The valley of the Cave of 40,000 Snakes gradually calmed down. After all, at this height, there is no way to get to the bottom of the pool without a rope for climbing.
I don't know why I am interested in that mysterious "weathering" power, and I blindly risk the danger to get close to the stone wall. Maybe it's just curiosity about the unknown world?
So far, the development trend of things has deviated far, far away from the theme of "exchanging pyramid excavation rights for photos" originally discussed in Scalpel Villa. If Tan Ye is an imposter, naturally the authenticity of those photos is also uncertain.
It's doubtful. Then, how could a top master like Scalpel fail to see Tan Ye's flaw?
There seemed to be an endless chill rising from the ground. If it hadn't been for the support of my profound Taoist inner strength, I would have quit the tomb and returned to the camp.
Soon, I had walked to the stone wall. Before the structure of the tomb chamber changed, it was at this location that Bawan, Oulu, and Dr. Tang were magically weathered. Now, their bodies have turned into strange
Put the powder into a box and put it in the tent in the valley.
"What is behind the stone wall?" I thought hard, pinching my chin hard, trying to find some clues from the words carved on the stone wall. The most urgent thing to do at the moment is to crack the password to start the drilling rig. In this
Drill into the location without hesitation until you find convincing results.
James has reached the southernmost end of the axis, and he and I are looking at each other across the large pond.
Yan Ye has been standing by the pool blankly, like an extremely tired person, slowly falling into deep thought - three people with their own concerns, standing in three different positions in the tomb, but what everyone cares about most is the star.
Gem, the mysterious "Eye of the Moon".
There are many strange legends about gems, but the most convincing one is the one that "gathering the power of seven gems can turn things around and reshape the world" - "Reshape the world according to your own wishes and be the creator of the world yourself.
"Savior", this may be the greatest ideal of every careerist.
James was waving to me, looking contented and confident.
What he wants should be money, endless money, so after obtaining the "Eye of the Moon", who will he sell it to? Is it the US and Indian governments, or the most powerful industry predators in the world?
I turned around and faced the stone wall, simply pressed my body against it, spread my arms upward, and pressed against the stone wall tightly.
In just a few seconds, the cold stone wall froze my body through. My thin clothes could not block the coldness at all. I sneezed three or four times in succession and quickly bounced off the stone wall. The stone wall did not react at all.
, it seems that we can only wait for the drilling rig to start and drill head-on to get the results.
When I returned to the pool for the second time, I focused all my attention on the mummy. I suddenly discovered that the platform under its body was equipped with human-shaped grooves. Although its body had been covered with layers of shrouds,
It's covered, but generally speaking, the head, shoulders, hips, and feet are still slightly sunken and just stuck in the grooves.
Except for the color of the platform, this situation is very similar to the jade coffin when I fell to the bottom of the well to rescue Tengjia. The mummy's body is much larger than Tengjia, so it cannot be put entirely into the groove.
of.
Looking at the size of the platform, it is exactly the same as the jade coffin.
"It can't be such a coincidence, right? The platform is the jade coffin?" The reason why I think so is because Yelan has mentioned several times that the distance from the ground of the tomb to the bottom of the well has been shortening. As long as it continues to rise, it is completely possible.
You can imagine that the level of the jade coffin will rise from 180 meters to 25 meters, and it will be exposed in this huge pool.
"Mr. Feng, if it were you, how would you go down and pick up the gem?"
James walked around the pool easily and stopped next to me again.
I shook my head, why should I worry about things that are not my business? But Tan Ye spoke like a conditioned reflex: "That's not simple..."
I didn't want to listen to him, so I simply nodded to James and prepared to evacuate.
It seems that Gu Ye will stay here until his mercenaries arrive. However, I strongly doubt that what he is waiting for is not his own men, but James's messenger. In this case, it is best for me to evacuate first.
Absolutely a smart move.
James no longer wanted to stay, and stood side by side with Gu Ye by the pool, eagerly looking at the "Eye of the Moon God".
As I walked back, I kept thinking: "What did Cheney do? After paying $100 million to get the golden sword, where did he go?"
After taking the elevator up to the wellhead, I was faced with Su Lun's haggard and tired face. She hadn't slept all night, and there were already two shocking dark circles on her face.
"Brother Feng, thank God, you finally came up -"
It was already daybreak, and although she had an ecstatic smile on her face, she refused to fly into my arms without scruples in public.
The rising sun illuminated the messy camp, and I had to sigh: "The powerful power of nature is something that people on earth simply cannot resist."
The overturned military vehicles and collapsed tents have been restored to their original state. A group of soldiers are busy repairing the watchtower under Tina's orders.
Yelan and the workers have been busy in the generator room. Without the power supply, all work cannot be carried out.
Back in the tent, it only took me five minutes to tell Suellen everything about what happened underground, including my doubts: "Others are prepared for problems that may arise during the excavation, whether it is James
, Tanye or Tina and others, I even think Mr. Scalpel and the high priest also know something. Only the two of us were kept in the dark from beginning to end..."
Working in this state will not only produce no results, but on the contrary, any action may take away one's life due to changes in the tomb.
"In this case...do we still need to stay here?" Su Lun put forward his own point of view, and adopted the term "we" to continue to draw our relationship closer.
Outside the tent, various voices were mixed and shouting, but no one cared that there were still two people coveting the "Eye of the Moon" underground. When the crisis suddenly struck, "Stay alive, save your life."
It is the most fundamental requirement. As for money and treasure, neither is important.
I let out a long sigh, fell slumped on the bed, and hit the back of my head heavily on a worn notebook. It was a relic of the dragon, and I didn't have time to take a closer look after I got it back.
"Brother Feng, I have a suggestion. If it is feasible, let's leave the camp immediately, go back to Cairo City, and then transfer to another plane -"
I interrupted Su Lun and smiled sadly: "Su Lun, do you know why Tie Na is rushing to repair the watchtower? The life and death of anyone in the camp is under the control of the Desert Legion. Without Tie Na,
Allowed, it is almost impossible for anyone to leave."
After a burst of neat labor chants, you can see from the side of the door curtain that the observation tower has been re-erected. Four snipers, carrying heavy sniper rifles on their shoulders, stood on the simple elevator and were ascending to the top of the tower. A few
Minutes later, the snipers will dominate everything again.
"There are no absolutes in the world. Look, hasn't the tiger already escaped?" Su Lun was unwilling to give in. A call came in at this moment. She answered the phone silently, with a mixed look on her face, and replied hesitantly: "
Okay, you stay in Cairo for a day and I will send a car to pick you up."
After picking up the phone, she smiled helplessly: "It's the super computer hacker I invited. He won't come sooner or later, but at this time..."
The super drilling rig has been kept in Gu Ye's big tent. As long as the startup password is cracked, it can be put into work at any time.
"What should I do? Should I bring him here?" Su Lun hesitated. The current situation in the camp seems to indicate that no matter what kind of efforts he makes, he is "making wedding clothes for others", and in the end he has nothing.
Can't catch it.
I can't answer. If a computer hacker breaks into the camp, he may never come back.
Su Lun anxiously turned around a few times, opened the door curtain and rushed out.
None of us mentioned reporting Scalpel and Natura. If we can't get any benefits, what obligation do we have to provide technical free help to Tina? I don't know what the situation is like underground. If James and Tan Ye are duel
In a firefight, who has a greater chance of winning?
I turned over in boredom and was about to take a quick nap when I saw Long's notebook.
On a page he opened at random, he used a pencil to draw a huge square box. In the center of the box was a rough human figure, with the word "mummy" written next to it in poor English handwriting.
Outside the box, everything is covered with winding wild grasses, which are very lush. In many places, there are knots between the grasses.
Marked next to the grass are the two words "ground, snake" - "ground? snake?" I asked myself suspiciously, what does this mean? There are snakes in the grass on the ground? If the human figure represents a mummy, then the square box
Naturally, it should be the coffin containing the mummies. According to common sense, all mummies' coffins are rectangular, which is close to the shape of the coffins used when ancient Chinese people were buried, and will never be square.
There is no skill at all in Long's painting, which is completely improvised like a child's graffiti.
Turning to another page, there is a large square frame inside a small square frame, with a lot of messy grass growing out of the small square frame. And these grasses do not entirely grow in the square frame, there are at least dozens of them like
It's about breaking away from the box and flying into the air.
The mark next to it is "Sky, Snake" - "Is there a snake in the sky? Is the snake in the sky?" These paintings are no less obscure than the poems in the book "Centuries" that have been mysteriously spread by the world.
Grass may represent snakes, but where do so many snakes come from? Su Lun should really be allowed to take a look at these inexplicable paintings. Her ideas will be opened up and she should get more enlightenment.
The next two pages I saw, one showed a simple outline of the "Boat of the Sun", with seven small dots casually marked on the bow where gems should be inlaid, and it was extremely scrawled.
The other picture is an enlarged view of the ship's bow. There are still seven small dots. The only difference is that the dot representing the handle of the Big Dipper has been carefully traced several times.
There are still twenty or thirty pages of drawings. When I flip through it, most of the drawings are grass, boxes, and squares. At the end, several pictures in a row are simply drawings of two human figures, one large and one small. The bigger one is
, is marked with "God" next to it, and "visitor" is marked next to the small one.
These things are not qualified to be called "paintings" at all, but should be classified as "books from heaven".
Throwing the notebook away, I curled up, breathed evenly, and slowly entered a state of half-asleep and half-awake. After the drastic change, I needed a good rest so that my nervously operating brain cells could regain their strong thinking ability.
Suddenly, there was a strange "hissing, hissing" sound in my ears, like a rising tide in the sea. It was very distant and very slight at first, and within a few seconds, the sound had risen to a deafening scream, as if, as if -
"Snake! It's the sound of a snake spitting out its seeds!" I was horrified and wanted to jump up, but suddenly I found that my waist, ribs, and legs had become numb, and I couldn't exert any strength at all.
The hissing sound indeed comes from the snake's spitting action. Judging from this huge momentum, it looks like there are at least hundreds or even thousands of snakes.
"Oh my God! How come there are so many snakes in the camp? Besides, the arid desert is a world of venomous scorpions. It is impossible for hundreds of snakes to appear at the same time, let alone more than a thousand?" The eyelids weigh several thousand kilograms, no matter how hard I try, they can't
Can't open.
I suddenly felt something on my ankle, as if a long, slender, cold strap had slid over, first stopped on my ankle, then snaked upwards, crawled over my calf, knees, thighs, and crawled directly towards my chest.
"Tang Xin? Could it be that Tang Xin is making a comeback?" Most of the masters of the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan generation have the ability to drive snakes and beasts. People from the Tang Sect in Sichuan are even better at this. Could it be that they are leading the way?
The poisonous snake came back to avenge the tiger? When I thought that the tiger might die of serious injuries, I suddenly felt a desperate sadness in my heart.
There are more and more snakes, and I can feel that the ground nearby is covered with countless soft and slippery snakes, and the snakes are rising layer by layer, as if they are in a limited space, starting from a certain entrance.
Snakes kept coming in large numbers, so that the new snakes pressed down on the original snakes, and the newer snakes formed a new layer on top.
In this case, my body was already pressed under the snakes. My body was in friction and contact with these disgusting animals, front, back, left, right, up and down. I felt worse than death.
I couldn't speak or call for help. Although I knew there was a strong white light not far ahead, I couldn't raise my eyelids to take a look.
"A swarm of snakes attacked the camp. This fate would be worse than being controlled by Tina's military and eventually falling at gunpoint."
When I was in college, I watched many on-the-spot documentaries about tomb robbers. Many of the scenes showed ugly snakes, most of them entrenched in the coffins of the dead. Even without any food or water, these guys could survive for decades.
, lived by chewing on the bones of the dead for hundreds of years, and were able to reproduce offspring smoothly, happily using the coffins as their nests.
"Where are the others? Will they be surrounded and buried by layers of snakes like me? Where is Su Lun -"
When I thought of Su Lun, I suddenly felt that a hot internal force in my Dantian was about to expand and explode. With a loud shout, I broke through the layers of strange snakes and jumped up. With a leap, I jumped to the center of the tent, beating myself hard without stopping.
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"Brother Feng, Brother Feng, what's wrong? What's wrong with you?" It was Tie Na's voice.
When I woke up, there were no snakes. It was just a weird nightmare.
Tie Na held Long's notebook in her hand and sat on her bed. She was startled by my strange behavior, and her pale face was full of confusion.
"Snakes, I dreamed of... a group of snakes..." I wiped the cold sweat from my forehead and heard the constant roar of car engines outside the tent.
Su Lun patted the notebook and asked, "Are you influenced by these simple drawings?" The page he opened was the location of "Earth, Snake".
I smiled sheepishly, walked out of the tent, and stretched hard.
With the joint efforts of soldiers and workers, the camp was restored to its original appearance in the shortest possible time, and tight security was placed near the wellhead.
Tienazui was holding a telescope on the watchtower and looking westward, holding a huge military walkie-talkie in her other hand, and kept shouting loudly: "Look! Look! Dig three feet into the ground to find them -"
"The greater the power, the more things you have to worry about, and people will definitely become less happy." - Tina's words and deeds are all true reflections of this truth.
After seeing me, she handed the binoculars and walkie-talkie to the military officer next to her, quickly took the elevator down to the ground, and ran towards me. There were three band-aids on her forehead, her left cheek was stained with blood, and her eyes were all bloodshot. She really looked a little embarrassed.
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"Mr. Feng, tell me, what happened underground?" She stood in front of me panting, her left hand pressed on the handle of the gun at her waist.
"Ask me? Send someone down to take a look and you'll understand.