At the foot of Xingshan.

Outside a landslide area, several military tents had been set up, and the area was cordoned off.

Sun Yuan, dressed in crisp outdoor sportswear with an ID badge hanging on his chest, was following behind Professor Xiang, ready to conduct a protective excavation of the newly discovered ancient tomb.

Ever since the last encounter, when that man showed him what it meant to get away with anything just by being handsome, Sun Yuan had been down for two days, but he quickly got over it.

After all, graduation was near, and the pressure of employment was pressing!

No food to eat, who's even thinking about romance!

Professor Xiang had hinted that if he performed well during this internship, he would get a recommendation letter.

At this moment, two strong men, dressed like migrant workers, came up to greet them, warmly shaking hands with Professor Xiang: "Professor Xiang, we've already checked it out; this tomb is not small. From the analysis of the excavated soil layers, it might be from the Yan Han period, and this is a big tomb!"

Sun Yuan noticed that the fingers of the person speaking were of the same length, his pupils involuntarily shrinking a bit.

"Hmm, I trust Hu's skills and eyesight."

Professor Xiang introduced the two men: "This is my student, Sun Yuan! Sun Yuan, these two are Hu and Jin Gong, field excavation experts with professional technical skills."

"Haha, Professor Xiang flatters us, we're just rough folks. Our ancestors did tomb robbing for a living. Back when life was tough, if you didn't do this, you couldn't survive. After all, with over a hundred thousand years of history, you could dig up anything and fill your belly. Later, when Xiane was established, we abandoned our ancestral rules, joined the historical archaeology team to make a living, handed everything over to the state, and even got a position, pretty sweet!"

Hu, being talkative, noticed Sun Yuan staring at his fingers and introduced himself with a smile: "See these hands? Trained from sticking them in iron sand as a child, they're perfect for digging!"

Sun Yuan nodded, knowing that ancient tomb robbers sometimes needed to dig by hand to avoid making too much noise or damaging relics, but few reached this level. He couldn't help but admire: "Hu, with these hands, you'd be on the level of a Martial Arts master in ancient times."

"Haha... indeed, with this skill, I'd take down three or five Great Han men easily!"

Hu laughed heartily. At that moment, a staff member came over with a piece of bronze: "Professor, Hu, there's a find!"

"Look... the Coiled Dragon Inscription on this bronze piece, beneath it are fire clouds, in the style of the Yan Han period, and judging by the number of fire clouds, this is from the time of Emperor Shenwu."

Professor Xiang, wearing white gloves, carefully brushed the dirt off the bronze piece and placed a magnifying glass over it, smiling: "This time we've found a big one. Yan Han tombs are extremely rare, given that so much has been destroyed over the years. This one was buried deep; if not for this landslide, it might have never been discovered..."

"Tsk tsk!"

Beside him, Jin Gong also marveled: "Our founders always said if you're going to rob a tomb, rob those from before Yan Han. Like the ones after Da Song, Great Saint... all gold and silver antiques, nothing interesting. But before Yan Han, like Immortal Qin, Shang, Zhou, large burials... might come across a Divine Artifact!"

Hu shook his head: "Lao Jin, save it. Tombs before Yan Han Shenwu are either ordinary or extremely dangerous. So many of our forebears got trapped in them. If this is one of those dangerous tombs, we must be extra careful."

Sun Yuan listened and couldn't help but smile wryly: "Isn't it said that everything before Yan Han is a fabricated history?"

Upon hearing this, Professor Xiang put down the bronze piece, adjusted his glasses, and said: "That's a common saying because the records before Emperor Shenwu are full of cultivation, Immortal Gods, and such incredulous tales. That's why historians nowadays dismiss pre-Yan Han Shenwu history as fabricated. However, through those mythical records, we can at least speculate that a tribe called 'Immortal Qin' did exist before Yan Han... Of course, the people from that tribe could have loved exaggerating, turning myth into history. It's possible the witches at the time had a habit of ingesting hallucinogenic plants to intoxicate themselves..."

"The professor is right."

Sun Yuan nodded repeatedly, acknowledging the true materialist view of history.

Unlike that guy named Zhong, who talked about all sorts of nonsense, barely distinguishable from the ravings of a madman.

After preparations, the group donned professional gear and entered the tomb passage.

"Huh?"

Sun Yuan touched the wall and was instantly amazed: "What is this... alloy?"

The entire passage was unexpectedly built with metal, stainless for thousands of years, still very well preserved without any collapses or accidents.

"The pattern looks very similar to the bronze steel unearthed from Jiuxing Dui..."

Professor Xiang's eyes lit up: "Wonderful, another great find! At least it proves that the advanced technology from Jiuxing Dui was already established during the Yan Han period..."

Sun Yuan also knew the famous 'Jiuxing Dui.' In fact, as a conscientious archaeologist, no one wouldn't know about that site.

'Jiuxing Dui' is the largest ancient site discovered by Xiane, full of incredible ancient technological wonders.

For instance... a city entirely cast in steel, a bronze female statue hundreds of meters tall...

This convinces many historians that an advanced civilization once thrived in ancient Eastern regions, only to decline later into a prehistoric civilization site.

And 'Jiuxing Dui' is one of those prehistoric civilization cities!

After a long passage, they arrived before an ancient bronze door.

The door was majestic and engraved with two ferocious mythical beasts.

"Behind this door is likely the owner's main chamber!"

Professor Xiang said: "It's time for Hu and Jin Gong to take action."

"No problem."

Hu nodded, looking at the patterns on the door, revealing a hint of joy: "We're in luck, encountering an ancient curse mechanism!"

"Curses? Why call that lucky?"

Sun Yuan was puzzled.

He knew that ancient tomb owners often designed vicious traps to prevent disturbances. Some would even destroy the entire tomb upon activation, taking everyone down with it, causing countless tomb raiders and archaeologists to suffer.

"Such anti-tomb raiding designs vary by era. Basically... before Shenwu, people vouched for Witchcraft, always liking to scare with mysterious stuff, like ghosts, Arrays, grave-guarding Spiritual Beasts... but these were mostly for show and practically useless. It was connected to overconfidence. If Jiuxing Dui's technology was applied to anti-theft, it'd truly become an extremely dangerous tomb!"

"However, later on, with the development of the times, various anti-tomb techniques reached their peak: quicksand, dragon stones, chain flip-boards, mechanical crossbows... more terrifying was biological toxins, causing all raiding tomb robbers to die. Ancients mistakenly thought it was a mysterious curse until modern science decoded it."

Hu stepped forward with a wide grin, starting to push the door: "This bronze door is the renowned Blood Curse Gate of the old days. Looks scary, but it's really nothing, not some prehistoric technological creation. We're lucky!"

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