Chapter 4594: Day of the White (60)

Dr. Hall's plan also went quite smoothly. He released the news of the mural through fellow experts and scholars, which also triggered a craze in the circle for a while. Diana felt that joining other experts to study it was also a good method, so she didn't do much obstruction.

Hayvin was indeed fooled, investigating where the mural was in the open and in secret, clearly still not giving up. After all, he had seen this mural with his own eyes and knew how exquisite it was and how high its cultural and artistic value was. Even in Egypt, which was not short of artifacts, it could be called a national treasure level; getting one would be enough to retire.

Hall took the opportunity to ferret out several moles lurking in the Midway City Museum and also discovered many peers in the circle who were in cahoots with Hayvin. This prince who came from the court of Ramesses the Great was also not an ordinary person, and the entire ancient Egyptian archaeology and research circle set off a bloody storm.

Then there was that mysterious priest Set. This guy was not stupid enough to attack the Justice League headquarters directly, but Hal, who was called back by Diana, discovered that someone was sneaking around the headquarters observing. After catching a few, they didn't explain anything, and they only thought it was some people who wanted to take advantage of the situation.

Discovering that Hall had found a new backer and had lost so many people, Set also temporarily stopped. And the returning Green Lantern Hal also saw some clues from the mural.

Hall mainly studied the moon, but Green Lantern Hal saw at a glance that the little people surrounding the moon were clearly the Guardians of the Universe, the little blue men.

You know, the little blue men had an inseparable relationship with the power of the seven lights. This discovery made the Justice League excited, which proved that they had found the right route, and the secret of the power of the seven lights' anomaly might be hidden on the moon.

Hall also lived up to expectations, using his rich knowledge of ancient Egyptian history and culture to find the sacrificial process related to the Moon God Khonshu.

In the era of ancient Egypt, "sacrifice" was very important. Not only were there specialized priests in the court, but there were also some ordinary priests who took on the responsibilities of doctors, teachers, and even police, and there was a complete set of very perfect sacrificial processes.

It's just that, compared to the Sun God, the Moon God Khonshu was not well-known, and not many of his sacrificial rituals were passed down. Fortunately, Hall was a real ancient Egyptian and retained a lot of relevant knowledge, and in the end, he really figured it out.

"Do we all have to participate in the ritual?" Diana asked.

Hall nodded and said, "The key is not who participates, but who the Moon God chooses. Only those chosen by the gods can enter his kingdom. The standards are varied; it is possible that just because the birth date is special or one is left-handed, one will be chosen by the god."

"Then let's all go," Hal said, "it would be best if he chooses me and Diana; if it really doesn't work, others in the Justice League can all do it."

Hall shook his head and didn't speak. When they arrived at the ritual site, the Justice League didn't come fully; Diana, Hal, Barry, and Arthur came, and others didn't arrive. Shiler and Deathstroke also participated in the ritual.

Shiler actually didn't want to participate at all, because he knew that Khonshu would definitely choose him, just to make him work overtime more. Deathstroke didn't want to come that much either, because he wasn't interested in this kind of god-god-ghost-ghost stuff. But both of them signed the contract, and they had to come if the employer requested it.

The ritual was performed in the backyard of the base, with the moon hanging in the middle of the sky. Hall placed many things on the ground and also carved some ancient Egyptian characters. Accompanied by his chanting of ancient Egyptian, the moonlight became brighter and brighter.

Two beams of moonlight fell down, and they thought it would be Diana and Hal, but coincidentally, they fell on Deathstroke and Shiler.

"It seems the Moon God doesn't like formal employees." Hal said.

Hall shook his head and said, "It's not that, it might be that when they went to Egypt before, they had contact with the Moon God, just that they didn't know it themselves. You haven't been to Egypt, so naturally, you don't have a mystical connection with the Moon God."

This reason sounded much more reliable, and Diana had nothing to say. After all, these two ran around in Cairo and even went into the pyramid; it wouldn't be strange if they provoked something and were targeted by the Moon God.

"Please stand here." Hall pointed to the center of the magic circle. Deathstroke hesitated a bit, but last time during the Cairo escape room, he was a step slow and spent a lot of effort to get in. This time he also learned to be smart and hurriedly stood over.

Shiler didn't hesitate either and stood into the magic circle. Soon a burst of moonlight enveloped them, and the world became a hazy pure white. After another burst of familiar trance, what appeared in front of them was a huge pure white palace.

Under their feet was a gray desert, which looked very much like lunar soil, but they were clearly not on the lunar celestial body, but in another unique space belonging to the mystical moon.

Seeing that palace, Shiler started to have a headache, and Deathstroke's head was buzzing even more. Because in Cairo, they had already witnessed the strength of this escape room designer—there was no design at all, it was all repetitive labor.

But perhaps it was the bad reviews they gave that made Lord Moon God very dissatisfied, and he actively learned modern game level puzzle design. The result was that it was not as good as not learning.

The previous puzzle-solving links at least carried some simplicity of literary workers, but now it was more like taking the shortcomings of a hundred schools, taking the dross, removing the essence, and completely creating a piece of dung work.

Entering the palace gate, the first level encountered was the Tree Sentinel, a creature that looked like an endgame BOSS—looking a bit like a multi-headed unicorn—appeared in the palace hall. Its combat style included infinite hovering, fast and slow knives, you take medicine and he heals, reading instructions, etc., which made a cyborg like Deathstroke curse.

However, there's a reason people say there's no upper limit to the strength of a cyborg. Deathstroke simply relied on blocking, parrying, and infinite rolling, plus the damage output of his Nth metal greatsword—which was as broken as a cheat code—to hack the boss to death in three strikes. He could truly be called the First Senior Disciple of the Wind-Spirit-Moon-Shadow Sect.

Shiler was actually not bad either. Before participating in the ritual, he kept an eye out and took that revolver. This revolver had some damage overflow when hitting people, but it was different when hitting monsters. One shot directly exploded one of the unicorn's heads, providing Deathstroke with long-range fire support.

After the monster was beaten, it was the favorite fuse-finding link. To enter the main hall through the passage, you need to find 18 runes on 6 discs, which are scattered in more than a dozen rooms around. The rooms contain "the door cannot be opened from this side," "the door is bolted," "you feel a dark force entrenched on the door," "the door seems to be stuck to the entire space and doesn't move," etc.

Behind the few doors that can be opened, besides the three dogs, there are evil warlocks with fireballs facing them, crazy nurses who slash with a knife behind the door, self-destructing monsters falling from the sky, and legendary entry machine gun turrets with infinite firepower. After entering, there are landmines that are not rendered at all, animal traps placed by top hunters, and monsters like man-eating flowers that bite you unexpectedly.

After finding all 18 discs with a flushed face, it was another huge long CG animation: "7450 years ago, the wheat in the Nile Valley matured, and the first ancient Egyptian tribe in Faiyum was celebrating their harvest festival..."

Shiler listened until his eyes went black; this story background actually started from the origin of ancient Egyptian civilization. The most annoying thing was that the skip button on Shiler's side was almost pressed to rot, and Deathstroke didn't know what he was doing on his side, refusing to press skip. They were forced to watch an hour and a half of ancient Egyptian historical and cultural promotional film here.

Fortunately, this story background started from the origin to the birth of Khonshu, not from the origin to the extinction, otherwise it would have to be told for at least six or seven hours. Thanks to the early birth of the Moon God belief, if it weren't for this, the first thing Shiler would do after going out would be to stew the terrifying falcon head with soup.

After experiencing a long broadcast, they finally entered the corridor. Then, it was a series of bizarre jumping games. The passage shattered into fragments at the end in a pure white space, and the fragments kept rising, jumping from head to tail. There were various moving jumping platforms and mechanism devices, besides swinging axes and fire-spraying traps, two monsters were stuffed on the two big jumping platforms that had to be passed. One could spiral whirlwind slash, and one could invincible hover kick. That kick almost made Deathstroke's uniform open.

The role of that revolver was played at this time, not to say that it could hit these two monsters, but the hearing damage caused by firing before greatly strengthened Shiler's strength. The mental torture of the broadcast also contributed a lot, and he directly bumped the little gyro that looked like an ankylosaurus under the jumping platform.

After the jumping game was completed, it was followed by flushing the toilet. The clues for task B were placed in room A, go to room C to find prop D and put it into the cabinet at E, then go to find F to get proof, and go back to find A to hand in the task. Going back and forth required running 16 floors, 200 stairs, and thousands of meaningless dialogues.

And all these tasks were just to let you understand how ancient Egypt made a hand-woven carpet. Six extramarital affairs, four generations of grievances, and two large-scale wars happened around this carpet, and a kingdom was destroyed. But from beginning to end, I didn't see this carpet, and I didn't know how it was woven.

Khonshu was really bullying the soft and fearing the hard, Shiler finally understood. This guy didn't dare to bring Hall in at all, because Hall was clearly the kind of super can-opener who would clear all the question marks on the map and still look unfulfilled. Although Khonshu was an ancient Egyptian god, he really might not know ancient Egypt better than Hall, and it would be funny if he couldn't make up the content.

Why say that if you walk the night road too much, you will always meet ghosts. Before, he used ancient Egyptian murals to spread pharaoh curses, and now it was retribution. On the bright side, after the knowledge about ancient Egypt was more solid, he could make more fake artifacts. But on the bad side, he estimated that he didn't want to make artifacts again in his life.

After experiencing a series of hardships, they finally reached the end, very unexpectedly—the pharaoh's coffin.

Deathstroke had already taken out his sword at this time. Along the way, as long as there was a place, a monster could be stuffed, and he was already numb from fighting. Anyway, as long as you see a box, a case, a cabinet, taking out the sword is right. A cold light arrived first, and death was always a step slower than me.

Shiler didn't hold much expectation either, and the design of this final BOSS was estimated to be not much better. The best result was to pop out a big falcon head and cut Khonshu to vent his anger.

Thinking this way, Shiler manually pushed open the coffin. And when a familiar face appeared in front of him, Shiler was stunned.

The azure blue eyes opened slowly, and the moment they focused on Shiler, the person in the coffin was clearly also stunned.

"Mortal, why did you... how is it you?!"

"Anatoli?!"

With a "bang," the coffin lid slammed shut—as if he couldn't accept reality, thinking he was still dreaming, and preparing to lie down and sleep again—leaving only Shiler's hand frozen in mid-air. ===== CHAPTER 4595 =====