Chapter 77 Archaeological Discovery Shocked Europe

The system's prompts started to make noise at 11 o'clock in the evening and did not stop until 9 o'clock in the morning.

It was broadcast almost every ten minutes, which made it clear that there was no intention to let people sleep.

However, when the message [50000 recognition points have been successfully collected this time] popped up, Zhang Yang had already found the source of the recognition points.

Anna sent him a link on WeChat.

It is a live broadcast website that can only be viewed using scientific Internet tools.

Her family is so ambitious that they want to live broadcast the entire excavation of the "ancient ruins".

When Zhang Yang clicked on the link, two bronze swords had already been unearthed at the site.

The live broadcast just happened to stop at the image of the bronze sword.

This anchor is a Chinese student studying in Germany. He is probably not a professional anchor, and there are only a few dozen viewers online.

He felt that live broadcast was secondary, and filming the scene and explaining it in Chinese was his main purpose of coming here.

Zhang Yang seemed to smell a scent of "public opinion war".

Will the video clips from this live broadcast room spread all over the Chinese Internet in a short time?
If this is true, then there is something special about Anna's family.

"Is there anyone in the live broadcast room who knows about bronze swords?"

During the "intermission", the host chatted with a few audience members.

Visiting an archaeological site is like fishing. It is boring most of the time, but only at the moment of discovery does the excitement reach its maximum.

"Those two look like the real thing. What's the difference between them and the ones we have in China?"

[No difference, it's just Pan Jiayuan's fake]

[I don’t understand. There should be no one who understands bronze ware watching this kind of live broadcast]

[Where is the anchor from? The accent sounds familiar]

"My hometown is Xingtai. I am studying for a master's degree in mechanics in Germany. The boss of this archaeological team paid someone to broadcast live in Chinese online, so I came here to earn some extra money."

"Here, we are in the south of Germany. The nearest city is Nördlingen, the prototype town of Attack on Titan. I think many people have heard of it."

"Yes, there are meteorite craters, and there are also ruins of primitive human activities here..."

This international student anchor seems to know everything except bronze ware.

He helped answer several questions asked in the barrage.

Zhang Yang thought about it, registered an account, and asked a question:
[Did anyone say what ruins this was? ]

"What ruins?" The anchor repeated the question, "Wait, let me go ask."

He found a white woman in a black windbreaker, who seemed to be the person in charge at the scene, and asked her questions in German for a long time.

"Is the brother who asked the question just now still here?"

"I asked them, and they said this should be an ancient battlefield. A lot of human remains and stone weapons were found on the periphery."

"It looks like this is a small-scale battle waged by the local Tumulus, a primitive tribe called the [Gravehead Culture] in Chinese, against the invasion of the [Hallstatt Culture], the predecessor of the [Celtic Culture]..."

As Zhang Yang listened, he couldn't help but yawn.

This international student probably really didn't understand, but he took the money and the other party asked him to help promote the product.

As a result, we saw him taking pictures of the excavation site while introducing historical knowledge to everyone as if he was giving a lecture.

Zhang Yang felt sleepy after listening to it.

But I also roughly understood what the Germans had done:
On one side are the Celts, representing an advanced bronze civilization, an elite team of a dozen people;
On one side were the local indigenous people who had just entered the Bronze Age and whose main weapons were still stone.

A fierce defensive battle broke out between the two sides.

The casualty ratio was about 1:5, which was extremely tragic.

To be honest, Germans still lack imagination.

In a few hundred years, China will be about to have "King Wu's Conquest of King Zhou" and the Conferred God List, but are you guys still fighting in groups?
How can this be considered as Sanxingdui?

However, even at an archaeological site like this, there were still a lot of people, and there were probably hundreds of onlookers.

Every time a bronze sword is unearthed, there will be warm cheers and applause, and flashes of light.

Like a red carpet.

However, these people are obviously not enough to bring tens of thousands of recognition points.

Zhang Yang exited the international student’s live broadcast room and looked for it on the platform. Only to find that he was just a frog in a well.

At the same time, there were more than a dozen live broadcast rooms, and media in English, German, French, Russian, etc. were all reporting on the incident.

The total number of viewers is tens of thousands!

This is a live broadcast. I don’t dare to think about how many people will watch the related news afterwards.

Zhang Yang even caught a glimpse of a BBC reporter in a live broadcast room.

Okay, okay, you want to make it this big, right?
The headline of tomorrow's headline will be "Shock! Europe was in turmoil overnight, and history has changed forever!"

Zhang Yang himself doesn't care. He can receive recognition even if he just lies down.

It’s okay if you’re not allowed to sleep, just think of it as staying up late to watch TV series.

And this "play" is quite dramatic.

The first three bronze swords were fine and were dug out from the remains of the corpse.

Although the verdigris did not stain the nearby bones, which is somewhat of a flaw, it can be explained by the reason for taking the photo.

By the fourth sword, it was outrageous.

It was clearly dried rust from the earth pit, but the sword was actually fished out from the stagnant water?

Didn't you notice that the crisp green embroidery absorbed so much water, which seemed abnormal? Didn't the archaeologists think about it before burying it?

To be honest, this is as outrageous as that of Bronze Ultraman.

Zhang Yang couldn't hold it in late at night and laughed so hard that everyone became much more sober.

He thought to himself: If I had known earlier, I should have marked for Anna the appropriate environmental humidity and pH value for each bronze artifact.

That's it, it's not over yet.

I guess the archaeological team felt that it was a bit unreasonable that all fifteen bronze swords were intact.

Therefore, the seventh bronze sword unearthed was broken into two pieces by human beings. But even if it is broken, you can fix the rust at the broken part!
When the camera gave a close-up, Zhang Yang couldn't bear to watch it.

If you had such a need, you should have told me earlier. To make the broken sword look old, you would only charge an extra 5% processing fee. There's really no need to do it yourself.

It's really too grassy.

However, the audience didn’t seem to notice much, as the comments were filled with expressions like [surprised][like][cheering].

Zhang Yang took a look at the comments and understood that this was the source of his recognition value.

This is easier than bringing your own audience to PK with a female anchor, because the media is paid by others, and they also give you money for the bronze sword.

What a pity! Zhang Yang felt that there probably wouldn’t be a next time.

The scene was huge.

It seems that Anna's mother might want to finish this job and lure a big group of people to come directly ashore, so in addition to the bronze sword, there are so many corpses arranged at the scene.

But bones can be tested with carbon 14, and it is relatively accurate.

As long as someone takes it too seriously, won’t it be exposed?
"Ah~"

Zhang Yang sighed in his heart.

Maybe some businesses are destined to be one-time, just like Mr. Zheng’s scam of foreign antiquities dealers.

……

By six o'clock in the morning, when it was just dawn outside, fourteen swords had been found at the scene.

Just the last one left.

But after digging until 8:30, which was more than two hours, we still didn't find the fifteenth one.

There was a "live broadcast accident".

The white woman in the lead, probably Anna's mother, looked a little sweaty and was standing by giving orders anxiously.

A BBC reporter went to interview her and asked:

Can we announce it now? After all, we have been digging for more than nine hours, and it is still not clean?
Anna's mother replied in English that was almost as bad as Zhang Yang's:

"No, not now. We haven't finished digging yet."

"We also need to use metal detectors to search the entire area again."

They have to finish digging.

This is the only way to keep all the evidence in your hands.

Otherwise, if someone finds that last one, the cheating trick may be exposed before the sponsorship money has arrived.

Zhang Yang watched the live broadcast and had serious doubts in his heart that the last one was not found because someone did not mark the location clearly when burying it.

In the live broadcast room of the foreign student, one could clearly hear the archaeological team members on site arguing with each other several times.

Can you still quarrel at an archaeological site?
It could be nothing else but someone's fault.

Fortunately, the metal detector was brought out and the last sword was quickly found.

"Brothers, I just went to listen."

"The person in charge said that today's live broadcast will end here. They will go back and sort it out, and then share the results of their discovery."

"I will also edit the video of today's live broadcast and post it on Bilibili..."

Zhang Yang had no intention of reviewing the video, so he left the live broadcast room before the host finished speaking.

By this point, he was no longer sleepy.

He logged into X and searched for related topics, and found that the BBC's official account had already reported on it.

The content of the report fits Zhang Yang's stereotype of this media:

"An ancient battlefield site more than 3000 years ago was discovered in Nördlingen, Germany. A large number of bronze swords were unearthed, which may reveal the secrets of European bronze civilization."

It is worthy of being the largest fake news production base in Europe, it really comes out without any hesitation.

However, the popularity of the news seems to be average. Six hours after it was released, there were only more than 10,000 reposts and more than 400 comments.

Maybe it will take a while to ferment?

Zhang Yang went back to the relevant domestic forums and took a look.

There is actually a live broadcast moving post in the forum, which has more than a thousand floors.

It turns out that the discussion enthusiasm about bronze ware in China is not at the same level as that in foreign countries.

But it may also have something to do with the title of the post:
"Germany has discovered a bronze sword from the 16th century BC, live now. Who says they don't have bronze civilization?"

This title is definitely provocative.

But people were really copying the content of the live broadcast. The live broadcast had just ended when the poster posted a picture of fifteen bronze swords placed together.

It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, when office workers started to slack off.

Someone started arguing in the thread.

Some people have begun to open up new fronts in the forum and conduct analysis based on classics.

The green-painted ancient bronze sword that caused controversy last year was inevitably dug up.

The two excavation sites were so close and the shapes of the artifacts were so similar that many people consciously discussed the two events together.

There were all kinds of posts flying around, some digging up the past, some cursing, and some looking for people to have one-on-one debates with.

Zhang Yang had been eating melons for a long time, only to find that after going around in circles, he finally came back to the question of whether the bronze sword was real or fake.

So you ate the melon all the way to the end, but ended up eating it in vain?
"Ah! Three hours wasted."

Zhang Yang sighed, turned off his phone, and fell asleep.

When he woke up, it was already early morning the next day. He had slept for a full fourteen hours.

As soon as I turned on the phone, more than a dozen messages popped up.

All of them were sent by Anna.

The general meaning is the same:

[Brother Zhang, can you find a time? I want to express my gratitude to you in person.]
(End of this chapter)