Early the next morning, Wu Xi received a phone call from Li Chuan, who told Wu Xi that Zhang Yuying's parents had worked in the archaeology department of H University, and later came to their hometown of T University after Zhang Yuying was born. "But," Li Chuan said at the end www.biquge.info of the call, "it's useless to tell you this, because her parents died a few years ago." ”

"Both died? What's with? ”

"Car accident."

Putting down the phone, Wu Xi went to Xu Xing and told him everything Li Chuan said on the phone. Xu Xing lowered his head and thought for a while, "It seems that we need to go." ”

"Where to go?"

"H big."

The city where H University is located is not far from D City, that is, a two-hour drive, Wu Xi and Xu Xing arrived here just in time for lunch, and there was no one else in the huge teaching building of the archaeology department except them. The long corridors of the building are lined with photographs, most of which were taken at archaeological sites, many of which are old and have yellowed corners. Wu Xi looked over frame by frame, and finally found what he was looking for, which was a group photo of a teacher from the Department of Archaeology in front of the building.

"Xu Xing, come and see this, this should be Zhang Yuying's parents." She pointed to the name marked under the photo, "Zhang Jianmin, Lan Yu, that's right, it's them." ”

The two bespectacled young men in the photo are staring at the camera stiffly, smiling shyly, not at all as glamorous as their daughters.

"Who are you two? Why did you casually break into the teaching building, and students are not allowed to enter here. A middle-aged man with a lunch box stood at the top of the stairs and shouted at them.

"Hello teacher, we are Zhang Jianmin and Teacher Lan Yu who have taken students at T University, and this time we are here on a business trip and made a special trip to the teacher's alma mater to have a look." Wu Xi blurted out without even thinking about it.

"Your ability to lie is getting better and better." Xu Xing whispered.

"Whose students do you say you are?" The man took a few steps closer.

"Zhang Jianmin and Lan Yu." Wu Xi beat a drum in his heart, did he say something wrong?

"I'm their classmate," he pointed to a photo on the wall, "the person next to them is me, I didn't expect twenty-five years to pass like this, but they ......" He sighed deeply and stopped talking.

"Teacher Zhang and Teacher Lan were so young at that time," Xu Xing looked at the photo with frowns, "Teacher, where was this photo taken?" It appears to be a group of burial mounds. ”

"That's right, this is a Warring States tomb group, just on the edge of Dongting Lake. The results of that archaeological work were still quite fruitful, and many pottery and bronze weapons were found. Oh, by the way, there is one biggest catch, right there, Lan Yu, your teacher, found out that she was pregnant. ”

"Zhang Yuying?"

"That's right, Yuying. The two of them didn't have children for more than ten years after they got married, but they didn't expect to have them under such difficult conditions. We joked that this child would be extraordinary in the future, but no one expected her to be so ostentatious. ”

"Teacher, could you please think about it again, when you excavated that tomb group, did anything that is difficult to explain?"

"Why do you ask?" The middle-aged man pushed his glasses suspiciously.

"That's right, Mr. Zhang once talked to us about this archaeological experience, and he said that he encountered a bizarre thing at that time, but because someone suddenly came, he didn't talk about it again in the middle of the conversation."

"He told you about that, and to be honest, I never understood why those skeletons disappeared overnight."

"Skeleton?" Wu Xi and Xu Xing asked at the same time.

"The reason why we went there was because some villagers found ancient pottery while farming, but Zhang Jianmin and Lan Yu found a big mountain bag a few miles away from the excavation site, and you know what the mountain bag means to us archaeologists, especially after the instrument found that the mountain bag was hollow inside. We were all so excited that we thought we were going to find something amazing. Your teachers, in particular, spend their days circling that mountain bag, researching where to start to better protect the possible artifacts inside. However, on the day of the actual opening, we were all disappointed. There's just a bunch of bones, and they're not human bones. ”

"Dinosaurs?"

"No, I've seen dinosaur fossils, and it's completely different from this one. The skeleton was long, coiled in circles, and had no feet. Anyway, it was no longer our job to do it, so we contacted the local geological bureau that night, and they said they would send someone over early tomorrow morning. However, the next morning, before I could wake up, I heard Lan Yu's shout, and she ran towards the camp with her cloak and shouted, 'The bones are gone, all are gone.' ’”

"Gone?"

"Well, there's nothing left of the place where that mountain bag is, and nothing else, and if it weren't for the fact that a few of us witnessed the whole excavation, I would have thought it was just a dream of my own."

Xu Xing and Wu Xi walked out of the cold teaching and research building, and the warm winter sun shone on them, making Wu Xi's cold body gradually recover, but her mind was still chaotic.

"Things seem to be getting more complicated, what is that thing they dug up?"

Xu walked down the steps and looked at the youthful campus in front of him, "Have you ever heard the story of a snake swallowing an elephant?" ”

"The fable? I have heard that there was a big snake in ancient times who could eat elephants, but it took three years to completely digest it and spit out the bones. In fact, it is used as a metaphor for the greed of human nature. ”

"The snake is also called the snake repair, it lives in the area of Dongting Lake, its body is huge and insatiable, and all the living creatures it encounters will not let go, even if the belly is already full. The Yellow Emperor knew of its evil deeds, so he sent Hou Yi to kill it, and Hou Yi shot it with an arrow and then cut it into two pieces. After the snake died, its body turned into a hill and stood by Dongting Lake, and since then the world has been peaceful. ”

"You mean......" Wu Xi couldn't say a word in surprise.

"What lives in Zhang Yuying's body should be the spirit body of the snake, it feeds on the greed of human nature, the more greedy human beings are, the stronger it is."

"Therefore, Zhang Yuying should continue to stimulate evil thoughts and possessiveness in human nature, so as to gain more powerful power?"

"That's right, everyone has evil thoughts, but many times we don't notice it or suppress it, and Zhang Yuying is the key to open Pandora's box."

"So what can we do now?"

"The bell must be tied to the bell."