The lake is not too large, equivalent to four football fields.
But the water of the lake is clearly visible to the bottom. The five college students standing on the south bank of the lake can also see the freshwater fish swimming in the lake.
There are pebbles of different colors, bright green grass and unknown flowers on the shore. Together with the sparkling waves produced by the sunlight reflecting on the lake, college students only think that this is a paradise that has not been destroyed by humans.
Looking towards the north shore of the lake, close to the cliffs of the low mountains, we also discovered a ruined Greek-style temple.
However, what is said to be a temple is actually only a pile of tilted and collapsed marble pillars. The severe weathering has turned it into a ruin.
"Found it! We actually found it!"
"The professor is right! How could the real temple be in Turkey!"
Even though what they found was a ruins, the emotions of the college students were still high. It was obvious that they had found what they expected.
"Everyone!" At this time, the leading male student calmed down and put the tablet into his bag. Then he turned to look at his classmates and said in a loud voice:
"Professor Sears once warned us not to draw premature conclusions without conclusive evidence. Don't forget that we are Oxford history students."
Hearing this, the remaining two men and two women also restrained their emotions.
The leading male student looked at the sturdy male student carrying the largest mountaineering bag and said, "Tom, I leave the camping aspect to you."
"no problem!"
The student named Tom had no objection, and even raised his hand and patted his chest, then left the team and headed to the lake, looking around for the best camping spot.
"Aisha." Then, the leading male student looked at a female classmate wearing black-rimmed glasses and freckles on her cheeks and said:
"Go help Tom."
"Yes." Elsa nodded and responded softly, then trotted to keep up with Tom who was gradually moving away.
"Hans, show off your special skills."
The leading male student said the above sentence to a personality man with long hair and a mustache.
"Don't worry, George!" Hans, who had a mustache, replied half-heartedly to the leading man named George. Before he finished speaking, he took out a small video camera from the bag hanging in front of him.
Turning on the camera, he turned the camera towards George and continued to smile: "UM-UD3000, produced by Umbrella Digital, the quality is absolutely guaranteed! It perfectly shows the handsomeness of our George."
Hans said, and then pointed the camera at the female classmate with brown hair in a ponytail, thick lips, and excellent body proportions standing next to George:
"And the heroic appearance of our friend and boss, Miss Crawford."
"Be serious...Hans." George chuckled helplessly.
Then George looked at Crawford beside him and said, "Let's go, Crawford."
"good."
The next five people were divided into three groups.
Tom and Elsa walk around the lake looking for a suitable camping spot, the ruins of George and Crawford's former temple.
Hans acted as a photographer, recording lakes, cliffs, forests and classmates, preparing to edit it into a documentary after returning.
George and Crawford walked around the lake to the north shore, walking under the cliff at a ninety-degree angle.
As he approached the ruins ahead, George looked up at the cliff and estimated that the top was about fifty meters above the ground.
However, he was not a geography student. He just glanced at it, then stopped focusing on the cliff, and came to the edge of the temple ruins with Crawford.
Looking from the south bank of the lake, George felt that the scale of this temple was not small. After getting to the edge for a closer look, he even thought that if this temple had not been in ruins, it would definitely be listed as one of the "wonders of the ancient world" one.
The two walked through the steps and arrived at the temple's floor.
Crawford first put his backpack aside and took out a small camera from his pocket. He took pictures while walking towards the interior of the temple.
George walked towards a standing stone pillar.
After careful observation, he found that it took three people like him to hug the stone pillar in front of him, and the height of the stone pillar was about twenty meters.
George walked into the temple away from the stone pillar. A rough count showed that there were still more than thirty stone pillars standing on both sides of the temple.
Counting the collapsed and fallen stone pillars, he guessed that the complete scale of this god would have at least a hundred stone pillars. Then he imagined the grandeur of the temple when it was first built...
"Why."
George couldn't help but shook his head and sighed. After all, the world could no longer appreciate the most glorious and magnificent side of this temple with its back against the rock wall.
After just a moment, George put down his backpack without any emotion, and continued to search for any noteworthy details or things in the ruins of the temple with Crawford.
Shortly afterwards.
Tom and Elsa also came to the ruins of the temple.
After choosing for nearly half an hour, they finally decided on a camping site on the flat and spacious north shore, which was also suitable for their research.
Soon, the strong Tom set up the prototype of the camp.
Seeing this, George and Crawford picked up their backpacks and left the temple, planning to help set up the camp first and then study with everyone after lunch.
Hans, who was in charge of filming, also came here. After briefly taking a picture of everyone setting up the camp as a souvenir, he also put away the camera and joined the setting up team.
With the help of five people, the camp with three tents was set up.
The largest tent is for three men, one of the other two is for two women, and the last one is for storing the professional equipment and daily supplies they brought this time.
At this time, the blazing sun at the top also began to tilt to the west.
In the center of the camp.
The five people gathered around the campfire, sitting on their own folding chairs, looking at the beautiful scenery and enjoying a quick meal.
Four full days had passed since they left the city where humans gathered, entered the inaccessible forest, and arrived at this lake and temple that had not been touched by modern civilization.
They were lucky enough to not get lost or encounter any large, hungry predators.
"Hey, George!"
Tom put the biodegradable lunch box of the instant meal into the paper bag containing garbage nearby, and asked George who was sitting opposite:
"How's it going? Have you and Crawford found anything useful? Is this the temple the professor mentioned?"
After the words fell, Hans and Elsa also looked expectantly and turned their attention to George and Crawford.
"Ahem." George coughed lightly after drinking water, put the kettle on the ground, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, looked around at everyone, nodded and said solemnly:
"After Croft and I's initial speculation, this is likely to be the first Temple of Artemis."
"Haha!" Tom laughed heartily after receiving the affirmation, and patted his thigh and said, "I'll tell you, the ones in Turkey are fake!"
