Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  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 hall, you have to go up an escalator. The entrance looks spherical, like it leads to outer space, and emits red light. The children were very excited, but Pomona didn't like it. It reminded her of Voldemort's red eyes.

  Some knowledge should not be mastered by people like him, but this worry was quickly overwhelmed by the things displayed in the central hall.

It is a huge skeleton. It looks like a whale, but the whale is not as big as it. It is fixed in the air by steel wires, and it looks like it wants to float. The blue light hits it, like this ocean. The behemoth is still swimming in the sea.

   Surrounding it are Victorian buildings. The vertical and diagonal linear decorations are both practical and aesthetic. Natural masterpieces and human masterpieces are gathered here, and more importantly, they are all stone.

That whale, or ichthyosaur, has become a fossil. Its original color can't be distinguished by the light. The stone used in the building is yellowed, with a heavy sense of history, the elegant curve of the animal and the building The straight lines merged perfectly here, and she felt a heartbreaking shock.

  Humans won. Now they are the masters of the surface. They replaced the dinosaurs and ruled the world. This is the only thing she can think of.

  She looked back at Iris, and he was not surprised by the behemoth.

   "It's dead." Perceiving Pomona's sight, he smiled and said, "I heard that Mr. Ride a dragon during the Battle of the North Sea."

   "He didn't." Pomona said blankly. "Dragons are not so easy to tame. It's impossible for him to ride unless they are familiar."

   "I'm not good at paleontology, I hope you won't find me very boring."

   "Why?" Pomona smiled and said, "It's nice to have you with me."

  The two of them smirked and walked along the signs in the medieval church-style building built during the Industrial Revolution. Unlike the London Zoo, the collections here are all animal and insect specimens, as well as many dinosaur skeletons. They are all dead and will not run away. It is impossible to cause a commotion like Harry in the reptile hall.

The buildings here are very similar to the stone walls of Hogwarts. Looking at them, Pomona feels that the hoarse voice of snake-like voice is reverberating in her ears. After looking for mammoths in the mammalian zoo on the left side of the second floor, there is no fruit. , 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 also organize and participate in outdoor research in addition to the indoor research of the subject, 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 biological evolution theory, can be devoted to solving practical problems in medicine, agriculture, forestry and mining.

This is also the main venue for mass scientific activities in London. There are many audiences and various activities every year. It is reasonable to say that this oriental mural exhibition held in the City Hall is more suitable to be held in the British Museum, but they obviously do not like this place. Take pictures everywhere.

The lecture hall can be used for scholars to give lectures to the public, imparting natural history and scientific knowledge. Now they are giving lectures in the lecture hall. The speaker is playing a movie. There is a falcon hovering high in the blue sky, overlooking the red earth. , Its shadow cast on the ground, startled the rabbit in the grass, and as the rabbit ran, a colorful fountain suddenly appeared.

  "This is Yellowstone National 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 added to the paints you used for painting."

A bald man with all white hair said in English with an American accent, "These minerals rush to the surface with hot springs. You can’t bathe in such hot springs. They are very hot and contain acidic substances. If you If you see such springs in the park, stay away from the ground because they will erupt intermittently. The high-temperature steam and hot water produced will burn you. Do you know the difference between an extinct volcano and an active volcano?"

  A lot of people under the podium raised their hands. They reminded Pomona of Hermione. She also likes to raise her hands in class.

   "You, young sir." The speaker pointed to a boy with a baseball cap and said, and his assistant handed the microphone to the little boy.

  "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 erupting."

   "You look like an idiot!" Someone shouted in the crowd. Everyone looked in that direction and only saw a few mischievous children, who didn't know who said it.

   "That's right." The bald man said as if he had saved the field, and Pomona looked at his bald, reflective forehead with emotion. Although Severus had greasy hair, he was not bald, thank God.

"But in addition to extinct volcanoes and active volcanoes, there are other types of volcanoes, such as compound volcanoes. The recurrence period of compound extinct volcanoes can be hundreds of thousands of years or hundreds of years. The volcano in Yellowstone Park is a compound type. 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 with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters. The crust here is still unstable, and you can see this kind of erupting hot springs everywhere in the park. Since 1923, the ground here has risen by 2 feet, and there is a trend of speeding up, which also shows that Huangshi The super volcano in the park is already in the active period. We are unable to prevent the eruption of this super volcano. We detected the super volcano and predicted that the eruption is only a matter of time, or it may erupt at any time. Half of the area 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 undulates with the magma chamber! With the increase in the number of earthquakes and the continuous occurrence of various small earthquakes, the possibility of this super volcano erupting in the future is gradually increasing. According to research, the eruption 2.1 million years ago caused similar disasters. The entire North America species is extremely large. Some have been extinct..."

   "Sounds really alarmist, right?"

  Pomona was listening attentively to the song and was startled by the sudden sound of words next to her. She followed the sound and looked at it. It was Zhang Tao, who had a fate.

   "I hope you were not offended, ma'am, but this is a public library, and I think I have the right to appear here."

   "Oh, of course." Pomona said dryly.

  Zhang Tao looked at her for a long time, and then said in a hoarse voice, "In the cinema that day, what movie are you going to watch?"

   "The day after tomorrow." Pomona said uncomfortably, the Muggle scholar still explaining to the children.

"Ah, I've seen that movie. It talked about ocean currents caused by global warming." Zhang Tao continued to smile and said, "But Yellowstone Park happens to be the control area of ​​the westerly zone. Do you think the volcanic ash will cover the sun? The west wind belt stops working?"

   "I'm afraid it won't work," Pomona said with a trembling voice.

"I remember an American president once visited China. He said to the prime minister of our country,'Do you know how many nuclear weapons we have? Enough to destroy the earth ten times.' Do you know how the prime minister of our country responded? He said' China is relatively backward, and we have only enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world once.' In my country, there are many young people who have hatred and want revenge. Ma Youyan is one of them. Your country once thought that we should allow the opium trade to be legal. Now you are also calling for the legalization of marijuana in your country. Ma Youyan and his friends are'representing' this narcotics. I don’t think this is a smart idea. In the Warring States period, we had a strategy of making marijuana far and near. We are very far away. We hope to form 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 that the first North American colonists were to escape the Black Death. Is it right to travel across the ocean? Everyone wants to live in a civilized and rational way, and we don’t want to force others to die together when they are dead. You are all proud, just like us in the past. Everyone sat down to solve the imminent problems. How about a chat?"

  "Are you threatening us?" Iris asked.

"No." Zhang Tao said with a smile. "We Chinese like to go uphill. Trekking uphill is very tiring, but it is correct. And you like to go downhill. Even though you run fast, you can easily get out of control and crash. To put it another way, It’s depravity. We just want to talk to really smart people. We believe in friends who come from afar, and we also believe in gentlemen’s revenge for ten years. Don’t let the otherwise beautiful relationship become ugly?"

  Iris and Pomona gaped for a long time, not knowing what to say.

  "Julian is currently short of fellowship fees. How about funding him if you have money and nowhere to spend?" Zhang Tao said as he waved to the speaker, it seemed that they were familiar with each other.

   "Who are you anyway?" Pomona asked screaming.

"At 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. "Usually I am at the British Library. If you want to find me, come here. "

  He turned around and left the lecture hall as if he was just passing by and stopped to say hello to her.

  (End of this chapter)