313. Rise of the Tomb Raider: The Three Tribulations
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Judging by the location, the tomb of the Prophet is probably next door to the mountain at Laura's feet. In other words, if you pass through this mountain, you should be able to discover the ruins.
"Laura," Nan Xiao suggested, "you can't just look around," he pointed to the mercenaries who were sitting in the shade resting, "Divide the map into many small pieces, let each of those people be responsible for a piece of searching, and report what they find." ”
"They? Unprofessional, right......"
"Sometimes unprofessional people are more lucky. There is an old saying in the East that a blind cat meets a dead mouse, and this is the case. ”
Laura was alone and searched everywhere, tired and half dead. She was still thin-skinned and didn't dare to call on the mercenaries. Nan Xiao didn't have any scruples, so he called them ruthlessly, taking their lives for nothing.
Including Los Hyde, the mercenaries had no opinion on Nan Xiao's decision, but were very happy. Isn't being a mercenary just for money? As long as the money is in place, everything is easy to say. Isn't it a great thing that you don't have to go to the battlefield with a gun, you can make money just by searching the nearby hills?
After starting a carpet search, the efficiency really improved a lot. These mercenaries really don't want to die. Tie a wire rope to a tree and dare to hoist yourself under the cliff to explore.
After a while, an exclamation rang out. A tree fell, and the wire rope that was fixed to it slipped off. At the other end of the wire rope was a man who fell into the valley with an ahhh
Death is death, at most Los Hyde wrote a note in his book, and he will be paid a pension when he returns.
Falling to the death of a man did not frighten the mercenaries, but only sparked their enthusiasm. The men continued to look for a place to hold the ropes, and they all wanted to go down the cliff to investigate. They are all smart: there is nothing on the cliffs, and if you want to get rich, you have to go to dangerous places. In this line of work, pinning your head to the waistband of your pants is a basic operation.
After a while, suddenly a loud voice shouted, "Found it!" Found it! ”
The sound came from below the cliff. Sure enough, the entrance to the Lost City is hidden under the cliff, which makes perfect sense.
Nan Xiao and Laura hung the rope and went down to take a look. On the edge of the cliff, there is a road that seems to have been carved by hand. Although the weathering is already severe, the steps are still very clear. At the most dangerous corners, there were even checkpoints. Dig a pit in the red sandstone to shelter from the wind and rain.
A skeleton curled up in the checkpoint, facing the fire. Nan Xiao knew at a glance that he had been stabbed to death. Axillary knife with obvious scratches on the ribs. Looking at the old dark spot on the ribs, there must have been a lot of bleeding at that time. Blood can flow into the alveoli, impede breathing, and drowning in swimming is a truth. This thousand-year-old sentinel most likely drowned in his own blood.
Along the heavily weathered rock face road, a platform with a hole was discovered.
Traces of human activity are even more evident here. There are murals on the rock walls depicting a group of people making a difficult trek. After a thousand years, you can still vaguely see the colors painted back then. There may have been a battle here, the door was half blocked, and part of the entrance was obscured by falling rocks everywhere.
Someone found a small ancient chest on the edge of a cliff near the entrance, which contained antiquities. According to the contract, all the antiquities belonged to the owner, but the finder could receive a reward. The mercenary came over with a grin, holding the box, and exchanged for a few green tickets, and was overjoyed.
Inside the chest is an ancient relic: a gilded cross. The workmanship is meticulous and set with four rubies. It looks like the style of the Byzantine Empire more than a thousand years ago, and it fits well with the timing of the prophetic legend.
From this point of view, it is likely that this time it is the right place.
There was a collapsed section of road ahead, with a hole at the end. It looked like a very old door, sealed with masonry for some reason. If it is said that it is to hide the entrance, then this project can be said to be completely unqualified, and even the curved door frame has no time to hide it. A half-brick wall was hastily built, and there was a hole in the semicircle on it.
Entering the cave, it looks like a tomb at first, with some coffins and scattered bones randomly stuffed at the base of the wall. After walking through a passage, everyone came to a secret room, and in the center there was a monolith tablet with words inscribed.
Laura stepped forward and gently stroked the weathered inscriptions. "It's amazing, it seems like some kind of guide," she said, trying to decipher it, shaking her head, "It's hard to understand...... "It's hard to understand," her fingers ran over the wedge-shaped words, "the word...... Prophet! This is the Prophet! That's it, and sure enough, Dad was right. ”
This is probably ancient Greek. Since the Roman Empire banned the ancient Greek language and unified the introduction of the Latin script, the language has gradually become obsolete. Nan Xiao didn't understand either, but he noticed that there were many murals around, and many scenes on them were described in both Greek and Latin. It's simple. Just like a dictionary, as long as there is a reference that can be compared, it will be translated.
After reading it once, he was already in his chest.
The stele does not have a large vocabulary, at best less than a hundred ancient Greek words. The text was so big that a word could barely be more than a meter wide. The entire stele can't write much about it.
Nan Xiao softly read out the words on the stone tablet: "...... The Prophet led us through the desert to an oasis where we found the water of life. We built a city here and lived and worked in peace...... The alien races of the north came and tried to break through our homeland, but the Prophet made them lay down their arms. The Prophet spoke to them in the native language of the aliens, and the aliens really left peacefully...... The plague was raging, and men, women, and children were unavoidable. Then the Prophet himself went among the sick and put his hand on them. When the sick is healed, and the people are saved, we are grateful for His merits, and we praise His miracles. Although the Trinity took the life of the prophet, it could never conceal his truth. ”
Historically, mankind has been unable to get rid of three major sufferings: "disease", "war" and "hunger". The Prophet led them to find green areas where they could farm, helped them avoid war, and even cured diseases. These three tribulations were resolved by the prophet, which shows how high his position was in the minds of the people at that time.
Is this how the power of faith is formed?
Nan Xiao cut into Mao Yuyu's field of vision and looked at the progress of the Holy Trinity. They were very efficient and had already found the tomb of the Prophet by helicopter. However, helicopters also have a drawback: they are limited by the bird's-eye view, so it is difficult to spot the entrance. They were rappelling, preparing to release some people to the surface and find a way to enter the tomb.
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