Long-Distance Teleportation Booms! Cloud Kun: How Could You Forget Me?!

Professor Guo of the Southwest Archaeological Institute had been feeling deeply frustrated lately.

He had come to conduct an emergency excavation. A mudslide had occurred nearby, and while excavating a village buried beneath it, they had unearthed something rather unusual.

Then those people had come in to take over. The work had gone quite smoothly at first. They had uncovered some temple ruins and burial sites; they were not particularly ancient, and did not seem especially valuable. It had looked as though they would soon be able to withdraw.

However, just as they were about to leave, they made a strange discovery:

"What is this?"

"It looks like a complete set of cow bones... buried underground? Grave goods?"

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"That's strange... this kind of burial practice had already fallen out of use by the Song dynasty. And don't you think these cow bones are unusually large?"

"That's right." Two students knelt on the ground, holding a tape measure as they carefully measured the distance from the cow's hoof to its spine.

"Its shoulder height is at least thirty centimeters taller than an ordinary water buffalo—far taller than an average person..."

"Wait, the surrounding soil is different. There are signs of molding! It feels... it feels like a clay figure made with cow bones as its base..."

"Who would do something like that? Whipping the Spring Ox?"

"Stop joking around. The clay oxen used for Whipping the Spring Ox were disposable, with ordinary wood used as their framework. There was no way they would use cow bones!"

"Wait—these cow bones—these cow bones are moving!"

"They're assembling themselves!"

"They're starting to run!"

"Get out of the way! Ah—"

The students scattered in every direction. Professor Guo was a little too slow and failed to escape in time. He could only roll into