Chapter 7 Chapter 6 The Ins and Outs of the Mysterious Mummy

My heart moved, and I asked back: "You mean the secret he is looking for, which is the metal piece we found by accident?" Hu Ming nodded. If Deng Shi never found the secret, then he will come again.But I don't want to go on, never seeing you again is just an excuse.In fact, I dare not see Deng Shi again. I am by no means for the faint of heart, and many, many people can attest to this for me without hesitation.However, when I saw a living human head that didn't belong to any body, I couldn't help but vomit when I thought about it, and I never wanted to see it again. Hu Ming asked again: "How is it? Do you think it is possible for him to come again?"

I had to admit: "Of course it is possible, but I... I... want to give up on this matter." Hu Ming looked at me with a strange look: "This is not like you!" I shook my head and said, "No, it's just because of you—" I want to say that he wants to continue because he has never seen Deng Shi's head.However, before my words were finished, the phone rang suddenly. Hu Ming picked up the phone, the expression on his face suddenly became very strange, and he waved to me: "Your phone!" I was even weirder than him, and I asked back, "Mine?"

I have only been in Cairo for one day, and it can be said that no one knows that I am here. Who is calling me?I hurried to the phone and took the receiver from Hu Ming's hand: "Who?" The voice over there was very gloomy: "Wesley?" As soon as I heard the voice, my hand shook suddenly, and the receiver almost fell out of my hand.I had to try my best to calm down before I could answer: "Yes, Mr. Deng." I purposely yelled the word "Mr. Deng" very loudly, so that Hu Ming would know who was calling.Sure enough, Hu Ming's complexion also changed. Deng Shi smiled: "Your voice is not very natural, in fact, we have met here, you should not be so afraid when you heard my voice."

I had no room for rebuttal, so I had to force a dry smile. Deng Shidao: "I want to meet you, you and Professor Hu Ming──." Then I said: "You can come to our place." Deng Shidao: "No, I can't come. I will give you an address. Please come and see me. There are actually many things we can discuss between us. You will definitely accept my invitation, right?" I took a breath: "Okay, where are you?" Deng Shi told me an address, and then said, "I'll be waiting for you." I relayed this address to Hu Ming, and Hu Ming frowned: "This is a very dirty and remote place, how could he live in such a place?"

I don't want to pursue the question of what kind of place Deng Shi lives in. I just want to decide whether I should go or not. I looked at Hu Ming, and Hu Ming said: "What are you waiting for, go immediately!" I said, "Don't you suspect that it's a conspiracy?" Hu Ming was stunned for a while, but he said stubbornly: "Even if it is a conspiracy, I will go, you──" I quickly interrupted his words: "Don't look down on me!" Originally, Hu Ming clearly wanted me not to go, but he was naturally embarrassed to say what I said in front of him.The two of us walked out the door together.

When Hu Ming was driving his car, I sat next to him, and we drove together to the address Deng Shi mentioned. When we got close to the address, we had to get out of the car and walk because the road was too narrow for cars to pass.As Hu Ming said, this is a very dirty place. We walked through several alleys and stopped in front of a dilapidated stone house. That was the address Deng Shi gave us. And when we were looking at the door, a child came up and said in very blunt English: "You guys are here to find Mr. Deng, aren't you?" The child said: "Please follow me."

I couldn't help wondering: "Son, he asked us to come to this address to look for him." But the child still said: "Please follow me." We had no choice but to follow the child. The child led us through many alleys and came to another stone house, which was neater. The child knocked on the door loudly: "Mr. Deng, I brought your guest!" Originally, Hu Ming and I had no doubts about the sudden child. I even regretted why I didn't check the address and followed the child. However, my worries are obviously unnecessary. Because after the child yelled, we immediately heard Deng Shi's voice saying: "Come in, please come in."

The child opened the door and let us walk in. Inside the door was a small courtyard. Deng Shi was pacing back and forth in the courtyard. When he saw us, he nodded to us and gave the child some money to send He let the child go and closed the door again. Then he turned around and said, "Please come in and sit in the room." The room was not very spacious, but it was still tidy. In order to prevent any accidents, Hu Ming and I gave a wink, and we followed in after Deng Shi entered the room by himself. The furnishings in the room are simple, and as soon as we walked in, we saw the mummy head in the square sarcophagus on the table, which was exactly what Deng Shi took from Hu Ming's cellar twice.

As soon as I entered the room, I sneered: "How about it, do you want us to visit the stolen goods?" Deng Shi sighed: "Wesley, can't the hostility be eliminated between us?" Deng Shi's attitude was quite unexpected to me, but it also made me wary. I said coldly, "Hostile? That was established by you. Do you still remember how you warned me in the police station?" Deng Shidao: "That's a thing of the past, isn't it?" I still don't understand what Deng Shian's heart is. It seems that he wants to reconcile with me, but why does he want to reconcile with me?

I can't figure out why, which leads me to believe it's a conspiracy. So, I continued to keep my guard up: "We are here, you want to see us, what is the purpose of seeing us, you can tell me directly." Deng Shi looked at me for a while, and finally said: "Wesley, actually, this matter has nothing to do with you at all. I want to ask Dr. Hu for something, and work with him on a...problem." Deng Shi is a slippery man, he wants to leave me alone, and his words have the intention of provoking the relationship between me and Hu Ming, he is too whimsical, of course I will not be polite to him, I immediately sneered and said: " Mr. Deng, anything in my presence is related to me."

Deng Shi and I looked at each other for a while before he spread his hands: "Okay, let's count it as something related to you!" The more he acted unwilling to argue with me, the more he convinced me that there was an ulterior conspiracy in his heart! Hu Ming didn't speak until then: "What do you want?" Deng Shi walked back and forth for a few steps, then pointed at the mummy and said, "Dr. Hu, you have been studying this mummy for a long time, and of course you have discovered the secret of this mummy, haven't you?" Hu Ming shook his head, and said: "You are wrong, I have no grades, and I haven't discovered any secrets." A look of surprise appeared on Deng Shi's face: "Have you never studied why this mummy was divided into six parts?" "I have researched it, but I can't figure it out. I only have one hypothesis. I assume that this lonely pharaoh had a special ability to separate his own limbs during his lifetime." When Hu Ming spoke up to this point, he paused for a while, and then said, "Same as you!" Deng Shi was shocked suddenly.But he obviously remembered that in our presence, it was no secret, so he immediately recovered. Then Hu Ming said again: "Whether my assumption is in line with the facts, I think you know." Deng Shi sent a high hat over: "Dr. Hu, you can make such a hypothesis, which proves that you are a person with rich imagination and extremely smart, that's why you have such great achievements in science!" I was afraid that Hu Ming would be flustered after hearing this, so I hurriedly said, "Stop talking nonsense, what exactly do you want?" Deng Shidao: "We must start from the beginning. I know more about this mummy than Dr. Hu." Hu Ming is a standard "mummy fan".There are many fans in the world, but there are also "mummy fans". This is really "the world is so big, there are no wonders".As soon as Hu Ming heard Deng Shi say that he knew more about this mummy, he was immediately fascinated, regardless of whether Deng Shi was an enemy or a friend, he couldn't wait to ask: "What do you know?" I know, Under the current situation, if I interrupt Deng Shi's narration, then Hu Ming may turn against me, so I have to wait patiently. Of course, although I am not a mummy fan, I am still interested in listening to the ins and outs of this mysterious mummy. Deng Shi glanced at me, seeing that I had no intention of objecting, and said: "This mummy was a pharaoh with a withdrawn personality before his death. I dare to conclude that he once had an adventure that made him enter a very fantasy world. In the midst of—” I asked, "Hey, are you telling the truth, or are you making up a story?" Hu Ming scolded me mercilessly: "Don't talk too much, listen to Mr. Deng." Deng Shi sighed: "Under such circumstances, a very strange thing happened, he became a person whose limbs can move freely. This kind of thing is still shocking and unbelievable nowadays, let alone Ancient Egypt? So, he had to hide deeply, but he was finally discovered. When he was discovered, his limbs were in a state of dislocation. People thought that the pharaoh had been murdered. He lived in his separated limbs, but the pharaoh spoke, so he was recognized as a demon again, this poor pharaoh, it can be said that he was born into a mummified body." Deng Shi's words were very sensational, so Hu Ming and I were silent after hearing it. After staying for a while, Deng Shi said in a slow voice: "After more than two thousand years, the same strange experience happened to the second unfortunate earthling!" I said in a deep voice, "This person is you, Mr. Deng?" Deng Shi nodded. The room became silent again, and after a long time, Hu Ming said, "What kind of strange encounter is this?" Deng Shi avoided answering, but said: "I only know one person who experienced the same thing as me. This person was a pharaoh in ancient Egypt. Of course he is dead, but I must find him, because I know there are some The secret is in him, and after countless hours of investigation, I realized that the pharaoh's mummy had been found, but it was with Dr. Hu, so I went to find what I was looking for." Hu Ming said: "Is this the mummy head?" Deng Shidao: "No, it should be a piece of paper, a piece of stone, or—" Hu Ming lost his voice: "A piece of metal?" Deng Shi's eyes suddenly lit up. I immediately reached out and pressed Hu Ming's shoulder: "Before Mr. Deng has not read the truth to us at all, we shouldn't say anything more." Deng Shi glared at me, of course he hated me for ruining his plan, if he had dealt with Hu Ming alone, he might have already achieved his goal.He was stunned for a moment: "It turned out to be a piece of metal, there must be a lot of writing on it, isn't it?" Neither Hu Ming nor I responded. But even if we don't respond, he can know he guessed right. He paced back and forth a few steps: "I can exchange this piece of metal at any price, any price." He said "any price" twice, then stopped, but he didn't stop for a long time, and then said loudly: "any price!" His attitude made us feel very interesting, because we saw that we had already held the trump card in our hands, and our trump card was that piece of metal! As long as we have this trump card in hand, Deng Shi will definitely not be able to continue to be hostile to us.Of course, we still don't know what the metal piece is used for at this time, but we can be sure that Deng Shi desperately wants to get it, and must get it!Hu Ming and I looked at each other, and I gave him a wink, indicating that he doesn't need to speak, all the conditions are up to me, and I said: "What is any price?" Deng Shidao: "That's the price you can think of. For example, I have seven tin mines and three rubber plantations in Malaysia, and I can give you all as an exchange price." When I asked this question just now, I originally wanted to test what kind of position that piece of metal occupies in Deng Shi's heart.Now, I have the answer: an extremely important position, otherwise, he would never have exchanged seven tin mines and three rubber plantations for it. I looked at him, but before he could make a sound, he hastily added, "You can also add a tea mountain in Ceylon." I shook my head: "Mr. Deng, all you talk about is material things and monetary costs. I believe that even if you add a diamond mine in South Africa, we won't be moved." Hu Ming nodded his head at the side, and he agreed with my words very much. Deng Shi's eyes widened in astonishment: "Then...then what conditions do you want?" I stood up and paced back and forth a few times: "Mr. Deng, the matter has come to this point, we might as well be open and honest. What we want is nothing else, but all your secrets." He became pale, and an indescribable hatred burst out from his eyes. He looked at me fixedly. In an instant, to be honest, I also felt the hair on end. I took a breath, tried my best to calm down, and said again: "What we mean is that from the first time you had a strange encounter until now, you have to tell us everything, absolutely nothing Conceal the slightest bit, then, we-" I didn't finish my sentence, so I stopped. My sudden silence was not because someone interrupted me.But the more I went down, the more hatred and anger in Deng Shi's eyes became more serious.This made me realize that it would be useless for me to continue, so I stopped. After I shut up, there was a long silence in the room. Hu Ming and I were silent, and the two of us were quite far away, which was our precautionary measure. Because at this time, the expression on Deng Shi's face was extremely terrifying, we were really afraid that his head would suddenly fly up, open his mouth, and bite us! After a while, Deng Shi said slowly: "If you don't accept my conditions now, you will definitely regret it." I immediately replied unceremoniously: "If you don't accept our conditions now, you will regret it. Tell you, in order to avoid the entanglement with you caused by saving the metal piece, we decided to destroy the metal piece immediately, let It no longer exists in the world." Deng Shi screamed like being stabbed by a sharp sword: "No!" I sneered, "Yes." Deng Shi was panting: "You don't have to worry about my property in Southeast Asia. As long as you hire someone to take care of it, you can earn more than six million dollars a year." I still shook my head: "Professor Hu and I are not waiting for money to buy rice for cooking, so you don't have to waste your time!" Deng Shi pressed his hands on the table, leaned forward, and stared at me with a terrifying gaze: "You insist on knowing the secret that a person least wants to know, it's so boring!" I shrugged: "Mr. Deng, you made a mistake. We didn't force you to reveal your privacy, but you came to us to ask us for something, right?" Deng Shi looked at me again. After a while: "As for the transfer of my property in Southeast Asia, as long as I write down the transfer letter, my lawyer in Southeast Asia will handle it." Once again Deng Shi wanted to use a huge amount of money to impress our hearts, and Hu Ming and I stood up at the same time: "In that case, let's go." We deliberately wanted to leave, trying to make Deng Shi anxious, and he was really anxious. But the result of Deng Shi's anxiety was unexpected. We thought he would give in and tell us his secret, but in fact, it was not like that. He shouted: "Don't go!" When the two of us turned around abruptly, we found that there was an extra pistol in Deng Shi's hand.I could tell at a glance that it was a particularly lethal German military pistol. When this gun is fired, it will make a terrible sound, and it will also cause terrible wounds on the target it shoots! I was stunned for a while, and Hu Ming said sharply: "What do you want to do?" Deng Shi's face was very ugly: "You are not willing to help me, I have no choice, I am at a dead end, only you can help me, but you are not willing, then we have to die together." I looked at Deng Shi: "Are you at a dead end? What does this mean? We don't understand. You refuse to tell others about your own experience, but say that others are unwilling to help you. Is this a fair accusation?" Deng Shi said: "Okay, now that I've said it, I've reached a dead end, give me the metal piece!" I reached out and held Hu Ming's arm tightly, and slowly pulled Hu Ming's body behind me, and then I said: "Please tell us why you have reached a dead end." Deng Shi shouted angrily: "I won't say it, I won't say it!" When he was screaming angrily, I threw my right arm backwards, throwing Hu Ming backwards, and fell straight out. My own body also jumped backwards, and Hu Ming fell hard. Knocked down the gate, and he and I fell out of the gate together. Then, the gun went off! The sound of the gunfire made us unable to hear any other sound for a moment. In fact, we didn't listen to any sounds, we just ran forward as hard as we could, then we jumped into a street car and ordered to drive back to Hu Ming's dormitory. As soon as I got home, I said, "Quick, get that metal piece quickly, let's hide first." Hu Ming said: "Where are we going to hide? I can't let go of my job at school, I—" I didn't wait for him to finish, and said: "Stop talking, listen to me!" Hu Ming took the metal piece, and we immediately went back to the urban area and stayed in a hotel. Hu Ming asked for leave from the school. My plan is this: Since Deng Shi has reached a dead end, he will definitely try his best to find us. When he finds us again, his attitude will definitely not be so tough, and he will succumb to us. The next day, we read about the "mysterious gunshots" in the papers.We spent three days without leaving the hotel.During these three days, for the sake of caution, we made all kinds of guesses about what happened to this weird man Deng Shi, but we couldn't figure out anything. On the morning of the fourth day, I was showering in the bathroom when I heard someone knock on the door.Because it was still early, I thought it was the hotel waiter who came to clean up the room, and Hu Ming is also a very smart person, so I didn't take the knock on the door to heart. However, when I finished my shower and came out of the bathroom, I knew something had happened. Hu Ming was not in the room, we slept in a double room, and his bed was extremely messy, as if he had struggled on the bed, and the door was ajar, all of which indicated that an accident had happened! I hurriedly shouted: "Hu Ming! Hu Ming!" As I called out, I put on my bathrobe impatiently and wanted to rush out, but before I could go out, someone knocked on the door, and I hurriedly said, "Come in, the door is open." It was the waiter who opened the door and came in. We were already familiar with each other. I quickly asked, "Where is Mr. Hu? Where did he go?" The waiter said: "We are wondering about this. Mr. Hu seems to be possessed by an evil spirit. He... staggered down the elevator. I wanted to follow, but he pushed me out of the elevator. He...he is... Are you drunk?" I feel the seriousness of the matter even more! I hurriedly asked again: "Is he alone?" The waiter said: "Yes, he is alone, but looking at his appearance, alas, how should I say it?" I started to take off my bathrobe, urging him: "You can say what you think, just say it." The waiter smiled wryly: "If the manager knew what I said, he would definitely condemn me. Although Mr. Hu is alone, but judging from his condition, it looks like he was forced into the elevator by someone." I almost cried out, Deng Shi, that must be Deng Shi!I said, "Have you ever seen a pair of hands threatening Mr. Hu?" The waiter looked at me in a very strange way, in fact, anyone who heard what I said, as long as he was in his right mind, would look at me in that way. I didn't say anything, just looked back. My eyes went to the oil painting hanging on the wall. The oil painting itself is absolutely nothing special, and the reason why I look back at this moment is entirely because of the metal plate that was attached to the back of the picture frame when we stayed in this hotel. The painting has not been moved, because we have marked the four corners of the painting.But now, the corner of the picture frame is still just above the mark. I got dressed as quickly as possible, and then went outside. The waiter hurriedly backed out, and I was so anxious that I didn't have time to wait for the elevator, so I rushed straight down the stairs. When I left the hotel gate, I couldn't help feeling depressed. Hu Ming has been away for a while, where should I go to find him?Cairo is not a small city. It is not easy to find someone without a clue! I crossed the road first and looked around, trying to find Hu Ming, but of course it was in vain.Then, just in case, I went back to the center of the road and asked the policeman who was directing the traffic if he had ever seen a short Chinese coming out of the hotel with a strange attitude. The policeman looked at me impatiently: "No, no, don't you see I'm busy?" I hit him with a nail and retreated helplessly. When I stood on the side of the road, I saw an old woman who looked like a peddler with a bamboo basket walking towards me. Come over, stand in front of me, and look at me. I turned my head away from her, but she asked me, "You're looking for a Chinese named Hu, aren't you?" I was taken aback, and looked at the old woman more carefully. She was really a very ordinary old woman, and she was definitely not someone's disguise. I was very surprised and said: "Yes, you are──" The old woman said: "I know where the Chinese is, I can tell you, but I want a price." I stuffed a rather large bill into her basket, and she glanced at it, and said happily: "That man is really right, he is a good man, but unfortunately his hands are broken." The old lady's nagging was originally the most annoying thing, but at this moment, the old lady's soliloquy surprised me! The "that person" she mentioned was, of course, the person who asked her to come to me and said that she knew the whereabouts of Hu Ming. And that person's hands were broken, I almost immediately thought that that person was Deng Shi, Deng Shi's hands were not broken, but left his body to move around, to take Hu Ming away. I hurriedly said, "Tell me where that person is, hurry up!" The old woman pointed forward, and there was a long and straight avenue in front of her. She said, "Go straight ahead, and you may have a chance to meet him." I asked again, "Where is he?" The old lady said the same sentence, I couldn't ask anything else, so I hurried forward. Because I know that Hu Ming is a scholar, and he is by no means a match for someone like Deng Shi. It is very dangerous for Hu Ming to fall into Deng Shi's hands. I walked forward in a hurry, looking around all the way. Because I never understood what the old woman meant, how could I meet him when I walked forward? I walked about half a mile when I suddenly heard a person shout: "Mr. Wei! Mr. Wei!" The man kept barking. He spoke Chinese. Maybe he didn't know what the word "Mr. Wei" meant. I heard him barking from a long distance away. I hurried over: "You are calling me, but did someone ask you to do this?" The man nodded his head: "Fortunately you showed up, otherwise, I might have made my throat hoarse!"