Chapter 149: The Scorpion King's Bracelet
After telling Ye Ying and Zhao Xin the next course of action, everyone in the Dream Team and the three Egyptians took camels first, and after a four-day trek, they arrived at the nearest oasis. After replenishing some food and water, Lin Meng was disheartened and revealed the treasure that he had unearthed in the capital of the dead to the people here.
Even, in the absence of the three Egyptians, he showed a few exquisite holy bottles in his hand that he could understand at a glance that they could be sold for a large price!
The people of the whole oasis are crazy, and the legend of the capital of the dead is deeply rooted in Egypt, but not many people have been able to find the location. Lin Meng drew a simple map for everyone, bought the map, made a small fortune by the way, and left.
And in the oasis, many people formed a team and headed in the direction of the capital of the dead.
It is conceivable that the more people who go, the more chaotic the scene will be, coupled with the descendants of the Pharaoh's Guard, the obstruction of these people from digging the ruins, in Hamnata, even if the Emerald team is strong, it is not easy to control the situation.
On the passenger ship, Lin Meng separated from Ye Ying and Zhao Xin, and he went to Cairo City, and the other two took three Egyptian sacrifices to Thebes. After entering Cairo, Lin Meng deliberately rested for a day before going to the Governor's Mansion and telling the Governor of Cairo about his experience in the capital of the dead.
Of course, these words must be adapted, half-truths and half-truths.
From the detailed descriptions of the passages, scenes, words, and traps in the ruins, the experienced governor of Cairo could hear that what Lin Meng said should be true. In particular, some traps can only be found in the pyramids of important figures in ancient Egypt.
"We saw a splendid hall in the ruins of the capital of the dead. I swear that even the treasures of the Queen of England will not be more than a tenth of the wealth there! ”
"Guards, chariots, altars, idols of gods, all kinds of gold jewelry. There are also pieces of gold cakes, piled up together to form a mountain of gold...... In the huge underground palace, the golden gold almost blinded my eyes......"
Lin Meng's words made the Governor of Cairo's eyes glow.
He changed the topic and said, "However, we didn't expect to see such a large number of treasures. A group of wizards with the same power entered the ruins through an American soldier named O'Connor. ”
"Have a big fight with those guys. Me and my companions, sadly defeated, you gave me three assistants, two of my companions. They all died in the ruins...... When escaping. I used a spell to collapse some of the passages of the ruins, preventing them from getting the gold to transport away. ”
"I don't think those wizards will give up, and the gold in the ruins is unrivaled, and they must be organizing people to dig it up. Those were those who were as powerful as the ancient priests who had mastered the mystical powers...... And he has magic and is good at demagoguery......"
While Lin Meng was talking, a butler walked in quickly and handed a telegram to the Governor of Cairo.
Looked at the text on the telegram. The pot-bellied, obese guy said, "I got a telegram. Many people are rushing to the capital of the dead, and some are in conflict with a mysterious group of people with strange powers...... These mysterious people, who are hiring and directing workers, are digging up the underground palace of the Hamna Tower......"
"No!"
At this, the governor of Cairo suddenly shouted with excitement and rage: "The treasure of Seti I is mine, it belongs to me alone, and it must not fall into the hands of others!" ”
After a few words of scolding, the fat man stabilized his mood and said apologetically to Lin Meng: "I'm sorry, I'm a little out of shape...... You know, these are the treasures of our Egyptians, they are precious things that belong to Egypt, and now Egypt needs to be restored, and there is a lack of money, and these gold are the hope of Egypt's revival. ”
"I fully understand that you are a respectable, nationalist who cares about the country, and please let me pay tribute to you."
Lin Meng bowed, and then said, "Right now, I have no interest in that gold, I only have one thought, kill those seven evil wizards and avenge my dead companions!" Of course, if I can find the legendary Golden Sutra of the Sun buried in the ruins of the Capital of the Dead, I hope to see this book with my own eyes. ”
"No problem......"
The Governor of Cairo was interested in a book made of gold, but a book of gold was nothing compared to the wealth accumulated by Seti I, the richest pharaoh in Egyptian history.
Originally, he couldn't have believed Lin Meng's words so much, but the governor of Cairo had several secret agents secretly placed in the oasis closest to the capital of the dead, and after those secret agents followed the treasure hunting force to the capital of the dead, they really encountered a group of thugs with mysterious power.
The mob commanded some excavators in an effort to excavate the collapsed remains.
"Those wizards are hard to deal with." Lin Meng reminded.
"I have an army, and no matter how powerful a thug is, it is impossible to fight against the army......" As the governor of Cairo, this fat man is completely one of the most powerful people in Egypt, and it is not a problem to mobilize troops.
Successfully caused a huge trouble to the Jade Team who wanted to dig up the Sun Golden Sutra, Lin Meng left Cairo City with a secret smile in his heart, and got on the ship to Thebes, I don't know what kind of mood the Jade Team will be under the siege of rockets and soldiers.
At least in the capital of the dead, the operation of digging up the Golden Sutra of the Sun will never continue!
Yes, they are very strong, but at least no matter how strong the reincarnation is at this stage, it is impossible to fight against the army. Maybe someone physically can block a bullet, but how many can block a rocket? Tank guns? Even if a group of troops sent by the governor of Cairo were destroyed, there would be a steady stream of more troops rushing there - no Egyptians would be unmoved by the treasures of Seti I.
Ignoring Cairo and Hamtana, the capital of the dead, Lin Meng watched the scenery on the Nile for two days and finally arrived in the city of Thebes. In the 14th century B.C., it was once a great city in the world, unparalleled, full of legends, and magnificent!
Thebes was once the capital of the ancient kingdom of Egypt, where the god Amun was worshipped, and there were many temples built of huge stone pillars.
And the tomb group of the pharaohs, the famous Valley of the Kings, is in the valley near Thebes. In the movie, the African Scorpion Emperor once made an expedition to Egypt, and after a failed attempt, he staggered alone in the desert. He swore to Anubis, the god of death, that he would give his soul to the god of death if the god of death gave him an army to destroy Egypt!
The Grim Reaper granted the Scorpion Emperor's request. Give him an army of wicked kobolds.
The army marched into Egypt and invaded the capital, almost destroying Thebes, but at the last moment, Anubis took the soul of the Scorpion Emperor, and the kobold troops also turned into black dust.
Ye Ying, Zhao Xin, and three unlucky Egyptians as sacrifices. Arrived in Thebes and had been looking for two days. Relying on some details of the movie, Ye Ying was able to estimate the approximate location of the ruins, and it didn't take much effort to find a valley on the banks of the Nile. Found the entrance to the secret ruins.
A hole in the grass was reborn, small and dirty, and no one would have thought that there would be a mysterious ruin behind it.
Three Egyptians who were depressed and depressed in the midst of the deceased. Now it's exciting again. Ruins represent wealth and antiques! Unfortunately, the treasure of this ruin is very small, and it is full of spiders and scorpions, which cannot be compared to the capital of the dead.
Digging through the small hole and walking through a damp, eerie path, the group entered an underground passage made of stones.
The dim passage made Lin Meng think of the Castlevania that he had broken into, the secret ruins where the Scorpion King's bracelet was placed, and it was not vast, when he walked along the passage. The crowd saw strange drawings painted on some of the walls. The content seems to be a scene of a hero, a demon with a kobold, and an Egyptian army.
"Strange, this ruin, why does it paint the picture of the army of the god of death fighting the Egyptian army?"
The three Egyptians were very puzzled - the deeds of the Scorpion King were hidden in the dust of history, and not many people knew this story, not even the archaeologist Manda.
Manda, who was walking, felt that there seemed to be something under his feet, and when he looked down, he suddenly screamed in fright, and the ground was full of palm-sized spiders and scorpions, crawling on his shoes. Fortunately, the insects in this ruin are far less terrifying than the scarab beetles that merge into rivers in the ruins of the capital of the dead and can burrow from the skin to the brain in a few seconds when they pounce on people.
Lin Meng stretched out the torch to the ground, and there was a crackling and burning sound, and the insects were quickly burned into charcoal.
"Don't be afraid, some ordinary poisonous insects."
While they were talking, everyone entered a hall, and some sculptures placed on the ground immediately attracted the attention of the three Egyptians, these yellow things, looking at the luster, were not gold, just bronze, but at least they could be sold for money!
There are many clay pots and bronze utensils in this hall, and three Egyptians who are eager to make a fortune squat down and pick and choose.
Lin Meng gave Ye Ying and Zhao Messenger a color, and asked the two of them to protect the three sacrifices. Walking alone to the dark passage, he constantly uses torches to sweep away the large cobwebs that block the passage, and finally walks to a gate, which is the door where the heroine sees the hallucination in the second movie.
The door is engraved with hieroglyphs, and this door alone can sell for a sky-high price in the 21st century.
While recalling, Lin Meng put his hand on the lock of the gate, kept twisting and trying, and it took more than 10 minutes to finally close the lock and press it into the gate completely. He let out a sigh of relief, after trying for so long, if he still couldn't open it, he had the idea of using it to re-shoot or Qiankun Falei and smash the gate.
Inside the door, there were cobwebs everywhere, the smell of moisture and dust, and it smelled very unpleasant!
There are two mummified statues of guards, armed with Egyptian-style knives, guarding the sides of an old chest, and the head of one of the statues, even falling over the ages, rolled into a corner of the house, and above the chest, there is a bizarre scorpion pattern coat of arms.
On the neck of the headless guard statue, a necklace was hung, and Lin Mengzhi said that this was the lock that opened the box, and took it off and blew off the dust in his hand.
Holding the lock, he looked at the box, there was a line of small words on the box, and there was no need for translation, Lin Meng understood that the handwriting on the box should be "Whoever touches this bracelet in vain will drink the water of the Nile." ”
The place where the chest is located is actually a trap, and when the trap is activated, one of the gates of this secret relic will be lowered. The ruins are on the banks of the Nile, and the gates connect to the bottom of the Nile, where a flood will wash in and drown the person who took the bracelet.
Once you pick up the bracelet, you will be in extreme danger, but Lin Meng will not give up this secret treasure!
Open the chest with the lock, and inside the box is a gold bracelet that looks like a scorpion. A tail with a poisonous hook, eight claws, two chelicera, except that the head of the scorpion is a strange dog head.
The dog's head represents Anubis, the god of death, and this is the Scorpion King Bracelet - also known as the Death Bracelet, a secret treasure once held by the Demon Scorpion Emperor to lead the Grim Reaper's army!
Lin Meng could feel that an extremely vast, gloomy, and mysterious force was contained in the bracelet.
"If this box is used as a proof of engine shutdown, then it should be okay to just take the bracelet and not move the box, right?" With luck in his heart, Lin Meng picked up the bracelet, he didn't dare to put the bracelet on, once he put on the bracelet in the movie, he would be cursed, and if he couldn't reach the Pyramid of Ashem within seven days, he would usher in death!
As expected, like the Black Book of the Undead and the Imorton Mummy, the Scorpion King Bracelet is also an important process item in the world of the plot, and it cannot be placed in the brand space.
There was no time to study the bracelet carefully, and it was stuffed into the baggage behind him, when the entire ruins shook violently. In this dilapidated stone room, puffs of dust and sand were sprinkled under the sand and violently shaking, he immediately pulled his legs and ran, and sure enough, there was no chance mentality, even if the box was not moved, the mechanism of the ruins was activated.
"Boom!"
A wall was directly washed into pieces of bricks and stones by the raging river water, and the turbid Nile water gushed down the channel, and the violent momentum even gave people a sense of destruction.
Lin Meng ran wildly, the flood chasing behind him, and seeing that he was about to be swept into the water before he could escape, he took out his rifle and smashed a nearby wall with a shot, and then carried blood to protect his body, and crashed into the hole from the scattered broken stones.
Most of the flood water flowed down the channel just now, and a small part poured in from the shattered hole, and Lin Meng was pushed by the current, spewing out more than 10 meters away, hitting a wall hard, and then falling to the ground.
It took more than 30 seconds for the flood that swept through the ruins to disappear, and Lin Meng got up from the ground in pain. He was not worried about Ye Ying and Zhao Xin, both of them were mentally prepared, and they were on the periphery, and they began to flee when the ruins were shaking, and their lives would not be in danger.
Sure enough, when Lin Meng, who was drenched all over, walked outside the submerged ruins, Ye Ying, Zhao Xin, and the three Egyptians were all waiting in this place.
"Got something?" Ye Ying asked quietly.
"Of course...... The Scorpion King Bracelet, the proof of command of the Reaper's army! Lin Meng smiled confidently. (To be continued......)