Rebirth of the Viking King

Chapter 520 39 The First Night’s Ending Point

Loki thought carefully several times, making sure that every detail he inferred could match the information given by Concubine Xue.

But having said that, no matter how hard you think about it, this is still a guess put together by a time traveler more than a thousand years later, using countless movies, magazines and online literature in his mind.

Supervisor inference still accounts for the vast majority of it. There were many details in the story that he still couldn't answer.

For example, where did all these events originate?

For another example, Concubine Xue knew it was a fire pit, but she still jumped in without hesitation.

Did she have her own plans? Like the "traitor" in "Three Kingdoms", seeking interests for himself in the cracks between the two major forces?

Of course, it also includes the biggest mystery to himself today.

(Why did I lose exactly 13 years of memory and then wake up in the middle of endless yellow sand?)

Was all this and the girl he met subsequently a coincidence or was it premeditated? !

To these two questions, Old Harsh could not give him an answer, Mergwin could not give him an answer, and Concubine Xue could not give him an answer.

In the drowsy thinking, time passed slowly. The girl still sat opposite Loki without feeling sad or happy, drawing the familiar hieroglyphs with her hands, and speaking a wonderful pronunciation that did not belong to this world.

In this hazy atmosphere, the scorching sun outside the window quickly slid from the mountains in the east to the sand sea in the west.

No wind and no danger.

The first day of the desert journey ended smoothly.

**

The Hashhorse team showed Rocky the utmost respect.

Everyone else in the team needs their horses to escort them on the left and right sides of the team. Only he can sit in the column like an official, drinking wine and leaning on the Persian blanket, and spend his days leisurely.

First of all, of course, it is because everyone believes that he is the legendary king of the Vikings.

He has the highest status in the game.

But of course it is also inseparable from the fact that this entire truckload of goods was only snatched away from the hands of the Crescent Chamber of Commerce due to his brave fighting.

The rules on the road were that he could take at least half of the goods, but he generously gave all of the more than a hundred carriages to Old Hash.

Not to mention lying in the car drinking, even if he wanted to hold a few more women, Old Hash would do everything possible to do it for him.

On the first day, the Hash caravan walked in the sea of ​​sand until the bright moon hung high, and then stopped beside the ruins of an abandoned city.

Since leaving the city of Memphis, they have passed several similar villages and towns along the way south.

Egypt a thousand years ago was not the dilapidated and desolate appearance it is today. At that time, the banks of the Nile were not endless yellow sand and wasteland. The fields on both sides of the river were full of working serfs.

They don't need to put in much hard work. They can get a good harvest just by relying on the regular flooding of the Nile River every year.

However, the continuous wars and the large number of deaths and losses of "temple sacrifices" have made this once prosperous country no longer the grand occasion it once was. As the population becomes smaller and smaller, the fields are barren and the population is lost, causing the once fertile land to become what it is today.

In the past, Old Hash chose to avoid all the ruins of ancient towns. Mergwin wanted to enter the ruins of the village to investigate, but all the workers in the caravan stopped him.

The young maester didn't understand why, but he could only obey.

This village is different.

Harsh led the horse team straight through the gate and all the way to the side of the foot of an abandoned idol. The starlight in the sky can only vaguely reflect a general outline. In terms of appearance, it is similar to the bird's claw of a big bird.

The first person in the team to realize that something was wrong was Mergwin, who was walking behind Old Hash.

Although he is only 22 years old, he has been studying ancient Egyptian history for more than 10 years. She knows all the gods believed in in this ancient kingdom's 5,000-year history.

Familiarity with their faces is like knowing your own parents.

The ancient Egyptian gods were much more like humans than similar monsters. None of them would have the soles of their feet like this. If you insist on saying something similar,

At the same time, across the Mediterranean, the god worshiped by the "Assyrians" on the Mesopotamian plains: "Blood Demon" Pazuzu, had a head like a lion, two pairs of wings and a pair of wings like a goshawk. claws.

After just one day of walking in the Black Desert, Harsh was already used to this group of bachelors who would stop and think at any time.

Walking to the side of the bird's claw, he moved a stone slab with force. The mottled marble slab actually slid smoothly along a slide to the other side, revealing a huge hole 7 meters wide and 5 meters high.

This ruined building that looks like the sole of a foot actually hides a much broader underground palace at the bottom!

"We have arrived at the place where we need to rest for the first night. All members listen to my orders and let the members of my caravan enter first!"

"They will open the vents and remove the poison dart trap hidden inside the crypt. Please wait for a while until the underground is ventilated and the torch is lit before entering!"

All merchants who can earn a living on this yellow sand road mainly rely on the memory of where they sleep in their brains.

The Taklimakan Desert after crossing the city of Memphis belongs entirely to free people.

In this dark desert that can bury the entire Mediterranean Sea, there are only 30,000 followers of the ancient god living there.

Other than that, there is only endless fine yellow sand and countless ruins.

At night, Mergwin finally understood why this place was called the "Black Desert." The crystal yellow sand that shines brightly during the day turns into deep darkness at night.

When the sky and the earth are connected in a straight line, sleeping in the wild will feel like you have stepped into endless sticky ink.

If there is another sandstorm in this kind of weather, the dark yellow sand at night will be blown up by strong winds, and the entire world will turn into an airtight black.

That would be a veritable "falling into a black hole."

Therefore, the most important thing when crossing this desert is to find a campsite for the night.

The unwritten rule among the Shakou caravans is not to take strangers across the desert. Because it is very dangerous to reveal the camping ground where you live to others.

If there is an enmity in the future, the enemy can secretly throw some poisonous monsters in the camp or set up a few traps in hidden corners.

The whole team might die in their sleep.

On the way, Harsh stopped Mergwen from leading the bachelor into the village at will. It was because of this consideration. There might be some ancient traps left over from the past at the entrances of these ruins.

As long as you step on it, there is only a dead end in this endless yellow sand.

The same goes for Hash's countermeasures.

Every time before leaving, he would set up several traps where he would stay. Before entering the foothold next time, let the subordinates who have been traveling with you for a long time collect them.

In this way, you can prevent the bird from occupying the dove's nest and allow others to take advantage of the route you have explored through the sand and wind over the years.

After working for nearly an hour, after the ventilation in the underground palace was restored and all the traps were dismantled, a full moon in the dark sea of ​​sand had already risen above the head.

The horses in the cavalcade passed through the gate in twos and twos. After entering the dilapidated patriarch, Loki discovered that the size of this underground palace was surprisingly large.

The light yellow marbles are stacked neatly, forming a huge underground palace with a height of nearly 5 meters. The walls of the underground palace are painted with seated pharaohs, ancient gods, and hieroglyphs that resemble those of the ancient Egyptians.

Harsh's men had already opened the vents and lit torches.

After getting off the horse, he stretched out his hand to touch the mottled wall. Mergwen looked at his companions and found that they also had doubtful expressions.

Why is this hieroglyph so big?