Search for Treasure Worldwide Chapter 3085: Secret on the mountainside

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Chapter 3085 The Secret in the Mountain

In the ruins of the old castle, the three-party joint exploration team has begun to explore, scanning various locations with pulse metal detectors.

Ye Tianze led two archaeologists to explore the center of the ruins, looking at the damaged architectural fragments, as well as the ancient words and patterns carved on the stones.

Outside the ruins of the castle, Tigray state military police and Israeli security personnel set up a cordon around the castle, prohibiting anyone from entering.

The rest of the people who climbed the mountain and came for Solomon's treasure and the Ark of the Covenant could only stay outside the cordon and look into the castle on tiptoes.

Unfortunately, they couldn't see much.

The location of the castle is higher, about ten meters higher than the rest of the top of the mountain.

If people want to enter the ruins of the castle, they have to go up a flight of stairs and pass through two broken arches before entering.

And the castle did not completely collapse. Part of the surrounding walls remained, but they were not too high, but they could still block the view from the outside.

If the joint exploration team discovers something here, such as finding some treasure.

Once the news is leaked, causing commotion or even an attack, these ancient and dilapidated walls can also block bullets flying from other places.

In the blink of an eye, it was almost noon.

After some exploration, everyone finally discovered something.

Ye Tian and the others were inspecting a damaged section of the city wall and studying the ancient characters and patterns carved on the city wall.

At this moment, an excited voice suddenly came from the intercom.

"Steven, we detected some metal objects buried under a piece of rubble. I don't know what they are. Can you come and take a look?"

After hearing the announcement, Ye Tian immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and said:

"Okay, Anthony, let's go over there and see what you find, maybe it's a surprise"

As he spoke, he stood up and walked towards the exploration team where the metal objects were found.

The two archaeologists next to me immediately followed, both looking forward to it.

In the blink of an eye, they had arrived at the ruins on the north side of the castle.

This place is located on the edge of the old castle. The original buildings have long since collapsed, leaving only a few walls. The ground is full of broken walls and debris, filled with stones of different sizes.

Two employees of the Brave and Intrepid Exploration Company stood in the middle of the ruins, scanning with pulse metal detectors in their hands.

As they moved, waves of sweet chirps came from the scene.

Seeing Ye Tian coming over, Anthony, who was holding a sounding board, immediately said:

"Steven, it is here that we scanned some metal objects. The number is not large, but the location is relatively concentrated and the burial is not very deep. It is only three or four meters deep from the ground.

It is not difficult to dig out these metal objects buried in the ground. You only need to remove the stones and rubble above and dig down three or four meters to find the metal objects."

While he was introducing the situation, Ye Tian had already approached.

While checking the signals and data of the pulse metal detector, he smiled and said:

"Guys, you seem to have forgotten that we are at the top of the mountain, not on the ground. It is not difficult to move the stones and rubble under our feet, but it is very difficult to dig down. The bottom is all hard. Granite! ”

Hearing this, Anthony suddenly understood.

"Yes, how could we forget this? This is a granite mountain and it is difficult to dig!"

Ye Tian smiled and continued:

"If these metal objects are really treasures and are buried deep underground, then there is only one possibility. There is an unknown secret space beneath our feet.

If we want to dig out these metal objects buried deep underground, there is only one way, and that is to find a way to enter this underground secret space! ”

"Indeed, there must be an entrance into this underground space. Otherwise, these metal objects would not be hidden deep underground!"

Anthony nodded in response.

After analyzing for a moment, Ye Tian gave his own judgment.

"Yes, these metal objects are indeed buried three to four meters underground. Unfortunately, the number is too small, and I don't know their value. Is it worth digging?

They are obviously hidden in an underground space. This underground space may be a tunnel or a secret room. We can try to find it"

"Great, Steven, leave these things to us"

Anthony nodded and said, he couldn't wait any longer.

Ye Tian looked at this guy, then nodded with a smile and said:

"Okay, Anthony, please clean up the rocks in this area first. Remove the small ones. If you can't move them, you can leave them where they are. When the cleaning is completed, I will come over to see the situation!"

Next, he explained a few more words.

Then he took the two archaeologists away and returned to the ruins in the center of the castle to continue their previous exploration.

A few minutes later, an archaeologist suddenly said:

"Stephen, come and take a look. There are some ancient patterns engraved here and a few lines of Tigrinya, which look interesting"

Hearing this, Ye Tian and another archaeologist came over immediately,

This is a stone wall about two meters high. The superstructure has long since collapsed. You can see the blue sky when you look up.

In the middle of this stone wall, there are several relatively flat pieces of granite with some ancient characters and patterns carved on them.

Of course, there are a lot of graffiti on it, which are carved in a mess.

Ye Tian and the others stepped forward and began to look at the ancient characters and patterns.

Unfortunately, none of the three of them knew Tigrinya and did not know the meaning of those words.

But they can see some meaning in those ancient patterns.

"These patterns seem to tell the story of a group of people struggling to survive in a foreign land. There are farming scenes, hunting scenes, and sacrificial scenes, etc. The content is very rich and worth studying!"

An archaeologist said excitedly.

The archaeologist is from Columbia University and is employed by Intrepid Exploration.

Hearing his words, Ye Tian and the other Israeli archaeologist chuckled.

Then the Israeli archaeologist continued:

“What these ancient patterns tell is the development process of a Beta Israel tribe. They live in this mountainous area. The ruins of the ancient castle where we are located were originally built by them.

In the past two or three hundred years, they were defeated by other tribes, and this castle fell into the hands of others. In the next few hundred years, this castle changed hands several times and changed many owners until it was finally abandoned and collapsed. .

The reason why the three-party joint exploration team came here is because this castle was built by the Beta Israelites. The history of the Beta Israel tribe can even be traced back to the period of Menelik I.

Because of this, we have listed this place as a very important exploration location; in fact, before we came here, we sent people to explore here several times, but unfortunately nothing was found! ”

"I see, it seems that you have also mastered the meaning of these Tigrinya words"

"Indeed, what these words introduce is exactly the development process of the Beta Israel tribe, but it is intermittent, and the language is unknown in many places.

In these ancient texts, there is no information related to Solomon’s treasures and the Ark of the Covenant. As for the texts covered by graffiti, I don’t know what they describe.”

"In this case, there is no need for us to waste time here"

The Columbia University archaeologist said.

"That's it, let's go to other places to see"

Ye Tian smiled and nodded.

Then they left here and walked to an abandoned room nearby.

Next, they discovered many ancient words and patterns carved on different stones.

Among them are Tigrinya, the more ancient Gith, Amharic, etc.

Unfortunately, by studying these words and patterns, they did not find any clues related to Solomon's treasure and the Ark of the Covenant.

During this period, several other exploration teams also successively scanned some metal objects.

Ye Tian went over to check the situation, but found nothing surprising.

Most of those metal items were buried under the rubble and were some of the original items inside the castle.

For example, scrapped tableware, broken door knockers, and rusted weapons are of little value.

About an hour later, Ye Tian and the others returned to the ruins on the north side of the castle.

At this time, most of the stones accumulated in the area where metal objects were found had been cleared away, leaving only some relatively large stones that were difficult to move.

The two exploration team members responsible for cleaning these rocks were exhausted and sweating profusely and panting.

When he came here again, Ye Tian glanced around first, then walked into the cleared space and began to check the situation on the ground.

The ground here is paved with granite slabs, which are mottled.

In the gaps around those granite slabs, some plants grew tenaciously. Although they were crooked under pressure, they were still very vigorous.

Ye Tian walked around this area and finally stopped next to a square granite slab at the edge.

The location of the stone slab is five or six meters away from where the metal objects were found.

After standing up, Ye Tian first looked at the condition of the stone slab, then squatted down and began to look carefully.

During the inspection process, he clenched his fist and smashed the stone slab several times, and then smashed several stone slabs next to it.

The sounds made by these stone slabs sound similar, but there seem to be some differences.

Next, Ye Tian looked at the gaps around the stone slab and the grass growing in the gaps.

Then he fell into thinking.

After thinking for about a minute or two, he pointed to the stone slab and said:

“I don’t know if you heard it just now, but the sound coming from under this stone slab is relatively hollow, not as dull as the other stone slabs!”

As he spoke, he made a fist and smashed the stone slab several times, and then smashed several other stone slabs next to it.

After his reminder, others finally heard the difference in the sounds produced by several stone slabs.

"Yes, Steven, there seems to be a slight difference in the sound made by this stone slab and the other stone slabs, but it is difficult to hear it!"

"The sound made by this stone slab is indeed a bit hollow. Could it be that the bottom of this stone slab is not solid?"

The two archaeologists said one after another, both excited.

Ye Tian nodded slightly, and then continued:

"The sound made by the stone slab is one aspect. Look at the gaps around the stone slab. Are the grasses growing in these gaps smaller than other places? They look malnourished!"

As he said this, everyone looked at the stubbornly growing grass and compared it with the plants in the gaps between the stone slabs next to them.

Comparing the two, everyone immediately saw the difference.

"Yes, Steven, these grasses do look a little malnourished. They are not as lush as the plants in the gaps between the surrounding stone slabs. What does this mean?"

"It's very simple. This shows that they don't get enough nutrients from the ground. From this, we can conclude that the bottom of this stone slab is probably empty, so it cannot provide enough nutrients for them."

Ye Tian smiled and gave the answer,

"Is this the entrance to a secret passage? Or is it a secret underground chamber?"

"Are the locations of the metal objects we just explored connected with here? This possibility seems very high!"

Several people at the scene said excitedly, and everyone's eyes shone.

"Whether it is the entrance to a secret passage or an underground secret room, the answer will naturally come to light when we pry open this piece of granite!"

Ye Tian said with a smile, and the others nodded.

Then everyone got busy.

When we went up the mountain before, in order to reduce the burden, everyone did not bring a combination winch.

In other words, if you want to pry up this seemingly heavy stone slab, you can only use manpower and a crowbar to pry it up, there is no other way!

For this task, Ye Tian naturally did his part.

For safety reasons, he checked the stone slab and the surrounding situation again before taking action.

What is certain is that there are no fatal traps here.

However, it is unknown whether there is danger hidden under this stone slab.

The underground space under the stone slab may have been closed for a long time and has accumulated a lot of toxic gases. It may also be home to some highly toxic things, such as venomous snakes.

For safety reasons, Ye Tianrang’s employees, two archaeologists, and several Tigray people stood at a distance and put on gas masks.

He himself did the same, donning a gas mask and stab-resistant gloves.

After taking protective measures, he picked up the crowbar and inserted one end of the crowbar into the gap between the stone slabs.

Next, he pressed **** the other end of the crowbar, trying to pry up the heavy granite slab.

At first, the granite slab didn't move at all.

As he continued to increase his strength, he finally slowly pried up the granite slab that seemed to be growing on the ground, and one end of it gradually left the ground.

It was only then that everyone saw clearly how heavy the granite slab was.

The pried-up end is about fifteen centimeters thick.

The area of ​​the entire stone slab is almost one square meter, and the overall weight can be imagined!

Just such a granite slab weighing several hundred kilograms was pried up by Ye Tian alone.

Seeing this scene, everyone at the scene gasped.

"Oh my God! This guy Steven is so scary. Where does he get such strength? It's incredible that he can lift such a heavy stone slab by himself!"

"I'll go! This guy is simply a humanoid monster, always able to create all kinds of miracles!"

While everyone was exclamating one after another, the heavy stone slab had been pried aside by Ye Tian, ​​revealing a gap about twenty centimeters wide.

As he expected, there were no deadly traps under the stone slab.

The moment the stone slab was pried open, no javelins or sharp arrows were shot out.

However, Ye Tian felt a fishy smell suddenly rush up from deep underground.

Fortunately, he was wearing a gas mask and the protective measures were in place, so he was not infected.

Then he heard another hissing sound, which was terrifying.

Before he could react, the white elf who had been hiding in his left sleeve suddenly sprang out like lightning and directly ran into the dark space under the stone slab!

The next moment, the underground space was completely boiling.

Until this moment, Ye Tiancai quickly backed away and shouted:

"Everyone's best to stay away. This is a snake cave. There seem to be many venomous snakes living in it. Be careful. No one can get close without my permission. Everyone should also pay attention to your steps. There may be venomous snakes around. ! ”

Before he finished speaking, the others quickly backed away a few steps, away from the hole leading deep underground.

At the same time, everyone quickly looked at the surrounding situation, everyone was terrified!