Chapter 9 Chapter Eight Encounter with Nasar

Ivy bit Dong's hand hard, and instinctively refused to leave the modern age, but after getting rid of him, she realized that she had actually done a stupid thing.The huge force bounced her away from his powerful hand, and she instantly lost all ability to control her body, just like that, she was suddenly sucked into the red vortex. The wrist of her left hand was in pain as if it was about to burn, and the picture hit her face like rain, and everything she had experienced earlier was churning and spinning in her mind at an extremely fast speed.The blue lotus pond and the young pharaoh meet again in a hurry, the one-horned pas de deux dances up and down, and the journey to Nubia sets off a bloody storm.His fingertips seemed to be able to feel the faint warmth from his fingers, and he seemed to be able to hear him asking nervously, "From today onwards, let me replace the person who called you 'Wei', okay?" ..."

And in the blink of an eye, the chest seemed to be pierced fiercely again, accompanied by severe pain, and the surroundings were surrounded by chaos.She lowered her head, instinctively wanting to hold down her chest that seemed to have been cracked, but before she could do anything, her eyes turned into brilliance.After the light faded, the whole body was dark.The consciousness seems to be floating above his body, but it still seems to stay in the body.It seems that I can faintly feel the warm hands on my side, hugging me, so nostalgic and reluctant. A long, long silence. The old crow flew across the sky mournfully, and the residual wind rolled up the sand.

Then there was a familiar and painful voice: "Princess Ivy's departure is a national mourning." At that moment, an icy hurricane suddenly blew up all around, blowing her consciousness away from that warm and solid embrace.Before he could worry about anything, tears welled up from the corners of his eyes.She wanted to open her mouth hoarsely, but before the first syllable was pronounced, the wind suddenly stopped, and she was violently thrown out of the endless vortex, and fell hard on the hard ground without any buffer .The whole body suddenly became quiet, and the strong frictional texture of the sand made her skin bloodshot all of a sudden.But she didn't care about the pain, she opened her eyes in a panic, supported her body, and looked around.

The sun poured down from the top of the head like a stream of fire, and the already cold body became violently hot.She raised her head, her blue eyes reflected the color of the sky, and her straight blond hair reflected the dazzling light.The indefatigable sun, like the golden earth, the swift and clear river.That strong sense of existence surpassed countless times of traveling in dreams, and surpassed the illusory feeling of borrowing other people's bodies.She lowered her head abruptly, she was still wearing the dress she put on when she met Dong, her chest was intact without a trace of blood.

This is her own body, and she brought her body back to the era that never left her life. With mixed feelings in her heart, she wanted to stand up in a panic, but when her ankle hurt, she fell down in embarrassment like that. She couldn't help but secretly sighed, and looked around helplessly.As far as the eye can see, there is yellow sand.The scorching sun endows the sand and gravel with a golden life, only further away, the slowly flowing blue river seems to bring a glimmer of life. Dong didn't know where he fell, and he probably didn't expect that the Eye of Horus would bring them back to ancient Egypt.But no matter what, the key to returning to the future is still in his hands. If she wants to go back to the future, she must find him.

She finally made up her mind, stood up slowly, dragged her body exhaustedly, enduring the faint soreness of her swollen ankles, and walked towards the endless river.There are not many water sources in Egypt. Ivy only took a look at the flow rate and width of the river, and she was very sure that it was the Nile River.She then moved upstream along the river bank.In ancient Egypt, due to the harsh living environment, more than 90% of the villages and towns and residents gathered on the banks of the Nile River, relying on the river water to bring fertile land to continue the prosperity of farming.Ivy believes that if she walks along this road, she will always meet ordinary people, so as to confirm the time and place of her fall.

The sun gradually sank from her left side, and Ivy walked slowly on the bare west bank of the Nile.The West Bank belongs to the world of death.For this time and space, her existence was once again obliterated by the Eye of Horus, and her connection with him, together with the little shadow she left in his heart after all the hard work, just like that, along with Ai The death of Princess Wei disappeared into the air, leaving no traces. Now she doesn't even know where the person she gave up her life to save is and what she is doing.Perhaps, just looking at the body of the silver-haired princess, planning the next political move.

She lowered her head, as if she could no longer feel the harsh sunlight, nor the pain in her ankle. She seemed to remember the hot and normal day when she first came to Egypt.Mentus and Li Tah were riding on horses. They were directly regarded as crazy by her because of their strange dresses. They half-baited and half-forced her into the grand banquet. She used Nefertari in a fit of anger name.And the past with Ramses started from that night. Things between two people seem so close, but so far away.So close as if it was yesterday, so far away as if it never happened. At this moment, there was an uncoordinated sound of horseshoes not far away.Ivy raised her head involuntarily, and a cloud of dust rose up in front of her.She couldn't help being stunned, her memory was like time and space interlaced, she naively thought at that moment, maybe, maybe the Eye of Horus put her back to the original time and space, back to their beginning.

She was still immersed in her memories, so at that moment, she didn't expect that she might fall into danger. She also had fantasies about her future with him, so she didn't consider that she should dodge, or run away. It wasn't until the strange Egyptian men surrounded her, looked at her strange clothes and golden hair unscrupulously, and made unscrupulous comments, that she seemed to wake up suddenly. She didn't even ask a question, but turned and ran towards the gap between their horses, trying desperately to run into the rocks on the west bank to avoid them.However, they seemed to have been prepared for a long time. They jumped off the horse, grabbed her arm, pulled her hair, and pushed her down heavily on the sand.

The hot sand chafed her cheeks.What was close to him was Egyptian with a strong local accent and the smell of horses emanating from his body. They looked at her curiously, looking at the watch on her left wrist, the necklace from her brother on her neck, and the golden buttons on her clothes. They tore them off in a hurry and put them in their pockets. If it's just robbery... She watched in horror as they plundered all her accessories before reaching for her skin.They seemed to have never seen such a fair-skinned woman, and they discussed loudly while tearing her clothes.This is a strange country. If it is silver hair, it will be regarded as a symbol of aging and terror; if it is golden, it is a sign of prosperity and abundance.And before she could laugh, they had already ripped off her top.

Even though it was the evening when the remaining heat had not dissipated, she felt cold all over. She was screaming for help and they just put their hand in her mouth.It was so easy, she couldn't even say a word. At this moment, she suddenly realized how fragile she was. She used to think that she could live well in this world and that she could control the world.However, her luck lies in how many people are helping her and how many people are protecting her.Ramses, Yali, Dong... even Rama.Without these people, her chances of surviving in this ancient and barbaric world are simply zero. The thick body was pressed against his own body, and the smell of alcohol slid across his neck, and the rough hands brutally ravaged his tender skin. "Look, she's really small." "It's all white." "There are women with blond hair in this world. Could it be dyed?" She was so disgusted that she cried out, sobbing desperately, "I will not let you go, I must kill you." And they smiled, and their ferocious faces looked even more terrifying, "Don't bother, we will let you go after we have fun." "If you are discovered by the soldiers, you will be punished by the pharaoh, and you will be bitten to death by vultures, and you will never have an afterlife!" She cursed them with the most feared words of the ancient Egyptians. "Foreign whore!" The man on top of her slapped her heavily, causing the corner of her mouth to split open immediately, her face also turned sideways, and she fell to the ground with a small gash on her forehead. , "This era of war and chaos! Soldiers are all fighting in the south, and there is no one around after a girl like you dies..." Before the word "meaning" was uttered, Ivy suddenly felt a chill on the side of her face, and then heard a pop, and the sand in front of her was suddenly dyed red.She was startled, and turned around to see that the big man was still pressing on her body, but the head that was shouting with her just now rolled to the side, maintaining the expression just now, as if she hadn't realized that her body had left her. The few remaining people saw it, and drew out their knives one after another, pointing at the person coming.Ivy was pressed down by the headless man in front of her. The blood he kept gushing out covered her white skirt and splashed on her face, almost suffocating her.She couldn't move half a minute, and she didn't have the strength to push him away.She could only helplessly listen to the chaotic sounds of fighting and the sound of swords gradually disappearing. This battle seems to be just a one-sided massacre. The headless man was finally lifted off her body.She stared blankly at the stranger holding a machete in front of her. Under the slightly raised brows are slightly raised single eyelids, and the condensed black eyes are like stones fished out of the stream.This person has short, dark gray hair that is neatly curled on a golden-green headband. The white long dress he is wearing is painted with light brown patterns, which complements his slightly bronzed skin. This person is so beautiful, is it this "beautiful girl" who saved me?Ivy looked at the blood-stained scimitar in this man's hand, but couldn't say a word. The man smiled contemptuously, "Hmph, don't you even say thank you?" This person's voice is a bit low, and it sounds a little neutral, but the Egyptian with an exotic accent sounds extraordinarily charming.Seeing that Ivy still had tears on his face and didn't respond to his words, the man smiled again, bent down noncommittally, picked up the corner of the big man's clothes on the ground and vigorously wiped the knife.Ivy struggled to stand up, but the last of her strength was exhausted just now, and she sat back on the ground before she straightened up. The "woman" looked up at her, and while carefully checking her knife, she said casually: "I advise you to leave here quickly. The West Bank is not safe. If you hadn't met me, you might have been eaten up and wiped out long ago." No bones will be left." After speaking, the "woman" put away the scimitar, but said sarcastically, "But you are like a monster now, and I guess others would not dare to do anything to you even if they saw you." Ivy looked down at herself, she was really embarrassed, her white skirt was almost dyed black and red, her hands were covered with blood, her face and neck were probably not much better.Suddenly, she wanted to vomit from the bottom of her heart, but since arriving at Dong's house, she has been tossing until now, and she hasn't eaten anything, so the strong vomiting turned into bouts of inexplicable retching.The "female" didn't show any displeasure either, she just stood up calmly and rummaged through the pockets of those corpses. The "woman" doesn't seem to be interested in money, but stops and takes a second look when she sees a ring or jewelry set with gemstones.But in the end, the "woman" also seemed to give up boringly. "There's nothing." The "woman" looked at Ivy while saying this, "If you're okay, I'm leaving." Ivy finally stopped the trembling in her body. She took a deep breath, forced herself not to look at the scattered pieces of meat on the ground, and looked up at the woman, "Can I borrow your knife?" "Ah?" The "woman" was stunned for a moment, but she readily pulled out the knife and handed it back to her, "Those people are all dead, and they didn't succeed, don't commit suicide, I won't stop you, But I'm too lazy to wipe... the knife..." Before she finished speaking, Ivy grabbed the end of her hair, and with a single knife, the long golden hair was cut off neatly.With the sinking sun, the golden light disappeared into the endless horizon of the West Bank. She threw her blond hair on the big man's body, and calmly handed the knife back to the "woman", "Dye it in the next village." The woman froze for a moment, then laughed, laughing so hard that she almost shed tears, the "woman" took the knife and looked at the bloodstained but stubborn foreign girl, "You are such an interesting girl, really I saved you in vain." The "woman" stretched out her hand to Ivy who was half sitting on the ground, her beautiful face looked a little dazzling in the setting sun, "My name is Nasar." Ivy also looked back at "her", with a smile that was not curved at the corner of her mouth.Time seems to have returned to the starting point, but no matter how hard you try, you can't reach the desired end.Find Dong and go back to the future, no matter how much hardship and torture you will suffer next. She stretched her hand back and held Nasar's bony hand, "Nefer Tali." "Oh? The queen's name." Nasar raised his eyebrows, and as soon as he exerted force, Ivy was pulled up. "Where are you going? I will do good deeds every day and take you there." After thinking about it, "she" Added another sentence, "There is a war in the south, and the west bank is in chaos." Ivy shook her head.She is familiar with every important city in this country, and she knows every master in the golden palace.Egypt is so big, but there is no place that belongs to him anymore, and he no longer belongs to any place. "I have nowhere to go." She shook her short blond hair, at first glance she looked like an underage girl, "I will follow you wherever you are going, and just leave me there if you pass by any town gone." Nasar smiled again, "Why don't you go to Deir Medina with me." "Deir Medina?" "Pharaoh's new artisan village, where the mausoleum was built for Princess Ivy, is short of people. You can work there for a few months and earn some money. I think you are probably penniless now." There was a hint of sarcasm in her smile.Ivy didn't like "her" mocking smile, but she knew that Sal was helping her.As far as she was concerned, only from the sentence just now, she had already judged that the moment when she came back really followed the death of Princess Ivy.The war in the south also shows that Ramses continued to attack Cush according to his plan.She was relieved that he had realized his plan, but at the same time she felt sad because this act confirmed Dong's story. From Nasar's point of view, Ivy's inexplicable depression seems to be due to "her" ridicule. "She" added in a reassuring way: "In the next village, you can find a place to dye your hair...By the way, buy a new dress, so that you won't scare others by dressing like this." Ivy nodded, before she had time to speak. "She" raised her chin, took a step, and led the embarrassed Ivy to the north. Ivy's guess is very accurate.When she returned, it was about ten days after Princess Ivy passed away.Although Princess Ivy has passed away and the processing of the mummy has begun, the location of the mausoleum has not yet been decided, and the construction does not seem to have started yet. The ancient Egyptians revered death. They believe that the death of a person is only a temporary separation. The dead and the living will still maintain a certain connection. There are communication channels between the Yin and Yang worlds. Even after death, the deceased still exists in the family and is respected.The dead are more likely to pass the trial and return to the living from another world.Therefore, the physical body should be well preserved. When the dead return, they can return to their own body and continue to live comfortably in the world of the living. This belief is very popular even among ordinary people, and for the royal family, burial is one of the most important things in life.Many pharaohs and nobles spent almost as much time as they did during their reign to raise funeral objects and build their own tombs.Its scale, luxury, and intricate design are astonishing even three thousand years later. The death of Princess Ivy should be regarded as the most important funeral for Pharaoh in recent years.In just ten days, all kinds of news and rumors flew up and down all over West Asia. The manpower and material resources allocated by Ramses for Princess Ivy's funeral have far exceeded those for himself and Nefertari's first princess. The budget for death and preparation was several times.In addition, Princess Ivy's death was unexpected, and she was added to the royal family tree after her death. Neither the Valley of the Kings nor the sacrificial hall had any resources for her. However, Ramses insisted on treating it as a state funeral, and ordered the construction institute to remodel the side tomb originally prepared for his concubine near his tomb, purchase expensive jewelry and clothing nationwide, and build an artisan village in the Valley of the Kings for her. In Dina, hundreds of craftsmen suspended all their work and devoted themselves to making the funeral objects of Princess Ivy and the decorative murals in the side tomb. Princess Ivy is the daughter of the concubine, the younger sister of the Pharaoh who has lost her status, but she is going to be buried at the level of being almost the queen of the pharaoh or a concubine who enjoys great glory. As soon as the news came out, there was an uproar in Thebes.Especially the conservative nobles who supported Queen Nefertari, it is said that they sent someone to send a papyrus to express their opposition at the first time, but they were directly sent back on the grounds that the Pharaoh's expedition was not an important internal decision. And Ramesses' abnormality seems to be seen by everyone. He dispatched people to search for the lost key of the secret treasure, dispatched the Seth Army and the Amon Army to join forces to capture Cush in one fell swoop, and forcibly assigned people from the sacrificial house to be Princess Ivy. Build a tomb.With his character, he usually would never intervene in such matters, let alone persist in that way. "I don't know what kind of plans he has, but because of the shortage of manpower, the wages in Deir Medina are very high." Nasar said while walking along the route with rock shadows.The newly built artisan village is near today's Valley of the Kings, and it is also on the opposite bank of the imperial city of Thebes. The place where "she" met Ivy was a little bit south of Alai's Quad.One day further south is Abu Simbel, three days by boat to the north, and Thebes is about ten days on foot. Ivy walked slowly because her feet were swollen, and the two of them had been dragging their feet for ten days, but they only walked about two-thirds of the distance.However, "she" still takes care of her a lot, not only picking places with shadows when walking, but also stopping to rest for a while when she is really dying. When the two passed through the first village, Nasar paid for Ivy to dye her hair black, and bought her two sets of linen jackets.Ivy always said that if she made money in Deir Medina, she would return it to Nasar.And every time Nasar heard this, he would laugh and reject her.And Ivy didn't stick to her point of view anymore, she just told Nasar some funny things from time to time, which made "she" laugh non-stop.Ivy occasionally asked about the current situation in Egypt, and Nasar would tell her about it. But this time, she didn't answer.Nasar was a little strange, so he turned his head away complaining.I saw Ai Wei stop and stand a few meters behind her in a daze. "Hello, Nefertari." When she called out like this, the blond girl seemed to wake up suddenly, and looked at "her" in a daze. "She" couldn't help sighing, strode back and took her arm, "Persevere, I can walk to Deir Medina today." "She" pulled Ivy, but Ivy didn't move. "Hey, what's the matter with you?" Nasar bent down worriedly, wanting to take a closer look at Ivy.At this moment, she suddenly spoke, her crisp voice lacked the usual vigor, it was low, as if it had melted into the air, "It is obvious that Pharaoh himself sent that princess as bait to Cush. The princess' death is only a matter of time, It's also within everyone's expectations... What's the use of building such a mausoleum now." "Ah?" Nasar frowned, "Do you care about the affairs of the Wang family?" At this time, Ivy suddenly raised her head, her water-blue eyes stared blankly at her for a while, and then they turned into crescent moons, and said with a smile to Nasar, "Yeah, whatever." Her sudden smile made Nasar startled. "She" stopped talking, and muttered: "You are like this, you are blank for a while, and then you show such a little girl's smile, it's really unbearable, it can't be because you have a fever." In order to cooperate, " She" also came over and touched Ivy's forehead. That's the case with Nasar, he doesn't look serious all day long, and always makes fun of Ivy.Just like usual, Nasar often satirizes Ivy's unmasculine attire. Ivy liked the skirt she wore when she first came here. After she changed into the shorts, she put in a lot of effort to clean her blood-stained skirt well and carefully. Still left a faint pink mark.Every time Nasar saw Ivy looking at the dress with distressed expression, he couldn't help but say: "You are dressed like this now, you look like a kid. Seeing you holding the skirt all day long and sighing, I am There is really nothing to say." "She" talked a lot, and once Ivy retorted without even raising her eyelids, "Aren't you the same, Sal?" "Me?" Nasar looked down at his very masculine white clothes, and the machete touched the hairband on his head, which is very popular among young men in Assyria, "What's wrong with me?" "A girl who looks so beautiful, but dresses so masculine." Ai Wei sighed sincerely, "The words are a bit informal, and the temper is also very bad. Although it is good to know martial arts, it is also very bad Roughness is bad. I don't know how it is in your country, but I think it must scare off a lot of suitors if it goes on like this?" Nasar's face was ashen. Seeing this, Ivy patted "her" on the shoulder as if comforting, "But you are so beautiful, you won't worry about not getting married." Nasar was completely angry, and Ivy's serious comments and comfort made "she" feel even more insulted, "Which eye of yours sees that I am a woman!" Ivy was taken aback, "Aren't you a girl? Really?" Ivy couldn't help being angry.Nasar has the habit of kissing her cheek to say hello, and she has been kissed countless times along the way.Considering that people from different countries have different preferences, and this is a girl again, she didn't care too much.But what was even more worrying was that she had slept with him every night for the past few days! That horrible experience in the south has become a nightmare in the past days.When she was about to fall asleep, she was always terrified, as if she would see that terrifying scene again as soon as she fell into darkness.Many times I woke up from a nightmare and then trembled with fear.Seeing her like this, Nasar proposed to hold her hand and sleep next to "her".After that, it really got better, and the nightmares decreased a lot. When it was cold, Ivy would subconsciously lean on Nasar. But she never thought that this flat-chested woman turned out to be a man, and her dissatisfaction burst out, "Why didn't you say it earlier!" "Such an obvious thing, do I still need to say it?" Nasar really wanted to draw his knife, "If I had known this, I shouldn't have paid attention to you in the south!" "Where is it obvious?" The two quarreled a lot because of this incident, and then they didn't speak any more along the way.Fortunately, there was only one day's journey left to the Medina of Deir. Although it was awkward, the two finally arrived at the Artisan Village smoothly.