An ordinary traveler, deeply interested in ancient civilizations, had quit her job and come to this desert. In the end, however, she had never expected to fall into the hands of this group of thugs.
Claudia did not believe a single word spoken by the weathered man named Otto—but she clearly had no intention of telling the truth herself, either.
A clear divide seemed to exist within the cell. Claudia and Aliyah were staring wide-eyed at each other, while Boss Luo and Otto were discussing the murals on the walls.
Claudia had no idea when Luo Qiu had become so familiar with the man who called himself Otto... Had the two of them even formally introduced themselves sincerely?
Aliyah seemed to be wondering about the same thing... and once again, he and Claudia stared wide-eyed at each other.
Inside the cell, the only sound was the conversation between Boss Luo and Otto.
"This seems to record a sacrificial ritual." Luo Qiu pointed at one of the murals. "But we don't know exactly what era it dates back to... Do you know, Mr. Otto?"
"This should be from the period between the Seventh Dynasty and the Eighth Dynasty." Otto sat cross-legged on the ground, eating a fairly lavish meal as he spoke calmly. "It was most likely the royal family of the Seventh Dynasty... According to the records, the Seventh Dynasty existed for an extremely short time—only seventy days. It seemed to appear out of thin air, then vanished overnight."
Claudia had not studied the history of ancient civilizations in much depth, but she found a regime that had existed for only seventy days and called itself a dynasty rather amusing. "Vanished overnight? Are you sure it wasn't destroyed in an attack?"
Otto glanced casually at Claudia. "It truly vanished overnight...