A group of people dug up in a hurry.

Chen Song is also digging, Angelina is also digging, and Terry Kron is also digging.

Each of them had an ice axe and a military shovel, and they quickly dried up and sweated.

Brother Bai and the Dao buddies are very diligent, they were taken by Chen Song to help, only Brother Bo couldn't help, it stood on the roof of the car to watch the excitement, flapping its wings from time to time to brush its own hair, very relaxed and comfortable.

After nearly an hour of busy work, Eric suddenly let out a cheer: "Basement, God forbid, I found a basement! a cellar, this is a cellar!"

Chen Song hurriedly ran over and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Suriname, who was staying with Eric, was full of excitement: "There must be something down there, we found this cellar, look at its door, there is a statue of Tutammon on it." ”

The two of them found that the place where the cellar was on the leeward side of the small mound that the spider had burrowed into before, and Chen Song knew that there was something valuable hidden underneath, but he guessed that it could not be something very valuable, because this so-called pirate colony was the one he chose at random, and it would not be very valuable.

The cellar they found was opened to a hardwood plank with a layer of iron wrapped around it, but the iron sheet had rotted over time and the dampness underground.

There are wooden carvings under the remnants of the iron sheet, and there are several strong little people with pimples.

He asked, "This is the statue of Tutammon, what is Tutammon, what does it sound like something from Egypt?"

"No, no, no, it has nothing to do with Egypt. History teacher Beaufort hurriedly said, "If you have to get involved, it should be Argus in Greek mythology, do you know Argus?"

Chen Song was about to shake his head, but the hot-tempered Suriname had already rushed to say: "Don't talk so much nonsense, Tutammon is the god of hundred eyes in Viking legends, and he specializes in guarding treasures." ”

Angelina added: "When I hear you say that, I remember that Argus is the hundred-eyed giant of Greek mythology. ”

"There's got to be something good in this cellar. Eric didn't bother to greet them, he swung his military shovel and got up again, tearing up the dirt around him.

The planks were carefully opened, flashlights shone down, and tubes stacked together appeared in their eyes.

Chen Song recognized it at a glance, the cellar was full of walrus tusks, because Mayek's grandfather had just given him a dozen walrus tusks, and he was very familiar with this thing.

Eric and the others also recognized it, and they rejoiced and said, "Walrus tusks, there are walrus tusks in them." ”

"It's amazing, the wine is so sweet and delicious. ”

Walrus ivory is one of their targets, not that it's worth a lot of money, but of course, walrus ivory is not cheap today when walruses are protected.

More importantly, what it represents, as Eric and others know, according to archaeological research, the main source of wealth for the ancient Vikings living in Greenland was not looting, but hunting walruses for walrus ivory to supply the European market.

It is known that Eric the Redbeard was exiled after murder to discover the island and named it Greenland, meaning green land.

What is less well known, however, is that the early Europeans did not call the island that, as they discovered that Greenland was not actually Greenland at all, and they named the island Walrus Island – at that time the waters around the island were inhabited by a large number of seals and walruses.

The early Vikings were able to live in Greenland by purchasing daily necessities from the European market, and their source of income was the luxury goods of sea beasts, animal skins, and walrus ivory.

So, finding walrus tusks on a site means they have found an early Viking settlement.

The cellars had been sealed for centuries, and there must have been some poisonous gases in them, so they could not go down, but had to wait until the gases evaporated and replaced with fresh air.

Taking advantage of this gap, Eric said to Chen Song with great interest: "Boss Vince, you are the real boss, you are so powerful, you actually found the blood crow colony in one fell swoop." ”

Angelina asked, "Can you tell this from these tusks?"

Beaufort hurriedly said, "You may not know that the ivory trade in the Middle Ages was very profitable, because it was not easy to obtain ivory. I've looked at sources that say Viking trappers sailed in a six-oared boat for 15 days from the nearest settlement to Disko Bay, oh, a bay on the west coast of Greenland, where walrus territory is. ”

"They hunt in Disko Bay, and they have to load 160 walrus heads on board each time. According to information at the time, the Vikings once gave the king of Norway 520 walrus tusks at one time, which is equivalent to a tax for six years on a hunting ship......"

Angelina frowned and asked, "Since walrus tusks are so valuable, why don't the people in the village take them with them before leaving?"

"Who knows?" said Suriname, shrugging, "maybe an enemy has killed them, and they are in a hurry to flee for their lives, so they don't care about these walrus tusks." ”

"Cheaper for us today, haha. Eric smiled optimistically.

Beaufort shook his hand and said, "No, no, the walrus ivory trade was controlled by the Vikings, and it flourished for a few years, but then things changed. Europe opened routes to the Americas and Africa, discovered new continents, and richer luxuries took the place of ivory. ”

And did you know that the Black Death broke out in Norway in the mid-14th century, which further disrupted Greenland's economic ties with Europe, and many of the Vikings who hunted seals and walruses also contracted the disease. ”

Hearing this, Eric's face became a little solemn: "Damn, I have a different guess when I heard you say this, is it that the people in this village were infected with the Black Death and they left the village in order to escape for their lives?"

"What does this have to do with leaving so many walrus tusks?" asked Suriname, stunned.

Eric glared at him and said, "You idiot, it's very simple, the people in the village were stupid by the Black Death, they didn't dare to take anything from the village, for fear of being infected with the disease, so they left the walrus tusks, understand?"

Upon hearing this analysis, the elated crowd calmed down a lot.

But they were not afraid, firstly, hundreds of years had passed, and even the Black Death virus had already died out, and secondly, they brought disinfectant with them, and then sprayed it in the cellar.

Chen Song didn't continue to watch the excitement, he picked up the ice axe and went to work again.

Just as Eric and the others were about to go down to the cellar, his voice rang out: "Hey guys, come and see me, I seem to have found something." ”

"What did you find?"

"A couple of boxes, rotten wood boxes. ”

Chen Song hurried to turn the soil out to prevent people from seeing that there was a problem with the soil here.