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Chapter 273 Sphinx

Zhang Wufeng looked at this completely golden Sphinx and couldn't help feeling a little weird.

In this regard, Zhang Wufeng is not professional and does not even have a simple understanding. He only knows that the Sphinx is related to the pyramids and some pharaoh, and it seems that the Sphinx is a legendary pharaoh.

However, the size of this Sphinx is too small, with an overall height of only about 1.6 meters.

Zhang Wufeng approached the Sphinx. The golden statue looked slightly threatening, but not strong.

Zhang Wufeng placed his hands on it and exerted a little force. The statue suddenly vibrated. The huge weight made the muscles in Zhang Wufeng's arms swell up, and the blue veins on the muscles stood out.

The statue was lifted up little by little, and Zhang Wufeng did not feel too strenuous. However, a black circular passage only half a meter wide under the statue made Zhang Wufeng's heart sink slightly.

"Bam—"

The statue was put on the ground again. Zhang Wufeng stepped back and said nothing more.

Yang Wubing looked at Zhang Wufeng and then at the statue. He was very shocked by Zhang Wufeng's tremendous strength. He was so shocked that he was stunned for a long time.

After adapting, he thought about it and sighed, "It looks like this is pure gold. The weight of this statue is more than 19.26 kilograms. The density of gold is 19260 grams per cubic centimeter. The size of this statue should be about one cubic meter, so its weight is kilograms. This is just an estimate, but it also shows that this statue is very heavy.

Doctor Zhang, with your strength, if you were to participate in national-level weightlifting, our country would naturally have another top athlete, and it would be easy for you to break the world record."

"Professor Yang, warriors have their own rules. Warriors are not allowed to participate in sports such as track and field. Compared with ordinary people, warriors are no longer ordinary people. And there is naturally no shortage of such people abroad, but they just haven't shown it on stage." Zhang Wufeng thought for a while and said.

He didn't think much about it. His great strength was just a little secret. Many people knew about it, so it didn't matter if it was exposed. The reason why Zhang Wufeng moved the statue was because, here, his crystal power could not penetrate the statue.

Zhang Wufeng suspected that there was a passage under the statue that was similar to the black passage in the Xuanshui River. Therefore, he moved the statue and explored it.

The result was just as he had expected.

The mark on the map also found the corresponding location. The triangular golden logo should represent the Sphinx.

"What Doctor Zhang said makes sense. This world is truly extraordinary. The more you understand, the more you feel that you know too little." Yang Wubing sighed with a smile.

"Brother Zhang, you are so awesome. No one will believe you if you say this. With a strength of 30,000 kilograms, Brother Zhang, you are truly a superman." Yang Encai said with emotion.

"It may not be thirty thousand kilograms. This is calculated according to the ratio of gold. But whether this statue is made of gold cannot be determined for sure just by looking at the outside. But to be honest, this statue is really heavy. I had to use my internal energy to lift it." Zhang Wufeng explained with a smile.

"Is internal strength true energy?" Zhao Dongsong asked curiously.

"You can think of it this way. If a warrior has no internal strength, his punch can hit 200 jin. With internal strength, his punch can hit 800 jin." Zhang Wufeng said with a smile. In fact, the increase in internal strength is also limited. For example, when the force of a punch reaches 30,000 jin, the increase in internal strength is not significant. At this time, the punch force is still no problem. The problem is to hit the person.

It is useless to have great strength but fail to hit the opponent. A true master always strives to kill with one blow, and also wants to avoid being knocked down in one blow. Therefore, probing is often necessary in a fight.

The reason why Zhang Wufeng was able to defeat Song Yan of Bajimen and Wudang later was that he could make his moves work on others.

Only this kind of fighting style can have the effect of defeating one opponent's skills with one's force, otherwise it will be in vain.

However, it was impossible for Zhang Wufeng to explain these things in detail to Li Lu and others.

"Wow, internal energy is so powerful! No wonder those martial arts TV dramas are so exaggerated, it seems there is some truth to it!" Li Lu exclaimed.

"Existence is reasonable. It depends on which angle you look at it from. Things that you think are unreasonable will seem reasonable when you look at them again in a few years. Of course, you don't need to be too serious about some vulgar spoofs, such as the characters in cartoons who are struck by lightning and turn black but don't die, and who are run over by cars and become a piece of paper that can fly everywhere... You don't need to worry about these." Zhang Wufeng said with a smile. As soon as he said this, everyone laughed. As for the huge force, no one thought it was strange. There was nothing strange about having greater strength. It was just greater strength.

Yang Encai and others immediately thought that there was a rumor in history about the King of Chu lifting the tripod, so what was so strange about it.

……

"Teacher, isn't this thing guarding the pyramid? How come it appears here?" Li Lu asked curiously.

In such an environment, the atmosphere among the people was quite good. They were talking and laughing, without much pressure.

After finishing speaking, Li Lu finally noticed the situation in front of her and asked immediately.

"That, I have no idea about, but I do know a thing or two about the origin of the Sphinx." Yang Wubing said with a smile.

"Teacher, please tell us your origins." Li Lu asked coquettishly.

Yang Wubing smiled, then pondered and said, "Legend has it that in 2610 BC, Pharaoh Khufu came here to inspect his nearly completed mausoleum, the Pyramid. Khufu found a huge stone left in the quarry. Khufu immediately ordered the stonemasons to carve a sphinx according to his face shape. The stonemasons braved the scorching heat and carved it year after year, and finally completed it. The statue is meters high, meters long, and the face is meters long. It wears the crown of 'Nims' on its head, and there is a relief of the sacred snake 'Cobra' on its forehead. There is the symbol of the emperor on its lower jaw - a drooping long beard. One ear is more than two meters long...

In ancient mythology, the Sphinx is a monster born from a giant and a demon snake. It has a human head, a lion's body, and wings. It is called the Sphinx. The Sphinx is cruel by nature. He learned many riddles from the goddess of wisdom, the Muse, and often guarded the main road. Every pedestrian who wants to pass must guess the riddle. If they guess wrong, they will be eaten. Countless people have suffered. Once, a king's son was eaten by the Sphinx. The king was very angry and issued a reward: "Whoever can subdue him will be given the throne!" The brave young man Oedipus responded to the king's call to take revenge. He walked and walked and came to the intersection guarded by the Sphinx. "Young man, you can only pass if you guess the riddle." The Sphinx took out the most difficult one for him to guess. "It can make a sound, walk on four legs in the morning, walk on two legs at noon, and walk on three legs at night. What is this?" "It is a human." The clever Oedipus guessed it quickly. Oedipus won and solved the riddle; but the Sphinx refused to admit defeat and gave Oedipus another riddle: "What first grows long, then becomes short, and finally becomes long again?" Oedipus guessed the answer to the riddle: "Shadow." Then the Sphinx's true form was revealed, and he committed suicide to atone for his sins.

It is said that the Sphinx was carved in the image of the Sphinx.

Actually, the Sphinx is not unique to Gimnjibró. It’s just that the one in Bro is the largest and the oldest. However, the Sphinxes (or bull heads, sheep heads, etc.) carved in various places are all squatting. The difference is that some of them even raise one paw.

After Yang Wubing finished his introduction, Li Lu and others listened with great interest.

At this moment, Zhang Wufeng suddenly thought, what would happen if the human face of the Sphinx was replaced with a jade basin with animal face patterns?
After this inexplicable thought came to my mind, I suddenly felt an irresistible urge.

The only highlight of the entire room is this statue. The statue faces the entrance and its back faces the exit.

Yang Wubing looked at the statue carefully for a long time and also looked at it with a magnifying glass for a while, but he could not come to any conclusion.

"If the speculation is correct, there will be a small pyramid made of golden structure on the correct route. If this is the case, it means that this place may have some connection with the pyramid, and maybe we can even know how the pyramid was built." Yang Wubing said in a deep voice.

Hearing this, Han Lisha and the other four all felt a little strange, but since they had encountered such underground spaces before, they didn't think it was too strange.

There are many strange and bizarre things in this world. When you encounter them, they will become commonplace except for a momentary feeling of strangeness at the time.

"This, I think it's possible." Zhang Wufeng determined the current coordinates of everyone, so he was not too worried. He checked the images taken by the camera again, combined them with his own memory, and checked the route carefully, which made him more certain.

"Let's go. We can't find anything here." Yang Wubing said to Yang Encai and others who were still observing the statue carefully.

"Well, okay." Yang Encai agreed readily, and then looked at the golden statue reluctantly.

At this moment, he seemed to feel that the head of the statue seemed a little different.

"Hey, professor, look at the head of this statue, can it be taken off?" Yang Encai said subconsciously. From this angle, he could just see that the part of the Sphinx's head seemed to have a black mark.

Zhang Wufeng's heart moved slightly, and he immediately walked over and said, "Yang Encai, where are you talking about?"

(End of this chapter)