Chapter 20: Pandora's Box
Chapter 20: Pandora's Box
There is a story that is widely spread in the world, which can be said to be a household name.
In ancient times, after Prometheus stole the fire, Zeus ordered Hephaestus, the god of flame and casting, to cast a doll with all female characteristics called Pandora with clay. Zeus gave her life, and the twelve gods blessed her, giving her infinite charm.
Subsequently, Pandora came to the world on the order of the Lord God and quickly made men in the world crazy about her with her peerless charm. In order to compete for Pandora's ownership, the war in the human world quietly burned and smoke rose everywhere.
At the beginning, Pandora carried a small box, which was called "Pandora's Box" by the world.
It is also an artifact cast by Hephaistos. The gods put evil forces such as "disease", "war", "vicious", "touching porcelain", "corruption" and "soap", so that Pandora can open it as soon as the time comes, so that the human world will never have peace and eventually lead to self-destruction.
Pandora opened the box as instructed, and forces such as "disease" and "war" immediately flew out of the box, spreading the whole land and poisoning the world.
However, the gods did not expect that under the evolution of various desperate forces, the power of "hope" was automatically formed in the box.
So, when all despair spread all over the earth, the light of hope finally came, and the human world returned to prosperity and harmony again.
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That's probably the story.
"You have all been cheated." Knolos said so.
What he said was another story, which still made Zhang Shen feel a little strange.
Pandora's box is real, but this is not its real name (for convenience, it is called Pandora's Box); the doll girl "Pandora" is also real, which is completed by Hephaistos and the gods, but the purpose is not to punish human beings who "desphem the power of fire", but to hide people's ears. mu.
Zeus and other gods made a very high-level beep doll, named her Pandora, and asked her to bring a tall box to the world to cause human war with her terrible charm blessed by the Lord God.
Pandora succeeded, but later she was slaughtered by a stunned demigod with a somewhat biased aesthetic outlook, ending the war. Pandora's box was destroyed in the human war, and the bards among human beings, under the guidance of some unknown forces, sang this story widely and became a household name.
This sound is very troublesome. In fact, it is really troublesome to cover up the real Pandora's box!
The real Pandora's box has existed for a long time. In terms of fairy side, it belongs to the "connate thing".
Its birth is likely to be longer than the oldest god, Kaos!
After Kaos was born from chaos, one day he got a stone with wonderful power and carved it into a box-like cube, which is the famous Pandora's box.
Kaos regarded it as a treasure and never let others touch it, even Gaia, his closest god of the earth.
There is no impenetrable wall in the world. The existence of Pandora's box has gradually spread out, but it is only "the treasure cherished by Kaos", and no one knows its role.
Until Kaos's hateful words pushed the Pandora's box to the forefront of the storm.
Do you want to be the lord of the world? Do you want to have the strongest power? Go ahead and grab the Pandora's box! I hide all the secrets in it! As long as you get it, you can have everything!"
This sentence opened the great pirates... Well, no, it opened the era of chaos among the gods and also planted seeds for the destruction of the Titan era.
As the king of the second generation of gods, Knolos naturally got the Pandora's box and owned it for quite a long time.
"That's a good thing that can make people crazy and willing to give everything for it!" The expression of Knolos when he said this will never be forgotten.
"I think three words are the most vivid to describe the specific ability of Pandora's box."
"Wish-Wish-Machine."
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"It costs a certain price and has a certain probability to obtain the corresponding power... The wishing machine is indeed quite vivid." Zhang Shen recalled the correct way to open Pandora's box described by Knolos, while complaining about "how such an unscientific thing was formed", and he couldn't help but have a desire in his heart.
It is no wonder that Zeus and those people have to confuse their eyes and cover up its existence.
However, the funny thing is that at this moment, Pandora's box is mostly not in the hands of any god such as Zeus!
"If I guess correctly, Pandora's Box is not in Zeus's hands." When Zhang Shen asked who had the Pandora's box at the moment, Knolos gave such a surprising answer.
As for the reason...
Everything was made by Knolos himself.
After Knolos got Pandora's box and got rich benefits from it, he did not carry it with him to prevent the tragedy of Kaos from happening to him (Zhang's maliciously guessed that he was not strong enough and was afraid of being attacked by others) but hid somewhere.
"That's the safest place in the world, because no one can think of it!" Knolos is complacent.
When Zhang Shen learned the location of hiding Pandora's box from Knolos, he was stunned and couldn't help praising him: "It's really big enough to hide in that place... No wonder Zeus hasn't done it yet..."
Zhang Shen did not ask why he told himself such confidential information. This is a deal, and getting Pandora's box is not only a naked interest**, but also a test to verify your real strength!
Entering Tartarus to unlock the seal of Kotos can only preliminarily show that Zhang Shen is qualified to trade with his "former" lord of the gods, but that strength is far from enough to get the Pandora's box.
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The world.
It has been almost half a month since I left hell.
During this period, except for taking a look at the Zhengtai version of Kratos, Zhang Shen was collecting information about the golden wool arm armor at other times.
Collecting the golden wool arm armor is naturally to deal with the troublesome Medusa as quickly as possible.
That's right, Zhang Shen wants to go to the island of fate again, and then the three goddesses of fate!
As for the reason...
Pandora's box is hidden in the mirror of fate!
No, a more accurate statement should be that it is hidden in the gap between the illusory river of fate and the real world. Only through the mirror of fate can it be opened and taken out.
The Pandora's box was hidden by Knolos, and what's more wonderful is that even the three goddesses of fate don't know about it!
After learning the news, Zhang Shen was stunned for a long time and couldn't figure out how he hid Pandora's box in the mirror of fate from the three strange old women.
It can only be said that he is worthy of being the former Lord of the gods...
After confirming the approximate location of the "War Holy Forest" where the golden wool arm armor is located, Zhang Shen set off.
Although the holy forest has the name of the God of War, it is actually located in the world. It is a place used by a country that believes in the God of War to sacrifice the God of War. It can be regarded as a luxury version of the land temple...
As the highest-grade sacrifice, the golden wool arm armor is placed at the top, but there are no strict anti-theft measures - in this world controlled by the gods, no thief dares to move his mind to the sacrifice of the gods, and even the thieves themselves have gods. The relationship between gods and gods is complicated. He They don't dare to mess up so as not to anger the gods they worship.
Zhang Shen successfully got the golden wool arm armor, came to change the beam and column, and casually refined an equally golden A product and put it in place.
As the saying goes, not long after Zhang Shen left, the figure of Ares, the god of war, appeared in the holy forest.
He happened to be bored and casually chose a place to find some "pleasure" in the lower world.
This is his divine power split, which can only appear in a similar place where there is an altar dedicated to his god statue, so it came directly here.
"Well, there is something wrong with this golden wool arm armor!" Ares looked around and suddenly his eyes condensed and fell on his arm armor. Because the golden armor made of golden wool is very suitable for the style of the God of War, so he had played it for a while and was quite familiar with this sacrifice, which made him see something wrong at a glance.
He took his arm armor into his hand, gently rubbed it, and suddenly raised his thick eyebrows: "How bold. I dare to touch even my things. I really don't know whether to live or die!"
Ares became interested in the guy who put his hand on his head, and he decided to find out the man. As for whether to stir-fry or steam later, it depends on your mood. Let's talk about it then.
On the other side, Zhang Shen did not know that he inadvertently touched a tiger's buttocks and offended Ares, who was second only to Hera, the fierce character in the main god.
After getting the golden wool arm armor, Zhang Shen no longer procrastinated and marched towards Destiny Island at full speed.
Zhang Shen remembered the road he had walked again and again, and soon arrived at the "footpoint" of Destiny Island in the world.
The last time he and Kratos entered in a time horse, but this time Zhang Shen did not plan to grab the time horse. He knows that he is a person from another world. If the lucky value can be quantified, he must be zero. Last time, it was borrowed from the light of Kratos, the protagonist of the plane, and the journey went smoothly. If he acted alone, something would be involved.
More is not as good as less. Moreover, Zhang Shen also probably understood how the time horse crossed the invisible barrier to enter the island of Destiny. He tossed several times, successfully crossed the barrier and came to the island of fate again.
His feet fell to the ground, and Zhang Shen's pupils suddenly shrank, and he couldn't help cursing in his heart.
I lay in a trough. Do you want to cheat like this? When I came in, I was discovered and focused on the three goddesses of fate!