After finding these mysterious characters hidden in the ancient Mayan script, Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to leave here, but waited for Liao Cheng to find domestic linguists who knew the ancient Mayan script.

There are many well-known linguists in the country, but there are very few people who understand ancient Mayan writing.

After all, these are the characters of ancient foreign civilizations. It is a problem for domestic people to start preliminary study, let alone the various ancient classics that are necessary to study ancient characters.

Therefore, there are only a handful of masters in this area of ​​research in China.

As a result, it didn't take long for Liao Chengcheng to find a retired Renmin University linguistics professor named Ji Yang who is 83 years old through various channels and connections.

Then, Liao Cheng contacted Ji Yang through online video.

"Professor Ji, hello, hello."

After connecting to the video, Liao Cheng said hello politely.

The old man on the opposite side of the video also nodded and said with a smile: "Are you Mr. Liao introduced by Professor Tao? Professor Tao said that you want to ask me about the deciphering of ancient Mayan characters?"

"Yes." Liao Cheng said. He did not use his real identity when contacting him, but temporarily asked for advice as a private researcher.

"This ancient text comes from the Mayan ruins in Mexico. Maybe you have seen it before. I heard that when you were young, you often went to foreign ancient ruins to investigate, and you also went to the Maya."

"Of course." Ji Yang said with a smile: "This Mayan ruins is such an important place, of course I have to visit it with my own eyes and do some research."

When Ji Yang was young, that is, around the 1960s, he studied ancient linguistics abroad. Then he gradually became such a master and has been conducting archeology in various ancient ruins abroad.

, who studied various texts of ancient cultures, did not choose to return to China to teach until the 1990s because his physical functions gradually weakened.

To a certain extent, Professor Ji can be regarded as a great explorer.

At this time, Liao Cheng also smiled slightly, and then said: "That's great, Professor Ji, please take a look at these photos."

Liao Cheng then took out several photos taken by their team members and sent them to Ji Yang.

The photo Lin Xiao found was included in it, also to avoid making Ji Yang suspicious.

After Ji Yang received the photo, he picked up a pair of reading glasses from the side and slowly looked at it. Everyone else present also kept silent and did not speak.

Soon after, Ji Yang began to say with a smile: "Mr. Liao, it seems that you are still new to the study of ancient linguistics. The things in your first photo are very simple..."

Then Ji Yang started to talk about what the Mayan characters in the first photo meant.

Professor Ji is indeed very famous. After reading it for a while, he easily translated most of the content above.

Of course, there are still a few characters that have not been fully deciphered, but this is not a big problem. After all, nearly one-fifth of the Mayan characters have not been fully deciphered, so Ji Yang does not recognize some of them.

Not surprising.

In this way, the translation of each photo passed, and finally, we came to the fifth one, which was the one containing the mysterious characters.

Professor Ji Yang, who had been carrying out the deciphering work very vigorously before, frowned tightly at this time, and then said: "Mr. Liao, did you take this photo yourself?"

Liao Cheng replied: "No, in fact, these photos were taken by several of my friends who traveled there, and then they sent them to me."

"Travel?" Ji Yang raised his head, glanced at Liao Cheng, and then said with a smile: "The content in your photo is a little difficult for me."

"In other words, half of the words in your text belong to an unsolved mystery in Mayan writing."

Hearing Ji Yang's answer, Liao Cheng was stunned, "The unsolved mystery in Mayan writing?"

Everyone else present was also stunned, and Lin Xiao also frowned.

"Yes, many of the characters here are unsolved mysteries, and what's amazing about them is that they show a form of combination of pinyin characters and hieroglyphics."

Everyone present was shocked. Pinyin? And combined with hieroglyphs?

Pinyin text, that is, different forms of letter combinations are used to express the meaning of the text. English is a pinyin text.

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However, Mayan writing is a kind of hieroglyphic writing. How come the pinyin writing appears among the hieroglyphic writing?

No matter how you think about it, this is a bit too magical.

It's like writing Chinese characters with a few English sentences mixed in. It looks like you have some kind of big problem.

Of course, there is another thing that everyone present attaches great importance to. Their previous guess about the form of those mysterious characters is Pinyin characters.

After all, there are only 77 kinds of mysterious characters in total, and the 77 kinds of characters are arranged and combined to form various mysterious strings, which are difficult to understand. This is also likely to be Pinyin characters.

form.

But now the old professor Ji Yang said that the words on this photo show the form of pinyin words. Could it mean that the ancient Mayans really knew these words, and then based on this, they formed Ji Yang

Teaching the combination of spoken hieroglyphs and pinyin?

Liao Cheng obviously thought of this, and then immediately asked: "In that case, does Mr. Ji Yang know how to translate this Mayan pinyin text?"

Ji Yang smiled and said: "I know, but I don't know many, only a few of them."

Liao Cheng's eyes brightened, and then he said: "Please ask Professor Ji to impart knowledge."

However, at this time, Professor Ji said: "It doesn't matter if I tell you, but Mr. Liao, you are a little dishonest."

Liao Cheng frowned and said, "Professor Ji, please tell me where I am dishonest."

Ji Yang said: "You said this photo was taken by your friend after traveling there, but I don't know. This photo should belong to a non-open area at the Mayan ruins, and you need relevant permissions and qualifications to enter.

, If I guess correctly, you should have taken this photo in an underground ruins in the ancient city of Qiqinyincha, right?"

"I remember that the underground ruins are in a pothole. Because it is inconvenient, it is not open to ordinary tourists."

"And you guys probably filmed it there, right?"

"In addition, I also heard that a few months ago, a cultural exchange group in our country reached cooperation with Mexico, and then this exchange group went to the Mayan civilization ruins in Mexico?"

After hearing Ji Yang's words, many people present suddenly widened their eyes. Good guy, they were exposed like this?

In particular, Professor Ji can actually tell where the photo was taken based on the photo?

You have to be very familiar with the Mayan ruins to be able to do this.

Moreover, Professor Ji Yang actually knew about the exchange group.

Liao Chengyepo was surprised, and then he said with a smile: "Since Professor Ji Yang has also noticed it, I don't need to talk nonsense. I now officially invite you to join us."

For Liao Cheng, they don't have to worry about their identity being exposed at all. After all, they are serving the country and have public duties, and it is not something shameful.

Of course, before fully telling Professor Ji Yang their identities, they also need to wait for Ji Yang to agree to join them.

But Ji Yang didn't expect that after exposing the lie that Liao Cheng had just told, he didn't show any panic at all. Instead, he directly turned against the guest and invited him to join?

"Mr. Liao Cheng, please tell me first, who are you?"

Liao Cheng smiled slightly and said: "Professor Ji, I can't say too much right now. I can only say that we are affiliated with the National Security Bureau and what we do is to serve the country. As a linguistics expert, you

A master in the field may be able to help us.”

Now Ji Yang was even more confused, "National Security Bureau? Serve the country? You serve the country, why do you want to find me, an old man in his eighties?"

"Professor Ji just needs to say if you are willing to join us."

After Ji Yang thought for a while, he finally nodded and said, "Okay, I want to see what secrets you guys keep up."

Then Liao Cheng smiled and said: "That's good. In that case, Professor Ji, then I will ask our national security personnel to pick you up now. When you arrive, you can introduce us in person."

After hearing what Liao Cheng said, Ji Yang quickly asked: "Pick me up? Where are you going?"

"You'll find out later when you get here."

Liao Cheng said with a smile, and then he hung up the phone.

Then he looked at the people present and said with a smile: "Okay everyone, let's celebrate first. We are finally going to join a 'Chief Lin' in linguistics."

Everyone present laughed.

In this way, a few hours passed, and Professor Ji Yang was directly delivered to them.

At this time, Ji Yang's old face was also full of wonder. Obviously, when he came down from the top, he had no doubts at all, and he was completely impressed by such a mysterious place.

"Oh my God, if my grandson knew that I came to a place like this, I'm afraid he would have to pull my beard to come."

Entering the conference room, Ji Yang saw Liao Cheng and recognized him. After all, he had been video chatting with Liao Cheng just now, so he recognized him quickly.

The next moment, he saw Lin Xiao next to Liao Cheng, and his eyes suddenly widened: "Is this Chief Scientist Lin Xiao?"

Lin Xiao nodded with a smile and said, "Hello, Professor Ji, it's me."

"I really didn't expect that I could still see you here." Ji Yang sighed: "If my grandson knows about this again, I'm afraid he will have to pull a few more of my beard."

"That boy admires you very much. And because of you, Chief Lin, he studies seriously every day now, and his grades in school have improved a lot."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "I'm very happy to hear this kind of news."

"Ha, that's good." Ji Yang laughed, and then said without any nonsense: "Okay, you came to me, don't you just want me to help decipher the Mayan text? Show me the photo again, let me

Let me recall it."

Hearing Ji Yang's straightforward approach to the subject, Liao Cheng nodded, and then handed the previous photo to Ji Yang.

Ji Yang took out the glasses case from his arms, took out his reading glasses, and started to look at the photos.

Then, he said: "In this photo, based on the arrangement of these characters, I can temporarily analyze that the more than one hundred characters in it represent ten words."

"Just like English words, which are made up of multiple letters, so are the Mayan words on this."
To be continued...