Cannon Fodder Collection [Comprehensive]

Nepenthes waited for a while, but they didn't see half of the scarabs.

It turned its head and stared at Lin Ning with deep eyes.

Lin Ning laughed dryly, "I'll take you to find it." During this period, she carefully studied the stone room where they were located, but she didn't find any murals or written records that could identify the original person. It is better to move the position.

Just go.

Under the guidance of the guiding spell, they walked through the tortuous passages without any surprises. During the period, Lin Ning saw the murals, and through the interpretation of the ancient Egyptian texts above, he knew that this was the ancient Egyptian pharaoh Sai of the 131th Dynasty. It was built by King Ti I (1304-1337 BC, one said 1317 BC-[-] BC), but what puzzled Lin Ning was that this was not the tomb of Seti I, but More like another purpose.

Lin Ning turned to the White Queen, who shook her head slightly, indicating that she had no way of knowing.

At this time, the pitcher plant gave a "woof".

In front of it is carved a statue of a guard holding a spear, and in the depression is inlaid with egg-sized beetle decorations.Most of the shell is blue, it looks like stone but not stone, and the whole exudes a metallic light.

Before Lin Ning said anything, the pitcher plant picked one out from above.

The thing fell into the yellow sand, and there was a crisp "click" sound, and a living scarab came out of the metal shell after a while.

Nepenthes: "!"

Before the scarab could smell the fresh flesh, it became the belly of the pitcher plant.

The pitcher plant obviously likes this kind of scarab, and it can be seen by watching it pick out other metal worms and pick out the scarab inside to eat.

Lin Ning squatted down and picked up the metal shell left on the yellow sand. She sniffed it lightly, but she couldn't smell anything, "If I remember correctly, if there is a corpse to eat this kind of insect , it can live for several years without dying, and looking at the corrosion inside the pyramid, I think there will always be two or three thousand years, so what guarantees that this scarab can survive until now?"

She thought about it, "but my dear, you exist in this form, which can actually explain this phenomenon. According to our knowledge, the prototype of this scarab is the dung beetle. The ancient Egyptians saw the dung beetle pushing the dung ball again and again. , Continuously, the dung beetle was transformed into a scarab, endowed with the meaning of longevity, luck and auspiciousness, and later evolved into the god Capri. Ah, here, the head of a scarab with a human body."

Lin Ning pointed to the mural not far away, "In this way, it can be understood that these scarabs have been protected by divine power, so they can survive for such a long time."

Nepenthes: "Wow, woof?"

Lin Ning: "...you've eaten everything, so is there any point in postponing it?"

Nepenthes thought about it too, so it ate again.

White Queen: "Emilia?"

Lin Ning picked up the shell of unknown metal and replied: "But this shell was made by ancient Egyptian craftsmen. I want to find out what kind of material it is made of."

She paused and added silently: "Avoid waste."

The White Queen thought so deeply.

When the family of three left the pyramid, they only took away a few scarabs and nothing else, and they were not moved by the treasures piled up in the pyramid. Of course, the curse attached to it was also there. It clearly reminded them that even though Lin Ning could lift the curse by researching it, they still didn't take it after weighing it.

After leaving the pyramid, they noticed a terrifying and strange thing.There are piles of bones hidden in the yellow sand, as well as various clothes and rifles.Lin Ning looked at the rifle, and thought that if this rifle is the most commonly used weapon for people today, then their era will not be older than the 50s, even more advanced than when they were in the last parallel world .

"Then what happened to them?"

Against the yellow sand, the piles of white bones look indescribably shocking.

Lin Ning couldn't help looking back at the pyramid.

Later, she carefully inspected the pile of bones. She noticed the bullet holes and knife wounds. She was about to show it to the White Queen, but she was shocked to see that the bones in her hand dried up at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then weathered into ashes and fell into the yellow sand.

Lin Ning: "??"

White Queen: "?"

For some reason, Lin Ning had a bad premonition. This premonition was confirmed after she touched the bones one after another, and the bones were also weathered, but the pitcher plant did not change after touching the bones.

Lin Ning: "...I seem to have absorbed the anger in it."

Her tone was not to mention dry.

Not only that, but she also thought of Voldemort's spell when he reshaped his body in the original book of "Harry Potter":

The father's bones, donated unintentionally, can regenerate your son.

The flesh of a servant, donated voluntarily, regenerates your master.

The blood of your enemies, compelled to sacrifice, may resurrect your enemies.

Then I thought of the process that she had drawn out from a mummy that was even being mummified into a brain, and the process of gradually plumping the body and reshaping the brain. All these seem to explain one thing, that is, the process of causing The strange and frightening situation in front of her was not the pyramid and its inner curse, but actually herself.

Lin Ning: "..." So what is this?In the past, at most, there were murder cases wherever she went, but now she can directly act as the god of death?

White Queen: "Amelia, are you all right?"

Lin Ning was extremely weak: "Well, I just know what I will eat in the future."

The pitcher plant shuddered suddenly, and subconsciously protected its scarab.

Lin Ning: "... Bah."

She doesn't eat dung beetles.

House seemingly endless rain.

The day after they came to the nearest city, Fort Byton, Cairo from the vast desert, Lin Ning got the key word, and after being inspired, he knew the identity of the original body.

In fact, before hearing the key word "Hamna Tower", Lin Ning looked in the mirror to see what she looks like now, and felt a little familiar.It was a very exotic appearance, and it was charming and affectionate with just a little outline. Lin Ning was not like this before, and after the inner core became her, even if she looked charming, she was not very charming.

But this is not the point. The point is that after Lin Ning thought the face looked familiar, she focused on recalling it, and was distracted to observe her body again.Lin Ning doesn't know the age of the original body when it was mummified, but considering that the ancient Egyptians at that time could only live to be 40 years old at most, the original body should not be more than 40 years old when she died, but now she shows She was only in her 20s, which could be said to be the best years at that time. If the current body is the body of the original body, then the original body must have been of noble birth and had undergone physical training, and she appeared in Seti I In the pyramid built for some unexplainable purpose, Lin Ning speculated that the original body was most likely the woman of Seti I.

It is possible to do something terrible and not very visible, otherwise why is there no record in the pyramid?

As for what?Lin Ning felt that she had an answer.

When she heard someone quietly discussing "Hamna Tower" in the city later, a flash of lightning flashed across her mind, and everything became clear.

The new world that their family of three lives in now is a parallel world derived from the series of movies "The Mummy" that she and the White Queen once watched.

The original name was Ansuna, the favorite concubine of Seti I.

She had an affair with Imerton, the high priest whose status was second only to Pharaoh, and jointly put a cuckold on Seti I, and was broken by Seti I during an affair.The two of them continued to do nothing, and joined forces to kill Seti I.

However, the arrival of Pharaoh's guards forced them to make a decision.

Ansuna decisively let Imerton go first, she knew that only Imerton could revive her, and then committed suicide in front of the guards.Surrounded by monks and fleeing, Imerton took out the "Book of the Dead" from the shrine in order to revive Ansuna, and came to Hamna Tower in an attempt to revive Ansuna whose soul had been taken into the underworld. A spell recorded in the Book of the Dead conjured her up, but the ritual was interrupted by the guards who came after her.

Imerton was also condemned for the murder of the Pharaoh and the adultery with the Pharaoh's favorite concubine, which was the most vicious of the ancient spells, and was never performed because it was too horrible.Imerton was mummified alive, and his sarcophagus was filled with scarabs, which devoured him alive and deprived him of his afterlife.

The above is just the background of "The Mummy". The story actually happened 3000 years after Imerton was eaten by insects. Imerton was resurrected by "coincidence" and will continue his only long-cherished wish:

Revive his love Ansuna.

The resurrection ceremony recorded in the "Book of the Dead" requires Ansuna's bones, together with the flesh and blood of living people, and with the spell to summon Ansuna's soul from the underworld.

The current situation is that Imerton is still in the sarcophagus, and Lin Ning borrowed the bones of Ansuna, and the blood and flesh of the American soldiers and Egyptians who died on the Hamna Tower during the chaos. Resurrection" came over.

Strictly speaking, she has little to do with Ansuna.

After all, if Imerton wanted to identify, then he would identify Ansuna's soul.

Ansuna's soul is still in the underworld.

Lin Ning just borrowed Ansuna's bones, seeing that she doesn't even have internal organs.She has no one to reason with herself, does she?

Ugh.

And the year is 19, just five years from the end of the First World War, that is, in this year, the British electronic engineer John Baird invented a device capable of producing eight-line images for him, that is, the earliest TV set A patent was filed; five years before penicillin was invented; 20 years after the first powered airplane took off, and it was the year that humans made the first non-stop transcontinental flight.

It can be said that for Lin Ning at this time, it was a slightly barren era with too much room for display, and her thinking like this was obviously deeply influenced by her role as an innovator in the previous world.

However, she also sorted out her current personal situation. She herself is not happy to see Imerton revived. He is a character in ancient Egypt who can communicate directly with the gods. With her current "half bottle of water" magic power, can she It's hard to say if you can hold him.

So in response to this situation, Lin Ning can do something to prevent Imerton's resurrection.According to the original plot, the key to Imerton's sarcophagus was picked up by the actor Rick O'Connor from Hamna Tower, and then it was found in the hands of the heroine Evelyn Carnahan, and then they went to Ham Nata explored and found Imerton's sarcophagus. Later, Evelyn didn't know whether it was based on the needs of the plot or was too adventurous, so she read aloud the "Book of the Dead" that another adventurer found from Hamnata. As a result, Imerton was awakened.

Looking at the situation now, Rick O'Connor had just escaped from Hamna Tower not long ago, so there was a lot of room for her to maneuver.

Lin Ning thought so, and then a sense of hunger surged up.

Lin Ning: "..."

She can now absorb the vitality of life through contact, even touching plants can make people wither, it can be said that touching someone is a dog, this can't be more embarrassing.

The White Queen, who was floating behind her and watching her write and draw on the paper, saw her suddenly covering her forehead. Even though the White Queen didn't listen to her stomach's hunger signal, the White Queen still accurately realized the crux of the matter: "Amelia, are you hungry?"

Lin Ning: "...I don't even have a digestive system."

The White Queen thought for a while and said, "Actually, I noticed that a group of thieves appeared in the local area who robbed and killed people."

Lin Ning immediately understood what she meant.

Then, under the debuff of hunger, she found the group of thieves according to the local rumors, and directly sucked them to dry, leaving only their belongings.

Lin Ning didn't know what to say for a while.

It is true that she executed criminals in private in the past, but she basically kept their whole bodies. Now that it is all right, even the problem of how to dispose of the corpses has been solved along with "green and pollution-free", and by the way To solve her food problem, it is simply getting more for one job.

How good.

shit!

Lin Ning especially wanted to raise her middle finger towards the system, she didn't like this way of eating at all.

However, until she researched a substitute, she still had to maintain this hunting method, which caused the criminals who committed crimes in Fort Byton but were not brought to justice for a while to disappear at a speed visible to the naked eye.They were not ordinary disappearances, but the kind of disappearance that left nothing behind. Even the rich and powerful heard the news and put layers of protection on themselves, but they couldn't prevent it, and disappeared without a trace as usual.

For a time, the wind was roaring.

Police in Fort Byton were also alerted, and they began door-to-door looking for suspicious persons.

Lin Ning left the city at this time, heading towards Egypt, the current capital of Egypt.In the original novel, there is no mention of Rick O'Connor's whereabouts during the most recent time away from Hamna Tower, and he was imprisoned in Cairo's prison when he reappeared.Lin Ning went there to wait and see, and at the same time, because the crime rate in Fort Byton had dropped sharply recently, Lin Ning had to change to another area to "hunt".

Due to his physical condition, Lin Ning couldn't ride a horse, nor could he ride a camel, so he had to spend a lot of effort to get a car.At this time, cars were not so rare in Egypt, but they were not common. In fact, ten years ago, the American car manufacturer Henry Ford officially launched his car assembly line, which reduced costs and improved efficiency. Cars can enter the homes of ordinary people.

Lin Ning also modified the convertible so that the White Queen could appear in the car.

Lin Ning was in charge of driving, and the White Queen sat in the passenger seat.

As for pitcher plants?It was lying on the back seat counting how many scarabs it had left.It is not that there are beetles, locusts and other insects outside the pyramid, but the taste is not as good as the scarabs brought back from the Hamna Tower. It is just that there are a few of them, and one eats one less, so it is especially cherished now, and counts everything. again.

Lin Ning coughed dryly: "I took one away for research."

Nepenthes: "!"

Lin Ning said immediately, "Then I decided that we could go to Hamna Tower again and get more scarabs from there."

Nepenthes: "Wow"

Lin Ning was about to swear, and the pitcher plant forgave Lin Ning for "snatching food from its mouth", but it was still wilted, huddled up and pointing its butt at the front seat.

Lin Ning: "...I have found that the energy contained in the scarab is more pure than the energy contained in ordinary people. To me, it is food with more calories."

White Queen: "You mean?"

Lin Ning nodded: "I think we can turn our targets to blessed life forms like scarabs, and maybe it's not limited to life forms. Ancient objects containing energy may also be useful to me."

The White Queen looked at the resurrection stone she was "living in": "You mean something like the resurrection stone?"

Lin Ning: "Yes."

White Queen: "Then Emilia, are you going to become an antique collector?"

"Archaeologists are also good," Lin Ning said after a pause, "Actually, I have thought about becoming a practical capitalist." The kind that can be written into the historical process.

The White Queen turned her head to look at her: "Do these two contradict each other?"

Lin Ning thought for a while and then smiled and said, "It doesn't seem to be." The White Queen is in charge.

Now the two of them reached a consensus again, and Lin Ning happily drove the car towards Cairo under the guidance of the guiding spell. Little did he know that after they left Fort Byton, a small group of people in uniform came from Fort Byton. Egyptians, and they were dressed in a high degree of uniformity with the Egyptians who fought against Rick O'Connor and his soldiers in front of the Hamna Tower.

In fact, they are the same group of people.

They are not the police, nor the army. They are the descendants of the guards sent by Seti I to guard the Hamna Tower. They have guarded the Hamna Tower for generations to ensure that Imerton will not be resurrected.Because according to legend, people who have experienced the curse of insect bites will bring disaster to the world, and even bring about the so-called end of the world once they are resurrected.

That's why when Rick O'Connor and his soldiers came to Hamna Tower to hunt for treasure, they would take action to prevent them from entering Hamna Tower, absolutely not allowing anyone to leave alive.

As for how O'Connor left alive?It was their leader who said the desert would take care of him, and O'Connor apparently wasn't taken care of.

And they, as the guards of Hamna Tower, appeared in Fort Byton because they heard the sensational series of rumors that happened in Fort Byton.The earliest time that the rumors can be traced back happened to be a few days after they solved the group of intruders, and after their investigation, they realized that the people who disappeared in Fort Byton were all due to some unscientific Strength in early records.

They began to wonder if the monsters from Hamna Tower had been released, or if something had been brought out of Hamna Tower, and they immediately thought of O'Connor who was not killed by them immediately.

Edith Bay, the leader of the bodyguard organization, gave the order: "Find that man."

"Yes!"

At the same time, they also continue to track down the perpetrators of unscientific disasters.

The instigator, Ning, also solved several murders when he stopped in the middle city on the way to Cairo.At this time, the situation was a bit chaotic, the criminal investigation methods were not complete, and the police did not care about many of the cases she encountered before. For Lin Ning, she did not spend much time looking for edible "food". and energy, that made her even hungrier.

Kind of like a vicious cycle.

Well, Lin Ning still has a strong self-control ability. She can even absorb all the anger of a person's ten-year lifespan, which is equivalent to giving a ten-year sentence to a criminal who she caught evidence of a crime.Arriving in Cairo half hungry and half full, Lin Ning said abruptly, "I must take an X-ray to see what I look like now." X-rays had already been used in medical treatment in the first decade of this century. It's just that it hasn't been widely used yet.

The White Queen thought for a while and said seriously: "I will keep it well."

Lin Ning let out a "huh" and said, "It's okay."

After Lin Ning finished speaking, she subconsciously looked down. She didn't even have a heart in her chest cavity, let alone how empty it was. After saying this, the one in the five viscera altars next to the Ansuna stone platform earlier Ansuna's heart was contained in the jar of lion head viscera that came out.Lin Ning didn't know what the special meaning was, because she felt that they would need to update the knowledge of ancient Egypt in this parallel world next.

Lin Ning pondered: "I know where we can go first."

The White Queen: "Yes."

Nepenthes: "Wow?"

Lin Ning: "...don't be in a hurry."

They were driving steadily on the streets of Cairo, and when they turned into a street, they passed a group of Egyptians on horseback wearing black clothes. The leading Egyptians had strange symbols faintly under their veils.They didn't pay much attention to Lin Ning's car, but Lin Ning gave them an extra look, and then drove forward calmly.

It is said that the descendants of Pharaoh's guards did not leave a portrait of Ansuna, right?