The Dragon That Devours the World

? In 1986, the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA.

There is a blue sea on both sides, and the long bridge stretches all the way into the fog. It usually takes half an hour to finish this bridge, let alone see further away.

A light-colored hat and a gray coat on her body. The slender figure makes the girl look a little colder, but her long fiery red hair makes her a little more vigorous, and not far behind the girl is handsome and indifferent. Young people.

From the young man's point of view, this place is too open. If there are any dangerous people who can't hide at all, it is a suitable place for sniping, but not a place suitable for safe operations. For this kind of place where murder may be hidden, the young man has never come, but his female companion is particularly interested in this place, almost forcibly dragging herself here.

"Roberts, look there, it looks like a dolphin!"

The female companion seemed to have discovered something, and excitedly pulled the handsome young man's hand, and pointed her slender fingers into the sea.

The young man just glanced at it, and after seeing the water elves, he replied casually.

"Oh."

With that said, he watched the surroundings again, always vigilant for possible dangerous elements.

The more he observed, the more he felt that it was really insecure here, and regretted again why he agreed to Betty to come here.

"Roberts, Roberts, look, there seems to be a shark."

"Oh."

What a few sharks, he has eaten more sharks on the island than the girl has seen. The young man perfunctorily continued to observe the terrain.

"Roberts! Look, look! There are whales there!"

"Oh."

Whale...in the sea...below...by the way, what if someone launches an attack from under the bridge? I actually ignored this point.

If someone launches an attack from under the bridge now, can they be guaranteed to be wiped out? If it wasn't with guns but RPG-type individual firepower... the young man thought for a while, and found that he hadn't figured out a way for a while.

However, his keen intuition made him feel someone staring at him.

Turning his head violently, he saw a pair of dissatisfied eyes looking at him, and his little mouth could hang the soy sauce bottle.

"Roberts is not listening to me at all..."

"I'm just……"

Looking at the eyes that read "I'm angry if I don't comfort me", for some reason, Roberts, who usually speaks less often, suddenly awakens the male survival instinct, and he almost opens his mouth to refute.

"Lie! Liar! Big liar! Poke you, poke you, poke you..."

But I expected that the opponent raised his eyebrows and did not listen to the language at all. He stretched out his two hands, and quickly poked them toward Roberts’s armpits, belly button, and two ribs, which are vulnerable to itching and pain. He said viciously while poking.

Roberts, who was poking with two weak fingers, jumped up and down, in a panic...

After a fight, the girl with poor physical strength was already a little out of breath, and a light flush appeared on her face.

"It's time to go back."

Behind her, the young man urged the girl to go back, but the girl shook her head while looking at the sea in front of her.

"Roberts, let me see it again, look, how beautiful it is."

The setting sun gradually sets, and against the beautiful sunset, the sea is silhouetted like a rainbow of blood.

In front of Roberts, the girl who always loved to laugh and was particularly natural in both joys and angers, looking at the sunset at the moment, her face showed worries that she had never had in the past.

In the setting sun, the girl is holding on to the railing, her eyelashes trembling, her fingers that are almost transparent, and her hair is long and smooth, like a fragile porcelain doll.

"Roberts, why did you say that the sun should go down? Why can't such a beautiful sight stay at this moment?"

The girl looked sideways at the sunset, gently pulled up her hair tossed by the wind, and muttered in the sad voice.

"Could it be that all the good things in this world can only disappear? Will our happy moments finally disappear like the sunset?"

Just when the girl was sad, her catkin was gently picked up.

Lifting his head, the handsome young man held her hand in his palm and comforted softly.

"Of course not, we will always be happy together, Betty, we will always be together."

Looking at the beloved boy in front of him, the corners of the girl's mouth turned up, and the haze on her face gradually dissipated, and the girl believed him. Just looking at the sunset, the girl's eyes still had some inexplicable worry.

...

"Betty? What does all this have to do with Betty?"

Roberts couldn't help but said dumbly.

Wendy didn't answer directly, but started talking about something that seemed unrelated.

"Roberts, do you know the legend of the Holy Grail?"

"know."

Roberts nodded. The Holy Grail, the legendary cup used in the Last Supper of **** Christ, is regarded as the most respected holy relic. In many European legends, noble knights regard finding the Holy Grail as the highest goal.

"Actually... the Holy Grail was found."

Wendy said slowly.

"After the ascension of **** Christ, a group of devout believers kept the legendary Holy Grail. After that, the believers were displaced and moved to Gaul at the time to escape the pursuit of the Roman Empire. After that, a group of believers in **** The soldiers of Christ found them and protected the legendary Holy Grail. In order to protect the legendary Holy Grail, the soldiers formed a military group to protect the Holy Grail. This military group is called the Zion (Sion) Society."

"After that, the Roman Empire regarded Christianity as the state religion. The Zion Church once considered making the Holy Grail public, but due to various religious differences, this idea was ultimately not realized."

"In AD 400, the Germans invaded the western part of the Roman Empire, occupied Gaul and other places, and called themselves Franks. Zion would offer the Holy Grail to the Franks, and the leader of the Franks, the Merovingian family, converted to Christianity. , Surrendered to the Pope. A hundred years later, Charlemagne’s father, Pepin, replaced the Merovingian family, and the Frankish palace became the Frankish king. The Merovingian family who vowed to protect the Holy Grail lost power, and the Zion Society had to protect the Holy Grail alone again. safety."

"In the nearly thousand years since then, the Zion Society has changed from a military organization to a monastic-dominated monastic order, but the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusaders, and the Knights Templar... the battle for the Holy Grail lasted for a thousand years. , Never cut off."

"The Priory of Sion Mountain is sometimes strong and sometimes weak. The death of the master and the death of the elders have occurred frequently. Several times, the Holy Grail was almost lost, but in the end it still protected the safety of the Holy Grail."

"but me……"

Wendy stroked her chest, her face becoming solemn.

"I am the guardian of the Holy Grail, the Knight of the Holy Grail, and the last lock of the Priory of Sion."

Knights of the Holy Grail...

According to legend, the noble knight who possesses the Holy Grail will be given this name.

Roberts never thought that when he looked at the girl he grew up, he would have such an unknown identity.

He was silent for a while and said.

"When did it start."

"From the time I was born."

Wendy knew what Roberts was thinking, and he felt that he was deceived by the person he trusted the most.

"Guardian of the Holy Grail, this is the responsibility of blood inheritance, regardless of gender, strength or weakness. Only one person in each generation is given this responsibility. Unless the Guardian of the Holy Grail dies without leaving a new heir, he has to choose from the collateral line. , Otherwise only one of them will be chosen as the guardian of the Holy Grail."

"When I was ignorant, I was given such a mission to protect the Holy Grail as a lifetime duty."

As she said, she was silent for a while, and then murmured inexplicably.

"In the past, I have never understood why the guardians of the Holy Grail have such weird rules. The guardians of the Holy Grail do not know why. It seems that it is a genetic problem. They are all smarter and stronger than ordinary people. But even so, Sion is a hermit. It would be too strange to let a family be the last insurance of the holy grail of protection."

Then, she looked at her own hands, looked at those hands that seemed to be undoubted with ordinary people, but actually awakened the power of the dragon, thoughtfully.

"But now I want to come...maybe this is the case. My ancestors and I were both valued by the Sion Monastery because of the lineage we carried on our bodies. Perhaps in the early past, my ancestors and Xun The Mountain Priory cooperated and promised to protect the Holy Grail forever."

The earliest Zion Society was a military group composed of a group of knights. In other words, a group of knights did not choose to slay the dragon as in the legend, but chose to reach a certain deal with their ancestors who were suspected to be giant dragons?

Time flies, the descendants of the dragon become no different from ordinary people, but this ancient mission has been passed down.

Perhaps the old master who died knows the reason for this mission. The masters of the Priory of Sion also seem to have their own special secrets, so no master has ever questioned this ancient mission, but the truth is no longer. know.

And what kind of legend is between a group of knights and their ancestors, I am afraid no one will ever know.

"Then what does all this have to do with Betty."

Hearing this, Roberts still did not understand Betty's role in it.

Wendy closed her eyes and said.

"The Holy Grail does not mean a cup. The Holy Grail is alive. The Holy Grail is a living human being."

"Humanity???"

Listening to this statement in amazement.

Faced with Roberts' astonishment, Wendy asked rhetorically.

"What do you think is the Holy Grail?"

What is the Holy Grail?

Roberts didn't know how to answer for a while, and replied a long time later.

"A cup of wine that symbolizes the blood of **** Christ."

This is the most extensive and basic interpretation of the Holy Grail. In the Last Supper, **** Christ asked the disciples to share the red wine symbolizing their own blood and the holy bread symbolizing their own flesh. The cup that the disciples enjoyed was the Holy Grail.

Wendy nodded.

"Yes, the cup containing the blood of **** Christ, the Holy Grail is a container with the blood of **** Christ, that is... a woman with the blood of **** Christ."

"The Holy Grail is the descendant of **** Christ."

Roberts didn't know what to look on for a while, but Wendy whispered the ancient eulogy that had been passed down by the monastery for thousands of years.

This eulogy has been read by Leonardo da Vinci, Newton has read it, and many people have read it. These many people only protect the sacred bloodline.

"...You are the one who knows the destiny, you are the one who sees the secrets, inherit the ancient blood, and keep the ancient loyalty..."

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"In 1968 ~www.readwn.com~ was born in England a red-haired girl of British descent. This girl was called Betty. Externally, she was claimed to be the child of the master of the Priory of Sion. She has been hidden by Sion since she was born. The convent was protected, and only a few people in the Priory of Sion knew her true identity."

"The girl spent eighteen years in solitude. She had no worries about food and clothing, went to a special church school to study, enjoyed treatment that a princess could not enjoy, and had an extremely superior life. But she had no friends and was not allowed to do any dangerous things. You must block the streets when you go out, and all the people who come into contact with her have been carefully screened. She is extremely lonely and there is only one... who is not a friend to accompany her."

"She envied the children who can play football, rock climbing, and travel, but she can only watch that. Everyone thinks she is a princess, but only she knows that she is just a prisoner without chains."

"So one day, she begged me, this person who is a guard and barely half a friend, hope she can take herself out of this invisible cage..."

With that, Wendy looked at Roberts in front of him and said word by word.

"Then... she met you."