Harry Potter’s Morning Light

  Chapter 1654 The battle between water and fire (middle)

On the Champs-lysées, “champs” means pastoral and “lysées” means “Elysium” or paradise. The first street was not a street at all, but a damp open space. At that time, the regent Queen Mary De' Medici decided to transform a marsh and field outside the Louvre into a tree-lined avenue, which was named "Queens Boulevard" after completion.

In the middle of the seventeenth century, Louis XIV ordered the expansion of this street in order to overlook the magnificent avenue sunset in the Louvre. In late May and early June each year, there will always be a few days when the sun is just framed. In the doorway of the Arc de Triomphe, it was a magnificent scenery that Louis XIV had never seen before. Now in late June, the sun is not so exactly framed in the doorway.

  The Academy Bridge in Venice, the water city, is also a good place to enjoy the sunset. The scenery there is completely different from what Alessandro sees at the moment.

The son of a gondola boatman came to Paris. It’s hard to tell whether he came to the city from the countryside. After all, Venice was the important town during the Renaissance. At that time, the French not only learned Venetian clothes, but also learned them. Style and technique. The French Renaissance was slower than that of Italy. One was because of the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, and the other was because the French interior was far away from the Mediterranean except in the south. However, the metal movable type used in the Venetian printing press was provided by French craftsmen.

  Nick Le May made the philosopher's stone just before Leonardo da Vinci arrived in France, where alchemy flourished. Modern people generally believe that alchemy is the predecessor of chemistry. French chemist Lavoisier believes that breathing is the slow combustion of carbon and hydrogen in the body. This is his inference from the carbon dioxide and water vapor exhaled by human respiration. The street trees on the roadside absorb carbon dioxide and generate the nutrients they need through the photosynthesis of the leaves. This was originally a harmonious cycle, but because of the greenhouse gases emitted by industries and automobiles, the surface temperature was higher than a year. At the same time, the sea level is also rising year by year, and Venice is also facing the threat of being submerged.

There is a serious lack of green space in the center of Paris. The circular square divides the Champs-Elysées into east and west. The west is a commercial street where luxury shops from all over the world are gathered, while a few "pastoral" landscapes remain in the east. The Neo-Renaissance buildings are hidden in the shade of trees, and there are paths in the woods, and only a few passersby pass by.

   "Hey, come and see!" Felix waved to Alessandro.

  Alessandro hurriedly ran over. At the moment they were standing in front of a small stone house. On the top of the house was a sculpture of a woman sitting, and underneath the sculpture was Nantes.

   "Look at her hand." Felix said to Alessandro, "She holds a double snake stick in her hand."

  Alessandro looked over and found that the left hand of the sculpture did indeed have a double snake stick. Even people like him who did not learn well knew that it represented alchemy and medical treatment.

  "Not only this, but also that, and that." Felix pointed to several sculptures on the square and said.

  Alessandro looked in the direction Felix was pointing, and he suddenly found that the elliptical square was evenly and symmetrically distributed around the small stone houses the same as the small stone houses where they were at the moment, and there were also female sitting statues on them.

When Felix ran around the square just now, he thought it was a child who was full of energy. Now he also followed the way Felix looked around these sculptures. The bases of these sculptures are engraved with words, which are Nantes. , Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Rouen and Brest, each sculpture has a different shape. Among them, the sculptures of Nantes, Lyon and Rouen all have a double snake stick in their hands. None of the other sculptures are in his hands.

  He looked at the fountain in the center of the square again, then took out his cell phone and started making a call. The call was quickly connected, and Gianluca’s voice came from the other end of the phone.

  "Can you see the satellite photos of Place de la Concorde?" Alessandro asked.

   "Of course." Gianluca said.

  "What shape is this square?" Alessandro asked.

   "Uh~ it's an octagon on the outside, and an oval on the inside," Gianluca said.

  "Are there two sculptures in each corner of the octagon?" Alessandro said.

   "I can't see it clearly, I only have a top view here." Gianluca said.

   "That's right!" Haji yelled, "Each octagonal corner has two urban sculptures."

  "What do you think of when you mention the River God Fountain and the Poseidon Fountain?" Alessandro asked.

   "Salt." Gianluca said, "The evaporation of sea water takes away water, and the salt remains in the sea. The water vapor becomes rain and becomes fresh water when it falls, and then flows into the river..."

   "Wow." Alessandro said, "Nantes, Bordeaux, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, Rouen and Brest, which of these cities is related to salt?"

   "I want to check." Gianluca said.

   "I am waiting for your message." Alessandro hung up and walked towards the two fountains in the middle.

  This time he observed carefully, the Poseidon in the Poseidon's fountain was holding a conch in his left hand, and the River God was not holding anything in his left hand.

  "What do you think they are holding in their right hand?" Alessandro asked.

"According to the travel guide, these two fountains were built to commemorate the maritime and inland navigation in France." Haji looked at the travel magazine he bought from the newsstand and said, "I think they really took oars, not guitars. ."

At this time, Alessandro’s phone rang, and Gianluca’s voice rang from the receiver. "There is a thousand-year-old salt pan area on the south coast of Brittany. There is natural sea salt formed by natural crystallization. Many Michelin restaurants still use it. The salt produced there, and Henry the Lion destroyed the bridge controlled by the bishop and forcibly changed the salt road to collect a salt tax. I think it has something to do with Strasbourg."

  "Which direction is Brittany located in France?" Alessandro asked.

   "Northwest." Gianluca said.

"Wait, don't hang up." Alessandro said, and then hurried to the two sculptures in the northwest corner of the square. One was Rouen and the other was Brest. Rouen was holding a double snake stick in his hand. Brest held something very similar to a boat oar (perhaps a guitar).

   "Anything to eat? I'm hungry." Felix asked listlessly, hugging Mrs. Lorris.

   "There is a small dining car over there." Haji said, "What do you want to eat?"

  "Are there restaurants nearby?" Alessandro asked Gianluca over the phone.

   "There is one. In the Champs Elysées Park, by the way, during the Second Empire, the Champs Elysées are lined with cafes and restaurants."

  Alessandro walked straight to the green space in front of him.

The trees in the park are not like the street trees on both sides of the Champs-Elysées. They are built in squares and still maintain their natural growth. After crossing the path that is not particularly complicated, Alessandro found It is a very small fountain, it is not actually a fountain, because it no longer sprays water.

  The fountain is all made of bronze. It is located next to a tree. Three goddesses are standing on the base, holding the lid high, looking like they are dancing.

   "Meow~"

  Mrs. Lorris ran over, jumped onto the base with agility, and used her claws to pull away the fallen leaves at the fountain.

  Alessandro looked around the fountain to see if there were the same nicks as last time, but the fountain did have many reliefs, but they were all plant patterns, without snakes or swords.

  "Can you recite it? Or knock it a few times like last time." Alessandro said.

   "Do you know how to speak snake tongue." Felix said teasingly.

   "What is that?" Alessandro asked.

  Felix curled his lips and took off his coat.

   "I'm hungry, buy me something to eat." Felix ordered Alessandro.

   "Then what are you doing?"

   "Study this fountain." Felix said solemnly.

  "Don't listen to that kid." Gianluca said, "He's making excuses to call you."

   "I'm not free, I want to make sure we have found the right place." Alessandro said, "Also I have to call my cousin, maybe your tutor knows how to do it."

   "Let me go." Haji said, "What do you want to eat?"

   "Thank you, I'm not hungry." Alessandro said while looking at Felix, his eyes were not friendly.

  "Send me your coordinates." Gianluca said.

  "How to post?" Alessandro asked.

  "Stand still." Gianluca said, and a few seconds later, Gianluca said again, "You are where you are now, and the line with the Brest sculpture is just parallel to the Champs Elysées, Sonny."

   "That's right?" Alessandro asked.

   "I'll help you contact Monica." As soon as Gianluca's voice fell, there was a busy beep from the receiver of the phone, and Monica's voice rang soon after.

   "We found it, but the kid doesn't seem to be able to get it." Alessandro said.

   "I'm working on it!" Felix exclaimed.

  "Tell us what to do." Alessandro ignored him and continued.

   "Wait." Monica finished speaking, and the other side was quiet for a while, and then hung up the phone.

   "What did he say?" Felix said unhappily.

   "The phone is hung up." Alessandro said, "Where can I get the snake-like voice you just mentioned?"

   Felix didn’t answer Alessandro, he took Mrs. Lorris from the spout of the fountain and fed him a piece of dried fish.

  (End of this chapter)