Ahmad now regrets agreeing to take on the assignment a little. If he had refused the director's order and insisted on going to Hurghada for a holiday, the most he would have had to come back and be disciplined, and now he would have to face unknown dangers. This is clearly not an ordinary murder.

"Professor Alef, did you know anything before you came?" Ahmad asked tentatively, looking at the empty sarcophagus and deep caverns.

"No, I don't know anything like you." "But now I know a little bit. ”

"What do you know?"

"From the discovery of the Pyramid of Khufu to the present, no mummy has been found. The tombs of pharaohs and queens were empty. It is rumored that the pyramid has long been looted by tomb robbers. "In fact, we have not found the body of the pharaoh in any of the pyramids, and all the mummies have been found in the Valley of the Kings." I've always had a question, how could the emperors of the ancient Egyptian dynasty make their tombs so conspicuous, isn't this an overt telling tomb robbers, come and steal, my treasures are here! Now I know that the pyramid on the ground is a façade, and its underground palace is the real burial chamber. ”

"Then why is this coffin empty?"

"Then we'll have to go down and have a look."

Ahmad said, "All right, I'll go first, and you will follow me." Abdullah, you can stay here if you're afraid. ”

Adullah straightened his chest and said, "No, sir, I'm not afraid, I just ...... It's just not ready. I swear in the name of my father and grandfather that Adullah Rashad Rashid Bucibrahi Yitsjelahi Tseshasha Mudezhil is a brave warrior and resolutely will not be a deserter, and if you don't believe me, I am willing to go ahead! ”

Ahmad thought about it for a moment and decided to acknowledge the bravery of this lovely scenic caretaker and let him go ahead. It's not that I want Adullah to be cannon fodder, but that he can have time to make a more correct judgment in case of danger.

Climbing into the sarcophagus, inside is a steep ramp downward, and there are many blood stains on the ground of the ramp and the corners of the walls on both sides. Not long after going down the ramp, I entered another stone chamber.

This stone chamber is much larger than the one above, but it is not square, but a regular pentagonal. There are also many murals painted on the walls. There is a sarcophagus in the middle of the room, and five stone tablets stand around the sarcophagus.

Professor Alef's gaze was completely drawn to the five stone tablets, while Ahmad walked to the corner of the stone chamber, where there was a corpse.

Unlike above, the corpse here was cleanly disposed of, the internal organs had been completely removed, and the entire abdominal cavity was empty, but it was certain that the heart was still there. The hole in the face that had been dug up was also cleaned, and the eyes and brains of the deceased were gone. The whole head is like a hollowed-out pumpkin.

There was such a corpse in each corner of the stone chamber, and there were five corpses in all five corners. They died in the same way, and they were placed in the same position. The feet facing the gap in the wall of the corner of the stone chamber, and the head facing the direction of the sarcophagus in the center, look like a sacrificial ritual.

This disproves Ahmad's speculation about the murderer, and it is impossible for the beast to arrange the corpses so neatly.

He carefully inspected the area around the stone chamber and found no passage except for two vents in the walls. Therefore, he turned his gaze to the sarcophagus in the middle.

Alef was still looking at the steles, and as he looked at them, he said to himself: "This is not a holy script, it is not an ancient Egyptian script, hell, I don't know any of these words, it's so strange!" ”

He turned from the first tablet to the fifth tablet, with a confused look: "It is indeed a hieroglyph, at least a little similar to the style of the holy book, is it a Chinese character?" No, no, it can't be, how could words appear in the tomb of a pharaoh four thousand years ago! Hey—" he turned and yelled, "who of you understand? ”

Ahmad shrugged his shoulders and said in his heart how could anyone here understand, aren't you a professor? Not an archaeologist? If you don't know, who else does!

When Alef was disappointed, Adullah suddenly stood up and said a little unconfidently: "I think I might understand a little." ”

"You?" Ahmad was surprised, "You know? ”

"Just a little." "Officials from the tourism office said that all people who work in scenic spots should learn a little bit if ...... If you want to make money as a Chinese tourist. ”

Alef nodded and said, "Then come here and see what is written on this tablet." ”

Adullah straightened up and walked over, stood in front of the monument, and looked at it for a moment, but his face soon showed a look of confusion and incomprehension.

"It's not." He said.

"Are you sure?" Alepf asked.

"Although mine is not good, I'm sure it's not Chinese characters, at least not the current Chinese characters," Adullah said. If it's the kind of ancient character engraved on the shell of a turtle, then I don't know it, and I hear the Chinese say that most of them don't know it either. ”

Aleph was a little disappointed, but soon became excited, "Ah, that means we have discovered a new script, an ancient script that is different from the Holy Book Script, and this is a great discovery in the history of civilization!" This burial chamber is newly discovered, no one has ever entered it before, and the texts and frescoes are well preserved without any problems. I, and you, will be as famous as Champollion! ”

Ahmad didn't care what the name was for, he reminded, "Sir, you may have forgotten that we are now at the scene of a homicide, and there are five bodies here. Including the aisles, a total of seven tourists were killed. ”

Alepf was stunned for a moment, as if he had only known about this, and said, "Well, it's nothing, it's just a few people who died." ”

"How many people died?! That's a light way to put it! Ahmad felt that there was something wrong with the scholar's brain, "Don't you think we are in danger?" ”

"Danger? Oh yes, it's dangerous, there's no danger in doing anything! But since everyone is dead, it means that the danger is over, doesn't it? ”

Alepf said and ordered the two soldiers, "Open the lid of the coffin." ”

The sarcophagus was larger than the one above, the lid was well covered, and it looked so heavy that it took a great deal of effort for the two soldiers to push it open.

Ahmad and Adullah waited with their pistols raised, but Alef looked relaxed and turned to look at the words on the stele again.

The lid of the coffin was halfway removed, and no monster jumped out of it. Ahmad leaned over and saw a humanoid mummy lying in a coffin, with a golden mask on its face and a blanket studded with many ornaments.

Although Ahmad thought the mummy was a little strange and suspected that there were ghosts in it, he knew that it was the most precious artifact and should not be easily touched, even if the director gave him the right to make a decision on the fly. He felt that it was better to let the archaeological experts around him make decisions about this kind of thing.

Alepf leaned over the coffin and praised: "Ah, it is perfect, exactly like Tutankhamun's mask!" ”

Then, in a gesture that no one expected, he actually reached out and picked up the mask.

There was no pharaoh's head underneath the mask, just a mess of linen.

He lifted the blanket again, and under it was a mess of linen, and many scattered things, piled up like stones.

"This ...... What's going on? Ahmad thought it was incredible.

"Any idea what this is?" Alepf picked up a piece of linen from the sarcophagus, pinched it with his fingers and shook it gently.

"What is this?"

"This is the Shroud of the Pharaoh's mummy." 8)