Chapter 3: The Ancient Monument

In the early 90s of the last century, a luminous object was heading towards the Earth at such a rapid speed that the observatory observed only a trace of it and completely lost its trace.

In the summer of the same year, a once-in-a-century typhoon and flood occurred in the land of China.

One day in July, from the southeast coast to the northwest inland, there were thunderstorms, lightning and thunder, heavy rain poured, the Yangtze River and the Yellow River were flooded, and many homes in the central region were flooded; from Changbai in the northeast to Sichuan and Shu in the southwest, the wind was fierce, the mountains and rivers were discolored, the earth was shaken, and countless mountains in the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River collapsed, and the river water poured down and flooded both sides of the Huai River.

On the same day, the Tibetan Plateau Buddha sounded through the sky, and it is said that someone saw a golden Buddha sitting in the high air of the temple with his hands folded in an old temple in the deep mountains, chanting "six-character mantra" in his mouth.

At the top of Mount Tai, the place where the three emperors and five emperors worship their ancestors, a golden chariot broke through the sky.

In the land of Miao Gu, a giant sword array was launched on the top of Shu Mountain, and it fixed the country of abundance.

In the southeast region, the northern part of Longhu Mountain is full of demonic energy, as if a demon king is about to be born.

An old Taoist at the southern foot of the Kunlun Mountains looked eastward, and his eyes were like two divine lights that went straight to the coast of the East China Sea.

On this same day, a ray of light flew from Jerusalem to the east, and in less than half a day a man vomited blood.

The Vatican Pope ordered cardinal archbishops to lead missionaries to the East.

Some crew members in the Bohai Sea claimed to have seen Penglai Immortal Mountain, and there were immortals flying clouds and fog on it.

On this day, Professor Qin, who was on an investigation in other places, picked up a baby and named it Qin Chen, treating it as his own.

Twenty years later, everything is wrong, and the disaster that occurred in the summer of 20 years ago has disappeared from the memory of the masses of the people under the hint of the people concerned. Clues can only be found in the deepest archives of Zhongnanhai.

Walking out of the vast wasteland, a young man with a huge travel bag looked at the small city not far away, a smile appeared on his tired face, and he kissed the ground under his feet excitedly: "I finally saw people." I, Qin Chenfu, have a great life, how could I die here?"

It all started a day ago, when Qin Chen came out of a small mountain village on the north bank of the Yellow River and walked to the next village according to a map, but he was unexpectedly lost in the wasteland. Whether it's mobile phone positioning or GPS, it's spinning like a headless fly.

However, the distance of only a few dozen miles was actually lost, which Qin Chen couldn't believe no matter what. He was convinced that the uncle who sold him the map was a liar, and then hated that he shouldn't have bought the map at a stall for a small price. Then he lamented that God is jealous of talents, and everyone in the future archaeological community will be forgotten in this place where birds don't.

This is a very common earthen city in the northwest region, even in the past thousand years, it is still loyally completing its mission, which makes Qin Chen have to sigh at the excellent skills of the ancient craftsmen, and then sigh at the hatred of those modern tofu scum projects.

This kind of earthen city is very common in the northwest inland, the War of Resistance against Japan, special period, reform and opening up can not have the slightest impact on its dominance in the northwest.

Entering the city, Qin Chen, who had a haggard face, couldn't help blinking, "Are you playing cosplay? Or are you filming some TV series? Or did I cross over?"

Everyone in this small earthen city, the most common in the north, is dressed in ancient costumes, making them look nondescript.

The strange gazes of everyone on the street gave Qin Chen goosebumps all over his body.

However, fortunately, everyone just watched in groups instead of onlookers, otherwise Qin Chen would definitely run away.

This year's trip to the northwest made Qin Chen, who had been rejected countless times, have a cheekiness that is incomprehensible to the world. Qin Chen smiled at this kind of person, grabbed the back of his head with his right hand and walked through the crowd.

After being kicked out of the city by three consecutive shopkeepers on the grounds of making trouble, Qin Chen finally met a kind lady who was willing to take him in for one night.

The eldest mother's family lives in the west of the city, her wife died early, and she has no son and a half daughter under her knees, so she lives very lonely in her later years. There is only a small courtyard at home, which is the only property left to her by her wife. I usually make a living by weaving, and my life is leisurely.

After taking a bath, Qin Chen changed into a change of clothes in the package, and suddenly felt refreshed, and after eating a not sumptuous but flavorful dinner with the eldest mother, Qin Chen slept beautifully in the guest room that the eldest lady had just cleaned up.

Early the next morning, Qin Chen got up early, after a morning run, Qin Chen helped the eldest lady to clean up the house, in the afternoon, the eldest lady went to the fabric store on the street to deliver and brought some fine threads back, Qin Chen moved out an old-fashioned rocking chair, lying under an old locust tree in the courtyard to bask in the sun.

"Summoning the immortal soldiers to the immortal tomb, Hui Wanzu Xi and leaving the forbidden battle in the void, the sound of the Dao shook Huanyu Xi, and Li Li was also seriously injured, so he returned to the flood and the wilderness."

Qin Chen closed the cloth in his hand and rubbed his temples, "What is this written, I can't find the immortal tomb after looking through the ancient materials, maybe it's just a tomb! The ancients always like to exaggerate, which is really speechless." ”

Of course, Qin Chen knew that this was impossible, because these few words came from an extraordinary background.

This matter has to start from the year before last, the mother river of the Yellow River broke off again, an old farmer in Shanxi Province in the dry river when digging sediment, accidentally found a stone stele, the stele is about one person high, the stele is engraved with dozens of words he does not understand, lying quietly at the bottom of the river, let the river wash away and do not move at all.

It just so happens that in the past few years, a collection fever has swept all over the land of China, and the old farmer who usually likes to watch the central treasure appreciation program is a full cultural relics collector.

According to the old peasant's thoughts, this is definitely a cultural relic, so he went home to the village and called a few sturdy young men, brought the tools and prepared to transport them home and sell them. It's a pity that they didn't wait for him, they couldn't lift this stone tablet, and then it was useless to try all kinds of methods. There is no choice but to report it to the state.

It happened that Qin Weiguo, a relative of the old farmer, seemed to work at the Institute of Cultural Relics and History, so he called him, hoping to give him a reward for discovering cultural relics.

Of course, the result was that Qin Chen's "third uncle" did not receive a penny of compensation, and was fined for picking river sand without permission.

Later, it was said that for this stone tablet, Qin Lao even used his connections and used the military's heavy helicopter to transport it back, but no one knew whether it was true or not.

After being transported to the research institute, Qin Lao asked people to copy the words on the tablet first, but unexpectedly, the person who copied it looked at it and wanted to write it but forgot how to write it, and Qin Lao realized that he had dug up the treasure.

In the end, he came up with a solution, which was to expand it first, and then put it on the detector, but it took three computers to burn out and translate the 39 words.

Qin Lao was very excited, believing that this was the most powerful proof of his mythical history.

But as a result, I searched through all the historical documents in the research institute, and even the Zhiwei novels, and I couldn't find where the fairy tomb was.

Qin Lao still didn't give up, and often visited the people to investigate the matter of Xianling, but he was too old, and the injuries he suffered in his early years only stopped this plan halfway.

After his son Qin Chen graduated from university, he worked in the research institute for less than half a year, and Qin Lao asked Qin Chen to go to various places among the people to inquire about where there was a record of immortal tombs in ancient legends. So Qin Chen is now in a daze at a thousand-year-old tree in the courtyard left by the kind lady's wife in a small county town in Shaanxi.

Qin Chen is the son of Qin Lao. Now he is a hard-pressed small staff member of the research institute, and the authoritative second-generation identity does not work at all. Because the people in the institute are authoritative as long as they have been working for more than ten years.

Speaking of which, the full name of their institute is "Shenzhou Civilization Research Institute", which specializes in excavating and studying the relics of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and the previous tribal period. Despite this, most of the monuments they excavated were from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and even the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty in history, is not well understood.

However, according to their research, the history of China and the world can be pushed forward by countless years.

However, at this time, two voices appeared in the research, one view that the Three Emperors and Five Emperors were just tribal leaders more than 5,000 years ago, and there were many small tribes before this, which was just a way for the ancients to beautify their ancestors, and they lived a life of drinking blood, and the other view was that the Three Emperors and Five Emperors were powerful cultivators, whose origins could be traced back tens of thousands of years, and that ancient myths and legends were true.

Originally, in the early days of the founding of New China to the reform and opening up, a view occupied the mainstream position, and the same was true for the explanation to the outside world, but with the excavation of some cultural relics and the flood of fantasy novels on the market, the latter view has become the mainstream of the research institute, and Qin Lao is a supporter of this view, and he even put forward several theories.

This time, this stele gave Qin Lao a great encouragement, thinking that all the problems of finding the Immortal Tomb would be solved, but now the problem is that no one knows where the Immortal Tomb is.

Qin Chen put the cloth on his belly and lay on the rocking chair under the ancient tree in the courtyard. Staring at the dense leaves of the ancient locust tree, he was in a daze, "Immortal Tomb, Immortal Tomb, Immortal Tomb, but where can I find the grave of the Immortal, there are so many immortals who fell in ancient times, most of them died in the Zhuxian Sword Array, they won't let me find the Zhuxian Sword! Hehe, I don't want to die." But the time is not right, I haven't heard of any immortals in the period of King Fuxi, Fuxi, Fuxi, you will fight when you fight, you have to get a stone tablet to record it, you can get it, and you don't put it away, you have to let my father find it. It's hurting me now!"

"According to the literal meaning of the word, he fought with the enemy in outer space, and after being injured, he will also be healed, Guan Shenzhou, how can this be found. However, in myths and legends, he is the son of the god of thunder, the bear people, and the lord of the bear country, and his son is called Shaodian, and he has two outstanding descendants, the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. The wife is still a saint Nuwa, tsk, this family is really good. ”

"Fuxi is among the three emperors and five emperors, in addition to him, there are a few others, they are all cattle, ah, I can't open my eyelids, I'm so sleepy. ”

This was a vast white space, and Qin Chen felt that his consciousness was extraordinarily clear and extraordinarily blurry.

What's wrong?

What's wrong with me?

The body has become lighter, is this flying?

What a warm embrace!

Who is this sister in red?

Why does it feel familiar? Why can't you see her face?

She's smiling at me, am I in her arms?

Who is the man in white next to him?

Why do you touch my forehead?

Hey?

How did I become a baby?

What's going on?

Just when Qin Chen was thinking drowsily, his mobile phone rang, Qin Chen was excited, and hurriedly took out his mobile phone and answered, "Hey, Dad, I'm looking for Xianling in Shaanxi." There will be a clue soon, I will do your job, you can wait. "Since Qin Chen came out, Qin Lao has been on the phone every day, and Qin Chen's words have come out as soon as he speaks.

However, he didn't realize why the cell phone that had no signal in the wasteland a few days ago could now be answered, in this small town without a business hall.

"Ha Luha, Xiao Chenzi, I'm Xiao Chubby, not your father, but I don't mind if you shout a few more times, Ha Lu haha. There were three loud laughs on the mobile phone, and Qin Chen realized that he was embarrassed, and hurriedly threatened: "Sun Xiaopang, if you laugh again, I can't kill you when I go back?"

Sun Xiaochuan Ha Lu Ha Da Lu smiled, "Xiao Chenzi, I'm not joking with you, are you still checking that Xianling, didn't I say Uncle Qin, how could you find out, is this clearly looking for a needle in a haystack." Don't look it up, come to me, there's a big discovery. ”

"Oh, what discovery?" Qin Chen knew that although Sun Xiaochuan often made fun of himself, he never joked about archaeology, and he said that a big discovery must be a milestone discovery.

Sun Xiaochuan's voice became serious: "This discovery cannot be conclusive, but if it is confirmed, it will be a spiritual impact on the masses, a strong impact on people's inherent thinking, and a powerful impact on the thinking of those old-fashioned historians."

"Alright, don't keep shocking, what the hell is it?"

"It's not clear on the phone, and there will be no surprise, I'll send the address to your mobile phone later, you follow this address to find me, and I'll tell you the details when I arrive." ”

"Okay, fast, I'm hanging. "I hung up when I finished speaking.

"By the way, I just seemed to have a dream, what is it? It feels like a dream that is important to me, why can't I remember all of it?"

After a minute or so, Sun Xiaochuan sent an address, interrupting Qin Chen's thoughts, Qin Chen also threw it aside, Qin Chen looked at it, "Damn, it's so remote, I can only go to the city I know first and ask again." ”

Qin Chen suddenly felt that his whole body was full of energy, he stood up from the rocking chair, turned around, took a deep breath at this thousand-year-old tree, stepped forward to hug it, and kissed it, "I hope Grandpa Divine Tree will bless this excavation smoothly." ”

Because every archaeological excavation is accompanied by huge risks, although the ancients did not have high technology, their wisdom and anti-theft skills are endless, the last time an ancient tomb was excavated, a person died, Qin Chen did not want this to happen again, he thought that the ancient tree that had grown for so long must be very spiritual, and there must be no bad thing in begging for it.

When Qin Chen patted the tree and turned to leave, it was as if he heard an old man smiling kindly at him. But when he turned around, there was nothing. Although it was most likely his own delusion, he bowed to the ancient tree.

After dinner, when Qin Chen told the eldest mother that he would leave tomorrow morning, the eldest mother did not have any surprised look, she found from Qin Chen's dress that he was not an ordinary person, he was a person who did great things, the eldest mother did not stop him, but just said to pay more attention to safety. It's just that this day of getting along made the eldest lady feel the feeling of a long-lost relative. She has long regarded Qin Chen as her own child, and Qin Chen, who has no mother since she was a child, also treats her eldest mother as her own mother.

Sometimes things are so wonderful, people who have known each other for less than two days regard each other as their closest relatives.