1593 The Empty Chamber (1/2)
Edited by Aelryinth
”Are you sure that's going to work?” Mo Fan asked, feeling very surprised.
”Yes, these doors might be complicated, but they do have certain loopholes. The ancients were impressively intelligent, but that doesn't necessarily mean us modern people have no brains, right? The most important thing is understanding their sequence and rules,” Shreev answered. He sounded completely like an academic.
”So it's also reasonable why you are so ugly, Shreev! Most ugly people are pretty smart!” Zhao Manyan exclaimed.
”What do you mean by that? Are you telling me you are a retard?” Shreev grunted back.
”Thanks for describing how handsome I am!” Zhao Manyan agreed shamelessly. His mood had greatly improved after hearing there was another way to enter the right chamber.
”Let's continue to the next chamber,” Shreev said.
”Is resting a little longer going to kill you?” Mo Fan said.
”Uh, is that strange? Weren't you the one that was urging us to keep going previously?” Shreev replied, confused.
The group might be unharmed, but the psychological impact that the Scorpion Lord Medusa had delivered was pretty serious. They had to get their hearts back to normal and exercise their limbs, so they could get rid of the residual effects of the Petrify Magic.
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The group finally gathered the courage to keep going after resting in the passage. The next chamber was most likely related to snakes again...
They had come up with a plan. They would quickly look around the chamber. If they sensed something was not right, they would immediately return to the passage. Even though they would no longer return to the chamber of the Scorpion Lord Medusa by going back along the same passage, they could still follow Shreev's instructions and avoid the chambers with guardians that were too strong for them to take on, now that he had deduced the sequence of the chambers!
The passage soon came to an end, the chamber eventually showing up. Everyone immediately focused as soon as they stepped into the chamber. Their fear of Scorpion Lord Medusa had yet to fully dissipate. They were only hoping that the creature in the chamber was no scarier than the Scorpion Lord Medusa so their hearts could still endure the shock.
”That's strange… all the doors in this chamber are open!” Shreev blurted out.
The chamber was huge. Shreev's voice echoed a few times back and forth. Most importantly, apart from the ancient drawings along the walls, the ground, and the ceiling, there was no sarcophagus, which meant the chamber did not have a guardian!
”There are a lot of traces left by scorpions and snakes...” Heidi pointed out.
”An empty chamber?” Mo Fan was quite surprised.
The drawings and the statues were lifeless, Mo Fan was sure. There was no sign of life in any corner of the chamber!
”I understand now!” Shreev suddenly yelled.
”I can understand them too.” Mo Fan looked at the drawings around him.
The drawings were not painted onto the walls or the ground, but were engraved, drawn with solid lines, holes, scorpion shells, and snake scales. Mo Fan could not help but wonder how much money and manpower the ancient Pharaohs had spent on this...
”Tell me what you think!” Shreev said promptly.
”The scorpions and the snakes are from the same species, thus the chamber with the scorpion symbol and the chamber with the snake symbol both belong to the Scorpion Lord Medusa. However, this chamber isn't designed for a mummy, it's more to record some ancient rituals, myths, and history. I know a legend about the Medusa around here. The first Medusa was actually human. She was most likely the first person to Awaken the Curse Element and the Psychic Element. However, those Elements were once deemed forbidden or evil. In the end, the humans offered her to the primordial ancestor of the scorpions and snakes as a sacrifice, but to their surprise, it did not kill her. Instead, it slowly combined with her and gave birth to the Medusae and the Gorgons. The Medusae have the Curse Magic and Petrify Magic, while the Gorgons have incredible strength and physical attributes...” Mo Fan explained what the drawings along the walls were depicting
Shreev looked at Mo Fan and raised his thumb. He said, ”You can actually understand the hieroglyphs of the ancient civilization. It seems like you have spent quite some time on them!”
”We have been investigating the Totem Beasts. These hieroglyphs are similar to the ones left by our ancestors during the era of the Totem Beasts. Your Pharaohs overthrew the ancient beasts and became rulers themselves. When our Totem Beasts went extinct, we also gradually relied more on magic, up until today,” Mo Fan confirmed.
Mo Fan did not mention that he had read records of the Egyptian myths at the Parthenon Temple. The ancient civilizations in Greece and Egypt were closely tied together. Mo Fan just had to join the records he read at the Parthenon Temple and the hieroglyphs on the walls together to decipher their meaning.