Chapter 20 Chapter 20 Underground Murals

When Merry woke up, she didn't know where she was for a moment. There was a bright white light above her head, a hard and narrow seat under her body, and rhythmic sounds filled her ears. She stared at the row of plastic handrails hanging above her head for a long time, and finally realized that she was lying on the floor of a subway car. seat. An empty subway car. Meili rubbed her eyes, and sat up slowly, her memory still remained on the moment when she ran out of Mrs. Yin's villa and saw the lightning whip in Pei Sidu's hand strike An Yu.Later, it appears that the red snake entangled her, and somehow she ended up on this moving subway.

Thinking of that icy huge red snake, Meili couldn't help shivering in his heart, and couldn't help but look up and look around, for fear that the snake would suddenly open its huge mouth towards him if it got wrapped around a certain railing.She carefully shifted her gaze from the armrest above her head to the seat opposite, and suddenly found a face looking at her coldly from the car window! It was a bloodless human face, with black eyebrows, black eyes, and a closed mouth without any expression. It could even be said that this was a bland and featureless human face. Can't recall it anymore.

Meili was wondering why he was lying on the outside of the car window looking at him, and the base realized that the subway car he was in was speeding on the track at high speed, so how did that face fit outside the car window at a speed of nearly 100 kilometers per hour? ! "Is anyone there?" Meili didn't dare to look at that face again, stood up and shouted towards the empty carriage.Even if she is unlucky enough to be kidnapped again, the kidnapper should at least show up to negotiate terms and haggle over the price. No one answered her, but something soft under her feet blocked her steps.Mei Li lowered his head and found a big pure black dog lying on the floor under the seat. Although Mei Li accidentally kicked him, the big dog remained motionless, as if he was asleep.

Looking at the two long and pointed ears on the top of the black dog's head, Mei Xing's heart moved: "Is it Ermao?" She squatted down, boldly touched the black dog's ears hanging on the head, and became more and more sure of the dog. It's the clever guy who helped me move, stole my phone and returned it. "Ermao, wake up, don't sleep!" Meili shook the black dog's head vigorously again.Perhaps because of Ermao's natural attachment to her, she fell in love with this humane dog from the first time she met, and she also expected that this time it could provide some clues to her situation.

However, the black dog still didn't move, and didn't even open its closed eyes. If it wasn't for the warmth on its body, Merry almost suspected that the dog was dead! The light coming from the front was suddenly blocked by something. Mei Li raised his head and found a person standing quietly two meters away from him, and on his shoulder was the photo that was just pressed against the car window. Face! God knows how he got into the car through the thick glass windows of the subway! But this time Meili's attention was no longer focused on the lifeless pale face. She squatted beside the black dog, stroking its neck with her palm, and spit out a sentence to the stranger who rushed in: "You The clothes are on the wrong side..."

Although now was not the time to pick on the intruder's clothes, the awkward appearance of the intruder really made Meri feel like a bone in her throat, and she couldn't complain.What's more, this is also one of the methods to combat the arrogance of the enemy! "Inverted?" The strange man's voice was as smooth as his expression, "Or, are you more used to this?" With that, he turned around so that the zipper of his leather jacket was in a straight line with his chin. "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Meili stared at him blankly for two seconds, then suddenly screamed loudly in horror—because when the man turned "turning around", he really only turned his body clockwise a hundred and eighty times. speed, and his face was always facing Meri without moving!Is his neck made of noodles! ?

"But I think this is very awkward." The weirdo reached out and touched his head, and then turned his whole body from the neck down to 180 degrees in a counterclockwise direction, and returned to the face turned upside down when Meri first met. Weird look. Seeing that Merry's face was pale with fright, and he wanted to stuff himself into the narrow gap under the seat, the strange man grinned at Merry, as if a patient with facial muscle stiffness was trying to comfort a frightened baby: "Don't be afraid, I'll kill you, and you won't be afraid anymore." As he spoke, a dagger appeared in his hand as if by magic, and he stepped in front of Meili in one step!

"Ah—" The extreme fear had already caused Meili to lose her ability to speak, she could only scream instinctively, and her whole body lay on the back of the black dog Ermao. At this moment, it was her only barrier and support. As if greatly stimulated, the black dog trembled, opened its eyes suddenly, and let out a low growl! "Young master, calm down, the ghost is only carrying out the orders of the master." The strange man said, raising the short knife in his hand high, accompanied by a faint sigh, "Now you can't beat me anymore." The black dog stretched its limbs, and suddenly stood up, with such strength that it even lifted Meili who was lying on his back!Just when the strange man's dagger was about to hit Meili's back, the black dog glared at his hind legs, jumped up like lightning, and smashed through the glass window of the subway car, frightened Meili firmly grasped it in desperation. The fur on its neck lowered its body as much as possible.

However, if you just rush out of the train car, you will crash into the tunnel wall to your death!Mei Xing didn't have time to remind the silly dog, so he could only watch it headlong into the darkness, and closed his eyes tightly in self-deception. However, nothing happened, it was as if a gap was split in the solid wall, and the black dog rushed out of the distance with Meili on his back.Meili thought of the underground passage that An Yu took her through, and couldn't help but ask the black dog below him in the darkness: "Er Mao, can you also open the underground passage of the Lord of Darkness? Then do you also know?" An Yu?"

Naturally, the black dog couldn't answer. It just spread its limbs and ran with all its strength in the labyrinth-like underground passage.But Mei Li didn't want to pursue the answer. Although there was no light in the corridor, she could hear the footsteps following behind her. It was obvious that the face-faced man who called himself "ghost" had been chasing them persistently. Suddenly, Er Mao's front legs went limp, and his whole body fell to the ground, causing Mei Li to be almost thrown forward by inertia.She was worried that Er Mao was exhausted, and only heard a slight sound of breaking through the air, something had already passed over her head, and hit the stone wall in front of her, making a sound of metal and stone intersecting.

In the next moment, Ermao rose into the air again, and carried Meili into another fork in the darkness. Obviously, it and the "ghost" saw things in the dark as if they were daylight, making Meili almost as incompetent as blind.She hugged the black dog's neck even tighter, only to realize that she had pulled off two handfuls of Ermao's neck hair with too much force just now, and she couldn't help feeling guilty and distressed. Suddenly, Merry realized that the footsteps behind her had changed.There was only one person's footsteps, but now it has become two, no, four, no, more!It was as if the anti-face monster had undergone cell division, one became two, two became four, and within a few seconds, it split into countless pursuers! He is really a ghost! The black dog leaped upwards suddenly, only to hear "噗噐咙咒", countless sharp blades flew from behind, striking a brilliant flame on the stone wall.In this fleeting light, Meili suddenly saw a scarlet snake body rushing towards her and Ermao along the gap in the corridor, with blue venom dripping from the sharp fangs! It's over!Mei Li fell on the back of the black dog in despair, with red snakes blocking the way in front, and a group of ghosts blocking the way behind, what crime did he do to provoke these ghosts and ghosts in the dark?This time, it seems that my life is about to be sent to the ground. Maybe after a thousand years, archaeologists will find a tomb where a woman and a dog were buried together, and they will be puzzled... "Forget it, Ermao, run for your own life." Meili let go of the arm that was holding the black dog cruelly, determined not to leave any problems for the archaeologists who will be thousands of years later.What's more, she is not willing to let such a good dog be buried with her... The only good thing is that after being bitten by the red poisonous snake, it didn't hurt too much. Instead, she felt dizzy as if floating in the clouds. No wonder Cleopatra chose to be killed by the poisonous snake when she committed suicide.On the contrary, the group of ghosts with upside-down faces in the back looked more terrifying... Now that Meili had made the final choice, she didn't know where the courage came from, and jumped at the fangs of the red snake in front of her! She originally thought that her pounce had Huang Jiguang's eye-catching heroic aura, but unexpectedly, she couldn't even utter a bold word, her ankle was already in pain, and Ermao bit her to stop her castration.Just as the serious question of "Do I need a rabies vaccine" crossed Meili's mind, Ermao swung her whole body, as if a meteor hammer had hit the nearby stone wall! "Ermao is really crazy!" Meili wailed inwardly, thinking that she would be smashed into a meatloaf, but unexpectedly, her eyes lit up, and she landed firmly on a piece of solid ground. The group of ghosts and giant snakes that surrounded her just now seemed to be isolated in another world. Meili closed her eyes to relieve the tingling feeling of suddenly entering the light from the darkness, and gradually heard a burst of light coming from this bright and silent world. Hasty footsteps. Footsteps again!Meili froze, and was about to find a direction to escape, but someone behind him giggled: "Isn't the queen here? Who was yelling that she couldn't be found just now?" Slightly relieved, he turned around and wanted to ask where it was, when he was immediately surrounded by a group of black-haired girls in long white dresses: "I have seen the queen." "I'm not the queen..." Seeing that all the girls bowed respectfully, Meili waved her hands quickly. "Understood, you prefer to call you princess." The leading girl in white skirt smiled, "Princess, the high priest is waiting for you, let's go." where to goWhile Meili was confused, the golden light in front of her had gradually dissipated, revealing a majestic temple in the distance. The maids led Meri up the long steps, passed through countless small side halls on both sides, and walked straight to the most grand pillar-shaped main hall. This place seems to have been here before... Meri stared at the seemingly endless stone steps at the bottom of her feet, trying to remember—by the way, it was the time she came back from the theme park Philae Temple, she came here in a dream, Then saw Isis who looked like Mrs. Yin... She remembered that this was the Temple of Abydos, where the legendary world and the underworld meet. "Welcome to Abydos, my respected queen." A tall, bald man bowed his head deeply to Merry, and he must be the high priest of Abydos. Meri was at a loss, so she nodded politely. "Have you chosen your main god?" the high priest asked with a smile. "Lord God?" "Yes, as a queen, you are obliged to choose a main god to worship, and you can even build a special temple for him." The high priest saw that Meri was still full of confusion, so he coughed lightly and continued to explain, "For example, the former pharaoh's The main god is Seth, the god of the desert, the main god of your father and husband is the sun god Ra, and the main god of your mother is Hathor, the goddess of love and beauty... Personally, in order to match your current queen status, I recommend You choose Isis or Horus as the main god..." Those two mothers and sons are so good at deceiving people, I don't want to choose... Meili thought of some distant myths in a trance, muttered in his heart, and asked angrily: "Is it okay not to choose?" "What?" The high priest was obviously frightened by this unorthodox answer, and after a long time he wiped the sweat off his forehead, and persuaded earnestly, "As a queen, it is your honorable duty to choose the main god. The beliefs of the people in Upper and Lower Egypt also directly affect the balance of power among the gods, because their mana largely comes from offerings and worship in the mortal world. For example, Horus, the king of the gods, has such a great power. His influence is not only because he accepts offerings at the Temple of Abydos, the priest of his father Osiris, and the Temple of Philae, the temple of Philae, the priest of his mother Isis, but also has a special priest, the Temple of Edfu. There are thousands of priestesses dedicated to him as concubines..." "Since he has so many people admiring and worshiping him, why should I add to the cake?" Meili interrupted the eloquent high priest, suddenly thinking, "Which god doesn't have an officiant place, and doesn't have any concubines, priestesses, messes? ? If so, he must need my help more... er, adoration." "With all due respect, is the queen still worried about the fact that Pharaoh had many concubines? Or, is she dissatisfied that his true love has always stayed with the dead Queen Nefertari?" The high priest carefully watched Meri's expression from the corner of his eyes. tentatively. Have it?are not there?Perhaps because the high priest poked into his secret thoughts, Meili felt slightly annoyed, and only asked with a sneer: "The high priest, please answer my question first." "It is true that there is a god who does not have an officiant, nor does he have any concubines." The high priest replied ponderingly, "However, he is not suitable for you to choose as the main god for the queen." "Just tell me who he is, and I'll judge whether it's suitable for me." After all, the title of "Queen" has added a lot of confidence, and Meili's attitude has become more and more tough. "He is the patron saint of the undead—Anubis." The high priest smiled haughtily, as if laughing at Meri's absurdity, "The queen should know that Anubis' duty is to protect the corpses of the dead from being successfully processed." Mummified, and led the undead to the temple of Osiris to be judged, so he has no protection for the living, only the dead will worship him." No wonder he doesn't have a dedicated priesthood, nor does he have concubines who voluntarily sacrifice himself. The snobbery of mortals is really naked... Meili suddenly felt very sympathetic to this thankless god, and suppressed the inexplicable excitement in his heart and asked the high priest: " Can I see him?" "As an accompanying priest, there is indeed a statue of Anubis in the Temple of Abydos." The high priest pointed to the dark secret room behind him, bowed slightly, "Please, queen." Abandoning the girl in white dress and the high priest accompanying her behind, Meri walked into the narrow stone room at the end of the temple first.Undoubtedly, in previous dreams, she had been to this place, and also saw the beautifully carved murals on the stone walls-Isis put together the corpse of her husband Osiris cut into fourteen pieces, resurrected him, and The god who helped her with this difficult job was none other than Anubis. It turned out that this was Anubis, and in his dream last time he was completely regarded as a soy sauce passerby.Mei Li carefully looked at the dog-headed and human-body god on the mural, and suddenly something moved in his heart: dog?Wasn't the black dog doll she saw in the "Mat's Feather" bar that time also called Anubis?It looks exactly like... just like Ermao! "Could it be that you are Ermao?" Meili stared at the god on the mural, suddenly worried, "Then can you tell me, Ermao threw me here, what happened to Ermao?" No one answered her, but the anxiety in her heart became more and more serious.Meili walked to the door of the secret room, trying to find a way to spy on the outside world, but the outside of the secret room was completely white, and the temple, high priest, and maids were all gone, as if the entire stone secret room was floating alone in the void, As soon as she stepped outside, she would fall to pieces. "Here, there are only the two of us." A voice suddenly came from behind, as if thousands of years passed, distant and ethereal. "Who's talking?" Meili was startled, and turned around very quickly, but didn't see anyone else in the narrow secret room. "It's me, Meritamon." The voice sounded again, with infinite emotion and affection, "I accepted your offering, heard your prayer, and was deeply moved by your loneliness and longing. You Is it not so to me to regard the splendid palace as a desert, the queen's title as a thorn, and trade the glory of immortality for the pleasure of my heart? O Meritamon, listening to your gaze For countless days and nights, I have fallen in love with you unknowingly..." "You are... Anubis??" Mei Li opened his mouth wide in horror—that voice, surprisingly, came from the mouth of the dog-headed god on the mural! "You love me too, Meritamon." Anubis on the mural lowered his voice, becoming more and more affectionate, "You built this temple for me alone, and there are only you and me in the murals in the temple." Me, our secret tryst will never be noticed by Pharaoh and other gods..." "Wait, wait... You said we were having a tryst?" Meri realized at this moment that the murals in the secret room had completely changed at some point. The paintings on the four walls and the ceiling were all Meritamon and men wearing golden crowns. Image of Anubis.Numerous large and small Meritamons and Anubis bowed their hands, wandering among the flowers, or shooting and hunting in small boats, a sweet scene of worldly life. Like - a lover in love. "But... I'm really not used to cross-species love..." Meili murmured depressingly, thinking that even Pei Sidu's impeccable appearance made her feel alienated, let alone such a monster who suddenly turned into a dog and turned into a human?If he stood in front of him alive, he would probably be scared to death, right? "What I show in front of the world is only my appearance, and only in front of you, my beloved, can I show my true self." The god on the mural calmed Meri's doubts patiently, "Just like Helu Si, in front of the world, he will always have the appearance of a falcon-headed man, but in the dream, the one who meets privately with the concubines enshrining him is a handsome man." "Really? Then what is your true nature like? You can't see clearly on the mural..." Thinking of the handsome boy Xiao Bailong in the movie, Meili was suddenly full of anticipation. Anubis in the mural seemed to flicker for a moment, and the next moment, a warm hand held Meri's hand. "Let's go to the old place." Before Meili could see his face clearly, the young man had already pulled Meili out of the secret room. As expected, there was nothing outside the secret room, but Meili was still able to move forward step by step, being led by the young man.This wonderful feeling is as if she herself has turned into a feather that is as light as anything, and can swim freely between the sky and the earth. The white mist became brighter and brighter, and was gradually dyed golden by the sun.They walked for a while in the golden light that was difficult to see, and suddenly a bright light appeared in front of them—— The blue sky, the golden desert, and the most amazing thing is the desert rose covered with sand, spreading all the way to the distant sea—that is the most magnificent and strange scenery in the world. "I've been here before." Meili recalled another dream of her own, and asked doubtfully, "Someone seems to have said that I am his never-fading desert rose. Could it be you?" "It's me." The young man smiled wryly, "But you said later that instead of being a lifeless desert rose, you would rather be a real rose that would wither and die, or even just a three miscanthus growing in the corner. Because , that is truly 'lived'." Did you really say this?Meili blinked her eyes, trying her best to see the appearance of the man in front of her, but it was always like a thin layer of mist, which prevented her from being sure of her guess. "Listen." The young man beckoned suddenly, and a gust of wind suddenly blew from the direction of the sea, passing through the gap formed by the desert roses, forming a unique voice that Meri had never heard before. What's even more amazing is that the sound formed by the wind and the desert rose is clearly a beautiful melody, which Meili has already known from her cell phone ringtone. Pei Sidu said that this is a hymn dedicated to Meritamon. Accompanied by this melodious hymn, the young man stood in the empty sand sea and sang softly: "There is no incense, but who has my perfect shape; I will not wither, and God has given me the power to escape reincarnation; I am a flower of sand Congealed roses, the Sahara desert in the direction I left..." The hymns with the same melody can have completely different lyrics, one makes people despair, and the other makes people fight. Looking at the golden desert roses blooming at the bottom of her feet, Meili couldn't help singing along with the young man: "The future that can be seen through at a glance, and the difficult escape. Love to me is not a desire for immortality, but a heroic dream of an ordinary life. The rush of meteors, the brilliance of dewdrops, I don’t want thousands of years of eternal camouflage, I just want a day of fresh blooming..." "Don't pretend to be eternal for thousands of years, just put it alive for a day. Meritamon, are you really willing to pay such a price to escape eternal life?" The wind continued to play the circuitous melody, and the young man suddenly asked. "eternal life?" "The Nile River in the sky is the reflection of the Nile River underground, and everything in Yalu is a reflection of reality. When you gain eternal life, you will live in the palace in the sky, and you will still be your father's wife and the queen of Ramses the Great, Or, you can also choose to become the concubine of Horus, the Lord of Kingship." "What about you?" Meili suddenly asked with concern. "Me?" The young man smiled faintly, "Naturally, I will continue to stay in the dark underground, escorting one after another undead to the trial hall of Osiris." "What kind of rule is this, because I married my father in this life, and I will be his wife forever after I die?" Mei Li was shocked, "Not to mention my dead mother, she also gained eternal life, Then don't I want to be my father's wife at the same time as my mother? My God, this is terrible!" "This is our religion rooted in the Nile River. Since you have drunk the water of the Nile River, your soul cannot escape its bondage..." "No no, if eternal life is nothing more than prolonging the pain of this world to infinity, then I would rather destroy my soul to escape eternal life!" Mei Li suddenly grabbed the young man's hand in panic, "Since you are a god, you must have a way to help me escape This fate, isn't it? Of course, it's best if we can escape together!" "Yes, I have been thinking about this for a long time." The young man nodded, looked at Meili's suddenly excited face with calm eyes, and said with faint sadness, "Just give me your heart." "Okay!" Meri agreed without any time to think about the meaning of this sentence.However, the moment the word was uttered, a huge stream of water fell from the sky, completely submerging her... The cold water filled all her senses, and when she regained consciousness, Meili found that she was already submerged in the deep blue water, her long hair was floating around like water plants, and the man who hugged her tightly was pulling a A sharp blade pierced her heart... "Ah——" Meili let out a cry of pain suddenly, and struggling hard, she actually broke free from the man's shackles, like a fish deprived of oxygen bounced from the water to the shore. It is really a shore, dry, hard, even with the coldness that has not seen the sun all year round.Meili endured the pain and got up, suddenly found that she was standing in a deep corridor, and in the distance, a faint candle light lit up at some point. She actually left that dreamlike world and returned to the tunnel where she was chased and intercepted by snakes and ghosts! But now, the tunnel was empty without a single living thing or sound, which made her suspect that she had just returned from a deep dream to a shallow dream. By the faint candlelight, Meri found that there were several lifelike murals painted on the walls of the corridor, and each figure was life-sized.She moved a few steps closer to the wall, and saw in the center of the first mural an ancient Egyptian girl dressed as a queen, talking to the bald high priest, and behind the queen, there were long strings of maids in white dresses. . Moving lightly, Merry saw a second mural showing the queen offering sacrifices to the gods.Isn't the dog-headed human body of the god exactly Anubis?Strangely, a young man with black hair and black eyes was separating from Anubis, and made a hug gesture towards the queen. As for the third mural, it depicts the young man and the queen walking hand in hand between the sea and the desert.Surrounding them are layers of golden curves, which must be the endless desert roses.And in the young man's hand, there was a bright red thing—a human heart! Merry involuntarily took a step back, clutching her chest. All of this coincided with Meri's experience just now.Could it be that she just traveled to the world of murals? "Meritamon, I gave everything for you..." A deep voice suddenly came from the mural, full of resentment and admiration, and crying, "Now I need you, come back to me..." "No, I'm not Meritamon, I'm not even Meri!" Meili covered her ears and murmured, "My real name...is Lin Aiyuan, yes, I'm just Lin Yuanai!" As if a pair of hands would be stretched out from the mural at any time After capturing her back, Meili took steps to escape without thinking, but her calf touched something soft, causing her to slam against the wall in fright. God, if this is a dream, let her wake up quickly! The orange candlelight was flickering at her feet, and the warmth brought by the fur made Merry gradually feel at ease.She lowered her head under the weak light, only to find that the burning candle was in the mouth of a black dog.It turned out that she was too absorbed in looking at the mural just now, and she didn't realize that the black dog walked to her with a candle. "Is it Ermao? Didn't the big snake treat you for dinner?" Meili bent down and took the candle from the black dog's mouth into her own hand. Heiju barked twice, opened his mouth and tugged at the corner of Meili's skirt, and led her out of the corridor with a whine. "Are you going to take me out? That would be great." Meri looked at the black dog that looked like Anubis, and sighed lowly, "If only you could take me home...not 'Merry ''s home is the home of 'Lin Aimei'... After being frightened for so many days, what I miss most now is the original parents..." She didn't tell lies, but why did the young man in the mural linger in her heart... Is he really the silent Ermao under her feet?Or, was it the iceberg man she had never dared to face? The answer was within reach, but she dared not lift the veil as thin as a cicada's wings.She didn't know what she was afraid of, was she afraid of those eyes so dark that she could see through her, or was she afraid of the unbearable truth hidden under the warmth and determination? Involuntarily, Meri slowed down and opened the distance between him and the black dog.