Smelting everything from pirates

Chapter 625

Barrett, who was walking in the museum, looked at the collections in front of him curiously. Although there were many collections inside, they were all mummies, and some porcelains that were not known to be real or not.

There is even some pottery obtained from farmers along the Nile

But even so, it really opened Barrett's eyes, but so far, Barrett has not found any clues left by investigator Carter in this place, or does not know what investigator Carter is here for. do something.

Apart from opening his eyes and seeing the world, Barrett really hasn't found anything interesting so far.

Walking in it, Barrett turned his head and found that he saw a huge mud slab, on which a lot of words were written.

They are all some ancient Egyptian characters, among which the words written from top to bottom on the rightmost side are a few words that surprised Barrett very much.

"Corpse Canon"

I didn't expect that in this ordinary museum, there was such a book blatantly, although this book was written in ancient Egyptian cuneiform characters.

But even so, putting this book here is indeed shocking, even extremely frightening.

This book is written by François Honor Balfour, a French nobleman in the 16th century. Cults are cataloged and books detailing the teachings and actions of these cults.

The book claims that witchcraft and necrophilia were common in France at the turn of the century, and in fact, grave-stealing was not uncommon at the time, and Balfour exposes the actual practice of grave-digging in the book organization, and detailed descriptions of their ceremonies and practices.

The group uses corpses in initiation ceremonies, and its members call themselves ghouls, and other sacrilegious acts of the group are described in the book, detailing their ritual resurrection of corpses for purposes such as divination and contagion.

Immediately after the book was published, the group went underground, and no evidence of their existence has been found since.

It is precisely because of this that Barrett feels extremely strange. Before this book was described in the 16th century, the ancient Egyptian cuneiform characters had already disappeared into the long river of history with time.

And the cuneiform characters on the clay tablet in front of him clearly read books related to ghouls.

It's hard not to make Barrett feel suspicious, even extremely absurd.

After reading all of this book, I found that the information recorded on the clay tablet is only the previous table of contents, and there is no record at all of the specific content behind it.

It's no wonder that some mystics put this clay tablet here. After all, there is no record of the really important things on this clay tablet.

After reading all of this book, Barrett still has some doubts. Could it be that there is a group of epic ghost sects in Egypt who can understand the use of ancient Egyptian cuneiform characters.

But you must know that the origin of the Ghoul Cult was not in Egypt.

Many scholars speculate that the mysterious origin of the inhuman cult of the Ghoul Order may be the descendants of ancient gods.

After being expelled from their own planet in an ancient war, they began to practice the so-called black magic, which is said to have been narrated by the elders of the cult and copied by Count Derret.

There are indications that the exaggerated story of another planet described in this part is likely to be completed by descendants or followers, so it is very likely that it is mostly a false construction.

Those followers expounded as completely as possible in a clumsy way through the few notes of Earl Derett before his death. The structure and content of the chapters are very similar, and it is likely that they were excerpts from it and later roughly retranslated into French.

But I also remembered that ghouls are monsters in Arabic legends. They are monsters that live in the desert and can transform into animals, especially hunting dogs that can scavenge. The flesh and blood of the dead body or young children are eaten, and the childish desert wasteland of women will also be killed and devoured.

When Lovecraft created the ghoul, he also borrowed this image from Arabic myths and legends.

So according to this thing, I am afraid that it is very normal for ghouls to appear in Egypt.

Moreover, the history of ghouls is far longer than the history shown in the book in front of Barrett, so the ghoul cult in Egypt knows how to use cuneiform characters, and has given the etiquette of the cult to It is also understandable to describe.

Then the question arises, whether it was Carter investigators who chose to investigate the ghoul sect in Cairo after discovering this clay tablet in the Second Museum.

If this is the case, then Barrett and the teachers and students of Miskatonic University are in great danger. There are at least 200 of them in an organized ghoul cult.

They can even destroy an entire regiment of modern troops in hand-to-hand combat. Although the teachers and students of Miskatonic University have done some research on occultism, not everyone is a wizard after all, and they only know a little bit about it.

The only ones with a little combat power are Professor Hawkins, Professor Wald, and Barrett, if it is really Investigator Carter who has attracted a ghoul cult.

Then it is too dangerous.

While Barrett was standing in front of this rocky clay slab and thinking carefully, a tall young man with short blond hair walked beside him, and that young man was wearing a white suit.

It looked suave and suave, like a handsome young man who came out of ancient Greek legends, but listening to the London accent in the young man's mouth, Barrett could almost conclude that the young man actually came to Cairo, Egypt to play.

The young man saw Barrett standing alone in front of the rock slab, silent, obviously thinking, and said curiously
"Sir, do you know the words that have disappeared without a trace?"

Hearing someone talking to him, Barrett only reacted a little at this time, and turned his head to look at the young man.

The young man wore round-rimmed glasses with a straight nose and deep eye sockets. In the blue pupils, a sea seemed to be reflected.

However, there was a big gap between this kind of person and Barrett. Perhaps the person in front of him was just pretending like Jack.

So Barrett said: "No, I'm just curious about the words on it. A very ancient and prosperous civilization like this still disappears in the long river of history. It is a great loss to the entire human race." .”

Hearing what Barrett said, the eyes of the young man in front of him lit up, and he suddenly felt some interest in Barrett, so he said happily at this moment.

"I also feel the same way. A great civilization like this should investigate their past history and all their cultural customs. But so far, the group of so-called archaeologists and tomb robbers will only place The gold in the pyramid is taken out, as for the specific things to do, it is not even comparable to the tomb robbers."

While saying this passage, the young man in front of him seemed to be getting more and more angry, and had turned happiness into another opposing emotion.

At this time, Barrett immediately waved his hands and said, "I actually want to ask this gentleman more, do you have all the contents recorded in the words on the clay tablets?"

The young man in front of him seemed to hang out in Cairo often, and he talked about the history of ancient Egypt, so Barrett simply wanted to ask if the young man in front of him had any income. It was written in ancient cuneiform characters The book "Corpse Canon".

Hearing Barrett's question, the young man was a little puzzled. Although he couldn't understand what the text on it was describing, it was decided that it was very profane language.

"I do have the complete set of contents in this book, but this gentleman, why did you buy this book? I have already found all the clay tablets. After all, this museum belongs to my family."

"My name is Barrett. If you have read my novels, you should know that I am a writer who is very curious about everything in this world. The cuneiform characters in front of me, the content recorded, I also agree with you." I'm more curious, so I want to buy it, if you don't have it, sir, then forgive me for being too offensive."

The young man was extremely surprised when he heard that the person in front of him was the great writer Barrett.

"You are Mr. Barrett who wrote the legend of King Arthur. No wonder you are so curious about these things, even eager to say, I can sell you the content of the rubbings of this book. By the way, you Don't call me Mr. anymore, just call me Lancelot."

(End of this chapter)