She received the gift of God [Greek mythology]

Pandora returned to her grandmother's old house in the countryside after being absent for more than ten years.

As a child she spent many wonderful summers in the garden of the old house.She came back this time not for the sake of nostalgia, but to handle the formalities of selling the house on behalf of her. Decided to sell the property that was neglected to repair and wasted money.But that relative couldn't get away, and Pandora, as one of the legal heirs, had to sign anyway, so she took advantage of the weekend to take the local train to make this trip.

The contract was signed very quickly, and the legal representatives of both parties were sent away. Pandora made a final turn around the house with a faint musty smell, and passed the kitchen closet with sunburn marks from old jam jars.On the top shelf was a small glass vial filled with a dark brown mysterious liquid, like over-oxidized ink, with a faded label that originally said something, but couldn't make it out.She took a look at the bottle and thought the retro design was cute, so she put it in her pocket as a souvenir.Then she pushed open the little creaking door and went into the garden.

To be honest, she expected to see a more dilapidated scene, overgrown with weeds and the like.But what caught my eyes was the slightly yellowed grass in late summer and the old oak tree that I remembered.From the place separated by a fence, the gurgling sound of the stream flowing through is not much different from that of more than ten years ago.She closed her eyes and listened to the breeze through the leaves and the fields beyond.The sun is very warm, and it is a kind of comfortable sting when it shines on the face. It is really a precious golden summer that only lasts for a while every year.

"Cough cough."

There was a sudden coughing sound.

Pandora opened her eyes in astonishment and stared even wider: a little boy appeared out of nowhere a few steps away, with blond hair and blue eyes, wearing a decent three-piece suit, with an umbrella under his arm; Or secondly, a pair of fluffy rabbit ears grew on the boy's head.

Rabbit ears, boy, old house.

She couldn't help but suspect that she was hallucinating and rubbed her eyes.

"Cough cough." The rabbit boy coughed again, as if he hadn't seen Pandora, he took out a pocket watch from the pocket of his suit vest, looked at it and exclaimed, "Oh my god, my god, I'm going to be late Already!"*

Then he ran in a hurry.

After running a few steps, he glanced back suspiciously, as if to confirm whether she was going to catch up.

Pandora followed subconsciously.The rabbit boy ran so fast that she didn't have time to think about it, so she followed him across a large field, and then... Then the rabbit boy suddenly disappeared. Before she could react, her feet were empty, and she fell into a deep and curved folded hole.

Probably a rabbit hole.

This deep hole seemed to have no end, and Pandora just kept falling, falling, falling, falling towards the unknown.The most amazing thing was that she didn't even feel scared, as if this development was a logical one.I don't know how long it has passed, but just when she doubted whether she would just pass through to the opposite side of the earth, she fell into the thick pile of dead leaves and was unscathed.She immediately sat up and looked up in trouble, no one could hear her calling for help in this place.

"cough."

Another suspicious cough, and a late line that doesn't sound too anxious:

"Oh my ears and whiskers, I'm really going to be late."*

When Pandora turned around following the sound, she only saw the figure running away.

Pandora couldn't help but said in her heart: But you don't seem to have a beard.

By the way, where the back of the bunny boy's suit jacket was forked, a white and fluffy tail was exposed, trembling with his running movements.

The Pandora Chaser Boy walked down a long, low corridor and suddenly burst into a garden.But Rabbit Boy has run away without a trace.She was a little undecided whether to advance through the garden or retreat into the corridor and try to climb up the rabbit hole.Somehow, she prefers to choose the former.

"Oh, isn't this Pandora?"

She looked back, but saw no one.

There was a chuckle from the treetops, she looked up, and finally found the person she was talking to...or another wonderful guy?It was an extremely beautiful young man, looking down at her from a high place in the tree, with a pair of cat ears growing on his head, and a long tail curled to his side, swinging lazily.The most impressive thing is his smile, which is very bright, but also inexplicably extremely bad.

"Hello," Pandora wanted to look polite, and then remembered that her skirt and hair had become a mess during the fall, and hurriedly pulled the hem of the skirt, "I don't know how I got here, do you know How can I get out of here?"

The cat boy grinned and replied: "If you want to chase the white rabbit, just go through the bushes over there."

"Uh, I'm not talking about how to leave this garden, what I want to ask is, how can I leave this place and return to the place where I originally lived..."

"Where did you originally live?"

Pandora was about to answer, but was stunned.She couldn't answer.Huh?Huh huh huh—?

"I..." She glanced back, the entrance of the corridor she just passed suddenly became as tall as her calf, she really didn't know how she passed it, did she suddenly grow taller?Or is the house getting smaller?She asked cautiously: "Mr. Cat, do you know what's going on?"

She also didn't know what the "this" in "what's going on here" refers to.She was very confused, but not panicked at all.It was as if... she had already experienced these things once.

"You are Pandora, I'm Meowlos, you just need to remember this," the laughing cat boy shook his ears, "Well, it's my kind reminder, if you don't want to be late, you can Running."

"Late? You mean, where should I go?"

Are you referring to the event that Rabbit Boy is also rushing to participate in?

Meowlos refused to answer her directly. He stroked the hair on his tail slowly and said quietly: "If you are late, the Mad Hatter will become even crazier."

"Mad Hatter?"

Pandora wanted to ask again, but the hateful cat had disappeared, leaving only his big smiling face in the air. *There was no other way, she had no choice but to lift the hem of the skirt as she said, and trot through the bushes to chase the white rabbit who didn't know where to go.

She ran straight onto a croquet field.She had never seen such strange contestants and croquet games!Soldiers in the shape of playing cards held live flamingos as bats and huddled live hedgehogs as balls. ＊The problem is that there are more than two iron hoops on the field, and the players don’t know in what order they swing their bats.I really don't know what game they are playing.The strangest thing was the sharp voice echoing on the field:

"Behead him!"

"Chop off her head!"

"Chop off their heads!"*

Pandora grabbed the card figure next to her and asked, "Who is it that keeps yelling to cut off other people's heads?"

"Oh," the other party shrugged, and the way the cards shrugged was very strange, "that's the queen."

"Where is the queen...?"

"The queen is long gone."

"Then why is she still ordering the death penalty here?"

The card man looked at Pandora seriously for the first time, and suddenly pointed at her and shouted: "It's her! It's her! It's her who ate the queen!"

The scream of the queen, who had only a voice left, became even harsher: "Cut off her head! Hurry up, cut off her head!"

All the card men suddenly dropped the flamingo and rushed towards Pandora:

"It's her! She's the one who ate the queen! Like a cupcake!"

"Chop off her head, and the queen will return, and the criminal who attempted to murder the time will receive a fair verdict!"

"No, I never—" Pandora took a step back, seeing that the situation was wrong, she turned around and started to run wildly

"Hey, if I were you, I would have slipped away a long time ago. Hahaha." A smiling voice came from the side.Before she could see Mowlos' face clearly, the cat boy flicked his tail and disappeared again, leaving only a smiling face.

Pandora got a little annoyed, and reached out to grab the afterimage of the cat's tail: "Meowlos, wait!"

But the card figures behind her were getting closer and closer. She picked up a hedgehog and threw it over, one with one row, and instantly fell a large piece. The domino card strategy is feasible!

However, a group fell, and there were still countless card soldiers chasing after them, so Pandora had no choice but to continue running wildly. In order to get rid of the card men chasing soldiers, she simply rushed into a giant mushroom forest by feeling.The thin, wide card had to be turned sideways to get between the mushrooms, but that way they couldn't see where she had gone.And from time to time, the cards will accidentally cut the mushrooms, and the angry spore shells will hit them with a bang, knocking the cards around.

Pandora didn't know how she came up with this wonderful tactic.Naturally, as if she knew how to deal with these rowdy card people.

Gradually, the cries of "cut off her head" and "it's her" could no longer be heard.

"Meowlos! Are you still there!" Pandora stopped to pant, and the cat who could only laugh disappeared when she needed him the most.Glancing out of the corner of her eye, she seemed to see something on the mushroom.Taking a closer look, a blond man wrapped in a blue robe was lying on a huge canopy of a red mushroom with white spots.If it weren't for his good looks, from a distance, his figure lying there wrapped up in one color would look like a caterpillar.The man propped his head on one elbow, and held a water pipe in the other hand, smoking silently, as if he didn't notice the thrilling chase in the mushroom forest.

"Hello, sir...?"

The man glanced at her, as if he had just discovered her, and asked quite seriously, "Pandora, what are you doing here?"

"Do you know who I am?"

"Of course I know."

"But I don't know who you are..."

This seemed to annoy the blond man, and he replied bluntly: "I am Apollo, the caterpillar sage who can see the future. You really have completely forgotten it. Tell me, what do you remember?"

It turns out...he has the self-awareness of being like a caterpillar.

Pandora looked blankly at the blue sage for a moment: "My name is Pandora...I originally came from another place. Others...I don't know what else you think I should remember. I still want to ask you, Xian Mr. Zer, Mr. Mowlos said that if I don’t hurry, I will be late, do you know where I should go?”

Apollo seemed to be even more angry: "I can't answer, you have to think for yourself!"

There are many rules for a sage.

"Are you going to that character called the Mad Hatter?" If you can't answer, you can just nod and shake your head.

The man took a puff of the hookah and exhaled a smoke ring, which seemed to be the shape of affirmation.Before she could speak, he said angrily, "I can only answer one more question for you."

Pandora didn't know where her courage came from: "One is not enough, Mr. Apollo, can two work?"

Her bargaining posture reminded Apollo of something. He became more angry and broke the hookah in the middle: "Then two questions! No more!"

Without hesitation, Pandora asked the two most important questions at the moment: "Who is the Mad Hatter? How should I go to see the Mad Hatter?"

"As long as you want to see him, you can find his house. There must be a tea party there. As for who is the Mad Hatter?" Apollo paused and smiled without a smile. madman."