Chapter 169: Book of the Dead (Please Collect and Recommend)

Nautilus is a unique submarine in the world. It is 135 meters long and 13 meters wide. It is like a sharp blade that cuts through the sea when sailing in the sea. Therefore, the crew members privately call their ship the Sword of Poseidon. →The maximum speed can reach 50 nautical miles per hour!

This speed is simply a myth. You should know that even the best British surface ships have a speed of about 50 nautical miles (28 knots)! And the Nautilus is a submarine.

At the same time, the power of the Nautilus is also epoch-making. It is completely powered by electricity. What's more amazing is that the power of the Nautilus is completely extracted from seawater. The ship extracts sodium from red, mixes sodium with mercury, and forms an alloy that replaces the zinc element in the Bunsen battery unit. It is then converted into electricity and stored in the battery. In short, the ship is full of black technology, and some things even amaze Kai, who has experienced the 21st century.

The interior of the ship is very spacious and comfortable, and there are even museums and libraries! In addition to being a little noisy and boring, it is more comfortable here than an ordinary star-rated hotel.

Kay's journey on the Nautilus was barely pleasant. If you don't count the terrible food on the ship.

Captain Nemo and most of the sailors are from the Indian subcontinent, in short, they are all Indians... Can you imagine the whole ship is filled with the smell of curry? That's the case on the Nautilus. These sailors are all good. Although they are Indians, each of them is polite and full of humanistic atmosphere. Each of them even speaks more than two foreign languages.

Kay also likes them very much, but he can't agree with their eating habits.

They even refuse to use tableware!

But Catherine and Courtman and their group of British people like the food on the Nautilus very much...

After about a month of sailing, Kay finally set foot on land. Under Alfred's arrangement, everyone quickly took the train to Cairo.

When Kay set foot on Egypt, a familiar yet unfamiliar land, he felt that the atmosphere here was not very good. The Egyptians did not welcome the British, and were even very hostile. This feeling was particularly strong outside the port of Alexandria.

In fact, Britain did not have much control over Egypt. Britain occupied Egypt only to ensure the Suez Canal.

In November 1914, the Ottoman Empire joined the war. Egypt stood firmly with the central government (Egypt was nominally a province of the Ottoman Empire at that time), so Britain unilaterally declared its protectorate over Egypt. And overthrew the government at that time and supported a new government. The head of the new government was forced to declare himself an Egyptian sultan independent of the Ottomans.

Such a government naturally could not get the support of the Egyptians, so the new government had no authority in Egypt. Outside Cairo, the government's orders were like waste paper. And Britain had no ability to change this situation at this time. After all, their main focus was in Europe, and the British only had to ensure control of the Suez Canal.

As for the actual fragmentation of Egypt, it was not considered by them.

When the group walked out of the Cairo train station, they could clearly see the malice of the Egyptians around them.

Kai naturally didn't feel anything about this malice, he was not British. He just felt that things had changed. Egypt used to be one of the most developed regions in the world. The Pharaoh ruled the whole of North Africa in Egypt, but now, the once magnificent buildings are nowhere to be found. The original self-confidence and pride have disappeared from the faces of the Egyptians, replaced by dilapidated, low and dirty cities, and people's faces only show numbness and hatred.

After entering the hotel, an officer came up to talk to him. He should be the contact person of the British government here.

These things were originally the responsibility of Catherine and Courtman, but when Kai saw the appearance of this officer clearly, he couldn't help but say to the old Alfred who was holding the salute beside him: "Is it my illusion? Why do I always feel that this child looks like you?"

This officer is very young, he looks only in his twenties, but he has the rank of captain.

"No, Duke, that's not your illusion, he is my grandson, little Alfred."

Kai looked at old Alfred in surprise.

"Really?"

"Yes." Old Alfred said with a little reserve.

"He's only 20 years old then!! Your son... Sorry, I didn't mean to mention it." Kai originally wanted to say that Alfred's son died two years ago, so why did he let his grandson, who was only 20 years old, join the army. Kai knew that Alfred's son was only 36 years old when he died in battle, and his grandson was not yet an adult at that time.

"No... You don't have to apologize, I understand what you mean. But I must say that as a man of the Pennyworth family, it is their responsibility to join the army, especially in times of war, and it is even more impossible for a man of the Pennyworth family to evade responsibility!"

It has been more than two years since his son died, and during this period, Alfred has adjusted himself.

Although Kai is not British, this does not affect Kai's appreciation of Alfred. Patriots will be respected wherever they are.

Soon Catherine and Courtman finished negotiating with the young man. After completing the work, the young man walked to his grandfather with a happy face and took the salute from Alfred's hand.

"My Lord Duke, this is my grandson, Alfred."

This is the bad thing about foreigners. They like to give their offspring the same name as their own or their elders, and they are not afraid of confusion. For example, the grandson of old Alfred should be called Alfred II or Alfred Jr.

"Alfred, this is the Duke of Brittany."

"Hello, Your Excellency the Duke." Little Alfred did not damage the name of the Pennyworth family. Although he was wearing a military uniform, his etiquette was impeccable.

"Hello, um... Can I call you Ah Fu?" Kai is Chinese at heart, and it is a bit awkward for the grandfather and grandson to use the same name, so he simply used the abbreviation. Of course, it is a bit rude to do so, calling someone by their abbreviation when you meet for the first time.

Little Alfred obviously did not meet such a person. The environment he grew up in can be seen from old Alfred. However, with good education and cultivation, he did not show any strange emotions, but nodded and agreed very naturally.

"Of course, it's my honor, Your Excellency the Duke."

Then Ah Fu took everyone to the room that had been booked long ago. After settling down, a group of people gathered in Kai's room and began to understand the current situation of the mission.

"Before you arrived, we finally figured out who led the German team this time - Grigoriy Yefimovich Rasputin. A priest of the Russian Empire, a favorite of the Tsar and the Queen." The person who reported to Kai and the others was a British intelligence officer, brought in by Afu.

"Wait, are you talking about that evil monk who is half human and half demon?" Dr. Hyde, who had always been very quiet, asked very gossipy.

(You can search for the deeds of Grigoriy Yefimovich Rasputin on Baidu. He is a very powerful person. I won't go into details. Anyway, he was involved in all kinds of harem and government affairs. In history, Grigoriy was killed in October 1916. I changed it here.)

Although it is wartime now, some things will not fade away because of war, especially gossip. It has spread all over Russia, and many London newspapers have also published it. London newspapers like to publish such news during wartime to ease people's tension. So Grigoriy's name is still very famous in London.

"Yes, that's him."

"Isn't he Russian? How could he be involved with the Germans?" A favorite of the Tsar actually involved with the Germans and ran to Egypt, which is indeed worrying.

"He has already defected. His situation in Russia is not good. Many people want to kill him. In fact, before he defected to Germany, he had suffered countless assassinations. The most recent assassination was conspired by Prince Yusupov, Grand Duke Dimitri, Senator Purishkevich and others. So he defected."

The intelligence officer shrugged and curled his lips a little helplessly. Gregory is undoubtedly a scandal of the Russians. If it were normal times, the British would be happy to see the Russians lose face, but the problem is that they are allies now, and what's more unfortunate is that this Gregory has begun to cause trouble for Britain.

"Well, this is the Russian..." Cotman also shrugged. Few British people like Russians, especially in the current situation. In the war, although the Russians are not pig teammates, their role is quite limited. (The Russians' record is really not good)

Kai didn't know much about Gregory. He looked at Old Fu (the name is too long, so I'll just simplify it). As a butler, Old Fu never let Kai down. Soon Old Fu told Kai some of Gregory's deeds. Kai was stunned.

"He came to Egypt this time to find the legendary Book of the Dead."

"Huh? What did you just say?" Kai, who was originally listening to gossip, suddenly heard a familiar name.

"Book of the Dead?" The intelligence officer was a little confused. He didn't know Kai's identity. In fact, there were no more than ten people in the whole of Britain who knew Kai's true identity. He only knew that the identity of the Duke of Brittany was very noble and mysterious, and he was asked by his superiors to cooperate unconditionally with the Duke.

But Courtman and Catherine understood that Kai must know something. In fact, sometimes they were also very curious, why an ancient English native would know so much about myths outside of England, at least from their chat with Kai, they learned that Kai knew Olympus, Sumer and ancient Egyptian mythology.

"Do you know that thing?" Catherine asked curiously.

"Well... that book, how should I put it, well... let's put it this way, it's better for living people not to touch that book. It's very weird." Kai didn't say anything specific. According to the usual human nature, if Kai explained the function of the book in detail, there might be some idiots who like to die and run to get the book to die. "If Gregory with the big bird really wants that book, then the information you got before is very likely to be correct."

The British had previously received intelligence that the Germans planned to revive an ancient army.

A group of people looked at each other, and they were a little skeptical about Kai's words. However, the tomb exploration team believed it a little, because they had an example of the resurrection of the dead in front of them.

Seeing Catherine and the others looking at him, Kai knew what they were thinking.

"No need to look at me, I'm a special case! The things resurrected by the Book of the Dead are not real living people."

"Okay, let's get on with the business." Courtman knew that Kai's identity could not be revealed casually, so he quickly changed the subject.

"Oh... OK." The intelligence officer quickly gathered his thoughts and continued to explain the intelligence. As an intelligence officer, he naturally knew what to know and what to pretend had not happened.

"We have learned that Gregory hired an American to help them find the Book of the Dead. We originally planned to continue investigating along this line, but we lost too many people when investigating Gregory, so we couldn't continue to follow this line. But we learned that just half a month ago, a group of Americans hired a group of locals to go south to the depths of the desert."

The British intelligence department is indeed very powerful, but this is Egypt, the environment here is naturally unfriendly to the UK, and there are too many people lost.

Without enough assistants and no manpower, even if these British are 007, they can only be a good cook without rice. They are no longer able to collect intelligence outside Cairo.

"By the way, we also collected information that another group of people seems to have set their sights on the Book of the Dead."

"Who are these people? French?" Courtman asked.

"No, the leader is British, a brother and sister. The brother is named Jonathan and the sister is an archaeologist named Evelyn. They found an American in prison as their guide."

"British?" Courtman frowned and looked at Catherine. Since the intelligence officer said so, it means that they are not from the intelligence department, so Courtman wondered if they were from the Holy Church. The Holy Church is also underground work in terms of its nature, so it is not surprising to have agents.

Catherine shook her head. The people of the Holy Church are mainly active in white-dominated areas such as Britain and Canada, and they are not involved in Egypt.

"Well, how can you help us?" Courtman asked directly.