Chapter 76: The Scarab King
"Oh my God! it's a sarcophagus! and it's buried at the feet of death...... Evelyn said, glancing at the huge cavity above.
"He must have been a man of great stature...... Or, he's a heinous sinful man. Evelyn gives two possibilities.
He ...... Cannot...... By...... Remain...... Name ...... Evelyn swept away the sand with a brush and read the hieroglyphs on the sarcophagus.
"It seems that this friend of ours has done a great thing...... O'Connor's unintentional words have the answer, not only a big thing, but a total event of the century.
"It looks like this is supposed to be some kind of lock, and it seems that some key is needed to open it. Li Wei swept away the yellow sand from the sarcophagus, and then pointed to an octagonal depression.
"Keys, keys...... The key!" said Evelyn, as if to say.
"Heβwho is he?" O'Connor and Jonathan looked at Evelyn with question marks on their heads, in addition to Dawn.
"It's the one who held me hostage on the boat!, Dawn, you should still have an impression!" Evelyn crouched down and searched for the tin box, the octagonal key, in her small bag.
"Well, that's a bit impressive. Li Wei replied.
Evelyn took out the octagonal key, opened it and placed it in the hollow, which was exactly the same as !! Evelyn wanted to open the sarcophagus immediately, but was stopped by Li Wei.
"We don't know what's in the sarcophagus, so it's better to be careful. Put it here first, and then see what the American Treasure Hunt finds before making the next decision. β
Levy nodded in agreement with O'Connor's words, and Jonathan and Evelyn felt justified and gave up the coffin.
"Do you want to betray the contract?!!!" At this time, a stream of information suddenly broke into Li Wei's consciousness, and it was still with great resentment.
"High Priest Imorton, you should know better than I do that you need the Black Book of the Dead to unlock your curse seal. Do you see I have this scripture on me?" Although he was very unhappy with Immorton's arbitrary intrusion into his consciousness, there was nothing he could do to stop it, and he was already planning to ask Phoenix if the system had any skills or abilities that could prevent such a mental invasion.
"I see...... I'm wrong for you. After speaking, Immorton did not explain, let alone apologize, and directly cut off the spiritual connection with Li Wei, which made the latter quite unhappy.
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As it was getting darker and the sun went down, the illuminated copper mirror could not refract the sunlight, so the group of four returned to the tent on the ground to rest.
After eating some hot and cooked food around the fire, O'Connor also picked up some useful information from the American camp.
"Today the Americans were not very lucky, three workers died, all of them were ...... Melted. Even O'Connor, who had already digested the news, said that it was still a lingering feeling.
"Melt?" Evelyn looked at O'Connor a little strangely, and the word 'melt' seemed a bit exaggerated.
"Well, melt. The mysterious compartment is guarded by a mechanism, and when the three workers opened it, they were dissolved by high-pressure hydrochloric acid. O'Connor said.
"Maybe it's really a curse......" As soon as Jonathan finished speaking, a strange wind blew, weakening the fire for a moment.
"Please, Jonathan, can you stop being so timid!" Evelyn scolded Jonathan, a little frightened but impatient.
"Hehehe...... Anyway, I only believe in what I see with my own eyes and what I hear with my own ears. Levy said with a smile, and Evelyn, who heard this, smiled smugly when she saw someone on her side.
"I believe in preparedness. Tonight, I will keep watch for the first half of the night, and Li will watch for the second half of the night. O'Connor said, but tonight was destined to be a sleepless night.
As soon as O'Connor's words fell, a group of black-clad cavalry wielding sabers and rifles broke into the camp where the men and horses were stationed on both sides and began to attack the people in the camp.
"TMD!! you two find a place to hide!, be careful!" O'Connor shouted, his shotgun spewing tongues of fire.
Li Wei did not play foot combat this time, and after emptying the bullets of the pistol, he grabbed a horse and a saber and began to play horse combat with the group of cavalry.
"I really miss this bumpy and exciting feeling...... Li Wei sighed in a low voice, and the saber in his hand did not stop being distracted. Since Li Wei knew that this group of black-clothed cavalry was the descendants of the Pharaoh's guards, and had no ill will towards their group, he did not kill them, and used the back of his sword and impact force to knock all the black-clothed cavalry who fought with him unconscious.
"Everyone, stop!" At this moment, a shout stopped all the attacks of the black-clad cavalry. Li Wei looked around and found that there was a man with a pattern on his face who was confronting O'Connor, and this shout was made by him, and O'Connor was holding a burning ** in his hand!
Li Wei looked at the man carefully, and finally recognized who he was, the leader of this group of black-clad cavalry, and the direct descendant of the Pharaoh's guard, Adebe.
"We won't kill you, but you must get out of here! If you don't get out of here, you'll have a day!" said Adbe, leading his men and the corpses of his fallen comrades out of here.
"Whew......" O'Connor took a breath and broke the lead of **.
"That's right! one person scared off a hundred soldiers!" Li Wei said with a smile.
"Don't bother me, my legs are still limp. O'Connor said with a wry smile.
Although the man in black said that there was still one day, everyone did not let down their vigilance because of this, and they were not relieved until dawn.
After last night's fighting, the workers hired by the American treasure hunt team suffered many casualties and were threatened by outsiders, so they decided to cooperate with Li Wei and his party in the defense. Jonathan stayed at the camp with a few workers with good marksmanship and good marksmanship, while the Americans continued to explore the mysterious compartment of the Statue of Death, and Leeway and his party decided to explore the sarcophagus.
"I've dreamed of this moment since I was a kid......" Evelyn enthuses
"So you've dreamed of finding a dead body since childhood?" O'Connor said, with a hint of sarcasm. Evelyn ignored this, though, because she had made a new discovery.
"Look, his holy law has been swept away, which means that our friend is cursed not only in this life, but also in the next. Evelyn recounted her findings.
"yes, what a poor friend...... "Li Wei said with a pun.
After Levy and O'Connor worked together to open the coffin, everyone was startled by the sudden appearance of the mummy, and Levy also got a system prompt.
"Discover the sleeping Scarab King!"
"The Sixth Ring of the Serial Quest: Find the Scarab King has been completed! Get a reward of 1000 universal points!"
"The seventh ring of the chain of quests has begun!The seventh ring: Awaken the sleeping Scarab King. β
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