The king of Assyria heard that Tahakar, king of Ethiopia, had said, "He has come out to fight against you. —Isaiah 37:9

The Old Testament records that in the seventh century B.C.E., the Assyrians prepared to attack Jerusalem in order to raze it to the ground and turn it into desolation. The pharaoh of Nubia and Egypt, Tahaka, assembled a large army to the northern edge of his empire to defend Jerusalem from the Assyrians.

The Tahakhakarians told the king of Assyria that they were going to fight a decisive battle.

Tahaka was the first king of Kush to conquer Egypt and established the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.

The pharaoh had two serpents in his crown, representing that he was the ruler of Nubia and Egypt.

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The Nubian pyramid group is numerous and widely distributed.

Because of Zhou Haorui's search record, the first place where the 1st United Team first traveled from Cairo, Egypt was Shendi, where the pyramids of Meroe are located, a small town in northern Sudan, about 45 kilometers southwest of Shendi is the ruins of the ancient city of Meroe.

However, the joint team seemed to be a few steps late again, and Deng Ximei and Xiao Xu both had heavier and more chaotic strange feelings there, but they didn't find anything.

Meroe is no longer the epicenter of events, perhaps never has been.

At the same time, the global floods and petrochemical disease epidemics have gotten out of control, and many areas have lost their rescue capabilities, and they can only watch the collapsed cities being flooded and countless lives buried in the water; Many regions have also lost the ability to admit patients and count confirmed cases, and before that, the number of confirmed petrochemical disease patients worldwide exceeded 10 million.

Ten million, that's not just a seemingly big number, that's 10 million people, countless families.

The weight of these lives was greater than the pressure of the flood, but the frontline members could not allow themselves to stop and soak in their grief, so they could only continue to rush to the next place.

Karima, another small town in northern Sudan, and the ruins of the ancient city of Napata, another pyramid cluster, are located northwest of Karima.

Karima is about 400 km away from Shendi, in a location further north. Before Meroe became the capital of the Kush, Napata was the capital of the 25th Dynasty and the center of worship of the Kush people as the "Nubia-Amun".

If the ritual center of the Little Ram Order is not in Meroe, it will probably only be here in Napata.

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"The Order of the Little Ram likes to quote from the Bible, and I don't know if it's just a metaphor or something else.

However, there is a mainstream hypothesis in the academic community that the 'King of Cushi' refers to Tahaka, the founder of the 25th Dynasty and the pharaoh of Nubia, Upper Egypt, and Lower Egypt. Because he sent an army to fight Sennacherib, the king of Assyria finally gave up the siege, and the Assyrians could no longer advance to Jerusalem.

Since the 'Ten Plagues of Egypt', the Order of the Little Ram has regarded itself as a Jew, and those of us who do not believe in the god of the little ram, the black goat, have been referred to as Egyptians. So I think the founders of this order are probably of Jewish ethnicity. But that's not all, because God can incarnate children from stones, and the Little Rams are all over the world, all of them are experts and professors who study ancient Egyptology, ancient Kush, a group of extremely mature and prudent old men.

These people have come to regard Yahweh, the one God, as a god they believe in.

In this way, Tahakar, the king of Ethiopia who conquered Egypt, was an oracle of the little ram, like Moses. We are not just Egyptians, we are so-called 'pagans,' so we are also Assyrians, especially Assyrians. Aren't we, the front-linemen, like the Assyrians who are going to attack Jerusalem? And that unknown force, those ravens...... Assyrians, too.

King Cush sent unto the king of Assyria, saying, He has come out to fight against thee.

And now, we come to the pyramid mausoleum of Tahaka, the 'protector of Jerusalem', but we look around and find nothing.

Actually, I am not surprised at all, because archaeology is also such a process. You have to look for a legendary site that you can't find in just one place, and you often travel for a long time without any valuable discoveries. Those little ram believer archaeologists are most familiar with this kind of thing, so they are also good at playing this kind of game. Although we have already found the king of Kushi, they will not be so simple here.

But they wouldn't be out of here, because if King Cush was a messenger, there was no way they wouldn't be here. This is the only place where the connecting power can drive the whole ritual, and this is where the kings of Kush have returned, and this is the most suitable place for 'Nubia-Amun' to descend.

It was also in this space that 2,700 years ago, the people here called Amun's name. It's just that the time has not come, and the name of the god has been lost, and they have not succeeded, but they have left a special connection. The Little Rams need that kind of strength.

It must be here, the Royal Necropolis of Napata, pioneered by Tahaka.

Things have beginnings and ends, and if not the mausoleum of Tahaka, the first pyramid here, then it is most likely the last pyramid here, the mausoleum of Nastassen.

Nastathan's reign was already in the fourth century BC, when Egypt and Kush had long since re-divided, and the Kush kingdom was in decline. After Nastasson, the capital will be moved to Meroe. This also meant that the period of the Kush kingdom's greatest strength came to an end.

Nastason is a full stop, a watershed, and an end.

Now, for the Order of the Little Ram to start anew, to bring their gods down, start again from that point of end, it's a continuation.

For these reasons, I deduce that the place we are really looking for is the Nastasson Pyramid here.

In addition, due to the rising water table in Nubia, many of the graves under these pyramids have been flooded. Nastathan's tomb is one of them, and the three burial chambers at the base of its pyramid have long since been submerged.

For many years, no archaeological team had ever tried underwater archaeology in Sudan, there was no technology, and there were so many other sites in Nubia that they could study that they were busy enough to stay. But this is only on the surface, whether the tomb robbers have touched it, I don't know. On the surface, in 2018, Chrisman, an Egyptologist and underwater archaeologist at Citigroup University of Arizona, finally led a team to move the Nastassen tomb.

They dug a staircase to the ground, and reinforced the narrow tomb with steel chutes to prevent the rock from collapsing and trapping the people underwater. After doing this, they dived and explored the three burial chambers, and also went to the innermost third burial chamber to see the sarcophagus of Nassenta.

They believe that the groundwater has deterred the tomb robbers, and that the tomb has not been vandalized, but it is also because of the groundwater that many of the artifacts in it have been dissolved. They brought out some artifacts, which were in tatters.

I now suspect that Chrisman's team is a member of the Little Ram Order, because a year ago, Chrisman mysteriously died in a car accident, and who knows if he really died? Professor Liu Jiecheng and Professor Zhang Zhang also died that year. There are also several other members of the team, who disappeared before this disaster broke out, and it was not such a coincidence. Among the things they unearthed at the time must have been something that the Little Ram Order was looking for. Besides, they were the only ones who had been to the three catacombs, and no one else knew what they had done inside. Because their cameras can be faked.

That place is undoubtedly very dangerous right now, even if it doesn't have anomalous powers.

What kind of environment is underwater, whether it will collapse or not, whether it is strange or not, no one knows.

However, we will definitely send death squads to go in and take a look, because we can't blow it up as soon as we get there, that might disrupt the ceremony, but it could also lead to other consequences, and sacrificing a few lives on the front line is acceptable for the bigger picture.

That's how I see it. ”

The scorching sun basked the tombs, and the low, dilapidated pyramid of Kush stood above the desert.

Xiao Xu said, the childish face was still expressionless, and he didn't pant for breath, but this was probably the most and longest time he had ever talked in his life.

Lou Xiaoning looked at the child and was stunned for a few seconds, his brain still needed time to digest so much information at once, "I remember that you don't seem to be an archaeologist." ”

"Yes, I'm not." Xiao Xu said, "I'm good at mathematics, and archaeology is just a little amateur research for me. ”

Everyone around looked at each other, everyone looked at each other, Feng Peiqian really knew that there was such a powerful guy in the Tianji Bureau, and she stopped talking: "When it comes to archaeology, of course, Captain Yu is good at it...... But Xiao Xu, you're not bad. ”

"Xiao Xu has a point." Deng Ximei nodded in agreement.

And Hubbard Scott of Citigroup FBM confirmed the information Xiao Xu said, and Chrisman's team has indeed been listed as a suspicious object.

"Let's go!" Lou Xiaoning waved his hand and glanced at the Tahaka pyramid, "What are we doing here, go to the Nastasin Mausoleum immediately." ”

She felt a little bit that her IQ was not enough, when did this kid sort out these? Everyone is obviously acting together, from Cairo to Meroe and then here, they have stayed together almost all the time, and no one has gotten more information than others, so how can Xiao Xu ......

But when I think about it, Xiao Xu used his laptop to query some information and FBM sharing information.

At that moment, the 1st Combined Team immediately rushed to the Nastasson Pyramid, which was not far away.

Since many of the graves here have been flooded by groundwater, the logistics side has long been prepared for underwater archaeological equipment, as well as the most advanced underwater robots, underwater firearms, and so on.

As for draining groundwater, this cannot be done. The Nile River is next to the town of Krima, a town of 14,000 people built next to the riverbank, who are now being evacuated and contained, and no one knows if there are any ram believers in it.

It is because of the existence of the Nile that this seems to be a paradoxical fact - under the pyramids in the desert, there is a flood of water.

Therefore, the groundwater of the Nastassen mausoleum is inexhaustible, and even if part of it is pumped out, the time it will take is not something that the front line can wait for, and the water of the Nile has begun to become turbulent, as if it were the eve of a storm.

When the combined team reached their destination, they looked at the large and ruined mound of earth and rubble, and the staircase excavated by Chrisman's expedition leading to the burial chamber deep below the pyramid, and at the end of the staircase was soaked in earthy groundwater, the water was silent.

It's just that there is no need for people with super high gnosis such as Deng Ximei and Xiao Xu to judge, as long as they have rich front-line experience, they can sense that something is wrong.

There was a faint black color flowing through the surface of the groundwater.

The special operations personnel in the joint team, Li Zhenjing, Zhang Jingjing and several others also frowned.

"Deputy Captain Li, you are responsible for reporting to Tongye and engaging in those routine tests of underwater robots."

Lou Xiaoning withdrew his gaze from the entrance of the underwater passage that was getting darker and darker, looked around at the people around him, and said, "The death squad that is ready to go down and explore." Regardless of everyone's wishes, there is limited space inside, and a team of about 12 people is enough. ”

The bottom surface of the Nasta pyramid is about 930 square meters, and although it is not large compared to the Egyptian pyramids, it is quite spacious, but because some of it has collapsed, there are also rockfalls, silt, etc., and the terrain inside is both cramped and complicated.

And there is also a fatal point, the underwater terrain information they have is all explored by Chrisman's team...... What if that's not the case?

Therefore, this squad is a death squad among the death squads, and it is not necessary to die when fighting on the front line, and if it goes down, it is really necessary to be prepared to die.

"Captain Lou, let me go." At this time, a young voice suddenly came out, but it was Chen Jiahua who stood up excitedly.

He blushed a little because of his excitement, and he also knew that Gu Jun's tomb was desecrated by the enemy, "I want to say something, if it's not right, I'll laugh." The uncertainty of this expedition is too great, and it shouldn't be directly by Captain Lou and you, you are all capable and have a more important role. The general is different from the first to die, it should be up to someone like me to open the way, if it's just a trap inside, death will only kill me. ”

Everyone suddenly looked different, and Uncle Dan was a little anxious: "You young man ......"

Lin Shengbo, who was not far away, didn't speak, and didn't really want to go down.

"What kind of person are you?" Lou Xiaoning scolded Chen Jiahua, a little angry, but not because he was angry, "I also went to the dead first...... I'm the first to die. Chen Jiahua, you have a kind, go and call your family; Others don't have to fight, I'll just pick a few. He was right, this squad couldn't put the main force into it. Xiao Xu! I'm going down, you come to be the temporary captain, and you kid is more suitable than me to be the captain. ”

Lou Xiaoning's words were rough, and a heaviness had weighed on everyone's hearts, and Xiao Xu said, "Okay." ”

At the same time, routine trials are being conducted on a case-by-case basis.

It's just that sure enough, before the underwater robot finished walking the underwater stairs, it disconnected the signal and lost contact.