Chapter 4581: Day of the Brightest (47)

Fortunately, in the last attempt, they succeeded and finally got those pyramids to line up in a welcoming formation. Then, a path emerged from the sand, but they still didn't have a car and could only proceed on foot.

After walking for a while, those pyramids finally magnified in their field of vision, which meant that the route they were taking was correct. Then, not long after, they encountered the first pyramid, making one wonder which one this was, but it shouldn't be the most famous Great Jin Zita of Giza.

Deathstroke walked to the side of the pyramid to take a look, shook his head, and said: "There's no door, can't get in."

"Don't tell me this is also a puzzle." Shiler examined the pyramid and said, "I can't work with my stupid crab companion anymore."

"I don't think so." Deathstroke circled around a large area, then said, "But there's no path here, where should we go next?"

Shiler quietly examined this pyramid. In fact, even looking at it up close, the pyramid wasn't very large, not as magnificent as many people imagined. Perhaps some pyramids were larger, but this one was a small pyramid. It was enclosed on all sides, so it was definitely impossible to enter. So where on earth was the path?

"Shadows," Shiler was the first to discover something wrong, and he said, "The shadow on one side is longer."

Deathstroke looked up at the sky; the moon was hanging in the middle of the sky, but slightly tilted. This caused the shadow under one of the four faces that made up the pyramid to be slightly longer.

"Is this really reliable?" Deathstroke said, "What if it's wrong?"

"Try it first and see." Shiler walked toward that direction. Then, not long after, they encountered the second pyramid again.

"You were right," Deathstroke said, "We haven't walked far. If the shadow is correct, this time the shadow in the north should still be longer. But this time it's the east; this completely contradicts the laws of optics, proving that this is indeed a guide."

So they followed the guidance of the shadows and walked, walking back and forth. Finally, they discovered that they had returned to the first small pyramid. Deathstroke let out a long sigh.

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple." He took out his greatsword and said, "Let's try to hack it open."

Shiler stopped him and said: "The shadow is the answer, but it may not be the only answer. Remember how many pyramids we passed?"

"About four?"

"We set off along the shadows, passed four pyramids, and returned here, which proves that these four pyramids form a circle. Otherwise, we wouldn't have returned to the starting point."

"That's true, but what are you trying to say?"

"The answer might not be on these four pyramids, but in the center of this circle. So we need to walk along the diagonal of this rectangle."

"Then let's try it." Deathstroke seemed to not want to think anymore; he didn't even quite understand what was going on. Clearly, Shiler had only come to find a mural, but now they were playing an ancient Egyptian decryption game.

Shiler and Deathstroke walked in one direction, and as expected, not long after, they saw a circular disk engraved with mysterious patterns. In the center of the disk was a fountain, but there was no water in the fountain. These patterns were all gullies, looking like they needed to be filled with water.

"My God, where are we going to find water?! Is there an oasis or something nearby?"

Shiler looked around. When they circled around earlier, they had already seen the surrounding scenery. The vicinity was all desert, without any plants. And everything in this mysterious space was artificially arranged; it was impossible to have extra natural landscapes. That meant this wasn't solved with water.

He walked to the side of the fountain, stopped for a while, took a few steps back, observed again, reached out to Deathstroke, and said: "Give me your sword."

"You are really getting more and more skilled at extortion." Although Deathstroke said this, he still handed the sword to Shiler. Shiler didn't use the greatsword to hack at the fountain either; he just held the sword upright, placed the tip of the sword in the fountain's basin, and rotated the hilt with his hand.

Until a certain angle, the entire blade of the greatsword lit up. The moonlight wasn't reflected away, but formed a layer of silver film. Then, in Deathstroke's surprised gaze, the moonlight turned into a liquid like mercury, flowing into the fountain's basin.

Afterwards, the fountain erupted again, and the silver liquid flowed into the grooves of the patterns, the entire magic circle lit up, and the ground rumbled.

"Come over!" Shiler shouted at Deathstroke. But Deathstroke clearly had doubts about this thing, and he was just a step too slow. As soon as the magic circle lit up, Shiler disappeared, and Deathstroke was left in place.

Deathstroke was dumbfounded; he hurriedly picked up his sword, wanting to fill the fountain again, but no matter what he did, there was no reaction. Deathstroke was so angry that he hacked the fountain over with one sword strike.

And Shiler, who was teleported away by the magic circle, only felt a trance. After the light dissipated, he found himself in a dark room. This was a completely enclosed room with four disks on the four walls. Two of them were engraved with ancient Egyptian characters, and the other two were murals.

Shiler couldn't understand ancient Egyptian characters, but the two murals depicted grazing and planting respectively, looking like they needed to correspond to the characters. Shiler should have been solving the puzzle, but what he should be thinking about now is where Deathstroke went.

He didn't step on the magic circle, which was not unexpected, because this really looked like a trap. As a mercenary, Deathstroke wouldn't easily step on something he didn't understand. But this was clearly the correct way to the next level, and he missed the teleportation. What should he do now?

Shiler felt he should wait for Deathstroke, mainly out of consideration for his teammate. He couldn't be the only one tortured by the puzzle. He could tell that Deathstroke didn't like solving puzzles either.

After waiting for a long time and Deathstroke didn't come, he didn't know if the magic circle was a one-time thing, or if he was teleported somewhere else. Shiler could only go and turn the disks.

Then he discovered that the disks only had two directions, which were upright and upside down. It seemed that as long as the characters and pictures were matched, and then turned to the same angle, it would be fine.

Shiler discovered that there were some characters and patterns on the surrounding bricks, but he was too lazy to look at them, so he simply used the exhaustive method. Anyway, there weren't many possibilities, just try them one by one.

As he expected, the exhaustive method was indeed the god of puzzle-solving. He turned them randomly, and the door opened. Then, there were sixteen disks in the room behind.

Shiler really couldn't take it anymore. Whoever wants to solve this puzzle can solve it; he would rather go to the Red Sea and live as a fugitive. He leaned against the wall, sat down, closed his eyes, and chose to swap positions with the other personality.

This time, there was no need to use any special means. Because when they swapped last time, in order to avoid those who were hunting him, and also to facilitate the next swap, the Agent directly sent the body back to Deathstroke's safe house in Hurghada and found a way to lock it from the inside. In other words, this body was trapped, and whoever went there would be in jail—compared to solving puzzles, the Agent would rather go to jail.

When Shiler opened his eyes again, he examined the surrounding environment, and then understood why the Agent ran so fast. The key wasn't in solving the puzzle, but in the fact that this puzzle-solving was meaningless and didn't involve any mental labor; it was purely manual labor.

It was nothing more than deciphering the meaning of ancient Egyptian characters from the information on the wall bricks, and then matching them one by one with the patterns. Turning those disks was also very laborious; just finishing turning them could tire a person to death.

Shiler had no interest in solving the puzzle at all; he just sat in the corner of the room and closed his eyes to sleep. Until the Agent returned and found that the puzzle-solving progress hadn't moved at all, he sighed in resignation, returned to the safe house, and took out his phone to start looking up the answers.

Deciphering was impossible; this would require comparing information one by one, which would take until the Year of the Monkey. Better to just look it up online. Although ancient Egyptian characters were no longer used by anyone, the information was still very comprehensive.

After looking it up at the safe house, he returned to the secret room to solve the puzzle. The person who designed the levels was relatively fair; they really used the original meaning of the characters, and after matching them one by one with the patterns, the door finally opened again.

In front was a tomb passage, not very low, but a bit narrow, only allowing one person to pass at a time. When Shiler walked toward the opposite side, he suddenly heard some rustling sounds behind him.

He looked back and saw dense insects surging toward him along the floor and ceiling. Very good, this is turning into The Mummy now, right?

However, Shiler didn't rush to run forward. Because when he was looking up ancient Egyptian characters just now, he had looked up some information about pyramids. In fact, some movies filming pyramids had problems with their understanding of ancient Egyptian culture, the most famous of which was The Mummy series.

There were no insects that would attack people inside the pyramids; this was obviously clear, but even the plot compiled based on ancient Egyptian culture was a bit too outrageous, because scarabs were sacred totems in ancient Egyptian culture, and they would neither bite people nor burrow into brains to control others.

Scarabs were actually dung beetles. Ancient Egyptians believed that scarabs pushed the sun to rise and set, representing light and rebirth. The source of this belief was mainly because dung beetles could clean up feces, help maintain the cleanliness of settlements, and reduce the breeding of various bacteria and parasites. In ancient Egyptian culture, this was worthy of praise.

Shiler used the dim light to see that the insects crawling toward him were indeed beetles, that is, dung beetles. But they were larger than normal dung beetles, and their bodies shimmered with a mysterious luster.

Shiler stood there without moving, and these beetles didn't pay attention to him either, crawling past him. It was as if this scene, which was like a horror movie, was actually just the beetles passing by.

Shiler turned around, carefully avoiding stepping on the beetles. And after that group of beetles disappeared at the end of the passage, Shiler stepped forward and walked toward that direction. Then, he arrived at the Tomb Raider movie set again—in front was a large area of jumping platform levels.

This was a large tomb, and the exit was above. Many steps were floating in the entire room, looking like they needed to be jumped up level by level. And when Shiler stepped into the room, the floor began to collapse; clearly, this had a time limit.

Shiler sighed and resignedly started jumping up. He calculated the time and found that it wasn't too difficult. In order to save energy, he waited until the steps were about to fall before jumping up.

And it seemed to be to punish his indifferent attitude, just when Shiler was about to jump to the door, the last step slowly descended and then fell into the void. In this way, it seemed impossible for Shiler to reach the place where the door was by jumping.

Just at this moment, a huge sound suddenly appeared on the other side of the door, as if something was hitting the door. Just as the step Shiler was on began to descend, with a "bang," the door was knocked open. Deathstroke almost fell headfirst into the void.

"Hey, throw a rope over!" Shiler shouted. ===== CHAPTER 4582 =====