Stealing Game

Chapter 126 Uneasy Long Sleep
I go to the only female.

Even ignoring her gender, she was the most distinctive among all the corpses.The expressions of the other four were frozen in horror and anger, but she closed her eyes calmly.Not to mention the costume, Lou Shiqi and I even performed it at Arno's ball.

She should be "Sophie", the French archaeologist of the last century in old Blake's notes, and also the reason why he came here.

Old Blake was not here, and the other dead were British servicemen.

I don't know if I should breathe a sigh of relief, maybe Sir Black's uncle is still alive.Moreover, the time here is very strange, maybe his uncle also maintains the appearance of 60 years ago.I just don't know that the living and the dead are treated differently.

I looked at Sophie Anning's face.She has black hair and her eyes are closed, but I seem to see Jacqueline.Maybe the French female archaeologist is guilty of this.

I watched for a while, then crouched down beside Sophie's body.If she's really the archaeologist who insisted on seeing the temple for what it really is, then she must have what I need.

Sure enough, a notebook was found in Sophie's pocket. It was the same type as Old Black's, and several pages were torn out in the same way.I searched for a long time and couldn't find what I wanted. It seems that someone got there first.

"It's a German, and he fought in the Western Desert," said Jarno, who was squatting next to me and rummaging through another body.

How could an Axis soldier lie side by side with the Allies at the same time under the desert where the two sides fought each other?I am afraid that it is another good thing that the United States did after the war to recruit war criminals for intelligence.It is estimated that the remaining ones may not be British soldiers, but may be a hodgepodge of Yankees.

Wait, Western Desert Campaign.Could it be that someone discovered a problem here during World War II?So Alex's grandfather, the Jew Beyer, deliberately mixed Old Blake and others into this situation.But why?

Whoever has been here in the 60 years, the information on the body has been taken.

I took another look at Sophie, the French archaeologist.I don't know if she killed these people and committed suicide 60 years ago to protect someone, or to let the truth end here?
And there is another strange place, that is, why did these people die here?Patrick was shot by Stephanie, but the American soldier 12 years ago and Sophie 60 years ago both committed suicide. The French female archaeologist also took away four people including war criminals from World War II.It's a pity that I don't know how to psychic, or I really want to find out and ask.

I moved my numb legs, and went to inspect the four bronze jars with everyone.Now we don't trust anyone in this small group of partners, so we simply act at the same time.

But at the end, everyone was dumbfounded.There are no bronze jars here, only a huge Eye of Horus painted on the wall.We looked around for a long time, but we didn't see the shadow of the altar, let alone the backbone of Osiris that can enter the infinite loop.

Could it be that the opening method 60 years ago was wrong?

Just as he was about to go out and find a new way, Xia Shangzhou said, "There's no need to look for it. I'm afraid this place just wants us to come here."

Only then did everyone realize that at some point behind us there was a statue of a sitting god as tall as a person.The gods with the animal heads couldn't see their expressions, but their gestures were undoubtedly humble, holding a shrine in their hands.I walked over to see the inscription on the god's left shoulder, and I heard a cry of surprise.

A mercenary behind the statue fell to the ground.

We all rushed over and stood there dumbfounded.It turned out that the statue had been hollowed out, and the lower half of the hollow was filled with a kneeling human body.The man's head rested exactly where the shrine was.After getting the person out, it turned out that it was the traitor who was killed by Leo after letting Stephanie go.

Leo and Jason couldn't tell the difference.

While they were examining the body, I turned on the flashlight and looked inside the statue.The material of this statue is basalt, and there are densely packed inscriptions carved inside. It doesn't look like a blessing, but an exorcism.

To exorcise the idol?
I was wondering, and suddenly felt the surrounding light up.Exiting from the statue, I found that the Eye of Horus on the mural was blooming dazzling golden light, and the mural boiled like lava, and finally melted on the wall.The golden liquid flowed down, turning into half a Senet chessboard.The ground where the bronze pots were originally standing sank, and the other half of the chess game spread out in front of us in an instant.

Fortunately, those who are close are all skilled, and no one was injured in this collapse of the gods.After the chess game was set up, a shaft tomb that penetrated vertically into the floor as deep as half a person was placed between us and the murals.A black sarcophagus sank there silently, just inlaid in half of the Senet chessboard on the ground.

Before anyone could catch their breath, the Senet chessboard came alive, as if someone was already playing.Dense inscriptions crawled all over the wall, and the golden characters flowed like the blood of gods, carrying the magic power that mortals could not peek at, and they were drawn on the book of life and death of Hades.

When the inscription flows, the entire space is like the body of a certain life, and everyone's fate is closely related to it.

If we can solve the puzzle here, maybe Li Yuan and the others will be less dangerous.

"What's going on here?" Arno signaled everyone to step back, making room to see the entire chessboard. "Who is playing this game of chess?"

In the game with the gods, both players have five pieces in their hands.Four of us, Li Yuan, Alex, Hassan, and Laila, have sacrificed blood, so who is the fifth one?
Ali rushed to the front eagerly, wanting to rush into the chess game: "I'll do it!"

I quickly grabbed him.He worries about his night, and I worry about my moon.But now is not the time to act impulsively. If one step is wrong, it may make Li Yuan and the others more dangerous.At this time, I caught a glimpse of the empty coffin, which seemed to be sending out an invitation.

"In that case, let's try to become a god."

I took a step forward and just stepped into the Senet board.But someone moved faster than me.Relying on his height and long legs, Yano leaned over me to look at the coffin.Then he propped himself on the ground with one hand and jumped in first.

I looked at him in shock.

Yanuo stood up from the coffin and looked at me: "I'll try first to see if there is any danger. It would be bad if something happened to Yu."

I didn't care to say that he was reckless, he dared to jump to the tomb casually, and forced myself to calmly say: "You have to lie down, from the perspective of the 'dead'. Because the only way for a man to become a god is to die."

In ancient Egypt, it was religiously significant for mummies to be buried with pillows.

The upper part of the deceased's headrest represents the vast sky, the lower part represents the open land, and the headrest represents the horizon.Placing a person's head on a pillow symbolizes that the sun god is lifted from the underworld.

Arno didn't care about my bad luck.He lay down obediently, groped around with his hands, saying that he was looking for a strange mechanism, and muttered: "This pillow is so weird, it's really uncomfortable to lie on."

I kept staring at the golden inscription on the mural that flowed like the blood of a god.Just when Arno sat up and said: "I can only see the ceiling when I lie there, and there is nothing in it." The Eye of Horus, which had just disappeared, blinked suddenly, and then the whole space seemed to be Trembling, as if someone was panting rapidly.Several familiar king names emerged under the Eye of Horus, ranging from the Old Kingdom to the New Kingdom, but they were all "orthodox" pharaohs.In other words, they were pharaohs who were recognized by the gods in their era and passed on through blood.Then the names of the kings are circled, which represents the death of the pharaoh.The names of the kings of the dead pharaohs are circled below the Eye of Horus like tears of blood.

Then the names of those pharaohs were absorbed into the murals, and then a god broke through the Eye of Horus and occupied the entire wall.

The gods that Pharaoh bought with death?Along the way, it has never been a good thing for us to encounter things related to God.I jumped in before I could wait for Arno to come out.

"Quickly put the lid on the coffin! It's the statue just now!"

I spoke Chinese in a hurry, and everyone was a little confused for a while.Chang Xiao began to push the hollowed out idol without saying a word, and Jason immediately helped him.Xia Shangzhou gave me a worried look, and I urged her to hurry up.I don't know what the change from pharaoh to god means, but I feel that Li Yuan and the others are in danger, and we ourselves are not so safe.

The sarcophagus closed heavily.

Arno and I huddled together in a gorgeous coffin. The pillows were as uncomfortable as he said, but dead people don't complain.Turning on the flashlight illuminated a strange starry sky in front of me. Sure enough, what I saw from this angle was a different scene.

A backbone of Osiris broke through the star composed of inscriptions, and on it, chess pieces made of encore formed a game of senet.

Using the talisman of life as a pawn, and the spine of Hades as a chessboard?
It is obviously blue as the main tone, but after a long time, it reveals a little red.I reached out to touch it and got some sticky liquid.There was blood in the gully of the coffin board, and it hadn't dried yet.

Yano moved suddenly, and I immediately tensed up, guarding against potential danger.Unexpectedly, this little boy took out a handkerchief from his pocket and began to wipe the blood on my fingers.I don't know when, the bruises on my hands have disappeared.

I withdrew my hand, almost swearing, but Yano said with a serious expression: "If someone was imprisoned here, where is that person now? Or, the person was indeed dead, but later Resurrected."

Could it be that the Senet game really started something extraordinary?
Arno unfolded his handkerchief, and there was a blood mark on it, which I just touched from the coffin board.Since the blood was fresh and not dried, in either case it must have happened not too long ago.

We both turned our heads at the same time, and our eyes met on the pillow with the drawing of swallows, both of them were terrified.

The sealing effect of the sarcophagus is really good.The air became viscous, and the eyelids seemed to be heavy. At this time, it seemed that someone said:

Don't fall asleep.

　Sleeping dead, the swallows will wake you up, they will lift your head up.Rise up and shake off your wounds and curses.God Puta has slain your enemy, and the one who hurt you has finally taken the blame.

　　In the "Pyramid Inscriptions", there is a mantra that Shu, the god of air, "looks forward to you (referring to the dead king), and puts himself under you", which represents the symbolism of the headrest.

　　-【Book of the Dead】

　　Flails: Pharaohs are generally portrayed as holding flails and hooks, symbolizing agricultural prosperity and strength
　　
　
(End of this chapter)