The wind and sand were getting bigger and bigger, and after driving dozens of kilometers, the off-road vehicle had to stop at a hill.
"This car is considered destroyed." Cao Dalong in the car sighed as he listened to the sound of banging and banging outside, like dense bullets hitting the outer shell of the car.
"Let's think about how we can survive this sandstorm safely." Ran Jie lay on the car window and squinted his eyes to look out:
"It doesn't feel very safe here. The sand from the wind is piling up here. When it gets higher than the off-road vehicle, we will be buried."
"There are animals hiding outside." Qin Fei also leaned against the glass and looked out, "I don't know if it's a wolf or something else. There are more than a dozen wild animals. They seem to have green eyes."
"Wolves, hyenas, and sand foxes," Zhu Yu looked out through the Sky Eye and said:
"Under the power of nature, these animals no longer care about attacking each other. It is still safe here for the time being. At least in the desert, they know better than us where to safely escape the wind and sand."
The wind and sand continued until late at night before slowly stopping. Most of the off-road vehicle on the upwind side was already sunk in the sand.
The little animals that were sheltering from the wind and sand here have disappeared without a trace.
After Zhu Yu and the others got out of the car, they only saw some sand scorpion lizards, and they were preparing to escape in panic.
Taking out the tools, several people quickly cleared the sand from the side of the car to ensure that the car could drive out normally.
At this time, the sky slowly turned white.
"Let's not leave now, just set up a tent on the roof of the car, have a good rest and eat before we set off again." Zhu Yu looked around and made this decision.
In such a strange environment, having just experienced a sandstorm, no one knows what will happen next, so they must maintain sufficient physical strength at all times. This is very clear to everyone.
They quickly set up the tent, covered the car, left enough space to move around, and then started eating.
No one said much. After eating, they pulled out their sleeping bags under the tent and started to rest.
Zhu Yu couldn't sleep and wasn't tired, so he planned to take this opportunity to take a look around.
This small soil bag was covered with sand and became the largest sand dune nearby.
Zhu Yu slowly climbed up the sand dune and looked into the distance.
The sun has not risen yet, and without the influence of direct sunlight, the view is very broad. Looking back, I can no longer see clearly where I came from. Zhu Yu looked to the southwest, wanting to see how far away his destination was.
What surprised him was that less than 1 kilometer away, there was a large area consisting of hundreds of sand dunes.
The outline of the sand dunes looks like a sand table magnified many times, with a square city wall and some prominent buildings.
Is that the place you want to find?
After all, the sand dunes elsewhere are layered like waves.
Only the sand in that area is completely different from other places.
"You guys rest here first, I'll go take a look in the distance." Zhu Yu said to Ran Jie, then jumped off the sand dune and walked over there.
"Boss, pay attention to safety." Ran Jie reminded.
"Don't worry, it's a pity that I'm dead." Zhu Yu joked and strode towards that area.
The sun has not risen yet, the air is not very hot, and small animals and even insects can be seen everywhere along the way looking for food or escaping on the sand.
There are also poisonous things like vipers lurking under the sand.
There are many dangers along the way.
Near the suspected ancient city ruins, Zhu Yu encountered another large area of quicksand.
From the surface, this piece of quicksand does not look much different from other places, and there are many animal paw prints nearby.
In fact, through his heavenly eyes, Zhu Yu could see many large and small animals sinking under the quicksand, and there were some human bones in more places.
He thought for a moment, then made small marks with sand and wrote the word "danger" in a safe place around the quicksand.
Otherwise, when Ran Jie and the others are chasing them, if they step on them, they will be in big trouble.
After bypassing the quicksand, Zhu Yu came to the suspected ruins.
After arriving here, Zhu Yu was even more sure that whether this was the destination he was looking for or not, it was at least the ruins of an ancient city.
What made Zhu Yu a little confused was that there were two dog-headed statues of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian god of death, sitting in a position similar to the opening of the ancient city gate!
what's the situation? When did death become a gatekeeper?
In movies and TV shows, aren't the statues of Anubis that Zhu Yu has seen standing with weapons in hand?
These two Anubis statues lie on a stone platform nearly two meters high. Now both the stone platform and the statue are incomplete.
Anubis on the right even has only half of his head left, with his mouth exposed.
The Anubis on the left is still there except for his ears.
Zhu Yu looked around and found no stone mountains or anything like that, but both the statue at the door and the walls on both sides of the statue were made of huge square stones.
Where did these stones come from?
It can be seen from the traces of sand burial in the building that this site is also relatively square. The road from the door leads all the way to the exit on the opposite side. What makes Zhu Yu strange is that from here, it can be seen that there is no temple in the center of the city.
On the contrary, there is a high platform in the northwest corner of the site, which is suspected to be a pyramid.
However, no matter what kind of building it is, it is covered with a layer of sand at this time, and Zhu Yu still needs to explore the specific things step by step.
After walking no more than ten meters, I finally discovered two lying corpses - mummies - under the sand on the main road.
Judging from the clothes on the corpse, they should be adventurers who came here in recent years.
Zhu Yu speculated that the cause of death might be poisoning or burial by wind and sand.
After all, there are no gun muzzles or other large wounds on the body.
Further on, four more bodies were discovered.
How did these adventurers die on the road?
And judging from the direction in which they fell, they all fell down when they were trying to run out.
Could it be that something was hunting them?
Zhu Yu looked around, and he was puzzled to find that there were also bones in the incomplete buildings on both sides. In these buildings, although the daily utensils were destroyed, at least the fragments were still there.
And there are a lot of gold and silverware inside!
Judging from the architecture, this is obviously an ordinary home.
Is this branch of ancient Egypt so arrogant? Ordinary people have so much gold and silverware in their homes!
Judging from the eyes of the sky, at least this family of four has seven silverware and two goldware in the house!
In that era, how could ordinary people be so wealthy?
Zhu Yu was really surprised!
He continued walking forward, and then he discovered the buildings on both sides of the road - basically every house had bones.
This basically confirms that this ancient city ruins were suddenly destroyed, most likely due to a strong sandstorm.
Some of these bones are complete mummies, and some are incomplete. But basically everything in the house is there, and each house has varying amounts of gold and silverware.
On the contrary, other daily necessities look relatively simple.
Zhu Yu already had some guesses in his mind. He continued to walk forward until he reached the center of the city. This guess was basically confirmed.
The central area of the city belongs to the kind of houses where the buildings are relatively luxurious and the furnishings are relatively wealthy.
There are more various utensils in these people's homes under the wind and sand, and the proportion of gold utensils is still very large.
In the backyard of a shop, Zhu Yu even found nearly forty or fifty gold and silver utensils!
If it weren't for the fact that the Sky Eye never made mistakes, Zhu Yu would even think that he had seen it wrong!
Along the way, there were almost four to five hundred gold and silver utensils in the rooms on both sides!
Although these gold and silver utensils are not large in size and are made relatively thin. The largest ones are only plates and bowls, but their combined weight is dozens of kilograms!
Calculating this, how many gold and silver products are hidden in this city!
Could this be the legendary Golden City?
Zhu Yu walked roughly in other directions and found that the situation was the same.
He finally reached the high platform in the northwest corner of the city.
The high platform is exposed on the surface of the sand, about twenty meters long. It can be seen from the part that is not completely covered that it is a stepped stone platform.
There are two symmetrical square stone houses next to the high platform.
At this time, only about half a meter of the top of the stone house was exposed, and it was all covered by sand.
Looking inside this stone house, there is a very strange statue.
This statue is made of black stone. It is a man with his legs straddled and his head raised to the sky. He is holding a huge gold plate in his hand.
Under his feet are more than a dozen pyramids of various sizes!
There is a step down below the statue. You should be a secret room.
It's just that because the distance the Sky Eye can see underground is limited, it is impossible to see what is under this secret room.
Zhu Yu quickly climbed up to the high platform that looked like a pyramid, looked back at Ran Jie and the others, and found that no one was coming.
He thought for a while, then got off the high platform, took out the shovel from the space, and began to dig up the sand at the door of the stone house.
The sand was very soft, and Zhu Yu quickly cleaned out the layer of sand above the door of the house.
Then I saw the broken doorway and the sand that kept getting in.
Zhu Yu estimated the size of the doorway, and then dug down for a while. When he felt that he could get in, he put away the shovel, bent down and got into the doorway.
Sliding down on the sand, he appeared at the feet of the statue.
Entering this room, you can see that the statue is more than three meters high: How could there be such a large piece of black sandstone in that era?
Zhu Yu looked at the statue and found that it was placed in this room together with the base. He stepped forward to touch it and put the statue into the space.
After the statue disappeared, the entrance to a cave hidden underneath was revealed.
Zhu Yu looked at the rest of the room and found that except for a rotten wooden bed and a small table, there was nothing else in it.
Very clean.
He stepped on the steps in the cave and walked down.
The steps are not very steep, but there are many steps, and it can be seen that they are spiraling down.
The further you go down, the more humid the ground becomes. A few minutes later, before it reaches the bottom, water drops are already starting to seep out of the walls on the side.
Continuing to turn and go down, the air slowly became dry again - Zhu Yu guessed that there must be a vent down here, otherwise, the air would not be so fresh.
At least it doesn't smell bad.
Finally reaching the bottom, Zhu Yu found that at the end of the steps was a flat space with a door on the left and right.
Both stone gates were closed tightly, but this could not stop Zhu Yu.
Behind the stone door on the left is a vat of black liquid. I don't know if it is because of the sealing of the stone door or because the liquid itself is not easy to evaporate, so the liquid in the cylinder has only dropped a little.
There was something wrong with the liquid at first glance. Zhu Yu took a closer look and immediately discovered that the bottom and sides of the stone door were not only sealed by something, but also had a large amount of white phosphorus stuck on them!
As long as the door is forced open, if it is rubbed, it will immediately catch fire!
Needless to say, those liquids are definitely flammable. These designers are so cruel!
He looked at the stone gate on the right again and found that there was actually a lot of sand behind it!
Stacked all the way to the top!
The stone door also opens outward. As long as it is opened, a large amount of sand will immediately pour out from it!
The height of the stone door is almost three meters - and the stone door is also easy to open - it seems that as long as someone tries to open the door, it will be an immediate disaster!
Could it be that after walking down for so long, there are two doors of disaster hidden here?
It's against common sense!
Zhu Yu looked carefully in the open space and finally found that there was a small space under the stone steps.
And on the wall of this space, there is a door that is difficult to detect!
There is a great mystery behind this door!
When ordinary people come here, they will definitely choose from the two conspicuous stone doors at the first moment. Naturally, they will ignore the small door under the steps.
No matter which door one enters, death is waiting for those who enter. Naturally, it is impossible to pay attention to this small door.
Zhu Yu secretly sighed, this designer is really cruel!
He turned to the small door, bent down and pushed slowly and hard.
The small door was pushed open just like that!
Behind the door is a rather large space.
But at this time, the space was filled to the brim, leaving only a very narrow passage.
Both sides of the passage are piled with boxes made of lightly scented wood!
Looking over, these boxes were filled with gold and silver products, including tableware, wine sets, accessories, and most of all, gold and silver coins!
Here, there are dozens of boxes of gold coins!
Zhu Yu suddenly understood why ordinary people outside had so many gold and silverware in their homes - maybe these were the things that these immigrants carried the most!
The excitement slowly calmed down, and Zhu Yu started to put away the box while walking inside.
The gold coins were irregular circles with no patterns on them.
There are some patterns on the tableware and accessories, but they are not very complicated.
The boxes on both sides were stacked very high, and Zhu Yu had to be careful when putting them away to prevent the boxes above from falling due to instability.
Only when he reached the innermost part did Zhu Yu discover the difference again.
In the innermost part of this space, a small space was specially opened, with no boxes around it.
There is a rectangular stone platform in the center of this space, with a golden statue about half a person's height placed on it. The statue is very strange, with a big round head, a box on its back, standing upright on its feet, and holding a long Something like a stick.
What surprised Zhu Yu was that when he looked over with his heavenly eye, there was a fist-sized ball inside the golden statue - made of diamond.
In this diamond ball, Zhu Yu's heavenly eyes felt an unspeakable amount of energy!
But the golden statue outside perfectly shielded this energy - not a trace of it escaped!
The energy in this diamond ball is much more than the energy obtained from the crosses, golden statues, etc. that Zhu Yu had previously obtained!
Zhu Yu was suddenly surrounded by a huge sense of happiness!
It took several minutes for him to calm down.
Continue to look at other things.
Next to the statue are pieces of gold plates, engraved with densely packed small characters.
These characters feel a bit like cuneiform, but they are different from what Zhu Yu saw on the Internet, and they are more like hieroglyphics - the two are compatible.
There is a box under the stone platform, and inside is a whole box of various gems.
Zhu Yu guessed that this should be an offering?
Not understanding it, Zhu Yu simply collected all these things, then he breathed a sigh of relief, turned around and left this space.
After bending down and walking out, Zhu Yu gently closed the small door, glanced at the two dangerous doors, and then walked up.
After walking up the spiraling stone steps, Zhu Yu finally felt relieved when he reached the platform room above.
He was always worried that due to some kind of movement, the two stone doors would suddenly open, which might cause trouble.
I wonder if there will be any chain reaction?
After getting out of the sand, the sun has been rising for a while, and the heat wave in the air has become slightly heavier.
Zhu Yu looked at the stone platform - there was also a passage extending downward in the middle of the stone platform, and there were many turns.
Is there any secret behind this?
And in the stone room on the other side, is there also a hidden treasure?
Zhu Yu no longer planned to explore further.
Although I am not physically tired, I feel mentally tired.
He thought for a moment and walked to the street in the other direction.
I plan to walk out of the ruins from the other side to see the situation on both sides, and then when Ran Jie and the others come over, I will take them to explore again.
The breeze gradually picked up, and the sand slowly moved, slowly smoothing out the traces of Zhu Yu's steps.
The Sky Eye looks to both sides at any time, and the things here are basically similar to what they encountered on the street when they came.
"Huh?"
When Zhu Yu passed by a building, he suddenly stopped.
This building is obviously much stronger than the others. Other buildings are made of a mixture of stone and wood, but this one is completely made of stone.
So more are retained. Relatively outstanding.
The reason Zhu Yu stopped was that the things left in the building surprised him.
This is...an ancient bank? (End of chapter)
