[Tomb Raider] Escape

Early the next morning, Nangong Gousheng led the crowd to pack up their tools and prepare to set off.

Siwa Oasis is facing a jagged sandstone hill, backed by the undulating silica ocean of the Great Sand Sea, with criss-cross springs, densely covered with palm forests and date palm forests.This place is undoubtedly the most beautiful oasis in Egypt, and the terrain is relatively the most complex.

She She took the map and studied it for a while, and after arguing with Nangong Gousheng for a while, she determined the location, and finally drove off.

Nangong Gousheng believes that the final treasure location is in the great sand sea to the south of the ancient city of Agumi.While She She was driving, Gousheng explained: "Siwa City was established in the [-]th century. Before that, the residents of Siwa lived in Agumi City. However, the history of Agumi is not long. It was built only in the century, and it should have been a temple dedicated to God Amon in ancient times.”

Li Yaoyao asked: "The whole city is the ruins of the temple? How big is the temple?"

Nangong Gousheng patted his head and said, "You think the temple is just a temple? The Luxor Temple is as big as 46 square meters, what do you think?"

Li Yaoyao opened her mouth wide in surprise.

Soon the car drove through the ancient city of Agumi and arrived at the vast sandy sea.

People in the desert don't feel as if all deserts are equally vast, because people are just a drop in the ocean in the desert.In fact, the Great Sand Sea is one of the largest sand dune lands in the world, spanning Egypt and Libya, extending [-] kilometers southward until Grand Gillev.To find a place to bury treasures in such a vast sea of ​​sand is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.

After driving for a while, patches of chalk began to appear in the long yellow sand on the side of the road.White, pearly rocks emerge from the sand and soar into the sky.

Li Yaoyao exclaimed: "What is that!"

Su Yi is an archaeologist, so he naturally knows this kind of rock, and explained: "This is chalk, also called Baituzi, and it is a variant of calcite. The age is divided by geology, do you know the Cretaceous period?"

After saying this, Li Yaoyao roughly understood.

Nangong Gousheng said: "This is just a drop in the bucket. There are many more in the White Desert. We can see it when we go back."

The car stopped near a crescent-shaped sand dune, and She She said, "According to the scale of the map, it is probably around here."

But let alone whether the maps drawn by the ancient Egyptians are accurate, how easy is it to find after magnifying thousands of times?

Nangong Gousheng didn't say anything, and led his disciples out of the car to dig.

Less than half an hour later, Li Yaoyao exclaimed: "There is something down there!"

Everyone rushed over, Nangong Gousheng stabbed down with a Luoyang shovel, and hit something hard at a depth of about five meters below the sand, making it impossible to go any further.

Gou Sheng fetched the explosive package from the car, told everyone to step back, pulled out the fuse and buried the explosive.

"boom!"

A sufficient amount of explosives blasted the sky full of dust, covering the sky.When the sand and mist dissipated, a large sand pit appeared on the ground.

Nangong Gousheng leaned over to have a look, then shook his head slightly: "Not enough, let's continue to fry."

After using up three packs of explosives, the bunker was several meters deep.

Nangong Gousheng slid into the sandpit and dug up with a shovel first. Li Yaoyao and others soon followed and helped to dig.

After a while, a corner of a white rock appeared under the sand.

Su Yi showed a disappointed expression: "This is chalk... It should be a natural phenomenon, not a treasure."

Nangong Gousheng continued to dig down undaunted, and soon a large piece of chalk was exposed.

He brushed off the thin sand with his hands, and rubbed the rock with his palm: "It's quite smooth, it should be polished by hand."

Yu Yu cheered immediately, and crawled out of the sandpit with hands and feet, and went to the car to get the iron drill and other tools.

It was already afternoon when everyone dug a hole in the rock slab.

The temperature in the desert is very high, nearly fifty degrees.Fortunately, the wind blows from time to time, unlike Shanghai's humid and sultry heat, all the sweat is evaporated immediately, and it doesn't make people feel sticky.

Before getting ready to enter the underground palace, Nangong Gousheng asked everyone to go back to the car and put on long-sleeved trousers, then tied his waist with a rope, and was the first to climb down.

Soon, Nangong Gousheng's voice came from the ground, so everyone climbed down one by one.

The dark corridors are filled with brightly colored murals. Because the flowing air and dust have not entered for thousands of years, the murals are as bright as if they were just completed yesterday.

Since the robbery hole directly opened up the second floor of the underground palace, adhering to the belief that the big fish should be saved until the last to eat, Gousheng and others turned around and climbed to the first floor.

This time, the pharaoh's face and hieroglyphs on the mural were not maliciously damaged, so Nangong Gousheng recognized the owner of the treasure at a glance: "Ramses II!!!"

"Wow!" She She rushed forward first, stroking the face of the mural with adoring eyes: "Idol!!!"

Nangong Gousheng sneered: "Little brat."

Yu Yu immediately turned her head and hugged her thigh: "Master, you are also my idol!"

Qiao Yu asked amusedly, "Why is Ramses his idol?"

Nangong Gousheng laughed and said, because this pharaoh is famous.

Qiao Yu asked, "Isn't Tutankhamun more famous?"

Nangong Gousheng smiled and said: "Tutankhamun is famous, so he hit it by mistake. There are so many tombs in the Valley of the Kings. He is the only one that has not been taken care of by our colleagues until now. If you dig out a golden mask, you will become famous." .”

In fact, Tutankhamun’s tomb is only 110 square meters due to the pharaoh’s untimely death and not many achievements, while other pharaoh’s underground palaces in the Valley of the Kings can be found everywhere, even Ramses II The tomb of the world is 850 square meters, and the joint tomb of his sons is more than 800 square meters (this pharaoh gave birth to more than 100 children alone).Tutankhamun's burial objects are not considered luxurious, but they are fortunate enough to be left today and are world-famous.

Li Yaoyao leaned close to Su Yi's ear and whispered, "Brother She likes him because he has many wives."

Su Yi squinted at him: "Are you envious?"

Li Yaoyao nodded: "Of course!"

Su Yi turned his head and left, and said to himself: "I have a sore back and back pain recently, and it's still comfortable to sleep alone at night."

Li Yaoyao pulled him back and flicked her bangs chicly: "I envy him for his great achievements and abilities! One wife is enough trouble!"

A mural depicts a man kneeling in front of Ramses II, who crowns him with his own hands.

Nangong Gousheng recalled the hieroglyphs on the mural, which was a small poem: "Let us walk through the desert hand in hand and take a bath by the Nile River."

Qiao Yu's head was full of black lines: "Take a bath?"

Nangong Gousheng shrugged: "I guess the little comrades in archaeology will translate it into: let us cross the treacherous desert hand in hand, and bathe in the clear stream of the Nile River."

Qiao Yu: "..."

Nangong Gousheng walked forward unhurriedly, and found that the protagonists on the mural were nothing more than the people in the mythology, Ramses II and the man named Anhe Sanke.The content of the murals includes Ankhsanko worshiping in front of La Harakati and Osiris; the myth of Nut, the sky goddess stretching to the roof; Ankhesanko with Ma'at, the god of truth...even some hieroglyphs It records the contents of the Book of the Dead.

Nangong Gousheng rubbed his chin and narrowed his eyes: "Could it be..."

The three disciples under the Gousheng seat were obviously not very interested in such treasures that could not be taken away, they only cared about knocking on the walls of the corridor all the way, not missing any hidden doors.

There is no treasure in the first floor of the underground palace, but it is also common sense.

Several people spread out to look for any mechanism on the wall, while Nangong Gousheng observed several murals with his hands behind his back.

Some murals depict the scene of Anhe Sanke riding a horse, and the hieroglyphs describe him worshiping the attack of the northern nomads; some murals depict the scene of Anhe Sanke hunting.These murals are more like recording Anhe Sanke's daily life.

Nangong Gousheng murmured, "So he's a general?"

Li Yaoyao suddenly shouted: "There is a strange symbol here, what is it?"

Everyone leaned over, Nangong Gousheng said: "This should be the entrance to the underground palace. This is the seal of the pharaoh, which is stamped at the entrance."

Several people who already knew the name of Ramses II found out the pharaoh's nameplate in the seal.

There is no mystery in the first floor, so the six people turned back and went down again.

The structure of this underground palace is somewhat similar to the previous one, but it looks a little larger.

Yu Yu walked past a wall and found that there were many blue stones inlaid on the uneven wall, so he dug out two and threw one to Li Yaoyao: "Is this a gem?"

Li Yaoyao looked around for a while, and replied: "This is corundum, that is sapphire."

So Yu Yu immediately rolled up his sleeves and continued digging at the stones on the wall.

Nangong Gousheng took one and sighed, "This is a scarab."

"Scared!" Yu Yu was taken aback: "Scarab? Is this a bug fossil?"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head: "It's just carved with gemstones to look like a scarab."

Su Yi pondered and said: "The scarab symbolizes the afterlife... Shouldn't this be found in the tomb?"

Nangong Gousheng smiled: "The book of the dead is still engraved on the mural."

This time everyone was taken aback.

Li Yaoyao murmured belatedly: "In other words, this is actually a tomb?"

Yu Yu immediately received: "Pharaoh's tomb?!"

She She said coolly: "The mummies are all kept in the museum, you are a pharaoh."

Yu Yu immediately imagined wildly: "Wow, what's in the museum is fake! It's a lie! In fact, the real pharaoh is lying here!"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head: "It's probably a tomb named Anhe Sanke." He pointed to a certain man on the mural: "That's him."

"Cut..." Yu Yu was disappointed.

Soon, the six arrived at a hall of pillars, where there were eight pillars.The papyrus on the pillars is very well preserved and depicts a mythical story from the Book of the Dead.

Li Yaoyao took out a small knife, carefully removed the papyrus, and said excitedly: "The real thing! Go back and use it as wallpaper!"

The hall of pillars leads to a storage room. Several people walked outside the storage room, flashed their flashlights, and exclaimed in unison——

The storage room holds hundreds of jewels, various statues, many pottery pots, and a wooden carriage.

Yu Yu took two glass wine glasses, She She picked out a gold dagger, and Li Yaoyao carefully handed over the papyrus that had just been unloaded to Su Yi, began to rummage through the jewelry on the ground, and finally chose a scarab necklace and a gold headpiece.

Nangong Gousheng took two small wooden painted statues and said, "Let's go."

Everyone returned to the pillar hall tacitly, and searched for the secret door again.

This time the secret door is not above the head, but at the foot.

After descending to the third floor of the underground palace, another long corridor came into view.

After walking less than five meters, Yu Yu found a secret door, and several people worked together to carve out a small hole in the secret door.

Li Yaoyao was the first to drop the tools and crawl in from the entrance of the cave. After getting half of her body, she couldn't wait to turn on the flashlight to inspect the small house: "Hiss... so many mummies!"

Yu Yu kicked his butt in, and said hastily, "Quick, let me in."

Immediately afterwards, the remaining few people climbed into the secret room one after another.

Su Yi picked up a small mummy: "This is... a cat mummy?"

Yu Yu bit the handle of the flashlight with his mouth, and took off the bandages of the animal mummy with both hands, and said vaguely, "You can tell if it's a cat or a dog by taking it apart."

Su Yi's mouth twitched.

Li Yaoyao casually flipped through the mummy on the ground, and suddenly felt that there were eyes on her back, and turned around inexplicably——

In the dark corner, a pair of green eyes kept staring at him.

"what!!!"

A scream resounded through the underground palace, and the black shadow in the corner rushed towards Li Yaoyao!