Chapter 35: The Mausoleum of King Sejong

  The path was very narrow, only allowing one person to walk at a time, and that person had to keep their legs tightly together. The surroundings were very dark, with no other sounds except for the rustling footsteps of the four people walking ahead. Fang Kai led the way in front, followed closely by Ruo Zi and Qiao Mu Si, while Pang Dong brought up the rear as a guard.

  They walked in silence for a while, but halfway through, Fang Kai suddenly stopped.

  "What's wrong?" Ruo Zi asked in a low voice. Fang Kai made a "shh" gesture and signaled everyone to crouch down. "Look over there, yes, the place with the colorful light." Fang Kai stretched out his hand and pointed to a certain spot ahead on the slope. It turned out that when they had walked halfway, a colored light point appeared vaguely, looking particularly eerie on the quiet slope.

  The other three also saw it, and hastily held their breath, lying on the ground, not daring to breathe loudly. Looking clearly, the colored light spots became brighter and brighter, one by one, two by two... Countless light spots lit up simultaneously, gathering into two clusters of eerie glow, like a pair of eyes on some kind of monster's skull.

  Fang Ke and the other three were staring at each other in shock, seeing the horror in each other's eyes. Under the colorful light, a "shadow" stood silently. The four of them were frightened because under normal circumstances, objects would cast both their physical form and shadow, but... this thing only had a shadow!

  Is there a ghost in the golden pyramid of Hu Fu?

  Although Ruo Zi had read a lot of Western myths and had come into contact with Eastern witchcraft, she was after all a woman. Now the four people were in such a strange place, and she really saw clearly that there was only one lonely shadow there. At this moment, the surrounding area responded with a rustling sound like bats foraging. Suddenly, Ruo Zi's face turned extremely pale.

  Feeling a sense of fear, Fang Kai grabbed her hand and motioned for her to come closer. Ruo Zi nodded, having the man she loved protect her, she felt slightly more at ease.

  What formed a stark contrast with her was undoubtedly Fat Dong, who never believed in supernatural things. At this moment, seeing the shadow, he thought it was another prank by the people of Klay Star and, in a fit of rage, Fat Dong raised his pulse gun and fired a shot forward.

  "Dong, are you crazy?!" Seeing this, Qiao Mu hurriedly pressed down Dong. Fang Kai's face changed, and he turned his head to give Dong a furious glance, as if saying: You're asking for trouble.

  Chubby Dong pouted his mouth and was about to make a face in retaliation, but unexpectedly, the shadow moved at this time.

  The shell whizzed in, lighting up a corner of the quiet space, and countless bats were startled by the cannon fire, opening their eyes one after another. The four people clearly saw that on the slanted roof opposite them, a large number of huge, hairy blood bats were hanging upside down. They bared their fangs, charging towards the place where the shell had exploded.

  Not only that, the four of them also saw that the two colored light groups originated from a skull, and the shadow was holding the skull, flashing several times to the corner of the inclined road in front, disappearing instantly. At the same time, the pulse cannon shells exploded on the wall on the side of the inclined road, punching a big hole. The effect of the cannon explosion was very good, and the spider web-like cracks appeared as expected.

  Those vampire bats, seeing such a large hole, thought it was like their own nest with plenty of food, and they dived down one after another. As a result... The four people saw that the flower-bellied snakes were poking their heads out from the edge of the big cave, with bloody bats in their mouths. After a few struggles, the vampire bats were eliminated by the snakes.

  However, the blood bats also have a strong character. Although the flower-spotted snake is very ferocious, they are not afraid of it either. When their companions fell, the remaining blood bats still bravely surrounded the snake. Suddenly, countless bats poured into the large cave like a tide, making Fang Ke and others feel frightened.

  Before long, the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. The war between the bats and the snakes grew more and more fierce, with both sides suffering heavy losses. The bodies of the dead snakes on the slope, as well as the bats with their intestines flowing out, were everywhere to be seen.

  Pang Dong swallowed hard and said in a daze, "Uh... Ke Zi, do we still need to move forward?" Pang Dong's voice grew smaller and smaller. The scene before him was something he had created with his own hands, and it would be fake if he didn't feel embarrassed about it. However, he hadn't expected that a moment of hot-bloodedness would actually lead to an animal war.

  Heavenly spirits, earthly spirits, Bat Grandpa and Snake Maiden, you'd better be on your way to the Yellow Springs, don't blame me. Oh right, it was all that damned Shadow's doing, he's the one who stirred up trouble. If you want revenge, go find him, it's none of my business... Fat Dong muttered to himself, trying to clear his own name.

  Fang Kai was not in a good mood, and he knocked Zhao Dong on the head, saying: "Forget it, after knowing you for so many years, if you don't cause trouble, you're not Zhao Dong. Now that things have come to this point, we might as well...". Before Fang Kai could finish his sentence, he saw Ruo Zi and Qiao Mu's faces suddenly turn deathly pale.

  What's wrong? Fang Kai was puzzled and turned his head around. When he saw it, he was also stunned.

  For some reason, the blood bats and boa constrictors stopped fighting each other and formed an alliance, advancing towards the four people in a mighty wave. The bats took the lead, while the snakes slithered forward in an "S" shape, coordinating with each other like an army as they pressed down on the stunned quartet.

  "Go, go back quickly!" Fang Kai was the first to react, turning around and pushing Ruo Zi and the other two people. The four of them retreated in a fluster. However, before they had taken a few steps, they stopped. At some point, their path behind them was filled with giant scorpions with ferocious faces. The scorpions waved their iron pincers, their high-held tails making one's heart tremble. They bared their teeth, the sound of their grinding teeth extremely frightening.

  Pursued from the front and with no retreat in the back, the four-man team fell into a predicament.

  "Pangzi, Laoqiao, you two block the scorpion group. Ruozu, follow me from behind and use laser to kill the bats to cover me, I'll block the poisonous snakes." Fang Kai gave orders at a flying speed, directing the defense in an orderly manner. The four of them had always cooperated tacitly, with just one glance, they knew what to do.

  There's no choice now, can only block the poisonous ones' attack first and see the situation!

  "Zzt... zzt... ZZZT!", accompanied by the firing of laser beams and the pounding of pulse cannons, the defensive battle had begun.

  Pang Dong has a nickname in the team, called "Fat Reaper". As the name suggests, for the enemy, he is a formidable hunter. This time, after adjusting the laser to maximum power, he directly swept away the scorpion with one shot. On the side, Qiao Mu Si was not to be outdone, and the pulse cannon in his hand fired shot after shot. What's called precision strike? The two of them demonstrated it vividly here.

  Ruo Zi, ring. Fang Kai made a gesture, Ruo Zi understood and swung the laser in a circle, repelling the first wave of vampire bats' attack. However, there were too many bats, and the spotted snake had also caught up, Fang Kai and Ruo Zi worked well together but couldn't withstand such a fierce attack.

  The poisons seemed endless, and just as they had eliminated one batch, another batch would emerge. Gradually, the four-person team's physical strength began to wane. The situation rapidly deteriorated, with the poisons firmly in control.

  But at this moment, two clusters of ghostly fire appeared.

  "Kai Zi, I...I'm not seeing things, am I? That's...that's actually the Crystal Warrior's skull!" As soon as the words left his mouth, Pang Dong was stunned, staring blankly at the skull that shone with seven colors. Fang Kai and the others were also dumbfounded, momentarily frozen in place.

  In that brief moment, two fiery flames shot out from the left and right eye sockets of the skull, burning all the toxins to ashes. Then, "Shadow" appeared. In the blink of an eye, "Shadow" took the Crystal Warrior's head and flew forward, disappearing without a trace.

  Just at this moment, a sneering voice came from the entrance of the inclined plane: "Hahaha, foolish Martians, quickly hand over your precious skull."

  Four people were stunned again, and at this critical moment, the Second Klay Star people actually caught up.

  "Come on, don't just stand there! Hurry up and chase after them. Our target has been transferred by the mysterious figure, let's go!" Fang Kai urged everyone to move forward into the depths of the slope. At the end, Pang Dong took a deep breath, aimed at the rear slope and fired a cannon, "Boom" - the entire slope suddenly had a large gap in it. At the same time, from the rear came the sound of the enemy's urgent and panicked roars.

  "Well done!" Chomps turned his head, gave Fat Dong a thumbs up, making the latter's face turn slightly red. Earlier, in the heat of the moment, he had triggered a poisonous attack, but now...he had finally made up for it.

  They rushed all the way, but Fang Kai and others couldn't even catch a glimpse of the mysterious figure's trail. As they walked further down the slope, it changed from its previous downward trend and rose in a winding curve instead, and the four people faintly saw a glimmer of light.

  Have we reached the exit? Fang Kai muttered to himself, quickening his pace. As he crossed the gap, the space suddenly expanded from its previous contraction, making it seem especially bright and clear. He looked up to see a cloudless sky that seemed exceptionally serene.

  Not bad, the four of them had left the inclined road, and at this moment their feet were treading on the endless desert! Turning around to look, three towering pyramids stood majestically, that lion-bodied human-faced statue still gazing down at the group. Everything seemed to have returned to its original state, only, the crystal warrior's skull was still not in hand.

  Facing a familiar scene, Fang Kai and others were mixed with all kinds of feelings, unable to express what they felt. After circling around and returning to the starting point, where did the hardships in between come from? However, this was not the time for nostalgia, they still had important matters to attend to, and the Second Klay Star people were still chasing after them.

  "Jom, use the scanner to detect the general direction of the remains, quickly." Fang Kai urged Jom, who nodded and took out the Siglo scanner to scan directly. At first, there was no red dot on the screen, but after a while, a faint red dot flickered in the northwest.

  The four of them looked at each other and saw the surprise on each other's faces.

  "Charge!" Fang Kai gave the order, and the four-man team hastily set off in a northwesterly direction. About fifteen minutes later, two more whirlwinds of yellow sand suddenly appeared in the endless desert, which were the pursuing Xieke Star people.

  Two men, one tall and one short, the tall one looked around and said in a low voice: "Sisidawa, do you have a way to track them?" The short one nodded slightly, stretched out his wrinkled hand, and with his long fingernails, he opened a small box on his chest, saying: "Tan Heng Luo, don't worry, I've already sprinkled the bewildering powder on them." After speaking, the short one opened the small box, and inside popped out an instrument, which was actually a tracker for the bewildering powder.

  The tall one nodded in satisfaction, while the short one used a measuring instrument to determine their position, which was northwest. Looking out at the vast and quiet desert, the tall one sneered coldly: "Hmph, this time, not a single one of them will be able to escape..."

  After Fang Kai and his party left the three great pyramids and chased after the mysterious shadow, they encountered many obstacles. First, familiar cacti and sand scorpions appeared, followed by wolves... Fortunately, these things were sparse and not numerous, otherwise it would have been enough to entangle Fang Kai's four people. After being delayed for a while, the four finally caught up with the first stepped pyramid in ancient Egypt - the tomb of Pharaoh Zoser.

  As soon as they arrived, the Siglo scanner suddenly emitted a "humming" vibration. The four of them looked at each other and unanimously judged that the mysterious shadow had hidden the Crystal Warrior's skull in the Left Se King's Golden Pyramid.

  "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." The four-man team had previously experienced the sharp defense of the pyramid. At this moment, they naturally did not dare to be careless again. "Ruo Zi, do you understand this pyramid?" Fang Kai turned his head, Ruo Zi smiled slightly, glanced at the pyramid and said softly: "I somewhat understand it. This famous pyramid, which resembles a six-layer cake, was personally designed and supervised by Imhotep, the great prime minister of ancient Egypt. In the history of the earth, it is the ancestor of the stepped pyramid. Although the shape of this tomb looks like a circle, this 'mastaba' that gets smaller from bottom to top has condensed the blood of countless ancient Egyptians. Such a monumental pyramid will not have a defense level inferior to the three great pyramids."

  Ruò zǐ mǔ zhe chún, zhèng zhèng wàng zhe yǎn qián zhè zuò jīn huáng sè de liù céng dàn gāo, qí yú sān rén zé jiāo jiāo shé, liǎn shàng lù chū kǔ xiào. Shuō shí huà, tāmen zhēn de bù xīang zài jīng lì yī cì hú fū jīn zì tǎ, nà gǎn jué, zhēn de "tài měi liǎo le".

  After some thought, Fang Kai steeled himself and said resolutely: "When the enemy comes, we'll defend; when the flood comes, we'll dam it. Never mind, brothers, let's charge in and retrieve our stolen goods." Fang Kai was hot-blooded and about to rush in with his laser shovel, but was held back by Ruo Zi. The latter shook his head, covered his mouth and chuckled: "Kai, what's the hurry? I haven't finished yet. You see, although Left Se's tomb is considered the precursor of the stepped pyramid, it's still a Mastaba at its core. The real tomb isn't in the pyramid, but underground; these six layers of cake on the surface are just for show."

  As soon as the voice fell, not only Fang Kai, but also Pang Dong and Qiao Muzi were shocked: "Isn't that saying, this thing has no entrance?! But the mysterious shadow is inside!" The three of them were stunned. If there was no entrance, how could they get in? And if they couldn't get in, how could they retrieve the Crystal Warrior's head?

  Ruò zǐ hadn't good air of smiled, just wanted to explain, coincidentally from afar came two unrestrained laughter. Four people simultaneously opened their mouths and said: "Pursued!"

  "Hurry up, follow me, I'll take you into the tomb." The situation was urgent, and Zuo couldn't say anything more. He pulled up Fang Kai and the other three and rushed to an inconspicuous corner of the golden pyramid.

  Ruòzi stamped his foot, measured the hardness of the desert, and stretched out one hand: "Shovel." Fang Kai nodded, and immediately handed over the laser shovel to Ruòzi. The latter held up the shovel, drew a circle with a diameter of about half a meter on the ground, and said seriously: "Quickly, let's dig down together, use the tunnel to break through the seal stone, and enter the tomb passage."

  Ruò zǐ yǔ qì hěn yán sù, fāng kǎi sān rén yī jīng, suí jí èr huà bù shuō, lún qǐ gōng jù kāi shǐ le wā jué. Yǔ cǐ tóng shí, cì kè lái xīng rén lí sì rén yuè lái yuè jìn le.