was still explaining to the children.
"Ah, I've seen that movie about ocean currents caused by global warming." Zhang Tao continued with a smile, "But Yellowstone Park happens to be within the control area of the westerly belt. Do you think that volcanic ash covers the sun? The westerly belt ceases to function?"
"I'm afraid not," Pomona trembled.
"I remember an American president once visited China and he said to our country's prime minister, 'Do you know how many nuclear weapons we have? Enough to destroy the earth ten times', do you know how our country's prime minister replied? He said' We in China are relatively backward, and we only have enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world once'. In my country, there are many youths who harbor hatred and want revenge. Ma Youmai is one of them. Your country once thought that we should allow the opium trade and it should be legal , Now your country is also calling for marijuana to be legal. Ma Youxuan and his friends are 'representing' this anesthetic. I don't think this is a smart idea. We are very far away, and we hope to make an alliance with your country, as you can see, once the super volcano in Yellowstone Park erupts, North America will no longer be suitable for human life. I remember the original North American colonists came to escape the black death Across the ocean, right? Everyone wants to live in a civilized and rational way, and we don't want to force others to die together when they are at the end of the road. You are all very proud, just like us in the past, everyone sat down to solve the pressing problems How about a chat?"
"Are you threatening us?" Iris asked.
"No." Zhang Tao said with a smile, "We Chinese like to go uphill. It's tiring to trek uphill, but it's correct. But you like to go downhill. Although you run very fast, you are prone to lose control and crash. In other words , is depravity, we only want to chat with real smart people, we believe that it is a joy to have friends from afar, and we also believe that it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, so don't let the originally beautiful relationship become ugly, okay?"
Iris and Pomona were tongue-tied for a long time, not knowing what to say.
"Julian is currently short of fellowship fees. If you have money and have nothing to spend, how about funding him?" Zhang Tao waved to the speaker as he spoke, and they seemed to know each other very well.
"Who the hell are you?" Pomona asked screaming.
"In the British Museum, I am an expert in the restoration of ancient cultural relics, specializing in the restoration of ancient books." Zhang Tao handed a business card to Pomona, "I am usually at the British Library, if you want to find me, come here. "
After he finished speaking, he turned around and left the lecture hall, as if he was just passing by and stopped to say hello to her.
