In the western suburbs of Xi'an City, about 45 kilometers away, there is a small village called Ninghua Village, which is remote and unremarkable.

In the early spring of 1999, the road here had not yet been repaired, and only small passenger cars could pass.

Wang Ji and Zhang Mingzhi were famous geologists at that time, and they came to the small village for exploration.

There are several hills in Ninghua Village. The villagers usually plant some fruit trees on the hills as a source of income.

Wang Ji and Zhang Mingzhi told the village party secretary about the prospecting. After communicating well, they took the equipment and went to the small hill on the east side of the stream.

The small hill is called Dejinpo, Dejin, Dejin, as the name suggests, means to get money. The village party secretary said that the peach trees planted by the villagers here grow well and produce many peaches, so the name was chosen.

After climbing halfway up the hill, Wang Ji took out a simple instrument and slowly began to measure.

Few people come to this remote and impoverished village. This is the first time that a car came here with those strange machines and equipment. Everyone felt very strange, and adults and children rushed to join in the fun.

"Fill Q4ml is brown, brownish yellow, mainly cohesive soil and silt, with low density, and the accumulation time should be less than 5 years. The thickness is between 1.2-1.5m..."

"Flush fill Q4al is off-white, yellowish brown, with..."

While Wang Ji was analyzing, Zhang Mingzhi was recording. The division of labor was very clear and it didn't take much time.

However, just as the two were about to investigate further to see if there was any groundwater in the ground, a woman's scream came from not far away.

Subconsciously looking there, he saw a woman slumped on the ground a hundred meters away, and the man beside him had an ugly expression.

But these were not the places that attracted Wang Ji and Zhang Zhizhi, their eyes were all caught by the cluster of blue flames.

natural gas!

Wang Ji and Zhang Zhiming's eyes lit up!

Could it be that there is still natural gas hidden in the ground of this small mountain village?

After striding forward, Wang Ji hurriedly asked, "What happened?"

The paralyzed woman had heard from the old people before that the blue fire was the result of the ghosts of the underworld dissatisfied with the people on the ground. They deliberately lit the blue fire to give a warning to the living, but she had never seen the blue fire suddenly ignited on the ground. Huoguang, thinking of what the old people said, the woman's legs were so weak that she couldn't stand up, trembling, and couldn't speak.

Seeing that the woman was silent, Zhang Ming quickly turned around and asked the man next to him, "What's the matter with this fire?"

The man swallowed his saliva, and when he heard Zhang Zhizhi's question, he came back to his senses and said, "Oh, it's like this, just now my family and I came to the hillside to loosen the peach trees and prepare to add some fertilizer. I just lost a cigarette butt, and it suddenly ignited here..." The man paused, thinking that they were experts and probably knew something, and said hesitantly: "Look at my land, isn't it not too bad?" auspicious?"

Wang Ji smiled and waved his hands, "It's probably natural gas."

He said to the village party secretary beside him: "Secretary Tian, ​​please keep the villagers away from Dejin Mountain first. If there is really natural gas underground, it will be dangerous." Whether it is inhaled or burned to cause an explosion...

When the surrounding villagers heard that there might be danger, they hurriedly took their children and left. When the villagers were almost gone, Wang Ji and his wife took out a gas detector to check.

The two people who excitedly thought that there was natural gas in this small village were soon disappointed. Before their detection was over, the cluster of flames disappeared, and at the same time, the detection results showed that there was no natural gas here.

"There is only one possibility." Wang Ji shook his head in disappointment, "There are a lot of corpses buried here."

"This used to be a cemetery?" Zhang Zhiming put away the detector and looked around, "I didn't see a single monument? If it was a cemetery, why wouldn't people here know it? Could it be an ancient tomb?"

"Look at the soil layer underneath, don't you know?"

Probe the shovel down to 20 meters to bring out the underground soil layer.

Half a month later, looking at the research report, Wang Ji couldn't help but laugh and said, "I guess that old-fashioned Li Guoxian is going crazy."

"Yeah, what about the ancient tomb of thousands of years..."

Ninghua Village became lively. After almost two years of excavation, Dejin Mountain was almost flattened, and the thousand-year-old tomb buried deep underground appeared in front of everyone.

The bones and coffins of nearly a thousand people exude a pungent rotten smell that lingers for a long time... Shocking and creepy...

Li Guoxian, the most senior professor of archeology at X University, looked at this astonishing tomb and sighed: "The burial pit, this is just one of the burial pits!"

Such a scale of martyrdom is much larger than that of the Qin Gong Tomb, and it must be owned by an emperor!

I just don’t know which emperor’s tomb this is!

Archaeological work does not happen overnight, nor is it piled up as quickly as high-rise construction.

In 12 years, the development of the city has been turned upside down, high-rise buildings have sprung up, the former Ninghua Village has become a major archaeological site, and the local villagers moved to another place as early as five years ago.

Tan Cheng has been here with his tutor Li Guoxian since his first year of graduate school. Now he is a third-year graduate student, and he has also stayed in this village for two years.

When he first came to this Ninghua village, the excavation of the main tomb was just beginning, but after two years, only one-fifth of the main tomb had been excavated.

There are too many artifacts buried with them, each of which is a rare treasure and priceless, so they cannot be careless.

However, for their archaeologists, there are too many such artifacts. The only thing that interests them now is not these gold artifacts and copper tripods, but the identity of the owner of the tomb...

Yes, after so many years, they still haven't found any information about the owner of the tomb. After nearly 14 years of excavation, they have guessed and denied again and again.

Who is the owner of the tomb?Not only has this mystery not been solved, but it has become more and more confusing because of the excavation in the past year...

But such an exciting archaeological work stopped because of what happened last Friday.

Tan Cheng's fellow student, Jiang Bo, who graduated the year before last, died. The cause of death is unknown...

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