Volume 1 Six Spirit Beads

Chapter 1 The Storm is Coming

The summer of 2004 seemed to be exceptionally hot, and the summer was over, but the tigers were still raging, and the temperature outside exceeded 40 degrees. In the conference hall on the third floor of the Beijing Academy of Sciences, there are five people sitting three men and two women waiting anxiously, and only the cool breeze blown by the central air conditioning can bring a little refreshment to people.

A graceful and graceful woman finally waited impatiently and stood up and grumbled: "Team Leader Huang, you said that Director Wang made us wait here stupidly for nearly an hour. What is he trying to do? ”

Another woman next to the beautiful woman quietly pulled her white coat and whispered, "Sister Ming, don't embarrass Team Leader Huang." Director Wang seems to have suddenly received some notice to ask us to come and wait, who knows what happened. ”

The beautiful woman muttered, "Wait! Wait! Wait! A phone call without a head and a brain doesn't let people know what happened, Zhang Ning, you are not married, I don't know the trouble after starting a family. It's almost four o'clock now, and the children will pick up the school if you wait, right? Let's settle for dinner......"

"Alright, alright! Hu Mingyu, just say a word less! Like you, I also received a call from Director Wang to the conference room, and Director Wang is now going to the airport with Dean Ma, and I don't know what happened. Liu Qiang, Ma Jianguo, do you know what happened? Team leader Huang Yunxiang frowned and said to the two young men sitting in the back row.

The young man sitting on the left smiled and said, "Team Leader Huang, you should ask Ma Jianguo what you said." Of course, the dean of the hall has a lot more than we know, Sister Ming, Sister Ning, are you right? ”

Liu Qiang's joke made Ma Jianguo's face suddenly turn angry and said, "The surname is Liu, what do you mean by this?" ”

"What do you mean? Don't you know it yourself? If you didn't rely on your relationship to enter the Chinese Academy of Sciences? If you have the ability, you should be like Sister Ning, but Sister Ning's father is ......" Liu Qiang stopped suddenly, and stammered to Zhang Ning with an embarrassed face: "Sister Ning...... Sister Ning...... I'm really not...... Not on purpose, you must not ...... Don't take it to heart......"

Zhang Ning smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay, you don't have to fight anymore." We'll know what's going on when Director Wang comes, and it's useless to guess since we're here! ”

Liu Qiang turned his head and glared at Ma Jianguo, walked to the corner of the conference hall and read the newspaper. Ma Jianguo looked at the back of Liu Qiang's head, gritted his teeth and spat at the saliva. Huang Yunxiang sighed and shook his head helplessly, the contradiction between Liu Qiang and Ma Jianguo is not an overnight thing. Liu Qiang was assigned to the Chinese Academy of Sciences by virtue of his professional ability, and he entered the best archaeological group of the academy with his superb professional ability. I was expecting to be promoted to deputy team leader this year, but there was a dean's son, and that son-in-law was a troublemaker who mixed up a diploma abroad. Every time he poked the basket, he had to wipe his ass by himself, if it weren't for his father's face, he would have kicked him out of the group. The conference hall was silent for a while, and no one spoke. Outside the window, the sun was still blazing just now, and suddenly there was a rumbling thunder, and it seemed that a heavy rain was coming......

Time was slowly passing, the quartz clock on the wall of the conference hall was already half past four, and Hu Mingyu had just called her lover to ask her husband to pick up the children. Hu Mingyu looked at the lightning in the rolling dark clouds and flickered across the sky, and said to himself worriedly: "This damn ghost weather! ”

Liu Qiang heard it, put down the newspaper in his hand and said with a smile: "Sister Ming, you must not talk about ghosts." In a few days, it will be August 30th, and the lunar calendar of the Midyear Festival is the seventh and a half months, which is what we often call the Halloween Festival! "Daozang" has a cloud: On the day of Zhongyuan, the local officials selected everyone to distinguish between good and evil, and the prisoner and hungry ghost were liberated at that time! Sister Ming, be careful that Lord Yama opens the door of ghosts, and those little ghosts released will ...... when they see that you are as beautiful as a flower."

"Bah, shut your crow's mouth. Hmph, what kind of dead person haven't you seen Sister Ming? Are you still afraid of those imps? If there is really a ghost in this world, I will definitely find a female ghost for you to be your daughter-in-law, saving you from thinking nonsense all day long. Giggle......" Hu Mingyu scolded with a smile.

Huang Yunxiang took out a cigarette from his work clothes, lit it, took a deep breath and said, "You will chew your tongue, a good mid-year festival is so filthy as your kid said." Alas! ”

Zhang Ning sat quietly in a chair and sent a text message to her boyfriend Zhao Haipeng: I have to work overtime today, you don't have to pick me up.

Hu Mingyu smacked his lips with sharp eyes and said, "Tut-tut, Lang's concubine is envious of others." You two boys study hard, your boyfriend is the son of the deputy director of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, and he is a good man who has been picking up Zhang Ning to and from work for several years. If I had married him earlier......"

Zhang Ning blushed and immediately hid his mobile phone in his pocket, and before he could tell, the door of the conference hall was pushed open at this time. A short and fat man in his fifties tucked down his file bag and rushed in, almost jumping to pick up a paper cup and drink three glasses of water in front of the water dispenser before he could breathe a sigh of relief. Huang Yunxiang asked respectfully, "Director Wang, what's wrong with you?" Could it be that something big happened in the courtyard? ”

Wang Housheng picked up his T-shirt, wiped the sweat on his head, and said evenly: "Team Leader Huang, you can take a look at this first." Wang Housheng handed over the document bag, stood under the central air conditioning fan, and said with cold air.

Huang Yunxiang opened the sealing line on the document bag, and took out a stack of photos from the file bag in confusion. "Boom, boom!" Outside the window, the muffled thunder accompanied by a lightning illuminated the conference hall white, Huang Yunxiang looked at the photo under the bright light of the lightning and exclaimed: "This ...... This can't be......, where did this photo come from? ”

Hu Mingyu took the photo from Huang Yunxiang's hand and looked at it, and his two eyes were suddenly stunned. Mu Ran asked, "Who is this?" ”

Wang Housheng habitually brushed the few hairs on his head with his hand and said with a smile: "My aunt, if only I knew who he was." ”

Zhang Ning, Liu Qiang and Ma Jianguo all surrounded curiously. Zhang Ning saw that there were piles of rubble everywhere in the photo, and in the pile of rubble, there was a person curled up in the shape of a shrimp, his left hand clenched into a fist, and his right hand was wide open like an octopus. Judging from all the photographs, the man's death was terrifying, and the muscles of his face were completely deformed due to spasms, and it was impossible to tell his appearance before his death......

Huang Yunxiang lit another cigarette and asked, "Director Wang, is this someone playing a prank?" The decay of the body in the photo should not have been more than three days, and it can be seen from the weathering of the rocks around him that it is more than a thousand years. What the hell is going on? ”

Without waiting for Wang Housheng to speak, Ma Jianguo continued: "What's so strange about this, someone must have killed someone and buried them in a stone......

"Hahaha......" Liu Qiang laughed loudly: "It's terrible not to learn and not to know, if the deputy head of the homicide criminal case Ma is the deputy team leader, do you think they will report the case to the police?" Or do you want us to have an archaeological team? ”

Wang Housheng waved his hand and said, "Jianwen, your observation ability should really be studied hard." I'm staying in the conference hall because something happened, and this body may be a thousand years old......"