Chapter 91 Desert Search (14) - Pharaoh's Tomb
There were also some carvings on the coffin walls. She observed them carefully and noticed that the color seemed to be slightly different from the gold they had seen in the treasure room earlier.
She could tell the difference because she had spent half the day yesterday studying the gold items in the treasure room, and almost threw up trying to find her target.
That's right, Ning Shu never imagined that one day she would be so nauseous from looking at gold that people would think she was incredibly wealthy.
Seeing Ning Shu staring intently at the golden coffin, Wu Yi, confident that he had guessed Ning Shu's thoughts, suddenly spoke up: "Sister Ning, shall we open the coffin and take a look?"
"!"
What kind of outrageous words are these? Is his martial arts skill really that fierce? I didn't realize it before.
Seeing Ning Shu looking at him like that, Wu Yi felt a little embarrassed. If he had to think about it himself, he definitely wouldn't dare, but wasn't Ning-jie here?
Sister Ning was his pillar of support; with her around, he was almost never in danger. So he felt that if she wanted to open the coffin, he could too.
Ning Shu was torn between opening the coffin or not.
As the saying goes, "If you don't court death, you won't die." There are no clues to ask them to open the coffin, so let's just avoid trouble.
The secret to living a long and healthy life is to mind your own business, so she decided—not to open the coffin.
"I'm not opening it. I'm just looking for clues," Ning Shu replied.
Wu Yi gave an "oh," sounding somewhat disappointed.
Ning Shu saw a box under the golden coffin, and she immediately guessed what was inside.
In a certain movie, it was shown that before a pharaoh was mummified, his internal organs were removed and placed in several urns.
Those urns would be placed under the coffin and sealed up; I didn't expect it to be the same here.
She wanted to take the box out and open it to see if her and Wu Yi's target was inside, but she was also worried that it might be a trap.
So he patted the frame of his glasses and asked in a low voice, "Lord Ping, is this box dangerous? If so, give me an exclamation mark."
Actually, she didn't know if it would work, but there was no harm in trying.
She waited for a while but the glasses didn't react, and she thought it was hopeless. But the next second, she saw the glasses give her a hint - "Canopus Jar".
Normal font and normal color, that means it should be safe.
Ning Shu squatted down and pulled the box out without hesitation, a swift and decisive action that left Wu Yi somewhat stunned.
"Sister Ning is so brave! I knew I hadn't made a mistake in clinging to her!" Wu Yi felt deeply proud of Ning Shu's action.
Unaware that she was being praised in her heart, Ning Shu carefully opened the lid and saw several urns inside.
"Wu Yi, I'll pick them up one by one and look at them. You can take a look too and see if there's anything you're looking for."
Ning Shu looked up and explained to Wu Yi that she should have put on gloves before taking the better ones, but there were no such conditions here.
She could only use her hands directly, starting by picking up a jar from the corner. She glanced at it herself, and seeing that it didn't seem to be her target, she held it up high, gesturing for Wu Yi to see.
Wu Yi shook his head, Ning Shu put it back, and then picked up a jar next to her... In this way, she looked at each jar in order.
The result was that they didn't find what they wanted here, which was great; they had worked for nothing.
After Ning Shu put the items back, closed the lid, placed the box back in its original position, and then clasped her hands together and bowed to the golden coffin.
"Excuse me, Pharaoh. You are a magnanimous man, please don't hold it against a child like me. If there's nothing else, please don't come to visit me."
Seeing Ning Shu do this, Wu Yi quickly followed suit and bowed as well.
Ning Shu looked around again, trying to find any other clues. If there were so few clues in the Pharaoh's tomb, wouldn't there be even fewer in the other rooms?
She felt she could definitely find some clues in the pharaoh's tomb and decided to search more carefully.
"Sister Ning, there's something here."
Wu Yi squatted down and pointed to the corner of his feet, saying that it was the lower left corner of the room, a place that is easily overlooked.
Ning Shu quickly ran over, and the glasses gave her a five-word hint—"The Pharaoh's last wish."
Ning Shu was already used to it; after all, even a curse had been inflicted, so a last wish was nothing.
She discovered that the object appeared to be buried under the sand, and some of the sand on top had already been dug away by Wu Yi.
She also squatted down and touched it with her hands, finding something hard that felt like a stone.
She quickly brushed the sand off the things with both hands, and Wu Yi helped her when he saw this.
When the sand was mostly cleared away, we finally saw what it was: a stone tablet lying down.
At this point, Ning Shu could understand the text again. She guessed that this was intentional on the part of the instance, so that they could understand the text related to the players, but not the text that was not relevant.
She carefully read the inscription on the stone tablet, which essentially stated that the Pharaoh wished to be buried with his favorite concubine after his death.
There's a story behind this joint burial. Secretary Ning knows that the pharaohs' golden coffins in the museum are all single-person human figures; he's never seen a golden coffin with two people.
The golden coffin behind them was clearly not large enough to accommodate two people. Since the stone tablet expressed the wish for a joint burial, it means that they were not actually buried together.
But she saw an exit leading to the Queen's tomb, which meant the Queen was also buried there. Would this be considered a joint burial?
She suddenly wondered if the meaning of the mural differed from her understanding, and whether the Pharaoh's favorite concubine and queen were the same person or two different people.
What does this have to do with her target? It's mind-boggling; Ning Shu feels her head buzzing.
Seeing Ning Shu's furrowed brows, Wu Yi asked, puzzled, "Sister Ning, what's wrong? Is this clue useless?"
Ning Shu sighed, "It's not that it's useless, it just feels even more chaotic. Let's look for other clues."
After searching for a while longer and confirming that there was nothing special, the two left and decided to go check out the Queen's tomb.
Returning to the entrance of the Grand Gallery, they entered the entrance to the Queen's Tomb. After going straight in, they soon saw the entrance to the tomb.
Upon entering, the glasses immediately revealed the contents of the sarcophagus—"the Queen's remains." [1]
Ning Shu was surprised that the Pharaoh used a golden coffin while the Queen could only use a stone coffin. She couldn't help but click her tongue twice at this difference in treatment.
The layout of the queen's tomb was similar to that of the pharaoh's, but it lacked the grandeur and refinement of the pharaoh's. The difference in status was obvious, so Ning Shu was not surprised at all.
She went through the layout of the pharaoh's tomb and examined the queen's canopy, but still found no useful clues.
Ning Shu also took a closer look at the blurry block in the upper left corner of her view and found that it had not changed at all in the Queen's tomb.
Could it be that she guessed right, and the target she was looking for had nothing to do with the Queen, but with the favored concubine?
Or is it that it has nothing to do with them, and it's simply because they didn't find the right object?
She felt that if she played this kind of game a few more times, her IQ could break through 140, approaching that of Bill Gates, a giant in the computer software industry.
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