Chapter 45: The Trap of the Gods

"This temple is a newly built fake, and the stones have not been brought here for ten years!"

Despite the strange Francie accent when the camel spoke, he was telling the truth, the current temple of Horus was rebuilt by order of the governor of Emunchet nine years ago, when the temple had been razed to the ground for more than a thousand years. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

"But it's not like there's nothing really old here. ”

The count's face was surprisingly young, and there was not a hint of gloom on it, and the camel was maddened to be disgusting at the first sight.

"When the temple was rebuilt, a huge complex was dug up in the ground, and that was the real temple of Horus in ancient times. ”

The camel didn't say anything more, and he was relieved to see that few people around him were still staring at them.

Just as they thought, a complete disappearance was enough to get rid of trouble, but the camel was still shocked by the Count's camouflage skills.

Walking past the obelisk that towered in front of the gate, the two followed the crowd into the temple.

It was a fortress-like building, with tall square walls of heavy stones, and a huge skylight opening on top of it, through which sunlight shone on the chest of the tall god, and the eagle's one-eyed gaze watched all the mortals who walked into the temple.

"It feels pretty good. ”

The camel's emotion was half showmanship, half heartfelt as he remembered the temples of the great gods, Isis and Anubis, almost all of them dark and oppressive, the opposite of the feeling of the sun here.

"In ancient times, when Horus was regarded as the guardian of the pharaohs, the dynasty mobilized a huge number of slaves to build this temple on the glorious royal capital, the Nile Delta, and Horus the eagle stood in front of the gates of the pharaoh's palace, looking down on the Nile and facing all of Emunkai. ”

"And then people found the complex underground, which means ......"

The camel looked up at the frescoes on the four walls, and was disappointed to be sure that there could be nothing left by the gods here.

"The real temple was buried more than a thousand years ago by piles of sediment, and after the end of the age of the gods, the floods of the Nile overflowed the whole of Alexandria several times. ”

But the countess was very confident, and she believed that it would be a very simple matter to get Thoth's left leg. ”

"There's a place to enter the buried temple. ”

The camel stood in a corner of the temple and looked up at the goddess Nephthys in the fresco on the wall, and there was not a single visitor around him except the Count, and no one seemed to have forgotten his rudeness and loud voice when he was outside.

"That magic can't pinpoint the location of Thoth's left leg, but I think it must be not far away. ”

"It's a pity that it's no closer than the countess, let's go. ”

The two walked out of the temple and walked in the stone plaza towards the left side of the temple.

It was a bazaar, and the vendors were showing the "talisman with the great powers of Horus" to the people who walked out of the temple, but it didn't seem like much business.

The morning sun isn't unbearable yet, but as midday approaches, the scorching heat makes people more and more listless.

Quietly and peacefully rounding the crowd, the camel and the count saw what they were looking for outside the square.

Inside a wall of reed mats, workers are toiling on the mud and sand, like a swarm of ants after the rain, clearing the mud and sand.

Right in the middle of the crowd, a temple peeked out at the top, a square fortress-like stone building, the gate had been dug open, and the surrounding mud seeped muddy water and gathered at the bottom of the large pit.

"This is the real temple of Horus, the Nile has taken away the glory of the gods, buried it with mud and sand, and no one knows how much remains of its contents. ”

The camel and the count stood on the mound outside the outer wall, looked at the patrol officers below the wall, and turned away.

"Let's go. ”

......

Passing through the corridor, Magellan was greeted by a small room.

Here, like the place you came through, it was shrouded in an unnatural darkness, there were no other exits in the room, and the walls were painted with frescoes.

"Are we in the wrong place?"

Magellan stood in the center of the room, looking up at the frescoes on the walls.

It is a fresco composed of simple lines, no paint, no ornate gem setting, and the painting depicts Anubis holding a jar.

"The top of the jar is a falcon head......"

"Guarding the mummy's intestines. But I didn't see the mummy. ”

"I think of Horus. ”

The countess smiled and uttered a spell, but the Anubis power here did not respond to her.

"This road is not ......"

Magellan turned and walked towards the corridor from which he came: "I have a bad premonition. ”

"Are you trying to say it's a trap?"

The countess did not wait long for an answer, and Magellan's voice came from the corridor: "The door is closed. ”

"Now we're worms in glass bottles. ”

"Well, it's a rare honor for an ant to be kept with a butterfly. ”

"Do you think this trap has a lid?"

"Anubis ......"

Magellan circled around the room like a tiger in a cage.

"What did the camel do to make him come to us for trouble?"

"Do you remember what you did when the gods got you in trouble?"

"Seth, Isis, Nephtis," Magellan paused, spread his hands and smiled, "they're just used to unleashing powers that humans can't accept, and maybe mortals might think it's malicious, but at least to me, that's just the way gods exist." ”

"You didn't say that at the time. ”

Magellan smiled.

"A god can never do something because a mortal has done something unless the god deems it necessary. ”

"So you're saying it's Anubis who is causing us trouble?"

"What do you think? You know the great explorer, the camel. ”

The countess was not surprised to see the disdainful smile on Magellan's face.

"Great explorers, well, I just didn't figure out if the camels had touched what we were facing. ”

"Anubis rarely interferes with mortals, he will guess with Isis in order to keep a secret, and that is because this is a great goddess, not without mortals who are stupid enough to challenge the Lord of the Necromancy, and Anubis's response to this is always to send him on an eternal journey to make this humble mortal realize his insignificance. ”

"Then why is Anubis coming to us for trouble now?"

"Because he's dead. ”

Magellan looked surprised, not surprised by the death of the gods, but surprised by the survival of the gods.