Chapter 204
After a two-hour rest outside, the five of them reentered the pyramid at noon. With their experience traversing the first and second floors, they returned to the Queen's Chamber in just an hour, with the majority of their time spent in the passageways between the first and second floors.
"Let's find a passage!" Chu Huaiqin said.
"Search separately?" Andre asked.
"Let's go together, what do you think, Chu?" Liman looked at Chu Huaiqin.
"Welcome, Andre, what do you think?" Chu Huaiqin asked back.
"Let's do it together!" Andre also laughed.
At this point, the competition for the championship is based on individual ability, and tricks will not win.
After deciding to go together, everyone started looking for the passage separately. Ten minutes later, Andre saw the stairs and howled. Chu Huaiqin and others also came over.
This passage was larger than the first and second floors, but again, it had no steps. It was carved entirely from stone, smooth and rough. This time, Liman went first, took out the climbing fulcrum, bent over, and slowly climbed up.
It took the five of them nearly three hours to cross this passage. Bending over for so long made several of them exhausted and they sat on the stone slabs without moving.
This chamber is even larger than the Queen's Chamber. The murals have also changed in style, becoming more masculine, and the figures depicted include the image of the high priest, making it clear that this is the King's Chamber, or the Pharaoh's. Unlike the Queen's Chamber, this one does not have two doors, which makes it even more unsettling.
A few people ate something on the spot, put on gas masks, and prepared to enter the Pharaoh's Room in one go. However, when they entered the criss-crossing passages, they found that this place was even more complicated than the road leading to the queen. They often ended up in a dead end, like a maze.
There is no correct direction on the map, it is just for decoration.
Liman's temper was about to explode, Andre started kicking the wall, Xia En was also very annoyed, and only Lin Zhinan followed Chu Huaiqin obediently.
"Chu, aren't you angry?" Liman said in a somewhat aggressive tone.
"Even when I'm angry, no one comes to take me to the Pharaoh's Room!" Chu Huaiqin laughed. If he was so easily angered, he would have been so angry that he would have taken a knife to find the family of three when he was a child.
"Chu, don't you have a temper?" Andre hurriedly grabbed his hat and was about to pull it down with the mask, but when he thought of the staff member who was carried out at the beginning, he let out a "tsk" and put it down.
"Have you never seen me lose my temper?" Chu Huaiqin raised his eyebrows and smiled calmly, yet frighteningly.
Liman suddenly felt a dull pain in his bones. Andre also thought of those people he had taught a lesson before. He turned his head away, took a deep breath, and tried not to get angry to death.
"Let's go!" Chu Huaiqin was the first to walk out. He was much more cautious this time. Although the map seemed useless, he still took it out to compare it every time he walked a distance. After this comparison, he actually found something.
Half an hour later, they entered a stone chamber. Unfortunately, it wasn't the Pharaoh's chamber, and it likely wasn't easy to find. In the center of this chamber was a stone pit, empty and barren. The murals depicted soldiers with animal heads and human bodies. The five of them passed through the chamber and continued inside.
The dark pyramid seemed brighter because of a few more flashlights, and the only sound in the quiet place was the echo of footsteps.
After more than ten minutes, the passage gradually widened. The few people looked at each other and saw joy in each other's eyes. They should be there soon.
"No, there is a sound." Chu Huaiqin frowned and listened attentively.
"No, I didn't hear it." Andre replied.
"I didn't hear it either," Liman replied.
Lin Zhinan and Xia En shook their heads at the same time.
Chu Huaiqin was puzzled. Did he hear it wrong? If only the little monk were here, his ears would be more sensitive and he could make a clearer judgment.
The few of them continued to walk forward, and as they walked, Chu Huaiqin felt something was wrong again.
"Oh no, run." Chu Huaiqin suddenly shouted.
"What's wrong, you...ah, it's a snake!" Andre shouted.
Several people looked at the snake that suddenly appeared in front of them in horror, shouted "Run", and turned around and ran away.
Snakes, some big, some small, some black, some covered with spots, swam out from the dim corridor. The audience in the live broadcast room were dumbfounded by this scene and got goose bumps all over their bodies.
“Ahhhhhhhhhhh!”
"Anthony, crawl for me."
"Snake, it's a snake, ahhhh, it's coming, run!"
"Oh my god, this snake, this snake is definitely a real snake."
"God, I see poisonous snakes in there, poisonous snakes."
Of course, Chu Huaiqin and the others also realized that it was a real snake. Not only was this snake real, but even the scorpion before was real. The most terrifying thing was that there were also poisonous snakes mixed in here.
Could it be that my guess was wrong?
"Ah, there's one in front too." Andre, who was running in the front, shouted, turned his body, and ran through the passage next to him.
"Don't run away." Chu Huaiqin saw Andre running to the side and was thinking of asking everyone to follow him. Unexpectedly, Lin Zhinan, who was running in the middle, saw a snake appear in front of her. She screamed in fright and instinctively ran to the passage on her side.
Chu Huaiqin gritted his teeth and chased after him.
So when Xia En turned around, Chu Huaiqin and Lin Zhinan were gone, leaving only him and Liman.
"Ahh, what are you standing there for? Run! My brother and sister are at the second exit behind you."
"God, Jesus, please take away these snakes!"
"No, don't you think something's wrong? Why is the picture so clear? Logically, shouldn't they just be wearing cameras overhead? Why is our angle 180 degrees?"
"Yeah, didn't the director team disappear?"
"You just realized it now? They arranged it. Do you still think the director team was really captured by Pharaoh?"
"Damn, damn, they also arranged snakes?"
"I don't know. There are poisonous snakes in there. I think this is an accident."
"Oh my god, could it be that the director didn't notice there was a snake inside, and the contestants did?"
"So it's a real snake?"
"I have snakes at home, and I can tell you this is a real snake."
As the comment came out, everyone was stunned. Real snakes. So was the appearance of these snakes an accident? Did the director team not know about it?
"Anthony is such a jerk."
The audience in the live broadcast room roared.
Chu Huaiqin quickly caught up with Lin Zhinan and pulled her back, "Sister, calm down."
"Brother, brother, snakes, so many snakes." Lin Zhinan's tears came out and fell down.
"Don't be afraid, follow me." Chu Huaiqin's face was not good. A group of real snakes suddenly appeared. He didn't know whether this matter was within the control of the director team.
"Brother, what should we do?" Lin Zhinan's emotions calmed down a lot when Chu Huaiqin held his hand.
"Find the others first." Chu Huaiqin didn't dare to take Lin Zhinan back. A snake will crawl into any hole it finds. Returning the same way would be like delivering it to the door.
Andre was the most miserable at this time. When he found that he was the only one left, he was dumbfounded. He looked at one doorway after another, wanting to cry but without tears.
"Find them first." Andre breathed heavily, sweat pouring down his cheeks under the mask.
Liman and Xia En were also looking for someone, but the passage was interconnected and it was not easy to find the person. The most unfortunate thing was that they ran into a passage full of centipedes.
In the dim stone chamber, everyone was extremely nervous and walked with heavy steps.
"ah!"
The screams that came from nowhere scared everyone in the passage.
"It sounds like Andre's voice!" Chu Huaiqin's expression changed, and he immediately pulled Lin Zhinan to run towards the source of the voice.
Liman and Xia En on the other side of the road also heard it, but they were in trouble now, as centipedes were crawling all over them.
"What's going on? Why does this centipede seem to be targeting them?"
"Yes, why?"
"Oh my God, this can't really be the Pharaoh's curse!"
"Don't joke, it's just, it's really weird!"
"Maybe something stuck to them, and the snakes are chasing them too."
"There's definitely a problem, absolutely a problem."
"Ahh, Andre is going to be finished."
The audience in the live broadcast room was going crazy. Xia En and Li Man were entangled by the centipede, and Andre was even worse off.
Ten minutes later, Andre was running around in the corridor and accidentally ran into the Pharaoh's Room. Everyone marveled at his good luck, but soon everyone was shocked by the scene inside.
A room full of snakes.
Inside the royal chamber, which was twice as large as the queen's chamber, snakes representing evil and curses slithered under the dim light, sometimes crawling on the golden throne of the sun god, sometimes coiled around the scepter on the throne, and sometimes around the sarcophagus...
Everywhere.
When the audience in the live broadcast room saw this scene, they were all dumbfounded.
Andre also soon discovered it. He screamed and tried to run out. Before he reached the door, a snake flew down from the wall and hit Andre's gas mask, scaring him so much that he staggered and fell.
Chu Huaiqin and the others heard this scream, but when they ran over, several snakes had already crawled onto Andre's body, as if they were looking for a hole to crawl into.
“Ah, ah!”
There was a loud and clear sound, and Andre's eyes rolled back and he fainted.
"Zhinan, you stay here, I'll go save people." Chu Huaiqin saw the snake crawling around and didn't care about what the program crew was doing. He saved people first.
"Brother, brother, I..." Lin Zhinan was so scared that his whole body was shaking. He looked at the snake crawling towards him and started crying.
"Don't be afraid, you are wearing protective clothing, they can't hurt you. If a snake comes over, just wave it with your trekking pole. If that doesn't work, just run, and make marks on the wall while running. Brother, we will find you." Chu Huaiqin handed a stone to Lin Zhinan.
He had brought this stone in to mark the place, but when he saw the exquisite murals carved on the wall, he realized that no matter whether his suspicions were true or not, he couldn't bear to destroy the murals. There was nothing he could do now; he could only blame the production team!
"Yeah, yeah!" Lin Zhinan nodded repeatedly, tears kept falling down, and he held the trekking pole tightly.
Chu Huaiqin couldn't bear it, but there was nothing he could do. He turned around, raised his trekking pole, threw the snakes that were crawling over from the wall, and rushed towards Andre.
In an instant, the snake in the room seemed to smell the fragrance, and it quickly crawled towards Chu Huaiqin.
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