From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Erich was mentally prepared when she entered the city of Asiut—in this strange city, everything is possible.

Therefore, when the snake-headed Upper Egyptian bride turned her snake-spitting face towards her, Elyse acted like an ordinary bystander.

The same goes for Senmut who is next to Erich.So the bride's snake eyes glanced directly across their faces, and the snake's head gracefully twisted and turned away.

Alicia heard Nanna murmuring to herself, "What a beauty—"

Originally, Alixie was most worried about Nanna, fearing that she would yell cow dung when she saw something strange.Who knew it was such a reaction?Didn't Nanna see the other party's true form?

She only heard Senmut explain in a low voice next to her ear: "That should be the envoy of the cobra goddess Wajit—"

Alicia: Goddess Cobra, no wonder.

"She should have used illusion. Only Asut who has a similar or higher personality can see her real appearance."

This means that the only ones present who can see the true colors of the Cobra God Envoy are Senmut, Kong Si and her.

Erich thought, Senmut is not worried, but what about Kongsi?

She pretended not to care and glanced back, only to see that Kong Si was sitting on the brand-new marble steps by the roadside picking his feet with his back to the wedding procession.

Alixie: It’s okay to pick your feet, at least it won’t disturb the cobra angel.

Behind her, Gregor and the others were strictly ordered not to open their mouths or look around.

At this moment, all of them were tense, and even clenched their weapons for self-defense under their robes.In the crowded crowd, they tightly clustered into a conspicuous team.

The only exception in the team is Kalam, the Favored of the God of Craftsmen.

He whispered something to the two burly sailors, who were startled and nodded.

Karam took off the lace-up shoes on his feet, stretched out his hand to support the shoulders of the two quickly, and stood on the shoulders of the two sailors in the blink of an eye, condescendingly, overlooking the architectural form of the entire city.

It didn't take long for him to jump off the shoulders of both men, looking like he was confirming his suspicions rather than taking another look.

Karam didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he hurried over to Elyse's place, and said in a hurried tone: "Now I can be sure, it must be—Master High Priest, Your Royal Highness, this city is made of a small tomb The city model was transformed..."

The Egyptians believe in life after death. They believe that the soul of the dead will enter the kingdom of the dead and hope to continue their life.

Therefore, in the tomb, the Egyptians will prepare their favorite items for the dead, and paint their favorite scenes on the murals of the tomb. What's more, the rich and wealthy Egyptians will specially invite craftsmen to make their homes Even small models of towns are placed in burials, hoping that after the dead enter the kingdom of the undead, they can still live in the environment they were once familiar with.

Most of these small models are made by craftsmen, because of their small scale, they can use the highest quality materials, paint the brightest colors, and send them new and new to the burial chamber prepared for the dead.

Starting from his own experience, Karam recognized it immediately.At this moment, the entire city of Asiut, which is so brand new and bright as to be inconceivably bright, is basically a city transformed from funerary objects.

Karam mentioned the word "burial" again, but Alixi didn't bother to stop it for a while.

Immediately, many eyes turned to Karam.Alicia immediately made a gesture of shutting up, and Hansu, whom she was leading, also raised her face and showed her father a grinning expression.

Immediately, Kalam stretched out his hands to cover his mouth in horror and belatedly. As soon as his eyes slipped to the crowd around him, he was immediately turned back in fright.

"Keep silent and act as if nothing happens."

Alixi ordered decisively.

Kalam's face was pale, but he finally let go of his hand covering his mouth, pretending to be calm and admiring the wedding procession that was still marching in the middle of the street.

Those eyes finally turned back slowly.

Everything seems to be back to normal.

Karam finally let out a sigh of relief, and looked up at Alicia and Senmut beside him, showing a look of pleading for clarification.

"This is still the superposition of two cities—"

Senmut explained in a low voice.

Erich nodded, stretched out her feet to wipe the flat and clean marble floor, and added in her heart: the city of the living and the city of the dead are superimposed.

As for the key to the superposition, it may be the envoy of the cobra goddess Wajit.

Needless to say, Karam also understood. He knew exactly what Senmut and Erich were hiding. Thinking of his rashness just now, Karam couldn't help sticking out his tongue at the same time as his son.

At this moment, he suddenly heard someone beside him asking, "Hey, you... aren't you old Rhine?"

The questioner was a middle-aged man in his 30s, dressed in brightly colored linen, wearing a gold collar around his neck, with a scarab amulet inlaid in the middle of the collar.

The person being questioned was the old man with gray hair and beard who stood beside Nanna earlier and used words to squeeze Nanna.

"Yes, I'm Lein..."

The old man's tone was a little displeased, and he seemed to be disgusted by the old name being added for no reason.

"But, I clearly remember you... you died five years ago?"

Old Lain was stunned when he heard this, and muttered in his mouth: "Five years ago... died five years ago..."

This conversation was heard by Kalam, Senmut, and Elyse at the same time, and the three of them exchanged a vigilant look at the same time: It's not good...

Sure enough, the next moment, Old Rein let out a long sigh, and his head rolled down, and a headless body stood beside the people, causing panic immediately.People screamed and scattered around.

In the next moment, Old Rein's body crashed to the ground, hitting the clean street.

After breaking into several pieces, together with the head with white beard and hair, it turned into a pile of dust, dissipated in the air, and quickly became invisible.

Alicia sighed in her heart: This is the consequence of the undead entering the realm of the living.Once told that he was actually dead, he immediately turned into a ball of ashes and disappeared completely from then on.

This change happened so suddenly that many people around could see the horrified eyes in the gray pupils.

The middle-aged man wearing the gold collar, after witnessing the fall and disappearance of the old Lain, stood there, thinking hard: "Dead, dead... dead?"

When he muttered the word "dead", the middle-aged man's head immediately fell, and he rolled away, and suddenly let out a long sigh: "Oh, so I'm already dead..."

His body followed in the footsteps of old Rein, and even the gold collar around his neck and the scarab amulet on it were all reduced to ashes.

Alicia took a deep breath, trying to control the spontaneous fear——

It's not that the living have broken the secret of the dead: it's the dead and the dead, reminding themselves...

Of course, it cannot be ruled out that it was because Karam mentioned words such as tombs, which aroused the nerves of the dead and reminded them of death.

Old Rein's sudden collapse and disappearance seemed to have caused a chain reaction.

Soon, the sound of exclamation and falling to the ground came from the nearby crowd again, and the sound of thumping and thumping continued to spread to the surroundings like magic.

In contrast, the people on Alixi's side gathered closely together, neither speaking nor exclaiming, this calm demeanor seemed too abrupt.

At this time, the guard of honor of the bride who had already passed in front of Alixie suddenly stopped, and the original joyful music also stopped for a while.In an instant, there were only screams of panic one after another.

The tone of the city has completely changed—

Originally brimming with joy everywhere, the brand-new Asiut was stripped of its surface brilliance at this moment, leaving only a strong sense of disobedience and a strange atmosphere.

The sedan chair carrying the bride turned around slowly, and Alicia noticed that the cobra god envoy sitting high on the sedan chair was looking at them with all kinds of flair.

Alixi quietly let go of Hansu's hand, and gestured to Nanna beside her.Then she grabbed Hansu's slender arm again.

Behind her, Nanna quickly gave the order, telling Gregor and the others—ready to retreat.

At this moment, the Upper Egyptian bride with the head of a cobra suddenly stood up directly from the sedan chair, and a large pile of jewelry on her wrists suddenly jingled.

She seemed about to speak.

But it just opened the snake's mouth, exposing the pair of fangs that can secrete venom, and the snake spit out the letter, making a long sound: "Hiss——"

Her unusually graceful human right hand was raised flatly, pointing to Erich.

Immediately afterwards, the band that had just stopped suddenly started playing again.

What sounded was not the beautiful music that made people enjoy the joy at the wedding. The drums were fierce, the flute and melody were high-spirited, and the soft harp sound almost completely disappeared. To Erich, it actually had a strong incitement sex.

"Come on!"

Alice ordered immediately.The group of them gathered together from beginning to end, and at this moment, they also turned quickly and retreated along the way they came from.

Everyone is pale and has no love.Only Karam would occasionally look back at the city of Asiut obsessively——

As the favored person of the God of Craftsman, Karam is obviously very interested in the architectural style of this city.

Ai Lixi said that she didn't care about it, anyway, she had already taken Hunsu by her side.

At the same time as they retreated to the way they came, the Asyut people who had been admiring the wedding on both sides of the main street in the city had already turned their gray eyes to Erich and the group.

The passionate drumbeat seemed to be beating their hearts and blood vessels: "Boom——"

"咚咚-"

People seemed to have no purpose, just crowding blindly, following Eilish and her party.

From time to time, there were thumping sounds from the crowd, which showed that the influence of Old Rhine just now had not completely subsided.However, this group of people kept walking, walking faster and faster.

At this moment, Alicia suddenly heard a high-pitched singing voice behind her——

"The eternal sleep here..."

"Mysterious Eternal..."

"Death itself..."

"It will also disappear ①—"

Every word of this song seems to be able to hit Alixie's heart directly.

Beside Alixie, both Nanna and Karam showed pained faces, Karam even bit the corner of his mouth, and a bright red line of blood appeared.

This is personality suppression again, Nanna and Kalam are just favored ones.Therefore, they couldn't bear the singing of the cobra angel.

Even Alixie, a divine envoy who has just been promoted not long ago, seemed to be hit hard when she heard the singing.

What shocked her even more was the memory triggered by the song——

Thinking of this, Alixi couldn't help but looked up at Senmut, only to see that the high priest was also turning to look at her.

They all know very well that the last time they heard this weird singing was in the underground of the Saqqara Palace, which is said to lead to the original.

The singing is passionate and full of power.

It seems that death has gradually become an acceptable thing in the singing and melody. The sound of falling to the ground for no reason gradually disappeared, but the sound of footsteps became more and more dense.

Then one voice after another began to chant along with the cobra angel: "Death itself... will pass away..."

This song seemed to be contagious. In an instant, everyone on the streets of the whole city opened their mouths and chanted in unison.

"Death itself... will pass away..."

Erich heard Senmut whisper in her ear: "It's confirmed, the two realms of life and death overlap..."

"If the overlap cannot be broken, the living people in this city will gradually lose their living state and become an intermediate state of immortality."

Intermediate state?

Erich originally thought that Senmut gave this term quite creatively, but she immediately remembered that she had seen this state——

The chess pieces that were thrown out of the Senet chessboard at the beginning were in an intermediate state where they could not survive or die.She immediately shivered.

"Do you know how to break overlapping boundaries?"

Senmut shook his head.

"Then let's get out of here and find a way."

Alixi made a decisive decision——

In fact, with her current strength, one priest, two envoys, and two favored ones, if there is only one cobra envoy on the other side, the two sides can definitely fight.

But since I don't know how to solve the problem, it's better to avoid the edge and leave this weird city first.

"My lord and my concubine..."

The navigator, Gregor, spoke as if his tongue was tied, "The way back and forth has disappeared..."

In front of Erich's team was a huge building whose exterior walls were painted with off-white and dark green patterns.It directly blocked the long staircase leading to the pier.

"I, I, I swear..."

It didn't take Gregor to finish what he said, everyone understood what he meant.

Everyone here could have sworn they had come in a different way, without this tall house in the way.

"This is because the small city made for the dead will not specifically repair the road to the dock."

Karam carefully explained to everyone, and began to explain the characteristics of the shape of the model specially placed in the tomb, and began to talk endlessly.

Alicia stomped her foot lightly: There is really no time anymore.

Behind them, people opened a pair of gray eyes and sang strange songs, occupying the entire wide street and striding towards this side.

Each of them stretched out their arms, as if ready to purge the outlanders from their homes.

"Karam—"

"I'm here!" Kalam suddenly stopped talking, and began to concentrate on listening to Alicia's orders.

Erich found out afterwards that Karam actually felt the suppression of personality at this time.

It's just that this kind of suppression is positive and between companions, which makes Kalam wake up immediately after being startled.

"According to what you know about this kind of post-death city, is there any place here that is safe for the living?"

Erich believes that it is necessary to avoid the edge first, and find a shelter for common people such as Hunsu and Gregor who are not able to resist.

Nanna interrupted and asked, "Should we hide in a house on the side of the road first?"

The tall houses on both sides of the road are beautifully built, and they seem to be tempting outsiders from the city to watch them at any time.

Senmut immediately rejected Nanna's suggestion: "No! The interior of the house specially built for the dead will reduce the strength of the purification faster. Most of us will soon become the same as when we first entered the city. like..."

"It's too late..." Ellie hoped to see the way, "We have to make a decision right away."

She realized that the Assiutes were getting very close to them.However, her small adventurous team is still here to discuss the way out.

If it doesn't work, just close the door on the street.

Alice thought so.

But suddenly saw the high priest Senmut put his right hand on her shoulder and shook his head——

This is... Is there any hidden danger in using spells in overlapping cities?

"Be careful." The high priest did not completely deny her plan.

All of a sudden, Alixi put away her troublesome heart.But at the same time, he secretly made preparations and planned to try it on a small scale.

Unexpectedly, Kalam suddenly stared straight at this moment, and said loudly, "I know, I know—"

He turned around and pointed to a half-height two-story building on the side of the road in the distance.There is an open-air staircase on the surface of the small building all the way up to a semi-open terrace with a canopy on the top of the building.

"It was built for living people. Many burial models will leave a small space for the relatives of the tomb owner who are still alive-there is a viewing platform for them."

Alicia: Can it still be like this?

This can only show that the Egyptians were too thoughtful when they built the afterlife for their ancestors.

"It's not too late, just listen to Karam."

Alicia ordered decisively.In this team, from the high priest Senmut down, everyone has become accustomed to obeying the orders of the princess, and no one objected.It seems that they tacitly agree that Erich can always make the most sensible judgment——

After Alicia gave an order, people moved quickly and rushed towards the viewing platform.

The Asiut people flocked to the viewing platform in an instant, and raised their gray eyes to observe the small building quietly.

Erich didn't leave anyone behind at the end of the stairs.But it was also surprising that no one from Asiut came up the stairs along the stairs.It seems that this ladder is really forbidden to them.

As they went upstairs, Nanna and Senmut accompanied Erich from one side to the other as they had done in Saqqara.

And Alixi held Hansu with one hand, and supported her waist with the other hand, so as to slightly reduce the physical pressure brought by her heavy body.

Suddenly, Karam, who was leading the way, shouted, "Outlanders, who are you?"

Alicia exchanged glances with Nanna and Senmut: there was already someone else on that terrace.

He only heard a majestic, powerful but calm voice asking back: "Several, aren't you also foreigners here?"

This voice has a little foreign accent, which sounds very familiar to Erich.

As soon as Alixie heard his voice, her eyes widened: It turned out to be an acquaintance?