[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

Generally speaking, parliaments usually only do two things.

First, prevarication.Second, wrangling.If you insist on counting the third thing, it can only be prevarication.

According to the Protoss’ management of extending the time limit for everything, before the official meeting begins, there is at least half a year of preparation time, half a year of seat arrangement time, half a year of water banquet time, half a year... enough for Apollo to come back from the Tempe Valley.

Therefore, Diana sat in the seat of the gods, looking at the empty seat of the God of Light beside her, completely absent-minded.

It is said that this is the largest meeting ever.

It is also said that Zeus has been preparing for this meeting for 300 years—from the moment he defeated Cronus and ascended the holy mountain of Olympus, he was planning this matter.

It is also said that this meeting will be held in the Temple of Order.

It is also said that the entrance ticket to the Temple of Order is very special, it is precisely the beautiful lines on the bodies of the gods.

It is also said that...

Diana slowly sipped her coffee, thinking about everything she could remember.

Obviously, in her snapshot memory, there is no memory of the Council of Gods or the Temple of Order at all.

Either she hadn't attended the meeting at all in a previous life, or she had been absent-minded during the meeting and hadn't written anything down.

In all fairness, Diana hopes to be the first.

She picked up the invitation letter again, looked at the beautiful cursive characters on it, and asked Athena, the goddess of wisdom beside her, "Your handwriting?"

Athena gave an "hmm".

She became more and more curious: "What about the one down there?"

Athena's expression twitched, as if she was quite dissatisfied with the chicken feet crawling over it: "Hermes." She thought for a while, and added: "He is worried that the gods will not understand what I am writing. "

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Diana took a deep breath and tried to maintain a smiling expression: "You are really good at writing puns, Athena."

The Goddess of Wisdom looked at her quite innocently, as if she couldn't understand what she just said.

Well, the average high school student can't understand the hooligan's cold jokes.

Athena suddenly lowered her voice and asked her, "I heard that Hera was mad at you?"

Diana glanced at Hera, who had an ice pack on her head and stepped on an ice bench, but was still glowing with anger, and said vaguely, "Probably so."

Athena's voice became lower and lower: "You are amazing." She paused, showing a regretful expression, "It's a pity that no matter what I do, she will always be one step ahead of me."

Diana shivered, and looked at Athena with a monster expression.

Athena was dissatisfied with Hera?

Athena was dissatisfied with Hera? ?

Athena was dissatisfied with Hera? ? ? ! ! !

how is this possible! ! !

She decided to pretend she didn't hear anything.

The conversation with Athena was just a small episode, which was quickly drowned out by the prevarications of the gods.

Apollo still didn't come back, and she was still bored looking at the empty seat of light in a daze.Zeus still maintained his old, treacherous and slippery style, and refused to reveal anything before the meeting officially started.

His Majesty Hai Wang, who listened to the tune but not the announcement, came down.

His Majesty Pluto, who has only heard of it and has never seen it before, is also here.

The moment the Goddess of Grain saw Pluto, she immediately rushed to fight him desperately.Zeus coughed heavily, forcing the Goddess of Grain to turn a knife fight into a pat on the shoulder to say hello.

His Majesty Pluto calmly called her "πεθερ(mother-in-law)", making the goddess of grain so angry that she vomited blood.

Zeus hurried out to smooth things over: "You should call her 'αδελφ (sister)'."

His Majesty Pluto seems to be trying to annoy Zeus on purpose today: "Isn't it κουνιδα (sister-in-law)?"

Zeus glanced at Hera subconsciously, and Hera's face changed into the colorful dress of the Rainbow Goddess again.Rainbow Goddess hurriedly added two more ice packs to her, and kept rubbing her shoulders and back.

Zeus decisively regarded His Majesty Pluto as air that did not exist.

——As long as he doesn't exist, you won't be in trouble for yourself, right?His Majesty the God King thought optimistically.

It's a pity that His Majesty Pluto seems to regard "adding obstacles to Olympus" as a great cause, and Zeus's eyelids twitched with anger from time to time.His Majesty the King of the Sea was delighted to watch the show, holding the trident and laughing forward and backward.

In the end, Zeus, whose eyelids twitched [-] times, slapped the table and roared domineeringly: "Don't wait for Apollo, go to the Temple of Order!"

Diana raised her spirits to 12 and glanced at His Majesty Pluto.

His Majesty Pluto looked at Zeus and sneered from beginning to end.

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The Temple of Order is in charge of the Three Goddesses of Order, and the gates are usually locked, and no one can enter or leave.

Outside the Temple of Order, there are two large pillars painted red, with two lines of large black characters written on them.

Left: Order should not contradict itself.

Right: When order contradicts itself, then it should be completely overthrown.

When Athena saw those two lines, the first sentence that blurted out was: "The taste is too bad!"

She paused, and immediately added a second sentence: "The words are too ugly!"

The gods looked at the sky at a 45-degree angle, and the sorrow flowed like a river.

Everyone knows that white, gold, and sky blue are the symbols of high-ranking gods, and everyone knows that the goddess of wisdom writes beautiful cursive characters, but that is the authentic handwriting left by the boss of Chaos God, which is older than ancient times...

It can be seen from this that Athena is indeed a true academic master with a much higher IQ than her EQ.

With such a large group of gods suddenly stuffed into the Temple of Order, it immediately seemed overcrowded.Hera's ice pack and ice bench were gone, and she obediently sat side by side with Zeus on the round chair, staring at the meeting host above—Gaia, the god of the earth, in a daze.

His Majesty Pluto and Neptune sat on either side of Zeus and Hera, respectively, with absent-minded expressions.

Diana's seat has been moved to the back.So did Apollo.

The three goddesses of order held the scroll of order and circled around the seats of the gods.

In an instant, the entire Temple of Order was completely darkened.It's really dark, without any shimmer.The sun god Helios, the moon god Selene, and the first generation sun god Hyperion with light in the godhead, plus Diana, have a faint light and shadow around their bodies, like a sun in the dark. And month, especially eye-catching.

What is more striking is the fine lines that linger on the bodies of the gods.The lines of each deity are different, but they all glow in the dark, which is astonishingly beautiful.And the few gods who were all gloomy were politely invited out by the goddesses of order.

Diana suddenly realized.

It turns out that "the coat of arms is the entry ticket to the Temple of Order" means this.

In the darkness, Gaia, the god of the earth, said in an unusually heavy tone: "Okay, let's get started."

Athena stood up first, walked to the front, and unfolded a scroll with a clatter.The flat sky and bowl-shaped earth are drawn on the scroll, which is exactly the same as the outside world.

"From my point of view, a land that is as flat as a disc is very unreasonable. When the wood floats on the sea, half of it should sink into the sea..."

Before Athena finished speaking, she was immediately interrupted by a certain god: "Why didn't you say that the leaves are floating on the sea?"

Athena glared at him: "Have you ever seen leaves that are covered with mountains, deserts, and rivers, and still float on the sea without sinking to the bottom?"

The other party was speechless.After a while, the gleam like a firefly on the left shoulder gradually dimmed.

The goddesses of order politely invited him out.

Athena continued to discuss her point of view: "Therefore, the earth should have thickness. And the best ratio should be a column with a width and height of 3:1..."

Diana finally felt something was wrong.

In a certain popular science book that she used to pad the corner of the table in her previous life, the flat earth, the bowl-shaped sky, and the ancient Greek Ionian school were the first to put forward the universe model.Next, there is a cylinder with a width and height of 3:1.And then, it's...

Zeus interrupted Athena: "Why don't you just say that the earth should be a ball?!"

Big. The earth is a ball?

That's right, after the universe model of 3:1 width and height, it is indeed "the big. The earth is a ball"!

Diana paled in horror.

She tried her best to recall everything she might know, but she still couldn't remember her previous life—even in that long, almost endless dream, she didn't have any memories of these theories!

What is missing?

Diana didn't have time to think about it, because she saw at least half of the gods, dimmed the god's coat of arms during the dispute between Athena and Zeus, and was politely invited out.What's more, when he tried to refute Athena with his sleeves up, Athena found out one fallacy after another. Not only did the coat of arms dim, but even the godhead gradually shattered, and finally fell to the ground.

"He's asleep." Gaia shrugged.

The goddesses of order shook their heads and sighed, and carried the unlucky guy out.

With the lessons learned from the past, almost all the gods present shut up, and honestly deduced Athena's long series of inconceivably complicated formulas.Diana only read half of it, and felt a faint headache, and felt that something was missing.It's not that Athena's formula is wrong, but her derivation process can actually be simpler...

Headache.

What hurts more than the head is the chest.

She thought of the pile of weird symbols drawn by Apollo, and remembered the long, long dream in which Apollo advised her not to go to the Temple of Order again.

A terrible explanation came to her instantly.

In order to prevent her from dying, Apollo forcibly sealed some of her memories.And she herself will always be outside the Temple of Order, living heartlessly under the wings of Apollo.

Until one day, the heliocentric theory that destroys the three views of the gods appeared.

Diana gradually felt her hands and feet were icy cold, and big beads of cold sweat dripped down her back.

She had no chance to ask Apollo why, but felt a dull pain in her heart.

"Wait a minute." Hera interrupted suddenly, "Who can tell me, once the earth changes shape, where should the center of the world be?"

The gods froze.

Yes, if the earth changes its shape, where should the center of the world be?

You must know that for God, the "center of the world" is an existence comparable to a crown of glory, and its importance is comparable to that of the Holy See to Christianity.

If the earth changes shape, what about the center of the world?What about Delphi?

"Delphi will always be the center of the world."

A faint and majestic voice sounded.The gods looked up, and Apollo was wearing an ancient robe with gold patterns on a white background, holding a golden scepter, a gold belt around his waist, and palm hair, and walked slowly into the Temple of Order.

All the gods stood up to pay their respects.

Apollo waved his hand and threw a long scroll, which was filled with various strange and complicated formulas.He slowly glanced at the gods, and continued: "The big. The earth is a square ball. And every place on the big. The ground is the center of the world."

Diana almost applauded him.

The earth is finite but boundless, and it can indeed make most of the gods stunned.But the problem is...

Big. Earth is not a true ball at all!

"Oh?" Hera squinted at him, "You also support Zeus' opinion? It's a pity..." She dragged her tail for a long time, shaking her head and sighing, "First of all, you have to tell me , Why is the current world order 'contradictory'?"

She paused for a moment, and then said: "Don't forget, if you can't find any contradictions, the revision of the world order will have to be resolved by voting—the veto power of everyone, you have to use it well. yes."

Hades, the king of the underworld, stretched out his hand to open the window, pointed at the world, and said indifferently: "You better hurry up. Otherwise, humans might use blood sacrifices to stop you."

The gods looked out of the window, and they saw that the sky and the earth had been distorted into a strange shape.The sky is better, the land is half-curved, the river has flowed backwards, and hurricanes, rainstorms, and hailstones are falling one after another...

"Understood?" Pluto shrugged, "Zeus is right, God is order. Every thought of God is affecting this world. Well, you'd better come to a conclusion quickly, otherwise the underworld will Faced with population again. Explosive."

The gods fell silent.

Finally, a god who was not afraid of death asked: "Your Majesty the God King, Your Highness the God of Light, how did you come to your conclusion?"

Apollo replied: "The golden section."

No one understood what he was saying, including Diana.

Zeus said: "Hermes has a son..."

The gods cast their eyes on Hermes like knives.

Zeus continued: "...he reincarnated five times, and the last time he was called Pythagoras..."

Pythagoras!

It turned out to be Pythagoras!

Diana could only wish to throw the table-foot science book in her previous life into the fire and burn it!

Pythagoras V was the son of Hermes before, isn't it a rumor?How did it come true!

She glanced toward the world.

After today, I don't know how many gods and gods will go to Pythagoras to settle accounts.

Athena, Apollo, Zeus, Gaia are still arguing.

Hera is still picking.

Hades, the king of the underworld, was playing with a few small dark brown balls, and accidentally dropped one, rolling to Diana's feet.Just at this moment, Zeus was overly excited, and a bright purple lightning bolt was uncontrollably struck towards Diana.As soon as the ball and lightning collided with Diana, bursts of white smoke immediately rose.And Diana also disappeared in the white smoke.

The gods were dumbfounded.

"The artifact that condenses ghosts and the most powerful purple lightning...how...unlucky...to be able to hit...at the same time..."

In the corner, someone was muttering to himself.