Chapter Fifty-Nine: Retreat from the South to the North
"There's another group of people!"
Su Cheli's words made Ye Xiaohan and Qu Wenjin's faces tighten, especially Qu Wenjin subconsciously retorted:
"How is this possible? Aren't we the only ones who have entered the pyramid? How can there be other ........?"
As he spoke, Qu Wenjin's voice gradually became low, because he suddenly thought of a key place, and hurriedly changed his words:
"Is it ..... Could it be that another group of people who have entered the pyramid—"
"Looks like you've finally thought of it? That's right—"
Su Cheli looked at Qu Wenjin's somewhat solemn expression, knowing that he had finally figured out the key point, and said affirmatively:
"That's right, the other group of people who entered the pyramid is none other than the 'Demon Scorpion' or ........"
"'Forest House'!"
Hearing these words, Qu Wenjin's already somewhat serious expression became as deep as water, and his eyes were firmly fixed on the 'sacrificial path' that was blocked by the falling stone gate. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
At this time, Ye Xiaohan suddenly interjected: "If it is the 'Demon Scorpion' or the 'Forest House' organization, then the deaths of Xiong Jianhua and Zhu Mengtong, will it have anything to do with them?" ”
Su Cheli was stunned for a moment, and then nodded in agreement: "Xiaohan, your idea is indeed very possible, we have always thought that Xiong Jianhua and Zhu Mengtong died in the agency, but we ignored the possibility of 'artificial'. So, if there really is another group of people who are also in the pyramid, and they belong to the 'Demon Scorpion' or 'Forest House' organization, then Xiong Jianhua and they are indeed very likely to have died at the hands of these people, but-"
Speaking of this, Su Cheli's brows furrowed fiercely, and he said with some doubts:
"If they are members of the 'Demon Scorpion' organization, then their motives for hunting us are understandable. The motives of the other 'Woodhouse' organization are a little more intriguing - if they are from the Woodhouse, why would they send these five of us to help Angelia on the surface, and then send someone to assassinate them behind their backs? Besides, isn't it too contradictory to have hunted all the members of the 'Forest House' itself so far? ”
"What's more, although we are members of the 'Forest House' organization, we have not been contacted by the 'Forest House' side once so far, and we don't have any means of communication to contact the Forest House, doesn't that seem too weird?"
After speaking, Su Cheli exhaled fiercely, and then the three of them were silent for a while, and no one could give an answer or even guess, because there was too little information about the 'forest house'........
Feeling this silence, Su Cheli shook his head in disappointment, but he didn't expect to be able to guess the purpose and motive of the 'forest house'. So, he turned his gaze to the wall, and began to carefully observe the murals on the wall, but a trace of gloom lingered in his heart—
'Forest House'....... What is their purpose?
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In the midst of the ruins, a slender figure lay quietly on the rock wall, with delicate and beautiful facial features and a slightly wrinkled expression with closed eyes, as delicate and moving as a sleeping beauty, enough to make any ancient king obsessed with going back and forth and bowing down under his pomegranate skirt.
Suddenly, her brows tightened, her eyelids twitched slightly, and she slowly opened—
"This ...... What's going on? I remember the moment I opened the door......"
This beautiful girl is Hinasaki Fukaha, just now she was hit by the shockwave that spread out at the moment of opening the door and hit the rock wall on the side, and instantly fell into a coma, and now she finally woke up-
"Ah~ I remembered! The moment I opened the door, a wave of golden shock came and slammed me against the wall, and then I passed out......."
Hinasaki Fukayu got up slowly, rubbed his somewhat sore shoulders, and said to himself with a bitter face: "It hurts~, that shock wave is comparable to turtle wave qigong, right?" When I find the senior, I must let him 'compensate' me well, so I have to work so hard and forget to die to find him, oops~, it's rare to see a gentle and virtuous student like me now~......."
Hinasaki Fukaha said words that made people speechless, and slowly walked to the blue-black door, looking at the faint golden light from the door, and his expression became serious again-
"It took me so much strength to open it, it's as conservative as a 'chastity belt'~, cough~cough~! Can't be so unelegant, seniors will not like me~........"
"Senior......
Speaking of this, Hinasaki Fukaha suddenly stopped talking, with a determined look in his eyes, slowly stepped out of his right foot, and gradually walked into the open door step by step-
"So now...... Let me see what's behind this door~! ”
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Su Cheli moved his gaze to the surrounding walls, and suddenly his gaze froze slightly, and he couldn't help but say, "This is the mechanism construction process of the Jackal Pyramid?!" ”
When Ye Xiaohan and Qu Wenjin on the side heard this, they immediately came over curiously, and Qu Wenjin took the lead in asking:
"The mural on this rock wall actually depicts the mechanism of the Jackal Pyramid? Wouldn't we have to worry about the threat of the agency in the future? ”
After Su Cheli glanced at the mural a few times, a somewhat helpless expression appeared on his face, and he said in a very tangled tone:
"Let's just say that~, but ......."
Su Cheli stretched out his hand and scratched his head, sighed deeply, and explained to the curious Ye behind him, Qu and the two:
"Forget it, I'll explain it to you from the beginning—"
Su Cheli walked to the first wall on the right, pointed to the mural on it and explained to the two: "This is a picture of the craftsmen making our first fork in the road, on which the left and right forks are called 'Corona Passage' and 'Moon Passage' respectively, and they are ........"
As he spoke, the helplessness on Su Cheli's face became more and more obvious, and he continued with some confusion: "The 'Corona Passage' in it only leads to the place of sacrifice, and at the same time, the place of sacrifice is full of all kinds of symbolic mechanisms that we have experienced, as for the 'Heart of the Pharaoh'........."
"Only another 'Moon Passage' can lead to the real 'Pharaoh's Tomb'~! In other words, the 'Heart of the Pharaoh' can only exist in another 'Moon Passage', and we are simply going a fork in the road~! ”
Ye Xiaohan and Qu Wenjin's faces suddenly froze, and at this moment they finally understood what was going on with the tangled look on Su Che's face-
It turned out that he and the others had taken a fork in the road from the beginning, no wonder they didn't find even the slightest bit of information about the 'Pharaoh's Heart' after looking for a long time, because they were simply 'in the opposite direction'~!
Ye Xiaohan couldn't help but say helplessly: "This is really damned~, we actually looked in the wrong direction from the beginning, so if we want to find the 'Heart of the Pharaoh', wouldn't we have to go back along the 'prayer path' when we came?" ”
Qu Wenjin on the side looked at the mural in front of him in a daze-the mural depicted two passages, the left passage was painted above a **** day, and the right passage was depicted with a full moon. At the same time, a circle of gears is depicted next to the left passage, and a scepter is depicted next to the right passage.
At the same time, Qu Wenjin secretly said in his heart: "I see, the patterns on these murals all represent such true meanings, no wonder I and others can't understand these murals at all—if you don't have a certain understanding of ancient Egyptian folk culture, even if you and other students can understand ancient Egyptian characters with the help of the Despair Academy, they will definitely not be able to understand the meaning of those murals." ”
At this time, Su Cheli's voice interrupted Qu Wenjin's contemplation, only to see Su Cheli shake his head vigorously, negating Ye Xiaohan's proposal to go back just now-
"No, even if we go back along the 'Prayer Path', we will definitely not be able to return to the fork of the 'Corona Passage' and the 'Moon Passage', because the 'Rolling Stone Passage' that 'reincarnates' every two minutes can't be reversed at all - you know, we almost ran over the Rolling Stones even if we ran in the same direction before, and if we went backwards, two minutes would definitely not be enough time for us to run back to the 'starting point', and we would definitely be crushed by the rolling stones halfway through!"
"After all, if we go in the opposite direction, we will actively reduce the distance to the rolling stones, which is completely different from running in the same direction - running in the same direction can delay time, but going in the opposite direction will only accelerate death. So, in fact, we are left with less than two minutes! ”
Ye Xiaohan rubbed his head with some distress, "So, since we can't go back the way we came, what should we do?" Not to mention that the 'sacrificial road' has been closed, even if it is opened, there is no point for us to enter~. After all, it's already certain that there isn't a 'Pharaoh's Heart' here, so there's no point in us staying here, and Angelia doesn't know where it is at the moment........."
"That's why we need to stay here—"
Su Cheli interrupted Ye Xiaohan's words, his eyes stared closely at the mural in front of him, and explained in a deep voice:
"I'm going to see if I can see anything from these murals, find a way to open the 'prayer' or 'sacrifice path', and meet Angelia as soon as possible."
After speaking, Su Cheli moved his gaze to the mural on the other wall, and after observing it for a while, he found that it was full of the mechanisms that he and the others had experienced—their construction process.
"Rolling stone reincarnation corridor, spiral steps, sand walkway.........."
Su Cheli stared at the abstract patterns on the mural, muttering to himself, and soon, he lost interest in this mural, because this mural all depicts the completion of the organs in the four passages of 'ceremony', 'prayer', 'sacrifice', and 'prayer', and there is no information prompt about opening the two passages of 'prayer' and 'sacrifice'.
Therefore, Su Cheli quickly shifted his gaze to the mural on the next wall, and then he frowned, and couldn't help but sigh softly-
"Huh~, this is ........."
Ye Xiaohan and Qu Wenjin, who were originally looking at the other murals blankly, hurriedly approached after hearing Su Cheli's soft voice, and both asked curiously:
"Che Li, what's wrong? Did you find anything? ”
"What's wrong? Su Cheli, have you discovered anything again? ”
Su Cheli nodded slightly, then pointed to the equally abstract pattern on the mural and began to explain: "This mural tells the story of the architectural structure of Tutankhamun's mausoleum when the craftsmen built it, and a 'important mechanism' inside it—the secret passage. ”
Ye Xiaohan asked with a puzzled face: "'Dark Dao'? Why did the craftsman build the 'Dark Tunnel'? ”
"Of course, it's for the craftsmen themselves~!"
Su Cheli stretched out his hand and touched the mural in front of him, looking at the hue of the mural in this side room that was obviously different from the previous murals in other places, a hint of understanding appeared on his face, and he continued to explain:
"In order not to be buried alive, the craftsmen naturally needed to build a 'dark tunnel', and at the same time, these murals were painted by the craftsmen themselves, and you can see if you look closely that the color of these murals is obviously different from the ones we have seen elsewhere before, which is probably because they were painted with different pigments. At the same time, it also proves that the frescoes in this side room were painted by the craftsmen themselves after the pyramid was built and 'closed'. ”
"Because, in ancient times, the nobles who presided over the construction of the pyramid mausoleum, in order to prevent the craftsmen who were familiar with the internal structure of the pyramid from leaking information, often imprisoned the craftsmen in the 'closed' pyramid after the pyramid was built, and let them fend for themselves inside. In order to survive, the craftsmen will leave 'secret passages' when they build the pyramids, so as to ensure that they can finally escape from the 'closed' pyramids and change their names and surnames in other places to continue their lives - this belongs to the secret of the ancient artisan industry and is not known to outsiders. ”
Speaking of this, Su Cheli stretched out his hand and pointed to the mural in front of him with a huge coffin, and continued to explain:
"Therefore, they left a secret passage in Tutankhamun's tomb, and the trigger mechanism seems to be ......."
"The small canterium-shaped ornament next to the coffin—an ornament that represents the meaning of 'judgment'?"
After speaking, Su Cheli reached out and gently touched the small scales next to the huge coffin on the mural, and then, he slowly let go of his hand and shook his head helplessly-
"It's useless to know this information, we're not in Tutankhamun's tomb at all, we'll have to find other useful information........
Then, Su Cheli set his eyes on the wall on the last side, and Ye Xiaohan and Qu Wenjin beside him also set their eyes on it—because this was also the last hope for the three of them.
"Huh? It seems to be a ...... Darkroom? ”
Su Cheli carefully looked at the mural in front of him for a while, and then he couldn't help but whisper:
"Moreover, it seems that this dark room is right under our feet~!"