Chapter 578: The Ark of the Covenant

What the?

Found a clue to the Rod of Moses?

Dongfang Chen's surprise was not trivial, and at the same time, he regretted his carelessness and shallowness. The Tower of Babel of Babylon was found, but he didn't pay attention to the ruins of the Neo-Babylonian dynasty.

It seems that finding a fragment of light has made me overexcited and a little fluttery.

Dongfang Chen Huo Ran stood up and said in a deep voice: "What about the clues? I'll take a look......

Well, forget it, tell me about it, after all, Miss Ida is very intelligent, and she is far from being able to compare with her. ”

Ada panicked: "Boss, don't say that, if you hadn't provided the right direction and ideas, especially the panoramic map of the ruins, even if we had all the ability, we wouldn't have been able to find all of them."

Since you asked, then I'll say it. That clue is the Ark of the Covenant!"

Dongfang Chen was puzzled: "Ark of the Covenant, isn't that thing in Israel?"

Ida smiled, "Now the Ark of the Holy Solstice is only a copy, and it is said that the real Ark of the Covenant has been lost as early as 600 BC. Doesn't this time period coincide with the time when Nebuchadnezzar II destroyed the Jewish state?

How sacred was the Ark of the Covenant? The Jews had never lost it in their centuries of exile until the founding of the Ark of the Covenant was safely placed in Solomon's Temple. But because of the Babylonian invasion, the holy relics were gone.

After suffering such a big loss, the Jews learned to behave. From then on, the Ark of the Covenant became a spiritual symbol. The Ten Commandments were inscribed by Moses on two tablets of stone, but with the Ark of the Covenant, it is forever engraved on the tablets of the heart. It is that every Jewish family can set up a holy place, and there is a ark of the covenant.

Boss, it was after the catastrophe of Nebuchadnezzar II against the Jews that they decentralized the spread and inheritance of religion, because the tree was bound to attract wind. As long as there are devout believers, families, the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and the Ark of the Covenant, they will not perish.

Thousands of years later, those who rejected and persecuted them, from the Sumerians 6,000 years ago to Nazi Germany 100 years ago, have all disappeared, but their chanting is still echoing around the world. ”

After hearing this, Dongfang Chen muttered, "So, Hamad has found the real Ark of the Covenant in the ruins of Neobabylon?"

Ada shook her head, "Didn't find it." But I found something interesting.

Based on their findings, Nebuchadnezzar II's army should have destroyed the Ark of the Covenant in front of the Jews for reasons of conquest and deterrence, but took its contents with them. What they found was what appeared to be stored in the Ark of the Covenant. ”

Dongfang Chen was shocked when he heard this: "What? The contents of the Ark of the Covenant? Could it be the Ten Commandments Slate?"

Ida said slightly, "No, there are no slates. It's a roll of parchment. ”

Dongfang Chen was disappointed: "I'll go, it's a parchment roll again." This thing is endless, and there are shadows of them everywhere. ”

But Ida's next words made Dongfang Chen jump up suddenly: "This parchment scroll should be the handwriting of the prophet Moses." There are more than 4,000 symbols, as well as two hand-drawn maps. ”

Dongfang Chen was about to get excited, but he heard that something was wrong with the other party's words, and he couldn't help but wonder: "More than four thousand symbols?

Ida looked puzzled, and said helplessly: "It's strange here, on the seal of the ancient scroll, it is clearly written in ancient Hebrew that this scroll is written by Moses himself, but the content of the writing is not in any kind of language we know.

Boss, that's why I came to you. Why did Moses, the prophet of the Jews, do this, without cuneiform or ancient Hebrew, but with another script that has never appeared in history?"

Dongfang Chen sat down in a daze: "This is the clue you found, may I ask what this has to do with the fragment of light?"

Ida smiled mysteriously: "Boss, it's better for you to see for yourself!"

As she spoke, she opened the notebook she was carrying, only to see an enlarged photo displayed on the screen. The black and yellow blocks of the photo are mixed, and under the effect of high pixel intensification, it is barely obvious that it is a sketch. It must be the map that Ida said Moses drew by his own hands.

But I can't see anything on it, Dongfang Chen was about to have a seizure, Ada's eyes were quick, and he hurriedly clicked on the keyboard, and the screen turned to the second page.

With just one glance, Dongfang Chen's mind immediately roared. Because in addition to being a map, this photo is also vacant in the upper left corner, and a spiral symbol is drawn.

Dongfang Chen knew the meaning of this symbol too well. Atlantis Haven: Light!

It seems that the whole secret lies in this parchment scroll. You have to find a way to decipher the text on it!

Thinking of this, Dongfang Chen immediately said in an irrefutable tone: "You immediately contact Hamad and ask them to keep this matter a secret." The scroll was originally sealed immediately, you go to Iraq in person, get the scroll back, and I will send a doppelganger to follow you.

Without further ado, Miss Ida will leave at once, and I will be here waiting for you. ”

After speaking, Dongfang Chen's body was in a trance, and two faint figures flashed from behind him. The figure then blurred again until it was completely transparent.

Ada's mouth opened wide in shock at this scene, but she couldn't make a sound.

Dongfang Chen smiled faintly: "Miss Ida, are you okay? With my doppelganger personal protection, you can rest assured, please leave as soon as possible." ”

......

After Ida left, Dongfang Chen looked at the reproduced projection of the parchment scroll and pondered.

This script is very strange and has only five strokes: a short horizontal line, a short diagonal line from the top left to the bottom right, a short diagonal line from the top right to the bottom left, a horizontal point, and a vertical point.

All text symbols are a combination of the above five strokes. This is not easy to do, there is no physical object that can be compared and used for reference, and if you want to decipher some unknown text out of nothing, you can only rely on guessing.

Unfortunately, this script is not hieroglyphics. The five strokes are neatly combined, one after the other, to give it an industrial sci-fi aesthetic, and the text is written on a large piece of flat sheepskin, a bit like an integrated circuit board.

Faced with such a picture, how to guess?

Moreover, the decipherment work must be secretive, and the secrets of the fragments of light must not be known to unrelated people, so it is impossible to seek the help of linguistic experts to decipher them.

I'm so depressed, what should I do?

Suddenly, Dongfang Chen remembered a person, who might know the mysterious words on the sheepskin.

Thinking of this, Dongfang Chen whispered to his wrist: "Smart, connect the encrypted channel 51147, and respond to the three-level situation."

Tell him that I have a hundred thousand urgent things to ask him for!"