America: A Prodigy of Stereotypes

"What's the situation now?" Li Qun asked, turning his head to Akamara, who was hiding behind him.

“He wants to tear you apart. You are a fake Han envoy, at most a Han Chinese,” Akamanla translated.

Li Qun pulled out his golden cudgel and knocked Attila to the ground with one blow. Akamara wondered where Li Qun had pulled out the metal cudgel from.

With another sweep of his golden cudgel, Attila sent four Hunnic warriors flying, the four wax figures sliding more than ten meters on the smooth floor tiles.

Li Qun restrained his strength, causing the golden cudgel to also reduce its weight, thus preventing Attila's five wax figures from being shattered into wax blocks.

“You stick…” Akamara hesitated, then stopped.

Li Qun stepped forward and pulled Attila up from the ground. Attila looked at Li Qun and the golden cudgel in his hand with awe.

“Tell Attila that he wants to test his strength. Let’s have a fight without weapons, and whoever wins will have to listen to the winner,” Li Qun said.

"I'll pass on your message."

After Akamanra finished speaking to Attila, Attila removed his weapons one by one, and Liqun also put the golden cudgel aside.

Li Qun and Attila locked eyes, and the two clashed bare-handed.

Attila immediately adopted a wrestling stance, intending to throw Li Qun to the ground. Li Qun tightened his stance, steadied his center of gravity, and looked for an opportunity to trip Attila.

Four Hunnic warriors shouted loudly nearby, and the shouts quickly attracted other resurrected people.

This area is in the humanities and history section, and most of the people around are historical figures. Li Qun, in the corner of his eye, saw a terracotta warrior cheering him on among the onlookers.

Li Qun grabbed Attila's right leg and slammed him to the ground. With the change in position, Attila was pinned to the ground, his joints locked, and he was unable to resist.

Chapter 53 The Person Who Knows the Ancient Secret

Attila was surprisingly light in weight.

Attila never expected to lose so quickly and without any chance to fight back.

Attila was not a solid wax figure, but a hollow one. If he were a solid wax figure, he would weigh more than a real person.

The wax figures are made hollow so they can be easily moved and transported for exhibition.

The wax figures at the Natural History Museum are all hollow.

Attila lost, but he was not convinced and asked Liqun to fight again. He had been careless in the first match.

Li Qun agreed to Attila's request for a second contest and, once again, subdued Attila within minutes.

After losing twice in a row, Attila was convinced of Liqun's superiority.

Liqun ordered Attila and his four Hunnic warriors to guard the Achamanra medal inside the ancient Egyptian pavilion.

“There are jackals guarding this place, so there’s really no need for Attila to help guard my gold medal,” the young pharaoh said to Liqun.

“The Jackal Guardian can’t even straighten his back indoors; the cramped space severely limits his strength,” Li Qun said to Pharaoh Akamanra. The Jackal Guardian nodded to Akamanra, agreeing with Li Qun’s statement.

Attila ordered four Hunnic warriors into the ancient Egyptian exhibit, and before he went in, he mumbled a few more words to Li Qun.

"What did he say?" Li Qun asked.

“Attila said that those wizards possessed wands that emitted light, and they also tamed dragons and monkeys. They were also extremely powerful in combat, and could easily subdue them, just like you,” Akamara translated.

A glowing wand? Could it be a flashlight?

"They tamed dragons and monkeys..."

"Dinosaur and monkey specimens have also come back to life!"

Li Qun hurriedly took out the guidebook and checked the map of the Natural History Museum on it.

Now, he needs to rethink his route.

They entered without any obstacles, but now, to go elsewhere, they need to deal with all sorts of ferocious beasts from Earth's history.

"Can only the skeleton be brought back to life?" Li Qun asked Akamanla.

"It should be okay, right?" Akamara wasn't sure either.

Li Qun pondered what he needed to do now.

Originally, Li Qun only considered returning the Akamara gold medal, but the situation became complicated after the Akamara gold medal brought the people and animals in the museum back to life.

From the words of Pharaohs Achamana and Attila, Li Qun discovered that resurrection phenomena frequently occurred at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and that after these phenomena occurred, wizards in the museum would deal with the people and animals that caused trouble after their resurrection.

The current situation is that the wizards dealing with the museum's resurrection incident seem to be in trouble, as the resurrected people and animals have turned the museum upside down.

Li Qun decided to first find a "wizard" to help the museum's wizard deal with the chaotic situation.

Li Qun speculates that the "wizard" here should be Dr. Bruce Banner. Dr. Banner guards the New York Sanctum Sanctorum, and New York is Dr. Banner's territory. Any unusual events in his territory are handled by Dr. Banner.

A white marble lion walked up to Li Qun, climbed down, and looked up at him.

“The stones have come to life…” Li Qun muttered.

The stone lion rubbed against Li Qun's feet, behaving very affectionately.

“What a unique guardian beast.” Akamara reached out his hand to the stone lion, but the lion pretended to pounce on him, startling the young pharaoh so much that he took a few steps back.

“In China, stone lions are mythical beasts that guard the gates of mansions.”

"Can I ride on you?" Li Qun asked the stone lion.

The white marble lion lowers its body, showing a submissive posture.

Li Qun laughed and sat sideways on the back of the stone lion.

When your buttocks touch the back of the stone lion, it feels just like sitting on a rock, and the stone lion still has the hard feel of stone.

"May the Pharaoh sit here as well?"

Li Qun stroked the stone lion's head, and the stone lion shook its head up and down in agreement.

With stone lions as their mounts, Liqun and Akamanla rampaged through the museum, making the ground tremble.

As you pass by the vertebrate origin exhibit, you see resurrected specimens of lobe-finned and ray-finned fish hanging from the ceiling, struggling violently as if they were dying and coming back to life.

The white marble lion is much fiercer than the animal specimens; it is solid and weighs several tons.

The stone lion knew where the "wizard" Li Qun was looking for was, and it carried Li Qun and Akamanla to the door of the security room.

"Security room."

Is this the place?

The stone lion squatted down next to the door of the security room, tilting its head to signal Liqun to go in and take a look.

Li Qun chose to believe in the guardian beast from his hometown. He knocked on the door first, but no one opened it for him, so he turned the doorknob and went inside himself.

The three security guards, Nader, Ceci, and Gus, were all missing. Li Qun noticed a ring of keys hanging on the wall of the security room and a stack of papers on the table. The papers contained handwritten instructions for the museum after closing time:

1. Throwing bones

2. Keep the lions locked up, or they will eat you.

3. Carefully check your belt; the monkey might steal your keys.

4. Tie the horse to the bench.

5. Enter the Temple of Akamanra and lock the coffin.

6……

Li Qun turned to look at Akamanla and handed him the book of museum closing rules.

“Do you know how long they’ve kept me locked in a coffin? Fifty-four years now. You’re the first person to release me,” Akamanra said.

"Why did the security guard write 'lock your coffin' on it?" Li Qun asked.

“Perhaps they’re afraid I’ll open the gates of the underworld and summon an army of the dead to conquer the world,” Akamara said to Liqun.

"Are you serious?"

Li Qun gripped the Ruyi Jingu Bang tightly.

Akamara became puzzled again, wondering where Liqun had pulled out such a long, gold-inlaid iron rod.

“I was just kidding. It’s someone else who’s going to summon the undead army, not me,” Akamanra said.

"How do I summon it?" Li Qun asked.

"You want to summon an army of the undead?" Akamara stared at Li Qun.

“No, I don’t want to. I just want to know the key point. Knowing the key point will allow me to stop others from summoning an army of the undead,” Li Qun explained.

“My Akamara Gold Token can only provide temporary resurrection, but there are other artifacts that can bring someone back to the mortal realm and grant them power,” Akamara said.

"Are there other ancient Egyptian artifacts here?"

“I don’t think so,” Akamara replied.

"What is the name of the artifact?" Li Qun asked.

“I can’t tell you, because if you knew, you wouldn’t be able to resist the temptation,” Akamanra said.

"Are they called the 'Book of the Sun' and the 'Book of the Dead'?"

Akamara's pupils dilated and then contracted. "How did you know?"

“That’s what the movie says,” Li Qun replied.

“The movie you’re watching must have been written by someone who knows ancient secrets,” Akamara said nervously.

Chapter 54 Life is a Wilderness

The two movies, The Mummy and The Mummy Returns, left a deep impression on Li Qun. He watched them when he was in elementary school, and even after many years, he still remembers the general plot and the main characters.

There are only two Mummy movies, at least before Li Qun traveled through time. In his memories of the old world, Li Qun vaguely remembered that the Mummy movie series was rebooted, and the rebooted movie drastically changed the original movie settings.

Li Qun was multitasking, flipping through the "Precautions" notes clipped to a paperclip while explaining the general plot of the two Mummy movies to the resurrected Pharaoh Aqamanra.

Li Qun was unaware that Wang was listening in on the movie plot as he explained it, and Wang's face froze as he listened to Li Qun's story.

However, the two Mummy movies are based on real events that actually happened in this new world.

The Book of the Dead and the Book of the Sun are kept in the restricted section of the Kamar-Taj Library.

Wang suppressed the thoughts that were about to surface in front of Li Qun.