Abstinence Pei, don't be too sweet when chasing your wife

The archaeological team's troubles did not end because Zhang Qing and the other two's plan failed, but the crisis remained.

One day, when Gu Fanxing used a geological hammer to knock off the loose soil on the surface of the site, a pungent smell of humus hit him in the face.

She squatted down and looked carefully, and found that there were tiny metal particles mixed in the blue-gray rammed earth, which glowed strangely in the sunlight.

"Jiuer, quickly get the spectrum analyzer!" Before he finished speaking, the head of the Luoyang shovel in his hand hit a hard foreign object, making a harsh sound.

The excavation site instantly became bustling, and the team members used bamboo sticks and brushes to clean the surrounding soil.

As the cleaning work progressed, the Taotie pattern on the top of the bronze tripod gradually became apparent, but black mucus oozed from the ears of the tripod.

Just as Gu Fanxing was about to remind everyone to retreat, the soil beneath his feet suddenly made a "sizzling" sound - mercury was corroding the soil at a speed visible to the naked eye, forming honeycomb-like holes.

"It's mercury! The ancient Dian people used it as an anti-corrosion mechanism!" Her voice echoed through the valley.

The searchlight that was knocked over by the team members swept its blue beam across the collapsed ground, reflecting everyone's terrified faces.

The captain pulled off the hem of his protective suit, dipped the mucus into the detector, and the mercury value on the screen jumped wildly.

He immediately ordered his team to surround the collapsed area with waterproof cloth, but he himself started coughing violently due to inhaling excessive mercury vapor.

When Ling Jiuer rushed over to support him, she found a large red rash on the back of his hand - that was an early symptom of mercury poisoning.

The night was as dark as ink. In the emergency tent at the camp, the captain lay half-reclining on a cot, watching Ling Jiuer crush activated charcoal into a gauze bag. The kerosene lamp flickered in the wind, casting their shadows on the mud-stained tent.

“Captain, the mercury level in the stream is three times above the legal limit.”

Ling Jiuer held up the test report, her knuckles turning white from excessive force.

Gu Fanxing stared at the curve chart in the report and suddenly remembered the water conservancy map of the ancient Dian Kingdom that he had seen in the archives during the assessment.

"Go upstream, there is an entrance to an underground river!" she shouted.

The two men walked into the mountains in the dark, holding flashlights, and the wet moss was slippery under their feet.

Suddenly, Ling Jiuer's hiking boots sank into the soft soil, and when she pulled them out, half of a rusty bronze arrowhead came out.

"Stars!" she said, her voice trembling. "This is..."

Gu Fanxing used a magnifying glass to observe the cloud-thunder pattern on the arrow shaft, and his pupils suddenly contracted - the pattern was exactly the same as the replica in Zhang Qing's office.

When they found the underground river, the flocs floating on the water surface were emitting a faint blue fluorescence.

When Gu Fanxing took samples using a test tube, he discovered that the microorganisms would deform under ultraviolet light, like living alien creatures.

"Ancient method of purifying water!" She recalled the skills she had learned while restoring murals in Dunhuang, and instructed Ling Jiuer to weave a filter with vines to filter the stream water through three steps: sand, charcoal, and boiling.

In the light of the bonfire, their shadows danced on the rock wall, as if it were a sacrificial ceremony of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

Returning to the excavation site, the collapsed area had expanded into a ten-meter-deep pit.

Gu Fanxing was about to descend the safety rope when team member Xiao Jiang grabbed him tightly and said, "Oh my god! This job is not suitable for girls!"

When he descended to 20 meters, his headlamp swept across the cave wall, and the dense cinnabar totems suddenly came alive - it was a scene of the ancient Dian Kingdom's wizard offering sacrifices to the bronze tripod, and the smoke rising from the tripod overlapped with the mercury mist in reality.

"Pull me up!" Xiao Jiang shouted.

As soon as he was pulled out of the cave, the soil and rocks in the entire deep pit fell like a waterfall.

Gu Fanxing looked at the cave entrance and thought of the blurry satellite image in Zhang Qing’s mobile phone - the location of the deep pit coincided with the red mark in the image.

Late at night in the camp, Gu Fanxing stared at the 3D scan model on the computer and suddenly discovered that the ear structure of the bronze tripod contained a mystery.

She took Ling Jiuer and ventured down the cave, used an endoscope to look deep into the ear of the tripod, and found a jade piece engraved with ancient Dian characters hidden inside.

When they tried to take out the jade piece, the stalactites on the top of the cave suddenly fell. Gu Fanxing instinctively protected Ling Jiuer under her body, and the sharp stone edges left three bloody marks on her back.

While treating the wound, Gu Fanxing stared at the bloodstains on the gauze, and suddenly an idea came to him.

She dripped blood on the edge of the jade piece, and ancient characters began to appear - this was the unique "blood-revealing technique" of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

When she deciphered the words "The key to the gate of heaven requires a heart sacrifice", Zhang Qing's sharp laughter came from a distance.

The drone's searchlight pierced the night sky, illuminating the other party's smug face: "Gu Fanxing, do you think you can escape?"

Heavy rain poured down, Gu Fanxing was running in the mud, and the jade piece in his arms hurt his chest.

When she found the secret compartment under the tortoise-shaped pedestal in the southeast corner of the altar and inserted the jade piece into the groove, the entire mountain began to tremble.

The stone door of the underground palace slowly rose, and a damp and foul smell hit me in the face.

Zhang Qing and two of his men broke in holding cameras, but were stunned when they saw the scene inside the underground palace - hundreds of eternal lamps lit up automatically, and the bird-shaped totem on the bronze chimes was exactly the same as the decoration on Zhang Qing's manicure.

"You lose." Gu Fanxing held up the hard drive containing the complete chain of evidence.

Zhang Qing suddenly laughed wildly and pressed the remote control.

The alarm sounded in the underground palace and mercury gushed out from the walls.

At the critical moment, Ling Jiuer discovered that the arrangement of the chimes had a hidden mechanism. After striking them according to the ancient Dian music score, the stone gate reopened.

As the lights of the police car pierced through the rain, Gu Fanxing stood in front of the bronze tripod, stroking the newly discovered inscription.

The rain washed away the dirt on the surface, and the ancient words flickered in the moonlight: "Evil cannot prevail over good, and civilization will last forever." The whistling mountain wind seemed to be telling the story of a victory spanning thousands of years.

However, the crisis has not completely dissipated.

While sorting out cultural relics, Gu Fanxing discovered several bamboo slips with blue bacterial spots on their surface.

When she put on gloves and unfolded the bamboo slips, a pungent smell hit her face.

The team members began to cough and tear. Tests showed that the spores released by these plaques were corrosive, not only damaging cultural relics but also harmful to the human body.

Gu Fanxing urgently contacted the research institute, but found that the satellite phone signal was interfered with again.

She and Ling Jiuer could only rely on limited supplies to build a simple sterile laboratory in the camp.

They sealed the tent with plastic sheeting and tape, and used alcohol lamps and metal mesh to make a high-temperature sterilization device, trying to remove the bacterial plaque without damaging the bamboo slips.

After dozens of experiments, they finally found a method of disinfection using low-temperature plasma, but it took several hours to process each bamboo slip.

At the same time, Zhang Qing's accomplices are still operating in secret.

Late one night, the camp's generator suddenly caught fire and the fire spread rapidly with the wind.

Gu Fanxing and his team members carried sand and soil and tried their best to put out the fire, but they found that someone had poured accelerant into the fire bucket.

In the chaos, the tent storing cultural relics restoration materials was also caught fire, and precious adhesives and protective materials were burned.

Faced with numerous difficulties, Gu Fanxing did not back down.

She led the team to boil glutinous rice paste and mix it with lime to make adhesive.

Use specially treated plant fibers to replace protective materials.

While repairing a broken bronze vessel, it was discovered that inside was a military deployment map of the ancient Dian Kingdom.

Just as the archaeological work was coming to an end, a rare mudslide swept through the camp.

The team leader organized the team members to transfer the cultural relics and guarded the important unearthed documents himself.

As the mudslide got closer, he took refuge in a natural rock cave, holding the documents.

After the team members discovered that he was missing, they turned back to look for him despite the danger. Finally, after the mudslide receded, they rescued the unconscious captain from the crevice.

After this disaster, the archaeological team was not defeated, but became more united.

When the last batch of cultural relics were safely packed, Gu Fanxing looked at the rising sun on Longji Mountain with a determined light in his eyes.

She knew that although the battle with Zhang Qing and others had come to an end, the journey to protect historical civilization would never end.