"The Great Nobles now want to know what the hell we're going to do." Tu Wencai hugged his arms and frowned, "It's been so long since I entered the dungeon, these NPCs are the same as having no vocal cords, they are all dumb and don't squeak, and the guide NPCs don't know who they are, it's inefficient to blindly grope and not to say, and it's easy to have accidents, do you have any clue?" ”

Before the words fell, those human-headed beast-headed people standing side by side raised their hands to show them the direction as if they were answering Tu Wencai's question.

This time, they were referring to the stone path on the left.

"They've shown the way!" Zhan Meng's body shook up, and he pouted everyone, "Let's go, let's go over and have a look." ”

"Wait a minute—"

Li Chanyi suddenly raised her hand to stop everyone: "Have you noticed?" Among these beast-headed people, there is a very special one. ”

Jamon asked, "The dog's head?" ”

Chen Yun reminded him: "That's the jackal head. ”

"Yes, he's famous." Li Chanyi straightened her expression and said solemnly, "In ancient Egyptian mythology, who is the god with the head of a jackal in the human body, I don't need to say more, I should know everything, right?" ”

Mingsheng, who has been in contact with death for many years in the white business at home, pushed his eyes and said, "Know, Anubis, the guide and guardian of the underworld. ”

The author has something to say:

Xie Yinxue: Dog~

Step Jiuzhao: Did you call it wrong, did it happen on purpose, or was it accidental?

Xie Yinxue: It's deliberate.

Chapter 249

Anubis is the god of death in ancient Egyptian mythology, and those who can be guided by him are generally undead.

Li Chanyi is taboo about this.

Yao Xiaoguo was also curious: "Yes, he is the guide of the underworld, so can we go in the direction he points to?" ”

Won't lead them down a path of death, will it?

"It should work." Chen Yun expressed his conjecture, "Because he just looks like Anubis, and he is not really Anubis." ”

Xin Yuechun asked her, "How did you come to the conclusion?" ”

"Most of the gods in ancient Egyptian mythology were images of beasts and human bodies, and Anubis, the god of death with a human jackal's head, was just one of them. For example, Ra, the god of the sun, Khonsu, the god of the moon, and Horus, the god of the sky, are all images of the eagle-headed human body, the god of rain and moisture, Tephnut, the lion-headed human body, and the desert god Seth are the jackal-headed human body, all of them have nothing to do with the underworld, and among the human beast-headed people who show us the way, there are the lion-headed people, the eagle-headed people, and the jackal-headed people. Chen Yun spoke at length to explain his reasoning, "Assuming that they are really the 'gods' of ancient Egyptian mythology, then they are definitely much taller than us - and twice as much." ”

Although most of the human-headed beast-headed people who are guiding them today are taller than their height, none of them exceed two meters in the normal range, so these human-headed beast-headed people cannot be real ancient Egyptian gods.

Yao Xiaoguo muttered puzzledly: "But if they are not the real ancient Egyptian gods, and the direction they guide us is not the road to the underworld, then where do they lead?" ”

"It is said that in the heyday of the ancient Egyptian dynasty, man and god lived together, and in this copy, although they are not real ancient Egyptian gods, we are not really ancient Egyptians either, so they can represent 'gods' and we can also represent 'people', and the two are not in conflict. As for the path that the 'gods' will guide for the 'humans'......" Lu Shuo paused, "I'm afraid that we won't know where it leads until we really get there." ”

"I see, thank you." Xin Yuechun and Yao Xiaoguo smiled at them, thanking Chen Yun and Xiao Siyu for solving their doubts, "You know so much. ”

Lu Shuo scratched his head embarrassedly: "Actually, it's because we happened to be traveling in Egypt a month before we entered this dungeon, and we heard a lot of ancient Egyptian myths and stories. ”

"You guys?" Li Chanyi's gaze swirled back and forth on Lu Shuo, Chen Yun and Xiao Siyu, "The three of you?" ”

Xiao Siyu simply admitted frankly: "Yes, the three of us." ”

Seeing this, Ming Sheng bowed his head and said, "Then the three of you must be very good friends." ”

"Isn't that right? We have known each other since the first level of entering the lock immortal, and then we have teamed up all the way to the present. When it came to his first encounter, Lu Shuo's heart was full of emotion, "It's all a fateful friendship." ”

In fact, there is no need to say much about the familiarity and tacit understanding between the three of them, as long as they are long-eyed people, they can see it, but when they heard them tell each other for a long time, Li Chanyi couldn't help but be a little surprised: "From the first level to the present - the ninth level?" ”

Chen Yun smiled and said, "Yes." ”

Tu Wencai admired it a little and said, "Then you are really powerful." ”

The mortality rate of the participants in the lock immortal life is high, and correspondingly, it is not surprising that people do anything in order to survive in it, such as the most common: betrayal.

Betrayal between friends, betrayal between lovers, betrayal between relatives – the frequency of occurrence is decreasing in order, but all of them have happened.

Chen Yun, Lu Shuo and Xiao Siyu have gone through a full nine levels since they first met, but they not only did not betray each other, but supported each other until today, who can not sigh "amazing" when they hear this kind of thing?

Lu Shuo was so praised that his face was red, and he said embarrassedly: "I'm a waste, it's all up to Chen Yun and Xiao Siyu to take me through the customs." ”

Xiao Siyu hurriedly denied: "Don't, I won't do anything but give money, it's Chen Yun who is delaying two." ”

"Let's stop the business hype you two have on me." Chen Yun waved his hand and motioned for the two to stop for a while, telling them to take a serious look at the scene in front of them, "We seem to have reached the end." ”

Zhan Meng swept around, his expression blank: "But there is nothing here." ”

- Yes, they followed the direction pointed by the human-beast-headed man, and at last they came to a clearing of sand-gold stone bricks, similar to a square, where there were no buildings, and it was as open as a desert as far as the eye could see.

As they stood here, it seemed as if they were back in the desert.

Therefore, everyone couldn't help but slow down, but Xie Yinxue was still walking alone, his black hair and waist skirt were swaying in the hot wind, and the gold ornaments on his body swayed and collided with each other, making a crisp sound, like a camel bell ringing in the merchant's lonely journey, until he reached the center of the clearing, he stopped and stopped, like a person who had died and resurrected thousands of years ago and cast a glance back at them.

The young man's voice was blown by the desert wind: "There is an entrance to a square pit here. ”

Jamon was surprised: "Really? ”

The rest of the people also came to their senses and immediately strode towards him.

So not long after, they also saw the square entrance that Xie Yinxue said was about two meters wide.

There is no door to the entrance, except for a long staircase that leads down to a mysterious basement.

Ming Sheng squatted down and looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't see that he was ugly: "It seems that this is the place where those human beast heads pointed us out, we have to go down and take a look." ”

The view from the entrance is limited, and it is impossible to know what is at the end of this long flight of stairs without going deeper.

Tu Wencai said without hesitation: "Yes." ”

But he agreed happily, but he didn't move half an inch under his feet, and it seemed that he didn't really want to be the first person to go down.

"Let's throw something down and explore the way, just in case there are traps along the way." Bian Yuchen opened his mouth and proposed gently, and after speaking, he took off the gold bracelet on his wrist, half-squatted down and stood it on the ground, and then reached out and pushed it, so that the gold bracelet could roll down the steps one by one.

"Bell Bell Bell ......"

The sound of the gold bracelet falling on the stone ground gradually became farther and lighter, which indicated that the distance between it and the crowd was getting bigger and bigger, but apart from the sound of the bell, everyone did not hear any other movement, so this stone staircase path down should be very safe, and you can walk boldly with confidence.

Bian Yuchen also got up and relayed to everyone: "The steps are no problem. ”

Xie Yinxue stepped forward and became the first participant to step on this stone step: "Then let's go." ”

Someone took the initiative to take the lead, and Tu Wen felt very good, which saved them the effort of arguing about who should be the first to go.

As they walked, they found that something seemed to be wrong with the basement - theoretically, the deeper the basement went, the darker the light became, because there were no windows open for lighting underground, and if there was no additional lighting tool, the basement would be so dark that after fifty meters down, it would be so dark that you couldn't see your fingers.

The stone steps they entered were not vertical, they were slanted, and the lighting was worse, so the light would dim faster.

The distance that the five stairs could go down was about one meter, Chen Yun counted the number of stairs they went down, and calculated that they had walked almost thirty meters, and when they turned around, they could no longer see the entrance when they came. However, the light on the stone steps is still abundant, not bright, but it can clearly reflect the faces of the people and the steps under their feet.

Xin Yuechun also discovered this peculiarity: "There are no candles here, why are they so bright? ”

There are smooth stone walls on both sides of the stone steps, there is no text on them, there are no murals, and the color is the same as the stone bricks, which is sand gold, and there is nothing special about it.

Tu Wencai hugged his arms and said speechlessly: "This copy of Anubis has appeared, you are still thinking about where the light came from, is there any meaning?" ”

Xin Yuechun thought about it for a while, so she didn't say anything more.

When they reached a huge temple supported by twelve huge stone pillars, they knew where the light that illuminated the stone steps and the temple came from—the mirror reflection.

There are many golden mirrors placed in the temple, and their location, height, and orientation are extremely particular, which can ensure that as long as there is a luminous body, the light source can be refracted and dispersed to every corner, so that the effect of lighting the entire space without burning the lamp or lighting a candle can be achieved.

There were no torches in the hands of the people, and there were no lamps and candles in the temple, and the answer to what the luminous body was: the sun.

Xiao Siyu raised his head, wanting to look at the scorching sun that brought them light, but when he looked up, he saw a square-shaped blue, stunned for a few seconds, and then pointed at it and asked, "What is that?" ”

Lu Shuo followed him and glanced up, and subconsciously replied, "The sky." ”

However, as soon as the end of the "ah" in the tone fell, Lu Shuo himself noticed something strange, and he frowned and changed his words: "No, it's not the sky." ”

The sky they saw outside this underground temple was full of red glow, orange-red, not at all the clear, pure pale blue of the top of the temple.

Chen Yun also frowned and said to Lu Shuo and Xiao Siyu in a deep voice: "Do you think that the structure of this temple is very similar to a kind of building we have just seen. ”

"I think." Xiao Siyu responded, "It's like a pyramid, right?" ”

The top of this underground temple is a regular pyramid shape, which is a very standard pyramid top, but the pyramidal vault of the temple is not an irregular smooth stone wall, and those sloping walls are built with a rotating stone staircase like a long snake, and people can climb all the way up the stone staircase to reach the square blue place.

One section of the stone ladder is broken.

It broke due east at a height of about 20 meters above the ground, which was about seven stories high when converted into floors.

At this height, unless everyone can fly, it is impossible to climb this stone staircase out of thin air.

But maybe someone there can fly......

Thinking of this, Lu Shuo quietly turned his head and glanced at Xie Yinxue without a trace.

As everyone knows, his gaze was too focused and hot, and he was caught by Xie Yinxue the moment he looked over, but Xie Yinxue pretended not to find it.

At this time, Xin Yuechun muttered: "This stone ladder is broken, if it is next to a stone pillar, I can still climb it, there is nothing underneath, we can't go up." ”

Xie Yinxue said, "Not necessarily. ”

This is a big deal.

Lu Shuo's eyes became more and more scorching, no longer peeking, but staring at Xie Yinxue openly, and asking him adoringly: "Mr. Xie, can you really fly?!" ”

Xie Yinxue: "......"

"Yes, I can fly."

Xie Yinxue confessed expressionlessly, and continued: "But in this copy, if we want to climb this stone staircase, I'm afraid we have to use the method given in the mural. ”

The walls around the underground temple were painted with brightly colored pictures, but after everyone stepped in, their attention was immediately drawn to the golden mirror, the broken stone staircase, and the square blue at the top, so they couldn't devote some thoughts to the mural for a while.

Now that Xie Yinxue mentioned it, everyone immediately approached the wall next to the stone pillar of the temple and carefully looked at the murals on it.

Unexpectedly, he saw that he had goosebumps.

Yao Xiaoguo rubbed his arms and asked in a dumb voice, "These murals ...... Is it us who drew it? ”

The frescoes on the walls say that there were twelve people walking on a stone staircase, and they walked for a while, and then suddenly came to a temple.

One of them was very interested in the top of the temple, and then he raised his hand and asked the remaining eleven people to look up at the top of the temple with him, and wanted to go there, but unfortunately the stone staircase leading to the top of the temple was broken, and the twelve men had no choice but to go to the stone pillars of the temple and look at the murals on the walls.

Everything about the mural up to this is almost exactly the same as what they've experienced so far!

Chen Yun shook his head and answered Yao Xiaoguo's question: "It's not painting us, it's telling us what we want to do." ”