Li Shengli's words sounded really weird. Officer Hu was the first to stand up and express his doubts: "Associate Professor Li, are you bragging? Who the hell is full and doesn't want to stay by the edge of Dian Lake?
Coming to live in this extinct volcano? One or two people can be said to be crazy. People from an entire kingdom have moved to this extinct volcano. You are really unreliable."
When questioned by Officer Hu, Li Shengli didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed. His face turned red and he said: "Why is it unreliable? This is the conclusion I came to after studying the cultural relics unearthed here. That's it.
Even Tang Fei agrees!"
I saw Li Shengli take out a small notebook from his arms. After opening it, he glanced at the contents of the notebook and continued to say to us: "According to my research, the ancient Dian Kingdom should have chosen religious reasons.
Move the royal capital here. Regarding this point, Tang Fei and I have some differences. I think the ancient Dian Kingdom may have moved to this extinct volcano in order to get close to the flames because of some concept of fire god worship..."
Before Li Shengli finished speaking, Officer Mu, who was listening, had already said: "Vulcan worship? This makes some sense. Some ethnic minorities in the southwest do have this custom. For example, in my village, there is a custom held every year.
An event to worship the God of Fire..."
"Your village?" I asked curiously, "Officer Mu, are you a minority?"
"That's right. Didn't I say that?" Officer Mu smiled and said, "Although my father is Han, my mother is Wa, so I should be considered half Wa, right?"
"Uh-huh!"
Seeing that we suddenly changed the subject, Li Shengli coughed and signaled to us that he had not finished speaking.
I hurriedly said: "Professor Li, please continue... Regarding the reason why the ancient Dian Kingdom moved here, what did Professor Tang think?"
"He?" Li Shengli smiled contemptuously for no reason. Just when we felt strange, he said: "Tang Fei believes that the ancient Dian Kingdom moved to this extinct volcano in pursuit of immortality."
"Immortal?"
This time, in addition to the other two members of the archaeological team, four people including me, Lin Qianyi, Officer Mu and Officer Hu, all shouted in unison.
Li Shengli continued to laugh and said: "Yes! It's immortality! Tang Fei actually thought that the people of the ancient Dian Kingdom moved the whole country here because they thought the environment here was suitable for them to study the art of immortality. It's really ridiculous, not to mention immortality.
There is no such thing as magic, so how could a country give up the great rivers and mountains outside and live in this dark cave for such a illusory thing?"
Although what Li Shengli said was reasonable, I had other thoughts in my mind. Because when I heard the words "immortal", the word "elixir" almost immediately appeared in my mind.
Name. I don’t know why this is, I just feel that there seems to be some connection between the two.
I secretly told Lin Qianyi how I felt, but who knew, she actually had the same idea.
Lin Qianyi said to me: "Si Jiu, actually I had a feeling when we entered the ruins today. I always seemed to have seen the architectural style of the stone houses in the ruins somewhere. Now that I think about it, don't you think it's the same as before?
Are the architectural styles in the underground village under Changshou Village very similar?"
"That's right!" I opened my mouth wide. After Lin Qianyi said this, I recalled the appearance of the buildings in that village, and indeed it seemed to be very similar to the style of the ruins here.
Could it be that the underground village we discovered before is also a relic left by the ancient Dian Kingdom? The ruins of the ancient Dian Kingdom in the volcano and the underground village under Changshou Village are both relics built in dark caves
, actually have the same architectural style, this is definitely not a coincidence.
And regarding the underground village under Changshou Village, when I escaped from the village, I once asked Wu Tian, the director of the Intelligence Department, about the origin of this village. At that time, Wu Tian once told me that he suspected that this village might
It was built by a certain ethnic minority in ancient times to cultivate that monster. Needless to say, the purpose of cultivating the monster was for the elixir that could lead to immortality.
Although Wu Tian's words were just his speculation, they now echo Professor Tang's view that the ruins in the volcano were built for the purpose of studying the art of immortality. If you think about it this way, then these two ruins,
It may have been built by the ancient Dian Kingdom to study the art of immortality.
We found that monster in the underground village, so will we find the same monster in this volcanic city?
When I mentioned the word "monster", I suddenly thought of our mission to the archaeological team this time, so I asked Li Shengli, who was still talking to Officer Mu and others about the ridiculousness of Professor Tang's views: "Professor Li, excuse me.
Wait, there’s something else we want to ask.”
"What's up?"
"That's right. Now you also know that Sister Lin and I came to you to inspect the work of the archaeological team because of the order of the Scientific Research Institute. Although the archaeological team no longer exists, I still want to know what you gave us last time.
In the report, it was mentioned that traces of unknown creatures were found in the ruins, what happened?"
"Unidentified creature?" Li Shengli was stunned for a moment and said, "What is that? Why haven't I heard of it?"
I turned around to look at Feng Chun and Chen Meiyang, and found that they also had confused looks on their faces.
So I said again: "Is this the latest investigation report you sent to the Research Institute? It said in it that you discovered an unknown creature when you were investigating the depths of the ruins. Because there are no experts in paleontology in the archaeological team, so
No one can tell what that creature is?"
Speaking of which, I flipped through my backpack and highlighted the information given to us, including a copy of the report sent by the archaeological team. I pulled out the page with the contents of the unknown creature and gave it to Li Shengli.
Li Shengli took a look at it, but shook his head. While handing the report to Chen Meiyang and the others for review, he said to me: "I have never heard of this matter at all. The report was written by Tang Fei, and the contents in it are
, I’m afraid only Tang Fei knows... No, Chen Meiyang, have you ever heard Tang Fei talk about this?"
Chen Meiyang, who was still reading the report, raised his head and glanced at Li Shengli with a strange expression. In the end, he shook his head at us: "No, Professor Tang didn't take me with him in the recent investigation activities, so I don't know anything."
"Not sure? Huh..."
Li Shengli glanced at Chen Meiyang with disgust, and saw that he was about to say something else. Feng Chun, who had not said a word during the meal, suddenly interrupted: "Everyone, it's getting late. Didn't Officer Mu say that he would go to the ruins tomorrow?"
Do you want to know the whereabouts of Professor Tang? If that's the case, I suggest we take a rest early."
Officer Hu saw that something was wrong in the atmosphere, so he also helped by saying: "Yes, yes, everyone has almost eaten. It's time to rest."
Seeing this, Li Shengli closed his mouth, left the can in his hand on the ground, patted his butt and wanted to get back into his tent.
Before this time was enough, Officer Mu stopped him and said, "Associate Professor Li, wait a minute, we haven't arranged the order of today's vigil yet?"
"Watch order?" Li Shengli asked rhetorically.
"Yes, we can't all sleep at night. Otherwise, if someone comes to attack us again in the middle of the night, won't we make the same mistake as the archaeological team? It's past eight o'clock in the evening. My plan is to let Miss Lin and Miss Chen
While the girl is sleeping, the five of us gentlemen take turns keeping watch, each of us holding on for two hours. What do you think?"
"I'm old, I'm afraid I can't insist..." Li Shengli seemed to want to refuse, but mid-sentence, he seemed to think of something again, and suddenly said, "Okay, but I want to sleep for a while first, please put me in the back
a little."
Officer Mu thought for a moment and then said: "That's it, Teacher Feng will guard first, then Comrade Lin, Lao Hu, and me. Associate Professor Li, how about you get up two hours early and it's your turn last?"