Chapter 11: A Strange Signal
"Good!" I couldn't help but shout loudly, this poem combines yesterday's sight and hearing, the hospitality of Lao Zhuang, and the scenery in front of me, and also puts the chicken head stone and the sunrise together, and finds a reason for the dawn here, which is very wonderful.
"What a good thing, make it up! But I imitated an ancient poem and filled it in! ”
"Which ancient poem?"
"Xijiang Yue."
I didn't know much about ancient words, so I didn't ask any more. After a while, the light and shadow of the sea were scattered, and we went down the mountain. On this day we spend all day playing on the beach and on the reef, which is home to a lot of creatures. Common ones include small snails, Kannon hands, straw sandals, etc., and uncommon ones are sea urchins, and it is also interesting to watch the red crabs, which are called rock head crabs by the locals, crawling around on the reef. But we didn't catch them, this is their home, and we are outsiders.
The next day, we said goodbye to Uncle Zhuang and Sister-in-law Zhuang, we went to the next tourist spot, before parting, Sister-in-law Zhuang was a little reluctant, and repeatedly emphasized that the next time we come to the earth, we must live with her for a few days. We immediately agreed, the people here are so welcoming, the scenery is so special, how can we not come back if we go to earth!
There are countless places of interest and natural scenery on the earth, and we can only pick and choose what interests us the most, and after playing for nearly a week, we received a video message. The information was sent by Professor Li Yutang, who has a relationship with Shakya Pagoda, who is currently excavating an ancient tomb in Chengzhou, and the museum has not excavated an ancient tomb for a long time, and there are not many professional talents.
"Go?" I hated this Li Yutang who disrupted our plan, but I had to ask her first what she meant when I saw that she was interested.
"Professor Li, they have been digging for a few days, and they will soon get to the most important link, if it is fast, it will only take two or three days, and if it is slow, it will not exceed 5 days!" Knowing that I was unhappy, she swept her eyes with a little humility.
I understood what she meant when she said this, and although I was reluctant, I had to say, "Go! Let's go and experience our great ancient culture for the first time! ”
When I was waiting for the plane to start, I casually asked Selwin, Besta, and Boris about their movements, but found that Boris happened to be in Chengzhou. It was already afternoon when I arrived in Chengzhou, it is a metropolis with a population of more than 100,000, the scenery is average, except for a museum, there is nothing particularly good. As soon as we got there, we immediately contacted Li Yutang, and Li Yutang asked us to meet at the Chengzhou Museum, which is also his base camp for this archaeology.
Li Yutang's face was dusty, and the snow-white overalls had not been changed, and when he asked, he knew that he had just come from the excavation site.
"I'm sorry to bother you!" Li Yutang's face was full of humility, "We found an ancient tomb in the Liao Dynasty period in ancient Asia, from the broken coffin, the body inside is well preserved, and what is even more rare is that the corpse robe is intact, and the coffin will be opened and stripped off in two days." The technical task of stripping clothes was too difficult for me to do alone, but it happened that one of my two main assistants had booked an early trip to the alien world, and the other had an accident at home, and the others were inexperienced in this area. I suddenly thought that you have a second-level qualification, and immediately went to the Cultural Archives to check your relevant information, and you can still be qualified for this job, so I rashly sent out an invitation, you can come but it has helped me a lot, you must know that these clothes must be stripped in time, and you can't make mistakes
。 ”
"You're welcome, it's also my honor to be able to return to my home planet and personally participate in the excavation of ancient culture."
Li Yutang looked like a scholar, and then he didn't say any polite words, and briefly introduced some of the excavations. Ten days ago, a park was to be renovated on the outskirts of the city, and a stone slab was dug up during construction, and then a closer look turned out to be an ancient sarcophagus coffin. The construction staff immediately stopped the construction and contacted the museum as soon as possible. There are no professional archaeological team members in Chengzhou, so they immediately asked for support from the Tianhui Museum at the next level. Li Yutang immediately brought two assistants and some helpers over, but within a few days, the assistants had their own affairs, and there was a serious shortage of manpower, so they had to find foreign help. It's getting late today, and Professor Li is scheduled to go early tomorrow morning.
As soon as Professor Li left, we immediately contacted Boris, who lives in a chic self-service hotel in the suburbs, this kind of hotel has no service staff except for robot cleaning, and all food and accommodation are handled by themselves, this form of hotel is many on the earth, all distributed in the suburbs, and the price is also cheap. When we found him and entered his room, we found Boris frowning and looking bitter.
"What's wrong?" Looking at my roommate, who has always been weird, I am not happy to travel to my home planet!
Boris's eyes rolled and he swallowed a few words: "I have encountered a strange thing in the past two days. ”
"What's the matter, just say it!"
Boris pointed to a gadget on the table, and I saw that it was a signal receiver that he often fiddled with.
"I've been receiving a strange signal intermittently for the past two days, this signal is a meter-wave radio wave, the same wavelength as the strange signal I once received in Celta."
"Strange signal?"
Seeing that we were puzzled, Boris explained. It turned out that when he was in Celta, he received a strange faster-than-light long-wave signal when he was tinkering with the receiver and contacting his home, which was very short, and it was only a few seconds before he could locate it. Generally speaking, modern communications do not use radio waves at all, except for people with special hobbies like Boris. It would be strange to say that someone in Celta might be funny, but when he arrived on Earth, he encountered a long-wave signal with the same wavelength, and Boris also learned through some channels to determine that there is no official mechanism that has ever emitted a faster-than-light long-wave signal.
"Can you find out where that signal from Earth came from?"
"This signal from the earth has been transmitted for a longer time, and I have already positioned it, in Chengzhou, which is why I came here!"
"Chengzhou! Can you determine the exact location? "My curiosity also came up.
"Yes, but it's even more strange when I find out, because it's in an ancient tomb, and now the site is locked off, and only the archaeological team can enter."
"What, Tomb!" I was taken aback by the fact that the two looked at each other, which is too coincidental!
"Do you have a small signal detector, I can enter this ancient tomb!" She brushed her hair and smiled.
"Can you go in?" This time it was Boris's turn to be surprised, and when we talked about the invitation to Li Yutang, this dull and calm guy also showed an unbelievable look: "God, this is too coincidental!" ”
Early the next morning, with the small detector that Boris had given us, we hurried to the archaeological site. At the scene, people from the local joint logistics department had already set up a long cordon, and after showing the relevant documents, we were taken to the scene by a security officer.
A large transparent white cover, which was fifteen or sixteen meters long and seven or eight meters wide, covered the entire excavation site. This is an oxygen shield, which is filled with inert gas to prevent the artifacts from being oxidized. Looking inside, the archaeological team members are dressed in white and wearing small breathing apparatus and are nervously busy. There is a small room of nearly ten square meters at the entrance of the white cover, and there is a door with a very good airtight door on the inside and outside of the small room, which is an air isolation door, and there is an exhaust machine next to the door inside, which is not working at present.
A staff member saw us and walked towards the small room, and when we entered the small room, the machine started to work, and after about ten seconds, the outside door also opened, and the man took off his mask and it was Li Yutang. Professor Li motioned for us to come in, and we entered the small room.
Professor Li may not have expected me to come, pointed to a red line pulled up inside, and said helplessly: "You can come in, but you can't cross the red line of work!" ”
I nodded. Then Professor Li took out two masks and a set of overalls, changed into overalls, and when we put on the masks, the fan worked again, blowing the oxygen we brought in when we came in again.
I was very excited to visit the archaeological site for the first time, just like seeing the most beautiful food. I have also studied some knowledge of archaeology, but I am still a layman, and I can only understand some basic common sense. The plan of this tomb is in a "convex" shape, with a protrusion of about 1.2 meters on the north side and a length of about 2.5 meters, and some of them still have raw soil. The entire tomb is 5.6 meters long from east to west and 4.0 meters long from north to south.
A large coffin was placed in the middle of the grave, 3 meters long and 2 meters wide, and there was a wooden coffin inside, the lid of which was open, but I only saw a turquoise robe. Some of the archaeological team members took bamboo sticks and carefully searched the bottom of the tomb one centimeter by centimeter. Xu Fei and Professor Li were checking the situation between the stone coffin and the wooden coffin, and it seemed that they wanted to take out the wooden coffin first. After a while, an archaeological robot next to it stretched out its robotic arm, and a shooting device at the end of the arm "snapped" several photos, and then the robot spit out two X-rays from its back and handed them to Professor Li.
Professor Li looked at it and said, "The wooden coffin is ready to be lifted." Then another robot came, and the two robots first reached through the gap between the coffin and the coffin, and then the robotic arm slowly reached in. The coffin was then slowly lifted and moved to the ground.
Professor Li ordered for a while, and everyone got busy, quickly set up a platform, took out a lot of bottles and cans, and took out tools to start dismantling the four walls of the wooden coffin, and soon only the bottom of the coffin was left, and the whole body was exposed. I found the right angle to look at. This corpse remains intact, with a head (soap scarf) on the head, a dark brocade robe outside, and a shiny brocade robe on the outside, the pattern is too far to see but it is estimated that it is a gold weaving material, the face of the ancient corpse is complete, the costume is kept well, and it is a rare ancient precious cultural relic. Xu Feng and Professor Li were discussing something, and then the two of them began to peel off their clothes. The flocculent peeled off very carefully, and the time passed quickly, and two hours passed in a blink of an eye. A robe slowly detached under the skillful hands of the flocculent, but there are a few places that should be sticky and not easy to peel off. Professor Li said at this time: "Spray some curing agent first, the time is not early, rest for an afternoon and then peel off." ”
He nodded, turned his head to other things, and after simply going out to eat at noon, he began to peel off the work meticulously, and did not finish until five o'clock in the afternoon.