curse

Chapter 28

"Director Wen, it's a pity that we meet again." Ye Xiao said coldly.

Wen Haogu's complexion was very bad, and all the solemn spirit disappeared. Ye Xiao looked at his face and felt that his spirit was about to collapse, but Wen Haogu still said very gracefully: "I'm sorry, Officer Ye , This kind of thing happened again in the institute, I really trouble you.”

Ye Xiao and Wen Haogu were walking in the corridor of the Institute of Archaeology, surrounded by several policemen who were busy passing by, he said softly: "I heard that Director Wen was the first to discover the dead?"

"Yes, our office goes to work at 8 o'clock. I arrived at the unit half an hour earlier as usual, and found something unusual in the unit. It seemed that someone had been there, so I checked all the rooms in the office, and finally arrived at Jianghe Yang Xiaolong was found in the room where the accident happened." Wen Haogu replied calmly.

"This is already the fourth one." Ye Xiao said to himself in his heart.

When they walked into that room, Ye Xiao's colleagues were busy dealing with the scene. This was the second time they had come here to investigate the death scene within a few weeks, so they were all familiar with it.A colleague said to Ye Xiao: "The deceased committed suicide by cutting his wrist with a fruit knife that was only 4 cm long. The fruit knife came from the key chain on the deceased's body. It seems that he had always carried it with him. In addition, According to preliminary judgment, the time of death was around 3:4 to [-]:[-] this morning."

Ye Xiao's heart was shocked. It turned out that it was last night. He left here with Bai Bi around 12 o'clock in the middle of the night, and the accident happened between 3 o'clock and 4 o'clock. Just a few hours before the accident, Bai Bi was still there. in this room.Ye Xiao cursed himself secretly in his heart, why didn't he go back outside the archaeological institute and continue monitoring, maybe this accident could be avoided.He shook his head to himself and sighed softly, but tried not to let anyone see it.

He looked at the deceased who was still lying on the chair. The deceased was about 40 years old, with a slightly dark complexion, but looked good.The incision on the wrist had long since coagulated, but the blood had probably drained almost.He suddenly felt a few small insects flying by, he frowned, and waved his hands in disgust to drive away these bloodthirsty insects. At the scene of death, there are often various insects infesting, for For them, the flesh and blood of the dead is a good meal.He thought, if Wen Haogu hadn't noticed something strange and opened the door to check again, I'm afraid this corpse would have been stored here without anyone knowing. , I'm afraid people thought it was the skeleton of an ancient person often seen in archaeological institutes.

Ye Xiao saw a blank piece of paper on the table with some words he couldn't understand written on it, he couldn't help asking Wen Haogu beside him: "What words are these?"

"It's an ancient text called Kuluwen. These words mean curse."

"Curse?" Ye Xiao's heart suddenly sank when he heard these two words.

"Yes, I am a professional in this field. Yang Xiaolong is also proficient in this ancient script."

"Director Wen, thank you for your cooperation, you can go out now."

Wen Haogu left the room with a gloomy expression.

Ye Xiao put on his gloves, took out the tweezers, and picked up the piece of paper. He carefully looked at the writing on the paper. The strange writing, what color was it?The black is not like black, and the blue is not like blue. The lines of the text are very thick, not written with an ordinary pen, but like some kind of marker pen.He looked carefully again, and found that many places in the middle of the strokes were peeled off and blank, and there was a special smell from the paper. Ye Xiao thought for a while, and then noticed the other hand of the deceased who hadn't cut the wrist , On the tip of the index finger of that hand, he found many bloodstains.Ye Xiao finally understood that these words were not written with a pen, but with blood.After the deceased cut his wrist, he dipped the finger of one hand into the blood from the wrist wound and wrote it on the paper stroke by stroke. This is a veritable blood letter.He didn't understand why the deceased would do this?Is it a warning?

Ye Xiao observed Jiang He's computer again, and then said to his colleagues: "After the on-site investigation is completed, move this computer back to the bureau. I want to study it."

Then, he came to the window, looked at the bushes outside the window, and then quickly walked out of the room, out of the small building, into the bushes, and went around to the window of the room where the accident happened.He bent down and looked carefully at the ground outside the window. In the mud with weeds growing underground, he finally found two vague footprints, which were too blurred due to the growth of weeds.But he still called his colleagues over, dug out the soil connecting the two footprints, and sent them to the bureau to make a plaster model.

A few minutes later, Ye Xiao found Lin Zisu and asked him alone in a room.He first looked up and down the man in front of him, and found that Lin Zisu's eyes were always avoiding, and then asked, "Mr. Lin, are you familiar with the deceased?"

"Very familiar. Yang Xiaolong is a top professional in the institute, especially proficient in ancient languages ​​and characters. I have always had a good personal relationship with him, and we have a good understanding at work. I didn't expect him to commit suicide suddenly. We are all very sad." Lin Zisu's answer was quite satisfactory.

"Since you know him very well, why do you think Yang Xiaolong committed suicide?"

"This..." Lin Zisu stopped suddenly. He lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "Maybe it's because of too much work pressure. Like Director Wen, he has never been married. How many people are willing to marry us. Coupled with our working environment, there may have been some psychological problems for a long time, and if we can't figure it out, we will commit suicide."

"Mr. Lin also knows some psychology?"

"No, no, just talking casually."

Ye Xiao looked into his eyes coldly, and changed the subject: "I heard that one month before Jiang He's accident, your institute went to Xinjiang to conduct an archaeological activity, didn't you?"

"Yeah, what's the matter?"

Ye Xiao observed Lin Zisu's answer, he could hear something from the other party's language, he continued: "I really want to know the details of that archaeological visit, please tell me, how many people did you go to?"

"A total of 6 people, Director Wen, Jiang He, Xu Anduo, Zhang Kai, Yang Xiaolong, and me."

Ye Xiao looked at him with a strange look, and then said lightly: "So, so far, all the 4 dead people in your institute have participated in that archaeology? And among the 6 people, only you and Wensuo There is no accident with the two of you." He suddenly changed the subject, "Can you talk about the archaeological work in detail?"

"Actually, university-affiliated research institutes like ours are generally not qualified to go to other places to participate in archaeological excavations. However, Director Wen is a very responsible person. He has been paying attention to cultural relics all over the country. The phenomenon of looting and excavation. Whenever such news comes, he is very worried. Officer Ye, I am a member of the circle. The damage caused by the ruins is simply appalling. Especially in Xinjiang, it is particularly serious. Director Wen has a good friend in the local department in Xinjiang, so when cultural relics are stolen somewhere in Xinjiang, we can all know the inside information at the first time. More than two months ago, Director Wen called several of our business backbones and told us that a serious cultural relic excavation incident had just occurred in Lop Nur, Xinjiang, and an important cultural relic site had been destroyed. Jiang He was very excited at that time, and he took the initiative to Petitioning Director Wen, asking to go to Xinjiang to protect cultural relics, heck, young people, just impulsive. But I didn’t expect Director Wen to support Jianghe’s wish, and decided that our team would go to Xinjiang to participate in the local cultural relics department’s work Salvage excavation."

"What is rescue excavation?"

"When the cultural relic site is destroyed, in order to protect the site from further damage and rescue the remaining cultural relics, the site is excavated. Because if the damaged site is left exposed in the wilderness, it will not be destroyed a second time. Looting may also be destroyed by ups and downs in nature, so rescue excavations must be carried out. Rescue excavations are passive, and criminals are always the first step, and then the cultural relics department will chew on those tomb robbers It's not very pleasant to eat leftovers. There are too many things like this these days. To be honest, I don't agree with Director Wen's decision, but since he has made a decision, then we We had no choice but to accept it. The six of us formed a small expedition team together. The funds of the archaeological institute were limited. We had no money to fly, so we had to take the train to Xinjiang. With the cooperation of the local cultural relics department, we drove to Lop Nur .”

"To the ancient city of Loulan?" Ye Xiao suddenly interrupted.

"No, it's not the place we usually call the ancient city of Loulan, but it also belongs to the Loulan civilization. Lop Nur is very large, and there are many cultural relics from different periods. We went to an ancient tomb, which is dozens of kilometers away from the ancient city of Loulan. When we got there, we found that the ancient tomb had been damaged to a certain extent, but fortunately, the internal structure of the ancient tomb has not been damaged, which may be due to internal strife caused by the uneven distribution of spoils during the robbery process. The interior of the ancient tomb escaped unharmed. Next, we started the normal excavation work until the end of the work. Due to the very bad conditions there and the lack of necessary equipment, it took nearly 1 year months to complete."

"How's the harvest?"

"What we do in archaeology is not digging for treasures. The key is how to find important information from archaeological excavations and provide specific help for historical research. Why, Officer Ye is also interested in this?"

"No, just asking casually. Mr. Lin, thank you for your cooperation, you can go back."

Lin Zisu nodded, and when he walked to the door, he suddenly turned around and said, "I'm sorry, Police Officer Ye, please don't tell Director Wen about this matter. Because Director Wen doesn't want us to discuss this archaeology This time the archaeological activities in Xinjiang were made by our Institute of Archaeology without the approval of the superior management department, so it was carried out in secret. But please believe that Director Wen did not have any selfish intentions in what he did. , It is entirely because the current cultural relics are too rampant, and the cultural relics departments all over the country are simply overwhelmed, and he is doing this to protect cultural relics."

"I see, you go."

Ye Xiao was the only one left in the room. He quietly recalled what Lin Zisu said, and suddenly felt ashamed in his heart.

(End of this chapter)