After listening to Xian Hongye's words, I couldn't help asking: "This Black Lamber City is weird, and it was also built by people stone by stone, right?" How did it come out of nowhere? ”

In this regard, Hyun Hongye explained that this "out of thin air" is an academic thin air. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After Xianyundu compared the two "Suwang Ruins" in Yunnan and Guizhou, he suddenly found that the two were more than a thousand years apart on the timeline.

That is to say, the relics of King Su near Dianchi Lake are mainly concentrated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, while these cultural relics in the northwest of Guizhou are almost all unearthed in the Ming Dynasty. There does not seem to be any direct connection between the two, except for the similarity of artistic styles.

In archaeology, this unique phenomenon is called "cultural transition".

The so-called cultural leap, both the same or similar cultural relics appear in a completely different environment and historical background, but there is no obvious clue in the middle to connect the two, those abruptly appear cultural relics as if jumping from one point to another, appearing out of thin air, falling from the sky, such as in the coffin of the Han Dynasty, suddenly found the bowl of the Ming Dynasty, is such a meaning.

And the "devil's city" in Guizhou is a typical representative of this kind of "puzzle".

The Han Dynasty's "Swallowing Fire and Eating Flowers" disappeared after King Su returned to the Han Dynasty, and after more than a thousand years, it appeared in the Guizhou cottage of the Ming Dynasty without warning, and became a goddess flower.

But you must know that the power of the ancient Ailao has never reached the Miao Village in Guizhou, the difference between Dianchi Lake and Zunyi is more than 3,000 miles, and the ancient Ailao people and the Miao people have no intersection, it is really as if this plant has traveled through time and space, crossed the nation, and appeared out of thin air.

In this regard, the doubts in Xianyundu's heart became more and more solemn, and as the research deepened, he was eager to know the truth.

He wondered where the plant, which quickly turned people into dried corpses, came from, and why the totems, which had been forgotten more than a thousand years ago, had been "reused" in the Ming Dynasty, and then quickly discarded and forgotten.

Most importantly, Xianyundu believes that his students can't die in vain, and he doesn't want that kind of "skull flower" to continue to kill people.

For this reason, he urgently needs to make another trip to Guizhou, bring more professional equipment and technicians, and conduct more complex research on that "cursed land".

But unfortunately, no one has taken his request into account.

When Xianyundu put forward a second investigation request to his superiors, just in time for the "ten-year catastrophe" to be in full swing, everyone was standing in line at that time, and they were all "making revolutions". In the frenzied political movement, no one cares about these innocuous literary and historical studies, and no one is interested in a ruined city that has long been forgotten in the mountains.

At this point, Xianyundu has done his best, he should learn to give up, and he should learn to stop in moderation like ordinary people.

It's a pity that Xianyundu is not an "ordinary person", his academic spirit and inner guilt are supporting him, so that he can continue to persevere, looking for every possible opportunity to go to Guizhou again for an investigation.

A few years later, Xianyundu really waited for a rare opportunity.

I don't know what kind of relationship Xianyundu had, he joined a national defense project presided over by the military, and successfully persuaded the military leaders to turn his research on "devouring fire and eating flowers" into one of the sub-projects of this project.

In short, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity beckons to Xianyundu!

After that, Xianyundu hurriedly bid farewell to his wife and children in Yunnan, and once again entered the mountains and mountains in the northwest of Guizhou with the expedition team organized by the military.

This is gone...... He never came back.

…… Speaking of this, Xian Hongye sighed slightly, revealing infinite regret.

I listened to all this silently, and after thinking for a long time, I asked Hyun Momiji, "Did you just disappear like this?" Your family hasn't looked for the troops? The troops did not explain? ”

Hearing this, Momiji nodded at me and said, "The military must have looked for it, but their explanation ...... Be all abroad! ”

Hyun told me that a year after her grandfather "disappeared," her grandmother, who couldn't bear it, went to the army to inquire about her husband's whereabouts.

But the military's answer was only eight words: "Military secrets, no comment." ”

In desperation, Xianyundu's wife had no choice but to go home and pull the child, and while she anxiously waited for news from her husband, she inquired about her husband's whereabouts.

But for two years, the wife did not wait for her husband to return home, and did not even write a letter, but only received a monthly allowance from her husband who mailed him home on time, health products, and a short telegram from him at the end of the year.

The telegram read: "All is well, don't read it!" ”

In the third year, his wife became ill and was diagnosed with liver cancer, and then died in pain.

Until her death, she did not see her husband in person.

In disappointment, his wife gave her seventeen-year-old son Xianyuhe a final order: "Wait for your father to come back......"

Then, "waiting for Dad to come back" has become the goal that the Xian family has been looking forward to for decades.

…… The above is the story of Xianyundu.

Speaking of which, Hyun Hongye summed it up to me: "Later, the military said that my grandfather disappeared in an accident, gave me a pension, and arranged a job for my father, Hyunyuhe, but no one in our family believed it, so after so many years, we are still asking around for the truth about the 'accident' that year...... At the very least, we want to get Grandpa's body back. ”

I wrinkled my eyebrows and said, "After so many years, do you have eyebrows?" ”

Momiji shook his head and said: "There is very little progress, we only know that the national defense project that Grandpa participated in back then is called 'Project 74 B', which seems to be a project for the Soviet Union." The location of the project is in the northwest of Guizhou, and there is no way to know more specifically. ”

Speechless, I nodded, and at the same time repeated in my mouth: "Project 74...... Case B? ”

Momiji nodded, and then she told me that her family still kept a lot of information about the ancient kingdom of Ailao and the Fire Swallowing Flower, which she often reads, so Hyun Momiji knows these very well. And since childhood, Hyun Momiji has been sincerely fascinated by his grandfather's research.

Because of those stories, Xian Hongye chose to major in literature and history, and if it weren't for the obstruction of his father Xianyuhe, Xian Hongye would probably continue Xianyundu's research.

Speaking of which, Hyun Hongye told me with regret: "Actually, I still have an idea, that is, through the study of this skull flower, find out the truth about my grandfather's disappearance, at least ...... Get the body back. ”

I nodded, fully understanding her good intentions.

At this point, Hyun Momiji and I fell into a brief silence.

In silence, I stared at the kitchen knife and the old squad leader's notes, and suddenly realized that my squad leader should have studied this kind of skull flower as well.

Moreover, this kitchen knife given by Emperor Wanli is also something that appeared in the Ming Dynasty, and its timing coincides with the time when the fire-swallowing flower appeared for the second time.

I immediately realized that there was some kind of inevitable suggestion between the Lunan Zhao family and this evil plant.

And this connection is probably one of the reasons why Lao Nineteen coveted kitchen knives.

So, I quickly told Momiji what I thought, and I asked him if I should go to Guizhou or Yunnan to investigate the remains of this skull flower?

But Momiji's answer made me wide-eyed.