Hikigu's Godslayer Story

The international flight from Egypt entered the port, which is located 25 kilometers northeast of Cairo City. Hikigu and others sat for about half an hour before entering the city.

As they went further, they finally saw the Nile River across the city.

In the world, as long as there is a slight interest in geography, it is estimated that there are not many people who do not know the Nile River.

This ancient river is the longest river in the world. It existed about 6500 million years ago. Its source is the Kagera River in Burundi, with a total length of about 6800 kilometers and an area of ​​about 330 million square kilometers. One-tenth of the area's area, its water resources are mainly concentrated in the two countries of modern Egypt and Sudan, and more in Egypt.

Without the Nile, there would be no colorful ancient Egyptian civilization.

About [-] years ago, the climate in North Africa was still in a humid and mild stage with abundant rainfall. At that time, the place was not full of yellow sand, but green grass everywhere.

However, from [-] BC and [-] BC, there were two periods of climatic and arid transitions in North Africa, which made the entire northeastern African region suitable for human beings limited to the Nile Valley, delta areas and a few oases. The increase in the demand for food led to the human beings living in these areas had to vigorously develop the planting industry, gradually settled down from hunting and gathering, and developed the embryonic form of agricultural civilization.

In the time of the pharaohs, the ancient Egyptians called the fertile soil around the Nile "black land", the area surrounded by deserts on four sides was called "red land", and the northern Mediterranean was called "great green". As for the Nile itself, the ancient Egyptians even more Seeing it directly as a deity, major religious objects of worship refer to the Nile as the hobbit, the "flooding flood".

Not only that, the Nile River also provided Egypt with the convenience of transportation. Before the New Dynasty, land transportation in Egypt did not actually exist. The donkey was the only land transportation tool at that time, and a large number of commercial transportation and travel almost depended on the Nile River.

Even if the ancient Egyptian civilization disappeared, this big river is still flowing endlessly, nurturing this fertile soil in cycles, but with the construction of a series of water conservancy facilities such as the Aswan Dam, the flooding of the Nile River has almost lost its impact on Egyptian agriculture in contemporary times. , this has to be said to be a pity - after losing the flood of the Nile River, Egypt, like the two river basins, began to face the problem of land salinization.

And now, the youngest godslayer in the world has also set foot on this land.

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PS: The first one today, the next one should be in the afternoon. If there is no accident, there are at least three today. Yesterday, there were two million rewards!

In addition, someone asked in the book review area, if you want to travel through ancient times, what kind of animation is used, some people say that the daughter of Mary Sun Nile, and some people say that the king of explosion Zhengtai, but I want to say - you think too much... travel through ancient times I won't use anime works for the plot, you can just look at it as an overhead mythology history.

For example, a major event in the pharaoh era of ancient Egypt that is considered to be fictional, you all know what it is.

Chapter [-] From South to North

In ancient Egypt, Memphis was the boundary, and Egypt was divided into upper and lower Egypt. The ancient city was located near Cairo, and the north was Lower Egypt.

To the south to Aswan, the first waterfall, the narrow valley on both sides of the Nile River is Upper Egypt. Before the new dynasty, this place has always been the center of gravity of the ancient Egyptian kingdom, so Hikigu decided to first go to this area for inspection.

But on the first day, Hikigu and Yukinoshita visited Cairo. This ancient city built across the banks of the Nile River is now the political, economic and commercial center of the entire Middle East, although it is already part of the Arab world. But it can still be called majestic and magnificent. After a day's tour, even Yukinoshita Yukino had a smile on his face.

After a night of rest, Bi Qigu got up early the next morning and decided to start his investigation south.

He rejected Khasazi's proposal to take modern means of transportation, and instead took the same method as the ancient Egyptians - using the water and wind of the Nile, to travel by boat.

As a local snake, Hasaqi is very qualified. He quickly found a boat with a sail. It is absolutely retro. It relies entirely on human power, wind and water for activities. Other than that, there is nothing that can be used as a source of power. Something, that boatman Hikigu had even seen before, and was one of the Egyptian wizards who had been to Chiba.

The hull doesn't look very new, but it has clearly been laid out.

Biqigu is very satisfied with this. This is what he wants. How did the ancient Egyptians go from Lower Egypt to Upper Egypt in the first place, so he went there.

He took the two girls onto the boat, and Khasazi followed closely. If ordinary people in the vicinity could see it, they would also find a fox on his shoulders...

On the river, the wind came from the north, and the wind was strong. The wizard who handled the boat raised the sail like an ancestor, and did not need to use the hoist to make the boat run smoothly on the water.

From ancient times to the present, the prevailing wind direction near the Nile is completely opposite to the direction of the Nile water.

The word "travel" in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs was invented based on the way the ancient Egyptians traveled to and from Egypt by means of the Nile River. Text symbol for going north.

Looking at the Biqi Valley, there are many cultivated fields on both sides of the big river, but if it was in ancient times, the banks of the Nile River should have been hit by floods at this time.

From ancient times to the present, the Nile River has been flooding regularly, and even the water volume is similar. The time starts in July and recedes in September and October. The ancient Egyptians also divided the year into three seasons according to the law of the flooding of the Nile River. Four quarters familiar to non-moderns.

The ancient Egyptian farmers neither prayed for rain nor worshiped any land. They only looked forward to the annual flooding of the Nile, and all production activities revolved around this.

When the flooding of the Nile reaches its peak, the entire country is flooded except for the sizable cities and villages that sit on naturally formed mountains and man-made highlands, while in the delta region even the sea is flooded back, This power is the direct cause of the delta, which was originally part of the Mediterranean Sea.

When the tide ebbs, the valleys and deltas will be covered with a thick layer of fertile soil rich in nutrients and minerals. The ancient Egyptians only needed to measure the land again, then sprinkle the seeds and step on it again.

Even a person like Bikigu who didn't know much about Egypt could immediately feel the significance of this great river to Egypt after coming to this land. Without the Nile, it was just a barren land.

Fully feeling all of this, Hikigu just stood on the bow of the boat, silently speaking—of course it's okay to say that he's trying his best to pretend, or... he's just pretending!

The goal of Hikigu is Aswan. Since it is to the south, it is better to start from the southernmost.

There is of course a reason to choose this place.

As soon as I came to this place, it was originally an ancient city, and there were many historic sites nearby. Although many of them were damaged due to the relationship of the dam, there were still some left or protected.

Second, coming here is also the origin of the Nile River believed by ancient Egypt. The god who mastered the flood was here to initiate the flooding power of the Nile River. Among these gods, there are not only Habi, who has always been regarded as the god of the Nile River, but also Osiris and his wife. Isis - no way, there was no entertainment in those days, so the Egyptian gods kept flying.

When Hikigu arrived in the city, it was already night.

Maybe this is relatively fast, because even by train, it takes more than ten hours to get from Cairo to Aswan. As for whether there is a factor that Egypt's train system is too backward, I don't know.

Egypt is actually a country that doesn't like too many changes. Since the ancient Egyptian era, the Egyptian society has almost remained unchanged. The Nile River is a double-edged sword. People can harvest more food than any other country without any effort, but it also shaped the lazy character of the ancient Egyptians who were not enterprising and satisfied with the status quo, which also caused the once prosperous ancient Egyptian civilization to be reborn one by one. It was surpassed by the peoples of China, and in the long history that followed, it was constantly conquered and ruled by foreign peoples.

Whether the modern Egyptians have this kind of character, I don't know.

However, along the way in Biqigu, compared to the large infrastructure construction before crossing, there are construction sites everywhere. There is indeed a rare tranquility here. Compared with Cairo, it seems to be another world, especially the rivers without towns on the shore. When driving, there is an illusion of returning to ancient times.

All this finally changed when it arrived at the port of Aswan.

To be honest, as an important city in southern Egypt, Aswan feels better than Cairo.

The ancient city is now a famous tourist attraction in Egypt and a trade center in the south.

Looking from the direction of the port, it gives a feeling of cleanliness. There are various ships parked in the port, and large tourist ships can be seen.

Compared with Cairo, it is more like the capital of Egypt. At least Biqigu doesn't have a casual glance here and you can see the mosque.

In fact, it is indeed one of the birthplaces of ancient Egyptian civilization. In ancient times, it was an important southern town in ancient Egypt and the only way to enter Black Africa.