Egypt, Pyramid of Khufu.
Lin Sanqi held Yin Lianyi's hand, both wearing sunglasses and dressed like tourists, listening to the local tour guide's introduction:
"Dear guest, this is the world-famous Pyramid of Khufu. Originally 146.59 meters high, equivalent to a 40-story building, after thousands of years of weathering and erosion, its current height is 138 meters. For thousands of years, it has been the tallest building on Earth.
It is built with 2.3 million polished limestone blocks, with each block weighing an average of 2.5 tons. The blocks are joined so tightly that not even a piece of paper can be inserted. One hundred thousand laborers were employed in its construction.
There are three tombs in the tower. The first one was originally Khufu's tomb. A few years later, the craftsmen dug a second corridor and built the second tomb, which is the queen's tomb.
The tour guide was introducing the event while gesticulating and spitting everywhere, appearing to be very dedicated.
Lin Chengye beside him burst out laughing and said to Lin Sanqi in Chinese:
"Qizi, don't listen to their nonsense. This pyramid is not the burial place of the pharaoh. The pharaoh's real tomb is in the Valley of the Kings 500 kilometers away. That is where the body is actually buried.
"To use the term in China, this is a cenotaph, with no mummies inside at all. Of course, there are very few real mummies left nowadays; they've all been eaten long ago."
"Has the mummy been eaten?"
Lin Sanqi and Yin Lianyi were both shocked when they heard this.
Isn't this a mummy just a zombie? This isn't Dezhou Braised Chicken or Shaoxing Braised Duck. So, is it still a zombie thing? Is it sold by the kilogram in the market?
"Uncle Nineteen, is this true? We Chinese can eat, but our ancestors definitely wouldn't eat zombies. That's too much of an exaggeration. The only time in our history that people ate living people was during the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China, and that was still infamous for thousands of years."
Lin Chengye, Lin Sanqi's cousin, is 43 years old and the general manager of Dongguan First Construction Company in Cairo.
"This matter is still the fault of your Western medicine. I don't know where the rumor came from back then. It is said that mummies have the effect of nourishing yin and strengthening yang. Eating them is very nutritious and is an excellent nutritional supplement and seasoning.
As a result, Egyptian mummies became a must-have luxury item for European high society banquets. If a family did not have a mummy, they would be embarrassed to entertain guests.
At that time, when the banquet reached its climax, the servants would slowly push out a emaciated and hideous mummy from the corner of the hall.
Seeing such a horrific mummy, the guests not only did not scream, but instead rushed forward with joy, scrambling to untie the layers of bandages wrapped around the mummy.
When the mummy was stripped naked and displayed, everyone's eyes were filled with envy or greed. The owner ordered people to take a small piece of the mummy's body, grind it into powder, and add it to each person's red wine.
The guests who received the mummy powder gently swirled their glasses, and after the powder had slightly dissolved in the red wine, they eagerly swallowed it in one gulp. Their gesture made people feel as if they were drinking a glass of nectar.
Lin Chengye's story was very vivid, but Yin Lianyi next to him couldn't help vomiting.
Lin Chengye looked at Lin Sanqi in surprise: "Pregnant?"
Lin Sanqi spat out blood and said, "Uncle Nineteen, what you said is too disgusting. What do you think these foreign devils are thinking?"
Lin Chengye shrugged. "So, the West wasn't civilized from the beginning. There are still many ignorant Westerners today, and a considerable number of them still believe that the Earth is flat, not round."
The tour guide then enthusiastically asked:
"Dear guests, do you need me to take you to explore the mysteries inside the pyramid?"
Lin Sanqi and Yin Lianyi were very excited when they heard that they could climb into the pyramid. This is one of the legendary seven wonders of the world, so of course they had to go inside.
Lin Chengye waved his hands repeatedly: "You guys go in, I won't go. Oh my god, people will die in here."
When Lin Sanqi heard that people could die, he was a little stunned: "People can die? The Pharaoh's curse?"
"Go, go, go, go and experience it yourself to know whether it will kill people or not!"
An hour later, Lin Sanqi and Yin Lianyi crawled out of the pyramid and began to vomit.
"I'll throw it away. It's hot, stuffy, and smelly in there. It smells like feet that haven't been washed for hundreds of years. I really came all this way and paid for this."
Lin Chengye laughed out loud after hearing this:
"Who told the domestic media to portray Egypt as so beautiful? Now you understand, don't you? This country is full of dirt and mess. Look at the houses around here, they are shabby and don't even have roofs.
The streets are littered with garbage and sewage. Don't think that only the pyramids are smelly. In fact, the whole old Cairo is stinking, comparable to India. Only New Cairo is better.
Let's go, tonight I'll take you to the Nile River to eat roasted camel, let you taste what Arabic cuisine is like, and there are also beautiful Arabic dancers, their waists are twisting, wow."
Evening, by the Nile River.
An Egyptian-style folk dance was being performed not far away.
Yin Lianyi and her two junior schoolmates, Zhu Xinyue and Yao Zhuohan, who were also Lin Sanqi's two secretaries, sang and danced along.
Lin Sanqi sat at the bar with his cousin, drinking beer and whispering to each other.
Lin Chengye looked around to see if there was anyone around, then he lowered his voice and said:
"I've already contacted the arms dealer for you, but the transaction will take place in the Sinai Peninsula, in the small town of Duhail on the border between Egypt and Israel, about 200 kilometers away. If all goes well, you can go back and forth on the same day."
Lin Sanqi came to Egypt not just for tourism, his real purpose was to buy weapons.
But he is just a medical student from an urban village. How could he have the connections and contacts to know any arms dealer?
Besides, in China, even kitchen knives have to be registered, so where are the weapons dealers to choose from? Unless it's the Rheinsteel factory...
If there is no solution in China, then look for it abroad. These days, it is difficult to find other things, but finding weapons suppliers abroad is the easiest thing.
What do you think the Americans are fighting wars for? Is it really for world peace? For the freedom of the people? For the liberation of all mankind?
Stop joking!
Isn't it just that there are arms suppliers behind the scenes instigating this? Weapons can only be sold when there is a war. If there is world peace, where will these vampires make money?
Saddam’s coffin lid can no longer be covered: It’s unfair, I really don’t have weapons of mass destruction.
Even the wild goats in Afghanistan burst into tears: "Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan, why are you attacking Afghanistan? What did I do to provoke you?"
So for Lin Sanqi, wherever there is war, there are weapons suppliers.
Moreover, this group of people have no principles or positions at all. They just follow whoever gives them milk. No matter whether you are the plaintiff or the defendant, they will give you weapons if you give them money.
So Lin Sanqi contacted his cousin Lin Chengye who worked in the Middle East, and through Lin Chengye's connections in Egypt, he contacted an Israeli arms supplier.
The earth is just that small.
"Uncle Nineteen, is this weapons supplier reliable? I don't mind losing the money, but if they are slaughtered like fat sheep and die in a foreign land, then I will die unjustly."
Lin Chengye lowered his voice and said:
"This supplier is in cooperation with our construction company. Otherwise, do you think our construction company would just sit there and wait for someone to attack us in such a volatile place like the Middle East? We have purchased weapons, but of course we can't bring them back home."
Lin Sanqi had heard on the Internet that Chinese companies going to Africa and the Middle East usually arrange their own armed forces.
The Chinese are smart and don't trust the local security companies too much. They are afraid that these people will work together with the robbers' fellow villagers and then they will be wiped out.
Therefore, when Chinese-funded enterprises arrive at the local area, they will use their connections to purchase weapons. At the critical moment, a group of new employees will jump out and transform into "militia" to shoot at a group of monkeys.
Lin Chengye drank beer and whistled at a passing European and American female tourist:
"Don't worry, Uncle Nineteen is here, no one will hurt you. Besides, they are businessmen, not robbers. If you buy weapons from them and get ripped off by them, will you still want to do business with them in the future?"
Lin Sanqi was a little worried again: "What about their supply capacity? I don't just want one or two guns." (End of this chapter)
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