Chapter 34: Fakes (2)
Looking at the blood jade lotus flower from afar, Ouyang Feizhu's whole person trembled with excitement, and shouted softly: "Don't move!" He walked briskly. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Their attention was all on the blood jade lotus, and they didn't pay attention to us at all, and I didn't scruple anymore, and while climbing up the pyramid model, I glanced at the bald head, and motioned for him to go to the sculpture and get the crystal fragment in my hand first.
Although the pyramid model is more than five meters high, it is not difficult to climb because of the slope on all sides, and with a few quick steps, I rushed to the top in one breath, and with a slight wave of my arm, I took the crystal fragment standing at the top of the tower in my hand.
Coming down from the pyramid model, I held up my flashlight to look at the crystal fragments in my hand, and looked at them closely, but I was dumbfounded. I saw that the boxy crystal was not a completely transparent crystal, but a translucent jade, although it looked like a crystal fragment on the outside, but a little observation could reveal that the two were not the same thing at all.
I was staring at the jade piece in my palm and was surprised, and there was a bald fox scolding suspiciously: "I'll rub it, this thing...... Jade!? ”
When he walked back with a frown, I found that the piece he had obtained was not a crystal fragment at all, just a jade fragment of a very similar size and shape.
From the discovery of the crystal shard to the holding of it in our hands, our mood has been up and down in these few short minutes, and now we can't help but feel a little depressed. I thought that this trip to Egypt would eventually yield something, but I didn't expect it to be a waste in the end.
Sighing to adjust our mood, we also followed Ouyang Feizhu's steps to watch the blood jade lotus he was looking for.
The coffin behind the altar was very exquisitely made, and the relief carving in it was completely integrated with the blood jade lotus, if it weren't for Bruce Lee's sharp eyes, normal people wouldn't have been able to find it at a glance. As we got closer, the fragrance that permeated the air became more intense, as if it was emitted from the inside of the lotus flower.
At this moment, Ouyang Feizhu was squatting on the altar and staring at the blood jade lotus with round eyes, but he didn't expect that he just glanced at it, just like us, the joy on his face instantly turned into disappointment, and he sighed and shook his head slightly: "Although the lotus is a lotus, the material is not blood jade, and it is a fake ......."
Their heads were full of blood jade lotus, and their bald heads were quite interested in the coffin, and the one who could enjoy such an exquisite coffin was definitely not an ordinary person, and it was very likely that it was the owner of this pyramid, which was what the Egyptian called the pharaoh. So he said, "Don't be disappointed yet, this ancient habit is that good things are generally not outside. Although the one on the lid of the coffin is fake, it may be really in the coffin. Sensei was in a hurry, so he stood aside and waited for the bald master to open the coffin and take a look. ”
Looking at the lotus flower on the lid of the coffin, which constantly exuded a strange fragrance, I felt a little confused, and turned my head to look at Leng Qi to ask her opinion.
Leng Qi had never seen anything like this, but like me, he had a sense of foreboding. If the bald head didn't say what he said just now, Ouyang Feizhu didn't have any interest in the coffin, and at this moment, when he heard that the real blood jade lotus was very likely to be in the coffin, a glimmer of hope ignited in his eyes, and he smiled slightly: "I forgot, entering the tomb and opening the coffin is your old business of touching the golden captain, it just so happens that I have never seen it before, and it is an honor to be able to stand aside and open my eyes in person today!" Everyone, please. ”
Ouyang Feizhu's tone gave us no choice, and the bald head was not worried, and after answering, he pulled out the Red Star Sapper Shovel from the side of the backpack with his backhand, and circled around the coffin a few times and nodded slightly: "Like the few coffins I met just now, there are no coffin nails around, but this lotus looks a little weird." Even if spices are put in it, thousands of years have passed, and the flavor should be exhausted, how can it still be so strong? ”
Leng Qi frowned, and carefully looked at the coffin from beginning to end: "There is nothing wrong with the coffin, but this fragrance is definitely not simple, try not to touch the lotus when opening the coffin for a while, be careful!" ”
The three of them glanced at each other, each standing in a corner of the coffin, and three ordnance shovels were inserted into the gap at the same time, slightly upturned. Although I don't know if the black horn and glutinous rice of Chinese zongzi have any effect on Egyptian mummies, the bald head still holds a handful of glutinous rice in the palm of his hand in case of emergency.
After they were all ready, with a signal from the bald head's mouth, the three of them exerted force evenly at the same time, only hearing a few sounds of 'squeak and crunch', and the coffin lid was slowly lifted, revealing a twenty-centimeter-high slit.
Originally, I thought that the lotus flower on the lid of the coffin must be connected to the coffin, and when the lid is opened, a stronger fragrance gushes out. But the result was unexpected, there was no aromatic smell in the coffin, and all that came out was dry dust.
Usually, because the inside of the coffin has sealed the dead person in it for many years, some gases harmful to the living will be produced inside. Therefore, when the coffin is opened, the lid cannot be lifted immediately, and a gap must be exposed to wait for the gas to dissipate.
The bald head explained the reason for this, and waited with us pressing the sapper shovel.
About three minutes later, Leng Qi nodded, and the three of them used the coffin lid to pry it up again, and with the help of Bruce Lee, we took off the coffin lid and laid it flat on the altar on the side, and then raised the flashlight to look inside the coffin.
I am also full of curiosity about this intricately carved coffin, I don't know what kind of corpse will lie in it, is it a beautiful woman? Or a mummy covered in bandages?
Just as I was out of breath and trying to shine the flashlight into the coffin, all five of them were stunned, and then the bald head reinserted the sapper shovel back into the backpack: "Ancient Egyptians are all idle eggs, do they hurt?" The big shell and the small shell are the same as the real thing, but there is not even a hair! ”
As before, inside the ornate coffin, it was all air, not even a trace of dust, and it was surprisingly clean. It looks like a new coffin in a coffin shop that has just been created for customers to pick up, with only one word: empty!
Looking around, there were still dog-headed coffins standing on the walls next to the altar and the entrance, but we didn't have the patience to open these empty coffins with a 90% probability of being empty shells. The five men immediately reversed course and climbed back along the rope ladder.
Seeing us, the bones couldn't wait to ask if we had found the crystal fragments, and only halfway through the words did he feel that something was wrong, so he quickly changed his words: "What's the matter, you guys...... Did you find anything? ”
The bald head shrugged his shoulders: "Fake, all fake, now I doubt that these antiques in the backpack will be all fakes!" ”
Ouyang Mu also walked over to support his father, and said softly: "Dad, be careful, did you find it?" ”
Ouyang Feizhu sighed and touched Ouyang Mu's long hair dotingly: "No, Mu'er, follow me around, it's been hard these days." When you get out of here, Dad will let you relax. ”
After more than two hours of busy work, all in vain, the group had no choice but to repack the shape and get into the passage at the end of the stone chamber to continue walking.
Ouyang Feizhu was right, leaving this stone room and entering the passage again, I could clearly feel that it had begun to go downhill, and the ground under my feet had sloped.
Because they had already walked more than a dozen times, it could be said that they were familiar with the road, so the Egyptians who took the lead in the front were very fast, and after ten minutes, they stopped in another space.
From the moment I entered this pyramid, I was greeted most by the passages, stone chambers, and coffins, so that until now, I have the illusion that I have never stood still.
The stone chamber that I arrived at this moment was not much different from the previous space, and even the large and small stones scattered all over the ground were exactly the same.
Looking at the stones, I asked aloud, "You also blew up the exit here with mines?" ”
Bruce Lee shook his head after hearing this: "No, these stones were originally placed here, the tomb road in front of them is unobstructed all the way, there is no longer a stone gate to obstruct us, and we can go faster in a while." ”
As he spoke to us, his eyes took off the ground, and his left foot happened to kick on a rock, and the whole person was unconsciously tripped and immediately lost his balance and fell forward.
Bruce Lee's body is very flexible, and when he is about to fall, he jumps up with his right foot in the air, and does a front flip to land smoothly.
The front flip was a beautiful way to avoid a bump, but he ignored the backpack behind him, and as he jumped, a fist-sized object was thrown out, arcing through the air and falling to the feet of an Egyptian.
Hearing the crisp cracking sound, at first I thought it was a glass or a flashlight, but it wasn't until I raised the flashlight to shine it that I realized that it was the blood jade lotus that had just sat on the lid of the coffin!
After opening the lid of the coffin, our attention was focused on the coffin, and when we found it empty, we turned around and left, no one knew when Bruce Lee took off the blood jade lotus and stuffed it into the backpack.
At this time, the lotus flower shattered, and the strange fragrance spread again, filling the entire stone chamber.
Looking at our surprised expressions, Ouyang Feizhu smiled: "Although it's fake, I also have a hobby of collecting, so if it's broken, it's broken." Xiaolong, pay more attention in the future. ”
Bruce Lee bowed his head slightly, and said expressionlessly: "Yes." ”
The fragrance of the lotus flower cracking increased greatly, which indicated that this strange fragrance came from the inside of the lotus, so I walked a few steps briskly, and looked carefully with curiosity, wanting to see what it was that had such a thousand-year-old smell.
As I walked past, the Egyptian leaned down with the same curiosity and pushed aside the lotus fragment with the tip of his submachine gun, trying to see what was hidden inside.
Just as he pushed a large piece of lotus shards away, a black dot the size of a peanut suddenly ejected out, and disappeared in an instant after jumping three feet on the ground and hitting his arm with the gun!
At the same time as the black dot disappeared, the Egyptian suddenly screamed loudly, holding his arm with one hand and falling to the ground heavily, with an extremely painful expression on his face!
The Egyptian companions nearby didn't know what was going on, and they all bowed their heads and asked. It was the Egyptian who was already in agony and could not answer, but rolled on the ground with his arms crossed, and the heart-rending screams echoed in the stone chamber.
Seeing this, the sturdy Jackie Chan immediately rushed forward, rode on the Egyptian and forcibly broke his hand off his arm, and was stunned for a moment when the light shone. I saw a bulge appear in everyone's sight, as if something was hidden under the skin, and it was moving upstream at a speed visible to the naked eye!