When President Jiang said this, he sighed softly, leaned back on the back of the wheelchair, looked at the direction of the ceiling, as if there was some picture there, and continued slowly: "At that time ten years ago, my son Yuwei had just been admitted to a doctoral student in archaeology. And I was very honored to participate in the protective excavation of a stolen tomb in the Spring and Autumn Period, and worked as an assistant to my mentor there.

At the beginning of the excavation, the tomb was still in good condition. Because it was a place visited by tomb robbers, only some common fragments of ancient coins and ancient utensils were unearthed, and even some burial items on the body of the tomb owner were also looted by tomb robbers.

But as the excavation gradually deepened, they were already disheartened, but they unexpectedly found a hidden secret room under the main tomb.

The secret room was a place where there was no trace of opening at all, and when Yu Wei and the others first opened the secret room, they were a little disappointed that there were no burial items in the secret room except for some human skulls. But when they later saw the brightly preserved frescoes on the walls of the chamber, all renewed hope.

According to Yu Wei's words, their entire team was boiling at that time, and they couldn't believe that after thousands of years, they could still see such a bright and perfect mural. But after the boiling, they quickly calmed down and began to take pictures of the murals and other activities more quickly, and everyone was racing against time in order to save and record the patterns of the entire mural before the color of the mural was completely oxidized, so that it could be restored and studied in the future.

At that time, as a professor's assistant, Yu Wei was assigned to a working group to shoot murals. Due to the tight schedule and high work pressure, he didn't hear the doubts about the existence of those bones from the other group responsible for cleaning up the bones in the secret room, and he didn't know that he would actually have something to do with those bones in the future.

Just as Yuwei was cleaning and protecting the mural, they found a place made of yellow mud in the middle of the mural. And when they carefully cleaned up the yellow mud, they found that there was a gold coin carved with a strange pattern behind the yellow mud.

Because the shape of this gold coin is peculiar, it is the first time in China, and the work of taking down the gold coin naturally falls on the teacher of Yuwei, who has the most experience and authority in the archaeological team.

It wasn't until the old professor carefully removed the coin from the wall that they discovered the strangeness of the coin.

It was a gold coin the size of a silver dollar in the palm of your hand, with a peculiar grimace engraved on the front of the coin, and the back of the coin engraved with messages such as the year number made of the gold coin. And the strangest thing is that in the groove inlaid with the gold coin, there is a dense carving of incomprehensible characters, and the words do not exist only in the groove, but spread outward from the center of the groove until they merge with the mural on the wall.

When the old professor got the gold coin, Yu Wei, who was watching and studying, felt a biting chill for some reason, but at that time, it was the dog season of Zhijiang City, even if the ancient tomb was cooler than the outside, it would not be cold like that, but at that time, he did feel the chill, and the source of the chill was the gold coin in his teacher's hand.

Because of my nurturing of Yuwei since childhood, he never believed in the existence of ghosts and gods, so he only thought it was an illusion of overwork at the time, and did not investigate it in detail, and this is one of the reasons why those tragedies happened later. ”

"Those tragedies? Are you not the only one who has had the accident? ”

When Chairman Jiang heard this, he nodded with some pain and said, "That's right, in fact, among these families who had accidents, our family is already the last group of people. Because of this, the threshold of our house was almost broken by Captain Hao and his people at that time. ”

"That's when you met?"

Faced with Zhang Fanyang's question, Captain Hao nodded and continued: "No, it's because of that case that I formed an indissoluble bond with Jiang Lao." And because since the gold coin was dug up, I have participated in all the cases involved in the archaeological team, so why don't you take a break for a while, and let me talk about the case before it involves your family. ”

After getting President Jiang's approval, Captain Hao took a sip of tea to moisten his throat, and then started the conversation.

"The day our criminal police team received the first case in this series was the morning after they dug up the gold coins. And the first to die was the old professor and his wife.

Because the old professor is a first-class figure in our Jiangcheng and even the entire domestic archaeological community, the superior leaders attach great importance to it, but because the captain of the criminal police at that time was sick and hospitalized, he appointed me to lead the team to solve the case, and at that time, I was only the deputy captain of the criminal police team.

When I first saw that case, I really never imagined that the scene would be so tragic. The whole room looked as if it had been hit by a sledgehammer, and every single one of them was intact. And the same shattered things as those things were the old professor and his wife. Unlike his wife, whose whole body was broken, the old professor's body remained in the house, and his head disappeared from the scene of the murder. ”

After listening to Captain Hao's description of the facilities in the house, Zhang Fanyang's mind instantly appeared with a face like a lion, and he couldn't help muttering: "None of the things in the house are complete?" Why does it feel so familiar? Not to mention the reason for the killing, and the way the corpse was disposed of was not quite like theirs......"

"What do you say?"

Hearing Zhang Fanyang's self-talk, Captain Hao's face was full of doubts. Seeing this, the former hurriedly waved his hand and replied: "It's okay, it's okay, I'm just a little strange, the scene is so chaotic, doesn't anyone hear the sound of a fight?" ”

Captain Hao shook his head and continued, "Not at all. The old professor's family lived in a villa area, and the house was far away from the neighbors, so no one heard any strange noises that night.

And because the old professor is usually stationed abroad, he doesn't have much contact with his neighbors, and everyone always thinks that he is not at home, so they don't have to be discovered in time after they have an accident. It was Yu Wei who found out that the old professor did not go to the scene, and the phone could not be connected, until he went to watch the birds. ”

"Oh, what about later?"

"And then? Then the horror came to the bird. Captain Hao said, deliberately lowering his voice a little, "Not long after we arrived at the scene of the crime, the bureau received another report, the person who reported the crime was the staff of the excavation site, and the content of the report was that they found a fresh and bloodshot skull in the secret room. ”

(End of chapter)