Chapter 2514 man on a mission (7) Reissue

In the Natural History Museum of the British Museum, Pomona saw many animal specimens. Some of these specimens were made of real animals, and some were made based on fossils and paleontologists' imaginations. It is possible that they did not exist in ancient times.

Not what the specimen appears to be.

Saber-toothed tigers were predators active in the Ice Age. They had a pair of very long tusks and were twice as big as today's lions. This was mainly because its main prey at that time was mammoths. Mammoths were huge.

With rough skin and thick flesh, but fortunately slow in movement, saber-toothed tigers are not as agile as modern tigers, and cheetahs are more agile than others. Coupled with their own weight, their tusks can just pierce the skin of mammoths.

Later, as the temperature warmed and mammoths moved north, the saber-toothed tiger's prey changed to deer, horses and other animals. At this time, the saber-toothed tiger's size no longer became an advantage.

They were too big and needed tall enough vegetation to provide them with cover when ambushing them. In addition, their huge teeth made it impossible for them to run as fast as the nimble deer and horses. The saber-toothed tiger that finally succeeded was also eliminated.

Darwin's theory of evolution talks about natural selection and survival of the fittest, and the "fittest" may not necessarily be the strongest. Compared with saber-toothed tigers, humans do not have terrifying fangs or sharp claws, and they do not even have the thick flesh of mammoths.

skin.

But they walked out of the ice and snow of the Ice Age, replaced the dinosaurs, and became the new overlords of the earth.

However, in some places, some places that are isolated from the world and where the environment has not changed drastically, those ancient creatures that were thought to be extinct still exist.

The time when Gevaudantherium was active was in 1764. Before that, the earth experienced the Little Ice Age and was gradually warming up. This may have been the environment in which Gevaudantheon once lived.

Although ancient humans could also hunt mammoths, it was a group activity. At the same time, humans also lived in groups, just like those herbivores on the grasslands. The difference was that humans should have learned to live in caves at that time, and caves not only provided them with

Shelters, and ancient humans used simple paints to paint on the stone walls.

However, these cave-dwelling period murals have either been forgotten or have been destroyed by natural forces. Generally speaking, wild animals do not appear in densely populated areas. The area where the Gevaudan beast is active is also in the mountains of Langdoc. Attacks

Most of the targets are unarmed villagers.

Before coming to this world, she had never heard that there were three Gevaudan monsters. The 60 kilograms of monsters were more like teenagers who were about to become adults than adult men. This was also in line with the structure of a family. The mother and two

A child who was about to reach adulthood, one of the specimens brought back to Versailles by the wolfhunters.

Even so, it took 100 wolf hunting teams including soldiers, hunters, etc. to exterminate them. What's worse is that the wolf hunting team has not yet found their "dad". According to the usual rules, male mammals are larger than female mammals.

Bigger, more aggressive, and more dangerous.

There is another thing that she only learned when she came here. She always thought that William III of Orange was just a king who was "deprived of executive power and only had legislative power". She did not expect that he ordered the excavation when he was in his 20s.

Build a sea wall to block the coalition's attack route.

Everyone has things that they cannot accomplish alone. It is precisely because of understanding the weakness of individuals that human beings know how to cooperate and deal with one thing together.

Tom Riddle believes that power can achieve everything, and can even change people's concepts of right and wrong. He takes a person's power to the extreme.

Some people did believe him, such as Quirrell, but Quirrell didn't end well in the end. Quirrell was just an ordinary person, and he couldn't repeat Riddle's path, although Tom seemed to have succeeded. A dead man did not go

In heaven and hell, he did not become a pearly white ghost, but tried every means to return to the world.

He created a gap between himself and others so that when he needed help, no one could help him.

He has many followers, but he is still lonely.

After eating the sandwich provided by St. Tyrell, she went to the rest area of ​​the museum. The table covered with snow-white napkins was filled with seafood, bacon, fresh bread, jam, butter, and olive oil. These foods were undoubtedly

It was something only the "rich" could eat during times of famine.

The advantage of humans evolving into omnivores is that they do not only eat grass like herbivores, nor do they only eat meat like carnivores. They eat everything to have a greater chance of survival.

But if you are the only one who can survive, how can you face those monsters that you can't deal with alone?

"Please," Saint-Hilaire said as a gentleman, and even pulled out the chair for her.

From a conscience point of view, she didn't want to go there, but then the Yeqi came in, smelled the food on the table, and looked at her with milky white eyes, as if asking, "Where is my food?"

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"Slow down." Pomona said to Sirius who was devouring his food. She couldn't believe that the former "prince" had turned into this.

Sirius seemed to choke while eating the bread. He coughed for a while before he recovered. Then he looked at the leftovers on the table in a daze.

"Do you want to take it away?" Pomona asked.

"No, I need your help." Sirius turned his eyes to her.

"How do you want me to help you?" She also stared at Sirius.

For a moment, she wanted to use Legilimency to see what Sirius Black was thinking now.

But when she saw those eyes, she thought of Buckbeak.

"Why did you bring it to school?" Pomona looked at the beautiful hippogriff.

"It will help." Sirius said while stroking Buckbeak. "Remus has become stronger. It will be difficult for James and me to deal with him."

Pomona stopped talking. She really couldn't help much. Even Peter Pedro was more useful than her. At least when Remus was weak and needed someone to take care of him after his transformation, Peter could take care of him in the dormitory.

"Have you ever wondered why Dumbledore didn't ask Hagrid to help us?" Sirius asked.

Pomona was stunned for a moment and realized that the person asking the question was the fugitive Sirius.

"Why do you ask that?" she asked strangely.

"He's strong enough and half-giant," Sirius said.

"He is half giant, half human, and he doesn't know animagus. If he is bitten..."

"I think the favor you helped me has to do with him." Sirius interrupted Pomona. "Can you help me find Ron's pet?"

"Pet? You mean that mouse?" Pomona asked in surprise.

Sirius looked grave and remained silent.

She thought having a turtle as a pet was bad enough, but she didn't expect people to keep mice as pets.

"It looks like it was eaten by Crookshanks, I mean Hermione Granger's pet cat."

"No, he won't die that easily." Sirius slammed the table, making the plates jump.

"He?" Pomona asked curiously.

"I've searched everywhere in the castle, but it's not in the castle." Sirius lowered his voice and said, "I suspect it went outside the castle, or even into the Forbidden Forest."

"You want Hagrid to help you find a mouse in the Forbidden Forest?" Pomona said in surprise.

"He's a house pet and he's not adapted to the environment of a real rat, so I imagine you'd find him in an empty house or something like that where no one is living," Siris said.

"Like the Screaming Shack?" Pomona asked.

"Can you do me this favor? I know the Dementors won't attack Hagrid," Sirius said.

Pomona was in a daze, she thought...

Compared to this, finding a mouse in the Forbidden Forest doesn't seem to be that difficult.

"I'll tell Hagrid," Pomona said.

Sirius smiled. He was indeed handsome. Even though he was in such a miserable state, his smile was still so charming.

"I knew you would help me, Knox."

"Can you tell me what happened in Gedric's Hollow that night?" she asked immediately.

"Wait a little longer. When I find him, everything will be revealed." Sirius gritted his teeth with hatred.

She had never seen such an expression on Sirius's face.

"You've changed too." Sirius stretched out his bony hand and stroked Pomona's hair. "I remember you weren't so fat before."

"You too." Pomona said calmly, "Why do you look so sick?"

"It seems that none of us are living as well as Snape, right?" Sirius smiled sarcastically, "Look at the way he walks in school..."

"Like an old bat," Pomona continued. "Don't call him Snotlout."

"It's time for me to go, thank you for the meal." Sirius said and left the table, then he bent down and a big black dog came out from the other end of the table.

When he disappeared from sight, Pomona remembered that if the castle was to be "thoroughly" cleaned, it was inevitable to get rid of the rats. Since the death of Slytherin's basilisk, there had been more rats in the school.

It seems that she is going to ask Hagrid to take a trip to Diagon Alley again.
Chapter completed!