The Black Card - Chapter 1212

[Chapter 1210 There is a problem in the temple]

. After three days of playing in Santorini, Shi Lei also paid the 20 million installments that should be given to the Qian family during these three days.

Since he had 12 million more independent funds in his hand, Shi Lei did not expect to pay all the money to Ding Yu with non-revenue investments, and directly paid with his own independent funds. It was completely completed. A promise to Ding Yu.

As for the proportion of non-return investment of 30 million in this quota cycle, Shi Lei decided to give it to Kong Fandong.

To complete the remaining 200 million investment within a year, the current amount of non-profit investment alone is obviously not enough. Shi Lei will definitely need to come up with his own funds.

Therefore, he will naturally not be stingy about giving money from his own funds to Ding Yu.

However, Shi Lei was not in a hurry to give the 30 million to Kong Fandong. He would wait until he got back. Anyway, the time was quite wide.

With the experience of the last quota cycle, Shi Lei felt that it was easy to say that 10 million for collection consumption, but it did not seem to be so easy when it came to the end. Therefore, he decided to pay close attention to all aspects of the quota cycle from the beginning. I hope that I can spend this ten million as soon as possible on collectibles, so as not to have to worry about long nights and hurriedly looking for suitable collectibles at the last moment, which will obviously be more difficult.

On the night of the third day in Santorini, Zhang Liangjing said that just staying at the beach was not that interesting. She suggested that since she had arrived in Greece, she should go to Athens for a stroll.

He also said that Greece’s economy is very poor now, and that they can support Greece’s economic development by playing more places.

Shi Lei didn’t care and waited for Sun Yiyi’s opinion.

Originally, if there were only two people, Sun Yiyi would of course be willing to stay on Santorini with Shi Lei and not go anywhere.

As long as she was with Shi Lei, let alone a picturesque place like Santorini with gentle sea breeze, she would not feel bored even if she stayed in a deserted desert.

But since there is already Zhang Jingliang, the sweet journey between the two is not so quiet after all, so it is better to take advantage of this holiday to visit more places.

So Shi Lei made a temporary call to the company that chartered the flight, but they said that they might not be able to make temporary arrangements. Their planes had already been chartered out, and the route application needed to be done at least during the day on a working day. At this time , obviously not convenient.

However, regarding Shi Lei’s request to change the return flight from Athens to London, the charter company said it would have no problem.

Fortunately, there are also ships you can take from Santorini, which means it just takes a little longer.

After asking the hotel, the hotel said that there are three types of boats from Santorini to Athens, divided into fast, medium and slow. The slowest is the cheapest, but it takes more than eight hours.

After discussing with Sun Yiyi and Zhang Liangjing, they generally felt that they had seen enough of the sea in the past few days and there was no need to take the slow boat, so Shi Lei asked the hotel to help book the morning express boat, which would arrive at around 12:30. Arrive at the port of Athens.

The three of them set off the next day and rushed to Athens.

After having dinner in Athens at noon, Shi Lei checked in at the hotel. Shi Lei asked the hotel concierge to rent a car. The concierge also helped Shi Lei apply for a temporary driver’s license in Greece, and the three of them went straight to the Greek temple.

The name of the Greek temple should actually be the Parthenon. It was built in more than 400 BC and has a history of nearly 2,500 years.

Of course it will not be a complete temple, but a place similar to a museum built based on the remains of the original temple.

However, although the Parthenon has gone through more than two thousand years of wind and frost, including the destruction of the Crusaders, it is still quite well preserved.

This temple was originally built to worship the goddess Athena. Of course, there was a statue of the goddess Athena in the temple.

This statue is said to be made of gold and ivory. It is twelve meters high. The head and limbs are made of ivory. The armor on the body is made of pure gold, and the eyes are inlaid with gems.

The manufacturing cost alone is astonishing.

However, this statue was abducted by the emperor of the ancient Roman Empire, and its whereabouts have long been unknown. Now it is only a small imitation enshrined in the temple.

Even if it is an imitation, it completely follows the design of the original statue, but it is not as tall. All parts are carved and made according to the original materials.

Driving up to the Acropolis Mountain, you can see the majestic Parthenon standing on the top of the mountain along the way. Even though only the pillars on the outside remain, and the interior has long been blown up by the Turks, you can still see the grandeur of that time. And majestic.

The temple does not occupy a large area, only about three acres of land, and there is only a circle of pillars outside, so there is not much to see.

It is said that the original reliefs in the temple promoting the deeds of Athena are in the UK. There have always been rumors that the UK promised to return these reliefs, but it is not known when this will happen.

In half an hour, we were done shopping.

The three of them went to the Temple of Erechtheum again.

This temple is even less interesting, just look at the six large pillars of the famous Greek goddesses.

Going down the mountain from the south of the Acropolis Mountain, there are the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. This is much more ruined than the previous two temples, because only a few pillars are left.

Shi Lei was not particularly interested in these things, but Sun Yiyi and Zhang Liangliang seemed very interested.

Then the three of them walked around most of the Acropolis Mountain and arrived at the Temple of Hephaestus in the northwest at the foot of the mountain. This is the most complete temple in Greek history, and the three of them stayed inside for the longest time.

Shi Lei just fulfilled his obligation and accompanied Sun Yiyi and Zhang Liangliang. Seeing the two little girls looking very happy, Shi Lei followed them with a smile and his hands behind his back.

However, as he walked, Shi Lei felt something was wrong. He always felt that the internal structure of this temple was somewhat incompatible with the appearance of the temple.

There were college students as voluntary commentators in the temple. Shi Lei went over and listened. Although it involved a lot of terms from Greek mythology and his English seemed a little inadequate, he generally understood the commentator. meaning.

It turns out that this temple was once converted into a church by a Byzantine architect. The inner hall was demolished, a new ring hall was built in the east, and the current vault was poured with concrete.

Shi Lei suddenly realized, no wonder he always felt something was wrong with this temple. The reason turned out to be here.

When he learned that the vault of the temple was actually made of concrete, Shi Lei, who majored in architecture in college, couldn’t help but be a little curious.

For this reason, Shi Lei specifically asked the commentator to learn about it, and then he found out that this temple was converted into a church in the seventh century, and the vault was also poured at that time.

This shows that the Greeks actually mastered concrete technology in the seventh century, which is a truly remarkable achievement.

As an ancient civilization, China’s construction technology obviously did not reach such a level in the seventh century.

Moreover, China is still one of the four ancient civilizations, while the level of civilization in ancient Greece was not that high.

After learning this, Shi Lei couldn’t help but be particularly interested in the vault of this building. He stood outside and looked at it for a long time, but couldn’t see anything, so he returned to the hall and looked up at the vault.

For some unknown reason, Shi Lei always felt that this vault was a little weird. Sun Yiyi and Zhang Liangjing both went to find a place to rest, but Shi Lei was still studying the vault.

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