Chapter 7: Where the Truth Is Buried

Less than half past nine in the morning, Tong Shiye Art Museum ushered in a white-haired girl, standing in front of the door and looking around.

After about five minutes, she finally couldn't stand the strange stares of passers-by anymore and obediently hid in a fast-food restaurant across the street.

"Damn it...... My watch is half an hour faster! Li Bai gritted her teeth and stared at the wall clock in the store, where the time displayed was completely different from the one on her mobile phone.

"I said why is there no one after the time, so I came early......

"No...... Actually, you came just in time. ”

The slightly awkward voice of the game came from behind her, and the girl looked back to find that the men were sitting at a table of four and eating hamburgers leisurely.

"That,We actually planned to come over in advance.,After all, this time it's more important.,So ......" Facing the girl's expressionless gaze, even the game was a little overwhelmed, he quietly glanced at the apricot next to him who was desperately holding back a smile, and reminded her with his eyes that she was as normal as possible.

…… Very suspicious, Li Baimu leaned in front of the stiff apricot with a stiff face, and observed her suspiciously.

"Alright...... I'll admit that I didn't ask Honda to call you because I wanted to see more of your embarrassment, but didn't you wait long...... I came in less than ten minutes, and I thought I had been discoveredβ€”so stop staring at me fiercely...... Hear no! Seeing that Li Bai had the intention of opening his mouth to refute, Apricot hurriedly picked up a hamburger that had just been unwrapped and stuffed it into the girl's mouth, blocking her next words.

"Huh!?" Being held back alive in one breath made Li Bai almost angry, and after reacting, she hurriedly caught the hamburger with her hands and mouths, lest it fall to the ground.

"Dead apricots! Do you want to kill me! The girl took a hard bite on the burger and glared at Apricot with even more vicious eyes, "I almost choked to death by you!" ”

"Aren't you dead......

"What is your attitude! I was kind enough to support you, but I was going to be teased? ”

"......" looked at their noisy appearance, and the corners of the game's mouth curled slightly.

Everyone's relationship is as good as ever.

He put his hand on the vacant seat beside him.

Although this is a four-seater table, excluding Li Bai, who has not yet sat down, they only fill three seats.

The castle is not here.

"The cruelest truth is better than the sweetest lie!" Li Bai slapped it heavily on the table, and his beautiful bright red eyes narrowed dangerously, "...... I hate it when people lie to me. ”

If it was in normal times, she wouldn't mind being made a few little jokes by Apricot, but now is the critical moment, her mind and spirit are in a state of moderate tension, this teasing makes her can't help but think back to a girl who once cheated on her, and the words that pop out of her mouth naturally begin to get heavier.

"That's enough, don't make any noise." Seeing that the noise has a tendency to escalate into war, the game wisely stops them, "Apricot...... Since you should have called her in if you saw Bai before, it really hurts you to do this, and of course Bai will be angry. ”

Hearing her sweetheart's rebuke, Kyoko opened her mouth to say something more, but in the end she gave up and held her chin with her hand to nibble on food alone.

She actually regretted it in her heart, and she was a little unbelievable about what she had just done - although she liked to make jokes about girls in her daily life, she had always been very strict and reliable when it came to more critical events, and she had never made such malicious teasing as just now.

It's because I haven't seen white for too long...... ?

"And Shiro, too...... I remember that you are not such a stingy person, right, why do you want to send such a big one-" After dealing with the apricot, the game turned his head, intending to persuade the girl slightly, at least to pinch out the signs of escalation, he stared at Li Bai in front of him seriously, but vaguely sensed that there seemed to be something wrong with the other party, hesitated, and he quietly used the power of the millennium building block.

The effectiveness of this artifact is not comparable to the effectiveness of the other six artifacts with specific functions, but it is not useless, and through the Millennium Bricks, the game can see things that he would not normally see.

In a trance, the living form standing in front of him was no longer a white-haired girl with a peaceful temperament, and behind her floated a foggy phantom as black as ink, constantly emitting a dark mist around.

This...... What the hell is this?

"How the hell are you going to be so bad that you can't even do such a little thing? What use do I want you? ”

"Wait...... Wait a minute! It's just such a small thing...... Hmph, okay, I've been patient with you for a long time, so let's separate this time! ”

This conversation, is it the couple sitting next door?

But a few minutes ago, their relationship was fine, and the boy said that he was going to take his lover to the beach...... How did it suddenly become like this?

This phenomenon occurred not only in their neighbors, but also in several couples in other locations, as well as some passers-by in the street, whose expressions were more impetuous than those on their faces before the girl appeared, each like a powder keg that would explode at the slightest touch.

…… Could it be?

The game's dark red pupils dilated suddenly, and he gathered the power of the thousand-year-old block, merging it with the other three equally powerful forces, and rushed straight towards the girl.

He wanted to use this to force Li Bai to use his own strength.

"Games? What are you doing!? Li Bai roared angrily, she couldn't believe that the game actually launched an attack on her without warning, and an illusory white light flashed all over her body in an instant, and the power belonging to the dragon of judgment was partially manifested by her, only a half-step distance from her slight hind legs, and she easily carried the game's attack.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Okay, now it should be possible to have a normal conversation. Seeing the fog behind her completely dispersed by the action of two forces, the game breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he said what he saw, Honda and Kyoko both had expressions of disbelief on their faces, and Li Bai had a solemn face.

Something similar had happened to her before she met Nit, in the early days of Duel City, and her anomaly was almost exactly what the game had just described: restless, irritable, sane and, most horrifyingly, unaware of it.

(Is it the evil that Nit mentioned that is at work?) But wasn't that thing banished during that duel...... Why is it still ...... οΌ‰

οΌˆβ€¦β€¦ And at times like these. οΌ‰

"It's 10 o'clock in ten minutes, let's cut a long story short." The game looked at the wall clock and sped up his speech, "Shiro, we arrived here an hour before you came, and luckily, the messenger sent by the tomb guards also arrived early, his name is Bobasha, and he can use his front and upper body as a container to temporarily keep the thousand-year-old artifact." ”

"So you've only got a thousand-year-old brick left, right?" The girl's eyes swept over the game's chest, and she accidentally found a second pendant there - it was a jade pendant-sized ornament, with a more distinct Egyptian civilization, the overall shape was somewhat like one of the cuneiform scripts, and the front was equipped with a delicate transparent window, which seemed to be able to be opened.

"Yes, he is a trustworthy person, and I will give him the rest of the artifacts." Noticing the girl's gaze, the game provoked the pendant accordingly, "This is the pendant that Apricot gave me...... Bought it from the souvenir shop inside the museum, she hoped that I would really regain my memories and have my real name engraved on it. ”

"Then I wish you all the best of luck."

"Thank you...... I'm not sure what the reason for your situation just now, it's a little weird, so I thought we could talk to him when we met Bobasha. ”

"They will definitely have some records of what they have seen and heard in this area for thousands of years."

The game doesn't say what would happen if it was really her own internal problem, but Li Bai could guess some.

β€œβ€¦β€¦ That's all there is to it. The girl could understand his thoughts, and if it was something more important to herself, she would certainly be more cautious than the game.

Moreover, she herself wanted to know what the black fog in the game's description was, and why it still existed after a thorough burn by Mars.

After settling the bill, I chatted with Kyoko with a normal attitude about what the other party had done in the past few days, and a few people walked towards the art museum across the street.

Shortly after they left, a diner in the corner of the restaurant who had been covering his face with a newspaper also stood up.

"Isn't it just your own 'cell'...... It's really that adult. ”

"Looks like it's time for me to go." He looked at the latte on the table that hadn't moved, and quickly pulled out his wallet.

……

Bobasha was a tall fat man - he wanted to store seven thousand-year-old artifacts by the hollow of his upper body, and he couldn't do it without enough fat, and although it sounded and looked disgusting, the fat man was not annoying when he closed his locked clothes, and like most Egyptians, he had a dark complexion, a scarf hat on his head, and two thick black beards on his loyal face.

"Can you influence yourself or those around you?" Faced with the questions of the game and others, Bobasha lifted his thick chin and pondered his memory bank.

"Sounds like some kind of evil spirit born out of dark negative energy, but I remember you told me that it was banished?"

This sentence was said by looking at Li Bai, she hesitated for a moment, and nodded: "Well, I was ...... by one of mine before." The guards used a special method to evict me once, and I was very impressed with that time, and I thought that the expulsion was very thorough, so I wondered if it was the same thing as before. ”

"I can't tell!" In the face of the girl's request, Bobasha could only smile bitterly, "I haven't seen what it was like before, and I don't know what it makes me feel, how can I judge whether they are a thing or not." ”

"Where's Nit?" Honda interjected at the right time, "Call her in and ask if there will be more clues?" ”

"No way!" Li Bai was the first to veto him, "This incident and her ...... I don't want to get her involved, and it just so happens that Angela has something to do and is back in the UK, do you know how much work it took me to get the right to travel alone! ”

"Then there is no way...... Bobasha has taken out the Millennium Key that originally belonged to Xia Di at some point, "I have to use the power of the Millennium Key to carefully observe your heart." ”

β€œβ€¦β€¦ Does it have to be so? Frowning slightly, there is really no way, Li Bai will definitely not be willing to be spied into his heart by the artifact again.

Although none of the previous snoops have revealed any secrets, the worry ...... She just didn't want to go through it again.

"Don't worry, I won't snoop into your secrets, I won't even enter your heart." Sensing the girl's concern, Bobasha opened his mouth to reassure her, "I'm not the one who was chosen by the artifact, and naturally I can't exert the maximum power of the artifact, so I just need to take a general observation...... This kind of observation can reflect the good and bad in a person more comprehensively, so it is enough. ”

"Okay, can we start now?" Li Bai swallowed his saliva, and took two steps back a little nervously, and the others also dispersed with interest when they saw this, leaving enough space between her and Bobasha.

"I'm going to start, take it easy, and keep your usual normal state." Boba Saping raised the golden cross in his hand, his eyes through the hole in the center of the key, and the eyes of the girl not far away connected in a straight line.

The observation process was extremely short, and in the eyes of the others, in the blink of an eye, Bobasha sat down on the ground with a wheez, and they looked at each other, and hurriedly went up and helped him up.

"Whew...... This girl's heart is not evil, but there is an air of light that I can't imagine. He took out his handkerchief and wiped the sweat from his face, and Bobasha's expression relaxed a lot.

He had already determined that Li Bai did not have any evil spirits attached to his body.

"What you experienced before may be the cause of that store." Seeing that Kyoko's eyes were still confused, he expressed his guess: "It may be that there is an evil spirit entrenched there, and you just happened to encounter it." ”

"Doesn't that mean we just met...... Ghost??? Apricot covered her mouth in horror, she was really scared.

"No matter how vicious the ghost is, the power of the three gods will be crushed in the face of it!" Bobasha smiled and explained, "With the Pharaoh by his side, no evil spirit can do anything. ”

"Indeed, after I activated the power of the Three Illusion Gods, that black mist was blown away." The addition of the game adds a persuasive force to this explanation, and the hearts of several people are really put at ease.

Maybe it's true that I'm too careful, he thought.

After Li Bai, Honda and Apricot also accepted the observation of the Millennium Key - if the situation that was expected to exist in the middle of the zΓ i really happened, and it was uncertain the nature of several people, Bobasha would never let them participate in it.

What he really recognizes is still the Pharaoh, and if he is reluctant, he can add the Pharaoh's living container, which is the original Muto game, and he doesn't care much about the others, at most, it is to give them some convenience in terms of their special status.

After solving the hidden danger that might exist in the end, and making sure that there was no dark aura in the body of several people, Bobasha cautiously opened the door of the museum and led them to the window with the stone carving.

"What a big ......" Honda and Kyoko saw this slate for the first time, and their reactions were even more intense.

"That guy is a game! And the guy across from him looked a lot like ...... Sea horse? ”

"The carving at the top is...... Three Phantom Cards? ”

Compared to these two people, the game and Li Bai, who had already been surprised once, looked plain, and the former took out the three phantom cards in the special card pack and stared at them silently.

Sky Dragon of Osiris.

The Titan of Obeliske.

There is also the Winged Dragon of the Sun God.

These three cards, along with the Millennium Bricks I am wearing now, will determine whether or not I can recover my lost memories.

At the last moment, even he couldn't stop the tension in his heart, and swallowed his saliva like the girl had just done.

"Please face the slate head-on...... Pharaoh. Bobasha stepped aside and verbally instructed the game on how to act, "and then arranged the three god cards in the order corresponding to the slate, and held them up against the slate. ”

"That way, you may be able to hope for the 'truth' you lost."

"......" took a few deep breaths, and the game did as he said and stood in front of the slate.

Then, he raised the three god cards in his hand directly at it.

The speed of time seemed to be filled countless times in this instant, and everyone held their breath, quietly staring at the figure in front of the stone slab, staring at his face like a rock.

Sudden mutations.

The carving of the thousand-year-old building blocks on the stone slab suddenly emitted a strong golden light in the next second! The glow was like a liquid, turning into a straight pillar of light, and it struck the three god cards held high in the game!!

This is!?

Inexplicable pressure suddenly appeared, except for the game, everyone else was squeezed two meters away from the stone slab by a force, they looked at the scene in front of them in horror, and felt that their brains had lost the ability to think.

The impact of the pillars of light on the board makes the game feel a bit like the impact of a water jet, but as time goes on, the power of this impact weakens - not that the pillars of light disappear, but that they are slowly infiltrating the three cards of God.

Finally...... As if the authenticity of these three cards had been completely checked, the pillar of light unceremoniously went straight through them and struck the game's chest - the Millennium Brick!

In an instant, the world swirled.

……

The game is awakened by a familiar voice.

"Pharaoh? Pharaoh? ”

"Wake up! Pharaoh ...... Now is not the time to doze off! ”

The voice was soft, in the form of a whisper, and it sounded somewhat similar to his grandfather, Muto Shuangroku.

When he opened his eyes, the game looked at the surrounding environment in a bit of confusion.

He hadn't recovered from the strange weightlessness he had.

As far as the eye can see, there is a large stone hall with a thick layer of gold stucco at the base of the walls.

After moving his body slightly, the game found that there was a unique stone chair under him, his body seemed to be familiar with this touch, his hands were naturally resting on the armrests on both sides of the stone chair, and his five fingers were relaxed and slightly raised. The man who had just woken him up was standing to his right, a masked man in a white robe, his stature shrunk and short, presumably an old man; In addition to him, there were six other white-robed men and women in front of him, divided into two columns, one column of three, all of whom stood diagonally on their sides in a standard manner, as if it was a great disrespect to turn their backs to him.

Why does this man call me Pharaoh?

Where is this?

The game held back the shock in his heart and began to silently analyze his situation, but as this analysis deepened, his face couldn't help but become more and more shocked.

The pattern of this architecture ...... This style of clothing ...... And the frescoes, and what the old gentleman just called...... They all point to a surreal reality.

This is not the world.

It was 3,000 years ago...... Ancient Egypt.