Chapter 312
312 – [Theatrical Version] Descendants of Warriors
The road down to Mahes’ tomb was very narrow and narrow.
Thanks to this, I had a larger-than-average physique, so I had no choice but to go down the stairs with my shoulders half-folded.
Has it been about 20 minutes since you started going down the secret passage, relying only on a flashlight?
We were finally able to come out into an open space.
“Wow.”
As soon as you see the tomb, an exclamation comes out.
Ancient Egyptian murals fill the ceiling and walls.
It was clearly a painting that had no three-dimensional effect at all, but I could intuitively know what it was trying to express.
Mahes, who was floating behind Ryuji’s back, fell asleep when he saw the mural painted on his grave.
[This… ]
Then Ryuji asked me next.
“What is it about?”
[This is a mural depicting a fight between me and Set. It was probably made by my subjects after my death.]
After saying that, he read the text on the mural, which is still well preserved despite the passage of many years.
[Here we write about the achievements of ■■, the son of the sun and a great warrior. He single-handedly defeated the army of darkness that had spread like a plague throughout Egypt. Perhaps without his sacrifice, we would not have survived to the end. Descendants of the sun, if you see these words, be sure to remember them. Without his sacrifice his his, the current peace would never have come.]
Mahes, who read all the words written on the mural, did not say anything for a while.
You’re probably thinking all sorts of things.
As he was contemplating what to say while looking at Mahesu’s attention to her, Mr. Ryusuke, the elder, spoke first.
“Mahes, it’s not that I don’t understand how you feel, but you still have a lot of time. You can get lost in your thoughts later, right?”
Then, as if he realized something, Mahes nodded his head and apologized to us.
[… ] ] Sorry. You made them delay because of me.]
“No, I didn’t mean to hear an apology… “
Mr. Ryusuke laughed as if he was embarrassed, but Mahesu seemed to be sincere.
“Anyway, then let’s move forward. If it’s any later, I don’t think we’ll be able to get out before the sun sets.”
Everyone in the group agreed with Ryusuke’s words.
Since today was just a taste test, I decided to do proper research starting tomorrow.
After passing the large main hall with murals on it, the passage begins to narrow again.
However, unlike the stairs at the entrance, which were barely wide enough for one person to move, they were wide enough for three or four people to walk side by side.
As I walked around looking around with greater ease, a bridge made of stone appeared.
When Sumire saw that, she glanced back and gave me a warning.
“You must cross this place one at a time. It is deteriorating so much that if two people climb on it, it may collapse.”
I waved my hand because it seemed like he probably had me in mind.
“Oh, if that’s the case, I’m fine.”
After saying that, I made my companions step aside for a moment.
He then stepped back and then ran forward, casting a close move.
“Sigh!”
I jumped over the nearly 5m bridge in one jump, landed safely, and then turned around to make sure everyone else was safe.
Then I see Ryuji’s family looking at me with a puzzled expression.
When I gestured with my hand to tell them to hurry across, people began to slowly cross the bridge one by one, led by Mr. Ryusuke.
After the entire family had crossed the bridge, Mr. Ryusuke called me aside and asked in a quiet voice.
“Are you, by any chance, a descendant of modern-day ninja? Just be honest with me.”
“… I will leave no comment.”
If you see that they hit the nail on the head without knowing the context, there’s definitely something different about smart people.
I felt a chill in my stomach at the question of Mr. Ryusuke, an ordinary person, and returned to my group, pretending not to notice.
***
After that, except for the one-legged thing I saw earlier, nothing that looked dangerous came out.
So, I went to look around the tomb comfortably, even though I was skeptical on the inside. After about 10 more minutes, a small space appeared.
“Huh? It’s over already?”
When I muttered that in embarrassment, Mr. Sumire, who was walking in front, spoke.
“This is a room with a fake sarcophagus. The empty coffin was intentionally placed there to prevent damage from possible grave robbers.”
Exactly as Sumire said, there was an empty sarcophagus placed in a stone chamber measuring about 20 pyeong.
Next to it, there was a strange pottery shaped like an animal, and Mr. Ryusuke said after looking at it.
“Originally, the ancient Egyptians believed that in order to live in the afterlife, the body must be well-preserved. To do so, moisture should not remain in the body, and for that purpose, when making a mummy, the internal organs within The human bodies were usually removed first. So they put it in a jar called Canopus.”
Mr. Ryusuke said that and pointed to the jars placed next to the empty sarcophagus.
“But there’s something strange about these Canopic jars. Do you know what it is? Mr. Kim?”
After hearing that, I looked closely at the jar on the floor.
It was difficult to recognize the original form of the pottery because it had been grown over a long period of time, but because of its unusual shape, it was possible to tell that it represented an animal.
But how am I supposed to know what secrets there are if I just look at this, as I’m not really an archeology expert?
So, I looked back carefully at what Mr. Ryusuke had explained just a moment ago, and realized something was strange.
“Are there not enough numbers in the complexity?”
“Correct answer.”
Mr. Ryusuke snapped his fingers, placed his hand on one side of his room, and slowly began to move forward.
“Originally, the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines removed from the corpse before mummification were stored in separate jars. However, next to this sarcophagus is the Kebesenuf, the jar with the head of a falcon. And Kebesenuf’s jar. It contains the original intestines.”
“Intestines?”
“The intestines are an organ compatible with the zodiac sign Leo, which is a constellation that can be observed shining clearly in the southern sky in the spring.”
After saying that, Mr. Ryusuke stopped in the south of the room, next to the wall with the same picture as the one he had seen in Daejeon earlier.
“And the star that Leo symbolizes is the ‘sun.’ Goddess Bastet, who is considered the female body of Ra, the incarnation of the sun, is a human with the head of a lion.”
Then, among the paintings on the wall, he pressed down on the sun above the head of a person presumed to be Mahes.
Grrrggggg!
Then, as if some kind of mechanism had activated, the empty sarcophagus fixed in the center of the room began to slowly be pushed to the side.
And what appeared underneath was a secret staircase.
“What do you think? Archeology isn’t that bad, huh?”
After finishing his explanation, Mr. Ryusuke said that and smiled innocently.
***
We went down again through the secret staircase.
When I first came down to the tomb, it seemed like I had already gone down quite a bit, but looking at it going even lower, it seems like they definitely wanted to hide Mahes’ tomb somehow.
Did he come down for another 5 minutes like that?
We were able to come out into a wide space again.
“This is…”
I couldn’t help but drool involuntarily at the scene unfolding before my eyes.
That’s because a huge blade trap, like something out of an old Hollywood movie, was spread out in front of you.
“It looks pretty serious, right? It looks like it’s going to be dangerous up here, so we haven’t been there yet.”
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Even though they had overcome all obstacles such as fake tombs and secret passages at the secret entrance, the people who built Mahes’ tomb did not seem to be at ease.
How could it be that such a terrifying trap was built inside a tomb?
“It’s a trap that looks simple at first glance, but because it’s simple, there are times when it’s more threatening. Even if you avoid that moving blade and get over to the other side, there’s no way there’s a trap ahead that’s more dangerous than Last year, I only found the entrance to the real tomb. He later returned to Japan.”
“Then how did Ryuji enter Mahes’ real tomb?”
Then Ryuji said with a shy smile.
“Do you remember the stone bridge we saw earlier? I fell into the quicksand underneath it. But it turns out that there was a vent connected to Mahes’ tomb. Thanks to that, I was able to return safely by going up the vent when I came out.”
“Indeed.”
I guess you used a shortcut last time.
“Mahes, do you know how to disarm this trap?”
When I said that and looked up, Mahes nodded his head.
[Right. This trap was something I saw a lot in my time, so I was able to understand its structure to some extent just by listening to the explanation. And to stop this trap, you need at least two warriors with Tutra. You have to pour Tutra into both locks at the same time.]
“Then let’s do it right now.”
As I said that, it was the first time I showed motivation.
“قف(Stop)!”
Suddenly, a loud voice from a third party was heard from behind the group.
“?!”
When we turned around in surprise, we saw two typical Egyptians with dark brown skin slowly coming down the stairs.
And those two people stared at us with sharp eyes like hawks and shouted.
“This is the sacred resting place that our gravedigger clan has protected for generations! We will never forgive foreigners who dare to desecrate this place!”
The situation suddenly becomes urgent due to the appearance of new characters.
In the rising tension, I looked at the two Egyptians in front of me and thought.
‘What? Why are you speaking Japanese?’
Since when did Japanese become a global language?
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