Chapter 1313 The Legendary Ancient City

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"Mr. Taylor, I think you're really condescending to be a prospecting engineer, you should go to Hollywood! Your performance is no less than that of the Oscar winners. No, it should be better!"

Liu Dong's words made Craig Taylor's face change, and although the time was short, it was still noticed by Liu Dong.

"Sir, you're really kidding, I'm a complete layman about acting!"

"Really?"

After glancing at him, Liu Dong smiled, walked to Ahmod's side, pointed to a canvas backpack in his hand and said, "This bag is theirs, right?"

"These backpacks were all found in the room where they were held, and they should be theirs!"

Although he didn't know Liu Dong's true identity, from Fastino Balde's expression, speech and reaction attitude, Ahmod also knew that the person in front of him was not ordinary.

Therefore, in the face of his inquiry, he also answered very timely and accurately.

After nodding, Liu Dong took the backpack in his hand and opened the rope buckle on it!

After quickly sweeping the subtle nervous expressions on the faces of the three people, Liu Dong smiled slightly, reached out and took out a cowhide material from his bag, about 30 cm high and 12 cm in diameter, like a pencil bag!

After untying the lock on it, Liu Dong grabbed the side and shook it gently, and the original cylindrical cowhide bag immediately turned into a blanket with the same height, but the length was close to 70 cm.

There are large and small buttons inside the blanket, and there are large and small large and small knives on these buttons. and a lot of small tools that ordinary people can't understand at all.

But Liu Dong is no stranger to these things.

With this leather coat in hand, he walked in front of and behind the three of them. Liu Dong looked at their more nervous expressions. smiled indifferently: "Don't tell me that there are still things used by archaeologists in the bag of prospecting engineers?"

When the four words of the archaeological expert came out of Liu Dong's mouth, the three of them could no longer keep calm.

"How ...... you!"

"Sinclair!"

Standing on the left, a thin, middle-aged white man was about to speak, but was sternly interrupted by Craig Taylor.

After glancing at Craig Taylor, who had a complicated face, he didn't say anything, Liu Dong took three bags at a time and looked for them one by one.

He didn't pay much attention to archaeological tools, ropes, flashlights, etc.

In the end, there were only three notebooks left in his hand, which others might not be able to see, and a finger-thick piece. A palm-sized, diamond-shaped black iron block with sixteen sides!

In the middle of this black iron block, there is also a full-body portrait of Anubis, the god of the Egyptian underworld and the dead, the copy is extremely exquisite, and it is not an ordinary thing at first glance!

And when Liu Dong was holding this black diamond-shaped piece of iron in his hand, the faces of the three people who were caught by the soldiers showed extremely nervous expressions almost at the same time.

Even Craig Taylor, the most psychologically stable of the three, is no exception.

"What is this?" asked Liu Dong, holding the iron block in his hand and slashing it in front of the three of them one by one.

"We bought it at the thrift market in Khartoum, Sudan, and it was interesting to see at the time, and it wasn't expensive!" Craig Taylor said quickly.

"Bought at the thrift market?"

After repeating a sentence, the expression on Liu Dong's smiling face suddenly turned cold, and he waved his hand and said, "Pull them over and shoot them!"

The soldier who heard Liu Dong's words glanced at his commander. After getting permission again, he began to pull the three of them to the side.

"Wait. Why did you kill us!!—We're just prospecting engineers, and we're just collecting ancient art!" cried out Clark Taylor.

"Poof......!"

Looking at the three people who wanted to struggle to escape, but were smashed to the ground by the butt of a soldier's gun, Liu Dong walked over and waved his hand, and after asking the soldier to stop for a while, he put the black iron in his hand in front of Craig Taylor again.

"Then tell me where this piece of ancient Egypt from the Eighteenth Dynasty came from?"

"How do you know ......?" said Clark Taylor, regretting it.

Clark Taylor, who knew that he had inadvertently said something out, immediately kept silent.

Looking at him, Liu Dong smiled, took the iron in front of him, and after a little look, he closed his right hand and rubbed his left and right hands. Just listened to the 'snort', accompanied by the tooth-making friction sound, this piece of iron was actually unscrewed by Liu Dong.

And an old piece of parchment fell from it.

"This is our thing......" In desperation, Clark Taylor reached out to grab the old parchment in Liu Dong's hand, but he was soon kicked over by the soldiers behind him, and he held it down!

"Now it's mine!"

After picking up the parchment on the ground, holding it in his hand and throwing it, Liu Dong smiled.

Immediately, Liu Dong opened the parchment and saw that the parchment was about a quarter of a cubic size and was full of lines representing different meanings, these lines were black and red, and there were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs next to it!

After a little scrutiny, Liu Dong judged that this should be a structural diagram of the ancient city.

Although he didn't know where the city depicted on the map was, Liu Dong also had his own considerations, "It seems that I don't need you anymore!"

"It's useless, even if you have a map of Heracpus in your hand, you won't be able to find it without us!" Sinclair said in fear.

And his companion's words immediately made Clark Taylor feel the urge to crash to death, a real pig teammate! He also thought that he could use these to make a deal with Liu Dong so that he could survive. Then I thought that my own people had already said it. Fortunately, there is still room for redemption, otherwise Clark Taylor would really despair.

"Heracps?"

This name made Liu Dong frown, and at the same time, it also caused a little commotion among the soldiers around who heard this name.

Legend has it that Heracples was the first pharaoh of the Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt, 'Mentuhotep II', built a sacrificial city in the eastern desert of Egypt dedicated to Ra, the supreme god of Egypt!

Ancient Egypt has always been a ******** state, and the kings of the country, even the secular rulers, were gods worshipped by the Egyptians. Therefore, in historical records, the Egyptians built a large number of magnificent and magnificent temples to worship the gods, such as the temple of Abu Simbel, the temple of Amun, the temple of Karnak, etc., which have survived to this day.

Sacrifices to the gods are indispensable!

In addition to cattle, sheep, livestock, and captive slaves, there were also riches such as gold and silver.

As a temple and city dedicated to the supreme god Ra, Herakpur was built from the time of Mentuhotep II and lasted for more than 600 years until the time of Amenhotep IV during the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt.

If it weren't for the monotheistic Reformation of Amenhotep IV, known as the 'rebellious pharaoh', worship other than the god Aten would have been forbidden.

Herakpus was left out in the cold, and if he gradually fell and drowned in the yellow sand, I am afraid that the worship of the sun god Ra would continue for hundreds or thousands of years.

However, it was not the Egyptians who really made the sacrificial city of Heracples famous. Rather, it was the Germans of World War II.

After the Battle of El Alamein, a German army was digging a camp when they stumbled upon an ancient Egyptian city that had been submerged in yellow sand for 3,000 years.

At the time, no one except the Germans knew exactly what had been found in the ancient city.

Basically, all the parties involved either died on the battlefield or died one by one for inexplicable reasons after the war. It wasn't until the 80s that a trace of the ancient city was glimpsed in the diary of a Nazi officer named 'Remy Berman'.

And the contents of this diary are full of admiration for the mountains of wealth in this ancient Egyptian city, and according to the diary, the gold and works of art in it were worth at least two billion Reichsmarks!

During World War II, two billion Reichsmarks meant the ability to build 10 Bismarck-class battleships, which were the most advanced in Nazi Germany at the time!

Now that prices are rising and money is depreciating, this wealth is worth more than $10 billion.

And that's not all, the riches of the ancient city of Heracps, according to the diary, they stored all the wealth they had looted in Africa in this hidden city before the defeat of the German army.

In addition, in order to avoid leaking information, the German army also carried out an internal massacre, limiting the number of people who knew the truth to single digits.

But even so, the news of the ancient city and the treasure was inevitably exposed. Naturally, it caused a big international stir at that time.

Almost instantly, treasure hunters from all over the world filled Egypt's Western Desert region.

But in order not to let the wealth of their country be taken away from other countries, the Egyptian army also entered the desert area and blocked the main access routes, and heavily defended the various oases and towns.

However, all this cannot stop people's pursuit of getting rich.

But contrary to expectations, in the search for more than ten years, almost no one actually found the location of Heracps. The few statements that were made were all rumors that were more important than reality.

In this age of advanced information, there are so many anecdotes from all over the world that people have to accept every day. After more than ten years of no results, the news of Heracpus gradually faded.

The diary was apocryphal and the Egyptians withdrew from the army after a fruitless search. The desert, which had been chaotic for some time, was calm again.

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