Sun Bird Refused to Testify

On a spring rainy night in Chengdu, Chen Jianshan, a digital collector of cultural relics, worked overtime to scan a fragment of pottery, when a sentence suddenly rang in his ears: "The wrong edge is glued on." He thought it was an auditory hallucination caused by anxiety about contract renewal, until there was a fifth bird in the sun bird pattern, and he forgot his way home. From then on, Chen Jianshan was able to hear the "testimonies" left by the ancient relics. But cultural relics are not teachers of history. They only remember the firelight, running water and a few words they experienced. Every time he hears the evidence, he has to mortgage a piece of his own memory. If the testimony is distorted to suit traffic, that memory will be lost forever. At the same time, a company called "Shu Guang Narrative" is piecing together scattered ancient Shu relics into a complete, magnificent set of myths that everyone is willing to believe. The more touching the legend, the closer the fiction is to reality; when the memories of millions of people begin to be covered by the same story, even names may become redundant. In order to testify for the person who did not leave his name three thousand years ago, Chen Jianshan had to bring a researcher who was all about evidence and a copywriter who always thought that qualifiers were not exciting enough to check the confessions one by one with the antiquities. After all, there is no after-sales service for cultural relics, and there is no one-click restoration of history. And when everyone was expecting the Sun Bird to give the ultimate answer, it only said one sentence: "I refuse to testify about something I haven't seen."