[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

The rumbling thunder in the air seemed to be quieter, and the golden arrows, which were as dense as a curtain of rain, gradually became thinner and thinner, and finally disappeared without a trace.The fighting in the human world was extremely tragic. The Egyptians had already swept across the deserts on both sides of the Red Sea and approached the border of Greece.

The countries are in a hurry.

Babylon hastily offered gold, female slaves, and exquisite woven carpets, and Syria’s soldiers and horses prepared for the last fierce battle. The quenching technique introduced from the East gradually spread in many Greek city-states, and the armor of Greek warriors changed from bronze to iron. It is much thicker, and there will no longer be the tragic situation of being pierced by a spear in the past.

The thunder rang for ten days and ten nights, and it rained for ten days and ten nights in the human world.

Every day, divine servants brought food and water to Diana, but no one ever told her what Apollo was going to do.

Her strength has gradually disappeared, and she is no different from ordinary humans.

Apollo still did not come back.

When Diana had almost given up any hope, a piece of news came like a bolt from the blue.

Apollo, the sun god, rebelled and was deprived of his position by Zeus and left in the human world, where he has never been seen since.

The moment the oracle was promulgated, the golden curtain of light outside the Temple of the Sun collapsed, pouring down like a waterfall, and there was no trace of it.

Diana was stunned for a moment before she realized that she reached out to grab Hermes who was delivering the message, but Hermes disappeared in an instant.She remembered Apollo's last consoling smile, and heard Daphne shouting "impossible" hoarsely beside her, she sat blankly for a while, and the only thought circling in her mind was: Apollo, he would do this stupid thing?

Despite the clamor of impossibility from the hairline to the tips of the toes, it happened.

Apollo, the sun god, fell.

Immediately afterwards, the second oracle came from the Temple of Thunder on the top of Olympus: the execution of the judgment was postponed for 100 years.

The doubts in Diana's heart became more and more serious. Hera heard that Hera had gone forward to question Zeus with her sword upside down, blaming him for being too dictatorial.Zeus only replied to her sullenly: Do you still want to be hung up and beaten by me?Hera shut up.Being hung on the golden chair by Zeus and whipped hard is definitely the black memory she least wants to repeat in her life.

It is also heard that Apollo suffered 120 thunderbolts in silence, and then was thrown by Zeus into the Caucasus cliff to mold.

She stumbled all the way out of the Sun Temple, but threw herself into a familiar and warm embrace.A low voice echoed in my ears, with a faint fragrance of palm flowers: "... Be careful."

Daphne's faint voice came from behind: "His Royal Highness Apollo really has a heart."

"I'm just a clay puppet." The voice above his head said flatly, without the slightest fluctuation in tone.

Daphne laughed twice: "It's also fortunate that you are just a clay puppet."

Diana raised her head slowly, looked at the clay puppet that looked like Apollo, and asked cautiously, "Where did he go?"

"I'm here right?" the clay puppet said flatly, gently brushing her hair, and smiled more gently, "Come, I'll take you to a place."

Diana said hello.

Daphne's faint voice came from behind again: "Are you really just a clay puppet?"

"Just a clay puppet."

"Then what you said to me doesn't count at all?" She walked up to the clay puppet and said every word in front of Diana, "You said, your heart has long since passed away with Diana. Become cold and lonely, you will no longer love anyone. Even if I and you are just a combination of interests, you will give me everything I should have."

"No need to repeat, Daphne." The clay puppet still said flatly, "You told Hera that even if Diana came back safely, she would die again; you said you would definitely let me rebel successfully, you You might as well send the goddess of the rainbow to my bed in the form of Diana... You have always lived only for yourself, Daphne. Whether it is me or Hera, in your eyes, it is a chess piece that can be manipulated .”

Daphne's face changed slightly.

"There is no place in the world where the sun doesn't shine." The clay puppet leaned over and hugged Diana, its eyes as blue as the sea were full of tenderness, "Let's go."

A word flashed through Diana's mind: death escape.

Immediately afterwards, the second word flashed: This is a series, a game within a game.

Then, she almost stared at the clay puppet that was exactly the same as Apollo: Is it necessary to be so troublesome?

Then, she silently crossed out the first word that flashed in her mind and replaced it with a new word: acting.

Whether it is Apollo or Zeus, they are all acting.As for the pharaoh who had just been promoted to a god in the human world, he just happened to be a setting board in this scene.

Zeus is playing a big game of chess.

Apollo followed his tricks, solved Daphne's trick, turned around and set up a second trick, and he didn't know if it was for her, Hera, or some other god...

What a mess!

Diana rubbed the center of her brows vigorously, and habitually felt that the 286 processor really couldn't process the data of the quad-core GPU.She stayed in the human world for 18 years, and she knew almost nothing about what happened in the god world during those 18 years.It was true when Apollo fell into madness, and it was true that Apollo was rebellious, but the biggest advantage of Apollo is that it is easy to let reason overwhelm impulse, and then make the most correct choice.

Even for this reason, he did not hesitate to keep her in the dark and made a quite realistic scene.

It was almost evening when the clay puppet carried her down Mount Olympus.Helios, the sun god, parked his chariot on the west coast, and then returned to Olympus without stopping, just in time to intercept Apollo, no, a clay puppet.

"Your Highness is leaving again?" Helios' eyes were full of sincerity.

The clay puppet gave a faint "hmm".

"Then Your Highness..."

"From now on, you are the only Sun God, until I come back." The clay puppet looked down at Diana, and continued, "But Zeus seems to have sentenced me to life."

Helios froze for a moment, his expression twisted, he didn't know whether to express happiness or regret.

"Zeus won't embarrass you in a short time, even if you make some small mistakes." The clay puppet gradually walked away with Diana in his arms, and his voice gradually faded away, "Because he has been very busy recently and has a headache... …busy about planting seeds in the world, creating demigods…”

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The place where the clay puppet took her was actually a small room in Miletus.

It was already midnight, but the room was filled with wonderful chord sounds.Diana listened carefully, and could vaguely distinguish the seventh chords, but she couldn't tell what they were playing.The clay puppet led her to push the door in, went straight to the innermost chair and sat down, picked up a golden harp, and played it in harmony with the surrounding vocal music.

"This is..." Diana was a little startled.

"It's a chord," a bearded man explained.Then, pointing to the large and small regular pentagrams painted in black in the room, he said in a poetic tone, "Oh—look how wonderful they are! Wonderful golden rectangles, wonderful gold Segmentation, the wonderful regular pentagram! Strange lady, you must not know that each side of the regular pentagram is calculated from a golden rectangle!"

"Of course I know." Diana has already vaguely guessed what this place is. "Including chords, including perfect circular planetary orbits, and including the entire world that can be constructed with human beings, they are full of mathematical beauty."

The bearded man looked at her in astonishment, with a hint of admiration in his eyes: "As expected of a member brought by His Highness himself."

Diana sighed, looked at the clay puppet, and asked it, "Why did you bring me to the secret meeting place of the Pythagorean school?"

"I wanted to bring you here a long time ago." The clay puppet smiled calmly, "After you told me those wonderful theories. Colonis, from now on, you will sit on my left hand On the side..."

The music all around stopped.

The young man who was scribbling on the wall turned his head in astonishment, and let out a "huh" in astonishment.

Diana was shocked to find that the boy was an acquaintance——Architas who solved the double cube problem.

Immediately afterwards, she found that everyone present - almost all members of the Pythagorean school - were looking at her with horrified eyes, and even the crystal ball rolled to the ground, and no one picked it up .

[The left hand side of the male host is usually the position of the hostess. 】

"And." The clay puppet stood up slowly, with an unquestionable majesty in its tone, "Reject all objections."

Diana laughed dryly: "I don't understand music theory."

"It's okay, I can teach you." Apollo is the god of music in charge of music theory.

Diana continued to laugh dryly: "This is too abrupt."

"It's not obtrusive at all." The clay puppet looked around slowly, and still said in an unquestionable tone, "The parchment scroll I brought you last time came from her hand."

Everyone looked at Diana in unison again, with a hint of admiration in their eyes.

Diana's facial nerves twitched happily a few times: "That's just what I heard by chance."

"But you can explain them." Architas stepped forward, with one hand behind his back, and the other hand took Diana's hand, and kissed lightly on the back of her hand, "No one will inherit it because of Plato. Doubting the greatness of Plato instead of Socrates. We sincerely invite you to join us, Your Royal Highness Princess Koronis."

Diana looked up at the clay puppet in a daze, and the clay puppet's eyes were full of encouragement.

She pulled out her hand little by little, took half a step sideways, and raised her skirt to salute: "Thank you, Your Highness."

"there's one more thing……"

The clay puppet put the golden harp by its feet, walked towards her step by step, lowered its head, and pressed it against her ear, and said softly, "Do you know why the twelve gods, including Zeus, hold golden scepters?"