"Continue to go forward and see what treasures are hidden here."

Shi Quan bent down and picked up the second carbine and handed it to Deng Shuxiang behind him, and walked along the narrow cave to continue exploring forward.

The more you go, the more space you have, and by the end, even the strongest Asak and Deng Shuxiang can walk side by side. At the same time, they also found that not only were there obvious traces of artificial rest on the ground, but almost every hundred or ten meters, there was an artificial tunnel leading to the underground river, and there were even some clay pots that seemed to be used to fetch water in some artificial tunnels.

In addition to these traces of human activities that have been around for at least a hundred years, the human corpses that appear from time to time seem to suggest an internal strife between a group of adventurers who discovered it.

On the bumpy stone ground, rice-sized golden sand was spread everywhere around almost every bone. As the boned corpses were discovered, two wooden fixed butt stock versions of Delier silence carbines were added to Asak and Deng Shuxiang's shoulders.

But at this time the cave was still not over. Even after they turned a bend of an elbow, the entire underground space suddenly became larger. At the edge of this space, the turbulent underground river actually bent around this underground space, forming a pool with a diameter of less than four meters on the side away from the river channel.

This small pool is connected by two sinks only half a meter wide on the rocky ground and underground rivers. Even along the edge of the river, there are several one-meter-high stone pillars shaped like safety fences.

Shiquan hit the flashlight on the small pool. There were a few small fish without eyes swimming slowly in the clear and transparent water. At the edge of the pool, there were also several pots of sunken bottoms.

Da Ivan reached out and took out a pot of clay pot from the water and poured it out. Except for a few blind fish whose names cannot be named, there was nothing in the pot.

"Can you tell what is being done here?" Da Ivan borrowed the lake water to clean the pot in his hand, and asked Shiquan at the same time.

"Gold mine?" Shi Quan shook his head after saying that, "If it was a gold mine, it shouldn't be just such a little space."

"I think this may be the stronghold of ancient Arab merchants."

While speaking, Da Ivan had filled the water with a cleaned pot of clay pot, carried it to a red stone not far from the pool and poured it on it, and then smeared it with gloves.

When the remaining half of the pottery jar was poured up again, he pointed to the words carved on the stone and said, "Although I can't understand it, this should be the Quran carved in Arabic words. For Arabs who were traveling in the desert, these colored stones have similar functions as Qingzhen Temple."

"Do you know this?" Shi Quan came over and looked at the handwriting on the stone tablet curiously.

"Nasha collected a lot of information for this adventure." Da Ivan handed the water jar to Shiquan. "These Arabs earned a lot of gold from the Ghanaians at that time."

"When are you talking about the Arabs?" Shi Quan took the water jug ​​and looked at it and lost interest.

"Then I don't know, that's a headache for archaeological experts."

"Ivan, do you think there are any treasures under this small pool? For example, ancient gold coins or something?"

"Arab businessmen are crazy? Do you think they have thrown their hard-earned gold coins into the water?" Big Ivan lit a cigarette while placing a stone with scriptures, "Wake up, my brother, this is just a water storage well, not a wishing pool."

"You'll know if you try it." Shi Quan was interested, pulled out the metal detector from his backpack and assembled it, turned on the power supply and penetrated into the water.

Unexpectedly, when the extended detector bottomed out, the metal detector actually gave clear signal feedback!

"It should be gold, and it's very clear." Shi Quan pulled out the metal detector and put it aside. "It seems that even at that time, there would be boring people throwing the coins into the water."

"It's not easy to drain this pool."

Da Ivan put on gloves and touched it around, bent down and raised the stone slab that was placed above the sink as a wall beam, tilting the inlet groove of the pool. Seeing this, Asak and Deng Shuxiang followed suit and brought stones of all sizes from around to help cut off the canal.

The water inlet was blocked, and the rest was pure physical labor. The four of them emptied their backpacks as buckets, clearing out the accumulated water in the pool bit by bit.

As the water level continues to drop, this artificial water storage building that is not so much a small pool, but a water storage well has gradually revealed its full view. The well wall is a circle of steps built by stone slabs. This step just turned down less than half a circle and it was completely bottomed out. The depth is less than one meter. The remaining steps, including the bottom of the well, are covered with thick yellow sand that absorbs moisture.

Holding the metal detector, he went down the stone steps, and when the metal detector's probe was stuck on the yellow sand, he immediately gave clear signal feedback.

"Is it here just now?"

Shi Quan looked back and put the metal detector aside. But before he could start digging, the metal detector that was originally just placed on the sand casually actually gave signal feedback again!

Before Shi Quan had time to take out the engineer shovel, he stopped in a state of shape. He simply picked up the metal detector and continued to sweep the yellow sand at the bottom of the well. It didn't matter, and the long beeping sound almost stopped!

"Plop!"

Da Ivan, who was originally standing by the well watching the fun, immediately jumped down, and gently scraped off a layer of yellow sand shovel that was sucked in water with the engineer shovel outside, and then swept it with a metal detector to make sure there was no missing. Then he repeated the second operation.

"Don't bother, it's too slow."

Shi Quan stopped and even turned off the metal detector. "Asak, contact the superiors to ask how the situation is. If it is safe, inform the superiors to come down to help and send two small pumps down. Take the fragrance of the book to the place where we are down to pick it up. Ivan and I continue walking forward. When you come back, you shout with your hand counter."

"I'll contact them right away." Asak nodded in a naive voice, greeted Deng Shuxiang and walked back.

"You want to wash away the sand?" Ivan had already guessed what Shizumi wanted to do from his words.

"Let's experience the fun of gold digging, too."

Shiquan left the water storage well, shook the backpack that he had just used as a bucket, and counted the equipment he brought back and took a step forward and continued to walk deep into the cave.

Da Ivan followed along and the two walked less than 20 meters in this cave with a straight intestine, and another space of four or five hundred square meters appeared.

Unlike just now, in addition to a small pool connecting the river in this space, not only is the storage space chiseled on the surrounding rock walls, but even the corpses of hundreds of camels lying down just under these square storage spaces!

Although these camels have long been boned, they can still see the obvious Arabic style from the remaining decorations on them. However, compared with the corpses of these camels, the wooden boxes with Arabic patterns are dismantled and almost disintegrated as if they were vented.

And without exception, these boxes are next to the canal connecting the underground river. One of them is turned upside down near the remains of the wooden box at the edge of the canal. You can also see clearly dismembered human corpses.

"It seems like you guessed that this is the stronghold of Arab merchants, and someone has attacked it once."

Da Ivan nodded, "But they seemed to have failed. These stingy Arab merchants not only poured all their goods into the underground river, but also poured all the valuable gold into the reservoir behind us in advance."

"And it was covered with yellow sand," Shi Quan added, "But why didn't the people who robbed here take these camels away? Even if they couldn't grab the goods, these camels could be sold for a lot of money."

"Either you dare not use it or you can't use it."

Great Ivan said strangely, "According to the information found by Nasha, Arabia is their important economic partner, whether it was the Ghana Empire at that time or the Mali Empire that later replaced it. Just like cars now have frame numbers, these camels must have the mark left by the Arabs. They may not be sold at all, and they are of little use except for food."

"Continue walking forward and see what else can you find."

After saying that, Shi Quan raised his foot and continued walking along the cave for a hundred meters. The rocky ground under his feet gradually rose, and dry yellow sand gradually appeared on the ground. What made them feel even more out of place with the scene behind them was that on the edge of the tunnel, there were bundles of cables and neatly arranged camping lights. At the same time, on the other side of the tunnel, there were two plastic boxes without covers.

The two of them carefully sprinkled some snake-repelling powder around the box. After waiting for a while, they went up and opened the plastic box.

There are not many things in this box. Apart from some Arabic scimitars, most of them are jewelry and blanket fragments placed in sealed bags. In addition, there are also some such as arrows and wooden boards engraved with Arabic characters, as well as some glass lumps with invisible uses and two bronze scales made of one large and one small.

"If nothing unexpected happens, they should have been collected by Professor Logan."

"But why didn't he take these things away?" Ivan covered the lid and continued to walk forward with Shizumi.

"I guess I can't hold it anymore..."

Shiquan refused to comment, "Do you remember Professor Logan's work vehicle we found in Niger at that time? Without the water tank truck supply, and I don't know how long it will take to explore next. If I change it, I will bring as much fuel and fresh water as possible."

"Wait" Ivan grabbed Shizumi and pointed the flashlight at a folding chair directly in front of them. What made them feel a little scared was that there was a person sitting on the chair with his back facing them!

"Bit!"

The two of them pulled out their pistols and opened the security without any distinction. After walking over carefully, they found that the person sitting in the chair had turned into a mummy, and the syringe inserted on his neck was not stored in an extremely well-preserved manner.
Chapter completed!