Ahmad's heart pounded. He found that he could not move, nor could he speak, as if he had become a stone statue, and could only watch.

The man with the coral branch walked slowly, with very gentlemanly steps, and walked past him, but ignored him.

Ahmad vaguely felt that he had seen this man somewhere. Although the details of his facial features were blurred by a faint layer of golden light, his silhouette, especially the side face as he walked past him, made him sure where he must have seen it.

As a good police detective, anyone you meet will leave an impression in your mind. He was sure he must have seen this man, maybe on TV or in a magazine. Yes, it must be. This person must be a celebrity, a politician, or a rich man. Well, the plutocrats are a bit more likely, because the plutocrats are more likely to appear in the media than the average politician.

The man walked to the center of the five stone tablets and stopped. Ahmad remembered that it was Pharaoh's sarcophagus, but now the sarcophagus was gone and flattened.

The light from the five stone tablets intertwined with the man.

Ahmad looked closely and found that the light was emitted by the words on the stone tablet, and when the light was intertwined, it turned into three-dimensional words, twisting in the air like a holographic projection, as if it was pregnant with living life.

And the man stood in the words of the light. But he didn't know it. He crouched down and wiped his hand on the ground. Ahmad saw a symbol on the ground, two connected triangles, vertices connected to vertices, and two central points connected by a line segment.

The man inserted the coral branch in his hand into the vertices of the two triangles, where there was apparently a small hole. The coral branches suddenly burst into flames, turning into a raging flame that danced in the words of the golden light around them. One by one, the distorted words threw themselves into the flames like moths, as if they wanted to extinguish the flames.

But the fire grew louder and louder, and the golden characters that jumped in were like bamboo thrown into the fire, crackling, cracking, and finally shattering into fine sand. And the sand did not extinguish the small flame, but all flowed into the two triangles next to the flames.

As more and more golden characters were burned, the light of the stele gradually dimmed. Ahmad saw spider-silk cracks appear on the stele, growing denser and denser.

The last word jumped into the fire and disappeared with a thud.

Almost at the same time, the five stone tablets fell with a thud and turned into five piles of stone powder. The stone dust flowed slowly into the triangular symbol along the tiny crevices that zigzag into the ground.

Ahmad saw the sand flowing in the two triangles, because the sand in one of the triangles was decreasing, apparently flowing towards the other. After the sand in the first triangle emptied, the two triangles quickly rotated one hundred and eighty degrees around the coral flame, switching places. Then the sand in the sandy triangle began to flow towards the empty triangle, and the fine sand flowed slowly along the carved line that passed through the vertice.

Ahmad saw that it was an hourglass. Whenever the sand in one cone leaks, the hourglass automatically turns upside down and flows back from the other cone.

The flame in the middle kept burning, and at some point three suns appeared in the sky, and each sun shot down a strong light that fell on the spires of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaura.

The hourglass on the ground turned back and forth many times, and Ahmad was a little dazed, and the hourglass became more and more vivid, as if standing up, and turned into a three-dimensional real hourglass—a crystal shell, with fine golden sand on the inside, and rose-colored flames on the outside.

The hourglass grew bigger and bigger, and the flames grew bigger and bigger. Slowly, the whole heaven and earth were ablaze, including the towers of the three pyramids.

However, the hourglass was still getting bigger, and it really broke away from the flames, turning the flames into a blood-colored flower inside the hourglass.

Ahmad saw the look of surprise on the face of the old man in the suit, as if something had happened to him.

When the upper and lower ends of the hourglass meet the heavens and the earth, the original majestic pyramids of Giza become children's toys in front of it, and everything becomes small.

When all the sand in the sand cone above fell to the ground, it was expected that the hourglass would turn upside down again, but this time it didn't. Maybe it happened, but Ahmad didn't feel the reversal, and an even more shocking scene happened—

The entire sea of sand became the sand at the bottom of the hourglass, and suddenly a pillar of sand rushed up on the ground, gravity seemed to be reversed, and the pillar of sand passed through the point in the middle of the hourglass and rushed to the dome.

A black hole appeared in the sky, and all the sand was sucked into the hole, and I didn't know where to go.

The flame was extinguished. Suddenly it was dark.

Before being swallowed up by the darkness, the old man bent down and picked up the coral branch.

Ahmad seemed to see him look back at him, and then he saw nothing.

Then, he felt someone push him hard behind his back. He stumbled into something, as if it were a low wall, and then he rolled over and fell to the ground with a thud, his ass and back aching from the hard stones. He also heard the sound of thump, like hail falling on the car.

He wasn't sure if he had fainted, but his mind was blank for a while. When he opened his eyes in a daze, he saw a white light, surrounded by walls, and he was lying in a small space.

He sat up sharply, and found himself sitting in a sarcophagus with a shroud wrapped around his arm, and it was not the stone that had struck him just now, but the nuggets of gold and the mask in the coffin.

He crawled out of the coffin and saw two soldiers lying on the ground, and Professor Alef lying on the other side, they were covered in blood, but their bodies were intact.

Adula was lying on the side of the coffin, and her hands were still climbing the edge of the coffin, as if she wanted to climb inside. Ahmad remembered that he seemed to have been pushed just now, and judging from the scene, the person who pushed him was probably Abdullah.

The five stone tablets around the sarcophagus are missing, leaving no trace, as if they never existed. The five corpses in the corner were still there, still with their heads facing the sarcophagus, and there was no sign that they had ever moved.

Ahmad examined the bodies of the four dead companions and found that they had all been shot, presumably killed by stray bullets in the confusion. He was able to escape because Adullah pushed him into the coffin.

It was Abdullah who saved him.

Ahmad carefully recalled what had just happened. The resurrection of the dead bodies and the subsequent sighting of them must have been hallucinations, even dreams, but where did the steles go?

He remembered the curse of the wizard in "The Mummy", and felt that this place was indeed a bit evil. He decided to get out of here first.

When he reached the entrance of the passage, he returned, carried Adullah's body on his back, and then began to climb up the passage with difficulty. Due to the steepness of the passage, he could only drag Adullah's body up little by little, leaving traces of blood in the passage.

When he came out of the upper sarcophagus, he was careless, and Adullah's body fell again. Ahmad really didn't have the strength to go down and start again, and said to the cave of the sarcophagus: "Brother, I'm sorry, wait until I go out to find someone to take you out, and I will definitely take care of your family." ”

With that, he turned decisively and turned back the way he had come, and soon came to the entrance of the pyramid.

Emerging from the pyramid, Ahmad took a deep breath of fresh air, then slowly opened his eyes to adjust to the harsh sunlight. He found that the military police blocking the Giza area were gone, and the tourists were walking around as if nothing had happened.

A couple of Arabs are peddled with camels for a photo shoot when a young Oriental couple is bargaining with them. After the agreement was made, they got on the camels, but the Arab merchants repented and demanded two hundred Egyptian pounds from them, and did not let them get off the camels.

Ahmad felt that something was wrong. He walked aimlessly, his mind analyzing what was going on. Why did the military police evacuate? Who gave the order?

As he walked, he came to the pyramid of Menkaura, where he met the young Oriental couple. The boy was talking to the keeper of the pyramid in the gatehouse, as if he had handed over a few bills.

Another one to climb the pyramids. Ahmad thought so, but was not about to meddle with it, and walked away.

He wanted to call the director, but he didn't think about what to say. Thinking about it, it suddenly occurred to him that something was wrong, and he hurried back to the pyramid of Menkaura.

He saw two policemen on camels shouting at the pyramid: "Come down, there's going to be a sandstorm!" Come down! ”

The pyramid keeper also came out of the room and shouted towards the spire as well. However, what he shouted, Ahmad did not hear at all, because he recognized him—the administrator of Abshad Rashid Btsbrahi Itsjerahi Tseshalasha Mudzhil.

The wind whistles, a couple sits on the spire of the pyramid and makes a wish, and a gray-black wall appears on the horizon in the distance.

A sandstorm is coming.