Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

"I bought a plastic bag of broken mud flakes for 8,000 euros. This is really unimaginable." Fan Meng said with surprise when he walked out of the souvenir shop with Liang En.

You know, the average monthly salary of programmers in France who are in the upper-middle income category was 3,640 euros last year. In other words, this pile of debris is equivalent to more than two months’ salary of a programmer. This is not a huge sum. small amount.

"Because I think there may be something valuable in this thing." Liang En shook the plastic bag in his hand and said, "If a relatively complete clay tablet can be assembled from it, the 8,000 euros will be spent. value."

It was already dark when we returned to the hotel, so the two of them had dinner in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel and immediately went upstairs to the room to play jigsaw puzzles.

Most of the things in this plastic bag are really just small pieces of ordinary clay tablets, and there are even some modern fakes mixed in. It is not wrong to be sold to tourists as souvenirs.

Of course, Liang En didn't buy this bag of fragments simply to pick out some souvenirs. Soon, he followed the white light and picked out more than a dozen fragments of various sizes from the pile of fragments.

Putting together a dozen fragments was naturally not as difficult as putting together hundreds of fragments here, so in a short period of time, Liang En and Fan Meng pieced together a clay tablet the size of an adult male's palm.

"There is actually a complete clay tablet here." After putting it together, Fan Meng looked at the clay tablet in surprise and said, "By the way, what is written on this clay tablet?"

"Don't worry, let me take a look. Fortunately, I understand Akkadian -" Liang En said, picking up the pen and paper, and then started to translate the words on the clay tablet bit by bit.

"This should be the fifth of the 12 clay tablets in the Epic of Gilgamesh." As he wrote and drew, Liang En gradually translated the content on the clay tablet.

"The first part of the article states that Gilgamesh and Enkidu entered the cedar forest together and killed the strange god Humbaba with the help of the sun god Shamash."

"The next part of the article writes that the two of them cut down a lot of cedar trees here to make rafts, and then carried the cedar trees used to build the temple and Humbaba's head back to Uruk along the Euphrates River. ——”

Liang En said that he connected to the Internet with his laptop, and then compared it with the version translated by a professor at Oxford University more than ten years ago. Soon, he discovered the content recorded on the clay tablet in his hand. There will be more.

The extra content is mainly concentrated at the beginning of the article. Different from the existing version, the content recorded on the clay tablet in Liang En's hand contains some additional descriptions of the sounds heard by the two people after entering the forest, including the chirping of birds and insects. Ming and ape cries etc.

Obviously, this clay tablet is an important addition to a world-class literary classic written 3,000 years ago.

And just when Liang En figured out the identity of this clay tablet, he got three new cards. Two of them are the common [Detection (N)], and the last one is a newly obtained R-level card this time, [Poem Singing (R)]

[Poetry Singing (R): In the oldest era, only a few people mastered all kinds of writing, so for most people, the only way to obtain information was through word of mouth.

Therefore, in that era, bards were an indispensable part of the entire society and could play an important role in connecting information and keeping the entire society alive to a certain extent.

Enhancement card (one-time use), consuming this card can allow the user to gain a certain degree of talent in various ancient folk songs and quickly learn various poetry chants. 】

"I don't see any useful abilities at the moment, but I don't see a limit to this skill anyway, so it's not a bad thing to learn a little more."

After choosing this card and using it, Liang En felt that there was something inexplicable in his mind. Although I don't see any use for the time being, getting a new ability is not a bad thing.

The next day was the time for a collective visit to the pyramids. Unlike what many people imagined, the pyramids were not built in some desolate desert, but in the Giza district of Cairo.

"Just like a local saying, humans are afraid of time, and time is afraid of pyramids!" Liang En sighed subconsciously while standing on the sand and looking at the huge pyramid in front of him.

It is a pity that the pyramid was hollowed out 3,000 years ago, and even the tomb robbers from that year have become important archaeological objects today.

Moreover, the ancient Egyptians also had great experience in recycling items. At least yesterday Liang En saw a coffin containing several pharaohs in the museum.

After returning to the hotel after the pure trip of the day, Fan Meng asked Liang En for a thousand euros in the evening, saying he wanted to buy some self-defense items, and then left. He did not return until more than two hours later.

Early the next morning, everyone got up very early and took a bus to Alexandria to pick up the supplies needed for this archeology. After the count was completed at noon, they drove straight to the city of Rashid, located at the western mouth of the Nile Delta.

The Nile River turns into two rivers when it reaches the north of Cairo, the Damietta River in the east and the Rashid River in the west. The two rivers enter the sea separately and no longer meet. The Rashid River passes through a small city, Rashid, before it merges into the Mediterranean Sea.

Today, this city is an inconspicuous seaside town with a population of only more than 40,000. However, compared with the European Cairo and Alexandria, this city is full of Arab and Ottoman styles.

Different from today's depressed appearance, from the Mamluks in the Middle Ages to the Ottoman Empire, Rashid has always been the largest port city in Egypt during the rule of the Arab Turks.

During this period, Egypt, as the crossroads between Europe, Asia and Africa, naturally became a transit point for East-West trade. Indian spices, Chinese porcelain and other oriental wealth were first brought here, and then brought to RNY and Venice by sailors.

As a result, the prosperity of Port Rashid in that era was average, but in comparison, Alexandria at the same time was neglected.

However, as technology develops, ships are getting larger and larger. A port like Rashid, which is located at the mouth of a river and is often silted up, cannot accommodate large ships because the water is too shallow, and it has gradually become depressed over time.

Therefore, when Liang En and the others drove into the city, they found that there were not many traces of modernization in the entire city, as if time had stayed in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Because each of them brought more things, after leaving Alexandria, everyone's mode of transportation changed from buses to pickup trucks and trucks that they drove separately. After entering the city, the radio in the car rang.

"We will not stop here and go directly to our destination of this time, Katebey Castle." The voice of Professor Jacques, the leader of the team, came from the radio.

"Also, follow the instructions on the road. You can do whatever I call. This place is not that safe."

"It seems that this place is not as safe as the travel brochure says." After ending the call, Liang En, who was sitting in the passenger seat, sighed, and then asked Fan Meng who was driving. "Where are those self-defense things you bought yesterday?"

"It's in the storage box in front of you." Fan Meng said while holding the steering wheel. “These things may not be legal, so it’s best to cover them up if you need to wear them later.”