Chapter 65: Gezhi (3)
After a long journey, Ecovacs finally reached the northeast corner of the continent of Ephyrek. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoEcovacs's envisioned idea of standing on a high vantage point after arriving and looking out over the border between the island and the continent of Alesia did not come true, for a simple reason. The voyage was repeatedly delayed, and it was actually night when it arrived. This is not as unpleasant as Ecovacs, after all, there is still a lot of time to look ahead. The point is that the climate here is uncomfortably dry, and the difference is too great from the cold and humid climate of Breth. His skin was cracking a little, and the temperature was still high even though it was night. Ecovacs, who was taken directly to the official's residence, took Warman and watched the locals dance to deal with the wine glasses raised by many officials after their arrival, and hurried back to the place where he was staying. Ecovacs needed to get back to his room quickly, the effects of the alcohol starting to kick in, and he felt a sense of deformation. The elder brother's warning before this long journey was remembered again in his ears. Fortunately, he rushed back to his room before revealing his true form again, and Warman blocked many drunken visits for him, and Ecovacs slept until dawn after a short wash. Opening his still heavy eyelids, Ecovacs saw a surprising scene through the gap in the curtain. The drowsiness was driven away without a trace, and he rose from the bed.
Summoned Warman, and under his service, Ecovacs changed into a hunting outfit suitable for the local event. The hunting costume looked a little funny, but he followed his brother's advice and wore it during this outing. Ecovacs doesn't have any other activities scheduled today, he has new ideas. When the local governor saw the letter from the Imperial Prime Minister and the news he had previously reported from the Imperial Express, he knew what to do in a hurry. What's more, there is also a high-level team that follows Mr. Ecovacs this time, they are all elites of the Imperial government departments, and there is no room for mistakes. The Governor took this time to serve Ecovacs as a good opportunity for performance. When they first met, Ecovacs left a very good impression on the Governor, he was really a young and promising fellow. The Governor is strange, as the younger brother of the Prime Minister, why is the surname so strange. This is not a Greesian surname at all, but a lot like the surname of the people in the north of the continent of Emerik. But who can say for sure, these hereditary nobles are some strange guys, and after so many years of officialdom, the governor knows that there are actually some things that are better than not knowing. Anyway, as long as the letter from the prime minister is genuine, it will be enough. Wherever Mr. Covacs is proposing, as long as it is within his jurisdiction.
Ecovacs told the Governor that he wanted to go up to the tall building outside the window where he was staying. When he spoke his mind, the Governor and the others in the room were surprised. The Governor and his men knew that these buildings looked majestic and tall, but they were not a place to be seen or visited. Locals call these buildings the Parimed, but they are just the tombs of the emperors of ancient times after they died. What's so nice about the mausoleum, I really don't know what this Ecovacs who looks like a boy and brother wants to do. But he's the younger brother of the Prime Minister of the Empire, and nothing else matters. Ecovacs wants to go, so let's go. The Governor sent a local man as a guide, and then thought about sending another interpreter with whom he was familiar. He thought it was an attitude. The Prime Minister of the Empire is still standing after all these political ups and downs, which is why the Governor thinks he should express a clear attitude. Ecovacs thanked the Governor for his warm help and took Warman back to his lodgings to get ready to go.
Ever since he saw some strangely structured buildings, the eagerness that had risen in his body had not stopped. The sense of déjà vu grew stronger, and he even thought he must have been here. But no matter how you think about it, it's just déjà vu.,There's no part of it in my memory that has anything to do with here.,I grew up in the continent of Amerik since I was a child.。 In fact, he only had memories since he was eight years old, and his elders told him that it was because he had an accident when he was a child and suffered a brain injury. He touched the mark on the back of his head and asked himself if he had been here before he was eight years old. The Governor's men were waiting outside the door, and it was inconvenient for Ecovacs to search for memories for a long time. He dressed up and picked up his paintbrush and notebook. Draw what you see, and I'm sure this tour won't be dull.
The local guide was a tall and ordinary man, dressed in green and white, and looked a little funny. He said a lot to the translator. There was an unnatural look on the translator's face, and Warman reminded Ecovacs to pay attention. When the translator continued with Ecovacs, Ecovacs thought that he was only partially translating, so he reminded the translator of his duty of sincerity as a subordinate to serve his superiors. The interpreter was embarrassed and said what the guide said. The interpreter clasped his hands and signaled that Ecovacs should believe what he said. Ecovacs listened with interest. The guide told them about the buildings officially, which sounded very appealing. These regular buildings, known as the Parimides, were the tombs of the kings of the ancient Holy Dynasty. These rulers are known in history as "farrors". The ancient Aephyrexians of Northeast China believed that man was nothing more than the executor of God's will, and out of devout belief in God, many tribes here formed a deep-rooted "concept of the afterlife" very early, and people believed that "life is only a temporary stay, and death is a permanent enjoyment". As a result, the underworld is seen as a continuation of earthly life. Influenced by this "idea of the afterlife," while they were alive, they prepared for the afterlife with sincerity and confidence. Every rich man is busy preparing a tomb for himself to stay in after death, and decorating the tomb with various objects in order to gain eternal life after death. In the case of a pharaoh or a nobleman, he would spend years, if not decades, building tombs, and ordering the craftsmen to continue to sail ships, hunting, feasting, and the work of servants with tomb paintings and wooden models, so that he could live as comfortably after death as he did in life.
But it wasn't these that interested Ecovacs, but the curse that the guide had spoken of. Legend has it that on the opposite side of the Peramidri, there is a deepest innermost building, where the Imperial Spirits are kept, written in the ancient Philemic language: "Whoever disturbs Pharoll's eternal sleep, Pharor's protector will send the Grim Reaper to arrive." The bird will spread its wings and descend on his head. "There's also a place where people say it's written in human blood, but it's green. It reads, "Whoever comes into this Paramid with an impure heart to disturb the rest of the spirits, I will strangle him by the neck like a bird." "As the door to Farror's tomb will be opened, mystery and death will creep in, as the curse says. Legend has it that the nightmare began when some of the foreign invaders who coveted the various ornaments on the spirit of Farroel opened the Parimed. The translator saw that Ecovacs was very interested, and he translated it even more vividly. It is said that the pampered canary that the leader of the intruder was carrying at the time was swallowed by a cobra that suddenly appeared. And how can a cobra appear in Parimed, which has not been opened for thousands of years, this is the magic, and the translation says that when the spirit of Faruel is put into the coffin, it must be buried with a thick cobra. Subsequently, the leader who roared away with the ornament soon fell ill and died, and the cause of death was an unknown disease transmitted by mosquito bites. Surprisingly, the bite was the location of the scar on the face of the violated Pharael. The alien leader had been so mad that he did not believe in the "curse of Pharaor", but in the end his death was the best proof of the curse. Now, Ecovacs wants to get there, and the guide thinks it's a curse.
Ecovacs patted the guide on the shoulder and told the interpreter to tell him that he was just going to see the scenery at the top of Perymid, not going inside. The guide was relieved when he heard this, and suggested that he go up to another kind of Perimed, a little farther away, which was actually impossible to climb. The other way the guide said was dozens of miles away from where they were talking, and for the first time Corvacs rode on a strange animal called a camel, put his butt between the two meat peaks on the camel's back, and watched Warman go on his way in a helpless way. Behind him, Parimid grew farther and farther away, and was greeted by a strange statue. The height is almost the highest Paramide, and the guide introduced that this Harus is the remains left by the ancient Pharaohs along with Paramide. Except for the claws that extend forward, which are inlaid with large stones, the whole building looks like it is carved out of a boulder containing impurities such as shells. The face is said to be the face of an ancient Phara. Legend has it that when the Farr, named Khafre, visited his mausoleum, the Khafre Perimid Project, he always felt that something was missing, and after thinking about it, he made a decision to carve a huge stone statue for himself. In order to curry favor with the Faruel, the officials in charge of the project asked the craftsman to carve the body of a lion in an ingenious way, and the face of the pharaoh was used as a statue of the lion's head. In ancient Philek, the lion was a symbol of strength, and the Sphinx was actually a portrayal of the ancient band Pharor. The statue sits west to east, crouching next to Khafre's Perimed. The translator added that because it resembles the Sphinx, a human-faced monster in ancient Europa mythology, the Europa people who come here actually call it "Sphinx".
Ecovacs looked at the statue of Hafre Perimid standing in the sand, and sighed with emotion. The guide said that the original idol wore a huge crown of ancient Faruoer, with a holy snake relief firmly on its forehead, a long beard on its chin, and a collar around its neck. However, after thousands of years of wind and rain and sand and soil burial, the crown and collar are gone, leaving only half a quarter of the ugly head to the east, welcoming the sunrise every day. The guide urged the camel to take the lead forward, and the translator said that looking at money is the truth, just like us Breechians, if we want to do it, we must do what the world does, including here, will be illuminated by our civilization and become advanced and civilized. We are like the sun. Ecovacs looked at the translation and suddenly felt that this low-level bureaucrat was ridiculous. He turned to look at the idol, where the morning sun shone on half of the idol's face. Ecovacs felt as if he had seen the vanished squad leader's face. The face is not a human face at all, but a triangle. The long, slender, sharp eyes are located in the upper half and seem to have been opened. Ecovacs's mind flickered, how could it be so similar to his own deformed head. In a trance, Ecovacs thought he was already the statue, raised his tall head, and watched the camels in the desert go away. The third camel market was empty, and Ecovacs suddenly came to his senses, wasn't he the third in the line? He looked at it and saw that he was still moving on with the swaying of the camel, and his heart fell to the ground. He beckoned to Warman backwards and whispered to Warman that he saw the idol change. Unexpectedly, after listening to this, Warman also whispered that for a short time, in the flying sand, Warman could not see Ecovacs. Warman added that he was actually just a few meters behind Ecovacs, and that Warman only saw the camel swaying in the sand.
Ecovacs told Warman to keep it a secret and wait until he returned to his lodgings in the evening to talk about the strange thing. Ecovacs had never seen what he looked like after his transformation, and that time he was transformed at sea, there was no mirror, and he just touched it himself. In all fairness, he didn't have the courage to look at what happened to him after his transformation, which was not a reality that one could immediately accept. Despite being raised by their elders from an early age, their family was very different from the others, and Ecovacs never imagined that he could actually shapeshift. He knew that he tried to keep his composure as much as possible after the transformation, and always kept his shock and fear in his heart, and even Warman didn't know that he still couldn't get used to being an alternative who could shapeshift. The guides and interpreters in front apparently had no idea what was happening behind them. By the time I saw Perimed, which the guide thought was easy to climb, the sun was already high, and the guide was so experienced that he suggested a rest. The guide took advantage of the break to tell the three of them about this other kind of Parimed.
Once upon a time, the tombs where the spirits of Faruel were placed were simple, usually large rectangular mounds made of mud bricks. When it came time to become known as the Serotide Empire, there was a doctor in the court of Farroel named Imhotep who came up with the idea of building a tomb for Emperor Djoser. He built the colossal Paramides out of stone for the first time, which became the beginning of the stone Parimides. He first built the mound of graves with stones of equal length, and then he changed his plan and designed the mound to be overlapping, that is, adding one layer at a time, and gradually shrinking until the sixth floor. After that, he wrapped the behemoth in delicate white lime. This is the earliest sixth-order trapezoidal Perimide on the continent of Aephyrek. Dzose was buried under the pyramid after his death, and the guide pointed to the Parimedes not far away and said that there was no curse on these Parimedry, and they could enter. Warman asked the Guide a question as to why some Parimades contained curses and others did not. The guide shook his head, indicating that he didn't know. The interpreter, who was coming in the direction he came, had just put down the kettle in his hand, as if he had found something. He reminded Ecovacs in the direction he had come, and everyone turned around and saw the string of light in the sky.
The secret letter in the governor's hand, which was sealed with a seal of fire paint, was opened with trembling fingers. There was no title in the letter, and there was no need for a title, because the unseen superior did not act in this style. I mentioned that sentence again in my heart, when the four fingers point to the sky, the distance will no longer be far away. The Governor was instructed that he must ensure that the Four-Finger Messenger who had arrived this time saw what he ought to see. What should be seen, the governor is at a loss, and there is that he does not know who this messenger is, has he come?