Chapter 536
Zeng Shan’s grandfather Zeng Licheng is Ye Xiao’s captain. He admires his talent very much. The magic circle was intercepted by them together. Ye Xiao’s paranoid guesses may not believe it, but Zeng Licheng should be concerned about it.
Zeng Licheng died five years ago, and I couldn't ask someone for questions, so I could only call Zeng Shan.
"Thunder strike?" The sound of footsteps came from the phone. It should be Zeng Shan hid in the corridor to answer the phone.
"Yes, did he mention it to Grandpa Zeng?"
"No, but... when you mentioned this, I remembered something. Before Ye Xiao disappeared, something was lost in the warehouse."
"Drop things? What did you lose?"
"It was an iron mask, dug out from an ancient ruin. Because it had nothing to do with the magic circle, no one thought about Ye Xiao, just thinking that the administrator was obsessed with greed and stole the cultural relics from the warehouse to sell them."
"The mask file is still there, I'll check it."
"At the specifics, I don't know. The loss of things in the warehouse is a big melon. This is not what my grandfather told me. I heard what my old colleague said, just listen to it. You can check the details yourself."
"Okay, I'm hanging up."
"Oh? You'll come back one day, please help me if you have something to do."
"I'll go back today, what's the matter?"
"Take you a free meal tomorrow night."
"become."
After hanging up the phone, I went straight to the train station and bought the train I had recently trained back to the capital.
After resting at home for a few hours, I rushed to the group in the morning and turned on the computer to check the mask's files. The archives were attached with photos. The lost iron mask was not exquisitely made, but was buried in the soil for hundreds of years without rusting.
The mask is neither human nor beastly. It is a pattern with a constellation diagram engraved in the center, and is decorated with lightning-shaped patterns around it. The breathable holes of the eyes, nose and mouth are all stars on the constellation diagram.
The archives state that it may be a sacrificial tool for a certain tribe, and it has been about 800 years old. It was discovered that its remains were in the mountainous areas where young ethnic groups lived. It was a development task more than 60 years ago.
Due to the limited conditions and other factors, the development of the monuments was very sloppy. It took a week from the beginning to the end, and many places were not dug out.
The task items brought back were only filled with one box, and then they were quickly put into the warehouse.
The place where the mask was discovered and the area that was dug up later were defined as the "altar" by colleagues at that time.
Sacrifices of ethnic minorities in ancient times were very common, and there was no disaster or a strange thing in that place. The box of items brought back by colleagues was not valued by the unit, but was just thrown into the warehouse and fell into ashes.
The reason why that mission was sent to the unit was that lightning struck people to death, and more than one, not one, but one piece. One today, one day after tomorrow, five people died in a row.
In the report, I saw that the leader in charge of that mission believed that there was some element in the monument that touched people and caused special thunder.
The five dead people went to the same place at different times.
Therefore, the items unearthed from the ruins were covered with insulating materials, and the people involved in the task also wore insulating equipment. As expected, nothing happened. They completed the task successfully without any casualties.
It is just a lightning strike, which is not unusual in the unit warehouse. If you take it elsewhere, you are afraid of danger, so you pile it up in the corner and store it.
If the box containing the mask had not been dragged out by someone, the administrator would have probably never expected it to have been stolen.
Everything else in the box is there. Of course, even if the crude mud bowls from hundreds of years ago cannot be sold for much money. It is impossible to get rich overnight by relying on them.
If it is for wealth, there are too many valuable plants in the warehouse, and it is easy to take a risk, only a fool will steal bargains.
The final investigation result of this theft incident was that there was no result. All administrators had absenteeism. Surveillance was not popular and there was no surveillance video for investigation.
Finally, the two administrators on duty that night were fined, and the matter was left alone.
The iron mask is sunk to the sea. No matter how hard the antique market is, it has never been seen.
The thief of lightning and theft of iron masks is also an old case that is unresolved and happens to be under my team's management.
The ruins require a lot of manpower and material resources, and we cannot continue for the time being. However, the iron mask was stolen, just the day before Ye Xiao disappeared.
Because the iron mask is an old case and not a valuable item, and the person in charge of the investigation at that time did not think of these two things at all.
Zeng Shan heard me ask about being struck by lightning, and then she thought of the role of the iron mask, which caused thunder!
Which ethnic group would wear such things to hold sacrificial activities? Isn’t it just a nation that wants to attract lightning?
If a priest is killed by holding a sacrificial activity, then their nation is too priestly, so I have reason to suspect that people from this nation will not die if they are struck by lightning.
However, it is not ruled out that they have the possibility of using the custom of living people to sacrifice to the heavens, and they will be given to the "Heaven".
I applied to go to the warehouse and planned to see the mud bowls sent with my own eyes with the mask.
The photos are black and white photos taken decades ago. They have never been updated and cannot be seen clearly.
I am now an "acquaintance" in the warehouse. The supervisor said that I was their benefactor. If I hadn't been to me last time, his best administrator would have to sacrifice much, so in the future, I would enjoy priority treatment when visiting the warehouse or picking up goods.
The application was approved soon. Today, the administrator on duty met me very enthusiastically. I went into the warehouse to see the items. He ran back and forth three times, moving chairs, sending tea, and fruits. He was as attentive as a waiter in the shop.
I told him to stop busying, he is not an outsider, everyone is from the same unit, so don't be so polite.
After all, I was persuaded to coax the person away, and I began to study the box of things with peace of mind.
The mud bowl is simple in style, not as good as the rice bowl at home. The surface is painted because the production process is rough and most of the pigments are peeled off. However, you can see several lightning patterns, both at the mouth and at the bottom of the bowl. The middle part may be drawn with stars or moons. Anyway, it is a round sphere, and in the lightning, it should represent the stars.
The bowls and basins contain things. The report said it was a mixture of metals, but did not say which metals were mixed. Before they were dug out, they just formed a circle underground to form an "alcohol".
Their functions should be the same as those of an iron mask, and they both attract thunder.
However, the metal mixture in the bowl has been rusted into a lump, with soil intertwined in the middle, and I don’t know whether it has the effect at the beginning.
If Ye Xiao really took the iron mask, then he didn't take these bowls and basins, perhaps it would be indirectly explained that these things are useless.
But it is best to confirm it and not draw conclusions too early, so I applied to send this box to the appraisal department and asked colleagues in the laboratory to help test whether they still retain the function of causing lightning.
Nowadays, the technology is well developed, unlike more than 60 years ago. I pushed a cart and sent the box to the appraisal department. Zeng Shan was not there. The people in their group said she was going to a meeting.
I first went back to my group and searched the place where the iron mask was earthed online. Now the land of China has changed greatly. The unmanned mountainous areas more than 60 years ago may have become tourist attractions.
Sure enough, this place is also being traveled in recent years. Locals have opened a homestay inn. The mountain where iron-cut goods were found is no longer a wasteland. Fortunately, there is no building built, and it belongs to an area outside the boundary of the scenic area. Tourists follow the planned route, not including that mountain.
There is a village near the mountains, with all the Miao people living in it, with a total of more than a dozen families, and the population is less than 100.
Because in the mountains, there are no roads, villagers almost live a life of isolation from the world.
Although there has not been any road construction in recent years, some people are willing to run there, and wading through mountains and rivers has become a pleasure for tourists.
I booked a homestay. According to the current clues, after Ye Xiao disappeared, he would go to that village to inquire about the remains.
Even if there is no evidence that he stole the iron mask, there are no other clues at the moment. It is better to go and go to the village to inquire.
Fortunately, the people in that village were unwilling to leave the depths of the mountains. They have been living in the mountains for decades. There are very few people who have moved back from outside to marry a wife. Most of them are intermarriages within the village, so even if you ask about what happened fifty years ago, someone should remember it.
Because a tour group today booked the entire B&B inn and would have to be available next week. I thought it would be not too late to go there until the appraisal results came out, so I made an appointment for the room next week.
No one checked my team. Just check in the job in the morning and evening, just check in, don’t miss the job, ask for leave if you have something to do, and then ensure that you complete the quota task every month.
The quota given by the head of the sect also considers that some tasks may not be completed within one month, so there is no specified level of the task. This means that a case that can be solved by calling and running a leg is also considered within the quota.
In order to ensure that the quota can be completed every month, we cannot complete all the simple tasks at once.
Besides, Feng Yin and the others are still in the ‘trial business’ stage and cannot be too fierce at the beginning, so they should be relatively leisurely in recent times.
This is the case, but many things may follow the rules of one thing and the other. As a boss, I am lazy, and the employees I hire are diligent.
If I don’t send a task, they sort out old files, repair them, mark them if they can’t, and then enter them into the computer for easier searches in the future.
And I noticed that each of them has a small notebook, and when organizing files, they will occasionally record a note on the small notebook.
They have small notebooks, and I also have notes. After the results of the identification department came out, I continued to write my notes in the group office.
Sophie finished cleaning during the day and went back to her garage to do research after get off work in the afternoon.
She used the elimination method to first eliminate the suspicion of viruses on half-toned body. In fact, it was sent with blood samples, including a half-toned hair and a little nail, and a cotton swab that was stained with her saliva.
Sophie said that there were no viruses in half-toned body, and her blood, hair, bones, and saliva were clean and non-toxic.
If she had been stained with toxins on her body in half, then after she left the new employee's previous residence, she also changed her clothes and didn't know how many times she had taken the bath. The toxins on the surface should have been gone long ago.
Sophie still insisted on her own opinion, and she did not think that the root cause of the tragic deaths of those same tribes was the virus.
I said that since it is not poisonous in half, I will tell her quickly and save her from being worried about this matter.
Although it is non-toxic, it still cannot rule out the possibility of harmful substances on her body, so she still cannot contact her fellow tribes.
Sophie really wanted to meet at a glance, but she didn't agree with it. I suggested that they chat with videos. At worst... they can see clearly if they wear less clothes.
Sophie suspected that the adoptive mother had implanted something on her half-toned body so that she could continue to emit harmful substances.
I asked Sophie if this halftone is the pure blood mother. Sophie said it was not exactly the case. There are other genes in this halftone. As for the genes of what kind of creature it is, Sophie said she dared not answer arbitrarily and told me when she could tell you it.
I said that no one has done anything like stewing genes, and it is really not new. It is a half-toned source of another part of the gene. I am a little curious. Sophie is only sure that the gene is definitely not from ordinary creatures.
Half-tune singing is so nice and has the effect of calming the mind massage. What can another part of the gene be? Paid massage chairs?
The result from the identification department was given to me three days later. The metal mixture in the mud bowl, including iron powder and silver, was all metal with excellent electrical conductivity.
There is one type of metal particles, which the identification department cannot analyze. It is a metal that has not been discovered by humans.
But considering the properties of other metals, the role of this unknown metal is almost conductive.
With the result, I set out on the road again. After taking the lead alone, I felt more and more deeply the meaning of the word "field" and ran out diligently, fieldwork!
Fortunately, there is Baiyun, a reliable and good employee in the business, and his tribe members are also at peace. Even if I am not here, Bishi and Galaxy can suppress them.
Everyone in the tribe knew that Galaxy brought someone back last time, and they clamored to see him in the group, and they asked to send him to the small town, and they wanted to circle him as a giant panda.
Considering that the sea of clouds is still under observation, Milky Way sent him to the small town, and the people who were responsible for watching him would also go, and then the big nest will be exposed.
So even though she wanted to take Yunhai away, she did not dare to lead him to the small town. Yunhai had no other acquaintances in this world. As a "supporter" who proposed to others, it seemed that it was the responsibility of Galaxy to take him in.
I laughed for a long time at this beautiful misunderstanding, annoyed Milky Way's smile, so she threatened to send someone to me.
I have already taken in many rare creatures in my residence. When the "frog" comes back from the trip, the house becomes even more lively, but I can't stay with such a big "angel".
Galaxy sneered and said it was okay. Didn’t my group be decorated as a temple by the tribe’s interior decoration team? It just so happened to put an angel sculpture in it and keep it in the garden, and it didn’t take up much space.
So I stopped when I saw it, and no longer angered her. She is not a man who just talks but doesn't do anything. If I really send my big wings, I can't afford to raise them, he will eat gold!
Chapter completed!