Chapter 115

Fang Yang looked at the coffin in front of him, and the system panel suddenly popped up.

【Ancient Coffin (Late Western Han)】

【Name: Liu Da】

【Burial form: Mound-style burial tomb】

【There are two forms of mound tombs: one is a dense, irregular distribution; the other is a linear distribution along the mountain ridge. After more than two thousand years, some mound tombs have collapsed and are not visible, while others still maintain significant mounds, occupying higher ground, one mound per tomb. Burial objects are placed in the center of the tomb, generally 1 to 8 items....】

After reading all the recorded information on the system panel, Fang Yang was stunned.

There were so many things in this tiny mound: money, bombs, corpses, and now an ancient tomb. The most important thing was that there was far more than just this one ancient tomb!

Because mound-style tombs are mostly collective burial sites in the form of families.

This made him feel incredible; after all this time, it turned out the whole place below him was full of tombs.

How was he supposed to work then?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at the foreman.

He suddenly discovered that the foreman's eyes had been on him the whole time.

If looks could kill, Fang Yang estimated he would have died countless times already.

To reduce his own guilt and prevent these people from wasting time here, Fang Yang bit the bullet and walked over.

"Hello! Foreman Wang!"

"What do you want?"

"That... there's something I don't know if I should say or not!"

"Then don't say it!"

"Uh... actually, I just wanted to remind you that you'd better take your workers and leave first; work won't be able to start here for a while!"

The foreman was furious when he heard this, his voice raised quite a bit: "Why? Can't I work after they finish opening the coffin?"

Fang Yang felt a bit guilty: "That... it's just... to tell you the truth, I estimate that more coffins will be dug up in a while!"

"Damn! You're doing this to mess with me on purpose, right?"

"No, no... I'm really not lying to you. I'm doing this for your own good, to let you pack up and leave early so you don't waste time here!"

"You say you can dig up more coffins? I just don't believe it. If you dig one out, I'll leave immediately. I just don't believe you're really that cursed!"

Fang Yang looked at the agitated foreman, completely dumbfounded; he was trying to advise him out of kindness, so why did he get him fired up?

"Uh... you'd better take my advice!"

——【Haha, another foreman has added Fang Yang to his blacklist; one day he'll only be able to go treasure hunting!】

——【I can feel that the foreman is about to collapse. He agreed in the morning not to dig up bombs or cultural relics, but the result is that the construction site has become an archaeological site for the whole day.】

——【Foreman, you'd better take his advice. Facts have proven that wherever Fang Yang is, work will definitely stop!】

——【If you don't listen to Fang Yang's words, you'll suffer right before your eyes; he'll soon feel what despair is.】

——【A coffin from over 2,000 years ago, what it looks like inside, I guess nobody knows.】

——【This coffin doesn't look like it has anything good in it; it's all tattered, and even if there were things, they've probably rotted away.】

Just as the two of them were chatting, because their voices were too loud.

Several old experts nearby heard the commotion.

Especially Qin Lao, who asked curiously: "Fang Yang, did you just say more coffins would be dug up?"

Fang Yang nodded helplessly.

"How did you know? You knew before you even dug?" Dai Ju was stunned. Could Fang Yang predict the future?

Looking at everyone's puzzled eyes, Fang Yang sighed.

He didn't mean to show off on purpose!

"Actually... I was just guessing. Look at the shape of this tomb, then think about our current geographical location, as well as the burial style of the late Western Han Dynasty; if you synthesize it all, you can probably guess it!"

As soon as these words were out, everyone immediately observed the surrounding environment.

Earth mounds!

Western Han Dynasty!

Burial style!

Qin Lao was the first to react: "You don't mean to say this is a mound-style burial tomb, do you?"

The others suddenly realized; if they hadn't studied it carefully, they really wouldn't have been able to tell.

Fang Yang nodded: "And I estimate that a family is buried below here!"

Hiss~~

As soon as this was said, the onlookers present were stunned.

A whole family is buried here.

That must be a lot of tombs.

No wonder Fang Yang said earlier that more coffins would be dug up.

At this moment, the foreman already had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

Several experts thought about it, and the principal was the first to speak: "I trust Fang Yang's judgment. I suggest calling more people over immediately to help with the excavation!"

Director Xu also nodded: "Dai Ju, Fang Yang's archaeological ability is recognized by us; what he says shouldn't be wrong!"

Dai Ju was stunned; the Dugu Xin seal from yesterday had already surprised him enough.

But hearing today that Fang Yang was a professor made him even more surprised.

Now he was even hearing that a principal of the same rank as himself recognized Fang Yang's strength.

He's only 20 years old. If he lives to be their age.

That would be incredible.

It's terrifying to think about.

He thought he had already valued Fang Yang enough, but now he realized he had completely underestimated him.

Just based on this mound-style burial tomb discovery, he had already proven his strength!

If they really dig up many tombs later.

This... he didn't dare to think about it!

After hesitating for a moment, he nodded immediately.

Because excavation was already happening over at Xihe, even if a group of people came from another city, manpower was still very tight.

Because the flood season would be coming before long, and when the river water irrigated the area, the treasures below would only be something to sigh at.

The most important thing was that it would take a lot of manpower to monitor and prevent the loss of cultural relics.

So now they could only transfer some inexperienced novices from the base camp.

After all, digging tombs isn't exactly delicate work.

After both sides arranged for people to come over, they looked at the ancient coffin in the tomb again.

At this time, the cultural relic experts on-site were wearing white gloves, holding a small brush in one hand and a small sprayer in the other, cleaning the mud off the coffin bit by bit.

Others were using iron shovels to dig away the mud around the coffin.

Some were also holding cameras, constantly taking pictures of the scene.

After about twenty minutes, the mud around the outer coffin had been cleared, and the coffin lid was basically cleaned as well.

When the professional staff opened the outer coffin lid, they were a bit puzzled to find several large steel claw marks on it.

The old experts present didn't even need to think to know where they came from.

Fang Yang smiled embarrassedly; he had just pulled it out in a fit of pique earlier.

If he had known it was a Western Han coffin, he wouldn't have dared to pull it like that for anything.

After the outer coffin was lifted, the relatively smaller inner coffin was revealed inside.

The coffin was a complete rectangular parallelepiped, black all over.

Because the entire tomb looked very low-spec, and the material of the coffin also looked average, it was very likely the most ordinary civilian tomb, and basically, there wouldn't be any cultural relics unearthed.

Plus, after 2,000 years, even if there were, they would most likely have rotted away.

The people on-site decided immediately to open the coffin to see what was inside.

The staff took out instruments to perform data scanning, preserving the original data before the main coffin was opened.

This could be considered the final step before opening the coffin.