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They were very common European and American names.

Jack was a mixed-blood who had grown up in a foreign country.
His parents’ name choice wasn’t surprising.
But all three of them looked like very ordinary local people.
Why was it that…

Could it be that they were like Zhang Zian, who had felt that foreigners pronouncing ‘Zian’ was not very accurate and had come up with an English name like ‘Jeff’ for himself?

It wouldn’t be very good for them to ask them straight out, and so they were all randomly wondering, but Lazart’s next sentence made them understand instantly.

Lazart could see their confusion.
He smiled and said, “Oh, right.
We are Copts.”

Zhang Zian was moved in his heart and looked at Fina, then at Kate and Chris, who were frank and unflinching, and carefully observed their looks.
Although they looked roughly like the local people, under careful observation, he could find that their thick eyebrows, deep eyes, and high cheekbones were slightly different from those of the ordinary local people and closer to the characteristics of the Southerners of Egypt.

So it was like that…

That was understandable.

Copts were Egyptian minorities, accounting for about 10% of Egypt’s population.
They claimed to be descendants of ancient Egyptians and pharaohs.
Most importantly, they were followers of Christianity, so they didn’t care about physical contact between men and women who were strangers.

Lazart took a sip of black tea and said, “I’ll talk about what happened, and perhaps I can answer your questions after I’m done speaking if you have anything you want to ask.”

After He He and the rest got in trouble, Zhang Zian had rushed to help, and Fina and the other elfins had stayed where they were.

On the other side, Lazart had come back from the church with his two children and heard the noise of riots coming from the street ahead.
He was nervous about the political instability, so he had his daughter Kate stay beside him and told his son Chris to go ahead and check the situation.

When Lazart interacted with his daughter and son in private, so as not to forget the origins and history of his nation, he normally spoke Coptic, and their conversation was coincidentally heard by Fina.

The origin of the Coptic language was very complex.
It was the final form of the ancient Egyptian language and the product of Hellenization of the Egyptian language under the rule of Rome and Byzantium.

This language system was founded in the third century A.D.
It was based on Greek and borrowed some letters from the “secular” style of writing that had evolved from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs to express pronunciations that did not exist in the Greek language, and it was considered a combination of Greek and ancient Egyptian.

At present, the Coptic language was close to extinction.
Few people used it.
Only a small number of Copts still used it privately, and people did not know how long it would be before the official extinction.

Historically, however, this language had played a great role—Champollion, a French philologist, was proficient in Coptic so he could discover the secrets of the Rosetta Stone and ultimately to crack the hieroglyphs of ancient Egypt.
Coptic was like Chinese Pinyin, while ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs were like Chinese words.
When Pinyin and glyphs corresponded one by one, the secrets of hieroglyphs were revealed.

As Zhang Zian had suspected, Fina was not interested in helping He He, who had gone to make trouble for herself.
It sat lazily and yawned.
It was still secretly complaining about Zhang Zian being a busybody.

At that moment, however, it heard a pronunciation very similar to that of ancient Egyptian, like hearing the local accent of its home town again after many years.
Its whole body suddenly became stiff.

It turned around, alert, and just happened to meet Lazart’s gaze.