The Sanshan ruins are the largest ancient city ruins discovered in southwest China and are considered to be the cultural heritage of the ancient Shu civilization.

The Sanshan site has always been famous for the unique style of artifacts unearthed, which is very different from the Central Plains civilization.

But no matter how unique it is, according to ordinary people's imagination, the civilization level of the ancient Shu civilization should only be in the Bronze Age.

But the scene he saw now gave Zhou Shouren a subtle sense of déjà vu.

He saw a white jade coffin and seemed to see a glass cabin.

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After deciphering that the location of the ruins excavated by the tomb robbers was 10 kilometers northwest of the Sanshan site, Lieutenant Zhou Shouren of the 77th School of the 26th Division of the 9th Huya Guard of the White Tiger Army decided to personally lead the team with the hard-to-find ground-exploring imaging Yi, drove an armored vehicle and set off overnight and arrived at the destination.

Because there was no one in the temporary settlement of survivors who knew how to rob tombs, Zhou Shouren set off with only the 1st Battalion and 3rd Line under his school team, a total of 89 soldiers, after gaining some knowledge on tombs.

Fortunately, although the image produced by the ground-penetrating imager is not very clear, it is still convenient to directly search for the underground cavity when the approximate direction of the destination is determined, and the specific coordinates of the underground cavity are quickly locked.

Then the soldiers searched around and quickly found the underground passage that the tomb robbers had dug before.

What surprised Zhou Shouren was that the tomb robbers did not carefully hide the entrance to the passage. They just covered the entrance with a thick cloth, sprinkled some soil, pressed the corners of the thick cloth with stones, and left in a hurry.

Considering that the tomb robbers were hospitalized in the name of gas poisoning, Zhou Shouren guessed that they might have suspected that there was poisonous gas underground after feeling uncomfortable?

Zhou Shouren shook his head and thought no more. Even if the gas was really poisonous, he had to go down this trip.

After checking that the chemical protective clothing was correctly worn, Zhou Shouren asked the Luo Ping Squadron of 3rd Line and 2nd Division to follow him and go down the passage to the underground palace deep underground.

Then, the moment he turned on the detection light, Zhou Shouren was lost for a moment.

He saw an almost transparent white jade coffin, like a glass cabin.

What's more important is that there is a skeleton lying in all the white jade coffins. But although those skeletons are in human form, they are obviously different from ordinary people, and they are all strange and different.

There are cases where there are missing arms and legs, and there are also cases where the skeletal shape has changed, with various bone spurs, or the limb bones have become elongated, bifurcated, etc.

Zhou Shouren's first reaction was to think of the living corpses in the outside world that were initially showing signs of alienation.

The second reaction was that of mutated humans after a nuclear attack.

This underground palace tomb is more like a laboratory for biochemical experiments than a tomb.

For no reason, Zhou Shouren had a strange sense of déjà vu. Of course, even if the underground palace was really related to ancient civilization, he also knew that this was not a laboratory. Because the underground palace had a clear view, except for many white jade coffins that looked like glass cabins, there was almost nothing else. The thing is a mass grave.

After recovering his mind, Zhou Shouren ordered: "Everyone spread out and try not to touch randomly. The main purpose is to see if there are any objects that are useful at first glance, or things that may be related to written records. Let me know if you see them."

As we all know, none of the cultural relics unearthed at the Sanshan site have written characters.

But if there really was an ancient civilization with advanced civilization, this situation would actually be normal. Just like modern people would not deliberately engrave words on the utensils they use every day, ancient civilizations must have something similar to paper to record words.

However, objects other than metal utensils are difficult to resist the corrosion of time. Therefore, the cultural relics unearthed from the Sanshan site are not like the cultural relics of primitive civilizations that have characters engraved on the utensils. To be precise, the utensils used by ancient civilizations have surface patterns.

There may be words, but after they fade and decay, future generations will not be able to recognize them.

Of course, even if ancient civilizations had writing, it is not always possible to find written records related to corpse poison.

But no matter how slim the hope was, Zhou Shouren still had to struggle hard.

Because this is where humanity's hope lies.

It's not that modern people don't have the ability to decipher corpse poison, but they don't have enough time. We can't wait until almost everyone has turned into a living corpse before announcing that a vaccine or virus inhibitor has been successfully developed.

The underground palace is dark, and sometimes the detector light sweeps across the almost transparent white jade coffin, and the skull in the coffin seems to be staring at people, which is really a bit scary.

Not far away, Zhou Shouren saw the outer wall of a white jade coffin broken open, with some blood stains remaining on the edge.

He suspected that a tomb robber accidentally fell down and broke the white jade coffin. Then the corpse poison was leaked and spread to the outside world through the tomb robbers, and then got out of control. Of course, it is also possible that the tomb robbers acted inappropriately.

They were moving things, so they were infected with the corpse poison. But now that the tomb robbers have become living corpses, it is no longer possible to trace the specific experiences of the tomb robbers in the underground palace.

Zhou Shouren's heart was a little heavy. Although everyone was wearing chemical protective clothing, he was not sure how well the chemical protective clothing isolated the corpse poison, and whether some brothers would increase the concentration of corpse poison in their bodies.

The white jade coffins in the underground palace are not placed in parallel, but are distributed in a ring shape layer by layer.

Walking along the aisle between the white jade coffins and walking to the center of the underground palace, Zhou Shouren saw a bronze vessel that probably functioned like a booth.

The base of the bronze is two unicorn bi-winged beasts with different shapes, and above it are four figures holding hands, which are suspected to be wizards. There are four small trays formed in the hands of the wizards. There is nothing on the trays. Zhou Shouren suspected that the tomb was robbed.

The thief took it away; and above the heads of the four wizards, a large tray was formed, with a spherical jade stone placed on it.

Seeing this, Zhou Shouren's first reaction was to wonder why the tomb robbers didn't take away the jade ball.

After a moment of hesitation, he reached out to the jade ball and touched it lightly through the chemical protective suit.

Instantly, a feeling similar to an electric shock came from his fingertips, and Zhou Shouren subconsciously retracted his right hand.

But other than that, nothing weird happened.

He hesitated for a moment and continued to reach out to touch the jade ball. This time, he was mentally prepared and did not let go.

But except for a flash of electric shock-like feeling when you touch it, it is normal even if you keep holding the jade ball.

Zhou Shouren tried to pick up the jade ball, but failed. Only then did he realize that the jade ball seemed to be on a large tray, but was actually connected to the bronze vessel below.

He was a little confused, how could the bronze and jade be connected together? Is it like a buckle twisting together?

Making random guesses, Zhou Shouren became more and more puzzled, why didn't the tomb robbers take away the jade ball?

Even if the jade ball and the bronze are fixedly connected together, the entire bronze can still be taken away. As the only special object in the underground palace besides the white jade coffin, tomb robbers should not let it go.

As the saying goes, thieves never leave empty-handed. Unless there is something evil about this bronze vessel, it is impossible for the tomb robber to leave like this.

Zhou Shouren gritted his teeth and after a moment's hesitation decided to take off his gloves and touch the jade ball directly with his hands.

But just when he was about to take off his gloves, Luo Ping, who had been following him, quickly stopped Zhou Shouren with his quick eyesight and hands.

"Captain Zhou, what are you doing?"

"This jade ball is a bit weird. I want to try it by touching it directly with my hands." Zhou Shouren was stunned and tried to continue to remove his gloves.

But Luo Ping interrupted him: "Then let me do it."

Other soldiers also said that they would be allowed to come without Luo Ping.

Luo Ping said unceremoniously: "You don't have a military rank, and you don't have enough say. Even if you try, you can only make a formal report after I come to try. And Captain Zhou's identity is the most important, and you can't compete with me. So you can only

Let me come, I must come, in order to be convincing and have the lowest impact."

After a dispute, it was finally Luo Ping who made the intimate contact between his palm and the jade ball.

"Okay, please pay attention. The moment you make contact, you will feel a slight electric shock. Other than that, I haven't found anything else yet." Zhou Shouren said helplessly.

Luo Ping nodded, without any hesitation, and directly reached out to hold the jade ball after untying his gloves.

Then, it seemed as if there was an electric current flowing down his arm and all the way to Luo Ping's head.

Didn't it mean it was just a slight electric shock?

As soon as the thought of surprise came to mind, Luo Ping's mind felt like it was being pricked by needles, and at the same time, a strange voice suddenly appeared.

He was taken aback and subconsciously let go and took a step back. However, the stabbing pain in his head affected Luo Ping's sense of balance, and he unexpectedly fell backwards.

Fortunately, the soldiers next to him looked closely at Luo Ping, and immediately reached out to support Luo Ping from left to right.

But after being supported, Luo Ping was stunned on the spot, as if he hadn't come back to his senses yet.

Sound? Strange sound?

His heartbeat suddenly accelerated, and his mouth suddenly felt a little dry.

"Luo Ping, what's wrong with you? Didn't I tell you that you would feel an electric shock, and you still reacted like this?" Zhou Shouren asked doubtfully, with worry in his eyes.

Luo Ping calmed down and said: "It's not an electric shock, it's a sound. There is a sound inside."

He took another step forward and stretched out his hand towards the jade ball.

This time he was mentally prepared and was not frightened again, but he still felt a stinging pain in his head like a needle.

Holding back the stinging sensation, Luo Ping listened carefully to the sudden voice in his mind, just like listening to a voice.

But unfortunately, he couldn't understand a word.

After holding on for a few seconds and making sure that he could not understand a word, Luo Ping let go of his hand and looked at Zhou Shouren.

Zhou Shouren said eagerly: "You mean you can hear a sound if you touch it directly with your hands? What sound?"

Luo Ping opened his mouth, was stunned for a while, and then came back to his senses and replied: "Well, there is a sound, it's like listening to the voice directly in the head, there is a tingling feeling, but you can hear a person talking. But

I couldn't understand a word he said."

Hearing this, Zhou Shouren did not hesitate, directly untied his gloves and reached out to hold the jade ball.

Well, in the face of something beyond their imagination, Luo Ping's words were not convincing. Zhou Shouren had to confirm it himself before he dared to believe it.

And like Luo Ping, he felt a tingling sensation in his head and heard someone speaking directly in his mind - he still couldn't understand a word, but based on the timbre, he could tell that the person speaking was a man whose tone was full of vicissitudes of life.

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Ancient civilization, confirmed?!

Zhou Shouren was shocked and subconsciously let go of his right hand.

At this moment, he felt mixed emotions including surprise, fear, confusion, joy, etc.

He shook his head and forced himself to stay calm first.

"I'll go out first and get in touch with the Disaster Relief Center to see what to do with the jade ball later. Luo Ping, you stay here and don't allow anyone else to take off their gloves and touch the jade ball, and you're not allowed to touch it anymore. Then.

The rest of the people will go through all the white jade coffins in different areas to see if there is anything special, but they are only allowed to look and are not allowed to open the white jade coffins."
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