Chapter 20: Sirius, the power of nature

"It's the trade winds, the trade winds are coming!"

When the voodoo wizard saw the dark yellow curtain in the distance, even though he was already immortal, he couldn't help but raise his tone.

After Hu Jianjun and Wang Fatzi heard his words, their faces changed greatly, and they instantly remembered the terrifying "black storm" they encountered in the desert when they were young in order to find the legendary exquisite ancient city.

"Run! Come on! ”

Wang Fatzi shook the reins of the camel vigorously, trying to urge them to find a safe place quickly, but when he turned around, he found that Hu Jianjun next to him was riding on the camel and did not move.

"Lao Hu, what are you doing? Hurry up, we're all going to be buried in this desert if we're late. ”

"It's useless," Hu Jianjun said in a dry voice, "haven't you noticed, unlike the last time, we have come all the way, but there are no ruins of the ancient city that can shelter from the wind." ”

"Then stand here and wait to die?" Wang Fatzi shouted, and wanted to run first.

At this time, Clark asked Hu Jianjun very calmly: "Mr. Hu, you haven't said yet, how can you determine the location of Hamna Tower in this astrological sign?" ”

His calm voice seemed to have a strange magic, which made Hu Jianjun, who was originally a little at a loss, gradually calm down his fear, and involuntarily said:

"The time has not yet come, and the evil spirit here is still brewing, so I can't be sure for the time being, but before I came, I also deliberately checked the information related to ancient Egyptian astrology.

In these sources, I found that the ancient Egyptians had an extraordinary veneration of Sirius, a star that had a very important and sacred place in ancient Egypt......"

"Oh, what a wolf, licking a dog, is it time to talk about astrological feng shui?"

Wang Fatzi seemed to know that Hu Jianjun was right just now, and that he and the others might not be able to run through the storm, and while scolding, he was still trying to die.

However, everyone ignored him, and when Laura heard Hu Jianjun's words, she remembered some historical materials related to ancient Egypt that she had read, so she explained:

"The ancient Egyptians worshipped Sirius because it appeared on the eastern horizon just before sunrise on the summer solstice, in late June, which was the beginning of the Nile flooding season.

Because the flooding of this mother river of Egypt brought the people of ancient Egypt the fertile soil needed for later cultivation and the subsequent harvest, Sirius was also regarded as a "lucky star" in ancient Egypt.

Not only that, Isis, the most important goddess of ancient Egypt at that time, was also regarded as the incarnation of Sirius, because she brought abundant products, so Isis was also especially worshipped by the ancient Egyptians and regarded as a great goddess.

All in all, in ancient Egyptian mythology, Sirius' appearance before the rising of the sun was the beginning of "good days" and "new hopes".

In other words, Sirius can also be seen as an emissary or vanguard of the sun god.

Because of these peculiar symbolic meanings, the ancient Egyptian calendars also regarded the day when Sirius rose with the sun in the morning and the Nile River rose as New Year's Day - that is, a new beginning. ”

Hearing Laura's words, Clark suddenly remembered Sirius in the original Harry Potter books, who was Harry Potter's godfather Black.

If you understand it in terms of this astrology of ancient Egypt, as the godson of Sirius, Harry Potter seems to be alluding to the sun god.

And this kind of reference coincides with the fact that he is the "new hope" of the human world and the "savior" of the new era.

Clark suddenly felt as if he had discovered something extraordinary, if it wasn't just a coincidence......

No, in the occult, there is no such thing as a coincidence, even a small metaphor can be a gift of fate.

Inspired by spirituality, Clark's mind surged like a tide and began to think more far-reaching, but Hu Jianjun was reminded by Laura's words.

"That's right! It could be Sirius, if compared to the Chinese morning star......

It is the dawn, it is the dawn, and at dawn, the direction that Sirius points in is the direction of the Tower of Hamna. ”

Hu Jianjun said happily, but Wang Fatzi scolded loudly, "Damn, who is still in the mood to find Naraush Ziham and Tamu now, let's survive first!" ”

As they spoke, the sky was clear enough to see the starry sky, as if it had darkened in an instant.

The wind came so fast that more and more fine sand was swept into the air, and the camel caravan was covered in overwhelming sand and dust, and the visibility was getting lower and lower with the naked eye.

At this time, the fat man was still pulling the reins on the camel.

Maybe it's because these big beasts also sense the danger signal coming from the sky, and they all seem to be crazy.

But even if they were so agitated that they swayed their hooves, they just stood there, and did not run away.

"Are these brutes stupid?" The fat man complained and turned over and got off the camel.

At this time, Clark suddenly instructed: "Everyone first remove the materials from the camels and pile them in the middle, so that the camels will not run away with the supplies for a while." ”

As soon as he spoke, Neville was the first to act, followed by the voodoo wizard, and Laura.

But Wang Fatzi looked at him with wide eyes, "Move down?" Are we not running? ”

"We can't run," Clarke shook his head, helping Hermione unload water and food, "and besides, we'll have to wait until dawn to get to know Sirius' position." ”

"No, when has this been? Stay here like this, we're all going to die! ”

"Don't worry, I have my own arrangements."

However, Wang Fatzi didn't seem to believe Clarke's words very much, so he turned around and went to encourage Hu Jianjun to run with him.

At this time, the wind is blowing more and more fiercely, and the wild sand is raging, and the fine sand particles hit people's faces, and everywhere is a dull yellow, making people almost unable to see the surrounding situation.

Clark and the others had already piled up all the materials on the camels, and then they led the dozen camels and formed a circle around these materials.

These big guys also seemed to be frightened, and they didn't know how to run, so they obediently followed the command of Clark and the others, lined up in a circle, squatted on the ground, and buried their heads in the sand.

Clark and the others had seen many of the white bones of camels along the way, and when they died, they kept this posture, as if they were sinners being punished.

"That's the way you say, by a circle of camels?"

The fat man looked at Clark's way of coping, facing the strong wind, and shouted almost hoarsely.

It's not that he can't see Clark's method, it's nothing more than using camels to form a circle to form a barrier against the wind and sand.

It's just that it seems to him that this little child clearly underestimated the power of nature.

In this case, not to mention a dozen camels, even a boulder weighing several tons has to be blown into the sky by the storm.

"Dead, dead, this time I'm going to be killed by you little bastard!" suddenly came to a dead end, and Wang Fatzi also felt very desperate.

He looked up, and the fierce wind poured sand into his mouth.

Through the dim moonlight in the sky, you can vaguely see that at the edge of the sky, a yellow torrent is forming, and the yellow sand on the earth is rolling, like a magnificent wave.

Although the "waves" are still a little far away from them, looking at this trend, the next storm must have enough power to bring hundreds of tons of sand to them.

"Don't just talk about it, think of a way! Relying on these camels, it will definitely not work to go on like this, show your ability, or do you want to kill us all? ”

Laura roared against the strong wind, she watched the huge sand waves gradually forming in the sky, and watched the sand and dust in front of her rise into the sky, reaching thousands of meters in the air.

A gray and yellow world seemed to be slowly pulled up by a curtain, and the camel team they were in was just a small ornament under this curtain.

In front of this kind of heaven and earth power, as bold as her, her hands and feet began to shake uncontrollably.

Hu Jianjun tightly grabbed the reins of the camel to prevent himself from being blown away by the strong wind, and at the same time yelled at Clark:

"yes, think of a way! You must have been prepared to bring us here, didn't you? ”

In fact, when he said this, he didn't have any hope in his heart, after all, in this case, even if the king of heaven and Lao Tzu came, he had to kneel down obediently.

That's right, Clark is indeed powerless at this time, as a [Psychic Warlock], his psychic ability does not have the ability to fight against this natural disaster.

However, that doesn't mean he can't do it.

"Do it, Hermione!"

What?!

In the howling wind, Laura and Wang Fatzi vaguely heard his words.

The next moment, they saw that the little girl who had been following Clark all along, facing the strong wind, straightened her waist and slowly walked to the center of the camel pen, next to the pile of supplies.

The swept wind blew away those things that were not firmly placed, and everyone had to lower their bodies to stabilize their center of gravity.

Hermione, on the other hand, stood in the wind and pulled out a large book with a hard-shell cover from her arms.

Braving the wind, she turned the title page of the book and began to whisper a mysterious incantation.

"What is this doing?"

Wang Fatzi and Hu Jianjun both looked at her with wide eyes, not knowing what this little girl was doing.

Laura also stared at Hermione with wide eyes, but her eyes were full of inquiry and curiosity.

Under the gaze of everyone, in this wind and sand, Hermione's clear voice, high and low tones, mixed with the "whirring" howling wind, is like a magnificent symphony.

As Hermione's chanting reached its climax, a handful of crystal powder also swayed out of her hand.

The fine powder was in the wind and sand, and it quickly disappeared.

Then, everyone was surprised to find that the wind around them seemed to be weakening!

In the beginning, the change was not so noticeable.

But soon, when they looked up at the sky, they saw that a little above their heads, an invisible line of decomposition could be clearly seen.

Inside the dividing line is the place where the wind and sand gradually subside.

Outside the dividing line, there is still a terrifying storm of sand.

The storm of yellow sand coiled around their humble camp like an angry dragon python.

The storm was so violent that it almost sucked away the nearby sand dunes, but it didn't reach even an inch of ground beneath their feet.

Gradually, the space around them was strangely calm.

If anyone looked from a distance at this time, they would find that the seven of them, even with their supplies and camels, seemed to be shrouded in an invisible glass bowl.

At this time, Hermione had stopped chanting, she closed the magic book, smiled and nodded to them, and Clark on the side also said to everyone, "Okay! Now we're safe! ”

They're really safe.

Just a few steps away from them, the wind shrieked like a devil's scream, occasionally bringing out a crunch or two that sounded like the whip of a long whip.

The dense grains of sand carried an astonishing amount of energy in the storm, like bullets that had been discharged.

It may be able to draw bloody wounds on a person's body, to wear out everything that exists in the desert, to polish rocks into gravel, and to cut a living person into bones.

But in front of their eyes, they could only bypass it very smoothly and let out a helpless lament.

It was in such a nightmarish environment that they still stood unharmed on the soft sand.

Even if the storm obscured the bright moon in the sky, there was still a faint white light in this small semicircular space, providing them with illumination.

Hu Jianjun looked at the invisible 'wall' in front of him, but blocked the storm and dust, and said in disbelief: "This is ...... Magic? ”

Clark looked indifferent, and was even in the mood to take out a bottle of mineral water, unscrew the cap, and rinse his mouth.

β€œhe~~tui!”

"Of course it's magic, otherwise what do you think it is, God forbid? This is Egypt, and if you want to pray, you should pray to the Egyptian gods. ”

Clark made a joke, but he was right, Hermione was indeed casting the 3-ring spell of the [Mage] profession - [Leomon Hut].

As the name suggests, it was invented by an arcane named Leomon as a force field spell for mages to rest comfortably while venturing in the wild.

As early as the beginning of the summer vacation, Hermione had already been reminded by Clark to upgrade the [Mage] profession to level 5, unlocking the ability to use 3-ring spells.

As for the spellcasting materials, when the wealthy Laura said that she would be responsible for preparing all the materials, Clark also unceremoniously reported all the spellcasting materials that might be used.

Now it seems that his precautions were not in vain.

At least in Laura's opinion, this sandstorm is enough for them to survive.