"Raphael." He shouted at the group.

Raphael was walking in the middle of the team, and when he heard Liu Zheng's voice, he turned his head sharply, his face full of surprise.

He jumped off his camel and ran towards Liu Zheng as fast as he could.

"Are there any injuries?" Raphael gave him a hug and asked with concern.

"Nope. It was done, and it went well. Liu Zheng felt a little warm in his heart and said with a smile.

"Great. You're the best boatswain I've ever seen, Wallace. Raphael said happily.

"Even if this boatswain can't handle the sails and can't wash the deck." Jack also walked over and complained casually.

He paused, punched Liu Zheng in the chest, and whispered, "Well done, man." ”

Liu Zheng also smiled and punched back, making Jack scream.

He walked up to Wolfheart and said with some embarrassment, "I'm sorry, I..."

He rubbed his head and didn't know what to say, wanting to say that he wouldn't do it again next time, but he felt that he definitely couldn't do it.

Wolfheart watched him scratch his ears and cheeks, a subtle smile flashed in his eyes, and then said with a blank face, "Three props." ”

Liu Zheng breathed a sigh of relief and immediately said, "No problem." ”

None of the problems that can be solved with props are a problem, anyway, this task is originally picked up for nothing.

In order to wait for Liu Zheng, the speed of the team was not fast, and since he had returned to the team, the speed was immediately raised.

Three days later, in the morning, the team arrived at the destination of the trip, the ancient tomb complex.

The tomb complex is built on a huge sand dune, at least 60 meters wide from east to west, at least 80 meters long from north to south, and there are at least 200 large and small tombs.

Among the dense tombs, there are two large mausoleums that stand out from the crowd, just on the left and right, as if they are facing each other.

"How do I feel that the tombs on the left and right are not the same." Jack said after observing for a moment.

"That's true." Ambrado nodded, giving a brief introduction.

It turns out that next to this dune was once a large lake, and the current sand dunes used to be a large oasis.

There were once two groups of humans who lived and multiplied in this area.

The early ones were known locally as "Teneya", meaning people who used stones.

The latter group was called "Phirians", which means people who used fishing nets.

These names were given by the locals after exploring their tombs based on the funerary goods they found.

However, the two largest mausoleums remain unexplored.

According to the elders of the tribe, one of the most powerful witch doctors of Osserd once went in, and when he came out, he left only a warning that "no one is allowed to enter the mausoleum, otherwise disaster will be" and went into the desert and never returned.

Since then, no one has dared to enter the Great Mausoleum, not even this tomb group.

Over time, this tomb group has become a mysterious legend.

If it weren't for the fact that the elder had come here to play as a child, they might not have found this place.

By the way, the elder is 94 years old this year, which is considered a super long life expectancy among Africans, and the average life expectancy of modern Africans is only 40 years.

"So the question now is, which one is the one we're looking for?" Jack said.

Raphael was amused by him, "Captain Jack, don't you think this question should be asked to you?" ”

Jack shrugged, "The old pirate only told me the key was in a mausoleum, not which one. ”

Raphael was helpless and looked at Ambrador, "Mr. Captain, is there any relevant record in your tribe?" ”

Ambrado said he couldn't help it, "The great witch doctor didn't leave any records, and no one but him ever came out of it alive." ”

He paused, and then said, "Your Excellency Raphael, according to the ancestral teachings, we are not allowed to enter the Great Mausoleum, please understand this. ”

Raphael said he understands that he is not a man who likes to be strong.

But there were only four of them, and it was obvious that it was impossible to separate, and only one mausoleum could be chosen at the same time to explore.

And if you choose the wrong one, you have to bear double the risk.

All three looked at Raphael, who was the captain and it was up to him to make a decision when it mattered.

Raphael looked at the three of them with a lot of pressure, if he made a decision with ability and wisdom, he was not afraid, and he just took responsibility for his mistakes.

But this choice, which was entirely based on luck, made him hesitate.

"Take the Phalians." Liu Zheng said suddenly.

"Why?" Raphael asked.

"Since it's a bronze key, it should be a little later in the era. The invention of fishing nets is probably later than the Stone Age. Liu Zheng explained.

In the earliest period of the invention of fishing nets, there is no accurate discovery in the academic community.

According to the Book of Changes, "the king of the ancients, the king of the Kuxi clan (that is, the Fuxi clan), also made a knot rope for the net, and fished from the tenants. ”

Fuxi's was before Shennong's, so the era of his invention of fishing nets may have been before the early Neolithic Age.

Although the I Ching account is not necessarily accurate, and the bronze key may not be a tribal human creation, it is better than choosing it by pure luck.

The three of them accepted Liu Zheng's statement and decided to advance the great mausoleum of the Feryans.

The Great Mausoleum of the Philians is on the right side of the dune, and the outer wall consists of three layers, the outermost layer of yellow sand, the middle of which is a mixture of rock and earth, and the innermost part is a stone block of different sizes, and the whole is a semicircle.

"This structure is a bit like the 'Baocheng Baoding' of the tombs of the Ming and Qing dynasties." Liu Zheng felt a little familiar.

When tomb robbery novels were popular, he couldn't put it down, so he also became interested in ancient tombs and read some related materials.

Tomb Tomb, as the name suggests, when people buried the body in the beginning, they dug a hole and buried it, and then filled in the ground.

Later, with the improvement of productivity and the deepening of people's understanding of death, from the end of the Yin Dynasty and the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty, sealed earth graves began to appear on the tombs.

After the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the sealed soil of the tomb became larger and larger, especially the sealed soil of the mausoleums of emperors and noble ministers, and the development and change were obvious.

Until the end of the feudal dynasty, it mainly experienced three forms of fiefdom.

The first is "square", which is to ram the soil layer on top of the tomb to make it a square cone with a small top and a large bottom. Because the upper part is a small square flat top, as if the square cone has truncated the top, it is called "square up".

In reality, the tomb of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lintong, Shaanxi Province is a typical square, and the tomb of the Emperor Mausoleum of the Han Dynasty also adopts this form.

The second is to "take the mountain as a neighbor", the practice is to use the hill as the tomb head of the mausoleum, and the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty mostly adopted this form. Tang Zhaoling is built with Jiuzhi Mountain as a mausoleum and a mountain chiseled.

The third is the "Treasure City Treasure Roof", which is to build a tall brick city on top of the underground palace, and add soil to the brick city to make it higher than the city wall into a dome. This kind of wall is called "treasure city", and the round tomb that rises above is called "treasure dom".

The tombs of emperors and concubines of the Ming and Qing dynasties all adopted this form.

And the tomb of the great mausoleum of the Philians is very similar to the form of "Treasure City Treasure Top".

The difference is that the Philian mausoleum is made of stones on the inside and earth on the outside.

This very similar structure of the tomb means that there is a high probability that there is a large earth palace underneath the Philian tomb.

Walking to the entrance of the mausoleum, Liu Zheng asked the others to go away, and together with Wolf Heart, he removed the stone blocking the entrance.

Both of them have practiced breathing and strengthened their bodies, so it is okay to hold their breath for two or three minutes.

Holding his breath, Liu Zheng stretched out his hand to feel it, and there was a flow of air blowing out from the tomb.

In some novels, tomb robbers will habitually light a candle in the southeast corner of the tomb after entering the tomb, and only then will they open the coffin and rummage through the belongings.

If the candle suddenly goes out in the process of rummaging, this phenomenon is called "ghost blowing the lamp".

Once this happens, the tomb robbers must put all the treasures they have obtained back intact, and then flee the same way without looking back.

In fact, it is because if the candle is extinguished, it means that the oxygen in the air is too thin.

If the tomb robbers are still obsessed with finding their belongings, they can easily fall into a state of hypoxia, resulting in dizziness and weakness of the limbs.

Blindness and weakness of the limbs can make the retreat longer, further aggravating the symptoms of hypoxia until death by asphyxiation.

The wind blowing out in the tomb indicates that the sealing of the mausoleum is average, and there is at least basic air flow, which is very beneficial for tomb exploration.

After all, there were no gas masks in this era, let alone oxygen cylinders.

Liu Zheng walked into the burial chamber and took a tentative breath of air, feeling that there was nothing wrong except for a slight cloudiness.

So he reached out and called everyone else in.

"Where is the entrance to the dungeon?" Jack looked around, but couldn't find anything like a ladder or a cover.

The burial chamber is very narrow, filled with stone except for a passage directly opposite the entrance, which also ends with a stone wall.

"Will there be some mechanism or something, as soon as the ground is triggered, it will sink and expose the entrance to the dungeon." Raphael had an idea.

"It may not be that there is no entrance to the dungeon at all." Wolf's Heart said coldly.

Everyone was speechless for a while, this cold joke was really cold enough, and the temperature in the tomb seemed to have dropped a lot.