Chapter 507: A Hard-Core Man's Plan to Steal a Ship
Egyptian mythology is a mythological system that is not well known in modern times. Although the specific details are rarely mentioned, many of its characters are well-known, such as Anubis.
Many gods of the Egyptian pantheon often appear in games, but many people do not know that they come from the Egyptian pantheon. In fact, the best way to distinguish such characters is to see whether they have animal heads or whether they represent a natural phenomenon.
Egyptian gods are mainly divided into two categories. One is born from natural phenomena, such as the sun god, wind god, fire god, moon god, etc., and the other is animal gods, such as beetles, leopards, lions, vultures, etc.
In addition, Egypt's most well-known mummies are also closely related to the Egyptian mythology system, and Schiller also got inspiration from the background story of this popular mummy and formulated this bold death plan.
Many people may have heard of mummies, and some people have even seen mummies in museums, but in fact, this magical culture comes from the understanding of death in Egyptian mythology.
The ancient Egyptians believed that the body was just a container for storing the soul. After death, the soul was influenced by divine power and went to the underworld, but they still had a chance to be resurrected. If the soul returned from the underworld, it must have a good container to be resurrected.
Therefore, in order to preserve the bodies of the dead, the ancient Egyptians used various methods to make them into mummies, praying that their souls would be resurrected when they returned from the other side of the underworld.
In terms of the understanding of death, the ancient Egyptian and Chinese civilizations, which were thousands of miles apart geographically, had very wonderful similarities. They both believed that the dead would go to a magical world after death, where they would still be worshipped, so the living must build luxurious tombs for them and offer burial objects to make them live better in that world.
Therefore, there are the pyramids of the Egyptian pharaohs and the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang.
However, Schiller, who is in Marvel, knows that in this world, myths are not just myths, not just empty talk. There are real gods here, so there should also be an underworld.
But he also knew that this world had the existence of the death of the five great gods of creation, and all creatures should eventually go to the kingdom of death. If they want to be resurrected, they must rely on special powers.
One of the more well-known examples is the Hall of Valor owned by Asgard. After the death of the gods of Asgard, they will go to the Hall of Valor and may be resurrected from the Hall of Valor.
After asking Loki, Schiller learned that Odin was able to use the Hall of Valor to resurrect the warriors because Death had made a deal with him.
Odin's conquest of the universe caused countless killings and deaths. Death did not mind him resurrecting a small number of people and then killing more people. Even so, Odin needed to consume a lot of energy to truly resurrect a god.
So, how could the Egyptian gods, who were not well-known in the Nine Realms, resurrect their believers at will?
Schiller once asked Khonsu this question, but he did not answer. Of course, Schiller also understood that Khonsu had no responsibility to answer every question for his believers, so he decided to explore the answer to this question himself.
However, there is no trace of where the underworld is, and if you want to enter, you must use a special method.
Schiller happens to know a way to allow him to enter the underworld, which is to replicate the experience of Moonlight Knight in the TV series Moonlight Knight.
In the TV series Moonlight Knight, Moonlight Knight's body was killed by Arthur, a believer of Amit, so the two personalities in his body came to the underworld and successfully left the underworld and resurrected from reality.
After the battle in the town, Schiller took away the scarab on Mark's body while Mark switched his personality. On the way from the town to the German-Austrian border, Schiller had already discovered that Arthur had woken up, but he not only did not expose Arthur, but also deliberately left the scarab he had taken from Mark on the seat.
Sure enough, after Arthur took the scarab, he used the power left to him by Amit to go to the seal, and lifted Amit's seal and released him.
Amit gave Arthur power to take revenge on Schiller and Mark, and when the purple thunder formed by Amit's power fell, Schiller removed all defenses and let Amit's divine power kill his body.
In fact, with the gray fog, Amit's divine power was not enough to destroy Schiller's body, but Schiller let the gray fog release water, simulating a suspended death state where the heartbeat and breathing stopped, and thereby allowing the soul to be drawn to the ship where the Moonlight Knight came in the play.
This part of the TV plot is also very interesting. After the death of the Moonlight Knight with split personality, he had a weird dream. Mark dreamed that he came to a mental hospital. The attending doctor here was Arthur who killed him. Arthur told him that he was actually a mental patient from beginning to end. What mercenaries and archaeological team members were all his fantasies when the disease broke out.
What Schiller was most interested in was that in this spiritual world, Mark's two personalities appeared as two different people, and when they came to the ship, they were also two people.
This is indeed a bit strange. If the underworld is real, then Mark's soul should be only one. Even if he is divided into two personalities, there should be only one soul. But there are only Mark and his other personality Steven on the ship.
Based on this, Schiller speculated that this so-called underworld should be similar to the dreamland in the DC world, a world connected to the human consciousness world.
Since Mark can take his two personalities on board, then it stands to reason that Schiller can also take his countless personalities on board, and this ship can travel in the dream world.
After listening to Schiller's story, Mark's mood was very complicated at this time. He took a deep breath, sighed, and then said: "I really don't know whether you have an exploratory spirit or are completely crazy?"
"Just for a vague guess, you dare to let yourself die. Have you ever thought that if all this is just a fantasy caused by your mental illness, you are really dead."
"Are you afraid of death?" Schiller asked.
"Aren't you afraid?" Mark asked back. Suddenly he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Oh, indeed, the KGB I have met are not afraid of death."
"In essence, this is my confidence in my professional level. My research level in dissociative identity disorder, spiritual and conscious world, dreams, etc. is still good."
While speaking, Schiller walked to the side of the ship. As the ship moved at full speed, the sand sea under the hull became thinner and thinner, and the skulls surging up and down became fewer and fewer.
Mark stretched out his hand, raised his head and looked around the sky. He found that the originally clear and bright starry sky began to become a little blurry. The breeze blew across his fingertips, and there was also a trace of white mist passing through his fingertips.
Mark turned his head quickly, and then he saw that the huge bow faced the thick white fog, like a sharp sword cutting a piece of white jade. The hull surrounded by thick fog seemed to float above the sea of clouds. Mark lowered his head and looked under the ship. There was no longer a sea of sand below, but nothing. The whole ship seemed to be floating in the air.
"Woo-woo-woo"
The low horn was blown, the mast rang lightly, and the sails were in place. Mark saw that the layers of sails were blown up by the invisible wind, and the full arcs looked like several rising crescent moons.
He walked forward and asked Schiller: "Where are you going to drive it?"
"I'm going to pick up a friend of mine and take him to see the scenery outside the dreams of ordinary people." Schiller smiled and said.
"What about resurrection? Don't you want to be resurrected?" Mark obviously couldn't accept the fact that he was dead. He seemed very impatient, and his eyebrows were full of worry.
"You said that the KGB is not afraid of death." Schiller looked back at him. Mark was very angry. He was about to speak when he saw the young Schiller slowly raised his parachute to him behind Schiller in the white coat.
Schiller smiled and asked: "Are you still afraid of death now?"
Looking at the cold light on the blade of the parachute, Mark swallowed his saliva, took a step back, and shook his head vigorously.
The big ship was sailing in the white fog, and the surrounding scenery was completely unchanged, so it was impossible to judge how fast the ship was flying. Jack and Schiller stood at the bow together, and Jack asked: "What do you plan to call this ship?"
"Flying God, what do you think?"
"Not very good, it's better to just call it Flying, why do you have to bring God?"
"I... Oh, we're here." Schiller was about to answer Jack's question when he saw the shadow of the building in the thick fog. He turned back and ordered the crew Schiller to drop the sails and let the huge ship slowly land.
As the ship fell, the shadow of the building became clearer and clearer. The first thing that appeared in the field of vision was the Gothic spire. Looking down, it seemed to be an English school?
Charles, standing at the door of the dream school, opened his mouth wide and watched the huge ship slowly fall.
Just a few minutes ago, he was still in the office in the real world wondering why Schiller called him and asked him to enter the dream now, and now Charles knew because he had seen Schiller standing at the bow.
After the ship landed, it was bigger than what Charles saw in the air, and even bigger than any ship he had ever seen. It could no longer be called a sailing ship, but a flying aircraft carrier in the guise of a sailing ship.
"My God, what is this?! Am I seeing it wrong? Is that the sun pattern in the Egyptian tomb?"
"Professor, you are worthy of being the most knowledgeable person I have ever met." Schiller walked down from the ship, shook hands with Charles, and exclaimed sincerely.
"After the Tower of Babel, you built an Egyptian ship in your dream?" Charles asked puzzledly: "But why did you do this? Are your personalities finally unable to accommodate it?"
"You misunderstood." Schiller turned his head to look at the ship, then turned back and said to Charles: "I didn't build this. I don't have such ability. The story is complicated, but in short..."
Schiller turned back, pointed at the ship, and said firmly: "This is a gift from nature."
"Okay, I understand, you don't need to say anything." Charles said immediately. Obviously, in the process of working with the people of the Glorious Alliance, he also knew what kind of style they were. Asking too much would risk lowering his moral bottom line.
"So, what do you want to do by coming to me?" Charles asked.
"Professor, since many young mutants have gone to the Andromeda Galaxy to colonize and develop the universe, it is difficult to get them back to class because the distance is too far, right?"
When Charles heard Schiller mention this question, he nodded and said helplessly: "Although I can contact them here, I can't get their consciousness to come back here to attend classes."
"I said before that the so-called spiritual connection is actually related to brain waves, and brain waves are limited by physical distance. If I am too far away from them in physical distance, the signal will be bad."
"Yes, I always think that the education of mutants is the top priority. If teaching is delayed because of internship work, it is really putting the cart before the horse."
"As the saying goes, no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education. For the common future of humans and mutants, I hope that this boat that can travel in dreams will become a school bus for mutants and a Noah's Ark for mutants to ride the wind and waves in the ocean of knowledge..."
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