The archaeological team didn't take it seriously at first and just sent two young men inside to look for someone. Everyone thought that Han Bowen was obsessed with archaeology and that they should call him out before dawn to avoid it being difficult to come out after dark.
It took a long time for the two young men to return to the camp exhausted. They said they had searched the entire maze but could not find Han Bowen and his wife Bai Fangyu.
The archaeological team was now getting restless. You know, there were still some tunnels and supports on the other side of the maze, which posed a great risk. If something happened to Han Bowen, it would be terrible!
The archaeological team turned on the lights at night and entered the maze to look for people. But it was really strange. They clearly saw Han Bowen and Bai Fangyu go in during the day, but they just couldn't find them!
No one dared to conceal this matter, so it was reported overnight. The local authorities sent a search team the next day to search with the archaeological team, but no one was found, and neither the bodies were found. Han Bowen and Bai Fangyu just disappeared!
Su Nian frowned when he heard this, "Grandpa, does this cemetery only have one entrance?"
Grandpa Han nodded. "You're right. The so-called cemetery, as you can imagine, is actually a large dug pit. That's why this place is called Pit No. 8."
"I later went to Pit 8. There was only one entrance. Once you got to the bottom of the pit, you would see the outer area of the maze, which is where Bowen's colleagues were at the beginning. Then, if you walked in along the passage, you would see the maze complex."
"There are many paths leading to the maze complex, and the artifacts inside have long been emptied. To put it bluntly, it's like a tunnel used during a war, no place to hide."
Grandpa Han spoke slowly, a confused look in his eyes. "And the maze deep within these roads is also extremely simple. It's just an empty platform. I really can't see anything special about it."
After the maze, there is still a soil layer, which is the undeveloped part. According to Grandpa Han, the maze is seven or eight meters above the ground, which is equivalent to a two-story building. Ordinary people cannot get up there without tools.
So there is actually only one passage into the maze.
Chu Beichen's fingers traced the route on the map, his thick, dark eyebrows furrowed tighter and tighter. Grandpa Han quickly asked him, "Beichen, what did you find?"
Chu Beichen took his fingers away, very confused: "Grandpa, have you noticed that the path leading to the maze looks like a word? It should be oracle bone script or other characters. Unfortunately, I don't know oracle bone script!"
Grandpa Han was stunned. "Draw it again for me!"
Chu Beichen really stretched out his hand and wrote down the strokes according to his imagination. Su Nian and Grandpa Han looked in the direction of his fingers and felt that it looked like a word.
It didn't matter that none of the three of them recognized the character. Grandpa Han asked Chu Beichen to write it down on a piece of paper and make a phone call. Not long after, a professor who was proficient in oracle bone script came to decipher the text for them.
Chu Beichen was not wrong. It turned out that the complicated path leading to the maze was not meant to confuse people's sight, but to form a word.
According to the professor, this is a word for sacrifice.
This makes things more complicated. The road has turned into words, so the maze no longer exists. But judging from the literal meaning, the open space inside should be an altar.
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