Chapter 190 Great Idea

Snakes symbolize threats and dangers in the eyes of many people.

Feng Chi's cousin was born in the year of the snake, and he has a peculiar feeling towards snakes.

He is afraid of snakes, but he cannot avoid mentioning their image and name. Over time, his attitude towards snakes becomes more and more complicated.

The prehistoric giant beast, the Titanoboa, is even more shocking.

Children have a sense of fear of giant beasts. These creatures are really scary and majestic, not to mention that this is a snake.

Seeing such a realistic model of the Titanoboa, whether it is a psychological shadow or a gradual obsession, the impression left is extremely deep.

Children who are already sensible know that what is placed in front of them is fake, and such creatures have become extinct and no longer exist, but they will still fantasize and make an assumption: What would it be like if such creatures still exist in the world?

However, all the emotions generated in the fantasy were directly dispersed by Feng Chi's "1, 2, 3".

It is obvious that the thinking of both parties is not on the same channel!

Cruel and boring adults!

Feng Chi's cousins ​​looked at each other and decided to reduce communication with this cousin!

Expelled from the chat group!

Feng Chi, who was treated coldly, didn't mind the attitude of these minions at all. After getting the contact information of several model teams, he had sent emails or text messages to them, and also searched the Internet for more pictures and videos related to Titanoboa, thinking about what kind of pattern to make at that time.

Feng Chi's guess was right.

Because the museum took into account the mental health of minors, it made some suggestions when communicating with the model making team, and the model's movements and expressions were relatively conservative.

Want a more fierce and cold shape? Sure!

But it's not appropriate to put it here.

Now this model only shocks and deters the viewer with its size and appearance.

The image of Titanoboa was originally based on extremely limited vertebrae and skull fragments. No one knows what this creature looked like more than 60 million years ago.

The model of the Titanoboa in the museum is based on the skin color of the anaconda. Feng Chi doesn't like anacondas very much. In terms of appearance and pattern, he prefers those with strange and colorful appearance.

Besides, it doesn't have to be a Titanoboa. There must be more than one kind of snake 60 million years ago!

Who stipulated that it must be this long?

This one is less than 15 meters, I want to make a 20-meter one!

Add some background sound of crawling!

It needs to be more intimidating!

Feng Chi was so excited just by his imagination that he was secretly preparing to make trouble.

On the other hand, Feng Yi was preparing for the afternoon meeting after cooperating with the museum's publicity.

During the preparation period, he also chatted with Wei Hongxi and others from the Joint Security Bureau to enhance their relationship and learn more about the circle.

Now Feng Yi can be regarded as one of the Joint Security Bureau's own people. Wei Hongxi and others are also more intimate when chatting with Feng Yi, treating Feng Yi as a half comrade-in-arms.

Although Feng Yi is not required to participate in everything, they can ask Feng Yi for help when necessary, and the cooperation between the two sides will be closer.

In the afternoon, in a conference room of the museum, Director He held a special consultant appointment ceremony for Feng Yi and issued him an honorary certificate. There were also official media of Yangcheng taking photos and recording on the scene.

This meeting not only had Feng Yi's appointment ceremony, but also other matters.

Feng Yi noticed that Director He mentioned the prevention of various disasters, emphasizing that the climate may fluctuate slightly in the past two years, and all departments should be vigilant and prepared.

In the past, Feng Yi did not pay much attention to it, and he did not know much about the impact of this climate fluctuation, but in the chat with several people from the Joint Security Bureau before the meeting, Feng Yi also learned more information. The abnormal climate period of 20 years has made the ecology fragile, and it has not really recovered until now. A slight fluctuation in the climate may cause the existing balance to tilt slightly.

The phenomenon closest to Feng Yi's life is that there are more rats.

It does not form a big disaster, but small waves are also annoying.

Feng Yi is familiar with rats. Last year in Yongcheng, he made a fortune by catching rats! There are indeed many rats. It is not uncommon for residents in the community to encounter rats dancing on the ceiling. The community organizes a large-scale rat extermination operation every month or every few months.

The increase in rats is also an ecological warning.

Feng Yi also thought of the snakes on Xiaofeng Mountain. There used to be so many snakes on the mountain. Now they are sent to other places. Those foodies can eat some rats. Overall, it may not have much effect, but there are definitely more similar methods. There will be other animals besides snakes.

There are so many natural enemies of rats, but they can still break out?

The natural enemies are not strong!

After the meeting, Feng Yi was pulled by Director He to have a heart-to-heart talk.

Director He encouraged Feng Yi to take on more tasks from the Joint Security Bureau. It is not so easy to be an expert in the Joint Security Bureau. If you don’t do well or don’t have enough results, you will be kicked out, but at the same time, there are two opportunities to upgrade your level every year.

If you have enough ability, you can also gain fame and fortune.

Director He said this, not only because he was worried that Feng Yi would "waste his talent" in the entertainment industry, but also because he was worried that Feng Yi would waste his time getting involved in the struggles of wealthy families.

After confirming that Feng Yi was not going to the entertainment industry for the time being and understood what he meant, Director He left with satisfaction.

In the evening, the museum was about to close, and Feng Yi did not go back immediately, but walked around the museum.

At this time, there were not many people in the museum, and most of them were staff checking everywhere.

There were too many things to do during the day and it was not convenient to walk around inside, so now was a good time. Feng Yi went to see the snake exhibition area on purpose.

Compared with what I saw before the museum opened, the background layout is now more complete and the exhibition area looks more harmonious.

However, only the various species of snakes that exist locally are on display here, as well as several other well-known snakes.

Feng Yi looked at the snake here and then at the titan anaconda in the central exhibition area.

Putting them on display together like this, it seems quite a sense of accomplishment.

Feng Yi couldn't help but think that if he went to catch snakes everywhere, he wouldn't know how many he would catch in the future. If he didn't put them together, he wouldn't have a clear idea in his mind, and no one else would be able to imagine them.

If, every time you catch one, find someone to make an exquisite model according to it, collect it, and put it together in the future...

Wei Hongxi, who was about to leave, saw that Feng Yi was still here to watch, so he came over and asked, "What are your thoughts?"

"It's a bit." Feng Yi didn't say that he wanted to collect models. He glanced at the Titan Boa model in the central exhibition area and said, "Is the Titan Boa really only that big?"

only?

Wei Hongxi raised his hand and pointed at the giant snake model: "You call this 'only'?"

After a pause, Wei Hongxi continued: "That's right. For someone like you who can catch a seven-meter python with your bare hands, an anaconda of this size cannot be considered huge!"

Feng Yi raised his hand to compare, "No, I just think that in the era of giant beasts, this size is really not big."

I don't know if his mentality is inflated, but Feng Yi looked at the lifelike Titan Boa model in front of him. He didn't feel any intimidation at all. He only felt that compared with the big pythons he had caught, this giant boa constrictor should be considered...

How far can you draw it with one tail without pulling back?

If you have thick skin and flesh, can you handle it?

Wei Hongxi had no way of knowing what Feng Yi was thinking. He looked up at the Titan Boa model and said, "Who knows how big the real individual is? There is too much error in estimating the size of an organism 60 million years ago based on so many vertebrae fossils." Big, I don’t think so. Even if the body shape calculated by the discovered vertebral fossils is like this, it does not prove that all titan anacondas at that time were like this. There are regular individuals and extreme individuals when you catch snakes. There are smaller ones, and of course there are bigger ones. It’s not impossible to be one or two times different.”

Speaking of this, Wei Hongxi laughed again and said: "Anyway, such a biological model restored based on fossil simulation does serve as a reference for the public. I am really annoyed by those online who say twenty meters or fifty meters. I’m so scared that I’m not even interested in refuting the rumors!”

When Feng Yi thought about the exaggerated title puzzle he saw during today's interview, he couldn't help but laugh: "That's not it!"

Wei Hongxi's eyes moved from the giant titan anaconda to the snake exhibition area, "Snakes are really born survivors."

Feng Yi raised his eyebrows: "Why do you say that?"

"More than 60 million years ago, there was a very important node."

"You mean the fifth mass extinction?"

Feng Yi knew this.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event is often referred to as the "Great Dinosaur Extinction" event, also known as the fifth mass extinction event.

In that extinction event, more than 70% of the species on the planet may have disappeared.

"Yes." Wei Hongxi looked at the snake specimens. "Some people have reconstructed the evolutionary history of snakes by integrating data, and believe that the extinction event enriched the diversity of snake species. Frequent feeding is not required, and one meal lasts for a long time. As natural enemies decrease, the species diversity of the surviving snakes gradually increases.”

Feng Yi thought about it, indeed.

For example, anacondas and Burmese pythons will find a place to sleep in a daze after eating. They will sleep for a few days and a half, or even longer, and then come out to look for food when they are hungry. It grows very fast and will continue to grow as long as it doesn't die.

After the fifth extinction event, many natural enemies were wiped out, and competitors were not very strong, so they had to thrive!

"It's a pity that there are too few snake fossils! I don't know how many species of giant snakes existed before the fifth mass extinction. Fossils are inherently rare, and snakes are even rarer." Wei Hongxi said.

How difficult is it to fossilize?

First of all, this creature must die in the right place and rot without contact with oxygen. Then, it must successfully undergo countless crustal movements. In the process, the relative integrity of the bones must be ensured. After tens of millions of years or so, For hundreds of millions of years, it will eventually be discovered by people.

"The probability may be only one in 100 million or even one billion."

Wei Hongxi thought of an article in a journal he had read, "A paleontologist who studies Tyrannosaurus rex, based on the approximately one hundred complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils known so far, speculates that there may have been more than two billion Tyrannosaurus rex on our planet. Tyrannosaurus rex has reproduced for hundreds of thousands of generations. Therefore, according to them, if some creatures once existed, but the number was too small, not even a single bone fossil could be found."

"In other words, if humans existed 60 million years ago, but the number was too small, there was no bone fossil evidence left?" Feng Yi asked.

"Maybe. There is nothing from six million years ago, let alone sixty million years ago. There is not enough evidence for things that happened tens of millions of years ago, hundreds of millions of years ago. Who knows?"

"If you think about it, maybe there were more magical creatures!"

"for example?"

"For example, that kind of creature with an upper body like a human and a lower body like a snake."

Wei Hongxi laughed and patted Feng Yi on the shoulder: "You can just say Fuxi and Nuwa! I can't tell that you are still a young man who loves fantasy!"

Feng Yi also laughed, but said nothing more.

But I thought to myself: When I build a personal achievement collection hall in the future, I will put all kinds of snake models in it, and then make a life-size model of myself and put it in the collection hall, so that everyone will know!

Since it existed, how can it not leave some traces?

It appeared in front of everyone in a real and fake way. Who would think it was just a fantasy shape. Who would believe that it was real?

Who would believe it? ! !

Will the memory of the electronic information age last?

After returning home from the museum, the first thing Feng Yi did was to eat!

This is particularly inconvenient when going out. I can't eat enough. I eat the staff meal of the museum. I am still hungry after eating, but I dare not continue to eat. There are too many people paying attention to him today, so I must restrain myself.

The good thing is that he returned to the car halfway and secretly replenished some food in the car, otherwise his stomach would have started to urge.

When he saw such a big and fat giant anaconda in the museum, to be honest, his first reaction was actually: greed!

But because of the presence of the investigators and leaders of the Joint Security Bureau, Feng Yi held back.

After finishing his meal and replenishing his energy, Feng Yi replied to Feng Chi.

Feng Chi had left him a message saying that he had something to share with him.

But Feng Chi might not be able to make a phone call now, so he just sent a text message--

Feng Chi: [I have a brilliant idea! ]

Feng Yi: [I also have a brilliant idea! ]

Feng Chi: [No, your idea is definitely not as brilliant as mine! ]

Feng Yi wanted to say "You are bullshitting", but still replied: [Maybe. What's your idea? ]

Feng Chi: [Keep it secret for now, and you will know when I realize this idea. What about you? What idea can be as brilliant as mine? ]

Feng Yi: [Keep it secret for now. I don't know when it can be realized. ]

Feng Chi: [Then you lose, my brilliant idea is already being implemented! Just wait and see! ]

Feng Yi thought of the current situation of the Feng family and reminded Feng Chi: [Don't make it too big, so that the old man won't make a will and take back your share. ]

Feng Chi didn't think so: [Oh, it's okay! Don't worry! The old man didn't take me seriously at all. I don't have a strong presence in the Feng family. I tried it before. The little noise we made seemed to be a big deal, but the old man didn't care. He wouldn't notice me. 】

After talking with Feng Chi, Feng Yi pondered his idea.

To make it into a collection, the background is indispensable, and it should be made into a three-dimensional presentation of the real object in photos and videos.

If he wants to continue to rise in the Joint Security Bureau, he must make more achievements, that is, he will catch more snakes.

In this way, the space required will be larger.

First, a piece of land must be bought.

Then the question is.

Where is the money? !

The instruments in the underground laboratory have not been fully assembled yet!

Feng Yi walked to the bathroom and faced the mirror.

He rubbed his cheeks to feel the presence of the venom gland, and then two big white teeth popped out.

"Depend on you!"