Vol Chapter 4 (1/2)
Chapter 4: Infiltrating
Next morning, all prisoners went to the train station and boarded the train. In this expedition, in addition to 15 prisoners, there were ten armed security guards, 20 Cla.s.sical Exploration Company employees and finally the Big Beauty and Ding Ze.
Among Cla.s.sical Exploration Company employees there was an old man, who was the core of this expedition. Only after a.n.a.lyzing a large amount of historical data, was he able to locate the location of The Lost City. He came to the prisoner compartment to explain the purpose of this expedition and told them about The Lost City.
The Lost City was only recorded in some of the ancient doc.u.ments. More than a 1,000 years ago, Dawn Empire opened a road leading to Steel Empire which is now called Twilight Road. The Lost City was first found during that expedition. According to the records, The Lost City was near a desert oasis with a total population of more than 7,000 people. A few months later, The Lost City’s envoys together with the expedition team returned to the Dawn Empire and met the Dawn Empire’s emperor.
The Lost City’s messenger introduced the situation of The Lost City. They were originally a nomadic tribe who later relied on the oasis to slowly grow and develop. The Dawn Empire’s emperor sent a messenger with a large number of gifts to visit The Lost City. When the messenger arrived back, he wrote the record about The Lost City. In his records, he explained that The Lost City might be small but it was not a peaceful place. The two princes there were competing for the throne, but the shaman said that the elder prince would lead the city to disaster so he was exiled and the younger prince inherited the throne.
But those records ended here. The next year Emperor again sent his messenger to The Lost City only to find that it had together with the oasis entirely disappeared. Knowing about this, the Emperor then sent out 500 soldiers to find The Lost City, but they not only returned empty handed half of the soldiers died on that expedition too.
Old professor said: “A few months ago, a number of cultural relics were unearthed, there were many cultural relics with records of 500 soldiers march. Using most of the clues, we were able to guess the place those 250 soldiers went missing. The Lost City did not disappear, but a ma.s.sive sandstorm had hit The Lost City. The Lost City and oasis disappeared into the sea of sand. This archaeological drill will explore the depths of sand, and then use the metal detector to look for The Lost City, this work is very simple, if it goes all according to the plan, in ten days we can return home.”
Cui Ming laughed in his mind, return home in 10 days? If it was so simple why would they invite two experts? Cui Ming looked towards the front row of large cars, Ding Ze’s strength was unknown, but Big Beauty was definitely an expert. From her actions in the prison, Big Beauty had demonstrated physical strength that a normal human body cannot. Cui Ming was curious about the large cloth bag the Big Beauty was carrying, he was not able to guess anything about this large flat cloth.
Big Beauty stood up and went to the other compartment, as she asked: “What happened?”
Trolley train salesman squatted on a small cart, he was very puzzled: “I don’t know, there is a row containing ten boxes of poker missing, maybe I did not put it?” She was not sure. Poker was not worth much money, but the thief stole ten boxes, this did not make any sense.
Big Beauty went back to her position,
She and the salesman’s idea were same, although the cart pa.s.sed through the car, the possibility of losing something was great, after all, the ones in this compartment were prisoners. But the reason for taking ten boxes of poker simply could not be explained, there was only one logical explanation, the salesperson forgot to put poker on the small cart.
After a day and night trip, Cui Ming had some understanding of the Big Beauty and Ding Ze. Big Beauty was called North Luna, the head of North Luna Office, her face was mainly expressionless, but her temperament was very good. Ding Ze was not too concerned about the prisoners or expedition, most of the time he only chatted with North Luna, not the kind of talk mostly between men and women, but friendly and gentlemanly one. Not only towards North Luna but towards all the women on this expedition, he behaved in a reasonable and patient manner.