Chapter 63: Heavily armed
"You're looking for me?" In the private room of the Cairo Hotel, a guy who was shrouded in a white robe and only showed two eyes looked at the few people in front of him vigilantly.
"Leonard, do you think he's going to fill his robe with explosives, and with a slight pull, we're all going to see God together?" Sheldon said with some fidgeting.
It's just that even if you want to say this kind of thing, you have to say it secretly! What does it mean to let others hear it!
"Mr. Scorpion, we are looking for you to inquire about something." Li Qingyuan waved his hand to stop Sheldon's muttering, and saluted the dangerous guy.
"I'm only responsible for selling things, and it's not my job to ask for news." The guy codenamed 'Sand Scorpion' shook his head.
"What I inquired about was sold from you." Li Qingyuan took out the wolf-headed statue of Anubis and put it down on the table.
"Yes, it's the goods I sold!" The sand scorpion took the statue in his hand and looked at it, then nodded and said.
"What do you want to know?"
"I would like to ask, I learned from the last buyer that you are sure that this thing is Cleopatra's funeral object, but as far as I know, after Antony was defeated by Octavian, which legendary woman committed suicide, according to the history books, she should have been ordered to be buried with Antony in the Peloponnesa instead of Egypt!" On the way here, Li Qingyuan had done a lot of homework, and he had a detailed understanding of which Cleopatra's life.
Although more than 2,000 years have passed, such a bewitching queen is the favorite of almost all historians and writers, from the ancient Roman period to modern Hollywood, Cleopatra as the prototype of the works emerge in endlessly, it is said that recently it seems that even a kryptonite game in Japan has appeared in the figure of Cleopatra.
"I'm just a tomb robber, the archaeology you are talking about has nothing to do with me, the reason why I say this is Cleopatra's funeral, it's because the inscription of that Mu is engraved like this!" The sand scorpion slyly rolled his only exposed eyeball and said in a hoarse voice.
Well, the reason is really unassailable.
"So, Mr. Sand Scorpion, do you have any other items from that tomb? We're interested in these things. "Anyway, he's not going to sell it for archaeology, it doesn't matter who the tomb is, as long as it's useful.
"No, that tomb is deep in the desert, and there is nothing valuable in it, so this statue looks valuable, so I took it out!" The sand scorpion doesn't know if it's really out of stock or if it wants to sell at a price.
"Okay, we can hire you as a guide to take us to the tomb!" Originally, Li Qingyuan thought that if he could get a few identical cultural relics in the hands of this informant, it would naturally be the best, but he had already planned for the worst outcome.
Otherwise, it's just a matter of buying a cultural relic, and there's no need to bring these four guys over together, right?
"Of course, I sometimes work part-time as a guide, but the price!" The sand scorpion rubbed his hands.
"Here's a deposit of $10,000, as long as you take us to that tomb, we'll add another $30,000, and if there's anything good to discover, you can add more!" Li Qingyuan threw the prepared cash in front of the sand scorpion and said.
Cairo's per capita annual income is 6,000 US dollars, of course, this is the official data, and fools know that it will definitely be higher than the real income.
The 40,000 US dollars for the road is not a lot for the sand scorpion, a tomb robber, but it is definitely a lot, and this job is to lead the way, and there is no danger at all.
"Fifty thousand, all the expenses are yours!"
"Deal!" Li Qingyuan said with a smile.
"Lee, shall we just follow him to the desert? Will he kill a few of us on the way? For example, put it in the desert to feed the eagles or something? Seeing that strange guy go out after receiving the deposit, Sheldon, who had been holding back for a long time, finally couldn't help but ask.
"Shut up! Sheldon, it's the twenty-first world, Egypt is a civilized country, not the Middle Ages, and it's no longer fashionable to feed eagles with live people! Leonard yelled at Sheldon with some anxiety:
"And next time, can you play less of those scary strategy games, you actually played the Egyptian murderer last night, I don't know if you like to scare yourself so much."
"To quote an ancient saying from Li's hometown, I call it knowing the chicken and knowing the skin, and now that we have come to Egypt, we naturally want to understand the culture of Egypt." Sheldon retorted forcefully.
It's just that he used the idiom wrongly?
Also, who understands culture from the game of Murderer?
"Lee, although I never thought that Sheldon was useless except for some usefulness in scientific research, this time his consideration really made some sense." Howard ignored the noisy pair of living treasures over there and said to Li Qingyuan.
"A few of us followed that guy into the desert like this, isn't it too dangerous, do you want to contact the Marines, I'm still a nominal mechanic in the Space Administration, and I can recruit a few soldiers to protect our safety!"
"No, if we let the military join, what secrets do we have!" Li Qingyuan directly rejected Howard's proposal without thinking about it.
After all, if the military were to participate now, it would be better to apply for research funding directly from the beginning, so that you don't have to pay for it yourself.
"I brought this!" He opened the suitcase with him, revealing a pile of terrifying things inside.
"Where did you get these things?" Howard asked in surprise as he took out the XM8 light assault rifle inside.
Even Sheldon and Howard stopped their meaningless bickering, and studied it as if they were two children.
After all, there is no man who doesn't love guns!
Although the four otaku already live in the United States, where guns are legal, they don't need or can hold guns as professors at the University of California.
"Attention, these are real people!" Li Qingyuan opened all the two large suitcases, which contained a full set of individual equipment that was enough for five people.
Less than 200 kilometers from Romania is Israel, where a US military base has been stationed directly next to the Suez Canal since the Fourth Middle East War.
He got the equipment from there.
For overseas bases, no business will come faster than selling equipment to make money, after all, it is very reasonable for such a large base to damage some things every month.