"The Lord said to Moses, 'The King of Egypt is stubborn. He will not let his people go. Tomorrow morning, he will come to the Nile. You must meet him by the river. You must hold the staff that has turned into a snake. You must say to him, 'The Lord has sent me to ask you to let his people go so that they can worship their Lord in the wilderness. But even now, you have not listened. The Lord said, 'Look, I will strike the water of the Nile with the staff in my hand and turn it into blood. Then you will know that I am the Lord. The fish in the river will die and the water will stink. The Egyptians will not be able to drink from the river anymore. ' "'"
In the narrow interrogation room, Professor Sun Lun sat on the interrogation chair and recited a passage from the Bible in a calm tone. There was a strange smile on his aged face.
The archaeologist was 76 years old, but he was still hale and hearty. He did not show any signs of distress from being imprisoned.
There were three interrogators opposite him. Two were from the Spell Department and one was from the Investigation Department. Outside the one-way glass on the wall, there were many people watching at the same time. Everything that happened in the interrogation room was being recorded by the surveillance cameras and transmitted to many departments at the same time.
At that moment, Tong Ye brought Xiao Xu into the room. He nodded at Dr. Shen and the rest of the people and asked, "What's going on?"
Dr. Shen saw that Tong Ye looked fine and felt less worried. He answered, "Professor Sun still did not answer the question. He just recited a passage from the Bible …"
Chang Qianhang, the investigator from the Spell Department, who was well-versed in various religions and Egyptian civilization, took over. "Tong Ye, this is the Book of Exodus in the Old Testament. It is what Yahweh told Moses to say to the King of Egypt. When Moses brought the Israelites to escape from Egypt, the Egyptians tried to stop them. Yahweh sent down the so-called Ten Plagues of Egypt. What Professor Sun Lun just said was the first disaster, the Blood Catastrophe. It was to turn all the water in the Nile into blood. "
"Ten Plagues of Egypt?" Tong Ye's face tensed up. He looked at the people around him. "What other disasters are there?"
"I know." Xiao Xu said softly. He was very young, but no one knew how much he knew. Xiao Xu was famous for being a humanoid computer. "Frog plague, louse plague, fly plague, plague, measles plague, hail plague, locust plague, night plague, and the death of the First Born."
Chang Qianhang nodded. "The Death of the Firstborn refers to the death of all the firstborn sons of Egyptian families and all the firstborn animals in Egypt."
"Then this' Eternal Lord 'is even more brutal than the King of Egypt," Tong Ye said.
"The Old Testament talks about an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," Chang Qianhang answered again.
"Tong Ye, I feel like Professor Sun is just making a metaphor. The king of Egypt is referring to our Phecda? He's Moses? That Eternal Lord … might be Black Goat. "
Everyone agreed with Prof Shen's deduction. A pandemic, especially a pandemic …
Elder Tong looked at the old professor on the other side of the glass. He was much older than he was, the oldest person there. His face was covered in wrinkles and age spots, but there was a unique presence about him. It was different from the youthful vigor of old age. Instead, it was like he was in control of his own life and death … That was the strangeness of Prof Sun.
"How is the investigation going? When did Professor Sun start acting like this?"
"We've started the preliminary investigation on his students and his family." Prof Shen said. Normally, he was not in charge of these things but recently, the Spell Department was so messed up that it was almost paralyzed. "For now, we can't rule them out as suspects but none of them noticed anything unusual about Prof Sun. Most of the collections at Professor Sun's house are fake Egyptian relics. This kind of collection is very common in the homes of Egyptian scholars. However, one of the statues with the head of a goat and the body of a lion is a bit strange. "
"Why?" Tong Ye asked, "Do you have any pictures?"
Chang Qianhang handed a document to Tong Ye. They were all pictures of the collections that were found at Professor Sun's house.
Tong Ye flipped through the document and saw the most suspicious one. Even though he had not seen the real thing, he could sense something was off …
"Tong Ye, the goat's horn looks like the 'womb' rune in the Egyptian sacred texts." Chang Qianhang explained, "It's very different from a normal goat's head. We've done a technical analysis on this statue. It was made less than 20 years ago, so it could be a replica. The real thing is probably the real thing. "
That was the reason they brought Professor Sun back to the Spell Department for interrogation.
There were not that many coincidences in the world. Based on Professor Sun's behavior, there was definitely something wrong with him.
"20 years?" Tong Ye was suddenly reminded of something. "How long has Professor Sun owned this statue?"
"About that long." Chang Qianhang answered. "We've asked Professor Sun's grandson. He's 20 now. He said he's seen this statue when he was young."
Tong Ye was confused. "I remember when we started our investigation on Egyptian mythology, we asked Professor Sun as well, didn't we? What did the files say then? "
The clue to Egyptian mythology was first suggested by Yu Chi based on the connection between Apep and Nyarlathotep. Then he made the connection with the Black Goat of the Forest. At the time, Phecda and GOA had sought help from the experts in this field.
"There were no problems at the time. Professor Sun answered all our questions. We never saw this statue before. It was probably purposely hidden by Professor Sun. We didn't search the place then, so we only found it now. "
"Was this statue found in his secret room?" Elder Tong asked. "Or was it placed next to the television in the living room?"
Chang Qianhang and Dr. Shen both looked at another person. It was Captain Yi Huiyu, who led the team to search Professor Sun's house. She answered, "Tong Ye, the statue was placed on a stone table in the middle of the hall, facing the door. It was noon when we went there, and the sun shone on the statue … That feeling, it was very strange. "
"It's the worship of the sun god." Tong Ye thought. "Professor Sun could hide for more than 20 years. It's impossible for him to be so careless all of a sudden … He suddenly stopped hiding and was so brazen. He was not afraid of being caught here. There must be something that made him like this … made him think it's time … Now the question is, is Professor Sun 'Moses', or one of the Israelites led by 'Moses'?"
Everyone in the secret room was silent. Just like the heavy atmosphere, they all knew that Wu Siyu had warned them about the black goat's unusual power.
"He's not Moses," Xiao Xu suddenly said. His young face was expressionless. "Because he doesn't have a snake cane."
At the same time, in the interrogation room, Professor Sun read another passage of scripture. His voice was still so proud.
"The Lord said to Moses, 'Say to Aaron,' Stretch out your staff over all the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their rivers, over their pools, and over their ponds, so that all the waters may be turned into blood. There will be blood in all the land of Egypt, whether it be made of wood or in stone. "
So Moses and Aaron did as the Lord commanded them. Aaron raised his cane and struck the water in the river in front of the king of Egypt and his servants, and the water in the river turned into blood.
The fish in the river died, and the river stank. The Egyptians could not drink the water in the river, and there was blood all over Egypt. "
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
