Chapter 30 (1/2)

”What the hell is this?” Aoki asked.

”Don't worry,” said Professor Mei. ”Let's talk about the pyramids.”

He pointed to the inside of the pyramid on the drawing and said, ”this is the known tomb structure. This is the Queen's tomb. This is the Pharaoh's tomb. There are four vents here.” the professor's fingers kept moving on the drawing.

”It's said that these vents point to some constellations accurately?” Aoki thought of the rumors of some pyramids he had seen before.

”Oh, there is such a saying, but it is not widely accepted in the academic circles. On the contrary, these passages are less than eight feet wide. I don't know how people dug them at that time, but it's not surprising. What I want to say is that the inverted pyramid at the bottom of the tubuai islands also has a shaft less than half a foot wide, which goes down vertically from the main tomb to the top of the pyramid 。”

At this time, Aoki found that there was a line connecting the tomb and the apex of the pyramid on the drawing. Because the line was very thin, he wouldn't notice it if he didn't look carefully.

The professor said: ”since it is certain that there is a mirror relationship between the two pyramids, there should be something in this inverted pyramid, as well as in the Egyptian one. Therefore, someone further scanned the Khufu pyramid with rays, and sure enough, this shaft was found on it. Moreover, the scanning showed that there was an opening at the top of the pyramid, and the tip should be covered by the back.”

As like as two peas and two Pyramid, they are the same. There is no difference between the details. ”Professor, smoking cigarettes, looked at Aoki mysteriously.” now, what do you think? ”

”Alas, learning is really a bother!” Qingmu said, touching his messy hair. ”Does the Pharaoh think he can climb out from this end of the earth?”

”Well, that's interesting. You go on,” the professor encouraged.

”Aha, is that right? But I guessed wildly! Professor, you'd better tell me directly.”

Aoki is really too lazy to consume a batch of brain cells. Anyway, the old man is just selling off. He will tell him later. Not all learned people like this!

”Can't you use your brain more? It can help to wake up your sleeping memory!” Mei Tui said angrily and laughed again. ”Forget it, you're already a genius. If the problems of the nervous system and all your memories recover, I don't know what kind of monster you will become!”

Mei Ziqing, who was changing tea for them, heard the professor's words and looked at Aoki with curiosity in her eyes.

Mei tried to take down an hourglass from the bookcase behind her, shake it in her hand, and then put it on the table.

Of course, this hourglass is not the crystal hourglass in the picture sent by Professor Silva, but a cone made of ordinary glass. The sand is flowing down the small hole between the two cones to form a thin yarn.

”The most intuitive meaning of the hourglass is time, and the flowing sand is the passing time,” Mei said. ”Think about it, what is the emperor's biggest dream since ancient times?”

”Live forever!” Aoki can think of this without thinking.

Mei nodded: ”yes, it's immortality. But people always grow old, and the hourglass of time won't stop. Who can compete with time?”

The sand in the hourglass kept flowing down without stopping.

”However, the greatness of civilization lies in its struggle with the God of destiny and in creating miracles in this struggle. Each civilization has pursued immortality, but its own methods are different. For example, the Chinese have always tried to achieve it through alchemy and taking drugs, and the ancient Egyptian civilization naturally had their own method -”