Yin trace

Hundreds of years later...

12 12 Month 21 Day.

Zhouyuan, Shaanxi, a highland not far from the banks of the Weihe River.

The highland is obviously an ancient relic, and many places have been excavated. The ruined city walls and building foundations have finally been seen after being buried for countless years.

But more ruins are still hidden deep in the ground and have not yet been excavated.So on this highland, there are still many archaeologists active.

However, this is not the center of this archaeological activity. In the northwest, a larger excavation site is being excavated in full swing, and within a few square kilometers around the excavation site, it is surrounded by a cordon and erected "archaeological site". An important place, no entry for idlers" sign.

There are still many heavily armed soldiers guarding the cordon, which fully demonstrates the importance of this archaeological site. If there were no particularly valuable items unearthed, it is generally impossible to have such a huge formation.

Inside the cordon, countless tents made of plastic film and steel pipes covered the excavated places.The space inside the tent has been stabilized in a constant temperature world, and the air has been emptied as much as possible.In archaeological activities, such measures are not common. They are usually measures taken after the excavation of ancient tombs to ensure that the funerary objects in the tombs will not be exposed to the air and quickly deteriorate.

At this time, in the closed archaeological site numbered D-09, many archaeologists wearing protective clothing were coming in and out, and those who came out were carrying boxes that had already been numbered on them.After these boxes were sent outside, the staff picked them up and sent them to a more spacious tent not far away for placement.

At the excavation site, a man with a gas mask on his face reminded the archaeologists below with a dignified voice to carefully extract the funerary objects from the ancient tomb.

"Xiao Zheng, pay attention to the stone letter on your left, Xiao Zhou, take a camera first and record the location, yes, that's it, be careful, get the stone letter up first..."

The man's name is Chen Ziyun, he is 29 years old, and he is a well-known archaeologist in China.The site being excavated is a site from the Western Zhou Dynasty. Originally, the ancient ruins in this area had been discovered in the 90s of the last century, but there has been no plan for excavation.But recently, this place was discovered by tomb robbers, and many accidents occurred, so the government had to adopt a protective excavation.

This ancient tomb has been excavated for a few days, and the surrounding funerary objects have been cleaned up. Now only the bones inside the coffin are left, which is also the most valuable part of the ancient tomb excavation.

"Professor Chen, someone is looking for you outside." A voice came from the communicator.

Chen Ziyun frowned, didn't ask who it was, and said directly: "Let him wait, I don't have time now." The excavation of tomb d-09 is entering the most critical time, there is no special important thing, he can never Will leave temporarily.

"It's Major Xie." The voice in the communicator hesitated for a moment before reporting a voice: "He said he has something very urgent to find you... Hey, it's me, come out." The voice in the communicator immediately Replaced by another person.

Hearing this voice, Chen Ziyun felt a little helpless, and said, "What's going on? I really can't leave now. If there is nothing particularly urgent, just wait for me for a while."

"Another place has been stolen." Xie Feng understood Chen Ziyun's temperament very well, and said bluntly: "When we arrived, two tomb robbers had passed away, and the other was insane."

"I'll come out right away." Chen Ziyun's body froze, and he quickly replied to Xie Feng.

Although the space was a bit cramped, Chen Ziyun's tent was well organized.Xie Feng put his legs on the table, leaned against the back of the chair, and was smoking a cigarette with a cigarette in his mouth.

Chen Ziyun stepped into the tent, looked at the smoky room, his face darkened even more, and said: "Pull the smoke, there are many cultural relics in my tent!"

Xie Feng didn't answer, but stretched out the cowhide bag in front of Chen Ziyun, and said, "Look at this quickly. From last night to now, I haven't closed my eyes. If I don't smoke to refresh myself, I can't bear it."

Xie Feng's voice was a little hoarse, his eyes were bloodshot, obviously he wasn't lying.

"What's going on?" Chen Ziyun asked while unpacking the file bag.

"What else is going on. This is the fourth time in three months." Xie Feng yawned and said, "I still hope to get some clues from you."

Chen Ziyun bowed his head in silence, took out a few thin sheets of paper from his file bag, and read them carefully.When he saw a rubbing, he frowned slightly and said, "It's this pattern again?!"

"That's right, it's Xuanniao, otherwise why would I come to you in such a hurry?"

The pattern on the paper is a pattern rubbed off from a utensil.For Chen Ziyun, who has rich archaeological experience, this pattern is really familiar.This is the sacred object of the Yin and Shang Dynasties: Xuanniao.

The rubbing pattern of Xuanniao looks very simple, but the knife technique is very skillful, and it does not look like an ancient utensil.So when Chen Ziyun saw this pattern for the first time, he decided that it was a Xibei product rubbed from a modern imitation handicraft.

It's just that Chen Ziyun didn't understand why several groups of tomb thieves all carried such rubbings on their bodies, and in the process of tomb robbery, they all suffered accidental deaths repeatedly?

Recalling the actions of these tomb robbers, Chen Ziyun was full of doubts.

In fact, the first place that the tomb robber with the black bird rubbings on his body visited was the land under his feet.These tomb robbers did not know how to find the ancient tombs in this place, and carried out robbing.But it's a pity, maybe the technology is not up to standard, the quality of the robbery cave they unearthed is not up to standard, a collapse happened, the two guys who went to the ground were buried alive in the tomb, and the one who let the wind outside also fell down In the collapsed tomb, two ribs were broken. Originally, this was not a particularly serious injury and would not be fatal, but the broken rib pierced the tomb robber's lung. As a result, the unlucky tomb robber was in pain in the cemetery His death was already two days later when he was discovered.

Because of this, the ruins of the ancient city of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the ruins of ancient tombs on the river bank were also forced to be excavated in advance.But this is not an isolated incident. In the following time, almost every two weeks, similar incidents will occur. So far, there have been a total of four such incidents.

Xie Feng rubbed his temples and said: "The four tomb robbery incidents seem to be isolated incidents, but they are actually closely related. For example, the number of tomb robbers is three, and they all have the pattern of black birds on their bodies. ...They all died unexpectedly. Moreover, the most puzzling thing is that no matter what methods are used to investigate these people, their identities cannot be determined, as if they just appeared out of thin air. "

"Isn't there still one alive?" Chen Ziyun asked.

"Permanent mental trauma, in other words, he has become an idiot, unable to ask half a word." Xie Feng's voice seemed very frustrated.

"Actually, there are a few other features." Chen Ziyun added: "The ancient tombs chosen by these people are all large tombs from the Western Zhou Dynasty. I can even confirm that two of them are large tombs of the princely level." , Chen Ziyun's voice was a little excited.You must know that many ancient tombs in the Western Zhou Dynasty have been unearthed, but no large tombs of the king's tomb level have been unearthed. If the ancient tombs discovered have the existence of the king's tomb, it will be quite a sensational discovery.

After a while, Chen Ziyun continued: "From the blueprints of the mysterious bird they carry, we can infer that what they are looking for should be the funerary objects related to the mysterious bird. It's just that it is difficult to understand that the mysterious bird belongs to the Yin Shang Dynasty. Sacred objects, similar jade or bronze castings were found in the ruins of the merchants. How did these tomb robbers come to the tombs of the Zhou people to look for them? Are the times wrong? If you want to steal items from the Yin and Shang Dynasties , should run to Henan..."