"And what's down there?"

It was then that Magellan realized that the desert might be more dangerous than he had originally thought, and that such a scene could only occur in places where the quicksand was particularly strong and turbulent. He should have expected it, but the process of determining the location of the ruins was too smooth for Magellan to involuntarily ignore.

"If the city hadn't stray too far from where it had been......" the countess looked up at the darkness outside the window, "that's the city you know." ”

"That's ......"

Only superior natural conditions can prevent the people gathered together from starvation, thirst, and death due to infectious diseases, and when a great city appears, it will surely leave its name in history.

The glorious ancient city-state of Uruk is one of them.

As the connecting point between Sumeria and Babylonian times, Uruk was the most dazzling city in the story, and in the following era, it became known as the "City of the Codex".

For a brief time, it was the capital of a kingdom, and it was during that time that the famous "Yuan Code" was born in the city, and in the time that followed, until the city disappeared into the desert, it became famous for the large number of legal researchers.

No one wants to walk into Uruk, and for history, a city full of documents is more enticing than the treasury of the king of the world.

"But put this aside for now," Magellan glanced out the window with a little concern, he couldn't see anything, he couldn't hear anything, "we're in danger right now." ”

"Do you think there will be a natural disaster that plunges a city into a sand dune......"

The countess sighed softly.

She knew that they were indeed in danger.

"The best option is to do nothing, we can't get out of the reach of quicksand before the storm is over. ”

Magellan wanted to say something, but he ended up saying nothing.

The sandstorm continues.

Then suddenly, the big ship tilted.

It only took Magellan a moment to stabilize his body, and he reached out to a relic that had rolled off the shelf beside him, and then found the clay pot that was about to be broken floating in the air, slowly returning to the shelf.

The Countess stood right in the middle of the captain's room, as if in complete defiance of gravity, standing perpendicular to the floor, raising her right hand, the sound of essence flowing everywhere.

"Don't worry, you don't have to move all my stuff out one by one, because digging up the sand will be a lot of trouble. ”

Magellan sighed helplessly, and then just as he was about to say something, the ship began to move.

"Where's the front?"

Even if he couldn't see anything, Magellan could guess what was happening outside, and the quicksand began to flow on a large scale under the cover of the storm, and finally the front half of the bottom of the ship was completely suspended in the air, so the big ship tilted, and now the big ship was rushing to the bottom along the slope paved with sand.

"I don't know, but I'm sure it's definitely not the bunker I dug. ”

Magellan laughed, he knew it wasn't the Countess who suddenly wanted to tell a joke.

No one knew where the quicksand would take them, and the only thing they could do now was pray that when the ship stopped, they wouldn't be too far from the ruins of Uruk.

As for the boat not to be buried in sand, it is impossible, and it is useless to pray.

Magellan struggled to keep his balance, waiting for the moment when the ship would stop.

That took quite a bit of time.

......

The storm subsided.

The process gave the subtle illusion of being at sea, but eventually, the ship fell to the ground.

Magellan looked at the dark porthole and sighed.

"Where are we?"

"I don't know," said the big ship, which at last came to a halt at an angle, so that the countess still maintained that gravity-defying stance, "but don't worry, we will soon be able to get out of the sand." ”

That's not what Magellan was worried about.

It would be a pity that such a large-scale quicksand movement would most likely send the ruins of Uruk City to a place where they could no longer be found.

Just then, the big ship suddenly tilted again.

At that moment, the long-lost light returned, and the sun illuminated the captain's room.

Magellan resisted the glare of the light and looked out, and then he saw a miraculous sight.

A city is emerging from the burial of sand, quicksand like water, left behind from towers and ornate domes, and the sand pouring down from windows and doorways forms a gorgeous waterfall of sand.

It was only for a moment.

Then Magellan withdrew his gaze as he noticed that the ship was tilting.

"What's wrong?"

"As you can see, we're falling towards a giant whirlpool of quicksand. ”

The countess smiled and walked over to Magellan.

"Can you stop the ship?"

"No, you can't. ”

"Then I'm ......"

"The boat will stop on its own. ”

Then the big ship began to fall.

Magellan floated in the cabin, smiling helplessly at the strange feeling of weightlessness.

Then there was a loud crash, and he was back on the floor.

"Here we are," the countess walked towards the door, "you should want to see this." ”

Then the doors opened, and the blinding sunlight swarmed in.

Magellan stepped onto the deck and looked at the city of Uruk on the other side of the abyss.

It was a miraculous city, with tall buildings like cliffs, and quicksand cascading down from the top of the cliffs and eventually falling into the abyss below.

The countess's ship was on the other side of the abyss, resting on a broken boulder, and on both sides the quicksand was still falling, eventually converging to the bottom of the abyss, where it vanished.

"So...... This time, we're going to use magic images to restore the map hidden in the temple......"

Magellan looked down at the magnificent city in the sun and let out a long sigh: "It is impossible for this city to be without the temple of Isitar. ”

"No," said the countess, smiling beside him, "I want a translation of the ancient Sumerian script." ”

"What?"

......

Crossing the abyss is a troublesome thing.

Magellan didn't know where the quicksand that fell below went, but he knew that if it fell, that height alone would be enough for a person to fall to his death on the sand, and even if it didn't, the quicksand would carry him to hell.

But the ancient city is on the other side of the abyss.

The quicksands continued, and perhaps until the next storm came, making any action by Magellan extremely dangerous.

"If you accidentally fall," the countess smirked as Magellan carefully landed on the boulder, "I'll get you up." ”