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Chapter 78 Tree of Life

We stood frozen on the sand dune. A fucking towering tree took root not far away, contrary to common sense.

Arnold exclaimed: "Everything here is oversized! Snakes and trees are all."

How dare you say that? These people just left us to fight Apep and escaped. I was annoyed: "If you had grown barbarically for thousands of years, you could do it too."

But the tree is really amazing. Even though it has died long ago, it is still standing. The branches are scattered in all directions. You have to tilt your head back until it is parallel to the horizon to see the crown of the tree. It takes more than a dozen people to wrap around the trunk. No.

Know what it was like in its heyday.

If you see such a tree in the rainforest, Qinling Mountains and other places, there is nothing new. But here is a big desert, where do you get the nutrients to make it grow so tall?

"I have never seen such a big fig tree." Lou Shiqi circled around the big tree. "This tree has been dead for thousands of years. If it can grow so big, maybe this was not a desert back then?"

I shook my head. At least in human history, this place should have been a desert. It can only be said that the so-called wilderness is indeed a civilization more advanced than ours*. Time and nature are the greatest creators.

Jacqueline looked up at the tall tree and said to herself: "Is it possible that that is not an oasis, but this tree?"

She was talking about the restored small theater of the Omniscient Temple in the Valley of the Kings, where the priest Thutmose III walked. At that time, we saw an oasis and a white temple in the white desert.

"The yellow sand brought me to the hill of Seth, where a tall fig tree stands in the east of the sky. Its branches are lush and the wind makes a sound, and the gods sit on the tree. Just because I am a falcon exploring the sky; just because I am the helmsman.

person..."

Jacqueline murmured a record from the [Pyramid Text].

I looked up and down at the tree in front of me, and then reached out to touch it. If this tree were alive, it could really form an ecosystem of its own, supporting an oasis in the barren wasteland.

"This is not a tree." Lou Shiqi said. After his explanation, we discovered that there were many large or small bulges on the trunk of this tree. Those were the bulges that once grew in this area.

The plants on the land, the sacred tree, absorbed all the life around it and turned it into its own use. Only then did it grow wantonly to what we see today. The plants were also fighting among themselves.

"Do you think this tree is the eye of the formation?" Lou Shiqi pulled his eyes off the dead tree, his eyes shining: "After it dies, no one will find the temple with the treasure hidden in the desert.

Already?"

"Do you think this is our country? Why don't you show me Feng Shui and find the dragon's acupoints?" Even Jiang Can found his idea funny.

"So, is Seth good or bad?" Lou Shiqi fell into doubt. "Why do I feel that he has always been very useful? Wasn't he the one who defeated the snake?"

Is it true that the superstitious things I said to you are true? "After all, myths serve the ruling class, and it is understandable that they have changed over the thousands of years of ancient Egyptian civilization."

Not to mention myths, there are still people questioning the history of World War II recently. It has only been a few decades. In the eyes of some people, the ones who planted the flag in the Berlin Parliament were not the Soviets but the Americans. But Lou Shiqi may have

That's right. The storm and the big snake we just encountered are indeed very similar to the fight between Set and Apep, and maybe there are some metaphors.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, the desert is the realm where the deceased sails at night with the sun god in a boat in the first hour after death. Gods such as Set and Isis help the sun boat move in the desert, defeating all obstacles that block the way.

God of Chaos. And this tree may have led the way for the pharaohs who came to worship.

This ancient tree once provided a resting place for the pharaohs thousands of years ago, and it is unknown how many people have watched it go to the temple that never returned.

Trees live longer and people can walk further. Trees protect humans across regions and time. People from far away come to the tree from unknown places and ask: Who has passed by here in the past? The tree is naturally speechless.

.But the tree spreads its branches and leaves for those who pass by, just as it once provided a resting place for the pharaohs. The pharaohs would not pass by anymore anyway.

In a short period of time, we first encountered a storm and then encountered a giant snake that had lived for thousands of years. It was like a banquet of unlucky men and women in ancient Egypt. This tree must be a bit particular.

"You just said this was a fig tree?"

Lou Shiqi nodded. I asked Jacqueline: "Do you think this might be the tree of life?"

In ancient Egyptian mythology, after Osiris was killed by Set, the goddess Isis buried him. Later, a fig tree grew from the tomb of Osiris, the god of the underworld. People cited it as a miracle and called it the "tree of life."

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Jacqueline pursed her lips, obviously thinking of this possibility. However, this tree of life has been dead for thousands of years.

The camel bells were blown by the wind and made a gentle "ding, ding, ding." This was the only sound besides the sound of breathing and the flow of sand.

Everyone had no choice but to rest around the tree. Compared to the big snake hiding somewhere and the sudden coming and going of storms, this was the only reality in the desert.

He Rongchuan walked over and said in a nonchalant manner: "Tempura only attacked Brother Yuechen after he walked by."

So, Tempura was quite frightened the last time he was held in Li Yuan's arms. Could it be that he is such a pig that doesn't bite dogs? I was waiting to find Li Yuan to verify this conjecture when I suddenly heard a sound

Exclaimed: "He was bitten by a snake!"

Teacher Bai and the ancient Egyptian guide rushed over.

"It's the horned viper." Infernal Affairs stared at the two separate wounds on the man's palm with sharp eyes: "Give me the knife."

After looking at it, Teacher Bai said: "This kind of snake is not fatal. We have brought some serum. As long as you confirm that it is this kind of snake, you should be able to save it."

"The horned viper here is fatal. Cleopatra VIII was bitten to death by this kind of snake. Your serum won't work, and the wound will soon rot." The ancient Egyptian guide slapped the mercenary on the head.

He used a lighter to burn the knife, and cut off half of the injured person's palm with the knife.

The injured person was also a hard-nosed person. He didn't even make a sound. He gritted his teeth and watched as he became a helpless person without anesthesia.

First there was the storm, and then they saw their comrades losing half of their hands. No matter how determined the mercenaries were, they couldn't help but lose their composure. What was even worse was that countless poisonous insects, snakes and scorpions were swarming towards everyone.

Everyone was now very alert to the unusual movements of animals. Meng Weiqing, who had been staring at the surrounding environment, immediately shouted: "Everyone get to the trees! Hurry!"

The trunk of the giant dead fig tree was rough, so it was supposed to be easy to climb, but it was too thick to hold. I jumped up twice before I could get up, so I had to use my boots to climb up little by little along the lines of the bark.

Rub up.

"You have to climb until the end of the year." Li Yuan turned around and grabbed my backpack. I was like clothes being held up by a clothes rack. With his strength, I climbed up the tree with all four limbs on the ground. The bag was just broken.

The unlucky guy who grabbed the palm was also a tough guy, and he even endured the pain and climbed up with a pair and a half hands.

By the time everyone was dispersed and settled on the forks of the thick dead tree, the poisonous substances had already swarmed into a mass under the tree. They did not climb up the tree, but instead cannibalized each other. Those camels that could not climb trees were also in trouble.

Just looking at it from the tree made me want to throw up everything in my stomach.

"What do you think this is?" Li Yuan and I sat side by side on a strong branch. He pointed to the tree trunk in front of him and asked me.

This guy is still interested in looking around.

I moved over cautiously, and when I saw it clearly, I was so surprised that I almost fell off the tree. Li Yuan helped me. I grabbed his arm and reached over to read the inscription on the tree trunk.

That's right, a line of inscriptions written by a holy monk is deeply carved on the tree trunk. If we hadn't been forced to climb up by those insects, we wouldn't have discovered it.

"Are the ancient Egyptians visiting here?" Lou Shiqi was picked up by Jiang Can and thrown on another tree branch.

I frowned.

"It seems like it says 'Abandoned by God' here? No, no. It could also be 'Burial Ground of God'."

The two meanings are completely different.

Jacqueline hugged the tree trunk tightly, wanting to see that Kuyu really couldn't survive. I had to read the ancient Egyptian characters to her. Unexpectedly, Jacqueline reacted even more and couldn't even hug the tree.

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We looked at her in confusion.

"A place forbidden by the gods." Jacqueline said, tears streaming down her face. Words have supreme power for the ancient Egyptians. What is written is a fait accompli. She looked sadly at the scene under the tree:

"Everything is dead now."

"These sons of bitches!" Upon hearing these depressing words, the mercenaries opened their safety guards and shot under the trees.

However, there were so many venomous insects and snakes gathered that the bullets were all swallowed up like hitting a hard and elastic shield.

We have no choice but to stay in the tree for the time being and wait for the chaos below to end. These things will always be exhausted. But good things never come alone, but misfortunes never come alone. The newly overturned sand dunes came towards us. Unexpectedly, we encountered them.

Moving sand dunes in the Sahara Desert. What followed was gurgling quicksand.

The roots of the tree are loose. Those snakes, insects, rats, and ants were digging under the tree just now, otherwise even quicksand should not be able to shake such a big tree.

This is not over yet. Behind the rising dust, a pair of golden eyes loomed. The big snake did not give up. It was not trapped by the wind and sand, and slid over leisurely under the quicksand. Quicksand often appears in underground structures that are not solid.

Is it possible that this desert was dug out by Apep and used as its lair?

Everyone was like a toad being stared at, and they didn't dare to express their anger.

The snake swam around under the tree, licked the camel's body, and then dived into the sand with its huge body.

We all knew it couldn't end so easily. Sure enough, the tree trunk trembled violently. The big snake twisted the tree root under the sand, and its thick snake body clung to the tree trunk tighter and tighter.

"They want to uproot us!"

At the same time, a strong wind suddenly rose. Everyone climbed on the tree, staring at the lightning rolling in the clouds. This tree was the highest in the area. If lightning struck, it would definitely hit this tree first. Count several times.

The stream of light streaked across the sky and exploded around us.

I hunched my neck and waited for a long time. It was strange that the thunder did not strike the tree.

The black snake under the tree was obviously irritated. It roared and unfolded its body against the pressing sky, and you could see the power contained in it. The snake's mouth opened wide like an abyss, as if it was about to swallow the storm.

A thunder exploded from the sky, and everything stopped for a moment.

With a thunderous strike, the snake's body hit the sacred tree heavily.

Try to update daily until next year (°°)

*.Thoreau's "Walden"

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