During his leisure time, Wang often went mountain climbing with the ambassador and his wife. Once on a trip in the mountains, Wang spotted a rock that was shaped like an animal. Having never seen a real fossil, only pictures of fossils in his grade-school textbook, Wang became inexplicably curious.
閒暇時，王基雄常隨著大使夫婦到處登山，一次去山區旅遊時，王基雄看到了一個形狀像動物的石頭，只曾在小學課本中看過化石圖片，沒有見過真正化石的他，竟然產生了一股莫名的好奇心。