At the foot of Xing Mountain.
Outside a collapsed area, several field tents had already been set up, and the perimeter was even fenced up.
Sun Yuan was dressed in clean outdoor sportswear with an identity tag hanging in front of his chest. He followed behind Professor Xiang and prepared to carry out protective excavation work on the newly discovered ancient tomb.
Ever since that man showed him that he could do whatever he wanted as long as he was handsome, Sun Yuan was dispirited for two days. However, he soon got over it.
After all, he was nearing graduation and was under great pressure to find a job. This was the most pressing matter!
Who would want to date when there was no food to eat?!
Professor Xiang had already revealed that if he performed well during this internship, he would receive a recommendation letter.
At this moment, two burly men dressed like migrant workers came forward and shook hands with Professor Xiang passionately. "Professor Xiang, we have already taken a look. This tomb is not small. From the analysis of the excavated soil, it might be from the Yan Han period. This is a huge tomb!"
Sun Yuan noticed that the fingers of the person who spoke were of the same length. His pupils constricted.
"Yes, I have confidence in Worker Hu's skills and eyesight."
Professor Xiang introduced the two of them. "This is my student, Sun Yuan! Sun Yuan, these two are Worker Hu and Metal Worker Hu. They are skilled in field excavations and are professional technicians. "" Haha, Professor Xiang, you flatter us.
We are all uneducated people. Our ancestors worked as excavators. Life was tough back then, and we couldn't survive if we didn't do it. After all, it has a long history of 100,000 years. We could easily make a living by digging anything. After Xia En was established, we abandoned the rules of our ancestors and joined the Historical Archaeology Team to make a living. Everything we dig up will be handed over to the country and we can even get a job. It's great! "
Worker Hu was very talkative. When he saw Sun Yuan looking at his fingers, he smiled and introduced himself. "Look at this pair of hands. They were trained from inserting iron sand when I was young. They are extremely fast at digging!"
Sun Yuan nodded. He knew that in ancient times, tomb robbers would sometimes dig the ground with their hands to prevent making too much noise or not damaging cultural relics. However, it was rare to see someone doing this. He couldn't help but exclaim in admiration, "Worker Hu, your hands would be at the level of a martial arts expert in ancient times."
"Haha … That's true. With this skill, even three to five burly men can't take me down!"
Engineer Hu laughed heartily. At this moment, a staff member came over with a bronze fragment. "Professor, Engineer Hu, we found something!"
"Look … there are fire clouds below the coiling dragon inscriptions on the bronze plate. It's the style of Yan Han's era, and judging from the number of fire clouds, it's from Emperor Shenwu's era."
Professor Xiang wore white gloves and used a brush to carefully brush off the sand on the bronze piece. He placed the magnifying glass on the bronze piece and said with a smile, "I've finally found a big one this time. Yan Han's tomb is rarely seen. After all, it has been destroyed over the years. This tomb is buried very deep. If not for this landslide, we might not have discovered it …"
"Tsk tsk!"
Beside him, the metalworker also sighed in admiration, "Our ancestor once said that if we want to rob a tomb, we should rob the ones before Yan Han. Like Da Song and Da Sheng after that … they are all gold and silver antiques. But the ones before Yan Han, such as Xian Qin, Shang, and Zhou tombs … might have divine artifacts! "
Engineer Hu shook his head. "Save it, Old Jin. The tombs before Yan Han's martial prowess are either ordinary or extremely dangerous. Many ancestors have fallen into them. If this is one of those dangerous tombs, we have to be more careful."
When Sun Yuan heard this, the corner of his mouth twitched. "Didn't they say that the ones before Yan Han are all fake history?"
Professor Xiang put down the bronze piece and pushed up his glasses. "There is such a saying. Because the records before Emperor Shenwu often talk about cultivation, immortals, and gods, it's too unbelievable. So, the history world now basically rejects the history before Yan Han's martial prowess as fake history. But through those mythical records, we can at least speculate that before Yan Han, there was indeed a tribe called 'Xian Qin' … Of course, the people of that tribe might be especially fond of bragging and treating myths as history. I reckon that the shaman priests at that time had the habit of using hallucinogenic plants to numb themselves …"
"Professor is right."
Sun Yuan nodded repeatedly. This was the real materialistic view of history.
Just like that guy with the surname Zhong, what nonsense was he talking about? It was not much different from the ravings of a mental patient.
After the group of people prepared, they put on their professional equipment and went down the tomb.
"Eh?"
Sun Yuan touched the wall and was instantly shocked. "What … kind of alloy is this?"
The entire tomb was made of metal and would not rust for ten thousand years. It was still very well preserved, and there were no accidents like collapses.
"This pattern is very similar to the bronze steel unearthed from the Nine Star Pile …"
Professor Xiang's eyes lit up. "Great, this is also a good discovery. At least it proves that the advanced technology of the Nine Star Pile was already in place during Yan Han's era …"
Sun Yuan also knew about the famous' Nine Star Pile '. In fact, as an archaeologist with a conscience, there was no one who didn't know about that relic.
The 'Nine Star Pile' was the largest ancient relic that Xia En had discovered. It was filled with all kinds of incredible ancient technological wonders.
For example … a city completely made of steel, a bronze female statue that was hundreds of meters tall, and so on …
This made many historians believe that the ancient East once developed a highly developed civilization, but it later declined and became a prehistoric relic.
And the 'Nine Star Pile' was one of the cities of the prehistoric civilization!
After walking through the long tomb passage, the few of them came to an ancient bronze door.
The door was tall and majestic, and there were two ferocious beasts carved on it.
"Behind this door is probably the main chamber of the tomb owner!"
Professor Xiang said, "We'll have to ask Worker Hu and Metal Worker to help."
"No problem."
Worker Hu nodded. Looking at the patterns on the door, he revealed a hint of joy. "We're quite lucky to have encountered an ancient curse mechanism!"
"Curse? Why is it considered 'quite lucky'? "
Sun Yuan was a little suspicious.
He knew that the tomb owners in ancient times, in order to not want their descendants to disturb them, they designed all kinds of sinister mechanisms. Some even destroyed the entire tomb once activated, causing everyone to perish together. It was unknown how many tomb robbers and archaeologists were fooled by this.
"This kind of anti-theft tomb design is also differentiated by era. Basically … before the Shenwu era, the people at that time worshiped the Dao of witchcraft. They always liked to use supernatural things to scare people, such as ghosts, formations, tomb guarding spirit beasts … But basically, it looked good on the surface, but in reality, it was useless. But this was also related to their overconfidence. If the technology of the 'Nine Star Pile' was applied to anti-theft, it would be a truly dangerous tomb! "
"Later on, with the development of the times, all kinds of anti-theft tomb techniques reached the pinnacle. Things like quicksand, broken dragon stones, chain flipping boards, machine crossbows were all invented … What was more terrifying was the placement of all kinds of biological toxins, causing all tomb robbers to die. The ancient people were ignorant and thought that it was a mysterious curse. It was only in modern times that they started to decipher it scientifically."
Worker Hu took a big step forward and started to push the door. "This bronze door is the famous Blood Curse Door in ancient times. It looks scary, but in reality, it's nothing. It's not some technological creation of the prehistoric civilization. We're lucky!"
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