Volume 2: Jing Zhao Suspicion Chapter 27 The Past Is Like Smoke (4)
"It's supposed to be an ability related to the death elemental, but as far as we know, it's probably a coincidence that almost all abilities lose their effect when the user dies. Zhou Jinyu said.
"Maybe it's not a coincidence......," Song Tianlin shook his head and denied, as a researcher of historical work, he knew very well what happened at that time.
Legend has it that shortly after Lord Carnarvon's death, his wife Elizabeth also died from insect bites, and in the following years, a total of seventeen experts involved in the investigation or excavation died in accidents, but the curse did not end.
Howard Carter died more than a decade later, and it was thought that he was not cursed, but in fact shortly after he walked out of the pyramid of Tutankhamun, his favorite canary was bitten by an unknown snake and died, and his daughter Jaya hanged herself shortly after her father's death, leaving a letter with just a few words, "I can't take it anymore." ”
Of course, the veracity of these rumors has yet to be verified.
"If you're afraid, go back, the rope is there anyway. Lu Ye came to Song Tianlin's side, he didn't believe in curses at all, the old people in the family believed that there were ghosts in this world, but after the founding of the country, he had never seen any animal become a sperm.
"It's all here, and you can't go home empty-handed. Stuart also said that he was a staunch atheist and never believed in ghosts.
"Let's go, let's go in and see who this pharaoh is. Zhou Jinyu took the lead and entered the tomb.
Song Tianlin shook his head and walked in.
The moment they entered the burial chamber, everyone was stunned.
Before their eyes appeared a golden chariot in motion, a couch adorned with huge gilded lions and monsters, a golden coffin of a statue of a king one man high, and countless chests and cages.
On the stone platform at the entrance is a golden scepter that symbolizes the supreme authority of the pharaoh, and on it is inlaid with a transparent jade stone, which glows with colorful colors under the light of a flashlight.
"If these things can be moved out, I think it will be enough to support Long Yuan's activities for a hundred years," Lu Ye was speechless, he walked to the golden chariot and reached out to touch the beam of the chariot, "It's really hard to imagine how high the pharaoh would have been at that time!"
"Be careful, the pharaoh's burial chamber usually has a mechanism to prevent theft. Song Tianlin couldn't help but say when he looked at Lu Ye's appearance.
Song Tianlin turned his attention to the murals on the walls of the tomb, which seemed to depict the scene of the pharaoh's reign, but unlike the murals in other pyramid tombs, the murals here did not indicate the identity of the owner of the tomb, it may be that the identity of the former pharaoh was very secret, and even the person who painted the murals was not clear.
"Do you know the scepter?" asked Stuart, pointing to the scepter stuck on the stone platform, his knowledge of history was far inferior to that of Song Tianlin.
"Flails," Song Tianlin nodded, "is the scepter held by the deceased pharaoh, which was often used as a torture instrument in the past, representing that the pharaoh had the power to reward and punish everything, but it was often used in conjunction with the "heka" scepter, which symbolized "ruler" in ancient Egyptian. ”
"But there seems to be only one scepter here," said Stuart, "and look at the jewel on the scepter, I don't think I've ever seen ......."
Song Tianlin took a closer look, the expression on his face gradually became horrified, his fists clenched, and his whole body trembled.
"Are you under a curse?" asked Stuart, confused.
"No......" Song Tianlin came back to his senses, his tone trembled slightly, "No wonder Amanhotpool won't let us in, because the owner of this golden coffin is very likely to be the ruler of the New Kingdom period, Amanhotlpool II!"
"Hell...... So we're digging someone's grave?" Stuart whispered.
"It should be right," Song Tianlin breathed a long sigh of relief, "It was recorded in the Egyptian Book of the Dead that the pharaoh's scepter was given by Anubis, the god of death, and the scepter was inlaid with gems containing the power of the god of death. ”
"But in fact, the Anubis gem did exist. There are indeed hieroglyphic records of gem-like gems on stone tablets in temples of some of the early and earlier New Dynasties, but not in temples from the middle period onwards. Song Tianlin explained, "Fragments of sacred scripts were found in the pyramid of Hatshepsut, and there were also records of precious stones in them, but in the pyramid of Tutankhamun, three generations after the pharaohs, these records disappeared......"
And among these three generations, there are three generations of Amanholpur's grandchildren. What is even more interesting is that Amanhotpur IV, also known as Pharaoh Akhenaten, did not believe in death like his father and grandfather during his reign, but trumpeted the sun god Atun in the name of the Reformation. It is now almost plausible that it is likely that Amanhotlpool II and III had hidden a scepter with a jewel, so their descendants believed that they were no longer under the protection of death and believed in other gods, and it is for this reason that after the death of Amanhotlpool IV, his son Tutankhamun died at the age of nineteen, and the dynasty he ruled was replaced by Seti I. ”
"Friends, how about coming and seeing the true face of our great pharaoh?" Lu Ye's voice suddenly came.
Stuart and Song Tianlin turned their heads at the same time and saw that Lu Ye had already opened the golden coffin and half opened......
Suddenly, a hand reached out like lightning and slammed the golden coffin shut. It was Zhou Jinyu, he didn't speak, just stared at the gem on the scepter.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing?" Lu Ye complained.
"Shut up!" Zhou Jinyu shouted sharply, "Everyone evacuate immediately!"
Unfortunately, it was too late, and the gem on the scepter suddenly bloomed with a strange light, and there was a "click" sound in the golden coffin.
The shaking of the golden coffin became stronger and stronger, as if something wanted to come out of the golden coffin.
"Canopy canopy, nine-yuan child. Thousands of miles away, sweeping but ominous, dare to have little ghosts, want to come to see the situation. With a sab, ten thousand ghosts collapsed, and they were as anxious as the Northern Emperor Mingwei's edict. Zhou Jinyu recited a mantra in his mouth, took out a yellow talisman from his cheongsam and put it to his mouth, he bit his tongue and squirted blood from the tip of his tongue and sprinkled it on the yellow talisman, and then pressed the yellow talisman on the golden coffin.
The golden coffin slowly stopped, and Zhou Jinyu staggered a few steps and finally stopped.
"So teammates are very important, what do you think about pig teammates like Lu Ye to take him with you," Song Yuan said, "So what's in the golden coffin?"
"Scarabs, real scarabs. Stuart sighed, "The ancient pharaohs would have their hearts gouged out and replaced with scarabs when they died. There would be no danger if we left at this point, but Amanhotpool arrived suddenly. ”
"I think I might have guessed what happened after that," Song Yuan thought for a while and said, "Suppressing other people's ancestors in front of other people's families, it's strange if the family members don't fight with you!"
"That's true," said Stuart, "that Amanhotlpool and the pharaohs' ministers almost killed us all, and we were able to escape because Zhou Jinyu tore off the yellow talisman from the golden coffin and released the scarab beetle in the golden coffin." ”
"Can he do this kind of neurotic thing?" Song Yuan's voice grew louder, "That's the stuff of people's ancestors, what's the benefit to you of releasing it?"
"Those scarabs don't show mercy to your men just because you are a descendant of the pharaohs, and the two pharaohs' ministers who approached the golden coffin were devoured by the scarabs almost instantly, and they died of no slag. So after that we came to a consensus, which was to ......" Stuart paused, "Run." ”
"We were chased by scarabs in the pyramid, and in the panic we triggered a lot of traps, and in the end we didn't know where we ran to," Stuart shrugged, "and then it was Zhou Jinyu who led us to the right route and let us return to where we had previously landed." ”
"At this point, the treasure in the pyramid is no longer extravagant, but Amanhotlpool will not allow these scarabs to escape from the pyramid, and he offers to leave one person to open the pyramid's self-destruct mechanism, and this person will be buried deep in the ground with the pyramid, and Amanhotlpool said that this person must be one of the four of us. Stuart closed his eyes, "This matter was caused by us, so we must take this responsibility, Lu Ye wanted to stay, but was rejected by Zhou Jinyu." ”
"What kind of god reversal is this? Isn't Zhou Jinyu still alive?"
"I don't know exactly how Zhou Jinyu escaped from the ancient pyramid, but the pyramid collapsed shortly after we went up," Stuart shook his head, "After we returned to our respective organizations, Hidden Mist and Long Yuan put pressure on the Pharaohs, who were finally forced to give us a lot of compensation. ”
The door to the side hall slowly opened, and the priest stepped out, his face heavy.
"How is Zen Master Pudu?" Song Yuan hurriedly stood up.
"Gebarak is very poisonous, and it may be necessary to send the blood in Purdue's body to the Europa headquarters for testing before the corresponding treatment plan can be given. The priest sighed, his ability to suppress Gebarak's sac no longer produced toxins, but she couldn't do anything about the toxins that had been produced.
"No need," Purdue walked out with Preston's support, his face was pale, but his expression was very calm, "People will eventually die, and God is destined to do it, so you don't have to worry about the old man anymore." ”
"What sound?"
Everyone shuddered in unison, as if their hearts were clenched by the hand of death, and they all turned their heads to look in a certain direction.
There was a hint of sadness in Pudu's eyes, and he recited softly: "Amitabha Buddha ......"