Chapter 186

The earth shook, and an abyss-like crack separated Ye Nan and Imhotep. A huge Sphinx flew out from inside.

The Sphinx collided with the walls and ceiling at the bottom of Hamunaptra, lifting the walls and ceiling together. A large amount of stone fell from above, and the entire Hamunaptra began to collapse.

"Run." Ye Nan called out, ran away, and escaped the collapsing Hamunaptra.

After Ye Nan and others escaped, the Sphinx revealed its mysterious face.

The Sphinx was about 21 meters high. The body was a huge lion's body, the face was a woman's exquisite face, the black wings behind were spread out, covering the sky, and two sparkling blue gems served as its eyes. It was the legendary Sphinx.

The moment the Sphinx revealed its body completely, Hamunaptra turned into a ruin, and the scorching sun from the desert sky poured its brilliance onto the earth to its heart's content.

"My trump card, let you taste it."

The Sphinx was made of yellow stone blocks. Landing on the ground, it immediately merged with the earth without any gaps.

"Sphinx."

Ye Nan's gaze condensed, carefully looking at the Sphinx, wanting to find one or two flaws in it.

What he hated most was thick-skinned enemies, and the Sphinx belonged to that kind of thick-skinned enemy. Just look at the stone blocks all over its body, and you know how thick its skin and flesh are.

"What should we do now?" Lie Hu asked.

He was somewhat at a loss. Facing such a huge Sphinx, the pressure in his heart was really too great.

"I don't know what to do either."

Ye Nan looked up at the sky. Hamunaptra was burst open, which meant the idea that Hamunaptra was a spaceship was completely shattered. But facing such a huge Sphinx, Ye Nan was also at a loss.

"How about we run away first?" Lie Hu thought for a while and came up with an idea, "Don't you Chinese often say that as long as the green hills remain, there's no need to worry about firewood? Let's leave first, and when we find an opportunity later, we'll come back to clean them up."

"No, if we retreat now, I'm afraid there will be no opportunity in the future. And I don't think Imhotep can manipulate such a large Sphinx. There must be some mystery in this." Ye Nan directly rejected Lie Hu's proposal.

The liquid in the pool could store brain waves, which was something Ye Nan must obtain. And he didn't think Imhotep could manipulate this Sphinx, because this Sphinx was too huge.

"You all die." A wicked smile appeared on Imhotep's crazy mouth, "After you are killed by the Sphinx, I can hold my ceremony without any obstruction."

"Guess a riddle."

The Sphinx slowly opened its mouth and spat out such a word.

"Guess a riddle?" Ye Nan, who was ready for battle, was stunned, then laughed, "You ask the question."

This Sphinx reminded Ye Nan of the desert death god Sphinx in ancient Egyptian legends. In legend, the desert death god Sphinx liked riddle games the most. It asked you questions. If you guessed it, it would die, but if you couldn't guess it, it would attack and eat you in one bite.

"It seems that what Imhotep summoned is the legendary Sphinx. If it's it, it should be easy to solve." Ye Nan muttered in his heart, and his hand touched his ear unconsciously, wanting to contact Smila. But when his hand touched his ear, he was surprised to find that the headset was gone....

"Bad, the headset is lost."

He originally intended to contact Smila, hand the Sphinx's riddle to Smila, and let Smila search the Internet for the answer. But now, he couldn't contact Smila. It was probably not an easy thing to answer the Sphinx's riddle. But sitting and waiting for death was not his style either.

"Lie Hu, let's prepare to go up." Ye Nan gave Lie Hu a look and immediately charged out.

"Please listen to the question."

A mechanical voice spat out from the Sphinx's mouth. It ignored Ye Nan who charged up, but asked the question on its own, "What book is better torn than not torn?"

"Go to hell." Ye Nan crossed his hands, and two sharp claws scratched across the Sphinx, sparking a piece of fire. When the sparks dissipated, two marks appeared on the Sphinx's body.

"Damn, actually only able to cause this little bit of damage." Ye Nan cursed in his heart. The Sphinx's body couldn't see the edge at a glance. If he attacked like this, he didn't know when he would be able to destroy the Sphinx.

"Answer wrong." The Sphinx stared at Ye Nan, and the two brilliant blue gems emitted a wonderful luster.

Seeing the Sphinx staring at him, Ye Nan thought it was bad and wanted to close his eyes. But his body didn't listen to him and stood still on the spot.

"What exactly is the light emitted by this gem?"

Bang!

A group of people broke through the collapsed stone blocks and drilled out from inside. The violence of beasts radiated from their hollow eyes. They looked at the huge Sphinx without any fear.

"Please listen to the question."

The Sphinx cast its gaze toward this group of strangers who appeared suddenly.

"What is a country-toppling and city-toppling beauty?"

Just as the Sphinx's words fell, this group of people immediately charged up and launched attacks on the Sphinx one after another. It was just a pity that their attacks fell on the Sphinx without leaving a trace.

"Exceeded the time."

The Sphinx opened its mouth and sucked fiercely. The people who charged up were all sucked in without exception.

"Please listen to the question."

The Sphinx slowly turned its body, and the blue gems faced Lie Hu.

"Just kidding, who wants to guess riddles."

Lie Hu retreated repeatedly. That group of people just now were cloned mutants, and their strength was about the same as his. Even if they were weak, they wouldn't be too weak. But such a group of people were directly sucked in by the Sphinx, and their fortune was unpredictable.

"Guess the question." Ye Nan roared anxiously.

He had already seen that this Sphinx should be the legendary Sphinx. As long as they guessed the riddle correctly, they could drive away the Sphinx.

"Oh." Lie Hu responded and immediately looked at the Sphinx with full attention, waiting for the Sphinx to ask the question.

"What chicken is the slowest?"

The Sphinx opened its mouth and said the riddle, and the two brilliant blue gems looked at Lie Hu.

"What chicken is the slowest?" After hearing the question, Lie Hu immediately became anxious in his heart.

"What chicken is the slowest, what chicken is the slowest, what chicken is the slowest?"

Not only Lie Hu, but even Ye Nan became anxious.

As long as he guessed the answer, he could drive away the Sphinx, and he could also be saved. But the riddle the Sphinx asked was something he hadn't even heard of, let alone guessed the answer.

"What to do, what to do, what exactly should be done." Lie Hu faced the Sphinx's gem eyes. The thoughts in his heart turned constantly, thinking about the answer...

"Exceeded..."

"Nicole Kidman."

Just as the Sphinx wanted to say "exceeded the time," a cold voice interrupted its words.

Ye Nan turned his eyes, wanting to see who was helping him, and just happened to see Arnold walking out of the ruins.

"Arnold?" Ye Nan was surprised in his heart. Arnold was a Terminator, and his own intelligence was not outstanding, and his logical judgment was weaker than ordinary people. He should not be able to guess the answer. But now, he guessed it, and obviously guessed it right.

"Congratulations on answering correctly."

The Sphinx opened its huge mouth, spat out all the people it had swallowed, sank into the ground again, and in the blink of an eye, that figure that covered the sky disappeared in front of Ye Nan and others.

"Finally answered correctly." Ye Nan slowly let out a sigh of relief, and at the same time turned his gaze, looking at Arnold, his eyes full of doubt.

"You have your own consciousness?"

"Brother, I have always had my own consciousness."

The imagined voice did not come out, but a familiar female voice came from Arnold's mouth.

"Smila?"

"Yes, it's me, brother. Since you went in, I have been worried about you. Later, I saw Hamunaptra collapse and wanted to contact you, but couldn't. I could only control Arnold to find you. Fortunately, I came in time, otherwise you would have been swallowed by this damn Sphinx." Smila patted her chest and said happily.

"Smila, can I discuss something with you?" Ye Nan walked away a step and made an embarrassed expression, "When you control Arnold's body, can you not make feminine movements? I feel very uncomfortable looking at it."

Hearing this, Smila's expression changed, and she said with a slight crying tone, "Does brother not like Smila anymore?"

"No, no." Ye Nan waved his hands repeatedly, "How could brother not like Smila? It's just that brother is not used to it. Brother hopes Smila can truly have a body of her own."

"Smila also wants to have a body of her own, but Smila has no way to have a body of her own. Smila doesn't like becoming a metal person. Smila hopes she can become a human, a real human with flesh and blood." Smila pouted, somewhat dissatisfied.

"Those people in the base still haven't been able to manufacture the technology of a flesh-and-blood body, and Sister Tianwang doesn't have this technology either. Why is this?"

"Tianwang?" Ye Nan's heart stirred and he inquired, "What has Tianwang been doing recently?"

"What else can she do? She is holed up in that base, trying to deduce her technology. Sister Tianwang said that in her program, most of the technology is old-fashioned, and real technology still needs to be deduced."

"Deduce technology? To what extent has she deduced it?" Ye Nan pursued.

Intelligent programs are different from humans. Their speed of deducing technology is very fast, beyond human imagination. Any new technology that appears, as long as they can understand it, can deduce this new technology to the peak in the shortest time. Although this short time is also calculated in hundreds or thousands of years.

However, intelligent programs also have their own flaws. They lack creativity.

An apple falls on Newton's head, and Newton can invent gravity. And the same apple falls on the intelligent program's head, they either ignore it or eat it directly.

"She didn't say." Smila felt somewhat regretful.

"Okay, let's leave here first. Later, we will dig out the Sphinx. But since these cloned mutants have all come out, there is no need to detonate them. Smila, terminate the explosion program."

After the cloned mutants were spat out by the Sphinx, they all fell into a coma. Now their fate was in Lie Hu's hands. According to Lie Hu's hatred of wanting to get rid of them quickly, they were probably hard to escape the poisonous hand.

"Let's go." (PS: Uh, it seems I owe everyone another chapter. I'll make it up next time. Sigh, please subscribe.)