Chapter 378: The Death of the Temple Spirit and the Thirteen Bronze Bells
"Uh, this ......" Golden Mask question, Richard couldn't answer. He really couldn't answer, he knew very little about the Golden Maskโeven less than the Golden Mask itself. Now that the Golden Mask has no answers, how can he have an answer.
"Whew-"
Richard exhaled lightly and tried to comfort the golden mask, "Have you heard of the three major questions of life?"
"Huh?"
"There are three philosophical problems in life, namely: Who am I, where do I come from, Where am I going? โ
"So ......"
"So what I'm trying to say is, you don't know who you are, where you come from, but you can choose where you want to go โ you have a future. Now that you have forgotten the past, it is better to think about how to live in the future, so that it will be a new you. Richard said.
"......" The golden mask was silent, a long silence, and half a sound, first the voice was very low, then higher and higher, "No...... No! You're not right! Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going? If I don't even know who I am, I don't even know where I'm from, do I need to go somewhere? Become a new me, is it still me, or is it another stranger?"
"This ......"
"Ahh
The more the Golden Mask spoke, the more agitated he became, until he finally let out an almost roaring shout, and then the sound stopped abruptly.
Richard raised his eyebrows, suddenly had a bad premonition, and quickly touched towards the golden mask, only to find that the golden mask hanging on the wall was already cold.
"Bang bang!"
Richard tapped his finger on the exterior of the Golden Mask, and the Golden Mask did not respond.
"Bang bang!"
Richard struck hard, but the golden mask still didn't respond, like a dead thing.
This......
"So...... In the end, he ended up with the same fate as the previous book spirit of "The Chapter of Monroe"?"
Richard thought, his lips pursed slightly, and there was something strange in his heart.
The collapse of the book spirit said that it was his problem, and he admitted it, but now that it was said that the collapse of the temple spirit golden mask was also his problem, he wanted to deny it.
To be honest, he didn't plan to kill the golden mask just now, after all, the other party was already miserable enough - not only was the palace he guarded demolished by him, but he was often bullied by Pandora - the sheep were bald by the wool, and he couldn't bear to slaughter the sheep for meat.
Besides, if he really wants to kill the other party, the method is very simple - just put it in the furnace and melt it into a gold ingot, and it doesn't have to be so troublesome at all.
Therefore, he really wanted to enlighten the other party, and it would be even better if he was lucky enough to get some information about "Stockholm" from the other party.
However...... Who knew it would end like this.
"Whew-"
Richard sighed, shook his head, straightened the gold mask hanging on the wall, and turned to walk out.
After spending more than a week and not getting any information about "Stockholm" from the Golden Mask, he decided to think of something else.
......
And if you want to find a way from other places, there are actually two places - the library of the White Rock Tower Academy, and the scholar Surates.
Without much hesitation, Richard left the world inside the box and headed for the White Rock Tower Academy.
......
After coming to the White Rock Tower Academy again, Richard keenly found that the buildings that had been destroyed before had been almost repaired, and the entire White Stone Tower did not show any damage, as if it had never been attacked.
But behind the complete building, Richard felt a somewhat oppressive atmosphere, with grief, hatred, worry and horror in it, which made people a little breathless.
When he looked up, Richard saw that it was overcast, and many lead clouds were densely piled up, pressing the sky very low, as if he could touch it with his feet and his hand.
"Is it the weather?" Richard muttered, not thinking much about it, and turned and walked into the library.
In the library, Richard kept flipping through books, but he couldn't find any books related to "Stockholm" for most of the day, and he was in a bad mood.
After that, Richard deliberately found Ruth, the princess of the Black Sacred Mountain who had been avoiding him, to inquire, and the other party said very frankly that he didn't know, and Richard's mood couldn't help but be worse.
Seeing Richard's gloomy face, Ruth said with a frightened face, she really didn't know, what she said was the truth, even if she was treated in some special way, it would be this answer.
Richard observed the other party with a micro-expression, and after making sure that he was not lying, he left the other party disappointed. Richard then returned to the library, and with the last glimmer of hope, he rummaged through the books for the second time, hoping that there would be the books that he had flipped through before.
Gro was also in the library at this time, and saw that Richard was busy and offered to help.
But two people together, and it also did not change the brutal fact - there really were no books about "Stockholm" in the library.
Toward the end of the evening, Richard gave up, pulled Gro to stop looking for the books, and sat down at a table to the side.
Groh spoke up and asked curiously, "Your Excellency Richard, what are you looking for books about 'Stockholm' for?" and what does 'Stockholm' mean?"
"Uh, what's that...... Actually, it's nothing, it's just an ancient language that I've been researching recently. Richard said, not wanting Gro to know too much, after all, it would be no good for the other party to know, and the next moment he took the initiative to divert the topic, "By the way, how about the academy recently, or the White Rock Tower? Is it still as bad as before?"
"Well, what's this......" Listening to Richard's words, Gro's mouth opened and closed, and he was about to say something, when suddenly a huge brass bell rang outside the library.
"Boom!"
Richard looked up subconsciously and looked outside, his eyes blinking.
Got out of class?
Although he was an absolute "bad student" and spent very little time in the White Rock Tower Academy, he still remembered the most basic rules of the academy.
The White Rock Tower Academy has always used bronze bells to announce the time of work and rest, and there are two kinds of bronze bells: dull bells and crisper bells.
The dull brass bell represents the end of a lesson, and the crisp brass bell represents the beginning of a new lesson.
Is class over?
Richard guessed in his heart, and suddenly raised his eyebrows, because he found that the ringing copper bell was different from the dull copper bell he had heard, and it was also different from the crisp copper bell, but ......
"Boom!"
At that moment, the second brass bell rang.
"Boom!"
The third tone.
"Boom!"
Fourth tone.
"Boom!"
Fifth Voice......
The sound of the bronze bell was gloomy and cold, and there was a bit of solemnity in the coldness, ringing and ringing continuously......
......
"Boom!"
The last bronze bell dissipated, and Richard counted in his heart: "Thirteen." โ
Thirteen! Thirteen bronze bells!
Richard frowned.
In the modern earth of the Western world, thirteen has always been a bad, taboo number.
The reason for this comes from the legend that on the 13th day of Nisan (the first month of the Jewish Hebrew calendar, between March and April in the Western calendar), Jesus had dinner with his disciples before his death. There were 13 people at the dinner, Jesus and the 12 disciples, and the 13th person was Judas, a disciple of Jesus, who sat on the 13th seat, and then betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, and tortured Jesus.
Also taboo in the West is the number "666".
According to legend, it took God 7 days to create the world, a week is 7 days, 7 is perfect, and 6 without 1 is imperfect. Three imperfect 6 in one is extreme imperfection, evil, great contempt for God, Satan!
Although there are no major religions and no legends of God in the current world, numbers such as 13 and 666 are considered ominous โ 13 for death and 666 for darkness.
Richard wondered why the White Stone Tower suddenly struck the number 13 with a bronze bell.
Just as he was wondering, Richard noticed that the students in the library were all standing up, looking out of the library with their necks crossed, and the next moment they ran out in one go, as if something big had happened.
This is!