"Mr. Taylor, I think your job as a prospecting engineer is really an underachievement. You should go to Hollywood! Your performance is not inferior to those of the Oscar winners. No, it should be better!"
Liu Dong's words made Craig Taylor's expression change. Although it was only for a short time, he was still noticed by Liu Dong.
"Sir, you are really good at joking. I am a complete layman on acting!"
"Yeah?"
After looking at him, Liu Dong smiled, walked to Ahmaud, pointed to a canvas backpack in his hand and said, "Is this bag theirs?"
"These backpacks were found in the room where they were detained. They should be their belongings!"
Although he did not know Liu Dong's true identity, Ahmaud also knew from Faustino Balde's expression, words and reaction that the person in front of him was no ordinary person.
Therefore, he responded to his inquiries very promptly and accurately.
After nodding, Liu Dong took the backpack in his hand and opened the buckle on it!
After quickly scanning the subtle nervous expressions on the three people's faces, Liu Dong smiled slightly, reached into his bag and took out a cowhide material, about 30 cm high and 12 cm in diameter, like a pencil bag!
After unlocking the top buckle, Liu Dong grabbed one side and shook it gently. With a bang, the originally cylindrical cowhide bag immediately turned into a duffle with the same height but a length of nearly 70 centimeters.
There are large and small buckles inside the robe, and these buckles are equipped with large and small enlargements, different types of knives, and many small tools that ordinary people cannot understand at all.
But none of these things are unfamiliar to Liu Dong.
Taking this cowhide jacket, he walked up to and behind the three of them. Liu Dong looked at their more nervous expressions and smiled calmly: "Don't tell me that there are things used by archaeologists in the prospecting engineer's bag?"
When the words "archaeological expert" came out of Liu Dong's mouth, the three of them could no longer remain calm.
"How did you...!"
"Sinclair!"
Standing on the left, a thin middle-aged white man wanted to speak, but was severely interrupted by Craig Taylor.
After taking a look at Craig Taylor, who looked complicated, Liu Dong didn't say much. He took three bags at a time and searched for them one by one.
He didn't pay much attention to archaeological tools, ropes, flashlights and other things.
In the end, all he had left in his hands were three notebooks whose secrets might not be apparent to others, and a diamond-shaped black iron block one finger thick, the size of a palm, and with sixteen sides!
In the middle of this black iron block is a full-length statue of Anubis, the Egyptian god of the underworld and the dead. The writing is extremely exquisite, and it is no ordinary thing at first glance!
When Liu Dong held the black diamond-shaped iron block in his hand, the faces of the three people caught by the soldiers showed extremely nervous expressions almost at the same time.
Even Craig Taylor, the most mentally stable of the three, is no exception.
"What is this?" Liu Dong took the iron block in his hand and asked after crossing it one by one in front of the three of them.
"We bought this at the flea market in Khartoum, Sudan. We saw it at the time and it was very interesting, and it was not expensive, so we bought it!" Craig Taylor said quickly.
"Bought at a garage sale?"
After repeating the sentence, Liu Dong's smiling face suddenly turned cold. He waved his hand and said, "Pull them over and shoot them!"
The soldier who heard Liu Dong's words glanced at his commander. After receiving permission, he began to pull the three of them towards the side.
"Wait. Why did you kill us! We are just prospecting engineers, and we just have some hobbies in collecting ancient art!" Clark Taylor shouted loudly.
"Plop...!"
Looking at the three people who were trying to struggle to escape, but were hit to the ground by the soldier's rifle butt, Liu Dong walked over and waved his hand, asking the soldier to stop temporarily, and then placed the black iron block in his hand in front of Craig Taylor again.
"Then tell me where this piece of ancient Egypt from the Eighteenth Dynasty came from?"
"How do you know...?" Clark Taylor regretted it as soon as he finished speaking.
Clark Taylor, who knew what he had inadvertently revealed, immediately kept silent.
Looking at his appearance, Liu Dong smiled, brought the iron piece in front of him, and after looking at it for a while, he closed his right hand and rubbed his left and right hands together. He only heard a "chick", followed by a tooth-staining sound.
There was a friction sound, and the iron block was actually unscrewed by Liu Dong.
And an ancient piece of parchment fell out.
"This is our thing...!" In desperation, Clark Taylor reached out to grab the old parchment in Liu Dong's hand, but he was soon kicked over by the soldier behind him and held down tightly.
Got it!
"It's mine now!"
Liu Dong picked up the parchment on the ground, threw it in his hand, and said with a smile.
Immediately, Liu Dong opened the parchment and took a look. He saw that the parchment about a quarter of a cubic size was filled with lines representing different meanings. These lines were black and red, and there were ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs next to them!
After a brief inspection, Liu Dong judged that this should be a structural diagram of the ancient city.
Although he didn't know where the city pictured on the picture was, Liu Dong also had his own considerations, "It seems I won't be able to use you now!"
"It's useless, even if you have the map of Heracles in your hand, you can't find it without us!" Sinclair said in fear.
The words of his companion immediately made Clark Taylor have the urge to kill him, a real pig teammate! He also thought about using these to make a deal with Liu Dong to survive. Then he thought that his own people were already dead.
I have spoken out. Fortunately, there is still room for redemption, otherwise Clark Taylor would really be in despair.
"Herakpus?"
This name made Liu Dong frown, and at the same time, it also caused a slight commotion among the surrounding soldiers who heard this name.
According to legend, Herakpus was a sacrificial city built in the eastern desert of Egypt by Mentuhotep II, the first pharaoh of the Eleventh Dynasty of ancient Egypt, specifically to worship the Egyptian supreme god, the sun god Ra!
Ancient Egypt has always been a violent country. The king of the country, even the secular ruler, is also the god worshiped by the Egyptians. Therefore, according to historical records, the Egyptians built a large number of grand and magnificent temples.
Come to worship the gods, such as the Abu Simbel Temple, the Amun Temple, and the Karnak Temple that have survived to this day.
Sacrifice to the gods is naturally indispensable!
In addition to cattle, sheep, livestock, and captured slaves, the sacrifices also included wealth such as gold and silver.
Herakpus, as a temple and city dedicated to the supreme god Ra, lasted for more than 600 years from the time of Mentuhotep II when it was built, until the time of Amenhotep IV during the 18th Dynasty of ancient Egypt.
The sacrifices are endless.
If it were not for the monotheistic religious reform of Amenhotep IV, known as the 'Rebel Pharaoh', worship of gods other than the Aten would have been prohibited.
If Heracles was neglected and gradually declined and was submerged in the yellow sand, the worship of the sun god Ra may continue for hundreds or even thousands of years.
However, it was not the Egyptians who made the sacrificial city of Herakpus famous throughout the world. It was the Germans during World War II.
After the Battle of El Alamein, a defeated German army accidentally discovered an ancient Egyptian city that had been submerged in yellow sand for three thousand years while digging a camp.
At that time, no one except the Germans knew what was found in this ancient city.
Basically all the people involved either died on the battlefield or died for inexplicable reasons after the war. It was not until the 1980s that people got a glimpse of this ancient city in the diary of a Nazi officer named 'Remy Berman'.
A trace.
The content in this diary is full of admiration for the mountains of wealth in this ancient Egyptian city. According to the description in the diary, the gold and artworks in it were worth at least 2 billion Reichsmarks at the time!
During World War II, two billion Reichsmarks meant that 10 Bismarck-class battleships, the most advanced Nazi Germany at the time, could be built!
Now, with prices rising and capital depreciating, this wealth is worth more than 10 billion US dollars.
Moreover, the wealth in the ancient city of Herakpus is not just these. According to the records in the diary, before the German army failed, they stored all the wealth they looted in Africa in this hidden city.
In addition, in order to prevent the news from leaking, the German army also carried out an internal massacre, limiting the number of people who knew the truth to single digits.
But even so, the news about the ancient city and the treasures was inevitably exposed. Of course, it caused a huge stir internationally at the time.
Almost instantly, treasure hunters from all over the world filled Egypt's western desert area.
However, in order to prevent their country's wealth from being taken away by other countries, the Egyptian army also entered the desert area, blocked the main access routes, and deployed tight defenses in various oases and towns.
However, none of this can stop people from pursuing wealth.
But contrary to expectations, in the following ten years of searching, almost no one actually found the whereabouts of Heracles. The few statements made later proved to be more rumors than reality.
In this age of advanced information, people have to accept too many strange and strange facts from all over the world every day. After more than ten years without any results, the news about Herakpus gradually faded away.
The diary was attributed to a fabrication out of boredom, and the Egyptians withdrew their troops after searching to no avail. The desert, which had been in chaos for a period of time, once again returned to calm.