Chapter 8: Soul Recovery
The moonlight shone through the messy campsite.
"What are we missing?" When Su Qin and his party walked out of the tomb, what appeared in front of them was such a scene.
"It's a shame you missed a group of Santa Claus dressed in black who brought us Christmas presents in advance with their scimitars." An American said mockingly, looking at Su Qin and the others without being injured, and at the countless dead and wounded Egyptian workers on his side.
One can imagine how bad their mood is right now.
"Hey, what are you talking about, stupid big guy. Did you dig up something good today that will pay you back? Li Huang did not hesitate to sneer at him.
"Hmph, didn't it already offset when I saved you just now?" The Yankees also said without showing weakness. When the men in black attacked just now, the two gangs chose to join forces to resist the enemy out of self-preservation. Although Li Huang, who was mixed with O'Connor's team, had fought a few times on the street before, he had never experienced such a real fight. If it weren't for the Yankees next to him pulling him, this guy would have almost been hacked to death by the oncoming man in black, because the gambling debts on the previous ship were naturally written off.
“…… Tsk, count yourself lucky. Li Huang, who took a short hand and ate people's soft mouth, and in turn owed a large amount of favor debt to others, reluctantly shrank back.
"Did the gang say anything?" Su Qin didn't care about the Americans' provocations, and in order to confirm whether the direction of the plot had changed, he quickly asked O'Connor about it.
After some conversation, Su Qin learned that the other party had given them an ultimatum that they could only stay for another day. Although it is a bit regrettable, but fortunately, several important items have been obtained, and even if you don't find the fate distortion point, you can go back and study it slowly. Apart from...... He looked quietly at the Americans, where the Egyptian professor with a round hat was sitting in front of his tent, laboriously studying how to open the black book in his hand. Looking at his firm attitude, it seems that he will not give up for a while.
"Did you get anything out of the day?" Putting the troublesome things aside, Su Qin sat down by the campfire and began to inquire if O'Connor and the others had dug up Immorton's bones.
"Eve has found a mummy she likes, Jonathan hasn't found the gold he likes, as for me? Harvested a bunch of bruises from Santa Claus in black. O'Connor smiled self-deprecatingly, but the way he looked at Eve was enough to show that this guy wasn't really nothing.
"What about the Americans? We found only a stick and a broken book, nothing else of value. "Gold is really of little value to us unlucky ghosts who have been thrown into another world, Su Qin added secretly in his heart, but he still had a disappointed look on his face.
"A stick? It doesn't sound like it's worth much. But it's better than the Yankees, I heard that they have four workers there who have melted. O'Connor looked disgusted, and it was clear that the sight was not for imagination.
"Melted?" Jonathan and Eve asked in unison:
"That's right, melted by some kind of strong acid in an ancient trap, maybe it's the curse of the Pharaoh." O'Connor deliberately showed a threatening look, which frightened the two siblings involuntarily. Li Huang, who was listening from the sidelines, also felt extremely sick to his stomach, and ran to the side to hold on to the wall and retched a few times. The other three members of the makeshift team didn't react very strongly, perhaps because of their past experiences.
"Oh yes, those guys seem to have gotten their hands on a couple of beautiful antique vases, maybe they're worth a few bucks." O'Connor said unconcernedly, these small bottles were nothing compared to the legendary mountains of gold inside the Hamna Tower.
"Those weren't antique vases, they were burial urns with mummy entrails. Among them, the jar used to put the liver is called Imsety, the jar used to put the lungs is called hapy, the jar used to put the stomach is called duamutef, and the jar used to put the intestines is called Qebehsenuef. The heads on these jars symbolize the four sons of Osiris, who each protected the entrails: the ape-headed harpy, the god of the lungs; Jackal Duamutev, the god of the stomach; Amsit, the god of the liver; The head of the falcon is to worship Hesanov, the god who guards the intestines. And, you see if there are still some beautiful inscriptions on those bottles. Those spells that symbolized the protection of the internal organs of the Egyptians were also the names of their protective gods and the names of the dead. ”
When it comes to topics that interest her, Eve babbles on like a dam that has opened a floodgate. Only someone like O'Connor, who was fascinated by her, had the leisure to listen, and even her brother Jonathan had fallen asleep on the blanket.
In order to save their bodies and cope with the next journey, Su Qin and the others were also ready to rest as soon as possible.
Su Qin just shook off the blanket and was about to fall asleep, but Yumi on the other side was looking at the starry night sky motionlessly. The Sahara's unpolluted night sky is especially beautiful on this clear and cloudless night. The vast Milky Way of light and dark stars stretches across the entire starry sky.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing, it's just that the night view I saw a long time ago seems to be so beautiful."
Yumi smiled a slightly fragile smile, but the remaining weakness quickly faded from her face.
"Good night." Feeling a little disgusted by what he had just done, Yumisun turned his back and hid his expression in the shadows.
"Since in the end the consuls gave us a second life. Rather than simply self-loathing, I think it's better to try to make up for the mistakes of the past. Facing the silent Yumi, Su Qin said earnestly. Although he didn't know what the girl had experienced in the past, it was not difficult to see from her words and deeds that it was by no means a sweet and beautiful memory.
The members of the Makeshift Team have been through a lot of hardships together over the past few months, but everyone in the team has tacitly not mentioned their lives before being resurrected by the Archon. Su Qin's previous words were actually considered to be superficial, but the familiar remorse on Yumi's body still made him can't help but admonish. After all, he had suffered this kind of inextricable guilt in the past.
In the wordless silence, Su Qin emptied his consciousness.
In his sleep, his consciousness entered the subspace again, because of the experience of being attacked by subspace creatures in the previous three months, his skillful channeling consciousness converged the light of his soul projection. It turns out that when he enters a meditative state of forgetting things and self, the subspace creatures will ignore him. Just by entering such a state, his own perception of external dangers will also be minimized.
However, before entering the meditative state, he saw a huge spirit body bound underground. It roared as it tried to crawl out of its black cage, but the black, steel-seeming bars slammed the massive spirits that struck them back into place each time. Su Qin looked carefully, but found that those constantly twisting railings were actually composed of the souls of countless carnivorous scarabs.
After confirming that the huge spirit could not escape from the cage, Su Qin decisively entered a meditative state to avoid the subspace creatures attracted by his own soul. It didn't take long for an accident to happen, with a whispered chanting. The pitch-black cage shattered into countless small insects, and the huge spirit let out a cheer and smashed through the scattered scarab souls, disappearing into the vortex that suddenly appeared.
When Su Qin felt something was wrong and forcibly woke up from his sleep, locusts flying like dark clouds could already be seen in the sky. Everyone was stunned and looked at the raw one in front of them. Su Qin was the first to react, he didn't know when Eve had "borrowed" the key from his hand, and the Black Sutra of the Undead was also "borrowed" by her from the Egyptian professor.
This woman and Jonathan are really brother and sister!
"Run!" Not thinking about regretting why he didn't arrange for his own people to keep vigil, Su Qin picked up the satchel containing the psionic books and other items, and rushed to the mausoleum as soon as he picked up Yumi, who was still a little sleepy. Fortunately, they had already arranged a backup plan for the emergency before entering the Hamna Tower. At the same time that Su Qin shouted the word "run", Li Huang had already picked up the Sun Golden Sutra and ran towards the gate of the mausoleum, while Ziyuan followed closely with a backpack full of weapons. When running past Eve, Yumi, who came back to her senses, did not forget to take the Black Book of the Dead that fell from her hand.
The Americans, and the Egyptian laborers they brought with them, also ran frantically to the mausoleum under the pressure of death, and a few slower guys were devoured by the overwhelming swarm of locusts. In this chaotic situation, the members of the temporary squad were also scattered by the crowd in the complex passages of the mausoleum.
When Su Qin came back to his senses, he found that Yumi was the only one left by his side.
"It's time to let go."
"I'm sorry."
"Where are we now?" Yumi asked calmly holding the Black Sutra of the Undead.
"A branch passage, wait for me to take a look at the terrain nearby." As soon as Su Qin took two steps, he saw a large swarm of scarabs that could not be seen like a tide around the corner. The terrifying clicking sound of their mouthparts opening and closing sounded like the whirring of the wind at high tide on the seashore.
"Mo Mo Sabind the Emperor of the Evil Emperor Vi Medicine, Sa Bind Mu Qi Vi Medicine, Sa Bind Him, Chew Luo Zha, Praise Raksha, Maha Lu Sprinkle, Owe! Woo Woo Woo, Sar Tail Pilgrimage to the South, Huh! ”
Yumi dodged in front of Su Qin, and once again cast the Immovable Ming King Fire Realm Curse. A vortex of flames generated by spiritual power burned the swarming scarab beetles into a cloud of flying ashes. However, the steady stream of carnivorous scarabs behind them continued to rush towards the flame vortex without fear, and the scarabs that rushed in like waves continued to cancel out the flames until the flames summoned by the Fire Realm Curse were consumed.
"Run over there" As soon as Yumi turned his head, he saw Su Qin standing motionless, and an endless sea of black insects also gushed out on the other side of the passage.
"Damn, I haven't seen ...... again," Yumi shouted unwillingly, trying to fight to the death.
Suddenly, Su Qin grabbed her hand.
"Calm down."
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