Chapter 70: Breaking the Siege
Being wrapped around my body by this giant python and constantly tightening, my body felt unprecedented oppression. For a while, I only felt that all my internal organs were crowded together, and my throat and eyes were sweet. There was a pungent pain in the flesh, and the bones were clucking.
Suddenly, I felt my blood surging up, my head and facial features were swollen, and I felt that my head and eyes were about to burst.
Misty Huhu saw the giant python in front of me wrapping around my neck, and then raised his head in the air and looked at me fiercely. In mid-air, he turned back to me and opened his bloody mouth, and the upper and lower four fangs were like four sharp knives, emitting a chilling light.
I was horrified and cried out, "My life is over!" Then close your eyes and wait for death.
Vaguely, I could only hear two gunshots, "bang, bang", and the oppressive force on my body instantly reduced a lot. When I opened my eyes, it turned out that the old ghost had shot the head of the snake from the side, saving me from danger.
I couldn't get used to it when I was put on this python so tightly, my body lost my balance and fell heavily to the ground, and the old ghost saw my situation and immediately came to check on me. He slapped me twice on the face and quickly asked, "Boss, how are you?" ”
"Damn, can't you just be lighter? I was not bitten to death by a snake, but I was also shot to death by your grandson. I said weakly.
The old ghost saw that I was talking normally, so he put his mind at ease and said, ", I'm scared to death!" Can you do it? ”
I waved my hand weakly at the old ghost and did not answer him. In this way, there is really no extra strength and the old ghost is blind and poor.
At this time, Qian Cheng said to us: "Two chiefs, I think it's better for us to leave as much as possible." If you don't leave, you probably won't be able to go again. ”
When I heard Qian Cheng say this. The old ghost and I both looked back at him, and then we realized that there were more and more snakes around!
I pointed to the torch on the wall behind me and said to the old ghost, "Use fire!" ”
The old ghost glanced behind him. Immediately nodded at me and said, "Hmm." However, I can't get by like this, and I need to help. ”
I immediately understood what the old ghost meant, and put my hands behind my back. The old ghost stepped on my hand and jumped over the torch.
When the vipers saw that something was flying, they immediately jumped up and tried to sneak attack. However, because the old ghost jumped higher, the sneak attack was not successful.
After the old ghost successfully got the torch, he threw the other two to me and Qian Cheng. We used torches to drive away the poisonous snakes around us. Unexpectedly, the effect is really good. When the vipers saw the flames, they retreated. We were able to get out and walk towards the fireball opening.
After several twists and turns, he finally returned to the ground. The dark room just now, I don't know if it was the retreat of the fireball array or the secret passage of the tomb that had been in disrepair for a long time, we don't know. We don't want to know, and we don't have the energy to find out. I had to follow the road I had just walked, and then continue on my way.
Keep going straight down the diagonal slope. After walking for about ten minutes, the three of us stopped to rest. I just think that the scenes, murals, and totems here seem to have been seen somewhere? But I couldn't remember it for a while. Finally, I remembered that I had seen it in my aunt's diary.
The old ghost and Qian Cheng quickly fell asleep again after the exertion just now. For some reason, I didn't feel sleepy. In my spare time, I took out my aunt's notebook from my bag and studied it carefully. In addition to some hand-painted patterns similar to those here, it is also written in detail:
Egypt is divided into two parts by the Nile, namely Cairo: the southern part is called Upper Egypt and the northern part is called Lower Egypt.
Around 3200 B.C.E., the rule of Egypt was divided between two kings. They engaged in a series of power struggles, which resulted in the condescension of Lower Egypt. Egypt was unified into an early dynasty, and Egyptian civilization gradually came into being. From the Third Dynasty onwards entered the Old Kingdom. Then came the Middle Kingdom. Then the foreign tribes usurped the government, and the 18th dynasty tried to build a new kingdom after the captives.
In 332 BC, Alexander finally conquered Egypt. After Egypt entered the slave society. The king (i.e., the Pharaoh) was the supreme head of the slave-owning class and the incarnation of the sun god and the god of the Nile. When they were alive, they were kings of the world, and when they died, slaves were busy carving and still rulers of the underworld.
The Egyptian religion was the belief that after death, the soul simply left the body and wandered in the universe, and if returned, the person could be resurrected. Therefore, the Egyptians preserved the corpses as "mummies" and attached great importance to the coffin making and the construction of mausoleums to pray for resurrection.
Therefore, the Egyptians attached great importance to the protection of the bodies of pharaohs and great slave owners, and built mausoleums at any cost. This is the origin of the world-famous pyramids of Egypt.
Since the corpse could not be resurrected due to decay, they thought of carving the statues of the king and princess in stone and preserving them. The king reigns and reigns in the underworld, and he must also enjoy the joy of being on earth. So, I thought of painting all the things in the world on the tomb wall for enjoyment. In this way, the art of carving and painting in Egypt took place and developed.
There are many classifications of mummies:
Mummification: About 6,000 years ago, the Qinkoro people who lived off the coast of Chile mummified their dead people – their mummified zuò predates Tutankhamun by 5,000 years. The Qinkoro people removed the internal organs of the deceased, dismembered the body and removed most of the muscles.
Subsequently, they filled the corpse with plant fibers and coated the surface of the corpse with a thick layer of black mud. For this reason, these mummies are also known as black mummies.
After three thousand years of evolution, the mummification technique of the Qin Koro people has become more and more mature, and they even painted various exquisite patterns on the mummified faces. Eventually, they began to wrap the corpses in red clay, and about three thousand years after that, the locals simplified the process of making zuò and began to wrap the corpses only in red clay.
Egyptian Mummies: Egyptian mummies are the most famous mummies in the world. Their brains are removed from the nasal cavity, and internal organs are removed from small incisions in the abdomen and stored in funeral urns for permanent preservation.
The Egyptians wrapped the corpses in a 180-kilogram mixture of salt, called bubble alkali, which was used as an antiseptic to keep the corpse dry and reduce the smell. They also place an amulet on the heart of the corpse, which is the only internal organ preserved in the corpse. They then wrapped the mummies in fine linen and adorned them with prayers.
These are the mummies we know as well. (To be continued)