Chapter 287: Stealth Raid
Between the earthy yellow ruins of the Hamna Tower, there is a remnant tower, judging from the broken wall connecting it, it should have been a part of the city wall, but after thousands of years of wind and sand erosion, the outer wall of the Hamna Tower has collapsed and weathered in a large area, and in some places it will even fall ash when touched. In fact, if it weren't for the protection of magic, thousands of years would have passed enough for Hamnata to be removed from the world!
After all, the Hamna Tower on the surface of the earth is exposed to rain and rain every day, and in fact, O'Connor and his party were not the first to discover the Hamna Tower in the millennium. When the pharaohs built the pyramids, they would hoard a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry as their capital for their own happiness in the underworld. (As far as economics is concerned, this hoarding of gold and silver is not conducive to the sustainable (xìng) prosperity and stable development of society, and in order for the economy to be prosperous, it is necessary to allow money to circulate······ This is also the reason why bank interest rates have been falling again and again, which is to let people consume and stimulate economic growth, rather than sitting on them. )
However, these gold and silver jewels do not fly in with wings, so it is only natural that some tomb robbers, robbers, and the like will follow them through the deep rut marks, trying to get a piece of the pharaoh's "coffin book". The pharaohs were aware of this, so they usually designed their pyramids like labyrinths, with technologically advanced "security systems" inside.
However, there is a saying that "the road is one foot high, and the magic is one foot high", and the robbers simply started before the gold, silver and jewelry were transported into the pyramid. The Tower of Hamna, on the other hand, is based on the Valley of the Kings of the later pharaohs. Because the pyramids were time-consuming, laborious, and particularly conspicuous, it was easy to attract a large group of tomb robbers to watch, and the later Egyptian pharaohs went "underground". Thus, in the Tower of Hamna lay not only Immortun, but also a large number of mummies of the pharaohs and their guards.
Wouldn't it be strange otherwise? Immorton is a sinner through the ages, he can still sleep in a beautifully made coffin, and he has a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry to bury him, is he a sinner or an uncle? This has to be put on hold in the Celestial Empire, and the crime of killing the monarch is afraid that you don't even want to keep the whole corpse! The straw mat was rolled, and I found a random place to bury it, and it was a problem! Where is the qualification to have a large wave of mummified guards as bodyguards!
To be honest, the fact that Immorton's body was left in Hamnata Ben (shēn) is a big loophole (qíng), and he was not qualified to come to Hamnata when he was alive, but he could stay in Hamnata for a long time with peace of mind after he died? Could it be that he wanted to use the "dragon energy" of the pharaohs of the past generations to suppress him? Or is it convenient for the mausoleum guards to take care of it?
In fact, there have been tomb robbers, robbers, horse thieves, and even marauders with official backgrounds over the millennia, such as the famous Roman legions and Macedonian legions. There is a saying that "people are in the rivers and lakes, (shēn) do not help themselves", as long as people live in this world, they will interact with others. If you live in the world and want to eat and drink, even if you can cook, you need to go out and buy groceries, right? And there are tens of thousands of mausoleum guards, and the food and drink of these tens of thousands of people cannot be solved by "part-time work"! Only by acquiring enough land and herds can the Tomb Guards thrive and take on their responsibilities.
Even if the Tomb Guards wanted to be a hidden force behind closed doors, their huge territory and strength still attracted the unnecessary attention of the pharaohs and generals. In addition, there are several generations of great leaders who are radical, so it is natural that they must not be involved in political matters, such as Alexander the Great and Caesar's game of conquest in Egypt, they were once involved, but they were beaten by Julius Caesar and fled back to Hamna Tower in embarrassment, trying to escape the pursuit of the Roman legions by magic. It turned out that it was dawn, and so, in the first rays of dawn in the morning, Hamnata was exposed!
It was an unusually tragic battle, and even the army of Ptolemy XIII, the brother of Cleopatra, had already been defeated, not to mention the few men and horses of the tomb guards. As a result, Hamnata was devastated by the famous Roman ballista, and the mausoleum guard was crumbled for hundreds of years.
The hideous fissure in the remnant tower is a masterpiece of Roman ballistas, nearly half of the structure has been destroyed by flying stone projectiles, and only half of the broken ceiling is still struggling to support it, like a can that has been blown open by a naughty boy with a cannon.
At this time, a few (shēn) shadows crept in, "Ali, are you sure this is the place that leads to the city wall?" ”
"Sure, that's what my men told me! Definitely allow us to climb the walls and snipe at them from a high position! Ali jumped over the gap in the wall. The ground inside was covered with a thick layer of sand, apparently windswept sand from the breach.
"No matter how I look at it, this looks like a dilapidated house! There is a saying that "a gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall", I think we should find another place! Han Xing looked at the half of the earthy yellow ceiling that was full of cracks and shook (yù) and swallowed.
"Are you too worried? If it was going to collapse, it would have collapsed a long time ago! Why wait until now? It's been thousands of years, and Hamnata is magically protected after all! Ali nonchalantly swept away the sand from the stairs in front of him with his feet, and then made a gesture of please. This staircase is presumably the passage from the ruined tower to the walls of the Tower of Hamna.
As Ali said, since thousands of years of wind and sand erosion have not completely destroyed this tower, it naturally does not need to "rush" and bury them alive while the four of them are here, right? So the four of them managed to reach the walls of the Tower of Hamna.
The once-ten-meter-high wall has collapsed everywhere after the baptism of Roman ballistas, and the debris of the debris and collapsed buildings can be seen everywhere, coupled with the continuous erosion of thousands of years of wind and sand (rì) nights, the originally solid and smooth granite wall has become pitted, and the color has changed from beige to sandy yellow.
Han Xing and his party successfully came to the head of the city, and they lay on the ruined walls of the Hamna Tower, condescendingly searching for the target.
"Look, there's a man there, Roy, (shè) him!" The first to spot the target was Han Xing, who was the most observant of all the people present, thanks to his T-virus evolved physique.
I saw the direction of Han Xing's finger, a sentinel with an eastern face holding a cigarette in his mouth, sitting leisurely on a boulder occupying the commanding heights, placing his rifle on his left hand, and spitting out clouds and fog freely. Maybe it's because the sun is too blazing, and this guy also wears a pair of sunglasses.
This boulder is about the beam or cornerstone of a magnificent building, about three or five meters above the ground, and it is a good location for this guy - a commanding height within hundreds of meters around. It's a pity that the city wall where Han Xing and his party are located is ten meters away, but it is stable for him.
Roy was silent, but he had already wound a feather arrow in his hand, slowly opened the bow, aimed at the heart of the man in the distance, and then loosened his three fingers, and the feathered arrow flew towards the mouth of the leisurely sentry (xiōng) with a "whoosh".
I saw that the sentry fell from the boulder trembling as if he had been electrocuted, and he rolled on the ground a few times, but he had not completely lost his breath, and he struggled to get up, but the blood loss caused him to be weak, and he tried several times to fail. Eventually, he turned his back to the sky and was silent. He always held the feathered arrow in his mouth in his right hand, as if he wanted to pull it out, but he couldn't make up his mind, and his face was full of strong unwillingness and pain.
Not everyone can be calm in the face of death, in fact, when death comes, most people panic. After all, who is not idle and bored to play with a knife in the throat and accumulate experience, isn't it? Most people won't have the chance to experience it a second time!
This feeling of being unable to speak, screaming in pain, the sharp pain from the wound and the fear of being covered by the shadow of death (yīn) is enough to throw the calmest and toughest tough guy into a mess, which is almost a nightmare (qíng) scene!
"Well done! There, there's two, chatting! Surprise them! Seeing this, Ali clapped his hands in praise, and then pointed to the two figures who were chatting in the distant (yīn) shadow.
"Let me and Roy shoot together this time! Roy, I'll take care of the one on the left! "Sir Hansen stretched out his bow and said to Roy." You ready? 1, 2, 3, put! ”
The two shēn shadows who were chatting leisurely collapsed, one of them with an arrow in the neck and the other in the right waist. The man with the arrow in the neck struggled a few times and then stopped moving, but the man with the arrow in the right waist did not die completely, and began to crawl and scream, dragging a long trail of blood on the sandy ground.
"Quick, quick, don't let him keep shouting! Otherwise, we should show our stuffing! Han Xing was shocked and hurriedly said to Hansen and Roy.
Unfortunately, it was too late, just as Roy was about to mend the knife, a gunshot was heard in the distance, and a bullet almost grazed Han Xing's shoulder.
"We've been discovered!"
"Snipers, must be snipers! In addition to the remaining three on the main building of the Hamna Tower, they must have hidden a sniper, I should have thought a long time ago! Ali slapped his head and said.
"But where would he be?"
"Now is not the time to think about this, fortunately, let's rush up (ròu) and fight! Hansen, Roy, you're covering us! Ali pulled out a large knife from his inventory. This is a long scimitar in the Middle Eastern style, a heavy weapon, with a cold light on the surface, which is absolutely extraordinary at first sight.
"I'd better go with you! I see people with ghosts now, and just now an arrow was clearly aimed at the sun (xué), but it fell on the waist! Shame shame shame! By the way, Roy, you hurry up and change positions, don't stay here any longer! A good sniper never stays in the same place! Sir Hansen put away his longbow and hurried to follow.
The three of them took advantage of the ruins as a cover and touched in the direction where the sniper was.
"I saw it, and there it was! Did you see it, there is a bright spot! Sir Hansen pointed to the rooftop of a two-storey abandoned building, which was covered with a white cloth and had been so covered with sand that from a distance it appeared to be as grey and sandy as the others.
"Really, there's you!" Han Xing took a closer look, and sure enough, he found a reflective bright spot, like a gem sparkling.
"Together! That's a sniper scope reflecting, this guy is either a novice sniper, or too unscrupulous, thinking that no one here understands this business! Generally speaking, snipers look at the target with their (ròu) eyes and will not open the sniper scope to aim until they lock onto the target! Sir Hansen said triumphantly.
After the three of them sneaked up on his (shēn), the sniper dude didn't even know it! Han Xing even vaguely saw the white cloth rise and fall slightly as the sniper's breathing movements followed.
Ali had already raised the scimitar with a wicked smile, intending to give the sniper a slash in two, but at the moment when the knife fell in his hand, there was a "ding~" sound from the knife (shēn), and a huge force pushed the broadsword to the side, and the broadsword fell off from Ali's hand and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Weird, what's going on? Did I get Parkinson's? Why, I'm still young! Ali looked at his disobedient hands in a daze.