Chapter 186: Quest Starts: Bracelet of Death!
The development of things is basically according to Xiao Lan's script, although there are some details that need to be temporarily modified.
When the sun finally rose in the east and the darkness disappeared in the dawn, Xiao Lan, who had been galloping on the desert for half the night, finally saw the shadow of their destination.
It is an ancient capital city that is no bigger than the Tower of Hamna, but not too small, with towering stone pillars, quaint statues, and walls that show the marks of time to announce the glory days it has experienced.
As can be seen from the opening clip of the movie "Legend of Gods and Ghosts 2: The Return of the Mummy", this is the city that the Scorpion King Mozius finally conquered after exchanging his soul for an army, and it is also the capital of the kingdom that once made him finally defeated after seven years of hard battles.
5,000 years ago, this ancient city was once glorious, but the ravages of the Reaper's legion when they conquered it destroyed almost all the outlying buildings, and only the temple dedicated to Horus in the center of the city was still intact, so much so that during the Theban Dynasty, which later ruled Egypt, it was used by the pharaohs to seal the Scorpion King's bracelet left after the Scorpion Emperor's return to the underworld, and set up loyal guards to guard it strictly in case the Reaper legion reappeared.
3,000 years ago, in the time of Seti I, the guardian of the bracelet was none other than Eve's previous life, Princess Nephidili of Thebes......
And looking at this ancient vicissitudes of life temple blooming with a strong historical atmosphere under the light of the nascent sun, Eve, who saw this scene from afar, sighed with emotion.
"It's been 3,000 years, and it hasn't changed much......
Ancient and modern times are two completely different memories and thoughts are intertwined, and this woman's ability to maintain her sanity should be her specialty.
However, her calmness could not be maintained for too long. The sun, which was born in the east and brought infinite light to the world, suddenly cast a shadow shortly after jumping out of the ground line.
The world that has just ushered in the light has once again returned to the darkness, which is ...... Solar eclipse?
Of course this can't be, last night there was a full moon hanging in the sky, how could the moon suddenly come from the other side of the earth?
It could only be some kind of very advanced trick to create a shadow that obscures the entire area from the sun. The Last Ten Calamities: Darkness Falls!
"He stretched out his hand to the sky, and Egypt was covered in darkness......"
Muttering the last prophecy that had finally been fulfilled, Jonathan and Eve invariably urged Xiao Lan on the motorcycle.
"Hey. Man! Can you please hurry up? Didn't you say you could throw them off for dozens of minutes, why now that mummy seems to be about to catch up with us! ”
"The Ten Calamities have all been completed, and Immorton has recovered all the mana he can get. If we don't want to fight him now, we'd better get the bracelet and leave! ”
Xiao Lan was a little embarrassed and didn't answer immediately, because things went so wrong.
When you chased me halfway through, the recovered Immorton summoned a boost wind behind the airship, which made the speed of the airship, which was already driving the maximum firepower, increase the speed of the airship, and Xiao Lan, who sensed this change, adjusted the itinerary in time without making any mistakes in the script, but when he couldn't throw Chu Xuan and them out for more than twenty minutes, he didn't want to show how calm he was......
"I understand, I understand, isn't it just to hurry......"
Without responding impatiently, Xiao Lan braked the racing motorcycle in a posture that almost crashed into the wall, and then turned over and got off the car, and lifted the brother and sister Jonathan and Eve.
With eyes that couldn't really see anything, I looked at the darkness outside. He looked at Zheng Zhe and O'Connor, who had also stopped, and added with his finger up as he led the way towards the interior of the temple.
"But if it's really fast, it's up to you...... Eve, or Princess Nafidili. ”
Even the interior space of the Hamna Tower is only a little smaller, and the underground passage of this temple will not exceed 100 meters, no matter how large and wide it is. Even an ordinary person can run in more than ten seconds, but nine out of ten results are killed by some kind of mechanism, Xiao Lan and Zheng Zha at this moment are not too afraid of any mechanism, but once they take the wrong way and turn in for dozens of minutes, it is almost inevitable.
And although Zheng Zhe got the relevant memories from Eve as the guardian through the Blood Memories, and knew the shortest path and the types and trigger paths of the mechanism, how could this be compared to being led by the guardian Princess Nafidili herself?
Eve knew about it, too. I didn't realize that I had unknowingly become an "accomplice" and agreed, "No problem, I'm like at home here, but if there is anything more in three thousand years, I can't guarantee it." ”
Xiao Lan directly dispelled her worries, "Don't worry, you shouldn't find anything superfluous except for the corpse of the failed tomb robber." ”
"Is that so? Then I'm relieved......"
In this way, under the leadership of Eve, the guardian, Xiao Lan walked from the main gate into this secret room that had been sealed for three thousand years.
And the moment the two of them stepped into the tunnel, the majestic voice of the main god without any emotion issued the task prompt to the consciousness of the two reincarnators as scheduled.
"Trigger the story early in the horror world, increase the difficulty factor to the maximum, and when you complete it, you will be rewarded with triple the number of side stories and bonus points. Get the Scorpion King's Bracelet of Death within 10 minutes, reward points 6000 reward points, count one B-level side story, and if you fail to complete it in 10 minutes, the mausoleum will collapse, and 5000 reward points will be deducted. ”
Just like when you got the Ark of the Covenant before, you have to complete the quest within a limited time, but there will definitely be a follow-up to this quest, such as reaching the Amshei Oasis to open it and get the Scorpion King's treasure.
In addition, the maximum increase in the difficulty coefficient seems terrifying, but this is still only a C-level mission, and it will definitely not be more troublesome than the previous Ark of the Covenant seal.
And unlike then, this time they walked in with a swagger open "back door goldfinger"-
In theory. They are unlikely to encounter any kind of accident.
If they are ignorant and run around like other tomb robbers, then the trouble they will encounter along the way will definitely not be less than when they get the ark of the covenant, and it is very likely that ordinary people will add another member to the corpses of tomb robbers everywhere, but they have the Guardian of the Death Bracelet 3,000 years ago leading the way, and they can't always stage a thrilling scene of "Tomb Raider" every time they go, right?
Having mastered the back door key and cheating, this time it was as if they were on a walk, and they reached the heavy stone door that O'Connor pried open in the movie with great ease.
But here it is. Eve is a bit out of the picture.
"There's nothing special about this door, it's just a heavy stone door, and I've been accompanied by two strong guards when I came here before. And they pushed this door open for me......"
The implication is that it needs to be dealt with with a little bit of violence.
"You?"
"You?"
Xiao Lan and Zheng Zha exchanged glances in unison, and then reached a consensus after breathing a sigh of relief.
"Let's come along."
It was like taking a positive step, and the sound of a very coordinated brushing and breaking the wind sounded. Two powerful side kicks at an angle of forty-five degrees accurately hit the wall carved with ancient murals, and under the perfect infusion of enough force, the barrier suddenly collapsed inward with a loud bang.
The interior space without any light was completely dark, but when Xiao Lan preemptively looked at the situation inside with energy vision, the expression of the fake priest became extremely exciting.
"Eve, is that what you do with these things when you work?"
Zheng Zhe, who also saw the situation inside with dark vision, remained silent, and O'Connor, who remained puzzled, threw a lit torch inside, and then finally saw the situation inside, and he screamed together with Jonathan and Eve.
The surrounding walls were covered with stone tombs with owners, and the cobwebs on them were as old as this one, and at first glance the ground looked like a black carpet, although the carpet was strangely creeping on its own. But if you look closely at what kind of carpet this place is in the past, it is clear that there are hundreds or thousands of black scorpions!
And among these small things with poisonous needles, there are still a few white bones belonging to humans scattered around, and a few scorpions happen to be nesting in the eye sockets of the skull......
It was probably a tomb robber who had come in from other sources and had gone through a lot of trouble to reach his destination. As a result, they were attacked by these scorpions, and there was no place to die.
The people watching this scene were really a little creepy, and Eve swallowed a big mouthful of saliva fiercely, directly denying Xiao Lan's strange speculation.
"How is that possible! I was so bright here, how could I possibly allow these damp gutter stuff to appear! ”
This answer made Xiao Lan chuckle playfully, and without noticing more visions, he and Zheng Zhe stepped directly into the dark tomb, and although Eve and the others were a little frightened, they also followed. The shoe made a crisp clicking sound when it stepped on the scorpion's carapace.
It was just an ordinary scorpion, it was crawling in from the corner after the tomb was sealed, and the flesh and blood of those corpses were propagated by themselves, maybe it was indeed affected by some yin qi, but from Xiao Lan's energy vision, there was nothing abnormal......
It may be a little bit toxic, but as long as you don't get stung, it's fine.
However, the difficulty of being stung by scorpions is actually quite high, these things are not much faster than lobsters that come ashore, and their heavy carapace makes them almost the bottom of the arthropods.
But even so, the group of people who had only taken a few steps soon heard a very unusual slapping sound, and when they turned around, they saw Jonathan scrambling around on his body.
Regarding his very undisciplined behavior, Eve covered her forehead and sighed angrily, "Surprised, what's the situation?" ”
Jonathan continued to pat without a direct answer, and after knowing that there was nothing crawling on his body, he ran to Xiao Lan and opened his mouth nervously.
“…… I just got bitten by a scorpion, I'm not going to die, am I? ”
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