Liu Qi led the team and followed the rope left by Cage towards the mountain crevice. The mountain crevice was rugged and winding. The wide places were easy to pass, but the narrow places could only allow one person to pass sideways. From time to time, he would pass over his head.

Falling weathered gravel.

Not far away, I saw the corpse of an Italian soldier lying on the road. Stones that had obviously fallen from the top of the mountain were lying quietly on the side. The helmet and head of the corpse were severely deformed, unfortunate guy.

Liu Qi stopped and pulled off the soldier badge from the soldier's chest. Then he said to the person next to him: "Write down the name of this soldier so that his mother can know the news of his sacrifice. Remember to tell his mother that he died."

I didn’t feel any pain at all.”

Yes, who doesn’t have a mother? Who doesn’t want his mother to know about him? When his son travels thousands of miles away, his mother is worried. Especially on this battlefield where guns and cannons have no eyes. The Italian soldiers next to him couldn’t help but moisten their eyes when they saw this.

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After Liu Qi finished all this, he continued to move forward along the rope left by Cage. At this time, the light from the crack gradually stopped shining on the ground, and the front completely turned into a cave. In addition to the team, there were also lights everywhere.

The torch was still shining, and everything else was pitch black. And Liu Qi's firm figure slowly grew taller in the eyes of the soldiers. The originally low morale of the team seemed to have changed after a shot of medicine.

, as if a spirit suddenly glows.

Liu Qi felt that all the white spots that had been mixed in the troops had basically disappeared, leaving only a black and gray light strip. Liu Qi knew that the troops now truly obeyed his command. He couldn't help but feel secretly happy in his heart.

Even the darkness' oppression and troubles on Liu Qi are much less.

No one spoke, and Liu Qi also felt the infantry radar in his mind while walking forward with one foot high and one foot low. He didn't know how long he had been walking, but Liu Qi felt in his mind that the leading soldier at the front had stopped.

After a while, Cage came to Liu Qi from the front with a torch. "Lieutenant Colonel, the ground in front is full of quicksand, it is impossible to pass through. The two soldiers at the front just stepped on it and sank. Fortunately, the ground on their bodies was covered with quicksand.

The rope saved them."

"Oh? I'll go take a look at the front." After saying that, Liu Qi followed Cage to the front of the team.

There was no danger on the surface of the flat sand. Liu Qi picked up a fist-sized stone and placed it on the sand in front of him. The sand seemed to be alive, and the stone slowly sank bit by bit.

, in the end there was no shadow of the stone at all, and the sand returned to its original flat state.

Liu Qi was a little dizzy when he saw this. However, Liu Qi also graduated from an engineering college and had been working with the construction team for more than half a year. Solving this problem was not a problem. Liu Qi asked the soldiers to use steel nails to form a zigzag shape.

The rocks on both sides were dug into and connected with ropes, and finally wooden boards were laid on top. People walking on the wooden boards and swinging around reminded Liu Qi of the small suspension bridges he used to walk in the park when he was a child.

Originally, the marching speed in the dark was not fast, and the marching speed was even slower when the bridge was being laid. Liu Qi was anxious, but it didn't show up at all on the surface. Fortunately, the quicksand area was only a few hundred meters away. That's how the bridge was built ahead.

The soldiers were also panting from exhaustion.

"Rest where you are for an hour. Eat something before leaving." Liu Qi saw that the soldier's physical strength would not be able to keep up if he left again, so he ordered.

As soon as Liu Qi finished speaking, both the German and Italian soldiers and the SS soldiers sat down on the ground with a huff. They took out their rations and water and ate them hungrily. Think about it, they would gather in the evening and march on foot.

It is no exaggeration to say that I was tired and hungry in the morning.

At this time, the SS guard next to Liu Qi also brought out food for Liu Qi. Liu Qi saw that it was some bread and dried meat. So Liu Qi's first meal after crossing over was in the cave of Death Valley.

After breakfast and a short rest, Liu Qi and his men started a new march. This time, there was no quicksand terrain, but Liu Qi felt that the terrain was getting lower and lower as he went, and the rocks on both sides clearly showed the fractured rock layers.

It keeps changing. The road on the ground has also changed from sand to dirt, but the soil on the ground is very muddy. It seems that there is an underground river very close to here.

This walk lasted for 6 hours, and it was hard to feel how far he had walked in the dark cave. In fact, Liu Qi only walked a few kilometers in the cave, but there were no road signs and the dark and depressing atmosphere made it difficult to tell the change of time.

and the length of the journey.

"Lieutenant Colonel, if you see a light ahead, you may be walking out soon." A soldier who was scouting the road shouted.

Liu Qi was startled when he heard this. He was finally leaving this hellish place. If he continued walking, some people would probably have a nervous breakdown. Liu Qi thought to himself as he quickened his pace.

The sound of running water came from the distance. As it got closer and closer to the bright place, the sound of running water became louder and louder. Liu Qi thought to himself, there is no river here on the map, how could he hear it?

What about the loud sound of the river? When Liu Qi came to the entrance of the cave, he saw Cage and a group of soldiers looking out of the cave in trance, their eyes a little straight.

Looking up, a bucket-shaped valley appeared straight up and down in the eyes. There was another cave entrance less than 200 meters away from the cave entrance, but all the water flowing out from that cave entrance formed a waterfall that rushed straight up and down.

There is a bottomless hole at the bottom of the cliff. The water flows into this hole without stopping. And Liu Qi and the others are now at the middle bottom of a cliff. To be more precise, it is the waist of the cliff.

Under the entrance of the cave where Liu Qi stayed, there was a path carved out of the rock that slowly descended along the barrel-shaped stone wall.

It seems that humans have been here before. The stone walls on the side look extremely smooth due to long-term moisture infiltration.

"Let's go down." Liu Qi said, and the group of people carefully walked down the path slowly. Everyone knew that if they fell from here, they would definitely be dead or alive. I don't know how long they have been walking.

, finally descended to the bottom. I saw that the mouth of the bucket in the sky turned into a bright shape the size of a bowl. A stone house appeared at the bottom of the valley against the stone wall. The stone houses were made of huge stones of about one meter, and the surfaces of the stones were carved with

Beautiful text patterns.

Liu Qi couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when he saw it. He originally wanted to find a way through here. Unexpectedly, he found an ancient stone house. Liu Qi asked Cage, "Do you know what the pattern words on it mean?"

"Lieutenant Colonel, I don't know. But I know there are people who know what it means. They are in our team." Cage replied.

"Oh! There are still such talents, please come to the front."

After a while, Cage brought three Italian soldiers. He said to Liu Qi, "Lieutenant colonel, there are three. Two of them are the Rossi brothers, and one is Curtis, the director of the Roman Museum."

Professor Larch's disciple Philip Luonan. As for these two brothers..." Cage leaned down and whispered a few words into Liu Qi's ear.

After listening to Cage's narration, Liu Qi couldn't help but sigh. The glorious profession of tomb robbers is really everywhere in the world.

It turns out that Mussolini had been dreaming of a great Roman Empire in the Mediterranean and extremely expanded the army. As a result, although the number of the army was extremely large, the quality was not flattering. The Roman Museum also wanted to take advantage of the occupation of other countries to rob and steal other countries.

country’s cultural relics.

So several teams composed of archaeologists, history professors, and professional tomb robbers were sent to the armies of all Italian-occupied countries in the Mediterranean. They were called special affairs handling teams, but they were actually tomb robbers.

But the Italian army is indeed unable to hold up the wall. When Germany invaded France and France was defeated, the Italian command wanted to go down to the mountains to pick peaches and sent hundreds of thousands of troops to invade the French rear. However, they were defeated by three French border divisions.

It was deadly. And the Italian-style North African battlefield also saw hundreds of thousands of Italian troops being beaten to pieces by 30,000 British troops. They almost lost rice.

Faced with Mussolini's pitiful request for help on the phone, "For the sake of the party and the country, please help me". Hitler couldn't stand it, and he didn't want Mussolini, a veteran fascist and Axis teammate, to be

The cuts were too severe. So Rommel was sent to lead the German army to join the North African battlefield. This temporarily resolved Mussolini's crisis.

And Mussolini’s great dream of the Great Rome also drifted away with the wind as the Italian army failed to live up to expectations. He honestly embraced Hitler’s rough retreat, asking Hitler for instructions in the morning and reporting to him in the evening. And Hitler was so face-saving.

I have them all, and naturally I am very satisfied. And Rommel, Hitler's lackey in the early days of World War II, also became the fastest-promoted military general in World War II, and he also got a big piece of the cake. He became a field marshal in just 2 years.

, became the military god in the German army.

Rommel, on the other hand, despised the Italian army from the bottom of his heart. He always used the Italian army as cannon fodder when fighting, and used the Italian army as labor when not fighting. Therefore, although Rommel was the commander of the North African Army and had jurisdiction over the German-Italian Allied Forces, he had no control over the Italian army.

However, Rommel was a figure who was not loved by the soldiers.

Rommel was also a die-hard cultural relic protectionist and did not agree with the Italian army's excavation of the Egyptian pyramids. He even arrested several members of the special affairs team. However, Rommel let go of the older professor-level figures.

He killed them without locking them up.

Liu Qi looked at the three people who had rushed to the stone house in front of the door to study the words on the wall. He sighed and said that he really "does what he does and loves what he does". Even tomb robbers can be professional in archeology.

Looking at Liu Qi's joking eyes, Cage whispered again, "The family of the Rossi brothers is famous in the entire archaeological world. Their ancestors have found countless hidden secrets. In the 18th century, the pyramids in Egypt, the Thai Pyramid in India, etc.

Their family has participated in the excavations of Jiling, China's Dunhuang culture, and secret cities in the jungles of South America. They contain countless treasures of ancient civilizations."

"How do you know?" Liu Qina looked at Cage with doubtful eyes.

"Haha, they are all my little brothers in prison. Without my care, their life in prison would be very difficult." Cage replied.

"..." Liu Qi was speechless.
Chapter completed!