The next day, Lin Hainan, Feng Jianfei, Youmi and Xu Jin held a meeting in the office of the Human Resources Department of the Forbidden City, and the main meeting was Cheng Pengju.

"Feng Jianfei, how is the team forming for the Ancient Cultural Relics Restoration Competition?"

"It has been formed, and there are four participants in this group. Lin Hainan, Feng Jianfei, Chen Youmi, Xu Jin. Lin Hainan is the team leader, Feng Jianfei, Chen Youmi, restoration personnel, Xu Jin, and technicians. In addition, Li Jianshu, Zhang Xiaochuang, remote logistics personnel. ”

"Yes. For this ancient relics restoration competition, our Forbidden City will be the official team, in addition, there are about seven private teams. The entire Forbidden City is your reserve force, and if you need anything, please don't hesitate to mention it. Already registered?"

"Yes, the registration has already been completed. ”

"Good. Tell us about your current research on the competition. ”

Yumi nodded, and gestured to Xu Jin's eyes, and Xu Jin opened the slide and screened it with Yumi's explanation.

"This is the rules and regulations for this tournament. As the official team of our country, Xu Jin and I took the lead in studying the rules of the event.

The competition is hosted by Interstellar Development Group and lasts for 45 days. An oasis deep in the heart of the Sahara Desert. ”

A map of Africa appeared in the projection, and then continued to zoom in until an oasis appeared, looking at the verdant and vast oasis in front of him, Lin Hainan's heart was shocked.

"This is the oasis. The Sahara Desert was formed about 2.5 million years ago, making it the second largest desert in the world after Antarctica, and this oasis is located in a closed valley formed by 100 million years of volcanic eruptions. The Sahara Desert is the sunniest place in the world, and it is also the largest and most natural desert in the world. Compared to the harsh climatic conditions of other parts of the desert, this oasis is clearly blessed with an abundance of species.

However, in this pearl of the sand sea, because of the closed nature of its valley and the irresistible magnetic interference in the region, the current exploration of this oasis is limited, and the size of this oasis seen from satellite images is not accurate, it is estimated that the real oasis may be more than twice as large as we know.

As the resident of the Oasis, the research of the Oasis is also being updated day by day, so the first requirement of the event is to stipulate a strict scope of activities for all participants. ”

"Question: What if we are out of the range?"

"There is no way to ensure personal safety. ”

Lin Hainan raised his eyebrows: "If there is an accident, is the event team responsible?"

"The rules of the event say 'safety and responsibility'. Boss Cheng, do you want to match each of us with a bodyguard? ”

Cheng Pengju nodded: "You can consider it." What are the risk factors that may arise in this oasis?"

"In addition to the natural environmental conditions such as climatic conditions, there may also be wild beasts, and the Interstellar Development Group officials said that they have found traces of man-made, and this oasis may be inhabited by indigenous people, but they have not found any natives yet. ”

Lin Hainan asked, "That's why you define a strict range of activities, right?"

"Yes. ”

Lin Hainan and Feng Jianfei exchanged opinions: "The 'safety conceit' is actually understandable. ”

Feng Jianfei nodded and motioned for Yumi to continue.

Yumi continued:

"In this oasis, Interstellar Development Group has used holographic technology to build the cultural sites of four ancient civilizations, using holographic technology to imitate the most bullish palaces of ancient Babylon, ancient Egypt, India and China. ”

"All the ruins are holographic productions?" Feng Jianfei couldn't help but question.

"Yes, all. And we don't need to make use of the helmet glasses, from the moment we enter the development area, everything is a holographic projection combined with the real thing. The entire development area, including the competition area and the rest area, is a movable area.

In this competition, the elimination system, the opponent is randomly selected first, and then the cultural relics are restored, and the restoration process is kept confidential throughout the process, and then the works will be exhibited, and all the participants and spectators will vote, one person has one vote, and the one with more votes wins! The winner will receive a prize of $10 million. The eliminated players can choose to return to their home countries or choose to watch the game, and the spectators only have the right to vote. ”

"The repaired items were provided by the event team?"

"Yes, that's what I'm going to focus on next.

Because the desert is the background of the environment, the Interstellar Development Group takes the 'Silk Road' as the main line of the event. Many of the artifacts in this competition are related to China's Silk Road. And again, the biggest theme is religion. Buddhism is the focus. Therefore, most of the participants this time are China and India, with 7 teams each, only two teams from Egypt and 6 teams from European countries for assessment. This is what is known so far. In addition to Buddhism, there are also many indigenous religions in many countries, and there is very little information on the cultural relics to be restored in the tournament charter, but their official website has been updated. At present, the most eye-catching is the Hindu 'Shiva's Eye', as well as several Dunhuang suicide notes that have been lost in China for many years. ”

For the eyes of Shiva, everyone is not clear, but the Dunhuang testament is indeed the regret of every cultural relics worker. The discovery of Dunhuang cultural relics is a major event in the history of China's academic culture. However, unfortunately, the Dunhuang cultural relics were found in the era when the emperor, the state, the lord and the righteous were stepping up their aggression against China, and many cultural relics were looted by the so-called "scholars" and "study groups" of the emperor, the state, the lord and the righteous country, and some of them were collected by the domestic bureaucrats and landlords and private individuals, causing immeasurable huge losses to China's cultural undertakings. In the investigation and exploration of various countries, the British-Hungarian Stein, the legal person Birchhe, the Japanese Otani Mitsurui Expedition Group, the Russian Oldenburg, and the American Warner were the most serious in the robbery and destruction of the Dunhuang testament and cultural relics, and the losses caused to ancient Chinese culture were also the greatest. However, Dunhuang is a pearl on the Silk Road, and the Dunhuang cultural relics are an organic part of the entire Silk Road cultural relics.

The office was unusually quiet, no one spoke, and after a while, Cheng Pengju broke the calm: "The competition is very close to us." When are you leaving?"

Feng Jianfei handed Cheng Pengju a photocopy of the invitation letter sent by the Interstellar Development Group and the content of the email exchange between the two sides: "Next week." Departing from Beijing, fly to Rome, Egypt, and spend a day in Rome, where we will be led into the Oasis Development Zone by the people of Interstellar Development Group. ”

"Good. There's plenty of time, so get ready and get a good result in the competition!"

"Yes!"

Get out of the office. The few broke up on the spot and reunited after five days.

Lin Hainan went back to the Lin Mansion directly. After a while, he will leave Beijing, and the Lin family's house will be empty for a while, Lin Hainan plans to arrange security measures well, he doesn't want to find a box in the closet when he returns to China.

After buying dinner and walking into Shitong Hutong, the Lin family was dark, and Lin Hainan turned on the lights to illuminate the living room and courtyard. The light was warm and dispelled the darkness at once.

Lin Hainan thought of a sentence he heard many years ago: When the parents are here, there is still a place to come in life, and when the parents go, there is only a way back in life.

From the age of eighteen to the present, I have been running around for the past few years, but I have no sense of reality. Cangshan is covered with snow, and the candle sky is south. Although Lin Hainan has not yet worn a sword, he is already a river and lake when he goes out.

But Lin Hainan is still very grateful, grateful to his parents for giving him the courage to accept those things he can't change, and giving him the strength to change those things he can't change.

But in the end, the vastness of the rivers and lakes is immeasurable, and the complexity of the human world, with its ups and downs, cannot be studied deeply.

I haven't been back to this Lin family's small courtyard for many years, and I have been running around since I arrived in Beijing a few days ago, except for the first night, Lin Hainan has never taken a good look at this small courtyard.

He was familiar with every detail of this place -- the decaying apricot tree in the small courtyard was planted by his father when his mother Wang Xiuzhu was pregnant, and the tree was already taller than him when he was eighteen years old, but now it is decaying; the gate originally had a threshold, but after he tripped and knocked out a tooth, his father removed the threshold, but his mother always habitually raised her feet when she entered the door; there were many tools in the tool room, and his father sometimes did carpentry, sometimes he did small painted pottery, and he and Feng Jianfei used to make a four-like one; and the window of his bedroom, the edge of the window was stepped on a piece of paint, that is, he always slipped to the Internet café when he was a sophomore in high school, and only came back in the middle of the night……

Memories are always slow. Hanging a family photo on the wall of the living room, Lin Hainan watched TV and ate dinner, planning to wander around the house after dinner, just like a childhood adventure game.

The Lin family has a small courtyard, there is a dead tree in the yard, and on the right side of the yard is a tool room, less than three square meters. The main hall is connected to the kitchen, there is a storage room on the first floor, which has been converted into a study, and the second floor is the parents' room, Lin Hainan's room and a very small guest room.

His parents' room and his own room were not big, and they were all over at a glance, and there was nothing in that room. However, the study room and tool room have become the key targets of Lin Hainan.

When I left Beijing, I took a lot of things, but some of them are still there, and some books and notes are scattered on the ground. Lin Hainan sorted out the things, all of them were books and materials, and after sorting them out, they were still put back on the bookshelf, thinking of his mother's study, Lin Hainan drew a gourd and found it on the bookshelf. Unexpectedly, the bottom layer of the bookshelf, between the bottom plates, was empty.

Originally, there were a lot of sundries on the ground floor, even wooden boards, pieces of paper, paint cans, and unknown things, which looked dirty and messy, and if it wasn't for the owner of the house who wanted to clean and tidy up, no one would want to move these sundries. And on the contrary, Lin Hainan is the owner of this house.

All these arrangements did not give Lin Hainan a sense of fear, whether it was the toolbox in the wardrobe or the partition of the bookcase in front of him, the premise of all the arrangements was that the arranger and the discoverer were very familiar with the house. Lin Hainan even had the illusion that the person who arranged these was his father Lin Feng. Therefore, after discovering the strangeness of the house, I did not avoid it.

There was very little space under the partition, and only a few pieces of paper were placed - information on the members of the first expedition to the Sahara Desert in 1998.