Wearing Pandora is swollen and broken [Greek mythology]

After a frantic lunch break, the brigade marched to their destination again.

All afternoon they traversed a canyon.The exposed granite and soil layers have a dull color, only a few low plants and a few tenacious trees are dotted among them.

When the sky darkened, they finally walked out of the canyon.Epimetheus led them to a small river, and decided to camp near its bank.

"It's best to find a pine tree that has just fallen. You can build a temporary nest directly in the gaps between the pine branches. If there is no one, we can sleep in the open air. The weather is not too cold, and the animals will not come close to the fire. .” Pan Duoduo jumped off the back of the bull and looked around to find a suitable camp.

"Dodo, you said fire? But we didn't bring the kindling?" Epimetheus was very puzzled when he heard her words.

"Uncle, this woman can easily get flames from wood." Xiao Douding explained with a complicated face.That's right, the scene of her lighting a fire by the stream spring is still vivid in my mind.

"Diudiu, call me sister, be polite!" Epimetheus took his nephew off the back of the bull and corrected him seriously.

Deucalion: ...is it time to concern yourself with titles?Shouldn't you continue to be amazed that woman can make fire like Vulcan?

Pan Duoduo, who was watching the actions of the uncle and nephew over there, smiled, and walked over to rub the child's head: "When you lose it, remember to help my sister pick up the twigs, otherwise, if my sister can't light the fire, we can only eat it raw A rabbit hunted on the road."

Seeing her kind smile, Xiao Douding shuddered.Is this threatening him?right?But she looks so scary... woo...

So he quickly nodded obediently, "Okay, sister, I'll go pick it up now, and keep enough for you." After finishing speaking, he ran away with oil on the soles of his feet.

Pan Duoduo raised her voice and warned: "Don't go out of our sight!"

"it is good!"

"Diudiu is really a hardworking, well-behaved and caring boy." Pan Duoduo turned her head and smiled at Epimetheus, without any sense of guilt for using child labor, "I see that there seems to be a ready-made pine tree over there. Let's go with the cow."

"Okay." Epimetheus nodded, and asked curiously: "But, can Dodo really get fire out of wood?"

Pan Duoduo smiled when she heard this, "Just wait and see!"

Their luck was indeed good. The fallen pine tree was relatively large, and its branches had not completely decayed, supporting a space similar to a tetrahedron.Epimetheus tied the cow to a nearby tree, and took off the luggage from the cow's back, while Pan Duoduo cleaned up the excess branches, trying to expand the space under the trunk a little.

When the packing was almost done, Little Bean Deucalion also came back to them with a pile of dry branches.Pan Duoduo took out the fire-making suit prepared in advance from a rattan frame, and was about to start making fire.

"Can fire be made with this thing?" Ametheus looked at the wooden trough and the thin velvet-like wood flowers, but no matter how he looked, he couldn't see the shadow of the fire.

"Uncle, you just watch it honestly!" Xiao Douding, who had already observed how to make fire by drilling wood, said with some old gods.

"Oh."

With the first experience, Pan Duoduo is obviously more proficient this time.She quickly rubbed the wooden trough with the hardwood, and carefully blew air when a wisp of green smoke rose from the wood wool, and soon a flame burst out.

"Wow!" Epimetheus's clear emerald green eyes were shining brightly under the warm orange fire light, and he was obviously shocked by the scene in front of him, "Duoduo! This is really fire! Could it be that you Do you also have the power of fire?"

"It's fire." Pan Duoduo added dead branches and leaves to the flame to make it burn more vigorously, "but I don't have the power of fire, and this is not lit by divine power. If the method is right, everyone can Can light a fire like I do."

"Everyone?" Under the dancing flames, the young Shenzi was in a daze.

"Yeah, everyone, or every god. Would you like to try it?"

"Can I?" He turned his eyes away from the only light on the dark land, and stared at the girl who created that light.

"Of course, what's wrong?" The blond girl assured him.

Next, under the guidance of the girl, not only Epimetheus, but also the little bean Deucalion successfully obtained the fire with the fire tool.In the end, both uncles and nephews sat around the fire they created with their own hands and roasted the rabbits they hunted today.

By the time dinner was over, neither the elder nor the younger could recover from the fact that they had created the tinder with their own hands.

Pan Duoduo couldn't see her eyes. She came back with three pears that had been washed by the small river, and stuffed one into each of the big and small hands. ?"

The feeling of icy pear skin came from the palm, which made the wandering mind gather back a little.These pears were picked on a relatively low cliff in the canyon, and the land where they grew probably was relatively barren, and they were all a bit small.

Epimetheus subconsciously picked it up and took a bite, his handsome face was so sour that his face was distorted, and he couldn't be more sober at once.

"Duoduo, it's so sour." Shenzi felt aggrieved.

Pan Duoduo ate the sour pear without changing his expression, "The sour point will help you wake up."

Epimetheus looked down at the pear that was bitten out in his hand, "It's like a dream tonight... Dodo actually passed on the power of fire you possess to me and Diudiu ..."

"It's been said that it's not divine power that ignites fire, and I don't have the divine power to control fire." Pan Duoduo explained helplessly, "If I really want to say, it's not divine power that ignites fire, but science... ...."

"Science?" Epimetheus imitated Pan Duoduo's pronunciation, slowly pronounced this unfamiliar and obscure word, and asked in confusion: "What is science?"

"Hmm... how should I explain it to you?" Pan Duoduo pondered, "It's probably a bit like your brother and Athena teaching humans to build houses, make pottery, make weapons... those Ways to make life better..."

"This also sounds like a kind of divine power." Epimetheus was a little dizzy.

"It's not divine power, but... it's also a kind of power, which is different from divine power."

"The power that is not divine power...is not divine power...that's right!" Epimetheus suddenly became excited, "With the fire created by Dodo, there is no need to continue to use Zeus' fire . If we return Zeus' fire, will we be able to bring my brother back?"

Hearing this, Deucalion immediately became excited. Together with his uncle, the elder and younger stared at Pan Duoduo with piercing eyes, expecting to get a positive answer.

Pan Duoduo sighed, although she couldn't bear it, she still had to break their illusions, "I don't know Diu Diu and Zeus very well, but from what Amy and I said before, it is clear that Zeus He is by no means a god who changes his decision easily. He will not easily let go of Putidio and humans...Zeus will not be happy to see humans have the ability to control fire. He will return the fire and let God realize that humans can You can get the fire without relying on God, and it will probably only lead to deeper fear."

When little Douding Deucalion heard this, the light in his pupils dimmed, and he buried his head between his knees silently.Epimetheus was also very disappointed, but it was more of a sense of powerlessness and self-blame that he lost after seeing hope.

Pan Duoduo: ...

She knew it would be like this, but it was so.If you give them random hopes that don't exist at this moment, you will only feel more painful when the truth is revealed?

However, the big and small dogs are all like this, so she had to comfort her. She cleared her throat, and said: "Don't be sad, and think about the good side in everything! Although the method of lighting the fire can't directly save Diudi's father, but We also have one more bargaining chip. Isn’t it also to discuss with Diudi’s father this time and find a way to change the status quo? How can we be dejected before seeing him?”

She stretched out her hand and rubbed the child's soft brown curly hair, "If your father sees your frowning face, he will definitely hate you so much that he doesn't want to see you."

"You're talking nonsense!" The child raised his head to retort, his emerald green eyes were shining brightly in the light of the fire, "Dad won't despise me! He must want to see me!"

"Well," the girl patted the child on the back tenderly, "but I think he would prefer to see a smiling Diudiu."

"Really?" the child hiccupped and asked in a low voice.

The girl nodded seriously at him, "Really. But now, Diudiu is like a dirty little cat. It's time to go to the river to wash up. If it gets so dirty, it will become a little briquette that your father can't even recognize." Bar?"

Xiaodouding broke free from Pan Duoduo's hand.This woman is like this every time, and after finally moving him a little, she will change back to this annoying look the next moment.

Really annoying.

While thinking brokenly, she obediently took the toiletries and went to the small river not far away to wash up.

"Duoduo is so kind to Diudiu." Epimetheus has been staring at the girl with resentful eyes since just now, "I want Doduo to rub her hair too."

Pan Duoduo: ...Ah, I forgot that there is an adult child here.

"Okay, Amy, let's wash up and go to sleep." Pan Duoduo directly ignored the weird request of rubbing his hair, and dragged him to the creek. The border is not safe, let's hurry up and go. Besides, we have to go to bed early, and we have to hurry tomorrow."

Although he didn't get the hair-rubbing treatment he was expecting, Shenzi was still very happy to be held by the hand, and the tall and big one was led away obediently.

The clouds in the night sky are very thin, and the stars are like handfuls of gems sprinkled on the dark blue velvet, competing to shine their own light.The sound of insects chirping in the distant jungle rang out, and occasionally there were a few chirping birds, while the sound of the small river flowing slowly moistened the entire night.

Beside the fallen pine tree, a fire surrounded by stones was quietly burning, and the fire light slightly reflected a corner under the pine tree—on the thick bear skin, the child had already fallen asleep soundly, and a pair of blond-haired man and woman lay side by side , seeming to be talking in a low voice.

"Although there is a fire, will the cattle be tied outside to attract wild animals?"

"Animals usually stay away when they see fire. Don't worry, just sleep peacefully. I will wake up as soon as there is any movement, and I will protect you and Diudiu."

"It's so reliable..." the girl murmured, she yawned and closed her eyes, not noticing that in the darkness, the blush on the cheeks of Kamito next to her became a little bit thicker because of her words .

In fact, it was the first time that Pan Duoduo was a little awkward lying next to the opposite sex to sleep, but she got used to it quickly, probably subconsciously knowing that the person next to her can make people feel at ease... After a day of trekking , even if she didn't feel tired physically, she was a little tired mentally...

The sound of long breathing resounded in the dark night, the young Kamito turned his head sideways, and traced the girl's face bit by bit with the moonlight leaking from the gaps between the branches.

"Duoduo, isn't it divine power...is it science?" The young Shenzi's voice was as light as a feather, "But where did you get this power... Could it be that Olin One of the abilities Pease bestowed on you?"

The only thing that answered him was the silence that belonged to the night.

"It's not like...Zeus would never let such a method that makes it easy to control fire flow..."

"You must have a reason that I don't know...I will wait for you until the day you are willing to tell me."

The almost silent whisper was gentle and firm, like a butterfly fluttering past, without leaving any traces, submerged in the silvery moonlight.

Meanwhile, Mount Olympus.

The god of fire, Hephaestus, stands on the star-lit terrace, looking to the south.

"Hephaestus, it's really strange that you come here to see the scenery. It's not easy to see you willing to come out of your hot studio?" Hermes came closer and joked with a playful smile, "What are you looking at? So engrossed?"

"Nothing." Hephaestus rolled up his cloak, turned and left the terrace.

"It's so cold." Hermes complained, "It's so sad to leave as soon as you see me."

However, his complaints had no effect at all. The short, maroon-haired deity had already walked down the steps, leaving only a back without looking back.

"There is a situation, this is..." Hermes rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Could it be that she was dumped by that goddess again? Hee hee, it would be great if there is something interesting ! Pay attention a little bit, maybe there is another good show to watch!"

But Hephaestus frowned and limped towards his temple.

It seems to have appeared again... that kind of fire that was not made by God.

It's still small, but the breath is more heterogeneous, a bit like a god using fire, and a bit like a strange kind of fire that was born without relying on divine power...

The distance was too far, and he was a little uncertain.But... this time the fire seems to have moved, farther north than last time...

Also closer to Olympus...

Lets see......