Chapter Thirteen, Flying over the Green Sea "With the light of dawn, the sun god Ra appeared from the distant Nile River, the mother of Egypt.
The dazzling golden light shone on our faces and reflected back to his face, every day, year after year.
Every day, the mighty sun god Ra crosses the sky, and we have been watching his majestic appearance."
With the early morning prayers of the bald priests in the temple, the eighteenth dynasty of the ancient Egyptian kingdom ushered in another dawn.
However, a giant creature that did not belong to this era made the dawn sky different on this day.
A huge silver-white airship was slowly sailing north from the air along the Nile River, Egypt's most obvious natural landmark.
In the belly of this giant airship, in the spacious pod, which is about the size of a small yacht, Wang Qiu, Doraemon and other time-travelers who are responsible for driving and operating are nothing more than the Egyptian soldiers who were ordered to accompany them. and Minoan sailors, all were frightened by this air travel beyond their imagination, and their faces turned pale.
Almost as soon as they saw the airship lift off the ground, they all knelt down on the floor and muttered words, praying to their respective gods in fear.
Even Unas, the leader of the Egyptian palace guard, and You, the commander of the Minoa fleet, The tower is no exception.
Only the daring American girl Princess Caroll dared to lean against the alloy bulkhead curiously, overlooking the scenery below her through the solid portholes.
She was seen holding the camera borrowed from the travelers with one hand, and with the other hand she opened the glass porthole a small crack, and the hot wind carrying Nile vapor suddenly blew in through the crack of the window, making a sharp whistling sound.
Visiting this ancient civilized country from the air was an extremely fresh and exciting experience even for her.
If you open the satellite map, you can see that the golden sand sea covers almost the entire earth.
The mighty Nile River flows leisurely from south to north, crossing the entire Egypt, carving out a long river valley in the desert, bringing green and wealth together.
This valley stretches toward the Mediterranean Sea like a dark green ribbon.
The widest part is only 20 kilometers, and the narrowest part is only one or two kilometers, but the length is more than 900 kilometers.
In this dark green river valley, there are ditches and green spaces everywhere, but just a few feet away, there is the endless Sahara Desert, full of continuous sand dunes and rugged rocks, shining under the scorching sun, but you can see Not a shred of life.
Therefore, when viewed from the air, the boundary between the two is so clear: green space on one side and desert on the other.
On one side is life, on the other side is death.
Green and yellow, moisture and thirst, fertility and barrenness, life and death, heaven and hell.
All these are placed together so compactly, separated only by a green dividing line, forming an absolute An impressive contrast.
In general, this long and winding Nile Valley is full of lush greenery, covered with wheat fields, orchards and vegetable gardens.
At the junction of the green fields and the desert, a long protective forest belt stands to protect the Egyptians from wind and sand.
There are some drought-tolerant tree species in the protective forest belt, and there are a lot of date palm trees with economic value.
These date palm trees look graceful, like gentle and beautiful "women" among the many tall and straight trees.
Their oval fruits have a waxy luster and look like fake fruits made of plastic from a distance, but in fact These dates are very sweet and juicy.
According to Wang Qiu’s experience after tasting them here, they are probably comparable to the fruits in the Hami region of Xinjiang, China.
Along the banks of the Nile, there are countless temples.
The styles of these Egyptian temples are all very similar.
They are almost built according to the same structure and scale, including the huge archway, the obelisk, the courtyard, the colonnade in the center of the square, and further on.
Looking inside, there are endless archways and colonnades.
These gates that advance layer by layer eventually lead to the "sanctuary": a peculiar cabin with special lighting design to produce some kind of magical effect.
Where the airship passed, almost all the fishermen and sailors who were making a living on the Nile were frightened by this silver-white aerial beast.
They were either dumbfounded, shouting, or eating.
The person knocked the food into the water.
Then, they all ran away in all directions.
Or immediately fall to his knees, trembling.
But when these boatmen realized that the giant thing in the sky was not dangerous, they stopped running away.
They pulled out their own boats from the reed swamps and followed the airship in the sky like a zoetrope.
In the cities along the Nile River, the appearance of aerial monsters attracted a large number of onlookers.
When the airship passed over a certain town, the ground was completely deserted, and more and more people rushed to the streets.
Or climb up high and kneel in every open space to kowtow to the airship.
There were countless heads moving along with the trajectory of the airship.
This scene was truly spectacular, causing Carol to click the shutter repeatedly and exclaim.
"Wow, this aerial view of ancient Egypt is really amazing.
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There are places worth taking pictures everywhere.
I really want to save all these scenery, but I don't know if I will run out of film."
Obviously, in the 1970s when Miss Carol Lido lived, humans had not yet invented the digital camera.
"Don't worry, Miss Carol.
Films and other stuff are all old calendars over here.
You can take as much as you like."
Ma Tong beside her said this while inputting the photos that Carol had just taken into the computer and printing them out one by one.
At the same time, he gnawed on ancient Egyptian snacks as a pastime during the trip.
Several shiny stainless steel plates were filled with coconuts.
Dates, palm fruits, melons and figs, and one of the dinner plates also contained some Egyptian snacks made from ground papyrus tubers.
What most foreigners don’t know is that the papyrus used by the Egyptians to make papyrus is actually also An edible plant similar to lotus root and water chestnut.
The tubers of this papyrus are rich in nutrients and can be eaten raw or roasted like sweet potatoes.
They can also be dried and ground into powder and mixed with honey to make a dessert that was very popular among the ancient Egyptians.
In short, facing the dawn of ancient Egypt, overlooking the scenery and tasting delicious food is really one of the great pleasures in life.
However, as the sun gradually rose towards the top of the sky, the appetite and interest of the two girls quickly disappeared along with the temperature.
You know, in Egypt, which is surrounded by desert, the most terrifying time of the day is the scorching sun at noon.
At dawn, a rare cool breeze would open the Egyptian windows and flow into the room, refreshing them.
However, the good times don't last long.
The morning breeze has just blown away people's sleepiness and cheered people up.
The scorching heat will soon hit from the window.
The walls of the house reflect the dazzling white light, and the clear sky The sky is even more like a sea of fire, which makes people unable to open their eyes.
Even if you stay on the bank of the Nile, you won't feel much coolness, because the flash of the waves on the river is like a blazing fire, making it impossible to look directly at the sparkling waves.
Due to Egypt's tropical desert climate, it is often not yet noon.
Going out has become a kind of torture in purgatory, while staying in the house is extremely sleepy.
With the sweltering heat, the Sandman is even more sleepy.
It lasts until At dusk, people can wake up from their drowsiness and feel more comfortable.
The airship suspended in the air is exposed to more sunlight than the ground.
Everything from the bulkhead to the portholes is scorched by the sun, and even if the air conditioner is turned on, it cannot lower the temperature.
Therefore, as time goes by, the sun in the sky becomes more and more dazzling, and even the wind blowing in the sky becomes very hot, making it impossible for people to feel cool, while the unchanging yellow sand and green fields under their feet, It also made everyone start to suffer from visual fatigue, and even some drowsiness.
Fortunately, just as they felt more and more sleepy, huge pyramids suddenly jumped into the field of vision.
More importantly, not far behind the Giza Highlands where the ancient pyramids and the Sphinx stood, the originally narrow green field suddenly opened up and suddenly became vast and boundless.
They finally flew out of the narrow Upper Egypt Valley.
Entering the Lower Egypt Delta Behind this delta is the vast Mediterranean Sea, or the "Big Green Sea".
When the Nile River flows along the long and winding valley and finally reaches the end, it accumulates a fertile oasis at the mouth of the sea.
This is the famous Nile River Delta.
The fan-shaped alluvial plain formed by the Nile River flowing into the Mediterranean Sea, the entire surrounding Mediterranean region The richest black soil.
Put together with the delta, this river valley looks like a famous Egyptian plant called papyrus.
The narrow Nile Valley is the flower stem of papyrus, and the wide Nile Delta is its spreading leaves.
In the Egyptian concept of geography, according to the flow of the Nile, the flower stem in the south is called Upper Egypt, and the leaf vine in the north is called Lower Egypt, thus forming two symmetrical parts of Egypt.
Upper Egypt has more emperors and Ancient monuments, while Lower Egypt holds the window for external exchanges.
As for the outside of the "leaf vine" of the Nile Delta, it faces the rippling blue waves of the Mediterranean Sea, or what ancient Westerners called the "Big Green Sea."
In the center of this ancient sea of civilization, there are countless islands of various sizes scattered around.
They have been inhabited since the Stone Age and are collectively called "islanders" by the Egyptians.
The Minoa Kingdom to which General Juta belongs is the most powerful force among these islanders.
With its powerful fleet, the Kingdom of Minoa on the island of Crete is the overlord of the Aegean Sea and the source of the oldest civilization in Europe.
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Feeling the cool sea breeze with a salty smell on this "big green sea" and looking at the familiar blue sea waves under his feet, General Juta, who had been drowsy under the scorching desert sun, suddenly couldn't help but feel refreshed and show off.
He seemed to be telling Carol about his sailing experience.
"Great daughter of the Nile, remember when we set out from the island, we withstood countless winds and waves along the way, and fought with pirates.
It took us twenty days to reach Egypt.
Of course, you can now Taking this flying giant ship must be much faster than us mortals’ paddle boats.
Maybe we can see our beautiful island country of Minoa tomorrow.”
However, before he finished speaking, Wang Qiu's slightly tired shout came from the cockpit in front.
"Princess Carol, General Juta, please prepare the island of Crete.
Well, it doesn't seem to be called that name yet.
In short, the island where Knossos, the capital of the Kingdom of Minoa, is located, has arrived in a while.
About to log in” "It's impossible.
It seems like it's just evening now."
General Jutta was shocked when he heard this.
He rushed to the porthole and looked forward.
Sure enough, he saw a familiar rugged coastline, as well as vaguely visible houses and palaces.
I can't help but be crazy.
And on the book of time travel opened in Wang Qiu's hand, there was also a line of golden handwriting: "Carry Generals Carol, Unas and Juta, arrive at Crete early and get 1000 bonus points" So far, Wang Qiu has easily earned more than 35,000 reward points in the story world of Daughter of the Nile.
The only regret is that no information has been found so far about Comrade Zhang Daniu, the time traveler who disappeared in this world oshow7: