Chapter 992 - The Origins of the AE Capsule (1/2)
The first day of the Lunar New Year was extremely important to every Chinese person In the Chinese community, the luck they received on this day would determine their luck for the year This hy the Chinese had a lot of superstitions surrounding this fateful date, which included see at a round of poker
For Xia Lei, his luck today was pretty decent It would be a difficult task to deter too bad with the information he had just received
In his study at the Peace Mansion, Xia Lei opened the tightly encrypted file inside the USB stick William Mussi had provided him with one text document and a video file inside the USB’s folder
“Could this be how the Aot the AE capsule?” Xia Lei was curious, quickly clicking onto the video
In the media player was a setation to speak of on the brownthe barren land seerapher see a scenery shot of the valley, he moved the camera to another direction deliberately Moments later, the Holy Cross Mountain and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at the foot of the mountain could be seen from a distance
There was no doubt that this was shot in the outskirts of Jerusaleain The videographer seee to be rather shaky It was as if the camera was a GoPro strapped to the top of his head He spoke as he walked, “Today is the first Christ in this da to be worth it As an archaeologist, discovering the eighth wonder in this world is the best Christift God has blessed me with!”
A woe, it’s too early to be congratulating yourself The inforht not be accurate Perhaps that place is nothing but a regular to that we found soe
“Really? I sure hope it is” Elena e, what period do you think this tomb would date back to?”
“I called Israel’s Professor Mark earlier He ht be one from the time of the Crusaders Ah, you know es My dreahts, fighting in the name of the holy God”
“Oh coht Did Professor Mark tell you anything about the who the tos to?” questioned Elena
“Nope, our exchange was fairly sied us to travel here as soon as possible And ta-da! Here we are”
They continued to talk as they continued their descent It took theet to the bottom of the valley
When they made it down the hill, what seemed like a collapsed rock wall appeared in the video In the midst of the rocky mess was a cave that had a diaht
The two archaeologists entered the cave
George turned on his torch, allowing the concentrated ray of light to guide them It was pitch black Save for a few cold stones, there was nothing else to look at
The pair continued to walk forward It was about a distance of twenty e finally yelled into the distance “Professor Mark, we’re here! I’ht Elena with h the dark cave The e, Elena, I’m in here! I’m around twenty meters ahead of you Quick, quick! I can’t wait to show you this e and Elena picked up their pace
The pair continued to walk a distance and iht The space shown in the video had gotten spacious It was a natural cavern in the shape of a triangle It was an equilateral triangle It was almost as if it was a pyramid built deliberately inside the cave
“Wow! Nature is ae choked on his feelings, no longer able to speak coherently
“How the hell is this natural?” A white-haired oldbunch of workers trying to pry open a stone sarcophagus The size of the sarcophagus was huous It looked like a military tank made out of stone Xia Lei reckoned that it was sturdy as hell
“Professor Mark, you were right This is definitely the eighth wonder of this world! She looks like a pyramid built in the middle of a cave! I can’t wait to find out who this to about the owner’s identity?” George went closer to the old htly with the e I too would like to know The ansould probably have to wait until we find sous is opened But before that, I suggest that you take a good look above you” Mark’s tone was full of suspense
The e lifted to look at the scene above him, he froze Suddenly, the man was unable to ht to behold, stunning even Xia Lei, as just a mere spectator in front of his screen
On the top of the equilateral triangle were huned neatly one after another Pieces of hued deliberately as well How it stuck onto the rock as anotheraround the edges of the triangle At a glance, the densely packed skulls covered the upper third of the pyra
“Jesus Christ! Who would do such a thing?!” Elena’s voice trembled with fear “Is this the devil’s nest?”
“Only God knows” Professor Mark said, “Coht” George trailed behind Professor Mark The younger man asked, “Professor Mark, as the first person to find this place? How did he discover it?”
“This place was discovered around a week ago There was a slight earthquake that caused the situation you saw at the cave’s entrance It seems that someone had tried to hide this cave and its existence was uncovered right after the earthquake” Professor Mark s tourists that found this place They reported it to the police and here we are We’ve been working here for a full week because of this daus It’s crazy sturdy and we can’t use explosives on it”
“Yeah, using that would be unwise You’ll risk destroying all the artefacts inside,” couys are lucky You’re just in tioing to be opened soon?” Elena’s pitch went higher due to excitement