"What the hell is this?" Aoki asked.

"Don't worry." "Let's talk about the pyramids. ”

He pointed to the inside of the pyramid on the drawing and said, "This is the known burial chamber structure, this is the queen's burial chamber, this is the pharaoh's burial chamber, there are four vents here. "The professor's fingers are constantly moving on the drawings.

"I heard that these vents are pointing precisely at certain constellations?" Aoki remembered some rumors of pyramids that he had seen before.

"Oh, there's that saying, but it's not widely accepted in academia. It is not surprising that these passages are less than eight feet wide, and I don't know how they were excavated, but I would say that the inverted pyramid at the bottom of the Tobuai archipelago also had a shaft less than half a foot wide, which went down vertically from the main chamber to the spire of the pyramid. ”

It was only then that Aoki discovered that there was a line connecting the burial chamber and the apex of the pyramid on the drawing, and because the line was so thin that you wouldn't notice it if you didn't look closely.

The professor said: "Since it has been affirmed that the two pyramids have a mirror relationship, then what this inverted pyramid has, there should also be in the Egyptian one." So someone further scanned the Pyramid of Khufu with a radiation, and sure enough, this shaft was found on it. And the scan shows that there was originally an opening at the top of the pyramid, and that the pointed tip should be covered at the back. ”

"Okay, now it's perfect. The two pyramids are exactly the same, and there is no difference in even the details. The professor smoked a cigarette and looked at Aoki mysteriously, "Now, what do you think of?" ”

"Alas, it's really a brain-draining thing to do learning!" Aoki stroked his messy hair and said, "Did that pharaoh think that he could crawl out of this end of the earth if he buried himself from that end?" ”

"Well, that's a bit interesting, you go on." The professor encouraged.

"Aha, is that right? But I'm guessing! Professor, tell me directly. ”

Aoki is really too lazy to consume a batch of brain cells, anyway, this old man is just selling Guanzi, and he will tell him in a while, don't all learned people like this!

"Can't you use your brains more? This will help to awaken your sleeping memories! Mei Yiqiu said with hatred, and laughed out loud after speaking, "Forget it, you are already a geek, if the problem of the nervous system and all the memories are restored, I don't know what kind of monster you will become!" ”

Mei Ziqing, who was changing tea for them, heard the professor's words and looked at Aoki, her eyes full of curiosity.

Mei Yiqiu took an hourglass from the bookcase behind her, shook it in her hand, and then put it on the table.

Of course, this hourglass is not the crystal hourglass in the picture sent by Professor Silva, but an ordinary conical shape made of glass. The sand is flowing down from the small holes where the two cones are connected, forming a thin yarn.

"The most intuitive meaning of the hourglass is time, and the flowing sand is the time that passes." Mei Yiqiu said, "Think about it, since ancient times, what is the greatest dream of the emperor? ”

"Immortality!" Aoki doesn't have to think of this to think of without using his brain.

Mei Yiqiu nodded: "That's right, it's immortal." But people will always grow old, the hourglass of time will not stop, who can compete with time? ”

The sand in the hourglass kept flowing down without hindrance.

"But the greatness of civilization lies in the struggle with the god of destiny and in the miracles of this struggle. Every civilization has pursued immortality, but each has done it differently. For example, the Chinese have always tried to achieve this through alchemy and taking medicines, and the ancient Egyptian civilization naturally had their own set of methods——"

Mei Yiqiu suddenly turned the hourglass over, and the sand that had just flowed from a cone flowed back in an instant:

"Turn back time!"

Aoki thought it was incredulous: "You mean that the Egyptian pharaohs wanted to build the pyramids in order to turn back time?" ”

"It's just a speculation and more archaeological evidence is needed to support it, but there is some plausibility to this speculation. Look at these two pyramids," Mei Yiqiu put together the drawings of the two pyramids, and the spires of the two pyramids against each other, "how like an hourglass of time!" ”

Aoki looked at the picture that Professor Silva had sent and the picture was somewhat similar, the shaft leading to the top of the pyramid was like a thin stream of sand, and the pharaoh's burial chamber was the center of the two hourglass boxes.

"However, the pyramids in Egypt are facing upwards, while the pyramids under the sea on the other side of the globe are facing downwards, so the two pyramids are not facing each other at the top! It should be the spire of the one under the sea facing the ...... of the Pyramid of Khufu," Aoki asked, "...... Buttocks? ”

"What? Buttocks? Mei Yiqiu was stunned for a moment, "Oh, no, no! Don't understand this mirror symmetry in the same space. Khufu's spire is always facing the Nethanus in the constellation Orion, and the spire of the one at the bottom of the ocean is also facing the Netaxne, and their apex is relative from the folded space of a universe. ”

Aoki nodded as if he didn't understand.

Mei Yiqiu continued: "We know that in the plane, the structure of the triangle is the most stable, and four regular triangles are used to form a square cone to represent the stability of space, which is the meaning of the pyramid in shape - space. ”

"Why not create a triangular pyramid? Well...... I think it may be that the triangular pyramid is too stable and loses the variability of space......"

Professor Mei Yiqiu's brow furrowed tightly, as if he was refining his theory as he spoke.

"The pyramids are built in the desert, the desert represents the world, and the passage of sand represents the passage of time. The pharaohs of Egypt believed that one day the two cones of the hourglass would turn upside down, and then time would be turned back and Pharaoh would be resurrected. ”

Aoki wondered, "Then why build another inverted pyramid so far away?" ”

"Maybe they know something unpredictable," the professor said, "such as that one day in the future, North Africa will be swallowed up by the ocean, and the submarine continent where the Tubuai archipelago is located will be uplifted and turned into a desert; Or that the Earth will change its rotation direction one day due to other gravitational forces, who knows! ”

There is also a more absurd and frightening speculation, which is said by Professor García, an Argentine geologist, that the Sahara Desert was slowly formed after the construction of the pyramids, in other words, because of the construction of a large number of pyramids, the Sahara region slowly turned into a desert. Although no one in the academic community openly agrees with his views, in fact, the explanation of the origin of the Sahara in meteorology and traditional geology is just as fragile as his view. ”

"It's terrible, isn't it?" Mei Ziqing next to her exclaimed, and then covered her mouth, she knew that when Professor Mei was talking to someone, his assistant should not interject.

Mei Yiqiu was not angry, and said: "There is nothing to be afraid of, compared to the entire universe, human beings are so small that they are not even a single piece of sand. ”

Although Aoki felt that this statement was unlikely to be true, he was still a little shocked to hear such a version of the story at first glance. He imagined a mummy crawling out of the shaft of the pyramid years later, shook his head and said, "It's a dream!" ”

"yes, who's to say it isn't! However, from a scientific point of view, the space in the dream is also a real space, and it has some connection with our real world. Like the two pyramids that mirror each other, one is alive in the Sahara Desert, the other is hidden at the bottom of the sea, affecting the other in a way we don't yet know. ”

Mei Yiqiu held the pipe in her left hand and turned the hourglass on the table again with her right hand.

"Maybe one day, as the pharaohs had hoped, the two dimensions will be reversed, and we will fall like sand from this plane into the dream that we once thought was unreal."