"Xuan Ce, take this and try a scorpion to see what it tastes like~"
After Fang Er finished speaking, he took out a pair of leather gloves and threw them to Wang Xuan Ce.
Seeing the scorpions falling from the sky like rain, Wang Xuan Ce's face instantly turned conflicted.
To eat, or not to eat, that is the question.
Ge Luo Yang saw that he was unmoved and urged him from the side, "Boss, don't be stunned, try it quickly~"
Wang Xuan Ce saw that Fang Er was watching him, so he had no choice but to run towards the scorpion swarm, grab a scorpion, and quickly retreat.
He pinched the scorpion's tail with one hand to prevent it from stinging him, and used a lighter to burn its body with the other.
The dark scorpion sizzled as it was burned by the flames.
This thing was not big, and it was cooked after only a short time of burning.
Wang Xuan Ce hesitated for another moment. Seeing Fang Er looking at him with encouraging eyes, he gritted his teeth, pulled off the scorpion's tail, and threw it into his mouth.
"Holy crap! The boss is the boss, so fierce~"
As soon as he chewed twice, he heard Ge Luo Yang exclaim in shock from the side.
Fang Er was also stunned. This guy was too fierce! He asked him to try eating a scorpion, but he didn't expect that...
He subconsciously asked, "Didn't your tongue feel anything?"
Wang Xuan Ce: ???
He didn't react for a moment. It wasn't until he saw his left hand that he felt completely terrible.
Damn it, he actually left the scorpion's body in his hand!!
What he was chewing in his mouth was the scorpion's tail!!
Ptooey~!
He quickly spat out everything in his mouth. It was a stroke of great luck that his tongue wasn't stung by the scorpion's tail.
He resentfully threw the rest of the scorpion's body in his hand into his mouth and crushed it with a crunch.
Fang Er and Ge Luo Yang also understood. This guy had simply eaten by mistake.
Well, it was like abandoning the child and wrapping the placenta in a swaddle~
By the time Wang Xuan Ce finished eating the scorpion, the scorpions that had been falling from overhead had already gathered into a swarm again, getting closer and closer to the three of them.
Ge Luo Yang seemed to be ignored by them, and they all went around him.
With a space of over a hundred square meters, the dodging range was extremely limited. In less than three minutes, Fang Er and Wang Xuan Ce were forced into a corner.
Seeing this, Ge Luo Yang, relying on the fact that the scorpions didn't attack him, took off his military uniform from the upper body and blocked them, constantly swatting at the attacking scorpions with his clothes.
After a while, Fang Er again urged Wang Xuan Ce to go out and verify his guess.
Although Wang Xuan Ce didn't quite understand, he still did as he was told.
The strange thing was that when he ran out, the scorpions actually ignored him as well.
This time, Fang Er was greatly relieved. Although he didn't know why, he was now sure that eating a roasted scorpion would allow him to escape the siege of these scorpions.
He asked Ge Luo Yang to roast one and hand it over. He pulled off the tail and put it in his mouth, chewing it casually before swallowing it.
He didn't taste chicken, but it was definitely crispy.
The texture was like eating pumpkin crisp.
When he first ate it, the scorpion swarm was still attacking them madly, but in less than three minutes, the swarm quieted down.
Then, a pitter-patter sound came from the scorpion swarm.
As this sound rang out, the scorpion swarm began to retreat like a tide.
However, there was no way out. The scorpion swarm retreated to a corner and instantly fell silent, as if they had been sleeping there all along.
"Your Grace, what's going on?"
Ge Luo Yang and Wang Xuan Ce pointed at the scorpions by the wall with bewildered expressions and asked.
Fang Er had only guessed that after eating the scorpion, they would not be attacked by the swarm, but he hadn't figured out why.
After racking his brains, he could only ask the system for help.
"Sister System, these things wouldn't have evolved intelligence from being affected by the magnetic field you mentioned while living in the pyramids for years, would they?"
"Do you think this is a fantasy world? Intelligence~ Why don't you say they've become spirits?"
Fang Er was so refuted by this sentence that he didn't know how to answer, but fortunately, the system gave the answer next.
"I scanned this level using your brainwaves just now. It should be that after you ate the scorpions, you exuded a unique scent."
"This scent makes the scorpion swarm instinctively fearful. This is just instinct, what does it have to do with intelligence?"
Although he was endlessly despised by the system, it was fortunate that they no longer had to worry about the scorpions' attacks, and the three of them began to explore this level.
They hadn't had time to look closely before. Now that their minds were relaxed, they indeed found something unusual.
"Your Grace, there seems to be a mural on the wall!"
Wang Xuan Ce shouted, pointing at the wall in front of him.
Hearing this, Fang Er walked over with his flashlight.
The murals on the wall were very faded due to the passage of time, so much so that they were easily overlooked if not looked at carefully.
There were many contents in the murals. Fang Er finished looking at this side and then went to the other three walls to search carefully.
As expected, there were similar murals on the other three walls.
The murals on all four walls, when combined, allowed him to understand the content.
The general content of the murals seemed to be the process of building the pyramids.
In the previously vast desert, a group of people were piloting something similar to a flying machine, lifting equally sized giant stones from afar.
These giant stones were the materials that made up the pyramids.
After the giant stones were transported, a man holding a scepter, floating in the air, hovered beside the flying machine.
As a white light shot out from the end of his scepter, the flying machines stacked the giant stones according to the trajectory of the white light.
Turning to another mural, it was after the pyramids had been built.
People came and went in the tower, and judging by their attire, they should all have been people of status.
These people gathered in groups of three or five, holding something and writing and drawing.
By the third painting, there were many fewer people in the tower. Those who remained, judging by the painting, should have been slaves.
These people surrounded the man holding the scepter, some standing, some kneeling, as if reporting or discussing something.
By the last mural, the people in the tower seemed to have suddenly disappeared.
In the picture, a group of people offered countless gold, silver treasures, and sheepskin scrolls to the man.
Appearing along with the treasures was a large coffin, which seemed to be the golden coffin that Motorola had stolen from here!
Then, in the end, the man with the scepter rested in the golden coffin every day, and came out of the golden coffin during the day to receive guests and handle affairs.
So, do these murals describe the origin of the pyramids?
Based on the events described in these murals, the pyramids were likely the office or administrative department of those people, similar to the various ministries in the Tang Dynasty.
However, why did the man with the scepter rest in the golden coffin?
After thinking for a long time, Fang Er couldn't figure out what was going on.
Since he couldn't figure it out, he decided not to think about it for now and to find the golden coffin after leaving this level.
Perhaps, there were similar murals in other places.
Turning around from the murals, he saw a scene that made Fang Er speechless.
Ge Luo Yang was squatting next to the scorpion swarm, holding a lighter in one hand and roasting a scorpion in the other, eating with great gusto~
And those scorpions, having lost their previous ferocity, kept retreating when they faced Ge Luo Yang.
The scorpions that had been scattered, covering the ground, were now piled densely together, as if they had been poured out of a sack.
"Kid, are you tired of living? Why are you still eating~~"
Fang Er quickly walked over and knocked the scorpion out of his hand. Who knew if eating too much of this thing would have any bad consequences?
However, before he could finish speaking, he found that Ge Luo Yang had changed a bit.
"My lord, why have you turned green!"
Ge Luo Yang was startled by the words. He looked at his left and right hands holding the lighter and said to Fang Er with a wry smile, full of complaint.
"Your Grace, I'm fine, don't scare the little one."
Wang Xuan Ce was also attracted by Fang Er's words. Seeing Ge Luo Yang, he almost burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha, if you want life to go smoothly, you must have a little green on your head~!"
"Old Ge, are you giving a living example?"
After saying that, he took out a small mirror from his pocket and handed it to him.
Ge Luo Yang took the mirror and looked at his face. In the mirror, his originally handsome face was now as green as can be, greener than Old Fang's false teeth!
Not only his face, but also his ears and neck had turned green.
Seeing this change, he looked at Fang Er in terror and begged for help, "Your Grace, save me~~!"
"You know fear now?!" Fang Er glared at him.
When did this damned fellow become so greedy?
He didn't understand detoxification himself, and there were no similar medicines in the warehouse. As the old saying goes, where snakes appear, there must be a cure within seven steps. The only way now was to find the scorpions' nest.
Perhaps, there they could find a way to restore Ge Luo Yang.
When he looked at the murals earlier, he had carefully observed all four walls. Apart from the murals, he hadn't found any hidden mechanisms or doors.
Fang Er looked up. The place where they had jumped down from was no longer dropping scorpions.
"Xuan Ce, go up and take a look!"
"Yes, Your Grace!"
A height of three meters was not an insurmountable obstacle for Wang Xuan Ce.
He took a few steps back, ran forward, and firmly grabbed the ground of the upper level with both hands. With a burst of strength from his arms, he jumped up.
He took out his flashlight from his waist and illuminated the surroundings. There should have been a large number of scorpions here, but now not a single one could be found.
"Your Grace, the scorpions are gone." he shouted down.
Fang Er looked at Ge Luo Yang, "How are you feeling, uncomfortable?"
"Uh, I'm dizzy and my mouth is swollen. Nothing else," Ge Luo Yang replied softly.
"Then let's go up first!" Fang Er pointed upwards.
After saying that, he did the same as Wang Xuan Ce, backing up, running, and jumping, successfully climbing to the upper level.
Ge Luo Yang followed behind and climbed up.
Following the dimly lit passage downwards, they returned to the previous room and finally understood why they had ended up on the top floor of the pyramid.
On the left and right sides of this room, there was a passage each.
They had originally entered from the left, but after the scorpions appeared, they had rushed out from the right passage in a hurry.
Following the passage on the left, they successfully returned to the grand hall where they had entered the pyramid.
The oil lamps on the wall were still burning, and the fragrant scent was even stronger than before.
The golden coffin was in the secret chamber beneath the floor of the hall. Motorola had said that he had blasted the ground open with gunpowder to get down there.
By tapping, they found the location with a cavity underneath and had people outside send in two boxes of grenades.
Tying a thin rope to the pull ring of one of the grenades, they all retreated from the pyramid.
As Wang Xuan Ce pulled the rope, three seconds later, a violent explosion sounded from inside the pyramid, and a blast of air gushed out from the bottom entrance, stirring up the surrounding yellow sand.
"Ptooey, ptooey, ptooey~~"
"Heg-tui~!"
Fang Er spat out the sand in his mouth with a bitter expression. Damn it, he was careless.
"Hahahaha, Old Ge, what's going on with you!"
After the yellow sand subsided, someone noticed Ge Luo Yang's green head.
This guy's face had already started to swell. It didn't look like a head at all.
It clearly looked like a coconut with five facial features!
"Get away, get away, I'm testing poison with my own body!" Ge Luo Yang kicked the person away in embarrassment and anger.
"Alright, stop messing around. Ge Luo Yang will stay outside. Xuan Ce, Zhou Yan Xi, Li Da, the three of you come with me."
Seeing that the pyramid had returned to peace, Fang Er shouted to everyone.
Entering the tower, the previously lit lamps had been blown out by the blast. After relighting them, they saw a large hole in the ground, which was the place where the grenades had just exploded.
They went to the edge of the hole and shone their flashlights down. The bottom was filled with fallen stones from the explosion. Amidst the rubble, a golden coffin came into view, exactly the same as the one in the system's warehouse.
"Your Grace, is this thing pure gold?"
Zhou Yan Xi covered his mouth in surprise.
Such a large coffin, how much gold would it take to forge it?
"Let's go down and take a look."
Fang Er did not answer his question but leaped from the hole.
Ge Luo Yang's coconut-head appearance was still waiting for something to detoxify him. Motorola had said that there was a large scorpion in the golden coffin. Perhaps they could find something to detoxify him in that coffin.
Wang Xuan Ce and Zhou Yan Xi also jumped down. After brushing off the fallen rubble and dust from the coffin, under the illumination of the flashlights, the golden light became even more dazzling.
"Bang~ Bang~"
"~Hiss hiss~"
Sounds came from inside the coffin. Wang Xuan Ce said in surprise, "Your Grace, could this thing inside be a zombie?"
"Oh, my god!"
A cry of surprise came from the side. Fang Er turned his head and saw Zhou Yan Xi jumping up and down, covering his mouth. A clear tooth mark had appeared on a corner of the coffin lid.
Clearly, this guy had taken a bite to see if the golden coffin was real or fake.
"Can you have some decency!"
Fang Er laughed and cursed at Zhou Yan Xi, then ordered.
"Get the grenades ready. When I count one two three, throw them all into the coffin."
The three of them stared blankly at the coffin. It was sealed so tightly, how could they throw them in?