Chapter 156: Changes in Prophecy
Helping Isis move the slate in the box to a glass cabinet at the end of the exhibition hall, Isis put on gloves to prevent sweat from corroding the slate and opened the box.
Watching Isis take out the slate from the box and put it into the open glass cabinet, Hayato's eyes were attracted by something next to the slate he just put down.
It was a crystal-like pyramid model, almost exactly the same size as the triangular stone slab Isis had just taken out. There was a golden "Eye of Ugato" relief in the center of the front, but the position of the eyeball was red. of.
If Bekas were here, he would be able to recognize at a glance that this is the pyramid that sealed the [Three Illusion Gods] that appeared in his sleep last night. Unfortunately, Bekas once did have an eye on the archaeological relics of various countries. He is very interested, but the purpose is just to resurrect his first love. Now he has no interest in paying attention to cultural relics.
"This stone slab was excavated together with the crystal pyramid. Although the stone slab looks very similar to the [Millennium Building Block] where the unknown pharaoh resided, it even seems to be directly upside down. However, according to the direction of the writing on the stone slab, it is indeed That’s right.”
Isis explained to Hayato while leaning the stone slab against the support. As the director of the Egyptian Antiquities Bureau, an important figure in the Egyptian government, and the head of the tomb-guarding clan, Isis could easily come to grips with this basic knowledge.
"It is recorded on the stone tablet that this crystal pyramid was called 'Light' in ancient Egypt. It is a symbol of the King of Light. It can be said to be the [Millennium Building Block] with the nameless Pharaoh, the 'King of Darkness', or the [Millennium Building Block]. Cone] is the complete opposite."
“But compared to the [Millennium Brick] which very clearly symbolizes ‘royal power’, the symbol of the ‘Light’ Pyramid is much more vague.”
Isis reached out and pointed to the stone slab she had placed firmly, signaling Hayato to look towards her. Her fingers passed over several hieroglyphics on the stone slab, "'God', 'Exile', 'Destruction and Creation', 'Light'" , only the specific description of the 'Pyramid of Light' on the stone tablet was damaged and cannot be read, and only a few characters can be read."
Malik also followed and listened to Isis's explanation of the slate, with a look of displeasure on his face: "This feeling of information being cut off at key places is almost like the author deliberately leaving information at the end of the chapter when reading a serial. He only spoke half the words in suspense, and I suddenly began to hate those tomb robbers."
Hearing Malik's words, Isis knew that he might have interpreted the damage to the slate as being caused by tomb robbers. She closed the glass cabinet door containing the slate and the "Light" Pyramid, while shaking her head and continuing to explain: " No, the damage to this stone slab was not man-made, but an accident. It was the Egyptian government's archaeological team that discovered this stone slab and the Pyramid of Light, but a strange landslide occurred at the archaeological site, which led to The archaeological team that was pinned below was completely wiped out and the stone slabs were damaged."
After Isis finished speaking, she paused slightly and looked at a glass booth not far away, where a coffin was displayed.
The coffin was excavated from the same tomb as the stone slab and the "Pyramid of Light". Among the three cultural relics, only the most fragile-looking crystal pyramid "Light" was not damaged at all. The wooden coffin and the stone All the stone slabs were damaged to varying degrees.
The mummy in the coffin was not damaged, and the relief of the god "Anubis" on the outside of the coffin was not damaged at all. Only the ancient Egyptian writing on the side of the coffin that also described something was partially damaged, causing the Only about half of the records have been preserved.
It says on it...
"Oh, this coffin?" Just as Isis was distracted, Hayato heard a familiar voice not far away. Looking from a distance, he saw two starfish of different colors sticking to a piece of glass. Next to the booth.
Hayato looked again, oh, he saw it wrong. It turned out to be Yugi and his thousand-year-old hostage grandpa Muto Sugoroku standing in front of the booth, and they were accompanied by Jonouchi, Kyoko and Honda.
"Hey? Is Hayato here too?" Compared to the Yugi grandfather and grandson who were surrounding the coffin and looking at the mummy with great interest, Jonouchi was very indifferent to mummies and looked around. He was the first to pay attention. Arriving at the three Hayatos who also discovered them.
Although she is usually carefree and outgoing, Kyoko is still a girl after all. From the beginning, she has been hiding behind Yugi who is not taller than her to avoid seeing the scary mummy. After hearing Jonouchi's words, she was distracted. In a forceful manner, he immediately turned his head: "Miss Isis, too. Are you dating Hayato?"
"Even if you go to a haunted house for excitement, no one would go on a date in a museum full of mummies. Besides, Miss Isis is the curator, so it's not normal for her to appear here." Honda complained casually, After seeing Malik, they nodded to each other from a distance as a greeting.
The camera hanging around Hayato's neck swayed as he walked, and was picked up by Hayato with a strap in one hand: "That boy Malik was raped by Isis, and I came over to take pictures so that I could promote them to the newspaper. .”
"It's you guys. I remember that there is no sign saying business is closed at the main entrance of the exhibition hall. How did you get in?"
Hearing Hayato's inquiry, the three of them in Jonouchi were fine. Muto Sugoroku and Yugi, who were looking at the mummy with interest, looked at each other and looked at Hayato with an embarrassed expression. He told the whole truth on the spot.
The matter actually starts from yesterday, after the first Duel Monsters Convention held in the central square of the commercial street ended, when Hayato and Yugi watched Yusei and Judai leave and go back to their respective homes.
Although he spent a whole day outside, during which he not only had to duel with Paradox for the future of the world, but also had to deal with fans who were even more troublesome, Yugi was not very tired when he returned home and was quite energetic.
The same goes for Mr. Muto Shugoroku. Although he is quite old, he does not feel tired at all after watching women for a long time. He is also full of energy.
So, as soon as the energetic two people got home, they accidentally broke the trash at home that Yugi's mother had spent a whole day sorting and bagging. The only thing they were thankful for was that it fell to the ground. Scattered all over the ground were just recyclable trash such as discarded newspapers.
Therefore, Yugi's mother, who had a very low sense of existence and was even mistakenly thought by Jonouchi that she did not live with Yugi, was so angry that she lectured the grandfather and grandson for a long time, and punished them both for cleaning up the cardboard newspapers on the floor.
Yugi and Sugoroku also knew that this was indeed their fault, so they could only watch their mother leave to make dinner, and then tidied up the papers on the ground.
After tidying up, Yugi and Mr. Shuangliu found many items from the past, such as the pictures that Yugi drew in art class when he was in elementary school, the life plan Shuangliu made when he was young but never executed it, There was also a time when Professor Arthur was drinking and didn't bring any money when he was archaeological in Egypt, and he asked Shuangliu to borrow money from him, and so on.
For a while, it brought back a lot of memories for the two of them.
After searching, Muto Shuangroku found an old newspaper from almost seven or eight years ago. It published an incident in which an Egyptian archaeological team encountered an accidental landslide during an archaeological operation and dozens of people died as a result. This triggered Muto Shuangroku. He had many memories of archeology in Egypt, and he also told Yugi that he had encountered many dangers, among which landslides were the most terrifying.
In other crises, whether it is mechanisms in tombs, poisons in the desert, etc., pain and death only exist for a moment, but landslides will cause people to be trapped in a small space, suffering from dryness, restraint, hunger, darkness and no trace. Dying little by little without hope is the most despairing way to die.
Back then, Professor Arthur and Muto Sugoroku were buried together under the rubble of the landslide. It was also at that time that Professor Arthur gave his [Blue Eyes White Dragon] to Muto Sugoroku as a symbol of friendship.
Because he heard his grandfather mention this matter again, Yugi also suddenly remembered that after seeing Paradox's [Sin-Blue Eyes White Dragon] before, he asked Paradox how he could steal Kaiba's [Blue Eyes] At that time, although he said that his deck contained the most powerful cards of all eras, he always avoided answering his questions directly.
——Could it be that that guy actually snatched the [Blue Eyes White Dragon] from the future Jijiang, so he was too embarrassed to say such embarrassing things?
Incidentally, Yugi also noticed a black and white picture printed in the newspaper that reported the archaeological accident. It was the "Pyramid of Light" that Isis called, and asked Muto Sugoroku what that thing was.
Because of his experience in Egyptian archaeology, Muto Sugoroku was not able to read the ancient Egyptian priest's writing, but he could still barely read some basic and simple Egyptian writing. Through the stone slab next to the "Pyramid of Light", Muto Sugoroku translated basically the same explanation as Isis.
It happened to be at this time that the news was broadcast on the TV, saying that the time for the previous batch of cultural relics exhibition in the "Egyptian Cultural Relics Touring Exhibition Hall" had arrived, and a batch of cultural relics on display would be replaced in the near future, and several photos of Egyptian cultural relics were released. Among the photos taken by the official bureau, there is the "Pyramid of Light" that Yugi and Muto Sugoroku just noticed.
The reason for the game was because he subconsciously felt that there seemed to be some connection between the [Millennium Bricks] that hosted another one of his own and the crystal pyramid. The reason for Muto Sugoroku was because he was unearthed from the same batch, but because the pictures were taken eight years ago, they were not enough. I was interested in the coffin, which was clearly unable to read the text on the side. The grandfather and grandson hit it off immediately and decided to come to the exhibition hall the next day to have a look.
When they just went out the next day, the grandfather and grandson happened to meet Jonouchi, Kyoko and Honda who came to play games, so they sent out an invitation to go with them, and then the group came to the exhibition hall.
As for the "suspension of operations" notice at the entrance of the exhibition hall and the security guards responsible for preventing irrelevant personnel from entering, it is a pity that although they are very professional and dedicated, they are no match for the delinquent boy Jonouchi and the gangster leader Honda. They were easily Tiaohu left the mountain, and a group of five people were able to "sneak in" openly.
After listening to the game, Isis was also quite helpless. Fortunately, the person who infiltrated was Muto Yugi, the host of the unknown pharaoh, and the other people had no intention of stealing. Otherwise, it would be a serious matter if the precious cultural relics were stolen.
In particular, there are several important coffins here, but the mummy of the most important pharaoh in Egyptian history is not an exaggeration to say that it is a national treasure, such as the mummy of Pharaoh Tutankhamun that Hayato just photographed before, and the The mummy of Ramses II that was removed but not yet transported.
"Next time you can say you are here to find me." Isis could only say this.
Yugi and the others also knew that what they did was wrong, and they were caught by the real owner. They also apologized very sincerely: "I'm sorry, we will never do this again in the future."
After the extremely standard 90° "Red Bean Paste Private Marseille", Muto Shuangroku once again cast his eyes on the coffin beside him, with regret on his face: "It's such a pity that the words recorded on this coffin were destroyed by the previous landslide. Almost halfway through, the text behind it is almost completely unreadable.”
"I haven't learned much about the previous paragraph. I wish I could have learned more from Arthur when I was in Egypt."
"Huh? Master, can't you understand?" Jonouchi scratched his head in distress, Honda also looked regretful, "What a pity, then we didn't break in in vain."
Mr. Shuangliu wanted to come to the museum to see if there was anything written on the coffins unearthed in the same batch because he was curious about the incomplete descriptions on the stone tablets. Although he now knew what was written on the coffins, half of them were It's a pity that it's ruined and the other half can't understand it.
But Kyoko still remembered other things: "Grandpa Shuangliu, you forgot, Miss Isis is right next to us."
Hearing this, Yugi, who was also very interested in the coffin, also brightened up: "Yes, Miss Isis is from the tomb guard family, and the Egyptian Antiquities Bureau has also studied this coffin for so many years. She must know what is written on it. What." As he said that, he looked at Isis with expectant eyes.
Isis was stared at by several people. She turned her head and glanced at Hayato. She saw Hayato shrugging helplessly, nodded, walked to the coffin, and looked at the coffin: "Although the words on the lower part of the coffin were basically changed by the original accident. It was damaged, but after years of repairs, the Egyptian Antiquities Bureau managed to add part of the text, which specifically says——"
"'The King of Light will bury the King of Darkness through battle, but when the light overflows, the King of Destruction will be resurrected from the light',"
"as well as,"
"'The Sun King will cover the destruction with [], but the destruction will also take away []'."
After Isis finished speaking, she added: "The last sentence was filled by the Egyptian Antiquities Bureau, but the specific vacancy has exceeded the upper limit of restoration, and we have no way of knowing."
Thanks for the 100 points from the book friend "A Big Salted Fish 2333", thank you
Thanks to the 500 points from the book friend "A mustard", thank you very much
It’s great to have rewards. I’ve also received a few recommendation votes recently.
However, I haven’t seen a book review for a long time.
I'll update my skin in half an hour. Also, I'll go to the hospital tomorrow and ask for leave.