Chapter 256: "Pharaoh's Curse"

"Introductory? All right. Li Chongshan thought that Yan Luge was disgusted with the explanation of the family tour guide like reciting lines, raised his hand and pointed to the display cabinet beside him, revealing a slightly proud look, "This red copper mask was left by a general in the pioneering era of the Guti Kingdom, he fought in all directions all his life, never defeated, and was called 'Devil General'." He had been on the battlefield with a hideous red copper mask, which was once thought to be intended to intimidate the enemy, but it wasn't until after his death that the secret was revealed—

"The 'Devil General' is not really one person, but five people. The first generation of the Devil General died in battle at the age of 36, so his eldest son took up the mask and became the second generation of the 'Devil General'. His eldest son died in battle a few years later, but his second daughter took his mask, followed by his nephew, his eldest grandson......"

Yan Luge yawned: "I'm not interested, next." ”

"......" Li Chongshan paused, followed by kindness, and pointed to a bronze mirror not far away, "The 'wheel mirror' held by the fifty-seventh Peacock King of the Peacock Dynasty, according to legend, this master of the Peacock Dynasty can directly listen to the teachings of the Peacock Divine Bird through the wheel mirror. Therefore, after his death, the Holy King's Hall enshrined the wheel mirror as one of the three holy relics. Seven hundred years ago, the Wheel Mirror was lost in the Battle of Midu, and my ancestors then bought it from a Tianzhou merchant. ”

"I'm not interested, next."

"This Humu guqin was given by the Emperor of Gu Tianzhou to the envoy of the ancient Fanguo Kingdom and the poet Yi Li......"

"Next."

"This brooch was given to the fourteenth lover by Princess Nishizawa, the most affectionate woman in the world......"

"Next."

“……”

It was true that Yan Luge was interested in antique relics, but he was only interested in those antiques that were truly time-keeping—among those things there might be magic artifacts made by ancient cultivators, even if they had long since become irreparable wreckage after being handed down to modern times, but the broken runes and magic circles on them could still bring a lot of inspiration to the extraordinary research of the second part of the study.

Although these antiques introduced by Li Chongshan are relatively well preserved, they have a history of no more than 3,000 years, and they have no value for Yanluge.

After thinking about it, Yan Luge directly said his needs: "I am only interested in things that are four thousand years old. ”

Li Chongshan was stunned for a moment—he was not the eldest daughter of Emperor Xize, and he didn't know that the time node of "four thousand years" meant the dividing line between the "era of cultivation" and the "era of faith".

But Li Chongshan is determined to be the loyal little follower of the big guy, so he didn't ask the reason at this time, so he stretched out his hand and pointed: "Over there!" Front! Turn this corner and you'll have everything we brought out of the tomb of Pharaoh Sur VII! ”

With the large number of tourists, Yanlu Song turned a corner and raised his eyes.

The system prompts: "The third stage of the task has been completed. ”

Song of Words: ???

What......

What did he hear?

He was prompted that the third stage of the quest was complete - that is, he had found the user of the numbered X25662RU9 Elixir of Spiritual Power.

But Yanluge was a little confused...... This is the kind of confusion that makes him rank among the top three in his life.

The system thinks that he has seen the target person he is looking for, so it is considered that the task is complete.

But what did he see???

Visitor? No, he had seen every visitor outside the exhibition hall and noted their appearance. If the user of the spiritual potion he is looking for is among tourists, the system will not prompt it until now.

Guide? No, the reason is the same, he memorized the tour guide's face as soon as he entered the hall.

Others? No, Yan Luge glanced around the exhibition hall when the system prompt sounded, and he confirmed, affirmed, and assured that the people in the exhibition hall were still the tourists and tour guides he had seen before, and there were no sudden disappearances or more strangers.

So, where exactly is the spiritual potion user he "saw"?!

- Either it's a supernatural ability effect similar to "the sense of presence disappears".

- Either the mentally retarded system cheated him.

An alarm rose in Yan Luge's heart, and two possibilities came to mind in an instant.

Li Chongshan's voice was still chattering in his ears, and he didn't notice anything unusual at all: "...... Including the coffin, mummies, and funerary goods of Pharaoh Sur VII, all ...... here."

Yan Luge's uneasiness and vigilance that had risen from things beyond his control eased, and as he listened to Li Chongshan's words, he suddenly thought of a third possibility.

In order to verify his conjecture, Yan Luge turned his head and asked Li Chongshan: "Your family has also robbed the tomb of the pharaoh?" ”

"Shhhhh How can a protective excavation be called a tomb robbery?! Li Chongshan subconsciously defended, looked left and right, and found that most of the tourists were wearing headphones to explain intently, and after no one noticed themselves at the end of the line, he lowered his voice and said mysteriously, "Big guy, have you ever heard a rumor - 'Pharaoh's curse'?" ”

"More than a hundred years ago, a group of explorers entered the tomb of an ancient Nile pharaoh and saw a curse inscription in the chamber that 'Whoever disturbs the pharaoh's sleep, death will spread its wings and descend on his head.'" , and after these explorers left the tomb, they died one after another in a short period of time, as if a curse had been fulfilled. "The Whisper is well aware of these mysterious rumors," the Blackstone Research Institute investigated this rumor a long time ago, but finally decided that it was just a sensational rumor. ”

"It's a rumor." Li Chongshan nodded vigorously, and asked deliberately, "Do you know who organized that expedition in the first place?" ”

Yan Luge shook his head: "I don't know." I didn't read the original report in detail. ”

When Li Chongshan heard this, he immediately showed a mysterious smile and pointed to his nose in front of Yan Luge.

Yan Luge reacted: "What did your family do? ”

"yes." Li Chongshan looked proud, "My great-great-grandfather was the organizer, leader and sponsor of that expedition.

"The tomb that my great-great-grandfather led the team into was the tomb of Pharaoh Sur VII.

They unearthed countless treasures in the tomb, but after leaving the tomb, his teammates went mad for a week in the interior, shouting the name of the pharaoh and dying. This incident was advertised by the media at the time as 'the curse of the pharaohs', and attracted a lot of attention.

"But my great-great-grandfather was a staunch materialist, and he didn't believe in it.

He rushed into the tomb again, and not only took with him a batch of funerary goods, but also dragged out the coffin of Pharaoh Sur VII, and threw it in the basement of his house, where he slept with it every day—by the way, the coffin was now in the exhibition hall.

"However, after he slept in his coffin for seven days, my great-great-great-grandfather suddenly went mad and died.

"At this time, my great-great-great-grandfather's son, who was also my great-great-grandfather, who was visiting Tianzhou, returned.

"Like my great-great-great-grandfather, my great-great-grandfather was a staunch atheist, and was equally iron-headed, upright, and paranoid, never hitting the wall and never looking back.

He rejected the family's suggestion to burn the pharaoh's coffin and destroy all the burial goods, and dissected his father's body, only to find that he had died of a severe brain infection—an unknown bacterium brought from an ancient tomb that caused mold-like spots to grow on the cerebral cortex of the infected, eventually going insane and dying.

"At the suggestion of my great-great-grandmother, our family completely sanitized the coffin and funeral goods in the basement with alcohol distilled from high-purity spirits, and then the couple went into the basement and slept for seven days.

Seven days later, the couple walked out of the basement alive and healthy to be 87 and 90 years old, and no one in the entire Golden Castle died from it.

"-Hey, don't say it, even I slept on the crystal coffin when I was a child, although I was beaten by my father after sleeping.

"'Pharaoh's Curse' is an out-of-date rumor, and I don't know why it's survived to this day. However, its existence does attract many tourists to the Golden Castle......"

Half of these chapters are true, and the other half is made up by me.

For example, the existence of the Golden Castle, the origin of the "Pharaoh's Curse", and some aristocratic gossip are true.

The three-dimensional prototype of the Golden Castle is Highclere Castle in the United Kingdom - yes, it was the filming location for "Downton Abbey".

The ancestor of the owner of this castle was the protagonist of "The Curse of the Pharaohs", who used to make the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, which led to the death of more than 20 members of the team. If you do, you'll be able to visit the mummy in the basement in the middle of the night, and hear the legends of the descendants of the survivors and your first-person grandfather.

It is a relatively niche tourist attraction that is open from time to time, and those who want to go can go to their official website to make an appointment.

- Now that I've explained the source of the material, I'm going to start making it up.

(End of chapter)