Chapter 19 Set Off, the Stars Are Positioned

Going south from Cairo, the scenery around you often becomes more and more desolate.

Throughout Egypt, except for a few tourist cities, what you can see on the outskirts of the city are large tracts of farmland that are not very well maintained.

Sparse urban agglomerations dotted along both sides of the Nile River, and the pedestrians around them gradually lost the shrewdness of Cairo's city center, showing a sense of embarrassment and dullness.

In fact, to Clark and his team, this place looks more like Egypt in the late 1960s.

Hermione and Neville even felt that this place was not as good as the countryside where British wizards lived.

But for Hu Jianjun and Wang Desheng, two uncles in their forties, the scene in front of them revealed a cordial atmosphere.

In fact, if you often travel around the world and look at the entire world, you will find that in today's world, most countries are still in the late agricultural stage.

Since World War II, human technology has been advancing rapidly.

Since the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the 18th century, in just a few hundred years, it has transcended the steam age and the electrical age and entered the information age.

Americans in the New World have used clean and efficient nuclear energy, started the commercialization of the Internet, and even left a small step for mankind on the moon.

But the geographical fragmentation of human society on this planet has become increasingly obvious.

Except for a few economically developed areas in Western Europe, North America, East Asia and Australia, most other countries and regions are still in agricultural societies.

Even in Egypt, the most powerful country in Africa, except for a few industrial and tourist cities, other places are more like they are still in the 1960s. It seems that time here has solidified after 1960 and has never gone back. flowing before.

On this planet:

The United States, which has just won the bipolar dispute, officially established the "one superpower, many powers" pattern and become the only superpower in the world, is the first in the world.

Although the economies of Europe, Australia, Japan, Russia and other countries are still prosperous and industry is still supporting the backbone of the entire society, the overall situation has gone downhill and entered the late stage of capitalism. They are the second world.

Developing countries like India, Southeast Asia, Egypt, and China have underdeveloped economic systems, but they have population potential.

People still live in an industrialized society, a third world.

But on the African continent, after leaving Egypt, the places with cities may be called the Fourth World... There is water, electricity, and some primary industrial products. Other than that, industry has nothing to do with them.

In the vast lands outside these cities, human activities have almost declined to the Iron Age - apart from iron tools, there are almost no means of production related to industry.

Fortunately, there are still abundant resources here. When the information age comes and global connections become closer, many countries have set this place as a new competition ground.

Although people here often criticize the aid provided by countries such as China, Europe, and the United States as an attempt to plunder their resources, they have to admit that it is better to have someone plunder than not even being eligible to be plundered.

At least these countries also brought civilization and modernization to their world.

Therefore, although the scenery along the way becomes more and more backward, you can still occasionally see developed mines, newly built factories, and Egyptian workers building roads under the guidance of Chinese technicians.

Of course, even this scene gradually became invisible as Clark and others got further and further away from Cairo.

Yes, Clark and the others are now on their way to find Hamna Tower.

For this adventure, Clark even had to lie to Aunt Molly, saying that there was something wrong with the business in England, so he rushed back early.

In this way, under the watchful eyes of Aunt Molly, he, Hermione, and Neville got on the plane back to England, and then changed to the private plane Laura arranged for them at the airport on the way, and returned to Cairo, with Laura and Lao Hu will work together.

According to the description of their guide, the voodoo wizard, Hamna Tower is located deep in the Sahara Desert.

To get there, the best way is to first travel a certain distance along the Nile River towards Sudan, then switch to camels and head towards the center of the desert.

"Why change to camels? Don't we have off-road vehicles?"

At this time, Clark and others had set off from Cairo, took a cruise for several days, and had just arrived in Aswan, an important city in southern Egypt.

As soon as they arrived here, the Voodoo wizard, who was a native of Egypt, went to the local market and helped them select more than twenty camels.

Looking at these strange animals, Hermione asked curiously.

"Because animals are safer than machines, camels are much more reliable than cars in the desert."

Hu Jianjun answered Laura's questions while tying the equipment and supplies she had prepared in advance onto the back of the camel.

Laura, who had rich adventure experience, explained to her in detail:

“The conditions in the desert are harsh and the climate is even more complex and changeable. Although there are already specialized desert off-road vehicles, we are preparing for a protracted battle this time.

It is inconvenient to replenish diesel fuel and replace parts of a car in the desert, but it is not as safe and reliable as a camel. "

The group spent a day repairing in Aswan City and did not stay long. After confirming that the amount of food and water they carried was enough for them to use for more than ten days, they set off on the road under the morning glow.

In the first two days after departure, the three Clarks were still in high spirits. After all, they were the youngest among the group. It was also the first time in their lives that they had entered the desert. They found it both fresh and fun.

However, after a few days, the boredom, boredom and fatigue of the adventure came to mind.

The three of them sat on the backs of camels, looking at the unchanged yellow sand in front of them. They no longer had the excitement at the beginning, and they were all listless.

Just this made the two old gangsters Hu Jianjun and Fatty Wang laugh at him for a long time.

Their initial journey, led by a Voodoo wizard, followed the remains of an ancient river and headed southwest.

According to voodoo wizards, this is not a real desert.

Because this section of the ancient river channel existed before the river was diverted, the riverbed in some areas has not completely dried up, and the surrounding sand is very shallow. Scattered small lakes and wells can be seen from time to time along the way.

Around those lakes, there were occasionally some small animals, and Fatty Wang used this opportunity to show them his shooting skills, adding a bit of meatiness to their dinner.

Along this ancient river, there are small oases where date palms, palm trees, some shrubs, and even wild grapes and berries grow.

After passing this ancient river, they would have completely entered the desert.

It was here that Clark and others knew why Hamnatta had not been discovered.

This is a large mobile desert. The sand dunes are blown by strong winds, and the landscape changes every day. As far as the eye can see, there are no landform features, only endless yellow sand.

And their camel team consisting of seven people and more than a dozen camels was so small in this vast desert that it was even worse than a grain of sand in the desert.

Under such circumstances, the so-called map becomes a piece of waste paper.

Fortunately, their guide, the voodoo wizard, was still there, and Hermione now fully understood why Clark had to use his methods to force this guy to work for them.

In the desert, it was by relying on this guy's voodoo witchcraft and the feedback given to him by the spirit of nature that they could correctly judge whether they were going in the right direction.

In this way, under the leadership of the Voodoo wizard, they sat on camels and walked for probably four or five days. In order to avoid the scorching sun at noon, they stayed up day and night every day, and traveled all night. I began to become sleepy and tired at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Fortunately, their supplies were well prepared. In addition to the spare water and food in Clark's magic bag, the supplies carried by the camels were enough for them to survive in the desert for more than ten days.

"Hey, let me say, how long do we have until we get somewhere?"

The desert is vast and boundless. If it weren't for the long footprints behind you, you wouldn't even feel that you are moving forward.

Fatty Wang rode on the camel and asked the Voodoo wizard leading the way with some dissatisfaction.

Along the way, the fatigue of the journey had already wiped away any thoughts he had about Laura. If he hadn't been thinking about the twenty thousand dollars and the possible treasures in the ruins, he would have stopped moving.

When the voodoo wizard heard his question, he didn't move his body, but turned his head back, looking at him coldly with a penetrating gaze.

Under the gaze of the other party, the impatient expression on Fatty Wang's face instantly solidified, as if he was a frog being stared at by a poisonous snake.

"Ahem, yes, it's been a few days since we left. Why do you feel like you've been leading us around in circles lately?"

Clark's opening finally solved Fatty Wang's problem.

The voodoo wizard thought for a moment, closed his eyes again, prayed around, and then replied: "The 'ancestral spirit' told me that it should be in this area."

Through communication with voodoo wizards, Clark already knew that the so-called "ancestral spirits" he called were the ghosts left behind by the voodoo cultists who sacrificed blood to living people after they found the Hamna Tower.

It was through this that they were able to locate Hamna Tower in the vast desert.

It's just that after arriving here, the Voodoo wizard's "ancestral spirit" positioning is no longer clear.

"What 'ancestral spirits' and 'ghosts' are pretending to be gods and ghosts!" Because he was frightened by the voodoo wizard's eyes just now, Fatty Wang complained a little unconvinced.

"If you ask me, we have to rely on the craftsmanship of our ancestors for things like dividing gold and fixing acupuncture points." He looked at Hu Jianjun aside, "Old Hu, show them your skills and open the eyes of that Egyptian foreign devil!"

Hu Jianjun glared at Fatty Wang angrily. Clark looked at him inquiringly and could only nod his head and took out the compass from his pocket.

Because we were traveling at night, the bright moon in the sky was picturesque and the stars were shining brightly, illuminating the earth with silver light.

Hu Jianjun rode a camel and stood at the highest point of the sand dune, lit a cigarette, began to watch the stars at night, and performed the Star Feng Shui technique.

"How about it?"

Seeing that Hu Jianjun was silent for a long time, Clark asked curiously, and Laura and others also looked at him.

"Weird." Hu Jianjun took off the cigarette from his mouth, raised his head and blew out a smoke ring.

"What's weird?" Clark asked.

"Look, from our point of view, the giant star, the left auxiliary star, and the right star in the sky are shining brightly, arranged in an equilateral triangle.

There are also Taiyin and Yinghuo in the center, and the Sui Xing and Zhen Xing are swaying. This is not a good sign. "

"Not a good sign?"

Clark looked along Hu Jianjun's fingers holding the cigarette. Amid the smoke, he could see that among the stars in the three directions above their heads, there were indeed three stars that were very bright.

It's just that there are more things that he can't see.

"Then what does this mean? Can you determine the specific location of Hamna Tower?"

Laura did know a little bit about astronomy, and followed his guidance to look at the night sky and asked at the same time.

Hu Jianjun took another puff of cigarette, took the compass, and began to determine the direction by comparing it with the stars in the sky.

"Honestly, the "Sixteen-Character Yin-Yang Feng Shui Secret Technique" passed down from my family did not introduce this star situation in detail. After all, it is a star phenomenon that can only be seen by foreigners.

However, according to my inference, among the nine stars of the Big Dipper, the Jumen star is an evil star, and the left auxiliary star and the right Bian star are not necessarily good or bad.

The formation of three stars in this way proves that the evil energy is surging at this place, proving that this place will not be peaceful in the future. "

Hearing his words, Clark and Laura looked at each other.

Not at peace? That's right!

Immorton's resentful spirit is buried here. Now that the seal is weakened and resentment is leaking out, it is normal for there to be unrest.

And Hu Jianjun over there was still saying:

"The Taiyin star, also known as the moon, is cold and dead in the astrology.

Yinghuo, also known as Mars, dominates battles and changes in the astrology.

The two appear together. Although there is one yin and one yang, the yin and yang cannot be reconciled. Instead, the yin and yang will conflict, causing the starlight to be unbalanced and the good luck to be deflected and lost.

As for the Sui Xing and Zhen Xing, which we often call Jupiter and Saturn, although they are both auspicious stars, they are both in a shaky and dim state at the moment.

This shows that the evil spirit of this place will rise to the sky, the imbalance of the closed town will weaken, and the vitality will subside, there will be..."

"What will be there?"

When Clark's voice came, Hu Jianjun looked at his compass, then looked at the stars in the sky, and said word by word: "There will be a wave of evil and ferocious zombies that will be born, causing all life to be devastated and blood will flow everywhere!" "

As if to match his words, a breeze suddenly blew across the dunes in the night sky, which was still normal just now, and rolled up wisps of fine sand.

Although the temperature in the desert dropped at night, it was still very sultry, and the breeze that blew through everyone's bodies brought a biting chill.

They looked in the direction where the wind was blowing, and through the starlight above their heads, they saw that the sky in the distance gradually turned into a dark yellow.

This is? got windy!

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