Reincarnation of Soul Cultivation 2

Professor Henry's archaeological work is actually excavating a large group of tombs.

William followed him, learning the necessary knowledge while practicing archaeological identification with real objects.

Compared with military training and daily patrols, archaeological excavation is a very interesting job.

Moreover, exquisite funerary utensils are found in the tomb from time to time, and many of them are made of gold. In addition to the archaeological value, the price of the material itself is not low.

Therefore, around this group of tombs, many people want to secretly dig up some gold antiques and sell them off.Even the funeral objects that have been excavated and registered by Professor Henry, some people want to steal and rob.

A team of soldiers brought by William also came in handy at this time. In addition to patrolling around the tombs to prevent people from digging, they were also responsible for the security of the archaeological team's collection room.

However, the range of the tombs is relatively large, and it is difficult to completely prevent the theft by only a small group of soldiers. Therefore, theft still occurs from time to time.

In the black market outside, some exquisite burial objects have begun to be circulated.

Many nobles in the empire are very interested in the ancient culture of the Southern Continent, and are also willing to collect similar antiques, so these funerary objects are very easy to sell.If it is sent back to the imperial capital and sold again, it can be sold at a higher price.

The excavation work has been carried out for more than two years. After various researches, Professor Henry finally determined which branch of the tribal royal family the tomb group belonged to. He even guessed the corresponding identity of the owner of the tomb one by one based on Austronesian documents.

When I thought the excavation work would be successfully concluded, an unknown plague suddenly broke out in the archaeological team.

The plague begins with itchy and swollen blisters on the skin, and slowly spreads throughout the body until the skin festers.Then the internal organs of the human body also began to have problems, leading to symptoms such as coughing and coughing up blood similar to pneumonia and tuberculosis.

Moreover, I don't know what the transmission mechanism of this plague is. It spread very quickly, and it didn't take long for all the archaeologists to fall on the hospital beds.

Although there is no case of death yet, if this continues, the most seriously ill patients will not be far from death.

Not only did the archaeologists get sick, but the tomb robbers who dug the tombs and those who handled the funerary objects of the tombs also began to show symptoms of plague infection one after another.

Therefore, people of insight guessed that there was some weird virus hidden in this tomb group, and it spread out with the excavation of the funerary objects.

Professor Henry believes that this is not a virus or a plague, but the effect of some kind of witchcraft.

Because the tomb they dug last belonged to the high priest of the tribe. The high priest was in charge of medical treatment and witchcraft in the tribe, and was proficient in witchcraft.It is also very possible that he set up witchcraft in the tomb to counter the tomb robbers.

But today, when witchcraft has declined, no one believes that a small witchcraft can cause the plague and so many people get sick one after another.The sorcery known to people is generally a sorcery with a single effect and simple effect, and it is not worth fearing at all.So it is normal not to believe that the current plague is the effect of witchcraft.

Only William believed in Professor Henry's judgment.The excavation work has been going on for two years. If there is really some kind of plague virus hidden in the tomb, unless the incubation period of the virus is two years long, the disease should have broken out long ago.

On the contrary, the last tomb excavated by the archaeological team, the tomb of the high priest, was not only covered with organs, but also had traces of some kind of witchcraft.Moreover, not long after the excavation of the high priest's tomb, a plague broke out among the archaeological team and the tomb robbers. This coincidence also made William tend to believe that the outbreak of this plague was related to the traces of witchcraft in the high priest's tomb.

Even Professor Henry and William were not immune, and were also infected with the disease.

However, because William's artifact contains the meritorious spiritual pagoda, it can absorb negative substances, negative emotions, curses, etc.Therefore, although they also got sick, the symptoms of those who were closer to William were relatively mild, not to the extent of coughing up blood.

However, because they believe that the disease is caused by witchcraft, it may be difficult for doctors to find out how to control or even treat the disease.

Only Professor Henry and William have a little knowledge of witchcraft here. If there is anyone who can break the curse of witchcraft, it is only Professor Henry and William.

Therefore, even if they were sick, they insisted on exploring the tomb of the high priest, hoping to find a way to fight the disease.

William felt that it was almost impossible to find a cure for the disease by relying on the barbaric doctors who were used to bloodletting patients in this era. Pinning their hopes on them was equivalent to letting all patients to fend for themselves.

William didn't want to die young. In order to save himself, William had to study the witchcraft in the tomb of the high priest.

Henry and William entered the catacombs of the high priest, and no one could help them except themselves.The archaeologists and William's soldiers fell ill one after another because they had been in contact with the funerary objects. As for those who were healthy, they were reluctant to come near it because of rumors that there was a plague in the tomb.

Professor Henry and William searched every corner of the tomb, and learned that it was a nested tomb from the pattern under the coffin.This apparent tomb was actually the tomb of the High Priest's Guard, who guarded the living High Priest while he was alive and continued to guard the High Priest's tomb after his death.

The real tomb of the high priest is about three meters directly below the tomb of the guards.

According to normal archaeological excavation, Professor Henry should have summoned people to dig slowly with a small shovel to avoid destroying the cultural relics.

But now there is no manpower, and there are so many people waiting for help. Professor Henry violated his archaeologist's principles, and used a gun to blow up the passage leading to the lower tomb.

Holding torches, Henry and William walked into the deepest tomb slowly, and were shocked by the funerary objects here.There are a large number of gold funerary objects here, which are simple and beautiful in shape. The luster of gold has not decayed for thousands of years, and it still has a bright luster.This high priest really has a lot of power and a lot of wealth.

Henry and William ignored those beautiful and expensive funerary objects for the time being, but looked for traces of witchcraft in the real tomb of the high priest.

They found an altar directly under the high priest's coffin. According to Professor Henry's interpretation, the high priest connected the altar with the entire tomb.All those who have entered the catacombs, as well as those who have touched the soil and funerary objects inside the tomb, will be marked by this altar.

It's just that before the altar is fully awakened, it just marks it and has no other reactions.

When the tomb of the high priest's guard is touched, the altar here will be awakened.

All the people who have been marked by the altar will be cursed by the altar and have some kind of disease similar to the plague.In fact, this disease is not contagious. It is only because these people have the same disease at the same time that they are misunderstood as a plague.

Thousands of years ago, when science and technology did not develop much, witchcraft was the mainstream of extraordinary abilities in the world, so witchcraft at that time was still very powerful.When the high priest was alive, he took the initiative to enter his own tomb, built this altar, and then poured his own witchcraft into this altar.Because of the powerful witch power he left behind, this altar will only appear so powerful after a thousand years.In fact, this is a one-time item. When the witch power inside is exhausted, the altar will no longer be useful.At that time, if someone touches the funeral objects or enters the tomb, they will not be cursed and will not be sick again.

But this news is useless to William and the others, because they are already sick, and their immunity and other aspects have problems.Even if the altar no longer works, they need to heal their ailments.

The purpose of the high priest building the altar is also very simple, because people a thousand years ago believed in the existence of the afterlife, and believed that they could continue to rule the afterlife and the people after death.

The high priest specially built the altar in order to protect the tribe's burial complex and protect their tribe's leaders to still have wealth and power after death, cursing all the enemies and tomb robbers who tried to break their peace after death.