From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

The stone door opened, and the Eye of Horus, which was infused with spirituality by Senmut, was still shining brightly, but the dark staircase looked like a deep and huge mouth, which could swallow the three people in front of it at any time.

Nanna's expression had already changed, she grabbed Erich's arm to protect her aside, and at the same time yelled at Senmut angrily: "High Priest, did you do it on purpose?"

"How could it be such a coincidence?"

At the same time, the same thought flashed through Alicia's mind:

What a coincidence.

Senmut once mentioned to her: He didn't want to leave the Saqqara palace right away, because he was looking for the tombs of the previous pharaohs that might be hidden in the palace.

He found a hidden Eye of Horus behind the Pharaoh's throne in the main hall, and then lent Erich the opportunity to explain the score, and poured his spirituality into this mysterious pattern, which caused the mechanism to be triggered and the secret passage to appear.

How can it be so coincidental?

Senmut himself was shocked.

But judging by his appearance, this result seems to be unexpected and reasonable.

He regained his composure in a moment, and said to Erich and Nanna, "This may be the result of your inspiration."

Alicia: "Inspirational guidance?"

Sam nodded.

"One of the purposes of my coming to Saqqara Palace is to find the secrets buried deep in this palace."

"I have no clue about this, and I just search and explore randomly without purpose in the palace."

"But my inspiration may have received hidden hints in the environment, making me take certain actions unconsciously."

"Just like I just wanted to explain to you the meaning of the Eye of Horus."

"Obviously I could draw an Eye of Horus on the wall to explain it to you, but I chose to bring you here."

"Obviously, it is enough for me to reach out and give you pointers, but I chose to infuse spirituality..."

"You mean..."

Erich already roughly understood what Senmut meant.

"Your subconscious will make you do some actions unconsciously, and finally lead you to achieve the results you want?"

So she suddenly asked Hansu about the score earlier, maybe it was also for this reason?

Alicia thought to herself: This ability is amazing!

Senmut lowered his head to think about what subconsciousness meant, and after figuring it out, he found it very appropriate.

"I heard that Asut has certain intuition and premonition abilities, such as predicting possible dangers..." Erich asked.

She hadn't heard this from anyone.Rather, it was deduced from some of Nanna's and Senmut's reactions.

"Is this the same thing as the inspiration you mentioned?"

When Senmut heard her mention Asut, he showed a clear expression, as if to say: I guess, you are already an Asut favored by the gods.

"Indeed, Asut has a certain ability to predict, which is related to inspiration. But what they predict does not absolutely happen."

Alicia thought: Of course, if what is foreseen will definitely happen and cannot be changed, then what is the use of premonition?

Nanna stood beside Alixie and said nervously: "Miss, let's go. This is all for the high priest..."

Alixi looked at the open stone door, and couldn't move her feet.

"This may be the tomb of Pharaoh Nitocris."

She could clearly see that on the open stone door, the hieroglyphs engraved on the surface were becoming clear little by little, some of which were very similar to those on the astronomical platform.

There was a breeze coming out of the stone door, gently brushing on Ailixi's face, but it didn't have any stale smell.

"Indeed. Otherwise my inspiration would not have led us here."

Senmut fixed his eyes on the words gradually appearing on the stone door, and answered while reading.

"Miss, don't forget, the wife of the great priest confessed."

Nanna began to plead.

Alicia still didn't move.

"Nanna, I'm very interested in this place, and I want to go in and have a look."

She always speaks directly, without beating around the bush.

"Apostle Sekhmet said that my body has been the same as that of ordinary people in the past few months, so it's fine, isn't it?"

Senmut's brownish-golden eyes immediately turned to Alicia. He seemed a little shocked. He didn't expect Alixi to have such courage. Like him, he wanted to go deep into this hidden path Years of the mysterious cave, find out.

"At least I don't have any premonition of Asut's danger yet."

Alicia made a joke.

But is it really safe?

Ailixi was not reckless, and all the dangers that she might encounter after entering this stone gate quickly flashed through her mind.

According to Senmut, there is a high probability that behind this stone gate is the tomb of the first pharaoh.

Being sealed for hundreds or even thousands of years, the air in this underground space may be quite dirty, even toxic, and there are many traps everywhere.

The ancient pharaohs may have left various curses, curses and spells, as well as mummies that may wake up at any time...

She quickly went through all the horror novels and suspense films related to the pharaoh's tomb that she had read before wearing the book.

"As for whether exploring here will encounter danger, I can do a divination."

Seeing Nanna's worried face, Senmut reached out and took out something from his sleeve.

Alixi saw this thing clearly, and couldn't help being stunned—it was Y-shaped, and it was the sternum of a bird, that is, a wishing bone.

At first, Erich even thought that this was the kind that Hunsu used to represent numbers earlier.

However, upon closer inspection, this wishing bone had a silvery white luster throughout, and was obviously made of metal, not a real bird bone.

Holding it like this now, Senmut looks a bit like a modern tuning fork.

"Is it also... an amulet?"

Alicia suddenly had an inspiration.

"Correct!"

Senmut smiled and nodded, his golden-brown eyes were bright, as if praising her for being smart.

Alice was silent.

She knew that later generations in the West would use the wishbone for divination.But I didn't expect that in the society with the background of ancient Egypt, people also made the amulets used for divination into the shape of wishing bones.

It should be called divination - Erich thought.

Inspiration immediately gave her an affirmative answer.

Senmut closed his eyes, held the divination in his left hand, and gently tapped the two ends of the Y-shaped amulet with his right hand.

Immediately there was an eerie but subtle hum.

Sound waves are like waves, one wave after another, spreading in all directions.

Senmut held the divination in his hand, constantly changing its position.

In Alixie's ears, the subtle buzzing sound from the divination also fluctuated from loud to small, strong and weak, constantly changing.

Senmut kept his eyes closed and listened carefully.

Alicia: Could it be that this person is relying on changes in sound waves for divination?

It's really full of mysterious value.

After a while, Senmut opened his eyes, looked down and pondered for a moment, and concluded: "There is no particular danger in exploring this area."

Alicia stared at him and asked, "Then can you predict the Nile River... Will the flooding of the big river completely submerge this palace?"

Compared with this mysterious underground area, Erich is more concerned about the fate of the palace.

Unexpectedly, Senmut smiled and shook his head: "No, the flooding of the big river involves your and my fate, and I can't do divination that is directly related to my own fate."

Ai Lixi gave a sound in her heart, thinking: Then you still dare to predict my fate?

Senmut continued to explain to Erich: "The purpose of divination is to predict the future - for Asut, there are a total of three ways to do this. One is the premonition brought by one's own spirituality, and the second The first is to rely on amulets or spells to complete the divination, and the third is to build an altar and pray for the gods' instructions..."

Alicia: I have seen all three methods.

"The first one, premonition, is very important and can often provide us with important hints at the most critical moment."

"But it's limited in that we can only foresee a very limited future. And in some special cases, our premonition will be invalid."

"The second type is divination with the help of amulets, which can predict a relatively distant future."

"Its flaw is that it cannot predict its own destiny."

"Can't predict your own fate?" Erich couldn't help repeating.

"Yes, fate cannot be divined. This is the limitation of amulet divination or spell divination."

"Imagine, if there is a person who predicts in the morning that he will face the god of death today. So he tries every means to prevent himself from going to death, and he succeeds—then, is the fate he predicted really fate? ?”

Alicia thought: This does sound like a paradox.But she would rather believe that fate can be rewritten.

"It is said that Asut once received an oracle from the gods: those who deceive fate will be fooled by fate. Therefore, at least since the time of the Old Kingdom. No matter whether it is using amulets or magic spells, it is impossible to divination with oneself Things related to fate. Even if I want to, I can't do it."

Erich rolled her eyes, and asked, "What about the oracle?"

Senmut raised his eyes to Erich, and his eyes just met hers.

"Strictly speaking, the oracle law is just a prophecy given by the gods, and it is not completely equivalent to fate."

Erich lowered her eyes and thought to herself, no wonder after the high priest obtained the prophecy that she would become a pharaoh through the oracle method, the pharaoh Delos would kill her no matter what—probably to preempt the prophecy before it became destiny. ...

Senmut couldn't guess that she had thought so far, the high priest said softly: "Using this divination, there is no special danger after entering this door..."

Unexpectedly, at this moment, the silent talisman Ymir, who had been hanging on Erich's chest for a long time, suddenly yelled loudly: "There are living creatures, living creatures!"

There are living things?

The stone gate has not been opened for many years, and the tomb of the female pharaoh Nitocris has never been found.

Now the group of them finally faced the open stone gate, but Ymir told them that there were living creatures inside?

The talisman Ymir can be heard by all Asuts. At this moment, Senmut looked curiously at the talisman worn on Erich's chest, and immediately turned his eyes away, asking softly, "The talisman?"

"Yeah!" Alicia nodded.

"It's a little scared of you."

Senmut's review.

Ailixi thought to herself: Ymir... She is stern, she is very proud on her lips, but she should really be afraid in her heart.

But wait, can Senmut even empathize with runes?

Sure enough, after Ymir yelled, he stayed silently in front of Erich's chest, and never said a word again, as if he knew that exposing himself to Senmut just now was a big mistake.

"In this way, I will go down and have a look."

Erich's idea is simple-it is said that this Saqqara palace will be flooded by the flood of the river for eight out of ten years.But there are living creatures in the underground tomb that has not been opened for many years.

This gave her one more possibility of escape.

She needs to explore every possibility.

At this point, even Nanna couldn't stop Alixie.

The head maid no longer struggled, and took out an arrow made of gold as an arrow cluster from the quiver worn at her waist, held it high in her hand, infused with spirituality, and immediately released light from the gold arrow cluster.

This is to electrify an exposed filament, and what Nanna holds in her hand seems to be a modern lighting lamp.

Alicia: ... at least forty watts, worthy of her Nanna!

Then Nanna took a serious look at Senmut, and the high priest took a step back modestly to make way for him.

So Nanna, though most reluctantly, went first.Ai Lixi followed her closely, Senmut guarded behind Ai Lixi, the three of them plus a talisman, slowly walked down the stairs behind the stone gate.

At first, it was just a long and narrow downward passage, and Nanna's big forty-watt light bulb easily illuminated the huge stone walls.

The surface of the stone wall is smooth and smooth, as if it was built with a whole block of huge stones.But the hieroglyphs that once appeared on the stone gate have no trace in this passage.

Alicia breathed lightly, the air here was slightly humid.But there wasn't any other stale or decaying smell, and she didn't feel any difference in breathing.It seems that this space has always been connected with the outside world.

As we walked, the downward path began to flatten.The road began to become wider, and pictographs began to appear on the surrounding stone walls.

It didn't take long for a fork in the road.

Four forked roads were lined up in front of the three of them, each of which was deep and deep, and they didn't know where they led.

Senmut tapped the divination in his hand lightly, and the echo of the tuning fork continued to stir between the stone walls.Even after a while, there was still a faint echo.

It seems that this underground space is far larger than they imagined, and it may be even wider than the Saqqara Palace on the ground.

Just as Alixie and Nanna were hesitating at the foot of the fork, Senmut took out the tuning fork and did another divination.He pointed to the second fork on the left without saying a word, as if he was waiting for something.

Alicia snorted softly.

Her talisman, Ymir, had no choice but to speak: "Well, it's... the living thing I felt was indeed in this direction. Without saying a word, Nanna held up her forty watts and strode into this fork.

As the three of them went deeper, the side road became wider and wider.

The wall gradually disappeared in the darkness. In order to illuminate the surroundings and the road under her feet, Nanna had to turn up the golden arrow cluster in her hand to [-] watts. It was obvious that this was a burden to her——Nanna Thin sweat oozed from the corner of his forehead, and even his breathing became a little heavy.

Senmut strode forward and reached out to support the arrow handle in Nanna's hand a little.

The cluster of golden arrows became brighter, bright enough to illuminate the entire space they were in.

It illuminates the hieroglyphs on the surrounding walls, and also illuminates an underground hall faintly visible in the distance.

Nanna had an extremely surprised expression, and her eyes began to show admiration, as if she was saying: It's different to be tall!

But Senmut avoided Nanna's gaze, quietly returned to Alixie, and continued to move forward.

Erich secretly judged, just judging from the lighting, the energy possessed by Senmut is at least dozens of times that of Nanna.

From this, she suspects that the personality and power of the gods probably increase geometrically from the favored ones, to the envoys, and then to the priests.

But why does Senmut always give her a very weak feeling?

She figured it out for a moment: this was probably because, since she first met the high priest, she had seen him cry several times and his eyes were red.

A crying bag with high enough personality and strength.

Alixi secretly put a small label on this one.

"who!"

Suddenly, Nanna stopped, turned her hand back, and handed the handle of the arrow to Alixie. She drew her bow and set the arrow, facing a group of black shadows in the distance.

Erich quickly raised the eighty tiles to help Nanna illuminate the end of the fork in the road.

"who……"

Phantom echoes sounded in the channel.

"oops……"

Ymir's weak voice sounded.

"I seem to have mistook it for a living thing just now..."

"Misidentified?"

Ymir: "It is indeed a living thing...but it may be a kind of...immobile...living creature, the most honorable princess..."

Ymir has completely lost the arrogance and arrogance he used to have when talking to Erich.Not only did his tone soften, but he also sounded anxious.

Alicia frowned.

"A living creature that cannot move?"

Eighty watts illuminated the black shadow from a distance.

Its silhouette is definitely the image of the individual.

But Ymir said that it was a living thing that could not move.

There are many forms of life, and indeed some lives, in the eyes of human beings, cannot move.

But no matter what, this kind of life cannot be a human form.

Suddenly, Alicia stepped forward quickly, and she got a premonition——

She had been in a similar situation before, and had been taken aback.

Alixi took two steps in three steps, and came to the black shadow, staring at the painted humanoid statue.

This is a statue used to enshrine the soul - Erich herself has such a statue, which was left in the embalmer's workshop.

The costume of the statue is somewhat different from what Erich is wearing now. She is wearing two pieces of clothing——

The corset on the upper body and the long skirt on the lower body reveal a slender waist.The painted garments, adorned with gold and diamond pegs and pegs, shone in the eighty-watt light.

The painting depicts her facial features extremely accurately and restores her unparalleled beauty. The pair of radiant gemstones embedded in the eye sockets make it look beautiful. The owner of this statue is a A rare beauty.

The most eye-catching thing is that this woman wears a red and white crown on her head.According to legend, only the monarchs who ruled Upper and Lower Egypt at the same time could wear this crown.

However, Erich moved her gaze down, and finally seemed to see something that seemed to be the living creature that Ymir said.

The base material of the statue is wood, but the exterior is heavily coated with turpentine and paint.Therefore, it has been preserved in the ground for many years without decay.

But there is a small hole in the chest of the statue, and for some reason the pine resin and paint are gone.

Instead, there is another kind of thing that does have life—it can barely be regarded as a living thing.

"Ymir, what you sensed is...a mushroom?"

Alicia spoke in astonishment.

"Yes, my wise and wise... master..."

Rune Ymir replied shyly.

Both Nanna and Senmut were stunned, not knowing how to respond.