Chapter 143: The Mysterious Journey (Departure)
The plane landed on the gray runway, and the vibration from rubbing against the ground almost made me vomit, but I survived.
As soon as I got off the plane, I saw a lot of people holding big xxx signs and shouting something! ~
That's when I realized that I was on the same plane as a big star, no wonder so many people were waiting here, and they were all his fans.
But I'm not a fan of him, I hurried up to take a shortcut out of the airport, took out a mobile phone that Uncle Ma gave me when he left, and dialed Uncle Ma's mobile phone number!
''Hey, Xiaodong, have you arrived at the place!'' After the phone was connected, Uncle Ma's voice came out of the microphone, and his first question was to ask me if I had arrived. ~
I said I had arrived, and Uncle Ma asked me to go to a place he had instructed, and although I didn't know where he was talking about, I followed Uncle Ma's words and looked for it.
The cities of Egypt are similar to their symbolic pyramids, and everything I see seems to have a faint golden yellow, similar to the golden yellow of the pyramids.
I searched for most of the morning, and Uncle Ma said that the place let me find, it looked like it was a citizen's antique shop, and there was a swarthy middle-aged man in it, almost the same age as Uncle Ma.
Uncle Ma said that this person's name is Ismal, he is very easy to get along with, he is his college classmate, and he is also a very good buddy with him! ~
Uncle Ma also said: "Although Ismal is a shop selling antiques on the surface, in fact, he is a guide behind his back, he can lead others to places that ordinary people can't go, and he is also one of the important guides of this expedition!" ’’~
Uncle Ma told me a lot of things before, and my favorite thing is that Ismal likes Chinese names.
Uncle Ma said that Yi Smal also thought of a Chinese name for himself, that is, called 'Yi Ma Dan', which Uncle Ma's students like to call him Lao Yi or Ma Dan! ~
''Uncle Yi, I'm Hu Xiaodong, Professor Ma Taoma's apprentice, I came two days in advance, so I want to stay here for two nights!'' ’’~
Walking into this small antique shop that is not brilliant, I spoke to Lao Yi in English, I was afraid that he could not understand Chinese, and after speaking, I stretched out my right hand to show friendship! ~
''Oh, you are Ma Tao's apprentice, then you must be Hu Xiaodong, yesterday Lao Ma called me and said you will come, come, please take a seat!'' ’’~
I didn't expect Lao Yi's Chinese to be so good, just like the Chinese say, after he finished speaking, he also stretched out his hand to shake me, patted my shoulder with his left hand and smiled.
The antique shop is very few and the interior furnishings may seem old, but to archaeologists, these items may be priceless.
Ismal let me look around the antique shop of more than 100 square meters, but I was never allowed to touch anything, and after telling him to go to the inner room to pour water and make tea.
It seems that Lao Yi, the Egyptian, is very fond of Chinese names, and even the ancient Chinese hospitality tea ceremony is so familiar.
Suddenly I saw a mural, and just as I was concentrating on it, Ismal suddenly asked me from behind: "Here comes the tea!" ’’~
I shuddered, turned back and smiled at Ismal, to be honest I wasn't very cool!
After all, I was already fascinated by that mural just now, and I must be unwilling to be suddenly interrupted, but this is someone else's home, and no matter how unwilling I am, I can't be unreasonable.
Ismal seemed to see the reluctance in my heart, so he smiled at me and said, "Xiaodong, what you see is only an imitation, the real mural is still in Tutankhamun's pyramid, and this time we are going to inspect Tutankhamun's pyramid!" ’’~
To be honest, I'm still a little familiar with Tutankhamun, he's the youngest pharaoh, but I'm just an archaeologist who hasn't been in actual combat, and I only know what I know about it.
Anyway, I know that there are several legends about Tutankhamun, but what attracts me the most is Tutankhamun's curse, the curse of death that chills tens of millions of people!
Originally, several inscriptions of Tutankhamun's curse were found in Tutankhamun's tomb, one of which reads: "Whoever disturbs the pharaoh's sleep, death will spread its wings and descend on his head." ’’~
In another place it is written: ''Whoever enters this tomb with an impure heart, I will strangle him by the neck like a bird.'' ’’~
When the door to the tomb of the youngest pharaoh was opened, mystery ensued. First, Carter's beloved canary was swallowed by a cobra.
Subsequently, Count Carnavon also died of an unknown disease transmitted by mosquito bites, but the bite site was the location of the scar on Tutankhamun's face.
And in September of the year x, when Hawass, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt, performed a CT examination of the mummy at Tutankhamun's tomb, a series of incredible things also occurred.
According to Egypt's "Izvestia" newspaper, at that time, the Valley of the Kings was raging, and some of the world's advanced instruments that had just been purchased from the United States failed for an hour and a half for no reason.
The report said that Hawass did not believe in the 'curse of Pharaoh', and he also comforted the staff, saying, "Don't be afraid, it won't be Pharaoh's curse." ’’~
At this time, Hawas's cell phone rang suddenly, and it was his sister calling, and his sister was sobbing on the other end of the phone and said, "Brother, my husband died suddenly!" ’’~
When I first saw this information, I really had a dream to find out how mysterious these unknowns really were, and whether they really disappeared as they were rumored.
Now that I'm here, in order to understand the mystery, I've asked Lao Yi for the location of Tutankhamun's curse inscription, so that I can carefully figure out this unknown pharaoh's death curse when the time comes.
In the two days together, I found that Lao Yi is a good person, always amiable, he is not angry when you are angry, even if you make him angry, he just smiles and says: "You are angry with me, I am not angry, there is no one to replace you when you are angry, face the world with a smile, and let people live without regrets, isn't it happy!" ’’~
Lao Yi would praise Chinese culture after saying Kuaizai, and said that the Chinese 'Kuaizai' invented by the Chinese was better and easier to understand than all the happy English of Americans. ~
Time passed quickly, two days passed in a blink of an eye, Uncle Ma called and said that the team had boarded the plane and was expected to arrive in the evening, while I followed Ismal to find dozens of famous local guides.
To be honest, I really didn't understand at the time, isn't it just looking for a pyramid, as for finding so many guides!
Later, I learned Lao Yi's intentions, it turned out that what we were looking for was not only Tutankhamun's pyramid, but what we were looking for was a secret entrance to the pyramid that only these ten people knew, as for where this entrance leads, even I don't know at this time!
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(The mystery journey begins, so stay tuned!) )