"Mr. Night, it's time for you to tell the truth. Anyway, everyone is going to die here, so it's better to be a ghost. Ganges, who had never been very talkative, raised his head.

I sighed and didn't bother to hide it anymore. So he told everything in detail, Li Ming's letter, his understanding of Shi Bodhisattva Village, and the eyeball-shaped gem found in Li Ming's stomach. Of course, I didn't talk about Yaxin's power, first, they couldn't understand it at all, and second, I didn't want them to be even more desperate.

After listening, everyone was even more silent.

I felt all my strength gone, and I sat on the cold slate, and my heart was in despair. Subconsciously took out the mobile phone that had been turned off three days ago because there was no signal, and pressed the power button. Suddenly, after the familiar boot screen flashed, a reminder of a new email stayed on the screen.

I was a little surprised, and when I clicked on the email, it was actually sent by an old man. You may not have paid much attention to it when it was turned off, so it was missed. The content was exactly what he asked him to investigate, about Kong Shihui, a former professor of archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a notorious tomb robber.

After reading the full text carefully, I was stunned.

Gong Ruya leaned over and gave me a strange look: "What's wrong?" ”

A year before he came to Shibodhisattva Village to excavate, Kong Shihui had been to Liye Town in Longshan County, Xiangxi, Hunan, and stayed for a short time. After that, he came to Spring City non-stop, and tried to take over the East First Mine. That's a bit of a weird thing. In the middle of '94, what was he doing in the remote town of Riye? ”

"Could it be that he got information about this strange place from the town of Riye, so he went straight to his destination?" Gong Ruya was a bystander, and said a very pertinent possibility.

"Quite possibly." I nodded: "The architecture here can almost be concluded to be in the style of the Qin Dynasty. Such a large project must have been ordered to be built by the emperor at that time, and it was quite secretive, at least there is no record in the historical records. Burning books and pit Confucianism, building the Great Wall, building this ghost place, and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Mausoleum. After Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, he really did a lot of great things openly and secretly. But what information did Kong Shihui get in Liye Town, and what did he want to get when he came here? A statue of the Blood Bodhisattva? ”

"Perhaps." The girl next to her finally exerted the wisdom that she should have as a high-IQ woman: "If you can analyze the behavior of this guy Kong Shihui and what major events have happened in Liye Town, you may be able to figure out what he has gained in that place." ”

I sighed and looked through the cracks in the stone at the myriad zombies roaming outside. I don't know how long I can be safe here. Where is the only glimmer of life? Perhaps, this time it is really in the catastrophe.

"The town of Liye is located deep in the Yongshan Mountains, and nothing major happened at all around '94. Does poverty count? I pouted and complained helplessly: "That place has underdeveloped transportation and backward economy, although it is better now, but it cannot be compared with the surrounding rich towns and villages." Perhaps, tourism is not bad. ”

Thinking of this, I suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "Speaking of which, it was very ordinary in the nineties. But after June 2002, a major event did happen in the town of Liye that caused a sensation in the Chinese archaeological community. In March of that year, construction of a huge water conservancy project was to begin on the Youshui River, and a section of the river in the town of Liye was to be submerged. This incident attracted the attention of the cultural relics department, and a well-known professor, as a field archaeology expert in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, led a team to the town to carry out a cultural relics survey along the Youshui River Basin. ”

"The Youshui River, which is 900 miles long, runs through Hubei, Chongqing, and Hunan provinces. Flowing down from Youshui, you can reach the Yuan River, which is the largest tributary of the Dongting Lake system. Therefore, the Youshui River has always been a traffic artery leading to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain. The strategic significance of the Youshui River was mastered by military strategists at that time more than 2,000 years ago. ”

My thoughts became clearer: "It is said that the archaeological team found a huge ancient well on a river beach that was about to be covered by a reservoir dam. During the clean-up process, the slips were found at a depth of six meters from the well. Contemporary people call the bamboo pieces used for writing in ancient China "bamboo slips", and the wooden blocks used for writing are called "wooden slips", which are collectively called bamboo slips. What people didn't expect was that in just a few days, the number of slips transported to the ground from the ancient well of Liye reached 10,000. ”

The frightened old gun and others were gradually attracted by my voice. They listened to me with their ears sideways, though they didn't understand what they were talking about. But after many days of cooperation, they knew that I would not be untargeted.

When Gong Ruya heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up: "I have read this news, and it is said that paleographers have judged according to the text that all the 10,000 slips unearthed are from the Qin Dynasty 2,200 years ago. Before that, all the Qin slips found in the country added up to only 4,000. ”

Yes, in 221 B.C., Qin Shi Huang unified China, giving birth to the largest empire in the world at that time. However, the Qin Empire lasted only 15 years before it collapsed. The unearthed slip well is a square with a side length of 2.1 meter, the four walls are very regular, and the wooden planks used for reinforcement are all made of mortise and tenon structure, which can be said to be a super luxurious well more than 2,000 years ago. The slips have been handed down to the world, mixed with a large amount of household waste. "I was immediately excited, Kong Shihui's behavior, the town of Liye on the bank of the Youshui River in the depths of Longshan in Xiangxi, Hunan, and this strange man-made cave full of dangers, finally got connected. Qin Dynasty, they all originated from this time period of the Qin Dynasty.

Kong Shihui, perhaps for some reason, became clear as early as 94 that there was a well buried in the town of Liye. It is very likely that he himself belongs to the huge organization of Yaxin's forces, and he has a wide range of information channels. The unscrupulous professor got a clue about the Blood Bodhisattva, and then received an order to get his hands on the statue of the Blood Bodhisattva hidden deep in the mountains.

But why does the town of Liye hide information about this strange cave? After all, Liye and Spring City are thousands of miles apart. The transportation of the Qin Dynasty was underdeveloped, what was the reason why Qin Shi Huang ordered the transmission of information to Shudi Chuncheng in Liye?

Gong Ruya obviously thought of this as well, she looked at me and wondered, "Liye should be regarded as an important place that connects the north and the south at that time, but it is too far away from Spring City. Can Kong Shihui really get the exact location of the cave there? ”

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