Remheb and Nantong lowered their heads and walked into the house, and the door closed with a creaky sound.
An old man came over, wrapped in tattered clothes and with gray hair.
He was the old man that Remheb and Nantong had just seen.
The old man squinted his eyes at the two of them and glanced at their clothes.
Then he said, "You are here to escape."
Without waiting for Remheb and the others to answer, the old man turned around, picked up a dry and hard bread from the table and handed it to Remheb.
"Leave Bahariya now, it's not safe here."
Remheb took the bread and looked down at the old man's tattered clothes.
He could tell at a glance that the old man was not rich.
Moreover, he could judge from the old man's behavior that he could at least be considered a good person.
At least it's different from those two-faced people out there.
In order to obtain more information and avoid suspicion of his identity, Remheb pretended to be extremely hungry, tore off a piece and stuffed it into his mouth.
Similarly, he stuffed a piece into Nan Tong's mouth. Nan Tong immediately understood, and the two of them chewed it voraciously for a few bites.
As they ate, they mumbled, “Thank you, old man.”
"But what's going on in this city? I just saw some soldiers who seemed to be asking questions."
"Are they arresting people?"
The old man sighed, sat on the wooden bench and shook his head.
"Did you see them take anyone away?"
"This Bahariya is just like the orphans in the city."
“It has long lost its direction.”
"He just armed himself with all kinds of weapons. Even if his biological parents came to find him, he couldn't recognize them."
He sighed again, his words revealing helplessness.
Remheb chewed his bread, frowned and asked: "You mean, the people here..."
"Don't you want to return to Holy Egypt?"
When the old man heard this, he stood up.
He opened the door, looked left and right, and then closed the door gently.
"It's not that I don't want to go back, it's that I can't go back."
"This place has been away from Holy Egypt for too long."
"What they pursue has become something else, something extreme."
The sturdy man sat by the wall and just frowned and said, "Don't waste your time talking to them. What can two homeless people understand?"
"There's no need to talk to them so much. Just take your things and leave quickly."
The old man glared at him and whispered, "Don't be like this, they are also miserable people."
At this time, he saw that Remheb and Nantong had finished eating the bread. Then he took out half a bread from his arms and handed it to Remheb.
"Take it and eat it on the way."
When the sturdy man heard this, he stood up suddenly, grabbed the old man's hand, and his tone sounded very angry.
"You got all these with great difficulty, and you're going to give them all to these two homeless people?"
He turned and glared at Remheb and Nantong: "Get out of here right now!"
"Don't be ungrateful!"
The old man pushed the strong man's hand away, and his weathered face was immediately filled with wrinkles: "Don't do this, they are hungry."
“Who hasn’t been hungry?”
"If you help, and I help, won't things get better slowly?"
"We all got here this way, hey, you don't understand."
After hearing this, the strong man just sighed and ignored it.
Then, the old man looked at Remheb and said in a very gentle voice: "I heard that Holy Egypt fought a war with the Hebrews, and Holy Egypt won."
“So the Hebrews withdrew all the troops guarding the city.”
"You guys should go to Cairo. The conditions in the capital are good and you can always have food to eat."
"I won't starve to death."
Remheb took half of the bread, lowered his head and took a bite. Somehow, he felt sad: "Old man, you are so kind to give us so much food, where is your own?"
The old man smiled and shook his head: "Me? I'm just an old man, it doesn't matter if I eat more or less."
"Not much time left."
"You are still so young, you have to live."
"As long as there are people alive, faith will not die."
"Only in this way can our ancient Egyptian gods have hope of awakening."
The sturdy man sighed, sat back against the wall, and whispered, "Forget it, just give it to him if you want."
He stared at the old man giving the bread to Remheb with a complicated look in his eyes.
Remheb took the bread and continued to ask, "Old man, are the people in this city as kind as you? I saw that the soldiers were asking questions and the people didn't seem very happy."
The old man paused, shook his head and said nothing.
The strong man interrupted, "Everyone in this city hates Saint Egypt and they wish they'd leave!"
The old man frowned and said, "Don't talk nonsense. Holy Egypt is better than Hebrew. At least, we are all from the same clan."
The strong man just snorted coldly: "What's so strong about it? It's just a change of master."
Remheb swallowed the bread. He didn't understand why the people here hated Holy Egypt so much: "Old man, then you don't hate Holy Egypt?"
The old man shook his head: "What's the point of hating or not? Life still has to go on. Later I found that life is more important than anything else."
He paused and asked, "Where did you escape from?"
Remheb said casually, "The north is very chaotic there."
The old man nodded: "Yes, I heard that the fighting there was severe, you should leave quickly."
"It's not good to stay too long."
The sturdy man said impatiently: "Why are you talking so much? Let them go, don't waste our bread!"
"You have enough energy to talk, and it's enough for you to walk several miles."
The old man glared at him: "Stop talking."
He looked at Remheb, "Cairo is not far, just go east."
"These breads may not last you long enough to get there."
"We may never be able to leave here in this lifetime, so you should take these bread with you."
"Take a good look for me, what the capital looks like now..."
The sturdy man stood up and was about to stop the old man from taking out more pancakes.
And Remheb slowly said: "Thank you, old man. Your kindness and enthusiasm are touching."
"What if I told you that Holy Egypt has taken back Memphis, the City of the Sun, Parsebak, and many other cities that were occupied by the Hebrews?"
"Moreover, not only that, the great Saint Pharaoh also summoned the ancient Egyptian gods, and even summoned the Supreme God, the Sun God Ra, to defeat many gods of the Hebrew Empire in one fell swoop."
The old man was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes widened: "Sun God Ra?"
"Sun God... pull!"
"Are you serious?"
The old man blinked his eyes and his body was shaking a little.
And the sturdy man just pushed Remheb and said, "Back off!"
"My father is in poor health. If anything happens to him, I will not forgive you!"
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