Chapter 6 Chapter 6 The Road to Eternal Life

The next day, Meri's part-time career officially began.Because it claims to build the largest nighttime theme park in China, Yalu Company set the test time from 1:00 am to 7:00 am. How many tourists are willing to stay up late to play in the park? Could it be that they don't do business for the elderly and children?Although Meili slandered her, she didn't dare to tremble as a working girl.It seemed that as soon as she entered the Yalu Building, her head was unconsciously lowered by the elegantly decorated ceiling. In order to reflect the hard-working and inquisitive spirit of contemporary college students, Meili hurried to the library to borrow the tome "An Overview of Ancient Egypt" as soon as class was over in the afternoon. human bed.At first, she dozed off and read two pages carefully, but then it gradually darkened before her eyes, and even the air became more and more stuffy, which made her stretch her arms uncomfortably.

But his fingertips touched a dry and hard stone wall. Raising his head strangely, looking around, Meili found that he was walking in a narrow and long stone corridor at the moment.The corridor was narrow and winding, and in some places, she even had to bend down to feel her way through, but based on the touch under her feet, she knew that she was gradually walking along this zigzagging corridor to a higher place. After walking for an unknown amount of time, Meili found that the corridor led him to a square stone room.The room was empty, only a long and large stone box was placed at the end of the room, there were shadows in it, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

Standing in the middle of the room, Meili raised her head, feeling the golden sunlight hitting her face through the small hole at the top of the room, it was so warm that it made her float—no, she really floated!It was like dust suspended in the air, being involuntarily attracted by the light and rising to the only vent in the room.She looked out curiously, only to find that the outside was a sunny desert, several tall pyramid-shaped buildings stood in the desert, and a blue river meandered by the buildings... This scene is so familiar, where have you seen it before?Meili looked back into the room suspiciously, and suddenly realized what that long and large stone box was, and suddenly he was so nervous that he sank, and fell heavily from mid-air!On the opposite wall, a few lines of words suddenly appeared, as if an eye that had been sleeping for a thousand years suddenly opened!

Sitting up abruptly from the bed, Meili clutched her chest and turned her face, facing the faint light coming in from the window. She recalled everything she saw in the dream, and suddenly realized that wasn't that the picture of the pyramids and pharaoh's coffin she had just seen in the book "An Overview of Ancient Egypt"?And the words that suddenly appeared were clearly written in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, to her it was like countless little tadpoles crawling, how could it wake her up in fright? With a heartbeat, Meili took out Manager Mo's business card from the coat pocket at the head of the bed, and became more certain of her guess—what she saw from the air vent in her dream was actually the magnified Yalu Group Logo, bronzing Isn't the triangle with the blue zigzag just like the pyramids and the Nile?

Tapping her forehead, Meili sighed: Alas, it seems that the oppression of the capitalists is really pervasive, even in her dreams, she is instilling the image of the company. Since she didn't have dinner, Meili lay on the bed feeling that her belly was almost stuck to the bed board, so she had to get up and dig out the cheapest instant noodles, prayed silently for a long time, but there was still only one seasoning packet inside. The first part-time job is like a big girl getting into a sedan chair. The feeling of waiting is like a thousand caterpillars crawling in the stomach, and even the instant noodles can't be stuffed into it.After finally staring at the phone until one o'clock in the morning, Mei Li was amnesty, went downstairs in that neat white suit, and came to the courtyard gate of No. 15, Shuangjing Lane.A black Audi A6 has long been waiting outside the yard under the orange street lights.Meili walked a few steps, and was about to ask to confirm whether the other party was from the Yalu Group, when the front window of the car had already been lowered.

"Hello, Miss Mei!" A familiar voice came, and the white-collar elite in the car window looked at her with a smile. "Ah, it's Manager Mo!" Meili was a little surprised. Although he and Manager Mo had only met once, he looked like a pure intellectual and drove such an expensive car. A villain who robs wealth and sex in the suburbs of the courtyard. No matter how hard-talked outsiders are, Mei Li still feels guilty when he goes to work in an unknown place in the middle of the night.Just in case, she set the shortcut keys on her phone to 110, and even though Mary Sue was still pouting at herself during the day, she still sent her a text message: "If I don't hear from you at noon tomorrow, please help Call the police."

"Boss Pei arranged for me to come personally to send Miss Mei to work." Manager Mo sat in the driver's seat, smiling like an old fox with his eyes squinted. However, this sentence still made Meri a little ashamed, as if her previous defense was out of a villain's heart. "You have such a high position, how can I trouble you to pick me up in person..." She got into the Audi car and muttered flatteredly, "You can tell me the address of the park in the future, and I can go there by myself..." "You are a hot fried chicken that just came out of the oven. The boss is looking for a popular person. Of course I dare not neglect." After starting the car, Manager Mo realized that his joke made Meili feel a little shy, so he said heartily, "Because The project has not been announced to the public, so the address of the park is a commercial secret, don't mind it."

"Oh, oh, of course not..." While Manager Mo was concentrating on driving, Meili put away the awkward smile on his face, and curled his lips under the cover of darkness—thinking that the theme park occupies a large area, it can be done anywhere Blocked like a nuclear facility? She turned her head and looked out of the car window, thinking, it's not against the law for me to write down the location secretly. However, the cruel facts once again defeated Meili.The Audi car made many twists and turns, and soon Meili was not only confused about the street outside the window, but also confused about the general direction of southeast, northwest.

After living for nearly twenty years, she realized that she was just a road idiot... Meili turned her head away from the car window in grief and angrily, completely giving up her efforts. Manager Mo seemed to have seen through the new employee's little thoughts, and laughed loudly: "Don't worry, don't worry, you will know everything in the future—we hope you know sooner." Although the last sentence was a bit weird, Meri didn't have the nerve to ask further. The Audi finally stopped.Meili got out of the car and found herself standing in the outskirts of Lincheng.There is no light around, only the cool night wind passing through the shadowy bushes, sending the lonely hum of crickets.

"There seems to be nothing here..." Meili opened her eyes wide, full of doubts. "Oh, you wait here first, I'll go and have a look." Manager Mo locked the car, touched his slightly bald head, and disappeared into the night. "Mo——" Meili had just yelled half a tone, but finally managed to swallow the following words into her throat, she didn't want to appear too delicate in front of the leader.She stood close to the car door, her eyes gradually adapted to the darkness, and she could distinguish the large bushes and fields in the direction of the arrow, but she didn't see a single star of light.

The night is dark and the wind is high, the wilderness is wild, and there is no help... For the bad guys, all these are really at the right time and place.Even though Mei Li still has a mobile phone in his pocket, he can't even describe his location. God knows where the danger lurks in the darkness. "Looks like I'm going to be forced to make a killer move!" Meili gritted her teeth, raised her arms in a forceful posture, and muttered, "From now on, in order to only have double-digit bank deposits, I will To be a strong and brave corporate warrior, invincible, yay!" After such inspirational work, Meri found that she was really relaxed.The pressure of survival can overcome all fears. Or rather, it is the greatest fear in itself. "Come here." Manager Mo's voice suddenly came from ahead, and Mei Li hurriedly followed. At this moment, countless lights flashed in the boundless night, as if the silent stage suddenly lifted the curtain, heralding the beginning of a grand performance. It was rows of bright floor lamps, they were like shining gems in the darkness, laying out a long and secluded road in front of Meili.Meanwhile, Manager Mo was standing in the middle of the road, smiling and waving at Meili, "Any surprises?" "Of course, the real Avenue of Stars!" Meili ran to Manager Mo's side quickly, and dutifully gave a speech on his visit, "These palm trees are transplanted, they are so tall and beautiful! If I were a tourist, I would definitely be recognized Bewitched!" "As long as you like it." Seeing Meili excitedly stepping up and down the Avenue of Stars, Manager Mo was genuinely happy, "We also hope that this place can attract more people, of course, first of all, to attract you." "I'm already attracted." Meili smiled happily, not noticing the unpredictable meaning in Manager Mo's eyes. At the end of the Avenue of Stars is a majestic and tall building, which looks like the gate of the park.Under the illumination of bright spotlights from bottom to top, the entire stone gate reflects golden light, as if those stones are solidified from golden sand.The walls on both sides present a trapezoidal structure with a narrow top and a wide bottom, with small windows on the top, like two dark towers.In the middle of the tower, a rectangular entrance is built with huge stone bars, leading to the unknown world deep in the park. Several statues of seven or eight meters high gods were engraved on the wide wall outside the tower, but what attracted Meili's attention the most were the four large characters on the lintel of the gate: The Road to Eternal Life. This should be the name of the theme park. "The tower gate is a common architectural form in ancient Egypt. Such a design can make the front of the temple appear taller." Manager Mo introduced enthusiastically, "There are several similar buildings in the park." "Great!" Meili looked up greedily at the quaint, majestic and intricately carved gate, feeling like a shovel lifted up the sand in the long river, revealing the ancient city that was buried deep in the water before B.C. The armor occasionally flashed a bronze luster, trying to prove the glory of the past... At this moment, she only felt that her vocabulary for expressing praise was too poor. There is a window on the right side of the tower door, which is probably the ticket office, and the light is also on at the moment.Manager Mo walked to the window, turned around and smiled at Meili: "The park will tailor a guide map for each visitor, and will also give you a random Egyptian name." "It's very interesting..." Mei Li just wanted to respond positively, but found that Manager Mo leaned forward, as if someone was talking to him at the window.Then he turned his head and smiled apologetically at Meili: "I'll go in for a while, just wait a moment." As he spoke, he got into the narrow ticket office. "What happened?..." In the dim light, just as Manager Mo asked these words, he received a merciless blow to the back of the head, and immediately fell to the ground without a sound. A young man in black stood behind Manager Mo, tied him up firmly with the ropes he had prepared, and quickly drew a symbol on his forehead with his fingers, and then the poor white-collar elite was stuffed into it. Under the narrow computer desk at the ticket office. "That accident, it was me." The man in black glanced at the blurred figure of the girl outside the window, and his originally bright eyes dimmed instantly. For a moment, Mei Li felt that the small room next to the park gate was not a ticket office, but a huge cold storage.Otherwise, why did Manager Mo, who was as warm and friendly as spring rain, walk in, but a man with an expressionless face like an iceberg came out? This man's face is very young, with a high nose and thin lips with well-defined outlines, but his eyes seem to have been soaked in years of ice and snow, without a trace of warmth, which makes people feel vicissitudes for no reason.He was wearing a black shirt and black trousers, the material and style of which were very ordinary, but wrapped around his slender and vigorous body, they seemed to fit unexpectedly, as if he was a portrait edited from the night, born with a Black is all about blending in. Meili took a step back subconsciously, but she didn't know whether it was because her heart was about to jump out of her throat, or because she wanted to see this unexpected visitor more clearly. However, she quickly looked away as if admitting defeat, because the young man's eyes were staring at her coldly at this moment, as if he wanted to take all her inappropriate actions into his eyes. "You, hello..." Finally, Meili couldn't help but stammered, "How about Manager Mo?" "He has something to do." The iceberg-like young man frowned slightly, and turned his face sideways, as if Meili was the legendary witch Medusa, as long as he saw her face, he would turn into stone, "Now, I am your tour guide .” From the first conversation between the two, Meili sensed that the person in front of him disliked him, and hurriedly shook his hands and said: "Don't bother, just tell me what you need to do..." "This is my duty." The iceberg man flew over with a sharp glance, and clearly expressed the word "shut up", cutting off Meili's words in an instant. Work is work, and "responsibility"!Mei Li muttered something in his stomach, but wisely did not make any obvious resistance.Now she is unfamiliar with life and place.The other party had a poker face again, so he had to lower his head to hide his dissatisfaction, his hands tightly clutching the phone were covered with cold sweat - Manager Mo was nowhere to be seen, and the man in black in front of him couldn't really be a bad guy, right?But bad people should pretend to be gentle and friendly, right... Fortunately, not long after this worst guess was born, the iceberg man handed over a neatly folded booklet: "Your guide map." "Thank you..." Meili lowered her voice as much as possible, but immediately saw the Bingshan Man frowned again, as if she was not talking, but a crow was chirping, which really hit Meili's little self-esteem seriously.So she pursed her lips tightly and looked at the booklet in her hand under the dim light. There were a few words printed on the beautifully printed cover: Meritamon's Book of the Dead. Meritamon?Is this the Egyptian name that Manager Mo said was automatically generated by the computer?It's actually very similar to her real name... But why is it called "Book of the Dead", it looks really spooky in the middle of the night... "Any taboo?" The iceberg man keenly sensed Meili's thoughts, and raised his eyebrows harshly, "It's still too late to resign now." "No!" Meili stood up like a cat under attack, "Don't wrong people!" Even if it wasn't for the 1,000 yuan deposit, she was born in New China and grew up under the red flag. Or, if you are scared away by a few words that are mysterious, wouldn't you be laughed out of your teeth?What's more, even if this park is really designed as a ghost town, at worst, she will close her eyes and cover her ears and scream desperately, to see who scares who? ! Seeing the girl in front of him blushing and showing her sharp claws, the Bingshan boy smiled imperceptibly, and walked into the gate of the park without saying a word. "Please wait a moment..." Meili stood still and shouted courageously, "Can I see your work ID first?" The iceberg man stopped in response, turned his face and looked at Meili coldly, with the meaning of "if you don't believe me, please let me go". "Uh, if you don't have a work permit, an ID card, a tour guide's license, a driver's license, and a credit card are also fine..." Meili swallowed, and continued to demand with the frozen eyes of the iceberg man, "If not, a business card is also fine... I will always confirm you An employee of the Yalu Group, right?" Hmph, can she be easily kidnapped and sold as an ignorant girl?I missed it! "Enough!" The iceberg man seemed too disturbed by Meili's noise, finally took out a wallet from his trousers pocket, opened it and shook it in front of her. As if seeing the most incredible thing in the world, Meili was stunned for a moment——the one in Bingshanman's wallet was the ancient Egyptian dress-up art photo she took during the interview!Seeing the man in black put away his wallet calmly and continue walking forward, Meili's frozen eyes suddenly rolled: "But...you haven't said what your name is yet!" "...An Yu." "Which two words?" It is undoubtedly a great sense of accomplishment for Bingshan Man to reveal his personal information, not to mention that if his voice is not so hard... well, it's actually quite nice... "Peaceful An, melancholy Yu." The man pondered for a moment, and replied briefly. Melancholy?I think it's depressed Yu, no wonder it made me so depressed when we met... Mei Li just muttered here, seeing that the iceberg man was about to disappear into the night, he hurriedly ran after him. Now, the most frustrating thing for Meili has become a suit and a skirt that hangs around her legs like pockets. Running is not enough... After finally finding the back of the iceberg man An Yu, Mei Li slowed down, keeping a safe distance of more than three meters, and kept pressing the keypad of the phone with his fingers.The speed of the Internet in the middle of the night was fast, and within a few seconds, it was clearly displayed on the webpage: In ancient Egyptian legends, after death, the soul needs to go through a series of tests to obtain eternal life, and the "Book of the Dead" can be regarded as Underworld journey map and clearance guide for each soul. Isn't that like a level-passing game from hell to heaven, and the book of the dead is the game's level-passing strategy?Meri flipped through the "Book of the Dead" in his hand. There were many beautifully printed ancient Egyptian murals in it, but he couldn't see why for a while. With such a short distance, the distance between him and the Bingshan Man was reduced by half again.When Meili moved her eyes away from the phone screen, she found that An Yu was already standing in the square in front of her, waiting for her.And beside him is a long and tall obelisk, like an infinitely enlarged finger, pointing straight to the sky. The staff must be operating in secret. As soon as Meili walked in front of the obelisk, four beams of light shot upwards from the four sides of the obelisk's base, just in time to present the inscribed content on the stone tablet in front of Meili at a glance. It was some densely carved ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, some resembled a bird, some resembled a person, some resembled the rising sun, and some resembled a wide-open eye. Strangely, these words are exactly the same as the symbols that appeared in the pyramid in her dream this afternoon... The thought startled Merry.Although she doesn't know what these hieroglyphs mean, but at first glance, she can judge that these ghost symbols that are comparable to Martian characters are "exactly the same", which is a shocking fact in itself! Seeing Meili staring at the obelisk in a daze, An Yu ignored her and began to recite the words on the obelisk: "Is there a Nile River in the sky?" Meili asked curiously. "Everything in this world can be eternal in heaven." After An Yu finished speaking, she took a step forward. so cool!Meili stuck out her tongue secretly, the tone, the look in the eyes, and the way she turned around were all so cool that they "clicked" and dropped icy balls on the ground.Forget it, good women don't fight with men, Mei Li clenched his fists: "I! Forbearance!" In a moment, they had crossed the square and came to a rockery.The reason why this mountain, which is more towering than the real mountain, is judged as a "fake mountain" piled up artificially is because Meili has never seen such a dry and desolate mountain in the warm and humid Lincheng, as if all the water on the mountain has been sucked out. It was so clean that even the soil had turned into grains of sand. However, what is even more strange is that there is a big hole in the mountainside of this mountain.In the dark night, I couldn't see how deep the hole was, I just felt like a python with its huge mouth open, which made Meili shudder. Seeing An Yu burrowing into the hole naturally, Meili complained bitterly, "Why don't you turn on the light in here?" "In ancient Egyptian legend, the holy mountain to the west of the Abydos Temple is the entrance to the underground world after death." An Yu frowned habitually, as if he thought Meri talked too much, "Pass the passage , will enter the main part of the park.” "Oh." Meili looked at a building surrounded by a colonnade on the other side of the square. At first, he thought it was built as a tourist shop, but it turned out to be some kind of temple. What the hell is it? Meili didn't want to ask An Yu any more, and walked into the dark cave with a firm heart.It turns out that this cave is really a man-made tunnel, with steps extending downwards continuously, coupled with the almost absolute darkness in the narrow stone walls, it really has a gloomy feeling leading to the underworld. An Yu walked in front, Meili couldn't see his figure clearly, but could hear his footsteps coming from the front, clearly guiding her in the direction.She groped the stone wall and kept going down, counting about three hundred steps, when there was a strange "crashing" sound from the ground, which covered up An Yu's footsteps, causing Meili to panic suddenly. "An...Mr. An?" She finally called out, reaching forward with her hand. The fingertips touched a warm and flexible body, but was immediately shaken away by the opponent's body. "Don't touch me!" An Yu yelled shortly, his voice was very close to Meili's, showing that he didn't go far away. Cut, you thought you were a BMW, but you are still a BMW!Merry withdrew her hand and pouted angrily. Although there is an iceberg in the sea to climb, it can be rescued, but who knows which is better, drowning or freezing to death. After finally reaching the end of the tunnel, Meili could see An Yu's figure shrouded in a light blue light. In order to show their work efficiency.She ran over quickly, but suddenly let out a cry of surprise. At this moment, there is a river lying in front of her. Moonlight poured down from the gaps in the clouds, covering the river with a faint blue light.The river was blown into tiny waves by the night wind, and the sound of the water became clearer in the silence.On both sides of the river, there are dense reeds growing, revealing clusters of snow-like flower spikes... the blue Danube.Mei Li thought of this word without thinking. It turned out that the river water can really be blue. Seeing that An Yu walked to a wooden boat moored by the river, jumped on it and picked up the oars, Mei Li bit the bullet and asked, "Want to take a boat?" The iceberg man nodded. Although he didn't reach out to help Meili into the boat, he held the boat as flat as the ground, and he was actually a good rower. Seeing the strange shape of the small wooden boat, with both ends upturned like a crescent moon, Meri's long-depressed heart finally became a little excited.She purposely sat on the bow of the boat, far away from An Yu, hugged her knees and hummed an antique song to herself: "Let's row our oars..." Apparently feeling that Meili was expressing dissatisfaction, An Yu looked at the girl's back reflected in the moon shadow and water, gave a wry smile silently, and slowly opened the wooden oar in her hand. On the road to eternal life, the soul needs to pass through the seven gates full of tests, and everything is just the beginning.