Chapter 16: The Edge of the Desert

Magellan just dug a hole in the sand in the ground, and then the countess turned it into a lā

It now includes a splendid living room, several comfortable bedrooms, a spacious storeroom, a kitchen for the chefs to flourish, and even a well in the deepest part.

All this was built by the Countess with magical magical items, just like before.

"Trying my new recipe will ease the anxiety of never being able to find a clue and avoid the health problems that come with it. ”

"Thank you," although Magellan was not in a hurry at all, he still did not refuse Chef Pi's kindness, "Then again, your mood affects the body theory is interesting, where did you learn it?"

"It's a shame that a dragon people in Istanbul, from a magical country where anyone can learn philosophy, knows more about people and food than anyone I've ever met......"

Pico put away the next sigh vigilantly, he never complained about the countess, but leaving Istanbul was indeed a great regret for the chef who was committed to the pursuit of culinary excellence.

"The only problem is that maybe I didn't feel anxious. ”

"Hmm......" Chef Pitt nodded, "it's better that way, you can enjoy the dish unaffected." ”

Magellan smiled and said nothing.

"How long do you think it will take?"

Dantes Edmond was the only one of the few who would ask such a question, and she didn't know much about archaeological excavations, but she knew that they were just as scientific research as biological investigations.

"We're looking for ancient ruins that go back more than 4,000 years, and no one has ever found them by research, so strictly speaking, I don't know how much time it will take to find them. ”

"But we know when to get out of here. The countess smiled and comforted DantΓ¨s, "The range I have determined according to the dedication is very large, but Professor Magellan's movements are also very fast, and the results will be available in half a month at most." ”

"Rest assured, the Countess never makes mistakes. ”

The countess laughed with Magellan: "It's as if Professor Magellan never came empty." ”

......

Magellan's way of looking for the ruins was to take Luoyang to shovel all over the range demarcated by the countess, and at intervals he took sediments from the ground to look for signs of the ruins' existence.

His movements are very fast, but according to calculations, the ruins of at least four thousand years ago are very deep underground, and this is a desert area that is very unsuitable for the Luoyang shovel to play, so it will take a lot of time just to explore in the early stage.

At first, the other individuals would follow Magellan, but soon the countess realized that her suspicions would take some time to confirm, and there were no creatures that Dontes Edmond was looking for and ingredients that the chefs were looking for, so Magellan was left running around the border between the oasis and the desert.

Strictly speaking, his search could not go smoothly, but it was also slow to progress.

According to the clues that the countess summed up from the few records of dedication, the city built more than 4,000 years ago was not large in size and did not exist for a long time, so to find the remains left behind by it is like looking for the fish that live at the bottom of the water in a large lake, it is not absolutely impossible, but it will take a lot of time.

Magellan had already walked through the part of the ruins that could be in the oasis, and the rest was the desert, which meant more trouble, but it didn't affect his speed.

"If only there were camels......"

Magellan lazily sighed, stopped on the leeward side of a dune and began assembling the Luoyang shovel.

After arriving at the Oasis, they tried to get help from the locals, but unfortunately, the people living here were very xenophobic, and even more unfortunately, the passing caravan was also hostile to outsiders because of the news from Venice, so Magellan had to abandon his original plan to buy a camel.

But that doesn't matter, and there are very few things that can help Magellan now.

Magellan plunged the Luoyang shovel vertically into the sand, and then went all the way down, through the layers of soil deposited thousands of years ago, and then lifted it up again.

Luoyang shovel is a cylinder composed of soil, from top to bottom, each layer represents a hundred years of time.

As usual, Magellan crouched in the shadow of the dunes, mindfully analyzing the soil from top to bottom.

At the top is a long stretch of sand and dust, which comes from this desert and takes up a lot of length, but it is the most ambiguous part of the length of time. The desert is windy and sandy, and the thickness of this layer of sand and dust may come from a long period of sedimentation, or it may simply be carried by an overnight sandstorm.

Underneath is wet sand that gets wet, separating the sand above from the rest of the soil below.

Magellan began to have a bad premonition, because generally speaking, there should be rock formations underneath this layer, which means that this excavation has completely failed.

But then there is a layer of soil of another color, and the loose soil makes up another layer of soil.

Magellan breathed a sigh of relief, and then began to look forward to the results.

Even for him, it is an impossible task to determine whether a rock formation has been touched after the Luoyang shovel has penetrated into the ground, and even if the rock is brought out, it is possible that Magellan pierced a boulder.

Then he skimmed through the layers of soil, and finally came to the section between 4,000 and 5,000 years.

Because of the age, neither the countess's research nor Magellan's speculation can obtain precise results, and only this vague inference can be used.

Then Magellan saw something that surprised him very much.

At the bottom of the soil layer, there is a rare black color.

It took Magellan a lot of time to finally determine that it was plant ash.

......

"So, you're sure that's what we're looking for. ”

The countess fully trusted Magellan's judgment, and by the standards of an archaeologist, the strongest person here was Magellan, even a little better than the countess, who had received a more complete and systematic education.

"Then the next question is, the ruins are in the desert. ”

Magellan sighed helplessly.

A ruin buried deep underground, it takes a lot of time for many people to dig up the remnants of the antiquities to see the light of day. If the ruins were in the desert, it meant that everyone who excavated would have to work in the desert.

To put it simply, if there was only Magellan, then the countess would have to wait more than ten years before it was possible to see the ruins.

But no one else here wants to come to the desert to dig in the earth.

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