Chapter 693 Truth

No matter how much Chen Ran thinks, he really can't imagine that the noisy skull of Beijing people will be in such a small storage room.

He has read a lot of information about the skull of Beijing people. Not only has he read it, but Yang Long and others have also discussed its whereabouts when he was in school.

Of course, it was purely idle for them to discuss this at that time. Naturally, he would not have thought that one day he would see it with his own eyes.

According to the data, the fossil skull bones of Beijing people excavated by Jia Lanpo at the beginning have been preserved in Peking Union Hospital, which belonged to the Rockefeller Foundation in the United States at that time.

After the Lugou Bridge Incident in 1937, Japanese troops occupied Beijing, but because the Union Hospital was a U.S.-controlled institution at that time, Beijing fossils were still "safe" in this "safe"

In 1941, relations between Japan and the United States became more and more tense. In order to prevent the "Beijing people" fossils from being robbed by the Japanese pirates, there are three options: first, to transport the fossils to Chongqing during the Anti-Japanese War; second, to stay in Beijing to find a proper place for secret collection; third, to find a way to send them to the United States for temporary storage. Later, it was decided to adopt the third plan.

In early December 1941, the "Beijing" fossils packed in two large wooden boxes were handed over to the U.S. Marines that were about to leave Beijing and withdraw to the United States.

However, unfortunately, the Pearl Harbor incident broke out at this time. Japanese troops quickly dispatched and occupied relevant U.S. agencies in Beijing, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao and other places, and the whereabouts of Beijing's skulls have been unknown.

Since then, the activity of searching for the whereabouts of the skulls of Beijing people has not stopped. After the end of World War II, the United States, China and Japan have searched for it. After the founding of New China, the new government also began to look for it. In the 1970s, the topic of searching for the skulls of Beijing people became hot again. Then in 1998, the academician of the Academy of Sciences led by Jia Lanpo At the beginning of the search, in 2005, a professional working committee was set up to find the skulls of Beijing people, but so far, it has not been found.

After searching for so many years, things have not been found. There are more and more statements about their whereabouts. Some simply say that they have been destroyed in the war, while others think that the preciousness of the skull of the "Beijing people" cannot be destroyed in the war, and some have become vague because they have not been found for so many years. It's not clear. After all, in the war, if it is gold, silver, jewelry, calligraphy and painting, it may still be preserved, but a few dead bones... Not every Japanese army has such a high level of knowledge, and in that era, let alone ordinary Japanese soldiers, even senior officers may not recognize that this is the skull of Beijing. Come on, even if you recognize an officer who is not a scholar, you may not value it.

There are several statements that still exist, some of which are said to be in Japan.

First of all, this statement means that the train transporting fossils was robbed by the Japanese army in Tianjin.

After the Japanese army occupied Beijing, they carried out a close search of the Union Hospital where the fossils of "Beijing people" were stored. And the fossils are likely to eventually be brought to Japan or even exiled to the Japanese people.

It is also said that the "Beijing skull" should be lost on the "President Harrison" transport ship from Beiping to Qinhuangdao, and the "President Harrison" was sunk halfway because it was chased by a Japanese ship.

In addition, it is said that the skull of Beijing people was not sent to President Harrison, but secretly escorted to the United States from other channels, and then the same was lost to the people. Later, some people even claimed to have seen its photos.

The last statement is on the "Aba Maru".

This statement on the "Awa Maru" is the most widely circulated and believed by the most people. For this reason, the government even organized professionals to salvage the "Abo Maru" shipwreck, although the salvage did not find the "Beijing people's skull". However, the salvage personnel found Zheng Yu's small official seal and Yuanyan, a pseudo-Manchurian politician.

Because the "Abowan" came from Singapore and did not pass through the north of China, some people think that the "Beijing skull" cannot be on the "Abowan". However, it can be inferred from Zheng Yu's official seal and the round inkstone that the ship carries a large number of treasures in northern China, which also shows that " The "Abo Maru" is likely to be loaded with the "Beijing skull".

But obviously this statement is a little unreliable, just because the ship carries a large number of northern treasures, the "Beijing people's skull" must be among them?

Besides, the "Abo Maru" has also been salvaged 70%. Haven't you found the trace of the "Beijing people's skull"? Not to mention the skull of Beijing people, no other bone fossils have been found.

As a result, people are increasingly controversial about the claim that the "Beijing people" skull is on the Awa Maru, but some experts insist that this is due to the incompleteness of the previous salvage work, so they are even actively promoting the re salvage of the Awa Maru.

Obviously, even if they salvaged the Awawan again, it is impossible to find the skull of the "Beijing people", because the skull of the Beijing people is not on the Awa Maru at all.

Although Chen Ran is puzzled, he also imagined many possibilities for Beijing people's skull to appear in such a storage room.

First of all, it is certain that the skull of Beijing people has indeed fallen into the hands of the Japanese.

The situation after falling into the hands of the Japanese is obviously hard to say. It may be that the other party does not know what it is from beginning to end. It may be that the other party knows but is not interested, but it just dismantles a bone fossil above and sees the appearance of "bone" and does not look at it.

This is not impossible. After all, it was after the end of World War II that Japan paid attention to the skulls of Beijing people. At that time, it was hard to say whether Japan knew this thing or not. Even if it knew it, it might just be regarded as an antique in the Forbidden City. After occupying Beijing, it carried out a strict search of the Union Hospital. It is not necessarily to find the skull of Beijing people, and it is not ruled out that it is a reason imposed by some experts to make people believe their own speculation.

As for why it eventually fell into the hands of the owner of this storage room, it is obviously related to the hobby of the owner of this storage room. Judging from the fossils collected by the other party, even if the other party is not an expert in this field, he is a fan in this field.

Maybe it is because someone gave it to him when he saw the fossils inside. Of course, he may have found it in a warehouse and then took it back to himself.

The only thing that puzzled Chen Ran a little about was why the owner of the storage room did not open it. Only the two bones on the two boxes were opened, and the rest were intact. It is said that the other party is a fan of this field, so it should be covered by Beijing. He knows something about it. If he knows that the box is containing the skull of a Beijinger, he will open it anyway.

From this point, it undoubtedly shows that the other party may not know that it contains the skull of a Beijing man, which is only regarded as an ordinary fossil, and then forgets it, or there is an accident before he can see the other party.

There are too many possibilities that may happen in the middle. If there is no written record, obviously no one can tell what's going on, but the general main line can undoubtedly be imagined.

......

"What is this?"

Seeing that Chen Ran was so interested in a skull, Officer Yuan, who was standing aside, couldn't help asking. Fortunately, there were many animal fossils in the storage room that made her know that the skull should also be fossils. Otherwise, when she saw Chen Ran so precious to a skull, I'm afraid she would have to think about Chen Ran even if she didn't think about it. Do you have a special hobby?

Chen Ran was stunned by her question, and then smiled and said, "Of course it's a good thing. Do you know the skull of Beijing people? That's right, it's not clear that it was our ancestors ten thousand years ago.

Officer Yuan was surprised, but not too surprised. Obviously, she did not know the meaning of the skull of Beijing people.

Chen Ran is not too obsessed with the reason why Beijing people's skulls will be placed in such a storage room. These problems should be left to those experts and scholars to study. I believe they will be very happy to study this problem and can also give you a lot of explanations and evidence.

Chen Ran didn't look at other skulls. When he opened the skull, he just couldn't believe it and wanted to see it with his own eyes. In fact, there was no difference between checking and seeing it with his own eyes with his own power, and even looked more carefully.

Wrap the skull in the box with several layers of cotton cloth outside, and Chen Ran thought about how to deal with this thing.

He doesn't want to take it as his own. If it's another treasure, he may have this idea, but he doesn't have such an idea at all. After all, this thing is mainly used for research, and it's too exposed to collect it by himself.

Chen Ran thought about how to bring things back. At present, only he knows this underground fortress. He can leave the things here and he will go to wait for the contact to send someone to receive it. But in this way, he obviously can't rest assured. Who knows if the news will be leaked and then someone will mention it. He didn't believe it when he said that there was no foreign spy in China, and once the other party learned the news, he would definitely rob it at all costs, so he didn't want to leave it here.

Other fossils in the storage room can be left here first, but he must take away the box containing the skull. In short, since it has been found by him, it cannot be lost from his hands.

"Turn off the light."

found the skull of Beijing people, and Chen Ran was not interested in other fossils. He picked up the two boxes and planned to leave. When he left, he saw that the lamps he opened were still on and told Officer Yuan to turn them off. After turning them off, he greeted the giant snake waiting at the door and returned to the hole from the original road. At the mouth, he drilled out of the hole and came out of the mountain crack.

When drilling out of the hole, Chen Ran temporarily blocked the hole, and he also covered the crack of the mountain to avoid anyone from entering the fortress before it was blocked.

Looking at it, I felt that there was no problem, so I didn't say much. I also asked the giant snake to lead the way, and the two followed. What Chen Ran didn't expect was that they met a few people as soon as they were not far away.

Chen Ran checked and found that the other party was the soldiers who had inadvertently bumped into him and Officer Yuan when they entered the mountain.

At that time, the other party knew that someone had broken in and set up a net to search, but they didn't expect them to search here.

There were seven or eight people on the other side. They were talking and laughing while boiling water around the fire. After thinking about it, Chen Ran did not hide it. Not only did he not hide it, but he also walked directly towards them.