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Chapter 16 The Story Night of the Archaeological Team
In Egypt, like most other countries, Friday is Sunday, and people do not work on this day.So we do as the Romans do, and Friday is the only rest day of the week.

Since we didn't have to get up early the next day, Thursday became movie and story night for our archaeological team.Coupled with the injection of fresh blood this year, we have regained this traditional event that has lasted for a year.

A group of archaeologists get together, and everyone's life experience is enough to talk for a long time.Domestic archaeological resources are really rich, and archeology is not a popular major, so every professional is moving bricks everywhere.The excavation experience of the team leader is second to none in China, and there is no place in the world that has not used a shovel.He is usually a person with a lot of jokes, maybe he was tired after picking up people today, so he would sit on the sofa after dinner and smoke, listening to our nonsense.

Teacher Wen poured tea for everyone with three nods of the phoenix, thus kicking off the curtain of tonight's story meeting.

I contributed a story I heard.

A German friend once studied at the University of Jerusalem, and she went to study biblical archeology.It is said that strange things happened in the underground palace of a church in the south of Rome.She and the team members who went with her all met their own clones, which were completely her own speech and behavior, and there was no difference at all except that she killed her own people.

"When she told me, I felt hairy all over my body."

Lou Shiqi is better than dismantling my platform, saying that there is nothing terrible about it.

I stared at him: "If your most trusted companion might be pretending to be something else, it will hurt you to be around you. What's more frightening is that you can't tell which one is your real friend."

"But it's unlikely to happen, it's something like human cloning." Mr. Wen said while adding tea.

"I don't know." I shrugged. "Bible archaeology, nothing."

"Then how did your friends go back?" Lou Shiqi asked.

"How could God allow His people to be defeated by evil? They must rely on the power of faith to retreat."

Everyone laughed it off.I also thought that this story should not be true. After all, when it comes to this kind of belief issue, it is better to be sincere.

The leader pressed the tobacco leaves in his pipe, and said that they would worship with cattle and sheep before digging.Although archaeology is mainly for research and not for money, it is still disturbing and quiet, so it can be respected.I have been to the archaeological site where I led the team, at the foot of Tianshan Mountain.The scenery is very good, but the conditions are difficult.

When Lou Shiqi heard that Tianshan was excited. "Then have you ever gone to Kunlun Mountain for archaeological research? I heard that there are many ancient animals and plants there."

"Did you read too much The Classic of Mountains and Seas?" Teacher Wang looked down on him like this.

Lou Shiqi smiled embarrassedly, saying that he has been interested in myths and legends since he was a child, and Kunlun Mountain has always been the protagonist in these stories, so he naturally yearns for it.

Under Lou Shiqi's expectant gaze, the team leader shook his head.

"Qijia and Siba are basically close to the Qilian Mountains, and they are related to the culture of the Central Plains, but it does not prove that they are the Kunlun Mountains in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Basically, the archeology of that area was done by the province of QH, and it will be at the end of the 90s. They also discovered a Stone Age settlement at the foot of the Qilian Mountains, which almost made it into the top ten archaeological discoveries in the second year.” The team leader implied that they didn’t make the top ten that time. "At that time, I had just joined the work not long ago, and I wanted to soak up the aura of that construction site. This kind of discovery that could fill in the lack of culture was a breakthrough back then, but no one thought that this project would not only fail to enter the top ten, but also was stopped."

Now mentioning Qilian Mountain makes me nervous.I don't know if there is any relationship between this suspended archaeological project and the geological survey 279 planned to go to.Think again about the difference in space and time.

Lou Shiqi asked: "Then do you think it is possible for the archaeological team to discover ancient life in Kunlun Mountain?"

I was actually quite curious about this sacred mountain, and looked at the leader expectantly along with me.

The team leader waved his hand: "As archaeologists, don't just listen and read all day long. Have you read the excavation report of Kunlun Mountain? If all the Kunlun Mountains were excavated, all archaeologists in China would not be able to do it in ten lifetimes." It's over. And if there are any ancient beasts, we will definitely run faster than you."

Lou Shiqi nodded embarrassingly.

Unexpectedly, in addition to being fascinated by the story, he turned around and told us an unbelievable story.

According to Lou Shiqi himself, his family is from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.Although it is not like Xiangxi has such a famous activity as exorcising corpses, there are also strange legends.

"My hometown is in the mountains of Guizhou, which is the kind of mountain with no name or surname. When I was young, the old people in the village often said that there was a mountain nearby that was very evil. The animals in it used to run out of the mountain and rampage in the village. Originally, it was quite normal for animals in the mountains to forage in places where humans lived. At first, everyone didn’t take it to heart, and just drove the cattle and sheep back to the pen and closed the door. But the animals in this mountain are different. .They don't come for food, they don't even smell the livestock. They come for something else."

Lou Shiqi is well versed in the essence of storytelling, he whetted our appetites first, and then began to gasp for breath.

I urged him: "Then what are they running for?"

Lou Shiqi asked us to guess.

Teacher Xin said: "There are also mountains in our hometown. Those animals come down to pick up piglets when they lack food and drink. Sometimes herbivores even come to steal food. There is a mutual relationship between humans and animals in the process of getting along. The process of domestication, they also know what is available in human society."

Teacher Ji was very convinced by his colleagues and seniors, and agreed: "Some animals will go to the village to look for them because they can't get enough nutrients from the natural environment. This is very common."

"When I was archaeological in the snow area, the relationship between Tibetans and animals became closer. They knew what animals needed and were happy to provide them. I even saw red pandas go to Tibetans' homes to beg for food." Teacher Wen used his The Guangpu tells us about the people and nature of the Tibetans. "They're really the kind that have a mouthful of themselves and an animal's mouth."

But none of these answered Lou Shiqi's question, which made him very proud.

"If it is in line with the habits of the animals, then there is nothing to worry about. But those animals, whether they are wolves or bears, even wild boars and deer, have run into the village. They will take the villagers' farm tools, cooking utensils and pots The bowls and pans were taken away. Some people saw a wolf biting an iron pot in the village. People chased it away, and it kept gnawing on the pot. The villagers themselves did not want to hurt the wolf, for fear that the wolves would retaliate. But that The scene was terrible. The wolf bit it bloody and continued to gnaw it. The villagers had no choice but to beat it to death.

These are all told to us by the old people. I was young at that time, and I didn’t see everything with my own eyes, so I didn’t take it seriously.There was a thunderstorm one night, and I was woken up to go outside to use the bathroom.Rural toilets are all in the backyard.As soon as I passed, I heard the cry of a child.

There are salamanders in the mountains near my house, and I have seen them too, so at first I thought it was salamanders calling.But the salamanders are all active near the creek, but the sound seems to come from my yard, and I can hear it clearly. In the 90s, there were no lights in the countryside at night, so I was afraid and wanted to see it.When I walked past the sound, I saw a salamander screaming and biting the rake we put outside the sheepfold with its mouth.The salamander does not have the chewing function, which means that it is actually smashing the iron rake with its mouth, and the blood is stained.I was terrified, ran back to the house and told grandpa.Grandpa asked me to go to bed first, and he went to have a look.But no one mentioned it the next day.Later, I went to the sheep pen to check, but I didn't see the salamander, but the rake was removed.

At first, I thought all this was a delusional illusion at night, but what happened next made me have to believe that what the old man said before was true.Because the beasts did come in our village later, I also encountered them.

They are very purposeful, even rational.A leopard just passed me. If it was hungry, it could eat me in one bite.But it doesn't.That was the only time I saw a leopard, so beautiful.It went straight to someone else's house, as if it was also biting some farm tool.And the most frightening thing is that this biting problem is contagious.If you have seen a bamboo rat gnawing its cage frantically, you will know what evil nature is.

Later, the people in the village couldn't stand this kind of thing anymore, so some people went into the mountain with cattle and sheep.At that time, people were still superstitious. They thought it was the mountain god who was angry, so they went to sacrifice.But they also get the disease.These people either gnawed on the guns they brought with them until their mouths were full of blood, or they threw themselves on the fence after returning.At that time, there was no doctor who could treat this disease, and they were only tied up when they were sent to the city.That person seemed to choke to death on a spoon as soon as he found an opportunity.

The custom in my hometown is to bury the dead in the mountains, but when this happened, no one dared to enter the mountains.Some morticians from a foreign land did not believe in evil and took them into the mountains.There was no problem when the mortician came out, but within a few days the dead people came back to life strangely.They don't hurt anyone when they go back to the village, and they still need to find something iron to eat.Later, everyone was very scared, so they didn't dare to use iron tools anymore. Those wild beasts and people who came back from the dead never came again, and I was taken away by my family. "

I got goosebumps when I heard it.This is so close to the pet cemetery.

"Why is that mountain so evil! So what's going on? Is your house infected with anything other than bamboo rats?"

Lou Shiqi was frightened by his own memories and shivered.

"At that time, I didn't pay attention to whether other things were infected. Those bamboo rats were raised by my grandfather. I was scared to death when they got sick. I didn't pay attention to other things. I don't know why they would eat those things. He paused briefly, "But did you know that pandas were once called iron eaters?"

I nod.When I heard it for the first time, I wondered how pandas could not be associated with such a domineering name.

Lou Shiqi went on to say: "It is said that the panda used to be Chi You's mount, and it was so brave that it could eat the enemy's weapons raw, so it is called an iron-eating beast. I wonder if there is a possibility that the behavior of these animals is related to the legend of the iron-eating beast."

My memory of ancient mythology stays in my childhood, but now when I hear Lou Shiqi mentioning it, my interest is aroused again.He couldn't help but admire him, and added tea to him.

Teacher Wang can't see us being so ignorant. "This kind of story can only lie to you half-baked people. We only used copper and iron together in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. How could there be iron utensils in ancient times? They also eat iron beasts. What to eat. Besides, if Chi You really invented it, Then everyone here is waving iron weapons, how can he still lose?"

Teacher Wen added: "The person who came back from the dead may have been misdiagnosed or spread rumors. We have also had this kind of situation. A mother dreamed of her daughter for a week after her daughter was buried and said to her: 'Mom , I can’t breathe.” At the beginning, when she told others, they told her that it was caused by her missing her too much. On the seventh day, she didn’t dream of her daughter again, and the mother panicked. She asked the village chief to bring her Someone went to open her daughter's coffin and found that there were deep scratches on the inside of the coffin boards. In fact, her daughter did not die before the burial, but was suffocated to death in the back."

Lou Shiqi and I shuddered at the same time.

The archaeologists are not talking about reality, it is very real and especially scary.Besides, there is a hospital downstairs, and when someone came to cry and grab the ground, I feel like Max.

"Many phenomena can actually be explained, but people are prone to associate them in the situation at that time." The team leader said slowly with a pipe in his mouth, "Salamanders prefer to spawn in thunderstorms, you may have encountered a problem that day." The female fish running along the water. Those so-called iron-eating animals may be due to the need for nutritional supplements. The food of giant pandas is mainly bamboo, which cannot provide enough nutrition. So they occasionally break into the villagers’ homes to lick iron pots, In fact, it is to supplement the salt. The panda’s teeth are second only to the tiger’s, and it can even bite the iron pan. The ancient people did not understand the reason, because these behaviors believed that the giant panda’s iron pan and other salty or other nutrients I am interested in something, so I called it an "iron-eating beast". As for the abnormal phenomena of those animals that Shi Qi just mentioned, one is because of the reason I just said, and it may be because of the special geological activities that caused the animals to be uneasy. .And people didn’t know enough about nature at that time, and they might think in the direction of strange power and chaos. Do you still feel that the previous experience is difficult to understand?”

It may be that the sequelae of childhood shadows are relatively large. Lou Shiqi argued: "But there is no need to hurt yourself if you supplement elements! The salamanders and leopards I saw with my own eyes were full of blood.".

Teacher Liang had been listening silently just now, and now he questioned Lou Shiqi: "Did you eat poisonous mushrooms at that time? I remember that you have this eating habit."

As Lou Shiqi silently closed his mouth, the second half of the night talk turned into a late-night food party.After the end, everyone dragged their stomachs that began to resist and went back to the rooms to rest.

No matter how active I am while listening to a story, I don't sleep well at night anyway.The disadvantages of sleeping alone appear when people suddenly wake up in the dead of night.I did mental work for a long time before I climbed out of the safe bed and poured water to suppress my shock.

The archaeological team's residence in Luxor is a pattern of two three-bedroom apartments.I live in the end room of the three-bedroom apartment on the west side, next door is the room of Teacher Xin, and then pass by the rooms of Teacher Wang and Teacher Ji.Lou Shiqi slept in a room converted from a kitchen, next to the bathroom.The living room on our side has been transformed into an office, where everyone usually works.

In the other house, there are several resident teachers, and their living room assumes duties such as eating.So if you want to drink hot water in the middle of the night, you have to go through so many empty rooms.

I put on my clothes and was fumbling for the light switch when I heard someone talking in the dining room.It seemed to be the leader's voice, and he lowered his voice as if he was on the phone.

At that time, it was more than three o'clock in the night in Egypt, and it was already morning in China.

I didn't mean to listen to the corner.But today the team leader went to the airport to pick up people, and after returning, he has been in a low mood, even when he was chatting about the mountains, he was not very active.After waiting for a while to see that the call from the team leader did not mean to end, I became sleepy again, so I simply lay back and continued to sleep.

It happened to be my turn to make breakfast the next day, and it was rare to get up earlier than the other team members.I passed the office area on my way to the kitchen and saw the team leader sitting at the desk looking at something.The smell of smoke in the room made me cough uncontrollably.

"Why aren't you sleeping?" The team leader glanced at me and got up to open the window.

"It's my turn to make breakfast today. I had a great chat before going to bed yesterday, so I wanted to make more delicious food."

The leader nodded, as if he had just realized that it was already seven o'clock in the morning.I wondered if he had been sitting here for most of the night, and I could feel that the time was definitely not short just by the smell of smoke.

While putting the beef slices in the oil pan, I wondered what made the leader so difficult.

　Records about iron-eating beasts can be found in various ancient books, such as "Shen Yi Jing": "There is a beast in the south, with horns and feet the size and shape of a buffalo, with fur as black as lacquer, it eats iron and drinks water, its dung can be used as a weapon, and its sharp Rugang is called Nietie."

　　
　
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