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Chapter 1212 There is a problem with the temple

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

Since Shi Lei did not expect all the money given to Ding Yu to be paid with non-income investment, and directly paid with his own independent funds, which completely fulfilled his promise to Ding Yu.

Shi Lei decided to hand over the proportion of 30 million non-income investment in this quota cycle to Kong Fandong.

To complete the remaining 200 million investment within one year, it is obviously not enough to rely on this amount of non-income investment alone. Shi Lei must take out his own funds.

Therefore, he naturally would not be stingy with taking out the money from his own funds and handing it over to Ding Yu.

However, Shi Lei was not in a hurry to Kong Fandong for these 30 million, and he would rather talk about it after he went back. Anyway, the time was quite broad.

With the experience of the previous quota cycle, Shi Lei felt that the 10 million collection consumption of collectibles is easy to say, but it seems not so easy to come to an end. Therefore, he decided to pay close attention to all kinds of collectibles from the beginning of this quota cycle, hoping to spend this 10 million as soon as possible, saving a lot of nights and dreams. Only in the last moment would he hurry to find suitable collectibles, which would obviously be more difficult.

On the third night of Santorini, Jane Jane said that it was not too much to stay by the sea. She suggested that since she had arrived in Greece, she would go to Athens for a walk. She also said that Greece's economy is very poor now, and they can play more places to support Greece's economic development.

Shi Lei didn't care, so he waited for Sun Yiyi's opinion.

Originally, if there were only two people, Sun Yiyi would of course stay on Santorini Island with Shi Lei, and would not go anywhere. As long as she was with Shi Lei, let alone a place like Santorini Island where the scenery was like a picture-like sea breeze, she would not feel bored even if she stayed in a deserted desert.

But since there is already a Jane Jane, the sweet journey between the two is not that quiet, so it is better to take advantage of this holiday to have a few more places to play.

So Hu Shilei called the chartered flight company temporarily, but they said that the temporary arrangements were probably impossible. Their planes had been booked out, and the route application needs to be carried out at least during the working day. This time is obviously not convenient.

However, when Shi Lei asked to change the return flight to departure from Athens and return to London, the chartered flight company said that there was no problem.

Fortunately, there are ships to ride from Santorini, which is just a little longer.

When asked about the hotel, the hotel said that there are three types of boats from Santorini to Athens, which are divided into fast and slow, the slowest and the cheapest, but the time takes more than eight hours.

After discussing with Sun Yiyi and Jane Zhang, they generally felt that they had seen enough of the sea these days, so there was no need to take a slow boat, so Shilei asked the hotel to help book a morning clutch, and he could arrive at the port of Athens at about half past twelve.

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

After lunch in Athens, he checked in at the hotel. Shi Lei asked the hotel's 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 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 was built on the basis of the ruins of the temple.

However, although the Parthenon has been baptized by more than two thousand years and has been destroyed by the Crusaders, it is still preserved quite well.

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

This statue is said to be made of gold and ivory, twelve meters high, its head and limbs are made of ivory, its armor is made of pure gold, and its eyes are inlaid with gems. The manufacturing cost alone is already amazing.

However, this statue was kidnapped by the emperor of the ancient Roman Empire and its whereabouts were unknown. Now it is enshrined in the temple is just a small imitation.

Even the imitation is completely following the original design of the statue, but it is not that tall, and all parts are carved and made according to the original material.

After driving up the Acropolis Mountain, you can see the Parthenon towering on the top of the mountain along the way. Even though only the pillars with the appearance were left, the interior had long been blown up by the Turks, you can still see the spectacular and majestic back then.

The temple covers a small area, only about three acres of land, and only a circle of pillars outside is left, and there is not much to see.

It is said that the reliefs that originally promoted Athena's deeds in the temple were preserved in the UK. There has always been legend that Britain promised to return these reliefs, but I don't know when this will happen.

In half an hour, the tour was over. The three of them went to Ereksum Temple again.

This temple is even less visible, just look at the six famous Greek goddess' pillars.

Down the mountain from the south of the Acropolis Mountain, there are ruins of the Temple of Zeus, which is more ruins 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 Jane Zhang seemed very interested.

Then the three of them bypassed most of the Acropolis Mountain and arrived at the Temple of Hephaestus in the northwest of the mountain. This was the most complete temple in Greek history, and the three of them stayed there for the longest time.

Shi Lei just fulfilled his obligation to accompany Sun Yiyi and Jane Zhang. Seeing the two little girls looking very happy, Shi Lei kept following them with his hands on his back.

However, as he walked, Shi Lei felt something was wrong. He always felt that the internal structure of this temple was a bit out of place with the appearance of the temple.

There was a college student who was a volunteer tour guide in the temple. Shi Lei leaned over and listened to it. Although it involved many Greek mythological terms and his English level seemed to be a little insufficient, he roughly understood what the tour guide said.

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

Shi Lei suddenly realized that no wonder he always felt something was wrong with this temple. The reason was here.

When Shi Lei, who learned that the vault of the temple was actually poured with concrete and was considered a major in architecture at university, couldn't help but be curious.

For this reason, Shi Lei specially contacted the tour guide to learn about it and 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 was a great achievement.

China, also an ancient civilization, obviously did not reach this level in the seventh century. Moreover, China was one of the four ancient civilizations, while ancient Greece had not had that high level of civilization.

When he learned about this, Shi Lei was particularly interested in the vault of this building. He stood outside and watched for a long time, but he really couldn't see anything. Then he returned to the hall and looked up at the vault.

I don’t know why, Shi Lei always thinks this vault is a bit strange. Sun Yiyi and Jane Zhang both went to find a place to rest, but Shi Lei is still studying this vault. 8)
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