v2 Chapter 158： Traces of the expedition

Latest website: As the camel team got closer to the city wall, the city wall in Tom's eyes became clearer.

Although most of it was submerged in yellow sand, the magnificent scene of the city wall in the past can still be seen. There are at least two walls in the whole city. The first wall in the outermost layer is as high as five meters. There is a gentle **** behind the first city wall, and a second city wall is erected 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 city wall is not a rammed earth wall, but is built with blocks of boulders of the same style as the pyramids. Made of this sturdy material, it's no wonder it has survived thousands of years of wind and sand. Those collapsed places are the gate openings left in the city wall. The wind poured in from there, making this part of the stone more worn than elsewhere, and over time it eventually collapsed.

As Tom rode his 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 they were sheltered by the sturdy city wall.

Most of the buildings in the city have been buried by yellow sand. Without the solid city wall, these ruins would have been buried by sand long ago. Most of the houses in the city with wood as their pillars have collapsed, and only those masonry buildings can barely support.

Tom and the others looked around and finally chose a big house. Tom made a rough estimate, and the area of ​​this large room must have exceeded 1,000 square meters. It was more of a warehouse than a big house, and Tom was sure it was a warehouse for important stuff. Because although it has collapsed and was buried by yellow sand, it can still be seen that this house has an outer wall, and the house itself is also a round house made of accumulated stones.

The old man Yushadu stayed outside the house to settle the camels. If the camels ran away, the expedition team would have a lot of fun. The others rushed into the room first. The three students were slightly weaker, and one day's turbulence had cost them half their lives. As soon as they entered the house, they sat on the ground, took out the water bladders and drank heavily—by the way, they poured water on their heads to wash away the dust from their faces and nostrils. Dr. Hunter, who was relieved, fell straight to the ground and fainted.

It was only then that Dr. Hunt's students discovered the teacher's anomaly.

"Doctor, what's the matter 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 fractured arm and a loss of force, and there was no serious problem. So he first gave the doctor a shot of anesthesia, made him fall asleep, then fixed his arm, took out the medical kit, and put a cast on him.

"How did you get this way?" Alyosha frowned and asked the team doctor. Dr. Hunter's injury will have a very negative impact on the team's exploration.

The team doctor shrugged, "Accidentally hit something."

"As long as you don't have a fever at night, it's not a big problem." The doctor's diagnosis made the students put their hearts back into their stomachs. Will took out a blanket, spread it on the ground and put the teacher on it, letting him rest.

After all this was done, everyone got a little respite, and the old man Yushadu outside the house also came in.

Tom also has the time to take a serious look at the environment in the house.

With just a cursory look, he verified his previous conjecture: this is an arsenal! It is the place where weapons are piled up inside the city. There were also a large number of weapons piled up 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 some are bronze. In addition to weapons, there are almost completely rotten leather armor and leather shields.

Since it is an arsenal, the independent outer wall and thick walls of this room have a reasonable explanation: if there is a rebellion in the city, the guards stationed in the arsenal will rely on these geographical advantages to stand guard and wait for rescue.

Tom's eyes wandered, and finally landed on a strangely shaped warhammer. He just glanced at it inadvertently, but soon noticed the abnormality. Tom looked at it carefully for a while, and found that this warhammer was actually a wand!

Although the structure is very rough and rudimentary, it is indeed a wand, but it is very different from the current wand, and it has also been made into the form of a warhammer: there is a copper hammer at the end of the wand, and there are some small nails. Obviously, its previous owner was also a melee mage.

Others also recovered from the panic of the sandstorm, and they gradually realized that this is the ruins of an ancient city that no one has ever discovered! Thinking of this, everyone's spirits are lifted.

Alyosha collects some of the weapon's remains from the ground to start a fire, but Will nearly threw himself on the pile of wood.

"These are artifacts! You can't touch them!"

Alyosha is a little puzzled: there is still a lot of rotten wood here, and using it to make a fire can save the team's fuel consumption.

Fortunately, Sara and Alan still had their senses 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 the rotten wood that can be seen everywhere can be used as firewood to burn.

After the fire was lit, everyone had a panoramic view of the situation in the house.

A pile of things in the corner caught everyone's attention.

"Sleeping bag?" Alan walked over and said in amazement.

In front of them were six or seven empty sleeping bags, as well as a pile of charcoal ashes and a few backpacks. In the lunch box next to the charcoal ashes, there were leftovers that had been dried long ago.

"It seems that an expedition team once came here." Alyosha walked to Alan's side, glanced at what was left on the ground, and made a conclusion.

"But one thing is suspicious They seem to have left in a hurry," he crouched beside these items, turned over his backpack, took out a military water bottle, unscrewed it, and found full of water,

"Without guns and supplies, where can people go in such a state?" Alyosha whispered, as if talking to his companions, as if talking to himself.

Assaulter Yegor pointed to the sleeping bag and said in Russian: "Captain, look, the zipper of the sleeping bag is not unzipped. It's really strange."

Alyosha was silent for a while, and continued to rummage through the remaining items, and finally found a notebook.

"Look." He handed the note to Peter, who 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 he wants 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 bit luckier than us, they didn't encounter a sandstorm, they just found it by accident."

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