Chapter 3172 Holy Madness

The fire ignited the warships, and the flames shot up into the sky, lighting up the Nile River at night.

This was a very strange thing. She clearly remembered that the water level of the Nile River was very low at that time, and all the wells were dry. Not only could the French not get water when they advanced to Cairo, but they could not transport supplies from Alexandria.

 But if you look closely, the draft of these ships is very shallow. Although they are filled with all kinds of treasures, the ships look like they will sink them.

 The style of the ship was not European, so she remembered something Bonaparte had told her. Near sunset, Muradebei led 3,000 cavalry to retreat after the failure of the Battle of the Pyramids. The remaining infantry who had no time to run threw themselves directly into the river under the cover of darkness, or took a small raft or swam to force the Nile River.

Darkness caused inconvenience to Beyi's counterattack and communication, which resulted in his several counterattacks failing. The burned fleets were all filled with the treasures of the Mamluks.

 Due to the rush and limited number of ships, most of Bei's wealth was not transported away, not to mention the most important "financial source" that could not be transported away.

There is no one in Bey's villa, the slaves have all run away, the garden is covered with the most beautiful trees, the vines are full of fruitful grapes, the dining room is filled with jams and candies, blankets, gold and silverware , there are also a lot of porcelain, but the most eye-catching thing is the silk from Lyon. They were embellished with golden tassels and covered sofas and some luxurious art pieces.

They stayed in Bey's villa for the night. When they arrived in Cairo at dawn, they found that the people in the city were panicked, and some residents were looting Bey's houses.

After Napoleon issued a peace notice, met with all the famous people in Cairo, and received the title of "Sultan of Kebir", he met the Mamluk wives in the garden on the outskirts of the city.

They were horrified, and Napoleon asked Eugene to comfort them with the edict.

 According to local customs, men outside a woman's boudoir are not allowed to enter. Even if he is a slave, he is the "master" in his own inner chamber.

Since the French adhered to this custom, even though they knew that a large amount of treasures and guns were hidden in women's boudoirs, it was because of this that Muradebey began to favor peace.

But they didn’t know at that time that after those frightened women left, a noble woman would be left behind.

 This woman was the wife of Muradebey, and before that she was the wife of Alibey. She was very wealthy and highly respected in Cairo.

It’s just that her age was too big for Eugene. He gave the edict to Bey’s wife, which mentioned that all the villages in her charge were still owned by her.

The wealth of the Mamluks was in the hands of their wives, and the French army's funds were difficult to meet the needs of the soldiers, so they had to follow "customary" and pay the amount of wealth.

Muradebey's wife wanted to please Eugene, so she took him to the harem and let all kinds of young and beautiful slave girls receive him, and also prepared a sumptuous dinner.

  None of this interested Eugène, who insisted that Bey's wives pay enough military taxes and ransoms to redeem their husbands.

So Bey's wife took out a very precious ring and gave it to Eugene, using it to offset half of Bey's property.

Eugène was not Jack who bought the magic beans, but he still brought the ring and Bey's wife's request to Napoleon.

 It would be fine if it were a ruby, but the stone is a red opal.

This gemstone originated in Hungary during the Middle Ages. To keep it secret, Byzantine merchants said it came from the East and was very valuable in ancient times because it looked like a palette that had been accidentally knocked over, changing color brilliantly as the angle changed. .

 Later, with the discovery of Australia and the discovery of opal veins, opal was no longer valuable by the 18th century.

 But I don’t know why, Napoleon actually agreed.

 Then it came into Georgiana's hands.

 In fact, recalling the day when she met Brick, although she threw the handkerchief on the ground, she still had the ring on her hand.

 That day they encountered a group of disguised robbers who wanted to rob her of her jewels, and she wrote to Bonaparte.

She was in the same mood as before going to bed, uneasy and thinking about the guards, and then her "knight" appeared.

Before she could figure out what was going on, a strange cry came from the sky. She followed the sound and saw a Garuda with gorgeous wings swooping towards the mouth of the sea.

There was a "dragon" writhing in the water. It was not a fire dragon with wings. It had a slender body like a snake. When it saw the Garuda, it immediately dived into the deep sea.

However, the water surface parted at this time, revealing the body of the dragon. It had nowhere to hide, so it had to fight with the Garuda.

 Garuda is the mount of Vishnu in Indian mythology. Vishnu, Brahma and Shiva are listed as three-phase gods.

In the story of Mahabharata, Vishnu rescued the wise man Morgan Deya, who accidentally got into Vishnu's belly and found that it contained the entire universe.

When Vishnu rides on Garuda, it may represent the sun god. Whenever the end of the world comes, he will lie on the back of a giant snake and sleep soundly, floating with the giant snake in the sea.

 When he wakes up and wants to create a new world, a lotus will grow from his navel, and Brahma will appear in the lotus to complete the task of creating the new world with him.

 It goes on and on and on and on.

 Plato believed that in addition to the cycle of life and death, there is also an essence of life in the world, which ensures that the world will not be destroyed or reborn after it is destroyed.

 In the prophecy of the cave, people are bound to a "nature" and the shadow of the cave appears to be real.

Most people think of shadows as black, but those on the screen in the cinema are also produced by light.

 At the time of Aristotle and Plato, Sakyamuni had already been born.

The "self-grasping" of Buddhism and the "nature" that binds the people in Plato's cave are all about the perception of happiness. The difference is that Buddhism hopes to go to the Buddha's land and never come back through nirvana, while the man Plato said had seen outside the cave. The people of the world are back.

 Only people want to live if living is happy; only if living is painful, death is a kind of relief.

She doesn’t know whether the world has the essence of life as Plato said. She only knows that a person who has accepted death may not necessarily feel ecstatic when he comes back to life.

 So the girl who was resurrected by the Resurrection Stone died in the end, and her lover didn't understand why. What made her suffer was not that her lover and her brothers left their hometown to work outside.

At this time, the snake that was being chased by Garuda spit out a bead. When the bird ran away after the bead, it immediately hid in the sea, like a gecko with its tail cut off.

Vishnu is also known as the King of Illusions. If drinking water soaked in beads spit out by Garuda can cause hallucinations, what about the "Dragon Balls"?

 The beads spit out by the snake were blue-black. The Garuda swallowed them and then flew away.

She seemed to understand somewhat, but she still couldn't figure it out. Maybe it was because her mind was not clear enough when she was half asleep.

 She needs a clearer mind.

At this moment, she suddenly remembered that there was also a sapphire on Ravenclaw's crown. Didn't the violent Garuda calm down after eating the dragon ball?

"you're awake?"

 She slowly opened her eyes and found Bonaparte sitting on the chair next to the bed, his eyes bloodshot.

 “You haven’t slept all night?” asked Georgiana.

 “How can I sleep without it!” He pointed at the Sphinx and said angrily, “Is this you becoming magic?”

Georgiana looked at the Sphinx, who was dozing like a real lion.

“Usually the sphinxes I encounter are female.” Georgiana said cautiously. “This is also the first time I’ve seen a male.”

“Have you manipulated my mind?” He stood up excitedly. “You want me to go crazy, right?”

 Maybe she didn’t understand what he said because she didn’t wake up in the morning.

 “What?” she asked in confusion.

 “This is a British conspiracy...” and he started rattling off various hypotheses.

 She felt that he really thought too much.

Then she wanted to write down the content of her dream before she forgot it, so she got out of bed and ran to the desk. Later, I felt that doing so would cause forgetfulness, so I used a magic wand to take out that "memory" from my mind.

"What are you doing?" He walked over and closely monitored the name in her hand.

 “Did it scare you?” Georgiana pinched Madu’s nose.

The French gave the Muggle the right name, he was like a frightened bulb.

"It doesn't scare me." He brushed her hand away angrily. "These are all fantasies."

 She seemed to understand what he was going through.

"You think the Sphinx in Egypt is..." "Fake, fictional!" He interrupted her excitedly. "It only exists in human imagination, a fabricated monster! It doesn't even qualify as..."

 The Sphinx yawned, and Bonaparte fell silent.

 “I understand,” Georgiana said quietly.

 “What do you understand!” he asked excitedly but suppressed his excitement.

"You won't believe what you see with your own eyes." Georgiana comforted him, "It's like seeing an oasis in the desert."

 He sat down in defeat, covering his big head, as if "digesting" the matter.

“You don’t need to accept it.” Georgiana said softly, “Do you remember what I told you last time about how the International Law of Secrecy was born?”

 He didn't answer.

"William III ignored the wizard's request and legislated to protect wizards. I know many wizards are dissatisfied with this, but I think this is good." Georgiana sat opposite him. "If wizards are recognized to exist, laws must be used to protect them. Mark the wizard, the law sometimes has no control over people."

 “You want me to pass the same law?” he asked wearily.

“I don’t know.” Georgiana thought, “One day in the future, there will be a person who will bring disaster to the whole world.”

 “Is he a bad man?” asked Bonaparte.

 Georgiana was about to speak.

 ‘Do you want revenge? ’

She seemed to have heard someone ask her this question somewhere, and she couldn't say no either.

 “Is this a prophecy?” asked Bonaparte.

"I don't know." Georgiana scratched her hair. She was now thinking about how to avoid acting like a conspirator.

 He wrote it in his letter last time, although the object of his hatred was not her.

 He likes women who are tolerant, kind and kind.

 “You are not sure whether this future will happen?” asked Bonaparte.

“I don’t know, Leon, it’s irrational to admit the existence of magic. Others will question whether you still have the ability to rule this country.” Georgiana said.

"That's not necessarily true." He stood up and paced the room irritably. "Since the day I became First Consul, many people have opposed me."

  She felt that they were talking about two different things.

“Do you think it’s more crazy to believe this, or to treat the strait as a ditch and jump from the shore?” He asked with a twisted face and a smile.

 “Are you going to have a wake-up ceremony?” asked Georgiana.

 “Keep things simple outside, come here.” He called her to go to a sofa.

 Then she sat up consciously, and he lay on her lap skillfully.

 He let out a long sigh and stared at the ceiling.

“I thought that none of this was true.” He sighed and said, “You don’t exist, and neither does the lion.”

 “It’s the Sphinx,” she corrected.

"None of it is true." He ignored her and continued, "Muradbey felt that he lost to us because of firepower, and his army was like a wave."

 “It’s all over.” She stroked his forehead.

 “Maybe we lost.”

 “You want to discuss Descartes with me now?” asked Georgiana.

 His attention fell on her.

"I died at that time, and that's when I met you." He raised his hand and touched her face, "You are so real."

“Same for you.” She kissed his palm. “This tour is so unsatisfactory, why aren’t you angry?”

 “What if I say, I’m used to it?” he said with a smile.

This smile is so beautiful. If he were a beauty, he would definitely turn all living beings upside down.

 “Kiss me, Georgiana, I want to go to your secret garden.” He said in a strong, almost commanding tone.

"You ordered me like this, how could I get that feeling?" she said half-jokingly.

 Then he stood up and became self-reliant.

She caressed the ring on her hand, which had been in Bey's garden full of grapes and a room full of jams.

These things are nothing in Italy, where supplies are abundant, but for people who have been thirsty and marched for a long time in the desert, even the water of the Nile River is sweet for them to drown in.

She thought of the painting again. The beautiful boy who fell in love with his own reflection planned to kiss the reflection in the water, like a person thirsty for water.

“As long as you want to see me, you can summon me at any time.” A black wizard handed her a snake-shaped ring.

 She quickly pushed away the person on her body.

 “What’s the matter?” the French man asked breathlessly.

“He told me that if I wanted to see him, I could summon him at any time.” Georgiana looked straight ahead, “But I always felt that I shouldn’t disturb his business.”

This time he was completely out of mood, but he did not walk away immediately.

"Lucien told me not to mention this matter, but I ask you now, does Eugène really have no chance at all?" she said, looking at his side face.

“Lucien is right, you shouldn’t mention it,” he said expressionlessly, as if wearing a death mask.

She touched the trembling flower bracelet and felt that some words were inappropriate to say now.

“I can give you my loyalty, will you give me your loyalty?”

"I won't be angry anymore, and you don't need to give me your loyalty." She sighed and stood up.

“Because he is still alive?” Bonaparte asked. “Do you believe he will come to you again?”

"It doesn't matter whether he comes to me or not." She said tiredly, "I just think that bigamy and divorce will bring disaster. Think of Henry VIII."

 He snorted coldly.

 “Respect the Pope, even if you do not intend to have friendship with him.” Georgiana said weakly.

“Didn’t you say you wouldn’t let your child become an illegitimate child?” he said questioningly.

"I can't have children." She said as she retreated towards the Sphinx. "I'm cursed, Leon."

He glanced at the napping Sphinx without comment.

Then she pulled the rope to let the servants in, and then cast an invisibility spell on the Sphinx.

 This way everything is "normal".

 (End of this chapter)