Chapter 548 549. Ruins of Andros Island
The Adrestia cut through the waves in the clear blue Aegean Sea.
“Ah, it’s great to travel with you again, Lan.”
Barnabas, who was enthusiastic and a bit talkative, patted the witcher’s arm vigorously. .
When he saw Lan En again after a few months, he was still amazed by the change in his height.
And he repeatedly emphasized: Can you let Lan En stand on your shoulders when he grows up to be like the giant in mythology?
It took a lot of effort for Lan En to get this loyal believer of the Greek gods to give up this idea and understand that his height at this time was the limit.
On the trip to Andros Island, Herodotus still followed.
It seems that rather than serving as Pericles' adviser in Athens, this scholar and traveler hopes to directly participate in the adventures and records of the falconer.
Lan felt that he would probably not want to be separated from Cassandra most of the time in the future. After all, in the entire Greek world, there are probably few such wonderful adventures.
"Andros Island."
Barnabas stood on the side of the ship with his back propped up, looking at the white sandy beach and white rocks that were getting closer with his one eye, feeling quite excited.
“This is a good place, Cassandra!”
Lane stood next to Cassandra, and the witcher watched the falconer’s expression change. Confused and a little embarrassed.
“Andros Island, I have heard of it before, is a good place, yes, it is a good place!”
In fact, you've never heard of it at all, right?
Lan En tilted his head and snickered, while cursing.
Obviously, Herodotus also understood from the confused tone of Cassandra's confused and forced voice to prove that she had heard of it.
He looked at the female mercenary beside him in disbelief.
“This is Andros! It produces the best quality and most expensive marble in the Greek world!”
Cassandra curled her lips and said nothing.
And Barnabas laughed and added: "There is also the grave of Achilles, the first warrior in Greece! We can come and pay our respects."
"Oh!" Then As Barnabas explained, Cassandra's eyes suddenly lit up, and she made a sound of realization.
“It’s that Andros Island!”
Obviously, explaining commercial trade, products and origins to Cassandra is far from directly telling her heroic epics and legends. The story works.
Barnabas and Cassandra laughed cheerfully and boldly, with a kind of sailor's pride.
But the knowledge reserves of these two people made Herodotus on the side hold his head.
“You two are really hopeless.”
Amid laughter, the historian sighed helplessly.
The Adrestia quickly stopped at a natural port on an island. Lan and Cassandra got off the ship together and walked towards the island.
Most of this island is made up of white rocks and beaches. You can only see vegetation and animals when you go to the center of the island.
Under Icarus's high-altitude reconnaissance, Cassandra quickly found the target.
It is a huge door on the island mountain that is integrated with the rocks.
This gate has obvious artificial traces, horizontal and vertical lines, and beautiful geometric figures. No wonder Herodotus still had a deep memory of this place after a long journey, and gave it to Ka Sandra pointed the way.
This graphic and aesthetic style full of mathematical beauty is very similar to the line style on the blade of Cassandra's broken spear.
In this civilized era that generally pursues the beauty of biological movement and the grand beauty of religion, this art style that advocates rationality is unique and highly recognizable.
Lan En's hand patted the huge and heavy stone door, making a 'pah pah pah' sound of porcelain impact.
“This door weighs at least several hundred tons.”
The witcher looked at the closed gap in the middle of the door and frowned.
"How do we get in? Do you have any idea, Cassandra?"
But when Lan En turned around to look, he found that the falconer was holding his broken spear and looking at it in concentration.
It's like falling into some kind of memory.
"Hesitation will only speed people up to the grave." After a moment, Cassandra murmured and broke away from the memory. "Mother, I have never forgotten your teachings."
Lan En watched quietly from the side. For a person whose family has been torn apart and has lived alone for more than ten or twenty years, family memories should be precious and private things. It's better not to interrupt rashly.
Kassandra walked straight to the door, the broken spear in her hand stretched forward like a torch. And the blade of the broken spear really emitted a gentle golden light as it approached the door, and the steel material was dyed by the light into a topaz-like feeling.
The door rumbling at the same time, accompanied by the flying ash that was shaken down, opened towards both sides.
The two then walked inside.
“‘Hesitation will only make people enter the grave faster’.”
While walking, Lann mentioned it to Cassandra.
"Is this what your mother taught you?"
"Yes." Cassandra nodded lightly, "That was a long time ago."
"It seems wise. "The people are always the same," Lan En said as he walked behind Cassandra, "A master who taught me a swordsmanship told me: If you hesitate, you will lose."
The further the two of them walked in, the more obvious Cassandra was in shock.
The architectural style and scale of the buildings here clearly shocked her even if she had been to Athens.
"Something is shining."
Lan En keenly felt something unusual in the distance.
It was a platform surrounded by four stone pillars, and on one of the stone pillars, there was a spear-shaped outline emitting golden light.
It seemed as if he sensed the approach of the broken spear behind Cassandra.
With such an obvious graphic pairing, it goes without saying that you know what to do.
Kassandra placed the broken spear on her back into the outline of the stone pillar.
So the originally plain stone pillars gradually lit up with some incomprehensible pictures and texts, as well as several triangular grooves.
Kassandra opened her mouth slightly, still processing her somewhat confused brain reaction.
Lan En, who had already seen the scene of the human interstellar empire in [Memory Diving], performed much better than her.
The witcher ran his fingers over the outline of the triangle and found that there was a sense of familiarity in both size and thickness.
"This is a bit like the artifact fragments obtained from those members of the cult?"
Lane and Cassandra looked at each other, took out one and two triangular fragments from their bodies respectively, and put them on .
In a sudden burst of golden light, a female voice that I had never heard before began to announce.
"The forge has been started. Data transmission continuity is being synchronized. Contact has been made."
In a burst of golden light, the blade of the broken spear seemed to burst out with some kind of holographic image. data matrix.
There is no doubt that the thing that Cassandra used to slash people was really a good deal.
And when Cassandra carefully took off the broken spear from the stone pillar after the golden light shone.
The original rough and worn-out broken spear handle has been transformed into a new one, with a handle that is suitable for holding and exquisitely wrapped leather
It is hard to figure out what kind of transformation it has undergone.
The enhancement of Broken Spear also led to the enhancement of Cassandra.
Further forward on the platform, there is a door that cannot be entered, and the door is completely sealed by golden energy.
On other stone pillars on this platform, there are also grooves with the outline of some weapons.
Kassandra recognized that one of the sword-shaped grooves should be consistent with the weapon on the waist of her brother who was brainwashed by the cult.
But after Lan En searched all over, he couldn't find a groove that matched the ankh in his hand.
This artifact, which can easily undergo biochemical transformation, does not interact or react with anything in this building.
It seems that they should have nothing to do with the first civilization.
This made Lan En a little disappointed as expected.
After all, it seems that Harpalos's acquisition of this artifact from Egypt was an accident.
It is certainly unrealistic that you can find a forging furnace related to it just by searching.
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(End of this chapter)