Plague Doctor

【I know who you are

You are the morning sun, you are also the evening sun

You are the king of gods and the lord of all nations. You rule heaven and earth. Eternity is under your control.

You are the father of all, you are the creator of everything, you were born before light and darkness, you are omnipotent

All living beings pray in your name, swear in your name, and the gods are also calling your name.

But mortals can't call you by your real name. They can only call you "Shub-Nicholas", which cannot express one ten thousandth of your greatness.

No matter night or day, you can hear every cry of people, and you can see the people of all realms.

Trivial matters do not need your judgment, your beloved little ram god arranges everything properly

God of the little ram, give your joy and anger to the world

Mortals cannot recognize the true appearance of the little ram god, and can only identify him as Khnum, Pan, and Faunus.

Dionysus is another incarnation of him. Holiness and madness are the same, joy and pain are the same. He is the highest realm of life.

"The eldest son of the endless black goat, who is reborn after the night, our ruler" is his real name, and the name "Kerma" forced by mortals

Kerma, the little ram god, we give our souls to you!

Please take us aboard the giant ship that travels through the heavens, with our otherworldly bodies, to the kingdom of heaven, and to the presence of the King of Gods. 】

Crazy and strange noises came from the tent camp, and many people seemed to be screaming in panic. Everyone on both sides of the camp suddenly became highly nervous.

Eldin was also surprised and confused, and there was an indescribable turmoil. Could it be that the buyer was taking advantage of the situation?

"Be careful of these people, come with me!" Eldin quickly called to the surrounding men. The situation was already tense. Everyone raised their guns. Eldin couldn't care about the confrontation and rushed forward with a small group of men. Entering the main tent, "Bashir, Ella, what's wrong..."

As soon as he passed the curtain at the entrance of the tent, Eldin stopped and his hair stood on end...

Around him, other subordinates were also stunned, and the hand holding the gun handle suddenly trembled.

In front of the tent, whether it was Bashir, Ella and the guards, or Edwin, Fortner, Smith and the bodyguards they brought, more than a dozen people either fell to the ground or knelt on the ground. .

Fortner was still struggling a little, while Edwin, who looked haggard, held the animal statue in his hands and murmured frantically.

At the back of the tent, the nylon cloth was flipped to one side, and three figures stood there, with a skeleton on each side on the left and right. There seemed to be a strange light in those hollow and rotten eyes, and in the middle was A taller stone figure...is the three mummies.

Eldin was speechless, and he didn't know if he was shaking or what it was...

The figure in the middle was not just a stone or a bone. In a trance, he saw that the face had vivid colors.

He looked like a young man in his twenties, like a man, with delicate facial features but a bit of a feminine charm. Unlike modern Egyptians, whites, blacks, Middle Easterners, and Asians, his skin tone was like bronze. He is a figure in ancient Egyptian murals, handsome and mysterious.

When Eldin wanted to see more clearly, as soon as his eyes touched the eyes on that ancient face, a heartbreaking pain exploded in his body, and he fell to the ground immediately. Now he finally understood why he always felt weird when he participated in the excavation of the stone corpse...

"Ah, ah..." A guard next to him had a cold sweat on his face. In a state of confusion, he pointed his rifle at the resurrected mummies, pulled the trigger and fired.

boom! The sound of gunfire immediately overwhelmed the nerves of the other guards who were still standing. They fired one after another, bang bang bang...

However, everyone who was still looking over there saw an incomprehensible scene. The space there seemed to be distorted. The gunfire only caused slight ripples and then disappeared. The three mummies were still standing there.

"Fool." At this time, the stone mummy in the middle made a sound. The mouth on its face seemed to be moving, but it seemed not to be moving. "Say my name."

The voice was not human at all, it was deep, loud, weird and inexplicable, as if it came from the underworld.

While the guards were still panicking, suddenly, the guard who fired first covered his throat with his hands in pain. His whole body was suspended from the ground, his feet kicked, as if he was being strangled and lifted up. Then other guards hung in the same agony.

Eldin was stunned, overwhelmed by a deep fear, and his unruly feet bent to the ground...

"Fools who offend me, you will have no next life." The stone mummy said, "This will lead to annihilation."

As soon as the strange words fell, there were several loud bangs, and before the guards had time to scream, they all exploded into a pile of flesh and blood, leaving only their skeletons.

Eldin was instantly soaked with blood and flesh, his heart was so painful that he lost consciousness...

Because outside the tent where the gunshots had already been mixed, there were other people walking in, shouting: "What's going on?" "Mr. Smith?"

The corners of the stone man's mouth seemed to be raised, revealing a wanton smile.

Eldin seemed to see the other party raise his hand, and then he heard the terrifying explosion again, ringing from everywhere outside the tent, and then silence fell outside.

"Kerma, the little ram god, Kelma, the little ram god..."

At this time, another voice sounded in the tent, it was Edwin's voice with enthusiasm and fear. like

Devin still held the animal statue in his hands with reverence, and knelt on the ground with his lowered eyes, not daring to look straight ahead, "Rebel of the King of Egypt, rebel of the sun god Amon, the eldest son of the true sun god... …”

The little ram god's eyes turned slightly, as if a little dissatisfied, "Fool, what can you give me?"

The vague aura of murder made everyone in the tent even more afraid to say anything, and Aila, who had been arrogant and domineering before, just shrank on the ground.

Only the crazy Edwin could speak: "Let the world know the true name of the Sun God..."

"I mean, what can you give me?" the little ram god said again, his voice slightly higher than before.

This slight change caused everyone in the tent camp to suffer a sudden heart-wrenching pain, as if the temperature here suddenly rose by dozens of degrees, the sun's fire baked the place, and they were about to turn into a pile of never-resurrected corpses. ash.

"George, I think the little ram god means..." Fortner had to speak out with difficulty, "Sacrifice, we need to offer sacrifices..."

The little ram god glanced at Fortner and said, "You just wanted to stop him from calling me."

"I..." Fortner wanted to excuse himself, but this thought brought about instinctive fear, so he changed his words: "I am afraid of ignorance."

"You didn't lie." The little ram god looked at Edwin again, "What about you?"

Edwin's old, thin face became even more fervent, and what he told was all the truth: "Little Ram God, I am a 57-year-old man. I have loved ancient Egyptian civilization since I was a child - or that ancient era. Civilization, this put me on the path of studying archeology... I longed to be close to those truly great things, gods, power, resurrection, immortality... People think that ancient humans were ignorant, but I think ancient humans understood the nature of all things better. In essence, they were once closer to gods... Your arrival has confirmed my opinion... Little Ram God, I am willing to offer sacrifices and follow your light..."

Fortner recalled that when he was at Cambridge, Edwin liked to delve into mysticism and was always interested in the unsolved mysteries of Egyptian civilization.

However, there are a few people who study ancient civilizations who have never had a love for mysticism...

Fortner's heart also surged with thoughts from his youth, swirling like a whirlpool, giving his heart a long-lost strength.

When people live to be close to sixty, all kinds of passions have long since faded away, and the aging body is slowly losing strength, and this situation will only get worse.

The average life span of the ancient Egyptians was only about 30 years old. They began to have children as soon as they entered the reproductive period at the age of twelve or thirteen. They were already old in their twenties, and they came to the end of their lives at the age of thirty. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians had a great fear of death, a great nostalgia for life, and longed to restore their youth and be resurrected after death.

But how are modern people different? Life is equally short, as if yesterday we were in college and today we have gray hair.

My whole life is shrouded in the shadow of disease and death. No day is truly "healthy", and I am gradually dying every day.

No matter how much I prayed to God, I never got the slightest response.

But now, what is in front of me is God.

"God of the little ram," Fortner really composed his mind and called the name again, thinking of his deceased mother and his little daughter who died in infancy, "I also long to follow you, long to live in a world where the real sun god A new world of blessing.”

Whether it was because of fear, desire, or blind obedience, Paul Smith, Bashir, Ella and a group of bodyguards and guards nearby also hurriedly spoke.

Eldin, who fell in a pile of flesh and blood at the door, also called out the little ram god.

Their previous religious beliefs were crumbling in front of this manifestation of divine power and were not worth mentioning.

"Your will is nothing special." The Little Ram God responded, "This generation is a little different."

While speaking, the little ram god statue saw some space-time scene, "But not now, you haven't offered anything yet, not now."

No one in the tent understood what this meant, not even Edwin or Fortner.

"Not now, not this year." The Little Ram God said again, "The promise I gave to my followers has not changed. After 10,240 seasons of the last change, the stone disease will come. , a new world will rise."

After speaking, the ancient voice faded away, and the mysterious face gradually turned back to the color of stone.

The tent camp calmed down, and with a bang, the two skeleton mummies fell to the ground, but the stone mummy in the middle still stood.

After a while, everyone in the tent dared to speak out, "Just now, what happened..." "Is that true? How..."

Unlike the others who were still at a loss to stand up, Edwin had already put the animal statuette back on the long table and picked up an automatic rifle on the ground.

boom! boom! boom! boom!

The decisive and rapid gunshots, the chaotic shouts of panic and screams all came to an end soon.

The ground of the entire tent camp was stained red with blood, and bodies shot to death were scattered everywhere.

Ella is dead, Bashir is dead, and Eldin is dead. The faces of their tattered heads still show the disbelief and fear of death. The guards they hired are also dead. Paul Smith is dead. , the bodyguards hired by Smith were also dead.

There were only two living people left in the tent, one was Edwin who was standing, and the other was Fortner who hadn't gotten up yet and was sitting on the ground.

"George..." Fortner muttered blankly.

"These people only do bad things." Edwin said hoarsely. It was obviously his first time to kill someone, but he was not as calm as if he had just killed a dozen people. "We can't keep them. Harry, we are the only two who understand here. In this matter, we are the only ones who have become followers of the little ram god.”

Fortner also felt that Ella and his ilk would not succeed, but Paul Smith, an old friend for many years...

"The little ram god didn't look at Paul just now. God looks down on him." Edwin said, "Heri, cheer up, we have a lot of things to do next."

"Yes..." Fortner couldn't help but let out a breath, yes, there are many things.

"The ancient Egyptians and ancient Kushites had three seasons in a year. Ten thousand two hundred and forty seasons is one more season in three thousand four hundred and thirteen years. If the 'last change' refers to the New Kingdom period, The time of Monhotep III, 1391 to 1353 BC.”

Edwin was already thinking, "That is between 2022 and 2060, when the Little Ram God promised to come again."

"I think that's right..." Fortner cheered up and stood up, "George, that's still decades away from now."

It is now August 1982. The reason why people later mentioned this year may be the Falklands War, the World Cup in Spain, the release of "E.T." directed by Spielberg, or the official name of "AIDS". And it is spreading rapidly across all continents around the world.

"At least 40 years." Edwin's voice was hoarse. "Herri, we must live until that time. We must start taking action now."

"Old friend, do you remember when we were in Cambridge, we had a secret society?" Fortner said, "I think it is necessary to start it again."

"Yes, yes..." Edwin nodded, "It's just that this time, we have a direction."

The two of them once again bent down deeply and knelt down to worship the goat-headed pottery statue on the long table and the stone statue behind it.

When the 10,240 seasons are over, when the year finally arrives

May the little ram god Kerma and all his followers be reborn

May they hear the cheers of the world

During the ceremony to welcome the arrival of the little ram god

People will sacrifice all their precious things

Give all the little water left in the water bowl to Kelma

Welcome

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