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What is this thing? Looking at the black wood, Jin Muchen scratched his head for a while.

He hadn't seen anything like this before, and he thought it was an antique buried in the ground that had been washed out by a flash flood, but now it didn't seem to be, it was just a piece of black carbonized wood.

Reaching out and tapping on the piece of wood, you can still hear a very crisp metal-like crashing sound.

This wood is quite hard, Jin Muchen thought, but at this moment, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind.

Could it be that this is the legendary mummy in the wood, the gloomy wood that has become popular in China in recent years?

As soon as he thought of this, Jin Muchen, who was originally a little tired, was swept away from the exhaustion on his body, and then his eyes began to ejaculate.

Made, this is really developed, how many treasures are buried in the ground of this old beauty?

In such a large basin nature reserve alone, I have bumped into petrified wood, which scientists call fossilized wood, and now I have bumped into the legendary 'mummy'!

It seems that God not only gave himself a big red date, but also gave himself a jujube tree!

In fact, this gloomy wood has been found in China thousands of years ago, mainly concentrated in Xichuan, western Guangdong, and southern Hunan and other mountainous and river-rich areas.

The formation process of this thing is completely different from the petrified wood and coal that I found before.

Petrified wood and coal are both used when the earth's crust is moving violently, that is, in areas where earthquakes are frequent. Shake the tree to the ground. It is then buried underground. It is formed by the movement of the earth's crust at high temperature and pressure.

The formation of this gloomy wood is different from theirs, and it was not buried underground due to earthquakes in the early days, but it was buried in a different location than petrified wood and coal.

The petrified wood and coal were completely buried under the earth, and the gloomy wood was knocked down by the earthquake and buried directly under the sand of the great rivers.

In other words, their formation process is different from that of petrified wood and coal, which are buried by direct earthquakes, and this gloomy wood is washed into the rivers by mudslides and then covered with sediment.

So they are all isolated processes. However, the pressure on this gloomy wood will be relatively light, so its carbonization process is not complete.

After being buried for millions of years, many of them are washed out of the water by currents, so they are easier to spot than coal and petrified wood.

The Chinese discovered this gloomy wood in some areas of Xichuan Province thousands of years ago.

And this gloomy wood, since it was discovered, has always been the favorite of dignitaries.

Because this gloomy wood has been buried underwater for thousands of years, it has many special properties. For example, the texture is hard and does not attract insects. It does not rot, and there are some special woods that will have a fragrance, etc., so since the discovery of this kind of wood, it has been listed as an important weapon of the country by many dynasties and royals.

The coffins of many emperors in Chinese history were made of this kind of ebony.

It is precisely because of the characteristics of this gloomy wood that in thousands of years of history, both the Chinese royal family and the common people have been extremely fond of this gloomy wood.

In recent years, because of the antique craze, the price of this ebony has also been speculated.

Especially in China, many players who play with antique furniture or small pieces like to collect this gloomy wood.

In the last century, the price of this gloomy wood in China was only five or six thousand pieces per ton, but now, the price of this gloomy wood has soared, comparable to gold.

Now the gloomy wood in the domestic market, ordinary wood gloomy wood also has tens of thousands of pieces a ton, the precious wood of gloomy wood is often hundreds of thousands of tons, the best such as golden silk nan, red sandalwood gloomy wood, that is to be sold by the gram.

Among them, the price of the gloomy wood is the most expensive, because this kind of golden silk nan is very rare, and it is only in Xichuan, China, and the western generation of Guangdong, known as the national tree of China.

After thousands of years of harvesting, this precious timber is on the verge of extinction.

Most of the bedding used by the emperors of ancient dynasties, or dragon chairs, are made of this precious wood, so the gloomy wood that evolved from this golden silk nan is now the leader in the gloomy wood market.

This is also the main reason why in recent years, there are often local governments and private diggers in China who have filed lawsuits over these gloomy trees.

When Jin Muchen used to learn the knowledge of wood and antique furniture with Uncle Fang, Uncle Fang mentioned this kind of gloomy wood to him.

But at that time, he had a general understanding of the origin of this thing and the market acceptance, but he didn't expect that he would be able to see this thing in the United States.

Because the reason why this gloomy wood is so precious is that its formation process is not simple, it is 10,000 times more difficult than coal, and it is also more difficult than the formation of petrified wood.

Because first of all, if you want to form gloomy wood, you must have the following geographical conditions, there are many mountains, and this exclusive tall tree grows around in the future, in addition, these tall trees must also have the characteristics of sterilization and fragrance, otherwise it will rot under the water, and it is difficult to form gloomy wood.

In addition, where you are located, there are big rivers nearby, and even the sea, and you also have to be in an earthquake zone, and there are often natural disasters such as earthquakes, flash floods, and mudslides.

Taken together, there are few places in the world that have such characteristics.

So far, the place where the most gloomy wood has been found in the world is only Xichuan in China.

Of course, in other parts of the earth, it is not uncommon to have such conditions, such as New Zealand, where a large number of gloomy wood has been found, but because those gloomy wood species are not particularly precious tree species, the price of New Zealand's gloomy wood in the international market has not been high.

And in the United States, such places are not uncommon, such as the Great Basin Park where I am located.

The surrounding mountains are full of water, trees, and the Pacific earthquake zone, so the possibility of gloomy wood production here is not low.

It's just that it's so good that this place is protected by the Americans, and the Americans who have only seen it for two or three hundred years don't know what gloomy wood is, so there has been no record of gloomy wood being found here.

And today I found such a gloomy wood, now that I think about it, it is not surprising, but it is just the right time, I want to come God, but I don't want to watch the Americans continue to be so willful and tyrannical, so let such a treasure be buried in the ground and rot.

Anyway, they all found out, so what are you hesitating about, at this time, Jin Muchen had already forgotten about his hunger, and his spirit was also lifted with the discovery of this gloomy wood.

He stretched out his hand and pulled the gloomy wood, heavy, it seemed that the volume buried under the silt by the river was not small, and it was not so easy to directly enter the purple jade space, at least the silt on the trunk had to be cleaned up first.

If it was someone else, he might still have a headache with tools at this time, but this was not a problem for Jin Muchen at all, when he returned to China last time, he was wandering around Panjiayuan in the capital, and he sold a few sapper shovels with very exquisite workmanship.

The function of those shovels is not ordinarily powerful, and even in his opinion, it is better than the current military standard equipment in China.

At that time, he was also amazed by the quality of these shovels, so he bought a few and put them in the space for backup, thinking that if he went out camping in the United States in the future, he could be emergency if he encountered a car jam or something on the road.

At this time, he just took it out and used it, and the shovel was taken out, plus the water flow was not too big at this time, and his own super physical fitness, it only took more than an hour to dig wildly, and it took more than an hour to completely clean up this piece of ebony from the mud at the water's edge.

After the whole piece of ebony showed its true body, Jin Muchen also had to breathe a sigh of relief, he was really lucky, because this ebony was too big.

The length alone can be more than 20 meters, and the diameter at breast height has to be hugged by two people, and the estimated weight must be more than ten tons.

Gently plucked the ebony with river water, cleaned up all the silt on the trunk, and without waiting for it to dry, Jin Muchen directly waved his hand and put the ebony into the space.

At this time, he was not dazzled, his legs were weak, his waist was no longer painful, he was so energetic when he walked that he even forgot about hunger.

The sun had already set, but Jin Muchen didn't plan to leave, although he also knew that this small lake was very dangerous at night, but it was the so-called death of people for money, and birds died for food.

Such a gloomy wood was found here, and there is still a large area that has not been searched, and who knows if other gloomy woods can be found elsewhere?

These gloomy woods, it is estimated that they were washed out by the flash flood yesterday, this is God to take care of himself, if you don't dig it up at once this time, next time you want to find it, but it will not be so easy.

In China, there are people in Xichuan who do this, and they have to spend a lot of financial and material resources every year to find this ebony in those large and small rivers, waterways, and even underground karst caves, and the investment is huge.

Those people have to go to the government to go through the relevant procedures, but also to organize a special excavation team, but also to invite experts who understand hydrological knowledge and geographical knowledge, in order to find the treasure, and they compare their own treasure process, it is simply pie in the sky! (To be continued......)