The problem is that she and Tu Wencai are too slow to fish for gold, they don't have the good eyesight of Xie Yinxue and Bian Yuchen at all, and even Mingsheng, a half-blind man with glasses, has the ability to recognize the faces of dried corpses under the clear water is better than them.

Tu Wencai tried hard for a while, and when he saw that everyone else had fished out the new gold and was about to take it to find the human beast head, he stood where he was and asked the others, "I'm curious about one thing, can the gold you caught be used for us?" ”

"99.9% of the time it's not." Lu Shuo immediately spoke, "You don't need to try this, it's too buggy if you can, right?" Will Lock Changsheng leave such a hole for you to drill? ”

Except for him, the vast majority of people present thought so.

Tu Wencai said unhurriedly: "But if we can, maybe we can help Mr. Xie find out how many pieces of gold he needs to make the dried corpse move." ”

Lu Shuo immediately changed his words: "Uh...... Why don't you try it? ”

And after Zhan Meng listened to Tu Wencai's intriguing remarks, he really wanted to take another sentence: If you want to use it yourself, just say it, don't look at Xie Yinxue's good popularity and use him as an excuse.

Lu Shuo is not a fool, he may not be able to hear Tu Wencai's extraneous meaning, the reason why he didn't expose it is still the old saying: when it is not necessary, it is better to leave a line of dignity than to tear your face.

What's more, fishing for gold may be difficult for some participants, but for Chen Yun, it is an effortless task to move her fingers, so after Tu Wencai mentioned Xie Yinxue's name, she handed her gold to Tu Wencai and said to him: "Mr. Tu, you can try it." ”

"Wait a minute—"

Li Chanyi, who felt that this matter was inappropriate, hurriedly spoke out to stop it: "In reality, some money is spent with a life, not to mention that this is in the lock of longevity." And this copy is very clear: 'The living pay their debts, and the dead repay their debts', and you are sure that you want to take gold that is not the result of your own labor? ”

Even Yao Xiaoguo said: "There is still a lot of time left today, let's make our own gold." ”

"I'm just curious, and I don't mean to try." Tu Wencai seemed to be really telling the truth, because he didn't stretch out his hands during the whole process, and there was a tendency or sign that he was going to pick up the gold handed by Chen Yun, he only said, "Think about it carefully, if the gold can't be used interchangeably, then you can't use these stones to help Xie Yinxue and them." ”

"These two are not of the same nature, are they?" Xiao Siyu hesitated, "Just like Miss Li said, gold is not the income of labor, we are only responsible for salvaging it." The stones we have chiseled out by our own hands are the result of our efforts and sweat, the income of our labor, and our voluntary donation to protect the interests of all participants, so it is very reasonable to give them to others. ”

Xiao Siyu's explanation is indeed reasonable.

At this time, Mingsheng, Xie Yinxue and Bian Yuchen, who had finished their makeup, came back, and seeing that the atmosphere in the temple was in a state of stalemate, Mingsheng couldn't help asking: "Have you encountered any new problems?" ”

Xiao Siyu briefly repeated the events they had discussed to the three of them.

Mingsheng didn't know how to judge after listening: "This ......"

"I'll try it tomorrow." On the contrary, Xie Yinxue said, "Not today, after painting the eye makeup, we can't even see the dried corpse." ”

Bian Yuchen glanced at the golden nugget in Chen Yun's arms and said, "I can't see the gold." ”

Zhan Meng looked at the golden object in his hand and asked, "What is the thing in your eyes that we are holding in our hands now?" ”

Xie Yinxue said: "It's the heart ......"

"Fuck me, heart?!"

Jamon was so frightened that he almost threw away the gold in his hand.

"I'm not done yet, it's not the kind of heart you think." Xie Yinxue raised her eyebrows and smiled, "It's a heart scarab, a kind of artifact. ”

Zhan Meng instantly calmed down: "Oh, then I see. ”

As the most worshipped insect of the ancient Egyptians, the scarab beetle was often used as a style for amulets. In ancient Egyptian mythology, people were to be judged in the Inquisition after death, but not everyone's heart could be as heavy as the Feather of Truth, so a custom became popular - it was believed that as long as the scarab beetle was engraved at the bottom of the scarab amulet, and placed it on the mummy's throat, chest or heart, then in the court, the heart scarab beetle could help the deceased "obfuscate" the heart weighing ritual, so as to successfully pass the judgment of Osiris on his heart. ①

All in all, it is an important ritual vessel to ensure the smooth passage of the deceased to the afterlife, and it is also an indispensable burial object in the coffin of the mummy.

In a sense, it is more precious than gold. It's no wonder that the participants, after handing it over to the corpses, were able to drive the corpses to work for themselves.

However, among the twelve participants, Xie Yinxue, Mingsheng and Bian Yuchen were useless no matter how much gold they sent to the dried corpse, so on this day, they could only complete the stone digging task with their own hands - it was still all night, and there was no rest time at all.

Even Yao Xiaoguo and Tu Wencai caught the gold used in exchange for food, and returned to the inner courtyard garden to sleep.

Therefore, on the morning of the third day, as soon as the rested participants came to the temple, what they did was to check the physical condition of Xie Yinxue and the three of them.

Among them, Mingsheng's state is the worst, how bad is it?

The feeling of exhaustion that can only be produced after doing high-intensity physical work has quickly condensed into a substantial existence around him, and people immediately think of "Is he going to die suddenly in the next second?" ".

Bian Yuchen was better than him, but he could also see that his expression was a little aggrieved, and his eyes were also sleepy.

Only Xie Yinxue looked the same as yesterday - or even the day before yesterday, there was no change at all.

He stood silently beside the pool of gold, staring at the square blue of the temple top, his black hair as soft as satin scattered behind his head, and the lustrous gold ornaments and brilliant gems of his body, all of which would eventually return to the silent yellow sands of death, he was as strange as the convergence of all the colors of the world.

It wasn't until he heard the commotion of someone coming that he lowered his head and raised his eyes to look at the crowd, and his eyes were as calm as a mirror.

Xin Yuechun looked at those eyes, and said, "Are you all okay?" and swallowed back, shifted her gaze to look at Ming Sheng, and said with a complicated expression: "No, Ming Sheng, didn't we chisel out seven stones for you as a backup?" You're working too hard, aren't you...... Beware of sudden death. ”

The author has something to say:

(1) Refer to the relevant introduction of the amulet of the special exhibition of ancient Egyptian cultural relics on the official website of the Hunan Provincial Museum.

Chapter 259

Yesterday, except for Mingsheng, Xie Yinxue and Bian Yuchen, as well as Yao Xiaoguo and Tu Wencai, the rest of the participants all helped to chisel an extra stone and leave it next to the pool, just to prevent Xie Yinxue and them from finally affecting everyone because they didn't finish the stone digging task in time.

Unexpectedly, all three of them successfully completed their tasks.

But this is not all good news, after all, the body is the capital of the revolution, and Mingsheng's appearance of dying of overwork at any time makes people worry about whether he can survive until the seventh day.

After listening to what Xin Yuechun said, Ming Sheng said solemnly and seriously: "I'm not sure if I can use the stones you have hewn, so it's best for me to complete the task by myself, this kind of thing can't be a little lucky." ”

As soon as this statement comes out, who can't think highly of Mingsheng?

But soon, Xin Yuechun remembered that the reason why Ming Sheng had to chisel stones by himself was because he had done too many things that damaged Yin morality, so he lamented his misfortune and was angry with him, his eyes glanced at Xie Yinxue, Bian Yuchen and Ming Sheng's faces one by one, and sighed with emotion: "I see that you are all Sven people, polite, with high emotional intelligence, and will come to things, and you are not like that kind of sanctimonious beasts, why did you do so many things that were retributioned?" ”

Zhan Meng interjected next to him: "Wait, Sister Yuechun, how do I feel that you are more scolding than me?" ”

"Go, go!" Xin Yuechun booed him, "Where did I scold?" I just felt it for a while, and just said a few words. ”

Li Chanyi opened her lips, and Xu Sheng answered her confusion for Xin Yuechun: "Because there are some bad karma, it may not be planted directly by yourself." For example, if you are walking down the street one day and you see a man who is about to be hit by a car, and you push him away and save him, on the surface you have done a good deed, but in case he should have died today, you have changed his fate and let him live. And then he becomes a murderer and kills a lot of people, and some of this bad karma will be counted on your head. ”

"Of course, this probability is very small, and the blame is not on you, after all, you don't know anything, so it's basically impossible for bad karma to be retributed on you, unless—"

Li Chanyi's voice paused slightly, but her eyes did not look at anyone, but stayed on the bottomless Fang Chi: "You already know that he is not a good person, and you know that he will bring you bad karma, but you still insist on saving him, then you can only suffer on his behalf." ”

"Miss Li is so profound, it turns out that she is a Taoist friend." Bian Yuchen smiled and bowed to her, "I didn't recognize it before, and I was disrespectful." ”

Li Chanyi didn't accept this salute, turned sideways and said, "I can't afford this 'Taoist friend'." ”

Bian Yuchen gave a more respectful salute: "Yes, in terms of cultivation, it is right to call you 'Uncle Li'." ”

This is not false, at least Li Chanyi's accumulated yin virtue is profound, and Chen Yun belongs to the same layer, only a piece of gold is needed to make a dry corpse chisel a stone for her, he and Xie Yinxue are completely incomparable with her, the only thing he and Xie Yinxue can compare is probably who has more negative karma on their bodies, but what is there to compare with this?

Bian Yuchen looked up at Xie Yinxue, but the young man didn't look at him and Li Chanyi, only stared at Shi Daokou and said, "They are here." ”

"They" refer to the human beast heads who have come to check if the participants have completed the stone digging task.

When the participants heard this, they immediately stopped and stood up, waiting for the review of the human and animal heads as if waiting for the teacher to check their homework or the social animal facing the big boss to inspect and spot check.

However, maybe the bodies of the human beast heads are too tall, which will bring people an extremely strong sense of oppression, so everyone is watched by them with their animal pupils, and they can't help but feel a little nervous, thinking in their hearts: Everyone has completed the task of digging stones, there should be no accidents, right?

However, in psychology, there is an effect called "Murphy's Law": if something has the potential to go bad, it will always happen, no matter how small the likelihood is.

— right now.

Because during the inspection, except for Xie Yinxue, Bian Yuchen, Ming Sheng, Tu Wencai, and Chen Yun, all the seven stones in front of the participants who completed the stone chiseling task by the dry corpse yesterday were cracked, and they were broken into broken stones by the human body and beast leaders with a light pinch of their hands, and the broken stones could no longer be used as materials for making stone steps.

So calculated in this way, only Xie Yinxue, Bian Yuchen, Mingsheng and Chen Yun completed the stone drilling task yesterday - why didn't Tu Wencai be counted? Because the number of stones he breaks is the most exaggerated.

All seven pieces are broken!

Not a single stone is usable.

Tu Wencai's face was full of disbelief, and he staggered back a few steps, and kept muttering: "...... Why is this happening? Why are they broken so much?! ”

Unfortunately, no one could answer his question.

Even Yao Xiaoguo couldn't figure it out, why she and Tu Wencai were obviously participants who indirectly caused the death of others, Tu Wencai had an accident, but she didn't have an accident?

"I don't understand! I don't understand! ”

Tu Wencai screamed and wiped off the eyeshadow above his eyelids, trying to figure out if he had missed something that he couldn't see when he had eyeshadow, and the rest of the people also wiped their eyeshadow, so they saw that on those broken stones, there were blooming blue water lilies.

These stones are like the hard shell of the lotus seed, and if the flower breaks through the shell and blooms, the stone shell will only be left with the fate of shattering.

Li Chanyi clenched her five fingers tightly and shook her head: "In the eyes of the ancient Egyptians, it is like life, and the endless blue water lilies symbolize death when they bloom in our eyes, which is really ironic......"

Ming Sheng was afraid and said, "Fortunately, I finished the work by myself yesterday...... Thankfully, you all chiseled an extra stone yesterday. ”

Those stones really became a life-saving backup.

Otherwise, all but four of them would have died on the third day.

Chen Yun patted Yao Xiaoguo on the shoulder and said, "My extra stone is for you to use, I can help you make up seven pieces to complete the task." ”

Tu Wencai can't save him, he broke a whole seven pieces, where can they get him seven more stones?

"Why?!"

Tu Wencai didn't understand where he was going to get the seven stones again, he grabbed his hair, and the corners of his forehead were bruised: "This death rule mural didn't remind us at all!" If I had known that this was the case...... Why should I ......?"

Why gamble on the last piece of gold that goes to the hands of the dried corpses?

As long as he was like Xie Yinxue and the others, he exchanged gold for food and water, and after finishing his eye makeup, he returned to the temple to dig stones by himself, then he didn't have to die at all!

Xie Yinxue lowered her eyes and glanced at those charming blue water lilies, and said softly, "You shouldn't bet." ”

Jamon's sentence "gambling on the dog must not die well" can be called a prophecy of truth in this situation.

"You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?" Tu Wencai walked up to Xie Yinxue and said reproachfully, "You know, why don't you remind me?" ”

Xie Yinxue asked Tu Wencai rhetorically: "Do you think I have the ability to predict the future?" ”

"I've told you all that I know."

He nodded slightly to the right, and looked at Yao Xiaoguo behind Tu Wencai: "She listened, but you refused to listen." ”

- It's not that they didn't hear it, but they didn't want to listen.

Tu Wencai seemed to want to argue a few more words, but the human beast heads didn't give him this opportunity, and the two human beast heads of the jackal head and the eagle beast stepped forward and shackled him one left and one right.

However, Tu Wencai didn't struggle much, he took three deep breaths in a row and calmed down: "I'm willing to gamble and lose, but I ask to make a deal with the ferryman NPC." ”

Yao Xiaoguo, who was worried that it would be difficult for him to clear the customs, hurriedly asked, "Do you know who he is?" ”

"Anubis." Tu Wencai's eyes were fixed on the jackal beast head of Bu Jiuzhao, and he looked at the pair of dark beast pupils and stretched out his hands, "Take the reward you want." ”

Zhan Meng whispered to Sissi, who was closest to him, "Do you think Anubis is the ferryman of this copy?" ”

"Seventy percent probably." "After all, the scale of judgment is in his hands, and he is the 'Fulfiller' in ancient Egyptian mythology. ”

Rao is Xie Yinxue, at this moment, he felt that Tu Wencai was worthy of being a gambler, his eyes were so vicious, and without the slightest hesitation, he decided that Bu Jiuzhao was the ferryman NPC, but he was not in the right place, and he was blind with a pair of good eyes, but this cannot be ruled out that Tu Wencai may be gambling again, betting on whether he chose the right person.