Chapter 1274 – Amazing Wealth
For the first time in a thousand years, the Golden Castle was revealed to the world, uncovered the veil of vines shrouded in the castle, the entire castle looks spectacular.
In the castle in the middle of the building is as high as more than 20 meters, huge stone columns, carved with a variety of exquisite and mysterious patterns, rather than this is a castle, it is more like a foreign ancient temple used to sacrifice to the gods in general.
From the domed shape of the building to see, like a very European religious buildings, just why this kind of building will appear in the Central African primitive forest, this is to be Zhuang Rui later test.
Bathed in the sunset afterglow of the Golden City, flashing bright gold light, as if the mirage is generally mysterious and unpredictable, no one knows why it was built, all of this is extinguished in the long river of history.
“I …… I said, Zhuang brother, this …… is what you said a little archaeological site?”
Zhou Liang who stood beside Zhuang Rui, was shocked by this magnificent building to speak all ungainly, not to mention this castle periphery gold-colored walls, even if it is all plated with a layer of copper, that is also worth a lot of money ah!
“Ahem, Big Brother Zhou, I also just discovered it! Haven’t had time to explore it yet, that said, wasn’t it all covered by vines before?”
There was still a big difference between observing the castle with aura, and now checking it out intuitively with the eyes, that visual shock went straight to the heart, it was hard to describe it with words.
So Zhuang Rui didn’t lie, this was indeed the first time he had seen this golden castle in its entirety, and like everyone else, he had just been mesmerized in front of this great architectural miracle created by the ancients.
“Zhuang old brother, this …… this to be all gold, that can …… can be worth how much money ah?”
Zhou Liang was still a bit of an eye candy, when he was clearing the vines, he had also carefully observed some of the objects within the castle including the walls, he could see that this golden building was containing a lot of gold.
After hearing Zhou Liang’s words, Zhuang Rui laughed and opened his mouth to say, “Brother Zhou, vulgar …… you are so vulgar ah! Art is priceless, such a precious work of art, how can it be measured with money?”
Although it is half joking words, but the other half Zhuang Rui is very serious, this castle within the gold reserves is very amazing, even more than the Genghis Khan Mausoleum’s gold house reserves are rich.
But these gold, if and engraved in those walls as well as gold and silver utensils on the pattern compared to the value of gold but become insignificant, those who have been left behind by the precious literature pattern information, more worthy of attention and research.
“Come on, brother I will be a vulgar person, I am acting on orders, and then the value of money I also when I did not see, old brother, you say …… how to arrange it?”
It is reasonable to say that the discovery of such a large amount of gold wealth, Zhou Liang should have to report to the superiors, but for one thing, Zhou Liang and Zhuang Rui have been together in Central Africa for more than a month, the relationship is very good.
Secondly, he also knew that Lai Shaohua sent out helicopters and personnel, and also had the intention of compensating Zhuang Rui for handing over the first culprit of the great American robbery, not to mention that this was what Zhuang Rui’s private expedition had discovered, and if the country were to reach out again, it would be a bit ugly to eat the incense.
“Let’s build up the lights first! Let’s work overnight and move all the items inside into the helicopter, then wait until tomorrow to remove the murals on the fence.”
The afterglow of the setting sun slowly fell, looking at the castle that still emitted endless golden light, Zhuang Rui was unusually excited in his heart, he now had a very peculiar feeling, like he had traveled back in time to Dunhuang more than a hundred years ago, and was eyeballing those foreign adventurers who had crazily plundered the cultural relics of Dunhuang.
Now Zhuang Rui on those people do not seem to have much hatred, everyone in different occasions, its position and assertion of things from a different perspective, Zhuang Rui is now doing things, and those people essentially does not have any difference.
But want to let Zhuang Rui give up this gold city, that is also impossible, he will only in the dismantling as much as possible to maintain the integrity of these cultural relics, and later will restore it in the assembly up.
As long as can unearth the origin of this gold city, it can be said that Zhuang Rui’s stereoscopic museum can completely leap into the ranks of world-class museums, to know, like this ancient architectural wonders, it is only the British Museum to hide.
“Good, do it all!”
After hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Zhou Liang commanded his men to get busy, it was good to know that the shelves had already been set up when the vines were removed earlier, and now all that was needed was to install lighting on the shelves.
This kind of project is really a piece of cake for the logistic support personnel who maintain the fleet all year round, not waiting for the sunlight of Central Africa to completely sink into the forest, surrounding the whole castle, it is already brightly lit.
Zhuang Rui did not have hands to help, he called Peng Fei Li Zhen and others, each took a camera, the castle inside and outside all shot once, these are Zhuang Rui later rebuild the castle important information and basis.
Although the whole castle looks spectacular, but in fact there are only three big buildings, the first is the front hall, the scale is not very big, mainly is the place where the subordinates live, the items inside are relatively rough.
The second is the temple located in the middle, this is also the python’s previous residence, the entire temple is just a large room, up to more than twenty meters high, the most extensive space, in the temple around the walls and the top, are engraved with a variety of mysterious and exquisite patterns.
In addition to some of the few items left inside the temple itself, is full of animal bones, the stench of which makes people want to vomit, but also the most difficult to clean up a place.
As for the third building, is the back of the hall, which is the most gorgeous decoration, but also the most gold and silver items left behind.
According to Zhuang Rui’s guess, this should be the people who built this city lived, there are more than 50 rooms, and there is also a special bathroom, although I do not know how many years were dusty, but through the thick dust, you can still see that year’s rich and luxurious.
After thousands of years, although a lot of things were lost, but the items inside the castle, still far beyond the crowd’s imagination, alone gold and silver wine ware as well as household items, cleaned out more than 20,000 pieces.
But unfortunately, a lot of textiles inside, have been damaged, and in the center of the temple stood in the middle of a statue of a god, its head has disappeared, I do not know whether it was those gorillas play as a ball kicked away.
Throughout the night, the four helicopters almost did not stop, basically was loaded with the return flight, all night shuttling between the “Xuan Rui ship” and the Golden City.
Although the castle is completely cleaned out, there are only three buildings, but this more than a hundred people are busy all night, but only cleaned out a small part of the objects, fortunately involved in the cleanup work are some young boys, but no one complained about the pain and fatigue.
The lights outside the castle have been extinguished, the African morning sun rises high, if the surveillance satellites of various countries observe this picture, they will find that in the depths of this forest, is staging a good ants moving play.
“Damn, no wonder there were so many explorers in the world in the last few centuries, dare I say that this is the fastest way to get money!”
Watching a piece of artifacts being unearthed, Zhuang Rui now understands the behavior of those “explorers” before.
Single has been cleaned out of the cultural relics, Zhuang Rui estimates that the minimum value will be above one billion dollars, and this is only cleaned out one-third of the items, you can imagine, the entire castle contains a wealth of how big a fortune?
“Brother Zhou, didn’t find any written records?”
Zhuang Rui has been busy non-stop these days, although his heart is excited, but at this time his eyes are also full of blood, but he is now most concerned about the problem, or want to know whether to find a written record of the relevant artifacts.
Zhuang Rui is not very proficient in foreign history, if there is no relevant written information, I’m afraid he must ask some foreign scientific researchers to participate in these cultural relics to break the work.
But in this way, the secrets of the Golden City will certainly be leaked out in advance, and Zhuang Rui’s previous plan is somewhat different.
He is trying to in accordance with the specifications of the city of gold in the country, re-build a out, and then from here to get the cultural relics of the original back again, like the British Museum collection of ancient Rome and Greece pavilion.
According to Zhuang Rui’s meaning, after all this is done, he will announce to the world this adventure, can imagine, a gold city out of nowhere, will give the world of exploration and scientific research community to bring how big impact.
However, after hearing Zhuang Rui’s words, Zhou Liang shook his head and said, “It’s all ghostly stuff, where can my warriors recognize it! Older brother, wait for your own time to clean it up after returning to the country!”
It was true that there were some objects engraved with some peculiar patterns, but it was definitely not English, even Zhuang Rui didn’t dare to be sure that it was a text, not to mention that many of these warriors who didn’t even know English.
“Alright! Tough luck comrades, I’ll treat everyone to a big meal later.”
“Reporting to the chief, a secret room has been discovered.”
While Zhuang Rui and Zhou Liang were chatting, a warrior suddenly interrupted the duo’s conversation.
“Secret room?”
Zhuang Rui froze for a moment at his words, he had previously surveyed all three buildings very carefully with his aura, but he was a hundred times too close, he really hadn’t thought to go underground to survey.
“Let’s go, hurry up and take a look, tell the warriors not to damage the things inside anymore.”
When Zhuang Rui and Zhou Liang rushed to the back hall, a few warriors had already taken out all the things inside the secret room, there weren’t many things, only three in total.
“This, this is what was taken out from the secret room?”
Although there were only three objects, it also made Zhuang Rui look straight in the eyes, for no other reason, I’m afraid that the value of just these three items combined would be more than the entire Golden City.