Smelting everything from pirates

Chapter 624 Cairo

For the rest of the week, Barrett stayed in the library of Miskatonic University, searching for things about Egypt.

In the past, few people would choose to investigate Egypt, an ancient civilization that has long been lost. Under the invasion of Christianity and Arab culture, as well as under the attack of Rome, ancient Egypt has long been soaked with time. Under the yellow sand, no one has been inherited.

Even in Barrett's library at Miskatonic University, some of the information found contained a large number of errors.

But even so, in this era, these news can be said to be accurate, and even very avant-garde.

Memorizing all these materials in his mind, Barrett was thinking about the supernatural things that might have happened in Egypt.

The most important of these are sandstorms and floods. Living in the Nile River Basin, the flood season of the Nile River is from July to August every year.

Compared with other civilizations, which can be said to hate floods extremely, the attitude of Egyptian civilization towards floods is different from other civilizations.

After all, 98% of the population of Egyptian civilization lived in the Nile River basin. As long as the flood came, their fields would become more fertile.

This makes most of the magic learned by Egyptian wizards actually inseparable from the Nile River, which is also a process of natural evolution and selection.

A week passed quickly.

Barrett still stuffed a lot of bullets in his backpack as before, in addition to carrying a 50 cm long machete and two claws made by the Arkham blacksmith. knife.

Perhaps those blacksmiths had never forged claw knives. Originally, what Barrett wanted was a 15cm claw knife, but the resulting claw knife was 20 cm long and very brittle.

If Barrett hadn't learned blacksmith skills in the world of Diablo, he would have been more willing to forge a claw blade by himself, so he could only spend a certain amount of mana to enchant the two claw blades in his hand.

This time on the ship, not many investigators came to participate in the activities in Egypt. I am afraid that in the mind of the professor of Miskatonic University, the investigation to Egypt this time is actually more like an academic research.

But guns will definitely not be less, the freedom of the Americans
So Barrett still put two Chicago typewriters in his suitcase. The journey to Cairo was more difficult than Barrett imagined, because the current plane is not very smooth.

In addition to resisting the disgusting eddies and waves, the scenery that has not changed for thousands of years also makes Barrett can only sit by the window and write non-stop.

The currents of the Atlantic Ocean pass through the Cape of Good Hope, and then all the way to the Mediterranean Sea, and finally reach Cairo through the mouth of the Nile River.

It took as long as two months on this road, and during these two months, Barrett finished writing at least three books.

In addition, he kept practicing his sword skills and close combat techniques, mainly in Cairo, a ghostly place, after all, there were too many robbers and thieves.

When the ship docked, not only the professors of Miskatonic University, but also the students felt extremely tired.

"We have already contacted the Royal University of Cairo, and they have rented an apartment for us a month ago. There are at least 30 rooms in it, allowing each of us to have a separate bedroom. Now we can gone"

It was Professor Hawkins who said this passage. After all, there are a lot of professors and students who arrived in Egypt this time. As the teaching director, Professor Hawkins will definitely come with him.

In fact, there is one more thing that Professor Hawkins did not say, and that is that investigator Randolph Carter disappeared in Egypt.

This is also the reason why Professor Hawkins insisted that Professor Wald and Barrett come over. After all, although Randolph Carter often had no news before, he basically disappeared for only a few months.

But this time Investigator Carter disappeared for as long as a year, and it was very strange that no one had seen Investigator Carter in the whole of Cairo, Egypt.

This really makes people feel extremely suspicious.

However, the professors from Miskatonic University still learned about some of the routes and itineraries of the Carter investigators after they arrived in Cairo.

This time, Barrett and Professor Wald's task is to investigate this matter in Cairo. After all, Cairo is an ancient city with a history of thousands of years.

It's not surprising that anything strange happens here.

After all the teachers and students of Miskatonic University moved into the apartment, they thanked the professors and teachers of Cairo Royal University.

They all felt extremely tired from the long sea voyage, and went back to their respective rooms and fell asleep.

Only Barrett went to Cairo with a map to investigate the routes that Investigator Carter had traveled. In fact, Professor Wald also wanted to search with Barrett, but he was too old.

So Barrett decided that it would be safer to be alone in Cairo City. Although some details might be missed, Barrett felt that he could still find the most important things.

Cairo is now the largest city in Africa and the Arab world. The entire city of Cairo straddles the Nile River and is the center of politics, economy, culture and transportation in the Middle East.

Cairo, which straddles the Nile River, is majestic, magnificent, political, economic, cultural and commercial center. Cairo in the early 20th century was composed of Cairo Province, Giza Province and Qalyub Province, commonly known as Greater Cairo.

Moreover, Cairo as a whole is also one of the oldest cities in the world. It is also one of the few ancient cities in the world that has suffered from wars and suffered the least damage. The continuous construction and expansion of successive dynasties and governments has made this city a large city that coexists with ancient and modern. .

Walking in it, Barrett can see the influence of ancient Egypt, Christian culture, and Christian culture on the entire city of Cairo.

In which whites, blacks and Arabs walk,
The formation of Cairo can be traced back to the period of the Old Kingdom about 3 years BC. It also has a history of more than a thousand years as the capital. In the Middle Ages, it became a military fortress of the Byzantine Empire.

The predecessor of Cairo was the city of Fustat. In 641 AD, the Arabs founded Cairo. .

Back then, Investigators Charles and Carter found the Necronomicon left by Abdullah in the Arabian desert, and they also found clues in Cairo.

It has to be said that Egypt is actually very important in the influence of culture and Islam.

Although ancient Egypt had a glorious history, in the long river of history and time, Cairo, like ancient Egypt, only left those ancient buildings.

According to investigator Carter's records, the first stop he visited was the Second Museum in central Cairo.

The so-called Second Museum is actually not a public museum, but a private museum. At that time, an entrepreneur from the UK came to Cairo and found that a new museum had already appeared.

Later, he decided to call his museum the second museum, and it was precisely because of this move that his museum had a particularly large flow of people every day, regardless of the middle-class Europeans who came to Egypt for tourism.

Or Arabs who come to Cairo from the Arab world to study will go to the Second Museum.

Sitting in a carriage, Barrett said to the coachman in Arabic, heading to the Second Museum.

Barrett knows how to use and write most of the languages ​​on the planet. Except for places like Boswana, where Barrett has never been, Barrett can basically read, write, and speak the languages ​​of other places. .

Sitting in the car, we quickly arrived at the Second Museum,
The Second Museum, which was originally crowded with people, is now empty at first glance, and there are not many people wandering in the museum at all.

Even the staff from India who were standing at the door to collect the tickets were very tired, leaning on the seats, fanning the wind with the newspapers in their hands.

The average temperature in Cairo is 34.1 degrees in summer, and over 28 degrees even in autumn. It is actually very hot to wear two clothes here.

Walking into it, Barrett bought a ticket. There are many collections in the Second Museum, many of which are all mummies.

"Investigator Carter went directly to the next location after observing in the second museum for three days. So what exactly did he see here?"

The eyes of Barrett in me scanned like radar, and the surroundings were thinking at the same time.

(End of this chapter)