From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

"Book of the Dead?"

The next moment, Alicia's figure appeared in Memphis.

The place she had in mind was the royal treasurer in Memphis.

The papyrus scrolls and books belonging to the pharaohs of the past, except those that had been placed in the tombs of the previous kings, were the property of the pharaohs and were therefore stored in this treasury.

But Memphis at this moment, like Thebes and other big Egyptian cities, has signs of the gates of hell painted everywhere, and the energy radiated from these signs destroyed most of the buildings in the city, including the royal treasurer.

Alixi stood on the ruins that belonged to the treasurer, looking at the wall foundations of the warehouses that could still be seen, she found that there was not a single piece of papyrus here.

The royal books are not here—

I don't know if they were all taken away by Senmut, or they were secretly hidden by the Memphis people.

Erich didn't speculate on those possibilities. The only thing she needed to know was why the hieroglyphs of the Book of the Dead appeared on the walls of Thebes, and where she should go to find clues related to them.

She stood among the ruins, thought for a while, and already had an idea.

The next moment, her figure appeared in Giza.

In this land, gods can jump freely by their will.

In front of Erich is the Great Pyramid of Giza that was also used as the original signal station.

The towers that Delos built for himself have been dismantled, and the great life-swallowing pits have been filled.

The landform of Giza has been restored to the same situation as when Delos and Soran played Senet.

It seems that using the method of purifying living souls to send out signals and opening the gates of hell are two completely different systems.

So while the great cities of Egypt were devastated, the gigantic buildings here at Giza, the Mausoleums of the Former Kings, remained intact.

Alicia walked towards a stone statue at the foot of the Great Pyramid.

Until she came to the stone statue, the stone statue was always holding its airs solemnly, squatting with its face raised, without looking at Elyse.

As a last resort, Alicia said hello: "Sphinx!"

The guy with the sphinx seemed to be startled, and opened his eyes in a flash, his eyes flicked on Erich, and the whole stone body suddenly softened.

The tail shook behind him, the Sphinx was like a big cat, and he said to Erich with a smile on his face: "I expected you to come, I have been waiting for you here for a long time."

"Are you expecting me to come?"

Alicia was slightly puzzled.

The Sphinx nodded hurriedly, and the fake beard on his chin kept knocking on the sandy ground between his two front paws.

It looked up at Erich, the corner of its mouth pointed at the big pyramid Nunu behind it, and said, "He is waiting for you there."

Erich's eyes fluttered, and she already figured out who was waiting for her in an instant.

So she nodded slightly and said, "Thank you, Sphinx."

The Sphinx suddenly showed a flattering smile: "Great new god, Sphinx is very honored. Although you once grabbed the Sphinx's tail and flew around, stuffing the Sphinx's head in the Great Pyramid In the chess room above, force the Sphinx to witness your promotion..."

Alicia pursed her lips lightly - the big cat's continuous complaints made her feel slightly relieved, which had been gloomy recently.Dare to remember none of these past events.

"However, the Sphinx still admires your courage very much. You are the well-deserved Lord of Egypt."

This mythical beast wearing a pharaoh's turban and a fake beard bowed its head again, fell in front of Elyse, bowed respectfully, and said, "I sincerely hope that you can successfully save Egypt..."

Erich nodded slightly to it, then turned her gaze to the Great Pyramid of Giza, which she was quite familiar with, and found that the Great Pyramid of today is indeed somewhat different from the one she knew in the past——

The side of the pyramid facing her, in the middle of the tower, from the ground to the waist of the tower, a black gap was actually split out of thin air.

This is the passage leading to the depths of the pyramid.

This passage is only opened for pharaohs who possess divinity.

And at this moment, Erich is both a pharaoh and a god.

She didn't have any hesitation, her steps were light and steady, and she quickly walked towards this dark and lightless passage, and fell into the darkness in an instant.

The long and narrow crack on the pyramid body slowly closed after she entered, and there was no longer any passage to enter from the surface of the Great Pyramid.

The Sphinx saw Ailixi enter, sighed slowly, turned his head to the direction of Memphis and Thebes, and glanced worriedly.

Then it raised its head again, maintaining its solemn demeanor as a pharaoh, and slowly recondensed into a stone statue.

Erich walked in the dark pyramid passage, her divinity endowed her with vision, allowing her to see the surrounding environment clearly in the depths of absolute darkness.

As for hearing, she really didn't have this need—there was only the sound of her lonely footsteps in this passage, otherwise there was absolute silence.

On the walls on both sides of the passage, various scenes of the pharaoh's life were drawn. He fought in all directions, he hunted monsters, and he made great achievements...

Among them, there is no lack of his happy life with his family. He is sitting in the courtyard full of acacia trees, surrounded by his favored first princess, and in front of them are the little princes and little princesses playing happily together... …

Elyse walked across this paragraph quickly, she was not interested in the achievements and daily life of the former king.

Immediately afterwards, the murals began to depict the scene of the death of the former king—he was attacked while hunting hippopotamuses, and the medicine stone was useless after being injured. At the end of his life, he gave his red and white double crown to the oldest prince to support him to succeed to the next generation the new king.

Then came the divine touch: under the auspices of Anubis, the embalmers began to preserve the body of the dead pharaoh, mummifying him.

The internal organs and the brain were taken out and placed in jade jars protected by the gods.

But the heart of the dead is always kept, and enters the underworld with the dead.Here, the pharaoh's heart was taken out by the gods and sent to the scales of judgment.

There, even the pharaohs had to go through the trial of the god of the underworld, Osiris.On the other side of the scale is a feather that symbolizes Ma'at, or order.

A sinless, pure soul, shall remain equal in weight to a feather.But any sin in life will tip the scales.At that time, even the soul of the pharaoh will be swallowed by the monsters waiting at the side...

Alicia suddenly became aware of soft and ethereal voices coming from her ears.

"Have you ever stolen in this world?"

"Have you ever killed someone in this world?"

"Have you ever abandoned someone you love in this world?"

Alixie narrowed her eyes, and she was a little confused for a moment - so the trial of Osiris had to settle even the love debt?

The next moment she saw the balance tilting in front of Osiris, Anubis with the jackal head on his head immediately dropped the heart, and the crocodile-headed monster waiting by the side immediately opened its mouth, chewed loudly, and gorged itself...

Alicia suddenly felt a chill in her vest——

Looking back on this life quickly, she was actually not sure that she would be able to pass such a test.

Unexpectedly, Osiris on the stone wall suddenly turned his head, and said to Alicia outside the mural, "Don't worry—"

Alicia?

Can this mural still interact with the audience?

"This man just killed many innocent people for his own power and self-interest."

Osiris' voice was as feminine as his pale green face.

"You know, he's not defending Ma'at by doing this."

Alicia was a little relieved.

But she realized that even the pharaoh, the sins he committed in his life could not hide from the judgment of the gods.

At this point, Alicia realized that her mind had been completely immersed in this long series of murals, and she was experiencing the afterlife world with the gods and dead people painted on the murals.

Except for the pharaoh, the other hearts that passed the trial were put back into the bodies of the dead one by one. They all regained their vigor for a while, sat up one after another, followed Osiris on the boat to the underworld, and entered the River Styx .

There are many pure and kind-hearted Egyptians, and they are densely crowded on the limited-sized boats, looking nervously at the dark water surface of the Styx at their feet, waiting for something.

Osiris, who was also sitting on the boat, was calm and relaxed, and glanced at Alicia outside the mural from time to time, winking.

Alicia was at a loss.

What does the ship of the underworld driving in the underworld river have to do with her?

Unexpectedly, at this moment, with a movement of Alicia's sleeve, a small, dark-colored snake crawled out, poking its head at the scene on the mural.

"Apep—"

Alice suddenly understood.

For these Egyptian dead, the biggest danger on the road to the underworld is the beast of chaos, Apep. This giant snake will haunt the river Styx, threatening the safety of the ship of the underworld. Only the dead will truly get rid of danger and reach the shore that represents eternal life.

Yet Apep is just a little guy up her sleeve now.

So the murals supported each other, looking at the dead in the dark River Styx below their feet.Now it's purely nervous.

Erich never imagined that things would develop like this, and the murals could be so interactive.

Even though her mood sank to the bottom of the river, and she was so depressed, at this moment, Alixi couldn't help raising the corners of her mouth, smiling and responding to Osiris in the mural with her eyes.

At this moment, at the end of the passage in the pyramid, a faint bright light suddenly lit up.

At this point, all the strangeness on the mural disappeared, Osiris no longer looked out of the wall, and the tense expressions of the dead instantly froze and became eternal.

Alicia was no longer immersed in the world of the dead on the mural, she strode towards the location of the ghostly lamp.

At the end of the passage is a small hall.

The moment she stepped into this small hall, Alixi raised her head and looked up, only to see that this small hall seemed to occupy a small area.

But the interior space is extremely high, the light from the oil lamp can only barely reach a height of tens of cubits, and the ceiling of the hall is completely submerged in the deep darkness.

The four walls of this small hall are full of cabinets specially used to hold papyrus rolls. Each cabinet is divided into several layers, and each layer is stacked with rolls, thick or thin. , either new or old.

When Alixi saw it, she felt that the infinitely extending space was completely filled with papyrus rolls.

Alicia was overjoyed: Could it be that all the documents in the Memphis royal treasury were sent here?

A thought flashed through her mind, and she suddenly saw a wooden cabinet on a high place move out automatically and soundlessly, as if following an invisible track in the air, slowly descending from a height of more than ten cubits.

Its original vacant place was immediately filled by the wooden cabinet next to it.Lifting up and down from left to right, these wooden cabinets automatically reconstruct the shape of this huge papyrus scroll archive.

Facing this scene, Erich immediately realized that it was definitely not as simple as gathering the papyrus scrolls scattered all over Egypt—it should be a palace of knowledge.

With this in mind, Erich watched as the papyrus cabinet slowly descended from the air to a position at the same level as her line of sight, and then moved parallel to another corner of the hall. Stop around the shape.

Wearing an off-white linen robe, this man is lowering his head, as if examining the papyrus scroll in his hand.

The wooden cabinet moved to his side and stopped. He straightened up immediately, turned his head, and put the papyrus scroll in his hand back into the wooden cabinet.

When He placed the papyrus roll, He stretched out his hands very long, and his body was far away from the wooden cabinet—this is because when He turned his head, a long beak prevented him from getting close to the wooden cabinet.

Upright and calm, standing in this small hall arranging the papyrus scrolls is a god who has both the head of a heron and the body of a human.

God of knowledge and wisdom, Tut.

The god she once went to meet in person but failed to meet as she wished.

Alicia pursed her lips and smiled slightly.

She had curiously imagined countless times, what kind of appearance Senmut, who once held the head of a heron for a day as the messenger of God, looked like.

Now she finally has an image to refer to.

Erich smiled, her eyes felt slightly sour, so that she had to raise her head, lest the steam in her eyes would reveal her thoughts in front of God Tut.

However, God Tut seemed to have noticed the existence of Elyse suddenly, he opened his mouth and greeted immediately, and asked at the same time: "What should I call you, Elyse, Amon, or Amon Ra?"

At the same time, the wooden cabinet next to him containing the papyrus rolls quickly retreated to the wall, and the wooden cabinets around it moved left and right to make room for it, so that it was close to the wall, and it was in harmony with the surrounding wooden cabinets. into one.

So far, the palace of knowledge has completely restored its solemn, elegant, neat and orderly appearance.

Alixi lowered her eyes and saluted solemnly, "You can just call me Alixi."

"I actually have too much to ask you for advice."

Erich made a very sincere request—the opposite is Tut who has the strongest sense of presence among the Egyptian gods.

And He has another identity. He was Senmut's teacher in the past. With insightful eyes, he discovered Senmut from the lowest level of ordinary people in Egypt and made him the god of Asut.

Therefore, the current Alicia can hardly maintain her dignity and reserve as the main god, and her voice trembles slightly with excitement.

When power is no longer a panacea, knowledge and wisdom may be able to bring the whole of Egypt out of this fog.

"Are you here to find the Book of the Dead?"

God Tut watched with gentle eyes, and his voice seemed to come from deep in his throat.Because when he spoke, the slender and graceful beak of the heron did not open up and down.

Alicia nodded and said yes, and Tut immediately asked: "After you read it, what do you think?"

Alicia was stunned for a while, and she reacted for a while before realizing happily:

That's it!

It turned out that the mural she passed when she entered the royal tomb was the entire content of the Book of the Dead.

So, why did hieroglyphs remain on the courtyard wall of Thebes asking her to find this Egyptian work describing the afterlife?

Ellie hoped that Tut would fall into thinking, and she suddenly had an inspiration——

"Could it be, are you talking about..."

Thebes, Memphis... and nine locations including the Temple of Isis, a large amount of energy gushing out after the gates of hell opened destroyed everything.

But the people living in these places miraculously all disappeared.

She had been terrified before, but seeing Tut now, she seemed to have taken a reassurance.

At least there was no need to worry about them anymore—these people were all under Tut's protection, and they were going to a place of great safety.

Tut's round egret eyes were fixed on Erich, and suddenly the corners of his mouth grinned, and he also put on a smile.

"Yes……"

He affirmed Alicia's guess.

"They're in the underworld."