After thinking about it for a long time, the old dean finally shook his head and gave up. He's not a person who likes to drill the horns, and since he can't think of the connection, it's better to put it aside for the time being. The most taboo thing for those who engage in archaeology is to drill the horns of the bull and admit the truth of death, and people with stubborn ideas are absolutely not suitable for this profession.

Taking a light breath, the dean asked, "By the way, is it possible that the instrument is malfunctioning?" ”

Assistant Zhou shook his head and said, "We have measured it several times, and the results show that the unearthed dried corpse is at least 70,000 years old, and the error will not exceed 1,000 years. After a pause, he said: "In addition, we also sent a sample to the capital, and the results of the measurement there ......."

Assistant Zhou swallowed his saliva and said bitterly, "It's the same." ”

The dean shook his head vigorously, as if to calm himself down in this way. After thinking about it, he asked again: "What about the analysis results of the bronze coffin and the rammed earth coffin?" Is it out? ”

Assistant Zhou immediately responded: "There are already results." According to the analysis and determination, the bronze outer coffin and the rammed earth inner coffin have been determined to be the products of about 3,000 and 50 years ago, which is also the transition period of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and the time coincides. ”

"And what about the ornaments?" The dean asked, "The bronze coffin and the bluestone sarcophagus are carved with intricate ornaments, and what do those ornaments represent?" ”

"A small part of the ornamentation on the bronze coffin has been deciphered, most of which are vessel patterns, and a small part is text. After analysis, paleographers said that those are sacrificial texts similar to oracle bone inscriptions, and its appearance is before the oracle bone inscriptions, which are a kind of sacrificial texts used to worship heaven, earth, ghosts and gods during the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors. Speaking of this, Assistant Zhou sighed, the patterns engraved on the bronze coffin, it is said that the words are not all words, they are a combination of words and patterns. Sometimes a simple line can't be understood no matter how you look at it, and it takes a lot of brain cells and someone reminds you to realize that the simple line may be drawn by some kind of animal. But when you think that the next line is also expressing some kind of animal, you will find that the second line does not represent a certain animal or plant, but really expresses some kind of text that you can't understand. This kind of ancient writing that is half based on experience and half guessing is really not what he is good at, so he immediately ran away with a headache after only looking at it a few times.

"As for the ornamentation on that bluestone sarcophagus...... Assistant Zhou hesitated for a moment before continuing: "The paleographer is sure that those are also a kind of script, but they have never appeared. They deduced that it might be even older than the sacrificial text, and as for the progress of decipherment...... Assistant Zhou smiled bitterly: "So far, there has been no progress. ”

"Older texts?" The dean's eyes widened and his face was full of incredulity: "And it's a text that hasn't been found so far?" ”

"That's right." Assistant Zhou nodded, and he didn't know whether to be surprised or happy. So far, a total of eight mysterious and undecipherable primitive characters or symbols have been found in China. They are: "Cangjie Book", "Xia Yu Book", Guizhou's "Hongyan Tianshu", "Yelang Tianshu", Sichuan's "Bashu Symbol", Yunnan's "Dongba Script", Nanyue Hengshan's "岣嵝碑" text and Zhejiang Xianju's tadpole text. These words and symbols have not been deciphered to this day, and the ancients even called them words left by the gods. But now there may be another one more - the bluestone sarcophagus script.

The dean rubbed his eyebrows, which had been twisted into Sichuan characters, but a thousand thoughts flashed in his mind.

After a while, he asked again, "The one on his head...... Stuff, what's the progress? ”

Assistant Zhou was slightly stunned, then immediately came back to his senses and said: "We have also tested the age of that 'murder weapon', and determined that its age should be about 3,000 years ago, and it is the same period as the bronze coffin and the rammed earth coffin. In addition, the composition and structure of this 'murder weapon' are exactly the same as that of the bronze coffin, which is not simply cast in bronze, but is added with some alloys of metal substances that we have not yet analyzed. ”

The dean's eyebrows jumped slightly, looked at him with some surprise, and asked, "You mean, that bronze coffin and that ...... 'murder weapon' were cast in the same furnace?" ”

Assistant Zhou nodded and said, "It should be like this." ”

The dean frowned in confusion: "That's not right." The size of that tomb is clearly thick, assuming ...... Let's assume for the time being that this person will be King Wu of Zhou's subordinates, since King Wu spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to give him a thick burial, and even did not hesitate to smelt a large amount of bronze for him that can cast weapons to make the bronze coffin, then why did he cast such a 'murder weapon' into his brain at the same time? Can you tell me what he's doing with this on top of a corpse? ”

Assistant Zhou spread his hands and smiled bitterly: "I don't know." ”

The dean shook his head and said in confusion: "I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out." ”

"One more thing." Assistant Zhou said: "That 'murder weapon' may not be an ordinary weapon. ”

When the dean heard this, he suddenly became interested, raised his chin at him and said, "Oh? How so? ”

Assistant Zhou frowned and said: "I have seen a similar instrument of the 'murder weapon', and I later learned that it was originally a Taoist magic weapon. So I took the photos to some Taoist friends, and they told me that this 'murder weapon' is very similar to the nail soul shuttle, but the casting process is quite ancient, and there are many differences from the nail soul shuttle that has been handed down. ”

"Soul Shuttle?" The dean muttered and asked, "What is that for?" ”

Assistant Zhou said: "Taoists believe that nailing the soul shuttle that has done the Dharma into the heavenly spirit cover on the top of the human body can permanently imprison the soul of a person in the body and cannot be separated, which is the so-called non-transcendence. Generally, unless there is a deep hatred, or people who are afraid that the other party will become a ghost and come back to retaliate, because it is too vicious, it is listed as a forbidden weapon by the Taoist realm. ”

"Oh, Soul Shuttle." The dean smiled and said, "You wouldn't think that this person's soul was still imprisoned in the body, would you?" In this case, we have already plucked this nail soul shuttle before, have we also 'released' him? ”

Assistant Zhou smiled bitterly: "I'm just saying it, at least it's a clue." ”

The dean spread his hands and said, "Besides, the nail soul shuttle you said is a Taoist magic weapon, right?" But there was no Taoism in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, right? ”

Assistant Zhou muttered in a low voice: "There were witches at that time." ”

The dean was slightly stunned, and suddenly felt that Assistant Xiao Zhou was so reasonable, but he was speechless to refute.

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Because at the same time as writing "Tomb Shadow", I was still rushing to catch up with the ending of "Ice Machines in the World", and I didn't have enough energy, and the recent update was a little slower, I hope you will forgive me. In addition, I have sent some of the ending clips of "Human Ice Machine" to the WX official account, and friends who like "Ice Machine" can search for the official account "Human Ice Machine" on WX to take a look at the ending part in advance. Finally, please collect this book from all walks of life friends who have passed by, it doesn't matter if you don't like it, just collect it. Come on.