Chapter 811: Mural
It was getting slightly brighter, and Yuei Vu had already embarked on his journey to visit the archaeological captain.
That address was located on the outskirts of the country, on the edge of a rather remote small village. The intelligence said that the archaeological team leader Keita Koizumi did not originally live there. He was a native city man who had lived in mechanized and urbanized areas since childhood.
But it was only after he unearthed an unknown object that he made a special trip to the countryside, and specifically chose this remote corner on the edge of the village to live in, almost isolated from the world.
This location was really hard to find. There were no road signs or guideposts, and beside the road leading to Mr. Keita Koizumi's residence were all mountains that looked similar.
Yuei Vu sat in the back seat of the off-road vehicle, looking through the window at the endless blue river sparkling in the sun, looking at the lush jungles along the coast, and the mysterious and silent mountains, feeling every scene seemed to have been copied and pasted with minimal modifications, and the differences were so subtle that they were reminiscent of the game you played in childhood magazines where you were given two pictures and asked to "find the difference."
The off-road vehicle stopped at the foot of the mountain. Yuei Vu asked the driver and bodyguard arranged by Kaiba Corp to stay in the car and got out of the car to visit his target.
His destination was a small duplex white building, located just at the foot of the mountain, backed by dense woods and shrubs, and even seemed a bit abrupt in such a natural scenic spot.
The person who answered the door was Ken Koizumi, Keita Koizumi's younger brother. The two brothers lived here together.
Since he had already greeted in advance the night before, the host was not surprised by Yuei Vu's visit. He warmly invited Yuei Vu into the house and prepared good tea for him.
"My brother went into the mountains yesterday afternoon and hasn't come back yet." Ken Koizumi said while pouring tea, "But according to experience, he will be back before lunch. If you don't mind, you can wait a moment."
"He spent the night in the mountains?" Yuei Vu was a little surprised, "Does he often do this?"
"Yes." Ken Koizumi said helplessly, "Mountain climbing is one of the few hobbies my brother has, and it was an interest I tried my best to get him interested in at the beginning of the year.
Otherwise, he just stays at home every day, unable to get excited about anything, depressed, and seems to have lost interest in life itself. "
"Sounds like depression."
"Indeed but he was not like this before." Ken Koizumi sat down on the sofa opposite, "He used to be an optimistic person, with a passion for archeology that ordinary people could not match.
He is also very passionate about life itself and looks forward to every day. He once believed that he could make huge discoveries that would shock the world like Columbus discovering the New World, like Pegasus finding the tablets for dueling monsters. "
"He succeeded?"
"Succeeded but also failed." Ken Koizumi was depressed when mentioning this part. "My brother did discover something. From an archaeological point of view, he may have succeeded, but he was also affected by his own success.
After returning from that mission, he seemed to be a completely different person. He has no passion and has lost interest in everything in the world.
I saw that his spirit became more and more depressed and he became more and more haggard. It was as if he was afraid of something, some fate that he felt he couldn't escape. "
Yuei Vu thought this sounded even weirder.
"So did he mention anything about what happened during that mission?"
Ken Koizumi shook his head.
"He signed a confidentiality agreement with the relevant departments at the time and could not disclose the contents of the incident to anyone. Moreover, Keita himself was very resistant to recalling those things. Since coming back, he has been trying his best to forget those things .it just might not be very successful."
Koizumi paused.
"But I kept telling him that continuing to sink like this is not an option. So I was very happy to hear that you were coming over last night, Mr. Yuei Vu.
If you really want to know what happened, you can ask Keita in person later. I think if it were you he might be willing to tell. "
So before Keita Koizumi came back, Yuei Vu stayed.
Ken Koizumi mentioned that there are some of his brother's most proud collections in the house, some of which were discovered during his archaeological work, and some were obtained from other sources.
For Yuei Vu, archeology was equivalent to an alien culture, and he could be said to know nothing about it. While he was visiting, he couldn't help but express his admiration. However, in fact, he was just a country idiot and couldn't see anything.
Until he saw a mural.
To be precise, it was a replica of a mural. The moment his eyes fell on the vivid carvings on the golden stone slab, Yuei Vu was firmly attracted as if possessed. His eyes did not blink, and for a moment he couldn't help but doubt the authenticity of what he saw.
The accompanying Ken Koizumi quickly realized that this distinguished guest was interested in this collection, so he stepped forward and explained: "My brother acquired this with a lot of effort.
Its original work is a mural unearthed in Egypt. I dont know much about the details, but Keita seems to have mentioned that the creation of this mural involved some ancient alchemy that we havent figured out yet.
He said that because of some magical properties of alchemical materials, it is difficult to be corroded by time, so people still have no way to determine the age it came from"
Ken Koizumi obviously didn't know much. His understanding of the collection here only came from his brother's words in daily life.
But Yuei Vu soon stopped listening to Ken Koizumi's words, and all his attention was attracted to the mural.
He saw that the ancients used rough and crude lines to depict majestic and majestic compositions. He saw a giant dragon churning in the sky based on the relief on the stone slab that was once guarded by the Tomb Keeper Clan, Yuei Vu was 70% sure that it was the "Orisis the Sky Dragon" because it was similar to the painting on the relief. The shape of the wind was exactly the same.
In the same way, the abstract giant standing on the ground should be the "Obelisk the Tormentor". "The Winged Dragon of Ra" spread its wings and hung high on their heads, and there were lines around the body that represented the sunshine. The simple lines expressed the sacredness vividly.
On their opposite side, in another territory, he saw three similar beings. A roaring dragon in the sky, a demon in charge of thunder, and a huge giant with demonic wings.
Although he had never seen these in other materials, he quickly speculated that they should be "Uria, Lord of Searing Flames", "Hamon, Lord of Striking Thunder", "Raviel, Lord of Phantasms", that was, three Sacred Beasts.
If these were normal, the rest were even weirder.
For example, there seemed to be three statues of gods emerging at the end of a distant ocean outside the continent. There was a one-eyed man with a scepter, a cunning little man wearing a tall hat, and a thundering giant with broad shoulders and immense strength.
It was very obvious that they were gods from Norse mythology, Odin, Loki, and Thor, known as the "Three Polar Gods of the Star World".
In another part of the painting, there were also burning lines etched on the ground, outlining the curves of various animals. There were giants, spiders, hummingbirds, apes, etc., and each corresponding monster stood tall and proud, and its size was comparable to that of gods and demons.
Those were the "Nazca Lines", which corresponded to the beings known as "Earthbound Immortals".
A battle between gods and demons, like a mural depicting the end of the world.
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