On March 6, 1600, in the laboratory of the University of Padua, Italy, a man was busy.

At this time, Italy's curiosity about Greece and Rome has become incomprehensible, and many scholars are keen to restore Greco-Roman engineering and equipment, giving birth to scholar advisors, and many noble lords will choose to hire a learned scholar as a consultant to improve various military equipment. And for Galileo, who is now a university professor, he is groping for something that has never been seen before......

"Sand ......"

The pen kept drawing drawings, and next to the drawings were two pieces of transparent glass.

From time to time, the young scholar picked up two pieces of clear glass, looked at them carefully, and confirmed the details before continuing to draw. His azure pupils shone with excitement, and what he was about to create was something he had never seen before.

However, before he could finish it, an apprentice suddenly came and whispered something in his ear, and Galileo was stunned for a moment, and the pen in his hand fell to the ground......

On February 17, 1600, Bruno was burned in Campo de' Fiori in Rome because of heliocentrism, accused of "pagan faith".

After a long time, Galileo lowered his head in silence and didn't say anything, just waved his hand and motioned for the apprentice to leave, and the apprentice also knew Galileo's mood at the moment, so he didn't dare to ask more, so he left.

"Rolling ......"

With the sound of the door closing, Galileo's left hand, which was holding on to the table and being covered by his body, finally could no longer support it, and the strength in his body seemed to be drained.

......

"My lord, you don't need to be so shaken, the Church of Rome will not affect you, but ...... In the future, it would be better to say less about the 'heliocentric theory'."

In the old room, Galileo was lying on the hospital bed, and the tables and bookshelves around him were full of various instruments and books, and an old butler stood beside Galileo's sickbed and bowed his head and said, and when he was halfway through, the old servant also hesitated for a moment before persuading.

Although the church claims that Bruno died because of his "belief in the sun", the root cause is well known, and if heliocentrism is preached again, it is feared that sooner or later it will affect his master.

However, Galileo, who was on the sickbed, shook his head slightly, and after a long silence, muttered in a low voice.

"My heart aches not for me, but for the absence of a scholar in the world. ”

"The host ......"

The butler wanted to persuade him again, but Galileo only waved his hand, and the helpless butler had to retreat.

The bedroom was filled with the smell of herbs, but Galileo only stared at the ceiling above him in a daze......

One night, months later, Galileo carefully adjusted the equipment in his hand, a long cylindrical thing almost the height of a man, and it was difficult to hold even with both hands.

Lifting the equipment of his own making, the professor at the University of Padua brought his eyes closer to the end of the barrel for the first time......

At that moment, a new world appeared in front of him that had not been seen by anyone.

In the huge image, the moon became more huge and clear than ever, so much so that the spots on it were revealed, and the places that were once regarded as shadows by humans were actually tiny craters.

“......”

opened his mouth wide, but the scholar couldn't make a sound at all, he could only look at the spots on the moon in vain, the heliocentric theory is right, there is no doubt that human beings have been wrong about the world in the past, and this world is far more vast than human imagination.

The moon is a new world, a huge world like the earth.

"Hah...... Hahahaha...... Hahahahaha......ha

The ecstatic scholar laughed, but ended up shedding tears.

......

Forty-two years later, in the early hours of January 9, 1642, in Achetri, near Florence, Galileo's former home.

"Boom ......"

There was thunder in the gloomy sky, like the wrath of the sky, and a small light rain continued to fall, and the famous scholar had died the day before, but he had been severely sanctioned by the Holy See, and the evening was so bleak that few people came to mourn.

"Da ......"

However, in the midst of this fine drizzle, there was a pair of slender feet stepping on high heels, splashing a little water, accompanied by the dozen or so black umbrellas like dark clouds, silently pressing towards the old mansion.

Under a dozen black umbrellas, there is a group of adult men and women in black robes, they are silent, the robes cover their bodies well, only the neck or cheeks, the backs of the hands occasionally show a few scars, can vaguely see a little calm hidden cold.

"Boom ......"

In an instant, the sky and the earth turned white, and the electric light shone on the whole world.

However, in this white light, no one has moved even once, not even blinking, just like an ancient Greek sculpture, silently bearing the discomfort caused by the instantaneous white light. They were waiting for an order, and they would not hesitate to carry it out, no matter how cruel and cruel it was.

And yet, at the very moment when the order was about to be given.

"Squeak......

The closed door of the manor opened, and an old butler who looked to be in his fifties walked out of it, and he didn't look surprised to see the dozen people with black umbrellas, but just bowed slightly, and said slowly.

"Good morning, guests. ”

No one responded, there was a deathly silence, only a dozen pairs of pupils staring at him silently.

The old butler raised his head, and his old body made his waist bent. If there is still an old man who was alive in the past, he can realize that he is very similar to the old housekeeper back then, but the subtle difference still reveals the identity of his son and nephew.

"My old host...... Before he died, he told me that a group of guests would come, and he asked me to entertain you and take something with you as you wished. ”

The old butler said, apart from the initial imperceptible pause, the butler's performance could be described as neither humble nor arrogant, and there was no omission.

"Your host knows we're coming. ”

The deep female voice spoke for the first time, and the indifferent woman looked at the butler in front of her.

It was only then that the butler was able to see the face of the woman at the head.

It was a very good-looking Italian woman, with deep eyes, a straight nose, and long brown hair tied together, but the black robe she was wearing was so cold that it damaged the stunning charm.

"Yes, my old master has known about your presence. He also said that if you come during the day, I will give you things, and if you come at night, then ......"

As he spoke, the housekeeper paused inexplicably, raised his eyebrows, and looked at the woman in front of him with his old eyes, revealing an unexpected calmness and decisiveness, and said word by word.

"Even death can't let things fall into your hands. ”

"Boom, boom!"

In the sky, with a roar, furious thunder churned among the clouds.

In front of the housekeeper, the woman and the black umbrella were all moved, the calm was terrible, and the dozen or so pairs of eyes didn't look like the eyes that humans should have, they were too calm.

"Drain ......"

The rain is getting heavier and heavier.

"We didn't come at night, though. ”

The woman at the head just said indifferently.

Looking at the dozen or so black umbrellas in front of him, the old housekeeper pressed his hat with his hand, and with the help of the cover of the hat, the old eyes quietly observed the person in front of him, but he leaned over again and said slowly.

"Yes, guests ......"

There were no twists and turns in the process of carrying the target, one of the people in the black umbrella only used a package to load the thing, and then one of them whispered something in the ear of the leading woman, and the eyes of the leading woman moved slightly, and said in a stiff voice.

"Old butler, let's go, there's another bunch of fellows coming here soon. ”

When the old housekeeper heard this, he just narrowed his eyes slightly and said slowly.

"I'm old, and when I'm old, I'm prone to nostalgia, and there's no one else in this manor, so let me, an old man, stay here, and see what keeps my old master awake at night. ”

As he spoke, the old butler reached into his arms with his white-gloved left hand and pulled out a letter wrapped in oiled paper.

"This is what the old master left before he was born, and he asked me to hand it over to you, and left a message for me to tell you......"

He looked at the thing with a little gloom in his eyes.

The woman at the head did not speak, but waited indifferently for the old butler's final message.

The old master said...... The sky is the universe. ”

Thunder rolled in the sky, and rain fell in the air.

The woman at the head listened to those words, was silent as before, did not say anything, but left with many black umbrellas behind her like dark clouds, until she walked far away, and could still vaguely see the old man standing in the rain.

......

A few days later, somewhere.

More than a dozen old monks gathered in a circle, and there was only a statue of a heroic girl less than an arm's height in the middle, and one of the leaders looked at the letter that had just been opened, looked at the contents, was silent for a while, and then whispered something......

After that, the letter was solemnly preserved, and only a few people had the opportunity to see it.

"To the Xunshan Hermitage who has never met...... I must have passed away by now, and you must wonder why I know of your existence when we have never met. But at this deathbed, my consciousness was not very clear, and I could not see clearly and could only dictate and let my butler Sergio write it. ”

"The Xunshan Hermitage is such a great group, but I didn't know about your existence until three years ago, but why did I suddenly know about it? It is because my eyes are almost blind that I can see more...... Everyone thought my eyes were damaged by looking directly at the sun with a telescope, but they were ...... I saw something indescribable. ”

"That sculpture, it's the source of my nightmares, it's more mysterious than anyone thinks, it's almost the source power of the whole world, the root power of the whole world, even if it's a god. You may have touched it before, and even tried to seal it with those runes, and that Sir Leonardo da Vinci knew many secrets about it, but it was all in vain!"

"It's not a dead thing, it's alive, it's pulling the fate of the whole world. ”

"At this moment, as far as I can see, there are more than 10,000 strange creatures trying to find it, worshipping it, worshipping it, and believing it. However, it did not respond to the strange creatures, even though its very existence attracted the weird, and even consciously made it impossible for the weird to find it, which is why since sixty-seven years ago, when it was lost from your hands, you and the weird have never been able to find it, but I, an ordinary person, have it and don't know it......"

"That night more than sixty years ago, that dream was so real that when my research and that dream continued to coincide, I didn't know if it was a dream or a real ......"

"What exactly is it trying to do, what is its purpose? I can't understand it, but I can vaguely realize that I seem to have become his puppet, my works, my thoughts, my contributions...... It's all intentional, it's manipulating me to achieve something......"

"I'm not a very brave person, I can't be as outspoken as Bruno, I'm not afraid of death, but after that night's dream, every memory makes me feel deep pain and torment. The powerful and eternal power, the beauty of my countenance, made me feel uncontrollably adoring and fear, fear and adoration were like two sides of the same coin, and it was because of fear that worship was inseparable from the two......"

"But even so, I still try to leave something behind, or at least to help future generations. ”

"O monks of the Order, if one day you find a man who can be called the wisest, give him this letter, which contains the only guidance I have given it......