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Chapter 19 Winter Solstice Sacrifice

Compared to Christmas and the Gregorian New Year, which have little significance, the winter solstice is more ceremonial in Luxor.

The ancient Egyptians created a wonder at the Temple of Karnak:

On the winter solstice, the sun will rise from the end of Gongyang Avenue, and its light will pass through the opposite door walls and pillars impartially. The rising sun of the winter solstice will just fall on the statues of the sun god, Amun and Ra.

be combined together.

In the Karnak Temple, the stone window through which you can see the sunrise is called the holy of the holies. So every day there will be hundreds of people who are more diligent than the archaeological team.

While it was still dark, people gathered in front of the Karnak Temple and waited in line to receive the first ray of light.

I heard that the temple where they work every day has this program. Teachers Lou Shiqi, Xin, and Ji responded positively. Even if they had to get up at four o'clock, they could not dampen their enthusiasm. The team leader and others had already participated in the first year

, I really have no interest in spending two hours of sleep just to watch the sunrise this year. Although Teacher Wang is here for the first time, the bed is obviously more attractive to him. In fact, I don’t really want to go, but He Rongchuan

In [Enter Egypt], Lou Shiqi and I were greeted as if we were participating in a 279 team building.

I haven't seen those 279 people since the last time we had dinner together. So I thought it might as well go and get in touch with them while the leader and others were away this time.

After telling A Tian and Lao Zhang about watching the sunrise during the winter solstice, A Tian said that she would sleep with the sunrise every day and would not join in the fun. Lao Zhang happily made an appointment with me to watch the sunrise together. He

He said it was just a good time to run over, so we started doing morning exercises. I laughed at his naivety. Luxor was like an ice cave when the sun wasn't out, so I told him to wear more clothes.

On the morning of the winter solstice, a few of us woke up hungry, and as soon as we got off the bus at Karnak Temple, we were shaking like hollow cabbages.

He Rongchuan, Jiang Can and Bai Shu were more active and were already waiting for us. They also brought breakfast packed from the hotel, and they and their meals seemed to glow in the dark.

I didn't see anyone else, so I asked, "Teacher Bai, are you the only ones watching the sunrise?"

Bai Shu smiled gently and said that some people were night owls and couldn't get up, while others were not interested. In fact, even he himself was deceived by He Rongchuan and Jiang Can.

So at the end of the team building, Mr. Bai Jiang Can and He Rongchuan watched the four members of our archaeological team eating breakfast in the cold wind. He Rongchuan was a little dissatisfied with this direction. Especially after learning that Lou Shiqi and I were not satisfied after watching the sunrise.

He expressed great regret when he had to go to the construction site and could not explore Luxor together.

I simply don’t know what the 279 people are doing in Luxor every day. Are they really just here for an “investment inspection”?

After a while, Lao Zhang came shivering. When he got up, A Tian was still awake, and he was pulled over after being rubbed hard. When we came to Egypt, we did not make any preparations to keep out the cold. On the contrary, A Tian and I

One of them had a fur cloak that they brought back from the Suez Canal, while Lao Zhang only had a jacket and an upright look.

After we met, there were already quite a lot of tourists, so we had to find a seat near the edge. Fortunately, we had a good view, and we could also see the sacrificial performance in front of the temple. It was basically a sacrificial performance.

Several people held up flags and waved them to seek luck.

Teachers Bai, Xin, and Ji were more stable and not very good at squeezing around with people, so they were left in the crowd by us. Lou Shiqi and A Tianlao Zhang had already met, and He Rongchuan and Jiang Can were also shy.

.Soon, several people will be able to complain about the strange background sound effects of the sunrise ceremony.

While waiting for the sunrise, Lao Zhang, Lou Shiqi, and I shivered rhythmically together, while the other three remained unmoved by the severe cold.

Compared with the pretentious sacrificial performance, it was obvious that more effort was put into the background music. Before sunrise, a magnificent Egyptian sacrificial tune came from in front of the temple.

This is a little different from what I heard in the past two years, but it feels familiar somehow.

Many Western Egyptologists worked together to restore the chanting of the Book of the Dead, and even successfully restored the voice of the sun priest of the Karnak Temple (the specific operation was probably to restore the movement method from the muscles of the throat of the priest's mummy). Although

At present, only monosyllables have been restored, which is amazing enough.

However, at this time, as a program to attract customers during the Winter Solstice, entertainment is naturally the priority. After the sacrificial song was played, the radio began to play a multilingual explanation of the Winter Solstice gods. First it was in Arabic, followed by English, French and other languages. Waiting for the Japanese version

When it came to "Kami Sama", I, Lou Shiqi and He Rongchuan all laughed at the same time. When we looked at each other, we could tell that we were all old 2D people. The last language broadcast was Chinese.

As soon as the words "the sun god touches his sacrifice" were finished, dazzling light rushed towards us from all over the temple.

Lao Zhang had been holding up his cell phone and waiting to take the picture, but now he was so shaken that he squinted his eyes. He asked me in the noisy crowd: "Lao Wang, this is different from what we promised. Why doesn't the sun come from the middle?"

Where is your son rising?"

Thousands of years ago, the ancient Egyptians made precise calculations to welcome the first ray of sunlight at the winter solstice. Now there is a slight deviation. Yesterday’s sunlight passed through the Holy of Holies. On the day of the winter solstice, the sunlight disappeared.

Follow the routine.

Just as I was about to retreat, A Tian suddenly pointed to the temple and asked me: "What do these people do?"

From both of our angles, we could just see several people wearing white clothes walking past the statue of Ramses II, gradually disappearing into the horizon of the Pharaoh*. I only saw their clothes in the murals of the temple.

Yes, those should be the costumes of ancient Egyptian priests.

There was no such program in previous years, and I was a little confused. So I could only fool him by saying, "It's probably an extra." A Tian didn't go into details. He yawned and asked Lao Zhang to go back and catch up on his sleep.

I took two steps and couldn't help but look back at the direction where those people were leaving, and found that Ali was also crowded in the crowd. He kept watching those people in strange clothes until their figures disappeared in the sun. I wanted to have a fight with Ali.

He said hello, but there were too many people and he was too involved, so he had no choice but to give up.

When the tourists dispersed, we finally met Teacher Bai and others.

At any rate, it can be regarded as watching the sunrise on the winter solstice.

Because Lou Shiqi and I were going to the construction site next, A Tian said she would go back to sleep first and then have lunch together after I got off work. Before leaving, Lao Zhang took out a bag of food from his jacket.

He told me not to be hungry and anxious to digest my stomach wall. Later, the team leader came to the construction site and brought us breakfast, so I had three delicious meals this morning.

Three people from 279 followed us around the construction site. They also heard about the temple that I crushed and were very much looking forward to seeing it. Teacher Liang, who arrived on time, introduced the excavation and protection work of the underground temple.

Basically, it can be guaranteed that we will be ready to restart work in the near future. Teacher Bai said that we must give them a chance to come and have a look.

When Teacher Liang took Teacher Bai and Jiang Can to visit the construction site, He Rongchuan stood nearby and watched Lou Shiqi and I build the site.

"You seem to be quite relaxed every day. What on earth are you doing here?" Lou Shiqi was aroused by He Rongchuan's idleness.

Actually I'm quite curious too.

He Rongchuan has a good temper. "These two don't know something. We have a special mission here. Since we are all colleagues from now on, you will naturally know about it later."

"Then I haven't seen you doing anything these past few days."

"Because our mission cannot be carried out yet." He Rongchuan was not secretive, "Actually, there are still two members who have not arrived for this operation. I don't know much about the other person, but I still know a little bit about one of them.

One or two. He is considered an indispensable main character."

When I heard this, my heart moved.

"Who?" Lou Shiqi asked. We both stared at He Rongchuan with curiosity.

This He Rongchuan always smiles when nothing happens, and he is a good person. As expected, he also serves as an interrogator in 279.

He gave us a name: "Yin Yuechen."

I frowned. I thought he would mention Li Yuan, but I didn't expect it was Yin Yuechen again.

"Yin Yuechen?" Lou Shiqi repeated the name. "What does Yin Yuechen do? Why doesn't he come with you?"

He Rongchuan didn't show off. "Yin Yuechen is different from us. He belongs to the Yin family."

"People from the Yin family? Which Yin family?" Lou Shiqi asked, "Can you finish what you said in one go? Don't let me keep asking this."

I also looked puzzled.

"Brother Lou and classmate Wang Yu may not be familiar with each other. In fact, I just heard about it." He Rongchuan thought for a while and said everything he could say. "The Yin family is a big and prosperous family.

The resources and forces are intertwined. If it were just this, it would be nothing special, but the people in their family have some talents that ordinary people do not have. In a sense, the Yin family is the starting point of everything, and Yin Yuechen is the

The key to this matter is that he is a unique talent even among the talented Yin family. He is given absolute attention by the family and it is said that he can solve the Yin family's thousand-year dilemma."

Lou Shiqi made a disdainful sound. "Millennium Dilemma? Do these Yin family members want to move their ancestral graves?"

I coughed a few times.

He Rongchuan shrugged. He also thought that the Yin family was exaggerating.

If I hadn't known about the Yin family in advance, I would have thought this statement was nonsense. But if the curse of the Yin family being "transformed" really existed, I actually already believed that both Li Yuan and Li Zheng had been transformed. So if

This Yin Yuechen can solve this problem, he is indeed qualified to be held up so high by the Yin family.

"In fact, no matter what situation Yin Yuechen is in the Yin family, there is no doubt about his strength. He has helped us complete many tasks in the past. Mr. Meng and others value him very much. It is said that this time he came to Egypt or above

I only joined after asking for help." He Rongchuan added.

This is really a bit beyond my expectation. I didn’t expect that Yin Yuechen would be so capable? I thought he took the initiative to join in. This is consistent with what Grandpa Li told me, and the relationship between the Yin family and 279 is a bit inconsistent.

"Tsk, the airs are really big." I said hypocritically.

"Who says it isn't?" He Rongchuan also curled his lips. He doesn't like to gossip behind other people's backs, so I didn't hear more about Yin Yuechen from him.

As for Hanwu, even He Rongchuan didn't know his true identity. But he heard that this person, or rather this title, had appeared in the 279 team many years ago. However, it was not clear whether the person under this title was the original one.

Positioned.

And He Rongchuan himself actually joined 279 through school recruitment a few years ago. Lou Shiqi and I were speechless for a while.

"Brother Chuan, does he know why your expedition team needs us? I can only dig soil, but this guy may not even know how to dig soil." After saying that, I looked at the building with disgust.

Qi glanced at him. He glared back angrily.

He Rongchuan wrinkled his face and hesitated: "Actually, I can't say for sure, but."

I was waiting with bated breath when I heard Jiang Can shout from all the way away: "Chuanzi, come here, hey, there is a nest of scorpions here!"

Then He Rongchuan looked at me apologetically, and ran over to play with scorpions in relief. When Lou Shiqi heard that there were scorpions, he also followed him.

My inherent prejudice against 279 was shaken after coming into contact with them. But soon, A Tian found out about the true identities of the members of 279, which made me have to be wary of them.

Xia Shangzhou's job is as an allegro artist, which is less real than a local TV host. Bai Shu is a general practitioner, and Han Jiangxue is a programmer. He Rongchuan and Guangyu are both technicians. Meng Weiqing is certainly not from a state-owned enterprise.

The salesman, he is the section chief of a state-controlled oil company. Jiang Can is a veteran, Ding Ze is a descendant of Tibetan medicine, and Chang Xiao is a primary school mathematics teacher.

"They must have another layer of identity, and someone has hidden the information very well." A Tian clicked the keyboard irritably. "How good that they were able to stop me."

She raised her eyes, which shone with a competitive light. "Wang Yu, what these people want to hide is definitely not an ordinary secret."

I looked at the endless flow of data codes on the screen, as if I was in contact with 279 people and had no clue.

A team walking arrogantly in a foreign country with a secret, and they need me. What do they need Lou Shiqi for?

What do the people who come to Egypt from all over the world come for?

Who is Yin Yuechen who has been to Antarctica and is going to appear in Team 279 in Egypt?

What roles do Arnold, who possesses the Eternal Eye, and Professor Holmes' student, as well as Li Yuan, who is missing, play here?

A Tian continued to fight with the people on the other side of the protective wall. Lao Zhang and I thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out.

Within a few days, an invitation from a house in Chicago brought me answers to certain questions.

Tomorrow, the protagonists will appear!

The Pharaoh's Horizon refers to the place where the sun first rises.

Chicago House - Chicago House is the academic base of the University of Chicago in Egypt.

(End of chapter)