Chapter 580: Target: Fanem Oasis
Three days later, in a chaotic carriage.
Ida complained to Dongfang Chen: "Boss, RC has such powerful logistics, we don't take planes, why do we have to squeeze trains with so many people?"
Dongfang Chen looked out the window and said softly: "Sometimes, it's good to take a walk and take a look." ”
After saying that, he pointed to his heart, then smiled and continued to look out the window.
Seeing that Dongfang Chen ignored him, Ida turned her conversation to Solomon. The former head of the Knights of Divine Punishment has been the supreme leader of A3 for thousands of years, and he still holds this position.
Ida used to be called Holly, and when she didn't meet Dongfang Chen, she was a member of Noah's Ark, an organization under A3, and she was not much away from Solomon, and now the former supreme leader was sitting across from her, which aroused her strong curiosity.
"Father, it is said that the family of Tias left Thebes suddenly, and no one knows where they went. Why are you so sure that the holy place they chose is the legendary Oasis of Fanem?"
Ida asked first.
Solomon looked away from the book in his hand and glanced at the woman in front of him.
This woman seems to be delicate and cowardly, but in fact she is bold and careful, thinking that ordinary people dare not think and do what ordinary people dare not do. Seizing an opportunity, he successfully attracted Dongfang Chen's attention and successfully entered the social circle of the evolutionary class of human beings on the earth, and he must not be taken lightly.
Thinking of this, Solomon smiled gracefully: "Miss Ada, please allow me to tell you a little story. The legend of the Scorpion King!
In the era of the strife between the kings of ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt was worshiped by the eagle god Horus, who dominated the sky and air, as the god's residence, and the kings of the past generations worked hard to gradually unify Upper Egypt and set the capital of Tinis, forming a powerful state.
Lower Egypt was still a scattered sand at this time. Upper Egypt coveted the fertile and fertile Nile Delta of Lower Egypt, waged frequent wars, and gradually encroached on Lower Egypt.
It was at this time that a great hero appeared among the many chieftains of Lower Egypt. His territory and tribe had earlier been conquered and enslaved by the armies of Upper Egypt, and he himself became a prisoner. But on the way to escort Tiness, he saw an opportunity to escape.
Just when he was running out of water and food and was about to die, poisonous snakes and scorpions, symbols of death, appeared from the sand dunes. Death gave him two choices: either let the poisonous snakes and scorpions bite him and let him end his tragic life early, or he defeated the poisonous snakes and scorpions in front of him and ate them, and gave his soul to the god of death, so that he would be blessed by the gods and could mobilize the army of the god to help him take revenge. But when revenge succeeds, he will die instantly, and everything will turn into sand.
Faced with a multiple-choice question that was both dead ends, he chose to die a little later. After subduing and eating the viper and scorpion alive, a spring of water suddenly gushed out from under his feet, and then turned into rivers and lakes, green grass and trees broke through the ground, and in just three days it became an oasis of life: Fanem.
Subsequently, using Fanem as a base, he quickly gathered an army of would-be rebels against Upper Egypt using the gold and precious stones that gushed out of the springs. He used gold and gems to create a helmet in the shape of snake venom and a belt engraved with a scorpion pattern, and called himself the Scorpion King.
Subsequently, the Scorpion King led the army and civilians to fight in the north and south, crushing Tinis's side everywhere. Whenever he encounters a strong fortress built by his opponent, or when his own side is not as strong as Tinis, the Scorpion King will pray to the god and summon the Death King's army, and without exception, the Grim Reaper will grant the Scorpion King's wish.
Soon, the Scorpion King led his army to unify Upper and Lower Egypt and besieged the king and nobles of Upper Egypt in the city of Tinis. On the day of the destruction of Memphis, the moment the king drank poisoned wine and cut himself, the Scorpion King's great revenge was avenged, and it also meant that the contract signed by the god of death with him was completed.
In an instant, his soul was taken away by death, his flesh shriveled and withered, and the serpent crown and the scorpion belt turned to yellow sand. Not only that, but everything that came out of the Farnem Oasis, whether it was the weapons in the hands of the warriors, the food and water in their pockets, or even the gold and precious stones that served as military pay, were all turned into sand.
Therefore, the army of the Scorpion King's army quickly dispersed, and suddenly turned into birds and beasts, and fled one after another. The Scorpion Dynasty, which had almost ruled all of Egypt, was overthrown, and the newly born First Dynasty, fearing a repeat of the story of the Scorpion King, sent men to search for the legendary oasis of Fanem in an attempt to discover and use the mysterious power of the oasis to consolidate the kingdom's rule.
Unfortunately, the Oasis of Fanem seemed to have evaporated out of thin air, and no matter how hard the pharaohs tried to explore it, they did not even see its shadow.
The Farnem Oasis is like a mirage, except for some remnants of the Scorpion King's old tribe who have sworn to tell it, no one has ever seen the legendary oasis from ancient times to the present, and there is no trace of it in all the documentary records.
Countless explorers have tried to explore this legendary land for the sake of profit, but they have either returned empty-handed or have not heard from them.
The story of the Scorpion King has become a legend!"
Ida listened with relish, tilted her head and thought for a long time after Solomon's words were finished, and then asked, "Father, what you said is something that enthusiasts who are interested in the history and legends of ancient Egypt know. Even a few decades ago, I made a few old movies about the Scorpion King.
But what does the legendary Scorpion King, the strange and unpredictable Fanem Oasis, have to do with the purpose of our trip?"
Solomon said in a deep voice: "Your boss needs to decipher the unknown text on the scroll, and the only people in the world who know this kind of writing are the Tias family.
So, we're going to find the nest of the Tias now. See if they have any living heirs to help your boss decipher the contents of the Parchment.
Got it? Miss Ada. ”
Ida shrugged, "But I still don't understand what this has to do with that ghost oasis?"
Solomon lifted his glasses and looked down at the book, ignoring her. Ida was about to ask, but Dongfang Chen suddenly interjected: "Because the priest and I suspect that the Fanem Oasis is the secret lair of the Tias family.
Miss Ada, ask the people about the local legends and stories along the way, we don't have the slightest clue now, and the task is still very heavy. ”
Ida understood that this was the boss's suggestion not to pay too much attention to the affairs of the Fanem Oasis in a crowded place, and instructed herself to go out into the public to inquire about the legends and stories to see if there were any clues.
Ida got up slowly, and with a gesture of style, she squeezed towards the other carriage.
Solomon whispered, "Captain, can this girl succeed?"
Dongfang Chen also took out a book and flipped through it, and said as he flipped it: "It is up to people to make things happen, and to do things in the sky." It's up to God to give us this face!
Oh, by the way, is the information you said reliable?"
Solomon replied in a low voice, "According to the secret records of A3, the legend that the Scorpion King made a pact with the Grim Reaper is purely untrue.
The term pharaoh was first introduced by the Memphis dynasty of Upper Egypt, when the kings of Lower Egypt were divided and several of the supreme leaders called themselves the Scorpion King. Later, Menes of the Memphis dynasty unified Upper and Lower Egypt, and the pharaoh was recognized as the exclusive title of king of all Egypt.
Captain of the East, you must know that the Tias family can originate in Thebes. During the First Dynasty, Thebes was also an inconspicuous transit point on the Nile River. More than a thousand years later, in the first intermediate period between the ancient and middle dynasties, Thebes emerged as the center of all Egypt.
One can imagine how revered the Tias family, who were the first to inculcate the theory of the Nine Pillars in their rulers, were revered? After all, theocracy was the foundation of every dynasty in ancient Egypt. But when they were in the middle of the day, they chose to retreat bravely, saying that they were looking for some holy place to build the temple of the sun. Don't you think it's a little weird?
Moreover, before the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom in Egypt, the tombs of the pharaohs were no different from ordinary people, but they were only on a grand scale. So why did Josser, the first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty, suddenly change his mind and abandon the half-completed mausoleum in favor of the pyramidal mausoleum of the new vizier Imhep?
From what we've heard, there's ample evidence that Imhep's personal advisor and chief monk, Mage, is a man named Mosebion.
And the reason why Imhep unconditionally believes in his monk mage is because Mosebion once told him that he is from the Fanem Oasis, a servant of the sun god, and a member of the Tias family, the guardian of the artifact.
This is true, and it is recorded in Imhep's own handwriting. My man once copied the original notes, and the copy is now in the A3 archive.
That's why I dare to say that the influence of the Tias family on ancient Egypt is ubiquitous. As long as the secrets of this family are revealed, let alone deciphered the parchment scroll, even many of the secrets of the empire, as well as other fragments of light, will gradually surface. ”
Dongfang Chen knew that the empire in Solomon's gate was Atlantis, which he was obsessed with restoring to its former prosperity. At this time, the book in his hand also turned to a certain page, and in a text he wrote:
In the thirteenth century B.C., a man named Tias claimed that he had heard from an Egyptian sacrificial family that Atlantis did exist because it existed specifically to worship a stele and to guard it for generations.
The stele depicts the portrait of the first king of Atlantis: Queen Ahir, son of the god of the sea!