Driving to the western outskirts of town, this area was still brightly lit, offering a unique night scene unlike any other in the small town.
The once muddy roads had been paved over with cement these past days, and even at ten o'clock at night, the sounds of machinery and vehicles working in the forest persisted, with occasional vehicles transporting unearthed cultural relics out of the woods.
A civilian house near the edge of the western suburbs had also been requisitioned and transformed into a temporary research site, with a sign for the Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau hanging at the entrance.
As Su Wen parked and tried to enter, two fully armed soldiers immediately barred his way at the door.
"Sir, do you have a work pass?"
The cultural relics unearthed from the Early Ming Dynasty General's Tomb had been identified as national treasures, and the Cultural Relics Bureau had specially deployed soldiers to guard the site, lest any thug or robber snatch them away.
