Elsewhere, in a small conference room at the Ancient Culture Research and Analysis Archives.
Xiao Yuya had just laid out photos of the furs they had previously handled, then reported the relevant findings.
"I told you it had to be a parallel world!" a middle-aged man said with certainty. "Tigers, leopards, wolves, and bears—they're all exactly the same as those on Blue Star. And you still say it isn't a parallel world?"
"What do you mean, exactly the same... These animals' pelts are almost a full size larger than Blue Star's, and on closer inspection, there are differences in the details."
"For example, this tiger skin—the black-and-yellow stripes are clearly broader and more irregular than those of the northeast tiger."
"Wolf skins and bear skins are solid-colored, so let's leave those aside for now. But leopard skins and deer skins, compared to animals on Blue Star, look identical at first glance, yet their pattern details are completely different."
Xiao Yuya reported, "We asked zoologists to examine them. Based on the details shown in the photos, they concluded that, unless these are fakes, the animals these pelts came from should be subspecies of the corresponding animals."
The middle-aged man shrugged. "An ocean can give rise to multiple species, let alone an entire world separating them."
"The theory of parallel worlds... has it really been proven?"
"But why does it all feel so eerie?"
"Can't we ask Lu Zheng?"
"Or have him take some people over there for a look?"
"You go?"
"Ahem!"
"I wonder whether there are animals over there that have already gone extinct on Blue Star? If we could bring back a mammoth, wouldn't that cause a sensation?" someone mused.
"It causes a sensation, and then what?" the old man at the head of the table asked indifferently.
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