Chapter 287 The Tomb of Himiko
In the dim environment, only a ray of sunlight shined through a gap in the ceiling and onto a tall stone sculpture.
It was a kind-faced female Buddha statue, with her hands folded and sitting cross-legged on the ground. On both sides of her, stood two slightly smaller warrior statues holding spears.
The statue's clothing is almost exactly the same as the Storm Warrior they saw just now!
Such a combination made Laura exclaim:
"The Sun Queen and her Storm Warriors!"
Immediately afterwards, an ancient sarcophagus located in the center of the cave immediately attracted their attention.
Walking to the sarcophagus, Laura wiped away the heavy dust on the sarcophagus, looked at the carvings and ancient characters on the sarcophagus, and sighed:
"Himihu...the first Sun Queen...this is really the Kingdom of Yamatai!"
After getting excited, Laura put her hands on the coffin lid and pushed it forward without saying a word.
"Wait a moment!"
Lu Qi didn't have time to stop her, so he could only watch helplessly as Laura pushed open the lid of the sarcophagus and opened a gap in the sarcophagus.
The next second, there was not a rotten hand pulled out of the sarcophagus, nor was there a large amount of poisonous gas or a mechanism being triggered. Instead, there was only Laura who was choked by the dust that had been sealed in the sarcophagus for a long time.
"Cough cough cough..."
Looking at the silly and bold Laura who was coughing, Lu Qi twitched the corner of his mouth and said helplessly:
"Laura, you should be lucky that what comes out is only dust and not poisonous gas..."
After hearing this, Laura reacted and realized that she was a little reckless. She couldn't help but reached out and brushed the bangs on her forehead, and said embarrassedly:
"Sorry, I got too excited all of a sudden, so..."
"Don't do this next time. There's no guarantee that the person who built the coffin would have tampered with it just to prevent someone from opening it..."
Nodding, Laura seemed to have thought of something, looked at Lu Qi curiously, and said:
"You seem to be quite experienced in this area..."
Hearing this, Lu Qi just shrugged and responded casually: "Maybe I, like you, have a talent for archeology..."
Laura nodded in agreement and agreed:
"Maybe so..."
...
With Lu Qi's help, the two of them pushed the heavy coffin lid halfway open, revealing the scene inside the coffin.
Inside the sarcophagus, he saw a rotting skeleton wearing a red robe and a crown.
Judging from the petite frame, this is a woman. The crown and robe seem to tell the identity of the woman, which is unusual.
Obviously, in the Yamatai Kingdom, among the women who can wear a crown, have a high status, and have a separate tomb after death, who else can be other than Sun Queen Himihu?!
It wasn't until this moment that the two of them realized that they had accidentally bumped into each other and ended up at Himihu's final resting place!
"Himihu! She is really here! And...she is really dead..."
Compared with Laura's surprise, Lu Qi seemed relatively calm.
Especially when he saw a female corpse that looked like Himihu lying in the sarcophagus, in his heart, besides calmness, he felt only a little relieved.
Because he knew after passing the game that Himihu did not die or be buried, but stayed in the coronation chamber with a half-dead body, guarded by the storm warriors.
So who is this strange woman lying in the tomb that should belong to Himihu?
As long as we recall the history of the Sun Queen resurrecting her corpse, the answer will be readily apparent!
The woman lying in the sarcophagus and buried as a queen must be the priestess who discovered Himihu's secret hundreds of years ago, sabotaged the last coronation, and ultimately committed suicide!
Himiko was unable to make the truth about his coronation failure public, nor could he continue to govern the Yamatai Kingdom in a new body, so he could only order the Storm Warriors to bury the dead priestess in a rich burial to maintain his noble image in the eyes of the people.
And his soul is hidden in his half-dead body, waiting for an opportunity to be resurrected and return one day.
This is also the reason why there are no storm warriors stationed at the Tomb of Himihu...
Thinking of the great deeds of this priestess who sacrificed herself in order to stop Himihu, Lu Qi couldn't help but look solemn, clasped his hands together, bowed to the bones in the sarcophagus, and said silently in his heart:
"Please rest assured, I will completely eliminate this evil soul just like you once did, and return a clear sky to the Yamatai Kingdom!"
"I hope you can rest in peace..."
Laura had just finished the act of worshiping and ran to the side of the tomb. Laura, who seemed to have discovered something, couldn't help shouting his name:
"Lu Qi, this way!"
Turning around, I saw Laura holding a torch and standing in front of a large, exquisite mural.
In the tomb, in addition to the central sarcophagus, there are also something more valuable, namely four murals carved on the walls!
Each mural describes a piece of history about how to select the queen's heir.
Looking from the right to the left of the tomb, Laura carefully looked at the contents of the murals and interpreted the meanings of these murals:
"This looks like some kind of fire ritual, human sacrifice... It's terrible, but why are these women burned?"
"Pilgrimage...referring to the temple just now?"
"Pour water...take water..."
Standing in front of the mural of "a woman with bright sunshine behind her, pouring water to another woman in white", Laura seemed to have thought of something, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she exclaimed:
"Wait a minute, this isn't pouring water, it's inheriting power!"
Without Lu Qi’s hint or reminder, Laura used her keen intuition to quickly understand the meaning of the four murals. In fact, it was the entire enthronement ceremony of how the Kingdom of Yamatai selected heirs and passed on its power!
"So, do you have to burn these priestesses every time you choose a successor? Isn't this too terrible?!"
"Are these women who were sacrificed just obediently swallowed up by the fire without any resistance?"
Hearing Laura's doubts, Lu Qi couldn't help but turn his head and glance in the direction of the sarcophagus, thinking in his heart: Someone resisted, and she was lying in the sarcophagus. You saw her just now...
Putting aside the random thoughts in his mind and looking at Laura, who was frowning in thought, Lu Qi couldn't help but
"We have to go back, otherwise Ross will worry about us..."
Before he could finish speaking, a sudden change occurred!
"roar!!!"
A sudden inhuman roar came from above.
Following the sound, I saw the tall and burly body of the leader warrior on a platform diagonally above the tomb.
Seeing this, Lu Qi couldn't help but narrow his eyes and cursed in a low voice:
Chapter completed!