Chapter 50: The Erased Inscription
A living person stood in front of us, but now it is like a hyper-realistic stereoscopic projection, starting from the feet, disappearing upwards little by little, as if slowly erased by an eraser, quickly disappearing into the air.
The last thing we saw was his swaying palms, not knowing what was happening, standing there dumbfounded.
Yan Qiu reacted a little faster, stepped over and reached out to grab the person, but it was still a step too late, and finally caught it in the air, after the arrest failed, he patted the stone tablet in front of him in annoyance, and turned to look at us with one hand holding the stone tablet.
The fat brother had just woken up from the dream in front of him at this time, blinked his eyes and said, "What's the matter?" Holographic projection technology? ”
I replied to the fat brother: "It's not as simple as you say." ”
The fat brother patted the sand on his body: "Why isn't it simple?" It's just like a movie, let's look for it and see where the projection equipment is. ”
I said to the fat brother seriously: "Don't look for it, it's definitely not a projection, I've seen this person, there must be something we can't explain." ”
"Have you seen it? Tell me, where have you seen it? Jiang Rou asked anxiously.
I don't think there's anything to hide, so I'll tell you 1510 that when I was in the underground palace of Wangtan Temple, I touched the turbidity pot, and I once fainted, and after fainting, I entered an ancient battlefield dream, and that person was the one I saw in the dream.
The fat brother also remembered and asked me, "It turns out that you fainted that time because of lack of oxygen?" Did you see this person in a costume at that time? Perhaps the one we see is the descendant of that man. ”
I said to the fat brother firmly: "There is no offspring at all, what I see is this person, didn't you see it just now?" He smiled and waved when he saw me, and he must have known me. Maybe I don't know him as well as he knows me. ”
"Could it be that he is from the dream world? Are we still dreaming about it? Jiang Li asked.
I shook my head and said that I didn't know, so I could only say to Jiang Li: "This place is strange, one will be the underground palace, and the other will be the dragon city, I guess we are shuttling between dream and reality, when we saw him in a dream, when he disappeared, we woke up from the dream again, I don't study this, I can only think so." ”
Individuals appear for no reason, and disappear for no reason, and no one can immediately make a reasonable explanation, since the person is gone, everyone is helpless.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Su Rina spoke: "Let's find out first, what is that person doing here?" ”
After she reminded me of this, I noticed that the person just now was squatting in front of the stele in front of me, and I first saw what was engraved on the bottom of the stele.
As I went to look at the stele, I said to the others, "Look at the stele quickly, maybe there is a clue on it." ”
When I illuminated the stele with the light bag, I saw that it was a matte white stone, covered with capillary-like red lines, and there was not a word on the front of the stele, it was a wordless stele.
At the same time, Yan Qiu, who was standing next to the stone stele, said: "Don't look at it, I have read it just now, there is no word." ”
This is strange, what is a person doing when he squats in front of a wordless monument? There is only one possibility, that person is the person who carved the monument, and the wordless monument in front of him is something he has not had time to engrave.
But he didn't have any tools in his hand, how could he engrave the monument? Shouldn't you carry tools like an axe and chisel with you to engrave a monument?
I asked Yanqiu, "Is it possible that person is the owner of this place?" He carved these tablets. ”
Yan Qiu shook his head and said: "Don't think about it, I have seen a lot of inscriptions, and you can distinguish the approximate age from the lines of the carving, and the tablets I have seen before are definitely not modern products, they are all antiques." Even the stele in front of me, although I can't identify this kind of jade, but you can see the traces of polishing on the edges, as well as the abstract dragon patterns on the edge of the base, at least before the Tang Dynasty. ”
I listened to Yan Qiu's analysis, looked down at the inscription on the base, and before I could see the inscription, I saw a black square in the lower right corner of the stele.
I crouched down to study the black square, which looked as if it had been blackened with a watercolor pen or a linemarker, and the ink had dried to cover something, leaving only a small rectangular piece of black.
I dipped my fingers in saliva and wiped the black to see what clues could emerge from the black ink.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I touched the black place with my finger, I felt a temperature on it, and when I rubbed my finger to the side, a sharp pain that pierced my heart spread to my brain.
I reflexively retracted my hand quickly and screamed pain in my mouth.
Everyone gathered around, not knowing what had happened to me.
When I raised my fingers, I saw that a piece of skin had been rubbed off by my fingers, and although there was no bleeding, I could see the bright red tender flesh on it, and I had been feeling the hot heat on my fingertips, and I was so painful that I gasped.
Jiang Li held my fingers and blew hard, slowing down my burning sensation with the cool air he blew, and asked me suspiciously, "What did you touch?" Why did your fingers end up like this? ”
I bit it hard, held back my tears, and said with a slight cry: "It's the black piece on the stele, I want to rub it off, but that thing burns my hands." ”
Hearing me say this, except for Jiang Li, everyone else's attention was focused on the piece of black.
Yan Qiu frowned and said, "I didn't care, I didn't expect this thing to be lethal, what is this?" Chemicals? ”
Jiang Rou sniffed it with her nose, shook her head and said, "There is no smell, I don't know what it is, some kind of formula, right?" ”
The fat brother pulled the others away, squatted in front of the stone monument, spat at the black part, and then rubbed the corner of his clothes.
After only a few rubs, the black part was gone, and then looking at the corner of the fat brother's clothes, it was as if it had been burned by fire, turning into a mess of rags.
The fat brother shook the corner of his clothes and said, "Oh, this is a strong acid, you look at my clothes, it's good that I didn't burn your kid's hands." ”
Jiang Rou found a talisman and helped me wrap my fingers, and the pain was reduced a lot.
I was more concerned about what was hidden behind the black part, and upon closer inspection, I found that there were four words written on it, "Liyang Chengcong", which were very shallowly engraved, but they were still recognizable.
Yan Qiu immediately saw the clue, she squatted down and looked at the four words carefully, and said to us: "This black thing is a strong acid, which can erase the words engraved on the stone tablet, I said why this stone is so man-made, it turns out that this is a piece of mutton fat white jade, which is burned by acid, and only then does it have those red blood lines." You look at the background color here, there are almost no blood lines, and after the words disappear completely, the same lines as the above will appear, but it's a pity that this piece of good jade. ”
The fat brother said regretfully: "Mutton fat white jade? That's worth a lot, I heard that it's hundreds of dollars a gram, how can this tablet weigh more than 100 pounds. ”
Yan Qiu nodded: "Yes, and from the perspective of texture, it is still a high-grade white jade, if the base part is buried deeply, it will be heavier and more valuable." ”
"No matter how valuable it is, I can't take it away, Yan Qiu hurriedly analyzed what the words on it meant?" I urged.
Yan Qiu said: "I haven't seen this yet, according to the format, Liyang is a place name, that is, today's Anhui Hexian County, in some periods in ancient times called Liyang County, some periods called Hezhou, back and forth replacement." According to the distribution of stone tablets here, our current location should be in the Sui and Tang dynasties. The Cheng Cong in the back is the nickname, which is why I can't see it, which celebrity was called Cheng Cong in ancient times, I really don't know, I have to go back and flip through the books. ”
The fat brother said, "Are you mistaken? The ancient writing is from right to left, could it be the date of the month of the solar calendar in the year of Cheng Cong, and the date has been erased? Is Cheng Cong an era name? ”
Yan Qiu said casually: "How can there be any adulthood? Moreover, in ancient times, the lunisolar calendar was divided into solar calendars, and the solar calendar was only used when the Republic of China was established. ”
Speaking of this, Yan Qiu suddenly stopped, I seemed to feel something, the two of us looked at each other, and cold sweat had begun to emerge from my body.
I didn't expect such a simple detail to hide a huge historical secret, and the fat brother always surprised us, but never happy.