Chapter 146: Giza, Barbecue, Nubia in the Night Market (Part 2)
"I don't suggest you go on a camel ride." Suddenly, a gentle voice came from behind them. The speaker was a very cool young man. Yes, Tom's first impression when he saw him was that he was cool.
The young man is thin, tall, and handsome, with long red hair tied into a ponytail on the back of his head. He is wearing rock-style clothes, with fang-shaped earrings, and a pair of boots on his feet.
When Tom saw the boots, he raised his eyebrows: These boots were actually made of dragon skin. The Hogwarts teaching materials are inseparable from various dragon parts: dragon liver, dragon dung, dragon skin...
...Professor Sprout’s herbal medicine class requires students to prepare dragon skin gloves. After seeing it a lot, you will naturally know the goods.
When Tom saw the material of the young man's boots at a glance, he realized that this man must have some connection with the magical world.
Red hair, British English, is related to wizards, Tom had a rough guess.
He extended his hand to the young man and said, "Thanks for the reminder, Tom Yoder."
The young man touched his hand and said, "Bill Weasley."
Sure enough, he is from the Weasley family.
"Are you Ron's brother?"
Hearing these words, Bill looked surprised. He was just reminding the two children casually to avoid being deceived, but he didn't expect that these two people actually knew his brother.
Since we know Ron, these two people must be students of Hogwarts.
After asking a few more questions, it turned out that what Bill had in mind was confirmed: the two people in front of him were juniors from Ravenclaw Academy.
It was very pleasant to meet fellow students in a foreign country. After the three of them chatted for a while, Bill took the initiative to take Tom and Hermione around outside the Pyramid of Khufu. Coincidentally, Bill was from Gringotts.
Curse Breaker, a Curse Breaker is a profession similar to a treasure hunter, responsible for collecting treasures for Gringotts around the world. Bill's working place is Egypt, and he can say that he is very familiar with these places of interest.
Bill pointed to the bumpy Pyramid of Khufu, "Actually, this thing was very beautiful in ancient times. There are no traces of weathering or defects on the outside."
Through Bill's mouth, Tom learned that these pyramids were actually stacked regularly with snow-white stones thousands of years ago, leaving no gaps in the middle. It was just that thousands of years of wind and sand had washed them into this appearance.
"Some seniors found a hidden secret room under the Sphinx's claws and discovered a large treasure." After seeing the Sphinx, Bill remembered the experiences of his seniors. "He was still numb.
Inspired by the rumors about the melons.”
After saying this, Bill became serious, "If you find any ruins in the wild, it is best not to rush in, otherwise you are likely to encounter misfortune: traps, remaining magic, ancient curses... The ancient Egyptian wizards left behind
A lot of witchcraft was used to protect these treasures. In order to open the treasure under the Sphinx, one curse-breaker lost his hearing, smell and sight forever, and another person lived in St. Mungo's forever."
St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries is the largest comprehensive hospital for magical illnesses and injuries in the British wizarding world. Since St. Mungo's cannot cure the curse-breaker, it is impossible to cure him anywhere else.
After visiting the pyramids, the sun was already high above their heads, and Bill took them back to the city. The city in Egypt at noon was more lively than in the early morning, and there was a faint sound of "di-di--" car horns coming from the distance.
It replaced the singing of prayers and became the accompaniment of Cairo.
Bill turned around and came to a slightly dilapidated street. Compared with the city center, it was more life-like and the shadow of modern civilization was lighter. When Tom was walking on the street, he even saw something approaching him.
A donkey cart carrying goods came.
They followed Bill and came to an inconspicuous small restaurant.
There were already many diners sitting in the restaurant, and the ceiling fan on the roof was spinning wildly.
As soon as they entered the restaurant, a waiter in a blue uniform came to greet them enthusiastically and brought the three of them to a table inside. Bill asked Tom and the two to sit down while skillfully ordering a few dishes.
"Outside, learning to eat in Muggle restaurants may be a little troublesome at first - when I first arrived in Egypt I couldn't tell the difference between British pounds and Egyptian pounds, and I often confused the denominations of currencies, which made my team leader very upset.
It’s not pleasant, but you’ll get used to it after living here for a while.”
At this time, various dishes were also put out.
Large skewers of grilled lamb, grilled chicken split in half, fried bean balls, fried eggplant, scrambled eggs with tomatoes and onions and coriander, and a plate of cucumber strips sprinkled with a thick layer of cheese. There are two more on a plate
It looked like a piece of white bread. Hermione took a bite and discovered that it was fried white cheese slices that were crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. Of course, the Egyptian flatbread was missing.
Tom took the sizzling and greasy roasted lamb off the skewer and put it on his plate. He also took some Egyptian-style scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
Bill pushed two glasses of orange juice in front of them.
"Children, don't drink." He said.
During the meal, the conversation naturally turned to the purpose of Tom and the two coming here. So Tom shared Dr. Hunter's findings with Bill.
"Is that so? Then I wish you good luck. If it weren't for my parents who are coming soon, I will definitely go looking for this city with you." Bill was very interested in this city. In his eyes, the city itself
It's a huge treasure - even if there isn't a single gold coin in it.
Many people have a misunderstanding that gold, silver, jewelry, antiques and antiques are treasures. In fact, this is not the case. To the curse breakers, the mechanism itself that protects the treasure is an incredible treasure.
But Bill's energy was also attracted by the checkered picture in Tom's mouth.
"Does it look like this?" Bill quietly touched the table with his wand, and a picture appeared: it was still the familiar 12-square grid, but this picture was arranged in a 3×4 format, and the rest
Almost exactly the same, the cat with the left eyeball appears in the upper left corner this time.
Tom frowned, and he was keenly aware that this pattern did not seem to be as simple as a "customs declaration form".
"Where did you see that?"
"Gringotts will give many incomplete clues to help the curse solvers find treasures. I once saw this pattern in a clue. It was a pattern on a stone slab. The stone slab was fished out from a sunken ship.
." Bill shrugged, "It can probably point to a certain ruins, right? But no one has cracked it for decades."
Tom looked at the barbecue on the table, and two poems echoed in his ears:
[Museum, Giza, barbecue, Nubia in the night market
Knowledge, friends, legacy and the secrets in cats】