Chapter 173: Search: The Lost Ark of the Law
After Xiao Lan's shocking words, the compassionate Eve hurriedly pulled Jonathan and O'Connor away, wanting to disperse the innocent residents of Cairo before it was "purified".
Although I don't know what means these two men used, from the case studies I have heard of in the heyday of the medieval church, the so-called "purification" is to completely destroy the entire city, and it seems that it is not difficult to do this with the Black Book of the Dead in their hands, and if the hundreds of thousands of residents in Cairo City do not have time to escape on the way, it will definitely create a hell on earth before the immortal priest of Immorton arrives!
It's just that it's not even dawn yet......
To wake up in the middle of the night is definitely the sleeping British army in Egypt, and then let him evacuate Cairo with the crowd overnight as quickly as possible, Eve's crazy move is doomed to be impossible to succeed, and it is expected that all this Xiao Lan will complete his most wonderful appearance at a critical moment.
But before the messengers of justice arrived at Fort Byton, where the British army was stationed, and tried to fail, Xiao Lan and Zheng Zhe, who had to wait, could take advantage of this gap to solve a small thing that was not too difficult not far from here.
Because when Zheng Zhe read Eve's memories through the skill of Blood Memory, he got not only the place where the Bracelet of Death was sealed by the ancient princess Nefidili and a lot of memories of the ancient Egyptian era three thousand years ago, but also a bunch of archaeological knowledge belonging to the librarian Eve, and ...... A name he was familiar with.
Indiana. Jones, whose real name is Henry. Jones II, born in 1899. He received his Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Chicago and is a professor of folklore and archaeologist outside of his adventurous career, and is able to speak 27 languages, including Chinese.
Obviously only a few years older than Eve, this man from the United States is simply one of her idols.
In fact this is not surprising, although the scientists of this era were relatively worthless, especially physicists: Planck, Lorenz, Einstein, Edison, Marie Curie. Dirac, Pol, Schrödinger...... If you don't get achievements before the age of 30, it's basically useless (you can see the all-star photos of physicists at the 1927 Solya Conference, which is super shocking), but compared to the star-studded physics world. The archaeological community has an Indiana. Jones is a very famous being, and besides, this is a wild activist and not a dead house in a laboratory, and it is completely reasonable to be adored by a young girl.
Of course. Xiao Lan and they are not interested in caring about Eve's idol psychology, since they have found this name that is also famous in other worlds, they can say that they can even save the process of calling the University of Chicago to inquire......
There is no doubt that Raiders of the Lost Ark (Indiana. Jones)" and the plot of "Legend of Gods and Ghosts: Tomb Robbery" have a complete overlap, although this is also expected, the latter was once considered to be a follow-up to the former when it appeared, but it is out of the blue out of the blue out of its own unique style, but it is not surprising that the two worlds with similar periods, similar themes, and even almost the same world view completely overlap together.
However, for Xiao Lan and Zheng Zha, this means that a bunch of treasures in the Raiders of the Lost Ark trilogy have become obtainable, and the mysterious item warehouse in Nevada in the United States, the Shiva stone in India, and the Holy Grail in Eastern Europe will not be considered for the time being. But the "Ark of the Covenant" is in Cairo at all, less than 100 meters from where they parked!
The Ark of the Covenant is also known as the Ark of the Covenant. It is the most sacred object mentioned in the Bible, it contains the only handwritten text of the Ten Commandments left in the world, and it is also the most feared prehistoric artifact in biblical history.
This sacred ark can put people to death. For the ancient Hebrews, it was both a sacred seal and a powerful talisman, and to carry it into battle was like holding a weapon of God. In the eyes of the Hebrew enemies, the Ark of the Covenant was undoubtedly a coveted treasure, but the only time it fell into the hands of their enemies. The greedy enemy thus invites terrible calamities.
The Hebrews were convinced that the Ark of the Covenant was a symbol of God's all-powerful power, that it concealed God's ultimate link with humanity, from which they would receive guidance and wisdom, and that God's power would be manifested through the Ark of the Covenant.
This miraculous ark was made under God's direction around 1400 B.C.E. when Moses received the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai, and while the Israelites under God's protection wandered in the wilderness, the ark of the covenant remained in the Holy of Holies in the mobile temple until King David built the temple in Jerusalem.
Solomon then enshrined the Ark of the Covenant in the sanctuary of the holiest temple in Jerusalem, but one day in the sixth century B.C.E., it mysteriously disappeared from Solomon's temple.
In the real world, the disappearance of the Ark of the Covenant is still unknown, and has since become one of the greatest mysteries in the history of archaeology.
According to the first-century Jewish historian Josephus, the Ark of the Covenant was destroyed along with the temple when the Roman Empire destroyed Jerusalem, although there is also a legend that the Ark of the Covenant was smuggled out of Jerusalem and is said to be stored in Ethiopia. The Discovery Channel sent a film crew to Ethiopia to track down the vanished Ark of the Covenant, but the local clergy refused to let the film crew see it. Therefore, whether the Ark of the Covenant still exists remains a mystery to this day.
In addition, according to legend, during the Second World War, the German army believed that the Ark of the Covenant was a divine weapon that could rival thousands of troops, so they searched everywhere in the hope of using its divine power to influence the situation of the war.
This is also the source of the script for "Raiders of the Lost Ark 1: The Ark of Law", in the plot of a World War II-era movie, Dr. Indiana Jones and the German Nazis who were looking for the Ark of the Covenant battled their wits and courage, followed the message of the Ark of the Covenant from various subtle clues, and finally found the artifact in an underground vault in Cairo, Egypt.
Xiao Lan and the others didn't have any relevant information, nor did they have the key agate pendant, but after watching the movie, they remembered the location of the excavation of the ark of the covenant very clearly...... There was even a close-up of the map in the camera, which directly saved Xiao Lan and them all the trouble of reasoning and searching. There is no need to go to the model map room where the mystery is revealed, and you can reach the destination in one step.
In less than a minute, their feet were on this desolate sandy land that was unguarded, and thousands of years of wind and sand had buried everything under the dust of history...... Who would have thought that such a holy relic would be under the yellow sand, where there is nothing out of the ordinary?
Summoning the Eye of Kilrog to scan the surrounding scene completely into consciousness in a circle, Xiao Lan quickly found the exact location on the yellow sand buried in the wind and sand but the overall structure was still in the middle of the comparison with the target terrain that appeared in the movie. And then—
"Uh, this is it, let's dig it~"
It is said to be excavation. But in fact...... Still have to dig with your hands.
It's impossible to use a bomb to remove the dirt without affecting the secret chamber below, and I don't know if it will cause any bad consequences if the entire secret chamber collapses, and there are no low-level spells similar to the mage's hand in terms of magic. Even if there is a consumption of magic power, it will only be more wasteful than digging by hand, there is a "earth shaking and mountain shaking" on the black scripture of the undead that can change the terrain, but Xiao Lan will not use this quasi-forbidden spell-level big magic when he is killed, not to mention the problem of mana consumption, he has no ability to accurately control the spell at the city level to the level of the person.
So......
"Here, your shovel." Like Tinker Bell, he took out two sapper shovels from his pocket, and made a supplementary explanation to the pseudo-priest who threw one of them at Zheng Zhe with an indifferent face, "If you don't like it, you can use your own bloody weapon to show the Yan Sword, but in principle, I don't recommend it." ”
“……”
The corners of the vampire's mouth twitched, and he took the shovel speechlessly. Then he joined the excavation work.
Bloody weapons, the sword of fire, not to mention the energy consumption when using it, using these noble skills to do such a lowly thing as digging the earth Dracula and Cain will cry......
However, speechless is speechless, Zheng Zha and Xiao Lan both have a handful of strength, and they still use a sapper shovel that combines labor-saving and efficient. They quickly cleared the pile of soil about a meter thick, and cleared out a stone slab that showed that the goal had indeed been achieved.
The Ark of the Covenant is below.
And when the two of them put away the sapper shovel and moved the slab away directly by hand without a crowbar, Xiao Lan suddenly said something strange to herself.
"After lifting this thing away, we're going to trigger a mission nine times out of the two......"
"Tasks. What task? Zheng Qi asked subconsciously, but before Xiao Lan could answer, he had already got the answer.
The secret room, which had been sealed for more than two thousand years, was opened again, and a white mist of unknown composition suddenly gushed out with a putrid stench, and then the solemn voice of the main god sounded in the consciousness of the two people.
"Trigger the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark 1: French Wars", and the difficulty coefficient will be increased to the maximum in advance in horror films, and when completed, you will get triple the number of side plots and reward points, and get the "Ark of the Covenant" within ten minutes, get 6,000 reward points, and the number of B-level side plots is one, and if you fail to complete it in ten minutes, you will deduct 6,000 reward points."
This quest prompt was actually expected by the two of them, but it seemed a little strange from the prompt message.
"Returning to a horror movie triggers twice as much as the follow-up plot, and while a horror movie is in progress, it triggers three times...... But after three times, there is only one B-level side story, and the level of this mission is only C-level? ”
Recalling the main god prompt that sounded in his consciousness, Zheng Zhe murmured incredulously on his face.
Even if the difficulty of the C-level mission is increased to the limit of twenty people, it will not cause much trouble to two people with standard B strength, but this is a sacred relic in Hebrew legends, how can it be so cheap!
However, he didn't seem to have the time to think about it anymore.
The ten-minute limit seems to be a long time, but it must not be wasted, once something happens, it will be too late to cry at that time, Xiao Lan, who hates the situation and is not under his control, grabbed Zheng Zha, who was in a daze, and jumped from the entrance of the black hole very decisively.
"Don't think too much about it, the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge...... Let's talk about it! ”
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