The site remained as it was, with all the tools in their original place, and the notebooks that produced the drawings and the notebooks that recorded the data were thrown on the deck, and everything showed that it was as if no one had ever been there.

There was no movement, the people disappeared, and the soldiers on duty of the armed police on the periphery did not know what was going on inside, and according to the tightness of the security at the scene, unless it was 007 of a regiment parachuted, it was impossible to get eight big living people out of their noses without a sound.

The security department was dumbfounded, and the public security department was also dumbfounded, and the matter of the ghost ship on the Yellow River Ancient Road began to circulate again. Originally, there is a local legend, saying that the ancient road of the Yellow River leads to the Yellow Spring, when the water has not dried up in the past, it is also the green water torrent that stretches for hundreds of miles, the river is overgrown with reeds and red willow trees on both sides, when the population is sparse, it is very eerie and terrifying at night, and few people dare to go.

It is also said that the ancient road is a passage for ghosts to collect souls to ferry between the underworld and the sun, and on the night of the full moon, a ghost boat will float on the river, and the bow and stern of the boat will be lit with red lanterns, and the sound of people choking and crying can be heard from inside. This boat is said to be the ghost ferry boat in the Yellow Spring, when the night is cloudy, the ghost cha locks the soul in the sun and takes it back to the boat, the ghost boat floats and floats, drifts to the entrance of the Yellow Spring, sinks into the water and disappears.

It is said that there are a few drunk people in the villages near the ancient road who have encountered ghost boats, and they were either frightened crazy, or jumped into the river and drowned, so the locals are convinced of the real existence of ghost boats, and as soon as the old experts disappeared, everyone immediately began to say that the archaeological team dug up the ghost boat that collected the soul, which alarmed the ghost poor, so when the moon was full in the middle of the night, all the old experts who stole in the ghost boat were taken away.

The rumors spread more and more fiercely, many people bought firecrackers in front of their homes, and some people were hostile to the people of the archaeological team, and they took a detour when they saw it, and the leader of the archaeological team was bigger, and in a flash of inspiration he thought of the legendary eight places.

He quickly reported to the above, and six hours after the report, we received the four 7's, which symbolized the death of a person.

We acted quickly, packed all our luggage into the car, and said goodbye to the hotel overnight and rushed to Yingtian. Along the way, I nestled in the back seat and had nightmares all night, and it wasn't until Zhang Xiaoxian handed me breakfast that I realized that I had arrived at the place.

I looked in the car and didn't see Zhang Qian and Dong Xiaoxu, so I asked, "What about the two of them?" Zhang Xiaoxian drove the car and said: "I have been taken off the scene, the old expert has been missing for some time, Ying Tian's colleagues are very anxious, you are sleeping again, so let the two of them go first." You also know that Zhang Qian is quick temper. ”

I nodded to indicate that I understood, and was going to replace her to drive me, but she refused, saying that I should hurry up and eat and drink, and I was about to go to the scene. As she spoke, she added: "Zhang Qian, they went to the scene first to see it, and then passed the news over, saying that it was not like man-made destruction, but more like the appearance of the Yin soldiers." Ying Tian's colleagues have visited nearby villages, but they have not heard of any cults, and the people there are very honest. ”

The Yin soldiers she said were a case that we jointly handled in Xiangxi, when she and Zhang Qian were still students, and Dong Xiaoxu and I came out of the sheath with our swords, and we broke the thousand-year-old mystery there at once. Lao Zhang'er shook suddenly, saying that we have gained a firm foothold in the Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics with this case, and no one dares to underestimate us anymore.

I ate bread and said that it can't be careless, people nowadays have a strong desire to perform, you can't let them play hooligans, and you don't need to wear makeup to play a good citizen.

Zhang Xiaoxian echoed and said yes, and we didn't speak again. While eating, I looked at the picture that Zhang Qian sent back from his laptop, it was a big ship embedded in the silt of the river, and I could vaguely see that the whole ship was extremely complete, including the keel compartment There was no defect, and the wood seemed to be extremely corrosion-resistant, and there was no trace of decay from the photo.

Looking at the local details, there are no signs of violent vandalism, nor any signs of theft.

Originally, as soon as I received this case, my first reaction was that a cultural relics gang should cooperate with the old experts and loot the cultural relics at the scene, but judging from the photos, all the cultural relics are well placed in place, and there is no information about the loss of any cultural relics in the written report, and the archaeological team cannot and does not need to hide anything from us, we only deal with special events, and will not interfere in their work in any way, which is a rule set at the beginning of its establishment, so all information should be transparent.

【Lu】

When the car drove into the construction site, it was stopped from a distance, and the armed police force pulled a total of three cordons, and the disappearance of the experts made the armed police force also lose face, and they lost eight old experts under their noses, and they held their breath when they thought about it. A colonel-level officer from the armed police force personally pressed the formation, known as the elite of the Yulin Army, and I could feel an aura of wanting to eat people from afar.

When we arrived at the scene, we didn't see Zhang Qian and them, but the person in charge of the Yingtian Cultural Relics and Archaeological Research Station greeted them and said with a bitter face that the two people you came in the morning entered the hospital.

We went to the hospital again without saying a word, but when we got there, we saw Dong Xiaoxu pacing back and forth outside the ward, with a constipated expression on his face, I just asked Dong Xiaoxu what is your situation, and he said that Zhang Qian fainted.

When I entered the ward, Zhang Qian closed his eyes tightly, his teeth were clenched, as if he was fighting with something, and his body was shaking like chaff.

I slapped him in the face when I went up, shouting Zhang Qian Zhang Qian, but there was no response for a long time. Dong Xiaoxu said on the side: "The doctor has checked it, saying that all physiological functions are normal, and the brain waves have also been checked, but he just can't wake him up, no one has a problem." ”

Zhang Xiaoxian didn't say anything when he heard this, went up and suppressed Zhang Qian's pulse, and after a while, he rolled his eyelids, opened Zhang Qian's mouth and looked at it, and then said with a strange expression: "Isn't this kid from a spice family?

As soon as she said this, Dong Xiaoxu and I glanced at each other, and our faces were shocked, what happened, Zhang Qian actually choked the fragrance? This is also incredible.

Zhang Qian's ability to enter eight places depends on his nose, otherwise he is just a rich second generation. His father is one of the top predators in the spice extraction industry, and many foreign first-line perfume brands have to buy raw materials from his father, and the money in his father's hands can almost be used to build the Great Wall. is such a person, Zhang Qian is his single seedling, and he is called a pampered pet from childhood to adulthood. Under the label of the rich second generation, Zhang Qian has another identity, that is, the only heir of the Wenxiang Gate in the six doors of the old catcher.

The smell of the six doors, as the name suggests, is the fast catch by smelling the smell to judge the case, and the folding plum hand, the wash basin, the yin and yang judgment, the snow trace and the justice division are called the six iron doors in the fast catch. These six doors have their own magic, smelling incense door is to restore the scene by lighting incense and smelling at the crime scene, legend has it that Zhang Jiazu was a spice Hu merchant from the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty, because he was good at making spices for Emperor Xuanzong and became an official, and after that, generations have settled in the Central Plains.

Wenxiangmen has a stunt that has been passed down from generation to generation, as long as they light an ancestral secret incense anywhere, and they enter a state of tranquility, they can vaguely see what happened in the previous twelve hours like a dream, which is why Zhang Qian received more 7777 summons than us.

Through Dong Xiaoxu's narration, I knew that in order to grab the time to grasp the first-hand information as soon as possible, the two of them left us to the scene first, probably after listening to the introduction, Zhang Qian ordered the secret incense at the scene and sat down cross-legged, but after the secret incense was burned, Zhang Qian did not wake up slowly as before, but suddenly opened his eyes and shouted: "They are below!" and then fainted softly.

What does "they are below" mean? The ancient Yellow River road has been silted up for hundreds of years, and there has been no water for a long time, so it is impossible for the old experts to be in the water, so will they be in the mud? Or is it really like the legend of the local people, with the Yellow Spring leading to the bottom, and they entered it?

I quickly lived a series of things in my head, Dong Xiaoxu was dangling back and forth beside me, which made me upset, and I was about to say brother, don't go, when I saw that he was holding a cigarette in his hand and was about to crumple it into slag, and I could see that the pressure was indeed very great.

The three of them were silent for a while, and Zhang Xiaoxian suddenly said: "Actually, there shouldn't be a big problem, I thought about it, it should be the fragrance that rushed into the brain, and the person was sealed by wax, and there seems to be such a case in my grandfather's notebook." ”

"Oh? are you sure?" I asked her, Zhang Xiaoxian is the patron saint recruited by the old Zhang Tou'er, and she is the healing saint in the team, she herself is from a family of traditional Chinese medicine, her grandfather is known as Sai Huatuo, and she herself is still a master of medicine, generally speaking, as long as she says it's okay, it should be fine, but this kind of thing about smelling incense is quite strange because of spices, and I inevitably asked more.

Zhang Xiaoxian nodded, asked the nurse to bring a bunch of things from the Chinese medicine pharmacy, including peppercorns, tangerine peel, fennel, and a few unrecognizable herbs, and asked the nurse to bring her some dried chili peppers.

Dong Xiaoxu and I are stupid, what is this doing, is it possible that this girl is going to stew Zhang Qian?

Zhang Xiaoxian glanced at us, prepared everything, began to crush and grind the powder, poured the powder into a copper plate, turned on the alcohol lamp to bake, and after a while, a spicy smell wafted out, and she gently used a rolled paper tube to bring the taste to the front of Zhang Qian's nose.

【Seven】

With Zhang Xiaoxian's movements, Zhang Qian frowned, suddenly sneezed, and some yellow powder sprayed out of his nose, Zhang Xiaoxian didn't dodge it for a while, and screamed.

We were so happy, we thought that Zhang Qian was awake, but we didn't know that Zhang Xiaoxian immediately twisted the powder that Zhang Qian sprayed out and looked at it, his face immediately changed, and he said, "How can there be such a thing? Go to the Chinese medicine pharmacy and get some antelope horns, be quick." ”

Not long after, a little nurse rushed back, holding an antelope horn in her hand, followed by the panting director of the Chinese medicine pharmacy. We didn't bother to speak, Zhang Xiaoxian carefully scraped some antelope horns, added them to the pile of powder, and then smoked them for a long time, directing the smell to Zhang Qian's nose. After taking two puffs of cigarettes, Zhang Qian's neck and face turned red, and two streams of clear water slowly flowed out of his nose.

After smoking half a cigarette again, Zhang Qian opened his eyes, stared at us for a long time, and when he saw us, he actually roared: "They are all below, I saw it, go down and save people, otherwise it will be too late." ”

The two of us hurriedly held him down, guessing if he had fallen for some trick, resulting in fungal hallucinogenic poisoning, Zhang Qian couldn't struggle, couldn't break free, so he simply didn't move, and said: "Brother Tong, Brother Xu, you hurry up and let go of me, the matter is so important, we have to go to the scene quickly, it's too late." ”

He shook his arm and began to talk about what happened after the secret incense was lit, at first there was nothing abnormal, he quickly entered a static state, and if nothing went wrong, a rough outline of the surroundings would soon appear in his mind.

The strange thing is that the fragrance is still the same as before, but Zhang Qian's mind has nothing, it is as empty as his stomach that has not eaten breakfast. Zhang Qian was a little anxious, so he increased the intake of the smell of the secret incense, but what made him realize that something was wrong was that another clearer smell rushed into his nose at once.

In an instant, a hazy image appeared in Zhang Qian's mind, several old experts lined up and drilled into the deck one by one, Zhang Qian wanted to try to see a little clearly, as soon as he exerted his strength, the crisp smell mixed in the secret fragrance pierced his brain like a steel needle, and Zhang Qian fell down.

"There's weirdness on that ship. After hearing this, Zhang Xiaoxian immediately asserted, and said very resolutely, "Brother Tong, you have to go back to the station and bring back our gas masks, Brother Xu, you inform Comrade Ying Tian to stay away from the ship immediately, Zhang Qian, you can rest here, this time only I may be able to solve this trouble." ”

"No, I can't. "All three of us rejected her at the same time.

What are you kidding, Zhang Xiaoxian has always been the role of the team doctor in the team, and she has been on so many missions, when will she take the lead, in case she folds, there is no hope for us to have any injuries.

Zhang Qian's face was still flushed, and it was estimated that he also felt that he was embarrassed and embarrassed, and he was so slumped in front of his goddess, he really couldn't get angry.

Dong Xiaoxu also opposed Zhang Xiaoxian's adventure, he said that even a strong man like Zhang Qian was overturned, not to mention a weak woman like her. Originally, in our opinion, archaeology is just a matter of letting women go away, and Zhang Xiaoxian's existence in the team is already an exception.

Moreover, what I thought more about was that Zhang Qian had just said that what he had seen, those old experts lined up one by one to get below the deck. At that time, the old experts were all on the ship, and there was only the deck and silt, how could they possibly get underneath? Thinking about it, he asked Zhang Qian: "Are you sure you saw that they got underneath?"

Zhang Qian said with certainty: "There is absolutely no mistake. ”

I turned my head again and asked, "Zhang Xiaoxian, why do you think that only you can solve this trouble?"

"Just by it. Zhang Xiaoxian twisted something with his hand to show us, "This is the powder that just sprayed out of Zhang Qian's nose." I have long been interested in Zhang Qianjia's secret technique of smelling incense, and I have to do a chemical analysis of the secret incense, and I found that in addition to several spices that are difficult to see, there is also a mysterious thing that plays a harmonizing role in the secret incense. ”

I looked at the yellow thing twisted in her hand, and listened to her continue: "This kind of thing has a property, that is, it will turn yellow whenever it encounters spices, so when Zhang Qian sprays this color of powder, I can be sure that he has been poisoned by another spice." In other words, there is a very volatile spice on the ship, probably some kind of hallucinogenic drug mixed with the deck of the ship or in the silt, which happens to volatilize these days, so it has caused a series of strange things to happen. ”

"So, senior brothers, I'm afraid I'll have to sing the leading role this time. She smiled, and Zhang Qian's eyes immediately straightened.

I thought about it and said: "Even if this is the case, then let's go back to the scene now, Zhang Xiaoxian, you are in charge of this operation, what drugs you need will be prepared in this hospital first, I will go to get a gas mask immediately, Dong Xiaoxu, you go to the scene to inform Comrade Ying Tian to pull a forbidden line, the forbidden language is a volatile gas poison, according to the 3A level of danger arming." After I finished this, I asked Zhang Qian again, "How are you feeling now?"

Zhang Qian said that he was already alive, so I nodded and said, "Saving people is like fighting a fire, we will gather at the scene in twenty minutes and start acting, you go to assist Xiaoxian, and I will go through the discharge procedures for you." ”

【捌】

On the way back, Dong Xiaoxu concentrated on driving, no one spoke, I felt a little wrong, I thought about it carefully, I felt a little offside, but it was not easy to explain anything for a while, so I could only wait like this and then look for an opportunity. When we arrived at the site of the ancient ship again, Comrade Yingtian was very happy, and the armed police also cooperated very much, and quickly opened the yellow forbidden belt, and the colleagues of Yingtian Research Station also evacuated to ten meters away, leaving the four of us into the ancient ship and walking carefully on the deck of this thousand-year-old ship.

After standing on it, I noticed that this ship has many differences from the ancient ships of the Song Dynasty unearthed in the past, from the shape to the decoration of some details seems to be different from the ship system in the Central Plains of the Song Dynasty, and the imprints of some goods piled up are particularly strange, which is not the usual method of Cao Chuan at that time.

We once dealt with a complete Song Dynasty sea ship that sank in the cracks of the South China Sea, and listened to a ship expert who detailed the difference between river boats and sea boats, as well as the rules of river ships and the method of accumulating live animals on sea boats.

Judging by the marks left on the deck of the ship in front of me, the place where the cargo should not have been piled up was full of things, completely overloaded, and badly overloaded.

I dragged Dong Xiaoxu, he looked back at me, and I asked him: "Do you remember seeing some large birch bark boats in the Northeast, and they also used this method to pile up goods?" ”

Dong Xiaoxu nodded, and Zhang Qian suddenly shouted on the side: "Brother Tong, Brother Xu, what do you think this is?"

I saw from afar that he was holding something in his hand, and when I looked closer, it was a lump of mud with a glittering gem embedded in it, and the lump of mud was a long strip of mud, as if it had been dug out of some crevice.

"I just felt something flashing, so I gently pulled it out with my blade, and it was the dirt in the gap in the deck. Zhang Qian said.

That's when we realized that behind him, there was really a gap in one of the decks.

Returning to the mud, the three of us tacitly glanced at our colleagues at the research station, who were far away, formed a circle, and then gently crushed the mud little by little.

We don't do this in accordance with excavation regulations, and if we are seen by our research station colleagues, we will be blocked, which is often the case, for us, solving the problem is the first priority, even if it is a little bit of violence in the process. Old Zhang Touer told us that dead objects are not as important as living people, and we should not watch people get hurt for fear of breaking a broken crockpot.

This is the exact words of a cultural relics expert, I think it is very good, if I had to choose between a national treasure and saving people, I would definitely choose to save people without hesitation. In this regard, we have not reached a consensus with some archaeologists, for whom the national cultural relics are more important than their lives, and sometimes they would rather be injured than have their cultural relics damaged.

"Remember, our purpose is to save people, of course, we can't wantonly destroy cultural relics for this, if we can take care of cultural relics at the same time, it's best if we can save people, if we can't take care of it, you know. "I can still recall how cheap old Zhang Tou laughed when he told us this.

The outer layer of mud was quickly cleaned up, and the basic outline was revealed, which appeared to be a ring on a stick, with a ruby face and a gold setting.

We glanced at each other, how could there be such precious jewelry in the gap on the deck? Zhang Xiaoxian also came around, took a look, and said, "Huh", "The thing in the ring set seems to be a finger." ”

We quickly peeled off the remaining mud blocks, and sure enough, it was a phalange, which had been blackened by the erosion of the mud, and had completely lost the appearance of human bones.