The Jesus Christ Cypher by Sebastian Kentor

Author:Sebastian Kentor [Kentor, Sebastian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-12T22:00:00+00:00

§CHAPTER 49§

“LYDIA, NOW is the moment. You should use the general frenzy inside the pyramid to quickly make your way up.”

“If someone asks where you are going, simply mention that you are looking for your missing child,” Neo instructed.

Lydia moved swiftly ahead, trying to avoid the panicked tourists who were struggling to make their way to the exit.

After thirty meters from the entrance, Lydia noticed a square-shaped hole in the roof of the Descending Passage. Initially concealed with a slab of stone, this represented the start of the Ascending Passage.

The wind was howling, making its way through the labyrinth of various tunnels, each having a religious or functional role, either for the soul to ascend into the gods’ realm or as an intricate aeration system.

“Lydia, you need to hurry up. I am sure the guards will understand this was a false alarm,” Neo said worriedly.

“Yes, I am almost at the beginning of the Ascending Passage.”

She remembered all the questions she asked her university ancient civilizations professor, who, by chance, was also of Egyptian origin, Mister Sharaff.

Back then, she knew the Great Pyramid structure, like the back of her hand. A small plastic panel with almost washed away painting indicated: The Ascending Passage.

Lydia quickly found herself squeezed into the narrow passage through the staircase, which had small protrusions to avoid slipping, which allowed her to climb.

She was not claustrophobic, but the simple thought that something might go wrong with the illuminating system plunging her in the dark made her skin crawl.

“I am almost there at the beginning of a large open space; the Grand Gallery,” Lydia said.

At this moment, Lydia sensed she was being followed.

Maybe it was an illusion, or the assassin has followed me here, and he wants to catch me.

She felt a strange energy coursing through her body while continuing her upward climb at the same slope as the Ascending Passage.

The walls rose in seven courses of polished limestone, each arched several centimeters toward the center, giving a strange symmetry to the upper part engulfed into darkness.

A squeaking noise made her look upwards, and she seemed to spot a moving shadow, could it be a big hungry bat?

Her gaze then fell upon the two left and right narrow ramps with slots, probably a part of an ancient mechanism used by the constructors to lift the stones.

“Lydia, you need to gather your strength; there is still a lot of climbing left,” Neo said, worried by her accelerated pulse.

“I was always fascinated by the geometric precision of the Grand Gallery. I would have never believed that one day I’d explore its secrets.”

Compared to the Ascending Passage, it was nine meters tall high and forty-seven meters long. An inverted pyramid structure in a pyramid with seven steps.

Lydia noticed it had a roof made of stone slabs fixed at a specific floor angle for each stone to fit into a slot cut inside the gallery’s top, like the teeth of a cog.

“Neo, do you see this? Egyptians were incredibly inventive. I guess this

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