bit stealing game

Chapter 78 The Tree of Life
We stand on the sand dunes.A fucking towering tree took root not far away against common sense.

Arno exclaimed: "Everything here is oversized! Snakes and trees."

How dare you say it?These people just left us to toughen Apep, and slipped away first.I was angry: "If you have grown wildly for thousands of years, you can do it too."

But the tree is truly amazing.Even if it has died long ago, it can still stand upright.The branches are scattered in all directions, and the canopy can only be seen by turning the head back until it is parallel to the horizon, and it takes more than a dozen people to embrace the trunk.I don't know what it was like in its heyday.

If you see such a tree in the rainforest Qinling and other places, it is nothing new.But here is a big desert, where does the nutrient come from to make it grow so tall?

"I've never seen such a big fig tree." Lou Shiqi walked around the big tree. "This tree has been dead for thousands of years. It can grow so big, maybe it wasn't a desert back then?"

I shake my head.At least in human history, this place should be a desert.It can only be said that the so-called wilderness is indeed a higher civilization than ours*.Time and nature are the greatest creators.

Jacqueline looked up at the tall tree, and said to herself, "Could it be this tree instead of an oasis?"

She was talking about the place where the priest Thutmose III went to in the restored small theater of the Temple of the Omniscient in the Valley of the Kings.At that time, we saw an oasis and a white temple in the white desert.

"The yellow sand sent me to the hill of Seth, where a tall fig tree stood in the east of the sky. The branches were lush and the wind was blowing, and the gods sat on the tree. Because I am the falcon exploring the sky; because I am the helm man of……"

Jacqueline whispered a record in [Pyramid Text].

I looked up and down the tree in front of me, and reached out to touch it.If this tree is alive, it can really form an ecosystem by itself, supporting an oasis in the barren and barren.

"This is not a tree." Lou Shiqi said.Under his explanation, we discovered that there are many large or small bulge-shaped undulations on the trunk of this tree.Those are the plants that used to grow in this land. The sacred tree absorbed all the surrounding life and turned it into its own use. Only then did it grow wantonly to the appearance we see today.Plants are also fighting among themselves.

"Do you think this tree is the eye of the formation?" Lou Shiqi pulled his eyes from the dead tree, his eyes glowing: "After it withers, no one will find the temple with treasure hidden in the desert again." gone?"

"Do you think this is our country? Why don't you show me Fengshui and Xunlong's acupoints?" Even Jiang Can thought his idea was funny.

"So, is that Seth good or bad?" Lou Shiqi fell into doubt. "Why do you feel that He has always been useful? Isn't He the one who defeated the snake?"

I thought to myself, are superstitions more serious than truth? "After all, mythology serves the ruling class, and it is understandable that it has changed during the thousands of years of ancient Egyptian civilization."

Don't talk about myths, some people are questioning the history of World War II recently.It has only been a few decades. In the eyes of some people, it is no longer the Soviets but the Americans who planted the flag in the Berlin Parliament.But perhaps Lou Shiqi was right about one thing.The storm and the big snake just encountered are indeed very similar to the battle between Seth and Apep, maybe some metaphors.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the desert was the realm where the dead sailed in a boat at night with the sun god in the first hour after death.Gods such as Seth and Isis help the golden sun ship move in the desert and defeat the God of Chaos who is blocking the way.And this tree may have guided the way for the pharaohs who came to worship.

This ancient tree once provided a resting place for the pharaoh thousands of years ago, and I don’t know how many people have watched them go to the temple that never returned.

Trees live longer and people travel farther.The shelter of trees to human beings spans regions and time.A person from afar came to the tree from an unknown place and asked, "Who has passed by here in the past?"Trees are naturally speechless.But the tree spreads out its leaves for those who pass by, just as it once provided a resting place for the pharaoh.The pharaohs wouldn't be passing by anyway.

In a short period of time, we first encountered a storm, and then caught up with a big snake that has lived for thousands of years.It can be regarded as the full banquet of the unlucky things in ancient Egypt.There must have been something particular about the tree.

"You just said it was a fig tree?"

Lou Shiqi nodded.I asked Jacqueline, "Do you think this could be the tree of life?"

In ancient Egyptian mythology, after Osiris was killed by Seth, the goddess Isis buried him.Later, a fig tree grew from the tomb of the god of the underworld, Osiris, and everyone cited it as a miracle and called it the "tree of life".

Jacqueline pursed her lips, obviously thinking of this possibility.However, the tree of life has withered for a thousand years.

The camel bell was blown by the wind, making a soft "dingling, dingling".It was the only sound other than the panting and the flow of sand.

Everyone had to rest around the tree.Compared with the big snake that doesn't know where to hide, and the storm that comes and goes suddenly, this is the only reality in the desert.

He Rongchuan came over and said without a word: "Tempura only attacked after Brother Yuechen walked over."

That being said, Tempura was terrified the last time Li Yuan held him in his arms.Could it be that he is such a pig and a dog?I was about to ask Li Yuan to verify this conjecture, when I suddenly heard an exclamation: "He was bitten by a snake!"

Teacher Bai and the ancient Egyptian guide rushed over.

"It's a horned viper." Infernal Affairs stared at the two separate wounds on the man's palm with sharp eyes: "Give me the knife."

Teacher Bai looked at it and said: "This snake is not fatal. We brought some serum, as long as you confirm that it is this kind of snake, it should be saved."

"The horned vipers here are deadly. Cleopatra VIII was bitten to death by this kind of snake. Your serum won't work, and the wound will rot soon." The ancient Egyptian guide slapped the mercenary on his forehead. The muzzle of the gun was burned, and the knife was burned with a lighter, and half of the palm of the wounded was cut off when the knife was raised and lowered.

The one who was injured was also a tough one, he didn't even hum in a daze, he gritted his teeth and watched himself become a helpless person without anesthesia.

First came the storm, and then saw his companion lose half of his hand. No matter how determined the minds of the mercenaries were, they couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.What's worse, countless poisonous insects and snakes rushed towards everyone.

Everyone is now very vigilant about the movement of animals.Meng Weiqing, who had been staring at the surroundings, immediately shouted: "Everyone go to the tree! Hurry up!"

The dead giant fig tree has a rough trunk, which is supposed to be easy to climb, but because it is too thick, it can't be hugged at all.I jumped a couple of times but failed to get up, so I had to use my boots to rub up bit by bit along the grain of the bark.

"You have to climb up to the year of the monkey." Li Yuan turned around and grabbed my backpack, and I climbed up the tree with his strength, all fours and the ground, like clothes being hung on a clothes rack.The unlucky guy who had just had his palm broken was also a tough guy, and he managed to climb up with a pair of half-hands reluctantly.

When everyone was scattered on the thick fork of the dead tree and sat down firmly, the poison had already surged under the tree.Instead of climbing the trees, they cannibalized each other, and those camels that could not climb trees were also unlucky.Just looking at it from the tree makes me want to spit out the contents of my stomach.

"What do you think this is?" Li Yuan and I sat side by side on a solid branch, and he pointed to the trunk in front of him and asked me.

This guy still has the mind to look around.

I moved over carefully, and when I saw it clearly, I was so surprised that I almost fell off the tree.Li Yuan helped me up.I grabbed his arm and leaned over to read the inscription on the tree trunk.

That's right, a line of inscriptions written in the body of a holy monk was deeply engraved on the tree trunk.If we weren't forced to climb up by those bugs, we wouldn't be able to find it.

"Is it the ancient Egyptians who came here for a visit?" Jiang Can carried Lou Shiqi and threw him on another tree branch.

I frowned.

"It seems to say 'God's Abandoned Place' here? No, no. It may also be 'God's Burial Ground'."

The two meanings are completely different.

Jacqueline hugged the tree trunk tightly, and she also wanted to see that Kuyu really couldn't make it through.I had to read the few ancient Egyptian characters to her.Unexpectedly, Jacqueline's reaction was even greater, and she couldn't even hug the tree.

We looked at her in amazement.

"A place where the gods forbid passage." Jacqueline said, tears streaming down her face.Writing held supreme power for the ancient Egyptians.Written, a fait accompli.She looked sadly at the scene under the tree: "Everything is dead now."

"These sons of bitches!" Hearing these frustrated words, the mercenaries opened their safety gears and shot under the trees.

However, there were too many poisonous insects and snakes gathered, and the bullets were all swallowed as if hitting a hard and elastic shield.

There was no other way but to stay on the tree for the time being and wait for the chaos below to end.These things always run out.But Xianglai is unparalleled, but misfortunes never come singly.The dunes that had just turned over were coming our way.Unexpectedly, I ran into the moving sand dunes in the Sahara Desert.What followed was gurgling quicksand.

The roots are loose.Those snakes, insects, rats and ants were just digging roots under the tree, otherwise even quicksand shouldn't be able to shake such a big tree.

It's not over yet.Behind the raised dust, a pair of golden eyes loomed.Sure enough, the big snake didn't give up.It was not trapped by the wind and sand, and slid over the quicksand in a leisurely stroll.Quicksand often appears in places where the underground structure is not solid. Is it possible that the bottom of this desert was hollowed out by Apep as its lair?
Everyone was like a toad being watched, not daring to breathe.

The snake cruised around under the tree, licked the stump of the camel, and the huge body dived into the sand again.

We all knew it couldn't end so easily.Sure enough, the trunk trembled violently.The big snake clung to the root of the tree under the sand, and its thick body clings to the tree trunk more and more tightly.

"This is trying to uproot us!"

At the same time, a strong wind suddenly rose.Everyone climbed on the tree, their eyes fixed on the rolling thunder in the clouds.This tree is considered to be the place with the tallest radius. If Lei were to chop, he would definitely chop this tree first.Several streaks of light streaked across the sky and exploded around us.

I shrank my neck and waited for a while.It's strange that those thunders didn't strike the tree.

The black snake under the tree was obviously enraged.It roared and unfolded its body against the crushed sky, and could see the power contained in it.The wide mouth of Shekou is like an abyss, as if it wants to swallow the storm.

A thunder exploded, and everything stopped for a moment.

Following the thunder strike, the snake body slammed heavily on the sacred tree.

　The fight day will be changed to next year ヾ(°°)
　　*.Thoreau's Walden

　　
　
(End of this chapter)