Chapter 20
Chapter 20
Lin Jin tossed and turned all night in the hotel, and barely fell asleep in the early hours of the morning.
The next day, An Qiao took her to a village on the outskirts of the city by bus.They have to go through the entire village to reach the place where the archaeological team is now stationed.
An Qiao is not a talkative person, and he didn't talk too much with Lin Jin along the way, but Lin Jin was somewhat puzzled.At that time, after Uncle An told her the news of her father's death, he didn't tell her to hurry there, but told her very solemnly that she must wait three days before coming.She wanted to ask a few times, but was always interrupted by An Qiao, and she couldn't get a clear answer until she arrived at the archaeological team.
After getting out of the car, An Qiao pointed to a few tents in the distance and said, "We work there during the day, and return to the village to rest at night."
Lin Jin nodded.
She heard from An Qiao that her father's body was placed in a small hospital in the village. Although it was simple, it was the best place for treatment that could be found at that time.Thinking of seeing each other soon, Lin Jin suddenly felt a little nervous. He wondered if he was getting old in the past few years, or if he still liked to wear a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and smile gently as before.
An Qiao saw that she was a little unstable, so he patted her arm comfortingly, and Lin Jin smiled gratefully at him.
"Xiao Jin, let's go see your father now."
"it is good."
Lin Jin imagined what his father would look like many times, but he didn't expect such a result.When they rushed to the hospital, a little nurse looked panicked and terrified, as if she had seen something terrible.As soon as she saw An Qiao, she went up and held him tightly, her voice trembling: "Mr. An, the body of the patient you sent a few days ago is gone!"
An Qiao was stunned for a moment, seemingly unbelievable, and Lin Jin was even more bewildered. She held the little nurse's shoulder and asked, "How could it be possible to disappear for no reason? Are you making a mistake?"
The little nurse was so anxious that she almost cried: "Really, I didn't lie to you. It was still there last night. It disappeared when Auntie went to clean the morgue this morning..." After finishing speaking, she shook off Lin Jin's hand , Said: "I'm going to call the police!"
Lin Jin looked back at An Qiao, An Qiao had a strange expression, his face turned white and blue, and he didn't know what he thought of.
Lin Jin was silent for a while, then asked him, "Uncle An, do you know something?"
An Qiao's face became more and more ugly, and he said with difficulty: "Teacher Lin told me a few days before the accident, if one day I need to find him, I will come and ask you, and you will know where he is..."
There was an eerie silence in the air. With trembling hands, Lin Jin took out the piece of paper found in the box from his bag. The words written with a carbon pen on the edge of the paper were stained with dark red blood. A foreshadowing and calling.
The wind outside the window was blowing harder and harder, and the door was opened and closed by the draft. Lin Jin glanced outside the door inadvertently, and a figure flashed by, and disappeared without a trace before he could see it clearly.
Even if there was only a vague shadow, Lin Jin probably already knew who that person was.
Lin Jin sighed and said nothing.
There seemed to be some movement downstairs, Lin Jin ran to the window to look out, just in time to see several policemen going upstairs following the nurse just now.She turned her head and said to An Qiao, "Uncle An, the police are here."
An Qiao was still deep in thought and didn't realize it. Mr. Lin was sitting in the courtyard and eating with him that day, but for some reason he suddenly said such strange words. He didn't pay much attention at first, but he didn't expect Lin The teacher died unexpectedly.
At that time, it happened to be the day when he made an appointment to go to the vicinity of the ancient tomb with several other experts to check the terrain, but he insisted on walking that road alone. An Qiao even doubted whether Teacher Lin committed suicide more than once.
Now it seems that the whole thing is not so simple.
An Qiao came back to his senses, nodded to Lin Jin, and greeted the policeman who was about to walk in front of them.
A young policeman asked, "Are you the family members of the deceased?"
An Qiao looked at Lin Jin and said, "This is Teacher Lin's daughter, and I am his colleague."
The policeman asked again: "Did you find out that the body of the deceased was missing as soon as you arrived at the hospital?"
The little nurse interjected: "Yes, they came as soon as we found out that something happened."
A policewoman next to her kept memorizing something in a notebook, and when they finished answering, she raised her head and smiled comfortingly, mainly at Lin Jin.She said: "Don't worry too much, we will definitely investigate, and you remember to come to the bureau in the afternoon to make a record."
Lin Jin thanked him, but actually he didn't have any hope that they could find out the truth.Instead of waiting for them to investigate there without a clue, it is better to find the person who has been secretly following him first.
An Qiao turned sideways and observed Lin Jin's face carefully. No matter who has encountered such a thing, he will not feel very comfortable now. He asked, "Xiao Jin, shall we go back to the team first?"
Lin Jin didn't have any expression on his face, and said lightly: "Okay, let's go back first."
An Qiao didn't dare to say anything when she was too stimulated, and the two left directly.
There was panic in the hospital here. Some superstitious patients knew that Lin Jin's father was a member of the archaeological team who had just arrived here, and speculated that the archaeological team dug up the ancestral graves of the ancients, and now they have suffered retribution, so they died. After that, they will not live in peace.
Lin Jin also vaguely heard such rumors, and wanted to argue several times, but was stopped by An Qiao.
"They won't listen to what you say, but it will make things worse." An Qiao advised her.
Lin Jin frowned, upset, "Should we just let them talk like this?"
An Qiao smiled helplessly: "Xiao Jin, you haven't really come into contact with this industry yet. In such a remote place, people's thinking is still very backward. For them, archaeology is digging graves and ruining the ancestors' life." Feng Shui, it is still light to say these words now..."
Lin Jin was sitting on an open space outside the tent. He was right, even if it was useless to reason with those people, it would be impossible to be understood anyway.
An Qiao's eyes were serious, he looked at her for a while, then walked up to her and sat down, and said, "I heard from the teacher before that they were forced the hardest when they were in Longxi more than [-] years ago."
Lin Jin asked in surprise, "Longxi?"
An Qiao said: "Yes, Longxi, why, I heard your father mention it before?"
Lin Jin hesitated for a moment, but shook his head.
An Qiao didn't pay much attention, and then told Lin Jin about the past: "You were not born at that time, your father and your mother were in the same archaeological team, and they were both the backbone of the team. These facilities are still very simple, and there are very few members, and very few people are willing to go out to dig ancient tombs, so the work is extremely difficult."
"Longxi is an ancient city in the farthest corner of China. It is not the city that people call it now, but another unknown place."
"There is a thousand-year-old tomb there, which is a well-known secret in the archaeological world, but almost no one is willing to mention it, let alone go there in person. Your parents are the second group to investigate since the ancient tomb was discovered. staff of……"
An Qiao talked eloquently, and the scenes of that year seemed to reappear in front of his eyes, which made people's heart skip a beat.
Lin Jin frowned and asked him, "So almost all the people who went there got mad? Then what was that monster they saw?"
An Qiao shook his head. The situation at that time was only what Mr. Lin told him verbally, and he was not very clear about the actual situation. However, the few teachers who are still alive today have become leading figures in the archaeological world. But they seldom go to public events, and almost never give speeches abroad. It seems to be related to the previous encounters, and it is impossible to learn from them what happened back then.
Lin Jin just wanted to ask something more, but suddenly remembered the animal she saw in front of the window of the dormitory corridor when she went to the dormitory to find He Ran.
It seems to be a beast, but it can be transformed into a human form, which almost completely matches the scene she saw at that time. Could it be that it was not dazzled at that time?
Lin Jin suddenly felt terrified, and a cold sweat broke out on his back, and he didn't dare to think about it.
However, all of these points to the same place - Longxi.
It was getting late, and the two of them had been sitting outside for so long before they knew it. Several interns from the archaeological team had followed their teacher down the mountain. An Qiao greeted them and introduced Lin Jin. Afterwards, the group returned to the village together.
They rented a house from a villager, and Lin Jin was assigned to the room closest to the entrance of the courtyard.Lin Jin originally wanted to live in the room where his father used to live, but was stopped by an old master with gray hair in the archaeological team.The old man looked serious, and blocked Lin Jin out of the door forcefully, "You little girl, you dare to walk around without knowing anything, get out of the way!"
The old man spoke with a strong local accent, and Lin Jin didn't understand what he was saying at first, until An Qiao came and pulled her away.
Lin Jin asked An Qiao: "Uncle An, why can't I live here? I'm not afraid."
An Qiao didn't know how to explain it to her, so he could only say: "Be obedient, that old master has been in the team for many years, and what he said is right... He should have his reasons..."
Lin Jin stood stiffly for a while, but finally turned around and entered the room prepared for her. She always had the feeling that there were many things she didn't know about this place, but everyone kept it from her. At the end, she was the only one kept in the dark.
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PS: This story is purely fictitious (nonsense). All the names of people and places mentioned in the article (emphasized) have nothing to do with reality. The ancient tomb to be written next (emphasized) is also purely fictional~( ̄▽ ̄~) (~ ̄▽ ̄)~
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