Chapter 2
Ai Yu put away the miniature tripod, roughly processed the video just recorded and sent it back to the station.Just after sending it, the phone rang.

"Director, the material has been sent back, what else is there?"

"Hey, such a big resentment?"

Ai Yu rolled her eyes.Ren who finally took a few days off, and was asked to work overtime remotely, couldn't be happier.

Originally, she thought that the Ching Ming Festival was coming, and she had to come back to pay respects to grandpa and grandma.Unexpectedly, one of the falling spots of this meteor shower happened to be in her hometown.

"Xiaoyu, I have received news that a geological expert from your province will go to Fuding Mountain for field inspection tomorrow. Look..."

"Understood, I will follow up and report back when there is news." Ai Yu sighed, "Can I cancel my vacation when I go back? This can definitely be counted as a business trip!"

"Yes! Why can't it? It must be possible!"

After hanging up the phone, Ai Yu packed her backpack and looked at the surrounding ruins.She's not happy, not just because her vacation was ruined, but also because the temple was destroyed.

This place is called Fuding Mountain. Like many mountains in the hilly area, it is no more than 500 meters high.But as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Fuding Mountain was famous for its rich copper and iron resources.

In the era of cold weapons, the preciousness of copper and iron can be imagined.

At that time, Fuding Mountain belonged to Dachu, and successive kings of Chu sent soldiers to mine here all the year round.Over time, a mountain town was formed, named Nanxiang.

Nanxiang Town originally had only one north-south street, starting from the east foot of Fuding Mountain in the north and connecting to the official road in the south, with a total length of only three to five kilometers.The whole street is paved with strips of bluestone excavated by mining, the purpose is to facilitate the transportation of ore by wheelbarrow.

Thousands of years have passed, no matter how thick the bluestone strips are, they have been pressed into thin bluestone slabs, on which ruts are engraved one after another.

Nanxiang is an ancient town. Although Fuding Mountain is not a deep mountain, the Fuding Temple on the mountain can also be called an ancient temple.

At first there was only a small Buddhist temple, a statue and a monk on the top of the mountain.Later, the number of pilgrims continued, and the temple was expanded several times, and gradually there were buildings such as the main hall, east and west wing rooms, and apse.

Ai Yu still remembers coming here to offer incense with her grandmother when she was a child.

The main hall is five rooms wide, with a platform about one meter high. The front eaves are painted, and the other three sides are plain and broken white.Although the square in front of the hall is small, there is a huge incense burner.There is also a monument of merit and virtue beside it, and the names of grandpa and grandma are impressively in the forefront.

Unexpectedly, a meteor fell from the sky a month ago, and the whole temple was wiped out.Fortunately, the monks in the temple sensed that something was wrong and escaped, and the Bodhisattva blesses them properly.

At this time, Ai Yu left a deep pit in front of her eyes, and the burnt and pungent smell lingered for a long time.She walked around the ruins, sketching the original appearance of Fuding Temple in her mind, and walked around to the apse without knowing it.

There used to be an old locust tree here.

Looking at the huge black pit in front of him, and the half-coked tree stump lying on the bottom of the pit, Ai Yu felt sour in his heart.

When she was a child, whenever the Sophora japonica was fragrant, she always begged her grandpa and grandma to pick more.Sophora japonica can be taken home to make steamed cakes, or dried to make steamed buns stuffed with sophora japonica lean meat.

Since the old man passed away, the sweetness that remains in memory has never been tasted again.

"Boom..." There was a sudden muffled thunder, and Ai Yu was startled.

Looking up, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the wind is clear, nothing unusual.But I did hear thunder just now, could it be that this thunder alone fell on my heart?
As soon as this idea came up, the scorched earth near the pagoda tree pit suddenly revealed an emerald green light, and then thousands of emerald lights burst out of the ground one after another like hedgehogs.

Ai Yu was so frightened that she fell down beside the pit, her eyes wide open and she was at a loss.

I have been a reporter for three years, and I have seen many strange things, but today's scene is a bit outrageous.In an instant, thousands of thoughts flashed through Ai Yu's mind.

The biochemical weapon left by the little devil?

Impossible, if something harmful had been buried in the apse, the monks in the temple would have belched a long time ago.

The meteor shower is a drift bottle dropped by the aliens. After positioning it, gather a large force to engulf the earth?
It's possible, but it doesn't seem like it either.

Not to mention the meteor showers all over the world every year, only one Antarctica freezes an unknown number of meteorites.It wasn't until the glaciers melted in recent years that those meteorites surfaced one after another, but no aliens were seen coming.

Ten minutes later, there was no further change in the emerald light, so Ai Yu boldly looked towards the center of the pit.

This big black hole hit by a meteor is more than 30 meters deep, but the edge is less than one meter deep, and the luminous place is in the center of the bottom of the hole.

Only now did she realize that although the entire Fuding Temple had been reduced to scorched earth, the old locust tree in the apse seemed to be the "bullseye".If you guessed right, the glowing thing is where the meteor landed.

As if in response to her voice, the emerald light gradually subsided, and then the ground began to vibrate slightly,
"What the hell... is the monster about to show up..."

Ai Yu scrambled and tried to escape, but her left foot tripped over her right foot, she just stood up and then fell firmly to the ground.It was only a few seconds of delay, and when she got up again, the demonic Cuimang had already caught up to her eyes, pointing directly at her face.

"Damn, it's really for me? Hey, hey, hey, I'm just a small reporter, and I haven't even been judged by the editor-in-chief. Can you bully me?!"

Ai Yu closed her eyes and covered her face with her hands, resisting in vain with her palms outward.

She thought she was going to be sliced ​​into one hundred and eight pieces by the emerald green light, because the moment the light appeared, it gave people an indestructible sense of sharpness.

Who knows nothing happened.

There is only the sound of his rapid breathing in the world, and a cold object is stuck to the palm.Ai Yu held it subconsciously, and opened her eyes cautiously.

This is a green stone in the shape of a ring. The emerald green ring is like emerald, with extremely high transparency.There is also a gap in the ring, like a jade ring.

If a gentleman can make a decision, he wears a jue.This kind of jade ornaments can be traced back to the Neolithic Age at the earliest. If it is really ancient jade, it will be developed...

Ai Yu pursed her lips, took out a wet tissue from her backpack, carefully cleaned the dirt on the jade ring, and wiped her hands clean by the way.

This jade ring is by no means an ordinary emerald ornament, the glaring emerald light just now cannot be faked.Looking left and right, there are no ghosts in the barren mountains, wild ridges, scorched earth and huge pits.Ai Yu made a decisive decision and put the treasure into her pocket.

Perhaps because of a guilty conscience, the time to go down the mountain is more than twice as fast as that of climbing in the morning.It only took Ai Yu more than half an hour to return to the old street and went straight to her old house.

The so-called old street, as the name suggests, is the oldest street in Nanxiang.In today's Nanxiang Town, most young people have moved to Xinjiekou to live, even in county towns and provincial capitals... There are only uninhabited wooden buildings left in the old streets, as well as old wells, old archways, and sporadic things that are too lazy to move around. the elderly.

When Ai Yu was young, she lived in Laojie with her grandfather and grandmother until she was admitted to university.Later, the old man passed away one after another, and the old wooden building in her house became dilapidated day by day, but at least it was a place to stay.

When she got home, Ai Yu immediately nestled into her grandfather's rocking chair, took out the jade ring and looked at it over and over again.The inner and outer rings of the jade ring are clean and clean, without any features that can indicate the age or provenance.

(End of this chapter)

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