After a night of healing, the effect was remarkable, and Jiang Hao's injuries recovered as before.

The two did not stay in Greece for long, let alone enjoy the scenery, and flew back to Paris the next day.

The car drove into the Crawford Manor and stopped at the gate, Horry opened the door, looked at Laura and said with a smile: "Laura, how did you get from this expedition?" ”

Laura smiled, "Then I'm afraid you'll have to ask Jon." ”

Huo Li looked at Jiang Hao, Jiang Hao smiled: "It's not bad, at least it's very exciting." ”

The two of them arrived at the large study, where the shelves were filled with all kinds of books, much more than a small library, and most of the books here were rare classics, many of them related to exploration.

The two came to the desk, Jiang Hao took out the crystal ball from his backpack and put it on the table, and the two of them lay on their stomachs to observe carefully.

This crystal ball is a slight brown color with a lot of dots on it, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will think of it as a globe at first glance, but when it comes to it, it is indeed a globe map.

"Jon, what is this, I feel like you take it very seriously." Laura asked.

Jiang Hao was silent for a moment, and then said: "There is a legend about Alexander the Great, and there is a crystal ball in that story, I suspect that this is the crystal ball, if it is really it, then we may really touch the most mysterious existence." ”

"Can you tell me about it?" Laura asked excitedly, her favorite thing was these mysterious things, which made her feel excited every time.

"Yes, you should have heard the legend of Pandora's Box." Jiang Hao said.

"Of course!"

Laura raised her eyebrows and said: "The god Prometheus stole fire from the sky and gave it to humans, and humans learned to use fire, Zeus was very angry, and in order to counteract the great benefits that fire brought to mankind, Zeus decided to let disasters also befall the world.

He ordered his son, Hephaestus, the god of fire, to make a woman out of clay, and then all the sons and daughters of Zeus came and dressed the woman, and the god of fire woven a golden hairband for her, and the goddess of wisdom put a flower crown on her, and the goddess of love bestowed on her all kinds of charming charms, and the messengers of the gods taught her to speak all kinds of beautiful languages.

Zeus named her "Pandora", which means "the one who is granted all merit". Zeus gave Pandora a sealed box full of scourges, calamities, and pestilences, and asked her to give it to the man who married her, and Prometheus' brother Epiteus married the beautiful Pandora, and brought the box with him.

Pandora has always had great curiosity about the box, and finally one day she couldn't help but be curious, opened the box, and suddenly a cloud of smoke rushed out, and the disease, jealousy, greed, disaster, plague, sorrow, disaster, love, etc. hidden in the box were all released, and mankind was tormented from then on.

Love?

Yes, it's love.

Love has its best side, but when she reveals her evil side, you will find that love is more tormenting than all other disasters.

She will prick the most painful knife in your softest place, you will pierce your heart with thousands of arrows, you will not want to live, that is just your own business, others will not feel the slightest, and the wound of love can never be healed.

There is no medicine to cure her in the world, maybe you will say, time can cure everything, no, you are wrong, in fact, it is just self-deception, she just precipitated, sank into the deepest part of her heart, I don't know when, maybe just a sentence, a familiar scene, she will turn up from the bottom of her heart, want to clarify the heart lake, I am afraid it will take a long, long time.

By the time you are dying, money has long been left behind by you, and what flashes in your mind is always those pictures that have made you love, hurt, and hurt.

It is said that there is one more thing in Pandora's Box that has not been released, and that is hope.

Could it be that the world is hopeless now?

Is there really no hope?

Jiang Hao nodded, "That's right, this is the legend of Pandora's Box, thousands of years ago, a pharaoh got Pandora's Box in a place called "Cradle of Life", and opened the box out of curiosity, their country ushered in plagues and disasters, and the Pharaoh was afraid of the power of the box, and sent his son to send it to the farthest place in the world to be buried, India. ”

More than 2,000 years later, Alexander the Great also got Pandora's box, although he had heard the legend of the box, but still couldn't help but be curious to open him, when he was in India, his army and the local people had a great plague, heavy losses, Alexander the Great was very jealous of Pandora's box, afraid of bringing disaster again, so he ordered it to be sent back to the place where he was first founded, located in the "cradle of life" in the African savannah. ”

However, Alexander the Great left a clue to find Pandora's Box, and he asked the priest to make only a map out of crystals, which concealed the location of the "Cradle of Life", and as long as he cracked the map, he could find Pandora's Box. ”

Laura's eyes widened, "You mean, this is the crystal ball that holds the map?" ”

"Possibly, being placed on the top of the statue of Alexander the Great is in itself a testament to his extraordinaryness." Jiang Hao said.

"How do you crack that?" Laura said with some excitement.

Jiang Hao remembered that in the movie, Laura found a computer master and found a way to activate the crystal ball, so as to learn the location of the 'source of life'.

"We guess we're looking for a computer whiz." Jiang Hao said.

Laura smiled and said, "I happen to know a guy who is a genius in computers and mechanics, and his name is Bryce. ”

Jiang Hao naturally knows Bryce, she is Laura's partner, and she has been working as a technical support for Laura.

"Then try with him." Jiang Hao said.

The two came downstairs to eat, and Horry would only serve the food to the servant, and said with a smile when pouring wine for Jiang Hao: "Mr. Jon, you are looking for a housekeeper, I have sorted out the information in the past few days, you can read it at any time." ”

"Thank you so much, Horry." Jiang Hao thanked.

After eating, Laura called Bryce, and Jiang Hao looked through the housekeepers that Horry was looking for, and Horry next to him also introduced: "According to your situation, I didn't consider junior housekeepers, and the ones I helped you find are all middle and senior housekeepers." ”

After picking a circle, Jiang Hao pointed to a housekeeper named Steven and said, "I think this is good." ”

Horry smiled, "I have to say that Mr. Jon, you have a very good eye for choosing people, and Steven is the most suitable person to serve you." ”

"Then it's decided, Horry, please help me inform him, I have time to see him tomorrow afternoon, and then go directly to my manor." Jiang Hao said.

"No problem."

......

In the afternoon, a skinny guy appeared at Crawford Manor.

"Hi Laura, hi Horry, this must be Mr. Jon, I heard Laura mention you, I'm Bryce." Bryce introduced himself very well.

"Bryce, I want you to do me a favor and hack something with computer technology." Laura said.

"No problem, that's my specialty." Bryce said.

When Bryce saw the crystal ball that Laura took out, he looked confused, "That's what you asked me to crack." ”

"Yes, it's supposed to be a map, and we want to see what secrets he's hiding." Laura said.

Bryce scratched his head, "OK, I can try, 3D image cracking, internal photography, spectral radiation testing, etc., but it takes a lot of equipment to do these experiments." ”

At this moment, Jiang Hao opened his mouth and said: "Bryce, Laura and I are now obsessed with exploration, I think we will definitely use a lot of computer knowledge and technical support in the future, are you interested in joining our team?" ”

"Me, join your team, are you going to hire me?" Bryce asked curiously.

"The salary is definitely there, starting at £50,000 a year, and as for the equipment or something, we will fully support it, as long as it is useful for the expedition." Jiang Hao said.

An annual salary of 50,000 pounds is a high salary for anyone, Bryce now works for a cybersecurity company, and the annual salary of 50,000 is higher than his current salary, Bryce immediately became interested, "If you don't need my help, can I do some of my own research, of course, I will pay for the research myself." ”

"Absolutely." Jiang Hao said.

Bryce clapped his palms and shouted, "Then it's decided, I've long been tired of the company's various frameworks, and now I'm free, I'll leave the matter of cracking to me, and I'm sure I'll give you a satisfactory answer." ”

Crawford Manor was very large, and Bryce made a large room on the first floor to serve as his own research room, began to buy various technological equipment, and began to crack the crystal ball.

Jiang Hao has watched the movie and knows that the 'Pandora's Box' is in Africa, in the Kilimanjaro Mountains, but the specific coordinates are not given in the movie, the Kilimanjaro Mountains are too big, there is no specific location, I am afraid that I may not be able to find the cave called the "Source of Life" in my lifetime.

......

After dinner, Laura changed into loose clothes, very casual, and walked hand in hand with Jiang Hao in the back garden of Crawford Manor, lawns, lakes, ancient trees, rose gardens, waterfalls, etc., a group of natural scenery, full of rural pastoral scenery, beautiful.

The estate purchased by Jiang Hao is 350 acres, and the Crawford estate is even larger, with an area of more than 4,000 acres, and this is only one of the estates of the Crawford family, and the other two are not smaller than here.

The world of rich aristocrats is really incomparable.

Jiang Hao didn't go back to his house that night, in Laura's room on the second floor, on the large European-style carved wooden bed, Jiang Hao was working the countess, and the countess's beautiful voice echoed in the slightly empty room.

Long

The clouds and rain stopped.

Laura's two long legs clamped Jiang Hao hard to prevent him from leaving, enjoying the aftertaste, Jiang Hao kissed her forehead, "It's slimy, I need to take a shower." ”

"Carry me." Laura said.

What a kid.

Jiang Hao got up, Laura was like a koala on Jiang Hao, never separated, the two came to the bathroom, the warm water was spilled, both of them felt extremely comfortable, the two kept rubbing each other's bodies, enjoying the wonderful feeling that each other's bodies brought to themselves.

Unbeknownst to the two, several cars stopped at the gate of Crawford Manor, and a guy in a pitch-black combat uniform came down, and opened the gate a few times, and more than a dozen mercenaries dressed in the same style stepped on the flat lawn to attack Laura's home.

"Bang!"

The door was slammed open.

"Whoa!"

A few mercenaries kicked through the glass roof and ziplined down from above.

From the inside to the outside, from top to bottom, the house is surrounded in all directions.

Suddenly, a few strange noises came from downstairs, waking up the pair of mandarin ducks in the bathroom who were touching each other, both of them were startled, looked at each other and said at the same time: "There are intruders!" ”

The two quickly walked out of the bathroom, Laura picked up a bathrobe next to her and put it on, Jiang Hao picked up a scarf and wrapped it around his crotch, Laura just wanted to go out, Jiang Hao shouted, "Laura, continue." ”

When Laura turned around, she saw a gun flying in the air, and Laura quickly grabbed it.

"What about you?"

"I still have it." Jiang Hao said and dug into the hem of the scarf, and took out a big thick and black guy.

Extended USP.

"I like your guns." Laura said.

"Now, let's see who's breaking in." Jiang Hao said.

"Hmm!" Laura nodded and pulled the door open.