Chapter 10 Chapter Nine Bamboo and Wood Briefs

The stone pavilion was crumbling, and the sealing soil above it was cracked. Looking up, you could see the night sky. The surrounding walls of the underground palace had all collapsed, and the rock walls were exposed.Under the pavilion, mercury is flowing slowly, and the stones and soil are mixed with jade and bronze wares. The underground palace is no longer what it used to be. Dora: "Grandpa, the computer says our odds of survival are 825 to 1." Hawthorne: "Don't worry, your brother Linfeng will always think of a way." Linfeng said: "I have nothing to do, I only know that this place is very dangerous, we should change to a safe place as soon as possible."

Professor Lu Li said, "Where is it safe?" Linfeng looked around, pointed to a sunken rock wall in front of him and said, "There." Dora said, "How shall we go, unless we fly like birds." Linfeng said: "Then we will fly over." Linfeng took out a roll of bundled fairy rope, installed the tungsten steel arrowhead, and fired it with a catapult. The arrowhead dragged the long bundle of fairy rope and shot it into the rock wall in front. In this way, a suspended sling is made.Hawthorne and Professor Lu Li used the roller skating device to slide over one after another. The pavilion shook and half collapsed. Time was running out, and the pavilion might collapse at any time.

Linfeng said: "Hold me." Dora said, "Okay." Linfeng said: "Close your eyes." "Okay," said Dora. Dora's heart was pounding, she hugged Linfeng's neck, this was the first time in her life that she embraced a man, the two hearts were so close.Linfeng hugged her waist, asking her to hold her tighter, she clasped her fingers together, and leaned her head on Linfeng's shoulder.Dora was not at all worried, for the man she embraced was nothing short of a hero, capable of almost anything.She closed her eyes and couldn't hear any sound anymore. She said to herself: "Ah, my face is red." Then, she felt that she was flying, they were flying in the air, and the river of mercury slowed down. Flowing slowly, the two-thousand-year underground palace collapsed into ruins, and above the ruins, a flower quietly bloomed, layer upon layer like a rosebud.

Dora opened her eyes, and they were in the recess of the rock. Dora said, "I like that feeling." Linfeng smiled at her. Dora lowered her head, a little sad, "But I know, this feeling may never happen again." The stone pavilion collapsed, and immediately, the sealing layer above collapsed, and the entire underground palace was buried.The four members of the archaeological team hid in the recess of the rock wall and survived.They looked up and saw the starry sky, the huge mounds of earth had all collapsed, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang had turned into a sinkhole. Linfeng fired a signal firework, and the fireworks bloomed in the air. After a while, they heard the sound of propellers rotating at high speed, and a camouflaged helicopter flew over in the night sky.The helicopter lowered the rescue rope ladder, and ten minutes later, the helicopter carrying four people slowly landed in the open space of the military restricted area of ​​Qinshihuang Mausoleum.The air waves made the grass in the night undulate. Hawthorne, Professor Lu Li, Linfeng, and Dora got off the helicopter.

Professor Lu Li and Hawthorne looked back at the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, and let out a long sigh. For two thousand years, the flowers bloomed and fell on this earthen mountain, and the underground was silent.Like the arrows of locusts passing through the Chu River and the Han border and disappearing in time, the iron cavalry of the Three Kingdoms gradually drifted away in the old dream of the Chrysanthemum Garden in the Jin and Jin Dynasties.For two thousand years, who played the piano in the pavilion on the mountain, the apricot blossoms fell to the ground and turned into dust.And who is sending you off thousands of miles down the mountain, and the road back is covered with heavy snow.The rain keeps scouring, the new wind keeps blowing, and the river that once reflected the stars and the flames of war has long since dried up.Now there is only a cool breeze and green grass, just like two thousand years ago.

Linfeng reported the whole archaeological process to the chief of the military region, and the chief ordered the officers and soldiers to form four search teams, led by police dogs, to search for the tomb robber Guise in an all-round way, and Linfeng served as the commander of the search. Professor Lu Li said, "We got nothing." The head of the military region said: "Although I am a soldier, I also believe in the number of days. Some things are beyond our control." Hawthorne said, "I'm so sorry that Keith took Black Knife." The chief said: "It's not your fault, we will catch him."

Professor Lu Li said: "You still have to lead everyone in the rescue excavation of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum." Hawthorne said: "We didn't get nothing. If it were you, what would you choose to take away from Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum?" Professor Lu Li said, "Ancestral Dragon Seal." Huo Sang said: "The Zulong Yuxi and the mysterious black knife are peerless treasures, but there is one more important thing that you seem to have forgotten." Professor Lu Li said, "What?" Huo Sang said: "The bamboo and wood slips placed on the case of Qin Shihuang, what is recorded on it must have a profound meaning."

Professor Lu Li said: "It's a pity that the bamboo and wood slips were pressed under the seal. Even if they were excavated, they would be completely unrecognizable, and the handwriting would be difficult to read. Master Ju's video camera was also buried inside." Hawthorne said: "We have brought out the Jane of Bamboo and Wood." Professor Lu Li said, "Where is it?" Huo Sanan took out Dora's camera and said, "Here!" The photo was developed overnight, but Dora's shooting skills are not very good, the text on the bamboo slip in the photo looks blurry, Professor Lu Li used a VSC2000 text detector to magnify it 10,000 times, and then used a thin-layer scanner to make the picture After clear processing, each word is projected onto the background wall and arranged in the original order.

"The words are like tadpoles," Hawthorne said. Professor Lu Li said: "Tadpole script is an ancient script from the pre-Qin period, and it is a kind of esoteric ancient script." Hawthorne said, "Can you decipher it?" Professor Lu Li said, "Yes, but it will take time." Hawthorne said, "How long?" Professor Lu Li said, "Maybe a few days, maybe a few years." The chief said, "Should we call together experts in ancient writing from all over the country to help you decipher it together?" Professor Lu Li said: "No, every word and sentence on this is top secret. Although I don't know what is recorded on it now, I can tell you that the scroll of bamboo and wood slips in Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum should be It can be called a heavenly book. The Cangjie Book, Dayu Book, Xunlou Stele, and Bashu symbols have been discovered in China, and they are called the Four Heavenly Books because they are so complicated and confusing that no one can understand them.”

Three days have passed, and Professor Lu Li has not even deciphered a single word. Professor Lu Li forgot to sleep and eat, often staring at the tadpole text on the projection wall for several hours in a daze, then quickly picked up the notes to write down something, and then fell into long-term thinking again.In the past three days, Linfeng led the officers and soldiers to launch a large-scale search, but the tomb robber Keith disappeared without a trace, and the search failed.Huo Sang and the archaeologists began to excavate the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor. Huo Sang asked Linfeng to help take care of Dora, because as soon as Dora left the military restricted zone, hundreds of reporters would surround her like flies. This young girl who was not deeply involved in the world got first-hand information about Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum.

Dora is bored in the military restricted area all day long, and she wants Linfeng to take her around to play. Linfeng can kill a bear with his bare hands, but he feels helpless with this little girl.They traveled through mountains and rivers, and in a forest with flying red leaves, Dora and Linfeng sat under a tree. Dora said: "These days, Uncle Lu is staring at those tadpoles in a daze, and I am also thinking about a question." Linfeng said, "What's the problem?" Dora said: "I hope grandpa will dig slowly. If the digging is over soon, grandpa and I will leave too, but I haven't figured out how to say goodbye to you yet." Linfeng said: "Is this the problem?" Dora said, "Yes, I'd love to say this to you, well, we're going, we're going back to America, good-bye, but I can't, and I think I'll cry." Linfeng said, "Why are you crying?" Dora said: "Because... maybe this is a farewell, never to see each other again." Linfeng said: "Maybe." Dora said, "Do you have a girlfriend?" Linfeng said: "Yes." The maple leaves fell to the ground, thick as a carpet, the two lay on the ground, Lin Feng looked at the sky and said: "You know, you remind me of many past events..." Dora did not continue to ask, those past events may be related to another woman. A few days later, in the early morning, Professor Lu Li let out a scream, which sounded creepy in the silent early morning.Hawthorne, Dora, Linfeng, and the head of the military region were all awakened from their sleep. They quickly got up from their barracks and ran to Professor Lu Li's temporary research room. They couldn't believe it—Professor Lu Li's night The hair is all white in between. Hawthorne said: "Have you finally deciphered the tadpole script on the Bamboo and Wood Letters?" Professor Lu Li nodded. The chief said: "What is recorded on it, and how did you torture you like this?" Professor Lu Li was sitting on a chair. He wanted to stand up, but fell into the pile of waste paper in the room. Linfeng stepped forward to help him up. He pushed Linfeng away and took two steps. .He talked to himself, walked out of the door stiffly, stared blankly at the sky for a while, then lowered his head in a daze, after a while, he actually walked and laughed like an idiot, smiling and laughing Then, tears flowed down. Hawthorne said, "Tell us, what is recorded on the bamboo slip?"