Conan's grammatical investigator

Chapter 1289 Lecture

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 Ramesses II, Tutankhamun, and Khamisius III."

"But in this long history, there was once a pharaoh who was the most mysterious and darkest."

"His history is confusing, and only a very small number of believers have passed down the name and deeds of this mysterious pharaoh."

"He is the Black Pharaoh - Nefren Ka..."

In a tiered conference room with 300 people, a white-haired scholar stood on the podium and spoke eloquently.

The seats were packed, and most of the audience were young college students, all of whom were listening attentively.

In the last row, an elderly couple who had travelled from afar were also sitting there, listening quietly.

"The Black Pharaoh, Nefren Ka..."

"There is no clear record of his life, and his exact birth and death years are no longer traceable. All we know is that he was the last pharaoh of the Third Dynasty of Egypt."

"After taking office, Nevren Ka, like all the previous pharaohs, worshipped the animal-headed gods that had been passed down in Egypt, and whenever he held sacrificial ceremonies, he would call himself a 'wizard'."

"He exudes a unique dark aura, which attracts the messenger hidden in the chaos to notice him..."

"Speaking of this, I have to introduce you to the ancient Egyptian view of the universe."

“The early ancient Egyptians believed that the universe was made of water and chaos, and they believed that the sun god Ra was born from these two and created the world.”

"Not only that, the ancient Egyptians named various natural phenomena with corresponding gods, and these gods were in charge of natural phenomena and things, such as Horus, the god of the sky, and the god of air, who was in charge of the air."

"And the Chaos Messenger is a deity that symbolizes chaos. He was one of the origins of the universe that the ancient Egyptians believed."

"At the call of the Chaos Messenger, Nefren Ka was transported to a place called the City of a Thousand Pillars, 'Erem', where he met one of the incarnations of the Chaos Messenger."

"The miraculous thing is that when the Chaos Messenger revealed himself as one of the origins of the universe, Nevren Ka withstood the shock brought by that great power. His own dark temperament seemed to be inspired at that moment."

"The Chaos Messenger was surprised by this incomparable Pharaoh, so he proposed a bloody contract to Nefren Ka..."

"As long as Nevren Ka holds a grand sacrifice after returning and sacrifices a thousand of his compatriots in the ceremony, the Chaos Messenger will grant him the ability to predict the future."

"So, soon after Nefren Ka returned to the throne, he used his power to sacrifice thousands of people. It is said that the Nile River was dyed red..."

"And the Chaos Messenger arrived as promised, granting Nefren Ka the ability to predict the future."

"Nevren Ka gained the power to predict the future as he wished. While he could see through the history of thousands of years later, he worshipped the Chaos Messenger even more and held more grand sacrificial ceremonies."

"But he is only a mortal after all. As time passes by, his body is also aging."

"Until he realized that his end was near, he carved all the prophecies about the future in his underground tomb..."

"However, after Nefren Ka passed away, without the intimidation of his powerful witchcraft, the Egyptians, who had long been oppressed by bloody sacrifices, set off a wave of rebellion."

"The rebels broke into the city, killed all the guards, and in a very short time overthrew the once glorious Third Dynasty of Egypt."

"But when angry people rushed into the catacombs of Nevren 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 grave..."

"This fact frightened the Egyptian rebels so much that the leaders of the uprising ordered that the underground tombs of Nefren Ka be completely buried, and the existence of the Black Pharaoh was erased from Egyptian historical documents."

"But later, the Chaos Messenger cursed this leader, causing the new kingdom he established to only last for a short time before it fell apart..."

"The above is the history of this 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 moment, followed by applause.

The couple sitting in the last row also clapped a few times symbolically, but the wife's expression was not happy.

"Honey, why does this lecture sound a bit creepy?"

"Are you sure this is the location indicated in the mysterious email?"

Kudo Yukiko snuggled up to Kudo Yusaku and asked in a low voice cautiously.

Compared to Yukiko's frightened expression, Kudo Yusaku nodded calmly, "The email is located here..."

"But the person who sent the email doesn't seem to be in this place."

Kudo Yusaku looked at the seats on the steps below, hundreds of heads of different colors, but no real faces could be seen.

But if you want to choose a meeting place, it is definitely not suitable because there are too many people here.

A hint of thought flashed across Kudo Yusaku's eyes as he recalled the purpose of coming here.

Just the night before, when Yukiko received a phone call from Haibara Ai, Kudo Yusaku also checked his email at the same time and found a special email.

The email content only contains a time and a place.

The location is a tiered conference room at a university in London.

Time is also the moment in time.

The person who sent the email did not explain the meaning of the time and place, but just left a big "!" next to it.

If this exclamation mark were placed in someone else's address, it might not mean anything and would simply be considered a prank email.

But it brought back some distant memories for Kudo Yusaku.

Ten years ago, Yusaku Kudo assisted the police in capturing Kaito Kid and successfully prevented a theft by Kaito Kid.

Afterwards, the media reported this extensively because Kudo Yusaku was the only man who made Kaito Kid fail in his 8 years of stealing.

It happened that during an interview, a reporter mistook the international criminal code 1412 written on the note by Kudo Yusaku as the word KID.

Later, reporters reported the incident to the outside world, causing the name "Phantom Thief KID" to spread, and eventually it evolved into "Phantom Thief Kid".

During this process, Kaito Kid, who inexplicably became a "son", took the initiative to find Kudo Yusaku's son, the young Shinichi.

He handed Shinichi a wallet with "?" written inside and left a secret code for Shinichi to decipher.

Unable to decipher the code, Shinichi can only ask Kudo Yusaku for help, but Kudo Yusaku only needs to check the wallet to find out the man's true identity.

So, Kudo Yusaku also wrote back to the world-famous magician through Yukiko and replied with an "!".

? I mean, can you stop me next time?

I mean, of course!

Therefore, when he saw this inexplicable punctuation mark again, the first person that Kudo Yusaku thought of was that man.

Only this time it was the other party who made the exclamation mark. Could it really be him?

Yusaku Kudo narrowed his eyes and looked at the podium in front of him.

At this point, the lecture has entered the next stage, where the speaker will answer questions from the audience.

"Excuse me, Mr. Edward, why is there no god called 'Chaos Messenger' in the mainstream history of ancient Egypt?"

The white-haired man on the stage turned to look at the young student who asked the question, and said into the miniature microphone beside his mouth: "It's because the Chaos Messenger, like Nefren Ka, was erased from historical documents by the pharaohs of later generations."

"Due to the cruel acts of the Black Pharaoh, the belief in the Chaos Messenger has been resisted and all related artifacts have been destroyed."

After raising her hand, another young female student stood up and asked, "So how do we know that such a god once existed in Egyptian history?"

The white-haired man replied, "Because believers of the Black Pharaoh are also believers of the Chaos Messenger, the existence of these two can only be revealed now."

Another male student with natural curly hair stood up and asked, "Mr. Edward, is there any direct evidence that the 'Black Pharaoh' ever existed in Egyptian history?"

When mentioning this, the white-haired man looked a little heavy.

"Currently, our Penhew Foundation and its affiliated Sons of the Sphinx organization are working on the exploration of the Nevren Ka Tomb."

"Although the location of this mysterious pharaoh's tomb has not yet been found, I believe that soon you will see something more surprising than an empty tomb..."

The male student continued to ask: "What is the surprise? Can you tell us?"

The white-haired man raised his lips and chuckled, "Haha~ Since it's a surprise, there's no reason to reveal it in advance."

"But I can guarantee that it will definitely be a huge surprise that will shock the world..."

This statement once again sparked heated discussions at the conference.

Kudo Yusaku narrowed his eyes slightly, stared at the pure British man at the lecture, and then entered his name into the search bar on his mobile phone.

Two seconds later, the person's information was searched out.

Edward Gavigan, a famous British Egyptologist, is 55 years old and a director of the Penhew Foundation.

The Penhew Foundation is a foundation organization that specializes in Egypt-related causes and activities, including medical care, education, research, etc.

Sons of the Sphinx is one of the few specialized Egyptology research organizations in the world, and 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 mark refers to the "big surprise" that he mentioned that will soon shock the world?

What kind of archaeological discovery is enough to shock the world?

And after listening to the entire speech, Kudo Yusaku felt that this man named Edward Gavigan was simply saying that he himself was a descendant of believers who worshipped the Black Pharaoh.

Otherwise, how could he be so sure of the existence of the Black Pharaoh without any evidence?

Just then, a voice came from the microphone on the podium announcing the end of the lecture.

"Okay, that's all for today's lecture."

"Thank you all for coming. If you have any questions, we can discuss it here privately later..."

As Edward Gavigan finished his words, there was a clatter of people standing up from their seats.

Most people have little interest in this vague history and choose to leave directly.

But there were also a small number of people who were curious about the "big surprise" that he said would shock the world, and they walked against the flow of people and went to the podium.

Yusaku Kudo looked at the crowd leaving and realized that there was no point in staying here any longer because the person he was looking for was not here.

"Yukiko, let's go."

"Well, I don't know if Xiaolan has figured out the secret code yet..."

Yusaku Kudo and Yukiko stood up and prepared to follow the crowd to leave.

But just when they were about to reach the exit, a student suddenly looked at Kudo Yusaku's face, was stunned for two seconds, and then exclaimed loudly.

"It's the Dark Night Baron!"

"Excuse me, are you the Night Baron?"

Kudo Yusaku was stunned, looking at the happy British college students, not knowing whether to nod or shake his head.

Because more people who heard this name immediately gathered around.

"Night Baron?"

"What? That best-selling author is here too!"

"The Night Baron himself is here! He's about to sign an autograph!"

In a short while, Kudo Yusaku was surrounded, and even Yukiko beside him was squeezed out by the enthusiastic crowd.

Seeing that Kudo Yusaku was the center of attention among fans, while she was being squeezed out like a marginal person, Yukiko felt a little angry.

Hey, I am also the "Baroness of the Night"!

But there was nothing that could be done. Yukiko had dressed differently today than usual, so even her future daughter-in-law couldn't recognize her, let alone these passers-by.

Faced with this situation, Yukiko could only stay where she was and wait for her husband to get away.

But the crowd behind was also rushing forward along the aisle at this time, and someone bumped into Yukiko's right arm from behind.

Yukiko turned around and saw a short-haired lady wearing a hat. The brim of the hat was pulled down so that her entire face could not be seen, but her delicate chin and bright red lips were impressive.

"I'm sorry..." the woman apologized.

"No, I'm the one who's embarrassed. I'll make way now."

Yukiko moved aside to let the woman in the hat pass.

But after the woman left, she reacted with surprise.

Eh?

This person seems to speak Japanese?

At the same time, Edward Gavigan, who was on the podium, was explaining the problem to the few people around him while keeping his eyes on the commotion above the stairs.

He narrowed his eyes slightly and saw Kudo Yusaku who was dealing with fans.

This made his breathing noticeably heavier.