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Chapter 118 The Legacy of the Sea
Joshua was silent for a while, raised his head and drank the wine in the jug before speaking.

In fact, the strange magnetic field encountered in the Atacama Desert mentioned by Kawai Isan is only part of the story, and what Joshua will talk about is to complete the incident from another angle.

After those geophysicists discovered the abnormal magnetic field, the matter has gone beyond the scope of pure scientific research, so the bearded Buswell sent people to cooperate with Kawai San and others to go deep into Atacama to find the special magnetic field. The energy field, and Joshua is one of those who take money to do things.Perhaps due to the special energy field, scientific and technological means such as satellite positioning are useless, so we can only use the most primitive way, which is to see it in person.

That desert is worthy of being the place on earth most like Mars, it is simply a boundless sea of ​​death.Following the group of scientists to drill deep into the sand, the dryness and heat wave swept away the moisture and good temper of the body.After days of searching, a salt mine that was unknown but in perfect condition was discovered.

People were disappointed.Salt mines were hot cash cows even centuries ago, but in recent years they have not been able to produce windfall profits.Although there is funding from Boothwell, there must be an explanation from the original benefactor.The next thing to do is to go back and find out why, or continue to look for mineral deposits.

The harsh environment has made scientists complain, and no one wants to go to the desert to dig ore.Shinichi Kawai, also known as Kawai Isan, stood up at this time.He offered to leave the research team temporarily, and he would lead the team to go deep into the desert to find mineral sources, while the rest continued to study.

Because salt mines cannot produce such a magnetic field, there must be something else, most likely metal mines.At this time, no one bothered to find out why there was a salt mine.

Joshua and others followed Shinichi Kawai to the hinterland of the desert.

When the mummy was discovered, the team was walking inside the whale's skeleton, surrounded by mineralized animal bones.

In fact, it is normal for mummified corpses to appear in the desert. Many ancient people were good at using natural conditions to achieve their understanding of death, or in other words, natural conditions shaped their outlook on life and death.Just like in Egypt, making mummies is also to make the corpse better preserved, and this wisdom will also come from the dehydration effect of the desert itself.

But if this is the case that Joshua and others encountered in the Atacama Desert, it would not be necessary to talk about it.At first, these people didn't care. They were here to be responsible for prospecting and smooth transportation, and no one cared about things other than the mission.

But the researchers on the team saw something was wrong.

The geological formations where the mummies were located were different from the surrounding desert, and the mummies themselves were not actually mummies, because they were not weathered after death, but died of dehydration like fish out of water.

Joshua went to touch the jug again, but the wine had already been drunk, so he froze in a daze.

I signaled to Jarno to join me again with my eyes, and he still had a delicate wine jug in his breast pocket.Arno moved his lips, silently telling me that this is the last.

The most important thing is to listen to what Joshua has to say now. Seeing that Yano didn't mean to give up his love, I had to bear the burden and do it for me.Arno clutched his chest in pain, looked at me with wet blue eyes and shook his head desperately.I couldn't care less about taking care of his emotions, so I reached out and took out the jug.

At this time, a bottle of wine was handed to the appointment letter, and it turned out to be Ali.Joshua was also taken aback for a moment. He looked at the silent Egyptian and took it.I was still holding the flagon with my hand, Yano grinned, and pressed the flagon back.

"Atlantis is not so much a Utopia, but a cursed place." Joshua drank Ali's wine in a few sips, sighed, and continued staring at a certain point on the mural. "Those mummies are very strange. The clothes on their bodies are well preserved. At first we thought it was their skin. In other words, those are their skins, but their skins are worn on their bodies, just like we wear same clothes."

"Wait, you're confusing me." Arno asked inexplicably, still gesticulating. "What does 'skin worn on the body' mean? Can the skin of those mummies be taken off?"

"Take it off, yes, their skin can be taken off. Those mummies lay on the ground, as if they were trying to break free from the skin, and some of the mummies had already broken free. When some skins were found, they were separated from the mummies. Yes, it looks like a burial garment that was thrown aside, so no one thought that it would be skin, and thought that lying on your stomach was a burial custom at that time."

Ali's drunkenness was quite strong, and Joshua talked about it upside down for a long time, and he fell into doubt.

To be buried on your stomach?This is rarely the case in any civilization.But if the 'skin' is really skin, why did those mummies break free again?And would getting rid of the 'skin' be the cause of death for those people?

Atacama's mummy was struggling to move forward, continuing to climb towards the shore while suffering.

In addition, there are some strange things about the mummified corpses found in the ancient formations of the Atcatama Desert.Those few bones did not look like people who walked upright at all, and there was no joint wear and tear at all. Later tests also found that such bones could not support them to walk on the ground, or even crawl.

"Unless they can fly, or live in water all the time," Joshua said.

"Isn't Atlantis just in the water?" The person sitting on the other side of the scientist said distrustfully. "What are you trying to say with all this nonsense?"

"You are stupid, Atlantis was originally an ordinary civilization, and then it sank into the water."

I don’t know who said something, and they chatted about something, and then asked Joshua: “What’s going on in that desert?”

Except for Yano and I, everyone else was also attracted by this bizarre story.But Joshua and others have clearly arrived there, why do they say that Atlantis does not exist?

Joshua didn't answer.This time, no one offered him a drink either.

Although I don't understand why an experienced mercenary needs to drink alcohol to speak out, but the metaphor feels that he did experience something different in that desert, and those experiences are still affecting him today.

The long yellow sand engulfed Atlantis.Perhaps what is written on the beach will eventually be erased by waves, sea breeze and sunshine, but some obsessions are deeply engraved on the bones of the earth and written into the source of all life.Later generations looked at those traces, but could not understand the meaning.

In the silence, I suddenly felt something move in the darkness in the distance.There are reliefs on both sides of the corridor, and our people are all gathered together, and that thing doesn't look like a human figure.

I stared intently, elbowing Jarno to make sure I wasn't dazzled.

"Look there."

Yano followed my line of sight and felt that something was wrong.We walked two steps over there together, and he murmured in a trembling voice: "Holy Virgin Mary!"

(End of this chapter)