Chen Xiu followed Professor Fang to a separate room next to the hall.

"What did you find?"

Professor Fang asked the two staff members in front of the monitor.

"Professor Fang, if we deduce that this large-diameter water tank is correct, it should be the water tank on the shipwreck to store fresh water, and the ship has not been damaged after sinking. But before the wreck, it seems that someone put people and things in, and sealed it with a lid!" said a technician sitting in front of the screen, pointing to the screen.

"Something?"

Chen Xiu and Professor Fang stared at the screen in surprise, but the X-ray perspective was only the outline of the black and white picture, and Professor Fang couldn't help but ask excitedly, "Is there water in the water tank?"

The technician said helplessly: "The pressure on the seabed is still too great, and I still wade into the water hundreds of years below the seabed!"

"Eh~~"

Professor Fang also sighed, "Since the water has already entered, let's open the lid." Let's see what's hidden inside. ”

Professor Fang and a group of students worked together to open the lid on it, and everyone looked at it with a "huh" exclaim, only to see that it was soaked in seawater, and the water was soaked in a water tank the size of a wine jar.

"Lie down, this is the Ming Dynasty's version of a matryoshka doll!"

Chen Xiu's complaint caused everyone to laugh.

Professor Fang analyzed, "Judging from this tank within a tank, the shipwreck is not a sudden thing, it may have taken several hours for the people on the ship to think about hiding things in the water tank and sealing them."

From this inference, we initially deduced that the wreck was swept to the bottom of the sea during a storm, and may have to be reinvented.

It is likely that the wreck ran aground at sea, and the sea water slowly poured into the cabin. That's why they had time to seal the small tank inside the big tank.

Of course, this is still an inference, and the truth can only be accurately judged if we pull this sunken ship up!"

Chen Xiu was secretly surprised in his heart, and thought: "The one who does academic research is really different from a businessman like me. It's just that so many things can be deduced from a water tank. It's not like me, I only care about what's hidden in this little tank!"

After everyone worked together to lift the small vat out of the big vat again, Professor Fang said cautiously: "Take it to the X-ray side again to see what is inside!"

Chen Xiu couldn't wait, and when he was carried to the X-ray room from here, it was turned on and scanned, and the most annoying thing was the black and white picture, so that he, a man with clairvoyance, couldn't understand what the hell was on it.

At the moment, he directly transported the mysterious power in his body to his eyes, closed his eyes and opened them again, and saw everything in the small tank clearly, but he couldn't help but complain in his heart: "Damn, it's really a matryoshka!"

Because he saw through the inside of the small tank was also soaked in seawater, and what was soaked in the sea water was actually a bag of things that seemed to be wrapped in oilcloth.

As for what was wrapped in the tarpaulin, he was not interested in looking at it with her see-through eyes again, for fear that she would give him another matryoshka doll inside.

"Professor Fang, there is no need to move it for X-ray examination, judging from the weight of the lift, there is a chance that this small can has already entered the water. Just open it!"

Chen Xiu prevented everyone from carrying them to the X-ray room, and directly took a scalpel from the hand of a student, which was originally used to clean up the microorganisms adsorbed on the surface of the salvaged plates, bowls, and clay pots.

Professor Fang stopped and said: "Don't open it, in case there is no seawater inside, and there are cloth and paper things such as calligraphy and paintings, which will be oxidized and invalidated as soon as it encounters the air!"

It's just that no matter how fast he speaks, he can't speak as fast as Chen Xiu's hands, and he directly uses surgery to pull around the cylinder and lid seal, and he has already opened the lid directly.

Professor Fang couldn't help but think in his heart: "This Xiao Chen technique is there, but it's still too frizzy to do things!"

As soon as the lid was lifted, there was a jar of seawater inside, and everyone sighed "eh", although they looked at the oil ladle inside, but they thought that after such a long time of soaking in seawater, they were afraid that they had already entered the water!

Chen Xiu already knew the result inside, but he didn't sigh too much, so he directly reached out and scooped up the oilcloth bag inside, put it on the countertop, and said to Professor Fang, "Open it or not?"

If it is something wrapped in paper, it is best to leave it in a vacuum environment for about three to five years to let it dehydrate naturally, and then open it.

For example, some lacquerware that has been soaked in water for many years is dehydrated in this way.

In the 80s, because domestic archaeologists did not understand this technique, many lacquerware unearthed in those years were discarded.

It's just that the conditions on board do not exist in the vacuum equipment compartment. Even if there is, Professor Fang can't wait three or five years, and if it's really calligraphy, paintings, documents and other things, I'm afraid that they will be soaked like this and taken to the vacuum chamber for dehydration successfully, and the words on it will not be restored.

"Open!"

Professor Fang gritted his teeth and said, Chen Xiu directly picked up a large tweezer and carefully lifted the oil bag layer by layer. These oilcloths have been soaked for hundreds of years, and they are soft and rotten, if it weren't for Chen Xiu's hand strength just right, I am afraid that they would rot into a ball of mud as soon as they were lifted.

Everyone stretched their necks and watched Chen Xiu turn over the oilcloth layer by layer, a total of nine layers, and finally leaked the true face inside.

"Huh!"

Everyone shouted in amazement.

The bread in this oilcloth is not a paper book or a canvas, but a bundle of wooden slabs!

Professor Fang was first surprised, then disappointed.

The wooden slip is different from the paper, before the Warring States period, the writing on the wooden slip is generally carved with a knife, if the text carved with a knife is naturally not afraid of seawater immersion, but unfortunately he took a closer look, most of the wooden slip has been rotten, and there is no trace of engraving on it, it is obvious that this is not a lettering, but the practice of using the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty before the invention of paper was widely used, and it is a word written with a brush.

Now that the sea water has been immersed, there is still some text on it.

"It's a pity! The predecessors spent so many Heart Sutras trying to store this ancient book in the water tank, just to keep the important information of this volume. It's a pity that it's still in vain!" Professor Fang said with a sigh.