Everyone was puzzled, Qi Hong said: "Elder Zhang, what's the matter with that painting?" Zhang Lao immediately cast his black and yellow cloudy eyes on Tang Fanghua's face. Tang Fanghua took a step forward a little unnaturally, and said: "That's right, less than an hour ago, Officer Hou sent a text message, saying that Wu Ming personally said that the painting of the jade seal of the country was from his dream, and from what Officer Hou knew from Ximei, Wu Ming may have some kind of special function that ordinary people can hardly imagine. I showed it to Mr. Zhang at the time, and Mr. Zhang asked me to tell everyone, and I forgot about it in this hurry. As he spoke, he took out his mobile phone and showed everyone the text message sent by Officer Hou.

Qi Hong pulled her ear-length short hair, shook her head and said, "This special function is a non-negligent thing!" I think eighty percent of the police can't solve the case, so they will believe Wu Ming's nonsense! ”

Zhang Bo said: "Men don't dream of camels, northerners don't dream of elephants, even if Wu Ming has any special functions, in the case of never seeing the jade seal of the country, how could he Wu Ming dream of the jade seal of the country in his dream?" ”

Wang Ge nodded, touched the head that didn't have a few hairs, and said: "You can't blame the police, after all, this matter is very weird from beginning to end, judging from the video of the disappearance of the jade seal of Chuanguo yesterday, I suggest that everyone reserve their opinions first." ”

Tang Fanghua said: "That's what I mean, before things are clear, do your job first," paused, and said, "Elder Zhang, look at this fingerprint." As he spoke, he handed the clay pot in his hand to Zhang Lao.

Zhang Lao stared at the fingerprints on the clay pot in his hand without saying a word, Zhang **** pushed the eyes on the bridge of his nose, and said: "Grandpa, don't think about this, I will go back and scan all the fingerprints on the clay pot, and then take Wu Ming's fingerprints to check, otherwise everything will be clear!" ”

Several people nodded yes, but Zhao Lao, who rarely spoke, said at this time: "From my personal point of view, if this is a fingerprint left by the ancients, then why did he do it?" How did you do it? What message did the ancients want to send to us? If this is Wu Ming's fingerprint, then why did Wu Ming do it? What message does Wu Ming want to convey through this? Several people felt that what Zhao Lao said was quite reasonable, and they couldn't stop nodding, Zhao Lao turned around and said, "Come on!" Look at this stone. ”

Several people hurriedly gathered around to see, presented in front of the archaeologists is a piece of irregular stone about the size of a face plate, more precisely, a stone slab, the slate is quite smooth and smooth, there are some neat and uniform nicks on the top, at first glance it looks a bit like a tombstone, to the surprise of the archaeologists, this "tombstone" seems to have an "epitaph" on it.

Tang Fanghua squatted down and gently brushed every grain of dust with a brush that was at least more than 5,000 years old, wanting to see what was hidden behind this obliterated history of more than 5,000 years.

The archaeologists are staring wide-eyed, staring at the historical truth that is gradually revealed after each brush, and at the same time, everyone's heart is also experiencing the catastrophe and baptism of the sand of this long history.

Finally, the dust was cleaned up, and at this moment, the archaeologists' eyes opened wider, but they were quickly getting smaller, and they all frowned, and said in their hearts: What kind of "epitaph" is this?

It turns out that the epitaph in the eyes of archaeologists is composed of square symbols, these symbols have the same strokes as today's Chinese characters, horizontal, vertical, apostrophe, pinch, point, fold, hook, and more importantly, the writing of these symbols is neat and uniform, the strokes are smooth and round, and the depth of the notch is also amazingly identical, that is to say, the thickness, length, depth and arc of each stroke of these symbols are the same, and all the symbols are like using some kind of advanced technology. It is engraved by uniform typesetting, printing, and engraving. If this "epitaph" does not appear in this ancient tomb, no one will doubt that it is a masterpiece of modern people at all.

The archaeologists seemed to be stunned by the "epitaph" in front of them, all of them did not make a sound, and expressed their incomprehension of the archaeological work they have always loved and the questioning of the flow of the long river of history, Zhang Bo seemed to be a little bored counting those unknown words in his heart, Zhang Lao first broke the silence, his voice was unusually excited, and said: "Remember what I said at the meeting last night, maybe there really existed a highly developed civilization in the legendary Three Emperors and Five Emperors period or earlier in the ancient period!" How else can the text of this unknown civilization be interpreted with the available documentary and archaeological data? ”

Qi Hong was originally doing historical research, at this time, she listened to Zhang Lao's words, although it was difficult to accept it in her heart, but it was difficult to make a scientific and reasonable explanation for the "epitaph" in front of her, and she couldn't help but look at the stone tablet again, but she still couldn't see any eyebrows, and couldn't help but be a little discouraged: "This ...... This kind of writing seems to have never been recorded in history," Fu glanced at Zhao Lao, who was meditating hard at the moment, and said: "Zhao Lao, you are an authority on ancient writing in China, I don't know if you know this kind of writing?" ”

Zhao Lao took off his reading glasses, shook his head, and said: "I still have the first time I have encountered this kind of writing in my life, I really don't have a clue, this kind of writing is neither a big seal, a small seal, a golden script, a stone drum script, an oracle bone script, nor a official script, regular script, line script, cursive script, but in the font structure, frame structure, pictographic understanding and many other aspects can see the traces and fragments of these ancient characters, but it is certain that this kind of writing and Chinese are in the same line." ”

Qi Hong stroked her hair and sighed: "Could it be that it is the same as my country's heavenly book - eight mysterious characters, which cannot be cracked?" ”

Zhao Lao took reading glasses, stepped forward, squatted beside the stone tablet, and gently stroked the words of those unknown civilizations as if caressing the face of the girl in love for the first time, and said: "Qi Hong, you have to understand that from the perspective of the evolution and development of Chinese characters, this kind of writing is by no means comparable to the eight kinds of heavenly book mysterious characters, it should be a more developed and advanced civilization than our current civilization, and the eight kinds of mysterious words are no more than the legendary Three Emperors and Five Emperors period at the earliest, which is the text that belongs to the primitive clan society."

Qi Hong checked whether there were any other clues on the stele, and said: "Although what Zhao Lao said has some truth, most of it is based on speculation or experience, so I think we should look for more clues and archaeological evidence before drawing conclusions." ”

Zhao Lao nodded and said, "Yes, otherwise the archaeological community would not agree!" ”

Tang Fanghua said at this time: "We all reserve our own views and opinions first, thinking that without the support of any historical documents and archaeological evidence, maybe we can change our thinking and find another way to find the secret behind this kind of writing." ”

Wang Ge asked, "What is the new way?" ”

Qi Hong glanced at Tang Fanghua and said, "Looking for the nine-tailed fox?" ”

Hearing this, Tang Fanghua and Zhang Lao glanced at each other and nodded.

Eh, someone asked, what are the eight mysterious characters of China's book of heaven, here is a little popular science, the eight mysterious words are said to be the legendary Cangjie book of Cangjie characters, one of the five emperors of Dayu's Xia Yu book, Guizhou red cliff on the red cliff of the heavenly book, Sichuan unearthed in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period on the Bashu symbol, Yunnan Naxi Dongba text, Yu to control the water of the work tablet of the monument, Guizhou Yelang Tianshu and Zhejiang Xianju on the cliff above the tadpole text. Interested friends can consult the relevant literature by themselves.

Just when everyone's discussion of this unknown text came to an end, Zhang Bo suddenly said: "Oops! It's really a lot, I just counted it carefully, a total of seventy-eight words, but in the end, it seems that this text suddenly broke at the end, there should be other similar stone tablets recorded on this kind of text! You see, the tail of this comma is cut off from the tail of the other commas. ”

Everyone has been busy discussing what this unknown text is about, so they ignored what Zhang Bo said, so they went to check, and sure enough, as Zhang Bo said, this "epitaph" should indeed have the following.

And Qi Hong couldn't help but be taken aback when she heard Zhang Bo's word "comma", and said, "That's right! We just looked at the words, but we forgot that the words also have punctuation. ”

Tang Fanghua was also quite excited, and patted Zhang Bo on the shoulder: "Zhang Bo, there is really yours, I will give you a credit when I go back!" ”

Zhang Bo was a little embarrassed and said, "Teacher Tang, it should be, I can't help anything else!" ”

Zhao Lao was even more excited, his eyes flashed with starlight, and said: "China's original ancient books and ancient texts did not have punctuation, the Han Dynasty, began to have sentence reading, the larger pause is called "sentence", and the slight pause is called "reading", to the Song Dynasty, began to use circles and dots, which are equivalent to the current full stop and comma, knowing that in the twentieth century, modern vernacular literature began to use commas and periods in the real sense. Shouldn't it be proven, then, that this script is the language used by a higher civilization? ”

Qi Hong did not object this time, and Wang Ge also did not question Zhao Lao anything, but picked up the stone tablet and turned it over, and said, "Let's see if there are any new discoveries on the back." ”

It's just that the back of the stele is quite rough and uneven, and nothing has been found, so everyone's interest has fallen, and they continue to explore the ancient tomb.

At this time, Elder Zhang's eyes swept roughly in the ancient tomb, and said, "Fang Hua, let me test you, judging from the burial form of this ancient tomb, what conclusion can you get?" ”

Tang Fanghua said humbly: "Judging from the preliminary observation of the students, this tomb should be a clan public cemetery. Since ancient times, due to the influence of the concept of 'ancestor worship' and 'death is like life', people attach great importance to funerals, prehistoric tombs mainly include rock cave burials, mound burials, pit burials, soil cave burials and other forms, this tomb should belong to the vertical pit burial, and there are more corpses in the tomb, in addition, all the corpse heads are facing the direction of the sunrise in the east, so the students concluded that this ancient tomb should be a clan public cemetery, and the students also have a bold speculation,"

Zhang Lao nodded while listening, and when he heard this, his approval was overflowing, and he said, "Speak!" ”

Tang Fanghua continued: "Judging from previous archaeological discoveries, the public cemetery of a clan is usually not so small, so the students guess that there must be more ancient tombs around this ancient tomb waiting for us to discover. ”

Zhang Lao seemed to be extremely pleased, and said three good words in succession, and said: "The hero sees the same thing, and I think so too," suddenly turned his head and said, "Zhang Bo!" You have to follow Mr. Tang and them to learn hard, otherwise, the Institute of Archaeology will not provide an idler to eat! ”

Zhang Bo sneered: "Got it, grandpa." ”

Tang Fanghua and the others couldn't help but say some good things for Zhang Bo.

The next work focused on photographing, cleaning, organizing, and registering the discovered corpses and artifacts, and the other was to verify whether there were more ancient tombs around the ancient tomb, so that it was possible to form a large group of clan public cemetery burial grounds.

Several people gossip while working.

Qi Hong: "When I saw Wu Ming's guy today, why didn't I feel so terrifying, at least not as terrifying as I imagined, but I think this guy is quite good!" ”

Wang Ge: "Well, I think it's still righteous and awe-inspiring, not like that ancient corpse!" ”

At this time, Tang Fanghua couldn't help but make a complete comparison between Wu Ming's voice and appearance and the ancient corpse in his mind, and said: "Yes, the smile on the corner of the ancient corpse's mouth has an indescribable weirdness and evil spirit. ”

Zhang Bo was a little unhappy when he heard this, and said, "Isn't that because Wu Ming is wearing a police uniform today!" If he were to wear the robes of an ancient corpse, he might feel something! ”

Qi Hong: "What does people's temperament have to do with clothes?" ”

Zhang Bo: "Sister Hong, don't forget, the Buddha relies on gold clothes and people rely on clothes!" ”

Qi Hong: "Yes, but I don't believe it, is it possible that riding a white horse is a prince?" Are there many people who eat pickles with apples? ”

Zhang Bo was choked and changed the subject, and said: "Look at the mess in this place, Wu Ming, is he desperate to protect the ancient tombs or recklessly destroy the cultural relics?" ”

As he spoke, there was a gust of wind from the ground, louder and louder, and the whistling sound poured into the tomb in a short time.

Wang Ge said: "The sky has changed, what is this?" ”

In an instant, the light in the tomb suddenly dimmed, Zhang Bo stood up and ran to the entrance of the cave and climbed the ladder to look out, but saw that the sky was dark and cloudy, and the black oppressive clouds were like a huge sheet spreading rapidly from one end of the sky to the other. Rather, it is a spectacle that the ground is night, and the burial chamber is day.

Zhang Bo, who came down the ladder, pushed the glasses on the bridge of his nose and said, "Oh mom, it's like night outside, fortunately, our tomb has been connected with electricity from the farmhouse, otherwise it ......."

As soon as the words were spoken, a gust of wind rushed by, the lights in the tomb suddenly all went out, the archaeologists exclaimed, and then a lightning bolt illuminated the tomb as if it was day, lightning went, thunder followed, the four walls of the tomb in the eyes of the archaeologists, on the cave wall in front of Zhang Bo's eyes, some people suddenly ran out like a trick, these people looked very weird, waving unnamed things in their hands, and rushed towards them with their mouths wide open and howling, everyone screamed, and Wu Ming was actually among this group of people.