Sitting on a gondola boat and browsing various popular landmarks in Venice through the waterway, it should be the most popular project for foreign tourists. From time to time, several gondolas full of tourists pass by quickly in the not spacious waterway. Seeing them excitedly holding up their cameras and wanting to lean half their body out to take pictures, I couldn't help feeling flustered, for fear that they would accidentally overturn the water with people and boats.

However, the boatmanship skills of the gondola are all top-notch, and the average level of the old driver of Qiu Mingshan is as good as it is. It is like a dexterous swallow on the endless waterway. Several times our boat almost slipped against the boats of other passengers. In the past, the distance was no more than two fingers wide, and the speed was extremely fast, accompanied by waves of excited screams.

I couldn’t avoid it either. I kept shooting Polaroid with my left hand and Kodak with my right hand. I wanted to include all the familiar buildings in the film, especially those piers, bricks, and reliefs that are suitable for climbing at first sight...

Ahem, I’m really ashamed. As an ordinary college student with no money and no leisure in my previous life, my first and most three-dimensional impression of the city of Venice came from the classic Assassin’s Creed stand-alone series, so many years later I watched other people’s video cloud travel. When I saw those highly restored European-style buildings in the game, my first reaction was "I have climbed this building, and there is a bird's-eye view point on it!"

Odysseus seemed to be more leisurely than me, glanced sideways, and after boarding the boat to say hello, he stopped talking and concentrated on enjoying the beautiful scenery of the water city all the way, as if this journey just happened to be with me.

Interestingly, even though this is the first time I have met Odysseus in a real sense, and his body is shrouded in countless layers of unknown fog, I have a faint feeling in my heart that he is not an evil person—maybe because The reason why he has been treating others as a doctor?

The gondola turned a corner deftly under the control of the boatman. I raised my head and saw a baroque stone bridge spanning between the two buildings. Unlike the arch bridges for pedestrians that can be seen everywhere in Venice, its position is obviously higher. There are many, and it has been built in a fully enclosed style. Only two narrow square windows are left on the side of the bridge body, but the windows have long been blocked by complex hollow fences.

This is the world-famous Bridge of Sighs (Pontedei Sospiri). Its left and right ends are respectively connected to the Doge's Palace of the Republic of Venice (Dukare Palace) and the Venice prison. Where you can see the outside world, facing the fleeting and within reach of the sky, all you can leave is a sigh.

The legends surrounding it can easily evoke people's sorrow and sadness, but with the changes of the times, the long-standing legends have gradually changed their appearance - it is said that there was a death row prisoner on the way to the prison, and the jailer moved for a moment In his heart, he was allowed to lie on the window and greedily take a few more glances at the scenery outside.However, at this moment, the death row prisoner suddenly saw his lover and another man sitting on the gondola and kissing passionately. Frightened and angry, he desperately wanted to break the window, but the exquisite eight-petal window lattice was made of It was made of thick marble, so until he died, the angry shouts could not be heard, and the blood could only dry up in the closed bridge body, and the gondola that his former lover rode was like a slender Surrounded by the current, the willow leaves passed briskly under the Bridge of Sighs, and left without hesitation.

Today, it is a "Romeo and Juliet" love story written in the travel brochure. It is said that as long as couples kiss under the Bridge of Sighs, they can reap eternal love.

When our gondola was about to pass under the Bridge of Sighs, there were at least three gondolas docked there. The couples on the boat posed in various fancy ways, and the atmosphere was so sweet that pink bubbles were flying in the air.The boatmen complained to each other in Italian and rich body language during the rare break time, to the effect that their guests were too obsessed with kissing under the Bridge of Sighs, trying over and over again just to take a perfect picture I don’t know that the greatest charm of love is the fleeting sweetness and freshness~

We didn't stay under the Bridge of Sighs, we just rowed over. I raised my camera and took a few photos on the back of the Bridge of Sighs. I complained in my heart that tourism is not bad. If there is no suitable lighting conditions, many famous tourist attractions will be lost. The effect of the on-site photos is far inferior to the intensively edited later photos. For example, the one I just washed out in my hand, the most eye-catching thing at a glance is that the buildings on both sides have been blackened by moss and water stains for many years. The main body of the Bridge of Sighs is sandwiched in the middle, but it seems very ordinary.

And... I looked down at the surface of the water. If I didn't come here in person, I probably would never know that the seemingly romantic gondola journey is basically accompanied by a faint smell of fish, especially when I turn to those gondolas. In the old alleys of the old town, the smell of the water is even more obvious.

"Humans always like to put a beautiful cloak on cruel facts."

I was stunned for a moment before I realized that it was Odysseus who was speaking. I subconsciously turned my face to look at him, and met his scarlet eyes. The vertical pupils that were not human made my heart constrict.Immediately afterwards, I saw the corners of Odysseus's mouth curled up slightly: "But I don't hate this kind of behavior... In fact, beautifying the past is the brain's self-healing method. Details, it is easy to fall into the pain that cannot be extricated."

"What do you want to say?" I didn't really want to go around in circles, so I simply showed my cards.

He laughed: "Oh, I originally hoped to have a good chat in a relatively relaxed situation. It seems that the journey of the past few months has not allowed you to really relax."

I frowned subconsciously: "From the beginning, this was your design?"

"No, you overestimate me, I am not the god of fate, and..." Odysseus slowly put the gorgeous carnival mask back on his face, "Humans seem to have always had a feeling for fate. I have a very serious misunderstanding, thinking that it is a tightly fitting and extremely precise machine, and everything in the world cannot escape the preset program, and can only go to perish along a fixed route. Moreover, there is always one or a few transcendent With its existence, it can manipulate the direction of everything in the world like chess pieces on a chessboard."

I wanted to refute his rhetoric, but then I thought about it, my time travel led to the root of the tragedy of Gemini in this era, and Garen chose to kill and replace the true General Hailong of this era, which made fate form a Closed loop, after experiencing these things, I can no longer be sure whether there is really some kind of consciousness behind it that is designing all this.

In the face of my doubts, Odysseus was quite patient, obviously he is used to facing all kinds of strange questions: "I can't guarantee that my opinion is the truth, you can use it as a reference— ——Based on my experiences and experience, destiny itself is nothingness, its essence is chaos and disorder, if you insist on comparing it to a machine, it is just an old, rusty and defective product full of errors, At any time, due to the decay of the gears, there may be misalignment or even falling off of the gears.”

I tried my best to digest what Odysseus said. According to what he said, what happened to me was not a pre-design, but a series of accidental coincidences. It is difficult to accept this statement.

A question that was almost forgotten deep in my memory emerged involuntarily—why did I come to this world?Is this also the pre-design of a certain consciousness?If people who travel to this world have never been in contact with the Saint Seiya series, or if they have not interfered with the development of the story, what will the plot look like?Is it completely in accordance with the original?Or will it still go on an unpredictable path?

"You're stunned, come back to your senses." Odysseus's melodious voice extinguished the anxiety that filled his heart, "I just said that everything you have experienced so far, They are all made up of countless unknowns and accidents.”

I don't know when the little golden snake has appeared, and it jumped up my shoulder along my arm, the tip of its kiss lightly touched my cheek, then bent up and flicked hard, and jumped directly onto the boatman who had been rowing silently. It then penetrated directly into his skin.

After a little thought, I understood the true identity of the boatman: "His Royal Highness Axo, God of Medicine?"

"Don't dare to be, you can just call me by my name, father is the same." In a burst of golden halo, Axo revealed his original appearance, and bowed to me, "I'm sorry for hiding it at the beginning. You have lost your identity, but please believe that we have no malice towards you."

I shook my head lightly: "I think doctors who treat patients and save lives are kind-hearted after all. If a doctor is forced to do something that is contrary to the "Hippocratic Manifesto", it will be the fault of the whole society. sorrow."

Odysseus' pupils dilated for a moment, but he immediately regained his composure: "I'm glad to hear this... For thousands of years, there have been fewer and fewer people who are willing to show kindness to me."

I raised my chin: "It shouldn't be? The profession of a doctor should be respected everywhere, let alone a miracle doctor like you."

"Oh, this is exactly my 'original sin'." Odysseus signaled Axo to bring the gondola to the shore, then got up and stepped onto the pier, "Let's rest in another place."

I followed his movements and stood up. The moment I stepped across the board and landed, I suddenly felt a very slight distortion in the space around me. If I hadn’t received relevant training, I might not be aware of it at all. When I stood firmly At that moment, I realized that I had stepped into a completely unfamiliar field.

Axo followed, and she also seemed surprised by the nearby scenery: "Father, are you going to eat here?"

Odysseus nodded, showing a look of nostalgia, and stretched out his hand to caress a broken white marble pillar, his eyes were far away: "The last time I saw this palace in its entirety was thousands of years ago Alright..."

I couldn't help but asked aloud: "Excuse me, what is this place?"

Odysseus replied: "This is within the scope of the Temple of Apollo on Mount Olympus, and this palace was my former residence, but it has been abandoned since I was stripped of my godhood and sent to the world. "

"Mount Olympus..." I almost bit my tongue, "The residence of the Greek gods?! Is this a place so easy to enter?!"

"If it was in the past, of course it would be impossible. But now you can see that no one will bother you here anymore." Axo came back with a delicate bamboo basket, took out a doily from it and began to walk in an open space. A tidy area was laid out on the square, and then... she actually pulled out three folding chairs and a camping folding table from the bamboo basket as if by magic!

I stared dumbfounded at Odysseus sitting down very naturally, and then his big gray curly hair moved like a snake, and he went deep into the bamboo basket and took out an astonishing amount of dishes, drinks and drinks. A table was filled, and a strand of hair curled up a glass of Coke and handed it to me, shaking happily: "Ah, you're welcome, please sit down as you like. If you want to drink something else, There is a wine opener here, but too much drinking can hurt your health."

Axo set out the last dish of fish and chips, covered his mouth and smiled lightly: "I'm sorry, I'm not very good at cooking, so I just bought ready-made food. But then again, human beings have a rich food culture today The extent has already far exceeded our imagination, and it is a bit lazy to sit back and enjoy the benefits, but it is really convenient."

Odysseus raised his legs leisurely, put on disposable gloves, and unceremoniously began to tear the finger-licking chicken in the family bucket of KFC: "Why refuse to share the advantages of other races?"

What's going on that the serious atmosphere just now turned crooked in an instant...

I complained silently in my heart, pulled the chair and sat down, picked up the chopsticks and started to sweep.

I have to admit that when I ate my mouth full of greasy food at the dinner table, basically all the barriers disappeared, and even gossip sounded particularly interesting. I licked a piece of oyster shell with relish, listening to Odysseus slowly say Come to the past that has been dusty for many years.

"I think, let's start from the beginning - during the Trojan War thousands of years ago, as a military doctor, I treated a large number of soldiers and even brought them back to life, but Zeus sent thunder on the battlefield, not only killing those dead And the resurrected human beings were all hacked to death, and I was also sent to hell."

"When I was wandering in Hades as an undead to be judged, Athena suddenly broke into the ring of Judas without saying hello to any gods of Hades, which is Hades and Persephone place to live……"

The author has something to say:

In fact, when I first wrote the outline, I considered making Shui Jing the protagonist's past life, but this violated the explanation of fate in this story-disorder and chaos, infinite variables, all those who think they can control their fate God (human) will eventually be slapped in the face.

The protagonist is not anyone's reincarnation, nor is anyone's shadow. He did come to the world of Saint Seiya out of an accident, and what he did was out of his own will. The consequences are unpredictable.

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