A lecture on ancient Egyptology at a university in London, UK.
"In the ancient Egyptian civilization on Earth, many famous Egyptian pharaohs were born, such as Ramses II, Tutankhamun, Kamises III, etc."
"But in this long history, there was once the most mysterious and darkest pharaoh."
"His history is confusing, and only a handful of believers have passed down the name and deeds of this mysterious pharaoh."
"He is the Black Pharaoh-Nevren Ka..."
In a ladder conference room with 300 people, a scholar with gray hair stood on the podium and talked.
The audience was packed with seats, most of them young college students, all listening attentively to the lecture.
In the last row, an old couple who had come from afar were sitting and listening quietly.
"Black Pharaoh, Nevren Ka..."
"There is no clear record of his life experience, and the specific dates of birth and death are unknown. We only know that he was the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt."
"After Nevren Ka took office, like all the previous pharaohs, he worshiped the animal-headed gods that have been circulated in Egypt, and whenever he held a sacrificial ceremony, he would call himself a 'shaman'."
"And he himself exudes a unique dark temperament, which attracts the messengers hidden in the chaos to notice him..."
"Having said that, I have to introduce to you the ancient Egyptian cosmology."
"The early ancient Egyptians believed that the universe was composed of water and chaos. They believed that the sun god Ra was born from the two and created the world."
"Not only that, the ancient Egyptians named various natural phenomena with corresponding gods, and these gods controlled natural phenomena and things, such as Horus, the god of the sky, and the god of air, who controlled the air."
"The messenger of chaos is a god who symbolizes chaos and is one of the origins of the universe that the ancient Egyptians believed."
"At the summons of the Messenger of Chaos, Nevren Ka was transported to a place called the City of Thousand Pillars 'Erem', where he met one of the incarnations of the Messenger of Chaos."
"The amazing thing is that when the Messenger of Chaos revealed his identity as one of the origins of the universe, Nevren Ka withstood the fright brought by that powerful force, and his own dark temperament seemed to be affected by it at that moment.
Inspiration."
"This unparalleled pharaoh surprised the messenger of Chaos, so he proposed a bloody contract to Nevren Ka..."
"As long as Nevren Ka holds a grand sacrifice after returning and sacrifices a thousand compatriots in the ceremony, the Chaos Messenger will grant him the ability to predict the future."
"So, not long after Nevlen Ka returned to the throne, he used his power to sacrifice thousands of people. It is said that the Nile River was dyed red at that time..."
"The Chaos Messenger also arrived as promised and gave Nevren Ka the ability to predict the future."
"Nevren Ka has the power to predict the future as he wishes. While he sees through history thousands of years later, he also worships this messenger of chaos even more and continues to hold more grand sacrificial rituals."
"But he is only a mortal after all. Time passes year after year, and his body is getting older."
"Until he realized that his end was approaching, he carved all the predictions about the future into his underground tomb..."
"However, when Nevren Ka passed away, without the intimidation of his powerful witchcraft, the Egyptians, who had been oppressed by bloody sacrifices for a long time, set off a wave of resistance."
"The rebels broke into the city, killed all the guards, and overthrew the once glorious Third Dynasty of Egypt in a short period of time."
"But when angry people poured into the catacombs of Nefren Ka, they only found an empty black coffin and prophecies about the future carved all over the walls."
"Among these prophecies, Nevren Ka even predicted that after his death, people would rush into his tomb..."
"This fact made the Egyptian rebels very frightened, so the leaders of the uprising ordered that the catacombs of Nevren Ka be completely buried, and the existence of the Black Pharaoh was also erased from Egyptian historical documents."
"But later, the Messenger of Chaos cursed the leader, causing the new kingdom he formed to only last for a short period of time before falling apart..."
"The above is the history of the most mysterious pharaoh, the Black Pharaoh Nefren Ka."
As soon as the white-haired man on the podium finished speaking, the audience was silent for a while, followed by applause.
The couple sitting in the last row also clapped their hands a few times symbolically, but the wife among them didn't look good.
"Husband, why does this lecture sound a little creepy?"
"Are you sure this is the location indicated in the mysterious email?"
Kudo Yukiko leaned against Kudo Yusaku and asked in a low voice with some caution.
Compared with Yukiko's somewhat frightened expression, Kudo Yusaku nodded very calmly, "The location of the mail is here..."
"But it seems that the person who sent the email is not here."
Kudo Yusaku looked at the seats on the steps below. There were hundreds of heads of different colors, but no faces could be seen.
But if you choose a meeting place, it is definitely not suitable because there are so many people and so many eyes.
A hint of thought flashed through Kudo Yusaku's eyes as he recalled the purpose of this place.
Just the night before yesterday, when Yukiko received a call from Haibara Ai, Kudo Yusaku was checking his e-mail at the same time and found a special email.
The email content only has one time and place.
The location is this conference room at a university in London.
Time is also the point in time at this moment.
The person who sent the email did not explain the meaning of the time and place, but only left a big "!" next to it.
If this exclamation mark were placed by someone else, it might not mean anything and would just be regarded as a prank email.
But it brought back a relatively long memory of Kudo Yusaku.
Ten years ago, Kudo Yusaku assisted the police in arresting Kaitou Kidd and successfully prevented one of Kidd's thefts.
Afterwards, the media reported this extensively, because Kudo Yusaku was the only man who failed Kaitou Kidd in the 8 years since he started stealing.
It happened that during an interview with a reporter, the International Criminal Code No. 1412 written by Kudo Yusaku on the note was read as the word KID.
Later, reporters reported to the outside world that the name "KID" spread, and eventually evolved into the name "KID".
During this process, Kaito Kidd, who somehow became his "son", once took the initiative to find Kudo Yusaku's son, the young Shinichi.
He handed a wallet with "?" written inside to Shinichi and left a password for Shinichi to decipher.
Unable to decipher the code, Shinichi had no choice but to turn to Kudo Yusaku for help, but Kudo Yusaku only checked the wallet and learned the man's true identity.
Therefore, Kudo Yusaku also replied to the world-famous magician through Yukiko, and replied with a "!"
? means, can you stop me next time?
! means, of course!
Therefore, when he saw this inexplicable punctuation mark again, the first thing Kudo Yusaku thought of was that man.
Only this time it was the other party who issued an exclamation point.
Is it really him?
Kudo Yusaku narrowed his eyes slightly and looked at the podium in front of him.
At this point, the lecture has entered the next stage, with the speaker accepting questions from the audience.
"I would like to ask Mr. Edward, why is it that in the mainstream history of ancient Egypt, the god 'Messenger of Chaos' is the only one that does not exist?"
The white-haired man on the stage turned to look at the young student who asked the question, and said to the miniature microphone at his mouth: "It's because the Chaos Messenger, like Nevren Ka, was erased from historical documents by later pharaohs.
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"Due to the cruel behavior of the Black Pharaoh, the belief in the Messenger of Chaos has been resisted, and all related cultural relics have been destroyed."
After another young female student raised her hand, she stood up and asked: "So how do we know that such a god once existed in Egyptian history?"
The white-haired man replied: "It's because believers in the Black Pharaoh are also believers in the Messenger of Chaos, so the existence of the two can be revealed now."
Another male student with naturally curly hair stood up and asked, "Mr. Edward, is there any direct evidence that can prove that the 'Black Pharaoh' once existed in Egyptian history?"
Mentioning this, the white-haired man looked a little heavy.
"Currently, our Penhew Foundation and its affiliated Sons of the Sphinx organization are committed to exploring the tomb of Nevren Ka."
"Although the location of this mysterious pharaoh's tomb has not yet been found, I believe that soon, you will be able to see something more surprising than an empty tomb..."
The male student continued to ask: "Then what is the surprise? Can you reveal it?"
The white-haired man raised his lips and chuckled, "Haha~ Since it's a surprise, of course there's no reason to reveal it in advance."
"But I can guarantee that it will definitely be a huge surprise that can shock the world..."
As soon as these words came out, the meeting once again aroused heated discussion.
Kudo Yusaku squinted his eyes slightly, stared at the pure British man in the lecture, and then entered his name into the search bar of his mobile phone.
Two seconds later, this person's information was found.
Edward Gavigan, a famous British Egyptologist, 55 years old, director of the Penhew Foundation.
The Penhew Foundation is a foundation organization that specializes in causes and activities related to Egypt, including medical care, education, research, etc.
Sons of the Sphinx is one of the few international research organizations specializing in ancient Egyptology. Its main research directions are mummies and ancient Egyptian beliefs.
Kudo Yusaku put away his phone and looked at the man on the podium again.
Could it be that the exclamation point refers to the "big surprise" he said will soon shock the world?
What kind of archaeological discovery is enough to shock the world?
And after listening to the complete speech, Kudo Yusaku felt that this man named Edward Gavigan was simply saying that he himself was a descendant of believers who worshiped the Black Pharaoh.
Otherwise, how could he be so convinced of the existence of the Black Pharaoh without any evidence?
At this moment, a voice came from the microphone on the podium announcing the end of the lecture.
"Okay, that's the end of today's lecture."
"Thank you for coming. If you have any questions, we can communicate here alone..."
As Edward Gavigan finished speaking, there was a roar of standing up from the seats.
Most people are only moderately interested in this illusory history and choose to leave directly.
But there were also a few people who were curious about the "big surprise" that shocked the world in his words, and walked through the crowd in the opposite direction to the podium.
Kudo Yusaku looked at the crowd leaving the venue and knew that there was no point in staying here. The person he was looking for was not here.
"Yukiko, let's go."
"Well, I don't know if Xiaolan's code has been solved yet..."
Kudo Yusaku and Yukiko stood up and planned to line up and leave with the crowd.
But just as he was about to reach the exit, a student suddenly looked at Kudo Yusaku's face. After being stunned for two seconds, he exclaimed loudly.
"It's the Night Baron!"
"Are you the Night Baron?"
Kudo Yusaku looked stunned. Looking at the delighted British college students, he didn't know whether to nod or shake his head.
Because more people who heard this name immediately gathered over.
"Night Baron?"
"What? The best-selling author is here too!"
"The Night Baron himself is here! Signing soon!"
Within a short while, Kudo Yusaku was surrounded by people, and even Yukiko beside him was squeezed out by the enthusiastic crowd.
Seeing Kudo Yusaku attracting much attention among fans, but being squeezed out like a marginalized person, Yukiko was a little angry.
Hey, obviously I am also the "Baroness of the Night"!
But there was nothing she could do about it. Yukiko deliberately dressed up differently than usual today, so that even her future daughter-in-law would not be able to recognize her, let alone these passers-by.
Faced with this situation, Yukiko could only stop where she was and wait for when her husband would be able to escape.
But the crowd behind her was also rushing forward along the aisle, and a person bumped Yukiko's right arm from behind.
Yukiko turned around and saw a short-haired lady wearing a hat. The lowered brim of the hat made it difficult to see her entire face, but her delicate chin and bright red lips were impressive.
"Sorry..." the woman apologized.
"No, I'm sorry. I'll give way now."
Yukiko shifted her body and allowed the woman in the hat to pass.
But when the woman left, she reacted in surprise.
Eh?
This person seems to be speaking Japanese?
At the same time, Edward Gavigan on the podium was explaining the problem to a few people around him, while looking at the commotion above the stairs.
He narrowed his eyes slightly and saw Kudo Yusaku who was dealing with fans.