Chapter 67: The First Entry
At the entrance of the pyramid, Zhao Qi and Lily stood honestly at the back of the team and slowly entered the pyramid. But as soon as he arrived at the door, he was stopped by two Egyptian soldiers with guns.
"@#¥¥%*" The two soldiers in front of the cave stopped the two of them, speaking in an incomprehensible Arabic language.
The two of them suddenly looked at each other, not knowing what to answer, so they could only freeze in place. At this moment, Professor Howard, who was walking in front, returned to his body, explained carefully to the soldier, and asked Zhao Qi and Lily to hand over the two passes he had given to the soldier before letting him go.
"Professor Howard, what just happened?" Lily stepped into the pyramid and asked in a whisper.
"It's also my fault, I just talked to the Egyptian government, but I didn't explain to the resident officers here that there were only twenty-one scientists who entered two days ago, and now there are two more, so they will stop you." Professor Howard explained.
"Professor Howard, there's only one entrance to the pyramid, right?" Zhao Qi suddenly asked.
"Yes, there is only one entrance to the east, and there are no other entrances found in other places for the time being."
"Why don't you see Egyptian scientists?"
"After all, they are local scientists, and they have a lot of privileges, and they can enter anytime and anywhere, unlike us, who can only enter at a certain time period, and they are now inside the pyramid." Professor Howard explained.
The interior of the pyramid is devoid of any light, and can only be illuminated by flashlights that they carry with them. And although this pyramid has been dusty for many years, its interior is unusually dry, and Zhao Qi can even feel the warm wind coming from the inside of the pyramid.
After walking for a while, the group came across the first fork in the road, but Professor Howard did not stop and went straight to the fork on the left.
"The 'First Pyramid' has many forks in the road, and there is an anomalous magnetic field inside. A lot of our equipment is not working properly, and now, we have only surveyed a small part of it, and in terms of area, it is basically less than a tenth, so you two must follow us closely and don't get lost in it. Professor Howard said to Lily and Zhao Qi with a straight face.
"We're definitely not going to mess around, just come in and have a look." Lily said with a smile.
After a long walk, I finally came to a relatively large room, and several Egyptologists were also studying the murals on the walls. And on their side. There are also several Egyptian soldiers with real guns, who are supposed to be responsible for the safety of the scientists in the tower.
Professor Howard took the lead in greeting several Egyptian scientists.
And from the polite conversation between the two parties, Zhao Qi can also see that these two groups of people are indeed a little bit unmatched.
"Zhao Qi." While he was thinking about it, Lily's deliberately suppressed voice came from his ears.
"What's wrong?" Zhao Qi turned his head, but saw Lily sneakily tugging at the corners of his clothes.
"You help me block the point, I'll take a few pictures." As he spoke, he pulled out a pen from the corner of his suit.
"You...... Have you forgotten what Professor Howard said earlier that photography is not allowed here? Zhao Qi asked in surprise.
"Cut, you weren't allowed to take pictures in the Cairo Museum before that. Didn't you shoot it too? Lily glanced at Zhao Qi angrily, held the pen in her right hand, and after tinkering with it, a glimmer of light flashed on the tip of the pen. Aiming at the mural on the side.
"I ...... Is it not the same? Zhao Qi was robbed of his white by Lily, and he couldn't say anything.
"Don't speak, help me out." Lily grabbed Zhao Qi in front of her, and pressed the button on the pen with her fingers......
"Are you alright?" A few minutes passed. The two of them basically circled around the burial chamber.
"Alright, alright." Lily pulled Zhao Qi, who had been clinging to her, and stuffed the pen into the protective suit, but perhaps the protective suit was too bloated. Without paying attention, the pen fell to the ground in one fell swoop.
"Ding~" The tip of the fountain pen and the stone slab on the ground made a crisp sound, which suddenly spread throughout the quiet tomb, and many scientists also twisted their heads in confusion.
"It's over." Lily's face was white, and she no longer had the audacity to grab Zhao Qi's left hand tightly, unable to speak.
Secretly taking photos is expressly prohibited, and if they are caught by the Egyptian side, it will not be Zhao Qi and Lily, and even Professor Howard will be implicated.
"This stupid woman!" Zhao Qi's head was big for a while, and he grabbed the pen in his right hand violently, picked up the pen on the ground in his hand, and put it in his sleeve.
“! @#¥......" A barrage of Arabic words came out of the mouths of the soldiers, but it was still a face-saving thing, and they didn't raise their guns.
"What's going on?" Professor Howard hurriedly walked over and asked Lily.
"I ...... I ......" Lily was speechless for a moment.
"Professor Howard, I'm sorry to disturb you when a coin I was carrying fell off." Zhao Qi said with a smile on his face, and at the same time spread his right hand. A Chinese one-yuan coin was lying quietly in the palm of Zhao Qi's hand.
Several Egyptian soldiers surrounded Zhao Qi and looked at it carefully, and finally let Zhao Qi go because they didn't find anything abnormal.
"Scared the hell out of me......" Lily said as she patted her heart as she watched everyone walk away again.
"Can you be careful? If I drop it again, I don't have that many coins to help you lie. Zhao Qi took out a pen and camera from his sleeve and returned it to Lily, and Lily, who was very happy, did not ask Zhao Qi how he deceived the soldiers.
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After a period of exploration, the two scientists agreed to continue their journey to the interior of the pyramid.
There were more than 30 people in the group, including several soldiers and Egyptian scientists, and scientists from various countries, mainly Edward, at the back.
Although there are many forks in the pyramids, Egyptian scientists have been studying the pyramids for many years, and there is still a certain amount of research on these forks.
After some more time, the crowd finally entered a golden hall.
The real "golden" brilliance.
The hall was huge, surrounded by gold ornaments that glowed brightly in the light.
"How much is this worth?" Looking at the room full of gold coins and gold ornaments, Zhao Qi muttered to himself, compared to the gold obtained in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor last time, compared to here, it is simply a small thing, not worth mentioning.
"Anyway, why did people in ancient times like gold so much?" Zhao Qi touched his chin and asked Lily on the side.
"Nonsense, ancient gold is equivalent to today's banknotes, don't you like banknotes?" Lily gave Zhao Qi a blank look.
"Yes, that's right."
Compared with Zhao Qi's attention, these more than 20 scientists from various countries looked at the statues in the middle with feverish eyes.
Surrounded by gold are five majestic statues, four of which are long-haired kobolds, each three meters tall and with lifelike faces.
In the middle of the kobold statue is a huge sarcophagus, densely carved with incomprehensible text symbols, and emitting a black and gold color under the illumination of the light.
On top of the sarcophagus stands a huge lion, which looks like a lion has been lying on top of the sarcophagus for generations.
"Kobolds are ancient Egyptian warriors of the god of death who possess unrivaled power, and lions represent kings, such as the Sphinx next to the Pyramid of Khufu." Lily explained to Zhao Qi on the side.
More than 20 scientists were shocked by the scene in front of them, and without waiting for anything to say, they hurriedly stepped forward to surround the five statues and looked at them carefully, but they didn't even glance at the eye-catching gold next to them.
Lily's eyes rolled, and she grabbed Zhao Qi's body and wanted to repeat the old trick. And Zhao Qi also knew how obsessed Lily was with these things, and she could only be used as a "shield" again.
"Do you think this slab is the owner of this pyramid?" Zhao Qi whispered and said to Lily, who was taking a picture.
"Surely yes, or who can lie under the lion."
"That's not necessarily, the ancient emperors of our country were afraid that their graves would be discovered, so they had to make several sets of tricks when they were buried, so that people couldn't know where he was buried." Zhao Qi said.
"That's your China, and this is Egypt. I have never heard of an Egyptian king who would give up the pyramids he had worked so hard to build to be inhabited. ”
"Look, they're all working on those statues, and now we shouldn't have a problem getting some gold, right?" Zhao Qi asked shyly.
"What do you want to do? You don't want to fight with the idea of gold. As soon as Lily heard Zhao Qi's words, she stopped what she was doing and said to Zhao Qi with a serious face.
"I'll just talk about it." Not to mention, Zhao Qi really has such an idea, it's not that he is greedy for money, the key is that these gold coins are thousands of years ago, and it is always good to commemorate them.
"You can't take these gold coins, there is a curse of the Egyptian pharaoh on them, and whoever takes the gold coins inside will be unlucky, so you must not touch these gold."
"So wicked? Then there are no gold coins in other pyramids? Is it all still there, and no one has touched it? Zhao Qi asked in disbelief.
"Not really, but it has been recorded in ancient Egyptian books, and it is better to believe it than not to believe it, what if something really happens?"
"It seems to make sense, but you see he also took one, why is it okay?" Zhao Qi said and pointed to the Egyptian soldier in front of him who was sneaking a few gold coins into his arms.
…… (To be continued......)