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There is an old saying in my village.

Greed digs more graves than death

itself.

My grandfather used to say that greed

consumes a man long before death ever

reaches him.

Yet the same stories repeat

generation after generation.

Men come.

Men search.

Men disappear.

Human greed seems to know no limits.

And so it was on a cold autumn day

just as my grandfather once told me, the

two archaeologists arrived just before

sunset.

They carried maps,

journals,

and dreams of becoming legends.

To them, the temple was nothing more

than a discovery waiting to happen.

A forgotten treasure hidden by time.

>>

>> But to the villagers,

it was a wound best left unopened. A

place spoken of only in whispers.

No one agreed to guide them.

Not at first.

Yet greed is not a burden carried only

by explorers.

A local man finally stepped forward.

For the right price, he would share what

he knew.

The ancient gold coin changed hands

beneath a silent sky. The guide led them

deep into the wilderness

through trails long abandoned by men.

The farther they traveled,

the quieter the world became

until they reached a weathered stone

marker.

There,

he stopped.

Fear shadowed his face.

He refused to go any farther.

Reluctantly, he pointed toward the

mountains, toward a narrow path

swallowed by jungle, toward the temple.

Then he turned back.

Without another word, the archaeologists

watched him disappear into the forest.

So, they continued alone.

Through dense forest,

across forgotten paths,

ever deeper into the wilderness.

Next morning, they have found it.

Half-buried beneath vines and stone,

ancient,

silent,

waiting.

As though it had been expecting them.

They stood before the temple entrance.

High above the doorway, carved into

weathered stone, was an ancient deity,

as if it had spent centuries telling men

to turn back. None ever listened.

Neither did they.

Then, a torch sparked to life.

And together, they stepped into the

darkness beyond. The corridor stretched

deep into the mountain,

far deeper than either man had expected.

Massive stone figures stood along the

walls,

silent sentinels abandoned by time.

Torchlight danced across their faces.

Then they reached a wall covered in

carvings.

There, the same strange deity appeared

again

and again.

The same symbols repeated beneath their

feet,

a language neither man could understand.

Still, they continued down narrow

stairways,

deeper beneath the earth.

The darkness grew heavier.

Then one of them heard it,

a whisper,

so faint he thought he had imagined it,

but the feeling remained,

as though something had just noticed

them.

At the heart of the ruins, they found

it.

An underground chamber sealed by a

massive stone door.

Its surface covered in thousands of

ancient glyphs.

Neither man could read the symbols.

Yet both believed they understood their

purpose.

For hours, they studied the carvings,

tracing patterns,

comparing symbols,

searching for meaning hidden within the

stone.

Then,

it happened.

The stone moved.

The seal was broken.

Dust rained from the ceiling.

Beyond it,

there was nothing.

No gold,

no treasure, only darkness.

The men stared into the chamber,

confused,

disappointed,

certain they had come all this way for

nothing. They were about to leave.

Just then, the temperature dropped.

Their breaths turned white.

The torch flames trembled.

And something changed within reality

itself.

The shadows no longer obeyed the

firelight. The walls seemed farther away

than before. Then,

the temple twisted around them like a

living dream.

Time lost its meaning. Moments stretched

into hours. The ancient glyphs began to

move, flowing across the walls. The

whispers returned.

This time, from every direction.

It was something older,

something the human mind was never meant

to remember.

They ran, faster and faster. Torchlight

danced wildly against the stone.

Every corridor promised escape.

Every turn offered hope

until they stopped. They were standing

before the chamber once again.

The same door. That was when they saw

it.

Not clearly.

A shape that refused to exist. A

movement that reason could not follow.

The darkness called. Neither man spoke.

Neither man resisted. Whether they

stepped forward willingly or whether

their very will had been rewritten,

no one can say. Together,

they walked into the darkness

and vanished. Stone groaned once more.

The chamber sealed itself as though

nothing had ever happened.

And that

is where the story ends.

Or at least,

that is where most people believe it

ends.

By now,

you are probably wondering

how I know what happened inside that

temple.

Years ago, I asked my grandfather the

very same question.

How could he know what the two

archaeologists saw? What waited beneath

those ancient stones?

He didn't answer.

Not at first.

He simply looked at me.

Then,

he said something I have never

forgotten.

I know

because

I was there.

My grandfather

was the only man

who ever entered that temple

and escaped. But whatever he encountered

in those depths

never truly let him leave.

The man who returned was not the same

man who went in.

Over the years, he lost everything.

His family, his friends,

his peace of mind.

Some said old age had made him mad.

Others believed something had followed

him out of the darkness that day.

Even in his final years, he would wake

screaming in the middle of the night,

repeating the same words over and over

again.

Words no one could understand.

Words spoken

>>

>> in a language older than memory.

And perhaps that is why whenever I think

about the temple, I remember the old

saying he loved so much.

La codicia cava más tumbas que la

muerte.

Greed takes more graves than death

itself.

Because sometimes greed does not kill a

man.

Sometimes it leaves him alive only to

suffer a fate far worse than death

itself.