Chapter 39 The so-called civilization
O'Connor is really a person who has experienced death, his mind is very open, after realizing his absolute weakness, he quickly returned to normal in front of strength and gold, and when he returned to the inn after exchanging gold, this hearty man was no longer so restrained, but talked and laughed loudly with Zheng Zhe.
Although the hotel is not large, the suites inside are actually very well equipped, and the Egyptian-style meal at dinner was applauded by everyone, and then O'Connor talked about his experience of being a soldier for several years, especially how he and his troops broke into the capital of the dead three years ago, and how he crawled back from the desert.
Some of Zheng Zha's people silently comforted a few words, and some of them ate indifferently by themselves, but Wang Yang listened to it with relish, and kept communicating with O'Connor, O'Connor was also envious of Wang Yang's magical ability and wanted to learn; Anyway, the T virus stock solution can already be mass-produced, Wang Yang doesn't care about giving O'Connor an aphrodisiac when the time comes, it is naturally not enough to transform into a superman, but it is more than enough to become a cow, and the next three movies and the yellow-skinned Xiuzhen heritage will all fall on them. The two of you talked to me in full swing.
O'Connor suddenly said, "Why do you want to go to the capital of the dead? Judging from the gold you gave me, it was the purest gold bar, and you gave it so easily, it seemed as if you were rich, could it be that the gold of the City of the Dead really appealed to you so much? ”
Zheng Zha smiled bitterly, he picked up a bottle of tequila and took a few sips, and said, "If I tell you that we don't go to the dead for gold, but because we don't go and die, will you believe our words?" Sounds incredible。。。。。。 ”
O'Connor said thoughtfully, "Is it because of the curse?" Forget it, I don't know anything about it, anyway, I'll do what I promised, and tomorrow we'll leave for the capital of the dead together。。。。。。 Hopefully, this time, I won't run back in embarrassment. ”
(I guess it will be difficult, and it will be very embarrassing to escape。。。。。。 )
Several people who knew the plot couldn't help but smile bitterly, in the plot of the legend of gods and ghosts, O'Connor and others released the immortal sacrifice, and they had no choice but to flee back to Cairo from the capital of the dead in a very embarrassed way, although the supplies and the like were still sufficient, but there was a mummy chasing after him, this feeling really can't be said to be good.
"Good! Then let's march together tomorrow to the immortal capital of Hamnata! Zheng Zhe held up the wine bottle and touched it with O'Connor, and he nodded affirmatively.
Suddenly, at this moment, Zhan Lan smiled a little sly and said, "By the way, before going to the capital of the dead, we still have one thing that we must buy, and that is our best talisman." ”
"What's that?" Several people asked in unison, including Zheng Zhe and O'Connor.
"Cats!"
Wang Yang smiled: "There is Ming Yanwei, which is more effective than a cat." ”
Ming Yanwei didn't say anything, just glanced at Wang Yang with disgust.
The next day, close to noon, O'Connor led everyone to the port of Giza in Cairo, where the heroine Eve and her brother Jonathan were already standing there, until they saw O'Connor's arrival, and the two were relieved, but at the same time, they also found Zheng Zha and others who were following O'Connor, and both of them immediately showed a wary look.
Eve was very frank and a little arrogant, and as soon as O'Connor came to her, she immediately asked urgently, "Didn't you say that you were the only one who took us?" Why are there so many men and women? First of all, I won't afford to travel for so many people。。。。。。 You, you're O'Connor? ”
O'Connor was naturally disgraced in prison, but after grooming and packaging new clothes and shoes, he looked very handsome at the moment, and before he spoke, the swaggering Eve was stunned, and she just had time to force a jerky "Hello" from her mouth。。。。。。 Her brother Jonathan immediately took over the topic and began to speak.
"Haha, today is really suitable for adventure, even if there are more people。。。。。。 Still, O'Connor, are they really reliable? No, of course, you know, I mean the gold covetousness, which isn't enough for so many people in the capital of the dead。。。。。。 Jonathan laughed twice, and he whispered as he put his arm around O'Connor's shoulder.
O'Connor nodded, "Yes, the weather is indeed adventurous today, and as for them, they should not be interested in gold, and they are good enough to protect us during the journey。。。。。。 But I'm more worried about 。。。。。。 Before he could finish speaking, he reached into his arms, took out his wallet and looked at it a few times, and then carefully put it back in his arms.
Jonathan's best aspect is stealing from other people's arms, and he smiled awkwardly: "Don't worry, I won't make a move on my own people, hehe, you say they won't be interested in gold?" So。。。。。。 They're rich, right? ”
Wang Yang suddenly murmured: "Fifty pounds, Charlie's wallet, John's clothes, Raymond's leather shoes, David's pipes, and Swiss pocket watches." ”
Jonathan's face became paler and paler, and later, when Wang Yang said a word, he went to touch a place, which was exactly the order that Wang Yang said.
O'Connor laughed. Eve's face was full of incredulity.
Xiao Honglu's eyes were full of brilliance, and he grabbed Wang Yang and asked, "How did you do it?" ”
Wang Yang looked at Xiao Honglu, who had regained his youthful appearance, and smiled: "When my qi is concentrated on one person, this person has no secrets to me. ”
Xiao Honglu hurriedly asked, "What about this person's thoughts?" ”
Wang Yang said: "Then you have to touch his body." ”
Zheng Zha suddenly walked to the three of them, and he said with a smile: "Hehe, I heard what you said。。。。。。 Hello two, my name is Zheng Zha, these people are my partners, we are an expedition privately sponsored by a wealthy man in the United States, the purpose is to find the secret places that may exist in the world。。。。。。 Of course, the legendary capital of the dead in Egypt is also one of the secret places of this expedition, and we will provide you with enough security by the way, of course, please follow some of our advice during the exploration, and don't do something that will endanger everyone's lives, that's basically it. ”
Eve had been looking at O'Connor until Zheng Zha's words came out, and she came back to her senses and said hurriedly: "What, what! We didn't join your expedition! We are looking for the existence of the City of the Dead in our private capacity, so why should we heed your advice? We don't have to pay any tariffs and the like, we can still afford them。。。。。。 ”
Zheng Zha hurriedly shook his head and said, "I think you may have misunderstood, our purpose is just 'exploration', and we are not interested in the gold obtained from exploration。。。。。。 ”
Eve's reaction was even more intense this time, and she almost blushed and shouted, "I see, your purpose is the Black Necromancer Bible or the Golden Resurrection Sutra, right?" Don't! No way! Even if such an ancient document really existed, how could it be handed over to that rich man, absolutely absolutely impossible! Such a document is a treasure of history and culture, and I will never give it to you! ”
Wang Yang sneered: "The 23,000 Chinese cultural relics in the London Museum were all 'collected and studied' by you with guns under such an excuse, right?"
Eve was stunned for a moment and whispered, "。。。。。。 I just wanted to explore the truth of history, so I 。。。。。。 ”
Wang Yang unceremoniously interrupted her: "Therefore, after selling opium poison first, after being resisted, they were forcibly entered into other people's territory by strong ships and cannons, burned the capitals of other countries, burned the royal gardens, removed everything that could be moved, burned everything that could not be moved, and then put it in their own museums to show off to the world: Look, this is our trophy, a treasure for studying history and culture." Isn't that so, Dr. Eve? ”
With tears in her eyes, Eve hurriedly distinguished, "No。。。。。。 No...... I really didn't think about stealing other people's things by shady means, I really only had a deeper interest in history。。。。。。 China is an ignorant and backward country, and these historical witnesses Chinese will not know how to be precious, I just help them keep them。。。。。。 ”
"Ignorance?" Wang Yang said indifferently: "In 1001, when the Chinese emperor Song Zhenzong ordered the construction of the Longtu Pavilion, the collection of books has reached 29,511 volumes; In 1404, when the then Chinese emperor Ming Chengzu Zhu Di ordered the Minister of Culture Yao Guangxiao to lead 2,180 scholars to compile the all-encompassing, 4,000-volume encyclopedia "Yongle Dadian", it was on the eve of the Renaissance in Europe, and there were only six manuscript books in Henry V's library, three of which were borrowed from the monastery. Florentine Francesco Datini, the richest man in Europe at the time, owned 12 books, eight of which were religious; In 1820, China's GDP accounted for 32.9% of the world's total, what was the sum of the 12 core European countries? 12%。 London had a population of 120,000, and Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, had a population of more than 1 million in China at the same time. When you did not have a country in Europe, the Chinese had already invented Sinan, crossed the seas, invented explosives, opened mountains and cracked stones, invented paper, recorded culture, invented printing, and spread civilization; Dr. Eve, do you want me to continue? ”
Eve was dumbfounded and said, "Is there still such glory in Chinese history? But...... After all, China is outdated, after the Age of Discovery, Europeans discovered the world, the world picture of the earth can be fully presented, and the center of world civilization has shifted to Europe。。。。。。 ”
"Europe discovers the world?" Wang Yang interrupted her again: "There is one thing that puzzles me very much: Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering America in 1492. But according to his own logbook, eighteen years before he began his voyage, he had a map of the Americas; Before his first voyage, Columbus even signed an agreement with the king and queen of Spain, who appointed him governor of the Americas; The captain of his co-ship, Martín Alonso Pinzón, who sailed with him in 1492, also saw this map of the Americas in the papal library. Now that you have a map, where does 'discovery' begin? ”
"And then there's Magellan, the so-called first circumnavigating the world. The strait that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans is named after the Portuguese explorer. By the time Magellan reached the strait in 1520, he had run out of food, his sailors had been reduced to eating rats, and they found themselves disoriented, Esteban Gómez attempted to lead part of the expedition back to Spain, for which he staged a mutiny and took the 'San Antonio' hostage, but Magellan claimed that he was not lost at all, thus quelling the riots. One of the expedition members recalled that Magellan knew he had to cross a highly concealed strait, which he had seen on a nautical chart drawn by Martin of Bohemia and previously kept in the treasury of the King of Portugal. If Magellan had seen the strait on nautical charts before he set sail, why was it named after him? Martin Waldzemüller's map of the Pacific and the Americas was published in 1507, 12 years before Magellan set sail. ”
"In 1515, four years before Magellan's voyage, Johannes Schöhenner published a map showing the strait that Magellan claimed to have 'discovered'. Did Waldzemüller and Schöhenner, two cartographers, precede Magellan in the legendary voyage across the Pacific? Unfortunately, Schöhenner never went to sea. He failed his exam and failed to obtain a degree from the University of Erfurt. In 1515 he became a probationary priest, but was sent to a small village to preside over the morning Mass due to a mistake in the celebration of Mass. So, how did a young man from rural Germany with no sailing experience accurately draw that nautical chart before Magellan discovered the Pacific Ocean? ”
Like Schörner, Waldzemüller had never seen the sea. Born in 1475 in Wolfenweiler, near Freiburg, he later worked as a priest in Saint-Dière, in eastern France, a place famous for its plums but with no seafaring tradition. Waldzer Miller also did not earn a college degree. However, before Magellan reached the shores of the Pacific Ocean and Balboa, his map of the Americas showed the Sierra Madre Mountains in Mexico and the Sierra Nevada Mountains in North America. The extraordinary foresight of these two rural mappers for the unknown is not unique among Europeans. In 1419, before the European expedition began, Alberto Di Verga published a map of the Eastern Hemisphere, showing where Northern Australia was, 350 years before Captain Cook 'discovered' the continent. Similarly, Portuguese maps indicate its location long before Cabral and Dias, the first Portuguese to sail to Brazil; The Pirry Reis map shows the South Shetland Islands 400 years before Europeans arrived in Antarctica. Dr. Eve, how do you explain these astonishing predictions? Could it be that God is guiding in the dark? Wang Yang's smile became more and more ridiculous: "But coincidentally, when the Renaissance was brewing, the ocean-going fleet led by Zheng He of China just arrived in Europe. ”
Eve's eyes widened, "God, how did you know so clearly。。。。。。 ”
Wang Yang calmed down and said indifferently: "The Chinese attach importance to history and culture two thousand years earlier than you, and among the ancient civilizations of the world, only China's inheritance has never been broken; China's treasures from other countries have always been gifts from the hearts of other countries and traded on an equal footing, rather than being snatched for any high-sounding reason. In the thousands of years of China's dominance in the world, it has never taken the initiative to aim its sabers and cannons at others, nor has it stationed a single soldier on the territory of other countries, but all the countries around China have spontaneously respected China as their suzerainty and are proud of it. Britain's colonies occupy a quarter of the world's land mass, and the sun never sets on the empire, do you dare to withdraw your troops to see? Regardless of the differences in cultural perceptions, I always believe that the so-called civilization should first and foremost be equality and respect, what do you think, Dr. Eve? ”
Eve lowered her head and whispered, "We will use modern scientific methods to reinterpret history。。。。。。 We just want to look at 。。。。。。 and temporary borrowing only。。。。。。 Her voice became lower and lower, and in the end, she felt unconfident.
Wang Yang Yangtian laughed loudly and said coldly: "Therefore, robbers will always only use such bandit logic. Without waiting for Eve to answer, Wang Yang walked away. He was afraid that he would be tempted to fly to Europe and try out what it would be like to challenge a continent alone.
The Zhongzhou team silently puffed up their chests and followed Wang Yang towards the travel boat on the river.
Eve looked at the heavy-footed Middle-earth team in a daze, pulled O'Connor's clothes and said, "Did we really do something wrong?" Was the civilization of the British Empire built on the suffering of other peoples? You swear he's telling the truth? ”
O'Connor faced this little woman with tears in his eyes, and he could only answer solemnly: "I don't know, I'm just a soldier, it's my duty to obey orders, complete tasks, and conquer the enemy, but I want to。。。。。。 If your country does not have strength, it will decline along with civilization. ”
In any case, O'Connor finally settled Eve, and by the time he got on the ship, Zheng Zha had already wrapped most of the first class cabin with the gold nugget offensive, and after Johnson Nathan got a gold nugget, this man immediately began to call Zheng Zha and others brothers, of course, people who have seen the legend of gods and ghosts, they will leave this man named Jonathan far away, because he is really a very qualified thief, and he will touch your things unconsciously.
"Sail downstream along the river until tomorrow at noon, when we will disembark at this ferry, and from there we will walk west for about half a day, and we will reach the largest and only oasis on the way to the capital of the dead, which is also a nearby trading place for merchants, where we will buy supplies such as camels and fresh water, after which we will continue southwest, and if nothing else, after three days and three nights, we will reach the capital of death, Hamnata。。。。。。"
O'Connor spread out a simple map of the neighborhood on his desk, pointing to the rest of the map.
Eve hurriedly asked, "Accident?" What kind of accident does it mean?"
O'Connor didn't say much, he suddenly threw the package he was carrying from the floor on the table, and then the package was opened, and it was full of pistols, rifles, and pistol rifle bullets, which seemed to be enough for several people.
Eve looked at the package and was stunned, she said stupidly, "I。。。。。。 Am I getting something wrong? We're going on an adventure, right? Are we going to war? ”
O'Connor ignored her, but picked up a pistol and loaded it with bullets, and as he reloaded, he said, "Miss, something is not quite right in that place。。。。。。 There's something underneath the tomb, and there's a mysterious group of people guarding it。。。。。。 It is a veritable capital of the dead, and there are many more people dying there than the living who are about to go there! ”
Eve hurriedly said to Zheng Zha: "Didn't you say that you would protect us? All I need is those two books, and you can take everything else。。。。。。 It's just my brother who thinks there's treasure there, but I don't think you'll really be able to find priceless gold。。。。。。 ”
Zheng Zhe nodded and said, "I said it before, we just went there to 'explore', and we really didn't have much interest in other things。。。。。。 But are you familiar with the two books, miss? ”
Eve suddenly said excitedly: "Of course, the legendary Golden Sutra of the Sun, also known as the Golden Resurrection Sutra, and the Black Sutra of the Dead, also known as the Black Bible of the Dead, these two books contain the charms of ancient Egyptian legends, and they have fascinated me with Egypt since I was a child。。。。。。 ”
At this moment, Xiao Honglu, who had been sitting quietly, suddenly interrupted her words and asked to himself, "When is it?" ”
Everyone was stunned for a moment, Zheng Zha looked at his watch and said, "It's more than ten o'clock。。。。。。 He was stunned for a moment, and then saw Xiao Honglu nodding slightly at him.
When she was still in the hotel yesterday, Zhan Lan had already told everyone about the plot of the entire legend of gods and ghosts, and I don't know if it was because she strengthened her mental power, her memory was extremely amazing, and she told every detail of the plot of the story in two hours, almost letting everyone relive the story plot of the legend of gods and ghosts.
Zheng Zha then remembered that they would be attacked by the black-clothed crowd at night, and the time should be about this time.
"Eve, go get the key。。。。。。 You go get the map and the disc, zero, Zhang Jie, you protect her all the way。。。。。。 O'Connor, come with me to Jonathan, he's supposed to be playing poker with those Americans right now, right? The rest of the people were on guard on the spot, and if something happened, they listened to the orders of Zhan Lan, Qi Tengyi, Zhao Yingkong, and Ming Yanwei。。。。。。 Let's go, the story begins! ”
Wang Yang sat still with a coffee cup: "With Ming Yanwei here, do you still have to work the second person of the Zhongzhou team for these trivial things?" ”
Zheng Zha had just taken out the high-vibration particle cutting dagger from the Na ring, and after listening to Wang Yang's words, he was a little confused for a while, and after thinking about it, he slapped his forehead and said with Zhan Lan: "This is on the Nile." ”