Live Streaming: Great Adventure in the Wilderness-Chapter 820: Type 801 6 - s Mural

It seemed to just comfort Bi Fang's mood, and after a brief conversation, the captain left.

Bi Fang did not see him again for the rest of the day until eight in the evening.

In the office, the brand-new ceiling fan worked hard, yet it could not reduce the heat even a little bit.

Sitting on the chair, Bi Fang scanned the police officers in the police station.

Those reading newspapers continued to do so, those drinking tea sipped their tea, and those chatting engaged in their conversations, completely forgetting about him, the "spy".

Helplessly, Bi Fang had to pull aside a middle-aged officer who was about to pour himself another cup of tea, and who also was among the group of officers that had brought him in.

"How long will it take to confirm my identity?"

"Uh, what?"

"I said, how long will it take to confirm my identity, and then let me go?"

Bi Fang wondered if his Arabic was not authentic enough, but then again, it seemed unlikely since it was a System product.

The middle-aged officer paused, "Uh, tomorrow, tomorrow should be fine."

—I have a bad feeling about this.

—Is it going to take that long?

—Well, considering it's a spy matter, maybe they are being cautious? Possibly.

—I can't feel their caution at all.

Bi Fang saw the comments and shared the concerns internally, slightly furrowing his eyebrows but found it inappropriate to complain.

One day was still within his acceptable range.

Let's wait and see.

...

"How long will it take?"

"Uh, we're contacting Huaxia right now..."

"If it's just a phone call, I probably know it."

Bi Fang sighed.

...

Bi Fang was found by the police at noon, brought into the station in the afternoon, and it wasn't until the morning of the third day that things were resolved. When he was eventually released, it was already the fourth day.

During this time, he faced several rounds of interrogation by batches of police officers, and his passport was taken away for verification.

However, no one knew what the efficiency of the process was.

Ultimately, netizens proved reliable. They informed the Magic Capital Contact Center, whose staff immediately contacted the Huaxia Embassy in Algeria, seeking their assistance.

Finally, with the help of the Huaxia Embassy, Bi Fang managed to get out of the dilemma. The whole process was mentally exhausting.

Bi Fang rarely spoke ill of other countries, but this experience had truly worn him out, especially the dragging procedures and the alarmingly low efficiency in Algeria almost drove him crazy.

The so-called "tomorrow" was never a real tomorrow, but a "someday in the future".

If it weren't for the embassy's effective action, Bi Fang wondered if he would still be stuck there for another four to five days. Fortunately, he had some food supplies, or else he might have truly starved to death in the police station.

"I'm finally out."

After expressing his gratitude again to those from the embassy, Bi Fang stepped out of the police station, feeling as though even the air was much fresher, filled with the scent of freedom.

—Master Fang definitely didn't expect that the longest delay after setting out would be being suspected as a spy, haha almost died laughing.

—Bro, aren't you tired of saying all this at once?

—Waited so many days, let's hurry up and set off!

"You're right; we've wasted over three days, we need to continue our journey."

"And this is a valuable experience, isn't it? When everyone travels in the future, especially to some special countries, it's best to be fully prepared."

Being mistaken for a spy was just a minor incident during the journey.

Having dealt with this matter, Bi Fang, leading Alpha, left the town and continued on the original route.

Twenty days later.

Leaving Algerian territory, Bi Fang crossed Niger and arrived in Libya.

Such a huge span finally made fans understand what the rock desert Bi Fang initially mentioned looked like.

The surroundings were no longer vast dunes, but towering rock walls with huge, oddly shaped rocks eroded by the wind, so bizarre it appeared as if they were on another planet.

The wide canyons lay to the right of Bi Fang, and to his left, a brightly colored red train sped along the rails.

The train heading towards the canyon was coated in red, its color curving and twisting through the yellow desert and white wilderness, hence the train also had a melodious name—The Red Lizard Express.

Having faced sand for nearly a month, it was refreshing to finally see some modern technology, giving the live stream viewers a hint of long-lost human touch.

Watching the train depart, Bi Fang followed the tracks.

After passing through several tunnels, the surroundings suddenly became eerie, as if the Grand Canyon of Colorado had been replicated in the African desert.

Inside the valley was a stream, and as the water flowed, it enlivened the nearby and distant mountains.

One would assume that where there are waters, green signs of life would be visible, but this rule didn't apply to streams with a high salt content.

It was its flowing that exacerbated the continuous degradation of the local soil quality and made the already barren land even more desolate.

Bi Fang rode a camel to the top of the canyon. At that moment, the gorge, like an open gate, let sunlight pour through the crevices, casting reflections on the valley's stream akin to the glow of liquid mercury, making people briefly imagine that it contained hidden treasures.

—This canyon is freaking huge.

—Should we go inside?

—To be honest, I want to check it out.

Bi Fang nodded, even if the viewers didn't suggest it, he wouldn't miss the opportunity to enter the canyon.

He led Alpha to slide step by step down from the rocks.

At first, Alpha was a bit scared and reluctant, finally, Bi Fang had no choice but to get down and lead it slowly step by step.

Bi Fang followed the stream and found a clean pool, dipping his hand to taste some water; he was surprised to find that the water in the pool was fresh.

"Shouldn't be a same water system, this pool is groundwater, whereas the stream we saw earlier probably came from somewhere else."

Having found a water source, Bi Fang dipped his water bottle into it and watched the clear freshwater rush in. Without even taking a sip, he already felt a bit of coolness amid the scorching heat.

It was mid-July, standing under the Sahara sun was enough to drive someone mad, even Alpha was dragging its hooves, showing some signs of restlessness.

Bi Fang had no choice but to take it to a cooler place to rest around ten o'clock.

After searching for almost an hour, Bi Fang finally found an excellent shelter a few kilometers outside the oasis.

It was a huge cave, simply standing at the entrance made one feel a cooling sensation distinctly different from the outside world.

Near this cave, there were other caves too, in twos and threes, totaling about a dozen.

Such a large group of caves, combined with the quiet and strange environment, was somewhat frightening.

[Wow, such a big cave]

[Is this formed naturally? It doesn't look like it.]

[Was it dug by humans, and is it abandoned now?]

[I see there are other caves nearby. This must have been a human settlement, right?]

[Could there be some monsters inside?]

[Lizardmen, right?]

[My advice: watch less horror movies.]

Entering, Bi Fang scanned around to see if any snakes or ants were hiding, then pulled Alpha inside. Facing the audience's queries, he didn't find them strange.

"I don't know if you've seen Star Wars, the planet Tatooine in the movie is desolate, cold, and barren. Skywalker was born and grew up on that planet."

"Skywalker's residence in the Star Wars movies is based on reality—it's actually the home of the indigenous Berber people of North Africa. They have lived here for thousands of years and have developed a comprehensive living system adapting to their environment."

"Near Tatooine, there's an underground village called Matmata, where the ground is dotted with about 500 big holes that look like meteorite craters."

"The holes are surrounded by guardrails—that's the underground residence of the Berber people. It takes four people two years to make one big hole ready. The diameter of an entrance is about 10 meters. Then they dig out living spaces like bedrooms and kitchens along the walls. Typically, one big hole can house five to six families. Such an architectural design allows people to experience a comfortable coolness even in desert areas."

"Although we're not sure whether this one was also built by the Berber people or why it was abandoned, the reasoning is the same. It seems to be evidence that ancient humans once lived here."

Bi Fang touched the rock walls. Even on the vertical walls, there was a thin layer of gray dust.

The dust on the floor was almost several millimeters thick, and stepping on it would leave a very deep footprint.

Clearly, it had been a long time since anyone had visited before Bi Fang arrived today.

The interior of the cave was very deep, and Bi Fang saw some wall paintings on the walls that were very simply drawn, much like children's sketches.

Due to their age and covered in a layer of dust, the images were somewhat blurred but the general content was still discernible.

The paintings depicted herds of cattle and sheep, and there were also scenes of human groups hunting. The colors used were mostly red and white.

After viewing a few of the paintings, Bi Fang was somewhat surprised.

"These have existed for at least four thousand years."

[Wow, that long?]

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[Really or Not]

[Any evidence?]

[Archaeological expert online]

Bi Fang shook his head, "I'm not very familiar with archaeology, just made some judgments based on the content of the murals, which may not be accurate."

"Look at the content of these murals here; there are only cattle and sheep, no elephants, no camels, which according to the climate changes in Sahara I've mentioned before, correspond."

[Ah, what changes?]

[Did I miss class again?]

[I didn't miss class, but I've forgotten everything (Dog's head)]

Bi Fang chuckled and didn't mind, but he explained the climate change process in the Sahara once again, then explained the possible periods of the murals once more.

"Based on the rock paintings found in the Sahara Desert and the climate changes of the Sahara, we can actually divide these different rock paintings into several periods."

"The first is the buffalo period, which roughly spanned from 35,000 years ago to around 8000 BC."

"The murals of this period were painted on rocks with pigments mixed with milk from some animals now extinct locally."

"They included buffalo, elephants, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, and the humans in the paintings used clubs, axes, bows, and arrows swinging clubs to hit prey but usually had no javelins; they often wore round helmets."

"These rock paintings are mainly found in the southeast of Algeria, as well as within the boundaries of Chad and Libya, which is where we are now."

"The second is the Ox Period, approximately from 7500 BC to 4000 BC."

"During this period, the local residents began to live nomadic lives, herding cattle and sheep, and there have been discoveries of pottery and Stone Age polished stone axes, grindstones, and arrows, as well as some hunting bows and arrows."

"The livestock were introduced from Asia. In later periods, some villages were found that could gather more people and livestock."

"The third is the Horse Period, approximately from 3000 BC to 700 BC."

"During this period, there are indications that horses, camels, and dairy cows were introduced locally, and large-scale agriculture was practiced."

By this point, the audience in front of the screen had basically understood.

The content of the murals neither depicted the flourishing scenery before the climate change nor the prosperity after but was in a middle state.

So the described time point is also likely to be in that middle period.

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"Possibly around 1220 BC, they learned the use and forging of iron tools from the Phoenicians. A great empire alliance was established locally, spanning the entire Sahara to Egypt."

"Starting from 2500 BC, the Sahara had become a large desert, similar to its current state, becoming an insurmountable barrier for the humans at the time, with only a few residents in the oases and seldom commercial interactions that traversed the desert."

"Only the Nile Valley is an exception, due to its ample water sources, it became a lush area for plant growth, also one of the cradles of human civilization."

"However, the Nile has several impassable waterfalls, which also created a significant barrier to commercial trade. But Egypt was still able to spread the technology of iron tools, and perhaps also the concept of kingship, to Nubia to the south and even farther south."

By 500 BC, Ancient Greece and the Phoenicians began to influence this area, Greek traders developing business opportunities along the desert's eastern border and establishing many commercial colonies along the coast of the Red Sea. Carthage, on the other hand, developed along the Atlantic coast in the western desert, but because of the treacherous Atlantic storms and insufficient markets, their exploration never extended beyond the area now known as Morocco.

Centralized states were only distributed on the north and east edges of the desert; their power did not reach into the heart of the desert, so those living on the edges of the desert were often attacked by the nomadic Berber people in the desert.

The most significant change in the history of the Sahara Desert came from the invading Arabs who brought camels that enabled trade routes across the desert; chieftains on the Mediterranean coast to the north transported horses and crafts to the south, while Sahel Kingdom in the south became wealthy and powerful due to exporting gold and salt. Oases in the desert became commercial centers, gradually controlled by northern chieftains.

This state continued for several centuries, until Europeans invented large sailing ships, first the Portuguese who bypassed Sahara to plunder resources in Guinea, followed by other European countries, soon diminishing Sahara's commercial value.