Chapter 1449 The mystery left by an empire
Hunter was missing when he came to the bushes.
That's right, a living person just disappeared.
However, a big hole appeared mysteriously on the ground.
"Unfortunate Hunter." Riley quickly made a judgment based on his rich experience: "There must be an underground cave below, and it was empty. Hunter stepped on it and fell down."
He took out a lighting stick and threw it down.
"It's about 20 meters deep." Riley took a breath of air conditioning.
There is absolutely no possibility of surviving if you fall down at such a high depth.
Hunter has a hard time surviving again.
"You can't throw Hunter down." Riley was unwilling to give up on his teammates.
He turned his gaze to Mr. Hartman.
Mr. Hartman nodded quickly.
I don’t know how long it has been like such a deep cave, and it’s hard to say whether there is oxygen inside it.
Fortunately, the expedition team was fully equipped and waited there for more than an hour to confirm that oxygen entered. The hole was completely discharged by the gases that were harmful to the human body. Riley stood up and said, "Ronnie, Andre, you guys go down."
Put down the rope that had been prepared.
After waiting for a while, Andre's voice came from the intercom: "Head, I think you have to come down and see what's going on here."
kindness?
Did they discover something?
This aroused everyone's curiosity.
This also includes Ray Huanxi and Mr. Hartman.
One after another, the expedition members slid down the rope.
When Lei Huanxi's feet touched the ground, he saw Hunter's body.
Hunter is dead.
But Hunter is not the only body here.
There are five other bodies.
It is not so accurate to say that they are corpses.
Because they have become skeletons.
And each skeleton is in a forward pose.
It is not that easy to turn a corpse into a skeleton, it will take at least hundreds of years.
In other words, these five corpses have existed here for at least hundreds of years.
"More than that." Mr. Hartman's hand suddenly pointed to the skeleton.
Everyone has a spear around them.
The same rust, and more importantly:
The spearhead is exactly the same as the one found in the elephant cemetery.
Thousands of years of history.
These five skeletons have been here for thousands of years!
"They were killed and shot from behind."
Riley squatted down and pointed at the skeletons' bodies.
Each skeleton has at least three arrows on it.
These five unlucky guys.
They were shot to death by arrows from behind.
"Those who were murdered, and they were their companions."
Lei Huanxi habitually touched her head and said, "Because they threw themselves forward and completely let the vest out, which means they were not wary of their own being behind them."
Mr. Hartman nodded in praise.
These five people had no idea that the arrow that killed them was actually fired from the hands of their companions behind them.
"The cave is very deep." Lai shone a flashlight in front: "Do you want to go in and take a look?"
"Of course." Mr. Hartman made this decision without hesitation: "I think there must be some secret hidden in this cave with five skeletons, murdered by their companions."
So with Mr. Hartman's permission, the expedition began to head towards the depths of the cave.
The cave is very deep and long, and it seems that there will never be an end.
When the court moved in, it seemed nearly a hundred meters away, a mercenary suddenly stopped: "Hey, there seems to be something in the soil."
He squatted down and dug out the land and handed it over to Mr. Hartman.
Wiped off the soil on it, and it turned out-
It actually seems to be a waist card made of gold!
It is engraved with vague and weird patterns.
Mr. Hartman asked Riley to bring the bright flashlight closer and carefully identify the pattern on it.
After a long time, Mr. Hartman's face changed: "I think I probably guess who these people are."
Everyone's curiosity was suffocated.
"Stay a break, everyone drink some water and eat something."
Mr. Hartman gave the order.
Taking advantage of this rest time, Mr. Hartman said after taking a sip of water:
"More than a thousand years ago, maybe around 1800 to 1900, in the 3rd century AD, an extremely powerful empire appeared in Africa, the Ghana Empire. By the 7th century AD, the Ghana Empire reached the most powerful and vast stage of the empire. At this time, the Ghana Empire had more than 200,000 troops, including the most powerful 40,000 archers."
The Ghana Empire was rich in gold and was called the "Golden Country".
Among them, the 3,000 elite archers around the Emperor of the Empire, each of them carried the waist cards that proved their identity were said to be made of gold.
But then the Ghana Empire began to decline.
In the 11th century AD, the Murabit dynasty rose.
In 1062, the Murabit dynasty invaded Ghana, but was repelled by the Ghanaian army.
However, in 1076, the Murabit dynasty finally captured Quinbi, the capital of the Ghana Empire.
The once extremely powerful Ghana Empire was destroyed.
"It is a historical necessity for an empire from weak to strong, and then to destruction of a country. There is nothing strange about this. There have been many once powerful empires on the African continent." Mr. Hartman said slowly there:
"But don't forget that the Ghana Empire is called the 'Golden Kingdom', where gold is everywhere, especially in the palace of the king of their capital. It is said that every statue is carved out of gold. However, strangely, when the Murabit dynasty captured the capital of the Ghana Empire, only a very small number of gold was found."
His Majesty the Emperor of the Ghana Empire had already died in battle at that time. The unwilling Murabits questioned the whereabouts of the people in the palace one by one.
They got a very frustrating news:
After the first siege of the Murabit Dynasty in 1062, His Majesty the Emperor of the Ghana Empire had realized the huge crisis and began to transfer a large amount of gold from the empire in case of emergency.
For more than ten years, the huge amount of gold has been successfully transferred by His Majesty the Emperor.
But no one can know where the gold was transferred by His Majesty the Emperor.
The only clue is:
Those personal bodyguards of His Majesty, who were responsible for transferring gold, never came back.
The whereabouts of gold in the Kingdom of Gold have since become a historical mystery.
The Murabits also searched everywhere in the Ghana Empire, but they never had any whereabouts.
The Kingdom of Gold disappeared.
The huge gold they once had also disappeared.
This has become an unsolvable mystery in history.
Where did the gold of the Golden Empire go?
Lei Huanxi opened her mouth wide when she heard this:
"Old Ha, do you mean we may have discovered the place where the Emperor of the Ghana Empire hid gold?"
Chapter completed!