The heavy rain came as expected, and the Mu Us Desert seemed to change from a calm plain to a rough sea, and we were just a powerless boat in the wind and waves.WWW.tsxsw.COM..

The sky and the earth were so gray that it was impossible to see anything clearly two or three meters away. I struggled to open my eyes against the wind, but I could only see Tana vaguely in front of me, who was dragging the panicked camel with all her strength.

"Everyone... hold on tight, don't... get separated!"

Her voice came, only a few steps away, and it became intermittent and blurry.

I opened my mouth to say yes, but the rainwater wrapped in the gravel and poured in directly with the wind, and I suddenly felt difficulty breathing.

The rain was hit by the wind and hurt our faces, but none of us could take care of it. We just held hands and trudged forward in the heavy rain with one foot deep and one foot shallow. We didn't dare to stay in one place.

I am afraid that if I stop, I will be buried by the yellow sand mixed with the rain and become a withered skeleton in the desert.

I don’t know how long this heavy rain lasted. I only know that when the sky and the earth regained a trace of tranquility, it was already bright!

After I wrung out my wet clothes, I went to check the supplies. Fortunately, the loss was not too great. I only lost two camels. The key food and water were still there. It was a great blessing among misfortunes. In this desert, if

Without water and food, it would be better to just die in the heavy rain, so as not to be slowly tortured to death.

Convinced that the key supplies were still there, I breathed a sigh of relief, and then I had time to look at the other team members. Both Tana and Fang Cheng were in good condition. Although their faces were a little green, they were not serious. Professor Chen and Lin Ling were better.

It was serious. Not only was his face pale, but he was also shaking non-stop. He must have caught a cold. Lin Ling, in particular, was a little wobbly when walking.

We don’t have any medicine on hand. If they fall ill at this time, they may never be able to leave the desert! I am worried and considering whether to persuade Professor Chen to give up this archaeological project and go back first.

Lin Ling stumbled and fell to the ground, then let out a cry of surprise!

My heart sank, she must have fallen ill so quickly! I quickly ran forward and helped her up from the ground.

"How are you? Are you okay?" She was still awake and did not faint.

"Brother Taozi, I'm fine, I just got mixed up a bit!" Lin Ling replied, although her voice was a little weak, she was still quite energetic.

I breathed a sigh of relief and glanced behind her to see what had knocked her down. In this desert, apart from sand, it was sand, at most it was mixed with sheep dung eggs, what else could there be!

"Eh!" A small half of a stone was exposed on the sand. It looked like a monument. The strange thing was that the small half exposed was actually bright red blood.

"Professor Chen! Come and see!" I greeted, and then I stood down and looked carefully at the half of the stone tablet in front of me. It looked like an ancient relic, with many places damaged and there seemed to be words engraved on it.

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"This should be a stone tablet, dig it up and have a look!" Professor Chen confirmed my judgment.

Following his instructions, we slowly and carefully dug out the gravel next to the stone monument. After working for more than half an hour, the entire stone monument finally appeared in front of us.

When we saw the appearance of the stele, we were all shocked. The whole stele was about one and a half meters high and more than half a meter wide. The upper part was slightly damaged. The whole stele was bright red in color, and it could be seen from the damaged surface that even the stones inside were

There are some vague writings engraved on the front of the blood-red stone tablet, which Professor Chen is carefully identifying.

I have no interest in those writings, but the red color on the stone tablet is very problematic - the color is bright red and uneven, and even reddish-brown in some places. According to my experience, it looks like it is stained with blood, but strangely, this

How did the color penetrate into the inside of the stele? Also, if it was really stained with blood, it would not have remained bright red for so many years. This stele looks old at first glance, I estimate it is at least more than 1,000 years old.

I was puzzled and was about to ask Professor Chen for advice when I realized that the old man was looking at the stone tablet blankly and mumbling to himself.

"Professor Chen, Professor Chen!" I called a few times before Professor Chen reacted and said excitedly:

"I didn't expect it to be true, I didn't expect it to be true!"

What is true? The words are not clear. Isn't this old man sick from the rain? I asked cautiously: "What is true?"

"Is this stone tablet true..., no, is it what the "Historical Records" says is true?" Professor Chen became even more excited, grabbing my arm and shaking it.

Where are all this? Why did you pull out "Historical Records"? I tried my best to break away from Professor Chen's paw and lowered my head to read the words on the stone tablet. I rubbed my arms while reading - this old man's hands are not weak.

The scratches hurt me.

The stone tablet was actually engraved with small seal script. I got excited when I saw this, because this small seal script was the official text established by Qin Shihuang after he unified China. It was the legendary "book with the same text". In the Han Dynasty, people at that time disliked small seal script.

Writing is difficult, and official script is popular. So I can roughly judge that this stone tablet should have been erected in the one or two hundred years between the end of Qin and the beginning of Han Dynasty.

In this way, this stele should be almost two thousand years old. I became interested and carefully identified the words on the stele. I am an inverter, and I know a lot about antiquities. I was my grandfather's

At Stick's request, he worked hard to study these ancient texts. According to his old man's opinion, if you can't even understand the inscriptions on the artifacts, you won't know their true value. That's a waste of time. In short, up to

Although I dare not say that I am proficient in ancient history, down to ancient writing, I know a little bit about it.

"...Why do you die because you have no fault in heaven...it cannot be without the earth's veins..."

The erosion of the wind and sand has made the writing on it somewhat blurry. In addition, I can't fully recognize the small seal characters, so I couldn't even decipher these two sentences without beginning or end.

At that time, I felt strange that these words looked so familiar, as if I had seen them somewhere. At this time, Professor Chen was still excited and was holding Fang Cheng's arm and chanting. I was familiar with the strength of his hands.

I passed it, and it made Fang Cheng grit his teeth in pain.

Hmm... "Historical Records"! I finally understood what Professor Chen was talking about.

I finally remembered where I had seen these two sentences. They were clearly what Meng Tian said before his death in "Historical Records·; Biography of Meng Tian". The original text was:

Meng Tian sighed and said, "Why have I sinned against Heaven and died without any fault?" After a long time, Xu said, "Tian's sin deserves death. From Lintao's Liaodong, there are more than ten thousand miles of city, and there must be no endless ground connections in it."

"What? This is Tian's crime." He committed suicide by swallowing medicine.

Historically, Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, gave his son Fusu and his general Meng Tian a gift to die in Yangzhou County. Before his death, Meng Tian sarcastically said that it was his fault that he built a city to resist the enemy and dug up the earth's veins, and then committed suicide by swallowing medicine. I always thought that this was the case.

This passage was taken for granted by Tai Shigong, but I didn't expect it to be true. It is probably that when Sima Qian wrote "Historical Records", this stone tablet had not yet been buried by the yellow sand.

No wonder Professor Chen was so excited that he was incoherent. This can be regarded as a great discovery in the archaeological world. I caressed the stone tablet with satisfaction. It was our first time to make such a great discovery. Hehe, when you get tired of fighting, you can become a

Forget it, archaeologists, I have this talent!

While I was feeling proud, Lin Ling and Tana were not idle either. They couldn't understand the words on the stele, so they kept cleaning the sand and stones under the stele, trying to clear out the base of the stele. Just as they went down again

When we dug more than half a meter deep, Tana suddenly screamed loudly, which shocked Professor Chen and I awake.

I saw her tremblingly pointing to the ground and shouting to us: "Brother Tao, Professor Chen, come and take a look! It's so scary!"

What on earth did she see that made Tana so scared? I walked around and took a look, and also took a deep breath.

Next to the base of the monument, there were some white bones, which seemed to be human bones. Although Tana was not afraid of anything, she had never seen this before, so no wonder she screamed so tragically.

Professor Chen is in the field of archaeology, and bones are not uncommon. I have been fighting for so long, and I have seen these things a lot. The two of us immediately calmed down, carefully took the shovel, and dug out carefully to the side.

A few meters.

Even Professor Chen and I were stunned at this time. The three-meter radius of the stone monument was covered with bones. These are the ones we dug out. We don’t know how many more there are that we haven’t dug out.

These bones are layered on top of each other, some are still complete, and some are incomplete. What is the reason why so many people were abandoned here? Could it be that... the bright red on this monument is stained with their blood?

At once……
Chapter completed!