On the plane from Egypt to Huizhou, everyone was already exhausted after nearly ten hours, but only a man with a scruffy beard, messy hair, and thick glasses, Professor Xia Guangxing, was preaching to the female assistant beside him: "There is a blank period of 130,000 years in the evolutionary history from ape man to early Homo sapiens, that is, primitive man, during which there is no transitional evidence to prove the evolution of ape man to early Homo sapiens. It's as if ape-man was eliminated, and suddenly Homo sapiens appeared on the earth overnight, and human civilization appeared overnight. The female assistant listened carefully, like a little fan, and showed great interest. And take notes from time to time.

What God endows wisdom, aliens left behind civilizations and so on, even if there are many hypotheses to explain, but after all, they are all hypotheses, and Professor Xia Guangxing completely denies them.

He firmly believes that without conclusive evidence, it will never be convincing.

Professor Xia Guangxing has traveled almost all over the world for this purpose, and as long as there are fossils of humans and other species, he must personally investigate them. Despite this, unfortunately there are still no discoveries of a 130,000-year historical gap. I can't help but sigh, hundreds of millions of years of dinosaur fossils still exist, but Xia Guangxing never wants to believe that nothing has been left in these 130,000 years. Even his baby son Xia Fan devoted himself to investigation and research when he was young, and it became a common thing to go abroad for a long time.

However, when there was still no progress in research, yesterday, a major traffic accident occurred in Huizhou, and the victim of the accident was one of the international criminals wanted by various countries at the same time, and a cultural relic that the criminal still held tightly to death caused an uproar in the domestic paleontological community, like a nuclear bomb suddenly exploded in Xia Guangxing's heart.

This artifact is a rusty sword, and it is a broken sword, which is particularly eye-catching. According to the test results, relying on the carbon-14 element, it is inferred that the production time of this broken sword is more than 100,000 years ago, that is to say, it is the 130,000 years of the historical blank period!

This undoubtedly made Professor Xia ecstatic, and he only felt that God would make such a joke, and he and his team spent years of energy to find it, but it appeared out of thin air in such a bloody and accidental way.

Xia Guangxing smiled helplessly: "Well, the world is unpredictable..."

After such a long flight, Xia Guangxing didn't even want to rest for a moment, staring closely at the photo of the broken sword on his mobile phone, and looking at the test report sent before getting on the plane from time to time. He was desperate to see this broken sword for the first time, the craftsmanship of this sword was so sophisticated and mature, and the strong shock invaded his whole body from time to time, and he knew what it meant to have such technology at that time, and anyone in the archaeological field knew very well. Once the news is revealed, it will inevitably be an unprecedented sensation! Professor Xia immediately decided to return to China immediately regardless of the work at hand.

As soon as he got off the plane, Xia Guangxing couldn't wait to rush to his destination, and the entire investigation team was as eager as Professor Xia Guangxing.

The car drove fast, but Xia Guangxing still felt that it was too slow and too slow, and even the red lights that he usually encountered, he felt that it had become very hateful.

Soon, several cars stopped at the entrance of a building, passed through the security check, and the group entered the building in a hurry. At this time, the entire building was also completely cordoned off, and police were standing everywhere.

Seeing Xia Guangxing coming in, a middle-aged man wearing a leadership police uniform had been waiting at the gate of the Huizhou Museum for a long time. The middle-aged man is not tall, his face is full of red, and his body is a little fat, he is the director of the Huizhou Public Security Bureau and Wen Sifan's father, Wen Yu. This time, he was responsible for the protection of cultural relics and the further investigation of the case.

Wen Yu was also very happy to see his old friend, stretched out his right hand, and said, "Lao Xia, don't worry, I'm waiting for you." ”

Xia Guangxing immediately stretched out his right hand and shook it together.

Although Xia Guangxing looked anxious, his excitement was beyond words. You know, I've been waiting for this day for almost 30 years, let's not talk about it, I'll go change my clothes." ”

Xia Guangxing, who had changed into work clothes, was led to the door of a room, which was a temporary laboratory, and approached the laboratory. Hurriedly asked a staff member who was still working, and said, "Where is the sword?"

The man looked up and saw that it was Professor Xia Guangxing, who had been famous for a long time, and hurriedly pointed to a test bench that showed a broken sword.

Xia Guangxing slowly walked to the broken sword and found out the information again. Xia Guangxing looked at the sword up close for the first time, and although the body of the sword was broken, the remaining part was still intact. The sword is about 51 centimeters long, the broken sword is covered by a thick layer of rust, on the blade, there are many gaps, and the hilt is a golden dragon carving, although the rust is stained, it still looks extremely majestic and vivid. There are two characters engraved on the top of the sword, and it is impossible to distinguish what the text is, and the font is vaguely visible and the silver hook is painted with iron. Sure enough, the scene can feel the level of production technology more clearly than the photos. The archaeological members present all looked at this "treasure" that was enough to attract everyone's attention, and it was difficult to hide the shock in their hearts, and almost all of them sighed at the level of craftsmanship of this fire 100,000 years ago, and couldn't help but wonder, why did this powerful civilization disappear? So that the appearance of the sword was postponed for tens of thousands of years.

At this time, Xia Guangxing's assistant stepped forward and said, "Professor, the main material of this sword is not iron, nor copper, and there is no similar metal element material on the earth. ”

Xia Guangxing pondered for a while, and said with some skepticism: "Is it possible that it is a meteorite metal from outer space?"

A staff member thought for a moment and responded, "Professor, this speculation cannot be ruled out. ”

Professor Xia thought for a long time and said, "Then first find the metal samples from outer space and compare them one by one." The crowd hummed and went back to work.

Xia Guangxing almost cried with joy, gently stroked the sword body with his hand, and couldn't help but sigh: "How exquisite this sword is, it's been thirty years, and it's finally ......."

Suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly walked out to see Director Wenyu outside the door. Said solemnly: "Lao Wen, before we have studied it clearly, the news of this sword must not be spread in a hurry, it must not!"

Wen Yu also knew the importance of this sword, and said, "Don't worry, Lao Xia, this case is not easy to handle." I've already teased the people in the bureau who know about it. ”

A bell rang, it was Wen Yu's phone ringing, and Xia Guangxing quietly walked away. It was the telephone report from the Huizhou No. 1 Middle School Police Station, and after listening to the report, Wen Yu said: "Okay, I know, you can bring them to me." After saying that, he hung up the phone, and his face sank. Walking to Xia Guangxing's side, Xia Guangxing saw that Wen Yu's face was a little bad, thinking that something was wrong, and asked aloud, "What's wrong?"

Wen Yu said a little angrily: "What else can you do? Your son Xia Fan and my son fought with bastards outside the school, and they were arrested together!"