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Chapter 155 Rahman and his archaeological team
Because they were already familiar with each other through the group chat, Kiana and Desia chatted and laughed all the way, while it was tough on Farusan, an older woman who couldn't keep up with the thinking of modern young people.
However, she had her own methods. Since she couldn't join the conversation, she would do her own thing. So, Falusan took out her research topic and began to study the data, ignoring everyone else.
Not long after, Kiana and her fellow volunteers arrived at Aru Village. Upon entering the village, they were warmly welcomed by the village keeper, Candice. After spending a peaceful first night in Aru Village, Kiana and Farusan packed their belongings and decided to first investigate the nearby Red King's ruins.
Before they left, Candice pointed out the directions and thoughtfully introduced a villager familiar with the terrain to be their guide, since the village of Arru had received great care from Farusan just yesterday.
The incident began when, after a simple welcoming ceremony, the volunteer teachers started their educational work.
Thanks to previous aid, Aru Village now has a decent school. However, perhaps because the education level of the desert people is generally low, or perhaps because most of the volunteer teachers are recent graduates and lack teaching experience, the school is still struggling.
In short, the teaching work did not go smoothly at the beginning. Unable to bear it any longer, Falushan kicked all the teachers off the podium and made them sit with the students, while she taught a class for them and the students.
Afterwards, Faroshan subconsciously assigned homework to the teachers, asking them to carefully recall and learn from her teaching methods, and that she would return to check their work when she finished her investigation.
Perhaps those teachers have ingrained the habit of accepting assignments from teachers into their genes; they subconsciously regard Falushan as their mentor and subconsciously include homework in their schedules.
They had no recollection that they had already graduated, and that they were no longer in the faculty and no longer needed to follow their advisors' instructions.
However, Falushan's teaching session was effective. At least in the following classes, those teachers had overcome their stage fright. With time, they will naturally become qualified teachers.
Although Candice herself was not highly educated, based on her own experience teaching children basic literacy, the initial teachers were completely unqualified.
Her teaching effectiveness was even worse than her own. Although Candice initially thought that time could solve everything, the appearance of Faroshan shortened the time considerably, for which Candice was naturally grateful.
With the help of locals and the powerful mercenary Desia as her bodyguard, Farusan said she had never had such an easy trip.
You see, it was because I wasn't familiar with the terrain that I accidentally wandered into this ruin, and I wouldn't have been trapped for a hundred years until now. Now, a hundred years have passed, and the people I knew are either in their twilight years or have already turned into dust.
The period after her escape was the most desperate time for Falushan, but fortunately, there were still some younger members of the Order of the Church who cared about her. It was because of their existence that Falushan did not give up hope, and that is how she became the Falushan she is today.
When will that junior from Tinari be willing to send Cole to study with him? Although the child is not very knowledgeable, he is eager to learn. It would be a waste to leave him with Tinari as an apprentice forest ranger.
After a long journey, Kiana and the others finally arrived at their designated location.
Here they encountered Rahman's gilded troupe, and after a brief exchange they learned that their purpose in coming here was also archaeology.
It turns out that Rahman learned in the group chat that the relationship between the Red King Ahmar and the Tree King was not as irreconcilable as the desert people claimed. He was also curious about the fact that the group chat did not mention the relationship between the Red King and the God of Light, Herakti.
After talking with his counterpart in another world, Rahman learned that the legendary Herakti did not exist in that world. This made Rahman even more curious. And after Nasida's full support for education in the desert region, Rahman finally found a scholar willing to come with him on this archaeological expedition.
Shortly after he and his team had unearthed the entrance to the ruins, Kiana and her group arrived at the same spot.
After inquiring about the purpose of the expedition and learning about Farusan's qualifications from the scholars he had hired, Rahman decided to take Kiana and the others with him on an archaeological expedition.
After all, professional matters should be handled by professionals. Although we have archaeology experts on our side, they are more proficient in the history of the rainforest. Compared to Falushan, who is familiar with the Red King's ruins, they are not as good.
After a brief discussion with Kiana, Farusan decided to join Rahman's archaeological team. After all, compared to the less-traveled approach here, Rahman's team had more complete equipment and was more suitable for archaeological activities.
So after opening the gate to the ruins, Rahman had his men guard the entrance while he led the hired scholars into the ruins with Kiana and the others.
Upon entering the ruins, a verdant landscape greets the eye, with golden pillars covered in vines and trees visible between them, all exuding the rich energy of grass element in the air.
Rahman had to admit that the relationship between the Red King and the Tree King was indeed close, and murals were carved on the surrounding walls.
Without waiting for instructions from others, Falusan consciously went to the murals and began to interpret their meaning.
She finished her interpretation shortly afterward, and then turned around to tell everyone the results of her interpretation.
"These murals depict the story between the God of Light and the Red King. As we know from the legend, the God of Light, Heraqti, was the teacher of the Red King, Ahmar."
Am I a teacher? Really?
Kiana clearly doesn't believe Farusan's interpretation. After all, doesn't she know herself well enough? Asking her to teach others might just lead them astray.
"Herakti is the Red King's teacher, how could that be possible?"
Hearing Kiana's words, Farusan frowned: "Miss Kiana, although you are not a Sumerian and do not know about the legends of Sumeru, you did mention in the group chat that Ahmar was a student of Helakti, right?"
"Well... okay, I haven't been paying much attention to the group chat lately, so I don't know anything about this."
Yes, just like the ancient Chinese saying, "A day in heaven is a year on earth." Time around Sky Isle has been distorted by Ishtar, making the flow of time on Sky Isle much slower than on the Teyvat continent.
This also led to Kiana ignoring the group chat information when she was meeting with the four rulers, causing her to receive the information a considerable delay.
Because of this incident, Kiana had to decide that she should check the group chat messages whenever she had free time.
"Never mind," Farusan sighed. "Considering this is your first offense, I won't pursue the matter further. But Miss Kiana, please remember to do your research beforehand next time you conduct an outdoor expedition!"
"Ming, I understand."
Seeing that Kiana's attitude in admitting her mistake was sincere, Farusan stopped pursuing the matter and continued to explain the information she had deciphered to everyone.
"These murals are roughly about the Red King becoming an apprentice, then completing his apprenticeship and receiving a power from the God of Light who created him, a power that allows him to command three servants."
"Three family members?"
"Yes, Obelisk, Ra, and Osiris are three divine messengers with unparalleled power. It is said that the Red King was able to unify the desert region overnight because of the help of these three attendants."
This really is starting to resemble the plot development of a certain anime. Kiana's lips twitched as she thought, "Is the next plot going to be something like the Red King choosing to use his own name to seal away the darkness?"
However, Farusan's explanation ends here, because the murals here only tell the first half of the Red King's divine life, from his apprenticeship to his graduation. As for the subsequent events, we will probably have to delve deeper to find out.
After a series of deciphering steps, the group finally arrived at the depths of the ruins, which resembled a quiet rainforest.
The island is surrounded by lush trees, and a stream encircles the central island.
Finally, the group arrived at the center of the island, where there was a stone tablet.
Just as the video in the group chat showed, this stone tablet can be read. This was precisely the purpose of their visit, and Falushan stepped forward to touch the tablet and begin to decipher it.
Unfortunately, the content on this stone tablet is exactly the same as that in the group chat and has no special value.
This meant they had to head to the next ruin to see if they could find any useful information. After returning to the entrance of the ruin and reporting to his men, Rahman began to discuss with Kiana the details of their joint investigation of the ruin.
Through the exploration of the ruins, Rahman could clearly perceive the gap between the scholars he had hired and Farusan. Moreover, their team also had the powerful mercenary Desia as a henchman. Although Kiana had never seen her fight, Rahman, who had been on the verge of death for many years, knew that Kiana was the strongest in the entire team.
If we could establish a cooperative relationship with such a team, exploring the ruins would surely be much easier in the future.
With this, the guy next to him could go back to teaching in peace. Rahman glanced at the scholar beside him, his thoughts drifting back to a few days ago.
A few days ago, in Aru Village.
Rahman was sitting in the village chief's house, agonizing over the selection of a scholar, when the appearance of the group chat made him realize that the history he once knew by heart was not the correct history.
Since then, he has had an idea: to explore every remnant of the Red King in the desert, to unearth the history buried in the sand, and to present the world with a true history.
Therefore, he disbanded his corps, leaving only those who were still willing to follow him and began to build an archaeological team of his own.
Since I'm a self-taught individual, I knew absolutely nothing about it. Fortunately, I had connections with someone who was an archaeology student, and with that student's help, I wasn't ripped off by unscrupulous merchants when it came to equipment.
He had the archaeological equipment, and being a former mercenary, he didn't need to hire extra guards. However, Rahman lacked connections with key scholars.
After all, he was a devout follower of the Red King, and had previously harbored deep hostility towards the people on the other side of the forest due to being misled by erroneous history.
The fact that he could find students to help him purchase equipment was already the limit of his connections. Moreover, those students had not yet graduated and had plenty of research topics to choose from at the academy. There was really no need for them to suffer in the desert with him.
Realizing that directly contacting the people at the Order of the Church was no longer an option, Rahman turned his attention to the first group of people who went to the desert to teach.
I'll see if anyone inside is willing to help me, and of course, I'll pay them a fair reward.
To Rahman's surprise, no matter how high the price he offered, the scholars all refused. But thinking about it, it made sense; after all, it was safer to stay in Aru village and be a teacher than to face those unknown and dangerous ruins.
It wasn't until this little girl named Cassandra took the initiative to find him that he finally found out. Cassandra was also a desert dweller and one of the few desert dwellers qualified to study at the Order of the Church.
She returned to help her hometown by taking advantage of the opportunity presented by Little Lucky Grass King's strong support for desert education. According to her own account, she studied the history of the Tree King because she felt that the Red King and the Tree King might not be as bad as the legends suggested.
The appearance of the group chat completely confirmed her suspicions. She heard that someone was forming an archaeological team to excavate real history and was looking for scholars with archaeological expertise. Moreover, the offer was not low. Kassandra, who desperately needed money, also took the opportunity to inquire about the team.
Then they had a fateful encounter in Aru Village, and after a brief discussion, they hit it off and officially established a cooperative relationship. However, Cassandra also had to take care of her educational work in Aru Village, so until things settled down in Aru Village, all exploration could only be carried out in the ruins near Aru Village.
Rahman naturally agreed to Cassandra's condition, but as their new team's first archaeological expedition, Rahman still hoped to choose the site that had appeared in the group chat video, which he happened to know where.
Although the journey was quite long, Cassandra agreed, considering that it was a well-explored ruin and also for the sake of a sense of ceremony.
So after explaining the situation to the head of the volunteer teaching program and obtaining Nasita's permission, Cassandra and Rahman set off.
What followed was what happened after she met Kiana and the others. Now that Rahman has found a more reliable partner, Cassandra feels both happy and disappointed.
The good news is that with the addition of the senior archaeologist, Falusan, the subsequent archaeological activities will surely go more smoothly.
She was disappointed that she might lose her job, but she also had a seriously ill father at home who needed care.
Although her father had her mother and younger brother to care for him, Cassandra was the only source of income for the family. They had already spent most of their savings on her schooling, and the rest had gone to her father's medical treatment. If she lost her job, where would she get so much Mora to pay for her father's medical care?
Whenever Cassandra thought of this, she would lower her head in disappointment. Rahman, standing beside her, also understood that continuing to employ Cassandra was not a wise move. But when he recalled the radiant look in Cassandra's eyes back then, and her excited declaration that her guess was correct, he couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness.
He was so happy to receive his payment early that he spun around like a child. Later, he learned from others that Cassandra had a seriously ill father who needed medical treatment, and that her family was not well-off…
Alright, Rahman. You should know that the best option right now is to fire Cassandra and establish a deep partnership with this Farusan. That's what you should be doing right now.
But his body seemed to think otherwise. He gently placed his hand on Cassandra's head and began to stroke it, then spoke softly.
"Don't worry, I won't fire you. You're the first scholar I hired, and I want to train you to be my own archaeologist, so... stop crying, okay?"