Chapter 75 Black Scripture of the Dead

"Pack up and leave this damn place." Jonathan was sober. He was so anxious that he turned around in a circle, with a look of fear on his face. He felt very uneasy about the threat of the curse.

O'Connor comforted him: "It's so late now. There is only one way to go in the desert at night."

Evelyn was the one who wanted to stay the most: "This is the greatest archaeological discovery of this century. As for the curse, we just need to not trigger it."

After that, she looked at Weiss, hoping to get his affirmative answer.

"I don't know whether the curse has been triggered." Weiss shook his head.

Although in the original plot, it was Evelyn who read a spell from the "Black Book of the Dead" to awaken Immorton, which led to the subsequent plot.

But everything was too coincidental, as if someone was silently pushing all this to happen.

Weiss wanted to know if he could change anything with his intervention.

"Now is indeed not a good time to leave Hamunatta. Let's talk about it tomorrow morning."

The next morning, Evelyn and Jonathan had a fierce quarrel.

Evelyn wanted to stay here to continue archaeological research, but Jonathan was afraid of the curse and insisted on leaving.

In the end, he was persuaded by Evelyn, or rather, by the treasures in the underground palace.

"We must leave before dark today." In the underground palace, Jonathan said confidently, "No matter how much treasure there is, we have to live to spend it. And we agreed that all the treasures we find belong to me, right?"

This is why Jonathan stayed.

Several people came back to the compartment, where Immorton's coffin was still quietly placed.

"No wonder his coffin was buried at the feet of the god of death." Seeing O'Connor and Jonathan's puzzled faces, Evelyn continued to explain: "Only unforgivable sinners will be buried at the feet of the statue of the god of death after death."

"Having an affair with the princess, killing the pharaoh, and trying to break the boundary between the underworld and the human world to resurrect the dead, each of these is a serious crime, and this high priest is also to blame for it."

Evelyn sighed, and then began to check the coffin.

After careful observation, she found that a mechanism with a scarab pattern and text was very consistent with the mysterious box.

She excitedly took out the mysterious box and buckled it on the mechanism. Unsurprisingly, the mysterious box was the lock of the scarab mechanism, and then she turned it gently.

"Click~click" the sound of the mechanism turning rang out, accompanied by a tooth-grinding friction sound, and the ancient coffin was opened.

What surprised Wes was that although he already knew there was a curse, neither the cautious O'Connor nor the timid Jonathan stopped Evelyn's behavior at this moment.

When the coffin lid was fully opened, what came into view was an inner coffin carved with a human figure. Evelyn was introducing the holy law of the inner coffin to O'Connor, but it was chiseled off, which meant that the people in the coffin would be cursed for generations.

The anxious Jonathan didn't care so much. He snatched the key from Evelyn's hand and inserted it into the keyhole of the human-shaped inner coffin, and then he couldn't wait to turn the key and open the inner coffin.

Inside the inner coffin was a mummy, whose owner was Imhotep. His mouth was open hideously, and he must have experienced great pain before his death.

Evelyn came closer with a strong curiosity to observe carefully, not missing any details. She also found clear scratches on the inside of the inner coffin lid, which showed that the person was mummified alive.

Then she learned from the scarab corpse found in the coffin that the owner of the mummy, Imhotep, was sentenced to death by insect bite.

"Insect bite is the most vicious curse in ancient Egypt, usually used to deal with unforgivable sinners. There is no record of anyone being punished with this punishment in the documents I have read. It is said that it will bring unimaginable disasters."

Evelyn explained her discovery to everyone vividly.

Her thoughts were occupied by this amazing discovery for a while, and she began to speculate on the origin and meaning of this cruel punishment.

Jonathan, who was standing by, had no interest in history. In his eyes, only the glittering treasures were the focus of attention.

His eyes scanned the coffin eagerly, only caring whether there were any valuable burial objects.

"There should be something valuable here, right?" Jonathan said to himself, turning over the items in the coffin, hoping to find some valuable burial objects. However, as a criminal with a heinous crime, how could Imhotep have any rich burial objects?

Without any gains, he decided to turn around and look for treasures in other places. He seemed to have completely forgotten about the curse and only wanted to find those precious treasures.

Hamunatta was particularly quiet at night, and only the occasional sound of the wind broke the tranquility.

Jonathan became more and more depressed, and kept complaining about his bad luck.

However, the Americans had a lot of gains, and a proud man came over with a holy urn to mock Jonathan and his friends.

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"It seems that your luck is not very good, but we found a lot of good things."

This made Jonathan feel even worse.

At this time, Wes walked to a corner and chanted a spell: "Black Book of the Dead" flew over.

Strangely, there was no movement after a while.

He realized that "Black Book of the Dead" itself was an ancient magic book, which might have been protected by magic, and he could not summon it directly with magic.

Wes could only look for the American who took the Black Book of the Dead. Since he had not dealt with the Americans directly since he came, he did not know which American it was. He could only temporarily find a place close to the Americans to observe.

Unexpectedly, Evelyn, who was passing by, accidentally discovered that the American professor was desperately trying to open a heavy book. Its cover was made of a hard and smooth black slate, on which were carved some strange symbols and patterns, and the cover of the book had the same mechanism as the mysterious box. He immediately realized that the American was holding the Black Book of the Dead.

Then a bold idea came to his mind.

Evelyn decided to quietly approach the American while he was asleep and get the Black Book of the Dead.

Taking advantage of the cover of the night, Evelyn carefully touched the American.

Her heart was pounding, and her nervousness made her breathing become rapid. She gently pulled the Black Book of the Dead out of the American's arms. At that moment, she almost held her breath, for fear of waking anyone up.

"You know what? What you're doing is called stealing." Just as Evelyn was about to leave, the sleeping O'Connor suddenly spoke.