Twenty years ago, the Republic of Egypt, the office of the African Union in Egypt.

On a quiet afternoon, Qatar sat in his office, signing documents. His dark skin glowed with the golden sheen of the sun, and he held a jet-black pen in his hand, and a line of beautiful names was written on it.

In this era, there are not many people who can still write a good line.

At nearly 30 years old, Qatar is at the age of high spirits, and in the African Union, he has extraordinary prestige as a young man.

Because he came from the Temple of Luke, one of the next gods of the Nine Pillars.

The Lost World, Qatar.

In Africa, not many people know about this organization, but as long as it is a government agency, it is clear about the identity of this man.

Therefore, important documents will be asked to be reviewed by him.

But at this moment, a non-piercing alarm sounded in the room.

Qatar looked up from the hustle and bustle and glanced out the window.

Towering buildings, the sun does not shine into this dark urban forest. In order to save money, Egypt used sand to refine building materials with good load-bearing performance, which finally met the growing living needs of Egyptians.

Now, the alarm is sounding throughout the city.

Qatar watched quietly, the expression on his face still relaxed.

The level of this alert is not high, but it represents an earthquake of magnitude 8. Alarms are sounded six minutes in advance between cities to warn pedestrians walking on the streets not to be injured by debris falling from the air.

That's all.

Qatar is very confident in the city, and in the past few decades, the earth's crust has become very violent, and he knows that Egypt is doing some illegal experiments underground, so he does not forget to strengthen the ground buildings.

Soon, the vibrations came from the soles of the feet, the water on the table shook a little, and the bracelet of Qatar popped up one after another blue pop-up windows, on which were the news of the destruction of some public facilities, but none of them mattered.

But there is one that has attracted the attention of Qatar.

The Sphinx in the northern part of the outskirts of the city fell.

Egypt has world-famous pyramids, and there are magnificent sphinxes in front of the pyramids, but with the passage of time, the originally tall stone statue looks like an inconspicuous small stone in front of Egypt's many high-rise buildings.

Now, this small rock has finally collapsed, in the face of this continuous earthquake.

This was once one of the symbols of ancient Egyptian civilization, and now, apart from the Temple of Luke, the African Union no longer cares about the small pyramids and ancient Egyptian culture.

So, even if the government received this news, no one planned to defend it.

"I'll get out of here." Qatar was silent for a moment, wrote the sentence in the air with a pen, then pressed the line of note on the table and left the government building.

Without borrowing a flying machine, Qatar changed into light clothes and ran along the road to the outskirts of the city. In this era, the federation has not yet begun to build "friends", and the world's Internet has not yet divided the black box area, so the figure of this man running on the street has been recorded in the global Internet.

In those days, the situation was not so tense. At that time, Qatar was really too young, with a dark face facing the sun, looking so vibrant.

On the road, I occasionally met a pedestrian who looked at Qatar with a very surprised look. The latter noticed that his arms and one eye were fake, made of lighter alloys and equipped with intelligent systems. Egyptians nowadays are very fond of replacing their body parts, which will save them from certain diseases and make themselves stronger.

If Qatar were just an ordinary person, this pedestrian would be able to subdue him with a slight stretch of his hand.

So seeing Qatar's bare muscles and the natural sweat, this pedestrian seemed to see the ancients, and was a little surprised.

Qatar greeted him warmly and ran past him. Huge flying machines flew over Qatar's head, and even if they didn't hit him, they showed his insignificance.

Like the collapsed Sphinx, to this progressive city.

Running through half the city, Qatar didn't breathe. Passing by the city's central square, a huge billboard floating in mid-air with the Egyptian president who took office this year. He waved his fists and kept repeating his campaign slogan.

"Faster! Faster! Faster! "

Egypt's development is indeed getting faster and faster. The rapid expansion of the city, the ubiquity of artificial intelligence, has injected new vitality into the city.

But they are already lagging behind, in other words, the whole of Africa.

So they're in a hurry.

Winning out of Qatar is part of the plan, and his excellence is almost unmatched in the whole of Africa.

Qatar has always been very satisfied with his career and growth. So he just sneered at the president's remarks, and continued to run along the road.

Everything will be fine, and when Africa becomes a world power, people will think about their own culture.

Now everyone is just too anxious.

A year ago, he had visited Dongguo, and he had also seen the mysterious organizations in Dongguo, and their learning and understanding of his ancient culture were very in-depth and very good.

It's the same in Egypt, our culture is so good.

For example, the pyramid in front of you, and the Sphinx.

The northern suburbs of Cairo, Egypt, have been set aside for a dedicated area with the pyramids, one of the wonders of the world. Further from here, the Sahara Desert is boundless.

What was once a place of death is now a tourist attraction.

Equipped with technology, tour companies only need to carry about five kilograms of equipment to enjoy the magnificent scenery in the desert.

Now, standing on the edge of the city, Qatar saw a visible crack appear in the ground, and people fled in all directions in some panic, while the Sphinx, not far away, collapsed entirely.

"Oh my God, it scared me to death." A woman dressed in a full outfit emblazoned with the Egyptian Tourism Authority's logo, removed her helmet, revealing her long blond hair and fair skin, was clearly a Federation person.

"It's okay, Egypt is doing a good job in this regard." The man who accompanied her comforted her.

"It's a pity that I haven't taken such a beautiful portrait yet." The lady adjusted the intelligent system hanging on her chest, and only needed to connect the thumbs and index fingers of both hands to make a pose for taking pictures, and the photo would be automatically completed and then uploaded to her personal album.

"I really want to touch it, but unfortunately, I don't know if it will be fixed." The man shook his head slightly.

Qatar was right next to them, and the crowd slowly came out of the depths of the desert and moved closer to the city.

He called up the city management system, tapped it on the blue screen a few times, and in no time, the review was approved.

"Guys, give me ten minutes, Cairo will help you solve this problem!" Qatar stood up with a smile, and as soon as he finished speaking, several lightweight drones flew out from behind him, carrying folded camouflage barriers, which fell from mid-air like fishing nets, quickly covering the collapsed Sphinx.

Qatar jumped a few times, crossed a distance of several hundred meters, and entered this barrier, as if to do a magic trick.

Looking at the sphinx that collapsed in front of him, the shattered rock could be glued back together, but the cartel understood that the government would not do such a thing.

Because resources are already strained.

He held up his hands, the nameless power enveloping him, and he could feel the atoms flowing around him, and by combining them according to different formulas, they could become the substance he wanted.

Two pieces of crumbled rock, which soon became as smooth as ever.

The gift of creativity, which can be said to be extremely rare in the world. The cartel can theoretically create substances that he understands, so he has to keep learning about chemistry and physics, and as long as he learns, he can create.

The twenty-meter-tall Sphinx, of course, is no problem.

It's just a bit time-consuming.

Half an hour later, somewhat tired, he looked at the restored Sphinx and the magnificent pyramid behind it. These are things that were more than 4,000 years ago and still stand here, so this is the history of Egypt.

History cannot be forgotten, even if many have forgotten.

He waved his hand, the camouflage was lifted, and the cartel stood under the sphinx, smiling kindly, like a competent tour guide.

But in front of him, the crowd that was originally black and oppressive was now retreating sparsely, and there were no more people left.

The times are fast, so fast that no one will have the patience to wait for half an hour. The Sphinx can be seen anywhere, and the virtual world offers 5D simulations of these ancient rocks, which have been turned into data, living in the virtual world.

This stone statue is no longer important.

So Qatar looked a little embarrassed, like a magician after a show, facing an empty seat.

"This man is crazy. Ten minutes?"

"I guess it's fake, make a holographic projection to fool us."

"If you can't fix it, forget it, and don't bother to look at it."

Qatar called up surveillance footage from the vicinity, and the system automatically recognized the conversations of tourists who left the area.

His smile slowly faded, and he stood alone in front of the Sphinx, and a few people came by, but they also looked at each other and walked back. This kind of technology is not unusual at all, they just want to come to reality and feel the atmosphere of the desert.

Soon, night fell and the crowd dispersed.

Qatar sighed and prepared to leave. At this moment, an ordinary old man in a wheelchair leaned over slowly.

"Be careful." Qatar stepped forward and stood by his wheelchair.

"I thought the statue had collapsed." The old man trembled and said, "I want to take a look at it." "

"I'd love to see if I could use the Luke system." Qatar tightened the blanket on his body, thinking that the old man was not very familiar with virtual technology: "You can touch these stone statues on them." "

"No, no." The old man waved his hand, and his old arm was like a fragile dead branch: "I just like things in reality." Then he began to teach Qatar: "The stone statues here are not just about what they look like. I've lived in Cairo all my life and come here a lot. Only by standing here can you feel how the ancient Egyptians, ordinary people, built the pyramids here thousands of years ago. Those ancient people who were physically weak, hoisted huge stones, and endured the whipping of the nobles, you can't feel the spirit if you don't stand here and feel the scorching sun and yellow sand. That unwillingness, anger, and human strength. "

"Egyptians, lack this spirit." After a pause, the old man sighed and said this.

Qatar did not respond to him, but just stood behind him, silently accepting the teaching.

"Sphinx, guardian of the mausoleum." The old man turned his wheelchair, and the city behind him lit up with a bright night light, like a boundless Milky Way: "It's good if it's still there, it's good if it's still there." The pyramids of Egypt always need something to guard. "

The sound faded away, Qatar's swarthy skin barely visible in the night, but his eyes were brighter than usual.

Half an hour later, Qatar returned to the office. The papers on the desk have been processed, and the room has been cleaned.

He closed the door, looked at the lights outside the window, and just stood.

Today's incident touched him deeply.

Some things, lost, are not necessarily picked up.

At this moment, behind him, the sound of flipping through a book suddenly came.