The mountains on both sides of the strait are close along the strait, forming a pass at the end of the sky, and even the city buildings on land can be seen clearly, and the huge Mediterranean Sea seems to be a big lake here, without the magnificent appearance of before.

Lin Fan and his ship are now passing through the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the main passage connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, and the channel is full of ships coming and going, and because the strait is only a dozen kilometers wide, it looks very busy and lively.

Lin Fan stood on the side of the boat by the railing, he looked at the seagulls flying around the mast of the ship, and remembered the antelope saying goodbye.

That day, she said that after going back to the room to clean up, she quietly left alone, and when Chen Ming came back, they found that they found a letter in the antelope's room, which was left by the antelope, which read:

"Lin Fanjun, I decided to go back to Japan alone, because no one can help me this time, I don't want to trouble you because of me, please continue to track down the whereabouts of the dragon and the mysterious man, I will come back soon to reunite with you, thank you for taking care of me these days."

- Antelope ginseng"

Lin Fan and Chen Ming hurriedly went to find Lingzi after seeing the letter at that time, but they couldn't find her anywhere, and only learned from the hotel front desk that she had left. In desperation, Lin Fan could only go back to the boat with Chen Ming to join everyone, Deng Jinbo notified the intelligence officers in Cairo to keep an eye on the whereabouts of the antelope, but now two days have passed, and there is still no news of the antelope.

"I said I would go to Japan together, why didn't you say anything and leave?" Lin Fan muttered in his heart, sometimes he really couldn't understand what the girl was thinking, why did the good things suddenly change hexagrams?

Lin Fan looked at the flock of seagulls gliding between the boat and the sea in the distance, the cries of the gulls "Ou, Ou" came and went, although the antelope's farewell made him depressed, but it faintly made him feel relieved, because he could temporarily let go of Japan's affairs and continue to pursue the whereabouts of the dragon.

Lin Fan couldn't help but sigh, he couldn't figure out his mood at the moment.

……

The last time the satellite spotted the dragon was in the North Atlantic, and after Lin Fan and his ship came out of the Mediterranean, they headed westward to the depths of the North Atlantic.

By September 13, Lin Fan and his ship had sailed to the middle of the North Atlantic, near the eastern waters of Bermuda. Deng Jinbo and the others did not detect the dragon's whereabouts for the past few days, so the ship slowed down and waited for new information before making a decision.

The news came quickly, but it was not the dragon's whereabouts, but a piece of news that everyone did not expect.

- "The Destruction of Mayan Ruins in Mexico"

ABC latest report that Chichen Itza, a Mayan ruin located in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, was damaged by unknown persons late at night on the 12th, and a serious fire broke out in the pyramid of Cukulcan, which was extinguished on the morning of the 13th, and the fire caused serious damage to the top of the pyramid, and no casualties were found at the scene.

The Mexican police responded that the destruction of Mayan ruins was a deliberate attack, similar to the attack on the Egyptian pyramids two weeks ago, and the possibility of the same gang committing the crime could not be ruled out, and the Mexican authorities have contacted the Egyptian authorities to jointly investigate the case.

The United Nations has expressed concern about the recent series of incidents of destruction of the world's cultural monuments, and after the attack on the Mayan ruins, the United Nations has sent the relevant officials of UNESCO to the local area to participate in the investigation of the incident. ”

"Those must have done it! We've got to get over there! Lin Fan was very emotional after seeing the news, and today Deng Jinbo gathered everyone to the conference room on the ship, the purpose was to discuss the destruction of the Mayan ruins.

"What do you think? Dr. Jonathan: I'd like to hear from you. Deng Jinbo didn't answer Lin Fan's words, but asked Jonathan.

"It's very similar to the destruction of the Pyramid of Khufu." Jonathan looked at the replay on the news and said, "I felt the need to go and see it live. ”

Lin Fan was overjoyed to hear Jonathan's reply, and everyone was waiting for Deng Jinbo's arrangement.

"Old Gu, how do I go to the Mayan ruins?" Deng Jinbo asked Gu Yuliang on the side.

"Wait a minute," Gu Yuliang replied after checking the map, "We will sail southwest from our current location, and we will reach the city of Cancun in northeastern Mexico in two days at the earliest, and we will be able to reach the Mayan ruins on the same day as we go ashore and take the car." ”

"Hmm." Deng Jinbo nodded, "You ordered to go down and change the course now and move towards Cancun City, Mexico, and then Ye Wei and Chen Ming hurriedly go to prepare for the investigation of the Mayan ruins and take care of everything." ”

"Yes!" Gu Yuliang, Ye Wei and Chen Ming saluted Deng Jinbo at the same time.

At the behest of Mr. Deng, the ship began heading for Cancun, Mexico, in the northern Caribbean Sea, at the mouth of the Gulf of Mexico, in the northeast corner of the Yucatan Peninsula. Lin Fan and his party arrived in Cancun on September 15, and after disembarking, they boarded two jeeps and headed to the Chichen Itza Mayan ruins, 180 kilometers west of Cancun.

The Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza in Mexico, located in the dense jungle of the central Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, where the climate is humid and unpredictable, Lin Fan and his team are sometimes sunny and sometimes rainy, and they have no idea what the next second will be. Their way to the Mayan ruins was a road through a tropical rainforest, surrounded by a forest of birds and beasts.

According to Dr. Jonathan, everyone is smeared with mosquito repellent, and according to him, the mosquitoes in the rainforest are very powerful, and it is easy to get bitten all over the body, and if you are not careful, you will be infected with malaria, so everyone used up all the bottles of mosquito repellent.

Lin Fan and Ye Wei, Deng Jinbo, Dr. Jonathan, Ji Yutong, and Xue Panru were in a car, and on the way, Jonathan told Lin Fan and the three of them about the origin of the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza, "Chichen Itza is the most outstanding masterpiece of ancient Mayan civilization, it is the site of an ancient Mayan city-state, which was founded in 435 A.D. and was not discovered and made public by the American travel writer Benjamin Norman until 1839. Chichen Itza means 'well' in the Mayan language, because there are no surface rivers in the Yucatan Peninsula, so the ancient Mayans mainly dug wells for water, and legend has it that Chichen Itza has three large wells, which can provide sufficient water for the people all year round, so this ancient city-state got its name. ”

"Doctor, are those three wells still there?" Ji Yutong asked.

"There are only two of those three wells left, and the most famous of them can be seen in the center of the city-state in Chichen Itza, called the 'Well of Sacrifice', and legend has it that the ancient Maya worshippers would throw jade, pottery, and incense into the sacred well as occasionally human sacrifices to sacrifice to their god Quetzalcoatl."

"The living are also sacrificed? Wow, that's cruel. Xue Panru on the side sighed.

"Yes, there is a theory that they would sacrifice beautiful young virgins as sacrifices, but this is all the accounts of some local guides, and there are no ancient documents to prove it." Jonathan explained.

Lin Fan suddenly felt as if he had heard a similar legend somewhere, but at this time, Xue Panru next to the seat had already shouted: "Sacrifice, virgin, snake god!" Did you hear that!? He stared at Lin Fan and Ji Yutong with wide eyes, "This is similar to the legend of that sea snake!" ”

Lin Fan suddenly remembered the legend of the Maori that Xue Panru had told them a few months ago, and he felt a pang in his heart, and there was an indescribable strangeness.

"Son, what legend of the sea serpent did you say?" Jonathan wondered, and Deng Jinbo also looked back at them in the passenger seat.

Xue Panru exclaimed: "Doctor, have you heard of the legend of the Maori, they also have the story of sacrificing a virgin to give a big snake in the sea!" This is very similar to the legend of the Mayans! Are they talking about the same thing!? ”

Xue Panru's words inspired Lin Fan, and the coincidence between these legends seemed to really show that there was such a terrible species on the earth, and the giant dragon they had been looking for might be the continuation of this terrible species, Lin Fan couldn't help but feel furious when he thought of this.

Dr. Jonathan coughed dryly and said, "There are indeed many species in this world that have not yet been discovered by humans, especially under that vast ocean, there are still many places that have not been explored by humans. I'm hard to say whether the Maori and Mayan legends of the serpent are a thing, but there are a few things I know that I can share with you. In fact, the legends about the snake god and the sacrifice of the living are not unique to the Maya and Māori, and other civilizations have similar legends, which are born out of the natural fear of snakes in our ancestors. Because primates were threatened by reptiles at the beginning of their birth, like before the Cretaceous period, the earth was ruled by reptiles, among which dinosaurs, monitor lizards and snakes fed on primates, so there is a natural fear of reptiles in the genes of primates, and humans evolved from primates, and it is this fear that gave birth to human beings in awe of snakes, and some civilizations have also produced the worship of snakes. ”

"And what about the dragon we're looking for, Doctor? Could it have something to do with these legends? Xue Panru asked the question that Lin Fan wanted to ask the most.

"It's hard to say, after all, I haven't really seen it, I only know it from your mouths, but I think it's a creature that has existed on Earth for a long time, and it may be older than humans." Jonathan replied.

Everyone was silent for a while while savoring Jonathan's words, and Lin Fan couldn't calm down in his heart for a long time.

Soon their car came out of the dense forest and came to an open flat land, where there was a complex of ancient stone buildings, which were scattered all around, forming a large stone city.

"Detective, we're here, we're going to get out of the car and walk ahead." Ye Wei, who was driving, reminded.

Deng Jinbo snorted, and then their car stopped in the parking lot outside Shicheng, Lin Fan, Ji Yutong, and Xue Panru got out of the car together, and the people in the other car also followed, and everyone gathered together again.

Everyone was waiting at the entrance of the ruins of the Mayan city-state of Chichen Itza, just like the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the entire ruins were also blocked by the police, and now Ye Wei and Chen Ming were going to the Mexican police to communicate about the entry.

After a while, Chen Ming and Ye Wei brought back two local policemen, and the two policemen led everyone into the ruins of Chichen Itza, the entire ruins are surrounded by a stone city wall, which needs to be bypassed to enter the ruins of the city-state inside, everyone passed by the stone wall, the stones on the stone wall are tightly built, but the surface has aged very seriously, half of the original gray stones have turned white, and the entire stone wall has formed gray-white lines like water marks.

The ground road of the ruins is also paved with stones, but because of the age, many of them are blended with the land, after everyone bypasses the stone wall, the vision suddenly opens up, behind the whole stone wall is a whole large square, many ancient and peculiar buildings are erected on this square, among which the most eye-catching, is also in the center of the whole ruins, is a magnificent flat-topped pyramid, the tower body of this pyramid is stepped upward, there is a wide staircase in the middle of the tower body on all sides, directly connected to the square stone chamber at the top, This pyramid is the Pyramid of Kukulkan.

It's just that the square stone chamber at the top of this pyramid has been burned black, and an obvious crack can be seen at the front entrance of the stone chamber, and many cultural relics workers are repairing it.

Everyone didn't care about the other ruins in the square, and went straight to the Kukulkan pyramid, and when they arrived at the bottom of the pyramid, the two Mexican policemen signaled that only three people could go up, Lin Fan and they had to wait for Deng Jinbo's arrangement, but at this time, an elderly cultural relics worker walked on the pyramid, he went straight to the crowd and kept shouting: "Old man!!" ”。

Lin Fan saw that the man was wearing a black polo shirt and khaki trousers, with a medium and slightly chubby build, a wide nose and big ears with a Chinese face, a mustache, and short white hair, and he looked like a local, but he didn't know who he was greeting. Then

Someone in the team replied, "Hernandez!!" Is that you? Everyone saw Dr. Jonathan rush forward and hug the man, apparently meeting an acquaintance.

After the two of them exchanged pleasantries for a while, Jonathan introduced him: "Guys, this is Dr. Fernando Hernández, my old acquaintance, he is an expert on the Mayan civilization. ”

"Hello everyone." Dr. Fernando warmly shook hands with the crowd, and then he said to the crowd, "Albert has explained the situation to me, and I can take you up to see the damage to the temple at the top." ”

Naturally, everyone was overjoyed, and after that, Fernando explained to the two Mexican policemen who accompanied him, and then the two policemen left, and he led everyone up to the pyramid. Fernand introduced to the crowd on the side of the multi-faceted climbing staircase: "This Kukulkan pyramid is composed of 9 layers of terraces, the entire pyramid is about 30 meters high, and you can enter the square temple at the top by climbing 91 steps, the top temple is used to worship 'Quetzalcoatl', 'Quetzalcoatl' is known as the embodiment of the sun in the Mayan civilization, so the Pyramid of Kukulkan is also called 'Pyramid of the Sun God'." ”

"The most serious damage this time is the 'Quetzalcoatl' temple, the entire temple has been pierced from top to bottom, I really don't know if these people are sick!" Fernando blushed and said indignantly.

Hearing that the temple had been pierced with a hole, Lin Fan was a little happy in his heart, and he secretly thought: "This is the same as the destruction of the Pyramid of Khufu, it must have been done by those people!" ”

It didn't take much effort for everyone to climb to the top of the tower, the square temple was in front of them, everyone took a closer look to see the severity of the damage, the stone walls of the entire square temple were burned black, broken stones were everywhere, and there was a big crack above the temple door, which looked like it ran through the entire top.

Fernando pointed to the temple and said, "The Quetzalcoatl Stone inside has also been destroyed, and you won't be able to see the 'Light and Shadow Serpentine' in the future."

"What 'light and shadow serpentine'?" The crowd was puzzled.

Jonathan explains: "It's an ingenious design of the Pyramid of Kukulkan, where there is a giant serpent's head at the bottom of the north side and a feathered serpent stone in the temple at the top, and when you look at the pyramid from the bottom or from the top down, you can see a curve of light and shadow, like a giant snake swimming from the top of the tower to the earth. ”

"What does the Quetzalcoatl look like?" Chen Bo, Wu Lingling and others asked.

"I'll take you inside and see." Dr. Fernando replied.

The group followed Dr. Fernando into the square temple, which was about the size of a classroom, and the top was very high, and the roof of the temple was filled with a large hole, and a beam of sunlight was sprinkled through the hole, but this sunlight did not fall directly into the indoor floor, but was sucked into an abyss, because there was a large hole in the ground in the center of the temple, which went straight through the inside of the pyramid.