Stealing Game

Chapter 104 The Talisman of Life
"Shh, don't be afraid, be darling, tempura is the best."

Kawaii-san straddled the wall, coaxing the fat cat in his arms with a quirky Japanese song accent.The timid and cautious Japanese looked up and was taken aback by the situation in front of him.With difficulty he freed a hand to push the glasses that had slid onto the tip of his nose.

"what happened?"

There was a loud chuckle.

Meng Wei glanced lightly, and those harsh voices disappeared.He turned to Kawai Isan: "Mr. Kawai, where did you go just now, did you encounter anything?"

Kawaii-san lifted the tempura with difficulty: "When I chased him, he was squatting on the steps. There seemed to be a room in front of him, but he couldn't see anything without the light, so I came back first."

After listening, Boothwell left a few people behind, and took the rest to the place where Kawhisan just came out, and Stephanie naturally followed.Before stepping into the altar in the mural, she deliberately turned to give me a raised eyebrow.

My face was severely beaten.

Xia Shangzhou touched my shoulder, Teacher Bai smiled at me comfortingly, and even Meng Weiqing nodded to me to protect my self-esteem.But after that they also all went behind the mural.

For fear of being wiped out, He Rongchuan and Lou Shiqi were left behind in 279, and the unwise Socrates reluctantly stayed behind as the Egyptians' backup.Meng Weiqing specifically confessed that I can also stay here together.

He Rongchuan clapped his hands: "Dr. Wang is right, this place is full of evil ways, it's better to be careful."

Lou Shiqi also chimed in.

I nodded with an awkward smile, then looked at the mural in front of me again.Those supposedly harmless and cute animal cubs smiled slyly, as if they were waiting for us to send them to our door.

Although my face is still hurting, I still feel that those weird and difficult contents must have all meanings.This temple obviously has a preference for the blood of Li Yuan and the priests' brothers and sisters, and the "door" on the mural was indeed opened after Li Yuan's blood was sacrificed, all of which coincided with the content of the mural.Although I don't believe in resurrection, and I don't think the ancient Egyptians could have thought of it, a vague fear and loathing still grips me.

Seeing that Li Yuan is about to crash into the mural with Alex, who is probably also a mobile dining car, with the sacrifice flowing in his veins, I can only bite the bullet and follow at this point.

Unexpectedly, Patrick stopped me.

"Wang, you are right. There is a problem with this mural. The concept of time in ancient Egypt is different from ours. Interpreting their mythology requires another perspective. But in any case, time cannot give birth to gods and will not return life."

"Then why something was born from the body of the Benu bird, did I understand it wrong?"

"Time was the eternal enemy of ancient Egypt." Patrick shook his head. "Don't let what's in front of you cloud your judgment."

Chang Xiao also said similar things to me, how much did these people hide from me?

But I don't have time for charades.

"Before we came down, what did the Egyptians say when they sacrificed? What did Jacqueline know that she was left there?" I asked.

Jacqueline's death was a big shock to me, not only because she was killed by "one of my own".Now that I think about it, when she told me that she wanted to make plans for herself, she must have noticed some signs.This has always made me restless, always feeling that there is something very important that I have overlooked.

"You will know, but not now. You have to go to the end." Patrick seemed to have made up his mind, smiled at me, and then followed the team.Looking at his back, for some reason I had a bad premonition.

Except for the left-behind children, everyone followed the altar in the acacia tree and entered behind the mural.There are long steps going down, and piles of cat-shaped objects are placed on both sides illuminated by artificial light sources.

"How much did the ancient Egyptians like cats, and made such sculptures." Arno swept the two sides with the light of the flashlight.

I looked carefully at the "sculpture" at my feet, and then took a deep breath. "These are cat mummies."

Then I raised my head subconsciously, and the top of the low corridor was filled with Sekhmet's scarlet eyes.It's an all-around infiltration.I ducked into the middle of the road and bumped into Alex.She was looking at the scattered cat mummies with surprise and disgust on her face.

Arno cursed in Italian, and stepped back from the sidelines.Li Yuan didn't know what he was looking at just now, but now he walked quickly behind me and Alex.

This road is not very wide, so Alex and I can walk side by side. For example, if Li Yuan and Yanuo walk side by side, someone must step on the cat's mummy.Even if Kawaii-san chased Tempura in in a panic, he couldn't ignore the mummy cats all over the floor, and how could Tempura run across such a road and then stop at the door of the room?What makes me even more puzzled is why Kawhi-san would lie.

The corridor became narrower at some point, and everyone had to walk through it one by one.

After walking for about seven or eight minutes, a group of people came to the end.The room that suddenly opened up had some unused tables, and the light source could only illuminate the innermost stone wall, and everything around was dark.

A huge talisman of life is deeply engraved on the stone wall, which is called "the cross with a handle" in Latin.One hand holds up the earliest worshiped symbol of ancient Egypt.Those hands are "ka", which in hieroglyphics represent the soul.

From the layout of the room, we believe this was where the priests or workers prepared themselves for their duties, whatever their duties might be here.When we got closer, we saw neatly arranged modern equipment beside the stone wall.Although these equipments are relatively outdated so far, they are definitely from this century, and they used to be the best batch.

"Hey, pay attention, we seem to have a companion." A man with a Russian accent said nervously.

It turned out that there was already someone else here besides us.That person was obviously not Jacqueline, nor was it Bruce who had left the team by himself earlier.A man in an unfamiliar desert costume stood facing the wall in a corner not far away, with an open door beside him.

We quickly learned the identity of that person.

After seeing the orderly equipment on the ground, Morgan gasped, and Alex covered his mouth.

"This belongs to Eva and the others. She has indeed been here." Morgan said excitedly.

Alex's eyes moistened, and her lips moved silently, clearly saying the word "mother".Li Yuan and I looked at each other, and it was true.

Morgan couldn't help walking towards the man in the corner, but was stopped by Carl.

"What are you doing! I'm going to ask him where the others are!"

"What do you want to ask? Don't tell me that you expect those Egyptians to channel you." Facing the angry Morgan, Carl said coldly, "That person is dead."

Shocked, Morgan subconsciously looked at Boothwell.The expression on the bearded man's face was obscure, but his body was tense.He signaled Morgan not to act rashly, and then asked his men to check on the person who had been standing here for an unknown amount of time.

Brass studs and Russians go up and put the man on the ground with a rope.The corpse fell limply, as if alive.But the ashen look on his face that even strong light could not erase showed that this person had lost his breath.

A Talisman of Life was engraved where the man was originally facing.It is ridiculous that a life dissipates under its gaze.

The face of the deceased had distinct Arabic features.I'm relieved it's not Alex's father.But in the next second, Hassan and Laila were about to pounce on it.

I almost forgot, according to Mustafa and Sir Black, among the people who came here 12 years ago, besides Alex’s parents and Sir Black, there was Mustafa’s son, the uncle of the priest brothers and sisters .

It is not a good idea to touch a strange corpse rashly.I hurriedly grabbed them.But facing the two pairs of sad amber eyes, I don't know what to say.

Unexpectedly, Alex actually said: "They came in 12 years ago, and now nothing we do will help. It is important to protect our own safety."

There were no traces of tears in the girl's eyes, and I only saw a dazzling light.It seems that she will not give up hope until she sees her mother.

"That's strange." Teacher Bai stood up and backed away from the corpse.He whispered in his native dialect: "This man doesn't seem to be dead."

(End of this chapter)