Chapter 2: Despicable Poor Devil
Luxor, the pearl of Upper Egypt, is a concentration of ancient Thebes cultural relics and is known as the largest open-air museum on earth.
However, Hayato and the others chose this place as the next destination on their journey, not because they were interested in cultural relics, but because after comparing the modern Egyptian map with the map recorded in the King's Memory World, Hayato and Ah Thum unanimously found————
Since Atum's father, King Aknamkanon, moved the capital, the new royal city has not been named by the priests or anyone else until Atum, who was only a few days old as the pharaoh, left the world. They all just refer to this new city simply as "Imperial City".
But perhaps Set, who took over as pharaoh after Atum, or subsequent pharaohs such as Ramesses II, gave the city a formal name for the convenience of naming - Thebes. .
Although everything that happened three thousand years ago is a thing of the past, and the ancient city of Thebes in Luxor is now the ruins of Thebes, even so, Atum still wanted to go there and take a look. The same is true for several gamers.
Malik and Tapiliang, who were on the way, were paddling with the group. After Bekas also became interested in the ruins of Thebes, the group drove to Luxor and visited the ruins of Thebes. only---
"Two thousand dollars!? You *Egyptian expletive* this is robbery!" Malik looked at the Egyptian in front of him with an angry expression.
"*Egyptian expletive*, *Egyptian dialect*" However, even though Malik looked fierce, the Egyptian in front of him still looked like he was not stingy, shaking his legs with a smug look on his face, as if he had hit the mark. There was nothing Lik could do against him.
Even if Malik walked away from him, the man still looked nonchalant, as if he had figured out that Malik could only find him in the end.
"Looking at you so angry, what happened, Malik?" Because Malik used Arabic when communicating with the Egyptian, Honda, who was not sure what was going on, couldn't help but feel unhappy when he saw Malik coming back. asked.
"I just went to visit the ruins of Thebes, and a ticket seller actually asked you for two thousand dollars. You would be angry. And it wasn't just everyone, it was *Egyptian expletive* two thousand dollars per person. Malik turned around and glared at the ticket seller, who was standing there looking leisurely, and said angrily.
"Two thousand knives? Haha, it would be uncomfortable for me to lose money if I let that kind of person make money." Hayato also frowned and said with some displeasure.
"Although I don't lack this, just like Hayato Boy said, even if you have money, it's not for that kind of people to make a profit." On the side, Becas also spread his hands helplessly, "It's just a piece of paper. Making money is not that fast even if you rob a bank."
When Jonouchi heard this, he couldn't help but glance at Bekas. Others have some qualifications when they say this. Aren't you, a card printer, the kind of person you say you are? A card can be sold for tens of thousands or millions. What qualifications do you have to say that someone "just prints a piece of paper" It’s faster to get money than robbing a bank”?
If the price of a ticket is twenty dollars, it can only be considered a bit expensive. Even if it reaches two hundred dollars, it can be accepted with a little tolerance, but the price of a ticket of two thousand dollars is simply killing people like pigs. Even when a pig is slaughtered, it will struggle and resist. Only a devil would buy it at such a price. Whoever buys it will be mentally retarded.
Yugi looked at Malik and asked in confusion: "Can't we ask someone else to buy the ticket?"
Malik also said with some helplessness: "Although the Thebes ruins are managed by the local government, the sale of tickets is monopolized by the local gang. That bastard is a member of the gang, and he even said that it would be replaced by someone else. It’s the same thing, it’s sold to us foreigners at this price, whether you like it or not.”
"It means I have cultivated my moral character. Otherwise, I would have used the [Thousand-Year Scepter] to hit him and make him think he was a fish and go diving in the Nile for two or three days."
"Foreigner?" Hayato glanced at Malik's clothes. Because the weather was a bit hot, Malik took off the decent-looking black coat he originally wore outside, revealing the coat covered with paintings inside. A Heyan's unsightly shirt, "To be honest, I'm not surprised at all. I told you, a three-year-old, to dress more modestly."
"Brother-in-law, what do you know? What I am wearing is not clothes, but love!"
"When you talk about love, you mean making those female characters show this kind of expression?"
"I prefer tauren, don't I?"
Kyoko also turned away, not wanting to see Malik's artistic clothes that were too early for humans, she said to Yugi: "It seems that we can't buy tickets to visit now. Are you going to give up this attraction for now?”
"That's all we have to do. We can't enter the attraction without tickets..." Tapirang said in a low voice, but as soon as he finished speaking, a hand suddenly put on his shoulder and pulled Tapir Liang was frightened.
"Nothing is impossible for a true duelist. Your idea is great, Tapiryo!" He gave a thumbs up to Tapiryo, and Hayato looked at Malik and said, "What do you think, Ma Lik?"
"I think it's worth a try, brother-in-law!"
"How many times do you want me to tell you who your brother-in-law is?"
"It's too late to correct it now. You've already acquiesced several times!"
Tapirang tilted his head in confusion: "Huh? Huh... Did I just come up with any ideas?"
So, the group of people started to implement a plan that even the proposer himself didn't know what to do. ten minutes later---
"Oh oh oh, that's really awesome! Even me, this is the first time to do such a sneaky thing desu~" In the dark space, Becas's face, illuminated by the light scattered by the flashlight, looked excited.
"Huhuhu, even though I don't have a ticket, I just need to bypass the entrances where tickets are checked and sneak in from a place where no one can see me. As expected of a tapir, he can think of such a treacherous thing easily. Even I feel a little ashamed of my idea, hahahaha!"
Hearing Hayato's words, Tairiang looked anxious and argued hurriedly: "It's not my idea! I didn't think of this at all. It's obviously Hayato-kun, you want to——"
"I'm really yours, Tapirang!" "I told you it's not me!"
"Hey, please keep your voice down. What if we are discovered?" Jonouchi interrupted the conversation between the two people behind him and looked forward, "But having said that, I didn't expect that there is such a person here who is not even official. Know the channel."
"Actually, what should be more surprising is that this passage still exists after so many years." Yugi smiled and said, "Another... Atum said that even he didn't know the existence of this passage. It must have been built by later generations, right?”
"I saw it in the memory of Meliamon, that guy Ozymandias. It seems that he prepared it for Nefertari and other princesses and future generations just in case. Based on his character, it is estimated that the city gate was breached that day and he refused to escape even if he died in the royal city, although that did not happen to him."
Hayato said casually, "It seems to have been well built and not used much. As a result, it has become a ruins all the way to Thebes, and even archaeologists have not discovered this passage."
"Oh, it seems we're almost here?" Honda, who was walking at the front, saw bright light entering the dark passage from a distance, and said to everyone behind him, who also speeded up their pace slightly to get to the exit quickly.
After walking up the steps for a short distance at the end of the passage, everyone came to a stone door with a few rays of light and were about to push it open.
But at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded from behind the door. Honda and Jonouchi, who were about to open the door, froze and quickly retracted their hands, not daring to move again.
Immediately afterwards, another voice sounded, and it seemed that at least two people were talking behind the door. What's a little strange is that at first, a few people thought it was someone from the scenic spot who happened to be talking at the exit of the passage, but the language used by the two people talking was not Arabic but Japanese?
Putting their eyes to the gap and looking out, several people saw that the person outside the door was indeed not an Egyptian, but a black man dressed as a soldier and fully armed, talking to a white man dressed as a gentleman.
"I didn't expect you to be capable of doing things, mercenary." The arrogant white man looked at the black man and said contemptuously, "You moved faster than I expected. You really didn't waste the time I gave you. Big, fat commissions.”
"I need to correct you, sir, you only gave me part of the commission, and the remaining balance has not yet been paid." The black mercenary saw the scornful attitude on the other side but didn't care much, and said seriously.
"You don't need to remind me, mercenary, or do you think I will default on your commission?" the white man said dissatisfied, looking at a box placed next to the black man, squinting his eyes, already a little fat The cheeks completely hid his small eyes into the flesh, but even so, everyone could see the greed in his eyes even through the door.
"Is that what I want?"
The black man glanced at the suitcase beside him and said calmly: "My rule is that the money and goods must be paid in full, so this thing cannot be used until the balance is paid -"
"How many more times are you going to keep nagging me? I won't be short of your money." When the white man heard the black mercenary's words, he said dissatisfiedly again, and softly muttered, "Tsk, you dirty poor guy." However, even Hayato and the others behind the door could hear the white man's words, and the black mercenary could hear them clearly, but even so, he still did not have an attack.
"I will settle your commission, but only after you take this thing out and hand it over to me. But before that, in order to avoid you wasting my valuable time, I need to confirm that you actually got it from me. What you want and what you get is genuine. That's no problem, right?" The white man looked at the mercenary and said again.
The black mercenary thought for a moment, then nodded and agreed to the other party's proposal to inspect the goods in advance. He lifted the box in his hand and opened the combination lock on it in a few clicks.
However, before opening the box, he still said to the white man with a serious face: "I bribed the gangs here to increase the ticket price for a limited time. The transferred staff will be back soon after a while, so Wa Mr. Luntai, the time you can check is limited, so you’d better move quickly.”
"In addition, I need to remind you that this is just for you to check the transaction items in advance. You can touch them, but it is best not to leave my sight. Otherwise, even if you are the employer, I will shoot you unless you pay the balance." ———”
"That's enough, you despicable poor guy, open that damn box!" It seemed that the fat white gentleman named "Valentine" had reached the end of his patience and ordered the black mercenary without grace.
The mercenary just opened the box in his hand expressionlessly, turned it over, and revealed something inside to Valentine's eyes.
Just for a moment, Valentine, who had an angry expression on his face just now, calmed down and looked at the things in the box obsessively, his eyes full of intoxication.
"This is it. This is what I want. Looking at the gorgeous colors and luxurious charm, even after thousands of years, it is still so charming. I can even see everything in the long years from above."
Gloved hands stretched out towards the treasure in the box that Hayato and the others had not seen yet. Valentine carefully picked it up from the box and held it in his hands, saying excitedly: "Such a beautiful thing. There is no doubt that it is an authentic product. Even without the use of professional instruments for identification, I, Fannie Valentine, can conclude based on my experience that this must be an ancient artifact from three thousand years ago!"
While Fannie Valentine was talking, Jonouchi was a little confused, because he heard Hayato beside him suddenly clenched his fists and cracked his knuckles.
"The price I paid to get this treasure is just a drop in the bucket compared to this beauty! With this beauty, I can definitely sell it for an astronomical figure. There is nothing more exciting than this!"
"I'm going to have you soon——"
Because the black mercenary kept staring at him, Fannie Valentine was somewhat disturbed from admiring the beautiful things, but he was overshadowed by the excitement of getting this treasure right away. Holding the ornament in her hand and admiring it carefully, Fannie Valentine said affectionately,
"——Three thousand years ago, the famous Ramses II gave jewelry to his favorite princess, Nefertari!"
"Peng!"
After all, Hayato, who still couldn't restrain himself, punched the stone door, which seemed to have triggered a mechanism somewhere. The stone door suddenly opened with a "boom", and Fannie Valentine looked at the wall beside him. It suddenly opened to reveal a large group of people with shocked faces.