Chapter 26 Chapter 26 The Fifth Name

Merry felt like she was flying, and kept flying. At first she thought she had grown wings like the birdman in the newspaper, but when she looked down, her arms had turned into wings—more precisely, her whole body except her head had turned into wings. Bird, the whole person turned into a monster with a human head and a bird body! But even though he was a monster, Meili was calm about this shape in his heart, and never made a fuss at all.The only thing she cares about now is whether she can fly fast enough and far enough. At first, she flew in the endless desert, and she could not see other colors except the misty yellow sand; later, the desert gradually turned into the sea, and the blue sea water shone like flowing agate under her body; and later, It is the verdant grassland, the vast forest, the snowy peaks reflected by the sun like gold... She kept flying, and there was only one voice in her mind: "Run away, the farther the better..."

"You just ran away, don't you care about the consequences?" A voice suddenly sounded from the ground below him. What consequences?Merry shivered violently, but flapped her wings more and more—it doesn't matter, no matter how much chaos she wants to cause, she will escape from their territory! She will never become her father's wife again, become the most magnificent but most useless decoration in the deep palace, and live that lonely and desperate life in the elegant house without end, forever! Such eternal life is more terrifying than any consequences! "Why do you have such a selfish soul?" The voice rang again, and a piece of yellow sand gradually filled in front of her eyes, blocking her sight, "You escaped, but someone will take responsibility for your crimes, you really Can you feel at ease?"

"Who are you?" Meili felt that this voice was very familiar for no reason, and it was like Teacher Li Ping in a trance.She rushed left and right in the chaotic yellow sand, but she still couldn't get rid of this snare that followed like a shadow. "Who am I?" The voice answered proudly, "I am the king of desert and chaos. Whenever the sun god pulls a ship below the horizon, all he travels in the dark is my territory, so I am also Called the Lord of Darkness. But most importantly—" His voice gradually became difficult, "I am his father..." "He..." Mei Li's heart seemed to be caught by something, but she tried her best to pretend to be calm, "Who is he?"

"He is a fool, or a lunatic who has been dazzled by vain love and belief." The voice sneered, "Go and see what he has suffered for you!" Before he could finish speaking, the dust that was just pervading around him suddenly rolled up a huge vortex, immediately engulfing Meili deeply.At this moment, the wings on her body were no longer able to play any role, and Meili couldn't help being swept back by the raging storm! Snow peaks, forests, grasslands, the sea... The blurry background gradually moved away, and the scorching air waves hit, and the endless desert below him once again returned.Merry finds in despair that she has been brought back by the power of the Dark Lord to the point of escape - the kingdom of the gods surrounded by deserts and nourished by the Nile.

The dust dissipated and she landed on the desert.Looking at the blue sea in the distance; Meili vaguely remembered that someone had brought her to this place.At that time, the place was covered with strange and magnificent desert roses, and the wind passed through their gaps, making a sound of nature that could not be surpassed by any musical instrument. It was a magical dream that was incomparable to any scenery in the world. But now, there is nothing around her except dry and loose sand!As if overnight, those desert roses were all cracked into dust, lifted up by the merciless hot wind, blown away, and mixed into the sand grains that could no longer distinguish each other, and the voice and singing that once touched the heartstrings , and can no longer be found!

"Where is he?" Unreasonable fear gradually rose from his heart, Meri raised his head and shouted towards the vast desert, "Didn't you bring me back just to let me see him?" No one answered, but there was a faint singing voice from the end of the desert: This song is so familiar that Meri involuntarily stepped on the soft yellow sand and moved towards the direction of the song. The singing continued, but it was not as clear and mellow as before, as if the singer had been trapped in the desert for several days, his voice was already hoarse and dry, but he still sang this song unremittingly, as if—this is his Dirge for a funeral...

What happened to him... Remembering what the Dark Lord had said to him earlier, Merry ran forward with all his might.It wasn't until she fell on the sand dunes that it was difficult to rely on that she suddenly remembered that she now has wings. I remember that the "An Overview of Ancient Egypt" that I borrowed from the library said that the soul BA described in the ancient Egyptian religion was originally in the shape of a human head and a bird body, and could fly freely without the shackles of the corpse. So, is she dead now? Yes, she is dead.It was that man who dug out her heart with his own hands in the cool pool.

Meili flapped her wings vigorously and flew towards the end of the desert, but no matter how fast she flew, the singing voice was always as faint as a light smoke, as if it was just an illusion in her mind. She finally flew to the end of the desert.Or rather, just a river across the desert, a river as blue as the sky. Along the river, there are dense reeds, and the flourishing reeds are in full bloom, as if a layer of fine snow has been laid in this hot country.And in this endless field of reeds, there are countless majestic temples scattered in an orderly manner. They seem to be made of gold, shining like gold, and the exquisite alabaster sculptures are inlaid with colorful gems.

Here is the place where the gods live - Yalu. The low-pitched singing voice guided her like an invisible hand, and Merry flapped her wings and flew into the most magnificent temple. Inside the main hall are countless huge stone pillars towering like clouds, and each pillar requires ten adults to hug it together.Tall statues of gods were carved on the pillars, and they hovered freely on the pillars like living creatures, whispering.They didn't notice Merry as he flew past. Finally, she stopped in front of a stone pillar. It was originally a stone pillar similar to other pillars, but the strange thing is that it is empty without any reliefs, or in other words, the original carved gods have been chiseled clean, leaving only a series of bumps on the stone pillar Uneven chisel marks.

That faint singing sound came from the bottom of this stone pillar. The soul is an invisible and insubstantial existence, and Merry plunged into the stone pillar. At the bottom of the stone pillar is a dark hole, as narrow as an erected sewer pipe, without a ray of light to penetrate.However, at the bottom of the cave is a lake of flame-like water, surging and boiling, exuding heartbreaking red light and heat. A man was hung from the cave wall by iron chains, and submerged in the magma-like lake of fire from the waist down.He lowered his head and couldn't see his face clearly, but the intermittent singing voice still spit out slowly from his chapped lips: "The rush of meteors, the brightness of dewdrops... I don't want thousands of years of eternal disguise, I just want one day Fresh blooms..."

"Is that you?" Merry asked boldly. The weak singing stopped, and the man raised his head with difficulty, and there was no expression on his frail face. Mei Li felt that his eyes reflecting the flames did not see her.His gaze drifted somewhere through the stone wall in front of him. The stone pillar above the head suddenly and slowly moved away, and the sudden influx of golden light poured on them like a flood, causing Meili to involuntarily retract into the side wall of the cave.But the man just lowered his eyes slowly, even the original light of hope was lost. "Tell me, where did you hide Meritamon's heart?" A figure condescendingly cast an oppressive black shadow, and the shadow clearly showed the shape of a falcon's body on the cave wall. The man didn't answer, he didn't even lift his eyelids. "Are you still refusing to say it?" That voice was obviously used to this kind of response, and sneered, "It's really great, who would have thought that a noble god would bring himself to this point for an insignificant woman? What a pity , she will soon be someone else in a far away country who won't know or care about what you've done and never even heard your name. Don't you know she's been using you huh? You idiot!" "Go and rest, Horus." The man finally said lightly, "Your words are nothing new." "It's nothing new, and my lightning whip is nothing new." The voice above gradually revealed anger, "But it can still teach you a little lesson every time." Before the words were finished, streaks of bright lightning flashed down from the top of the cave, and landed on the man mercilessly.For a moment, Meili's eyes were blindingly bright, and only the iron chains nailed to the wall made rapid clashing sounds, and the horrible smell of burnt flesh filled his nose. "Just be stubborn, I don't believe that with the power of the God Realm, you won't be able to find out where you hid the princess' heart." Amidst the crackling lightning, the voice from the top of the cave sneered, "When the time comes, you You'll know how overwhelmed you are." The huge stone pillars moved back again, blocking all the light from the top of the cave, and the place returned to a dead purgatory without a ray of life.Merry crept out of hiding, and she heard the chained prisoner murmur: "It's impossible for you to find her heart..." He suddenly smiled very lightly, "Because, my heart is with hers." What does it mean?Did he hide it in his own body after digging out his heart last time?Meili watched the man's head drooping limply again, and suddenly had a bold idea—she flew into his chest. But she was soon stunned by what she found, the man's chest was empty! Even though the wound on his chest was perfectly covered with spells, the pervasive soul still discovered the biggest secret of this imprisoned god, his heart had been taken out! Who did it? "In the religion of ancient Egypt, after death, the soul will be split into two parts, half of which will be transformed into a free body with a human head and a bird body, called BA; the other half will remain in the heart and cannot leave, called KA. BA and KA are reunited When the time comes, Anka is formed, which represents the perfection and eternal life of the soul." Teacher Li Ping's familiar voice suddenly sounded in his ears, "So in order to let you escape from the road to eternal life, he secretly hid your heart, Let the other half of your soul fly free. To ensure that hidden place is not discovered, he dug out his own heart and set up the strictest barrier, so that no god can find it again." "Now, you understand why even if Pei Sidu's key of life pierces his heart, it can't play the role of confinement. Because his chest is empty, he has already dedicated his heart to you as a guardian. Such a sacrifice , What are you going to use to repay it?" Teacher Li Ping's voice suddenly amplified. "I just hope that he can be freed from this endless torture." Mei Li shook his head in pain, "But I can't do anything, I can't do anything!" "No, you can do it." Teacher Li Ping firmly encouraged, "As long as you are willing to help me, we can rescue him completely! Come on, wake up, let us deal with the enemy together!" Meili opened her eyes, and she found that tears were streaming down her face at some point. At this moment, she had left the steep steps leading to the underground secret room, and was lying on a soft couch covered with thick velvet cushions.The beating candlelight threw into her fluttering eyelashes, making her wake up in an instant. "Where's An Yu, how is he?" Mei Li turned over and sat up all of a sudden, shouting in panic. "Don't worry, I'll take you to see him." Li Ping agreed from the side, and thoughtfully stretched out his hand to help Meili to the ground. Obviously, they have returned to the Dark Lord's Palace underground in Lin City.An Yu was lying on the soft couch in another stone room, her eyes closed tightly, motionless.The wound on his neck from the lightning whip no longer oozes blood, but the flesh and blood are still curled up rather hideously. "Pei Sidu has always been narrow-minded and must take revenge. My son broke the lightning whip that he has always been proud of, so he wants to retaliate twice." Li Ping sighed softly. He wakes up..." "Mr. Li, are you injured too?" Although she knew Li Ping's real identity, Meili still used the old name habitually. Only now did she notice that Li Ping had a bloody bandage wrapped around his chest, and his voice was quite weak. "I also saw my son injured, and I was distracted for a while, so I fell into Pei Sidu's plot." Li Ping staggered to An Yu's side, and reached out to caress his injured neck with concern, letting the terrible wound Slowly heals at a speed visible to the naked eye. However, reluctantly using the healing technique at this time will undoubtedly make his own injury worse. Not long after, Li Ping fell down on the soft couch, panting and coughing, and Meili was so panicked that he supported him: "Or, I will carry it on my back again." An Yu, go for a run in the subway?" "It can't be done." Li Ping shook his head weakly, "Now that Pei Sidu knows that An Yu and I have been seriously injured, he will definitely find a way to invade the subway tunnel and cut off the Anka Dance route. As an elder, I can't let you take risks .” "Then what should we do?" The blood gushing from An Yu's body before had dried up on Meili's shoulders, as if a thorn was pricking her heart, "Are we just letting An Yu go?" "Since Pei Sidu has already murdered you, you can only be safe by hiding in my underground palace." Li Ping said helplessly, "As for An Yu, it depends on whether he can survive..." "Perhaps Mr. Pei is just scaring us, not really trying to kill me and An Yu?" Mei Li tried to seize the last ray of hope, "After all, we don't have any deep hatred with him. Even if he turned into a black eagle to catch me, probably I just want to save face... Big deal, let's surrender, according to the usual practice, those who surrender their guns will not be killed..." "It's not the first time he's going to kill you." Seeing that Meili was still harboring fantasies, Li Ping smiled lightly, "Think about what the landlord of your rental house did, and where did those scorpions come from?" "Ah!" Meili only remembered this incident at this moment. If Teacher Li Ping hadn't rescued Ermao last time, Er Mao would have been beaten to death by someone hired by the landlord. "Could it be that the landlord and Pei Sidu are on the same team?" "Who do you think is the owner of the house that Isis introduced to you?" Li Ping closed his eyes and said nothing more. It turned out that from the very beginning, I was under the control of Mrs. Yin's mother and son!Meili's original gratitude and expectations for Mrs. Yin and Pei Sidu all dissipated with a "bang", no wonder she refused Pei Sidu in the first place, and the landlord attacked her and Ermao in the second.For the Isis mother and son, is it necessary to eliminate physically as long as they disobey? "Pei Sidu has a vain and arrogant personality. He has always used all means to win. He even killed his own mother to vent his anger when he failed." Li Ping walked to the corner of the stone room, took out a roll of papyrus and unfolded it in front of Meili. "Look for yourself. Another example of his character." By the golden candlelight, Merry saw that Horus with a falcon-headed body and Seth with a beast-headed body were painted on the old paper scroll that seemed to be broken if touched, and they stepped into two ships moored at the In a boat by the river. "At that time, in order to compete for the throne, we agreed to build a stone boat each, and see who could sail it to the destination first with mana." Seeing Meili's eyes slowly moving along the old files, Li Ping explained with a sneer , "I have always kept my promise, so naturally I honestly built a heavy stone boat. But he built a wooden boat and then faked it to look like a stone boat. In this way, the result of the competition was not good. You can tell, but he has no shame to use this as an excuse to ask me to give up the throne to him..." "I'm sorry, I don't want to get involved in your battle for the throne..." Meri looked away from the papyrus scroll, and said cautiously but firmly, "Besides, you killed his father after all..." "I never deny that I killed that villain!" Li Ping grabbed the scroll, and the fragile papyrus fell off his hands like autumn leaves, "But do you know what he did to me first?" "You said he took away your one and only." Meili was a little guilty and could only answer timidly based on the 4D movie she had seen before seeing the always gentle teacher Li Ping lose his temper. "That's right." Li Ping let go of his hand and watched the papyrus powder in his palm fall on the ground, "Because he is the eldest brother, all good things belong to him—the throne of the gods and the world, the respect of the gods, the mortals I have never thought of competing with him. The only thing I have is my favorite wife, Nephthys. But I never expected that the villain was so greedy that he would not let her go. However, he even raped her while I was away... Pei Sidu refused to let me go because of his hatred of killing his father, so shouldn't my hatred of taking his wife take revenge? If there is no such reason, all the ancestors headed by God Ra would not let me go. How can you be neutral in our fight?" It turns out that this matter is quite complicated... Meili knew that the relationship between the family was completely messed up, and she was powerless and unwilling to make a judgment. Waking up next to An Yu, he reached out to stroke the hair scattered on his forehead: "Now I just want to know how to save him." "It's only a matter of time before he wakes up. The hard part is how to overturn the sentence imposed on him by the King of the God Realm." Li Ping also came over and looked worriedly at his son who was still frowning and pursing his lips while sleeping, "You already know What kind of torture he has experienced in the past three thousand years, and I have worked so hard to temporarily rescue him. But this punishment will never end. Once he falls into the hands of the enemy, he will still be locked back in the dungeon at the bottom of the pillar , to endure endless torture... Can you bear such a result?" "Can't this punishment be abolished?" Meri thought of the horrific lake of fire and lightning in the illusion, and his breathing became a little short. "It's been more than three thousand years. If torture was useful, he would have told Meritamon's heart a long time ago." In Lali..." "That was the will of Horus, the king of the God Realm. With his arrogance, he would not change it even if he knew it was wrong. Besides, my son has indeed violated the laws of the God Realm. To save him, unless the following One of the two conditions can be met—" Looking at Meri's eyes suddenly lit up, Li Ping said slowly, "One is that you can restore all your memories, and take the initiative to give Meri Tamon's heart to him..." "Hasn't my memory fully recovered?" Meili frowned in surprise.She didn't know what else she didn't remember, but now she really didn't know where An Yu hid her heart from her previous life.What's more... even if she really found that place, would she be willing to hand it over?Doesn't that mean that his deliberate escape and An Yu's three thousand years of torture have become futile jokes? "Is there an alternative?" Merry asked. "Second is——" Liping paused, staring at Meri expectantly, "guess Horus' secret name, imprison his power, and let him fall into our hands..." "No!" Meri took a step back, instinctively refusing.This request was not much different from what Pei Sidu asked her back then.She was unwilling to obey Pei Sidu and frame Li Ping, and she was also unwilling to become a pawn in Li Ping's hands at this moment! "I know my methods are not above board, but I don't want to be as foolish as I used to be honest with villains." Li Ping smiled bitterly, and suddenly lifted the thin blanket covering An Yu's body, revealing He touched his naked upper body, "Look at the scars on my son's body, which one was not tortured by Horus? By the way, look at his chest again, do you know what is hidden and gleaming inside? " "What is it?" Although Meili had always been curious about the sudden light in An Yu's heart, she became inexplicably flustered when asked by Li Ping. "It's your memory." Li Ping stared at Meili, feeling a little disappointed, "In order to fulfill your wish, he went back to your former room to collect those memory fragments. It was to keep them that he couldn't Resisting Pei Sidu's attack, so that he is now seriously injured! He has done so much for you, can't you give up a little bit of your principles to save him?" "Really, is it my lost memory?" Meili looked at the faint light in An Yu's chest, and suddenly remembered the moment she pushed open the bedroom door, the weary look he had when he suddenly opened his eyes, and the look when Pei Sidu attacked him. The hands that were tightly guarding her chest..."Yes, I owe him a lot..." She hugged her arms in pain, and slid down against the wall. "Don't be sad, as long as you get rid of Horus, no one can hurt him again." Li Ping's hand rested firmly on Meili's trembling shoulders, seeming to comfort and encourage. Meri nodded, and said his bottom line carefully: "Then make Horus swear, let An Yu go completely in the future, and never hurt us again." "This is very good." Li Ping agreed very simply, "But although you can gain a certain amount of power by guessing the name, this power can only affect temporary behavior and cannot change the will of others. Besides, you are a mortal after all. The power is not strong, and you can't even predict when it will work. So I suggest..." He pressed the wound on his chest, panting and coughing, "When he loses his mana, let's force him to swear together." "Okay." Meri stood up, clenched his fists to calm down his chaotic emotions, feeling that he couldn't find any other better way.As for the secret name of Horus, from his background, aura, and standpoint, even if there is no further hint, the answer is obvious. Finally, she uttered the inference that she had been expecting all along: "The secret name of Horus is Pei Sidu." She looked at Li Ping, who was seriously injured and panting, and then at An Yu, who was unconscious, and continued word by word. "I want him to lose all his mana within twenty-four hours!" "Congratulations, you have finally achieved your goal." In the hidden secret room of the underground palace, the scorpion goddess Sekit in the image of a glamorous girl leaned on the couch, smiling lazily. "The word 'finally' is too early." Li Ping tore off the bandage wrapped around his chest and threw it aside, picked up the golden cup on the stone table and took a sip. "The acting skills are really good, even I have to believe that you are a good father." Seket slapped his hands and laughed flamboyantly, "Using your hapless son as bait, no wonder that girl has to be obedient even if she knows your identity Listen to you." "It's not that simple, don't forget that she still has the power to make wishes to me." With the nourishment of the wine, Li Ping's hoarse voice recovered, full of the threat of the king of darkness again, "So you get carried away next When you are in trouble, remember not to dismantle my platform in front of Meili!" "I'm too lazy to see her, you just lock her up underground." Sekit raised his eyebrows suddenly, "By the way, are you really going to let your good son return the memories of the past to Meri?" "Then it depends on whether he has the ability." Li Ping narrowed his eyes, "After all, this is not an easy task." "It's okay, I'll help you solve it when the time comes." Seket smiled generously, "Now you have to watch him, don't let him come out halfway to make trouble!" "My spell is keeping him asleep." Li Ping said flatly, "Anyway, you can fulfill your wish for thousands of years tomorrow, and the rest is my business." "Yeah, I just need to deal with one more person..." Before she finished speaking, the woman who was lazily sitting on the recliner like a cat suddenly jumped up, pulled out a person from behind the door, and slapped him across the face without even thinking about it. Going over, "How dare you eavesdrop on us!" "Goddess, calm down, Goddess, calm down! I'm just patrolling here at the command of the lord." The ghost turned around 180 degrees, and then successfully covered the face that was hurt, "I'm sorry for the lord and The goddess has always been loyal, and it was I who acted with the lord before, so the princess believed that the black eagle that attacked her in the bathroom was Horus..." "Don't take credit, just get lost." Li Ping interrupted the ghost's nagging impatiently, "Go and see the princess, and report to me immediately if she has any changes." "Yes, my lord!" Gui Mo IC put down his hand covering his face, twisted his body back into the original shape, bowed respectfully and stepped back. "Great work is about to be done, it's always good to be careful, I don't want to lose a piece of my work." Sensing that the King of Darkness was dissatisfied with her attitude, the Scorpion Goddess took another golden cup and drank it down indifferently. "I'm leaving, don't you have anything to say to Horus? Maybe you'll never see him again——I don't believe you don't miss his smell..." Before she finished speaking, she had already said Laugh out loud. "I hope his appearance still pleases you." Li Ping replied coldly. "It doesn't matter, I will accept him whatever he looks like." Seket giggled, and his sharp nails picked up a strand of long hair hanging on his chest, "Things that are too perfect are often unreal. This sentence, I I learned it from your good student Meri."