Augusta was an explorer—a profession on the surface, but he was a tomb robber.

People who were engaged in the archaeological industry in this era would have some deal with these tomb robbers.

Tomb robbers are certainly frowned upon, but their technology for generations has always been ahead of official archaeological excavations, and there are people in every country who praise the tomb robbers' tomb robbers.

What's more, because this world once had supernatural forces such as magic and magic, those ancient tombs were extremely dangerous, and if there were no professional tomb robbers with them, it would be almost impossible for those archaeological experts to go deep into the tombs.

Mark followed Professor Buck and once entered a small mausoleum with the help of a team of tomb robbers, and unearthed a lot of treasures from it.

And because this world has experienced the baptism of war in the Age of the Gods, a large number of kingdoms inherited from ancient times have been completely destroyed in the war, and now except for a few old kingdoms that still remain, they are basically newly built kingdoms at the end of the Age of the Gods.

So the tombs of those ancient kingdoms became ownerless.

Since it is an ownerless thing, it naturally belongs to whoever digs it up, and does not have to hand it over to the state.

This led to a thriving trade in antiquities in this era, and professional antiquities appraisers were particularly respected.

Mark's previous ambition was to become a professional antiquarian, but unfortunately he has not yet graduated, but he has already had an accident.

……

July 1, 1818, Monday the previous week, at one o'clock in the morning.

As promised, Mark went to a rented house on College Street in the dark.

And there were seven people who agreed to go to the rented house together.

The seven men were Mark himself, Professor Barker, Augusta, another professor in the history department, Gallef, an antiquities dealer, Ume, an explorer, and Wal-Mart, an antiquarian.

Later, seven people came to six.

Wal-Mart, the antiquarian, sent a message from the antiquities dealer that he had another very important business to take over tonight, so he was dove.

But one less antiquarian is fine.

After all, two of the remaining six professors and Mark are in this business.

What they had to do was to identify and value the "thousand-year-old antiquities" that Augusta had brought.

The reason why it was about one o'clock in the morning was Augusta's own condition.

In the early hours of that morning, six people gathered in the inner hall of the rented house, and Augusta took out a wooden box that had been sealed for a long time under the gaze of everyone.

The wooden box is affixed with a seal, and the seal is engraved with mysterious words.

Mark couldn't make out the mysterious words of unknown age, but Professor Buck happened to be in touch.

……

In his office, Professor Buck asked in a low voice, "Remember the seal on that box?" ”

Su Xian naturally didn't remember, so he ...... He nodded.

Professor Buck took a notebook from the drawer of his desk and flipped it open on the desk.

He pointed to a few lines in his notebook and said:

"It took me three days to finally translate it in its entirety. Augusta said that the box was dug up from a thousand-year-old mausoleum, but that the words on the box's seal were not only a thousand years old, it was at least 3,500 years old, that is, 1,700 years before the Enoera calendar. ”

"Although it may be difficult for us modern people to believe that there was such a complete and beautiful writing system so long ago, it is actually true."

"I should have told you in class that although the advent of the gods has brought great disasters to mankind, it cannot be denied that some gods still contribute to mankind. For example, one of the gods who was extremely fascinated by words, she used a spell that we can't imagine now that can see the past, extracted a part of the past writing, and extracted the most complete writing system among them, and spread it throughout the world. That kind of writing is the Inffister language that we are using today. ”

"Through the age of those words, we can judge that human civilization should have experienced more than one outbreak and destruction, but after each destruction, it was rebuilt in the ruins, which shows the ...... of human beings."

Seeing that Professor Buck had unconsciously entered the teaching state, Su Xian hurriedly reminded: "Professor! ”

Professor Buck blinked, and came back to his senses, "Let's continue with the words on the seal." Augusta does not allow us to open the box, so we can only scrutinize and identify it through the text on the seal and the material and appearance of the box. Gallef traced the carvings on the box, Ume promised to find out what it was made of, Rianwar was in charge of inquiring about the origin of the thousand-year-old mausoleum, and I was in charge of translating the text on the seal. ”

Gallef, a professor of history, Ume, an antiquities dealer, and Leanwar, an explorer.

The names of these three people had already appeared in Mark's memory, and Su Xian could naturally recognize them, and he had restored the matter in his mind through the information revealed by Professor Barker, and roughly understood such a thing.

Then, he looked seriously at the notebook that Professor Buck had taken out.

There were two lines of text in the notebook, one on the top of which was the ancient text that Professor Buck had traced from the seal, and the other on which he had translated with reference to the literature.

"Eternal, rusty, red."

……

There is no such thing as "sacrifice", there is no "god", and there are no keywords like "rare" or "sacrifice".

Su Xian really frowned.

He thought that this box must have something to do with parchment, and the more he got to the back, the more he felt this way, but he didn't expect that this would be the end result.

"Isn't it really about parchment? Did Mark come into contact with parchment after this? ”

Intelligence has indeed increased, but so has doubts.

Su Xian didn't say anything, and continued to wait for Professor Buck to speak.

"You saw it." "That's what it took me three full days to translate, but I still haven't understood how those three words are connected and what they ultimately mean." But ......"

Su Xian looked at him.

"But that's not the most important thing right now," he muttered. Now that Augusta is dead, there is no need to continue the commission he left behind. My fear now is that someone is eyeing us. ”

Su Xian: "Who?" ”

Professor Buck just shook his head, "I didn't tell you before. In fact, Garif is also dead. His body was found three days ago and was notified by Officer Charles. ”

Su Xian quickly asked, "What about Ms. Wumei and Mr. Li Anhua?" ”

Professor Buck couldn't help but raise his arms and cover his head: "I don't know, I really don't know. I've been trying to contact them since I learned three days ago that Garif was also dead. If it weren't for your sudden arrival at school this morning, I would have thought you would have ......"

Su Xian could feel Professor Barker's worry and fear, and he reached out and pressed his shoulder to try to calm his emotions.

……

[PS: Every time I open the writer assistant app, I can always see familiar people, familiar names are voting for recommendations, although I haven't talked to each other, I have known each other for a long time. 】