The Cave of Longling Chapter 19 The Mystery of the Ciphertext

After Professor Sun finished speaking, he stood up and pushed us out of the door, I thought to myself that this old man is really strange, didn't he speak well when he first came in, and he turned his face when he said anything. At the beginning of his speech, it seemed that he was ready to sue us, but then out of nowhere, he saw the identity of me and the big golden tooth, so he became very loud, maybe he thought that the two of us were liars, and wanted to come to him to do something.

According to my usual temper, since everything has been said about this, no one needs to pick me up, I must stand up and leave by myself, but this time is not trivial, maybe it is a life-threatening matter, and in addition to me and the fat man, it may also be related to the life and death of Professor Chen and Shirley Yang.

I said to Professor Sun, "Professor, professor, can you listen to me say the last sentence too?" I don't know how you can smell the smell of dirt on us, but I and this gold-toothed man are really not inverted artifacts, and we used to work for the archaeological team for a long time. Chen Jiuren from Beijing, Professor Chen, have you heard of it? That's what we did with him. ”

When Professor Sun heard me say Chen Jiuren's name, he was slightly stunned and asked, "Old Chen?" You're saying the two of you are working on his archaeological team? ”

I hurriedly nodded yes: "Yes, I think you two are Taishan Beidou in the archaeological world, in our archaeological circle, when you mention the name of your second elder, then whoever listens to it must not be shocked......"

Professor Sun's face softened slightly, and he waved his hand: "You kid don't slap my ass, I know what I am." Since you and Lao Chen know each other, then you stay by yourself and let the two of them avoid it. ”

As soon as I heard what Professor Sun meant, it seemed that there was a door, so I asked Da Jinya and Old Man Liu to leave first, leaving me alone to talk to Professor Sun secretly.

After the big golden tooth and the others went out, Professor Sun bolted the door and asked me something about Professor Chen, and I briefly told me how I went to the Xinjiang desert with Professor Chen and others to find the exquisite ancient city.

After hearing this, Professor Sun sighed and said, "I have known Lao Chen for a long time, and I have also heard about the accident in the desert. Alas, his old bones are not buried in the sand, even if it is good, I want to visit him in Beijing, but I heard that he has gone to the United States for treatment, and I don't know if I will see him again in my lifetime. When Lao Chen was kind to me, since you are his acquaintance, I will no longer hide some things from you. ”

I waited for Professor Sun's words, and hurriedly asked, "I think this bruise that suddenly grew on my back is like an eyeball, and it is related to the exquisite ancient city we saw in the depths of the desert." The ghost cave clan of the Elite Kingdom all worship the power of eyeballs, and I think I have fallen under some kind of curse, but I heard that this is not an eyeball, but a word, so I would like to ask you to tell me what this word means, and I am also fortunate to be mentally prepared. Of course, I am also a person who has died seven or eight times, and I don't pay much attention to my personal safety, but Professor Chen probably also has this symptom, and what I am most worried about is his old man. ”

Professor Sun said to me, "It's not that I won't sue you, these things really can't be said, and it won't benefit you if you know." But I can tell you unequivocally that this mark on your back is not a curse or anything like nothing, and it will not affect your health, so you can rest assured. ”

The more I listened, the more anxious I became, doesn't that mean I didn't say anything? However, Professor Sun said that it was not a curse, and this sentence reduced my psychological burden a lot, but the more I couldn't say it, the more I wanted to know what the written information of thousands of years ago could not be shown to me today, not to mention that this word has grown to me.

After my repeated questioning, Professor Sun had no choice but to confide in me.

Professor Sun has been researching ancient cultural sites in the Yellow River Basin for many years, and is an expert in ancient writing, specializing in deciphering and translating ancient ciphertext.

In ancient times, Cangjie made words, and the appearance of writing ended the barbaric history of human knotted ropes. The text contains a lot of information, including the mysteries of all things in nature, and there are four pronunciations that have been passed down to this day.

However, in the earliest times, there were actually eight pronunciations of the written language, which contained a huge amount of information that ordinary people could hardly imagine, but this additional information was monopolized by the ruling class, and the other four pronunciations became a kind of confidential language, specially used to record some heavy dà events that could not be known to ordinary people.

On some tortoise shells and slips unearthed in later generations, there are many ancient characters similar to the ancient script, but no one has ever known them, some people say that there are no words in the book of heaven, and there is no word in the book of heaven, in fact, it is a kind of distortion. The Book of Heaven is a kind of encrypted information in ancient times, which has literal information, but if it can't be cracked, even if it is placed in front of you, you can't understand it. Professor Sun has been dealing with these books of heaven that no one knows all his life, but the progress has never been great, it can be said that he is struggling step by step, exhausting his mind, and has not achieved any results.

Until 1978, archaeologists excavated an ancient tomb of the Tang Dynasty in Micang Mountain, this ancient tomb has been looted by many tomb robbers, there are six or seven robbery holes, the body of the tomb owner has long been destroyed, the tomb is also rotten and collapsed, most of the burial goods have been stolen, and the rest is almost all corroded.

Judging from various indications, the owner of this tomb should be Li Chunfeng, the Taishi Ling in charge of the astronomical calendar and yin-yang math in the palace. The Tang Dynasty's science and technology, culture, economy and other fields are a pinnacle in the history of Chinese civilization, as a famous "scientist" Li Chunfeng who is very famous in the Tang Dynasty, his tomb should have a lot of important artifacts and materials of great research value, but unfortunately they were all destroyed, which can not but be said to be a great loss, all the archaeologists at the scene feel extremely sorry for this.

But the clean-up still has to go on. However, as the cleanup progressed, a huge surprise emerged from the decaying coffin, and archaeologists found a mezzanine in the coffin plate above the tomb owner's head.

No one expected that there would be a mezzanine on the top of the coffin, and even the most experienced experts had never seen a mezzanine in the coffin panel. Everyone carefully opened the coffin plate interlayer, there was a cowhide package inside, and after opening it, there was an oilcloth and red lacquer wrapped in something, and it was a white jade flawless jade box. The jade box is gilded and inlaid with silver, the stone box is engraved with the pattern of winged spirit animals, and the lock on the lid is made of pure gold.

Because it is hidden in the mezzanine of the coffin board, it has been spared from the looting of tomb robbers again and again for so many years, and it has been preserved to this day.

At a glance, experienced experts knew that it was a royal thing of the Tang Dynasty, which may have been given to Li Chunfeng by the emperor, and was placed by him in such a secret coffin plate mezzanine, and its important process can be imagined, and the jade box was immediately sent back to the base camp of the archaeological working group.

In the box made of a whole piece of mutton fat jade, a lot of important items were found, among which there was a keel (some kind of tortoise shell), which was engraved with heavenly books, which was named "dragon bone heterogenealogy", and another pure gold plate, the gold plate was not big, the four corners caused the head of the beast, and the front and back sides were densely cast with a lot of words, which seemed to be a table, and the words on it were somewhat recognizable and some unrecognizable, and it was named "the gold plate of the beast horn puzzle" at that time.

So he asked Professor Sun, an expert in paleography, and others to be responsible for cracking the secret of this keel and gold plate.

Professor Sun has seen this kind of "dragon bone heterogenealogy" many times, and the ancient characters on it can be remembered with his eyes closed, but he has never been able to analyze what kind of words these are, what their meanings are, and what are the contents recorded in this strange text.

This so-called "Book from Heaven" is a hurdle faced by researchers of Chinese paleographies, and if they cannot be crossed, there will be no progress; Once there is a breakthrough, the rest of the problems can be solved, but this obstacle is too big.

Some scholars believe that the Book of Heaven is a text left over from a civilization that has disappeared, but this statement is self-defeating, because some ancient characters unearthed with the Book of Heaven can be easily interpreted, and those that belong to the Yin Shang period after carbon 14 test should be the product of the same period, and are by no means the remains of prehistoric civilization.

After more than a month of repeated deliberation and research, Professor Sun finally solved the mystery of the Book of Heaven. Tong guò compared with the "gold plate of beast horn mystery" unearthed in the tomb of Li Chunfeng, and found that the original record of the ancients on the keel with the book of heaven was a kind of encrypted text.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, Li Chunfeng had cracked this ancient encrypted text, in recognition of his merits, the emperor specially cast a gold medal to reward Li Chunfeng to commemorate this event, the words and symbols on this gold medal are the comparison table of the book of heaven interpreted by Li Chunfeng.

In fact, the Book of Heaven is very simple, it is annotated with the phonetic transcription of the other four secret sounds, rather than engraved on the keel with words, but only a few people who can read these secret pronunciations can understand the content of the words.

And Li Chunfeng was inspired by the "Detailed Examination of the Eight Classics", so as to find a way to understand the heavenly machine and solve the mystery of the heavenly book. Professor Sun learned how to interpret the Book of Heaven from the inspiration of this "gold plate of beast horn puzzles", which caused a subversive sensation in the archaeological community, a large number of ancient confidential texts were interpreted, a lot of information was stunned, and many of the history that had been conclusive will also be rewritten.

Taking into account various factors, the superior leaders gave the following instructions to Professor Sun's declassified information: treat it with a cautious attitude and not release it to the outside world for the time being until there is a definite conclusion.

Professor Sun said to me: "This trace behind you is not appropriate to say that it is an ancient encrypted text, this character is not a character in the Book of Heaven, and I only saw this symbol on the tortoise shell unearthed in Gulan." It symbolizes something special, and people at that time didn't have the exact word to describe it, I think it's more appropriate to call it a picture language, a picture is a symbolic symbol, but the meaning of this symbol is not clear to me, it appears in the encrypted text of the Book of Heaven. The dragon armor unearthed in Gulan, one of the contents of the book of heaven, seems to be a record of disasters, because it has just been unearthed, time is pressing, I just took a cursory look, and I haven't had time to carefully analyze what this symbol means, I didn't expect that on the way back, the military plane crashed and crashed, and those secrets are probably never known. ”

I asked Professor Sun, "Didn't you keep a record of such an important thing?" You don't think I've got a curse or something on my back, but I still think it's too strange, and I won't be at ease if I don't know the details. Tell me, what is the text recorded in the bone armor? Is it related to the ghost caves in Xinjiang? I promise ** that I will never leak half a word. ”

Professor Sun stood up nervously and suddenly: "I can't say it, once I say it, it will be earth-shattering!" ”