I Inherited 5,000 Years of Family Property

This was an extremely detailed map of Huaxia, and the circle drawn by Zhang Menglong encompassed a region in the western part of Huaxia, which was almost as large as a modern city.

"Menglong, are you saying there is an ancient city buried beneath this place?" Zhou Lao found it hard to believe, as the area marked by Zhang Menglong on the current map was a vast desert with no vegetation around and an extremely harsh environment. Could such a place have hosted a civilization over 5000 years ago?

It is well-known that the establishment of ancient civilizations was heavily dependent on the environment. Taking the civilizations discovered in Huaxia so far, all were in the Yangtze and Yellow River Basins, thriving by mountains and rivers.

If a civilization had been established in a desert, what would they have eaten or drunk? This simply did not meet the environmental conditions for civilization establishment of that era.

"Why not find out by digging?" Zhang Menglong said with a smile, "Although this place is now a desert, over 5000 years ago, it was considered a geomantic treasure land."

"I do not doubt that," Zhou Lao said. The geological activity in this region was relatively active, often with movements of tectonic plates. Geologists had once speculated that this area was not always a desert, as fossils of aquatic life had been excavated from the sands.

This area was very unusual, as typical geological movements go through a process, unless those caused by volcanic eruptions or earthquakes that result in rapid changes.

However, according to the data measured, there had been no significant alterations in the geological deep layers over thousands of years, yet traces of geological changes were evident on the surface.

This was very strange, as the sources of earthquakes are generally very deep. How could there have been changes on the surface, but no variation internally?

"How about this, if you are skeptical, I will cover the excavation costs," Zhang Menglong said. "But you need to involve more authoritative experts; I do not want to see those people from Qingqiu Country later deny everything with a mess of excuses."

"There's no need for that; the state is still very wealthy. If there is indeed such a large-scale archaeological discovery, no matter how much is spent, it will be worth it!"

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The Kumtag Desert, one of the eight great deserts of Huaxia, was unusually cold and dry in winter. At night, temperatures even fell below zero, and almost no normal person would venture into the desert at such a time.

In the night sky, a beam of light gradually expanded and landed in the center of the desert—Huaxia's newest Longxia stealth fighter jet, marked with the symbol of the "Longxia Special Operations Group."

Two men and a woman, all dressed in special leather outfits, stepped out, then glanced around at the endless desert.

"What the hell is headquarters thinking, sending us to do an archaeological investigation in this godforsaken place in the middle of the night?" a young man with fiery red hair, appearing to be in his twenties, said reluctantly.

"Exactly, does investigating this require the people from Longxia?" The girl also expressed impatience on her face.

The people from Longxia usually handled important and dangerous missions. Investigating a desert was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. Were all the archaeological teams useless?

"Enough with the complaints," said the slightly older man, "Headquarters mentioned that there might be a large ancient city about seventeen or eighteen meters underground. Due to the high difficulty and cost of excavation at such depth, they want us to verify whether the information is accurate.

"How could there possibly be a city so deep?" the young man scoffed. "There's no volcano here. Even if it were buried by volcanic ash, it wouldn't be at a depth of seventeen or eighteen meters, right? That city called Pompeii was buried about six or seven meters only."

"Exactly. The average depth of this desert is only about three or four meters, and then it's the rock layer. The city can't possibly be buried under the rock, can it?"

"Enough talk, since the command has been given from above, let's follow the order," the team leader said. "If there really is an ancient city buried here, it would be a tremendous discovery!"

"I'd rather be fighting those damn international psychics on the border for three hundred rounds. Digging here really isn't interesting!" Although the young man said this, he still obediently began to follow the instructions given.

A glint of blue light flashed in his eyes, and the sand in front of him moved as if alive, crazily surging around. His ability was to control rocks and sand; if his supernatural abilities were strong enough, he could even trigger an earthquake above magnitude 10!

"Captain, look, isn't that the rock layer below?" A sand pit over ten meters in diameter appeared in front of the young man, but inside the pit was the hard, barren Gobi.

"I'll check it out!" The squad's captain leaped down and took out a device to start testing the ground.

"Captain, it surely won't be there. If there was such a big city below, it would have been discovered long ago. Someone must think we are fools!"

"Not quite right!" the captain suddenly said, "The composition of the rock layer here is different from the data!"

"What?" At this moment, the faces of the two young team members changed, "What do you mean?"

"Look, according to the records, the rock layer here should have been formed by a geological change 120,000 years ago, but this layer is showing only 20,000 years old, such a fault shouldn't exist!"

"Are you saying that this... this rock layer was moved here from somewhere else?" As a Psychic with the ability to manipulate earthen rocks, the young man knew this ability the best.

"That's right, this rock layer must have been moved here by other means."

"That's impossible! According to the map, this city spans over 20 square kilometers. Even the leader's supernatural abilities couldn't support shifting such a massive rock layer. How could people from 5,000 years ago have managed it? Could it be aliens?"

"I too am more inclined to believe this was the work of aliens," the captain took a deep breath, "If this really was done by Psychics of that era, they must have been incredibly powerful. Probably they would need at least 30 units of energy to barely manage it?"

"Don't jump to conclusions; let's see what's below first!"

"Yes!"

Everyone's mood shifted from initial impatience to being filled with curiosity. This was not only a huge discovery for geology and archaeology but potentially a monumental find in understanding the origins of Psychics for humanity!

"Crackle!" The underground rock layers started to tremble.

"Su Nian, help me out. The rock layer is too tough here, all granite, and I'm struggling alone!"

The Psychic named Su Nian joined in as well.

Cracks extended from the ground, one meter, two meters, five meters, until they nearly reached ten meters, and they finally found an underground space!

"It's not solid below! There's a huge space underground!"

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The three exchanged glances, almost certain now that the information above was accurate—there truly might be a city underground!

"Let's go down and look!"

All three being Earth Attribute Psychics, they finally opened a crack spanning several meters that was passable for a person.

They directly jumped down along the crack and with a cloud of dust swirling, they landed on a flat surface, even though they could see nothing around them in the pitch dark.

"Here we go!" A stick of the latest technological light source was thrown out, instantly illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

"This..." The three men's lips kept twitching, "This... this is flipping insane!"