treasure hunt god pupil

Half of the mountainside of Chaoyang Ghost Mountain has been cleaned up. After three days of direct sunlight, there is no such a gloomy feeling, even if you see the stone pillars, boulders and skull patterns on the stone walls.

A large group of archaeological teams landed on the ghost mountain one after another by helicopter, but when they saw so many skull patterns, the team's photographers couldn't wait to take a shot.Such a scene is too rare, which is why Ghost Mountain is famous.

"Xiao Mo, many people have died on this ghost mountain. Not only are there skull patterns on the stone walls, but there are also real skulls that have not completely decayed in some corners."

Liu Chuanqing called Li Mo and pointed to a corner. It was a skull covered with moss, and there were many small bugs crawling in and out.

A soldier came over with a bag, and then picked up the mossy skull for uniform cremation.A lot of remains were found when clearing trees and vegetation in the early stage, so a second unit was sent in after the engineering depot to clean up.

"The evil feudal society."

Li Mo can only say this, in that era, life is like grass.

"Li Mo, the blasting equipment and ventilation equipment are all ready, what do you think will be arranged next?"

Shibin came over to report the progress of the work, and it was not the first time he followed Li Mo to discover treasures, so he could do whatever Li Mo arranged.

"Master, Professor Sima, let's go to the first suspicious cave I found."

A group of people soon came to a huge cave, which was blocked by rocks.

"Looking at the piles of rocks in these caves, it should have been blown up with gunpowder back then."

Shi Bin studied for a while and judged, then looked at Li Mo, a group of them were studying a large number of skull patterns carved on the stone walls on both sides of the cave, and it turned out that professionals paid completely different attention to each other.

"These patterns are also engraved with a large number of weapons, which is a naked deterrent to killing."

There are also research historians in the casual team, so I am full of emotions after seeing these stone wall patterns.

After reading the patterns on the stone wall, Li Mo walked to Shibin: "Can these be directional blasted?"

"It is possible, but I don't know the structural stability of the mountain. I am worried that the shock wave caused by the blast will cause other collapses, or accidentally destroy the carvings on the two walls of the cave entrance. After all, these also represent a period of history. Destruction is a great crime, and the best way is to clean it up manually."

"Then thank you all for your hard work. Let me tell you guys. After the task is completed, I will give you credit. In addition, I guess that there may have been a massacre in this cave, so I ask everyone to be careful. "

"Don't worry, we are all prepared for this."

Li Mo handed over the matter to Shibin, and then he and Liu Chuanqing continued to study the stone carvings outside.

"When the excavation of the treasures here is over, this ghost mountain can be developed into a very special tourist attraction." Professor Sima reached out to touch the lines of the skull pattern on the market, "The carving lines are about the same depth, and the craftsmen's skills are not bad. Not bad. If you look carefully, there seem to be many techniques in carving."

"If you study carefully, you can figure out a lot of things just by these stone carving techniques."

A large group of experts were engaged in a heated discussion, and some historians took out some tools to rubbing and preserving skull patterns of different shapes.

"Little Mo, how many caves like this have you found before, and where is Wu Sangui's real treasure?"

Liu Chuanqing pulled him aside and asked in a low voice.

"How would I know, it would be great if I found this place, okay? There may be treasures in the cave, or there may be nothing. Master, do you still have something to hide from me?"

Liu Chuanqing showed an embarrassed smile and said: "The Devil University arranged for me an assistant professor. Her research direction is mainly Qing history, but Qing history has already been studied thoroughly, so if she wants to cross that threshold, she must have a lot of experience. Novel academic papers. I think Wu Sangui is very representative, and if she can discover some historical truths that have never appeared in him, it must be a very good opportunity for her.”

Li Mo looked at Master, feeling that his expression and tone were strange.Liu Chuanqing didn't know what was going on, and his eyes matched Li Mo's and quickly dodged.

Comrade Lao Liu has a problem.

Some thoughts came to Li Mo's mind, then he shook his head and said, "It's too late for you to ask about this. I have already arranged for five students to come over, and they will arrive tomorrow."

"Can't you accommodate?"

Liu Chuanqing asked cautiously.

Li Mo's expression moved slightly: "Master, do you have something to hide from me?"

"No...No, I have nothing to hide from you."

"Master, I have been by your side since I was a child. I am very clear about your personality. If you really have something to tell me now, I can find a way to help you solve it. Don't wait until it can't be hidden before it is exposed. That There could be more serious consequences.”

Liu Chuanqing turned around to look at the people not far away who were still concentrating on studying the carvings on the stone wall, and then pulled him a little further before whispering: "I was tricked by someone, and now I've been caught."

Li Mo's eyes were fixed, and he said in a deep voice, "Is that the assistant professor?"

Liu Chuanqing nodded: "I drank too much after a dinner party. I didn't expect to wake up and... You know that. She took a lot of photos. She threatened me with those photos. If they were exposed, we Yimai's reputation will be ruined overnight."

Li Mo frowned: "Between you..."

"I told you that I was tricked, so nothing happened. I asked someone to go to the hotel to adjust the surveillance. She helped me into the room by herself, but she came out after only 3 minutes. , and more importantly, two men followed her out of that room at the same time."

Li Mo breathed a sigh of relief, as long as the master didn't go out of line, everything would be easy to handle.

"Do you know who those two men are?"

"I've been threatened by her. These days, I don't even have the time to figure out who those two men are."

"Is there a duplicate surveillance video?"

"Yes, that friend in the police station made a copy for me."

"Okay, send me a copy of the surveillance video, and you can notify the assistant professor to come over. Also, you can find a reason to leave first, and leave the rest to me."

Liu Chuanqing quickly sent the video on the phone to Li Mo, and then asked hesitantly: "You won't tell your wife about this, will you?"

Li Mo smiled angrily: "Do you think I look like a troublemaker?"

"Anyway, you have never stopped." Liu Chuanqing muttered, and then continued, "This time it was a big loss, and I will have a long memory in the future."

Li Mo watched the video and waved to Chen Xiaojun not far away.

"Little uncle."

"Go and find out all the eighteen generations of the ancestors of the three people in the video, and find your confidant."

Li Mo's voice was a little cold, and Chen Xiaojun knew that the three people in the video must have violated his bottom line.

"Little uncle, I will arrange for someone to investigate immediately."

After making the phone call, Liu Chuanqing came over: "Xiaomo, that person will arrive tomorrow, I'll go back to Kuncheng first and then talk about it."

"Okay, I'll let you know when the matter is settled."

The gravel at the entrance of the cave was processed relatively quickly, and the entrance was already opened by noon.Under Li Mo's warning, ten people in protective clothing entered the cave to explore the way first, while the others stayed outside waiting for news.

About 10 minutes later, Lu Tiancheng walked out of the cave and reported with a solemn expression: "Professor Li, as you guessed, there was a tragic massacre inside, and there were a lot of corpses inside. We need to get rid of those corpses first. Then carry out a comprehensive disinfection and ventilation, and then you can enter to do archaeological research, which is expected to be around three o'clock."

Li Mo nodded: "I'm sorry to trouble everyone, it doesn't matter if we wait a few more hours."

The outside of the ghost mountain is enough for everyone to spend a long time studying, so there is no rush to enter the cave.After being able to enter the first cave, the second cave will also be cleaned up.

Liu Chuanqing greeted everyone and went out of the mountain first, and the others didn't pay much attention.

There are many corpses in the cave, and a total of 59 corpses were cleared out, and they were transported out one by one by helicopter.After the ventilation equipment started running for more than an hour, the detection of the air inside was completely normal.

"Professor Li, there are other entrances and exits found in the cave, do we need to open them all?"

"need."

The lighting inside had been set up, and Li Mo led the crowd into the cave, and there were bursts of surprise sounds one after another.

"Professor Sima, what do you think this cave was used for?"

Sima Haotian looked at those casting tables, furnaces and some hammering tools, thought for a while and said, "It should be a place similar to the Military Foundry. Look at the broken weapons, they are all recycled and recast."

"There are a lot of wooden boxes here."

An archaeologist walked up to a pile of wooden boxes, and was about to reach out to open them. When he touched the wooden boxes, he retracted and looked back at Li Mo and the others.

"Open it and see what's inside?"

Li Mo signaled him to open it directly, and then the man carefully opened the wooden box, and there were neatly placed knives inside. These knives did not have scabbards, and the shape of the knives was quite unique.

"Professor Li, I don't know much about weapons. I don't know what kind of knife this is."

The man looked at the weapons in the wooden box, and said a little self-deprecatingly.Li Mo and Sima Haotian walked up to him. He bent down and picked up a knife from the wooden box, looked at it and said, "This is a unique knife shape common in the early Qing Dynasty, called a straight-backed machete. This is a An official standard weapon, a typical example is the Emperor Kangxi's war knife, the knife head is widened and the back is inclined, the knife body is flat, the ratio of the handle to the knife body is about 3 to 2, it is held in both hands, and it has strong destructive power. Battalion infantry equipment."

Sima Haotian opened another wooden box, which contained the same standard sword.When the third box was opened, the shape of the saber inside had changed, it was a lancet with a scabbard.The sword was drawn out, and the surface of the blade was smeared with a special kind of grease. It was probably due to being sealed for so many years.

"Good knife."

Li Mo took a closer look at the scabbard and hilt. There are patterns of grass leaves such as peonies and sunflowers, and the shape of auspicious beasts. The back of the blade is decorated with bamboo knots and gossip patterns, and the blood grooves are also varied.These war knives are very beautifully forged, with exquisite workmanship and extraordinary decoration.

"Professor Li, let's start counting the weapons here one by one. It seems that these swords have not seen blood. They will definitely attract people's attention when they are placed in the museum in the future."

Sima Haotian checked the time, he could still do a lot of work before dark.Li Mo nodded. In addition to the straight-backed machete and lancet that he had seen, there were waist knives and goose feather knives in the other wooden boxes.These knives are actually quite common among the people.

The types of official knives in the early Qing Dynasty were not very rich. In the future, there will be Shun Dao, Nest Dao, Zha Dao, Zhanma Dao, etc. These are all unified fighting knives.

Of course, among these piled up wooden boxes, there are also ten boxes that store firearms and long guns, proper antique guns.Now that thing is either stored at home, or it can only be handed over to the authorities for disposal.

The wooden box Chinese weapons are all good, and the casting is very perfect.As for the scattered weapons on the ground, they were either damaged weapons, or they were seriously rusted, and basically had no combat effectiveness or lethality.

More people do things quickly and in an orderly manner. Several people form a small team, unpacking, inspection, registration, packing and other procedures are completed, and then handed over to soldiers to carry them out and load them into helicopters, and transport them to the temporary barracks outside the mountain for guarding.

"Wu Sangui must have been ambitious at that time, so he built a secret base in this ghostly place. Since there is a military casting workshop here, I guess there must be other types of workshops. The main purpose is to carry out some secret bases. Preparations for storing materials. Perhaps he also kept a secret hand in order to guard against Emperor Kangxi who was far away in the capital, so that even if something important happened, he would have a way out, and he might stand up again in the future."

Sima Haotian analyzed the weapons while counting them. This was close to Li Mo's previous thoughts.

"Those things are too far away from us. At that time, no one knew why Wu Sangui left this hand. Unless we can find a book with written records somewhere in this ghost mountain, we can only guess by ourselves."

Li Mo looked at the dozens of boxes of weapons, and after they were all cleared out, he collected and researched some other casting tools in the cave.

"Professor Li, these weapons have been collected. If they are put in the museum in the future, they will be able to clear the independent museum of war knives."

"I think so too, but basically there will be no more museums."

Li Mo sighed a little.

Professor Sima turned to look at him, and asked in surprise, "Why won't it be built again?"

"There is no land in the Yanjiao area, and I will be approved to build a museum. So many antiques I brought back from Europe are now stored in the underground treasure house. And the treasure house is almost full, and I am very worried now. I am worried about Wu Sangui's treasure. After it’s all shipped out, there’s not even a place to store treasures. Don’t mention it, it’ll be tears if you say too much.”