Chapter 870: The Scepter and the Emperor's Sword

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The fresco that Xu Linyuan is concerned about is the painting of the dome fresco in a year by a group of skilled painters during the reign of Constantine the Great in the 4th century, after the construction of the holy church building was completed. Pen Γ— fun Γ— Pavilion www. biquge。 info【Full text reading.. 】

The frescoes were so realistic and lifelike that Emperor Constantine ordered that all the walls of the church should be filled with portraits, of the gods, and of some of the Roman Emperor's proud exploits.

After a few years of preserving, the city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire, and the emperors of the past generations expanded the church in order to celebrate their achievements, and still followed the original style of the church, painting countless frescoes on it.

The church was eventually occupied by the Ottoman Empire after several twists and turns, and the frescoes painted on it, which had been preserved for nearly a thousand years, were finally erased by the Ottoman rulers and turned into a mosque.

It was not until the modern period that the Hagia Sophia was converted into a museum, and some of the frescoes that had been destroyed during the Byzantine period, as well as the erased drawings and mosaic art, were once again displayed in the eyes of the world. Let's travel through the novel

One of the frescoes that Xu Linyuan saw in front of him was a picture of the Byzantine period that was restored after the church was converted into a museum in the modern period.

It's just that on the murals restored in modern times, although they have been restored to the style of the time to the greatest extent, there are still many details that have been missed.

I don't know if it's deliberate or unintentional, maybe the master who designed and restored these murals didn't refer to the historical materials and classics in detail at all, but the statue of the god on the mural that Xu Linyuan paid attention to, he belonged to a statue of a goddess painted by the Roman emperor when he built the church, and after it was restored, it would make him feel a very incongruous feeling.

After researching all the relevant materials and classics of this mural, Evil Lai found the factors that brought about this sense of dissonance.

Xu Linyuan was looking at a few ancient pictures that Evil had picked up. After making a comparison, I finally found that the upper body of the god on the mural was a human body, and the lower body was a beast body, and the whole looked like a banshee, with goat's hooves on all four limbs and a short tail.

Now, only the upper part of the human body has been repainted, and the limbs of the beast and goat's hooves have been changed to resemble the lower body of a real human.

There is also a very important place. It was the statue of the god with the body of the human-faced beast, compared from the ancient picture, he still held a special scepter on his left hand, but now on the mural that Xu Linyuan saw in front of him. The figure didn't have a scepter in his hand at all, and the scepter was missing.

It is unclear whether the most special scepter and beast body have been neglected, or whether the people who restored the image at the time did not search for historical information in detail at all, or whether they have been adjusted and changed for other reasons.

After watching it for a while, Xu Linyuan just saved this picture in the picture of the shovel agent lawsuit Lu Zhenshu Rabbit waving sex Xuan

The area of this side hall is not small. There are some small cubicle rooms next to it, like a place where believers came to pray during the church period.

But after it was converted into a mosque, most of the small cubicle rooms were sealed off and converted into a small exhibition hall with some ancient religious objects.

Xu Linyuan had noticed that there was a deep secret passage in this side hall on the distribution map of the building structure of this church through evil before, and when he walked to him, he took a closer look. Through the penetrating analysis of the glasses, it was revealed that behind the new wall, which was several meters thick, there was an old wall.

After scanning, there are many holes on the old wall, as if they have been pierced by sharp weapons, but in fact, the holes in the old wall are arranged very regularly, if you look at it as a whole. It's like a three-dimensional pattern, with some locks in it.

This is obviously a very sophisticated, and very skillfully designed and built entrance to a secret passage, as long as you can open the lock, you can open the wall through the array of mechanisms to enter the mysterious tunnel, if in time of war. It can still play a huge role in evacuation and escape.

Only now, this secret passage has been completely sealed by the illiterate Ottomans with mud walls, and after nearly a thousand years, it has been hidden in the long river of history.

Xu Linyuan asked Evil to scan this secret passage that could reach the maximum scanning range.

It is not difficult to find a lot of corroded gold, silver and jewelry, as well as a large amount of grain storage, but it is impossible to store those grains for thousands of years, and they have long been eaten by insects, leaving only a lot of moldy residues.

The most peculiar thing is that in the middle of that secret passage, there is also an underground river, through the penetration of the Mediterranean sea, this underground river is still alive, and there are still some rare underground creatures living in it, which are also A-level or above biological resources according to the Qingyuan.

Of course, Xu Linyuan also knows that this is just a corner of the many undiscovered strange places in this world, with the current technology of human beings, it is not difficult to open up the ground and explore the underground river, but the cost of investment is very huge. Let's travel through the novel

Because of this, there are many unknown and mysterious places in the world that are still covered with a veil of mystery waiting to be revealed, even those mysterious places that are usually under people's feet are rarely paid attention to.

Passing through this side hall and going into the church, there is an electronic door that has long been closed, and the words "Church Ground" and "Visitors Stop" are hung on the door.

It was just an electronic door with a relatively low security level, and it was not difficult for Xu Linyuan at all, and if he wanted to open the door, it was just a matter of time for the evil to crack the password in a few seconds.

Xu Linyuan didn't go in, he was curious, he just scanned the facilities and structure inside with glasses outside the door, and saw that there was still an exhibition hall inside, and the exhibits inside were all very historical and cultural atmosphere, and valuable valuables, and every place had extremely strict security arrangements.

In particular, Xu Linyuan saw through his glasses from the innermost part of the exhibition hall that was guarded in the middle of a booth made of cutting-edge materials and with a very high level of security, where there was a sword inlaid with precious stones and extremely domineering and majestic.

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Xu Linyuan had heard the legend of this sword, which was once called the sword of glory by the Holy See, and then the sword was taken by the Byzantine Emperor and became known as the sword of the emperor, he was a witness of the highest power, a symbol of the emperor, and a sharp blade used by Islamic believers to pierce the chest of the Pope.

And when Xu Linyuan was observing this sword, after inquiring, analyzing and comparing the information of this sword, he told Xu Linyuan that the sword of glory displayed in this exhibition hall was a fake.

Listening to the results of this analysis, Xu Linyuan was very surprised, this turned out to be a fake?

However, after reading the detailed analysis data, Xu Linyuan was relieved that even if this sword was a fake, it was not the real glorious sword at that time, but it also had a history of thousands of years, and it was also a very collectible treasure that was collected by successive Ottoman emperors.

"Sir, the closing time is coming soon, please be ready to leave, we will close the doors of the church in five minutes......

Xu Linyuan also wanted to see if there was anything else that interested him, but at this time, the staff member who had been following behind his ass sent a kind reminder.

In this church, Xu Linyuan came in and walked around, except for a few frescoes that were a little special, as well as the mysterious secret passage, and the treasures deep in the underground where they were buried, there was nothing else worth paying attention to here.

So he didn't have the interest to stay in this church any longer, so Xu Linyuan went out.

Out of the door from the outside, especially standing on a high place, the scenery of this cathedral is still very gorgeous and beautiful, Xu Linyuan left the church and came to the street, I still wanted to look elsewhere, but now it is late, and I have lost the mind to wander around again, ready to go back to the hotel.

It was only when he got into the car and the car had not yet left that Xu Linyuan suddenly felt a strange feeling welling up in his heart, and he couldn't help but look through the window of the car to a position in the west of the rear.

There, a figure passed through the somewhat cold place, and soon disappeared into a dark corner nearby.

Xu Linyuan noticed this phenomenon, and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly, and couldn't help but glance at the cathedral, and then said to the evil who got into the car and sat in the driver's seat: "Through heat source sensing and human physiological induction scanning, scan the cathedral again to see if there is anything abnormal?" ”

"Yes, boss!" After the evil came to hear the order, he was pure and pure?

Xu Linyuan leaned his head back on the chair, glanced sideways at the cathedral, and couldn't help but have a strange intuition in his heart, he felt that something must happen in this church tonight.

At this time, Evil Lai had already finished the inquiry and reported: "Boss, an anomalous phenomenon has been discovered, and there are humans currently trying to infiltrate this church from some monitoring blind spots in external facilities......"

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