Lin Ke and the Egyptian slave slowly left here, and Renault seemed to have lost his soul for a short time.
"Your Majesty the Holy Pharaoh..."
"God of the desert and the Nile..."
He murmured softly, as if the encounter with the great king just now was just an illusion in a dream.
yes!
How could the Supreme Holy Pharaoh come to such a place?
"Hey, Renault."
Karim stood up at some point and patted Renault's shoulder gently, which allowed his soul to barely reconnect with his body.
“Ah, ah.”
Renault responded a few times, then slowly stood up with the help of Karim.
"Come on, let's go out first."
"It should be getting dark by now. Your eyes should be able to handle it."
"So many things have happened recently, wait for me to tell you slowly."
Renault just nodded mechanically, he obviously didn't hear what Karim said.
The two men walked out of the cellar, and when Renault stepped onto the streets of Heliopolis again, the scene he saw made him stop.
The sky was filled with thick black smoke, and black ashes were slowly falling like snowflakes.
The flames burning the corpses in the distance had not stopped and were still burning.
It was not the first time he had seen such a scene, but it was the first time he had seen flames rising so high from burning corpses.
He just looked up and stared at all this with a dull gaze, his heart filled with mixed feelings.
At this moment, Renault slowly turned his head and looked at Karim beside him.
He frowned slightly, as if questioning Karim why he hadn't told him about what had happened recently.
Karim understood what the other party meant at a glance. He sighed and said, "A lot of things have happened recently. Didn't I tell you just now?"
"His Majesty the Holy Pharaoh started the attack the day before yesterday. It only took him one day to capture the city of Heliopolis."
“By the time I realized what was happening, the streets were almost filled with dead bodies.
"Everything happened so fast that there was no time for anyone to notify you."
When Renault heard this, he was frozen for a few seconds: "One day?"
"The city of Heliopolis was taken in one day?"
Karim nodded without any extra expression: "Yes, by the time I reacted, the Holy Egyptian army had already occupied the city."
Renault was speechless for a moment. He turned his head to look at the crowd not far away.
He noticed that the Hebrews were actually working alongside the Egyptians, moving stones and clearing the ruins.
There were even people distributing food to them.
But the strange thing was that there were no chains on their feet and they didn't look like slaves at all.
"How come these Hebrew slaves weren't tied up in chains?"
Renault could not comprehend the strange harmony he was witnessing.
Karim didn't seem to care: "Those Hebrews? They were not slaves."
"His Majesty the Holy Pharaoh has allowed them to work as free men. As long as they complete the assigned tasks, they will have food to eat and a place to live."
Renault frowned, and his face immediately turned red with anger: "Free man? Free man?!"
"Why not kill all these people? At least turn them into slaves!"
“Think about how these people treated us!”
"Besides, why should such precious food be given to the enemy?"
“Isn’t this bullshit!”
Karim glanced at him, sighed softly, and then spoke again: "Your Majesty the Holy Pharaoh is different from any previous pharaoh."
"I asked the same question to the soldiers of Holy Egypt yesterday, and they said that in all the cities of Holy Egypt, slave trading is now rare."
“Even the imprisoned Hebrews in other cities did not start a riot.”
When Renault heard this, he became even more confused: "How is this possible?"
Karim simply nodded, telling the other party that this reaction was normal.
Then he pointed to a corner not far away.
Renault looked in the direction his finger pointed and saw a group of Egyptians queuing in an orderly manner to receive the distributed food.
There were flatbreads, bread, and even milk diluted with water.
The Egyptians bit their bread, then simply found a place to sit down and rest.
Being able to have a full meal occasionally is a very rare thing for them.
This was true not only for the Egyptian slaves, but also for the Hebrews.
Everyone seemed to be accepting this gift, and no one destroyed the harmony of the moment.
Renault's eyes widened. He felt as if he was seeing a mirage in the desert: "So much food!"
“I’ve never seen so much food in my life.”
Karim simply said: "This was shipped from Cairo by His Majesty the Holy Pharaoh."
"You know what? He said that as long as we work hard, we will get the rewards we deserve."
Renault was silent, his eyes wandering between the food and the busy crowd.
He felt a strange warmth flowing through his heart, but he couldn't describe the feeling.
Renault just looked at Karim, then at the food, and let out a sigh.
Finally, he asked in a low voice: "What kind of person is this Holy Pharaoh?"
"Can even lowly slaves like us eat this food?"
After hearing what Renault said, Karim thought for a long time before slowly saying, "In my opinion, the Holy Pharaoh is not like a king, he is more like a true leader."
After he said this, he stared into Renault's eyes and said, "I had a similar feeling when I first met you."
"But we are just the remnants of the old times. All we have to do now is not to cause trouble and do our part."
"Don't disbelieve me. In my opinion, His Majesty the Saint Pharaoh will usher in an unprecedented era."
"I can sense that what he wants is not a great empire."
"It's something taller and bigger than this."
Renault nodded slowly and looked at the nearby streets again.
He could feel that the city seemed to have become more familiar to him in his childhood: people were working, and the atmosphere in the city was peaceful and stable.
But the fire burning the corpses seemed very disconnected from the scene in the city.
Renault looked at the bread and flatbreads and swallowed hard: "Let's go!"
"Take me to taste it."
Karim was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Go and queue up yourself. I still have things to do."
Renault glared at him and pretended to be angry: "I'm an old man, how do you want me to go?"
"Do you want me to squeeze in the crowd and be trampled to death?"
Karim smiled, then picked up Renault and walked to the end of the team.
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