On the other side, about dozens of kilometers apart, two cars were parked in the leeward position, two cars and two people.
At this time, the two people were warming themselves by the fire, and everything around them was completely silent. The only sound was the whistling wind, which made people's hair stand on end.
Logically speaking, this lofty task of pursuing the Age of Gods would not be the responsibility of these two newcomers who had just joined the peripheral organization.
In fact, the arrangements at the organizational meeting were made by a few big bosses.
However, the times are developing, and the bosses, as businessmen, are all keeping pace with the times. If you ask them to take the minimum amount of money, or even give them some extra money, to play dune racing in the desert, that is a joke. Therefore,
They chose to outsource.
After layers of outsourcing, the original funding of 300,000 yuan has become 100,000 yuan, and the number of participants has also reduced to two.
Newcomers are those who have dreams and are too young.
I was deceived by the boss above and said, "What do you mean? If you leave such a critical task to your brothers, that's because the organization is interested in you."
In short, after some words, two young people with dreams paid their own way and ran around to complete tasks.
At the same time, in order to save money, they did not find a guide, but crammed in desert survival knowledge for a few days. After feeling that they were good at it, they went on the trip.
"Brother, I miss home."
Finally, the slightly fatter young man spoke. While speaking, he shook and sneezed.
"I have some thoughts too, why not..."
Another young man responded, and the two looked at each other and thought of going together.
The next morning, the two cars drove quickly out of the desert.
…
"stop!"
Two more days passed. In the morning, Professor Jetev suddenly stopped the convoy, got out of the car, and looked up and down.
"This place once seemed to be a river, a river hundreds of meters wide!"
Professor Jetev said.
"In Sumerian myths and legends, rivers bring life. Thousands of years ago, this place was a forest."
Zhao Cheng said.
"The existence of the river proves that we are not looking in the wrong place."
While talking, Zhao Cheng actually dug out half a shell in the sand.
"In older times, this place should have been a sea."
"Indeed, according to the plate movement hypothesis, many land masses were once oceans, including the one under our feet, such as the Tucker Desert. Someone once found fossils of marine life from the ancient times here."
Professor Jetev nodded.
"In the face of the power of time, the changes in the world seem to be just a moment. But for human beings, this moment is a time of hundreds of millions of years. Let alone the universe, compared with the planet under our feet, human beings are too small.
Already."
Professor Jetev sighed.
"Of course, human beings also have something unique, and that is civilization, a splendid civilization. After trillions of years, stones are just stones. If civilization lasts for trillions of years, it may create miracles."
…
After that, a few people took photos here, and then the group continued on their way.
Another three days passed, and by this time, the group had gone deep into the Tucker Desert. At this depth, the landscape became strange, and the color of the gravel on the ground was constantly changing.
On the way, the group also encountered some oases. These oases were small, not big, and there were few people in them.
More than a hundred years ago, some people still lived in the oases in the desert, but now, most of them have migrated.
Not only is the further desertification of the land reducing the area of oasis, but the most important thing is that the desert is isolated from the world. The civilized world of flowers and flowers is what people yearn for.
A group of people replenished part of the water in the oasis.
In the afternoon of this day, the motorcade suddenly stopped.
Because the scenery ahead is extremely eye-catching and even a bit incredible.
It was a brown stone forest, existing in the open air. The height of the stone forest was not high, and the highest one was only over two meters high. But it could be seen that the larger place was buried in the sand, and what was exposed was only
Just the tip of the iceberg.
"This place seemed to be buried in the sand before. Due to the further desertification of the land, a lot of sand and dust were swept away by the strong wind, and the stone forest was revealed."
Professor Jetev said that he was not a geology major, but he was not an ordinary person either. He still knew some basic knowledge in this area.
Professor Jefft's eyes were wide open at this time, and other people in the team were also amazed. Even Zhao Cheng felt a little emotional about the power of nature and the power of time.
The stone forest is made of stones, but the key is not that, but the fossils mixed in the stones.
A few days ago, they had just talked about how this place used to be an ocean, and now they saw this small stone forest.
The stone forest occupies a small area. At first glance, it can be seen that it is about a few hundred meters wide and is very sparsely distributed. Although it is said to be a stone forest, in fact, in many places, there are only slight bulges.
No one had any intention of destroying the place and digging for fossils. They just picked up a few stones with fossil patterns in the sand as a souvenir.
Prehistoric marine creatures were relatively large, so the veins on fossil fragments were only partially organized, or even only a very small part of them.
In fact, in this era, there are still huge ocean beasts like prehistoric creatures in the deep sea.
Zhao Cheng has a lot to say on this point, because he has eaten raw meat before, and the taste is actually okay, but the meat is a bit old.
Among the many ocean giants, the deep-sea giant octopus has the best taste.
The group of people stayed briefly in front of the stone forest and used special instruments to calculate the latitude and longitude coordinates.
Afterwards, everyone walked around.
"In legend, after the collapse of the Sumerian dynasty, the ancient Babylonian dynasty was born. In addition to the hanging gardens, gold was also used to create the wonder of a golden city to demonstrate the greatness of civilization."
That night, when it was getting dark, the group of people talked about the ancient Babylonian kingdom after dinner.
But this time, a group of people did not spend the night in the sand, but in an oasis, covering an entire square kilometer.
There is actually a tribe of people living on the oasis.
The skin color of the people here is reddish brown, and their language and civilization are still hundreds of years ago. Therefore, Zhao Cheng played a guest role as a linguist and received warm hospitality from the people here.
Of course, Zhao Cheng and his party also left behind some supplies brought by the outside world.
For people in the civilized world, compressed food is naturally not considered delicious, but it is different here.
While eating, Zhao Cheng and the others also witnessed a dance that was said to come from the distant Babylonian dynasty and would only be performed when entertaining the most distinguished guests.
Therefore, they would talk about the ancient Babylonian dynasty after dinner.
"If the Golden City really exists, it should not be gold, but brass." "If the Babylonian Dynasty discovered a huge chalcopyrite and used it to build a wonder, it would be very possible.
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Zhao Cheng and Professor Jetev discussed.
"There is indeed a view in the academic world that in ancient times, many civilizations used brass as gold."