I hope to hear the whole story as soon as possible and get out of here with Sylvie. Because in addition to the sniper who was first spotted, in five other places, I saw figures shaking and weapon reflections appearing. The appearance of the Biker Party is not an accidental event, and it is impossible for the master of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong to stand up for me, and if I delay it any longer, I will only fall into an increasingly dangerous predicament.

"I couldn't light the lighter, so I could only make out the altar in the center of the hall with the sparks of each fire. It was in the shape of a seven-pointed star, about a meter high and one hundred and twenty paces in circumference, and it was irregularly filled with various sculptures, all of which resembled the Sphinx, with human heads and animal bodies. Mr. Chen, the so-called 'animal body' is varied, including cows, horses, sheep, dogs, snakes, cats, rats, hawks, tigers, rabbits, monkeys, chickens...... In short, I felt like I was in Van Gogh's impression exhibition, where the makers put together the heads and animal bodies that could not have grown together to form this chaotic sculpture group. ”

She looked at my face: "Mr. Chen, are you listening?"

I immediately nodded: "Sure, please go on, but how could you think this is an altar and not an ordinary platform for displaying sculptures?"

Before I fully understood Xiwei's thoughts, I shouldn't be judgmental, and I could only express my doubts on the side.

"In the center of all the sculptures is a shrunken sphinx, with a total length of only five meters. In front of it, there is a kitten that has been divided into three sections, which is a common type of ritual in ancient Egyptians. The size of the sphinx is much larger than the other sculptures, so I intuitively think that all the sculptures are its foils, and it is the protagonist of the whole platform. ”

I didn't interject anymore, just nodded.

I set aside the altar and walked in a straight line to the opposite wall. The slope was so steep that it was impossible to go back the way it came, and I tried to find the gateway to leave the hall, only to find something horrible on the stone wall. It is all a series of smooth strokes, one after the other, detailing how a beast enters a human body and then evolves into a human being. Mr. Chen, I tried my best to hit the sparks, and in the shortest possible time, I browsed the graphics on the four walls, and I realized that the human-faced beast bodies on the altar were all evolved through a series of evolutions-"

Her emotions became extremely emotional again: "They're killing! They're ...... Turn yourself into a human being, and eventually replace us!

I held her face and tapped my middle finger on her temples and this stimulation had an immediate effect on calming people's emotions.

"Miss Sylvie, it's all an illusion, and humans can't be replaced. What you see may just be a dream of the ancient Egyptians, and since the Egyptians were able to carve such a magnificent statue of the Sphinx, do you know that there will be no other works handed down? I don't want to delay any longer, and now that she's done, there's no need to go through this kind of "unbearable cold" torture anymore.

"You won't understand. She quieted down, fell forward, threw herself into my arms, and whimpered in a low voice, "They're killing...... They're killing people ......"

I hugged her and lowered my voice in her ear: "We have to go down." ”

She no longer struggled: "I'm scared, Mr. Chen, I'm really scared. ”

I sighed: "Don't be afraid, I will protect you." "Things have developed so far, and the fates of the two of us are quietly tied together and inseparable, but compared to when she died, thank God.

As she jumped off the statue with Shevie in her arms, her arms wrapped tightly around my neck and her face buried in my chest, like a kitten afraid of being abandoned.

We paused in a curtain of spotlights and looked back at the huge stone statue together. The Sphinx's gaze has never changed, as if it was born and will always be in this posture in the desert.

"It glows white in its eyes, you know?" I whispered to Syvi in my arms.

She let out a long, gloomy sigh and leaned limply into my arms.

"Where is the entrance where you slipped into the ground in your hallucination?" I took a few steps forward, already standing at the place where Shevi landed between her stiffness.

"Well, did you always think it was a hallucination? Mr. Chen, for me, that experience was completely real, and I did reach an underground stone chamber. She looked up, made a careful recognizance, and nodded vigorously, "Right here, right at our feet." ”

Beneath her feet was the reinforced concrete floor, which the Egyptian government had painstakingly cast, and even a massive earthquake of magnitude 6 on the Richter scale would never have torn the steel structure apart and made a hole for her to slip into. The reason why I repeatedly interrupted her narration so often was because I had completely dismissed her experience as a fanciful illusion.

"Miss Shevi, let's go. I ran to the car and put Xiwei in the passenger seat first: "Sit down, let's go back." ”

The corpses on the ground are still there, and the people from the Tang Sect in Shuzhong have never appeared again, and they don't know what happened to Tang Mei.

I started the car, and there was a moment of hesitation: "Do you want to go to the pyramid first?" Intuitively, the appearance of golden light must be an unusual thing, and I even thought of a strange reason like 'could it be a precursor to a major earthquake'. The earthquake in the desert was also quite powerful, and there is well-documented information that an earthquake in 1922 swallowed up four small pyramids without a trace.

Before a mega earthquake, there will be a phenomenon of "ground light" at certain times, which is already a clue recognized by the majority of earthquake prediction departments.

"Are you still afraid?" I said, turning my head to look at Syvi.

She straightened up, her eyes still fixed on the Sphinx: "It's much better to have you." ”

I stepped on the gas, twisted the steering wheel, and rushed in the direction of the Pyramid of Khufu. It is recorded in ancient Egyptian texts that the Sphinx was the mount of the pharaoh, and it was inseparable from the pyramid of Khufu. Since you can't find any valuable clues here, why don't you go down the pyramid and take a look.

Syvi's face turned out of the window, not saying a word.

"I'm sorry. "I apologize from the bottom of my heart, after all, I pulled her into this dangerous maelstrom.

"Mr. Chen, there is nothing to apologize for, the Chinese have always paid attention to courtesy, you saved me, I will help you again, do not owe each other." There was a heavy tiredness in her voice.

The atmosphere in the cab was a little stiff, and my eyes were staring at the tip of the pyramid in the distance, and my mind had completely turned to the killer of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong. Xiwei is a good girl, her temperament and appearance are not under Leng Xin, and she is more gentle and delicate than Leng Xin, and she is understanding, I don't want to get too close to this kind of excellent girl, so as not to have a misunderstanding between the two parties.

As the car drove closer to the pyramid, Xi Wei suddenly asked, "Mr. Chen, are you really not interested in the Sea of Gold?" With a lonely smile on the corner of her lips, she raised her hand to brush away the messy hair in front of her forehead, with a completely gloomy look.

"I'm only interested in what belongs to me, and that's always been my life credo. "What I said was a pun, referring to both things and people, and I'm sure someone as smart as Sylvie would understand what I meant.

"That's really a good habit – people who come to Egypt in search of treasure are dazzled by the glitter of gold, and don't know what they really need. The smile on her face deepened, and an invisible barrier appeared between us, and it was getting wider and wider.

I parked in the square in front of the pyramid, decisively opened the door and got out of the car, looking up at the top of the tower, and found no trace of Tang Mei. Her motorcycle was dropped twenty meters in front of her, and she didn't even have time to open the bracket, and the motorcycle was lying on its side on the side of the road, which shows how urgent she was to pursue the source of the golden light.

"What are we doing here?" Syvi jumped out of the car, then clasped her arms and shivered in the cold wind.

"There's a friend who helped you when you were unconscious, and she's just come here on her own, and I'm going to see if she's safe. I kept my voice as low as I could, pulled a mini telescope out of the toolbox under the bridge, and quickly searched for the top of the tower.

If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools. I had all the tools ready in an orderly manner while waiting for dark, but unfortunately only this kind of replica telescope was currently available on the market, and the observation effect was too far from that of the military.

"Who is it? is it someone who is also interested in gold?" Xiwei's words hit the nail on the head, and in my guess, Tang Mei was indeed here for gold.

I nodded, "Yes, but she did help you, but she just didn't get the right medicine." ”

There was a dead silence at the top of the tower, and there was no human figure at all, only large and immovable stones piled on top of each other, glowing a suffocating dead gray.

"I guess that friend of yours must be a girl, isn't it?" The girl's intuition is really powerful, she was already frozen when Tang Mei appeared, but now she still keenly associated Tang Mei's identity.

I put down my binoculars and replied with a smile, "Does that matter? Men and women, as long as they are helpful to us, can they be called 'friends'?"

Xiwei sneered: "Okay, if it's convenient, please thank her for her help for me." ”

She got back into the car, turned on the heater, and curled up hard into her seat. After only a few seconds, she sat up straight, took out the notepad and pencil in her pocket, and began to draw.

I hesitated for a while: "Do you want to go to the top of the tower to have a look? For Tang Mei, of course, for the golden light." ”

Leng Xin's disappearance is an extremely strange accident, and Xiwei's resurgence after stiff death, the light on the pyramid, and a series of strange events focusing on "Sphinx, Pyramid", need to be viewed in the same thinking background. The sudden appearance and disappearance of the golden light really shocked me greatly.

"Hey, Mr. Chen, don't hesitate, you go to your friend, leave me alone!" Xiwei called out without raising her head, turning on the heater to the highest setting, and the whistling wind could be heard clearly within ten steps.

I thought for a moment and responded with a wry smile: "Forget it, her martial arts are quite clever, maybe you don't need my worries, let's go back first." ”

What really needs to be protected is Xiwei, she belongs to a delicate girl who is "powerless", and naturally cannot be compared with Tang Mei. I finally searched the top of the tower, but found nothing, so I went back to the car and put the telescope back into the distance.

"Wait a little longer, and if she doesn't show up, we'll leave—" I leaned against the side of the car and wiped the dust off the mirror.

Sylvie held up the notebook and showed it to me, "It's these sculptures and altars, and the same curse is carved into the neck of the miniature Sphinx. Mr. Chen, you are very knowledgeable, you must be able to teach again, right?"

On the drawings with intricate lines and shadows, she drew quite a few monsters of man and beast, which were silently placed on a star-shaped table. With vague and intricate brushstrokes, she highlights a sphinx in the center of the sculpture, leading to a diagonal arrow symbol, followed by a series of hieroglyphic texts, the same ones we have just seen on top of the statue.

"That's what I see — I see it. She let out a long, faint sigh, put down her notepad, and turned her face to the window.

"So, are you not better aware than I am of the fact that you have seen the same shape in the data atlas before, so that it will remain in your memory unconsciously?" Miss Xiwei, the totem worship and cultural symbols handed down by the ancient Egyptians cannot be explained by modern theories, and you know this better than me?" I didn't rush to start the car, and subconsciously, I had a hunch that something strange would happen.