[System prompt: Quest updated. Quest 5 has been completed. You have entered the Demon Temple of An Quan.
[System prompt: Quest 6: Temple Exploration. Enter the deepest part of the temple and find the secret hidden there.]
When Yi Qing carefully hid the diamond in her pocket, the system prompt finally arrived.
The system prompt should have arrived the moment she entered the temple, but it only appeared now. It gave Guhan a bad feeling, but Guhan couldn't figure out what exactly was wrong.
When Yi Qing was cremating her mother, Guhan thought about many things. He thought about the hidden dungeon's storyline, Heaven Shrouding Jiandi, who had suddenly turned into a woman, Artoria Black, who had walked out of the dimensional vortex, and most importantly, Artoria Black seemed to say that he was very familiar with her, to the point of being a resentful woman. It felt like Artoria Black was his companion.
For example, the Demon Temple that Guhan was currently in. If he thought about it carefully, Artoria Black had purposely chased him here. Her goal was probably the secret hidden in the depths of the temple.
Whatever, I don't care.
Since I'm here, I'll take things as they come. Guhan had a feeling that as long as he knew the secret hidden in the depths of the temple, Guhan might be able to solve the dungeon's mystery.
"Lord Military Governor, what should we do next?" Yi Qing asked Guhan after wiping away her tears.
"Naturally, we'll go in and find out what's inside the temple."
Guhan narrowed his eyes. In the hall that Guhan was in, there were murals on all four sides. Only the southern side had a huge golden glazed door that was more than ten meters tall.
Upon closer inspection, the decorative paintings on the door were completely different from the rest of the walls.
Almost all the walls were painted with images of gods high above and mortals kneeling before them.
There were also grand stories of great gods leading the people to expel the terrifying demons.
Only this door's painting was completely different. There was no actual content on this door, only hideous faces that looked like they were alive … These faces did not have any eyeballs, as if they had been dug out. Just looking at these paintings was more terrifying than any horror movie.
If there were girls here, they would probably roll their eyes and collapse to the ground the moment they saw these faces.
"As long as we open this door, we can go deep into the temple!" Even without Guhan saying it, anyone with a bit of intelligence could guess that the secret was behind this door.
"But this door looks like it weighs more than ten tons. Can we push it open?" Yi Qing asked doubtfully.
Although she had been enhanced by Bai Tiejian's physique, she was only a few times stronger than an ordinary person. Her strength was not enough to open this huge door.
"Let's go take a look near the door. According to the routine, there must be a mechanism that can open the door near the door!"
Gu Han knew very well that it was impossible for such a tall door to not be able to be opened. Otherwise, why would you build such a grand door?
Otherwise, why would they show those grave robbers and adventure movies?
No matter how powerful the door was, it would inevitably be opened by the protagonist. This was an unshakable truth since ancient times.
Therefore, Guhan and Yi Qing walked near the door and began to explore the walls on the edge, trying to find a mechanism or clue that could open the door.
Sure enough, after searching for five minutes, Yi Qing was the first to find something. She called Guhan to her side, pointed to a mural on the wall and said, "Sir Military Governor, look at this painting."
Guhan fixed his eyes on it. It was a mural of a cat. A dark cat was sitting there, and the surrounding lines were drawn with golden lines. It looked very imposing. This cat was like a god.
In fact, cats did have a god-like status in ancient Egypt. The Egyptians believed that it was the cat god who broke the night and brought light back to the world, so they were very devout to cats.
If anyone accidentally killed a cat, they would be punished by the priests of the temple. If someone's cat died accidentally, the family must shave off their eyebrows to show their condolences.
In short, the Egyptians worshipped cats very much. It was not strange for a cat to appear on a mural.
Guhan was very curious about what Yi Qing found on this cat and why she called him over.
Gu Han took another careful look at the black cat. There didn't seem to be anything unusual about it.
"Sir Guhan, please touch here!"
Yi Qing said, pointing to the cat's private parts. Could it be that Yi Qing had some special hobby and liked to have sex with animals?
Of course, Guhan would not make such a stupid guess. He put his hand where Yi Qing was pointing.
"There's a piece missing here!"
Guhan raised his eyebrows. There was a small dent where Guhan's hand touched. The shape of the dent was very smooth, and it did not look like it had fallen off naturally.
Moreover, the inside of the dent was deliberately painted black, so that people would not notice at first glance that it was missing a piece.
"This dent was deliberately set up when it was built!"
Guhan analyzed. "This is probably the position of the mechanism. Yi Qing, let's quickly look around and see if there are any fragments with the same shape as this dent."
At Guhan's command, the two of them split up and looked around for the groove shaped fragment. This was a very painful task. The surrounding lights were dim, and there were a lot of human skeletons lying on the ground. Guhan had to throw these skeletons aside to see the ground clearly.
If it was an ordinary person, it would probably take them four or five hours to find such a small fragment.
But if it was a sword wielder like Guhan and Yi Qing, it would be much faster.
Sword Maiden's physical strength had directly improved Guhan's eyesight. In addition, swordsmanship was about judging the opponent's movements through subtle changes in perception, so Guhan was very sensitive to subtle things.
Near the center of the hall, Guhan glanced around and found that there was a fragment with a shape very similar to the previous dent. Guhan decisively picked up the fragment and touched it carefully. In his heart, he was even more certain!
So Guhan immediately called Yi Qing back to the front of the door, and then solemnly inserted the fragment into the dent.
Sure enough, there was no gap at all.
The moment Guhan closed the fragment, the whole hall began to emit a mysterious murmur.
"What is this sound? Why have I never heard such a sound before!"
When Yi Qing heard this murmur, she began to feel uncomfortable all over her body, and goosebumps appeared all over her body.
"This is the sound of a cat!"
In Guhan's ears, the sound that gave Yi Qing goosebumps was just a normal cat's meow.
"This is the sound of a cat?" Yi Qing shivered. "This is the first time I've heard such a disgusting sound!"
"Why do you think the sound of a cat's meow is disgusting?" Guhan was stunned for a moment. Weren't cats very popular?
There were a bunch of cat lovers in Yuzhang City who drooled at their master every day … Well, that was not the point at all.
"Bold human, how dare you say that the great Cat Goddess is disgusting!" At this time, a sharp voice suddenly came out.
"Bold human, how dare you not kneel in front of the great Cat Goddess!" Another voice came out.
Gu Han and Yi Qing looked in the direction of the sound and found that two strange creatures had appeared on both sides of the door … On the bodies of humans, there was a cat's head.
"Are these orcs?"
When Guhan saw these two strange creatures, he immediately thought of the many orcs in Yuan Kou, such as dogs, lions, leopards, snakes … In short, almost all the main animals could be found in the orcs, and there were naturally cats like Yuan Kou.
But Guhan remembered that the cats in the illustrated handbook had a pair of cat ears, a cat tail, a row of cat whiskers, fine fur on their bodies, and soft meat pads on their palms.
However, their faces were truly human, and they were all very delicate beauties, completely different from these two monsters that had completely grown cat heads.
"Hmph, stupid human, we are not those useless cats. We are cat slaves under Master Bastet, servants who serve Master Bastet directly. Don't compare us to those cats," a cat slave said proudly.
Guha knew the name Bastet. It was the Cat Goddess in the Egyptian pantheon, the ancestor of all cats.
It was also one of the three Egyptian Yuan Kou who conspired to use magic to turn Suzhou into a desert.
In the end, when the magic was cast halfway, it was discovered by a Fairy Sword Tier sword wielder who passed by, and the two sides fought … There was no detailed record of the three Egyptian gods' deaths, but from the fact that they abandoned the desert where the magic was cast halfway and disappeared without a trace, it could be inferred that the three gods were either dead or seriously injured, and had hidden in the dimensional gap to recover.
These two cat slaves who suddenly appeared claimed to be Bastet's servants, so this demon temple should be a relic left behind by the three Egyptian gods.
These two cat slaves must also know the way to open the door.
"Tell me, how should we open this door!"
Guhan could not be bothered to ask. He directly pulled out the King of Yue Goujian sword, pointed it at the two cat slaves' heads, and scolded them sternly.
"How dare you attack."
"Haha, someone actually dares to attack in Master Bastet's temple."
"Brother, let's not talk anymore. Let these two lowly humans taste the power of us cat slave brothers!"