Chapter 8: The City of the Dead, the Tower of Hamna

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In the dark night, there was a large moon hanging in the sky, and it was almost dawn at this time, and the surrounding scenery turned black and blue, and beside them was a large stone mountain, on which all the plants had died, and only the weathered stones remained.

O'Connor was beside Evelyn to prevent her from falling asleep, and suddenly, Zhang Yang and O'Connor were aware at the same time, looking behind, and on a mountain in the distance, they vaguely saw a row of horses on horseback.

"It's those mysterious guys again."

These mysterious pharaonic guards are not as simple as a dozen in front of them, Zhang Yang remembers very clearly that in the second Scorpion King movie, thousands of guards appeared, and the scene was extremely spectacular. At this time, Adbe, the captain of the guards, has been in charge of guarding the Hamna Tower.

O'Connor looked at Zhang Yang, and the two understood each other, and accelerated their travel, and when the sun was about to jump out of the horizon, Zhang Yang and the Americans met, but the two sides did not fight, but quietly waited for the sun to appear.

In front of them, there was an empty desert, but the city of Hamnata, hidden in the desert, was hidden by the mysterious spells of ancient Egypt, and only those who knew how to enter it.

When the sun rises above the ground, the desert in the distance shakes like water, like a mirage, a huge ancient city, appearing in front of everyone's eyes.

Everyone was shocked by this scene, and everyone looked at this magical scene, and their hearts were filled with yearning, Hamnata.

"Hurry, hurry, ahhhhh

Zhang Yang uttered a series of strange syllables, the slogans used by the local residents to drive the camels forward, followed by Evelyn and O'Connor, and the Americans began to gallop towards the Hamna Tower.

Whoever reaches the Tower of Hamna first will get their hands on the treasure inside.

Zhang Yang, Evelyn, and O'Connor were the first to enter the Tower of Hamna, and when they crossed a low loess wall, O'Connor sighed:

"Three years ago, I fought here, and then my comrades-in-arms, almost all died."

Zhang Yang slowed down and looked at the city, the entire walls of the Hamna Tower, which had been very dilapidated in the long history of three thousand years.

At the door, there should have been two sharp columns, but at this time there was only one left, Zhang Yang and O'Connor did not rush deeper, but stopped after entering the city gate, found an open place, and waited for the arrival of others.

The interior of the city is large, with many decorative columns, carved with many patterns and hieroglyphs, and Zhang Yang groped to spell out these words, probably in praise of the pharaoh.

In the city, there were several exits, and when everyone entered, the Americans occupied one of them, and the entrance had collapsed for a long time, and the Americans led a lot of laborers to clear the bricks from the entrance, and began to set up camp, and they were led by Evelyn to find another entrance, which was under a statue of Anubis of the Grim Reaper.

Zhang Yang looked at the statue, in Egyptian legend, Anubis, the god of death, a god with a jackal head.

"This is the Statue of Death, our Egyptian god, the legs of the Grim Reaper go deep into the ground, and according to archaeological experts, there are secret compartments in the legs of the statues." Evelyn explained.

This idol is very huge, it has been somewhat damaged, and the paint on it has peeled off, at its feet, suppressing the villain, the Egyptian high priest Immorton, Zhang Yang knocked on the idol, and found nothing abnormal, he tried to spread his spiritual power to the inside of the idol, but suddenly encountered a powerful rebound.

In front of his eyes, a strong white light suddenly appeared, and there was a faint figure inside, as if he had turned around, and waved violently towards Zhang Yang, letting out a loud roar.

"Get out! Lower your head! ”

Zhang Yang's mind seemed to have been hit by a sledgehammer, and he took two steps backwards under his feet, and his mental power was quickly withdrawn, and two nosebleeds flowed down.

"Boom, boom."

There was a sudden tremor on the ground, and everyone was a little worried, these buildings were very old, and if there was an earthquake, everyone would die here.

The tremors came and went as fast as they came, wiping away the nosebleed without a trace, and only Evelyn and O'Connor noticed the abnormality of Zhang Yang.

"How is it, isn't there some evil sect?"

O'Connor looked at Zhang Yang: "Three years ago, I just fled here, and something similar happened. ”

Evelyn seemed to think of something, and looked at Zhang Yang.

"Did you just see something?"

Zhang Yang nodded, Evelyn didn't ask more, but continued to let O'Connor clean the stones at the entrance, Zhang Yang's heart was a little more shocked, the white light he felt just now was definitely an existence with much stronger spiritual power than himself, but Zhang Yang had an intuition that that white light should not be High Priest Immorton.

His gaze fell on the statue of death, Zhang Yang saw that the eyes on the statue of death seemed to be turned around, and then glanced at him, Zhang Yang's whole body came with a creepy feeling, goosebumps appeared on his body, he looked again, but found that the statue of death had not changed.

He asked Evelyn and them:

"Look at that statue of death, do you feel any changes?"

Evelyn and they all shook their heads, and there was a sense of fear in Zhang Yang's heart, that jackal head was the statue of Anubis, the god of death, Zhang Yang recalled the feeling just now, could it be that this shijie god really exists?

When Zhang Yang looked again, he didn't find anything else, but in Zhang Yang's heart, he was a little more vigilant about the seemingly calm city around him.

Zhang Yang erected a mirror-like object from the ground, which was an ancient mirror used by the ancient Egyptians to illuminate, after pointing the mirror at the sun, through the reflection of light, the inside of the mausoleum can be illuminated, which is a simple but very practical mechanism.

O'Connor and Jonathan set up a tent and gave Evelyn a set of archaeological tools, including pocket-sized hammers, brushes, and the like.

After fixing the ancient mirror, he pointed it at the position of the sun, and occasionally looked at the thick rope, which was written down on a thick pillar next to it, and then slid down the rope, and the Americans also cleared the exit, and a large group of people began to enter the Hamna Tower underground.

The place where Zhang Yang and they entered was not far from the Statue of Death, and as soon as they entered, Zhang Yang smelled a putrid smell, Zhang Yang slid down and looked around, there were many wooden stakes fixed to the ground, and there were some dark red blood stains on them.

"This is where they use to make mummies."

Evelyn looked at the hieroglyphs around her, and then adjusted the position of the bronze mirrors around her, reflecting the sunlight on the ground, and after the reflection of many mirrors, the underground space suddenly lit up.

Zhang Yang looked around, there was a passage in front, the bronze mirror could not reflect the light, they lit torches, Zhang Yang took out his sand eagle, followed O'Connor, and walked in.

The pitch-black passage, surrounded by a single stone sculpture, with many words engraved on it, some of which were still unintelligible, at this time, from the top of the passage, there was a rustling sound.

"What's that?"

Everyone became vigilant, and Zhang Yang guessed that it should be those scarabs that eat meat, these scarabs can burrow into people's bodies, and once they are drilled into, they must be dug out immediately, otherwise they will die. These scarabs can survive for many years if they are eaten by corpses, and in just a few seconds, these scarabs can mummify people.

In the entire underground mausoleum, there are many scarab beetles hidden, which is something that needs to be vigilant.

Passing through this dark passageway, flaunting that they had encountered nothing but the occasional rustle, O'Connor shone a torch in front of him as a pair of legs of a giant sculpture.

"It's the Grim Reaper's leg."

Next to the platform at the foot of the statue of death, there are many mysterious patterns engraved, and Zhang Yang's eyes have been staring at those patterns, and inside this platform, there is one of the purposes of Zhang Yang's trip, the Black Book of the Undead.

Although he knew that the book was here, Zhang Yang didn't dare to dig it rashly, outside the box where the Black Sutra of the Undead was hidden, there was a terrorist mechanism set up by the ancient Egyptians, high-pressure hydrochloric acid. Hydrochloric acid is a highly corrosive liquid and is extremely volatile, and if a container containing concentrated hydrochloric acid is opened, acid mist can be seen.

These clever ancient Egyptians, I don't know what method they used, collected a lot of concentrated hydrochloric acid, when someone opened the space under the feet of the statue of death, the mechanism will be triggered, and the concentrated hydrochloric acid will volatilize instantly, forming a high-pressure state and instantly spraying out, in the original plot, the three workers were melted alive by high-pressure hydrochloric acid.

At this time, there was a noise around, O'Connor suddenly became alert, and Zhang Yang also grabbed his sand eagle, I don't know if it was those Americans, or something else.

"Click!"

The sound of a series of guns rang out, Zhang Yang and O'Connor pointed at each other, and more than a dozen pistols on the opposite side also instantly pointed at Zhang Yang, it was those Americans, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"I was almost scared to death by you."

Evelyn patted her chest, "Okay guys, put away the gun, now we're going to work." ”

The leader of the Americans, the old man in the red hat, shook his head: "No, this is our territory, it should be you get out of the way." ”

"But that's what we found out first."

Evelyn argued, and the two sides immediately tensed and raised their guns again to aim at each other.

Zhang Yang suddenly felt that there was something foreign under his feet, and when he looked down, it was something like a small stone, and a trace of coolness suddenly flashed in Zhang Yang's heart, and a terrifying feeling emanated from behind him.

These small stone-like things are the corpses of dead scarabs.