God's Descend

Inside the temple, the high priest in white robes walked through the tall stone pillars, followed by two rows of young girls holding porcelain plates behind him.

The rising sun is a key node in the life cycle of the supreme god, and they will hold a ceremony for the god.Of course, only high priests and "kings" can enter the dwelling place of the gods. The girls only put food, clothing, and spices at the gate of the temple, and then leave respectfully. No one dares to look up and peek inside the temple.

When they walked through the aisle, they passed a person, and the leading girl quickly stopped him and reminded him: "Sir, it's a forbidden area, you can't..."

She kept her words in her mouth.

It was an adult man who looked less than thirty, with a straight nose and deep eye sockets, but his complexion was much fairer than that of the locals, as if he hadn't seen the sun for a long time.

He was wearing a retro-style light-colored windbreaker, and he was actually holding a wooden cane in an old-fashioned way, with the totem of the sun god carved on the top of the cane.There was no expression on his face, and he didn't stop in his footsteps, he just gave her a cold look.

It wasn't until the man walked straight into the temple that she shook her head violently, blinked her eyes in confusion, and led him away again.

"Great god Ra, may your glory return to the banks of the Nile soon..."

Ra put a finger to his lips in a silencing motion.He walked up to the tall statue in the depths of the temple, looked up for a while, and his voice was tired and slightly hoarse.

"what's your name?"

The high priest didn't care that he forgot his name, and replied respectfully. Ra nodded casually, obviously just asking politely, without taking it to heart.

"Tell me about Atum."

This one has been moody since he recovered.The high priest didn't know what he meant, so he had to recite all the content he knew, which was so simple that even young Egyptian children knew it.

"...Amon is your original form, and your next incarnation will be Atum.

You created him to share one physical body with him.

You created the heavens and the earth and the seeds that gave birth to gods and mortals.

O Supreme God, you are the Holy Dung Beetle at sunrise, Ra the mightiest at noon, and Atum at night when you are weak. "

He recited the hymn to God Ra, observed his expression carefully, and was relieved when he saw the corners of his lips slightly curved——

The next moment, his eyes were wide open, and he grabbed his neck in disbelief. The air around him seemed to be isolated in an instant, he couldn't breathe, the veins on his arms bulged, and he fell to his knees in despair, but he couldn't even plead. exit.

"Knowing that Atum is weak, you still let people into the temple to worship at night?" Ra stared at him with a cold expression, "Are you waiting for Atum to become stronger and suppress me?"

Only then did the priest realize that he had done something wrong. He closed his eyes and was almost ready to die.

Ra twitched the corner of her lips.The priest was instantly released from the desperate situation, panting heavily, and the priest's robe was soaked in cold sweat for a while.

"The god of Simeng said that Atum appeared last night, do you know what it means?" Ra rubbed the top of the cane with his thumb, his eyes half-opened, "...his beloved people deliberately forgot, You should always remember. You betrayed him and sealed him up. How much he loved the Egyptians, and now he hates them."

"If he revives, he will surely bring plague and disaster, and the holy dung beetle will lay eggs in the body of the traitor."

"Is this, is your prophecy?" The aged priest knelt on the ground, shaking his head into the sieve after hearing the words, and dared not raise his head for a long time.But when he looked up again, the man had disappeared.

Near the rock wall of the desert, there is a pyramid that is mostly buried under the sand. Judging from the external traces, it has been buried under the desert for many years.It was also during the recent sandstorm that it was finally spit out by the sea of ​​sand.

"The entrance is still buried below," the expedition team came over and shrugged, "—I mean, if it had an entrance... In fact, many pharaohs destroyed the entrance to prevent thieves after they entered the tomb."

Luke took off his sunglasses and squinted his eyes in the scorching sun: "Okay. Then what do you say? Blast a hole in it?"

After he finished speaking, he found that the people around him were staring at him.

There was a loud bang, and yellow sand flew around.Luke wiped the sweat from the bridge of his nose and looked at the hole blasted by the ammunition.

Of course, the location of the blast was selected based on instrumental surveys, and there is a high probability that there is space in this wall.

The entrance of the cave is only about two meters high, and it happens to be above a long tomb passage, more than one meter above the inner ground.The turbid air of the tomb passage gushes out, and the smell of old dust can be smelled several meters away.

Dozens of people gathered around and looked at the dark and deep hole for a long time, but no one dared to go down first.Luke took a deep breath, put his palms on the hole and was about to jump down, but accidentally broke off a piece of gravel, and he threw it behind him, but suddenly realized that the touch was not right.

It was a piece of yellowed and cracked bone.

Inside the exposed wall, there are still many such broken bones embedded, mixed with the gray-yellow soil and rocks, and you can't notice it at a glance.

In the deathly silence, the young man next to him was holding a small notebook for recording. He could hardly hold the pen steadily in his hand. He said, "...are they animal bones? According to the density of bones in this wall, It takes too many bones to build such a large pyramid."

Jiang Yunan was relatively close, bent down to pick it up and took a look: "It's a human bone, that's right."

Luke glanced at him: "Professor Jiang can see this." In fact, both he and the mercenaries were used to seeing these things and recognized them long ago.

A Russian whistled: "Pyramid of human bones, that's cool!"

"Almost forgot, where is the guide? Let him go in first." Luke asked someone to push him over and patted him on the shoulder, "Go, God will bless you."

Yalf's face turned pale. He glanced at his watch and he was relieved that it was almost noon.

"Okay, but you have to come out before dark." He glanced at Luke and emphasized, "This is the territory of the god Atum at night, and the mountain dog will be judged. Regardless of whether the main tomb is found or not, you must Come out, or else..."

"Do not talk nonsense."

The leader of the mercenary interrupted him, and pushed him impatiently, and Yalf fell into the hole with a whoop.

The tomb passage was very deep, and the lighting equipment on his head emitted a white beam of light, shooting into the deep interior, where there seemed to be a bend.He walked to the end along the tomb passage, and gestured to the opening behind, indicating that he would go in first.

Yalf has been in for about five or six minutes, the darkness and silence are too tormenting, probably for emboldenment, he talks non-stop over there, mostly meaningless ramblings.For example, "Oh, the murals on it are still well preserved, and the tomb passage is also very complete. There must have been no tomb robbers before. I'm sure there are many good things in it! We made a fortune! The murals, ah... the murals, are not bad, huh, It seems a bit cold, what do you think? What time is it?"

Luke backed up his gear and checked the bullets one last time.He waved his hand and led the man into the cave.

The Russian threw the cigarette butt on the ground at the entrance of the cave and stamped it out with his toes, and then followed, snorting and laughing easily: "Gun, yes, there must be enough bullets, maybe it will pierce the head of the mummy that is alive and kicking!" After he finished speaking, he was amused by himself, "Oh Luke, you don't believe the nonsense that scares the grave robbers, do you?"

"—Whoever dares to disturb the Pharaoh's eternal sleep, the god of death will spread his wings and descend on his head." Accompanied by an unknown cheerful tune, he sang this well-known mantra without hesitation.

The tomb passage was dark and cold, only the spotlights of the searchlights were shining on the wall.The singing echoed in the long corridor, and the echo spread far away, until no one could hear it anymore.Ethereal and weird, it seems that someone is really in the depths of the tomb, laughing and cursing.

Jiang Yunan frowned.Someone coughed: "Victor, that's enough..."

Before he could finish speaking, there was a loud electrical sound from the intercom.It was Yalf. He had just discovered a tomb, and he didn't dare to go down without authorization, so he stood by where he was.

"Captain, are you coming soon?" His teeth chattering could be heard through the walkie-talkie, "I feel a little cold, is it cooling down..."

This is unusual.The pyramid has a special structure, no matter how the outside temperature changes, it maintains a constant temperature of 20 degrees.They thought it might be Yalf's psychological effect, but as they got deeper, the road became narrower and narrower, and they even had to bend down to pass.

After going down another steep slope, the feeling of a sudden drop in temperature is too obvious, and no one can deceive themselves anymore.Some people wrapped their clothes tightly, and some of the mercenaries began to curse. Such emotions are really not conducive to action.

The air here has been sealed for thousands of years, and deadly germs may exist everywhere.I didn't think so much when I first came in, but once I got deep into the pyramid, I gradually realized it.

Jiang Yunan expressed his thoughts, and Luke pondered for a while with a serious expression: "Go out if you don't find it in another hour, and come back after a day of rest."

A light source suddenly appeared in front of him, it was Yalf.Yalf sat in a square hole, and when he saw the group of them coming, he stood up and waved his hands.

"Hey, I'm here!"

Jiang Yunan, as the professional with the most professional knowledge present, stepped forward to check.The square hole was less than 1.5 meters long and wide, and inside was a huge empty and dark space, with nothing in it, except for the indistinct murals painted on the walls, and the sound of ticking water coming from somewhere.

"Do you want to go down?" Jiang Yunan patted the dust on his hands, "There is nothing inside, but there are some murals that may be useful to determine the identity of the owner of the tomb."

"You said that there are only murals in such a large tomb?" The Russian didn't seem to believe it. "Did the contents inside be stolen by tomb robbers?"

"There is evidence that there is indeed a huge space of unknown purpose in the pyramid, which may be related to magnetic fields or..." He changed the easy-to-understand term, "People at that time believed that energy could be concentrated in certain tombs in some form .”

"This at least shows that we didn't go the wrong way." Luke listened to the survey report and nodded. "The oxygen content below is normal, and there is no toxic gas. There is a passage at the corner of the tomb, which may lead to other tombs."

He brought a dozen people down, and Jiang Yunan was among them.Qi Nian looked too young, Luke didn't want to take him, but he insisted on following.The rest stayed on it, waiting for them to come out.

They slid down the rope, but at a height of more than 20 meters, Luke was a little worried about the Chinese professor who looked very weak: "Jiang, can you do it?"

During his movement, the silver cross on his neck slipped out from the neckline, Jiang Yunan raised his eyebrows: "You should worry about yourself. I'm afraid God's hand can't reach here."

"People have to have faith. What if there are ghosts and gods?" Luke tucked the cross back into his neckline with one free hand. The moment he lowered his head, he suddenly saw something passing by in the darkness below.

His expression changed: "There's something down there!"

The other people also tensed up instantly, but it was impossible to climb any further.Jiang Yunan followed his gaze and looked down. On the top of several stairs, a dark lone wolf was standing there quietly. Its eyes were staring at them, looking cold and strange.

Someone breathed a sigh of relief: "It's a jackal, there are a lot of them in the desert."

"Desert? This is in the pyramid, how did this thing get in?"

This sentence woke up many people, and they asked to go up one after another. Someone pulled the rope: "Hey, pull us up! After being rejected, he cursed endlessly." That wolf is staring at us!Luke, fuck your mother, I bet that wolf wants to bite your stubborn A-country head to pieces!Let the people above pull us up! "

Luke narrowed his eyes slightly and made a silent gesture.However, the team's emotions were in a mess, seeing someone pull out a dagger and try to cut off the rope on their bodies.

Someone suddenly said, "The wolf is gone."

The jackal had already left at some point, and they landed one after another, taking out their weapons to defend themselves, but the only sound of their footsteps was in the empty tomb.

On the wall are some paintings and hieroglyphs praising the sun god. Jiang Yunan took a rough look, and it was similar to what he knew.It was nothing more than the creation of the Supreme God Amon. What surprised him was that there were a large number of humans and livestock on one wall. They held something like weapons and wore crowns on their heads. There was no sun god on the throne.

"What's on it?" Luke came over and admitted frankly without any embarrassment, "I don't know anything about Egyptian history, I only know about mummy curses... Oh, and Cleopatra."

Jiang Yunan shook his head: "I don't know these characters either."

"I know, sir," Yalf smiled, and he pointed to the wall in front of him. "This wall is a tribute to the god Ra, and several copies of him are drawn. The line on it is written 'Your image is Every god, they are combined in you'."

Jiang Yunan explained: "If a certain god wants to perform the functions of other gods, the two gods must live in each other's body. Egyptologists call this fusion. For example, Ra and Atum and..." Seeing that Luke and the others looked blank, he sighed and stopped talking.

They walked to the next mural, and Yalf said: "Ra is an invisible master, but he wants to rule mortals as a king. He "fused" with Atum, but..." He squinted for a while, "It seems that Atum and God Ra have had a conflict, well, this is a very novel statement..."

He finally walked in front of the stone wall that Jiang Yunan was somewhat concerned about.Jiang Yunan has already affirmed his thoughts: "This is the rebellion of human beings."

This is actually a very common mythological theme during the reign of the sun god, when humans rebelled against their "father god" who created them.

"The loss of La's eyes has greatly weakened his divine power," Jiang Yunan suddenly realized something, stepped forward quickly, looked closely for a while, and said slowly, "...Humans have sealed the god Ra in the human race. In the tomb made of bones, Atum's soul was sent to Duat—that's where the judgment of the dead is, wait, why is Atum sent?"

However, Yalf could not answer his question.

The disappearing jackal left a shadow in their hearts that would never go away.The meanings represented by those murals are also overwhelming.Does the tomb of human bones refer to this pyramid?

However, Jiang Yunan noticed keenly that Qi Nian and Yalf looked at each other, as if they were not surprised at all.What are they here for?Jiang Yunan hadn't been able to come up with anything until now.

"Is this the tomb of Atum?" Someone asked, "...How can people in myths really exist?"

"Maybe the name of the first pharaoh was mythical in later generations." Jiang Yunan's voice was calm, and his gentle and gentle voice seemed to have a calming effect. He looked at Luke, "Whether to go up or go in, captain What do you think?"

Yalf repeatedly emphasized the need to go out before nightfall: "...the god Ra sleeps at night, and this is Atum's territory again. If you enter Duat..."

If no one took it seriously before, no one will take it seriously now.Luke glanced at the time and said that he could leave in half an hour, and the group walked into the passage in the corner of the tomb.

Unexpectedly, once they left, the people waiting above never saw them again.