It was a heavy snow after the winter, and it was still gloomy at noon, and this kind of weather was a weekend, which was a good opportunity for ordinary people to stay at home and relax, but Xiahoudun had to drive far away to work.

Originally, Xiahoudun didn't want to go to the unit, but who would have thought that the entrusted phone would be directly called to Xiahoudun's mobile phone. The client said that they were the archaeological team of Yandu University, and found a large tomb in the Eastern Han Dynasty at the junction of Yandu City and Tangluan City.

This is archaeology-related work, why should it involve the Spirit Record Bureau, and the team leader level should participate, which makes Xiahoudun very puzzled, but since the client has asked for it, he should still come and take a look.

The car stopped next to the archaeological excavation site, Xia Houdun got out of the car, tidied up the collar of his trench coat a little, looked up at the sky, and saw a few lightning flashes in the gloomy sky from time to time, muttering: "Strange weather." ”

"Team Leader Xiahou!" Suddenly, not far away, a middle-aged man dressed in plain clothes with some gray hair trotted towards Xiahoudun, and he was the client this time, named Ge Yan, who was also an expert and leader of the archaeological team, "Team leader Xiahou, you are here!" ”

"I'm here, Professor Ge." Seeing that the other party was coming, Xiahoudun sped up his pace.

"It's hard work, I'm really sorry to let you go all the way." Ge Yan walked over, held Xiahoudun's hand and said.

"It's not hard," Xiahoudun held Ge Yan's hand, smiled, and walked with him in the direction of the tomb, "It's all within its bounds." ”

"You're welcome, Team Leader Xiahou." Ge Yan took Xiahoudun and walked straight towards the archaeological site, and when he was about to reach the tomb, he pointed to an old professor who was communicating with the archaeological team members, and asked Xiahoudun, "You know this professor, right?" ”

Hearing Ge Yan's question, Xiahoudun first frowned, then squinted his eyes and looked at the old professor carefully, "Is it Professor Chen Zhen from the History Department of Yandu University?" ”

Professor Chen was busy leaning over to understand the situation with the team members who were excavating in the tomb, and used his historical knowledge to cooperate with the team members in their work.

"Professor Chen, long time no see." Xiahoudun remembered that a few days ago, because of Xiahouling's matter, he had been asking Chen Zhen to collect historical materials, although he didn't gain much, he was still grateful, "I really troubled you a while ago." ”

"Where, Team Leader Xiahou," Chen Zhen changed his nervous demeanor at work and smiled, "Won't I also cause you trouble this time." ”

Xiahoudun stepped forward and looked into the grave, "What happened?" ”

Chen Zhen saw that Xiahoudun came up and went straight to the point, so he didn't gossip much, glanced at Ge Yan, pointed to the grave, and said, "Let's go down to the bottom and talk about it." ”

"Okay." Xiahoudun agreed, and followed Chen Zhen and Ge Yan down to the tomb.

Xiahoudun first looked around for a general glance, and then half-squatted down to carefully observe every detail of the excavation site. The tomb was indeed very large, and its scale was almost comparable to that of the princely tombs of the time. But the strange thing is that although the area of this mausoleum is large, the tomb is actually very small, and the coffin almost fills the entire tomb when it is put in, and there are many huge iron chains around the coffin, so there is no longer anything in it, so I don't see any funerary goods. The perimeter of the burial chamber is quite large, and several archaeologists are cleaning it up.

"The structure of this tomb is really strange, and even a layman like me thinks there is something wrong with it." Xiahou muttered as he straightened up and stepped forward to look. I saw that the things that were excavated in the outer soil layer looked like bronze mirrors, and when I counted them carefully, there were eight sides, and the displacement caused by the change of the earth's crust was a little messy, but according to conjecture and inference, it should have been placed in the direction of the eight trigrams. Next to one of the bronze mirrors, a white skeleton was also revealed.

"Team Leader Xiahou," Ge Yan'an couldn't help but open his mouth first, "Do you see any clues?" ”

"This is probably a formation set up to suppress something," Xiahoudun put his hands in his pockets, his brows tightened, and some clueless speculations began in his mind, "Could it be that the owner of the tomb is a monster?" ”

"Maybe it's really some kind of monster," Chen Zhen also spoke, he let out a sigh of relief, and began to explain to Xiahoudun, "We discovered this Eastern Han Dynasty tomb a month ago, and the subsequent archaeological work is progressing very quickly, about a week ago...... No, less than a week ago, the burial chamber was opened, and the coffin was found. ”

"The coffin is chained by those chains, right?" Xiahoudun asked, pointing to a pile of iron cables on the ground of the tomb.

"Exactly," Chen Zhen replied, "at that time, everyone thought it was very strange, those iron chains did not look like they were used to transport coffins, and no burial goods were found in the tomb, so they all thought that there must be something unusual in them, so they didn't dare to act rashly, thinking about digging the perimeter of the tomb first to see if there were any clues." ”

Xiahoudun nodded slightly, glanced in the direction of the tomb again, and then continued to ask: "So, what happened to require the Spirit Record Bureau to come forward?" ”

"Despite our caution, terrible things have happened." Ge Yan didn't wait for Chen Zhen to speak, and opened his mouth first, "This is the night before yesterday, we plan to rest after cleaning up the No. 1 pit," said Ge Yan pointed to a fenced area on the east side of the tomb, "Around 8 o'clock in the evening, the clean-up work was nearing the end, and a member of the team saw a gorgeously dressed woman from the coffin ready to go out, and the woman noticed that someone had found her, so she glanced at our team members and disappeared." ”

"Gone?" Xiahoudun glanced at Ge Yan in surprise, "Could it be that it's dark, and the team members are looking away?" ”

"No, it won't." Ge Yan shook his head and began to speak again, "At first, we did suspect that it was because of the intensity of the work, which caused our archaeologists to hallucinate. But when we set our eyes on the coffin, we realized that something had happened. The chains that had locked the coffin were all opened, and the entire coffin was opened. We looked up and saw that it was empty except for a broken puppet. ”

After hearing this, Xiahoudun took a long breath and asked, "Then, is anyone injured?" ”

Chen Zhen replied, "No one was hurt. ”

"Broken puppet ......" Xiahoudun frowned and muttered in a low voice, "What the hell is it?" ”

"And that's not all," Chen continued, "and it reappeared last night......

"Again?" Xiahoudun was even more surprised.

Chen Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, glanced at Ge Yan, and then said again: "Exactly, we didn't plan to bother Team Leader Xiahou to go out, but we just decided not to work at night for the time being, and continue to observe, maybe the iron chain was about to die, because it was exposed to the air for a long time, so it broke, and that woman may be the image playback produced by some special paint inside the coffin." But unexpectedly, the woman appeared again last night, and her face changed from before. ”

Xiahoudun couldn't help but ask, "What change?" ”

Chen Zhen raised his head, thought about it for a moment, and said, "That is, I feel that my face has become scary, its eyes have become fierce, and there are blood and tears flowing down the corners of my eyes." ”

"And then? What did it do? Xiahoudun asked.

"And then it disappeared again." Chen Zhen replied.

"Gone again?" Xiahoudun let out a sigh of relief and thought carefully. He first took out something like a barcode scanner from his arms, swept it in the direction of the coffin, glanced at the value of "0.2" displayed on it, and put away the device with some confusion. I thought, it stands to reason that a phenomenon like this is obviously a ghost who didn't immediately attack an innocent target because he couldn't find the resentment to target the subject, but judging from the resentment value, there was no condition to cause the soul to become a ghost, not to mention that there were no bones in the tomb, but it was more like a monster like a zombie ran out, but what happened to the sudden disappearance?

"By the way, there's another strange thing." Ge Yan suddenly interrupted Xiahoudun's train of thought.

"Huh?" Xiahoudun obviously didn't react from the reasoning in time, and was stunned for a moment before asking, "What's the strange thing?" ”

Ge Yan pointed to a place not far away and said, "It's just that after the incident with this female ghost, there was a strange pattern on the ground over there. ”

"Strange patterns?" Xiahoudun was even more surprised, "Take me to see it." ”

The three of them came up from under the grave and walked towards the place Ge Yan had said. walked about a hundred meters, two people who were about one meter eighty-five in height, and wore the uniforms of the special combat team of the Spirit Recording Bureau, appeared in front of Xia Houdun: one was wearing a dark gray uniform, looking in his thirties, a black cashmere windbreaker and black leather boots, with a brown fingerless leather glove on his left hand, and an iron-gray rectangular metal device on the back of the glove, he should be the captain of a certain team, the person had a square face, although he had a horizontal face, he looked decent; The other was a young man in a dark gray combat suit and black combat boots and a protective vest, apparently a member of the Special Operations Team. Xiahoudun took a few steps forward, and saw that the man in combat uniform was wrapped in a white turban on his head, and the turban was printed with the word "Wenchou" in black regular script that seemed to be written with a brush, and the armband on his left arm and the man in uniform was written the words "Linglu Bureau Special Operations Team I"; Next to the man was a motorcycle, all iron-gray, and the middle of the engine was occupied by a cylindrical glass container filled with bright yellow liquid.

Xiahoudun thought to himself, these two should be Yuan Shao, the captain of the first special operations team, and his team member Wen Chou, so he stepped forward to talk to the man in uniform and said, "Excuse me, is it Yuan Shao, the captain of the first team?" ”

"Exactly," Yuan Shao replied extremely arrogantly, without moving his head, but glancing at Xiahoudun with disdain, "Who are you?" ”

And when Wen Chou saw that someone who didn't know his identity stepped forward to talk, he was extremely vigilant, stepped forward, and looked at Xiahoudun angrily.

Xiahoudun looked at the reaction of the two, smiled helplessly, and still said politely: "I am Xiahoudun, the leader of the Yuanrang group. ”

"Xiahoudun?" Yuan Shao hesitated for a moment, thought for a moment, and then changed his proud face before, and showed a friendly smile, "It turned out to be the leader of the Xiahou team, and the captain of the special operations team in the Xia Linglu Bureau, Yuan Shao, was disrespectful. ”

"A member of the first special operations team, Wen Chou, has met Team Leader Xiahou!" Wen Chou next to him was no longer hostile, and nodded and greeted Xiahoudun.

"Hello two!" Xiahoudun replied politely, and then questioned suspiciously, "This area should be in charge of my northern group, have you received any special instructions?" What tasks are performed here? ”

"It's true that there is a special mission," Yuan Shao pointed to the ground at his feet, "We're here to investigate this." ”

Xiahoudun looked in the direction pointed by Yuan Shao, and saw a palm-sized circular pattern on the ground. The pattern is simple, with a "T" logo in the middle and a closed circle around it. The whole pattern seems to be engraved in this soil, the whole pattern is perfect, all the lines do not have any flaws, the bottom edge of the depression is also very flat, if the machine carving will not be so fine, if it is hand-polished must take some time.

Ge Yan pointed to the pattern and said, "The strange pattern I said is this. ”

Xiahoudun leaned over and looked at the sign carefully, raised his head, looked at Ge Yan and Chen Zhen, then at Yuan Shao and Wen Chou, and asked, "Is there anything strange about this?" ”

Yuan Shao explained: "If you just look at this sign, there is really nothing strange about it. But according to the description of the archaeologists at the site, this sign was formed in an instant. ”