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Chapter 17 A friend comes from afar

The answer came to the construction site by himself the next day.

Except for the underground temple that I accidentally discovered last year, the Chinese team's archeology in Egypt has always been quite satisfactory. I have never encountered the thrills and excitement in novels and movies about tomb robbing. Sticking to the construction site is all about generating electricity for love.

But finally, God rewards diligence, and those who dig diligently can find fragments with inscriptions.

After happily recording the coordinates with the total station, I took the ruler and placed it next to the fragment, taking pictures for later records. When I was about to come up from the exploration area with the camera hanging around my neck and the ruler in my hand, Lou Shiqi was waiting there.

above.

Detective Fang from the east also made a discovery. He came to get the ruler from me.

I was standing in the exploration area. It was really difficult to get up to this depth without help. Lou Shiqi took the equipment and put it aside first, then freed his hand to give me a hand. But neither of us expected it.

He almost didn't bring me down with this pull. Fortunately, Lou Shiqi had some strength and pushed me up with all his strength.

After we got up, he was about to speak, but I glared at him and told him to shut up.

"What about the muscles in my body? You know, the muscles are relatively heavy." I explained without holding back.

"I don't want to say anything." Lou Shiqi felt aggrieved. "But next time you really don't want to compete with me for the leg of lamb. This is for your own good."

"You should eat less. You keep so many snacks to yourself and eat them secretly. You have no spirit of sharing."

We jostled each other all the way. Lou Shiqi came to ask for the ruler, but I refused to give it to him. Later, when Teacher Wang called me, he secretly took the ruler and started playing with it triumphantly.

Teacher Wang and I watched Lou Shiqi fumble around for a while, and my hands started to itch. So after giving the camera and the fragments in the bag to Teacher Wang, I snatched the ruler back from Lou Shiqi.

When I was young, Li Yuan and I said we wanted to go to Shichahai Sports School to learn martial arts. Although we didn't make the trip, I still attended martial arts classes for a period of time. Playing with sticks was my favorite at the time. Even though I hadn't practiced for more than ten years, I gained a lot of skills.

But this kind of learned muscle memory will never be forgotten, and now I can practice it for a while.

I took the one-meter-long red and white ruler, weighed it twice and waved it away. I was surrounded by my own people, so I was not afraid of making a fool of myself.

But it was because I was unfamiliar, so I managed to take a few moves and then took my hand off. Even so, Lou Shiqi and Teacher Wang were very supportive and kept cheering me up. I didn’t feel embarrassed either. I leaned over and picked up the ruler.

He even pretended to show his gratitude.

"The working atmosphere here is quite lively." A female voice said in Chinese.

As soon as I recovered my posture, Xun Sheng turned around. Teacher Wang and Lou Shiqi also looked over there.

The woman who just spoke looked at us with a smile, and there was a middle-aged man with a gentle face standing next to her. The team leader stood beside these two people. When we turned to them, he introduced: "This is Teacher Xia Shangzhou and Bai Shu."

Teacher, they just arrived in Luxor a few days ago. I took them to the construction site to have a look." After that, he introduced us to teachers Xia and Bai: "This is Teacher Wang from the SX Provincial Institute, and this is the Guangxi Provincial Institute.

Lou Shiqi. The one who did the trick just now is our intern Wang Yu."

I smiled at the two people and said hello: "Hello, Teacher Xia, Hello, Teacher Bai." Then I felt embarrassed after realizing it.

This was probably the person the team leader went to pick up that day.

The guests came over and shook hands with the three of us in a very elegant manner. I secretly rubbed my hand on my pants and then stretched out my hand.

Xia Shangzhou looked to be in his early thirties, with lines full of smiles around his eyes and lips. Her hands were unexpectedly not so soft, and she squeezed my palm lightly but forcefully, and jokingly said: "You

She plays the ruler very well." The name Xia Shangzhou is too domineering, and it contrasts cutely with her.

I grinned and said, "Show your ugliness."

Bai Shu wears a pair of metal-rimmed glasses. He looks older than Xia Shangzhou. His hair and eyebrows are lighter in color, and his skin color is reasonably white. His appearance is unattractive, but he has a sense of settled warmth. This will

He had already gone through formalities with Lou Shiqi and the others. Now he came to me and said, "Hello, I'm Bai Shu." He held my finger loosely and paused politely for two seconds.

He took his hand back.

It was almost ten o'clock, and everyone on the construction site gathered for breakfast. Teacher Wen invited teachers Xia and Bai to have breakfast together, but they were declined. They said they were just here to have a look and would go to meet their colleagues later. Before leaving, Xia

The teacher also said goodbye to me with a smile.

I don’t know why they came here or why they met again.

The Lao Ganma that Lou Shiqi brought had been completely consumed, and the extra meal was tasteless. As soon as I went down to visit Fang after the meal, Teacher Liang called me over.

I don’t know what big day it is today, but many people came to visit our construction site. As soon as I climbed to the ground with difficulty, I saw Lao Zhang and A Tian standing in front of the tent in the camp. Ali had placed a statue of Thutmose III in front of the tent.

I was talking to a responsible person from Egypt.

Lao Zhang happily waved his long arms when he saw me, and A Tian also rarely took the initiative to wave to me.

When I got to them, I asked, "Why did you two come without saying a word?"

Originally, Ali and I had a practice meal that day, and A Tian and Lao Zhang were going back to school the next day. But when Ali heard that I was on the archaeological team, his eyes lit up and he asked me if I knew there was a temple underneath our construction site.

He said that the temple belonged to a god who came from the desert and could turn human blood into gold.

But since the underground building was discovered by me, the archaeological team has not excavated it, and no information has been announced to the public. Ali said that it was a friend who worked on the construction site. Now it seems that Ali’s friend is probably this Eifang

You should be in charge now.

That night, A Tian pulled me out of bed and said that she and Lao Zhang had discussed it behind my back and decided to go back together after my internship was over. I knew she might have been frightened by what Ali said, but I

We can't waste their time with some irrelevant things. So I objected.

"Didn't you hear what Ali said? Their hometown has a legend about immortals who neither eat nor drink. What if this is another form of expression of transformation? Didn't Grandpa Li say that transformation does not only happen to the Yin family?

And you have seen ghosts in the Luxor Temple." Lao Zhang stood firmly under the banner of A Tian.

I muttered that it was not the Luxor Temple but the Karnak Temple, and I am not that easy to see ghosts.

A Tian ignored me at all: "According to Ali, the temple discovered by you last year caused quite a stir, and basically there was some rumors among the locals. But I couldn't find any information, and you didn't listen either

You got the news, right? This proves that something is actually happening, but we don't know about it. You are still at the epicenter and don't know." A Tian said seriously, "If we don't take this seriously, what if it really happens?

What to do?”

I said helplessly: "But what can happen?"

"It's because we don't know what will happen, so we can't take it lightly." A Tian asked me to correct my attitude, "And didn't you always say that you should be in awe of the unknown. I don't believe in these ghosts, but

I can't stand any chance."

Lao Zhang also became serious: "I said, Lao Wang, can you be more considerate? If we leave and you end up here, what do you want me and the Great Sage to do?"

I'm speechless.

"Actually, if it was just an archaeological team, we wouldn't be worried, but do you remember what Arnold said at the auction? There will be other teams coming to Egypt." Lao Zhang continued to lobby, "And Sister Rhea is nothing.

Good thing. If she makes it clear what she wants, then the danger involved is extraordinary."

"Li Yuan hasn't shown up yet. Isn't he also coming to Egypt? And what your grandpa Li said about 279, do you have any news about them?" A Tian asked me. "How many of these people are easy to get along with?"

Yes, if we leave, who can you point to in Egypt?"

I was stopped by their question and could only shake my head.

What happened recently was indeed a coincidence. I had just heard about the magnetic field and the Yin family from Grandpa Li, and Lao Zhang brought news about Professor Holmes and the others in Antarctica. Arnold was exhibiting at the auction in London.

The [Eternal Eye] that came out, and the relationship between Sister Zhang and Rhea, were all too coincidental. Even Ali, who was dug out by Qi Tian from an anti-intellectual forum in the United States, had secrets.

After this analysis, I also realized that the matter may indeed be beyond imagination. Lao Zhang and I, two completely unrelated things, are actually connected. Just looking at the time and space spanned by them, I can't imagine the connection.

How widespread is it? And these things are actually known to me or people around me. Is it really just a coincidence? If it is not a coincidence, then whoever arranged it knows all about my social relationships, and also

There is enough energy to affect this relationship.

I hope it's just a coincidence. I comforted myself.

After I made a reasonable decision to stay with me until the end of the archaeological internship, A Tian asked me what I knew about this magnetic field and what the so-called transformation was about.

"Why did the illness of the Yin family members get better after Li Zheng's transformation began? How did Li Yuan replace Li Zheng?"

I said: "I don't know the specifics. But from what I understand, since the 'disease' is a side effect of this [transformation], then the side effects will stop when the transformation is transferred."

Lao Zhang made an analogy: "If the magnetic field theory is true, can it be understood that the so-called magnetic field can actually spread signals like a whale? However, because the human body's reception capacity is limited, people who have not been transformed will be affected by high-frequency signals.

Shock injury. And this reading ability will be passed on within the Yin family. As for other than the Yin family, it may be that they accidentally walked to a place where it is acceptable, but their bodies have not been modified from generation to generation, so they died without holding on."

This is the analysis, but none of us can make a conclusion. I think we should catch Li Yuan and ask him after we see him.

A Tian thought for a while: "Will this magnetic field act on your body? For example, if the magnetic field is prepared for the Yin family, will it also prepare others? I don't quite understand why the magnetic field

If you only 'prepare' a certain person, shouldn't you put your eggs in different baskets?"

I didn't expect such things. "Actually, I think if they really want to do something, they won't be able to use me, right? I don't know anything."

"With your size, you can be a good cannon fodder." Lao Zhang snorted. But he also felt that A Tian might be thinking too much: "Why, does this magnetic field have its own thinking now?"

A Tian shook his head: "We still don't know where this magnetic field came from. Remember when Ali said in Cairo that he had seen things that made him believe in prehistoric civilization? I think he might know something. But I

What I don’t understand is that since he can promote this theory on the forum, why is he still hiding it now?”

Regarding the principle and function of the magnetic field and the situation that Ali concealed, I couldn't understand it for a while. I still feel a little sorry for A Tian and Lao Zhang sacrificing themselves to accompany me in Egypt.

"You don't have to think too much, we won't just spend time here with you." Lao Zhang continued, "Anyway, no one is here yet, it's Christmas soon, and there is nothing to do at school or hospital.

You can do it. The Great Sage and I just took this opportunity to have some fun in Egypt."

A Tian nodded in agreement. "I checked the guide and found that snorkeling is possible in the Red Sea right now."

I know that A Tian is actually not a fun-loving person, and what she said now just makes me feel less guilty. But I don’t know how to face this friendship.

"I have been to Egypt so many times and I have never been to the Red Sea." So I said unwillingly, "Then you two have a good time and come back and tell me about the Ten Commandments of Moses."

As a result, the two people who originally planned to spend Christmas in the Sinai Peninsula and then return to Luxor showed up at our archaeological site.

"Lao Wang, this is the first time I have seen an archaeological site. It's so cool!" Lao Zhang expressed his excitement.

I got permission to take my friends around. I politely asked Ali if he wanted to come with us. He said no, he had come to see us. Then we chatted with the person in charge of Egypt.

I didn’t insist anymore. Also, if Ali can bring Lao Zhang and others in now, he must have been able to come in before. Sure enough, favors are still very useful in some places. Both Egypt and our country have this wisdom of favors, especially in

You are most generous when you don’t need to pay out of your own pocket.

I took A Tian and Lao Zhang and stood at the camp and looked down.

So far, the exploration team has expanded to almost the entire construction site. In fact, they came just to visit me, and they were not interested in the boring archaeological work. They were only very interested in the temple that I photographed last year.

The underground temple was relatively sensitive, so I didn’t dare to take them to see it blatantly. I could only reach out and pretend to point to an inscription on the Ma’at Temple, and whispered: “See the cleared pit on our right.

Are you there? That’s the temple inside.”

"Old Wang, what's wrong with your hands?" Old Zhang stopped looking at the temple and began to dislike my hands.

I have been digging all over the ground these days, and I have developed small blisters on my hands. After all, the soil is thousands of years old, and I am allergic, so I may have had some reactions. Lao Zhang said that why did my hands become like this after not seeing each other for a few days?

Damn it. I said these are the hands of working people, what do you know? He asked me if I had any medicine and asked me to go back and apply it.

"Hey, what's the big deal?" I scratched it nonchalantly and broke the bag on my index finger.

"Why are you scratching it? Aren't you afraid of infection? Just put some hand cream on it and it will be better."

"I don't have hand cream." I said confidently. "I'm here to work, not to enjoy life."

"After all these years, you still forget to bring hand cream?" Lao Zhang choked me.

It happened that Lou Shiqi came up to put the camera up at this time. Hearing what Lao Zhang said, he added: "I also have hand cream. This guy didn't even bring facial cleanser, so he just used soap to wash his face."

I glared at him: "Don't talk nonsense if you don't understand. That's facial soap."

"When did you start using facial soap? Why didn't I know?" A Tian also joined the Jie Lao Di fighting team.

I had nothing to do with them. Just as I was about to introduce each other, Lou Shiqi already took the initiative to extend his hand:

"Lou Shiqi, technician at the Guangxi Provincial Institute of Archeology."

"Zhang Yang, a medical student and a friend of Lao Wang."

"Qi Tian, ​​Wang Yu's friend."

Lou Shiqi shook hands with Lao Zhang and nodded to A Tian.

It was almost noon at this time, and A Tian invited me to have lunch with him. I said that I should ask the team leader for instructions.

The team leader went out with Xia and Bai again this morning, and returned to the construction site not long ago with a lawsuit on his head.

Normally I would never get into trouble. After all, our archaeological team is in a foreign country as a team. If something happens to a member who leaves the team, the team leader will be responsible. Unexpectedly, he agreed happily and told me to pay attention.

Safety, and said: "It would be best if you don't come back to eat at night, we are going out to have a big dinner."

Then I definitely couldn’t miss it, and I repeatedly promised to return to the team before dinner.

Ali went home at noon. He was tired from walking around in such a circle. Lao Zhang had tanned a lot, but A Tian still looked very insulated from the heat.

I asked: "How was it going to the Red Sea? Aren't you two planning to go to Aswan to take a cruise? Why did you come back early?"

Lao Zhang said: "It's not just for you. The Great Sage said that if something happens, he will come back to you in advance. You see how good we are, you can't express it?"

I was so moved that I couldn't be more moved. I immediately said that you two are great, and I hurriedly bought some incense and lit it when I got home.

A Tian said: "You are still playing zither. Do you know who has come to Egypt now?"

"Li Yuan?" I could only think of him. This guy never showed up. If I didn't know that Grandpa Li wouldn't lie to me, I would have thought he was playing tricks on me.

"It would be great if it was Li Yuan. He still hasn't found this person yet." A Tian said.

"Is it possible that Li Yuan is a wanted criminal, so he has to remain anonymous?" Lao Zhang asked. He believed it. He felt that we didn't find Li Yuan at first because we went in the wrong direction. We should check the list of criminal and dishonest persons.

of.

A Tian glanced at him contemptuously: "I have already checked the names of dangerous and wanted criminals, but at least he is not there." Lao Zhang said in disappointment. A Tian ignored him and continued: "There have been two people in the past few days.

A group of people came to Egypt, and nine of them came from China the day before yesterday. There are also some people who came to Egypt from all over the world one after another, including students of our Arnold and Professor Holmes. And although we don’t know the specific details now

situation, but the nine people from China are likely to be members of Project 279."

No wonder A Tian and Lao Zhang rushed back in a hurry. They were afraid that I would suffer a loss if I met these people later.

"The leader of our archaeological team did pick up someone the day before yesterday. It might be them." I thought about it and asked A Tian: "Do you have a list of 279 there?" A Tian nodded and said to bring it to me after dinner.

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While eating, I listened to the two of them talk about their experiences, and then told them our story.

"Why do you mean those little animals eating iron pots? Or did Lou Shiqi remember it wrong? Doctor Zhang will explain it to us from a medical perspective."

Lao Zhang frowned and thought for a while: "I don't understand the myth of the iron-eating beast. But according to my understanding, it makes more sense to supplement nutrients. But it's not that crazy. If you have to tell the truth

In that case, we can only say that we were infected, but that’s not very realistic.”

I didn’t understand so I asked: “What is the infection?”

Dr. Zhang said: "Some bacteria have evolved the ability to eat metal in order to survive. Most of these bacteria are found in mining areas with harsh environments. They have no choice but to eat minerals. But generally this kind of bacteria has all the skills.

In pica, encountering a living immune system is basically a waste. This is why I say that it is unrealistic for those animals to be infected with this bacteria. After all, if there are animals that can get close, there is no need to evolve this ability, or accidentally

If you encounter an animal and get a ride on it, it will be killed by other bacteria in their body. Unless there is a sudden earthquake or glacier cracking, dust-covered bacteria suddenly encounter a living thing. But this is back to immunity, what's the matter?

It’s all very unlikely. I guess I’m just overthinking it when I’m nervous.”

I nodded. Yes, this kind of thing cannot be taken seriously.

After eating, A Tian took out the information she had found. In addition to the recent entry records, there was also a list of the Chinese expedition team.

There are thirteen people in that list, namely Meng Weiqing, Bai Shu, Xia Shangzhou, Ding Ze, He Rongchuan, Chang Xiao, Guangyu, Jiang Can, Han Jiangxue and Yin Yuechen. There is also one named Hanwu, who looks like

It's a code name or a homophone.

In addition to these people, Lou Shiqi's and my names are also on that list.

(End of chapter)