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Summer had led them into a reater concern, there was no other way out

She shone her light around the walls “End of the line,” she whispered

Dirk helped Stanley to a far corner and set hi and the two laborers and spoke in a low voice “Best we can do is try to juainst his pal the side walls”

He and Zeibig took position on opposite sides of the entrance as the others hugged the ground They extinguished the lights, and the room fell as black as the bottom of a well

In the eerie darkness, the seven heard only the beating of his or her pounding heart The spirit of the tomb’s three-thousand-year-old occupant see the air with a deathly silence

Then the gunmen entered the burial chamber

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Despite the cool underground air, Dirk felt a filrip He stood poised by the anteroounman to enter He suddenly felt a presence next to hiainst a female form Too short to be Suhtly, placing a tre hand on his shoulder for support

A light flickered beyond the opening as the two gunmen surveyed the burial chamber Several times it flicked toward the doorway, but they showed no interest in its interior

Inside the anteroo

Then the burial chaunfire The bursts echoed off the limestone walls and into the anteroom, yet no bullets came with it After multiple shots, the chamber fell quiet

Dirk and Zeibig held their position at the doorway The only thing to enter was gun s across the stone floor The chamber then fell dark and silent

Dirk and the others re a word Dirk finally rose, giving a half hug to Riki, standing next to him “Stay here,” he whispered to all in the room

He felt along the top of the doorway and ducked into the burial chamber Even on dives to the botto exposed to such total, suffocating blackness Groping blindly, he stretched his ars crunched beneath his feet as he h he couldn’t see it, his lungs felt the heavy smoke

His hands eventually found the opposite hall and the entrance to the burial chaht to his right The gunmen had cleared the first corridor and were now in the outer passage, their light reflected around the far bend