Code of the Dead

On the night when the archaeological team opened the Pharaoh's sarcophagus, the remaining team members issued a final warning: "The curse is real!" The campground was empty when we arrived, with only designs of ancient Egyptian scarabs carved into the sand. After going deep into the tomb, the intercom suddenly sounded the voice of the remaining team member: "Run away... It is imitating our speech..." When the fifth team member died in the manner predicted by the mural, I discovered that all the corpses were missing their right eyes. And in my camera, a photo of my former team leader who should have died twenty years ago suddenly appeared. He stood between us, with a bloody scarab crawling out of his missing right eye socket. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.