Chapter 1422 The Desperate Battle Between Qianya (38)
Chapter 1422 The decisive battle against Qian Ya (38)
"What...cough, cough, cough!" The words of Rosetta, the Queen of Jewels, really shocked Palamedes.
The big cat was drinking coffee. He was so frightened that he almost choked to death on the half-drunk coffee. His violent cough almost attracted the attention of everyone in the cafe until he waved his hand to the waiter who rushed over.
Said he was fine.
"You...ahem...what did you just say?" Paramedes wiped the coffee that spilled all over the table with a tissue, and quickly asked: "Who is the Sphinx?"
......What?!"
"It seems that I have to describe the matter clearly from beginning to end so that you can understand it." Rosetta said with a bitter smile.
Three hundred years ago.
A woman whose husband had just died was on the shores of the Mediterranean, quietly remembering the happy days she had lived with her man.
Next to the woman is a light boat, a beautifully crafted gold-inlaid boat filled with flowers, and her husband who has just died. Her husband is actually an old man, at least over seventy years old.
He suddenly suffered a heart attack and passed away in a quiet night. He died of old age, and he passed away very peacefully.
And this woman, because she has elf blood, has a long life. When her husband passed away, she still looked like a teenage girl, except for the black widow's clothes and the sad expression on her face.
, slightly bringing out her old age.
Reluctantly, she looked at her husband who was sleeping forever in the boat, but she could not send the boat out no matter what.
Originally, this burial at sea should be held early in the morning. When the boat was thirty yards away from the coast, she would activate the ignition device on the boat, burn the boat, and let her husband's body rise to the sky with the smoke, and the ashes would be buried in the sky.
Scattered in every corner of the Mediterranean Sea, integrated with the entire ocean.
But, how to give up?
She didn't want to see her husband turn into ashes, even though that was an inevitable fact.
How can I bear it!
Looking at her beloved man like this, looking at his old but fresh face, the woman felt that this old man seemed to be still alive.
Maybe it was just a mistake, maybe he didn't have a heart attack at all and just overslept.
Maybe it can be saved.
She waited there quietly, as if she thought a miracle would really happen and make her lover live again. She kept waiting, waiting, for several hours. Morning passed, noon came, and the warm sunshine of Egypt shone.
To dispel the twilight atmosphere at the beach, it seemed to urge her to take action as soon as possible.
In fact, she knew better than anyone else that her husband was indeed dead and could not come back to life. Because this is aging, this is time. Year after year, she watched her husband's face grow more and more day after day.
wrinkles, knowing that the lost time cannot be turned back.
This is aging, this is death. Human beings are really sad, short-lived creatures.
However, the woman still couldn't let her husband go. Every look was the last look, but she hadn't seen enough. If she didn't bury her at sea soon, her husband's body would stink and rot, but how could she bear it and set it on fire?
Drop this body?
So, noon passed and evening ushered in. This beach, which was already rarely visited by people, became even more deserted. After a day of continuous exposure to the sun, the flowers on the boat were a little dry. Fortunately, her husband's body was covered with a special magic
The low temperature of the ice cubes kept the body intact, and it has not yet begun to rot and stink.
But it still wouldn't work. The woman sighed. She couldn't believe it, but she had been staring at her husband's body all day. She sighed again and gently pushed the boat.
This time we really say farewell forever. No matter how deep the love is, no matter how reluctant we are to say goodbye, we still need to say goodbye when it’s time to say goodbye.
Just when the woman was about to put the boat into the water and start burial at sea, something floated on the sea far away in the Mediterranean Sea.
The woman frowned and looked under the afterglow of the setting sun, trying to see clearly what that thing was.
This sight shocked her.
That's a head. A lion's head!
Drifting with the water, the lion's head soon floated to the shore and rested feebly on the beach.
Is that part of a lion's body? Is it the head of some poor prey in the distance that was brutally cut off by a hunter after death? The woman walked over curiously and took a look. Why do animal heads travel across the ocean?
Arrived at a place like this?
However, upon closer inspection, the head is different from an ordinary lion head.
It's...alive!?
Although it is not breathing, although it looks blue and dying, the corners of its eyes are beating slightly and its lower jaw is twitching slightly, as if to tell people that it is not dead yet and it still wants to live.
This is not an animal. Although it looks like the head of a lion, its features are delicate and delicate, and its facial features are somewhat different from those of a real beast.
This is an orc. Or, this is the head of an orc!
The woman had heard a legend before, saying that an orc could live for a week after its head was cut off. Regardless of whether this legend was true or false, the head of the lion man in front of the woman was indeed still alive and kept alive.
.
...What amazing vitality this is!
So, at that moment, a crazy and terrifying idea came to the woman's mind!
Maybe, her husband can still survive!
Perhaps, sewing this lion's head onto her dead husband's body can [save] her husband back to life!
Maybe the [happiness] she has always hoped to have will come back again!
------And, this time it will last longer!
With this crazy idea, the woman did something extremely crazy.
She recovered her husband's body in the boat that was supposed to be sent for burial at sea and burned!
Taking advantage of the darkness, she took her husband's body and the lion's head and hid in her basement in the slum!
There, she began a shocking and crazy operation. She cut off her husband's head from the corpse, and then used the silk of the extremely rare desert magic silkworm she collected to attach the lion's head to her husband's body.
Go up with the remains of the head!
Although she was an amazingly talented seamstress and knitter, this huge [surgery] took her all night to complete. By sunrise, she was so exhausted that she almost collapsed.
Then she looked at the thing lying on the operating table, the monster with a lion's head and a human body, and breathed a sigh of relief.
She naively thought that doing so would bring her husband back. However, the more she looked at the monster-like body, the more terrifying she felt.
It's not that attaching the lion's head brought back her dead husband. Quite the opposite!
That lion head is [taking away] her husband's body!
The dry and wrinkled old body that originally belonged to an old man in his seventies gradually regained his youth, his muscles became strong and strong, and even his skin became smooth and elastic! It seemed that there was some kind of active substance coming from that lion.
It is released from the human head and spreads all over the body of the newly connected human body, turning the old body of more than seventy years old into the young body of twenty or thirty years old!
But the woman knows very well that this is not her husband! This is not her husband, this is... that lion orc!
She went to look at the man's head that had been cut off and sealed in a glass container and culture fluid. That was her husband, and he was really dead!
She just got mad and attached her husband's body to the lion's head!
Why is she so stupid! The woman wakes up just now. It is obviously impossible to save her husband!
All she did was to make the lion head cheaper!
Everything she did seemed to be done unconsciously under hypnosis!
---------Hypnosis?!
At this moment, the lion head also woke up. In other words, it was no longer just a lion head. He was already a monster with a lion head and body, neither a human nor an orc, a pure hybrid monster.
He couldn't speak yet, but he turned his head slightly, opened his eyes, and glanced at the woman.
But the woman panicked, hugged her husband's only remaining head, and fled the scene of the incident!
After that, the woman finally made up her mind and buried her husband at sea. Although, it was only her husband's head that was left on the boat and eventually burned to ashes by the fire. After that, the woman tried to go back to the house.
Looking for the monster with a lion's head and body. But the monster had already escaped from the place and disappeared.
The lion's head that floated from afar came back to life and stole the body of the woman's dead husband. From then on, the woman never saw the lion-headed monster again.
It was not until decades later that a new force gradually emerged in Egypt. A strange-looking lion-headed man, who called himself "Daddy Sphinx", became famous in the underworld and eventually became
He became the richest man in Egypt and dominated the country.
"That's it. My story ends here." Rosetta smiled lightly, picked up the cup, and took another sip of coffee.
After listening to the story of Rosetta, the Queen of Jewels, Palamedes was so frightened that he could not calm down for a long time. He tried to drink a sip of coffee to calm down, but it took a lot of effort to avoid being drunk.
Choking on coffee: "So...so...all the parts below the head of the Sphinx are the remains of your first husband...? It's really unbelievable."
topic......"
"You don't have to believe it, it's just a story anyway." Rosetta said with a smile: "Such a story that transcends reality, there is probably no other person in the world who would believe it."
"No..." Palamedes tried to take a breath: "I believe you."
Because he has seen it before.
Although it's hard to believe, Palamedes had seen something similar before.