(18 August 1942 – 2:00 PM)
Aradhay Kaushik boards a plane to Egypt, and his mind is running with questions… "What is this treasure?" "Why was it sent to Umhotep?" "Where is Miyake, and why did they just knock me unconscious, and not render me dead entirely?" I hope Egypt has the answers I seek…
(21 August – 3:30 PM)
After about 3 days of clue hunting, Aradhay is positive about the direction and path he is heading towards…
Tour Guide: Sir Aradhay, there's been an interesting set of cases that's been happening recently… Might be of interest to you…
Aradhay: Go ahead…
Tour Guide: There's been a number of break-ins at the tomb of Abu Simbel recently…
Aradhay: …Which are all of the tombs that Umhotep is known to work on…
Tour Guide: Exactly, but that's not all sir…
Aradhay: More interesting lore… Tell me…
Tour Guide: Umhotep was known to have employed the finest jewellers and craftsmen in all of Egypt…
Aradhay: Forgive my curiosity, but how do you know this much about the Abu Simbel tombs?
Tour Guide: I grew up with the legends and stories of the tombs of this region, and besides, my gut instincts tell me that these stories could be true so yeah…
Aradhay: Makes sense, let's head to one of the tombs then…
Tour Guide: Sure sir…
"Umhotep employing such expertise… Perhaps it kind of explains the treasure that Umhotep received from Cambodia… But these are all just unproven theories…" Aradhay ponders…
(5:30 PM)
The tour guide led me to the famous tomb of Ramses II, after about two hours of driving around the harsh desert terrain… And it looked like they arrived quite on time…
A guard laid crumpled before the broken door of the entrance. Aradhay checks his pulse, and finds out that he was still breathing… He instructs the tour guide to wait with the jeep, as Aradhay turns off his hand lamp and enters into the tomb to investigate…
A few minutes of walking into the tomb, and Aradhay spots something… He spots a group of men standing near the back wall. They had broken through to a hidden room, which was filled with papyrus scrolls. One of the men, a towering demonic figure, was reading a scroll by the light of a hand lamp… And Aradhay also finds Miyake along with them…
Aradhay decides to act in the moment and rashly jumps out of hiding to confront the bandits. As soon as they saw him, the "big fellow" as Aradhay noted, shouted a command, and his henchmen drew pistols. Aradhay leapt back for cover just as the bullets began to fly, as he was unarmed, trapped and had nowhere to go…
(6:30 PM)
The chase continues, and Aradhay thinks he was doomed, but the men ran past his hiding place and out into the night. He sticks his head out, just to see the bandits dragging Miyake behind them… "NO!" He protested, but his shout was just met by another bullet, which just whizzed past his ear…
He followed the men out, just in time to see them speed off up into the valley in jeeps marked with a peculiar skull and bones emblem…
(7:30 PM)
Aradhay calls out to his tour guide, and he is relieved that the tour guide was safe behind a rock. Unfortunately for them, their nemesis shot the jeep tires, so for the moment, they were stuck…
With no other choices left for them, Aradhay and the tour guide turned on their lamps and re-entered the tomb, and they search the back room of the tomb…
Tour Guide: Sir Aradhay, I found something here…
Aradhay: It can't be…
Tour Guide: What is it sir?
Aradhay: What is the corner of a tapestry from the Castle of King Ludwig II, the Mad King of Bavaria, doing here in a tomb in the middle of Egypt?!
Tour Guide: It could just be a coincidence sir…
Aradhay: It is too much of a coincidence to overlook, and I know where am heading next…
Tour Guide: Where to, sir?
Aradhay: Germany