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Chapter 102 Cruel Myth

I frowned. I didn’t know what Jacqueline wanted to tell me before she died, and I didn’t dare to ask, for fear of being killed for knowing too much. Li Yuan couldn’t always be by my side, and even if he was, he wouldn’t

He will definitely protect me from gunpoint. And I don’t want to point it at him.

The answer may lie in this mural depicting the Bennu bird.

In order to see the mural clearly, the group of foreigners gathered around the candlelight in a vigorous manner, as if they were going to perform some cult ritual, and they were not worried about consuming the oxygen in the confined space.

By the light of the fire, I looked at the narrative murals around me.

Upon closer inspection, the murals here are simply a god-making scene. According to the meaning of the murals, this temple was originally an entire mine, and the most special stones were worshiped by the ancient Egyptians as gods. The way we came here was actually walking.

In an entire mineral vein radiated by a magnetic field.

This temple is more like a world than a building. However, this world is not boundless, but is locked up and can only repeat itself over and over again.

There are many famous mountains and rivers in China, but there is only one Nile River in Egypt, and the Valley of the Kings is also naked on the ground. Don’t even think about the towering mountain peaks. So their gods are not immortals, but

There are real benefits. For example, the bronze cat statue squatting at Sekhmet's feet should have existed as a sacrifice, but the altar is in the mural.

However, it is okay to say that the Egyptian gods are down-to-earth, but the brushstrokes on the murals here are very underworld. Some of the characters in this narrative mural are relatively thin, and the craggy human figures crawled out of the earth, but they were very plump before crawling out.

I tilted my head and looked at the mural from several angles.

It makes a little sense to compare those twisted and withered people to grapevines. In ancient Egyptian funerary texts, grapevines have the meaning of life, because they die every year and are reborn the next year. It is simply the resurrection of the Pharaoh from the dead.

Perfect interpretation. Seeds are planted, absorb nutrients from the soil, and break out of the ground to feed people. In the murals in front of you, the lush underground world allows people on the ground to survive.

But that’s not right. Some of them were fat and white before they grew up, but shriveled up after they grew up. Could it be that the land sucked all the vitality out of them?

The other three walls are also covered with murals, but the mural facing the burned bronze cow is the most important position of the whole room. The entire wall is divided into two, and the lower mural is twisted

They were humanoid, they struggled out of the soil and then prostrated themselves on the ground, kowtowing respectfully to a boulder. That should be the Primitive Hill.

Above these weird figures is the lion-headed goddess Sekhmet. This goddess stands sideways and looks to the right. Because there is no reading order in ancient Egyptian texts, you can only interpret them according to the orientation of the characters in the text.

Following the direction of the gaze of those captivating ruby ​​eyes, I translated the line of inscription:

[I turn my face to where the sun rises, and I create a miracle for you there. I bring the bones of Seth to you, with all the gifts of the desert, praying to join the eternity you give.]

There is a stone slab under the inscription, and lying on it is Seth with the head of an anteater.

Next to this line of inscription is a Bennu bird, standing sideways on a primitive hill, but turning its head to face us. This kind of frontal image is very rare in ancient Egyptian murals. But it is even more surprising.

What surprised me was that there was only one eye on the bird's face, and the other eyeball was empty where it should have been.

Another line of inscriptions is engraved on the primitive hill at the foot of Bennu: [As long as I guard this place, time cannot set foot in your territory]

What he said is quite satisfying. These gods in Egypt would have to step down long ago in China. They obviously want to benefit the people, but they have derelict in their duties and still want incense. It is simply unreasonable.

"What's written on it?" Li Yuan asked.

"That's not all. I want to make an offering." I said.

But there was only a burned bronze bull and a bronze statue of a cat in this bare house. The only thing that could be called an altar was the scene in the mural of Seth being placed on a stone slab.

There are many small ravines surrounding the body of the God of Desert and Power, winding toward the wall.

The ravine was painted red, and it was unclear whether it referred to the wine offered to Seth or the blood flowing from his body.

I had never seen such ritual regulations before, and I couldn't help but want to look for Jacqueline in the crowd. After watching it for a long time, I remembered that I would never see her again. I took a few slow breaths and suppressed some emotions.

Recalling the last pattern Jacqueline repeated on my wrist.

Why Bennu?

"This bronze bull has been burned. Is it part of the sacrifice?" Lou Shiqi's voice interrupted my thoughts.

I looked at the bronze bull. Yes, how could I ignore this. Breaking or burning something to offer to the gods is often a crucial part of the sacrifice. And it seemed that the bronze bull should have been carried on its back.

What to wear? Ancient Egypt even had the custom of using bronze bulls as coffin beds.

In short, this makes sense. Maybe you can find the way out by offering a sacrifice, and you can still get out anyway. As long as there is a way out, at least you don't have to be helpless anymore.

"You can do it!" I grinned excitedly, and my fist almost hit Lou Shiqi's arm before I stopped abruptly.

Lou Shiqi tilted his shoulders and bumped into my fist.

I ignored him and turned to look for Patrick.

Fortunately, the only remaining Egyptologist agreed with this idea, so the next thing to do was to burn the bronze statue of the cat. After all, there was no altar here, and the sacrifice had to be burned to the gods.

But the ignition point of copper is as high as thousands of degrees. If you want to refine this copper cat, the people in the room must be roasted first.

I quietly looked at Arno. He was carrying ore that could ignite the wind and snow, and he thought it was nothing more than a prehistoric copper cat. But Arno didn't come to show off the limelight, so I had to pretend that I didn't know about it.

The people with the power to make decisions went to the citizens' meeting again, and I also devoted myself to the study of Bennu again. I touched the mural with my hand. I have a memory since the Temple of Set, and I have been wearing it.

Wear gloves to prevent you from touching something dirty and getting possessed.

Could there be a layer below the mural here?

Before I could start digging, the results of the meeting came out. The Senate thought it would be interesting to burn the copper cat first. So under the auspices of Patrick, someone poured wine on the copper cat and threw a lighter on it.

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The copper cat was close to the mural wall. After it was lit, the whole wall was smoky. If Jacqueline was here, she would definitely not let people burn it directly. But now my words are useless, and Patrick did not stand up to stop it.

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While dozens of pairs of people were staring at the copper cat, a man walked up to the mural and looked into the Bennu bird's eyes.

In fact, at this time, I had already seen that it should be a hole in the false door. This kind of false door is usually connected to another room behind it. In the Valley of the Kings, when Hassan and others kidnapped me, there was also such a sinister person.

small hole.

You probably won't see any good scenery in this kind of ghost place. Sure enough, the man was so frightened that he took a few steps back, kicked over the burning copper cat, and hit the bronze bull behind.

My disgust towards these people reached its extreme after Stephanie killed Jacqueline. Instead of warning him, she said coolly after he was frightened: "Don't look at any evil, be careful not to get caught."

Although he would be startled if he was not prepared, this man's reaction was really weird. He kept pointing at the mural, trembling as if he was possessed by an evil spirit. Ordinarily, he would not be so timid if he dared to be a mercenary.

Kawaiisan was frightened. Because this guy was the one who sacrificed the brass earrings. And the other person whose sacrifice was not accepted was Kawaiisan.

Along with a strange smell, the bronze cat cracked after being burned. The person next to him happened to curse: "What the hell is this!"

Everyone took a closer look and were shocked. It turned out that it was not a bronze statue of a cat at all, but a cat mummy wrapped in a bronze shell. At the same time, the murals peeled off and the ceiling cracked, like the entire room.

It's about to fall apart.

Patrick stared at the mural with a horrified expression on his face. After seeing the changes in the mural, he shouted loudly: "Quick, sacrifice on that stone slab, that is the altar! Blood! Blood!"

Karl grabbed the frightened Laila and threw her against the mural wall. He put his gun on her shoulder and was about to shoot. Li Yuan stepped forward and knocked off Karl's gun and pushed Laila away from the wall.

"Do you want us all to die here?" Karl roared.

Before Li Yuan could finish his words, he punched the altar in the mural. His hands were dripping with blood, but his expression was calm and he didn't even frown.

This punch caused the withering wall to shatter directly, and Li Yuan's blood flowed along the ravine under the stone slab to the depths of the mural and melted into the wall. Seth lying on the stone slab in the mural was soaked in blood

Surrounded by veins, it seems that it is sucking Li Yuan's blood, and it also seems that the blood is flowing out of him.

After Li Yuan's blood was licked away by the wall, another mural appeared. And the primitive hill that was originally trampled by the Bennu bird was turned into a shrine and opened inward.

When I saw the mural, I was stunned, and Patrick let out a desperate sigh.

"Everyone, stay away from that wall..." My voice was trembling.

But at this moment, Kawaii-san's cat Tempura let out a strange scream, rushed towards the cat mummy lying on the wall, and then fell into the hollow wall together under the action of inertia.

The cat's shrill cry came from the wall.

I thought to myself: This is a bad dish...

(End of chapter)