stonecrandall Chapter 184
Chapter 184
"Teacher, I can't understand the words on this stone door at all. It doesn't look like oracle bone script or bronze script. Logically, if this tomb is from the Western Zhou Dynasty, then these two characters should be used."
At the foot of Xiulong Mountain in Jinghai City, a group of people wearing work badges and safety helmets were looking at a stone door embedded in the mountain in front of them with confusion.
And this stone door was the one that the tomb robbers blew out with detonators last night.
After the tomb robbers were arrested by the Public Security Bureau, the local cultural relics protection department immediately contacted the provincial archaeological team and experts from the provincial museum.
The two immediately dispatched special personnel to the scene to carry out protective excavation of the ancient tomb.
Lv Zhongjin is the leader of this time. As the deputy director of the Provincial Museum and professor of the History Department of Tunghai University, he is standing in front of the stone door at this moment.
While scanning the words on the stone door with a magnifying glass, he took a brush from the student.
After brushing off the dust on the stone door, he raised his reading glasses and said excitedly:
"Of course you can't understand it, because the stone door is engraved with the legendary water book."
"Water book? Isn't that the language invented by the Shui people?" A tall boy who also wore glasses said in surprise.
"Yes, it's the water book. I didn't expect to see the water book here. This is a major discovery in the history of archaeology." As he spoke, Lv Zhongjin took out a small notebook and copied down the words on the stone door word by word.
"The water book is said to be the language used by the ancestors of the Shui people to record the affairs of ghosts and gods. Only the ghost masters of the Shui people know how to write and decipher. There are only about 400 words in the water book discovered so far, but there are more than 800 words on this stone door."
"To be able to record with so many words, the identity of the tomb owner is not ordinary."
After Lv Zhongjin copied all the words on the stone door, he handed the small notebook to the student next to him.
"Take a photo and send it to your teacher's wife. She has studied the water book for a while. Ask her to help you see what this text records."
"Okay, teacher." As he said that, the young man took a photo of the text on the book with his mobile phone and sent it out through a chat software.
"Xiao Hu, come here and see how to open this door."
"Okay, Professor Lu."
Under Lu Zhongjin's arrangement, a middle-aged man wearing a safety helmet came to the stone gate with his two assistants.
The man's name is Hu Jiu. As a backbone of the archaeological team, he has participated in the excavation of ancient tombs many times.
He has seen various types of ancient tomb structures.
So it didn't take long for them to determine the internal structure of the ancient tomb through special instruments, and at the same time found a way to open the stone door.
"Professor, I just saw that this stone door is made of the self-flowing stone commonly used in the mausoleums of emperors. There should be a stone bar behind the door."
"Give me 30 minutes, I will definitely open it for you within 30 minutes."
Hu Jiu took two assistants and started to act.
And Lv Zhongjin did not doubt Hu Jiu's words at all.
Because Hu Jiu was a tomb robber before he joined the archaeological team.
He had been doing tomb robbery for more than ten years and never failed until he dug a tomb with a camera while digging a hole and was sent to prison.
After serving his sentence, he was recruited into the archaeological team as a special talent.
He said that 30 minutes would definitely not take 31 minutes.
This was indeed the case. After only 26 minutes, the stone door of the ancient tomb opened.
As the stone door opened, a rotten and damp smell came to the face. Everyone retreated one after another, and at the same time, they did not forget to take out two exhaust fans and put them at the entrance of the stone door to replace the air inside with the air outside.
Even so, they did not forget to take out special instruments to analyze the air composition.
After confirming that there were no toxic and harmful substances in the air, they stood in front of the stone door again.
Looking at the dark corridor in front of them, the eyes of the archaeological team, including Lv Zhongjin, were full of curiosity.
"This is a big size. It seems that the owner of the tomb must have been a local emperor at that time." Hu Jiu rubbed his hands excitedly, his eyes shining. Obviously, even if he became a good man, his professional habits were not so easy to change.
"This area was still a wild land in the Western Zhou Dynasty. Where did the local emperor come from? At most, it was a tribal chieftain." Zhou Yunpeng, a student of Lv Zhongjin, squinted his eyes.
"That's hard to say. The tribal chieftains in such places did not live well in that period.Worse than the emperor, the whole country is their private property. I found a tomb of the ancient Dian Kingdom before, and the burial objects in it are more than those of many emperors of the orthodox dynasties in the Central Plains. "
After hearing Hu Jiu's words, Zhou Yunpeng was ready to argue again, but at this moment his mobile phone suddenly rang.
Take out the phone and take a look, he immediately came to Lv Zhongjin.
"Teacher, the teacher's wife replied, she has deciphered some of the words on the stone door."
As soon as these words came out, Lv Zhongjin's face showed a hint of excitement.
"Tell me, what is written on the stone door."
"Okay. ”
After agreeing, Zhou Yunpeng immediately read from his phone.
"There are ghosts in Lingnan, they look like humans, with red eyes and sharp teeth, they come out day and night, they suck human blood, and those who eat them live longer..."
As soon as he finished reading this sentence, his tone paused, and his expression became strange.
Not only him, but also the other people in the archaeological team.
They thought that the information recorded on the stone door should be related to the owner of the tomb, but it turned out that there was a ghost.
"Red eyes and sharp teeth, sucking human blood? Why does this sound so familiar?" Hu Jiu scratched his temples.
"It looks like a human, has sharp teeth, and sucks human blood. Isn't this the vampire in Western legends?" Another student of Lv Zhongjin suddenly said.
"Now that you put it, it seems to be true."
"How can a good ancient tomb be related to vampires? "
"It's normal. The water book was originally used to record the affairs of ghosts and gods. I'm more curious about the sentence at the end, "Those who eat it will live longer." Does it mean that eating vampires can make you immortal?"
"If so, it makes sense that vampires haven't lived until now."
As they said this, everyone smiled at each other, obviously just treating this text as a joke.
After laughing, Zhou Yunpeng continued to read.
"Wang heard it, took a sword to Lingnan, and fought against ghosts..."
The information was scattered and intermittent, but in the end everyone still pieced together a story.