From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Two acquaintances, one big and one small, turned their heads to look at Elyse who had just entered the city with a pair of gray and eyeless eyes. This scene was amazing enough.

"How could this be?"

Alicia was startled.

But she immediately discovered that the father and son were not the only ones in this situation.Beside her, even Nanna's eyes had lost their luster and were beginning to turn gray.

In the whole team, only she, Senmut, and Kong Si kept their eyes clear and conscious.

Although Senmut was surprised, he maintained his composure, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he called Kalam and his son to him.

And Kong Si just glanced at the streets of Asiut as if nothing had happened, then turned his back on himself, sat on the stairs made of high-quality stones, stretched his arms, and seemed to be waiting for others at any time to solve the problem.

Senmut called Karam and Hunsu to the front, took out a round amulet from the hidden pocket of his sleeve, and urged it with spiritual power.

This round amulet rose slowly into the sky, and when it reached a high enough place, it suddenly burst out with bright and pure light. Higher people, even Kongs are included.

Alicia was also bathed in this light, and she didn't feel anything strange.Even the light had its own temperature, which made her feel warm and very comfortable all over.

Isn't this the solar ship that Senmut created when he was underground in Saqqara——

But Erich immediately felt the difference. From time to time, the amulet used by Senmut was different this time, and the effect was also obviously different. The pure light this time obviously had a purifying effect.

She witnessed a cloud of smog being lifted from the bodies of Kalam and his son.And Nanna beside her suddenly woke up with a cry.

"Miss, I..."

The God of War favored said that she suddenly fell into a dazed state just now, and was able to see and hear everything clearly.

But people are not sober enough, and feel that everything is normal.Until the light that dispelled the shadows illuminated her whole body.

The experience of Gregor and others is similar to that of Nanna.

Only Kong Si, who fell at the end, was illuminated by the light of the round amulet, just looked left and right, did not move his body out of the aperture, but raised his head to receive the bath of bright light, with a look of reluctance on his face. Bai don't want the expression.

In the end, the round amulet released all its energy and turned into countless dim light spots, floating in the air.

Karam and his son in front of Alixi took a sharp breath and opened their eyes at the same time.Their eyes have become black and white again.

"Sister Wangfei——"

Hansu was the first to recognize the beautiful woman in front of him, with a warm smile on his face.

Karam was more or less aware of the danger that happened just now, and with a panicked expression, he stepped forward and hugged Senmut's arms, and immediately said, "Master High Priest, if it weren't for you..."

Only then did he realize that it was Erich who was standing next to Senmut, and quickly got down to salute, and tapped his son's head lightly, reminding him not to be too big or too young.

"Tell me what's going on?" Alicia stopped all unnecessary politeness.

Kalam said: "The day before yesterday we parted ways with the high priest and entered Upper Egypt. I have been to Asiut before, and this is the only way to Thebes. Hunsu has never been here, and he is clamoring to enter Upper Egypt. The city saw the world, so I took him into the city."

"After entering the city, I gradually realized that something was wrong, but when I realized something was wrong, I couldn't control myself, so I could only walk slowly towards the city involuntarily..."

Hansu interjected appropriately: "I don't think there's anything wrong, I just want to go to the city with Dad to watch the fun. But, I think it's a bit like a dream..."

The child speaks the voice of everyone.Gregor and the others immediately agreed, saying that they really didn't feel anything wrong just now, it was as if they were in a dream—a dream, and they wouldn't realize that they were dreaming until the moment they woke up...

Erich and Senmut looked at each other, and both of them knew what was wrong, and they knew that the city itself should be the problem.

People who enter the city will be gradually infected by an evil force and gradually controlled. Normal people don't notice it, but the lowest-ranked God's Blessed in Asut can realize it, but they can't get rid of the control.

Without Senmut and his purification amulet, the only ones who could leave the city smoothly were Senmut, Erich and Kong Si.

"High Priest, what do you think will happen?"

Alicia stretched out her feet and rubbed twice on the stone-paved ground.

Just when Senmut used the amulet to drive away evil spirits for everyone, and when the holy light shone on their small team, Erich noticed that what appeared under her feet was not a beautiful ground paved with stones, but the most common dirt road in Egypt. The rollers have been rolled, and the surface is quite hard, but the dust looks ugly.

Now that the purification is complete, the bright and clean light disappears, and the ground under her feet has returned to be paved with ivory-white marble, neat and clean.

Senmut expressed his own judgment: "It is possible that the two cities overlap here."

"Two cities overlap here?"

Alicia struggled to understand.

On the contrary, Hansu, who was a child, was the first to yell: "Master High Priest, are you saying that the new city and the current city are superimposed?"

This word reminded everyone, including Gregor who had been here before, everyone responded in a sudden realization: "Yes, this city is too new!"

"When I came last time, Asiut was really not like this. Everything was brand new. It...it was just an ordinary small town." The navigator Gregor also said so.

All agree with the overlapping theory proposed by the High Priest.

But Alicia still had doubts in her eyes.

She lowered her head and thought: the newly built city overlapped with the real city, that is to say, the "time" was wrong, and the same city on different timelines was superimposed.

This sounds like it, but Erich just doesn't think it's right:

When the city of Asiut was first built, it was absolutely impossible to present such a uniform style.

Most of the cities in Egypt have grown from villages to small towns to small cities. How could they have such a rich and luxurious appearance on the first day of construction?How could it be such a decorative style that is extremely in line with the aesthetics of contemporary Egyptians?

At this time, everyone's eyes turned to Erich: here she has the highest status and has the power to make decisions.

The navigator Gregor suggested subconsciously: "Your Highness, let's go back to the royal ship..."

Erich took a breath, and first asked Senmut: "Master High Priest, how long will the purification effect of your amulet last?"

"From noon to midnight."

Senmut looked up at the altitude and direction of the sun, and gave an affirmative answer.

"Let's go into the city of Asiut and take a look."

Alicia has made a decision.

"Miss, but you..."

Nanna hesitated to speak, her face was full of worry.

Gregor and the others also changed their faces, and they saw the streets leading to the city of Asiut.In their view, it is pointing to unpredictable danger.

"You don't believe me, don't you believe the high priest?"

Alixi pretended to be relaxed and said with a smile, "He has purified everyone with the holy talisman, and he confirmed that the effect will last until midnight today. Maybe there are many identical amulets in his treasure bag..."

Senmut was taken aback when he heard the words, and then nodded, indicating that Erich guessed right.

"have a look--"

Alicia continued with a smile, "So we don't need to worry about ourselves at all."

"But we have to find out what's going on in this city—"

Her expression became serious.

"The people who originally lived in this city, like us, have parents, children and family members. They were also sober like us and knew what kind of life they were living."

"But now they are likely to enter a dream-like hallucination like everyone did just now, without knowing what happened."

"As the first princess of Egypt, I have at least an obligation to understand their status."

"In addition, Assiut is an important port on the big river. Many ships stop here to load and unload goods and replenish supplies."

"If we just walk away today, what will happen to other people who come here in the future?"

Alixie spoke calmly, but there was a sense of majesty in the semantics.

Gregor and the others couldn't help but blushed and lowered their heads when they heard this.Especially Gregor, when he witnessed the pharaoh abandoning the princess in distress in Saqqara.

At this moment, Gregor had a thought in his mind: Why did this princess act more majestic than Pharaoh.It seems that the people living in Asiut City are also her people.

You must know that even Pharaoh may not care about the life and death of these people.

Gregor didn't know that after being promoted to God's Envoy, Erich naturally had a sense of responsibility—the more power she had, the more courageous she was to take responsibility.

What's more, I just went to the city to take a look and find out the situation.And there was Senmut by her side.

Alicia never thought of solving all the problems by herself.But obviously, running away directly will definitely not solve the problem.

For a while, no one objected.

Karam looked down at his son Hansu, who also nodded, with a resolute expression on his little face.

Kalam suddenly sighed and said, "I probably remember the roads and directions in this city. Let me show you the way."

The group of people suddenly became more cautious, followed behind Karam and his son, and walked along the road to the center of Asiut City.

Kong Si heard every word of their conversation, and the pale young man just shrugged his shoulders in the end, and finally followed the end of the team without saying a word.

"To be honest, it sounds quite lively here!"

A royal guard walking behind Gregor muttered.

Another guard standing beside him immediately said, "Yeah, it sounds like a wedding is going on in this city?"

They fell at the end of the line, unable to see clearly the situation at the end of the street, and could only judge by hearing.

At this moment, Nanna was on the left of Alixi, and Senmut was on the right, walking at the front of the line, just behind Karam and his son.

That's what she guessed too: it sounded like a wedding was going on - there was some cheerful music in the distance.

With Erich's eyes, she could just see the main road of Asiut City in the distance - a main street, the main street was full of noisy and lively people.

Senmut sighed beside Alixi: "The musicians here seem to be very good."

According to Erich's memories of living in the royal court of Memphis, there are only a few musical instruments that have appeared in this era: percussion instruments, such as drums covered with animal skins, or copper cymbals;

Stringed instruments, such as the harp; wind instruments, the most common ones are flutes, flutes, piccolos, and sometimes trumpets that can only produce sounds but have no scales.

As for the musical instruments owned by Wang Ting, there are all of them here—for a while, the sound of the flute is loud and clear, the harp is elegant, and the drums are full of rhythm and exciting.

As the music got closer, Alicia began to feel her heart beating faster, and she couldn't help but feel the urge to move forward, and her steps moved a little faster.

Senmut suddenly coughed loudly twice from the side, and the whole team seemed to wake up from a dream, and many people let out a groan.

However, the sound of the music in Alixie's ear suddenly became mediocre, and the power of demagoguery was gone.

Erich cast admiring eyes on Senmut, knowing that he had just added another purification for everyone.But this time, even she was almost tricked.

At this time, the whole team had arrived near the main street, where many locals had already gathered to watch the excitement.

From the outside, the locals are indistinguishable from ordinary people in Lower Egypt—after all, this place is not far from the junction of Upper and Lower Egypt.Whether it is hair color, skin color, or daily clothing, they are no different from Lower Egyptian civilians.

But their eyes were similar to those when Karam and his son were recruited earlier, they were all gray and the pupils could not be seen clearly.

Although they also looked eagerly at the middle of the street, their eyes were straight and their eyes were expressionless.

Alicia gave Nanna a wink, and Nanna immediately turned around to restrain the followers, telling them to keep calm, not to panic, and to get together and not to disperse.

Erich immediately took two steps forward together with Senmut, observing the scene in the street intently.

All the locals gathered to watch the excitement gathered on both sides of the street, leaving a passage more than ten cubits wide for the procession of welcoming and sending off their relatives.

The sound of blowing and blowing music is approaching here, and Alicia can see a tall sedan chair in the distance, coming here.

Of course, the shape of that sedan chair couldn't be compared to the size of Erich's large sedan chair in Memphis, and it was only carried by four people.

But there is a high-backed chair embedded in the middle of the sedan chair, and a beautifully dressed woman is sitting on the chair.

Behind the woman, there are two round feather fans made of pure white feathers interlaced to protect the person in the sedan chair.

This is actually somewhat comparable to the guard of honor that Alixie travels as a princess.

Nanna couldn't help complaining outspokenly: "Such a big battle..."

Not far from her, an old man with gray hair and beard turned his head away, looked into his gray and lifeless eyes, and said to Nanna with a smile: "It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. There is nothing wrong with being grand. Sit down The bride on the sedan chair may be in a better mood than the first princess of Egypt at the moment?"

This sentence made Nanna speechless, so that with her straightforward nature and loud voice, she couldn't open her mouth to refute.

Everyone's attention is on this wedding.Only Karam, the Blessed One of the God of Artisans, didn't pay attention to anything related to the wedding at the moment.

He didn't care what the people around him looked like or what color their eyes were. Kalam even forgot that there was his son Hunsu by his side. He just said to people, "Excuse me!" Observe the streets of Assiut.

The same is true for Alixie-the wedding is beautiful, but she is not interested in local wedding customs.

She had felt a strong sense of weirdness before entering the city, and it was even stronger now—this sense of weirdness has nothing to do with the situation of the local people, it is purely caused by the city.

Suddenly, Kalam squeezed out from the crowd with his hands raised high, and quickly came to Alicia, only to find that his son Hansu was being held by Alixi in a daze.

The craftsman couldn't help wiping his sweat with his hands, as if saying: I forgot about my son again!

Still ignoring Hansu, he hurriedly said to Erich and Senmut: "Your Highness, High Priest—this city is not a city of living people..."

When Karam said the words "City of the Living People", several blank eyes turned towards Erich.

Karam still didn't notice, and continued to say loudly: "I have seen the buildings and decorations on this main street, they are all designed and drawn according to the specifications of the tomb..."

Burial!

Alice understood everything in an instant.

The Egyptians have a view of life and death and funeral traditions after death. They will build extremely exquisite tombs for the dead, so that the souls of the dead can enjoy the same luxury or convenience after death as before.

If what Karam said is true, it means that the superposition of the two cities mentioned by the high priest just now is not the superposition of the same city on different timelines.It's a superimposed world of the living and the world of the dead.

What they faced was a city of the dead.

As soon as Alixi thought of this, she felt her right arm was touched.She tilted her head, just in time to see Senmut's eyes.The two looked at each other, and they were completely connected in an instant.

"don't want……"

Senmut shook his head slowly.

Erich instantly remembered the envoy of Tefnut, and the conversation she had with the high priest under the moonlight.

She realized that the reason why Karam's words hadn't caused any more trouble was because the craftsman's favor hadn't directly mentioned the word "dead" just now.

She immediately signaled to Nanna the hand signal agreed in advance, Nanna immediately turned around, and ordered everyone to shut up in a low voice, prohibiting conversation.

Just at this time, Lesheng had already arrived near the group of people like Alicia.

The eyes that turned to them gradually turned back, looking at the bride's sedan chair that was slowly moving along the street.

Alixi also couldn't help casting her eyes on the bride sitting on the sedan chair who was supposed to be enjoying the moment of glory.

I saw that the bride was wearing brightly colored traditional Egyptian women's clothing, and she was wearing jewels full of precious stones on her neck, chest and wrists.

The only thing that is unusual is that it is not a human neck protruding from the golden necklace inlaid with red and emeralds in the bride's neck——

It was a black-brown snake neck covered with fine scales, and the folds in the neck were swollen, making the snake head huge and broad.

There is a pair of golden rings painted on the dark snake scales, like a pair of huge eyes, looking weird and terrifying.

Accompanied by cheerful music, the bride's sedan chair passed in front of Erich and the others.The snake-headed bride on the sedan chair turned her head, a pair of tiny snake eyes looked at Erich and Senmut who were crowded in the crowd, and hissed out a snake letter.