Chapter 9: The Temple
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In those days, transporting a huge statue of a goddess deep into the mountains was already a remarkable feat, but now it seems that he did much more.
"That's what we're aiming for, and your hard work has paid off!" Magellan shouted to the team, "Dinner tonight!"
Everyone cheered, and they were all too busy celebrating, ignoring the look on Magellan's face.
"You don't look very happy?" asked Dantès, who looked like an elderly scholar, softly.
"For explorers, there are good things there, just dig them, so in the eyes of historians, they are tomb robbers. ”
"You're worried that excavations will damage monuments?"
"I'm wondering how to deal with the aftermath. ”
The two quietly returned to Magellan's tent.
"Are you supposed to ...... Want to give up, right?"
Magellan sat on the marching bed and shook his head: "I'm going to change my plans." ”
"Our original plan was to find the statue of the goddess and give it to Your Majesty. Dantès shook his head, "There's no need to change it. ”
"Then I'm no different from a robber who calls himself an archaeologist. Magellan shook his head, "I don't care about handing over the statue to the king of the world, but I won't destroy this temple, let alone leave it here." ”
"You have the final say, but ......," Dantès hesitated rarely, "the agreement between you and Your Majesty is not that important, because Your Majesty does not think it is important. ”
"I don't care what she thinks, it's my business what to do. Magellan spoke absent-mindedly, all he thought about was how to protect the temple.
"Then I'll report the good news, and maybe Your Majesty will be happy and will give you additional sponsorship. Dantès smiled and left.
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Martin sat alone by the fire and put his hand on the flame.
He held a pen and paper in his other hand, and in a gesture that seemed incredible, he was hanging in the air and writing something on the paper.
"God bless me, this is a conceited man, I hope he doesn't ask things that shouldn't be asked, I can't lie......"
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The excavations continued, Magellan appeared more and more on the construction site, and gradually, he spent most of the day with the excavation workers.
The building began to reveal its true face from top to bottom, just as Dantès had guessed before, it was a temple.
It is a tall building with a marble body, and the first thing that was dug was the corner of the gable on the top of the façade, and the marble was embossed with doves flying in the clouds.
As the excavation continued, the façade of the temple was revealed, and the marble walls between the Doric marble columns were embossed with celebratory crowds of people parading through the streets, and the white doves in the clouds that were first exposed were released by the people.
This is a replica of the famous Great Temple of the Acropolis, where the statue of the goddess was originally placed.
Magellan had speculated on the identity of the captain many times, and as the temple gradually appeared, the captain became more and more noble, until at last Magellan thought that he might be a king. Even, based on the approximate time of the temple's construction, it is possible that he was a famous overlord of the ancient world.
This is obviously illogical, but it is true, and it is clearly much easier to build a temple in the middle of a difficult mountain than to restore a destroyed temple in the city of Athens.
Magellan began to think that maybe this "captain" was not an Athenian, or even a Theros.
Of course, this is only Magellan's troubles, except for him, everyone in the archaeological team is happy, and every day they find that what they are doing is even more remarkable, which will make everyone forget all their troubles.
Magellan began to do heavy work for the only historian like a mean overseer, and if he hadn't taken on many times more work than the latter, the poor historian would have gone on strike.
Whether it was the orthodox historical research or the search for the statue of the goddess of victory, it can be said that it is very smooth now, no one cares about the preoccupied Magellan, the team members worked hard, and soon, they dug out the main entrance of the temple.
Everyone cheered, but this time, they were more curious.
"What could it be in here?"
"The boxes are so beautiful, there must be something good inside. ”
All the team members couldn't wait, but Magellan told them to keep digging.
Soon after, the doors of the temple were rediscovered.
At this time, at least a third of the temple has been exposed, and it can be roughly estimated that it will be in full shape. It should be a tall, pure white building, and in the sun, it must be white and flawless, elegant and magnificent.
The main entrance to the temple was locked, it was a marble wall with no gaps in sight, and if it weren't for the surrounding decorations that made Magellan sure that this was the gate, the team would have thought it was the back of the temple.
Except for Magellan, who had been expected for a long time, and Dantes, who didn't care about anything, the players who were originally full of expectations were disappointed, and what they wanted to see was not a closed door.
It was not difficult to open the gate, they brought quite a few explosives, which helped a lot when digging. But in order to protect the temple, Magellan did not allow it, and the team members were convinced, after all, when the beautiful caryatids on both sides of the gate looked at you, you would feel that you should protect the temple.
Magellan gave up on opening the gate altogether, and he asked his team to start digging horizontally.
Originally, their camp was built on a gentle hillside, and they dug directly down the hillside in front of the camp, but now they dug horizontally to the left and right of the temple.
The players were a little disappointed, but Magellan was resolute, but soon they made a new discovery.
Right next to the temple, the workers dug up something.
It was rotten wood and marble blocks of various sizes, and it looked like the people who built the temple.
These things were useless and ugly compared to the temple, but Magellan told the workers to slow down and be careful not to destroy them, which drew a lot of complaints.
Magellan turned a blind eye to this, and spent his days sorting out the rotten wood and stone with the historian.
Soon, he determined the age of the temple's construction.
That was when the last protector of Greece ruled the world.
This surprised Magellan so much that he couldn't even believe it.
Iskandar rose to prominence, and within a decade of his march on Athens, he had conquered almost every civilization he could reach. The emperor's preference for Athens was very famous, and there may have been Therosians who did not like him in that era, but there were by no means Athenians who did not like him.