"Hmm..." Sama Tetsuya carefully examined the fossil before him again. "To be honest, the odds of this fossil being an Archen really aren't very high..."
"That's fine. We'll just think of it as skipping money across the water." Su Han playfully stuck out her tongue.
"Skipping money across the water... all right... you two really are rich."
Seeing this, Sama Tetsuya walked over to a large machine that resembled a refrigerator. He opened the hatch on top, revealing a blue-white, viscous liquid inside.
"We use this special liquid to clean fossils," he said. "Next, we just drop the fossil in."
But this fossil really was heavy, and moving it alone would have been very difficult. The three of them worked together, lifting it for quite a while before finally getting it inside.
After closing the hatch, Sama Tetsuya spent a while tapping the control panel beside it. The Japanese text on it was incomprehensible to Cheng Tian. Sama Tetsuya seemed to adjust the time, and then a gurgling sound rang out. The machine started running.
"Based on my experience, what's inside your fossil is very likely a Paleozoic birdlike dinosaur that lived in the same period as Archen." As he spoke, he rummaged through a messy cabinet and pulled out a booklet. Then he flipped through it for a while and showed them several 3D reconstruction images.
"There were quite a few creatures like this. Take this one, for example-a short-fingered, heavily feathered carnivorous bird-dinosaur. In terms of strength, I'd estimate it was among the strongest ordinary creatures of that era, aside from fossil Pokémon. I even suspect it might have preyed on weak Archen that had only just hatched."
Cheng Tian and Su Han looked curiously through the booklet. It contained information Sama Tetsuya had compiled in his spare