Ruth is a reporter. She has been digging for news everywhere since college, and finally became a professional reporter after graduation. However, the system in the news agency is rigid, and Ruth is trapped in the city like a bird trapped in a cage.
Can't find the big news?
What he sees around him are just trivial things that he has been repeating since his school days, or he is praising his motherland Britannia again and again for how great it is, holding one-third of the earth in its hands.
Ruth was tired of following such news. She longed for more breaking news. She wanted to go to the frontline battlefield to get first-hand information. Unfortunately, her application was rejected because there was no room for war reporters to add an outsider.
Disappointed, Ruth resigned from her position and became a freelance independent journalist, pursuing journalism on her own terms.
Walking boredly on the street, Ruth wondered why reality was so boring.
Suddenly she saw two Japanese people arguing in the street. Originally, Ruth would not care about such things, but this time she stopped and looked.
The two tall Asians seemed to be Japanese, which is rare. You must know that it is early 2009, and the relationship between Japan and Britannia has become increasingly tense. Many Japanese have already smelled the war.
The smell was bad, so I left here early.
Now two Japanese people are standing in the street arguing like this. It is really difficult not to attract people's attention.
"Sasaki, come back with me, the country needs us now!" The speaker was a middle-aged man with sword-browed eyebrows, 29-year-old samurai Kagashi Akira Todo, who had won three kendo competitions before he was twenty years old.
Samurai of the times.
"I'm not a soldier, I'm just an archaeologist. Going to the battlefield is not my profession. I'm sorry, I have other things to do and I have to leave first." His name is Sasaki Kojiro. He is a descendant of the Japanese swordsman Kojiro and inherited the name of his ancestor.
He is also a handsome guy, but he is not as strong as Todo Kyōshiaki. He is slightly thinner, wears a pair of glasses, and has the style of a scholar.
"Have you forgotten your identity?" Todo looked directly at his friend with eyes like razor blades.
"I have not forgotten, but what I am doing now is for the cause of all mankind. I'm sorry, Todo." Sasaki said. In his eyes, Japan is just a country on the earth, and the Japanese are just a lot of people.
He is just a member of the human race. Protecting Japan is nothing more than protecting a common people, and his contribution to mankind is completely incomparable to his current research.
"You!" Looking at his friend's back, Kagashiaki Todo clenched his fists, "Sasaki!"
Snapped.
He punched Sasaki in the face and knocked him to the ground.
"Are you satisfied now?" A little blood flowed from the corner of Sasaki's mouth and he wiped it off with his sleeve, "Then I have to leave. The plane is already waiting for me."
Damn it, he couldn't persuade his friend, Todo Kaizhiaki felt a deep sense of frustration.
A black car was on the side of the road, and Sasaki got in.
Big news, as a reporter's intuition, Ruth felt the value of news locally, because wasn't the person sitting in that car one of the Knights of the Round Table?
The Knights of the Round Table and a Japanese are sitting in a car, there must be news.
Ruth immediately called a car and gave chase, and the chase took her across the Atlantic to a small town in the Middle East.
"I hope my feeling is right." Ruth was dressed in adventure gear, with her beloved camera in her backpack.
In this place where birds did not poop, Ruth lay on a hillside and looked ahead with a telescope.
The Knights of the Round Table and the Japanese are in the camp in the distance.
Ruth had already searched on the road. The Japanese was a famous archaeologist, but how did an archaeologist and the Knights of the Round Table get together?
It must be big news, but Ruth really couldn't guess what was going on here, "It would be great if I could sneak in."
She did what she said, and after observation, Ruth discovered that a car delivered three meals to the camp every day.
Because this is also the occupied area of Britannia, you don't have to worry about supplies. It's not bad to deliver them every day. This just gives Ruth a chance to sneak in.
Everything went well. I just spent some money to get a seat on the truck and sneaked in easily. Judging from the lax guard, it seemed that this was really an archaeological site rather than a barracks.
When no one was paying attention, Ruth ran towards the largest tent in the center of the camp. She had already observed it and thought that the important things were inside.
Swords, countless swords, all kinds of cold weapons, this big pit is their graveyard.
"Remains of ancient battlefields?" Ruth asked doubtfully, "If it's just ordinary archeology, would the Knights of the Round Table be used?"
That's right, ordinary archeology cannot use the Knights of the Round Table, there must be some ulterior secrets.
Ruth glanced around and found a temporary wooden ladder on her right, which allowed her to enter the ruins.
Click, take pictures, and don’t let go of anything suspicious.
Ruth wandered around the cemetery of swords, feeling the weight of history. The owners of these weapons must have turned into yellow mud under their feet.
Walking into the center, a huge rock three to four meters high and more than 20 meters long lies there.
As she walked in, Ruth saw countless notches on it forming incomprehensible patterns.
"Is this writing?" Ruth was quite discerning, but even though she claimed to know seven languages, she didn't recognize such writing.
It must be ancient writing, Ruth guessed.
After looking at it, there seemed to be nothing special about the excavated ruins. Is it necessary for the Knights of the Round Table to be in charge? Ruth was confused.
boom--
A huge rumbling sound shook the entire ruins, and Ruth fell to the ground without being able to stand still.
The sound was an explosion, and someone was attacking the camp.
Although Britannia occupied the city here, some people organized guerrillas to resist the invaders.
The Knights of the Round Table immediately dispatched, but the opponent had a large number of people, and the camp was quickly breached.
Ruth nervously took photos, this is what it feels like to be a war correspondent.
"Who are you? It's dangerous here, leave now!"
Ruth had been taking pictures, and she didn't even notice that Sasaki was standing behind her.
Startled, Ruth hid the camera behind her, but it was too late.
"Who asked you to take pictures!" Sasaki moved quickly and took the camera into his hand, but he had not forgotten that the enemy was outside, "Quickly, they are coming."
The guerrillas entered the ruins covered by the big tent in the center one after another with guns in hand.
The leader, a big man, spotted Ruth and Sasaki at a glance.
"Mr. Sasaki." This leader actually knew Sasaki.
"..." But Sasaki didn't recognize the other party.
"A world-renowned archaeologist who has a profound understanding of super civilizations from a thousand years ago." The leader said to himself, "He once published 'Super Civilizations in the Cracks of Human Civilizations' and was considered a crazy archaeologist.
.I wonder if I should stick to your point of view as always?"
"If I had changed, I wouldn't have appeared here!" Sasaki is absolutely stubborn about his research.
"Then can you translate the above text?"
"Don't even think about it."
The guerrilla leader was not angry after being rejected. He just waved his hand and motioned for the soldiers carrying RPGs behind him to come forward. "In this case, this stone is useless. Let's blow it up."
"You, this is a thousand-year-old relic, a treasure of human history." Sasaki was almost furious.
"Then can you translate it?" It's a threat.
"Okay, I'll translate!" In order to protect this relic, Sasaki Kojiro could only compromise, "I can't decipher all of this kind of writing, so I can only translate based on my own guesses. I'm not sure whether it's correct or not."
"No problem, please."
Sasaki paced in front of the enemy's gun, and finally stood in front of the boulder. He was about to start.
Everyone pricked up their ears, waiting for the famous archaeologist's translation.
"Here I tell everyone, the principle of equal exchange, if you want to get something, you must lose something of equal price. If you want to be reborn, you must give your life; if you want money, you must pay the same gold; if you want freedom
, you must pay for your freedom..."
Isn't this just kidding you? You have to spend whatever you want in exchange for it. If you already have such a thing, why is there any need to exchange it? This is Ruth's simple idea.
But human beings are not such simple creatures. For their own benefit, they can also exchange the lives and freedoms of others.
So after hearing Sasaki Kojiro's translation, the guerrillas were already excited. Yes, the legend of their hometown was correct. There really is such a god of equal exchange.
Sasaki Kojiro took a few steps seemingly unintentionally. There happened to be the hilt of an ancient sword in his hand. He was hesitating whether to take action. As a descendant of the sword master, his swordsmanship is several times stronger than Todo Kaishimei's. Here
He was confident of escaping, but the intruder beside him might be killed by his gun.
Finally Sasaki sighed and gave up. Risking other people's lives was not his style.
"Doctor, continue to translate." The leader shouted, "Tell me where to conduct this equivalent exchange??!! Hurry!"
Sasaki frowned. If he knew, he wouldn't have to stay here and continue to study. But if he said he didn't know, the other party would definitely not give up. Knight of the Round Table, what are you doing? At this time, Sasaki Kojiro called out and kept saying like
Just like the Knights of the Round Table.
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