The Day of the Draw at Hogwarts

As the camel caravan got closer to the city wall, the city wall became clearer in Tom's eyes.

Although most of it has been submerged by yellow sand, the former grandeur of the city wall can still be seen. The entire city has at least two walls. The first outermost wall is five meters high. There is a gentle slope behind the first wall, and the second wall is erected behind it. Counting the gentle slope, the second wall may be as high as Ten meters.

This is an extremely astonishing number, and the walls of this city are not rammed earth walls, but made of huge stones of the same style as the pyramids. Made of such a strong material, it’s no wonder it has survived thousands of years of wind and sand. Those collapsed places are the gate openings left on the city wall. The wind poured in from there, causing this part of the stone to wear more seriously than other places. Over time, it eventually collapsed completely.

When Tom rode his camel over the city wall, he noticed that the first wall alone was three meters thick, and the entire city could be said to be impregnable.

After entering the city, everyone breathed a sigh of relief because of the protection of the strong city wall, and felt like they were surviving a disaster.

Most of the buildings in the city have been buried by the yellow sand. If it were not for the solid city wall, these ruins would have been buried by the sand long ago. Most of the houses with timber pillars in the city have collapsed, leaving only those houses built of masonry that can barely hold on.

Tom and the others looked around and finally chose a big house. Tom made a rough estimate and found that the area of ​​​​this large room must exceed one thousand square meters. It was more of a warehouse than a big house, and Tom was sure it was a warehouse where important items were stored. Because even though it has collapsed and been buried by yellow sand, it can still be seen that this house has an outer wall, and the house itself is also a large circular house made of accumulated stones.

The old man from Yoshad stayed outside the house to set up the camels. If these camels ran away, the exploration team would have great fun. Others rushed into the room first. The three students were in poor physical condition, and the bumpy day had already cost them half their lives. As soon as they entered the house, they sat down on the floor, took out their water bags and drank heavily - pouring water on their heads to wash away the dust from their faces and nostrils. Dr. Hunter, who felt relaxed, fell straight to the ground and fainted.

Only then did Dr. Hunter's students discover something unusual about their teacher.

"Doctor, what's wrong with you? Doctor!" Will threw the water bag aside and immediately hugged his teacher. His voice attracted the military doctors in the team.

The military doctor briefly checked Dr. Hunter's physical condition and found that he only had a broken arm and detachment, and was not seriously injured. So he first gave the doctor an injection of anesthesia and put him to a deep sleep. Then he fixed his arm and took out the medical kit and put a plaster on him.

"How did it get like this?" Alyosha frowned and asked the team doctor. Dr. Hunter's injury will have a great negative impact on the team's exploration.

The team doctor shrugged, "I may have hit something accidentally."

"As long as you don't have a fever at night, it won't be a big problem." The doctor's diagnosis made the students put their hearts back in their stomachs. Will took out a blanket, spread it on the ground and put the teacher on it, letting him have a good rest.

After all this was done, everyone got a little breather, and the old man from Jushad outside the house also came in.

Tom also had time to take a serious look at the environment in the house.

With just a cursory glance, he verified his previous guess: this was an arsenal! It is a place where weapons are piled up inside the city. There were also a large number of weapons piled on the floor of the house. The dry environment of the desert has preserved them well until now. There are mainly daggers, spears, warhammers and bows and arrows, most of which are made of bone and stone, and a few are made of bronze. In addition to weapons, there are also almost completely rotten leather armors and leather shields.

Since it is an arsenal, the independent exterior walls and thick walls of this room have a reasonable explanation: if there is a rebellion in the city, the guards stationed at the arsenal will rely on these geographical advantages to stay in danger and wait for rescue.

Tom's eyes wandered and finally landed on a strange-looking war hammer. He just glanced at it accidentally, but soon noticed something unusual. Tom looked at it carefully for a while, and found that the warhammer was actually a wand!

Although the structure is very rough and simple, it is indeed a wand, but it is very different from the current wands, and it is also made into the form of a war hammer: there is a copper hammer head at the end of the wand, and there are some Small nails. Obviously, its last owner was also a melee mage.

Others also recovered from the panic of the sandstorm, and they gradually realized that this was the ruins of an ancient city that no one had ever discovered! Thinking of this, everyone cheered up.

Alyosha collected the remains of some weapons from the ground and prepared to light a fire, but Will almost fell on the pile of wood.

"These are cultural relics! You can't touch them!"

Alyosha was a little confused: There were a lot of rotten wood here, and using them to make fires could save the team's fuel consumption.

Fortunately, Sarah and Allen still had sense and pulled Will away. The things in this city can indeed be called cultural relics, but not every cultural relic has protection value. At least the rotten wood that can be seen everywhere can be burned as firewood.

After the fire was lit, everyone had a panoramic view of the situation in the house.

A pile of things in the corner of the room caught everyone's attention.

"Sleeping bag?" Allen walked over and said in shock.

In front of them were six or seven empty sleeping bags, as well as a pile of charcoal ash and several backpacks. There were long-dried leftovers in the lunch box next to the charcoal ash.

"It seems that an expedition team has come here before." Alyosha walked to Allen, took a look at the things left on the ground and made a conclusion.

"But one thing is very suspicious. They seemed to have left in a hurry." He squatted next to these items, rummaged through his backpack, and took out a military kettle from it. He opened it and saw that it was filled with water.

"You didn't bring any guns or supplies. Where can you go in this state?" Alyosha whispered, as if he was talking to his companions or to himself.

Assaultman Yegor pointed to the sleeping bag and said in Russian: "Captain, look, the zipper of the sleeping bag is not unzipped. This is really strange."

Alyosha was silent for a while, continued to rummage among the leftover items, and finally found a notebook.

"Look." He handed the note to Peter, and Peter flipped through it quickly.

"This is an adventurer from the United States. According to the time on the note, his team should have entered the desert nineteen years ago and wanted to challenge the world record for the fastest crossing of the Sahara Desert," Peter looked at the note at a glance. "He was a little luckier than us. They didn't encounter a sandstorm and just discovered this place by accident."

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