Chapter 30

"What the hell is this?" Aoki asked.

"Don't worry," said Professor Mei. "Let's talk about the pyramids."

He pointed to the inside of the pyramid on the drawing and said, "this is the known tomb structure. This is the Queen's tomb. This is the Pharaoh's tomb. There are four vents here." the professor's fingers kept moving on the drawing.

"It's said that these vents point to some constellations accurately?" Aoki thought of the rumors of some pyramids he had seen before.

"Oh, there is such a saying, but it is not widely accepted in the academic circles. On the contrary, these passages are less than eight feet wide. I don't know how people dug them at that time, but it's not surprising. What I want to say is that the inverted pyramid at the bottom of the tubuai islands also has a shaft less than half a foot wide, which goes down vertically from the main tomb to the top of the pyramid 。”

At this time, Aoki found that there was a line connecting the tomb and the apex of the pyramid on the drawing. Because the line was very thin, he wouldn't notice it if he didn't look carefully.

The professor said: "since it is certain that there is a mirror relationship between the two pyramids, there should be something in this inverted pyramid, as well as in the Egyptian one. Therefore, someone further scanned the Khufu pyramid with rays, and sure enough, this shaft was found on it. Moreover, the scanning showed that there was an opening at the top of the pyramid, and the tip should be covered by the back."

As like as two peas and two Pyramid, they are the same. There is no difference between the details. "Professor, smoking cigarettes, looked at Aoki mysteriously." now, what do you think? "

"Alas, learning is really a bother!" Qingmu said, touching his messy hair. "Does the Pharaoh think he can climb out from this end of the earth?"

"Well, that's interesting. You go on," the professor encouraged.

"Aha, is that right? But I guessed wildly! Professor, you'd better tell me directly."

Aoki is really too lazy to consume a batch of brain cells. Anyway, the old man is just selling off. He will tell him later. Not all learned people like this!

"Can't you use your brain more? It can help to wake up your sleeping memory!" Mei Tui said angrily and laughed again. "Forget it, you're already a genius. If the problems of the nervous system and all your memories recover, I don't know what kind of monster you will become!"

Mei Ziqing, who was changing tea for them, heard the professor's words and looked at Aoki with curiosity in her eyes.

Mei tried to take down an hourglass from the bookcase behind her, shake it in her hand, and then put it on the table.

Of course, this hourglass is not the crystal hourglass in the picture sent by Professor Silva, but a cone made of ordinary glass. The sand is flowing down the small hole between the two cones to form a thin yarn.

"The most intuitive meaning of the hourglass is time, and the flowing sand is the passing time," Mei said. "Think about it, what is the emperor's biggest dream since ancient times?"

"Live forever!" Aoki can think of this without thinking.

Mei nodded: "yes, it's immortality. But people always grow old, and the hourglass of time won't stop. Who can compete with time?"

The sand in the hourglass kept flowing down without stopping.

"However, the greatness of civilization lies in its struggle with the God of destiny and in creating miracles in this struggle. Each civilization has pursued immortality, but its own methods are different. For example, the Chinese have always tried to achieve it through alchemy and taking drugs, and the ancient Egyptian civilization naturally had their own method -"

Mei Tuo suddenly turned the hourglass over, and the sand that had just flowed from a cone flowed back in an instant:

"Time goes back!"

Aoki felt incredible: "do you mean that the Egyptian pharaoh wanted to build pyramids in order to turn back time?"

"At present, it is just a guess, which needs more archaeological evidence to support, but this guess is reasonable. Look at the two pyramids," Mei tried to put the drawings of the two pyramids together, and the spires of the two pyramids offset each other, "how like an hourglass of time!"

Aoki looked at it and sure enough, it was similar to the picture sent by Professor Silva. The shaft leading to the tip of the pyramid was like a thin sand flow, and the Pharaoh's tomb was the center of the two boxes of the hourglass.

"However, the pyramids in Egypt are facing up, while the undersea pyramids on the other side of the earth are facing down. In this case, the two pyramids are not opposite at the top! It should be the spire on the undersea facing the Khufu pyramid..." Aoki asked himself, "... Ass?"

"What? Ass?" Mei was stunned. "Oh, no, no! Don't understand this mirror symmetry in the same space. Huff's spire is always facing nitak in Orion, and the spire at the bottom of the sea is also facing nitak. From a folded space of the universe, their vertices are relative."

Aoki nodded vaguely.

Mei Xuo continued: "we know that in the plane, the structure of triangles is the most stable. Four regular triangles are used to form a square cone to represent the stability of space. This is the metaphysical meaning of the pyramid - space."

"Why not create a triangular pyramid? Well... I think it may be that the triangular pyramid is too stable and loses the variability of space..."

Professor Mei Tui frowned as if he were perfecting his theory while talking.

"The pyramids are built in the desert. The desert represents the world, and the passage of sand represents the passage of time. The pharaohs of Egypt believe that one day the two cones of the hourglass will turn upside down, and then time will turn back and the Pharaoh will rise."

Aoki said suspiciously, "then why build another inverted pyramid so far away?"

The professor said: "maybe they know some unpredictable things. For example, in the future, one day, North Africa will be swallowed up by the ocean, and the undersea continent where the tubuai islands are located will rise and become a desert; or one day, the earth will be affected by other gravity and change its rotation direction. Who knows!"

"There is also a more absurd and terrible conjecture. Professor Garcia, a geologist in Argentina, said that the Sahara desert was slowly formed after the construction of pyramids. In other words, because of the construction of a large number of pyramids, the Sahara gradually became a desert. Although no one in the academic community publicly agrees with his view, in fact, meteorology and tradition The qualitative explanation of the causes of Sahara is just as vulnerable as his point of view. Fifty steps laugh at a hundred steps. "

"This is terrible!" Mei Ziqing exclaimed, then covered her mouth. She knew that Professor Mei's assistant should not interrupt when talking to others.

Mei Tuo was not angry and said, "there's nothing terrible. Compared with the whole universe, human beings are so small that they can't even count as a sand."

Although Aoki felt that this statement was unlikely to be true, he was shocked to hear such a story version at first. He imagined a mummy climbing out of the shaft of the pyramid several years later. He shook his head and said, "it's a dream!"

"Yes, who says not! But from a scientific point of view, the space in the dream is also a real space, and has a certain connection with our real world. Just like the two pyramids that mirror each other, one stands alive in the Sahara desert, the other is hidden at the bottom of the sea, affecting the other in a way we don't know yet."

Mei tried to hold the pipe in her left hand and turn the hourglass on the table over again in her right hand.

"Maybe one day, as the Pharaohs hope, the two spaces will turn upside down, and we will fall from this time and space to the dream we once thought was untrue like sand."