Chapter 197: The Living Organ
Under the scorching sun, the flat metropolis shaped like a coffin lid is the tomb of Pharaoh Saiti, which was the usual mausoleum shape of the pharaohs in the early Egyptian dynasty before the pyramids were designed.
The burial place of the wealthy Pharaoh Set, how many years, how many people came, and how many people were able to escape from here, no one knows through the ages, only the story of the city of the dead, which has been passed down to this day. Here, to the young man who was looking down from the sky, it was like the forbidden forest of the previous world, shrouded in a mysterious aura - this place was full of supernatural powers.
Hamna Tower, trap evil spirits with seals, and counter outsiders with mechanisms. Evil spirits can't break the seal against them, but humans always have a way to solve the rigid mechanism. Unless, this "organ", is alive.
At this time, tents have been erected between the remaining stone pillars on the ground in this city of the dead. Most of the workers who came with Benny and his party, except for those who were carrying equipment, were lining up to deliver the scrap that had been removed from the ground.
The entrance to the underground was the bronze gate that O'Connor had told Benny to hide in. The waste materials blocking the road at the bottom are also the rubble residues left behind when the troops came here to dig treasures, only half of the road was opened, and they were not cleaned up in time.
However, it is clear that this entrance O'Connor and his party have been abandoned for now, and all the people who come and go around here are Benny and his gang.
Standing on the small dirt slope above the giant bronze gate, ancient Egyptian archaeologists with small parasols shouted at the workers queuing up below.
Next to him, the blonde man turned to look into the distance, where stood a giant bust of a jackal's head, facing the inner layer of the bronze door at his feet. The four of O'Connor, not far from the sculpture, found a hole that went straight to the ground.
It wasn't very far from here, and the blonde man could see clearly that O'Connor had already begun to tie ropes to the stone pillars next to the cave entrance. He could even clearly see that the rope in the binding, swinging, intentionally or unintentionally, fell on the fat guy who was watching the play, forcing the guy to retreat again and again.
"Are they hiding something from us?"
The blonde man had a vague sense that something was wrong, and his instincts told him that O'Connor was likely to find the treasure before they did, which was not good. Hearing this, the archaeologist turned around, and when he saw the four O'Connaught, Evelyn struggling to fiddle with a waist-high round mirror, he sneered.
"They listen to women's commands, what do women know?"
At this time, Evelyn, who was teased by the archaeologist for not knowing anything, was introducing information about the jackal's head sculpture to the other three people around her.
"This is the Grim Reaper, the legs of the Grim Reaper go deep into the ground. According to archaeological experts, the idol has a secret compartment in its legs, which houses the Golden Sutra of the Sun. β
One of the things that the archaeologist said was trueβthe three O'Connor were indeed at Evelyn's command. In the four-person team, compared to Evelyn, O'Connor knew nothing about the history of ancient Egypt, let alone the other two.
Evelyn knows so much, the reason is that the legend of the Golden Sutra of the Sun has fascinated her since she was a child, and her trip is also for the Golden Sutra of the Sun. Then according to the theory that the statue contains a golden scripture, under her command, a group of four people naturally chose to dig a cave next to the statue to see if they could find an entrance to the underground world here. Then, they found it. This is something that the archaeologist with an old mind would never believe unless he came to see it himself.
Then, under the guidance of Evelyn, who knew a lot about ancient Egypt, the four of them found several huge mirrors from the surrounding ruins. Later, under her guidance, I looked for a suitable place to place them.
"Jonathan, you have to face the sun. Evelyn reminded.
Now, it's her and Jonathan fiddling with the mirror. The warden had nothing to do from beginning to end, with a posture of watching a play. O'Connor, on the other hand, took off the leather bag hanging from his waist and walked up to Evelyn with an unnatural expression.
"What's the use of these old mirrors?" he tried to find a topic.
"It's an ancient mirror, an ancient Egyptian trick. You'll find out later. Evelyn was busy fiddling with the mirror and took the time to reply.
O'Connor nodded pretendedly, and since he had talked, he also handed out the leather bag in his hand: "Take it, it's for you." β
Evelyn was stunned, this was the first time O'Connor had given her something, she stopped what she was doing, took the purse, and looked at him stupidly.
"Look, I borrowed it from my American friend, and I think you might like it. You should be able to use it, it's ......" he gestured as he spoke, but the more he said, the more he couldn't explain, the first time he gave a girl something, especially he was not suitable for this kind of occasion, he couldn't bear the girl's gaze inexplicably, he had subconsciously retreated a few steps, and fled the scene in a gesture, turning around and seeing the prison warden on the side looking at him, he immediately became expressionless, "What do you see?" The voice was so small that only he and the prison warden could hear it.
As a big man, he was shamefully shy, and he felt a little embarrassed. At this point, even if Jonathan is watching, he will probably be anxious.
The warden, who was quite able to read people's faces, hurriedly lowered his head and spread his hands to show that he had no intention of offending.
At this time, Evelyn, when she opened her purse, she couldn't help but smile when she saw all kinds of exploration tools stuffed inside. Although O'Connor has a straight mind, the gifts he gave are very much in her heart - these are what she needs most at this time, or it can be said that they need it most at the moment, who are still empty-handed just now.
She looked again at O'Connor, who had the rope around his waist and was about to descend into the cave, and the more she looked, the more satisfied she became.
"See if there are any bugs. Seeing that O'Connor was about to go down to explore the way, the warden said for no reason, "I hate insects the most." "Obviously, he was obsessed with treasures, and he was not worried about the conduct of the other three, so he did not count by following them to the Tower of Hamna, but also went down to the mausoleum and went to find them himself.
O'Connor went down, then Evelyn. The remaining two also climbed the rope one after the other and fell down carefully. In the dark and deep underground space, two rows of mirrors can be seen standing on the left and right under the sunlight at the entrance of the cave and the torch in O'Connor's hand.
"Can you imagine that we were the first visitors in three thousand years?"
Evelyn was sighing as Jonathan had just fallen from the rope to the ground, but his eyes were squinting, his face full of grief and grievance.
"What smells so bad?"
Sniffing the smell and discovering that the source of it was the warden who came down after him, he let out a clear sigh and walked away as if nothing was wrong. At this time, he decided in his heart that he must stay away from this dirty and smelly fat guy later.
The warden of the prison with an average of human spirits could not see Jonathan's small movements and expressions, but he himself was completely inappropriate - when he broke into the pile of women and was driven out by them in disgust, he was embarrassed to scold them in turn. After all, this person has no face and no skin.
By this time, Evelyn had wiped away the cobwebs that were wrapped around the mirror beside her, and with the words "Then, the light is refracted in", she reversed its inclination so that it was aimed at the mirror outside the cave to refract a ray of sunlight. Light is refracted between two rows of mirrors. In an instant, the surroundings were much brighter.
"Hey, that's a special trick. β
Glancing at the much clearer scene around him, O'Connor couldn't help but add to the definition Evelyn had given earlier. On the other hand, he had nothing else to say but surprise, and because he didn't know anything else about the layout of the structure. On the other hand, when she saw the layout of this place, Evelyn was full of surprise.
"Oh my God, it's embalming, a preparation room. β
"What are you going to prepare?" O'Connor immediately asked for advice.
Previously on the ship, it was his home turf, and here, Evelyn's home turf.
"Prepare to enter the afterlife. Evelyn said with a mysterious expression.
The strange feeling came to his heart, and O'Connor was on guard, and immediately pulled out his pistol.
Later, when Jonathan followed, he saw O'Connor's exaggerated reaction, and explained while lighting the torch in his hand with fire.
"This is where they mummify. "By implication, there's nothing to be nervous about.
However, O'Connor, who is cautious by nature, did not let down his vigilance easily, and led the team with a torch in one hand and a gun in the other, and slowly moved forward.
After a short time, they came to a dim and narrow passage, and at this time, suddenly a dense rustling sound sounded above their heads. In panic, they looked around, trying to find the source of the sound.
"What sound?"
"What's that?"
"Sounds like...... Insect. O'Connor replied.
Evelyn followed and said, "He said it was a worm." Following O'Connor and Jonathan, she also began to tease the obnoxious fat guy, consciously or unconsciously. Especially when she caught the prison warden's sore foot - afraid of insects, she wanted to scare him to avenge the indecent assault.
Sure enough, after hearing Evelyn's point-to-point words, the rogue warden who had never been taboo began to be suspicious and hurriedly looked around.
"What worms? I hate bugs the most. β
And the insects he was talking about, just over their heads, were in a stone chamber at this time, screaming and screaming, like madness. The young man was here, too, in fact, it was him, who caused the bugs to go crazy - the skin and hair that could not bite like diamonds, accompanied by the seductive smell of powerful blood, and it was difficult for them not to go crazy without love.
"Is this the last card that the ancient Egyptians used to protect the mausoleum?" he looked at the insects crawling all over his body, and then at the bones scattered around, "a living mechanism has killed how many people who did not listen to advice and were hungry for profit, and how much effort was saved by those pharaoh guards." β
He pinched a struggling, hideous mouthparts that opened and closed wildly, hissing incessantly, ignoring its resistance, fiddling with it at will, studying its structure. In the eyes of outsiders, a terrifying creature that can easily kill people and cause disasters is no different from plasticine when placed here.
"Well, scarab. It is speculated that it was based on dung beetles, a common dung-eating creature. This may be true in other worlds, but here, the scarab beetle ......," the young man said, poofing, crushing the worm in his hand, "a divine creature? Funny genes, I laughed. β
With a hiss, all the scarabs gathered in the young man's hands, frantically snatching the broken corpse to relieve the hunger and thirst that had accumulated for so long that it was almost mad. Soon, other insects were injured, and the swarm immediately shifted the target of the siege, and the scene was very chaotic for a while. It wasn't until the young people suddenly disappeared that they slowly returned to normalcy and stopped cannibalism.