From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

The team exploring the catacombs gradually went deeper into the ground.

It was the first time for Karam and the accompanying servants to enter the tomb of this ancient pharaoh.

Although they have all participated in the construction of the royal tomb, but now that they are deep underground, curiosity and fear still occupy their hearts at the same time.

It is said that the most complicated mechanism is installed in the pharaoh's tomb - all the craftsmen who knew these mechanisms were made into mummies after completing the project, and accompanied the pharaoh who died on the journey of the dead - this is not a gift from the pharaoh, Just to prevent them from revealing the secret of the mausoleum.

Looking at the smooth cut stone walls on both sides of the underground passage, the marble torch brackets inlaid on the stone walls, and the complicated patterns that appear every other section, the villagers have long been stunned.

"This is no worse than what we are cultivating now..."

It's hard to believe that the superbly crafted underground buildings in front of us were built by their colleagues more than 1000 years ago.

A peasant reached out to touch the patterns carved on the stone wall, but Nanna stopped him: "Don't touch any patterns, patterns, or things with symbolic meaning, these may trigger the mechanism in the tomb."

"And ghosts and curses!"

Karam added.

Folks have heard all kinds of legends about the pharaoh's tomb, most of which are about institutions, ghosts and curses.

The tall militiaman in a brown and black waistcoat immediately withdrew his hands and said to Karam, "Boss, you are right."

He only thanked and praised Kalam, but didn't mention Nanna's reminder at all, as if he didn't think highly of women.

Nanna didn't care, she didn't care about it at all, she held up the forty watts in her hand, walked vigorously, and walked towards the fork in the road where Senmut had stopped for divination when they explored for the first time.

Alixi felt that her inspiration was suddenly touched, and she felt something.

Beside her, Senmut also stopped abruptly.But he immediately continued to walk, and lowered his voice and said, "Everyone, stay calm, pretend that you didn't find anything, and move on."

"There is one more person behind us."

Just because of a word from the high-ranking high priest, Karam and all the servants shuddered almost at the same time. look behind.

They obeyed the command of the high priest and continued to move forward.

But there was one person with a mournful face: "Yes, there is one more footstep."

I only heard the patter behind me. Among the neat footsteps of everyone, there was indeed one more exception. The footsteps were very hurried, and it seemed that I had to run to keep up with them——

After hearing the footsteps clearly, Karam turned his head abruptly, and called out angrily and amusedly, "Hansu."

It was none other than Karam's son Hunsu who caused the moderate panic this time.

This kid followed the exploration team from a distance deep into the ground.But he was afraid that he would not be able to keep up, so he followed the adults at a fast pace all the time, who knew that he frightened the adults because of this.

"Hansu, why did you follow me? Where have you been... all this time?"

Before Karam was entrusted by Senmut to select strong and bold militiamen to enter the underground tomb, he completely left Hunsu behind. Looking back now, Karam couldn't remember where his son was at that time. What was he doing... He couldn't even remember that he had a son.

"Go back quickly, and don't cause trouble for Her Royal Highness and the High Priest."

Karam ordered in a deep voice.

Hansu responded, his eyes turned sharply on the faces of Erich and Senmut.

So Alixi waved to him: "Hansu!"

"Sister Wangfei..." The child came to Alixie familiarly.

"Are you very brave?"

Alicia asked him softly.

Hansu immediately puffed up his chest proudly, and looked at Erich with his big black and bright eyes without blinking: "I'm fine."

Alicia nodded and said, "You are walking in the middle of us, but you should pay attention to your surroundings. If you feel something is wrong, close your eyes immediately and tell us loudly."

Then she turned to Kalam: "We've come a long way, it's not safe for him to go back alone."

Kalam looked ashamed, he was really an overly dereliction of duty father, as long as he was concentrating on one thing, he couldn't think of his son at all...and he couldn't think of anything else either.

"I... why did I forget to place this naughty ghost..."

Alicia: It's not the first time anyway.

"Children have a unique perspective, and may be able to notice things that adults can't. Take him with you."

Senmut also helped to speak

"Sister Wangfei is the best."

Hansu's small face burst into a smile.

"The High Priest is just as powerful. Just now I saw that when you stretched out your hand, a shiny eye appeared on the wall, and then the wall moved..."

Hansu recounted what he saw and heard just now, his eyes full of reverence.

However, Erich didn't feel this, so Senmut remained indifferent, and his eyes calmly moved away from Hansu's face.

Hansu stuck out his tongue like a loach, and slipped into the middle of the crowd with a snort.As the people moved on, he struggled to keep pace, trying to keep up with the adults.

After this little episode, people came to the fork where Erich and the three of them encountered last time.

Just to be on the safe side, Senmut performed another tuning fork divination in front of everyone, and made everyone look like a cloud.According to this, Senmuth confirmed that the catacombs were still not in any danger.

Thus, a group of people successfully entered the hall where the statue of the female pharaoh Nitocris was placed.

Here, Senmut took over the [-] watts from Nanna's hand, and after confirming that all the murals and pseudo-words on the wall that could bring harm to people had dissipated automatically and completely disappeared, he turned it up to become Eighty watts.

Karam and the other craftsmen looked at the vast hall and were stunned.

They originally thought that the space in the underground mausoleum was limited, and it was almost impossible to accommodate more than 600 people.

But now it seems that the scale of the space here is comparable to the small square on the ground.

Not only can they accommodate all of them here, but it can even distinguish several activity spaces with different purposes: dining area, rest area, activity area...

"Knum, the god of craftsmen, is here..."

Kalam looked at the grand dome of the hall, and was stunned by this extraordinary underground building.

"Are you deliberately arranging to make your ignorant favored one realize his insignificance?"

The rest of the servants looked around the painted statue of Nitocris for a long time, admiring the pharaoh's beauty;

Among them, the black waistcoat, seeing that he couldn't find any particularly expensive jewelry or jewels on the statue, turned his eyes away in disappointment.

According to Erich's prior instructions, they carefully checked the entire hall and found that there was no exit.

And the whole hall seems to be completely excavated from the mountainside.Except for the entrance they entered, there were no gaps, and it could indeed be used as a completely enclosed space.

But Erich didn't understand: If so, where does the fresh air come from?

When she and Nanna Senmut first entered this catacomb, they had never felt the stale or corrupt air.

Could it be that there is an air opening leading to the outside world in the other fork - Erich thought rather divergently.

But she also clearly remembered the last words left by the female pharaoh, when the great river overflows, the flood poured in from above will flow to the original.

—What is the original, and where is it?

Erich was thinking about it, and Senmut beside her seemed to have grasped her train of thought, and continued to say: "Literally speaking, the original refers to the state before the creation of the gods."

"But the primordial that the ancient pharaohs and priests often talked about usually refers to the primordial sea."

"The original sea?"

Ailixi found that she had a little impression of this, maybe she remembered it when she read the "Gods of Egypt" before wearing the book.

"Yes, the primordial sea, a completely dark and chaotic surface."

"All the energy needed to breed life is hidden in this sea area. But it was not until the Creator's soul became conscious that the energy in the primordial area was awakened①."

"The Creator awakened in the primordial sea, and felt loneliness and silence."

"So He was both father and mother, giving birth to the world's first pair of gods."

"God re-created God, and re-created everything in the world."

"The awakened Creator in the primordial created the world, and everything came from the primordial; but the birth of the world does not mean the disappearance of the primordial sea."

Alixie was even more surprised: "You mean, the primordial sea is in the fork next to this underground tomb, right under our feet?"

Senmut nodded solemnly: "I mean, there is this possibility."

Alicia was speechless for a moment, feeling at a loss in her heart.

It wasn't until this moment that she really felt that her understanding of the world was still too prejudiced, and she too followed the understanding of the real world before transmigrating the book:

In her memory, the Nile River flooded, flooded across the vast delta, and rushed to the sea.

In fact, in this corner of Saqqara, there is a hidden path leading to the primordial sea.The river can flow continuously from here to the original, but the original will never be satisfied.

"You may have heard of another name of the original—the abyss."

The talisman Ymir, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly spoke, startling Erich.

"abyss?"

The name inexplicably brought a lot of associations, and Erich began to wonder whether the author of the bottom book of the three stacked books was Nietzsche②.

Thinking of the famous quote about the abyss, she couldn't help but shiver. She quickly calmed down and continued to arrange people to do what they had planned to do.

After discussion, the exploration team was divided into two parts. Karam, Hansu and another militiaman stayed in this hall to explore the mechanism that could seal the water of the great river outside the hall.

Erich, Nanna, and Senmut led the others, starting from the location where four forks were diverged at a time, and carefully explored whether there were potential threats in other forks.

There was another purpose in Erich's mind, and it must have been in Senmut's too—but neither of them ever brought it up to the other.

It is said that the female pharaoh Nitocris had a lot of wealth before her death.But with her mysterious disappearance, the wealth also mysteriously disappeared.

More than 1000 years later, Erich and Senmut were guided by their respective inspirations and jointly opened the tomb.

But apart from the discovery of the female pharaoh's will and the statue she left behind to enshrine her soul, no clues related to wealth were found.

Erich thought to herself: I'm afraid Senmut really doesn't care about this.

And she really cared, but she couldn't express it.

The group of people remained silent, and walked step by step along the winding stairs in the fork.

The passage became narrower, and Nanna, who was tall, and Senmut, who was slender, had to bend down.

The stairs are also getting steeper, and the space for each step is getting narrower and narrower. People gradually have to lean over and lean over their bodies, gently place their feet on the steps, and support each other to go down.

And this narrow passage seems endless, leading to a deep well.Looking down, all I can see is the indissoluble darkness, which seems to swallow all the light.

Murals began to appear on the walls.

Senmut immediately asked Nanna to dim the [-] watts in her hand to [-] watts, and told the entourage to avoid carefully looking at the murals on the wall.

Alicia turned her face away, keeping her gaze away from the wall.

But as she followed Senmut and stepped down the steps mechanically step by step, Erich still felt a little change.

She became more and more restless, and suddenly, she heard a voice in her mind reciting shallowly: "The eternity sleeps here..."

"Mysterious Eternal..."

"Death itself..."

"It will also disappear ③——"

After listening carefully, the voice sounded like her own.

Alixi turned her head sharply and looked at Senmut, just as Senmut looked at her.

The two of them turned their heads to look at Nanna at the same time, and saw that Nanna's face was pale, and she was also looking back at the two of them. The luminous golden feather arrow in her hand was flickering at this moment, which proved that Nanna's spirituality was not small.

The three Asuts felt the anomaly at the same time.

"Come on!"

Alicia ordered immediately.

Everyone turned around immediately, and struggled to climb up the narrow and steep stairs.

At the same time, Alicia suddenly felt—the wind.

The wind from the ground, wrapped in water vapor, surged, and with a whoosh, it all slapped Elysie's back, covering her with warm and humid air.

The golden feather arrow in Nanna's hand instantly became extremely unstable and almost went out.

Alixie's long black hair rose up into the sky strangely. She looked back at the spiraling downward underground passage, and saw a faint warm-colored fluorescence in the very depths, which was spreading upwards extremely slowly.

original...

Alicia murmured the name silently in her heart.

At this time, her heart had regained her tranquility, she did not have any fear, and she no longer had any doubts. This passage, which will come to an end at some point, seemed to convey a familiar atmosphere to her——

Originally, he had no ill intentions towards her.

It leads to the beginning of all creation.

It just seemed to be saying hello to her, telling her—

There will always be a day when she will step towards it and use it as the end point...

Nanna's twenty watts were finally completely extinguished.

The disappearance of light makes people have to grope their way up in the dark.But it also prevents them from seeing the soles of shoes on top of their heads, seeing themselves stepping on other people's heads, or seeing other people's feet right next to them.

People moved forward in silence, and the warm fluorescent light did not chase after them.As the distance from that layer of light gets farther and farther away, panic and fear are gradually removed from people's hearts——

It seems that the anchor of Alixi stabilized first, and after she stabilized, Senmut stabilized.

And the high priest's emotional stability automatically brought a calm, calm, and powerful temperament to the entire exploration team.

I don't know how long it took, the faint fluorescence under the feet disappeared, and the stairs began to become gentle.

The golden feather arrow in Nanna's hand finally regained a little light.But this light was quickly swallowed by brighter light in the distance.

A little boy with a pine torch was crouching at the beginning of the fork waiting for them.

"Hansu, is your father alright?"

Alixi hurriedly asked, feeling secretly in her heart: Kalam has such a big heart.

"Okay..." The crisp child's voice sounded, "But my dad can't seem to find the kind of mechanism that the concubine sister mentioned—"

"Can't find it?"

Ai Lixi raised her willow eyebrows immediately.

A wave of waves has risen again.

Just now feeling the original, when Erich was still in fear, she suddenly heard that the underground tomb left by Nitocris could not find any mechanism.

So, what to use to block the torrential flood?

Is she going to break her promise to the ordinary people she just made up her mind to protect?

Could it be that in the end, she still has to use that travel coin to escape by herself?

Alicia immediately calmed down: "Don't be afraid, I have a solution."

She has the only witness of Nitocris' revenge feast thousands of years ago, the rune Ymir.

With Ymir's condescending attitude, she is not worried about not being able to get effective information from it.

"Hunsu, do you know the way? Take us to see your father."

Alicia deliberately saw how smart the child was, and saw that he found the right path, holding a pine torch in his hand to illuminate it, and brought the group of people back to the hall where the statue of Nitocris was placed.

The tip of Karam's nose was almost pressed against a stone wall.

The favored man of the God of Craftsman was staring at a vertical line on the stone wall in a daze.

He fixed his eyes on this line, stretched out his hands, and pressed against the walls on the left and right sides of this vertical line, muttering to himself.

Alixie could hear him muttering: "Here, it must be here. The walls on the left and right were once soaked in water. But the degree of flooding and the length of time are different... But there is obviously no mechanism in the middle, why? There is such a clear line..."

Erich held up the talisman Ymir on her chest: "Ymir, I mentioned it before, and now I need your help."

The voice of the talisman suddenly sounded: "The little apprentice of Knum is right. When Her Majesty the Queen buried all the enemies here, there really was no so-called mechanism here."

Alicia was speechless for a while.

It’s fine for Ymir to call the God of Craftsman by his name, but he suddenly changed his mind at this time, saying that the underground tomb of Nitocris has no mechanism to resist floods at all?

She saw Kalam turn his head in frustration and frustration, Senmut turned his head knowingly, and Nanna turned his head in astonishment.The eyes of the Asuts all fell on her face.

What the talisman says, all Asut can hear.

For a while, Erich no longer thought about engraving on the talisman of Ymir, she just wanted to use Ymir as a tool for writing and graffiti on the stone wall, and take a good look at the ancient craftsmen who dug out the huge rock wall. , or it Ymir is harder.

"It turns out that there is really no mechanism... In the end, I still can't save Hansu..."

Kalam wasn't particularly alarmed that his own life was coming to an end.But he looked at his son sadly and regretfully.

Karam's distraught words fell on the ears of everyone in the vicinity.

Suddenly, a person stood behind Karam and asked in a low voice: "Is it true? You can't survive hiding here?"

This is the tall man, wearing a dirty brown-black vest, with a beard as bristly as a brush, the man who once expressed clear doubts about the woman Elyse.Instead of showing loss and fear in his voice, it showed uncontrollable excitement.

Karam nodded blankly.

Seeing that the black waistcoat was not as distraught as Karam, he had a strange look in his eyes, and said with a low chuckle: "Then before anyone on the ground knows, just rush to grab the big papyrus boat that your brother built go."

Before he finished speaking, he felt a light pat on the shoulder.

"No, you don't want to—"

The high priest's handsome face appeared next to the servant, with a gentle smile in his pale golden pupils, staring fixedly at this guy who wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and monopolize the chance of escape.