Professor Zhang explained, “Our archaeological team happened to be nearby. After receiving the report, we went over to identify the tomb objects. There were small characters engraved on the bottom of a blue and white porcelain: it said the 31st year of Hongwu. Together with other clues, we suspected that there was an ancient Ming Dynasty tomb hidden near or around that village.

“The burial objects we saw were of high value, so the scale of that ancient tomb should be quite large.”

An Rugu was thoughtful. An ancient tomb from the Ming Dynasty…

Professor Zhang sighed, “The tomb has been discovered by tomb robbers, and it will probably not be long before they find all the burial objects and have them evacuated. We wanted to conduct emergency excavations to get ahead of them, but Blackwater Village is located deep up the mountains with countless cliffs. Several of our people went around the area to investigate for several days, but no trace of the ancient tomb was found.

“We have not been able to find out anything from the three villagers until now. They are still unconscious, their lives not yet out of danger, and they cannot be asked anything.

“After I gave Bureau the information about this matter, they asked me to come here to find you to see if there is anything you can do.”

When the archaeological team was excavating the tomb of Emperor Wanli before, many colorful murals had already been looted, causing huge historical losses. Therefore, the country later made it clear that ancient tombs were not to be excavated on people’s own initiative. When the security of the tomb and its contents were at risk, then emergency excavation could be carried out as necessary.

Now the tomb robbers have discovered the ancient tomb before the archaeological team did. And perhaps it may not only be these three villagers, but there might also be others with the intent to steal the treasures inside the ancient tomb.

Tomb robbing and archeology were completely different concepts. For the sake of profit, tomb robbers would dig, break, chisel, and explode to be able to loot treasures from tombs. They conduct very destructive measures for profit.

As a result, many priceless historical and cultural relics have been destroyed in the process and much more were scattered to collectors overseas. After all, as long as they pay enough money, these robbers will sell the treasures to anyone.

However, archeology had the intention of excavating ancient historical sites while keeping it as intact as possible, protecting these priceless cultural relics. They protect the tombs so they could study history.

It was not an exaggeration to say that it was a disaster for an ancient tomb to fall into the hands of tomb robbers. Now that this ancient tomb was in danger, it was declared an emergency excavation, and the archaeological team of Beijing University was designated to take on this task.

They called the police, and the police transferred the matter to the Special Cases Management Bureau. The people in the Bureau thought about it and asked the archeological team to go to An Rugu.

Under everyone’s expectant eyes, An Rugu was noncommittal, “I can’t give you a location here. I have to go to the site and see it myself.”

Professor Zhang and the others knew that it was too difficult to find the ancient tomb, but they really had no choice: they needed the assistance desperately.

Seeing that An Rugu did not seem certain, they were not too disappointed and agreed.

Their archaeological team planned to go back to Blackwater Village tomorrow. An Rugu made an appointment with them and would take a car to the airport tomorrow.

… … translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

After they left, Lin Weiyu from the Special Cases Management Bureau called and mentioned Professor Zhang: “Did a professor and his archaeological team come to see you?”

“They have been here.”

“Oh, that Professor Zhang He is a leading figure in the archaeological world. He has devoted his life to the study of cultural relics and has published many books and numerous works. When they consulted with us about the three tomb robbers who suddenly fell into a coma, we felt that they were cursed by the owner of the tomb.”

An Rugu was thoughtful. “I think so, too. I think the owner of this tomb likely knew some metaphysical methods.”

After hanging up the phone, she turned on her phone and searched for Blackwater Village on the Internet.

Blackwater Village was quite close to the capital, but it was just a small village. Because of the steep mountain roads, its economy was not able to develop. Beijing also used to be the capital of the Ming Dynasty.

Whoever was in this tomb was not buried in the capital, but in a small, desperate mountain village. He was probably not a relative of the royal family, but a wealthy businessman.

… …

The next day, dawn broke; the sun shone brightly, and the air was fresh.

An Rugu prepared the necessary things. She went to the airport and took a plane with the rest of the archaeological team. Then they changed vehicles many times before they finally arrived at Blackwater Village, covered with travel dust.

As they were about to go in, Professor Zhang seemed to have thought of something and smiled kindly at An Rugu, “By the way, I heard that you are a livestreamer. Do you think our search today could be livestreamed?”

Archaeological excavations did not receive much attention. In recent years, in order to enhance national awareness and make people pay attention to ancient culture, those in their field choose to keep up with the trend of the times. Whenever a large tomb was excavated, it would be broadcast live on the entire network—this was what happened during the previous official tomb excavation.

An Rugu lowered her gaze and thought for a while. She usually told fortunes every ten days, but the audience was always dissatisfied and hoped that she would go online more.

However, apart from divination, she found nothing suitable to be livestreamed.

There seemed to be no harm in livestreaming the search for the ancient tomb. It was somewhat similar to the outdoor adventure livestreams she had seen on Shark Platform before.

An Rugu hummed, “I don’t mind. I’ll open the livestream now.”

She picked up her mobile phone. There weren’t many signal towers near Blackwater Village, but there were enough. The signal was only one bar less than full.

She opened her livestream channel and changed the title of the livestream channel to [Search for the Ancient Tomb]. After she clicked the button to start the livestream, many people immediately began pouring into the livestream channel.

[Um? Today is only Wednesday, why did the host suddenly start livestreaming?]

[Redefine Wednesday!]

[The lazy streamer who only livestreamed three days every month finally became diligent! I’m very happy!]

[Welcome to today’s three unlucky persons.]

[No, wait, look at the title. Today’s title is not about divination, it’s about finding ancient tombs.]

An Rugu nodded slightly, “Today is not a day for fortune telling. I am with this professor and his archeology team. We are here to find an ancient tomb.”

Professor Zhang smiled kindly and took the initiative to say ‘hello’ to the people in the livestream channel, “Hello, everyone.”

The chatter in the livestream channel suddenly stopped. Then exploded.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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