The Lovestruck High Priest Was Finally Unearthed

Early the next morning

The group, who had slept soundly through the night, woke up one after another. They felt they'd slept exceptionally well and had no idea that the Scriptures and treasures they treasured had already been swept up by Hao Shuai.

Once everyone was awake, Hao Shuai and Selena finally emerged from their tent, arriving at their leisure.

"Hao Shuai, Selena, come over and have some coffee," Evelyn called.

"No, I'll pass," Selena said, shaking her head. Then she went for a walk by herself.

Hao Shuai didn't refuse. He went straight to sit beside O'Connell, took the hot coffee Evelyn handed him, and said, "Thanks!"

"Does Selena skip breakfast first thing in the morning?" Evelyn asked. "Is that how she gets such a great figure and skin?"

"Evelyn, are we going back down into the Secret Chamber later?"

Feeling that he and Evelyn, a sheltered young woman, weren't on the same wavelength, Hao Shuai decisively changed the subject.

"Of course. The archaeologists say that beneath the statue of the god of death—in the room we visited yesterday—is where the Sun Scripture is kept," Evelyn declared confidently.

"Uh... suit yourself!" Hao Shuai didn't know what else to say, so he let her do as she pleased. It would give him the chance to dig Imhotep out.

After breakfast, Evelyn eagerly dragged Hao Shuai and the others back into the Secret Chamber. But no matter how thoroughly she searched beneath the statue of the god of death, she couldn't find a secret compartment or the legendary Book of the Dead.

(Of course not. Hao Shuai had filled in the compartment, making it solid. They'd have had to be ghosts to find it!)

Unwilling to give up, Evelyn studied the hieroglyphs around them and found a passage leading to an