Chapter 002: Pharaoh

After all, Wang Bo was now a complete monster, inhuman.

"You're way too enthusiastic, Yazi." Wang Bo said helplessly, "How did I make you angry? Could it be because I came back too late... But judging by your expression, that doesn't seem to be the case."

Yazi shook off Wang Bo's hand, grabbed him by the collar, and said fiercely, "Tell me, what did you do to my world, Wang Bo!"

"What did I do?" Wang Bo looked bewildered, "I didn't do anything to your world."

"Are you sure?"

"Do you need me to swear?"

"Thank goodness, you're finally back." Yazi said slowly.

"No, your attitude is really strange, Yazi. You're confusing me. What happened? What's wrong with your world, Yazi?"

Wang Bo's intuition told him that something major had happened in this world, otherwise Yazi wouldn't be so strange.

Yazi looked at Wang Bo, sighed, sat down on the sofa, and said slowly, "Not long after you left last time, strange things started happening in our world."

"Strange things?" Wang Bo pressed, "What strange things? How are they strange? In what way?"

Yazi said, "Some people have witnessed monsters."

"Monsters?" Wang Bo repeated.

Yazi nodded and said, "Not long ago, I handled a case. A wife cheated, and when her husband found out, he set the house on fire while she was sleeping. By the time responders arrived, both were screaming in the flames and died, turning into a pile of charcoal."

Wang Bo remained silent. This was indeed a human tragedy.

But he didn't interrupt Yazi, knowing there must be more.

Sure enough, Yazi continued, "However, not long after, the wife, burned to a crisp, resurrected in front of everyone, turning into a monster that could control fire. Driven by hatred and resentment toward the living, she went around taking lives. Many firefighters died unexpectedly."

Wang Bo said, "Are you sure it was resurrection from the dead?"

"Yes." Yazi nodded.

Wang Bo couldn't help but click his tongue. Resurrection from the dead was no simple matter. Even he would need to pay a certain price and make preparations to revive someone.

For an ordinary person to come back from the dead so easily seemed too simple.

Wang Bo didn't quite believe it.

But seeing Yazi's expression, it didn't seem like she was lying. Wang Bo suspected there must be something fishy. Maybe it wasn't resurrection at all, but a corpse mutation.

Regardless, this was all very strange, wasn't it?

After all, when Wang Bo last came to this world, he was certain it was an ordinary world.

No gods, no supernatural phenomena.

But a corpse moving in plain sight, turning into a fire-controlling monster and taking lives everywhere—this didn't match the world he remembered at all.

Could this also be the work of a time traveler?

Since Wang Bo had returned to this world, it meant there was a time traveler here.

Given the strange world Yazi described, wasn't it natural to suspect a time traveler?

Wang Bo asked, "Yazi, when did these things start? I mean, are these strange occurrences very common? When did the first strange event happen? Do you know?"

Without hesitation, Yazi replied, "The first case happened a month after you left. Do you know Thutmose III?"

Wang Bo shook his head. He really didn't know who that was. "But from the name, he should be a pharaoh."

In Wang Bo's memory, only Egyptian pharaohs had names like that.

For example, Ramesses II, Cleopatra VII, etc. Thutmose III sounded like an Egyptian pharaoh.

Yazi nodded and said to Wang Bo, "Ancient Egypt had thirty-one dynasties, of which the Eighteenth Dynasty was the longest-lasting, with the largest territory and the most powerful national strength."

"Thutmose III was the most outstanding politician, military strategist, and founder of the Egyptian Empire during the Eighteenth Dynasty."

"During his reign, he launched large-scale expansion wars, conquering Canaan and Syria on the eastern Mediterranean coast. It is generally believed that Thutmose transformed Egypt from a regional kingdom into a transcontinental empire."

"Thutmose III is considered one of the greatest pharaohs of ancient Egypt, known as... the Napoleon of the ancient world."

Hearing this, Wang Bo couldn't help but be surprised.

The Napoleon of the ancient world—that was no light title.

In Europe, there were four great emperors with exceptional talent and vision.

The first was Alexander the Great, also known as the King of Conquerors, King of Macedon, King of Persia. Born in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, he studied under the famous ancient Greek scholar Aristotle.

With his extraordinary talent, he successively unified all of Greece, swept through the Middle East, occupied all of Egypt without a single battle, crushed the Persian Empire, and led his army to the Indus River valley, conquering three of the four great ancient civilizations.

Fierce beyond measure.

By the way, the King on playing cards is based on Alexander the Great.

But now, when Wang Bo thought of Alexander the Great, the first thing that came to mind was the man with a full red beard from the Fate world.

When he was young, he was a handsome youth. Why did he suddenly become so ugly when he grew up?

Time, you really are a butcher's knife.

Ahem... getting off track.

Among the four great monarchs, the first was Alexander the Great, and the second was Octavian.

Although not as fierce as Alexander, he was still a competent monarch, establishing the later illustrious Roman Empire and the principate system, a model of wise rule.

You know, in the ancient monarchical environment, being able to establish a principate system and succeed at it was enough to prove how formidable this Octavian was.

The third was Charlemagne. Wang Bo really didn't know much about him, only knowing of his existence. What impressed Wang Bo most was the legend of Charlemagne and his Twelve Peers.

This easily reminded one of King Arthur and his Twelve Knights of the Round Table.

To be honest, Wang Bo was no stranger to the Knights of the Round Table. He could even name some of them, like Mordred, Lancelot, Kay, Gawain, and so on.