Absolute Gate

Chapter 72 Ancient Boy

Wu Zhong and Yang Chunsha stood in the temple in broad daylight, feeling a chill run through them.

They have confirmed that the location of the Yak, as indicated by the tortoise shell, is not a tourist...

But there's no one else in these temple ruins.

Clearly, the other party was already here when they were doing the divination in St. Martin's House, or even earlier, and their position had never changed.

"Is Yak not human at all, but a ghost or even a god, residing in this temple?" Yang Chunsha guessed.

Wu Zhong murmured, "That shouldn't be the case. I located an ordinary person. It's possible that there's a secret room right beneath our feet, and this person is hiding inside."

Yang Chunsha blinked: "This is a famous historical site, there's no secret chamber here... unless it's buried inside..."

"How did you perform the divination? Could you have located a dead person?"

Wu finally took out an apple and asked Jordan directly.

As the previous owner of the tortoise shell, Jordan quickly told him, "Tortoise shell divination searches for your target based on all the information you know, and it doesn't matter if the information is described incorrectly."

"For example, when I came to you, I was looking for Wu Dong, the master of gods and demons, but now I know that this information is completely wrong and is a rumor about you."

"But it's okay, Kaguya understands. The so-called God and Demon Master actually refers to you. Whether it's right or wrong doesn't matter, as long as it refers to you."

"Therefore, when performing divination, you can even directly ask the tortoise shell, 'Where is that person?'"

"As long as you have a general idea of ​​the target in your mind, the tortoise shell will be able to identify the person you are asking about."

Wu finally understood; it truly possessed a powerful fuzzy search capability.

Therefore, it can be confirmed that the Ark he identified is actually the one he thought he was referring to—the Ark who has an extremely powerful host in another universe but is currently still an ordinary human.

The term "ordinary person" does not necessarily refer to an ordinary person, but rather to someone from a non-disaster or otherworldly realm.

Before Wu was brought into the circle by Xia Heng, he was no longer an ordinary person, but he was still an amateur.

He then asked, "What if this person doesn't exist or is dead?"

Jordan explained, "If it doesn't exist, it will tell you directly that it doesn't exist on the target Earth."

"If he's dead... True Ancestor, when you did the divination, did you consider that you might be looking for a dead person?"

Wu Zhong thought for a moment and said, "No, there really isn't. I was positioning it entirely as a living person, and I only thought that our universe doesn't have any Ark isotopes at all."

Jordan stated definitively, "Then it won't be a dead person; it will definitely be a living person."

Wu Zhong was shocked; it must be a living person!

Then it's not a corpse, nor is it a ghost or a bound spirit.

"ok, I get it."

Wu finally hung up the call and informed Yang Chunsha of the situation.

Yang Chunsha looked down at her feet, her hair standing on end: "So, Ark was buried in this temple? And... buried alive!"

The news that a living person was right under their feet was astonishing.

Wu Zhong said, "Let's go back first, and come back tonight."

Now that we've confirmed the other party's location is in this temple and hasn't moved, there's no need to rush.

They returned to the car nonchalantly, had the tour leader take them back to the hotel, and then dismissed the tour leader.

And so it went on until nightfall.

The two men prepared two cows and drove back to the vicinity of the temple.

There are night watchmen here, so Wu Zhong and Yang Chunsha parked the car in a secluded spot and walked there in the dark, carrying the ox on their backs.

Wu Zhong was incredibly strong; he could even carry several tons of weight while walking, and he could easily carry two oxen, one in each hand, moving with incredible speed.

Back at the Karnak Temple, the central area was pitch black, and the surroundings were quiet and deserted.

They measured it once outside the temple and then once inside, determining an extremely precise location.

"Right in the center of the hall surrounded by giant pillars, directly beneath the ruins of this obelisk."

"Dig down five meters!"

Yang Chunsha pointed to a spot and said, "At such a close distance, there is no error!"
Wu Zhong said, "Let's dig a hole from the outside and go down. Use your magic."

The two walked out of the Hall of Giant Pillars. Yang Chunsha flipped through the leather book and directly commanded the earth and stones to make way for them.

Before long, we arrived at a spot five meters directly below the obelisk in the center of the hall.

Here, multiple square rocks are closely arranged, forming an extremely thick foundation beneath the temple.

In a narrow space squeezed and encased by layers of rocks, there are two stone lions back to back.

A mummy, thin and short, was squeezed into the gap between the lions back to back!

Even more terrifying is that the temple obelisk is also underground, mirroring the part that is exposed above ground, making the obelisk structure actually a rhombus, half above ground and half underground.

The lower part of this diamond-shaped obelisk, buried in the temple foundation, had its sharp point embedded in the mummy's chest!

"They really buried someone!"

"A mummy? He can still be alive?"

"And yet, the obelisk was used as a weight, impaled on its own body?"

Yang Chunsha swallowed hard. This package was a jinx.

Wu Zhong was also very nervous, as this had probably been buried here since the temple was built.

"When the tour leader introduced the temple during the day, he said how old it was?"

Yang Chunsha took a deep breath and replied, "Construction began four thousand years ago, and it took two thousand years of intermittent work to be fully completed... And this mummy is buried in the foundation, which means it was already there when construction first began..."

"Four thousand years! He's been buried for four thousand years!"

The two looked at each other in bewilderment. This was a person who had been buried alive for four thousand years. He must have some special characteristics. That was a foregone conclusion.

Should we release him? Why was he imprisoned here in the first place? Would releasing him bring trouble upon himself?

"This looks like a seal."

"How about we rebury it and then leave?"

Yang Chunsha felt that there was no need to take the risk.

It had been buried for thousands of years and no one had discovered it. If they hadn't found it by chance using a tortoise shell, it probably would have remained buried forever.

In that case, let's just keep it buried.

However, Wu Zhong thought differently: "No, release him."

"Judging from his appearance, he should be a human, at most a little abnormal. He's been buried alive for four thousand years, do you really want him to stay buried forever?"

Yang Chunsha thought about it and felt horrified, and couldn't bear to do it.

Imagine how desperate you would feel if it were you? It would be torture.

Wu Zhong added, "Since he was able to be planted here by the ancient Egyptians four thousand years ago, it means that even if he was in any danger, it wouldn't be particularly difficult to resolve."

"Moreover, he looked extremely weak, and the so-called seal didn't seem to be anything special; it was just a simple way of embedding him in the foundation."

"Since you can control the soil and rocks, if there's any problem with him, just shove him back in quickly."

Yang Chunsha nodded: "Okay."

She immediately used magic to separate the rock from the side.

Wu Zhongze stepped forward, grabbed the mummy, and pulled it out from under the upside-down obelisk.

No blood flowed out; the mummy was brittle and trembled slightly, shaking off the tattered cloth covering its body.

The rag crumbled like broken charcoal shells, revealing a tiny, filthy, black-covered man.

He looked like a teenager, and was extremely thin, practically skin and bones.

The internal organs in the abdomen were all removed, there was a large hole in the chest, and the limbs were twisted and folded abnormally, the body curled up like a corpse. It was pitch black, probably because it had been covered in blood, but the bloodstains had turned into dark brown charcoal residue, sticking to the surface.

“He’s still alive…” Wu Zhong shook his head. This was too tragic. It would be better to be dead than alive.
A little blood was seeping from the boy's chest where the obelisk had been pulled out.

He wasn't breathing, his heart wasn't beating, and there was a faint movement of something in his eyes.

Apart from that, he couldn't move at all.

Previously, a sharp rock cone had broken off from the top of the inverted obelisk and was embedded in the boy's chest.

Wu finally pulled the horn out, but the boy's chest wound had not healed.

“This doesn’t seem to be some kind of magical seal; he’s just been suppressed here.” Wu Zhong said, noticing the hieroglyphic script on the pyramid. Although he didn’t recognize it, he figured it must contain information about the boy, so he put it in his bag.

Yang Chunsha guessed, "It seems he doesn't have any special abilities; his unusual thing is simply... he can't die?"

Anyone who sees the boy's miserable state would feel pity; it's simply absurd that he's still alive in such a condition.

"How about... you try turning him into a berserker? Let him recover a bit?"

Wu Zhong said, "Okay, let him join my clan. It'll be safe for everyone... But why don't you convert him? Wouldn't it be the same if you came and I came?"

I really can't bring myself to eat Yangchunsha (a type of glutinous rice cake).

She stretched out her arm and pointed to the wound, saying, "Ha, you were so efficient when you sucked me, hundreds of times a day. Now that I'm supposed to save someone else, you're pushing it onto me?"

"Huh? You sucked on me hundreds of times..."

"Okay, okay... I'll do it, you don't need to say anything..." Wu Zhong rolled his eyes, lowered his head and blew on the bleeding spot on his chest to relieve his insomnia.

In an instant, the boy's whole body twitched.

Then came a slow, stretching motion, crackling and popping, as the body and limbs began to exert force, and the wound in the heart slowly began to heal.

However, it was too slow. Even with double the physical strength and double the cell activity, it was not enough to save him from such a terrible injury.

But there was nothing he could do, since there were no other mental patients around to give him the drug.

"Take him back first, and you tidy up this place," Wu Zhong said.

Yang Chunsha immediately used magic to restore the foundation, returning the bottom to its original state, and then retreated along the same path.

But just as they dug out of the ground, the boy suddenly spoke.

“Zawa... Heli... Apoanu…”

He mumbled something unintelligible, his voice hoarse and weak.

But then something amazing happened: his body suddenly stretched out completely, and his broken arm snapped back into place, reaching out to grab the air.

Wu was so frightened that he quickly let go and retreated, causing the boy to fall to the ground.

Then, the boy stood up on his own, his bones healed rapidly, and the large holes in his abdomen and chest closed up.

His dry eyes gradually moistened, and he began to sob, seemingly moved that he had finally escaped his predicament.

"Holy crap, he's fully awake." The two men stepped back in surprise and disbelief.

What kind of ability is this? It forcibly prevents death and even accelerates its own recovery, something it couldn't do before.

Huh? The repair has stalled again.

The boy's recovery process slowed down more and more until it finally stopped.

Just now, only the heart and other internal organs regenerated and the blood became full, restoring the body to a state where it was no longer life-threatening. The body is still dry and weak, and some injuries remain that have not yet been repaired.

"Moncht...Moncht...Bastet..." the boy called out hoarsely, reaching out his hand, but it was unclear what he was saying.

Yang Chunsha said, "We can't communicate because of the language barrier... give him instant coffee!"

Do you have anything left?

"Yes!" Wu Zhong hurriedly rummaged through his backpack and pulled out a packet of instant coffee; Xia Heng had given him more than a dozen packets.

"But it's impossible to have a coffee packet with ancient Egyptian in it. For two packets to communicate, you need two packets with the same language..."

"Oh right, give him something in Mandarin!"

Wu Zhong rummaged through the coffee packets and found that there were some in Mandarin. That was fine; it was his mother tongue, so he didn't need to eat any himself, he could just give some to the other person.

"Quick! The kettle!" Yang Chunsha handed over the kettle.

Wu Zhong quickly brewed the tea and then handed the kettle to the boy.

The boy remained unmoved, refusing to take the kettle. Instead, he looked around as if searching for something useful.

"He probably thinks you're poisoning him, right?" Yang Chunsha complained. The way she poured black powder into the kettle just now looked exactly like 'poisoning him in front of everyone'.

Wu Zhong suddenly shouted, "Yak!"

"Huh?" The boy suddenly looked at him, tilted his head and froze, then mumbled something incoherently.

“You really are called Yak… Drink this, and we’ll be able to communicate.” Wu Zhong shook the kettle, gesturing for him to drink.

The boy licked his lips; he was very thirsty, but still dared not drink.

Wu walked up and forced the coffee down his throat. Under the immense pressure, the other man had no choice but to give up resisting and let the coffee be poured down his throat.

Then, in fluent Mandarin, he said, "This water is so bitter!"

Wu finally released him, his expression strange: "Yak, why were you buried here?"

Yak looked down at his withered body, then back at the completely repaired foundation, scratched his head, and remained silent.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Wu Zhong pressed on, "Can you hear me? Do you remember why you were buried here?"

"Where is this?" Yak asked in a low, shy voice.

"..." Wu and the other two remained silent.

I then asked him a few more questions and found that he knew nothing about the subject and was also quite socially awkward, so I had no choice but to take him upstairs first.

The three of them went up to the ground. Yak looked around blankly. It was pitch black all around. Then he looked up at the sky.

“The moon…” He looked at the moon for a while.

She glanced around and murmured, "Stars..."

There are so few stars.

He looked down and saw the sacrificial animal the two had offered earlier. His eyes lit up, and he licked his chapped lips: "A cow!"

"Tsk, is he trying to identify objects from pictures? He seems like an idiot. He's like someone who's just learning to speak." Yang Chunsha whispered.

Wu Zhong thought for a moment and said, "You were buried alive for four thousand years, and you'll be like this too..."

Yang Chunsha nodded: "So, he has amnesia?"

"Sigh, that's true. Four thousand years. No breath, no internal organs, squeezed into a dark crevice, living a lonely and painful life... The long time was enough to obliterate his memories."

Both of them looked at the boy with pity. He looked young, thin and short, and seemed to be about fifteen or sixteen years old.

I really don't know how he survived, or what kind of torment and despair he endured.

"Well... shall we not notify the client?" Yang Chunsha said in a low voice.

Wu Zhong decisively said, "Of course, this is definitely a humanoid calamity, and if he becomes an Awakener, his host body will be extremely powerful."

"Wouldn't it be foolish to hand over someone like this for two million?"

He decisively abandoned the idea of ​​using this Ark to complete the mission, since they had unintentionally picked up a super-potential ancient youth.

He appeared dull-witted, had memory impairments, and showed no signs of malice or danger.

Since they have already become members of the End Clan, it is natural for them to keep them by their side.

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(End of this chapter)