When Ramblitz pushed open the door of the constant-temperature archive room of the Institute of Buddhist Culture under the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the temperature on his fingertips was still in the coolness of late autumn outside. The constant temperature and humidity of 22°C inside the door was wrapped in the scent of aged rice paper and ink, which enveloped him instantly.
He was wearing the uniform navy blue overalls of the institute, with a meticulously buttoned collar, short hair that stuck neatly to his scalp, and a pair of rimless glasses on the bridge of his nose. His eyes behind the lenses were as sinking as the moonlight in an ancient well - if it weren't for his colleagues who always joked that he "looks more like a master than a monk," just by looking at this appearance, no one would associate this 32-year-old man with the nickname "monk employee."
Ramblitz is not a monk. His official title is the director of the Sui Dynasty Buddhist Culture Research Office of the institute. He is also the youngest researcher with a senior professional title in the entire institute. He is holding three national key projects in his hands, the most core of which is "Research on the correlation between the Royal Buddhist Temple and Palace Politics in Daxing City in the Sui Dynasty." What he had to deal with at the moment was a batch of Sui Dynasty scripture fragments that had just been urgently transferred back from the Luoyang archaeological site. These fragments came from the underground palace of the Zending Temple site in Daxing City during the Sui Dynasty. The ink characters on them were mixed with Sanskrit and Sui Dynasty official terminology. The researcher who took over the task in the past three days rummaged through the document library and could not even accurately collate the year numbers on the fragments. The project team was forced to stop work and had to call Lamblitz back from the Buddhist cave inspection site in the northwest.
"Director Lan, you're finally here!" Xiao Chen, the clerk on duty in the archives room, came up to him and handed over a pair of white gloves, "These fragments are so evil, the handwriting is so smudged.
