As the camel caravan got closer and closer to the city wall, the city wall became clearer in Tom's eyes.
Although most of it is submerged by yellow sand, you can still see the spectacular scene of the city wall in the past. The entire city has at least two walls. The first outermost wall is five meters high. There is another one behind the first wall.
There is a gentle slope, and a second city wall stands behind it. Counting the gentle slope, the second city wall may be as high as ten meters.
This is an extremely astonishing number, and the walls of this city are not rammed earth walls, but made of huge stones of the same style as the pyramids. Made of such a strong material, it is no wonder that it can withstand thousands of years of
Years of wind and sand have not collapsed. Those collapsed places are the gate openings left on the city wall. The wind poured in from there, causing this part of the stone to wear more seriously than other places. Over time, it finally collapsed completely.
When Tom rode a camel over the city wall, he noticed that the first wall alone was three meters thick, and the entire city could be said to be impregnable.
After entering the city, everyone breathed a sigh of relief because of the protection of the strong city wall, and felt like they were surviving a disaster.
Most of the buildings in the city have been buried by the yellow sand. If it weren't for the solid city wall, these ruins would have been buried by the sand. Most of the houses with wood as pillars in the city have collapsed, and only the masonry buildings remain.
The house can barely support it.
Tom and the others looked around and finally chose a big house. Tom made a rough estimate and found that the area of this big house must be more than a thousand square meters. It was more like a warehouse than a big house, and Tom was sure that it was a warehouse.
A warehouse that stores important items. Although it has collapsed and been buried under the yellow sand, it can still be seen that this house has an outer wall, and the house itself is also a large round house made of accumulated stones.
The old man from Ushad stayed outside to set up the camels. If the camels ran away, the exploration team would have great fun. Others rushed into the room first. The three students were a little weak, and the bumpy day had already taken their toll.
Half a life. As soon as they entered the room, they sat down on the floor, took out their water bags and drank heavily - pouring water on their heads at the same time to wash away the dust on their faces and nostrils. Dr. Hunter, who was relaxed, fell straight down.
He fell to the ground and fainted.
Only then did Dr. Hunter's students discover something unusual about their teacher.
"Doctor, what's wrong with you? Doctor!" Will threw the water bag aside and immediately hugged his teacher. His voice attracted the military doctors in the team.
The military doctor briefly checked Dr. Hunter's physical condition and found that he only had a broken arm and detachment, which was not serious. So he first gave the doctor an injection of anesthetic, put him to sleep deeply, and then reattached his arm.
He was fixed, took out the medical kit, and put a plaster on him.
"Why is it like this?" Alyosha frowned and asked the team doctor. Dr. Hunter's injury will have a great negative impact on the team's exploration.
The team doctor shrugged his shoulders, "Maybe he hit something accidentally."
"As long as you don't have a fever at night, it won't be a big problem." The doctor's diagnosis made the students put their hearts in their stomachs. Will took out a blanket, spread it on the ground and put the teacher on it, letting him have a good rest.
After all this was done, everyone got a little breathing space, and the old man from Jushad outside the house also came in.
Tom also had time to take a serious look at the environment in the house.
With just a cursory glance, he verified his previous guess: this is an arsenal! It is a place where weapons are piled inside the city. There are also a large number of weapons piled on the floor of the house. The dry environment of the desert has allowed them to be well preserved.
, until now, there are mainly daggers, spears, war hammers and bows and arrows, most of which are made of bone, stone, and a few are bronze. In addition to weapons, there are also almost completely rotten leather armors and leather shields.
Since it is an arsenal, the independent exterior walls and thick walls of this room have a reasonable explanation: if a rebellion occurs in the city, the guards stationed at the arsenal will rely on these geographical advantages to stay in danger and wait for rescue.
Tom's eyes wandered, and finally fell on a strange-looking war hammer. He only glanced at it accidentally, but soon noticed something unusual. Tom looked at it carefully for a while, and found that the war hammer was actually a wand!
Although the structure is very rough and simple, it is indeed a wand, but it is very different from the current wands, and it is also made into the form of a war hammer: there is a copper hammer head at the end of the wand, and there are some
Little nail. Obviously, its last owner was also a melee mage.
Others also recovered from the panic of the sandstorm, and they gradually realized that this was the ruins of an ancient city that no one had ever discovered! Thinking of this, everyone was refreshed.
Alyosha collected the remains of some weapons from the ground and prepared to light a fire, but Will almost fell on the pile of wood.
"These are cultural relics! You can't touch them!"
Alyosha was a little confused: There were a lot of rotten wood here, and using them to make fires could save the team's fuel consumption.
Fortunately, Sarah and Allen still had sense and pulled Will away. The things in this city can indeed be called cultural relics, but not every cultural relic has protection value. At least these rotten wood can be seen everywhere
It can be burned as firewood.
After the fire was lit, everyone had a panoramic view of the situation in the house.
A pile of things in the corner of the room caught everyone's attention.
"Sleeping bag?" Allen walked over and asked in surprise.
In front of them were six or seven empty sleeping bags, as well as a pile of charcoal ash and several backpacks. There were long-dried leftovers in the lunch box next to the charcoal ash.
"It seems that an expedition team has come here before." Alyosha walked to Allen, took a look at the things left on the ground and made a conclusion.
"But one thing is very suspicious. They seemed to have left in a hurry." He squatted next to these items, rummaged through his backpack, and took out a military kettle from it. He opened it and saw that it was filled with water.
"You didn't bring any guns or supplies. Where can you go in such a state?" Alyosha whispered, as if he was talking to his companions or to himself.
Assaultman Yegor pointed to the sleeping bag and said in Russian: "Captain, look, the zipper of the sleeping bag is not unzipped. This is really strange."
Alyosha was silent for a while, continued to rummage among the leftover items, and finally found a notebook.
"Take a look." He handed the note to Peter, and Peter flipped through it quickly.
"This is an adventurer from the United States. According to the time on the note, his team should have entered the desert nineteen years ago and wanted to challenge the world record for the fastest crossing of the Sahara Desert." Peter looked at the note at a glance.
"He was a little luckier than us. They didn't encounter a sandstorm and just discovered this place by accident."