From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Tylos' water tour did not go well.

The flooding of large rivers has brought many problems to the shipping routes.The previous shipping route is now unrecognizable, the wharf where ships can berthed and supplies has disappeared, and the fleet is sailing in the vast swamp country of Lower Egypt, and the people on board are also at a loss.

The only thing that has improved slightly is the weather. The rain is getting less and less, and the strong wind that has been raging on the big river recently has also subsided.

The fleet can occasionally berth in a certain shoal, and sailors who are good at fishing can catch fish, and collect some edible aquatic plants as vegetables to expand the supply of the fleet.

And Tyros had the privilege of being alone in the bow.

As an Egyptian pharaoh, Delos traveled on the best keel boat in Lower Egypt, with twenty oarsmen on each side of the ship, rowing long wooden oars.

The oarsmen behind them chanted and rowed the pharaoh's great ship quickly in the hot and humid weather of the flood season.

Delos was sitting on the bow of the boat blankly, his mind was full of the situation of the last boat trip with Alicia.

"What a big ship—"

Alicia's soft voice seemed to ring in her ears.

She leaned out from the ship's side, trying to pick a blue-purple lotus flower on the water, but just as she staggered, Delos lifted her back by the waist.

"It looks good..."

Alicia pouted, only staring regretfully at the beautiful lotus flower passing by, ignoring the depressed and nervous Pharaoh sitting beside her.

Delos waved his hand, and Elysee, who was sitting beside him, disappeared.

He knew that this was just an illusion constructed by his memories after losing Elyse.

The illusion wasn't always so glamorous, and Elysee had done a lot of absurdly bad things. She had more than one guard, squire, or clerk thrown into the water, as long as they treated her a little bit better. Offend, she will punish like this.After all, after throwing it down, sailors with good water quality will catch it again.

"If you dare to offend your princess, I will throw you into the river to feed the crocodiles!"

Erich always threatens the drowned chickens that are picked up from the water like this.

However, when she saw a giant crocodile in the water for the first time, she huddled in the pharaoh's arms and dared not poke her head out, let alone throw someone to feed the crocodile.

I only know a stubborn little thing... Delos thought a little weakly.

Ever since he learned that the water level of the flooded river was enough to cover the entire Saqqara Palace, Delos' heart has been in this kind of extremely divided grief and anger.

He tried his best to recall the situation when he was humiliated by her when he was young, counting her shortcomings one by one, all kinds of hypocrisy and evil after she became a princess;

But the hatred that these memories brought to him gradually lost its magic power. At such times, Delos' thoughts would slip away to other places uncontrollably, and he would instead recall that he had married Alicia for no purpose. After that, the happy time spent with her.

Delos was in a trance for a while.

Why did he send Alicia to Saqqara's palace in the first place?

Was it not for the woman to bow her proud head, kneel before him, kiss the instep of his feet, and weep and beg his forgiveness?

Did he really want a woman to be sacrificed for the whole of Egypt?

And what is he trying his best to come here now, is it just to find her body that was soaked in water, lost its shape, and was torn off by birds and beasts, exposing the bones?

Delos was determined not to let go—

At the beginning, he obeyed the oracle, so he sent Alicia to Saqqara.

He left everything to the will of the river god, but the god treated him so cruelly?

In the past, he always kept the unbearable memories of the past in his heart, but now he finds that the person he has hated and entangled for half his life may never see again, never hate again... Those strong emotions he once invested, It's meaningless now—

For the first time, the young pharaoh wanted to ask the god himself:

Gods, may the human heart be your playground?

It took seven or eight days for the royal fleet to arrive near Saqqara.

When they arrived here, the most experienced sailors, the navigators who were most familiar with the Saqqara Palace, couldn't help being stunned—there was Wang Zeguo in front of them, boundless, and it was impossible to judge the exact location of the palace.

"My king, according to the location of the distant Giza pyramid and the location of the nearby Pyramid of the Former King, we can determine that the palace of Saqqara is just... just under the surface of this water..."

The speaker was a second priest named Sasha.The high priest Senmut should have done all the divination for the king's boat trip.

Senmut's current whereabouts are uncertain, and his life and death are uncertain. This Sasha was captured and came to Pharaoh's side to replace Senmut.

"Under water..."

Although he had a hunch, but at this moment, Tylos' voice suddenly became hoarse.

Gregor, the Queen's Navigator, replied extremely at a loss: "Yes...and a ship ahead discovered the astronomical platform of the Saqqara Palace, and the star-gazing stele on the platform..."

Delos cheered up and looked forward following the sound: "Where is the stele...?"

Gregor pointed helplessly at the boat ahead, to be precise, pointed below the hull.

Under the clear river water, one can vaguely see the triangular prism stele, inlaid with copper wires extending downward one after another, and the spire is completely submerged below the water surface.

Saqqara's palace was completely submerged by the overflowing river.

Standing in the bow, Pharaoh felt his knees tremble.

His princess, and his unborn child... Is there any chance of escaping this catastrophe?

Perhaps the great priest's family had arranged to help Alicia escape, or maybe.

No—Delos shook his head.

The old fox of the Great Priest deliberately offered his beloved daughter both hands early in the morning, in exchange for him and his son Solan's future official career, so he should not deliberately disobey Pharaoh's wishes.

The only silver lining is High Priest Senmut.

It was Senmut who personally sent the princess to the palace in Saqqara. After that, he did not come back and disappeared completely.

Delos trusted his high priest very much. Senmut was discovered by the former king from a common boy, and handed over to Delos, who was single-handedly promoted by Delos.Prior to this, Senmut had always been very grateful to Pharaoh for his kindness.

Counting it, the high priest and the princess have been together for less than half a month...if they are still alive.

Delos felt uncomfortable thinking of this, reached out and rubbed his chest vigorously.

"Wang, look there, it's floating..."

"It seems to be the sedan chair of the princess—"

Delos' newly appointed captain of the guard shouted a reminder.

It was actually a cedar four-corner bed with a solid wooden frame that could be lifted by bearers.

Therefore, it is not only Erich's couch, but also her means of transportation when she travels.At this moment it was floating on the water, spinning in place.

The wood of the four-poster bed was gilded and gilded in the sun, exactly the style Erich used to love.

But this exaggerated appearance cannot conceal the hardships it has experienced. The gold paint on the wood is chipped, and it seems to have been hit everywhere.

On the four corners of the wooden pillars, the tooth marks and paw prints of unknown animals can be clearly seen. The linen cloth hanging on the four sides has long been torn into fragments and hung on the wooden frame one by one.

Big and small egrets perched on the broken four-corner bed frame, and when a ship approached, they huffed and flapped their wings and flew away.

The four-corner bed was brought back by the sailors with a long pole with a hook at the top, and dragged to the Pharaoh.

Delos stared, and seemed to be able to see Erich lying lazily on the four-corner bed.

But where did she go?

Delos asked himself: Did she take refuge in this four-poster bed?Then he was kissed by an alligator and lost his life?

Pharaoh gritted his teeth, hatred suddenly arose in his heart: Erich, are you... so useless?Can't even survive until the king comes to save you?

"Over there, my king, look, look quickly, there is a boat over there—"

A sailor on the boat ahead suddenly called out.

"That's not a keel boat...it's like a papyrus boat weaved by craftsmen..."

Gregor, the royal navigator, rushed to the pharaoh's boat at this time, half kneeling beside the pharaoh, observing and pointing out the pharaoh at the same time.

"Strange, papyrus ships are usually not this big."

The fleet dispatched several small boats to row towards the papyrus boat, and soon approached, someone shouted: "There is a person here!"

"Alive!"

Delos cheered up, and finally swallowed the words "whether it's the princess or not".

Several long poles with iron hooks at the top stretched out to the strange papyrus boat at the same time, pulling it closer.

Gregor, who was half-kneeling beside Delos, was suddenly excited, and pointed out to Pharaoh: "This is a big boat made of several papyrus boats tied together. Such a boat is more stable than a single small boat when traveling on water. Better."

Gregor sighed for a moment: "How did you think of this? The princess's people can think of it, but why have I never thought of it?"

The imperial navigator suddenly realized: "By the way, there is a craftsman team in Saqqara, which was sent to repair the mausoleum of the princess..."

Seeing Delos' eyes like knives, Gregor finally swallowed the word "mausoleum" and covered it left and right: "Maybe the craftsmen of the craftsman team also avoided Saqqara and helped the princess build such a ship..."

While talking, the large papyrus boat has been dragged to the king's boat.

Gregor caught a glimpse of a man covered in blood. He screamed for a while, covered his mouth with his hand, and lowered his head. For a long time, he couldn't hear the arrogant and harsh Pharaoh yelling.

He raised his head secretly, only to find that Pharaoh was staring, frozen in the bow of the ship like a tall stone statue in front of the palace.

"Help... help!"

The man covered in blood let out a feeble cry.

It was a man's voice.

Tilos let out a breath immediately, his tense body relaxed a little, before he ordered: "Bring him here, the king wants to ask questions."

The people on the papyrus boat were sent to the king's boat in a blink of an eye, and everyone saw his tragic situation clearly.

This is a man, apparently dressed as a militiaman serving nearby.He used to wear a linen waistcoat and waistcoat, but now the clothes were torn to pieces and covered with blood stains, making it impossible to see what color they were originally.

The man's legs were empty from the knee down, and the calf had disappeared.

He was also stubborn, tied up the knee with a cloth belt to stop the bleeding, and tied himself to the papyrus boat, drifting with the current, the papyrus boat has not survived until now.

Delos stared at the man intently, looked up and down indifferently, and said coldly, "Feed him some water."

The sailors responded in unison, and carefully untied the mutilated body from the ship and carried it to a small boat closest to the king's ship. The wet cloth was slightly dipped on the man's lips.

"Ask him, what is the situation in the Saqqara Palace, and has he seen the First Princess?"

Only then did the sailors understand that the reason why the king favored this commoner was, in the final analysis, for Princess Elyse.

"Crazy crazy..."

With the help of the sailors, the man who drank a sip of clean water shouted hoarsely.

"The people in Saqqara are all crazy, they all hid underground!"

Delos and Gregor looked at each other, and it was difficult for them to judge whether the seriously injured man was telling the truth or imagining.

Who is the crazy person?

This man intermittently told his experience in Saqqara, and no one on the king's boat could believe it:

The tomb of the first pharaoh was discovered, and everyone fled into the underground tomb to avoid the flood?

The man said intermittently: "At first, we were going to take away the astronomical observatory... But after hearing what that woman said, I changed my mind and went underground. I and a few other people who were not crazy got on this boat... When we met hippopotamuses, we were still there." There are crocodiles, and some underwater monsters..."

"The boat was almost capsized, and everyone fell into the water..."

"They are all dead, I tied myself to the boat, and only today..."

This man seemed to be sane, not crazy, and he even knew how to curry favor with others.

He supported his body with his intact arms, and looked at the pharaoh Delos standing awe-inspiringly on the king's ship: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty... It is the gods who have blessed the villain for so long, it must be—"

Delos covered his face with frost, glanced at the man, then turned his face and ordered: "Throw him into the river and feed the crocodiles."

As soon as Pharaoh's words fell, the sailors started to move, and there was a plop accompanied by cries for mercy.

The man who was struggling to survive never expected that the person who rescued him turned his face so quickly.

The smell of blood in the water attracted some kind of underwater beast.Not long after, there was a scream, the water surface was turbulent, and many bubbles quickly surfaced, and then the turbulence subsided, and the water near the king's boat gradually turned red.

Pharaoh turned his face away, just in time to see Gregor with a blank face.

"He's just an ordinary peasant."

Delos looked disdainful.

"As you said just now, at least the craftsmen of the craftsman team can come up with a way to tie the papyrus boat together to increase the stability." Delos explained a few words to the queen navigator.

"The princess's people are stationed in Saqqara's palace. Besides that, there are at least some craftsmen. It's his turn to get on this boat—"

"If he's not in partnership and stealing the boat, he's presumptuous—"

"Everything is dead."

Delos said the word death indifferently, and the life of a mere peasant was not at all in Pharaoh's heart.

It was the man's honor to even ask Pharaoh to spend two or three words to explain why he was executed——

Every word and deed of the pharaoh will be recorded by the clerk. This lowly and despicable man, it is not a pity to die, and he can be written into the history of Egypt——

"My king, now..."

The second-class priest Sasha looked at the large expanse of bright red on the water, and was too frightened to speak more.

"Just wait here!"

Delos declared emphatically.

"However, the man just mentioned that there might be monsters underwater... The minister's divination also showed..."

"Then look for a suitable place to moor the boat nearby."

Delos stared intently at the underwater stele pointed out by the sailors just now, and made a decision.

"No matter what, the king has to wait until the day when the flood recedes and the Saqqara palace reappears."

Delos pursed his lips tightly and gritted his teeth secretly: Erich.Whether alive or dead, I will find you.

The day the flooded river flooded the palace of Saqqara—

In the passage leading to the underground tomb of Nitocris, the roar was approaching, and the water vapor rushed towards the face. The torches used for lighting were quickly extinguished one after another, and the light was rapidly shortening.

At the end of the light, there are raging waves of darkness. They beat the walls hard, rush forward unhindered, and seem to sweep everything and devour everything.

The empty dome in the underground mausoleum maximized the sound of the rushing waves, and the civilians hiding here seemed to feel the coming of the end, and they all huddled together.

Family members, relatives and friends hugged each other, and some people closed their eyes, letting fear fill their hearts;

Some people turned their heads and looked at the four Asuts who were guarding the exit of the mausoleum.

"Princess, High Priest, Head Maid, Craftsman..."

"Thank you for being willing to stand in front of us..."

Surrounded by his family members, Uncle Deca closed his eyes and murmured.

At this time, a clear child's voice suddenly sounded: "Look!"

It was Hunsu's voice.

People heard the sound and looked over there, only to see a heavy bronze gate appeared in the illusion, with a clear pattern of acacia pattern cast on the gate—almost exactly the same as the giant gate of the main hall of the Saqqara Palace.

This pair of illusory and realistic doors seemed to be blown up by the wind, and they were slammed shut against the surging waves——

"boom--"

"Snapped--"

The door panel of the giant door suddenly dried up, and the waves slammed on the door with a loud noise.

In people's eyes, the huge bronze doors and the intricately carved acacia patterns are rapidly disappearing.But the flood was blocked from that layer of void.

Some of them took two steps forward in bewilderment, and raised the pine torches used for lighting, trying to see what happened at the entrance of the passage——

The huge door was still there, reflecting the light, and it was as shiny as before, but the fine white foam raised by the blocked waves on the other side of the door was still clearly visible.

This giant bronze door turned out to be completely transparent.

It is no longer even a pair of giant gates, but has become a tight barrier, blending with the surrounding walls, and even continuously extending into the depths of the dome.

The four Asuts standing in front of the giant gate, Erich was both surprised and happy, looking down at her hands, as if she couldn't believe that she had really done it;

Sen Mut looked at the entire giant door, thinking;

Nanna woke up violently after being excited, and hurried over to hold Alicia;

Kalam trembled all over, as if shivering suddenly, and asked, "Why is it so cold all of a sudden?"

Hansu, who was scolded by Karam earlier and rushed to the depths of the underground hall, couldn't hold back. He ran up, squatted in front of the huge transparent door, and asked curiously, "What is this made of?"

He didn't forget to help his arms, shook his head, cheered up, and said, "It's so cold..."

Alicia: ...

Have you Egyptians never seen ice?

Yes, the energy gushing out from her palm formed a pair of giant doors in the form of ice when she applied the law of similarity of closing doors.

After the giant gate was sealed, the ice sealed all the permeable places.

In addition, the door quickly thickened in a short moment and became indestructible.For a moment, nothing can destroy this door unless someone can light a blazing fire on the opposite side.

Karam's son Hunsu was very curious at this time, he really wanted to find out what kind of material this giant door was made of.

So he boldly braved the cold and reached out to try it. He felt that the door was very cold, and besides, it was a little sticky.

On a whim, the child wanted to try whether this material had a special taste.So I lay down in front of the frozen giant door, sticking out my tongue, wanting to lick it and taste it.

Alicia: ...

Well, the Egyptians should really have never seen ice.