Chapter 126: There Are No Grave Robbers, Only Poachers
The dossier inside is very thin, and it is estimated that there will not be a lot of information. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info This will save them time, otherwise they can only watch it while hurrying.
As my aunt said, there is not much information about the ancient tomb. There is basically only a bronze gate and a technical analysis of the tombstone.
The family of the owner of the tomb is roughly determined to have died out in the 16th century. The gate contains the skin of a human-headed sphin-tailed manticore, which must have been obtained through trading during the last period of the family.
Its skin was not for sale in ancient times, and poaching the sphinx was a complete act of seeking death, and it was not known who hunted whom in the past.
Doors resist lockpicking spells. The lockpicking spell was invented by an African thief wizard in the 14th century. Further evidence is that the family mausoleum was still used by descendants in the 14th and 5th centuries.
Through the analysis of the tombstone, they agreed that it was a very ancient mausoleum of a wizarding family. This family is very low-key and has little information, only to know that this family has a strong knowledge of black magic.
They invented the Yin Corpse, but it wasn't intended to kill people. Rather, it is a custom that originated in East Asia, and East Asian shamans paid attention to the return of fallen leaves to their roots. No matter where he died, the body must be transported back to his homeland for burial.
If the place of death is too far from the hometown, it will be difficult to meet this requirement. It's a good idea to use black magic to get the corpse back in motion and walk back on its own.
However, when it came to the war-torn Mediterranean, it became a souring - the spread of this magical skill was confined to the more elite wizarding families, and the skins of some spells were passed on in exchange for the spells of another family. Of course, it's also the skin, and the whole spell will never be taught - as for whether or not the whole magic can be deduced from a little fur, it is up to each person.
It has Europe to the north, Africa to the south, and West Asia in between. Armed clashes are commonplace, and a new magic spreads out, which soon becomes bloody.
In terms of Yin Corps, the best and strongest developed in Europe is naturally Peverell. Their family has even surpassed the place where these spells were invented. Through the Composite Stone, they can summon an endless army.
Phoenix secretly guessed that the first trap was probably the Yin Corpse. This thing has a lot of 'personality', and basically every wizard summons a different Yin corpse.
Fire and light can only deal with ordinary yin corpses, and in modern times, if you have to learn, you can also find relevant knowledge from books. But high-grade Yin corpses can't be found on the black market.
They are very different from ordinary Yin corpses, almost two magical techniques. It's hard to restrain them, let alone kill them.
Dozens of pages of documents were quickly flipped through by them. There isn't much valuable information, and the location of the tomb is indeed hidden, but if you know the place, just go there.
"Do me a favor, you should have an expert in this area in your department, send me one, the price is good. Phoenix said to his aunt.
"Not a single one, I told you that we were accused of excavating private tombs without permission. We're long gone from the work of unearthing tombs. Right now, we're just filling in the gaps, following behind the Muggle archaeological team, which is the nature of an event reversal team or an office of memory erasure. β
As they read the papers, she bowed her head and went about her business. For Phoenix's request, he refused without raising his head.
Harry and Hermione were about to say something more, but Phoenix stopped them.
"Alright then, we'll figure it out ourselves. Phoenix said, "Thanks for the help, I'll introduce you to a boyfriend another day, what kind of do you like." β
By the time her aunt touched her wand, he had dodged out of the office. But the innocent elm door, was blown out of a big hole.
They went back to the elevator.
"Why do you keep talking like that," Hermione reproached, "maybe we can talk about it, and she'll introduce some experts to help us." β
"What? Is it wrong for me to care about my aunt?"
"The way you care is weird. Hermione said, "Let's not talk about that. What do we do next? We can't rush in alone. β
"You mean, we're looking for an unofficial person in this area. Harry adjusted his glasses.
Hermione nodded in acknowledgement.
"It's not easy, who still robs tombs now. Phoenix held his hand on the railing inside the elevator, "In the past, tombs were robbed for books, but now there are schools, and the value of books has plummeted." The treasures are basically all put into Gringotts. There may be those who are looking for bank robbers, and those who are looking for ancient tombs will think that we are insane. β
"Wasn't there some artifacts being auctioned at the auction house that day?" Hermione thought of the first day they were here, the things at the auction house, "there should be people still doing this, as long as it's profitable, there won't be no one." β
That's a good point, but you're wrong. The contents of the auction house were not stolen by tomb robbers, but artifacts dug up by Muggles and recovered by magical institutions. Those things are generally not of much value, they are small items. They pick a few that sell well, and sell them to the auction house for a large sum of money, and give employees a year-end bonus. To put it bluntly, selling fakes through official power, the devil knows if those things really belong to a certain emperor. β
"And what do you say?" said Hermione, dejected. At the same time, he pinched Phoenix's arm, and looking at his calm expression, he knew that he must have a way.
"Oh, don't-don't. Phoenix hurriedly begged for mercy, "I told you before, what is valuable in the ancient tomb, do you remember?"
"Books and treasures. Harry remembers it well.
"Actually, there is another thing in the tomb that is very valuable, and if you have visited the pyramids, you can also figure it out. Seeing that Hermione was about to raise her hand again, Phoenix hurriedly continued, "Expression creatures or magical plants." β
"The interior of each huge tomb is a small but complete ecological environment. The magical creatures and plants that live inside protect the tomb from outsiders. Otherwise, you think that if you carve a few paintings on the wall and put a coffin on the ground, how many people will be willing to visit. β
"So we're not looking for grave robbers, we're looking for poachers. There must have been some of them who were familiar with the ancient tombs and hunted in them. If foresighted, the tomb could even become an inexhaustible vault. β
Hermione understood what he meant. If only a small number of animals and plants are taken away at a time, after a while, new members will multiply and make up for the loss.
The ecological environment is like a perpetual motion machine, as long as the loss does not exceed a certain limit, it can be compensated by the continuous reproduction of organisms.
"There's a problem that has nothing to do with ours. Harry asked curiously, "If that's the case, won't the creatures in the tomb be too large and cause the environment to collapse?"
"No," Hermione unexpectedly replied, "Magical creatures are intelligent, they're not fools, they can control themselves." These Hagrid said in class. β
"W-when?" Harry was surprised more by the source of the answer than by the result.
"When I was talking about unicorns in fourth grade, I was asked this question. The elevator doors opened, and Hermione walked out first, "But you're all in your headβ"
"Alright, let's go somewhere like Tumbledown Alley. Harry said hurriedly.
He didn't want to talk about the experience with Qiu again.