Chapter 6 Chapter Five: The hands that stole the sarcophagus

Those are just a pair of hands, which don't belong to anyone, but I can know that these hands belong to Deng Shi. Not only did I recognize the hands, but I recognized the opal ring without a doubt. Those hands obviously couldn't "hear" the housekeeper's screams, because "they" didn't mean to leave. "They" are just groping forward slowly along the wall. This is a very strange thing, the hands are suspended in the air, how can they not fall, this is what I was most concerned about at the time (people often think of many irrelevant things in their minds in the midst of sudden stimulation) matter of urgency).

Hu Ming was also completely dumbfounded, of course it was the first time he saw a pair of hands that did not belong to anyone. Those hands not only "listen" to the housekeeper's cry, "it" also does not "see" that we are looking at it. They were still moving, advancing slowly in mid-air.And slowly approaching us. I was the first to regain my composure, because it wasn't the first time I had seen such a bizarre situation.The moment I regained my composure, I remembered many legends about great magic that I had heard when I was a child. Chinese magicians who traveled all over the world often performed "cutting pieces" on the street.

It is said that if someone catches a fly by the side, and when the magician cuts off a leg, he pulls off one of the fly's legs, then the magic will be broken, so that the person who has been cut into pieces will never die again. It cannot be undone. Naturally, I have no way to catch a fly immediately, and the fantastic scene we see now is far beyond the scope of magic. What should I do? If I could catch these two hands? When I thought of this idea, my heart couldn't help jumping up. Indeed, if I can grasp these two hands, then what secrets do I have that I cannot detect?I quickly took a step forward, and those hands seemed to know it.How they knew it I cannot see, but they did, because they stood still for a moment.

I was stunned for a moment, and then I rushed forward again. I pressed one hand with all my strength, and I touched that hand. That hand was cold. I can say that I have never touched a cold hand before. I saw such a shocking thing, but I still pressed down hard to hold it down. However, at this moment, the other hand suddenly clenched a fist, and punched me on the chin. This is a powerful punch, and it is another punch that I have never guarded against! My body leaned back involuntarily.My hands, of course, suddenly loosened. Those hands retreated at an unbelievably fast speed, they came out through the window, and when I stabilized my body and ran to the window again, I couldn't see anything.

When I turned around, the housekeeper had stopped calling, and Hu Ming was looking at me with blue lips. I smiled wryly: "Give him away!" Hu Ming's lips trembled for a while before he said: "I...I admire you very much, your courage is so great." I said: "That's not bold. I do know that these hands belong to a person, and they are definitely not ghosts. What's so scary about that, they are just two hands!" Hu Ming's voice sounded like he was moaning: "But those... are such hands!" I said: "We don't need to discuss these here. I think there must be a reason for Deng Shi's hand to appear here. Others may be nearby. Let's go find him."

Hu Ming stopped me: "The houses near here are all dormitories, how can you go in and search for people?" When I heard him say that, I couldn't help standing still.Because even the president of Cairo University cannot search the professor's dormitory arbitrarily. I thought for a while: "I believe that these hands will come again. They must have a purpose when they appear. Maybe the purpose is in the cellar!" I just said this, and there was a loud "bang" in the cellar! The sound was very loud, and it was clearly caused by a very huge object falling to the ground.

Hu Ming and I looked at each other in astonishment, the housekeeper was already running out with no expression on her face, and Hu Ming hurriedly stopped her again.At that moment, there was a second sound from the cellar. The second "bang" was not as loud as the first one, and I shouted: "Hu Ming, ignore the housekeeper, let's go to the cellar!" Hu Ming was stopped by me, but for a moment, he stood in panic, not knowing what to do! I rushed to the cellar immediately, and he followed me when he saw that I had made a move. The cellar door was open, and as soon as I walked in, I saw the source of the two noises.

Of the five sarcophagi on the work table, the lids of two of them have been opened, one with the body and one with the head. The mummy's body was still in the sarcophagus, but the mummy's head was missing. There was no one in the cellar, it was just full of gloom and mystery. In such a gloomy and mysterious atmosphere, the head of a mummy disappeared and disappeared. Hu Ming seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit, and murmured: "No, no!" I turned around, supported his shoulders, and shook his body vigorously: "Yes, yes, the mummy's head is missing, it was stolen by those hands."

Hu Ming looked at me with a wry smile, and I said again: "I told you just now that Deng Shi's hand came to you for a purpose, and now it has been confirmed that he came here to steal the mummy's head." Hu Ming finally came to his senses gradually: "He stole that head, what's the use?" I shook my head and said, "I don't know either, but we once assumed that although Deng Shi and this pharaoh who has become a mummy are thousands of years apart in time, they have something in common." Hu Ming sighed again, and said: "Yes, we assume that their limbs can move separately—this is really a ridiculous assumption!"

I said in a deep voice, "But you have seen it, and I have seen it too!" Hu Ming sat down on the sofa with his head in his hands, and I picked up the two coffin lids that had fallen to the ground. The big coffin lid was not damaged, but the small one fell off a corner. The corner that fell off the second time was connected to the piece that I broke last time.When I picked up the coffin lid, I saw a kind of metallic light shining on the gap. I was stunned for a while, and looked carefully, and it was not wrong at all. It was a kind of black-golden metallic brilliance, which was emitted by a small piece of metal embedded in the stone.

I immediately discovered that the coffin lid was carefully synthesized from two stone pieces, and the metal piece was sandwiched in the middle. The closing movement of the two pieces of stone was done very delicately, if it hadn't been broken through, exposing a corner of the metal piece sandwiched in between, it would never be easy to discover that there is something else in the stone.I quickly raised my head and waved to Hu Ming: "Come and see." Hu Ming stood up and came to my side. When he saw a piece of metal sandwiched in the lid of the sarcophagus, he couldn't help being stunned for a moment. "What's that?" I asked. He said: "Get it out first and then talk about it." We tried to pry open the joined pieces, but were unable to do so, so we had to smash the whole lid with a hammer.Our movements were very careful, and it didn't take long for us to break the upper stone flake, but the metal flake was still clinging to the lower stone flake. We smashed the stone flakes below, and shoveled away the stone fragments stuck to the metal flakes—the two stones were glued together with a surprisingly strong stickiness, so strong What it is, I have no way of knowing. The piece of metal was about one foot square, very thin, and shone with jet-black light. It looked like a black mica sheet, and it was very tough. When you tapped it with your fingers, it made a strange "clang-clang" sound. After the metal sheet was completely taken out, we immediately found that a strange writing was engraved on the downward side of the metal sheet. I saw Hu Ming concentrating on studying the writing on the metal piece, thinking that the secret of the metal piece would be revealed immediately, because Hu Ming is an expert in ancient Egyptian writing, he should be able to recognize the strange writing on the metal piece. However, my estimate was wrong. Five minutes later, Hu Ming raised his head, his face was blank: "Wesley, what kind of text is this?" I never expected him to ask this question, and of course I couldn't answer it. I've never seen such writing before, and I didn't even think it was writing, but thought it was closer to patterns. I shook my head: "Ask you, if it is an ancient Egyptian text, you should recognize it." Hu Ming said: "Of course, if it is an ancient Egyptian writing, I must recognize it, but it is not!" There was another movement in my heart suddenly, and at that moment, I had another very strange thought.It is a secret that there is such a piece of metal in the sarcophagus lid where the mummy's head is placed.If the coffin lid hadn't been accidentally dropped on the ground twice, then this piece of metal might never have been found. And that mummy head is missing, is it somehow related to the metal piece in the coffin lid? For example, assuming that the mummy head was stolen by Deng Shi, would it be possible that Deng Shi knew that there was such a mummy and that there was a secret in the mummy's head, but he didn't know what the secret was, so he stole the mummy with his own hands? head, without heeding the lid? Of course, this series is all "assumptions". However, a series of assumptions also illustrate the real situation, that is, Deng Shi is still the protagonist of the matter! I explained my hypothesis to Hu Ming, and Hu Ming pondered for a moment: "Your assumption is very reasonable, our top priority now is to find Deng Shi, but—" When he got here, he paused and stopped talking. In fact, he doesn't need to say it, I can know what he is going to say, he wants to say: But how do we find him? I said: "If my assumption is correct, Deng Shi wants to get some secret from this mummy. If he fails to get it, he will definitely come again." Hu Ming said in amazement: "His hand?" I nodded and said: "Yes, we are waiting for his hands. After his hands come, we follow them carefully, the hands will always return to the arms, then we can find the location of others!" The housekeeper ran away and never came back, and the house became quieter. Hu Ming and I each occupied a reclining chair, waiting for Deng Shi's hands at the door of the cellar. I came to the conclusion that Deng Shi's hands will come again based on a series of assumptions.If my assumption was incorrect, of course Deng Shi's hands would not have come. Although we were waiting for the result of the "assumption", we were all very serious. I hardly closed my eyes, and so did Hu Ming. It was not until three o'clock in the morning that Hu Ming fell asleep. At that time, I was also extremely sleepy. I wanted to lie down on the chair several times and have a good sleep, but I managed to hold on.I've been on the sidelines around four o'clock in the morning. Deng Shi's hands really came! It was an extremely indescribable sight, a pair of hands, coming.A pair of hands appeared in front of my eyes so suddenly, and when I tried to concentrate to see clearly, the pair of hands pushed open the door and floated inward. I turned over, stood up, came to Hu Ming, pushed him awake, I only said two words: "Come on!" Hu Ming understood immediately, he looked around, of course, he couldn't see anything, I whispered: "I've already gone in." Hu Ming also whispered: "A pair of hands?" I nodded: "Yes, a pair of hands. Hu Ming, these hands are no different from ours except that they can move independently. They can't hear or see, but what happens around them The response to things is very sharp, and we must be very careful when tracking it." When I was speaking, there were several "bang bang" sounds in the cellar, so Hu Ming said anxiously: "Shouldn't we go in and see what it is doing?" I slowly opened the door: "We don't go in, just watch it at the door, and then, when it retreats, we follow behind it to find Deng Shi." Hu Ming obviously had a hard time agreeing with me, because those hands were doing terrible damage in his studio at this time. They overturned several mummies and messed up many things before they stopped working again. Above the five sarcophagi on the table. They groped for the five sarcophagi one by one, and finally, they groped in the empty coffin where the mummy's head was placed, and finally, they picked up the sarcophagus. The sarcophagus was very heavy, and those two hands lifted it, which surprised me, and when those hands lifted the sarcophagus, it floated outward. This is an extremely unexplainable strange phenomenon. A pair of hands, a hand that can move alone, even if it has no weight, the sarcophagus must have weight. How can a pair of hands and a sarcophagus overcome the force of gravity and move forward in the air?This is indeed an incredible thing! They gradually came to the door, and then, those hands came out holding the square, small sarcophagus without a lid. Hu Ming and I followed immediately, and we followed it out of the door. The hands obviously didn't notice that anyone was following it, and because it was holding a heavy sarcophagus, its actions were not as fast as the last few times , we have to track it, not too difficult. Fifteen minutes later, we came to a street, which was already a very lonely place, and it was between four and five in the morning, so naturally there was no one there.However, there was a car parked on the side of the street, and those hands were heading straight for that car. I couldn't help feeling nervous, could Deng Shi be in the car? Hu Ming and I looked at each other, and we both quickened our pace. The hands came to the car, and we all saw that the car was empty, but the window was open, and the hands threw the sarcophagus through the window, and then it went in the window. At this time, we all know that these hands are going to drive the car away!Naturally, we know better that if the car leaves, we will never be able to catch up if we follow it on foot! It's time for us to act! I waved to Hu Ming, and we ran towards the car immediately. When we got to the side of the car, we heard the sound of the car's engine starting, and the car was about to start! I already had a plan, and I was going to open the door as soon as I got to the car, blocking the movement of those two hands, but when I came to the car and pulled the door, the car had already started! Those hands were on the steering wheel, and that's when I saw a pair of feet, and those feet were operating the gas pedal and everything else. One pair of hands, one pair of feet, no body, nothing else, but for a driver, one pair of hands and one pair of feet are enough. The car started suddenly, I held onto the doorknob and ran forward a few steps, if I didn't let go, I was bound to race with the car, how could I outrun the car? However, in the current situation, I refused to let go. Because I finally had the opportunity to follow Deng Shi, if I missed this opportunity, where would I go to find him? The car drove faster and faster, and I couldn't think much about it anymore. I jumped up, put my hand in through the open window at the back of the car, hooked the door, and hung my body in the air.Hu Ming stared at me dumbfounded, and I couldn't see him immediately because the car had already turned a corner.When I saw the car turning the corner, I froze in my heart.I immediately thought that one pair of hands and feet can control the instruments of the car, but it is difficult to avoid the obstacles of the car, because there is no visual organ on the hands and feet, so how can the car turn properly? I quickly turned my head and looked into the car. I had reached out to hook the car window. Of course it was not very stable, but it could also hang on my body.But when I turned my head, my arm loosened involuntarily, and I fell down! I rolled on the ground a few times and hit the wall before I stopped my fall. I fell on the ground and raised my head. The car had already driven far away. Just now, the reason why I suddenly let go of my arms and fell down was not because I had any strength to attack me, but because of the panic I felt when I looked into the car. When I looked into the car, I saw Deng Shi's head! Yes, in the driving seat, besides a pair of hands and a pair of feet, there is another head! To see a pair of hands that belong to no body is startling enough, astonishing enough, but it is far worse than a head that does not belong to any body. Moreover, the ugly skin color of Deng Shi's head I saw was something I had never seen before.It was the color of the dead.But it was a living person, and when I turned my head to look at him, that head turned and looked at me. That look was what made me suddenly fall down. I think I am not a coward, but a human head, which does not belong to any body, with such an ugly complexion, suddenly glances at me, which makes me unbearable. After a while, I stood up. When I stood up, I heard a rush of footsteps approaching, and I was almost sure it was Hu Ming. Sure enough, before I could turn around, Hu Ming turned the corner again and ran towards me. As soon as he got to my side, he hurriedly said: "How? How? Didn't you catch up? Oh, I mean, why did you fall off the car?" I smiled wryly and shook my head, my heart was in such a mess. Hu Ming asked me why I fell off the car. How should I answer this question?I had no choice but to say: "I saw Deng Shi." Hu Ming also knew that things would never be that simple, he also stayed for a moment, and then said: "What did you see about him?" I held his arm: "Let's go back first." Hu Ming and I walked back forward, and after walking about ten steps, I said: "I saw his hands, feet, and... his head." Hu Ming almost seemed to be moaning: "His head?" I said: "Yes, a head, alas, Hu Ming, to be honest, I have seen many horrific things in my life, but there is nothing more terrifying than a living head." .” Hu Ming said repeatedly: "I can think of it, I can think of it." We entered the campus, returned to Hu Ming's home, and sat down on the sofa together, relatively silent. Indeed, in the present situation, what can we say?Both of us were tightly suppressed by an extremely terrifying and mysterious atmosphere, and we could barely breathe! We just sat like this until dawn. When the dawn came into the room, we still didn’t want to move. The light in the room became brighter and brighter. It wasn’t until dawn that we seemed to be a little more relaxed. I sighed. Tone: "I think we should give up on this matter." Hu Ming shook his head and said: "No, you can give up, I will continue, an ancient mummy was buried in six parts, and there is a living person with such separation, how can I not continue?" I lingered for a moment: "Of course, I also hope that I can continue to pursue it, but I believe that we will never see Deng Shi again." Hu Ming asked strangely, "Why?" I said: "When I saw his head, that head also turned around and looked at me." Hu Ming fell silent, his body shook for a while, and then he said: "Wei, you assume that he wants to find a secret from me, if he still hasn't found this secret, do you think he will come again? "