Chapter 14: The Holy City
Night.
A crescent moon hangs high in the sky.
A giant eagle, with a majestic posture looking down on the earth, spreads its wings and flies. From the bottom up, it looks like it's interspersed between the stars and the moon.
On the ground, an unhindered convoy galloped like the stars and the moon.
This is the same procession that left the pyramid site and was heading towards the holy city of Egypt.
Due to the large temperature difference between day and night due to the desert climate, this team takes refuge from the cold and heat at two o'clock in the meridian every day, rests and uses the rest of the time to rush, so as to achieve the highest efficiency and effectively avoid the influence of the climate.
At this time, after a break at midnight, the convoy set off again in the night near dawn, and the speed did not slow down at all by the moonlight and stars shining on the earth.
It had been nearly two days since they left the pyramid site.
Fang Di stood on a chariot near the center of the convoy, looking at the stars and the moon to determine the direction, so as to judge that the entire team was always galloping towards the southwest.
According to the comprehensive analysis of Egypt's geographical location, it can be seen that the original pyramid construction site is somewhere in eastern Egypt, which is also one of the few areas in Egypt where mountains can occasionally be seen undulating, which is in line with the topography around the Golden Pagoda construction site.
Coming to this conclusion made Fang Di feel a pity in his heart.
Before coming to ancient Egypt, he was traveling on Mount Sinai, the easternmost region of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. In this way, the location of the pyramid site should not be too far from the Sinai Peninsula.
If Fang Di traveled to ancient Egypt, the place he most desperately wanted to go to was the first place to count Mount Sinai.
He came to this ancient era, after all, the time has not been long, there is no sense of belonging, and he wants to go to Mount Sinai, just in case, since he is crossing in Mount Sinai, who dares to say that this sacred mountain that can make a solar meteorite land does not have the ability to let him return to modern times?
Unfortunately, at this time, the direction of the convoy was going in the opposite direction to the Sinai Peninsula, where Mount Sinai is located, and it was getting farther and farther away.
Fang Di sighed secretly, crying out in vain.
It seemed that the only choice to go to Mount Sinai was later, and Fang Di turned to look at the land of Egypt and the brilliant starry sky under the moonlight.
As later generations have seen, the land of ancient Egypt was mostly desert, with few hills and greenery, and from a distance, the whole team seemed to be undulating in the waves of a long sea of sand.
The air in this era is free of any pollution, pure and intoxicating, and when you breathe, you can feel the vitality of zài in the air.
During the day, when you look far away, the sky is blue and the clouds are white, and the clear sky is like a wash, as if you can always see the extreme end of the connection between heaven and earth, which makes people move and can't be themselves.
At this time, the moon was speeding down, and there was a feeling of loneliness, which climbed in Fang Di's heart.
Along the way, many of the soldiers of this team have already known each other with Fang Di. Whether the whole team is resting or rushing, they all have a clear division of labor, each performing its own duties, and the obedience and discipline shown along the way have made Fang Di repeatedly admired.
In this era, it should have been a prosperous dynasty in ancient Egypt to have such an elite army.
Suddenly, there is a light and elegant body fragrance, which is sent into the square nose of the ups and downs of thoughts, full of youthful atmosphere.
Fang Di's eyes turned slightly, and he saw the beautiful girl in the car a little earlier. She was the daughter of Munasa, the chief minister of Egypt, and one of the brightest pearls in all of Egypt.
The girl is still wearing a white long dress, with a bright and beautiful appearance, and there is no wind and frost in a hurry.
Fang Di already knew that the girl's name was Candace, and she was eighteen years old this year, like the age and appearance of a flower.
It is said that she is a loving and feared character in the holy city of Egypt, although she is beautiful, she has a good martial arts, and her combat effectiveness is above many elite soldiers, so this journey has not stumped Candace and made her haggard at all.
Xu sensed Fang Di's gaze, and Candace turned her head suddenly, revealing a beautiful smile that competed with the bright moon.
Time flew by, no one in the convoy spoke, and in the gradually brighter sky, the gallop was getting faster and faster.
In the early morning of this day, the air gradually became moist.
It was the breath of the Nile that ran through Egypt. Judging by the fact that almost all of Egypt's important cities were built on the banks of the Nile, the holy city must not be far away.
Suddenly, there was a chirping of an eagle in the sky, and in front of the convoy that had been galloping for nearly two days, at the far end of the horizon, the outline of a majestic giant city was revealed.
Fang Di let out a light 'heh', as far as his eyes could see, as if it was a giant city located at the end of the earth, and let out a heartfelt admiration.
As the convoy speeded, the giant city was rapidly approaching. Fang Di couldn't find any words to accurately describe the grandeur of the city.
Standing in the morning sun, it resembles a divine city under the sun, reflecting a faint golden glow throughout. The temples in the city are magnificent, orderly and orderly, and the huge statues of gods and demons are scattered and scattered, and there is a kind of magic that shocks people's hearts.
The whole city straddles the banks of the Nile, and its prosperity makes Fang Di feel that he has returned to modern times.
Several soldiers who were in the same car as Fang Di were all full of pride. One of them looked conceited and said, "This is one of the two most magnificent divine cities in Egypt, even if you are an outsider, you must have heard the name of Thebes!"
Fang Di secretly thought that I had never heard of it in this era, but in modern times, thousands of years later, I had heard of the name of the ruins of Thebes. Then I thought:
According to the time of the existence of Thebes, which was estimated by later generations, the age I am in now is about 2,000 B.C., a time span of three or four thousand years from modern times. In this period, whether the land of China was still living in the form of a tribe, or whether it had established the legendary initial dynasty of Chinese civilization - Daxia, or was in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was a brilliant era of countless myths and legends!"
According to historical records, the city of Thebes in ancient Egypt was an ancient city full of magic.
Its rise and fall is a microcosm of the rise and fall of ancient Egypt as a whole.
Thebes was the largest city in the world at that time, standing on both sides of the Nile River, claiming to have as many as 100 city gates, densely populated, vast buildings, incomparably prosperous, known as the "capital of a hundred gates".
The Arabs once praised it as a "palace city".
Successive pharaohs built a large number of temples, palaces, and mausoleums in Thebes. They are large-scale, exquisitely crafted, and magnificent. The right city of Thebes, also known as the East City, was the religious and political center of ancient Egypt at that time. The Left City of Thebes, also known as the West City, was the resting place of the pharaohs after their deaths.
Even in the modern era where thousands of years have passed, most of the once magnificent palaces and temples in the city of Thebes have disappeared, but from the only remaining temple ruins, the tombs of emperors and queens, and the tombs of nobles, we can still imagine the style of the heyday of Bes at the end of that year.
When Fang Di fell into the fantasy of Thebes, the city of miracles, the entire convoy roared forward, approaching the majestic main gate of the eastern city of Thebes.
The soldiers and ministers in the city who had received the news in advance personally greeted him and waited for the return of Munasa.
It was only at this time that Fang Di more intuitively realized the power of Munasa, the Egyptian chief and auxiliary minister. The honor guard that greeted the city alone gathered no less than 100 nobles and ministers, and the soldiers on both sides of the line were close to 1,000 people.
Strangely, the two priests, who were obviously not under Munasa, kept a low profile at this time, and before approaching the city gate, they were separately assigned from the convoy, carrying only two chariots of attachés, including Fang Di, and quietly galloped into the city of Thebes through a side gate.
Before entering the city, Fang Di suddenly sensed that someone was watching him from a distance, and turned his head to see that there was a heroic young man in the team that went out of the city to greet Munasa, standing intimately with Candace, not knowing what they were talking to, but his eyes were empty and full of unkindness to Fang Di.
Fang Di was a little puzzled, withdrew his gaze from the young man's gaze, and instead focused on the scenery on both sides of the street after entering Thebes.
The road after they entered the city had apparently been cleared beforehand, and there was silence along the way, and not a single Egyptian resident was ever seen.
Fang Di's eyes were dizzying, and he was shocked by the magnificence of the palace buildings and the sculptures of gods and demons that rushed into his eyes as he galloped all the way.
Nearly half an hour later, the four-horse carriage turned onto a wide stone road that was extraordinarily flat for sixteen horses to gallop together, and at the end of the road sat a row of imposing palace complexes.
The main hall of the building complex is square in shape, as high as a mountain, and the square in front of the door stands a white boulder pillar, on which are carved with a variety of symbols and words, mysterious and gorgeous.
When the carriage stopped in front of the main entrance of the palace, there were already priests in white robes in the palace, marching out in a procession, posing in a welcoming posture.
In the welcoming procession, a middle-aged, smooth-skinned priest stepped forward slowly, and solemnly and respectfully said to the two priests who came back with Fang Di:
"The upper priest and the lower priest are going out to inspect hard this time, do they want to freshen up first, or go to see the high priest immediately?"
Only then did Fang Di know that the two priests who came back all the way with him, the tall and thin one was called the upper priest, and the other had a cold face and called the lower priest without smiling. I couldn't help but wonder: "The name of this ancient Egypt is also strange, not distinguished by left and right, but commensurate with upper and lower." ”
The priests did not reply, but went straight into the temple.
The priest instructed the left and right: "Take Fang Di to freshen up, and we will make a decision after we report to the high priest." The body of the word disappeared into the majestic main hall.
Someone else led him into the most famous sacred place in Egypt, the sacrificial temple.
After the tea cup time, after freshening up, Fang Di's tired color was swept away, and he sat down in a lounge assigned to him with a radiant spirit, thinking about whether to try to use the power in his body and investigate the necromantic temple, and whether the wisp of black qi from the underworld that had not entered his body at the last moment was really there.
Just then, there was a sound of someone approaching outside the door.
Fang Di's thoughts clearly reflected the image of a thin young attendant. The next moment, the attendant walked in from outside and said, "The high priest wants to see you." ”
Fang Di smiled happily at his increasing transcendent sense, followed behind the attendant, and walked out.