Chapter 1: Falling into the pit
Yizhou in August is unusually hot.
According to the Yizhou people, it is a hot P explosion.
There are still several excavators on a construction site outside the city are busy working, an endless stream of muck trucks from the exit of the construction site in and out, although the ground is padded with steel plates, under the crushing sound of clattering, bumps, a large amount of muck and gravel roll down from the car, all the way out hundreds of meters.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, it was the hottest time of the day, the sun hung like a fireball in the sky, the intense sunlight was shining down, and the damp earth was steaming up waves of heat that were completely breathless.
A row of blue two-storey houses stands on the side of the construction site.
In a room on the second floor, a large ceiling fan was blowing, but the room still looked like a steamer, and the thermometer hanging on the wall pointed at 37 degrees.
On a simple wire bed, a young man lay on his back with his clothes open.
"Bang Dang~"
The half-covered door was pushed open, and a middle-aged man in blue overalls and sweating walked in, took off the yellow hard hat on his head and threw it on the ground, then grabbed a bottle of water from the corner of the wall and unscrewed it and poured it down in one goo, then took off a sour towel hanging on the wall and wiped the rolling sweat and panted vigorously.
Ding Ling's movement woke up the young man on the wire bed, and he sat up with his forehead covered, and there was a sweat-soaked human-shaped watermark on the mat on the bed.
"It's clear, it's your turn, those turtle sons in the engineering department are simply not things, and they have to work overtime to catch up with the progress when it's so hot on a dog day......"
The middle-aged man scolded and took off his clothes and shoes, and a strong smell of sweat filled the room.
The young man stood up, his face was a little pale, he glanced at the thermometer on the wall, buttoned his clothes and grabbed the hard hat hanging on the hook and buckled it on his head, and when he went out, the strong sunlight and steaming heat wave in front of him made him shake his body a little, and his face became even paler.
"Jiming, are you uncomfortable? Or you go to the dispatch room and let people top it, I'm afraid your baby's body can't hold up in this weather!" said the middle-aged man with concern.
"Thank you, Uncle Qi, I'm fine!" the young man shook his head, took out a box of Rendan from his jacket pocket, poured out a few pills and stuffed them into his mouth, and then walked down the corridor to a large pit where he was working.
Shen Jiming, 23 years old, graduated from a university in central China with a degree in civil engineering, studied engineering supervision, and worked in a real estate development company called Jiutai Hengchang after graduation.
This construction site under development is the latest project of Jiutai Hengchang, the boss in order to catch up with the construction period, the infrastructure department must complete all the earthwork work before the end of September, so the project manager has to come to inspect almost every day, which also makes a group of grandsons of the engineering department like a group of doping huskies every day with red eyes on the construction site.
Shen Jiming is also a member of the engineering department, but he belongs to the husky at the bottom of the errand, the real leaders are remote command in a rented house outside the construction site, blowing the air conditioner and drinking tea, even if it is forty degrees outside, they can't feel it at all, just keep urging them to speed up with the phone.
Shen Jiming stood on the edge of the big pit, watching an excavator dig up a bucket of dirt and pile it on the muck truck next to him.
"Click~" As the digging bucket went down, a clear breaking sound came, the digging bucket shook a few times and lifted up, as the soil continued to fall, a collapsed hole appeared under the big pit, and a few stone slabs were cocked around, as well as scattered bricks.
Shen Jiming chuckled in his heart, feeling that he must have dug up something like an ancient tomb.
"Stop~" Shen Jiming yelled and made a pause gesture, and the master who drove the excavator quickly stopped operating.
As one of the oldest capitals in China, Yizhou has been very prosperous here for thousands of years, cultural monuments abound, and countless treasures have been buried in the entire Yizhou Plain.
Shen Jiming looked down, the depth was about three meters, because it was too steep, it would definitely not work to jump down directly, so he raised his hand and beckoned the excavator master to put the bucket down, stood in the bucket himself, and asked the master to put himself down.
After two minutes, the bucket fell smoothly to the bottom of the pit.
Shen Jiming jumped out of the bucket, first made a general observation, then took out his mobile phone to turn on the camera mode, and then carefully stepped on the damp dirt and broken stone bricks to the side of the collapsed hole.
The scattered bricks were all blue-black, and the broken slabs were covered with dirt, but there were some delicate patterns and symbols on them.
According to Shen Jiming, this should be an ancient tomb.
Because the ground had already been shoveled seven or eight meters deep, an ancient tomb buried more than ten meters deep underground, Shen Jiming was both happy and uneasy.
It's not that he's afraid of a big dumpling suddenly jumping out, but the appearance of this ancient tomb is afraid that it will give a group of huskies in the engineering department a headache.
What all real estate development companies are most afraid of is that these ancient things appear on the construction site, once they are dug up, they are like a piece of stuck to their hands, and they can't shake it off.
According to the standard civil infrastructure operation process, once any ancient cultural relics are encountered on the construction site, the operation must be stopped immediately and reported to the cultural relics management department, and the cultural relics management department can determine the next step of the project after giving a report.
The tombs of ordinary small households, the general cultural relics department is not too harsh, and after a few days of excavation, they will be released if they take away valuable things, because there are too many ancient ruins left behind by thousands of years of Chinese civilization, and the tombs or relics that do not reach the level of princes and generals or historical celebrities are generally not too brain-wrenching, and the research value is not large, and it is not worth wasting time and energy.
And once it belongs to a valuable tomb, then congratulations to the developer, it is the norm to generally study for three or five months.
If it is a prince or a historical celebrity, then the developer can only go home and cry, and it is impossible to restart construction without a year or two.
What's even more unfortunate is that if you encounter a famous emperor's tomb or a relic with super research value, the project will be directly declared permanently suspended, and the developer has the heart to hang himself and jump off the building.
Shen Jiming judged according to his most superficial knowledge that this dug tomb was probably of great value, just the exquisite patterns on these stone slabs, and the buried ones would definitely not be ordinary characters.
Stepping on the mud and gravel and slowly walking to the entrance of the cave, Shen Jiming looked inside, and the black rumbling couldn't see anything, so he was about to turn on the flashlight of the mobile phone, but he didn't want a brick under his feet to shake it and collapse with a large piece of soil.
Shen Jiming couldn't help but let out a strange scream and rolled down.
"Bang~"
In the midst of the whirlwind, Shen Jiming felt his head hit a hard thing, and at the same time felt a cold aura rushing into his body, and he didn't know anything as soon as it was dark in front of him.
And the master, who was sitting in the excavator and leaning on the chair to drink water, sprayed a sip of water on the driver's platform, and hurriedly picked up the intercom and yelled excitedly: "Come on, Supervisor Shen has fallen into the pit!"