After informing Snape that he was about to rush to Egypt, Ian began to think deeply about the situation in front of him.
The intrusion into the plot of <The Mummy> means that this is by no means a simple time travel in the movie. The <Jungle Cruise> world where Dr. Horton and Frank previously lived actually exists in the same plane as the <The Mummy> series.
There are only two explanations for this situation: either the world where Dr. Horton is located is itself a derivative or related world of the <The Mummy> series; or it is a special plane of the multiverse Fusion.
If it's the former, it's relatively stable. But if it's the latter, the world may be full of unknown variables.
In order to verify the conjecture, Ian closed his eyes, and his consciousness instantly sank into his own Mind Palace.
He was in a magnificent the Library. The collection of books here was so vast that it could fill an asteroid. Looking at this spectacular sight, Ian was filled with pride - this was the wealth of knowledge he had accumulated over several lifetimes.
Although he can completely transform Mind Palace into a super quantum computer to improve retrieval efficiency, he still prefers this traditional the Library style.
Ian waved his hand, and the huge bookshelf quickly moved and reorganized, finally stopping at the area marked [Earth Memory Bank].
With a thought, a book with <The Mummy> on the cover flew into his hand.
He quickly flipped through the entire book. Based on his memory, he knew that the <The Mummy> series not only had the original trilogy, but also a reboot in 2017, as well as a series of spin-off movies of <The Scorpion King>.
Unfortunately, he had only watched the original trilogy in its entirety in his previous life. As for the rest, apart from watching a few trailers and some fragmented information on the Internet, he knew very little about it.
Opening his eyes, Ian's expression became solemn. "It seems that the energy level of this world is not as low as we expected."
"What did you find?" Hermione asked.
"There are gods here, and there is more than one," Ian said in a deep voice.
After sorting out his memories, he confirmed that at least three gods appeared in the <The Mummy> trilogy: Pluto Osiris, Bleach Anubis, and the God of Chaos Set.
The first part's expression was relatively restrained, and it didn't show too many super-standard powers. But in the second part, the plot clearly revealed that the power of the Scorpion King and the high priest Imhotep originated from Bleach Anubis.
When he first watched the movie, Ian didn't delve into it. But now that he's in the real world and re-examining it from Arcanist's perspective, he discovered many details that had been overlooked.
For example, in the second part, the "fatalism" about the O'Connell couple and their son Alex.
Looking at the essence through the phenomenon, Ian even suspects that the final battle between Rick·O'Connell, the Scorpion King and Imhotep may actually be a proxy war between Anubis and Osiris.
During the decisive battle, Rick discovered that the seemingly useless "golden scepter" carried by his uncle Jonathan turned out to be Divine Artifact--Spear of Judgment that could kill monsters like the Scorpion King.
In the movie, this scepter seems to have the consciousness of Self. Through a series of coincidences and even taking advantage of Jonathan's greed, it travels all the way and is finally delivered to the protagonist at the most critical moment.
As an ordinary viewer, Ian used to think that the screenwriter was lazy and forced to use "fate" to fill in the holes.
But now, he is more inclined to believe that this is not the so-called fate, but that Pluto Osiris is secretly guiding the selected weapons to his Champion to fight against Anubis's chess pieces.
"Since these two are Overlord of Underworld, could it be that Anubis rebelled against his father Osiris and tried to usurp complete control of Underworld?"
Ian shook his head and shook these divergent thoughts out of his mind. All of these are just speculations without any substantial evidence.
However, he must be cautious in sailing the ship of ten thousand years. He decided that he must proceed with caution and test the reality of the gods in this world.
Then, Ian's thoughts returned to that tree [Moon's Tears].
The mural at the entrance records: A warrior shot the moon, and the moon cried because of the pain, and the tears turned into this tree Divine Tree.
At first, Ian thought that some kind of meteorite or creature fell from the moon. The mural was just the artistic processing of this Astronomy phenomenon by the Pukamichuna Tribe ancestors.
But now, since it is confirmed that gods exist in this world, the origin of this tree is worthy of scrutiny.
Perhaps, a moon god was really injured, and his spilled Divine Power or divine blood fell into the mortal world, giving birth to this Divine Tree tree with miraculous power.
If this is the case, the research value of this tree will far exceed expectations.
Thinking of this, Ian immediately contacted Morgana.
"Control several Golem over there, and conduct in-depth field analysis before sending Divine Tree back to Floating City."
After informing Morgana of his speculations and theories, Ian stopped staying.
Since he could not wait for Morgana to arrive, he simply re-sealed the entrance to Divine Tree and placed several concealment barriers around it to prevent Divine Tree from being discovered by others.
After doing all this, he took Hermione's hand and started Apparition directly to Egypt.
However, surprisingly, the space was blocked.
A powerful curse enveloped the entire Egypt, passively interfering with the spatial coordinates, preventing them from teleporting directly in.
In desperation, Ian and Hermione had no choice but to fly. In order to rush for time, they did not hesitate to consume the high-purity magic power Crystal to replenish their consumption, and flew to their destination at full speed.
Egypt, Cairo.
Although it was afternoon, the sky was as gloomy as night.
Looking at this vision, Ian knew that the curse of Imhotep had begun to take effect, and as time went by, the power of the Mummy was growing rapidly.
The current Ian is suppressed by the world and can only exert the strength of Second Tier. Imhotep of Resurrection already has the power of Third Tier. Once he is allowed to enter the desert home court, his strength can even soar to Fourth Tier.
Without any delay, he took Hermione straight to the hotel where Snape and Lily were staying. There, he also met the three protagonists of the <The Mummy> series:
Rick·O'Connell, Evelyn, and Jonathan·Carnahan.
"How is the situation?" Ian asked directly after entering the door.
"This group of reckless guys awakened a cursed the Mummy that has been sleeping for thousands of years. Now, that monster needs to kill everyone who opens the shrine and drain their life force to Resurrection," Snape reported with a cold face.
"How many of those United States people are left?" Ian asked.
Snape was a little surprised as to why Ian knew that United States was also involved, but he was already used to the mystery of His Majesty the Emperor.
"Only one person is left alive."
"Where's the Egypt ologist?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a shrill scream suddenly came from outside the window.
Everyone rushed to the window and saw a hooded figure standing in front of a mummy, holding a thick black book in his hand.
The man slowly turned around, revealing a disgusting face - his cheeks were rotten and perforated, and his human shape was no longer visible.
He opened his mouth, and countless densely packed flies and corpses spewed out of his mouth, swooping madly at the surrounding crowd.
"We are late, he has already obtained Black Book of the Dead," Ian looked at the black book in Imhotep's hand, a trace of desire flashed in his eyes, "And, with the release of the new curse, his power has increased."
"What should we do next?" Lily asked.
Ian turned to look at Lily, his eyes became a little strange.
I saw this usually gentle Lily, holding two large-caliber pistols in his hands at this moment, with a kind of light called "excitement" in Blink's eyes.
Although I don't know what turned this usually serious witch into a gun maniac, but now is obviously not the time to delve into it.
"We need to return to Hamunaptra immediately and find Golden Book of the Sun. With it, I can control Imhotep, or at least weaken his power."
After saying that, he looked at the three protagonists. They were looking at Ian with blank faces, secretly guessing who the leader of the two strong Grand Wizard was.
Ian walked straight to Rick·O'Connell: "Let me see your hands."
Out of some instinct, Rick stretched out his right hand. But he soon regretted it, because Ian was staring at the tattoo on the back of his hand.
Ian knows that this tattoo represents that he is a descendant of Pharaoh's Guard - a secret organization that has guarded Imhotep's mausoleum for thousands of years and is determined to stop his Resurrection.
He also knew that it was this tattoo that would guide Rick to discover the true use of the scepter in the future, and thus transform into Spear of Judgment and kill the Scorpion King.
"Take these three people with you, and we will fly directly to Hamunaptra under the cover of night."
Except Hermione can fly by itself, everyone else needs to bring one passenger.
As soon as Ian finished speaking, Snape rushed to Rick·O'Connell and grabbed him.
Snape stared at Rick, his eyes full of murderous intent, as if he wanted to give this man a shot of Avada Kedavra on the spot.
"What happened to him?" Hermione asked in confusion.
"Ever since I complimented Rick on how handsome he is, he has always behaved like this," Lily sighed and explained helplessly.
"Well, he is indeed quite handsome," Ian commented objectively, "The charm of a gunman who is rugged, heroic and a little ruffian is indeed very attractive to women. But..."
He changed the subject. "You're definitely not as handsome as me anyway, right?"
"Of course, dear. In my eyes, you are the most handsome man in the universe," Hermione smiled and stroked his hair.
"I just pretended not to notice the pause before you answered."
It's all teasing, business matters are more important.
Ian walked up to Jonathan and grabbed his back collar like a chicken. Then, he turned into a black shadow and rose into the sky.
Others followed closely behind. Snape grabbed Rick with a look of disgust, while Lily flew into the night sky with Evelyn.