After passing through another door, they were greeted by another similar Mummy's chamber. Everyone had strange expressions on their faces.
"Another one?"
"There's still no door. Has anyone seen the coffin?"
They looked around, but the chamber was empty. They couldn't find the Mummy even after walking for a while. In the end, Mofan found the Mummy's coffin on the floor tiles. It looked like an inconspicuous little Mummy's coffin.
"I'll open it this time," Zhao Manyan felt that all the Mummy's were somewhat amateurish, so he became bolder.
Zhao Manyan walked up to the little Mummy's coffin. It was bound by an ancient Immortal Vine from the outside.
Zhao Manyan didn't think too much about it. He slowly gathered some Light Energy in his palm. The Light Energy extended to his wrist and formed a golden hilt. The hilt continued to extend and turned into a slender Moonlight Blade!
He slashed at the Immortal Vine on the front of the little coffin. A thin gap immediately appeared on the Immortal Vine, but it wasn't very deep.
"Heh, it's quite durable." Zhao Manyan realized that his slash didn't cut it in half.
Zhao Manyan swung the Moonlight Blade again. This time, he used his Mana to increase the power of his slash.
This time, the gap on the Immortal Vine was much deeper. Zhao Manyan estimated that the Immortal Vine would break after another seven or eight slashes.
"Can you do it?" Mubai couldn't help but ask when he saw Zhao Manyan struggling to cut the vines.
"This vine is very sturdy … Damn, what's going on? Why did it grow back on its own?" Zhao Manyan exclaimed.
The gap that Zhao Manyan made with his slash was healing at an even faster speed. Seeing this, Zhao Manyan hurriedly increased his slash speed. However, after a dozen slashes, the Immortal Vine was still intact.
"I don't believe it!" Zhao Manyan was a little angry.
Zhao Manyan had to use some of his real skills to deal with the Bundled Vines!
"Zhao Manyan, stop chopping!" At this moment, Shreev suddenly spoke. His voice was laced with shock.
"Why not? If we don't open the coffin, we won't be able to get out," Zhao Manyan said.
"We definitely can't afford to offend this guy." Shreev was holding a book in his hand. He seemed to have just realized who the Mummy in the small coffin was.
"I don't think so. The first two Mummy were pretty dumb," Zhao Manyan said.
"According to the ancient records, Khufu encountered an evil child when he was young. The evil child almost took his life. After killing the evil child with great difficulty, Khufu was still afraid of it. He ordered someone to retrieve an Immortal Vine from the Cape of Good Hope and used it to seal the evil child's unbreakable corpse in a small coffin. It was also from this evil child that Khufu learned some powerful Undead Magic, allowing his rule to never be shaken again … The thing you can't cut is the Immortal Vine, and this small coffin is exactly the same as the seal on my book! Khufu has always been afraid of the evil child, but he has always wanted to turn it into his subordinate. The evil child has been in the pyramid for thousands of years. If it really turns into an undead, its magic must be extremely powerful. It will kill us all! "Shreev said.
Zhao Manyan was startled. He raised the light sword in his hand and subconsciously glanced at the small coffin.
The coffin was covered in strange words and patterns that he could not understand. Zhao Manyan was trying to figure out the secrets of the coffin, but he suddenly saw a pattern twisting and turning into a child's face. The face was smiling brightly, with a hint of naivety and cuteness … yet it was utterly terrifying in Zhao Manyan's eyes!
Zhao Manyan took a few steps back. His face turned pale.
"That guy … it's a phantom!" Zhao Manyan said softly.
Specters were the most difficult undead to deal with. They were unpredictable, immune to magic, and good at controlling minds, cursing, and poisoning. Even though the coffin was not open, it was still smiling at him from inside. Zhao Manting could not help but feel a lingering fear!
"Then let's not touch the little ancestor," Mofan said.
"Mmm, don't touch it," Shreev said.
"But if we don't open the coffin, we won't be able to reach the next door," Mios said.
"I just did some research. There are countless Mummy Chambers under Khufu's palace. These are Khufu's ministers, and the only way to enter Khufu's palace is through these Mummy Chambers. The mummy chambers were connected to different chambers, and each chamber had four doors. They were on the front, back, left, and right walls respectively. After a coffin was opened, a new door would open. However, the four doors will only open if we kill the master of the Mummy Chamber, "Shreev said.
"What do you mean?" Mofan asked with a confused look.
"We have to take the right door to enter Khufu's palace. If we take the wrong one, we will end up in another maze with four doors. There must be a few hundred Mummy Chambers under Khufu. We might end up in different chambers. We will either be killed by the master of the coffin or trapped here," Shreev said.
"Why didn't you say so earlier!?" Zhao Manyan cursed.
"I only realized the layout of this place after seeing the evil child. What's more, the first Mummy Chamber that we opened, the one with the golden-headed silver spider, was the right door. One of the doors led us to the right path. "
"So … are we going the right way?" Heidi asked.
"I don't think so. There's an ancient drawing with hints on it. There's a spider on the ground, and above the spider is a scorpion. Behind the scorpion is a snake, and above the snake is an eagle … which means if we are on the right path, the next chamber will be related to the scorpion, "Shreev said.
"Seriously? Doesn't that mean we have to go back and deal with the Ruler-level Mummy? It can even speak human language. It must be an old monster, "Zhao Manyan said.
"No wonder it didn't stop us when we left. It must know we are going to pass through its territory," Mubai said.
"So should we go back now?" Mios asked.
"Yes, let's go back. At least we can't touch the evil child. We have to figure out the identity of the master of the coffin before we open it. If we wake up a scary creature, we are dead for sure. The evil child isn't on the right path. There's no need for that," Shreev said.
"Shreev, how do you know so much? Are you Khufu's successor or something?" Zhao Manyan asked.
"Are you kidding me? Everyone in Egypt is related to Khufu by blood for a few hundred generations!" Shreev snapped.
"Oh, you're right."
…
The group did not provoke the evil child. Zhao Manyan was given a great fright by the creature. Mofan guessed the evil child was most likely as strong as the Queen of the Netherworld. If the evil child was awakened, they would be no match for it!
When they returned to the square door, the group immediately became cautious when they recalled the creature that had placed the skulls on their heads. They prepared themselves for battle.
"Come, I'm going to blow up all your skulls!" Mofan took a step forward and glanced around the chamber.
When Mofan was about to face the skulls, he realized that the chamber was empty.
The mountain of skulls was gone. The hot-tempered Mummy was gone, too. The chamber looked a lot smaller than before!
"What's going on?" Zhao Manyan looked around with wide eyes, but he failed to find the mountain of skulls.
"There … there's only one entrance. Did we go the wrong way?"
Shreev fell into deep thought for a moment before saying, "As I thought, even if we go back, we won't return to the chamber we came from. We are now in a new chamber of the Mummy."
"You always say things after the fact. Why didn't you say that just now?" Zhao Manyan said.
"I have to make a guess based on the situation. Not many people have actually entered the Great Pyramid of Giza in the past. Even if someone knew how to find the Mummy's chamber in the past, I'm afraid the knowledge has long been lost!" Shreev said.
A new chamber of the Mummy. The chamber was around the size of a gymnasium. At the center of the chamber stood a lone … not a coffin, but a tombstone.
The bottom of the tombstone was bulging, with words written in blood on it. The group went up to the tombstone, trying to open the door first.
"We'll have to kill everyone here. Choose the door to the left of the tombstone that we came from. That way, we'll be able to return to the first chamber," Shreev said.
"This is so f * * king troublesome."
"This is the first tomb in the world. It's already a miracle that we're still alive!"
Mofan went up to the tombstone. He was too lazy to read the words on the tombstone that he did not understand. He smashed the tombstone into pieces with a single punch!
Other mummies would at least have a good coffin in their tomb so they could sleep peacefully. However, the owner of this tomb was obviously a poor mummy. He had just casually piled up some dirt to make a tombstone. Not only was the tomb small, but grass was about to grow on the tombstone!
"Mofan, can you wait until I figure out who this person is?" Shreev said angrily.
"Figure out my ass! Do you really think you can figure out the name of a slave owner that has lived for thousands of years? We aren't here to do archeology!" Mofan snapped impatiently.
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