Chapter 139: The Quest Forty Years Ago
Forty years ago, Count Duke, who was only in his twenties, of course, was not an earl at that time, but was just a small corporal in the SAS, and received an order from his superiors that the nine-member squad of their squad was on a secret mission to Syria.
Syria in the '70s was the most militarily powerful period in Syria's recent history, when relations with Israel were tense and at the same time the most radical countries against Israel.
At that time, relations between Britain and Syria were also tense, and Arab-ruled Syria was hostile to Westerners, and it was at this time that a nine-member SAS team secretly descended in the Turkmen mountains in the northeastern part of Syria's Latakia province.
The Turkmen Mountains, which border Turkey, have historically been of great strategic importance.
The SAS team of 9 did not know the main purpose of the mission until it set off, and upon arriving at its destination, the leader of the team of 9 presented a briefing on the mission.
This time, the mission is very simple, which is to rescue an Israeli in the Turkmen mountains controlled by Syria. This Israeli, who has British citizenship, is a well-known British archaeologist and professor of history.
At that time, Count Duke was still relatively simple-minded, and he didn't think of how a small archaeologist needed their most elite special forces to rescue, and his brain was hot, and he patted his chest to ensure that the task was completed.
Under the cover of night, the nine-man detachment evaded the surveillance of the Syrian ** army and quietly entered the hinterland of the Turkmen mountains.
Syria has a dry climate and is mostly desert, but it has a large number of oil deposits and is one of the world's major oil exporters. The Syrian army also relied on these oils to continuously develop its military strength, and it has gradually become a country with extremely strong military strength in the world at that time.
Even now, most of the weapons of the Syrian ** army are still products of that era, and they are still not outdated, which shows how strong the Syrian ** army was at that time.
In a hidden mine in the Turkmen mountains, a team of nine people found the kidnapped archaeologist, Perez, a well-known professor of history.
Perez was tied to a stone pillar, the old man was over sixty years old, where could he bear this crime, people were dying.
The nine-man squad quickly moved into action, shooting the guards with lightning speed, and said that Perez rescued them.
However, what is puzzling is that the old professor is reluctant to leave, questioning that he wants to drag the team into a secret cave in the mine.
The captain of the 9-man squad should have refused, and left with him directly, and if he didn't leave, he had to be forcibly taken away. But to everyone's expectations at that time, the captain of the squad did not refuse, but agreed, and directly said that this was also one of the tasks of their trip.
Without the slightest suspicion, the rest of the 9-person squad followed the captain and entered an ancient cave with a thousand-year-old history under the leadership of the old professor.
It is said to be a cave, but in fact it is a tomb, a Phoenician tomb.
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An ancient people who lived on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea on the coast of present-day Lebanon and Syria, the Phoenicians called themselves the Semites, also known as the Semitics, and founded the Phoenician alphabet. The Phoenicians were seafarers and merchants, and at their height controlled trade in the western Mediterranean.
At the end of the 2nd millennium BC, Syria entered the Iron Age. At that time, a group of Phoenicians living in the middle of the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea moved into Syria, and they developed seafaring trade and promoted economic and cultural exchanges among the countries bordering the Mediterranean. At the same time, the Phoenician script with 22 consonant letters was created, which made a great contribution to world culture.
It is precisely this migration that has made Syria gradually transform from a normal country to a *** country.
According to the old professor Peres, this tomb is the tomb of one of the darkest monarchs in Syrian history. All the secrets of the dark monarch are buried here, and by unlocking them, you can unravel that part of Syria's history.
As for history, the old and rough soldiers definitely don't care much. It's just that Perez asked them to dig up the grave!
Under the leadership of the team leader, the 9-person squad completely changed from special forces to miners.
After two or three days of excavation, a huge coffin carved with human skull patterns appeared in front of several people. Even soldiers who don't know anything about history can see at a glance that this coffin is not simple! How can someone carve a human skull pattern on the gradual coffin, this is also too evil.
The Christian soldiers thought that the coffin was evil and might have something to do with the devil, but Perez laughed at the ignorance of the crowd, and the skull was engraved to deter the tomb robbers, and it had nothing to do with the curse and the ghosts.
Convinced, the crowd opened the strange coffin under Perez's guidance.
It was as if they had opened Pandora's box and unleashed the demons inside.
Black air currents flew out of the coffin like devils and burrowed into everyone's bodies. After being attacked by the black air current, various terrifying hallucinations appeared in front of several people's eyes.
However, there were still two people in the field who were not affected - the captain and Perez!
At this moment, Perez and the captain finally showed their evil faces.
It turned out that the two had known each other in advance, and the British ** did not know about this rescue plan at all, all of this was an action made by the captain of the 9-person squad in private!
The purpose of the captain's operation was to rescue Perez, who was captured by Syria, who was captured by the ** army in the process of robbing the tomb, and Syria was planning to sentence him to prison for the crime of digging an ancient tomb without permission.
As for the tomb, Professor Perez has been tracking it down since he was forty years old, and only recently did he find its exact location.
This tomb was indeed erected by a monarch in Syrian history, who, according to legend, possessed the ability to manipulate the spirits of the dead, and was known as the Monarch of the Dead by the Syrians!
Twenty years ago, Peres was an Israeli. He was working in the archaeological department in Israel, where he was mainly responsible for the collation of dossiers.
On one occasion, Perez inadvertently knocked down a bookshelf containing a file, causing the bookshelf to break, and at the point where the bookshelf broke, Perez found an ancient scroll! The scroll was written in the ancient Phoenician language, which Perez had learned in college and could understand.
The scrolls contain information about the Undead Monarch, including the location of the Tomb of the Undead Monarch!
John, the leader of the nine-man squad, was a student of Perez and an archaeology enthusiast before joining the army. The discovery of the tomb of the Dead Monarch was also credited to John.
Both of them firmly believe that as long as they find the tomb of the Undead Monarch, they will be able to discover the method by which the Undead Monarch controls the undead!
There is a passage in the ancient scroll that says: "The tomb of the undead monarch is not buried with the undead monarch, the true undead monarch is immortal, he controls death, he governs hell." ”
To put it bluntly, the Undead Monarch holds the secret of eternal life!
There's nothing more fascinating than eternal life, not to mention the ability to control the undead!
Perez and John were not insignificant, and both of them had done a lot of preparation for this operation, one of which was to find a way to resist the influence of the black air current.
The black air flow is a magical energy, and it is also the energy of the undead monarch to control the undead! It's just that before you control this energy, you must not be invaded by him, otherwise you will gradually turn into a walking corpse without any thoughts!
It took several years for the two to find a solution. The method was also inspired by the ancient scrolls, and after doing this, Perez came here first and began a career of tomb robbing. It's just that what he didn't expect was that he was discovered by the Syrian ** army.
The Syrian army arrested him for tomb robbery and temporarily detained him here, and at the same time, the army will also send Syrian archaeologists to excavate the ancient tomb.
Worried that the undead monarch would be dug up and robbed of his own achievements, John took a risk, forged military orders, and brought people to rescue Perez.