Chapter 9 Variables
"I've said that the world is sometimes like an RPG from a Raiders book."
Su Qin took out a familiar clay bottle from his bosom and easily sandwiched the small bottle between his index finger and thumb. In the face of the scarnivorous scarabs that came in like a tidal wave, he stretched out his arms straight forward without changing his face.
"Really...... It's boring. â
The vase fell rapidly under gravity, and the fragile body of the bottle shattered into shards on the solid stone pavement of the mausoleum. The powdered spice mixture rose like dust, and the oncoming wave of scarabs stopped as if it had hit an invisible.
"Okay, Ziyuan, they are still waiting for us."
Su Qin walked fearlessly towards the gathered swarm of scarabs, and these dangerous little creatures involuntarily retreated to both sides of the road with his footsteps, like the Red Sea parted by Moses.
"What did you just do?"
"It's just some insect repellent spices prepared in advance." Su Qin took out an identical clay vase from his bosom again and shook it at Yumi, there was no trace of smugness or complacency in his words, as if he was just expounding on a very ordinary matter. The mouth of the vase is stuffed with a sturdy cork, and the cork is wrapped in a thick layer of oiled paper. Under double isolation, even if the clay bottle falls into the water, it will not affect the medicine stored inside.
Yumi followed Su Qin hesitantly, and when she got closer, the man who appeared next to her suddenly had a wonderful fragrance on his body. This is not the first time she has smelled this somewhat strange smell. When they were still on the cruise ship, she had smelled a similar fragrance in Su Qin's room. At the time, Yumi had no idea that it would be such a magical spice. But what surprised her even more was that Su Qin had prepared this kind of thing long before arriving at Hamna Tower.
ââŚâŚ How much else do you have to hide from us. Yumi sighed and said with a slight complaint.
"Isn't it said that men who make women curious are more attractive?" Su Qin blinked his eyes and said pretending to be frivolous.
"......," Yumi glared at him fiercely, putting his doubts behind him for the time being. The two began to search the neighborhood for other people's traces, but soon they noticed something strange.
"This is ......," Su Qin looked at his surroundings with some uncertainty, and finally stopped in front of a pile of collapsed stones.
"What's wrong?"
"If it weren't for my memory, this would have been the hole that the Americans dug earlier. O'Connor and we entered the mausoleum by rope, but the Americans relied on Egyptian laborers to dig open the main entrance to the mausoleum. Even in the original plot, it should be connected to the outside world. But why is it blocked now? Looking at the different plots from the original book, Su Qin fell into deep thought. Yumi, who was standing beside him, was a little surprised, and instead of the anxiety and uneasiness of the planned destruction, the man's eyes showed a look of excitement.
He, seems to be happy?
Different from the calm and boring when he used the pottery bottle before, Su Qin showed strong interest in the face of this unplanned variable. This movie world, which originally seemed extremely uninteresting to him, turned out to produce all kinds of unexpected things just like the real world. No, it's a new reality for them when they enter this world. By analogy, do the worlds in other films, animations, and novels also exist? Are there really all kinds of weird and bizarre magic, martial arts, and black technology in those worlds? No, it was already a sure thing, just like his inexplicably awakened psionic energy.
It's so much fun! It's so much fun! It turns out that the world is so interesting to save zĂ i!
"......" looked at Su Qin, whose eyes lit up with a fanatical light, and Yumi involuntarily took a step back.
Is this man crazy? The girl couldn't help but have such a thought in her heart.
At the same time, the rest of the people in the mausoleum seemed less happy.
"Mr. Burns, are you alright?" Ziyuan picked up a Yankee who fell to the ground.
"Oh, my glasses." Although he had been trampled on a piece of the lens, he could barely see the side, and Burns fumbled with his glasses to put on the glasses that had been stepped on, and thought to himself. He had accidentally fallen while escaping just now, and no one stopped to help him except for the strange Oriental man beside him. The abominable guide actually took his torch from him. In the darkness of the previous environment, he felt his heart jump out of fear.
"Thank you so much, you...... Behind you! Burns had just turned his head to say some words of thanks, when he saw a rotten mummy standing silently behind Ziyuan.
Without looking back, Zi Yuan pulled out his pistol, raised it over his shoulder, passed it, and fired three shots behind him. Unfortunately, for mummies that cannot be injured by ordinary weapons, the power of the revolver is a little too small. He felt a huge force smash his back through his backpack, and then flew out like a baseball that had been knocked away, slamming into the opposite wall.
Slipping to the ground, Zi Yuan now saw that his left hand had been dislocated from the impact. He stood up, gritted his teeth, forced his left arm back into place, and then quickly pulled out a more powerful shotgun from his backpack to turn around and fight the mummy. However, the scene in front of him startled him. I saw that the mummy who had just slapped himself was having a standard French wet kiss with Burns in the same place. But judging by Burns's incessant screams, he doesn't seem to enjoy the process.
Blood continued to flow from the corners of the American's mouth, but the mummy's arms clenched like pincers kept him from moving. With the sound of flesh tearing, the mummy bit half of its bright red tongue and let go of Burns, who was constantly wailing.
"You monster ......" Ziyuan grabbed the shotgun and rushed towards the mummy, and the roaring barrel sprayed a large amount of lead bullets, forcing the mummy to retreat again and again.
However, it didn't take any damage, and after getting used to the shotgun's attack. The mummy lowered his head and rushed towards Ziyuan, knocking him to the ground before he could react, and then kicked him away. The monster-level strength made Zi Yuan feel as if his ribs had cracked. Before he could figure out how to eliminate his opponent, he heard Burns scream again.
This time it was his eyes that suffered, and the resurrected mummy stretched out his withered, sharp fingers and slowly pierced the Yankee's eye sockets. After digging around with it, it plucked out the opponent's eyeball completely. The brutal monster shoved someone else's eyeball into his shriveled eye socket and turned it several times, then used the same method to get the other person's remaining eyeball again. Eventually, it grabbed Burns by the throat and lifted him high in the air, intending to completely suck out what was left of his life force.
At this moment, the light of the torch and the noisy sound came from the end of the passage.
For some reason, the mummy did not forcibly take Burns. After throwing away its blind victim, it turned and disappeared into the dark passage. Su Qin and the others who followed the screams only saw Burns, who was brutally murdered, and Ziyuan, who was lying on the ground and couldn't move.
Looking at the Americans who were surrounding Burns for first aid, Su Qin helped Ziyuan up, and a thoughtful look flashed in his eyes.
"Tsk, that guy is not easy to deal with. It has that kind of strange power before absorbing a person, and if it absorbs all the Americans back to a complete state, it is estimated that none of us will be his opponents. Taking the medicine handed by Su Qin, Ziyuan touched his painful ribs and gasped a few breaths of cold air.
"It's a real problem, but we still have the Golden Sutra as a last resort. Now it is necessary to find Li Huang as much as possible and secure the golden scripture in his hand. â
"Anyway, if we ...... those guys in advance" Zi Yuan deliberately changed back to Chinese (the translation system was turned off and turned on as a controllable function), he stretched out his hand and gestured vaguely on his neck.
"It's not that time, and we can't be sure if Immorton needs their blood or soul to regain their mana. If it's the latter, we're helping him by doing that. Su Qin said calmly.
Recalling the ancient Egyptian mythological materials I had collected, the ancient Egyptians had the concept of the immortality of the soul in the past. They see human death as a continuation of "life" in another world, so they are keen to make dried corpses and build graves. In order to make the dead human beings live better in the "other world".
They soaked the corpses into "mummies" with salt water, spices, anointing oil, linen and other materials, and then placed them in airtight tombs for preservation. The corpse hidden deep in the tomb will not decompose, quietly waiting for the soul of the deceased to come back and cling to **. The legendary Egyptian pharaoh Osiris used this technique to return to the world many times. and eventually became a god. If Immorton was similarly savvy, then the blood of the Americans might have been just an adjunct to him to fix the mummy's horrific appearance, and the key to restoring his mana was most likely the cursed souls of those people.
"That's right, judging by the original drama and the breath left here. Immorton seems to have become something close to the existence of type A. Yumi said thoughtfully.
"What is Type A?"
"The classification of evil spirits, if I'm not mistaken. After being tortured for thousands of years, Immorton's soul has become a resentful spirit with great power. No wonder the ancient Egyptians said that the punishment of insect devouring would create monsters that would destroy the world. Even if an ordinary person's soul did not self-destruct under such a long period of torture, then the obsession in his heart would inevitably transform into something terrifying, let alone a sacrifice with high mana. It is estimated that with our current strength, we will definitely not be able to compete with him head-on. â
Yumi bit her lip, if the Lion King of the Treasure Sword was still by her side, she wouldn't be able to...... Shaking his head, he threw mixed emotions and memories out of his mind.
"Wait, if that's what you say, it doesn't seem that the soul of an American has anything to do with whether or not Immorton's mana is restored."
"Then the worse outcome is that the punishment of insect devouring may itself be an evil ritual. And killing the person who opened the box is a crucial step in this ritual. â
Yumi's words were like a cold wind blowing through everyone's hearts.
"Let's go find Li Huang and O'Connor. Ziyuan, can you walk by yourself? â
"I can't die."
Under the huge pressure of survival, Su Qin and the others quickly launched an operation to find Li Huang, to be precise, to find the Sun Golden Sutra carried by Li Huang.
And at this moment, Li Huang, who was holding the Golden Sutra, scuffled with Benny. The dazzling appearance of the Golden Sutra of the Sun led Benny to believe that this book made of gold must be worth a fortune. So after getting separated from the others, he did not hesitate to attack Li Huang from behind.
Fortunately, Li Huang is also a semi-professional street "warrior" with rich experience in beating and being beaten by others. As Benny attacked, he dodged the swinging stick with a standard lazy donkey. Then he let out a roar, picked up a stone brick, and pounced on the villain who attacked him.
Hong Kong street "warriors" vs. Egyptian gangsters.
The two guys rolling around on the ground and pinching each other were gone, and a withered, rotten figure in the shadows was slowly walking towards them.
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