1102 Starting a Rumor with a Mouth, Running Your Legs Off to Stop Rumors (1/2)

He He finished her question and waited for Teacher Luo's answer. Wei Kang scolded her lightly, ”Xiao He, you are also a student of biology, and you're even a graduate student, so don't talk about such ridiculous things as soon as you hear them! There were cats in the tomb 4000 years ago? And they even attacked people? What a joke! It's obviously crap! How would they treat our biology department if someone else heard it?”

Wei Kang would normally care about his only female disciple in private, but in front of Zhang Zian and Teacher Luo, these two outsiders, his face felt quite heated.

But Gao Ke and Xiao Tianyu, two of the boys, enjoyed this kind of anecdote of unofficial history. They found it very exciting. They even wished that they had been there at that time and could take a look at the cat who had stayed in the ancient tomb for 4000 years.

Du Xuetao pushed up his glasses and said solemnly, ”That's impossible. A cat living in an ancient tomb for 4,000 years—what would it eat? Would there be enough oxygen? Would its lifespan be that long?”

He He instantly replied, ”This was a cat from 4000 years ago! Perhaps it was some very rare species, and could hibernate, sleeping for 4000 years. It was shocked awake by a human who opened the tomb!”

Her eyes were bright and she said longingly, ”4000 years! A cat accompanied its owner and endured 4000 years of loneliness in the tomb just for the moment when the owner was reincarnated!”

Gao Ke and Xiao Tianyu, two boys with no principle, immediately echoed each other, praising the kinds of loyalty to the cat patron, and these sorts of praise.

However, He He did not appreciate this. She looked at them contemptuously and said, ”Yes, it's even a female cat. Even a cat can do it to this standard. If it were a man dominated by his lower body, it's estimated that it would last for four years... No, he would not be able to stand it for even four months. He would already have dug up the grave and run out to find a new lover. So men are really big pig hooves!”

Gao Ke and Xiao Tianyu, seeing their attempt to curry favor fail, could not help but laugh awkwardly a few times.

Zhang Zian shook his head, saying in a low voice, ”Occam's Razor.”

”What? What did you say?” He He had not heard clearly what he'd said, but from Zhang Zian's expression, he did not seem like he was agreeing with her.

”I said, Occam's Razor.” Zhang Zian raised his voice. He didn't have to be as careful as the other three boys and simply said, ”The simpler the idea, the better—rather than assuming that there was a hibernating cat that existed only 4000 years ago and is now extinct, why don't we use a simpler answer to explain it—it's just another rumor about ancient Egypt.”

Wei Kang hit the table and exclaimed, ”Right! That's the attitude of science!”

The mention of ancient tombs always gave rise to a lot of reckless reveries. Whether it was a once popular tomb robbery novel or an enduring action game, the word 'tomb' in the name alone could increase sales by at least 20%.

As mankind had not yet fully grasped the internal structure of the Great Pyramid, rumors about the Egyptian Pyramid were probably as many as those of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor in China. There were even stories like, ”A man r*ped a X3000-year-old mummy, causing it to become eight months pregnant.” The news said that the mummy was an Egyptian mummy, but the accompanying picture was a mummy from Central America. Newspapers fabricated by third-rate magazines were also exported for domestic sale.

”Besides, the pharaohs of ancient Egypt did not have the tradition of burying live animals,” Zhang Zian added. ”Otherwise, why would they invent mummies? In my opinion, it is possible to say that the cat got in through a crack in the grave, but it is a cat that has lived for 4000 years… It probably should be called a turtle cat.”

Teacher Luo nodded, smiled, and said, ”This fellow student is quite right. At present, no record of an ancient Egyptian burial with living animals has been found. Perhaps I'm ignorant, but I've never heard of a Cherubze IV 4000 years ago, and if this Dr. Masu was a fellow historian, I've never heard of him either.”