Chapter 1123 A Bird's-Eye View of Egypt

To be reasonable, Zhang Zian is sometimes envious of the elves, who can go back to the phone when flying, and have already arrived at their destination when they wake up. Long flights are not good, especially if the stewardesses are not good enough.

Wei Kang is like an elementary school teacher who is afraid of losing his students during a spring outing. From the moment he enters the terminal, he has been emphasizing collective action, even going to the toilet with two people, and he doesn't stop until he boards the plane.

No need to guess, Fina boarding the plane in a grand manner will definitely attract the attention of passengers. Few people have seen cats boarding the plane. Even if someone brings a cat on board, they will put the cat in a cage, so that the cat is free Are the activities really okay?

The crew had been notified in advance and received scientific research certificates. They were mentally prepared for Fina's arrival, and even prepared a few cat teasers to welcome her. Hop into your seat and start catching up on sleep.

More than one passenger ran over to ask Zhang Zian, asking him if there was any special relationship that allowed him to bring the cat on the plane like this.

After the flight took off and the flight was smooth, cat-loving passengers would take a photo of Fina with their mobile phones or cameras when they passed by Zhang Zian's seat.

After finally waiting for the freshness of the passengers to wear off, Zhang Zian felt a little sleepy when he saw Feina sleeping soundly. Just as he was about to take a nap, he heard Gao Ke and He Cha chattering in the row behind. It kept on, making him wish he could get into his phone to try to be quiet.

Wei Kang took out his laptop to browse the information.

After a while, after eating the plane meal, the four young people behind finally finished talking, and Zhang Zian fell asleep in a daze.

When he woke up, Fina had also woken up. Its seat was near the window, and it was squatting and looking at the scenery outside the window.

Most of the other passengers were sleeping, or wearing earphones, and even Wei Kang closed his laptop and took a nap.

Fina turned her head and glanced at him, and said: "The last time I took the plane, I didn't feel much, but after experiencing the magic of Nakhbet, I have a completely different feeling when I take the plane again."

It was just a narrative, not a question, and Zhang Zian didn't need to answer it, and there were many passengers around, so it was not convenient for him to answer.

The shock brought by the drone is actually greater than that from the plane, because the plane flies too high, and you can only see the clouds, the land and the ocean when you look down, which seems fake, but the picture brought by the drone is On the contrary, presenting the familiar scenery from different angles brings people visual shock.

The captain's voice sounded through the loudspeaker, reminding the passengers that they were about to arrive at the destination of the flight - Cairo, the capital of Egypt.

Fina tilted her head slightly, and looked at the direction of the plane through the window.

Zhang Zian couldn't see its face, but the reflection of the window glass made him vaguely aware of its anxiety, wishing to fly to its homeland all at once.

This is the first return home after 2,000 years—unfortunately, it is not a return home.

The plane flew over the Sinai Peninsula at high speed. In theory, they were already in Egypt, but from this altitude, all they could see was the vast desert, and the northern horizon was rolling with the waves of the Mediterranean Sea.

Passengers who were awakened by the announcement began to pack their things and prepare for landing.

Wei Kang woke up the disciples, and tirelessly emphasized that collective action must not be separated.

After a while, the plane descended at an imperceptible angle, and the passengers who came to Egypt for the first time were also lying on their windows looking out.

"Look! Pyramid! That's the pyramid!" Someone whispered, calling for his companions to watch together.

Fina's body trembled slightly, and she stared out the window more intently.

Zhang Zian also stretched his neck. Although he had seen the pyramid many times on TV and pictures, he didn't have many chances to see it from the air.

Fina opened her mouth in amazement, with incredible disappointment in her eyes.

"This...is this sacred pyramid? This...what kind of garbage is around here?" It said angrily.

Zhang Zian also saw it, although it was only a glimpse,

But did see the pyramids.

No wonder Fina was disappointed, because the pyramid it saw had been compared with the pyramid it remembered, and it was completely changed. The pyramid in its memory is covered with smooth white limestone, which reflects the sunlight like an iceberg in the sun, looks holy and beautiful, and can be seen from far away, but now the pyramid, the white limestone has almost disappeared. , only a little remains at the spire of the Khafre Pyramid, and the limestone of other pyramids is gone, exposing the rough khaki boulders underneath.

In addition, what makes it even more intolerable is that just a short distance from the pyramids, there are low-rise buildings like slums everywhere, which are hostels and hotels that have sprung up like mushrooms after rain. In order to attract tourists who are looking for convenience, So they scrambled to build the hotel next door to the pyramid.

Afraid that it would lose its temper on the plane, Zhang Zian could only pretend to explain to himself: "A long time ago, in order to build the city of Cairo, in order to save trouble, the descendants directly took the limestone from the pyramid as a quarry. …It’s like someone in China took bricks from the Great Wall to build courtyard houses.”

The pyramid had disappeared from the window, and Fina looked back at him, her anger still lingering, and she was even more annoyed, because such a thing of forgetting one's ancestors should be punished by death.

Zhang Zian shrugged, "The Egyptians at that time are no longer the Egyptians they were before."

Fina understood what he meant, because ancient Egypt in the true sense had ended before BC, and the Ptolemaic family, as the last dynasty, was actually not ancient Egyptians, but Greeks. The later Ptolemy family completely followed the system of ancient Egypt, so it can still be identified as the lineage of ancient Egypt.

After the talented and generous Cleopatra died young, it marked the official demise of ancient Egypt. No matter how people in this land toss about the pyramids in later generations, even if they use toilets to surround the pyramids, it is impossible to talk about forgetting their ancestors, because the ancestors It’s not the other ancestor—it’s okay to dig other people’s ancestral graves, as long as you don’t dig your own.

This attitude is also reflected in Egypt's cultural relics protection policy. Although modern Egypt is quite enthusiastic about the protection of cultural relics, it always gives the onlookers a subtle impression that they seem to be protecting the value of the cultural relics themselves, rather than protecting the cultural relics. The legacy left by the ancestors.

Fina's lips parted, and she wanted to say something, but she didn't say anything, she just closed her eyes unwillingly and humiliated.

If she hadn't died...if she hadn't made that choice...the world would be very different today.