25 Years of Living Dead I pressed the cowhide box in my pocket through my clothes, feeling the urge to break the casserole and ask the truth.
The booklet was handed over to me by Scalpel. After my eldest brother disappeared, both of my parents died long ago, and the only relative I have in this world is Scalpel.
"He's still alive - well, if I say that, would you believe it?" He laughed softly and snapped his fingers. Ranon hurriedly came in with a tray. In the ice tube on the tray was a bottle of purple-black
The style of the bottle of Martell is extremely ancient, at least hundreds of years old.
I almost jumped up, unable to hide the shock in my heart. My eyes were fixed on the cheekbones on the side of the scalpel. If it wasn't in front of Ranon, I would definitely have a dozen questions to ask, but I still endured it.
Four years of college life have gradually transformed me from a passionate young man into a calm and peaceful young master.
I silently took a deep breath and swallowed those questions into my stomach along with the air.
After Ranon went down, Scalpel gave me an approving smile: "Yes, forbearance and tenacity are the materials for great things."
I smiled back, picked up the wine glass, and let the ice cubes in the wine ripple gently. What should be said, the scalpel will definitely tell; there is no point in rushing for what should not be said.
"Click", a thin stack of photos was thrown on the coffee table next to me.
I glanced at it casually, and the top photo was dim and blurry, as if it was in some huge palace, or the set of a horror movie. In the upper right corner of the photo, a man stretched his limbs as hard as he could.
Hanging in mid-air. The background is dim. Only after careful identification can you clearly distinguish some strange stone sculptures, all of which are ferocious animal heads, wild humans and unnamed totems.
"What is this?" I asked casually.
"What do you think?" The scalpel remained calm.
I have watched more than a thousand horror movies around the world, and I majored in the "Film Art" course in college. The title of the examination paper was "On the Decline of Horror Movies." In my opinion, all horror movies are made
It was false and pale, and it couldn't bring me any terrifying shock at all.
I stretched out my fingernail and flicked the first one.
The second photo is slightly clearer. The head of the man hanging in mid-air is looking down at a 45-degree angle. The muscles on his shoulders and upper arms protrude fiercely, which is enough to show that his body is super strong. When his muscles are exerting force,
The level of tension is almost close to that of the National Bodybuilding Champion.
The strange thing is that I can't see his hands and feet, because the position of the hands and feet is blurry and cannot be distinguished.
I became interested and quickly spread out the photos, starting from the third one to the last one.
There were seven photos in total, all of which captured the same scene, but each one was clearer than the last. In the last photo, the man's clothes, the leather bag around his waist, and the leggings tightly tied on his calves were all clearly visible.
.His hands and feet were held in the hands of a huge sculpture. By the way, this sculpture had four hands, so it could hold all the hands and feet of the man.
In the background of the photo, there is a totem of the sun god in the sky, and there is a simple image of a pyramid in the distance. The large crowd of worshipers are all dressed in ragged clothes, and everyone has a wide turban on their head. It is clearly the ancient Egyptian dress commonly seen in textbooks.
.
I shrugged: "What is this? The latest film in the Tombs of Egypt film series?"
Five years ago, there was a trend of Egyptian tombs in the film industry. Directors and screenwriters used various themes of gods, ghosts, demons and demons to interpret the ultimate battle between the unparalleled heroes and the mummies of the ancient tombs. The outcome of the battle.
, both are true: the hero wins and the beauty returns home.
Scalpel shook his head and thought thoughtfully: "Feng, if this person has a Chinese-style golden dragon engraved on his right shoulder, and a four-centimeter-wide Tibetan silver chain wrapped around his wrist, and it has been sealed by the imperial seal,
The one consecrated by Lama Jeko Lahan himself - who do you think he will look like?"
I said "Ah", copied all the photos in my hand, scanned them carefully again, and asked dejectedly: "What on earth do you want to explain? This person is my eldest brother?"
The tattoos and silver chains that Scalpel just mentioned are the unique features of Big Brother, and no one can imitate them. Especially the Tibetan silver chain, with the lotus stamens, prayer wheels, and nine realms handprints engraved on it, all made of
It has been smeared with the spiritual blood of Lama Jeko Lahan and will not fade for decades.
The person in the photo has a similar body and posture to my elder brother in the past, but it can't be him.
"I don't believe it either, but someone - that is, the person who is coming tonight, is extremely sure of this, and is betting on ten oil wells in the eastern part of the South China Sea. Feng, you should know that Gu Ye is not a fool, and he is not sure about anything.
, this Japanese guy will never take a chance. The value of ten oil wells, think about it, is almost as much as the gross national product of a wealthy city on the coast of China!"
I was stunned.
As a celebrity in the world of tomb robbers, Tan Ye has published more than a dozen books on the investigation of tombs in ancient China during the Jin, Liao and Xixia periods, and has been regarded as a treasure book by universities in Europe for studying the history of the Song Dynasty in China.
The biggest characteristic of Tan Ye is the code of conduct that he has always advocated and adhered to: "Bold assumptions, careful verification".
Twenty years ago, he proposed the hypothesis that "the tomb of Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty, was buried under water." This proposition was ridiculed by scholars of literature and history around the world at that time. Because the previous types of ancient burials included sky burials and cave burials.
Wall burial, burial, water burial (drifting), and cremation, but no one has ever thought of the extremely weird form of "underwater mausoleum". However, Yan Ye spent all his financial resources and secretly entered the grasslands of northern China. After four years of investigation and exploration
, and after six years of on-site excavation, we finally found the "Kublai Khan's Underwater Tomb", which is a wonder in the history of tombs.
That incident almost earned Tanino the Nobel Humanities Medal that year.
"Huh..." The scalpel exhaled a long breath.
"In half an hour -" he looked at his watch, "the mystery will be revealed. Feng, he once taught me that if you want to become a top expert in tomb robbing, it is best to believe in all the mysterious and weird records in the world, and then
Work hard to prove it. There is no best tomb robber in the world, the most diligent one is the best."
I pressed the cowhide box in my pocket again, and really wanted to ask about "Prophecies of the Centuries." The sentences that my elder brother solemnly marked with red pen in this booklet must have profound meanings. On the other hand,
, the fable of the "1999 Earth Disaster" that all historians and people around the world paid attention to was broken by reality. In the 365 days of 1999, no disaster that could destroy the earth occurred at all.
"What exactly is it that brother wants to tell me?"