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Li Rongrong took a picture of the inscription on the projector with her phone and sent it to Ye Chen.

Ye Chen was waiting at a red light when his Weixun notification suddenly lit up.

”Ye Chen, do you recognize the text in the picture?”

The picture was sent by Li Rongrong. Ye Chen glanced at the image.

The Sanskrit in his mind quickly transformed into modern text.

Ye Chen pulled the car over to the side of the road and said, ”Of course. It’s about Emperor Ling of Han bringing a concubine from the Western Regions and favoring her greatly. But the concubine loved a man from her homeland, so she hated the emperor and used poison to kill him.”

At the moment, the seminar had reached a stalemate.

If this inscription could not be translated, it would be impossible to proceed with the subsequent work.

”First, we need to determine what language this is, so we can have a chance to translate it,” said Elder Fang solemnly.

The room was dead silent. Although there were quite a few ancient text experts present, they had never seen these characters before.

Furthermore, these characters were not pictographs; they were as incomprehensible as heavenly scripts.

One of the text experts sighed, ”I’m afraid only a divine being could recognize these characters.”

At this moment, Li Rongrong’s phone beeped.

She looked down and was stunned by the text from Ye Chen.

Li Rongrong was breathing rapidly. If what Ye Chen said was true, it would be an important discovery in archaeological history.

”Ye Chen, are you telling the truth?”

”Of course, it’s true!”

Li Rongrong took a deep breath and stood up. ”Professor Fang, my friend recognizes this inscription.”

”Your friend?” Professor Fang was taken aback, then his face lit up with joy.

”Are you serious? Can you ask him to come over, or I could personally go and consult him,” Elder Fang asked excitedly.

Li Rongrong called Ye Chen, ”Ye Chen, could you come over? This inscription is very important to us.”

”Alright, I’m on my way.”

Nearby, Kong Xu frowned upon hearing Ye Chen’s name.

”Rongrong, are you kidding me? How could that guy know ancient texts?”

Having lost face in front of Ye Chen before, Kong Xu held a grudge against him.

Hearing Li Rongrong say Ye Chen understood the inscription made him very displeased.

”Why can’t he? He’s already translated the inscription.”

Translated it?

Everyone was shocked.

Li Rongrong narrated the gist of the story Ye Chen had sent to the crowd.

Suddenly, Kong Xu burst into laughter.

”Rongrong, that guy just made up a story for you, and you actually believe it? There’s never been such a bizarre account in either official or unofficial histories. He’s clearly tricking you.”

After listening to Li Rongrong, the other experts also shook their heads.

”Yes, Emperor Ling of Han died of illness and was buried in the Western Suburbs of Zhengzhou, but that’s a thousand miles away from Jiangsu and Zhejiang. How could it be Emperor Ling of Han?”

The hope that had just ignited in everyone’s hearts was instantly extinguished.

Professor Fang also shook his head.

At this moment, Ye Chen walked in from outside.

Seeing Ye Chen, Kong Xu smugly said, ”You fraud, how dare you show your face here?”

Ye Chen frowned at Kong Xu, ”What do you mean?”

Kong Xu snorted coldly, ”Kid, do you know where you are? Everyone sitting here is at professor level. It’s laughable for you to come here and pretend to be something you’re not.”

Ye Chen replied coldly, ”Pretend? Tell me how I’ve pretended.”

Kong Xu sneered, ”You said you recognize this inscription, didn’t you? You even claimed Emperor Ling of Han was poisoned to death, didn’t you?”

Ye Chen nodded, ”That’s right. The inscription describes it that way. If you don’t believe it, there’s nothing I can do. I’m busy; I still have to drive for DiDi.”

”What? This young man is a DiDi driver?”

The initial suspicion everyone had turned into certainty upon hearing Ye Chen’s occupation.

These characters, which even ancient text experts couldn’t recognize, how could a DiDi driver know them?

If this youngster truly had such skills, he would’ve been recruited by an ancient text institute long ago and wouldn’t need to drive for DiDi.

Kong Xu suddenly laughed out loud, ”Rongrong, now do you see this person’s true nature? So many experts have said it’s impossible, yet he’s still babbling nonsense.”

Professor Fang also frowned, ”Young man, do you have proof that you understand these characters?”

Ye Chen said, ”These characters belong to a branch tribe from the Western Regions, called Wusun. This section is precisely in Wusun script.”

”Wusun script? Are you sure?”

Ye Chen nodded, ”Of course.”

The system had just gifted him mastery in ancient texts, with a clear introduction to the script’s origin and content.

Professor Fang nodded, ”I happen to know an expert familiar with Wusun script. I can ask him to take a look.”

With that, Professor Fang made a call to the ancient text expert, ”Elder Wu, I have an inscription here, and a young man says it’s in Wusun script. I remember you specialized in Wusun script. Could you take a look?”

”Sure, send the image over,” came the reply.

Professor Fang sent the image of the inscription along with the translation over Weixun.

Kong Xu looked smug, ”Ye Chen, you didn’t expect this, did you? Professor Wu is an expert in Wusun script. You missed your mark this time. Let’s see what you have to say once Professor Wu verifies your translation.”

”Sigh, the young man looks quite spirited, but he’s a fraud.”

”Indeed, Wusun script is one of the hardest to understand. How could a DiDi driver possibly know it?”

”Today’s youngsters, they speak without thinking—so exaggerated.”

A group of elder experts shook their heads in disapproval of Ye Chen.

Ye Chen looked at these experts and shook his head, ”It’s scary to be ignorant.”

The meeting room fell completely silent.

Everyone present was of high academic standing!

And Ye Chen called them ignorant!

These people were flushed with anger.

”You young man, you have no manners at all.”

”We’re ignorant? Does a DiDi driver like you have the right to call us uneducated?”

”I think this kid is just a fraud. Elder Fang, we shouldn’t waste time on him.”

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Ye Chen instantly became the target of everyone’s criticism.

Kong Xu watched this scene with glee.

As long as Professor Wu proves Ye Chen’s translation wrong, he can make a big deal out of it, exposing Ye Chen’s true nature to Li Rongrong and make him a laughingstock.

At that moment, Elder Fang’s phone suddenly rang.

Elder Fang deliberately put the phone on speaker.

From the phone came Wu Lao’s excited voice, ”Divine being, truly divine! Elder Fang, who translated this inscription? It’s incredible! Where is he? I must meet him immediately; I want to learn from him!”

The conference room fell silent.

Everyone stared blankly at Ye Chen.

Who was Wu Lao?

An authority in the field of ancient texts, many of the experts present were his students, yet Wu Lao now wanted to learn from Ye Chen!

Does that mean they would become Ye Chen’s students’ students?!