From the information gathered along the way, Zero has successfully guessed some secrets about the Ancient Egyptian Empire, and some of these valuable secrets are crucial even for Zack!

"Thousands of years ago, a group of aliens suddenly descended on Earth, and the level of technology they displayed and the magical power they mastered made you see an opportunity that all emperors could only dream of!" Seeing the signs of madness on Zack's face, Zero immediately changed the subject, he didn't want to provoke the other party at this time.

"At that time, you were arguably the most powerful human being in the world, well... For one, you can even use the power of a god in the underworld to accomplish feats that have not been possible for previous emperors! Zero paused for a few seconds as he saw that Zach seemed to be stuck in a memory.

"As a godless king who owns almost everything in this world, what you crave at that time is no longer power, wealth, women, subjects, and territory, which are at your fingertips, but what every emperor desires—eternal life!" Zero held out a finger of his right hand with each word, and his right hand clenched into a fist when he said "eternal life."

"I don't know what the process is, but you got what you wanted, and at the price...", Zero looked up at the empty room around him and said in a deep voice, "It must be everything you have, right?" ”

"Humph!" Zach didn't answer, just snorted coldly to confirm Zero's guess.

"From those documents, I know that the ancient Egyptian Empire used almost all its power to assist those aliens in building this ruin, and I want to use the word 'miserable' to describe the specific process, what do you think? His Majesty the Great Pharaoh? Zero looked at Zach very seriously and asked such a sensitive question.

"Miserable? Well, a very apt adjective, the slaves who built this complex were war criminals, and I certainly can't let these guys who are full of malice towards the ancient Egyptian Empire continue to live! Zach agrees with Zero's wording, and by the way, puts himself on the side of righteousness.

Zero nodded in understanding and continued, "Of course, no matter how miserable the situation of those people is, in the end, this magnificent complex was completed on time, and those aliens did keep their promise to combine the magic of this world to give you immortality, and you all seem to have escaped in the end..."

"From the beginning, you didn't plan to let those aliens go, and you couldn't wait to attack each other after you gained immortality, of course, I guess the other party also had the same idea, but unfortunately you were the last loser in this game." As he spoke, Zero made a look of regret on his face.

"You have indeed attained eternal life, and the price should be that you need to use living people as sacrifices, and this complex is actually a large-scale magic circle, a spiritual gathering circle that connects to an evil god in the underworld, and the scope is extremely huge!" At this point, Zero paused, as if sorting out the next wording.

"Capture the lives of a certain number of living people within the circle area of effect and sacrifice them to the evil god, and at the same time, the evil god will give you eternal life, this should be the process, right? Great Pharaoh! Well? Looking at the wonderful expression on Zach's face, Zero knew that he had guessed right again.

Suddenly, Zero seemed to have something in mind, and before Zach could open his mouth, he continued: "This method does give you eternal life, but it must come at a great price, I remember there is a word called 'equivalent exchange', it seems that you should have taken the entire population of the empire as a sacrifice!" ”

"You are the Pharaoh, and you have the supreme right in this country, and after the construction of this ruin, you will use a random reason to gather the people of the entire empire, well, it must be the reason to worship the temple, right?" Zero said and pointed to a relief next to him, which depicted a large group of people kneeling and worshipping the sun.

Zach also turned his head to look at the relief, with a rare trace of sadness on his face, and said in a deep voice: "I did struggle for a long time after the completion of the magic circle, but I had to ..."

"Actually, you haven't resisted the temptation of 'eternal life', those aliens are indeed difficult to deal with, but they are only a 'reasonable' excuse for you to convince yourself to carry out the plan of eternal life!" Zero interrupted Zach, still in the same tone as before, without any emotion.

Zero didn't want to worry too much about this issue, and continued to recount the history of the year: "That is, after you gained eternal life, those 'kind' allies suddenly attacked you, right? Indeed, if it were me, I would have chosen this time period, but it's a pity that both of you have misestimated each other's strength! ”

"Those aliens placed the 'Ten Commandments of Moses' in the core area of the entire Soul Gathering Circle, and their purpose was to transform those humans who entered the circle into zombies to serve as their minions of world domination, but in the end, things did not go according to what those guys thought, and those who died after the sacrifice all became mummies!" At this, Zero had a look of admiration on his face.

After a slight pause, Zero tentatively asked, "This should be your last hand, right?" Millions, perhaps tens of millions, of mummies, this is indeed a very terrifying force, with such a terrifying army of the undead, no wonder you thought you could take out those aliens! ”

"Humph! This is natural, I have never trusted those damn *** (harmony), this spirit gathering circle was designed by my own hands, and one of the reasons why those *** (harmony) sealed me back then was to gain knowledge about this! Zach smirked and pointed to his head as he spoke.

"Huh!" Hearing this, Zero raised his eyebrows and followed Zack's words and asked, "Let me guess, the raw materials for building the circle are provided by those *** (harmony)?" And you are mainly responsible for the construction of the main part of this Soul Gathering Circle? ”

"Uh... That's true, with the resources that the empire had at that time, it couldn't get together the materials to build such a large magic circle, even those *** (harmony) could only provide me with rare materials for some key parts, and I deliberately kept a hand when building, and the materials for the key parts were all completed by enchantment alone, so they didn't know the materials of the key parts of the spirit gathering circle! Zach said with a frown.

"As for the 'Ten Commandments of Moses', I already knew there was something wrong with this thing, and it took me a lot of energy to modify the energy circuit of that thing!" As he spoke, Zach turned his head to look at the Ten Commandments of Moses, which had been dimmed on the side, and once again showed a nostalgic look.

"Then you're pretty good!" Zero gave a sycophant without a trace, and continued with a smile: "Both sides misjudged each other's strength, it must be a fierce battle, millions of mummy legions and aliens trying to conquer the world are engaged in a never-ending war where we stand!" ”

"In a way, you're a hero who saves the world, no matter what your intentions were." Speaking of this, Zero slowly stood up and respectfully performed a sacrificial salute to Zack.

"Although your mummified army did not manage to kill all the aliens in the end, it also made the other party temporarily lose the ability to rule the world, plus some other reasons, the ancient Martians who were greatly injured left some troops and left the planet in a hurry!" The 'other reason' mentioned by Zero is actually that the Martians' base camp on other planets was threatened at that time!

The main reason why the ancient Martians were in a hurry to occupy Earth was because their homeland was being attacked by invaders at the time.

After weighing the pros and cons of Mars' roots, in order to ensure the stability of the rear, he had to temporarily withdraw to the main star to fight the invaders, and the losses caused by the Pharaoh also became one of the reasons for the subsequent defeat of the Martians.

Of course, Zero didn't tell Zach about these, but continued their conversation: "As the loser of the war, you became a prisoner, or rather a deputy warden?" Oh, Great Your Majesty, forgive me for using that inappropriate wording again. ”

Zero apologized to Zack a little teasingly, and saw that the other party didn't mean to be angry immediately, but replied in a deep voice: "It's okay, if you dared to say that word not long ago, I would be very angry, but now..."

"Wouldn't be angry with a dead man, can I understand that?" Zero chuckled, and before Zach could reply, he continued, "What kind of person do you think he would be if he could sacrifice millions of people to gain eternal life, a man who would have left countless legacies even after being imprisoned, and a man who would have made world domination his greatest ideal?" Well? ”

Zero raised an eyebrow as he spoke, "You weren't actually at your peak when you first came back to life in the tomb, were you?" When you see that the strength of our line is not weak, you have the idea of soliciting, as long as you give enough benefits, we will work for you, as for the future... Huh..."

"While it's true that you've been asleep for thousands of years, you know everything about the ancient ruins, and I guess you learned about it through those four objects that could resurrect you, right?" Zack didn't answer Zero's question.

"Oh? When it comes to the key points that will bring you back to life, do you choose to remain silent? Hey, yes, you must be the only one who knows such important information, right? Maybe she knows—" Zero suddenly realized, and suddenly changed his words.

"It's not hard to guess this, since the so-called ruin guards naturally have some special methods to know the actual situation of their defense area, presumably in addition to those four items, there are quite a few gadgets with similar surveillance effects in this ruins, right?" As he spoke, Zero took out a palm-sized scarab beetle ornament made of pure gold and inlaid with various colored gemstones from his waist bag.

This seemingly priceless piece of jewelry was given to Mark's group as a reward in the Pharaoh's Mausoleum, and Zero faintly felt a little strange after touching this thing, and subconsciously glanced at the specific properties of this item.

Gemstone Gold Beetle (Enchanted)

Type: Other

Quality: Normal

Special effect:???

Conditions of use: None

Item Class: First tier

Notes: This is a scarab ornament with a clear ancient Egyptian imperial style, cast from pure gold and embellished with many gems on its surface! (This item cannot be stored in storage.)

It doesn't seem to be anything special about this thing, but the item effect "??? The two points of "the item cannot be stored in storage" are enough for Zero to guess the true purpose of this seemingly ordinary item.

"That's what you use to keep up to date with everything that's going on in the ancient ruins, right? Even if you're asleep, you can use this thing to drive mummies within a certain radius of these items! With that, he casually threw the priceless ornament to the ground.

Zero glanced at the scarab beetle that fell to the ground and still glowed with gold, and said in a deep voice, "Actually, you have planned everything since we met the first mummy, because you have found that with the help of the power of our group of people, you can help you resurrect!" ”

"Hmm... I think your name is Bruce, right? Let's see how you guessed that! Zach abruptly changed his name to Zero, and acquiesced to his guess.

Zero nodded and laughed self-deprecatingly before saying, "Actually, I didn't realize this until not long ago, since we entered the oasis, there are not many people who have died directly at the hands of the mummy army, and many times those seemingly terrifying mummies can only play a role in driving us forward." ”

"Whenever the Combine forces deviate from their path or stop for a long time, the Mummy Legion will appear at the right time, but only to launch some painless attacks on us!" Speaking of which, Zero seemed to think of something and asked, "By the way, can you tell me why you captured so many soldiers to the Lost Land?" This is the only question I have never guessed. ”

"Of course, if you want to leave the Lost Lands, you need to activate at least five alien-built biotransformation chambers, and you can only get out of there safely if at least five of the labs are active, otherwise there will be an energy barrier to prevent you from leaving the mist-shrouded area." Zach was very generous in answering the doubts raised by the other party.

Zero immediately recalled the sudden feeling of enlightenment he had as he walked through the fog-shrouded range, and after a little thought, he knew that Zach was not lying, and then said mockingly, "I see, is it a survival path that requires the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers to open?" Oh, I have to thank you so much. ”