"Mr. Chen, what are you talking about?" Syvi had already cautiously walked towards the head of the statue, and suddenly turned to look at me.

"It's nothing, it's just a feeling. A wry smile appeared on my lips again.

She laughed: "I have always believed that gold is a demonic element thrown down from heaven to deceive people, and although chemists have reduced it to an ordinary metal element, along with copper and iron, the mysterious power it carries will never disappear." It is a unique magic, timeless and never-ending, like the north and south magnetic poles of the earth. So, don't generalize the human quest for gold to 'greed, greed', on the contrary, it is the pursuit of a path back to the essence by some spiritual beings......"

Behind her, there is a light curtain intertwined with spotlights, which adds a magnificent atmospheric background to her speech.

"Back to the essence? What is the essence of human beings? Is it the definition of 'the beginning of man, the nature of goodness' in the oldest Chinese enlightenment text?" I made a "stop" gesture.

In such an environment, we really shouldn't discuss such issues, what we need to do is to search for the secret on the back of the statue again.

"Mr. Chen, I really hope to have the opportunity to discuss with you the big questions of life and the future, I don't know if Professor Leng has talked to you about it, with the in-depth study of pyramid hieroglyphs, he has already made a huge discovery about the proposition of 'the origin of the Egyptians' - that not only involves human history, but also widely involves ancient astronomy and ancient planetary divination. It's a pity that he had an accident at this time, otherwise he would probably become a great figure who caused a sensation around the world and rewrote human history......"

"Miss Shevi, your topic seems to be going too far. "I can only interrupt her again.

A gust of wind mixed with sand rushed towards me, immediately fascinated my eyes, and the moment I closed my eyes, the extraordinary word "demon wind" suddenly floated in my mind, because the gust of wind gave me a feeling of gloom and compassion, like the "yin wind" naturally generated in the extremely dangerous Five Elements Feng Shui layout.

"Ahh

I struggled to hold on to her, my eyes blinking rapidly, but the sand stubbornly burrowed deep into my eyelids, causing me to cry.

"It's okay, don't move, you won't fall. I whispered comfort to her as I rubbed my eyes vigorously with my free hand.

"Mr. Chen, do you feel that a wide slit is cracking under our feet, like a monster's wide mouth, getting wider and wider......" She tilted her head sideways, her eyes kept staring at her feet, and every word she said was with a panicked trill.

Beneath his feet is the backbone of the Sphinx, a stone monster that has been swept and looted by the wind for thousands of years, if it is hollow and can be split in two by the mechanism, this big belly can indeed hide a lot of secrets, but is that possible?

Under the detection of the ray light machine, the stone statue will never be able to hide any secrets, and all the secret passages, mechanisms, and knobs will be hidden, becoming a secret that everyone knows.

I put my arm around her shoulder: "It's okay, don't be afraid, don't be cranky, we'll be back in the city soon, and put all this mess aside." ”

"Believe me, Mr. Chen, the Sphinx is indeed capable of splitting through it, and I have been to the underside of it—no, no, I would say, to be underneath it in a hallucination, a treacherous dark world. We...... Let's get to its head, spell ...... The incantation was engraved on the pharaoh's head—" She broke free of my arm and turned to run, her feet staggering and panicking.

Her repeated mention of the "spell" brought back certain memories in my heart, and I followed without hesitation.

There is no doubt about the solid stone statue at the foot, but the strange thing is that Xiwei and the tenth brother Xiliang both mentioned the cracking on the back of the stone statue. Even if it's just a wacky fantasy, it's appalling enough.

"It's here—it's here!" Syvi knelt down with a pop, her hands stroking the stone in front of her, unable to hide her excitement.

I looked over her shoulder, and the top of the statue's head was vaguely carved with a string of hieroglyphs, each of which was more than a foot square.

"Miss Syvi, don't be impulsive, it's bad to get the attention of your pretenders. I crouched down beside her and whispered admonishment.

A hundred paces to the left of the sand dune, there was a spot of light flickering, I guess it was a faint reflection from the sight lens of a sniper rifle. When a sniper doesn't even bother to disguise his weapon, it is enough to prove that the other party has no scruples about killing people in the desert, and there is no need to think about the consequences at all.

Sylvie was smart, turned her head to look at me, and nodded her chin slowly.

"What do these words mean? I think I've touched them just now. "Before I found out that Xiwei was strange, I did feel these words, but the changes at that time were up and down, and I didn't have time to think about it.

"It was a spell that meant 'The greedy touch the crown, the wrath of the gods is ignited, the wings of death flapp, and the god of plunder rises in the darkness'. There are fifteen words in total, and more than half of them coincide with the words of the priest who closed the pharaoh's tomb on the other side of the Valley of the Kings - Mr. Chen, this is an extremely ominous sentence, the first people who opened the Pharaoh's Mausoleum in the Valley of the Kings ended up dying strangely, with a house full of gold and silver banknotes but no blessing to enjoy. She pulled out a notepad, leaned down, and quickly traced the words.

The death of the scientists who explored Egypt's Valley of the Kings half a century ago has long been a strange story in the history of tomb robbing, and has indefinitely deepened the topic of "the death curse of the pharaohs", providing endless inspiration for Hollywood film and television screenwriters.

In Egyptian national culture, the pharaoh was the messenger of the gods, with the same power as the gods, and their majesty was forever inviolable, both during and after death. Therefore, tomb robbers who dare to challenge the curses and seals left by the pharaoh have only one way to die, becoming the slayer of the magical curse.

"Shall we leave?" the presence of the sniper always made me unsettled.

"Mr. Chen, I still have something to say—" She put away the notebook and reached out to wipe it on her forehead, some bright beads of sweat were shining.

"What's wrong with you?" I felt the seriousness of the situation, on such a cold day, she was breaking out in a cold sweat uncontrollably, which showed that her mood was quite complicated.

Xi Wei let out a long sigh: "I have an extremely ominous premonition, Mr. Chen, just ...... Something strange must have happened, didn't I? I think I've been to a place that seems to be at the foot of the Sphinx. She lowered her head and slowly stroked the handwriting.

The two of us were in a rather bad situation at this time, the position of the sniper was five hundred paces away, and I believe that in his sights, Xiwei and I would be able to see every move clearly. As long as the other person is willing, with a movement of the index finger, we will disappear from this world.

"Xiwei, isn't it good to go down and talk about it?" I suppressed the anxiety in my heart, and my tone was so hurried that I even changed the name of her.

"No, I'm well aware that those memories will soon fade away, and only become clear again here, at extreme proximity to the Sphinx. Listen to me Mr. Chen, I have to say it, and it will be about the fate of the future of mankind - the fate of being slaughtered by animals. She took a long breath, stretched out her hand to hold down her heart, and suddenly smiled bitterly, "My heart is beating so fast, I don't know if I will be frightened when I see those big heroes like you?"

Her face was almost transparent, and her chest rose and fell rapidly, like a severe heart patient on the verge of fainting.

A hot sensation swept across my cheeks, because I had touched the skin on her chest with my own hands when I had detected her heartbeat before, and the situation had completely fallen into Tang Mei's eyes. Of course, that was a helpless move in an emergency, and there was no intention to be trivial.

"Well, you'd better hurry up and say, it's dangerous here. "I can only say yes.

"At that time, I saw you standing on the back of the Sphinx, and I got out of the car and walked forward, just to remind you to pay special attention to the position above the statue's head, when all of a sudden, the ground under your feet suddenly split left and right, forming a crack ten steps wide. The crack sloped forward at a forty-five degree angle, and I slid uncontrollably. It feels like a slide in a playground, except that the slope is always straight down, without twists and turns. I tried to scream for help, but within a few seconds, it was pitch black overhead, and I was caught in a completely unfamiliar world. ”

She pointed to the small square in front of the statue, where she stood when she stood still.

"Well, please go on. "It seemed to me that she stopped there, her real physical location unchanged, so the experience described at this point could only be an illusion.

"The descent finally stopped, and my feet touched the solid ground, a stone slab carved with intricate patterns. To be sure, there were not only patterns on the slates, but also many ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and I had come across a passage that could be connected to the effect of 'Division, death, transfer, searching, deception, and then the destruction of mountains, rivers, trees, and people, and the stars getting smaller and smaller'—"

"Is that an Egyptian tomb?, the catacombs of the pyramids?" I interrupted her, concluding the narrative.

"Perhaps, in fact, anyone with common knowledge of Egyptian culture would make such a judgment, including me. Mr. Chen, I couldn't tell how deep I had fallen at the time, but I subconsciously turned around and looked up, and there was only a basin-sized spot of light left at the hole where I entered, out of reach. So, I didn't even have to call for help, knowing that you couldn't hear you. She was trying to control her emotions, and her expression was always calm.

"But you stood there the whole time, not moving. I frowned.

"Listen to me, this experience is not just an illusion!" Xiwei cried out in a low voice, grabbed my hand, and clasped her fingers tightly, "Mr. Chen, as a professional in the field of biological research, I am very confident in my psychological endurance, and I have never experienced hallucination in my life. I can swear that it happened, and that there was a huge space under the Sphinx's feet. ”

I patted the back of her hand and whispered reassurance, "Don't get excited, Miss Syvi, I believe what you say—"

"No, Mr. Chen, I want you to swear to be a witness to my experiences. She stared at me, her hot snort straight to my face.

"You finish talking first, and then let's discuss its authenticity, okay?" My thumb quietly pressed on her wrist vein, and with a slight force, I used my internal strength to rush into her body, so as to calm the other party's heartbeat like a galloping horse. Her skin is smooth and elastic, with a natural scent.

Sikong picked up countless tombs in his life, from China's Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing tombs to Asian, Japanese, Korean, Singaporean, Ma, Taishui tombs, and then to European stone tombs, American earthen tombs, everything, so he often showed me the wonders of the tombs he had seen when he was drunk and full.

If he had been there, he would have been able to tell what it was by Shevie's account.

"As the initial panic subsided, my eyes gradually adjusted to the darkness, and I vaguely felt that I was standing in a large, empty house. I took a few steps straight ahead when I suddenly kicked something under my foot and made a 'dang bang'. After crouching down, I carefully groped on the ground and finally found it, which turned out to be a metal Zhibao lighter-"

She paused and smiled apologetically wryly, "I'm sorry, I know my narrative is ridiculous. ”

I shook my head and replied softly, "On the contrary, it is the most normal thing to find a Zhibao lighter in the ancient tomb. The Swiss Army Knife and the Zhibao Lighter are the most popular pieces of equipment for tomb robbers around the world, and the discovery of them only means that this is a tomb that has been visited by tomb robbers, and there is nothing to be sorry about. ”

The biggest advantage of being friends with people like Sikong Xingxing and Cai Xiaofo is that your ears are often filled with all kinds of new things, just like reading an encyclopedia of strange stories every day, no matter what you hear, you can find a reasonable explanation.

If Sylvie enters an Egyptian tomb in a hallucination, the next thing she is most likely to encounter is corpses, poisonous insects, coffins and mummies, then there is no curiosity, after all, many people in the world have had such strange dreams, but they are just thoughtful and dreaming at night.

"Mr. Chen, don't use common sense to imagine my experience, this is not a replay of the plot of a movie, I didn't see a mummy and poisonous insects, but found a strange altar——"