[Tomb Raider] Escape

There was a neatly stacked piece of papyrus in the interlayer of the pendant. Nangong Gousheng took it out carefully, and after unfolding it, he found that it was a piece of paper the size of a palm.This time there was no map on the slip of paper, only a poem like a riddle.Nangong Gousheng frowned and looked at it for a while, Li Yaoyao came up and asked, "Master, what is written on it?"

Nangong Gousheng looked at it for another half a minute without answering, then suddenly said, "Give me a pen and paper."

Li Yaoyao hurried back to the house to get it, just as everyone in the house woke up, they all followed out curiously.

Nangong Gousheng handed the pen to Su Yi and said, "Copy it again."

Su Yi took the pen and quickly drew the hieroglyphs on the papyrus. The complex hieroglyphs in his hand were almost exactly the same as the original manuscript.

After finishing the painting, Nangong Gousheng took the pen and wrote down the corresponding English letters under the hieroglyphs.

After copying, there was a string of garbled English letters on the paper.Nangong Gousheng started to learn ancient Egyptian from the Book of the Dead, and later collected a lot of information, but most of them were related to tombs and myths.Hieroglyphs are an extremely complex language, and no one has mastered its usage proficiently. If it weren't for the discovery of the Book of the Dead, this language would almost become a lost mystery.

Now that I got such a piece of paper that I don't know what is written on it, it would be quite a headache to decipher even Nangong Gousheng.

The first word on the paper was "Ta-saty". Nangong Gousheng stared at it for a while, and said hesitantly: "This word is very familiar, where should I read it?" I really can't remember it for a while.

Li Yaoyao hugged the black cat and shook it: "Eagle Two, tell me quickly, what is written on it?"

The black cat was dizzy from being shaken by him, meowed, and simply tilted its head and pretended to be dead.

Su Yi pointed to a certain hieroglyphic word and said, "Isn't this the brand name of Ramses II?"

Nangong Gousheng nodded, and scratched a few letters with his finger: "This paragraph means the temple of Ramses II."

Su Yi pondered: "Is the temple of Ramses II the one in Abu Simbel?"

Nangong Gousheng was slightly taken aback.He naturally noticed this word, but he didn't realize that it was a specific reference for a while, but took it as a general reference to the many temples built by Ramses II.In fact, there is a world-famous Great Temple of Ramses II in Abu Simbel, which was built in the thirteenth century BC on a cliff on the west bank of the Nile.

Nangong Gousheng suddenly realized, pointed to the word "Ta-saty" and said, "This is the meaning of 'Land of Archers', that is, Nubia!"

Nubia is a land from Aswan to Khartoum, and the first waterfall in Egypt is the dividing line between Egypt and Nubia. For 5000 years, there have been constant wars between Egypt and Nubia, but most of the time Egypt has the upper hand. During the New Kingdom, the Egyptians even divided Nubia into five states, and each state was assigned a governor representing the pharaoh.In modern times, the 1955 Nubian referendum opposed the merger with Egypt. After Sudan became independent in 1956, the territory of Nubia was divided between Egypt and Sudan.

After finding the starting point, even though there were some words that Nangong Gousheng could not understand, he roughly translated the text on the papyrus: "Located in Lower Nubia, 600 meters east of the Great Temple of Ramses II ..." The last word is "nbw", which means gold in ancient Egyptian, and Nangong Gousheng translated it into treasure, "There is a treasure."

Li Yaoyao picked up Eagle No. [-], kissed it hard, and pouted the hair off her mouth: "Baby! You are amazing!"

Yu Yu and She She also scrambled to "favor" Eagle No. [-], She She kissed its forehead, Yu Yu pouted and leaned closer, just bumped into She She who was about to move away, their mouths met, big Stare small.

"..."

She She took a step back calmly: "Bah."

Yu Yu instantly went crazy!

A few apprentices were fighting together, Nangong Gousheng shook his head and sighed, while smiling, he folded the papyrus as it was and put it back into the sun-shaped pendant, and stuffed the translated paper into his pocket.

Qiao Yu asked excitedly, "Are we going to Nubia?"

Nangong Gousheng said: "Don't have too much hope. In the [-]th century, the Egyptian government built the Aswan Dam. Now most of the Lower Nubia area is flooded."

Su Yi said: "From 1964 to 1968, in order to protect the Great Temple of Ramses II from the flood, UNESCO cut it, moved it to the mountain and rebuilt it... The ancient temple was built The ruins are now submerged by Lake Nasser, right?"

Nangong Gousheng nodded.

Yu Yu, who was wrestling with She She, stopped when she heard this, and turned her eyes to Nangong Gousheng in surprise: "What a god! The baby is gone!"

Nangong Gousheng paused for three seconds, then smiled slightly: "I still have to go and have a look. Get ready and leave tomorrow."

In the evening, after everyone finished their meal and prepared to rest, Li Yaoyao became addicted to cigarettes and went out to smoke.

The oasis in the summer night is very comfortable, the cool evening wind is blowing hard, blowing away the heat of the whole day.

Li Yaoyao walked outside the door and found Yu Yu sitting on a big rock with a half-smoked cigarette between her fingertips and countless cigarette butts under her feet.

Li Yaoyao was slightly surprised, and walked forward with a frown: "Old Yu, what are you doing?"

Yu Yu took a deep puff of a cigarette, her hair was blown back by the wind, with a sense of chic: "I'm thinking about life."

The corner of Li Yaoyao's mouth twitched: "What did you come up with?"

Yu Yu raised her face half brightly and half sadly, and raised the cigarette at her fingertips, the butt of the cigarette was shining bright yellow in the strong wind: "Look, the smoke in the wind burns very fast. Usually I can smoke twenty Take seven or eight puffs now, and the smoke will burn out."

Li Yaoyao rolled her eyes and sat down beside him: "Hey, are you okay, smoking so much?"

Yu Yu gave a wry smile imperceptibly, threw away the cigarette that had burned down the filter in his hand, and crushed it out with his feet: "Third brother...how did you and Su Yi get along?"

Li Yaoyao raised her eyebrows, and after a few seconds, she said proudly: "Actually, he met me many years ago. Do you remember when we lived in Zhabei District seven or eight years ago, there were a few streets across the street? A high-end residential area, and a middle school? Su Yi said that he lived there at that time, and that he was robbed by hooligans once after school, and I saved him." He rubbed the back of his head and giggled , "Actually, I don't even remember."

Yu Yu asked, "How did you get together?"

Li Yaoyao chuckled: "That's it. Didn't I go to the People's Square to beg for alms at that time? He would sit there every day and draw pictures of me. I thought he already had something wrong with me, so I just let it go."

Yu Yu curled her lips and sighed enviously.

Li Yaoyao lit a cigarette, handed it to Yu Yu, and took a long puff: "Actually, Su Yi said that I was his first love, and that he had never liked a man before. I don't believe it. I told him Well, I wanted to go home with him the next day, and he took me back. I thought he wanted to have a one-night stand with me, but I also thought that such a young master, his vigilance is too low, so he is not afraid that I will take advantage of him to sleep Then I bought his house. I turned him to bed within two weeks after we got well, and he didn't refuse. Said he

The first time, I really didn't believe it. "

Yu Yu sneered: "Okay, third child, you are content. Do you like chicks?"

"No." Li Yaoyao said, "I really like Su Yi, but I just don't believe what he says. In fact, he's quite smart, he's not as innocent as he looks."

Yu Yu smiled and shook his head.

After the two finished smoking, Li Yaoyao patted her buttocks and was about to go back to her room. When she turned around, she saw a black figure standing motionless at the door, and she couldn't help being startled.

Yu Yu turned around, also stunned: "...Su Yi?"

Su Yi looked at Li Yaoyao calmly, without saying a word.

Li Yaoyao thought of what she said just now, guessing that Su Yi had heard it, she couldn't help feeling guilty.

Yu Yu looked back and forth between the two of them, and hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Sister-in-law, you can't sleep either."

Su Yi walked forward with his head down, and said softly, "Give me a cigarette." He didn't smoke before.

Li Yaoyao frowned fiercely, stood stiff for a few seconds, raised her chin slightly to signal to Yu Yu, and Yu Yu shrugged and went back to the room.

The two sat down on a big rock, and Su Yi repeated: "Give me a cigarette."

"Cough." Li Yaoyao cleared her throat, and put her arms around Su Yi's shoulder tentatively. Su Yi did not refuse, but took out the cigarette case from his pocket, popped a cigarette into his mouth, and Li Yaoyao touched the lighter.

Li Yaoyao didn't dare to stop him, and asked cautiously, "How long have you been standing?"

Su Yi lit a cigarette strangely, took a puff, frowned suddenly, and held back his cough.Li Yaoyao hurriedly said: "Don't swallow it, just suck it into your mouth and spit it out."

After a long time, Su Yi said calmly, "I never liked anyone before you."

"Uh..." Li Yaoyao licked her lips in embarrassment: "I, I know."

Su Yi laughed at himself, took another puff of the cigarette, and choked it out of his nose. He coughed so much that his eyes were red from the smoke.

"No matter what it is, I have never lied to you." Su Yi said.

Early the next morning, everyone packed up their things and got into the car, driving to Abu Simbel, the ancient Lower Nubian region.

Qiao Yu sat in the car, held the map and asked, "Shall we go to see the Aswan Dam?"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head: "Don't go down the Nile River. After returning to the Kharija Oasis, go northeast from the desert to Abu Simbel."

Qiao Yu was slightly taken aback: "Why? How many days will it take to walk in the desert?"

Nangong Gousheng shook his head with a smile: "Foreigners passing through Aswan must be sent by the government to send them down. If you want to avoid the police's interrogation, you can only go through the desert."

Qiao Yu nodded ignorantly, and smiled sheepishly—this was the first time in more than [-] years that he had to dodge the police with a guilty conscience.

Abu Simbel is in the southeast corner of Egypt, bordering Sudan; while Siwa Oasis is in the western desert, in the northwest corner of Egypt, bordering Libya; Nangong Gousheng and others are almost equivalent to driving through the whole of Egypt.

On the way, Su Yi was depressed all the time, Li Yaoyao intended to please him, but he didn't refuse, but there was always a bit of alienation in his eyes.This kind of situation makes Li Yaoyao most depressed: If Su Yi ignores him, as long as Su Yi is coaxed to talk to him, it will be fine; if Su Yi doesn't care about that day, that's the best; He couldn't get up and down, which really made him rack his brains and didn't know what to do.

On the first night, when everyone stopped to rest in the oasis, Li Yaoyao found Nangong Gousheng while Su Yi was taking a bath, and asked him for advice with a bitter face.

Nangong Gousheng asked what was going on, shook his head and said, "You little bastard, what do you want my teacher to say about you?"

Li Yaoyao said stubbornly: "Isn't it all taught by you?"

Nangong Gou raised his eyebrows: "Fart! As a teacher, I don't have such a worthless apprentice like you!"

Li Yaoyao pouted.

Nangong Gousheng sighed and patted the little apprentice's head: "Go and apologize to Comrade Xiao Su, and move on. I think the daughter-in-law of the apprentice is pretty good. Why do you little bastard keep torturing others?"

Li Yaoyao still insisted: "I didn't..."

Nangong Gousheng said: "When two people get along, distrust is the most taboo. It's alright, I think the apprentice daughter-in-law treats you wholeheartedly. Go and apologize to others, and you will be fine after a few days of coaxing patiently. What a big deal!"

When Li Yaoyao returned to the room, Su Yi had already washed and came out.

Li Yaoyao stepped forward and hugged him from behind: "Honey, don't be angry with me."

Su Yi was silent for a while, then said calmly, "I'm not angry."

Li Yaoyao kissed his neck, and slowly climbed his hands to his chest: "Damn! You've been making a bad face all day, and you still say you're not angry!"

"I'm not in the mood." Su Yi pulled his hand away gently, paused for a few seconds, and sighed softly: "I'm not angry, I'm just a little chilled."

Li Yaoyao's movements froze.

After a while, he kicked off his shoes and got under the quilt, covered his head, and said unhappy, "Sleep!"