Although Hanjiang Normal University is not very famous in the country, it is well known locally. This school was ordered to lead several large-scale archaeological projects in the 1978s, and its popularity overshadowed several traditional famous schools in the Central and Southern regions.

However, after the 1990s, the country's restrictions on archaeological projects became increasingly strict. Except for some ancient monuments and tombs that must be rescued and excavated in a timely manner, it no longer supports any form of archaeological activities.

So the glory of Hanjiang Normal University ended here, and it is still just an ordinary college.

I suddenly remembered that a junior happened to be a teaching assistant in this school, so I quickly called him.

His name is Liang Tian, ​​nicknamed Liang Zi. We almost grew up wearing pairs of pants since we were young.

After getting into college, we registered in Wuhan together. I went to the police academy to study criminal investigation. He entered the history of Hanjiang Normal University. After finishing the graduate school, he stayed at the school to teach.

After the phone was connected, I didn't care much, so I asked him directly if he knew about the navigation chart. Unexpectedly, this guy suddenly became very alert and said coldly: "What are you asking this for no reason?"

I thought about it and had nothing to hide from him, so I told the truth: "Someone spent a lot of money to ask me to find this navigation chart, but he didn't say anything except telling me that the navigation chart was still in your school, so I came to find you boy Tantanfeng."

Liang Zi sighed and said, "It was Professor Wu who hired you?"

I said wonderingly, "How did you know it's him?"

Liangzi said: "It's been more than 30 years, and this old man is still so persistent. Most people in the school know that he's going to find the navigation chart and he's going to be crazy. I can't think of a second person to do this except him."

I asked again: "Then he said this navigation chart is still in your school, what's going on?"

Liang Zi pondered for a moment and continued: "This matter is a bit complicated. Although Professor Wu is not familiar with him, their Archaeology Department and our History Department are both from the same college. I know a little bit about the situation. Why don't you come to me?"

I immediately told him that I was about to arrive at Hanjiang Normal University, so he asked me to meet at a small teahouse in their school.

After meeting, before the waiter could serve tea, I hurriedly asked him to tell him what was going on. Liangzi looked like he was not awake and said angrily: "You fucking me let me take a few sips of tea and go down!"

After three rounds of tea, Liang Zi started talking intermittently.

It turned out that in the early 1980s, the Archaeology Department of Hanjiang Normal University was ordered by the Central Cultural Relics Protection Department to excavate an ancient tomb of the Ming Dynasty in Suizhou. The owner of the tomb was a naval admiral. Many valuable cultural relics were dug out, including the navigation chart.

After the batch of cultural relics were transported to the research institute of the Department of Archaeology, several old professors in charge of the project were surprised to find that there were clues about Xu Fu's eastward crossing on the navigation chart.

According to their research, the route of the navigation chart should be the route of the tomb owner who was the naval admiral and was sent to Nanyang to chase and suppress pirates by the Ming Dynasty.

On the back of the picture, there are some texts written in ancient secret words, which seem to mention Xu Fu. Combined with these secret words, they found that the routes drawn on the picture could actually be divided into a branch line.

However, these old professors are all from the archaeological world and are not good at ancient secret words. They cannot confirm whether this branch line really has anything to do with Xu Fu's eastward crossing.

After hearing about this, the central cultural relics department attached great importance to it and immediately sent several ancient cipher text experts to assist.

After repeated arguments by experts, it was finally confirmed that the meaning of the secret word means that this branch line is likely to be the second route of Xu Fu's eastward crossing. Based on this route, you can find the place where Xu Fu finally arrived.

As for how it was drawn on the navigation chart, it is unknown who wrote the secret words.

For a moment, this news immediately ignited the entire archaeological world. Xu Fu in the history books was the mysterious alchemist who was sent by Qin Shihuang to the Penglai Fairyland of the East China Sea to seek the elixir of immortality. But in the end, he had no news and completely disappeared into the vast sea.

Historians have been arguing about Xu Fu's whereabouts for thousands of years. Some people believe that Xu Fu is the ancestor of the Japanese and the first generation of Japanese emperors. He changed his seven sons to Fukuoka, Fukushima, Fukuyama, Fukuda, Fukuhata, Fukuhata, and Fukuhara, and Fukuzu, which led to these place names in Japan today.

Some people also believe that Xu Fu went to the Nanyang area and led his subordinates to excavate countless gold, silver and treasures, and eventually stayed in the local area to become the local emperor.

There is also a point of view that Xu Fu took thousands of boys and girls from the Qin Shihuang to the Americas and reproduced and became a family in the local area, because the Indians in the Americas have always been very similar to those of the Chinese in terms of appearance, body shape, skin color and eating rice. This alone is enough to confirm this possibility.

In short, there are many different opinions among the people, and there has never been a conclusion for thousands of years.

Professor Wu was in his early thirties at that time and had just obtained a junior title in the Department of Archaeology and helped one of the old professors.

As Professor Wu at that time, he was not qualified to participate in this type of research directly, but he was very obsessed with Xu Fu's legend since he was a child. When he heard this news, he couldn't help but want to see the navigation chart.

So he took advantage of the convenience of keeping the keys of the institute and sneaked into the storage room one night to look for the navigation chart, but something happened when he found it.

That night, there was an activity in the school, and there were people everywhere inside and outside. Professor Wu didn't turn on the lights when he was afraid that someone would find him, so he lit the oil lamp and went in.

I never thought that when he was rummaging around the navigation chart, a piece of the wick of the oil lamp broke and fell straight onto a stack of information.

It was autumn and the storage room was very dry again, and a fire broke out in an instant.

Fortunately, the school activity was not over yet, and the teachers and students outside rushed to put out the fire immediately after hearing the news. They put out the fire in just a few strokes, which saved a disaster.

Although the navigation chart is fine, the preserved cultural relics in the room were still burned several times, and the old professors were so angry that they stamped their feet.

Because of this, Professor Wu was detained by the Public Security Bureau for setting fires and stealing cultural relics. However, the school leaders did not pursue too much because of his obsession with research.

In the end, Professor Wu was fined some money by the Public Security Bureau, and the school gave him another serious punishment, so the matter was settled.

Later, in order to avoid this happening again, the school decided to install fire equipment and safes in the storage room. All cultural relics were temporarily transferred to an idle building and were supervised by a dedicated person for 24 hours.

A few days later, an accident happened again under the circumstances of many security guards.

At that time, there were no advanced equipment such as surveillance cameras, so the security guards could only stay in the room at all times.

Unexpectedly, the circuit in the building suddenly tripped, and then a black shadow broke in and stole several cultural relics that were being protected in the chaos, including the navigation chart.

The security guards who only realized afterwards immediately blocked the entire school. What was strange was that they found other things that were stolen in another room in the building, but there was no navigation chart.

The school's attitude changed now. Professor Wu was listed as the first suspect and was directly sent to the criminal police team by the Security Department.

But afterwards, someone proved that he and Professor Wu drank in the staff dormitory that night and had never been out. At the same time, the dormitory manager also confirmed that when he was checking rounds that night, it happened to be the time when the navigation chart was stolen, and Professor Wu happened to be in the dormitory.

In this way, Professor Wu was released again. A few days later, the criminal police team caught a thief stealing in the street. As soon as they entered the bureau, they threw away all the things they had committed.

According to the confession of the thief, he had been hired to go to Hanjiang Normal University to steal a cultural relic. Afterwards, the security guard who was afraid that he would be searched would find it and hide it in a building in the school.

After further work by the police, it was finally confirmed that the thief was the one who stole the navigation chart. However, when the police asked him to explain to the envoy behind the scenes, he claimed that he would rather eat a gun than say that, otherwise the whole family would lose their heads.

In desperation, the police had to ask him to identify the scene first. Unexpectedly, when people from the local schools were stunned.

Speaking of this, Liangzi swallowed a few sips of tea, lit a cigarette, and said with an extremely exaggerated expression: "Do you know where that is? Japanese Ghost Tower! The most evil place in our school, God knows how that guy got in and out."

I couldn't help but say curiously: "Japanese Ghost Tower? What's the situation?"
Chapter completed!