I didn't know you were such a vampire

The story of Count Dracula has become a household name in later generations. It was originally a Romanian folklore. It was written into a novel by Irish writer Bram Stoker in the [-]th century, and was later adapted into a movie.Count Dracula in the movie is eerie and terrifying, and he only picks young beauties to start. It can be said that he was a quite successful horror movie character in that era.

Until "400 Years of Surprise" came out, the handsome and infatuated Count Dracula played by Gary Oldman swept away the image of vampires in film and television works over the past 100 years, and turned a horror movie into a living one. Romance.

However, Vlad III, the prototype of Count Dracula in history, was also quite famous in Italy at this time.

After the demise of the Western Roman Empire, Romania was successively occupied by other countries. At the beginning of the fifteenth century when Vlad III was born, Romania was oppressed by the Ottoman Empire and almost reached the point of annexation.He was the son of the prince of the Principality of Wallachia in Romania. He was sent to the Ottoman Empire as a hostage. After his father and brother were assassinated, he returned to Wallachia.During his rule in Wallachia, he refused to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire. When the Ottoman Empire came to pay tribute and refused to take off his hat, he ordered his hat to be nailed to his head, and people were crucified alive.

Of course, he is most famous for, when the Ottoman Empire led the army to attack Wallachia, he used wooden stakes to wear Ottoman prisoners of war from the bottom/body to the top of the skull, and then hung these corpses on the road that the enemy must pass through on both sides.

And because of this, he gained the title of "Puncture Grand Duke", and was rumored to have a disease of madness at the sight of blood, which became the source of the legend of "vampire" in later generations.

And such a tyrannical and bloodthirsty ruler is actually a devout Catholic.

Qiao Ya just started, and said that the protagonist of this story is a victorious general who is famous for his tyranny. Someone sat up straight and said with a look of panic: "Could it be that famous Wallachia" Impaling the Grand Duke'?"

It seems that although Vlad III has passed away for more than 20 years, there are still legends about him in the world.

"It's not that one." Qiao Ya said with a smile, "I believe everyone is familiar with that story, and I don't need to say it. Everyone can recite his legend by heart, and since it is a story, it must not appear in the A character in the history books."

"So?"

Qiao Ya paused for a while, and said, "Everyone knows about the Peloponnesian War, right?"

Because Vlad III just passed away 20 years ago, it was too close to this time, so she planned to change the era of this story, so she moved the Peloponnesian War nearly 2000 years ago, This is also a fairly famous war. Almost all Greek city-states participated in this war, which directly affected the fate of Greece.

This is the history of war that every nobleman has learned from history books or heroic epics since childhood. However, as soon as Qiao Ya finished speaking, she felt a gaze that was so intense that it was hard to ignore that it fell on her like a knife.

She turned her head slightly to meet Caius' eyes.

The ruby ​​radiance of those eyes was even stronger, the little bit of chill pervaded again, and there was a little more exploration.

She didn't know that the Peloponnesian War, which happened more than 2000 years ago, had any special significance to Caius, but she understood why the black-haired young man said that it would be easier to attend the rally without Caius some.

Although this person looks young, he has a coercion beyond his age, especially his eyes.

I don't know how Piero made fun of Qiaoya with his eyes.

Qiao Ya turned her head and continued: "In the Peloponnesian War, one side was the Delian League headed by Athens, and the other side was the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta. The protagonist of the story grew up in Athens. Village, because his hometown was brutally raped by the Spartan army, he decided to join the army, let's call him Ares. He is indeed like a god of war, strong and mighty, invincible."

"He has a very beautiful wife, in his opinion, even more beautiful than Helen who destroyed Troy, and the two love each other very much. Whenever he goes out to fight, his wife waits at home, and when the news of his triumphant return arrives In the city, she rushed to the gate of the city early to wait for her returning husband."

"After Athens rejected Sparta's peace proposal, Lysander succeeded Sparta as the commander-in-chief, re-aligned with the Persian prince Cyrus the Younger, obtained a large amount of military funds, and hired Athens' naval oarsmen. At that time, the finances of Athens had reached the point of desperation. When Ares embarked on the journey again, the military expenditure was insufficient, the hearts of the people were scattered, and the army needed to raise money and food on the spot. The Spartan spies who infiltrated Athens spread negative information everywhere, and for a time The people of Athens are terrified."

"At this time, Lysander took advantage of the commander to raise military funds, and fought an ambush at the Battle of Nottingham, captured fifteen Athenian warships, and sunk seven of them. The Athenian navy commander Alcibiades lost power, and Ari The news spread back to Athens, and everyone said that Ares died in Notium, and when his wife heard the news, she jumped into the Ilyssos River and waited for Ares to rush back to Athens. All I saw was the wet body of my wife."

After Qiaoya finished speaking, she saw that the people sitting opposite her looked at her with wide eyes, as if they were a little shocked, but Caius still looked at her with such probing eyes.

"Then...and then?" Piero asked.

Qiao Ya lowered her eyes and said: "The Battle of Notim was defeated, the coach Alcibiades lost power, and fled directly to Thrace, but Ares, who had recovered his life from the war and returned to his hometown of Athens, was defeated. He was cast aside by the people of Athens, and even the body of his wife who died for love was put on the square to be insulted. In the square, he hugged his dead wife, resisting the insults of the people and the request to put him to death, Desperate and angry, he has been betrayed by the hometown he desperately wanted to protect, and even the person who loved him the most in the world died. The heads of the statues of the gods were chopped off."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard several gasps.

In Greece at that time, there was absolute belief in the gods. When Athens decided to expedition to Sicily, the general Alcibiades was suspected of destroying the face of the statue of Hermes, and he was convicted of blasphemy, which made him turn against Goss. bada.

In this story, Ares directly chopped off the head of the statue of Apollo.

In fact, this passage can be traced to historical data. When Joya was looking through the classics in the Orsini Palace, she saw that the head of a god statue in the Temple of Apollo was chopped off during the time when Sparta invaded Athens. It caused quite a commotion at the time.

However, it was a period of war, and it is impossible to test who did it, but Juan said with a smile, it seems that the beliefs of the Greeks were not sincere. After several wars in Italy, the Holy See still sat firmly in Rome, and never I heard that someone's cross was overturned to the ground.

"That's the Greek sun god." Piero murmured, "He actually cut off the head of the sun god statue, isn't that..."

"Blasphemy." Joya said, "but from the moment he felt betrayed by Athens, he had no faith."

"He made a deal with the devil, in exchange for his own soul, in exchange for the power of revenge." Qiao Ya exhaled and said, "And because he betrayed Apollo, the sun god, from now on he can only lie down Comes out at night, feeds on blood, never sees the sun. Like a mouse in the shadows, lives forever."

"Then, the Delian League was defeated, and the Peloponnesian League headed by Sparta won, but the Balkan Peninsula gradually went from prosperity to decline, until Rome invaded the Balkan Peninsula, and finally brought Greece into its pocket. Reese watched all this, and even promoted the destruction of Athens, which was his revenge. However, after the destruction of Athens, he found that he was still living alone in the world. Only then did he know that what so many people pursue Immortality, in fact, is meaningless when it is really obtained. He will always maintain the appearance of his own blasphemy. He cannot stay in one place for more than ten years, cannot touch the sun, and cannot eat like a human being. He has struggled in this world for countless years. Thousands of years, until more than 2000 years later, he saw a woman exactly like his former wife."

When Qiao Ya said this, she stopped, and Piero, who was sitting beside her, was already urging: "What happened after Ares saw a woman who was exactly like his wife?"

Several other youths also patted the table and shouted: "Is that woman his wife? Has he found the meaning of life again?"

Under the urging of everyone, Qiao Ya turned her head slightly, looked at the sky, then smiled and said, "It's time for evening prayer."

Piero blinked: "Prayer time... what's wrong?"

Qiao Ya slowly reached out and took off the laurel wreath on her head, then stood up and said, "It's time for evening prayers, and I'm no longer the queen, so the story..." There was a rare trace of love in her voice. Naughty, "Of course I can't continue talking."