The next few days were spent on examining the alloy pieces and the bronze book. Xia Lei put more attention on the bronze book and he used his X-ray vision on all the ‘letters’ in the book. Every ‘letter’ had a syllable. There were 10,000 ‘letters’ so it was possible that this was an essay, or perhaps a record of history or something else. There were countless possibilities but no way to confirm it. 

Xia Lei memorised every single syllable, then tried to sound it out and record it on his phone. And so he had a file with an audio recording of all the syllables which he played over and over. In the beginning he felt like it sounded like a single person reading, but gradually started to think that this was a recording of a conversation, a ‘bronze tape’ of sorts. 

There was no way for him to confirm any of the possibilities. 

Afterwards, the study of the alloy pieces and the bronze book reached a stage of stagnation. 

Xia Lei called the Special Forces soldier on guard in the basement into the room after two hours of research memo-writing. He put the pieces of alloy and the...