After another round of heavy bombing, the corridor leading to the main tomb chamber appeared before the eyes of the members of "Mechanical Heart".

The ground was littered with debris, and another diamond-shaped Beyonder that reflected a human face lay quietly at the bottom of the right wall, complementing the other two glowing objects.

There were potholes throughout the entire corridor, including the walls on both sides and the stone slabs on the top, but one thing remained intact.

It is a picture frame hanging about seven or eight meters in front. It is brown in color, with obvious wood texture, and only the side is exposed for the time being.

Without needing to be reminded, all the extraordinary people present noticed its strangeness.

At this time, Archbishop Horamik Hayden of the Church of Steam and Mechanics, who had not made any major moves, stepped forward and said in a soft voice:

"It should be the 'ghost frame' that belongs to the Amon family as recorded in the data. As long as you walk into its range and are reflected inside it, your spirit will instantly separate from the flesh and blood and become a portrait, which will be sealed inside it forever. In this state, even if the portrait is replaced, there is no corresponding method to save it.

"If the body is sealed for too long and has died, even if the correct method of removing the seal is mastered, the spirit will quickly dissipate."

As he spoke, Horamick took one step forward, approaching the strange picture frame.

Klein was subconsciously a little worried and didn't dare to watch the specific process of the demigod and the half-man fighting against the seal, but he quickly came to his senses and realized that he was just watching the holographic image provided by the magic mirror Arrodes. What was there to be afraid of?

This is very normal. It's just like the feeling you get when watching horror movies or playing dark games... Klein consoled himself and quickened his pace to catch up with Horamick Hayden.

The demigod, half-human archbishop quickly walked to the range of the magical object that needed to be sealed, and his figure in a white priest robe and a clergyman's soft hat gradually appeared on the glass surface of the frame.

Glass... Glass existed in the Fourth Epoch? It seemed so. At least glass had always existed in the history of the Fifth Epoch, and there was no mention of who invented it... Klein waited with great interest for the "battle" between the demigod and the strange sealed object.

Horamick's upper body was completely displayed in the "ghost frame", but his eyes did not lose their brilliance!

He walked towards the frame, face to face.

The figure in the frame fluctuated, as if it was constantly shrinking inwards, but unable to do so.

Horamick stopped, took out a large piece of almost opaque black cloth that he had prepared long ago, and covered the "ghost frame" with it.

The picture frame trembled several times, and was finally completely covered by the black cloth and returned to calm.

Horamick seemed unaffected as he easily removed the "ghost frame" and finished wrapping it with black cloth, tying it in a knot at the back.

This... this isn't mysticism... wasn't it said that the spirit would be sucked into the frame and turned into a portrait? How come the archbishop was fine... was this a special thing about being a demigod, or was there another reason? Klein was puzzled and looked Horamick Hayden up and down, but didn't find anything unusual.

His eyes were bright, his expression was kind, and he was full of flesh and blood... It was a pity that he was not present, otherwise he could use his psychic vision to study him... Klein retracted his gaze and waited for Ikanser and other members of the "Mechanical Heart" to come over.

Horamick handed the "ghost frame" to a team member and walked forward to the entrance of the main tomb at the end of the corridor.

There was a black stone door with patterns that looked like they were cut by knives and axes, and a gray-white disc was inlaid in the middle.

The surface of the disk is divided into twelve grids, with a black pointer, just like a clock in the outside world.

However, the grids were not evenly distributed on the disk. Some were large and some were small, which was extremely inconsistent. Moreover, half of each grid was covered with shadows.

"The emblem of the Amon family." Archbishop Horamick gave a brief introduction.

He did not explain the symbolic meaning of the emblem in detail, because only the deacon-level Ikanser Bernard was qualified to know.

Klein relied on his own accumulation of mystic knowledge to try to interpret it:

"The combination of the disk, twelve grids, and hands clearly represents time, which is consistent with the fact that the 'worm of time' was left behind after the demise of Amon's clone. The twelve grids that should have divided the disk equally are of different sizes, and are shrouded in a certain shadow. Does this mean that the Amon family is the dark side of time? How is their title of 'blasphemers' reflected?"

As Klein was thinking, Archbishop Horamick pushed open the stone door without taking any precautions.

The heavy stone door opened, revealing an extremely spacious tomb chamber.

There is a high platform in the center of the tomb chamber, on which is placed a dark black coffin.

There were iron lamp stands on the walls all around, holding up white candles that were still burning quietly.

All the candle flames were not flickering, and it was so quiet that it seemed like a frozen picture, with no signs of having been washed away by a thousand or two thousand years.

In the straight line from the stone gate to the coffin, there were corpses lying one after another. Some of them were wearing black woolen coats and half-high silk hats, while others were dressed like ordinary workers with peaked caps. It was obvious that they were people who had entered here in recent years.

The group of Beyonders who had recruited helpers earlier? How did they get through the area ahead? The human-skinned shadows and other monsters were clearly still alive... Klein stared at the corpses with a head full of questions.

When he saw this, he was a little scared.

All of the corpses had sparse white hair, dry and wrinkled skin, and obvious spots, like old men in their eighties or nineties.

There were no obvious wounds on their bodies, as if they had died of old age, and their death had not been long ago and had not yet had time to rot.

Obviously, there wouldn't be so many elderly Beyonders exploring the mausoleum. Even if they found that the people here were old, they would try to recruit young and strong people when recruiting helpers... There's something strange here! Klein frowned slightly and looked around again.

He quickly thought of the "worm of time" left by Amon's clone, and the Amon family emblem on the stone gate with the meaning of time.

Is making people age quickly one of the extraordinary abilities of the Amon family? The dark side of time... the loopholes of time... Could it be that while making others age rapidly, the members of the Amon family will regain their youth and gain a longer life? Wait, these extraordinary people easily broke in here, maybe the tomb owner was deliberately indulgent, he wanted to plunder other people's time to maintain his own existence... Klein looked at the black coffin on the high platform with some speculation.

At this time, Horamick Hayden, the half-god, half-human warrior, raised his left hand and pressed it down, saying:

"You stop here."

"Yes, Your Excellency the Archbishop." Ikanser and others answered without hesitation.

As members of the official organization, they have all read a large number of files on supernatural events and know that in similar situations, they must absolutely obey the will of High-Sequence Beings and must not act on their own or try to be stubborn, otherwise they will die without knowing how they died.

Horamick looked forward, his eyes resting on an upside-down picture frame at the bottom of the platform.

He took a step forward without changing his expression, walking forward at a moderate pace.

No preparation at all? The characteristic of demigods is recklessness? Klein was quite surprised.

He seemed to be able to imagine Horamick's teeth falling out, his hair turning white, his skin becoming dry and wrinkled, and he would age rapidly.

One step, two steps, three steps. The normally normal Horamick suddenly trembled, and a sharp, teeth-grinding friction sound came from his body.

His pace began to slow, his movements became stiff, and his skin became noticeably dry.

This is not right... This is not the normal aging of a human being... What was that friction sound just now? Klein muttered to himself.

Four steps, five steps, six steps, a tearing sound came from Horamick's body, and something fell to the ground with a clang.

Klein looked over subconsciously and saw a gear.

Rusty gears!

Horamick continued to move forward, and things occasionally fell off his body, including rusty screws, melted wax, yellowed bones, and loose springs... His figure became thinner and thinner, shaky, and could collapse at any time.

This is just like a robot... well, to use the terminology of this era, it's like a living puppet... Klein suddenly realized something.

He remembered that before Old Neil died, he said that the Sequence 4 of the Church of Mother Earth was good at "Life Refinement", and the Sequence corresponding to the "Universalist" path could barely do it.

And Horamick is a high-sequence expert on the "universalist" path!

The Horamick in front of me is not the real him, but just a puppet. The reason why the "ghost frame" just now was ineffective is because the puppet has no spirit at all! The real Horamick should still be hanging far away... He is worthy of being a demigod... When Klein suddenly realized it, the archbishop walked to the front of the platform, bent his knees, bent his back, and turned the upside-down picture frame over.

Normally, when exploring a tomb with supernatural elements, one should avoid bringing similar items to the front, but Horamick made the opposite choice this time.

As the picture frame flipped, wind suddenly blew up inside the sealed mausoleum, blowing away the invisible confinement and silence.

The candles on the iron lampstands burned quickly and became extremely bright, but soon came to the end of their lives and melted away.

The old corpses on the ground were rotting rapidly, emitting a foul stench.

In just a few seconds, the main tomb chamber became dim, with only the lanterns held by the members of "Mechanical Heart" barely illuminating the front.

Horamick picked up the picture frame on the ground and staggered up the stairs to the platform.

He came to the black coffin, stretched out his right palm and pushed hard.

With a creaking and friction sound, a crack appeared on the heavy coffin lid, as if it had not been nailed shut at all.

Horamick glanced down and said in the same voice:

"There is no body."

The scene zoomed in, and Klein saw that the inside of the coffin was empty, with only a layer of light golden cushion at the bottom, on which was embroidered a bug with twelve rings on its body.

At this time, Horamick turned around, and the picture frame in his hand came into the eyes of Ikanser and others.

After just one glance, Klein's gaze suddenly froze.

It was a portrait of a young man with a smile on his face.

He has dark eyes and curly black hair.

He has a broad forehead and a thin face.

He wore a crystal monocle.

He wore a black peaked hat.

Amon!

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