Chapter 2521

If there weren't some microorganism similar to eye-jet in there, how could the mural have undergone this kind of change?

But very soon Wang Wang Canghai realized his mistake—in essence, what Zhang Lin had them do was simply to trigger another layer of mechanism.

And the mural itself was where the mechanism lay; rather than saying the oil paint was applied on top to use this pictorial form to conceal what lay beneath, it would be better to say it used the mechanism to veil the surface layer.

In other words, this was a purely physical change, not a chemical one, which is why the oil paint itself could vanish. They had been doubting this from the very moment Zhang Lin first gave this answer.

They doubted nothing else, but at the very least, in their understanding, if two layers of oil paint were placed together in the manner of an oil painting, one might still be able to scrape them off bit by bit.

But if it were this traditional Chinese ink-style mural, the oil paint pressed onto it would be absolutely impossible, because this kind of oil paint is extremely thin and the pigments would fuse together very quickly.

Even with a thousand years between the upper and lower layers, and with something separating them in between, it would still be impossible to wash it away with water; one could only, like with a Western oil painting, scrape it off bit by bit, using this layered approach to accomplish the whole thing.

Yet the answer Zhang Lin gave was so brutally simple—and this was why many experts on Archaeology Team One wanted to voice their doubts, though they lacked Fatty's courage to do so.

Even though the doubts Fatty raised concerned only the mural itself, not Zhang Lin's answer, he hoped Zhang Lin could give him a reason, an explanation.

So that Archaeology Team One would no longer be so lost—Fatty was exactly the sort who had to get to the bottom of things. But if at this moment someone spoke up to question Zhang Lin, Fatty would undoubtedly be the first to slap that person across the face.

This, everyone believed without a shadow of a doubt. Given that, they certainly wouldn't go inviting trouble for themselves; no one wanted to rub Fatty the wrong way. At the most critical moment, Fatty would absolutely put defending Zhang Lin in first place.

Because Fatty was very clear: without Mr. Zhang, they wouldn't even have been able to escape from the undersea tomb, and every member of Archaeology Team Two took orders from Mr. Zhang.

And the reason they held such deep respect for Mr. Zhang was, in a way, no different from Fatty's thinking,

Archaeology Team Two had experienced far more in a short time than Archaeology Team One, because they bore a curse on their bodies and so had to move quickly from one tomb to another, searching for clues.

At first they took the upper half of the Dragon-Bone Heavenly Scripture to find the lower half, then went to Worm Valley to search for the Muchen Pearl, and now they were within the Kunlun Divine Palace.

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