The major families are still very concerned about digging canals, after all, the sooner they open, their business will be able to go farther.

And the sooner the toll is collected, the better.

So when Tang Ping and they conquered the Arab Empire, these families came with money.

Yes, I didn't bring much else, just food.

To dig a canal in this era, it was enough to have shovels, shovels and pickaxes.

The rest is the need for people.

Compared with recruiting people from Datang, it is much more cost-effective to recruit people here.

As a result of the wars, large areas of farmland in this area have been destroyed, and the most urgent need for those who survive is food.

As long as you take care of the food, you can recruit a large number of workers on the construction site.

Not to mention those who do a good job, meet the workload standards, and have extra food as their salary.

So in the first few days, the project progressed quite quickly.

But yesterday, after the statue was dug up, the workers said they would not dare to do it again.

At first, these families thought that these workers were going to raise the price, so they simply raised the wage by 30%.

But I didn't expect that there were still not many people who dared to come to work.

They had no choice but to come to Tang Ping.

Fortunately, Tangping is an oil refinery north of Yanbu, because it is close to the Red Sea, and the refined oil can be sent back to Datang by sea from the red and black side.

It is only a few tens of kilometers away from the place where the canal was dug.

It took more than an hour to drive the pickup truck and arrived.

Tang Ping came to the last groundbreaking ceremony, and it was still a lively construction site, but now there are not many workers.

The Wang family was sitting in the passenger seat of the pickup truck, and before he got out of the car, a person who looked like a steward ran over.

"Clan elder, no, four workers died this morning, all of whom we are willing to work after we have increased the wages."

"What?"

Tang Ping asked in surprise, "What about people?" How did he die? ”

The steward glanced at Tang Ping, and with his status, he didn't know Tang Ping.

"Oh, this is Lord Pingguo, just say what you ask." The elder of the Wang family jumped off the pickup truck and urged.

"Just ......" the steward hesitated: "This thing is quite weird, after the price increase yesterday, there were fewer workers who came, and then I paid overtime pay and they worked overtime." ”

"These workers are also trying to make money, so naturally they agreed."

"After working overtime, they lived in a shack on the construction site, only to find out that four people had died when they were supposed to go to work this morning."

"The death is exactly the same, but the heart is gone."

The steward gestured at his chest, only to feel a chill on his back.

"The heart is missing? Is that someone killed them? Tang Ping asked.

"It's strange here, looking at their appearance, there is no trace of pain on their faces, and they have been disemboweled, but they haven't shed much blood."

Speaking of this, the steward hesitated again before saying, "After discovering that the four of them were dead this morning, no one dared to come to work again, and the interpreter on the construction site said that those locals said that what kind of death was the god of death, and what other inexplicable things about the hearts of these people were weighed. ”

"Death? Cardiac weighing? What a mess. "The elders of the Wang family are a little unconvinced. It was not easy to find an interpreter at this construction site, so they first found a local person who could speak Tianzhu dialect, and then found a person from Tianzhu who could speak Tang dialect.

The locals' words had to be relayed twice by these two interpreters, so he only wondered if there was something wrong with the translation.

But Tang Ping's heart really moved, this is Egypt, and listening to what they said, this thing sounds very familiar.

First asked the elder of the Wang family to take himself to the statue of the god that he had dug up, and went along the excavated river, and he didn't go far to arrive.

The statue was only half dug up, but as Tang Ping thought, it was a kobold.

This is Anubis, the god of death in the famous Egyptian mythology.

Ancient Egypt fell in 30 BC and became an Egyptian province of the Roman Empire.

And then until this time it was captured by the Arab Empire.

But as their myths and legends, it is clear that Anubis has not been forgotten by those in the vicinity.

This is also the reason why after the excavation of his idol, no workers dared to come and continue to work.

In ancient Egyptian legend, Anubis was the god of death, and the most famous legend associated with him is the weighing of the heart.

The ritual of heart weighing was an important element in Egyptian mythology, in which Anubis weighed the heart as lighter or heavier than the feathers of the ostrich, which symbolized the real thing.

If the heart is heavier than a feather, then the heart will be devoured by Amit, a monster with a crocodile's head, a lion's upper body, and hippopotamus's hind legs.

Of course, this is nonsense in Tang Ping's opinion.

An adult's heart weighs about 250 grams, which is heavier than a feather.

So it's obvious that this time, someone must have found the statue of Anubis and then played a ghost behind it.

Now only half of the statue has been dug up, and because no workers dare to come to work, the lower half of the body is still buried in the picture.

Tang Ping didn't know when and who buried this idol here, but these had little to do with him, and he had to find out the people behind him.

The steward who called the Wang family took himself to see the four corpses.

The body was placed outside the site dormitory and covered with a white cloth.

It can only be said that the people here have no sense of protecting the scene, and the room where they died was made a mess by people coming and going.

When Tang Ping came, there were still a few guards of the Wang family standing inside.

So it seems useless to think that it is useless to think that it is possible to narrow down the scope of the murderer from clues such as footprints or fingerprints.

Several of the corpses were as the steward said, as if a lot of blood had been lost before the heart was removed, so that the clothes outside their severed chests were not heavily soaked with blood.

And several of them did have peaceful faces, and it seemed that they were dying unconscious in their sleep.

"Who was the first to discover them?" Tang Ping asked the steward.

The steward looked at it and pointed to the side and said, "It's those workers, they are also the workers who stayed to work overtime yesterday, and this morning when they called these people to work, they found that they were all dead." ”

Tang Ping looked at the few locals who were kneeling on the ground and kept walking towards the beginning of the Anubis statue.

"You were the first to find out they were dead?" Tang Ping opened his mouth to ask, but the sound startled those people.

looked at Tang Ping before saying, "Yes...... It was we who found out, it was the Grim Reaper who came, it was Anubis who came. ”

"If they're dead, the Grim Reaper won't let us go!"