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Chapter 73 The Road to the Afterlife
Lou Shiqi yawned and Chang Xiao came over one after the other.

"Where are you going?" I grabbed him.

Lou Shiqi was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, he reluctantly sat down in front of me, and Chang Xiao sat aside without seeing him.

I didn't expect Chang Xiao to stay here, so I lowered my voice and asked, "What did you see in the Temple of Seth? What made you stare at it?"

Lou Shiqi's gaze wandered.I poked his arm urgently, and he said with a mournful face: "Your murals were discovered by others, and they were not hidden."

I was so angry that I wanted to punch him.No one expects him to block the murals from others to see. I have repeatedly told people to pay attention to those who are looking for murals. This guy can really throw me off.

Chang Xiao looked at it coldly for a while, and said, "Aren't you going to show her the mural that you secretly photographed?"

"How do you know that I took pictures?" Lou Shiqi widened his phoenix eyes in surprise, and then hummed guiltyly: "Actually, I didn't take many pictures, I just kept it as a souvenir."

I couldn't help but touch my forehead.I said why did Chang Xiao come over, he could see our little jiujiu together.Now that the matter was over, I told Lou Shiqi directly: "Tell me about your going to the Temple of Seth." Afraid that he would miss the point again, I added: "From the time you entered the underground building Go. Do you remember who mentioned the fresco first?"

"As soon as I got to the temple, the bearded man asked someone to tear down the mural on the surface, as if he was going to the mural underneath." Lou Shiqi recalled.

In addition to 279's Meng Weiqing, Mr. Bai, Lou Shiqi and Chang Xiao, who visited the Temple of Seth this night, there were also British archaeologist Patrick, Boothwell who pretended to be an archaeologist, and Stephanie's boss Carter. Ladies and their mercenaries.

"Those murals you saw during the day turned out to be there from the moment you entered the door, even in the passage leading to the ground." Lou Shiqi took out his phone and handed it to me. "Don't tell me, the bottom layer of murals will be even more evil after they are all exposed."

He didn't exaggerate this time.The covered layer is intaglio murals, in which characters of various colors are deeply carved into the wall, which looks particularly gloomy when photographed.The most terrible thing is that this layer of narrative murals makes people confused.

In the pictures taken by Lou Shiqi, after the murals on the surface were lifted as a whole, the story became coherent.

The murals on the south wall really depict the mining of minerals during the reign of Thutmose III.The record starts from the moment you enter the door.The workers transported the excavated stone to a temple in the desert; the content in the middle is the preparation process for craftsmen making gold and copper utensils, picking figs and other ceremonies and tributes; the end is the scene I saw earlier , a group of Egyptian workers mining stone crawled to a cave.

Puzzling is the record on the north wall.Some strange scenes were painted there: in the desert grew a tree with luxuriant branches, and the crown of the tree could block out the sky and the sun.There are also strange animal cults, such as jackals devouring the moon and falcons pecking at the roots of trees.At the end, it also depicts an invisible god walking out from the big tree in the middle of the desert.

A god conceived from a tree?
The murals on both sides talk about people and God at the same time.After reading it for a long time, I always feel that the above content should not end here.

"What if the murals are painted from the bottom up?" Li Yuan said.

Bottom up?
"You mean, what we thought was the end itself is the starting point?" I muttered this sentence and looked at Li Yuan in disbelief.He nodded.

If this is the case, then is the Mayan prophecy of the end of the world not a prophecy or a curse, but a piece of history?

"That's right, there is indeed something behind this." Chang Xiao suddenly joined the conversation, interrupting my bizarre guess.

After digging out all the murals on the upper floor of the Temple of Seth, Boothwell also felt that something was wrong.He was not stingy, so he immediately asked his mercenaries to smash the mural wall behind the altar.

Patrick grabbed his collar and said angrily, "Are you crazy?"

Boothwell didn't care about making this taciturn scholar so angry.

"Egyptologists are no longer needed here." He called one of his subordinates, "Patrick please wait on the top, and the rest of the people continue to smash. I want to see what is behind this before the moon comes out."

Teacher Bai left the Temple of Seth with Patrick, and went to the ground to guard the moon.Meng Weiqing and Chang Xiao looked on coldly and did not say anything to stop them.

After the wall was smashed open, a gust of sinister wind rushed towards the face with a 'huh'.Lou Shiqi was stunned by this operation, watching a tunnel leading to the deep underground, unable to recover for a long time.

"I didn't dare to go down, so I stood outside the passage and took this photo."

I didn't bother to laugh at his timidity, I stared at the photo in front of me and fell into deeper doubts.

The pigments made of minerals mixed with animal milk on the stone walls have been renewed for a long time, and the painting style has the roughness of when civilization has not yet formed.The content in the painting is that the ancient ancestors prostrated on the ground and formed a circle, holding up stones with both hands.Surrounded by them is a lotus flower blooming in the fire.

If I still can't see that those stones are iron ore, I can only count myself blind.

"It looks like ancient petroglyphs." I said suspiciously. "Based on the relative age of other Saharan petroglyphs, the petroglyphs in this tunnel are no later than 8000 BC."

In other words, before Thutmose III built the Temple of Seth, it was already a mature vein.

Could it be that the period of use here is longer than we thought?But it’s not right, why are the petroglyphs underground?What kind of coincidence made those people want to dig underground?

Beyond that, the mural leaves a question: Why did they need mining so long ago?At that time, at least 1 years ago, even before the Stone Age, there was no reason for smelting.

Combined with the analysis in Blake's notes, the French archaeological team felt that gold mines might be seen in the desert.Given that there is iron ore in the Temple of Set, the bones of Set should refer to metal.The power of the king may be due to the smelting of metal tools to make weapons.In ancient Egypt, the god worshiped by miners was Sekhmet.It is also believed that the breath of the lion goddess formed the desert.

Deserts and metal mines.

But that doesn't explain why Stone Age people would have thought of digging for metal mines.And in ancient Egyptian mythology, where did the saying that the body of the god is gold come from?Is it really just their imagination, or is it something that the ancient Egyptians saw and convinced them?
The covered murals of the Temple of Set, the petroglyphs deeper in the mine veins, and the Mayan prophecy of "the end of the world" reminded me even more.Perhaps the ore's magnetic field comes from a time more profoundly related to the earth, thousands of years before we know it.

Looking at the lotus flower tempered by flames in the petroglyphs, and the iron ore held up like a sacrifice, I had a vague guess in my heart.

Lou Shiqi saw that I hadn't spoken for a long time, and said again: "I felt a little panic down there, so I went up to find Teacher Bai. I don't know what else is down there, but the bearded men walked down, Chang Xiao followed down."

As he spoke, he glanced at Chang Xiao and smiled.But the man was unmoved and had no intention of speaking at all.

I had no choice but to ask Lou Shiqi: "Then what did you see up there?"

Lou Shiqi chuckled, and took out the notebook issued by the archaeological team. "Just like the Valley of the Kings, the temple above has been restored. The photo can't be taken, but I'll draw it for you."

He spread before my eyes the Temple of Seth in the moonlight, as if claiming credit.

I didn't expect this guy to be a good painter, and he could describe the aura of the Temple of Seth with just a few strokes.

"Who is going to sacrifice this time?"

Lou Shiqi shook his head blankly. "When I came out, the temple had already appeared."

I looked at Chang Xiao.He drooped his eyes and wrote and drew in his notebook, ignoring me.

I looked at Lou Shiqi's painting again.The standing statue in the picture is indeed illuminated by the moon, and it is impossible to see its face at all.Lou Shiqi expresses this point with manga lines.Although there is still no face, this body is very recognizable.

"Why is there Minshen in the restoration picture of the Temple of Seth?" I said to myself.

"Minshin?" Li Yuan looked at me suspiciously.

"Maybe it is to express the great harmony of life achieved in the Temple of Seth?" Lou Shiqi finished answering me, and then told Li Yuan: "Min God is the god in charge of reproduction, and has one more genitals than other gods. Here, it is here .” He also pointed to a bulge with a self-consistent shape on Minshenxia Sanlu.

Li Yuanzheng looked at me, his expression a little embarrassed.

I slapped Shiqi's paw away from the building and asked, "Apart from Minshen, what else appeared there?"

The image drawn by Lou Shiqi is at the end of the north and south walls, which should have been the end of the temple, where the altar is.But during the day, we only found a statue of an upside-down god on the ground, with ancient Egyptian words engraved on the bottom of the feet.

In Old Black's notes, I also saw a restoration map of the Temple of Seth.But he only recorded the astrology, but he didn't mention anything sensitive.

Lou Shiqi frowned and recalled: "It seems that there is something on top of the temple, but I was too busy painting Minshen for you."

"Okay, okay," I interrupted his speech about Minshen, "Do you have any impression after reading these?"

Minshen was the god of childbirth in ancient Egypt, and sometimes served as the patron saint of travelers in the desert. His function was similar to Pan, the god of travelers in ancient Greece.However, the ruins of the Temple of Seth under the moonlight could not emphasize the image of such a god.

I dug out Blake's notes and asked Lou Shi to identify the image.

Lou Shiqi is a little nearsighted, but doesn't wear glasses.He looked closely at the contents of the note, and said uncertainly: "It seems to have seen a few stars, but I don't remember seeing this one."

He was referring to Sirius.

"Because the moon just came out at that time." Li Yuan reminded, and then asked me: "Do you know the ancient Egyptians' interpretation of astrology?"

In the situation where the gods were separated, the ancient Egyptians had a self-contained system of astronomical knowledge.I know a little about ancient Egyptian religion, but when it comes to astrology.
I was about to shake my head when suddenly my eyes lit up: "Could Laila know something? She said that she was a priest of astrology. In the New Kingdom, she did have such a function."

Li Yuan looked in the direction of the Egyptian: "Just ask and you will know."

Lyra was still standing under the stars, away from the fire.At this time, Arno and Alex had already gone back to sleep, Socrates sat on the ground and beat the drumhead intermittently, only Ali and Hassan were still beside her.

Li Yuan walked over and quietly looked at the stars.

Chang Xiao put away his blueprints on his own, and spread his hands towards me: "Lend me the notes in your hand, and I will return them to you tomorrow."

What he said was a matter of course, and I really couldn't think of a reason to refuse.Therefore, the calculation of the laws of movement of the ten-day stars, the analysis of the star tables, and the calculation of the twelve signs of the zodiac were left to Chang Xiao.

Later, after discussing with Li Yuan, I also handed over the Zodiac sponsored by Rhea.

"Jacqueline has also mentioned some papyri with relevant records." I added.

After hearing this, Chang Xiao said, "I will confirm it."

After sending all the photos to me, Lou Shiqi stared at me longingly.There was really nothing he could contribute here, so he went back to sleep with a sigh of relief.I glanced at the few people under the starry sky and returned to the tent.

I lay in my sleeping bag and had several dreams in just over two hours.

Xia Shangzhou slept uneasy on the small pillow he brought.I sat up, and she woke up immediately, stroked her hair and looked at me apologetically: "Sorry to disturb you, I can't sleep well when I leave the house, it's an old problem."

I hurriedly said nothing.

When Xia Shangzhou fell asleep again, I quietly walked around her and walked out of the tent in the dark.

In the 279 camp, there was a small campfire.

Today our night watchman is Guangyu.He is a gentle and gentle young man, revealing the harmless temperament of a scientific research worker.He doesn't smoke, he just holds a lit cigarette in his hand.There were only stars and the firelight at his fingertips in the entire camp.

Night vigil in the desert is not only to guard against people, such as border guards and more liberal armed forces, but also to guard against animals.After all, it is difficult to meet cute and harmless animals here.

There was a faint light in Meng Weiqing's tent.I even suspect that he has been transformed, as if he doesn't need to sleep at all.

Li Yuan also sat down by the fire with a chill all over his body.

Guangyu squeezed Li Yuan's wrist.Li Yuan moved slightly, but did not break free.

Guangyu said: "Don't be nervous, just give you a pulse."

I became interested as soon as I heard it.Pulse, this is not usually visible.Although he and Ah Tian are in the same business, Guangyu's family runs a pharmacy.He did not inherit the family business, and now he has stepped into 279, an organization with a completely different style of painting.

Now that the borrowed full moon was hanging above his head, Li Yuan's pulse was probably so chaotic that he could help King Lanling sweep the formation.

Guangyu let go of Li Yuan, but did not issue any medical orders.Instead, it was Li Yuan who chatted with him about some concepts of Chinese medicine.With my own conjectures in mind, I listened to the two talking about alchemy again, and finally fell asleep by the campfire.

Li Yuan moved his hand away from my eyes.

The sun has risen.

　My friend got married today.She is a super cute and kind girl, and the partner's family treats her very well!

　　Although they won't see it, I still wish this pair of lovebirds along the way can be happy

　　(That's right, today's update is very short again hhh, I'll make up my mind and write out the serious chapters when I return to BJ tomorrow!)
　　
　
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