bit stealing game

Chapter 72

"Wang Yu, we have something you want to know."

It was Hassan's voice.In the few conversations I had, the man was either threatening or lying to me.

I closed my eyes and looked at him calmly. "I thought you had said all you wanted to say."

Hassan pursed his lips: "Remember when I told you to be careful of those people?" I didn't respond, and waited patiently for him to continue. "I suspect Dr. White is between us."

This time I was surprised and looked at Li Yuan.The two wanted to go together.

"Why are you telling us this now?"

"Because of Laila. We thought the transformation had stopped, but we seemed to be wrong." Hassan whispered, "My transformation disappeared. It found Laila again."

I gave him a suspicious look.So the magnetic field recognized the one it wanted, and it wasn't Hassan, it was Laila?

Hassan suddenly reached out to me.Before I could react, Li Yuan grabbed his wrist.

"Sure enough. It was you who was transformed, not her." Hassan's face sank like water.Both he and Laila had thick eyelashes, as if they had their own eyeliner. "The fires of hell are not so easily extinguished."

Li Yuan let go of his hand.

Hassan took a deep look at me, and then spoke again, another song:
"He saw the depths of the sea, the foundations of nations.

He sees the secret, and knows everything.

He knows where the gods rest.

He acquires all wisdom,
Treasures seen, mysteries unraveled,
brought the pre-flood message. "

Li Yuan and I said at the same time: "The Epic of Gilgamesh?"

Hassan nodded.

I hissed.

I just finished talking about Maya, and now I'm talking about Sumer.It is doubtful whether the Maya had an ore with a strange magnetic field, but a piece was unearthed in the ancient city of Ur under the radiation of Sumerian civilization, and I have seen it with my own eyes.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help looking at Yano.He and Alex were standing next to Lyra looking at the stars together.Just now he told me about the origin of [Boiling Snow], but he hasn't said how the piece of [Eternal Eye] came about.

"Is this also sung by the old people in your village?" Li Yuan's question brought me back to the present.

"Yes." Hassan smiled wryly. "The old people said that there were priests who once went to find the treasure in the ballad and wanted to unlock the secrets about the gods. Because they believed that the world was not like this. According to legend, as long as you find the treasure, you can summon the ancient Egyptian gods.

As the descendants of priests, for a long time, the gods punished us because we failed to perform our duties. "

According to Hassan, Thutmose III came into contact with the "stone" enshrined in the temple when he was a priest in the Karnak Temple, thus obtaining the "oracle".At the same time, because the priests stayed in the temple for a long time, they were also radiated by the magnetic field and transformed.In ancient Egypt, priests were also passed down by blood.

Hassan said that in order to maintain his rule and realized that there was a problem with the stone, Thutmose III built a temple in the Sahara Desert in the west by guarding the border.But the priest has no records about the temple, so we need to find the answer from our archaeological team.Hassan and the others are descendants of priests, but they know nothing about responsibilities other than blood.His grandfather restarted 60 years ago, or twisted the family's forgotten fate.

Laila was the one who inherited the priestly blood, but Hassan was transformed in the Valley of the Kings.

So is there a "sun god oracle" hidden by the priests?
The religious reform during the Akhnaton period and the restoration of the royal family’s control over the temple in the later period were all related to the priest’s control of the temple, including the hieroglyphs of the holy monk’s body.I remembered that the engravings on the two altars were both hieroglyphs, also called sacramental scripts.And it is written in the base of the idol, and the pharaoh will not see it.

"Not all pharaohs won't see."

Hassan looked at us.

"Thutmose III?" Hassan nodded. "And Akhenaten."

No wonder.These two are pharaohs who have more entanglements with religion.

The sun god Amon is the "god of concealment", and the right to sacrifice is firmly controlled by the priests.And God Aten can perform worship rituals as long as it can be illuminated by the sun.The sun is the source of all things.In an ancient society that admired the power of nature, whoever holds the right to explain the laws of nature controls everything.

Akhenaten, as pharaoh, of course wanted to take this right back from the priesthood.

"The mission of the priest is to return the borrowed full moon." Hassan muttered to himself, "But who borrowed the full moon? Just failing to prevent people from entering the desert, Laila is already going to hell If you fail to return to the full moon on time, what will be the consequences?"

The Arabs more than 1000 years ago and the world war in the last century did not lead to the fulfillment of the curse of the "ancient Egyptian priest", but the people who came 60 years ago restarted their destiny.

But the ancient Egyptians could take it seriously after hearing the rumors in the Sumerian epics with both ears?It also summoned the ancient Egyptian gods, why not call the dragon out.

Li Yuan didn't think this was nonsense.He stood up and looked directly at the priest who was abandoned by the gods: "What do you think of the Mayan prophecy of the end of the world?"

"A prophecy of the end of the world?" Hassan whispered, "What if Maya's is not a prophecy, but a curse."

curse?

"how you said that?"

Hassan looked at Laila.The ancient Egyptian astrology priest was looking up at the starry sky at this time, his thin body was trembling slightly as if he was overwhelmed by the moonlight.But we all know that it was Leila who was being transformed.

Li Yuan remained expressionless, but the transformation that happened to him at this time was no better than that of the dereliction of duty priest.

"When did Laila's condition begin?"

"Just now, not long after the full moon came out." Hassan turned his head, "We were fooled, and Dr. White lied to us. The curse of the gods is not over, and we have to find a way to return the moon."

"But why were the priests in ancient Egypt cursed in the first place?" I have always wondered who expelled Hassan and his priests, and what taboo they committed to bear such an unlucky curse for no reason.

"Because they questioned the gods." Hassan smiled wearily. "Although Dr. White lied to us, he did bring some truth."

In the [-]th century BC, Thutmose III returned to the throne from the temple with the support of the priests and became a pharaoh who combined religious and secular power.More than a century later, Akhenaten's religious reform was carried out vigorously, and then collapsed into oblivion.

Some scholars believe that Akhenaten was to eradicate the religious forces that threatened the imperial power, cut off the wings of the priests, and let the right to interpret the world belong to the pharaoh.

Although the stubborn group of priests returned to the pinnacle of power later on, those priests who had the supreme status during the period of Thutmose III were nowhere to be seen.

Regarding this erased history, Dr. White offers another line of thought: the expelled priests did not question the gods of ancient Egypt, but the new gods.In other words, what is questioned is the ancient god that other priests want to restore.

"Ancient gods?" I asked, "Gods before the formation of the ancient Egyptian belief system? Like the Hierakonpolis worshiped in the falcon god?"

"It was even earlier than that. In fact, we know very little about the ancient god. We don't know where it came from, when the worship started, or why it existed." Hassan took a deep breath before continuing. : "But according to the legend, its believers can have the ability to turn stones into gold, even blood can be turned into flowing gold, and finally can become a part of God."

"Could it be that anyone who believes in this god can become a god in the end?"

Where is such a god.If those who believed in Him could become gods, wouldn't the whole world be gods?I scoffed.

"Besides, the ancient Egyptians believed that the hair of the gods was lapis lazuli, and the body of the gods was gold. This all comes from their cognition. But this cognition is just wishful thinking."

"What is the difference between modern people and ancient Egyptians? Have they really understood the operation of the world? In fact, for so long, we have tried our best to explain the world within the scope of our ability, but replaced religion with science. Hassan laughed to himself. "I used to think that I was a 'civilized' person. I went to a modern university, learned modern knowledge, and had scientific thinking. But I can't say with certainty that gods don't exist. Otherwise, how can I explain the curse on my sister? "

Hassan seemed to have been tormented by the ancient Egyptian curse.

Ali also mentioned that the temple found under our archaeological site is dedicated to the god who can turn stones into gold.Later, we also found traces of him in the Temple of Seth, but we still don't know his face and name.

I don't know if this is protection or fear of that god.

I don't buy Hassan's rhetoric about the "Old Gods".Yes, I'm interested in the history of ancient Egypt before it became ancient Egypt, but it's a wild idea.The existence of any person or thing or god will leave traces.Unless we really find evidence of the existence of that god in Thutmose III's temple hidden deep in the desert, otherwise I will not believe that there is really a god willing to work voluntarily to turn people into gods.

Of course, this may also be an exaggerated interpretation of the miracles by the ancient Egyptians.For example, they believe that the goddess Isis can protect the dead, but in fact it is only because vultures can eat the internal organs of the dead to reduce the moisture in the human body.And the sun was not rolled up by the dung beetle.

Speaking of explaining something.
"What do you think of the end of the world in Maya?"

"I think what Hassan said makes sense. It's not necessarily a prophecy, but it's not necessarily a curse either." Li Yuan closed his computer and took off his plain glasses. "What if the Mayans saw the past instead of the future?"

"You mean, the end of the world in the Mayan prophecy may have actually happened?"

Li Yuan nodded. "Didn't you say that you archaeologists will reasonably speculate on the past based on the existing evidence? Maybe the Mayans got a piece of ore with a magnetic field by chance, and then interpreted something by mistake. It's just that They don't know if that's the past or the future."

Although this matter is a fantasy, but the transformation of the Yin family has made me shake the word common sense.

"Why do you think the curse on Laila reappears now?" Li Yuan asked.

Actually I don't understand this either.

Is co-authoring a one-off for some, ongoing for others?Does that mean that every time Li Yuan transforms, Li Yuan is one step closer to his final appearance?
In this case, it is not the moon hanging over his head, but the sword of Damocles.

Mustafa specifically mentioned the German child in front of Li Yuan and me, and Alex said that her mother went on an expedition after she fell ill.We all know where her mother went 12 years ago.

But Alex's "disease" is indeed cured.That would prove either her mom made it, or...

"They have more suitable sacrifices."

With a snap, the campfire jumped.Scattered flames splashed onto the sand and died out.

The moonlight reflected in Li Yuan's eyes.

Two cars came out of the darkness.Lou Shiqi and the others are back.

　It is still difficult to explain what happened in the distant past, and prophecy may not be history.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)