Chapter 69: Finding the Ark of the Covenant
Compared to the "Holy Grail", which can bring the dead back to life and has miraculous healing properties, the "Ark of the Covenant" is a weapon of mass destruction, and it is said that it can raze mountains, destroy armies, and exterminate cities.
Legend has it that inside the Ark of the Covenant were two stone tablets of the "Ten Commandments" written by God himself; a sprouting cane used by Moses' brother Aaron; A jar of gold containing the manna that the Israelites ate during their wandering days in the wilderness.
Judging from the plot in the movie, this is likely to be true, and the stone tablet written by God himself is definitely an artifact standard, which can also explain why those Nazi soldiers died strangely and tragically. In front of the artifact, mortals have no power to fight back.
However, although the Ark of the Covenant was powerful, Goofy did not want to have direct contact with it, which was too dangerous. With his current ignorance of mysterious powers, he is no match for God at all, and if he is not careful, he may die on the spot.
Goofy figured out that the others would open the Ark of the Covenant and take out a little of it, and he would be satisfied. After all, judging from the plot in the movie, once the Ark of the Covenant is opened, the artifact inside is likely to return to heaven.
What makes Goofy scratch his head a little is how to find the Ark of the Covenant, which in the movie is located in Tanis, which is certainly not the real Tanis.
In this world, Tanis is said to have been buried under the desert by a huge sandstorm a year after the Pharaoh brought back the Ark of the Covenant, and Goofy has no clue other than knowing that Tanis is not far from Cairo.
As for why do you know that Tanis is not far from Cairo? This is because the Nazis had a large number of excavators in Cairo in the movie, and if Cairo was far away, they would not have gone to such great lengths to hire people in Cairo.
Goofy suddenly had some clues, Tanis is said to have sunk around 980 BC, and Immorton was in the 13th century BC, he must have known where Tanis was.
Thinking of this, Goofy immediately approached Immorton and asked him about it.
"Tanis? What does this do, you ask? Immorton wondered how Tanis wasn't a thriving place in his time.
"Legend has it that this is where the Ark of the Covenant was kept."
"What? The Ark of the Covenant? Eve was shocked that the Ark of the Covenant was famous in Western mythology, almost like the Chinese Xuanyuan Sword, and was an important item used by legendary figures.
"The Ark of the Covenant? What is that? "I saw that both Eve and Goofy attached great importance to this thing called the Ark of the Covenant, and he, as an erudite high priest of Egypt, had never heard of it.
When Goofy saw that Immorton really didn't know the Ark of the Covenant, he immediately remembered that Moses and Immorton were both characters in the 13th century, but Immorton died in the early 13th century, and Moses was active in the 13th century, according to legend, Moses lived 120 years old and lived directly to the 14th century, and Immorton didn't know that it was actually normal.
"Inside the Ark of the Covenant is a very powerful artifact." Goofy hurriedly explained.
Goofy said this, and Immorton understood. Artifacts, no matter how weak a god is, its artifacts are very powerful, and it is normal for Goofy to go to such great lengths for an artifact.
"How did I not know what artifact Tanis had?" Immorton was a little puzzled, if there was a magic there, he would have obtained it as a high priest a long time ago, and it would have been left there until now.
"The artifact was placed hundreds of years after your death, and the Ark of the Covenant contained the Ten Commandments, which are said to have been written by the hand of God Jehovah himself. But hundreds of years later, the Egyptian pharaoh took it and put it in Tanis, but Tanis was completely buried in a sandstorm, which is said to be God's punishment for the Egyptian pharaoh. Goofy explained how powerful the Ark of the Covenant was and why he asked Tanis.
"Yahweh, I have heard, is a new deity with some power. But how dare he insult us Egypt like this, if it weren't for the fact that the ancient gods were gradually unable to interfere too much in the world, he would have been pinched to death by the god of death a long time ago. Immorton was furious that Jehovah could not bear to insult the Egyptians in such a way as to take advantage of the danger of the people.
Gao Fei immediately understood, isn't this 'there are no tigers in the mountains, and monkeys are the kings'?
In this land where the gods once existed, although it is not known why, the gods were forced to gradually leave the earth and go to other dimensions.
But this departure is gradual, and the more powerful the ancient gods, the sooner they leave, which also provides a blank time for the newly rising gods to follow.
Yahweh is such a model, when he rises, all the mighty gods leave the earth, and in the face of mortals, he is invincible.
In order to develop his faith, Jehovah performed miracles during that time, and Egypt was the worst bullied by Jehovah.
When Moses led the Jehovah-believing Jews out of Egypt, Pharaoh of Egypt would not allow it. So Moses carried out ten plagues by the hand of the LORD, and brought great evil to the Egyptians.
Later, Moses continued to appear and spread the reputation of Jehovah, so that many denominations of God were formed, although the doctrines were different, but Christianity, Judaism, all believed in God.
Compared to Yahweh, the goddess of the sea, Kolybusso, was also a later promoted god, but she was much inferior, she was made of terror to make people believe, and finally was sealed by others, and when she was released, she could only set off a whirlpool to help the pirates defeat the "Flying Holland" and avenge her.
Such a method is simply pediatric for a sea goddess, which shows how weakened her divine power was at that time.
Knowing that the god Jehovah had humiliated Egypt, Immorton happily told Tanis's address and took the artifact of the hostile gods, which was not a good feeling. Now that God has also left the earth, he can't do anything to him, which is why Immorton is so excited.
Now that Tanis's whereabouts are known, Eve has no intention of resting, and the Ark of the Covenant is so precious that in this chaotic age, once the news of it gets out, it is likely to cause a war.
Even Jonathan was a missionary and equally in awe of the Ark of the Covenant, not to mention Eve and Jonathan, who grew up in England, and it was a privilege to see them, let alone excavate them.
However, Goofy didn't plan to ride a camel this time, he really couldn't accept the slow speed and bumpiness of the camel. He now has money, so Goofy plans to buy a car and go with him.
After sending O'Connor and Jonathan to buy a car, Goofy plans to go to the Museum of Antiquities to find the curator, who is the elder of the mausoleum's guardians, a high-ranking and cunning man with whom he can negotiate a deal.
Tanis's excavation must not rely on a few of them, and bring in these descendants of the pharaohs, which is not only secretive, but also much better than hiring locals.