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Chapter 46 Where It All Began
After leaving Mustafa's house, Li Yuanyi and I agreed that we still had to go to the West Bank.There are people who know these pasts of Egypt.

Many people were soliciting business along the Nile, saying: "Sailing sailboat! Carriage and carriage!"

Li Yuan asked the price with interest, and even bargained for a while.In the end, the Egyptians justly charged us a friendly price and took us to the other side in a wind-powered sailboat.

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

The driver is a lively middle-aged Egyptian.Along the way, music with a strong sense of rhythm was played, and occasionally beat the beat.But don't talk to us.

The car drove away from the bustling place and passed scattered houses.It wasn't until we drove out for several minutes that there were no people, that we arrived at our destination.

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

At any rate, we were not empty-handed, but stood in front of the Egyptian Exploration Society uninvited.

In front of him was the same hollow and carved iron gate.

The doors are shaped like two lyres, the strings of which are winding vines on which crows perch.Some crows still have a bunch of grapes in their mouths.

The door handle is a gold snake.One of the snakes was spitting out a letter, while the other closed its eyes and retracted its head into its body.

The three-piece suit opened the door from the inside, and led us into this mansion that was separated from human activities and lived next to the pharaoh's funeral 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 Meng Weiqing and the others went to last time, but it is even more spacious.Except for some decorative paintings on the wall, there are only old-fashioned wooden sofas and a few small tea tables by the window.

Or wooden shutters.However, the wooden windows on the outer layer were lowered, and the sunlight was gathered around the windows, making almost the whole room dark.

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

The three-piece suit handed over a crutch, but he rejected it with a wave of his hand.

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

Seeing that he didn't intend to speak, Li Yuan said kindly, "Hi Sir, I'm sorry for disturbing you. I'm Yin Yuechen, and this is Wang Yu. I'm here to ask you something."

"Hi Sir." I also greeted.

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

We sat down as promised.

The three-piece suit took the gift Li Yuan brought over to Sir Black.

It was a thin hollow carved wooden box, and I don't know what was put inside.Sir Black just glanced at it, then 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 see."

"Is it nice?" he asked again.

I couldn't figure out what this meant, so I could only say, "It's very nice."

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

Maybe it's because he's old, he doesn't even bother to be mean, and his attitude has always been generous and gentle.But what he said didn't sound like that.

"The last time you came with Mr. Meng, I already told you what I know. But I don't know why I came this time?"

The tea swayed in the white porcelain cup and fell silent.

I glanced at Li Yuan.

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

Now Sir Black is clearly showing Li Yuan a favor, but he may not be looking at me differently.If I ask something that irritates Sir Black or is caught by him and thrown by the head, it will be for naught.

I hesitated for a while: "Thanks to your kindness, we were able to witness the spectacle last night."

Sir Black nodded slightly.He basked in the sun that slipped in, and began to drowsy again.

"The moon is absolutely gone. But the most amazing thing is that the ruined temple has taken on a new look, and a map can be transformed into it." I am amazed. "I originally thought that this kind of map was as fake as the temple and the moon, but I didn't expect someone to go there."

Sir Black's squinted eyes parted slightly, showing a little 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, so we came to see you."

Ser Black looked him in the eye.

One of the two was expressionless, the other was smiling, pretending to be confused with understanding.

Old fox to young fox.It's all coquettish.

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

From the hollow part of the box cover, I can barely see that it should contain a painting or a photo.

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

"My grandfather has grown old recently, and he often recalls people and things in the past. This is a group photo he cherishes very much. It is a souvenir after he and his good friend made a research together." Li Yuan's voice With longing in his heart, "It's a pity that I haven't been able to make some achievements."

Sir Black smiled: "You can save your self-pity and go home and say, you can't come to me because you want me to comfort you."

"Of course not." Li Yuan said solemnly, "Although my grandfather hasn't been with his former friends for a long time, he has always missed them very much. Ask me to bring the photos to the old friend of the old man."

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

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

Hypocrisy or not, this matter can be considered to start talking.

"Old man. Isn't that old man? That was a long time ago."

As if finally waiting for someone to tap on the door of the past, Sir Black took the opportunity to fall into memory.

"As I said last time, my uncle went into the desert. It's not what he wanted to go. Bruce is just curious, not a person who will do anything recklessly. And you may also have thought of the time gap. Bruce is in When I was studying at school, I came to Egypt with a woman I met at a banquet at the time. 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.But before he left, he discovered that someone had sneaked into the construction site in order to destroy the inscription of the underground temple.After being caught, the person first said that he just wanted to take advantage of it, and later admitted that he wanted to destroy the record in order to prevent the archaeological team from going to the location recorded in the inscription.

The man was clever, having learned French while working on the construction site.I heard the French said that they were interested in the temples recorded in the murals, and thought they were packing to go to the desert.

The archaeological team felt something was wrong.In the beginning, they really wanted to go to the desert to explore the building of Thutmose III, but none of them wanted to make trouble for themselves in the precarious moment.But seeing this situation, they wanted to go to the desert even more.After all, for archaeologists, discovering an unknown site, and it was built by Thutmose III with all the efforts of the whole country, must be so attractive.What's more, there is still a person who knows the inside story.

But the man refused to say anything, neither about the underground temple nor the two temples recorded in the murals.Under the stalemate, another Egyptian on the construction site found the archaeological team privately, saying that he also knew about this underground temple and the places recorded on it.So the archaeological team wanted him to take him in.But at that time the situation could not be controlled by others, and the person also said that now is not the time to enter the desert.So the French backfilled the temple first, leaving people to guard it, and the rest withdrew from Egypt.

This is what I found out after reading Bruce's diary.

Bruce had already returned to his original life, and didn't think about getting involved with this matter again.As far as I can remember, he never mentioned Egypt.Unexpectedly, more than ten years later, the French woman said that the matter at that time had not been completed.Now the time has come, and my uncle happens to have some important things in his hands. I hope he can come to Egypt to act together.

So my uncle just returned to London from the United States to participate in the conference, which is the one in your photo, and he will leave immediately before Christmas Eve.I insist on going with him.

Bruce was the only one who was nice to me.My father doesn't care about me. If Grandpa hadn't refused to let his illegitimate children into the family tree because of the family's face, I would have been nothing to the Black family.Bruce even made me his heir directly after his grandfather passed away.In this way, no matter what happens later, I can live comfortably.

So I followed my only family member across the Mediterranean, upstream from the Nile, and arrived in Luxor one morning.Just live here. "

Sir Black tapped the arm of the sofa.

"Bruce bought it from a German-Jewish explorer who spent all his money in Egypt to find Pharaoh's treasure, and just escaped a disaster. During the war, he went to America with Bruce's help.

No other French people live here, only the woman lives with us.The French 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 it with him and taught him more things.

Didn't tell you guys, although Bruce likes to take risks, he's actually a physicist.I can also look at the stars and understand a lot.Countless knowledge that has benefited me throughout my life is also learned from him.He taught this to the young man in Egypt as well.I just didn't expect that wolf-hearted thing to kill Bruce later.

That winter was very cold, much colder than this year.By the time the Egyptian called 'time', we had been wandering the desert for several days.When the full moon appeared in the sky, Bruce, who was always cheerful, was a little excited.At that time, I was young, and the excitement and expectation of Egypt had been wiped out by the journey.But seeing Bruce so happy, I felt lucky to come here.

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 Seth】.It was a temple guarded by the God of Desert and Storm in the desert and storm.

The Temple of Seth is near a small village. After Bruce and the others went to the Temple of Seth, they placed me in that village, saying that the journey ahead would be difficult, and asked me to wait in the village.I refused, wanting to go with Bruce.But he put me to sleep and left overnight.When I woke up, I was surrounded by Egyptians who didn't speak English.His housekeeper Al came over the next day.Bruce had long made up his mind not to take me to the last place, so he sent a letter to Al when he was here, asking him to come pick me up.

Al wants to take me back here, but I refuse, and must wait for him where I am.We waited for a long time in that village.Later, only the villagers gave me a handkerchief, which contained the last things Bruce left me. "

So, the Egyptian who brought Bruce's relic back should be Mustafa.He volunteered to join the archaeological team, and was brought by Bruce to guide him.It wasn't as he himself said that he was picked from the construction site by British and French people to lead the way.

I couldn't tell which was 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 means to prevent those people from coming back.

But since Mustafa fulfilled his duties as a priest, why was he punished?Is there a link that went wrong, or are these all lies?

　I am about to finish explaining what happened 60 years ago, and the current timeline will be opened later

　　However, because of the problem of the perspective of No.1, there will be some background narration in the follow-up.Personal ability is limited, and expression may be boring.If you have good suggestions, please let me know!
　　Thank you
　　
　
(End of this chapter)