Chapter 201
Chu Huaiqin took the lead and took Lin Zhinan and Xia En to check from the left, Andrei and Vasily checked from the right, leaving only Liman and Fili. The two looked at each other, Liman walked to the back, and Fili stood there with a pale face, but no one paid any attention to him.
The three members of the rolling team walked through the kneeling stone men and searched along the edge.
Although the pyramid is huge, most of it is solid. Only the middle part is covered with a stone chamber, and there are small rooms around the stone chamber.
"Brother, what is this place used for?" Lin Zhinan asked. The cave entrance was pitch black and nothing could be seen.
"Perhaps a burial chamber!" Chu Huaiqin replied. In ancient Egypt, because the pharaohs were deified, the burial of most slaves was considered an honor. To have a separate chamber within the sacrificial hall was something only the slave chief would consider desirable.
Chu Huaiqin stood at the doorway, not intending to go in. He simply shone his flashlight inside. Seeing no stairs, he moved on to a small stone chamber. Vasily, from the Russian team, was a bold man. He and Andrei spotted the small stone chamber, turned on their flashlights, and walked in. The livestream audience followed his camera and saw him reach for the sarcophagus, attempting to push the lid open. Their faces paled with fear, and the less courageous ones quickly switched to watching the others.
When Chu Huaiqin finished the investigation, Andre also walked here. The four of them looked up at the one-meter-high square staircase leading to the upper floor, revealing uncomfortable expressions.
"Could this be a staircase? Can we walk up from here?" Lin Zhinan looked at the small hole, feeling depressed and uncomfortable all over.
"It is rumored that aliens are seven inches tall." Xia En said.
Several people looked at him, then at the small hole, and felt that what Xia Entang said made sense.
"The entrance to the cave is so small, how did they carry the sarcophagus in?" Lin Zhinan was even more puzzled.
Chu Huaiqin: "The sarcophagus was built inside."
Andre: "Could it be that aliens really built it? Chu, what do you think?"
Chu Huaiqin laughed and said, "The program team is just making trouble!"
The others were stunned and didn't understand what Chu Huaiqin meant.
"ah!"
A scream came from the stone chamber. The four of them looked at each other, turned around and ran towards the source of the sound. As soon as they arrived at the stone chamber, they saw the staff gathered in front of the altar. There was chaos, and screams of "Ahhh" of pain continued to ring out.
"Doctor, doctor."
"Quick, quick, oxygen."
"Call a plane."
"Everyone, get out of the way."
"Everyone, do not take off your gas masks."
Chaotic voices came one after another. Chu Huaiqin asked Lin Zhinan to stay where he was. He walked forward quickly and looked forward from behind the crowd. He saw a staff member being pressed to the ground by several people. He was groaning in pain on the ground, his neck was red and veins were bulging.
Chu Huaiqin saw that something was wrong with this man, and his heart sank instantly.
"Philip, what's going on?" Liman also rushed back and saw the man on the ground struggling as if twitching, with a ventilator pressed on his nose and mouth. He had an uneasy feeling in his heart.
"I don't know either. He is a photographer. He just put the camera on the stone platform and then fell to the ground." Phili had been standing with the production crew. He was dumbfounded by this accident.
"Did you encounter anything?" Liman asked.
Fili shook his head.
The people in the live broadcast room were also shocked when they saw this scene.
"The Pharaoh's Curse?"
"Don't joke, believe in science."
"But he did fall down after placing the camera on the altar!"
"No, no, there was another action. He was leaning against the sarcophagus and taking off his mask. Did he touch some mechanism and inhale the poisonous gas?"
"Maybe there really is this thing in here."
Because there were many crew members filming and it was a live broadcast room, staff members would appear on camera from time to time. The audience was already used to it, and no one paid attention to the staff members appearing on camera at the time. However, they did not expect that he would fall down the next moment.
Soon, the staff member who had fallen ill for unknown reasons was carried out and someone was cleaning up the scene.
"continue."
Anthony's words were transmitted by the drone, and the live broadcast room and the contestants were shocked. Now someone has an accident, and the cause has not been figured out yet, so why are they still continuing?
"Anthony, you can't do this. Tell me clearly, what happened to him?" Phil was the first to jump out and yelled at Anthony through the mask.
"Do you want to give up the game?" Anthony remained motionless.
"At least tell us what happened to him?" Liman frowned, his usually fierce eyes full of hostility.
"He just pressed the mechanism of the sarcophagus, which released poisonous gas." A man in Arab clothing replied in broken English.
"You mean there's poisonous gas in the air now?" Andre asked in disbelief.
"Don't worry, as long as you don't take off your mask, you'll be fine." Anthony replied.
"Is this about taking off the mask?" Xia En's expression was also unpleasant.
Anthony shrugged, refusing to deny it.
The atmosphere became oppressive. Several contestants stared at Anthony fiercely, their eyes hurting, but Anthony did not react.
"Forget it, let's go, find the scepter as soon as possible and leave this damn place." Liman withdrew his gaze and stopped arguing.
"Chu, say something." Andre turned his gaze to Chu Huaiqin, who had been silent.
Chu Huaiqin shook his head, indicating that he didn't know what to say.
"Hey, where is Vasily?" Lin Zhinan found that one person was missing.
"He was following me just now." Andre only then realized that his team member was missing and what happened to the staff, and he was extremely anxious.
"Go and look for them quickly." Chu Huaiqin said, and strode towards the room that Andre and the others were checking.
The others hurried to catch up, jogging all the way. As soon as they arrived, they saw Vasily walking out of the small room. Because he was wearing a mask, they couldn't see his expression clearly.
"What are you doing here?" Andre asked curiously.
"Oh, I wanted to open the sarcophagus to see the mummy, but the lid was too heavy and I couldn't push it open." Vasily shrugged.
Live broadcast room: No, he pushed it open, and we saw a living mummy.
Seeing that Vasily was fine, everyone was relieved. Andrei told Vasily what had just happened, and he agreed to continue walking.
The slope to climb up was very steep, and the height was low, so we could only walk with our back bent. That was not the worst part. The most terrifying thing was the long tunnel. It was pitch black in front, which was frightening. What was even worse was that there were no steps, just a straight slope going down.
"How do I climb this tunnel?" Andre sighed as he looked at the tunnel.
Xia Entang bent down and touched it, and found that the stone was very slippery.
"Don't we have climbing fulcrums?" Lin Zhinan reminded.
A few people suddenly remembered, yes, didn’t the program team give them two of these things?
"Did they know about this road a long time ago?" Liman turned to look at the production team.
And he said he had never been here before, what a liar.
"Normally, there is such a road inside the pyramid." Phili replied. He watched the documentary about the Pyramid of Khufu and saw such a road inside. Experts said that it was to facilitate the transportation of stones during construction.
"Will there be snakes up there?" Lin Zhinan was more worried about this.
No one answered because they didn't know. More importantly, the road was too narrow and steep. If an accident happened, there would be no time to escape. The audience in the live broadcast room saw it and scolded Anthony again.
"Let one person go up first. Once there is no problem, the others can go up later." Chu Huaiqin suggested.
"Yes, from what I know, the stairs in the pyramid are either Z-shaped or spiral-shaped. Now looking at this tunnel, it should be Z-shaped." Liman agreed.
"Let each team send one person out and walk a certain distance," Andre suggested.
Everyone agrees, so the question is, which team goes first?
"Let me go first." Chu Huaiqin said.
The other two were not surprised and nodded in agreement, but Xia En was the one who objected.
"No, I'll go." Xia En stared at Chu Huaiqin with a firm gaze.
Chu Huaiqin thought about it and nodded.
After the decision was made, everyone started to act. This time, the drone did not fly, and the work depended entirely on the cameras above the heads of the contestants.
Without drone lighting, they could only use flashlights. Xia En went up first, finding one hole for each carrot, one fulcrum for each foothold, climbing up and collecting one after another. Otherwise, the lighting provided by the program team would not be enough. In this way, the energy required would be terrifying. Xia En had only climbed halfway when he was already soaked.
The people below were also the most nervous. Chu Huaiqin reminded them from behind, "Every two steps, you should look ahead to see if there is anything ahead."
This thing, of course, refers to poisonous small animals.
Fortunately, the process, though arduous, went smoothly, and Xia Entang ascended quickly. Shine his flashlight everywhere, he first saw a small stone chamber, then a Z-shaped tunnel ascending.
After Xia Entang climbed up successfully, the others also climbed up one after another. However, the process was more difficult than Xia Entang's. Fili and Lin Zhinan slipped down several times. Fortunately, they were wearing gloves and did not get scratched.
Chu Huaiqin was climbing to the end. When he was halfway, he stopped, took off his gloves, and touched the floor and both sides with his hands. The stones were rough.
Seven people successfully reached the small stone chamber. Andre climbed the second tunnel first, followed by a group of people. After half an hour, they successfully reached the second floor. After passing through a one-meter-long tunnel, everyone entered a small stone chamber, and they faced two doors.
The seven people were a little dumbfounded when looking at the two doors. They took out the sheepskin map to compare and found that there was a missing piece in this place.
There was no other way, so they had to observe the two doors and found that there were paintings of the sun and the moon above the two doors respectively, and there were graphic characters engraved in the middle of the two doors. After comparison, they found that they were the so-called gates of life and death.
"Why is this also happening abroad?" Chu Huaiqin said helplessly.
"The sun is the door to life!" Andre guessed. This world is very strange. Even if they are not connected, in most cultures, the sun is regarded as light and the moon as darkness.
"Are we going this way?" Xia En thought they should go the other way. "Maybe they did this on purpose. I should go through the moon door."
"I agree with Xia." Vasily took his side.
"I agree with Andre." Riemann felt that since the sun was painted, it must represent light.
"I support Brother Xia En." Lin Zhinan expressed his position.
Everyone looked at Chu Huaiqin.
"I agree with Xia Entang." Chu Huaiqin thought it was simple. In Egyptian mythology, the sun god represents light and power and is the symbol of the pharaoh. Then the moon should be the queen. Now it is the second layer. According to the previously disclosed pyramid information, the second layer is the queen's tomb.
"Chu, the three of you, voting is too cost-effective." Fili frowned and said unhappily.
After the vote, even if some people were dissatisfied, no one wanted to leave separately, so they finally took the path of the moon.
The author has something to say: I had a pain in the back of my neck yesterday afternoon, and gradually developed a headache and fever. I took some cold medicine and wanted to sleep, but within ten minutes, the pain started again. I held on until eleven o'clock in the evening. I felt sleepy, but the pain was too much to sleep. I had to take a few more pills, and finally I felt better and fell asleep. I woke up in pain again at one o'clock in the morning, took a few more pills, slept until five o'clock in the morning, and woke up in pain again. I checked on my phone and thought it was most likely cervical spondylosis pressing on the nerves. There were also other rumors, which was quite scary. I changed my clothes and took a taxi straight to the hospital. It was still dark when I arrived.
Doctor: Headache, fever?
Me: Send.
After giving the temperature measurement.
Doctor: No fever.
Me: ..., could it be that the cervical spondylosis attack has compressed the nerves?
Doctor: We need a CT scan to find out. To find out the cause of the headache, we need to do a lot of tests, blah blah, a full body check-up, and we need to be hospitalized.
Me: ..., no need to be hospitalized, just do a CT scan to see if there is anything wrong with the brain.
After all the operations, my brain is fine.
When prescribing medicine, I prescribed a bunch of brain-boosting drugs.
Me: Don’t you prescribe cold medicine?
Doctor: Do you have a cold?
Me: I don’t know. I sneezed twice yesterday, but not today.
Doctor: Okay.
Added two cold medicines.
I carried a bunch of things home, prepared to cook some dumplings, eat them, take medicine, and go to sleep.
As I ate, I found that my headache was gone.
I:……
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