On the third basement floor of the building, Rimiz's subordinates waited beside the iron ingot, looking at each other silently.

Someone stretched out his foot and kicked the iron ingot: "What should I do with Mr. Chen, should I hand it over to the National Museum?"

Egypt stipulates that every Buddha statue and every antique in the country is undoubtedly owned by Egypt, and no one can take such a bulky thing out of Romania without official approval.

I didn't see Xiwei immediately feel nervous, and asked the team leader Gennie in a low voice, "Where is Miss Xiwei?"

When I took Bai Xiaoxie away, I couldn't talk to her in detail in front of so many people, and of course I wouldn't tell me what happened in the metal house.

"She's gone down alone with the notebook—" Zeni scratched his head, his expression probing his head and poking his head down into the hole.

My head buzzed and I wanted to slap him out with a slap. If something happens to Xiwei, it will be the biggest failure of this operation.

"Hey, Mr. Chen, wait a minute!" Thom called out from behind the wooden box in the corner of the hall and raised his arms.

"I don't have time to come back!" I immediately scurried down the stairs to catch up with Sivee. The situation at this moment is very similar to that night when I first visited the pyramid, I was afraid that something would happen to her, but something happened to her.

After jumping down two flights of stairs, there was still no shadow of her, and I anxiously shouted, "Miss Xiwei, where are you?" The red symbols on the walls on both sides rushed to the face, as if they could turn into a hideous dancing monster at any moment, and swooped down fiercely.

Descending a second floor, I finally heard her response: "I'm here." ”

I jumped down the fourth staircase and finally saw Shevie. She was sitting on the steps, holding a pencil, jotting down something quickly.

"These words are not Egyptian folk scriptures, nor are they sorcerers' curses, but rather narrative poems that tell a very strange story—" She didn't look back, but quickened her pen movement, and the "snort" sound of the tip of the pen sliding over the paper broke the silence on the stairs.

I approached her, sitting side by side on the steps, and my beating heart finally calmed down. As long as she's okay, I'm relieved.

"What's wrong with you, worried about me?" her gaze was still firmly fixed on her sketch, as if joking, as if preoccupied.

I nodded: "Against us, we are facing a strong opponent, and we must not have any more accidents." ”

Although it is a good thing that the dragon elephant girl did not appear, but "blessings and misfortunes lie in wait, and misfortunes and blessings rely on", who can guarantee that she will not appear in the next second and attack us with the momentum of a raging storm?

"Of course you'll be fine if you're by my side. She finally raised her head and bit the pen like a schoolboy in a difficult situation.

"I-hehe-" I smiled wryly. When I lived in seclusion on Hong Kong Island, I would recall every action I had in the past, and I would be full of confidence that I would be invincible and invincible in my life, but as the investigation of the desert robbery unfolded step by step, this confidence has become less and less.

"You're going to protect me all the time, aren't you?" said Shevie, who closed her notebook and leaned gently on my shoulder.

The staircase was deserted, and Meez and Thom's men were in danger before they were ordered to act, eager to exit the building. So no one will bother us at this moment.

"Definitely. I stretched out my hand around her thin waist and immersed myself in the silent warmth and tenderness.

This is the brief silence before the storm, and it is precisely because we don't know what to give birth to next that we cherish the good feeling in front of us even more.

"Promise me, no matter how weird and bizarre the ending is, we'll take it and wait for it to get better, okay?" Sylvie whispered, letting go of the notebook and hugging my waist tightly with her arms, curled up in my arms like a gentle kitten.

I'm worried that this is a story with no ending, just like the failed attempts of human beings to explore outer space, to explore the space of ability, to explore the spiritual world, everyone gave their best and even gave their lives, but nothing was achieved.

"Actually, you can stay out of it, just like all bystanders, take the robbery in the desert and Leng Xin's disappearance as news, and forget about it after a few days. I'd rather you do that than you'd have been entangled in this matter all the time, and it's getting more and more dangerous. I wanted to say these things to her a long time ago, but I couldn't find the right opportunity.

She hugged me tighter: "There are some people and things that you can't forget. The day you came to see me at the institute was doomed. ”

There were so many things that happened on our first day, including the sudden tremor of an ancient fossil, the killers' turns, her accidental injury...... It's not a story of love at first sight, but it leads to two people's hearts getting closer and closer, and finally fitting together.

"Hey, all the good times have been wasted by your Qingqing and me. Chen Ying, are you just going to talk about love in a fake way except like a headless fly?Hurry up, get up, it's time to get down to business!" Xia Gai's voice rang out from the steps behind us.

I finally hugged her deeply, gently helped her to her feet, and ignored Xia Gai's cynicism. Charlotte had said that Chagai had come to be my deputy, and that he had no right to interfere in all my actions.

"Chen Ying, Bai Xiao Xie's bizarre death, are there any other good things in the underground space that are worth studying carefully?" Xia Gai shook his head past me, and then turned around proudly, his jealous eyes falling on my and Xiwei's faces in turn. He carried a military camping lamp in his hand, a small video camera around his neck, and a pistol pinned to his waist, and the whole outfit was nondescript to the extreme.

He didn't bring anyone else down, apparently to keep the upcoming search a secret and to monopolize the results of his research.

"Let's go down and see, you invite us first, and then we'll be there. I responded coldly and refused to answer any of his questions.

Xia Gai snorted and strode down, looking confident.

"Now let me talk about what is written in these red words. Starting from the entrance of the cave, the first thing to say is that the god Leo came to the earth to help the ancient Egyptians tame the Nile River and turn the desert into fertile land, so that the people of this region have enough food and clothing to live a happy life with food and wine. He has done so many things for mankind, and he is revered by mankind as the 'lion god', and his status and authority have surpassed that of the pharaoh at that time. At that time, when every pharaoh was dying, the slaves of the whole country had to erect a stone monument for his life's merits, instead of the strangely shaped pyramids that we see today. So the human beings also carved a stone tablet for the lion god that was bigger and more ornate than the one of the pharaohs. ”

Sylvie held up the notebook and showed me the top one, and it was indeed a mighty lion.

"What age is that? How many years BC?" I asked the question according to common sense logic.

Xi Wei smiled and shook her head vigorously: "You are wrong, that era is not within the Common Era at all, it should be before the birth of the historical records of earthlings." I can see any symbol of time, which may have been passed down orally from generation to generation, and then transformed into hieroglyphs years later. ”

I let out an "oh" and then came to my senses.

In 2005, archaeologists around the world made a joint statement confirming that the features and landforms of the Giza Heights were unevenly aged, and that they were not even the product of the same dynastic period. The most obvious is that the Sphinx statue has been eroded by acid rain, and it can be inferred that it predates the history of the pyramids by a long time, that is, the stone statues appeared first on the high ground, and then the pyramids.

So all assumptions that the Sphinx were servants of the Pharaoh are wrong.

"Go on. I nodded vigorously in acknowledging what she said.

But the stele was never built, because the lion god made an agreement with Pharaoh that he would not want the stele and that all the land, palaces, and wealth in the Giza Heights would belong to Pharaoh. Moreover, he has lived a very healthy life through the reign of two generations of pharaohs in a row, and led a large group of 200-year-old immortal slaves like him to dig a large canyon in the high ground. The project lasted two hundred and thirty years, and finally a deep hole was dug in the canyon, and then he ordered the water of the Nile to be brought into the canyon and a huge gold panning ground was built, and the gold hidden in the desert was filtered day and night. Eventually, gold piled up like mountains, filling the canyons, radiating insanely dazzling brilliance day and night—"

Sylvie stopped her narration thoughtfully, flipped through the book, found one of them, and showed it to me.

That painting represents my dream of the Grand Canyon, the Sphinx statue, the deep well in the valley, and the golden light – very similar to what she just described.

"Your dream is simply a high summary of this story, because then the Pharaoh broke his promise and held a drinking party with ulterior motives, tricking the lion god into drinking red wine mixed with a hundred kinds of poisonous snake saliva and dying on the spot. At this time, something even more strange happened: the body of the lion god kept expanding, and even the temporary palace in the valley was broken until it turned into a statue. The last thing was simple: the pharaoh took the gold for himself, then filled in the gorge and cast the pyramids, which became the greatest scenery in the Giza Heights. ”

Shelvie quickened her narrative, pulled me up, and walked down the stairs.

"The Lion King became the Sphinx Sphinx?" I was skeptical.

Yes, this is what is painted on the wall, and the central idea is that the pharaoh treacherously deceived the gods from Leo, and brought all the gold from the desert back to his palace, becoming the richest man of the period. Mr. Chen, I hope that you can keep having those strange dreams, and then all the truths will be connected, and we will be able to understand what was born in ancient Egypt more truthfully than what is said in history textbooks. ”

Xiwei's fingers are thin and long, and her skin is smooth and delicate, which unconsciously reminds me of Leng Xin.

"Professor Leng and Leng Xin have never mentioned these materials. Does that mean that no one knew about this history before, and you and I were the only ones who knew about it?" "If I were an antiquities broker, I could get tens of thousands of dollars back with these words and stories alone."

"Suffice it to say – Mr. Chen, as a scientist in Egypt, I have read a lot of African literature and talked to many tribal shamans and priests. I swear no one mentions the origin of the Sphinx and the Lion King, and everyone's account is much the same, believing that it was the wise Pharaoh who saved the fertile land by the Nile. You and I have been caught in strange hallucinations, and perhaps we can conclude that the Sphinx will come back to life, and that the time is not far off to take revenge on the Egyptians, who think they are omnipotent. ”

Xi Wei sighed that after entering the 21st century, there are floods, droughts, earthquakes, and tsunamis in various parts of the earth every year, but they are all local and intermittent. If all the disasters were to occur together at the same time, the destruction of the earth would be just around the corner.

When we walked to the point where the round hole appeared in the wall, Xiwei stopped and poked her head into the round hole and took a deep breath: "Mr. Chen, these things remind me of a strange phenomenon in the West Indies: the python guarding the house. What about you?"

I shrugged my shoulders and didn't want to make my point.

Almost every household in the West Indies has a non-venomous python produced in the area to catch rats, take care of children, and care for the home. Every night, the python will burrow into the knotted bamboo prepared by the owner and sleep, leaving only its head and tail outside. This phenomenon of human-snake cohabitation, which is unique in the world, is called "python".

I've had this thought, but it's longer than Syvie thought, the round hole isn't for pythons, and the correct answer is for that kind of large, continuous body.

Xi Wei retracted her body and listened to it, and suddenly smiled: "Xia Gai is singing below, it's really ugly." ”

Sure enough, a burst of rock-flavored singing came, accompanied by the sparse noise of violently rummaging through things.

When he reached the end of the steps, Xia Gai was turning over vigorously, and the camping lamp hung in the doorway, illuminating everything in the metal house.

"Hey, Chen Ying, where is the power supply equipment for these computers? Why can't I find them? Can they start working without electricity?" he poked his head out of the doorway, holding in his arms a piece wrapped in clothes, a heavy shape of a square with a foot of length, width and height.

He didn't know that those were by no means ordinary computers, but some kind of rather advanced high-tech instruments, and devices that could read human brain waves, and were advanced products that had not yet been developed by earthlings.

"Okay, you guys search me slowly, and I'm going to leave beforehand. He hurriedly stepped out, and the thing was so heavy that he involuntarily bent down, gasping for breath a dozen times before continuing to walk.

"What's that?" I reached out to stop him, took off my camping lamp and hung it in front of his eyes, "don't forget to take your lamp with you." ”

Xia Gai's forehead was covered with beads of sweat soaked in oil, and the strength of his whole body was on that thing, and he had no time to care about the camping lantern.

Shagai put the thing down. My left hand slowly pressed down on his shoulder, and with a little force, he couldn't hold it anymore, and he crouched down on the ground, and the thing slammed into the ground.

"The Moonlight Hotel is our family's property, and everything here belongs to me, so it doesn't seem like you have to go through your permission to take anything away, right?" he gasped violently for a moment, then stood up and glared at me, and his right foot stepped on the thing at once.

"Yes, but this underground space is everything I have at my disposal. I didn't want to waste any more time with him, and with my left hand on his shoulder, I pushed him and he fell on his back against the stone wall on the side. A character like him has no effect on his good words and persuasion, and can only be solved by force.

"You—" The first movement he made after steasing himself was to reach for his gun, but the pistol was already in my palm.

"Find your gun. "With just a finger move, the pistol broke into eight scattered parts and landed with a clatter, except that the magazine remained between my fingers.

Xia Gai's eyes were about to widen, and his chest rose and fell violently, but he knew very well that no matter how he fought him, he would only surrender obediently.

"Okay, okay, Chen Ying, count you ruthless. Let's tell you the truth, it's a gold brick, it's definitely worth a lot of money, let's get it out together and find a cutting factory, how about half each?" he angrily approached and pulled the dress open, revealing a yellow metal cube.

Xi Wei subconsciously exclaimed: "It's really a gold brick, but this kind of gold is by no means in line with the international gold casting standards, how can it be hidden deep underground?"

She crouched down and took a closer look at the gold bricks, but there were no normal casting logos on them, only five smooth, smooth surfaces.

"It's the same below, I've looked at it carefully, it should be the smuggled goods flowing from the underground factory, so there will be no bank name and purity mark. I have a lot of knowledge of gold, and I can tell its fineness at a glance, so I don't hesitate to take the effort to pull it out. Now, if you agree with my allocation, let's get it to the ground first, it's so heavy that two people have to take turns holding it. ”

Xia Gai told the truth, and his expression was finally a little more natural.

This reason is not valid, and the products flowing out of the current underworld underground factories are also quite on track, and there will never be anything without a logo on the surface.

"Was it embedded in some kind of instrument?" Xiwei carefully listened to the flaw in Xia Gai's words, and persistently asked.

Xia Gai patted his forehead in annoyance: "What the hell am I talking about? Forget it, I won't say anything from now on, anyway, this gold must have half of mine." I owe so much gambling debt and count on it to save my life. ”

I turned the nugget over, and the underside was still smooth and unwritten.

"Shagai came in with me. "I didn't waste any more time reaching for his wrist. The metal house is an even more eccentric space, and no one is allowed to leave, let alone take anything with them, until they have fully figured out its inner secrets. I have a gut feeling that this nugget acts like the solid fuel on some spacecraft, and without it, the house can only be a house, and it immediately becomes unremarkable.

The space in front of the metal door was very narrow, and Xia Gai couldn't avoid it, and it fell into the palm of my hand again.

"Syvi, you're here to keep an eye on it, and don't let anyone else come in and disturb you. "I carefully instructed Syvi to stand guard at the door, lest another looter take advantage of the fire to hear the news.

There have long been rumors of Tom's bad deeds on the rivers and lakes, his main job is a desert exploration engineer, and his deputy job is an underworld broker, a gangster informant, a lone thief, a drug dealer, etc., etc., all of which are related to killing people and stealing goods. I have carefully observed the Gennie and others under him, and each of them has a strange look in their eyes, and they are definitely not good.

Fortunately, the presence of Meez's police force has some deterrent effect on Thom.

"Be careful, if there's anything out of the ordinary, come out right away, okay?" Sylvie told her tirelessly, "Actually—"

I immediately answered: "Actually, I would like you to go in with me and search for ancient Egyptian texts, which only you can translate." But it's too dangerous, and you're going to stay here and wait for me to come back. ”

Xiwei's translation work is very important to me, and only by reading the materials left by my predecessors can I find the right direction of struggle. Otherwise, even if you have a hundredfold enthusiasm and a thousandfold wisdom, you will be exhausted long ago.

I pushed Xia Gai into the door, held the camping lantern high in my hand, and looked at the computers first. Unfortunately, the computer screen was blank, and only the orange power indicator was flashing on and off. The drawers of several tables were all thrown on the floor, and everything on the table was swept away, as if it were the chaotic scene after a tornado.

"Where did the nuggets come from?" I only cared about that.

"The corner is behind that golden round panel. It's the same whether you look at it or not, there's nothing in it anymore, just some ordinary cables and the like. Xia Gai led me to the corner of the wall where the computer had been placed, pointing to a gold panel that had been removed.