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Chapter 81 Set’s Judgment Monument

When I woke up, I encountered another dusk.

First I was caught up in a storm, then I was chased by an ancient snake, I was almost attacked by someone, and finally I followed the quicksand and hit a broken wall. After this pass, I actually felt very uncomfortable, especially since I didn't get any water.

My throat felt like it was being cut with a knife.

Li Yuan was even worse. Excessive blood loss cast a grayish look on his whole body. He was about to fall into a coma, but excessive blood loss can lead to hypoxia. Once he falls asleep, his brain's control ability is weakened, which will aggravate the risk.

Originally, I watched Li Yuan to prevent him from falling asleep, but in the end, I fell asleep in the sun. When I woke up, I was covered with Li Yuan's scratched coat, but he was not around.

I stood up suddenly.

The sun slowly sank into the sand, and everything was silent.

This truncated wall stands alone among the sand dunes. The old stone bricks have been blown away by the wind and sand that started thousands of years ago. It is not noticeable in the daytime, but it seems a bit abrupt and strange when the setting sun shines on it.

But I couldn't care less about the dangers of the environment I was in, all I could think about was Li Yuan. He was so seriously injured, where could he go? What happened while I was asleep? I had to find him quickly.

I climbed up to the wall and looked around anxiously, but I didn't see Li Yuan's shadow. I cursed and prepared to jump down. When I turned around, I saw a man standing at the base of the wall.

This surprise was no small matter. I was so frightened that I fell backwards and fell straight into the sand.

Li Yuan ran over holding his stomach.

"Are you okay? Are you dizzy due to low blood sugar?"

He tried to pull me, but I glared at him and jumped up.

"Why did you go? Running around with such serious injuries, do you know how dangerous it is in this desert? If you get separated, there will be no place to look for you!"

Li Yuan's injury seemed to be almost healed at this time, and it basically did not affect his movements. Seeing that he was fine, I was relieved at first, and then frightened for a while. If I had woken up earlier, I might have run into the desert by now.

The world has found him.

I should have known that Li Yuan didn't care about the truth, but I actually thought that he was looking for the answer with me along the way, when in fact he already had the answer himself.

I was shocked and angry, and glared at Li Yuan, who was unorganized, undisciplined, and steady.

"Didn't you come to Egypt just to seek death? It's easy to leave without sending him away!" I threw my clothes on his face.

"I looked around and saw that there was no danger, so I wanted to look for water and food. They haven't found us at this time, so we probably have to survive today on our own."

Li Yuan only wore an old man's shirt that was soaked in blood and leaking air everywhere. He held the clothes pitifully in his hands.

"You haven't rested for a long time, so I didn't wake you up." He whispered.

When I saw Li Yuan's unlucky appearance, I felt that I really shouldn't get angry with him. Even if Li Yuan came to Egypt to seek death, he had nothing to do with me. As for whether he loved himself or not, it had nothing to do with me.

"Then have you found it?" I looked for him with my eyes.

Li Yuan could now see everything. He spread his hands helplessly.

"There are only scorpions and snakes around here, and I even saw a pair of desert cats in the distance."

I shrugged indifferently. Although I was starving after not eating for a whole meal, I was not so pretentious that I had to eat here. Fortunately, I had a few pieces of military chocolate allocated for 279 and a lollipop in my trouser pocket.

It was snatched from Lou Shiqi's hand. Li Yuan was a little more stable. He also brought a few compressed biscuits and a small bottle of Shao Knife.

Li Yuan gave me everything.

"You are prone to hypoglycemia, and it will be very cold in the desert at night."

I was not polite to him, but I still explained: "I won't starve to death even if I skip one meal. Low blood sugar is all Lou Shiqi's nonsense."

I held the lollipop and turned it around. I don’t know how Lou Shiqi is doing now.

"Don't worry, Lou Shiqi should be fine. According to what you said, even if the person drags him down, he won't sink directly into the sand. Jiang Can rushed there with me. With him

Now, those who attack you will not get any advantage, and Lou Shiqi will definitely be rescued."

It's useless to worry now, we can't protect ourselves. Having said that, I still distractedly grabbed a handful of weeds growing between the wall bricks and pricked my hand. It was really bad luck.

"Why do they want my life?" I asked.

Li Yuan didn't know either. "But I will protect you."

"Let's go." He put his clothes on me and started to leave. I asked where he was going.

"Although I didn't find anything to eat, I found some interesting things behind the dunes."

It turned out that after I fell asleep in the afternoon, Li Yuan not only recovered from my injuries, but also found some water for us. After climbing over the sand dunes, there was an abandoned well among several other damaged walls.

Although it is said to be an abandoned well, it can actually be regarded as a small pool. Sure enough, as long as you dig deep enough, there will still be some water under the sand.

We walked along the steps of the pool for about a hundred steps, and finally drank the clear underground water. The water was sweet and cold. The two of us squatted by the water and ate all the supplies. Except for the bottle of burning knives. Li Yuan

He said that it was reserved for me to keep out the cold at night.

We didn't have any water containers at hand, but we didn't want to fight a protracted war. Let alone carry this man-eating desert for another day, we were still doubting whether we could get there tonight.

After washing our faces, Li Yuan and I took advantage of the afterglow of the sun to explore the surrounding environment. After walking around, I found that the layout looked familiar.

"Could this be a small temple?"

I tried to piece together the scattered information about the ruins.

"This well was even used in Roman times! Look at the scale on the edge of the pool, which records the rise and fall of the Nile."

At that time, Egypt, as an administrative province of Rome, had to pay tribute to the overlord. And the Romans could not directly ask the Egyptian people to give them any amount, so they had to have a basis. So they built such a pool in the temple.

The water flow of the Nile River is then collected from farmers according to the irrigation conditions.

As for why this pool had to be built in a temple, it was because in ancient Egypt, one of the important functions of the temple was to distribute supplies. And the common people believed in their priests more than they believed in Roman officials.

But I don’t understand why a temple appeared here? Even during the reign of Thutmose III, when ancient Egypt was at its most extensive, this was not a place of residence.

Unless this place once existed as an important functional settlement, people gradually settled here. Just like the Agricultural Reclamation Corps that once reclaimed wasteland in XJ, Kalamayi is now a rich city in the desert.

In ancient Egypt, the only thing that could attract the pharaoh to invest such a large amount of manpower and material resources was religion. After all, cities like BJ that were born and expanded as a defensive city are still rare in the world, and Egypt has never had such a precedent. And there were no enemies at that time.

Fight from the west of Egypt, that is, from the direction of the Sahara Desert. Since there are no enemies, there is no need for fortifications.

But what kind of god would build a temple here?

Judging from the characteristics of the existing ruins, I think I can't rule out that I accidentally stumbled into an ancient Egyptian temple. However, thousands of years of wind and sand have buried the entire temple underneath. If it hadn't been for annoying Sai

Especially, He gave us a storm in return, so these scattered ruins will not be exposed.

Although it is a temple ruins, the best-preserved thing is probably only a broken wall that is higher than my eyebrows. It was originally supposed to be a mural wall, but the murals on it have long since faded away in the wind and sun.

I was a little disappointed, but I could only circle around the mediocre ancient Egyptian brick wall. Under the corner was a scorpion trying to break out of the ground. I hadn't seen any living creatures except Li Yuan for a long time, so I looked more.

Two glances.

The scorpion realized that he was being watched and waved his pincers wildly. To an adult, the bluffing look of the little animal was not threatening, but rather cute.

I looked at it for a long time.

Li Yuan stretched out his hand to pinch the scorpion. He didn't have to worry about tetanus and rabies. Once the scorpion got into Li Yuan's hand, he didn't dare to move it, and the same was true for the tempura. What kind of small animal nemesis is Li Yuan?

"What do you say about this scorpion?"

"You take it first and use it as a food reserve."

I waved Li Yuan away from the wall, picked up a small branch and poked it in along the place where the scorpion crawled out. After a while, I dug out a brick. I picked up the brick and patted it clean of the age attached to it.

The sand rubbed against my pants again, and finally I brought it to my eyes for a closer look.

Li Yuan held the scorpion in one hand and helped me illuminate it at the right time.

I raised my head and glanced at him. It was the same last week in the Temple of Horus under our archaeological team's construction site. But at that time I was still angry that Li Yuan didn't tell me that he was Yin Yuechen, but now I know his purpose of coming here.

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"Although it sounds fantastic, this temple has probably existed for nearly five thousand years." I stood up and pointed out to Li Yuan a vague incised mark on the brick. "This is the early dynasty of ancient Egypt.

The king's name circle, it seems that this pharaoh really wants to take credit from the gods."

However, this still cannot explain why in such a vast desert with no villages or shops, there can be a temple that operated until the Roman period. Could it be that during those two thousand years, there were priests who were practicing the rituals of a certain god?

Worship?

I couldn't help but think of brother and sister Hassan and Laila.

Next to the name of the king who belonged to the ruler five thousand years ago, there is a lotus with sharp petals printed on it.

"Wait, this doesn't seem to be a brick."

Li Yuan placed the light source on the broken wall, rubbed the brick in my hand with the hand that was not holding the scorpion, and wiped the dust off it.

I opened my eyes wide and looked at the "brick" over and over at various angles against the light for a long time. Then I raised my head towards Li Yuan. He looked at me quietly.

"You are right, this is not a brick. It should have been part of a larger record item. There is also an inscription on it."

I twisted my dirty fingers.

"This is a tablet of lead, the judgment tablet of Set."

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