To be honest, Zhang Zian sometimes envied the elfins. They could return to their phone when they were on the plane, and when they woke up, they would already be at their destination. The long flight was not pleasant, especially when the quality of the flight attendants was not high.
Wei Kang was like an elementary school teacher on a spring outing, afraid that his students would get lost. From the moment they entered the departure lounge, he kept emphasizing group movement. Even when they went to the toilet, they had to go together. He only stopped when they got on the plane.
It was obvious that Fina, who boarded the plane so openly, would definitely attract the attention of the passengers. Very few people would bring cats on the plane. Even if someone did, they would lock the cat in a cage. Was it really okay to let the cat move around freely like that?
The flight crew had already been notified in advance and received scientific proof. They were mentally prepared for Fina's arrival, and even prepared a few cat teasers to welcome it. But Fina was not the least bit interested in the cat teasers. It jumped into its seat and started to catch up on its sleep.
More than one passenger ran over to ask Zhang Zian if he had any special connections to be able to bring a cat on the plane like that.
After the plane took off and flew smoothly, the passengers who liked cats would take pictures of Fina with their phones or cameras when they passed by Zhang Zian's seat.
After the novelty of the passengers had passed, Zhang Zian saw that Fina was sleeping soundly. He was also a little sleepy, and just as he was about to say that he was going to take a nap, he heard Gao Ke and He Cha chattering non-stop in the row behind him. It made him want to get into his phone for some peace and quiet.
Wei Kang took out his laptop and browsed the information.
After a while, after the in-flight meal, the four young people behind him finally finished talking, and Zhang Zian fell asleep in a daze.
When he woke up, Fina was already awake. Its seat was near the window, and it was squatting there, looking at the scenery outside.
Most of the other passengers were sleeping, or wearing headphones and pretending to sleep. Even Wei Kang closed his laptop and dozed off.
Fina turned to look at him and said, "The last time I was on the plane, I didn't feel anything, but after experiencing the magic of Nekhbet, I have a completely different feeling when I'm on the plane again."
It was just a statement, not a question, so Zhang Zian did not need to answer it. Plus, there were too many passengers around, so it was not convenient for him to answer.
The drone was actually more shocking than the plane. That was because the plane was flying too high. Looking down, one could only see the clouds, the land, and the ocean. It seemed very fake. However, the drone was the opposite. It presented the familiar scenery from a different angle. It was visually shocking.
The captain's voice rang through the speakers, reminding the passengers that they were about to arrive at the destination of the flight — the capital of Egypt, Cairo.
Fei Na tilted her head slightly and looked at the direction of the plane through the window.
Zhang Zian couldn't see its face, but the reflection of the window glass made him vaguely feel its anxiety, as if it couldn't wait to fly to its homeland.
This was a homecoming after two thousand years. Unfortunately, it could not be said to be a glorious homecoming.
The plane flew over the Sinai Peninsula at high speed. In theory, they were already in Egypt, but from this height, all they could see was the vast desert. The northern horizon was rolling with the waves of the Mediterranean Sea.
The passengers who had been woken up by the broadcast began to pack up and prepare for the landing.
Wei Kang woke up his disciples and patiently emphasized that they should move together and not get separated.
After a while, the plane descended at an imperceptible angle. The passengers who had come to Egypt for the first time were also leaning against the window and looking out.
"Look! The pyramid! That must be the pyramid! "someone whispered, calling his companions to look together.
Fei Na's body trembled slightly, and she stared out the window more intently.
Zhang Zian also stretched his neck. Although he had seen the pyramid many times on TV and in pictures, there were not many opportunities to see it from the air.
Fei Na opened her mouth in shock, and her eyes showed disbelief and disappointment.
"This … This is the sacred pyramid? This … What kind of rubbish is around here? "she said angrily.
Zhang Zian also saw it. Although it was only a glimpse, he did see the pyramid.
It was no wonder that Fei Na was disappointed. The pyramid she saw was already completely different from the pyramid in her memory. In her memory, the pyramid was covered with smooth white limestone. Under the sun, it reflected the sunlight like an iceberg, looking holy and beautiful. It could be seen from far away. Now, the white limestone had almost completely disappeared. Only at the top of the Pyramid of Khafra was there. The white limestone of the other pyramids had disappeared, revealing the rough yellow boulders underneath.
What was even more intolerable was that, just a few feet away from the Pyramids, there were low-rise buildings like slums everywhere. They were hotels and hostels that had sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain. In order to attract tourists who sought convenience, they scrambled to build hotels next to the Pyramids.
Zhang Zian was afraid that it would lose its temper on the plane, so he could only pretend to be talking to himself and explain, "A long time ago, in order to build Cairo, the descendants wanted to save trouble, so they directly used the pyramid as a quarry and took away the white limestone … This is like someone in China taking away the wall bricks from the Great Wall to build a courtyard house."
The pyramid had disappeared from the window. Fei Na looked back at him. Her anger had not subsided, and she was even more annoyed. This kind of act of forgetting one's roots should be punishable by death.
Zhang Zian shrugged. "The Egyptians at that time were not the Egyptians of the past."
Fina understood what he was implying. Ancient Egypt had ended in the pre-Christian era, and as the last dynasty, the Ptolemy family was not actually ancient Egyptians, but Greeks. Even so, the Ptolemy family, including Cleopatra, completely followed the system of ancient Egypt, so they could still be recognized as a branch of ancient Egypt.
After the early death of the talented and bold Cleopatra, it marked the official demise of ancient Egypt. No matter how the people of this land tormented the pyramids, even if they surrounded the pyramids with toilets, it would not be considered forgetting one's ancestors. It did not matter if they dug up other people's ancestral graves, as long as they did not dig up one's own.
This attitude was also reflected in Egypt's cultural heritage protection policy. Although modern Egypt was still enthusiastic about the protection of cultural relics, it always gave onlookers a subtle impression. They always seemed to be protecting the value of the cultural relics themselves, rather than protecting the heritage left behind by their ancestors.
Fei Na's lips opened, wanting to say something, but nothing came out. She just closed her eyes with unwillingness and humiliation.
If she had not died … If she had not made that choice … The world today would be very different.
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