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Chapter 46 Where it all began

After leaving Mustafa's house, Li Yuanyi and I still had to go to the West Bank. There were people there who knew about Egypt's past.

Many people were selling business along the Nile, calling: "Sailboats, sailboats! Horse-drawn carriages!"

Li Yuan asked about the price with great interest, and even haggled for a while. In the end, the Egyptians just accepted the unfair price and took us to the other side in a wind sail.

When we arrived at the West Bank, we took another taxi and went to a nearby courtyard hotel. After dinner, we strolled to an Egyptian farmyard, where the car sent by Rhea was waiting.

The driver was a lively middle-aged Egyptian. He played strong rhythmic music along the way and occasionally played along. But he did not talk to us.

The car drove away from the busy place and passed scattered houses. It was not until there was no one around for several minutes that we arrived at our destination.

When getting off the bus, the enthusiastic but silent driver took out an embroidered bag from under the passenger seat and handed it to Li Yuan.

At least we were not empty-handed now, we just stood in front of the Egyptian Exploration Society uninvited.

There is still the same hollowed-out carved iron fence door in front of me.

The door is shaped like two lyres, the strings of which are winding grape vines, with crows perched on them. Some of the crows even hold a bunch of grapes in their beaks.

The door handle is in the shape of a golden snake. One snake spits a message from its mouth, while the other closes its eyes and shrinks its head into its body.

The three-piece suit opened the door from the inside and politely led us into this mansion that was completely separated from human activities and adjacent to the Pharaoh's burial temple.

This time we were invited into the room on the third floor with a fox painted on the door.

This is a suite.

The outer room is smaller than the study room that I went to with Meng Weiqing and the others last time, but more spacious. Apart from some decorative paintings on the wall, there are only old-fashioned wooden sofas and a few small coffee tables placed by the window.

It's still wooden blinds. But the outer wooden window has been lowered, and the sunlight is collected by the window, making almost the entire room dark.

Sir Black opened the door to the inner room and walked in slowly. He seemed to have just woken up from a nap and was a little tired.

The three-piece suit handed over a crutch, but he waved his hand and rejected it.

After sitting down on the sofa warmed by the sun, taking a sip of the still steaming black tea, Sir Black turned his eyes to us.

Seeing that he had no intention of speaking, Li Yuan said kindly: "Hello Sir, I'm sorry for our intrusion. I am Yin Yuechen, and this is Wang Yu. I am here to ask you for some advice."

"Hello Sir." I also said hello.

Sir Black nodded slightly and said, "Please sit down."

We sat down as instructed.

The three-piece suit took the gift that Li Yuan brought over and gave it to Lord Black.

It was a thin hollowed-out carved wooden box, and I didn't know what was inside. Sir Black just glanced at it and looked away.

"Did you see the moon yesterday?"

Li Yuan didn't answer. Only then did I realize that Sir Black was asking me, so I nodded quickly: "I saw it."

"Does it look good?" he asked again.

I can't figure out what this means, so I can only say: "It's very beautiful."

Sir Black smiled slightly and put the teacup back on the table.

Maybe it's because he's older, he doesn't even bother to act mean, and his attitude has always been kind and gentle. But the words he says don't sound like that.

"Last time you and Mr. Meng came together, I told you what I knew. But I don't know why I came here this time?"

The tea sloshed in the white porcelain cup and became quiet.

I glanced at Li Yuan.

In fact, what we both want to know are not necessarily the same.

Sir Black is obviously showing off to Li Yuan now, but he may not be looking at me differently. If what I ask makes Sir Black angry or he catches him and throws him out, all the efforts he has made will be in vain.

I hesitated for a long time: "Thanks to your kindness, we were able to see the spectacle last night."

Sir Black nodded slightly. He basked in the sunlight that slipped in, and began to fall asleep again.

"The moon is amazing. But the most amazing thing is that the temple, which was originally in ruins, is completely new, and it can even transform into a map." I was amazed. "I originally thought that this kind of map could not be compared with the gods.

The temple and the moon are both fake, but I didn’t expect anyone to have been there.”

Sir Black's squinted eyes opened slightly, showing a bit of interest.

"Oh, someone has been there?"

I nodded and asked Li Yuan for confirmation: "Really?"

Li Yuan smiled knowingly. "Yes. We just came back from him, and we're here to find you."

Only then did Lord Black look at him.

One of them was expressionless, the other was smiling, both pretending to be confused.

The old fox is quite naughty to the little fox.

After a while, Sir Black picked up the thin wooden box from the low table.

I could barely tell from the hollow part of the lid that it contained a painting or a photo.

"What do you mean by bringing this to me?" Sir Black said calmly.

"My grandpa has gotten older recently, and he often recalls people and events in the past. This is a group photo that he cherishes very much. It is a souvenir of a study he and his good friends made together." Li Yuan's voice said.

There is yearning in it, "It's a pity that I haven't been able to achieve anything."

Sir Black chuckled: "If you feel sorry for yourself, you can keep it and tell it home. You can't come here just because you want me to comfort you."

"Of course it won't happen." Li Yuanzheng said: "Although my grandpa hasn't gotten together with his former friends for a long time, he has always missed them very much. He asked me to take the photos to his old friends."

Sir Black looked at Li Yuan critically. Li Yuan looked back calmly.

"You and Rhea are also interested." Sir Black nodded.

Regardless of whether it's hypocritical or not, we can finally start talking about this.

"Old friends, aren't they just old friends? That was a long time ago."

As if he finally waited for someone to knock on the door of the past, Lord Black took the opportunity to fall into memories.

"As I said last time, my uncle went into the desert. It was not what he wanted to do. Bruce is just curious and not someone who will act recklessly. And you may also have thought of the time discrepancy. Bruce was in

When I was studying in school, I came to Egypt with a woman I met at a banquet. That person was a French archaeologist.

At that time, the impact of World War II had spread to Egypt, and the archaeological team was preparing to retreat. However, before leaving, they discovered that someone had secretly sneaked into the construction site in order to destroy the inscriptions on the underground temple. After being caught, the man first said that he just wanted to take advantage of the situation, but later

Only then did he admit that he wanted to destroy the records in order to prevent the archaeological team from going to the locations recorded in the inscriptions.

The man was smart and learned French while working on the construction site. When he heard the French people say they were interested in the temples recorded in the murals, he thought they were packing their bags to go to the desert.

The archaeological team felt something was wrong. At first, they really wanted to go to the desert to explore the architecture of Thutmose III, but no one wanted to cause trouble for themselves in a precarious moment. But seeing this situation, they wanted to

Go and have a look in the desert. After all, for archaeologists, it is very attractive to discover an unknown ruins and it was built by Thutmose III with all the efforts of the country. What's more, there is someone who knows the inside story.

people.

But that person refused to say anything, whether it was about the underground temple or the two temples recorded in the murals. After a stalemate, another Egyptian on the construction site privately approached the archaeological team and said something about this

He also knew about the underground temple and the places recorded above. So the archaeological team wanted him to take him in. But the situation was not up to anyone, and the man also said that now was not the time to enter the desert. So the French took the temple first

After filling in the area, some people were left to guard it, and the remaining people withdrew from Egypt.

This is what I found out later when I read Bruce's diary.

Bruce had returned to his original life and had no intention of getting involved with this incident again. In my impression, he had never mentioned Egypt. Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, the French woman said that what happened at that time was still

It has not been completed. Now the time has come, and my uncle happens to have something important in hand. I hope he can come to Egypt and join us.

So my uncle had just returned to London from attending a conference in the United States, which is the time in your photo, and he was about to leave again before Christmas Eve. I was reluctant and insisted on leaving with him.

Bruce is the only person who treats me well. My father doesn't care about me. If my grandfather hadn't refused to let his illegitimate children be included in the family tree because of the family's reputation, the Black family would have had nothing to do with me. After my grandfather passed away, Bruce even

Just make me his heir. In this way, no matter what happens next, I will be able to have enough food and clothing.

So I followed my only relative, across the Mediterranean Sea, upstream from the Nile River, and arrived in Luxor one early morning. I stayed here."

Lord Black tapped the arm of the sofa with his finger.

"Bruce bought this from a German Jewish explorer. The man spent all his wealth and went to Egypt to find the Pharaoh's treasure, and happened to escape a disaster. During the war, he went to the United States with Bruce's help.

No other French people live here, only the woman lives with us. French people know bad things.

But the Egyptian who volunteered to lead the way was also there. Bruce said that he was a young man who could make a difference, so he took him with him to teach him more.

I haven't told you that although Bruce likes to take risks, he is actually a physicist. He can also look at the stars and knows a lot. Countless knowledge that has benefited me throughout my life was also learned from him. He also taught these

I gave it to the young man from Egypt. I just didn’t expect that that ruthless person would harm Bruce later.

It was a very cold winter that year, much colder than this year. By the time the "time" as the Egyptians called it, we had been wandering in the desert for several days. When the full moon appeared in the sky, Bruce, who was always happy,

They were all a little excited. I was young at that time, and my original excitement and expectations for Egypt had been wiped away by the journey. But seeing Bruce so happy, I felt that it was a good thing that I came to this trip.

Later, Bruce and the archaeological team looked at the moon and combined the inscriptions to find the first temple recorded in the underground temple - [Temple of Set]. It was a temple guarded by the god of desert and storms in the desert and storms.

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The Temple of Set is near a small village. After Bruce and the others went to the Temple of Set, they placed me in that village. They said that the journey ahead would be very difficult and asked me to wait in the village. I refused and wanted to

I went with Bruce. But he put me to sleep and left overnight. When I woke up, there were only a bunch of Egyptians who didn't speak English around me. His butler Al came over the next day. Bruce was early

He made up his mind not to take me to the final place, so when he was here, he sent a message to Al and asked him to pick me up.

Al wanted to take me back here, but I refused and had to wait for him where he was. We waited in that village for a long time. Later, only the villagers gave me a handkerchief, which contained the last thing Bruce left for me."

In this way, the Egyptian who brought Bruce's relics back should be Mustafa. He volunteered to join the archaeological team, and was guided by Bruce. It was not like what he said, that he was taken from the construction site by British and French people.

Picked up to lead the way.

I can't tell which is the truth, whether Mustafa took advantage of Old Black or vice versa. But the ending is the same.

Mustafa sneaked into the archaeological team and finally used some tricks to prevent those people from coming back.

But since Mustafa fulfilled his duties as a priest, why was he punished? Which link went wrong, or were they all lies?

After explaining what happened sixty years ago, the current timeline will begin.

However, due to the problem of the first-person perspective, there will be some background narration in the follow-up. My personal ability is limited, and the expression may be boring. If you have any good suggestions, please tell me!

Thanks

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