Chapter 373: White Robe Like Ink

Beta-550, the Stone of Freedom.

Can convert any living thing into stone products, including cement, various rocks and ores.

The longer the holder touches the target, the more complex the transformed stone products will be, including but not limited to exquisite stone sculptures.

The transformed creature, if its intelligence level is high enough, can move freely and is a free stone like a living creature. With the permission of the holder, it can also be restored to a living state.

However, this kind of movement, including switching states, transforming other creatures, etc., will lead to a reduction in the 'time of being a living creature'.

When time reaches zero, the creature is forcibly transformed into stone and can never be restored.

The earliest holder is unknown, but it is known that it was first discovered in ancient Greece.

It is said that the chief architect of the reconstruction of Athens, a master sculptor renowned among Greek city-states, once held it.

Phidias once personally made three statues of Athena for the Acropolis in Athens, which were lifelike and beautiful.

His most incredible work is the statue of Zeus, which is more than 20 meters high. It is tall and majestic, as if the god is personally present. It was once regarded as one of the wonders of the world, but because it was destroyed by war, only words remain.

The collection started with him and went through several owners. By the Roman era, it was used to make works of art and helped create countless magnificent wonders.

Until the fifth century AD, when the Germans invaded, the Western Roman Empire fell, and the classical era was completely wiped out, the Stone of Liberty was taken away by a group of stonemasons.

The group of stonemasons were the last ones to retain ancient craftsmanship and cultural knowledge.

They witnessed the destruction of culture, the death of knowledge, the destruction of civilization. For a long time, he was treated brutally by ignorant medieval nobles.

In order to protect knowledge and literature from being destroyed by barbarism and ignorance, they eventually completed their transformation during centuries of oppression, learned to use violence, and formed secret societies.

They call each other brothers and work together in the same boat, which is called the Little Brotherhood.

Looking at this information, Mo Qiong scratched his head and asked, "How do you know the following?"

Gou Ye smoked and said: "An assassin who helped the colonies become independent told him that the Stone of Freedom was named after him. Before that, it was just called the Stone of Hephaestus. Later, these names were no longer used, and it was directly called Tumang. , meaning the land of the six-pointed star.”

"The Assassin believes that the world has six elements from the beginning to the present, earth, wind, water, fire, ether, and time and space."

Mo Qiong exclaimed: "Didn't you think there were five before? There are six co-authors? Is there another one?"

"There is still one missing, so there are only five hexagrams." Master Gou blew out smoke.

"What do you mean not getting it together?" Mo Qiong asked strangely.

Mr. Gou rolled his eyes and said, "They haven't found any contained objects related to time and space yet... You can't say that the Assassin's List or the Golden Apple are sacred objects of time and space, right?"

"This..." Mo Qiong was stunned.

Master Gou knew what he was thinking and said with a smile: "There is no relationship between the contained objects. They believed what the ancient Greek philosophers said, so they first imagined the six elements in the world, and then found the contained objects with similar characteristics to cobble them together... …It’s said to be the land of the six-pointed star, the fire of the six-pointed star. Do you understand? This is a sense of ritual.”

"If it is not the Stone of Freedom, but the container that the Gaia Church opened in the earth falls into their hands, then the latter is the land of the six-pointed star."

"..." Mo Qiong was dumbfounded. At first, he thought that the four elements and the six-pointed star that the younger brother would think were really mysterious.

The co-authorship was just made up by the second grader, right? And it’s not all together yet!

There is also this way of naming that combines the contained objects with human fantasy... Why does it give such a strong sense of déjà vu?

"It's quite similar to 'Chi You's Eyes' and 'Zhu Rong's Feathers'..." Mo Qiong said with a smile.

That glass bead that scares away anything with eyes has nothing to do with Chi You.

The same goes for Zhu Rongzhiyu, who must combine it with the fantasy of the ancients.

Gou Ye glanced sideways and said: "As for the issue of the Heavenly Will Map, the higher-ups also have ideas, but the more modern assassin didn't know what happened two thousand years ago. When asked about the Heavenly Will Map, he only said that it was in the Western Roman era. It was passed down. It is said that the ancient sages who passed down the tradition taught them fighting skills and changed the submissive temperament of the masons, allowing them to learn to pick up swords and defend the law with swords. "

"The craftsmen in the past could only make weapons, but not use them. Among them, those with top craft knowledge were once reduced to slaves in the Middle Ages. When pressed, they only knew how to run away and hide. It was not until later that a sage appeared and said: Under the rule of evil lords, if you want to protect your life and wealth, instead of holding your sword and crying, you will pick up your sword and rush into the castle to kill them all!"

Mo Qiong asked: "Who is that sage?"

Master Gou shook his head and said, "I don't know. The assassin who told us this was already from the American Independence Era, and the deeds of that great sage were too long ago."

"Why not ask the earlier assassin?" Mo Qiong said.

Gou Ye shrugged and said: "The time for the ancient assassins is running out. It is a waste of time to ask all questions. The Intelligence Department plans to ask questions starting from the most recent period. First, we will find out the ancient and modern situation of the Little Brotherhood and slowly digest it. The more we know, The more confused we are, the more we will ask assassins from older eras step by step. By then, we will have more information, and the questions will be more critical. "

Mo Qiong nodded. This is a very reasonable allocation. Only wake up one at a time and ask questions about one aspect. Otherwise, you will be swarming to ask whatever comes to mind, and you will not get much information in the end.

Gou Ye said: "Now we have found out the origin of soil and some of the modern development of the Brotherhood. Around the Age of Discovery, the Brotherhood reached its peak, and there are many base sites left in various places. However, our people found that most of them had been abandoned. In the 20th century and the present, the Brotherhood's power has shrunk."

"But some are not abandoned, and the society is cleaning them up in various places."

"After all these trivial matters are dealt with and the intelligence is almost digested, we will start asking the second one."

"There is nothing for us to do next, but you should go for the final inquiry."

Mo Qiong pointed at himself in astonishment and said: "Me? Why me again?"

"It was decided by the top that you will be the boss of the Blue and White Society. Anyway, it's not the first time, you are used to it. If it is gradually confirmed that the Brotherhood is really related to the Mohist School, then in the end you will also have to talk to the first few generations of assassins as the leader of the Mohist School." Gou Ye picked his nose and said.

Mo Qiong pouted. The identity of the leader of the Mohist School is really a big banner.

Ancient assassins even drew the Tianzhitu. It is impossible to say that it has nothing to do with Mohism. It is impossible that both the East and the West invented the Tianzhitu, a philosophical and abstract diagram that explores the origin of the containment, at the same time?

There must be a succession relationship, and Mozi drew it more than 2,000 years ago. Even if the Brotherhood was passed down from the Western Roman era, it was later.

In ancient China, the only school that had both thought, craft knowledge, and violence was the Mohist school.

On the other hand, in the West, the craftsmen left over from the classical era also mastered ancient Greek philosophy and ancient Roman advanced craftsmanship. They were the only people in the Middle Ages who mastered natural sciences such as mathematics and geometry.

And they later became a violent organization.

The early assassins all killed directly, without the modern routines and tricks.

Wearing uniform and conspicuous clothes, they walked into the lord's house openly, stabbed people to death in front of everyone... This is the early assassin.

If the successor lord was afraid, he would be honest. If they are stubborn and dare to send soldiers to encircle and suppress, then we will do it again.

There are lords above the lords, and it will be the same if a bigger lord comes. In the end, they will kill bigger and bigger, and become barons, earls, dukes, and kings, until their thoughts mature and they want to overturn an era.

If the monarch is unjust, he should be killed with a sword. This is a typical chivalrous and Mohist thought, and this rebellious nature is also one of the reasons why they are not tolerated by the world.

In the same way, they defend the truth, maintain knowledge, defend the way with swords, and promote the idea with righteousness. The assassin's white robe is also like the black clothes.

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