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Chapter 7 The Skull of the Tomb Raider

"Come out!" Alxun picked up his gun, slowly approached a very thick stone pillar, and suddenly walked around behind the pillar, with nothing.

"Don't be too nervous..." Qin Ge carefully walked around from the other side of the pillar, "It's impossible that there is someone, maybe you're too nervous..."

"I hope so..." Alxun locked the insurance, "But I think it's better to have two people together, I think something is wrong!"

"Okay! I'll be with you!" Old Liu agreed with Alxun's opinion. Based on his past experience, he also felt that this ancient city was indescribable. "Girl, Master Qin will give it to you..."

"Mr. Liu, you seem to have some misunderstandings with Professor Qin..." Alxun carried the gun behind his back and followed Old Liu to the depths of the ancient city.

Judging from the exposed part of the sand, the overall scale of this ancient city is about the size of a dozen football fields. At that time, it was definitely at the capital level. All exposed buildings were relatively magnificent, and the city layout was relatively loose, and the functional partition was also very clear. Judging from some architectural relics, the exposed part was probably a market. It is not difficult to see from the scale of the market that when this city flourished, its scale was not smaller than that of the then Fistade (Cairo), and even bigger.

I don't know why this city was abandoned and a temple was built to pay tribute. In Liu Dan's opinion, it might be because of some unknown infectious disease or natural disaster, but Qin Ge did not agree with this view. Although natural disasters can explain the temple in front of the city, first of all, this magnificent ancient city does not look like it has encountered natural disasters. Secondly, if there is natural disaster, people may wait until the natural disaster is over before moving back. From the map, the location of this city can be said to be very scientific, and the distance between it and the Nile River is just like flooding.

The possibility of flooding can be ruled out within a distance, and after more than three thousand years, the city has not been completely submerged by the desert, so the possibility of facing the threat of desertification like Loulan can basically be ruled out. If it is a plague, although it can explain why the city is deserted, the Egyptians cannot be so stupid that they cannot distinguish between disease and curse. In Qin Ge's opinion, the possibility of war is greater, but the temple in front of the city cannot explain everything. The only thing that can explain everything is the curse that the entire city is.

"Is it really a curse?" Qin Ge is now quite convinced of the so-called supernatural phenomenon.

"No!" Liu Dan was also thinking while searching, "The curse of the Pharaoh is not that vicious! The ancient Egyptians loved and respected life very much. The emperors of ancient Egypt were very kind to their subjects. Even slaves and workers who built the pyramids would receive good diet and medical treatment. The latest research shows that the royal family would pay them wages regularly. Only those who disturbed the rest of the Pharaoh would be cursed by the Pharaoh. These curses were only aimed at those entering the grave. It was impossible for the Pharaoh to curse a city for no reason. And not every Pharaoh would curse others, because according to some records, the Pharaoh's curse was executed by monks or wizards, and the Pharaoh himself did not have the ability to curse others."

"Then do you think it is possible that the wizard cursed this city?" Although Qin Ge is also an archaeological expert, he does not have a good understanding of Egypt's history.

"It's impossible. The curse of Egypt is not as powerful as the legendary one. It's difficult to curse a person, let alone the entire city. If there were such a person, the Pharaoh would not tolerate his existence!"

While discussing, suddenly the sound of the metal detector in his hand accelerated (Qin Ge chose the most advanced military metal detector this time, with a detection radius of 15 meters and a detection depth of nearly three meters). It seemed that there was something wrong with a house that had been buried halfway by sand.

"Go in and take a look..." Qin Ge pulled out his pistol and lowered his head into the room.

This seemed to be a noble residence, with a large area of ​​room, no roof, and the room was empty - at least the part exposed outside the sand, and there seemed to be carving marks on the wall, but it was completely unrecognizable. At the center of the room, the sound of the metal detector reached the fastest, and it seemed that the thing was buried in the middle.

"Professor Qin, it seems a bit strange here..." Liu Dan walked into the house and kept looking around.

"What's wrong?" Qin Ge also felt a little strange, but he couldn't tell what's strange.

"It seems that someone has dug up here recently. I wonder if it was Sun Ting and the others." With years of Egyptian archaeological experience, Liu Dan found that the sand in the middle of the house was obviously lower than the surroundings. Although it has been more than a month since Sun Ting's accident, the wind and sand here are not strong, so some traces can be seen.

"It's very likely...why are they digging here?" Qin Ge took out a folding shovel from behind and started digging sand. After digging a few times, he encountered a hard thing.

"What is this?" Qin Ge put down the shovel and began to dig with his hands. Gradually, an iron box was presented to the two of them, which was about the same size as an electric oven, but very heavy.

"The ancient Egyptian box! This family must be a nobleman. When Alango was about to destroy, iron smelting technology had just been introduced to Egypt. At that time, there were not many iron ore in Egypt's territory, so the value of iron was almost the same as gold. With such a large iron box, this family was a very rich nobleman! But I don't know why such a precious iron box was left here!" Liu Dan carefully observed the patterns outside the iron box, "This box does not seem to be completely iron. It seems to have some mysterious anticorrosion layer on the outside. After more than three thousand years, it has not been corroded. It is a miracle..."

"What is carved outside the box?" Qin Ge asked.

"Osiris, this is an evil god in ancient Egyptian mythology. Legend has it that if the soul of the pharaoh fails to fly into the sky through the gaps in the pyramid, his mummy will become such an evil god." Liu Dan took out a magnifying glass and looked carefully at the pattern on the periphery of the box. "Osiris led his army to massacre. The way of killing people is strange, as if he would force the prisoners to drink some kind of poison, and then the prisoners would lose their nature and become Osiris' slaves... These human powers are endless, and..." Liu Danden had his eyes wide, "and there was no shadow!"

"No shadow?" Qin Ge also said, "Axun, we have discovered some situations. Please come to us! The place where Cong came in is northeast..."

"We have also discovered important situations!" Alxun's voice came from the intercom, "We have discovered a passage to the underground!"

"Leading to the underground?" Qin Ge frowned, "We found an iron box. The content on the surface of the box seemed to be related to Alango's curse. You can come first, let's go through that passage together!"

"Do we want to open it first?" Liu Dan said.

"No! Let Mr. Liu see if this can be opened first!" After experiencing the last incident, Qin Ge also believed in evil and thought it would be better to ask Lao Liu to confirm this kind of thing first.

About ten minutes later, Lao Liutou and Alxun trotted through the door.

"It's nothing...it seems..." Old Liu looked at the compass for a long time, "This box is an iron tool, which is not transparent to yin and yang, so I can't be sure whether there is any danger here."

"I'll open him! Everyone back!" Alxun stepped forward and was about to open the box.

"Wait!" Old Liu came to Elxun, grabbed a handful of copper coins and put a strange pattern on the ground, took out a talisman from the cloth bag and tucked it into Elxun's waist. "I don't know if it works, stand in this circle to open the box, don't go out of the circle! Let's retreat!" Old Liu said, and with Qin Ge Liu Dan, he left the house, and drew a passage on the ground at the door, "The sun rises eastward, and the bright light is radiant. Five soldiers are in the courtyard, for me, King Kong! As fast as the law!" After reading the thought, he pulled out the dragon scale dagger and slapped it in the center of the door.

"What are you drawing?" Liu Dan was very curious.

"The one next to Brother Ai is called the 'Two Realms Talisman', and the one at the door is called the 'Dingmen Formation'. Even if there is really that thing in the box, it shouldn't hurt Brother Ai, let alone leave this room..." Old Liu said, "But I have no idea whether this Maoshan Formation can work against Egypt."

"What exactly is the 'that thing' you mean...?" Liu Dan was so scared that she trembled with fear. Although she was doing archaeology, she was most afraid of those gods and ghosts.

"Ghost! What else can it be?" Old Liu was also surprised, thinking that after a long time of struggle, why didn't this little girl understand who the opponent was? But as soon as this sentence came out, Liu Dan completely collapsed.

Alxun squatted down, first took out the goggles and gas mask, and put on rubber gloves to prevent the inside of the box from being toxic. Then he began to check if there was any special mechanism around the iron box. After confirming that there was no danger outside the box, he put the tip of the folded crowbar into the crack of the box.

With a bang, the box was pried open.

In the box, there was a dead skull and a roll of sheepskin. A piece of sheepskin was missing. Judging from the shape, it was the piece that Sun Ting took. It was certain that Sun Ting had opened the box.

"It seems that there is no problem!" Alxun shouted to the person outside the door, "This box Sunting has been opened!"

"It's really no problem!" Old Liu looked at the compass and had no reaction. Everyone, go in!

"Oh my God!" Liu Dan picked up the sheepskin, "This hero is a tomb robber!"

"How do you know?" Qin Ge asked.

"This is called scientific research!" Old Liu teased Liu Dan with a smile on his face, "This is not tomb robbery, it is purely for research..."

"This sheepskin records the internal structure of no less than fifteen pyramids... It also records what was stolen from each pyramid..." Liu Dan glanced at Old Liu's head, and his face turned red with anger, "This is Khufu's, this is Jedkara's. Oh, even Tutankhamun's pyramid has visited, this is Havra's... Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Qin Ge frowned.

"Sun Ting also tore off the internal structure of Hafra's pyramid, and there is also on this sheepskin! Why did this tomb robber draw the structural diagram of Hafra's pyramid twice? And why did Sun Ting tear away one of them?" Liu Dan asked in his head, "Let me see the sheepskin in Sun Ting's bag..."

Alxun took out the sheepskin map from Sun Ting's body from his bag and handed it to Liu Dan.

"My God..." Liu Dan took a breath and widened his eyes, "Unbelievable..."

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