Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA, 1986.

Surrounded by the blue sea on both sides, the long bridge stretches all the way into the fog, and it often takes half an hour to walk the bridge, let alone see further away.

The light-colored hat, the gray coat on the body, and the slender figure made the girl look a little cold, but her long fiery red hair made her a little more jumpy, and not far behind the girl was a handsome and indifferent youth.

From the young man's point of view, this place is too open, if there are any dangerous people who can't hide at all, it is a suitable place for sniping, but it is not a suitable place for safe operation. The young man would never come to this kind of place where he might be lurking and killing, but his female companion was particularly interested in this place, and almost forcibly dragged himself here.

"Roberts, look there, it looks like dolphins!"

The female companion seemed to have discovered something, and excitedly pulled the handsome young man's hand, and pointed her slender fingers into the sea.

The young man just glanced at it, and when he saw the water elves, he replied casually.

"Oh. ”

As he spoke, he looked around again, always on the lookout for possible dangers.

The more he observed, the more he felt that it was really unsafe, and regretted once again why he had agreed to Betty to come here.

"Roberts, Roberts, you see, there's a shark there. ”

"Oh. ”

A few sharks are nothing, he has eaten more sharks on the isolated island than the girl has ever seen. The young man continued to observe the terrain while perfunctory.

"Roberts, look, there's a whale there!"

"Oh. ”

Whale...... Nautical mile...... Below...... By the way, what if someone attacks from under the bridge?

If someone were to attack from under the bridge now, would you be able to guarantee that they would be wiped out? If you don't bring a firearm, you'll have RPG firepower...... The young man thought about it for a while, and found that he hadn't come up with a solution for a while.

However, his keen instincts made him feel that someone was watching him.

Turning his head suddenly, he saw a pair of dissatisfied eyes looking at him, and the little mouth could hang the soy sauce bottle.

"Roberts wasn't listening to me at all......"

"I'm just ......"

Looking at the eyes that read "If you don't comfort me, I'm angry", for some reason, Roberts, who usually speaks little, suddenly the male survival instinct suddenly awakened, and he almost opened his mouth to refute.

"Liar, liar, big liar, poke you, stab you, stab you......"

But unexpectedly, the opponent raised his eyebrows, didn't listen to the verbal explanation at all, and directly stretched out his two hands, and quickly poked Roberts's armpits, navel, ribs and other weak places that are easy to itch and pain, and said viciously while poking back with both hands.

The two fingers that were not strong but poked Roberts jumped up and down, and he was extremely embarrassed......

After some fighting, the girl who was not in good health was already a little out of breath, and her face was flushed with a shallow flush.

"It's time to go back. ”

Behind her, the young man urged the girl to go back, but the girl looked at the sea in front of her and shook her head.

"Roberts, let me see again, you see, how beautiful. ”

The sun is gradually setting, and the sea is reflected like a rainbow of blood against the backdrop of that quiet and beautiful sunset.

In front of Roberts, the girl who had always loved to laugh and be very happy and angry was very natural, but at this moment she looked at the sunset, but her face showed a worry that she had never had before.

In the setting sun, the girl leans on the railing, her slightly trembling eyelashes, slender fingers that are almost transparent, and her long, silky scattered hair like a fragile porcelain doll.

"Roberts, why do you think the sun is setting, why can't such a beautiful scene stay here and now?"

The girl looked sideways at the sunset, gently pulling up her wind-blown hair, and muttered in a gloomy voice.

"Is it true that all the good things in this world can only pass away, and will our present happy times eventually fade away like this sunset?"

Just when the girl was sad, her soft was gently pulled.

Raising her head, the handsome young man took her hand in his palm and whispered comfort.

"Of course not, we'll be happily ever after, Betty, we'll be together forever. ”

Looking at the beloved boy in front of her, the corners of the girl's mouth curled, the haze on her face gradually dissipated, and the girl believed him. Just looking at the sunset, the girl's eyes still had a little inexplicable worry.

......

"Betty, what does all this have to do with Betty?"

Roberts couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

Wendy didn't answer directly, but instead began to talk about something seemingly unrelated.

"Roberts, do you know the legend of the Holy Grail?"

"Yes. ”

Roberts nodded, and the Holy Grail, the cup that is said to be used at the Last Supper of Jesus Christ, is regarded as the most revered reliever, and in many European legends, noble knights have regarded the finding of the Holy Grail as their highest goal.

"Actually...... The Holy Grail has been found. ”

Wendy said slowly.

After the ascension of Jesus Christ, a group of devout believers kept the legendary Holy Grail, and after that, the faithful were displaced and moved all the way to Gaul to escape the Roman Empire. After that, a group of warriors who believed in Jesus Christ found them and protected the legendary Holy Grail, and in order to protect the legendary Holy Grail, the warriors formed a military group to protect the Holy Grail, and this military group was called the Zion (Xunshan) Society. ”

After that, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the state religion, and the Zion Society considered making the Holy Grail public, but this idea was never realized due to various religious differences. ”

"In A.D. 400, the Germanic people invaded the western part of the Roman Empire, occupied Gaul and other places, and called themselves the Franks. The Zion Society gave the Holy Grail to the Franks, and the Merovingians, the leaders of the Franks, converted to Christianity and submitted to the Pope. Another hundred years later, Charlemagne's father, Pepin, replaced the Merovingians, and became the Frankish kings, and the Merovingians, who had sworn to protect the Holy Grail, lost power, and the Zion Society had to protect the Holy Grail alone. ”

"In the nearly millennium after that, the Order of Zion went from a military order to a monastic dominated by monks, but the Holy Roman Empire, the Crusaders, the Knights Templar ...... The battle for the Holy Grail has been going on for millennia and has never ended. ”

"The Xunshan Hermitage Society is sometimes strong and sometimes weak, and there have been frequent cases of masters dying and elders dying, and there have been several times when the Holy Grail was almost lost, but in the end it was still safe to protect the Holy Grail. ”

"And I ......"

Wendy stroked her chest, her face solemnized.

"I am the Guardian of the Holy Grail, the Knight of the Holy Grail, and the last lock of the Hermitage of Xunshan. ”

Knights of the Grail......

Legend has it that the noble knight who possessed the Holy Grail was given such a name.

Roberts never imagined that the girl he watched grow up with such an unknown identity would have such an unknown identity.

He was silent for a moment and said.

"Since when did it start. ”

"From the time I was born. ”

Wendy knew what Roberts was thinking, and he felt cheated by the person he trusted most.

"Guardian of the Holy Grail, this is the duty of the bloodline, regardless of gender, regardless of strength or weakness, only one person per generation is given such a duty. Unless the Grail Guardian dies and leaves no new heirs, and has to choose from among the sidelines, only one of them will be chosen as the Grail Guardian. ”

"When I was ignorant, I was given the mission to protect the Holy Grail as my life's duty. ”

As she spoke, she was silent for a moment, then muttered inexplicably.

"In the past, I've always wondered why the Grail Keepers have such strange rules. The Holy Grail Guardians don't know why, it seems that it is a genetic problem, they are all smarter and stronger than ordinary people, but even so, it is a little too strange that the Xunshan Hermit will let a family as the last insurance to protect the Holy Grail. ”

Then, she looked at her hands, at the hands that seemed to be undoubted by ordinary people, but in fact awakened the power of the dragon, and said thoughtfully.

"But now that I want to come...... Perhaps this is the case, and my ancestors and I may have been valued by the Xunshan Hermitage because of the bloodline we carried, and perhaps in the early past, my ancestors cooperated with the Xunshan Monastery and promised to protect the Holy Grail forever. ”

The earliest Zion Orders were a military group of knights, that is, a group of knights who did not choose to slay dragons, as the legend says, but chose to make some kind of deal with their suspected dragon ancestors?

Time passed, and the descendants of the dragon became no different from ordinary people, but this ancient mission has been passed on.

Perhaps the old master who passed away knew the reason for this mission, and the successive masters of the Xunshan Hermitage also seem to have their own special secrets, so no master has ever questioned this ancient mission, but the truth is unknown.

And what kind of legendary story is between a group of knights and their ancestors, I'm afraid no one will ever know.

"So what does all this have to do with Betty? ”

Hearing this, Roberts still did not understand Betty's role in it.

Wendy closed her eyes and said.

"The Holy Grail is not a cup, the Holy Grail is alive, the Holy Grail is a living human being. ”

"Human ???"

I was stunned to hear this.

Faced with Roberts' consternation, Wendy asked rhetorically.

"What do you think the Holy Grail is?"

What is the Holy Grail?

Roberts didn't know what to answer, but replied after a long time.

"A glass of wine that symbolizes the blood of Jesus Christ. ”

This is the broadest and most fundamental interpretation of the Holy Grail, in which Jesus Christ gave His disciples a share of red wine, a symbol of His blood, and a holy bread, a symbol of His flesh, and the cup containing the wine and sharing it to the disciples was the Holy Grail.

Wendy nodded.

"Yes, the cup that contains the blood of Jesus Christ, and the chalice is the vessel with the blood of Jesus Christ, that is, ...... A woman in the blood of Jesus Christ. ”

"The Holy Grail is the seed of Jesus Christ. ”

Roberts didn't know what to do for a moment, but Wendy whispered the ancient eulogy of the hermitage that had been passed down for thousands of years.

This eulogy has been read by Leonardo da Vinci, read by Newton, and read by many people, all of whom are just protecting the divine bloodline.

“...... Thou art the one who knows the destiny of heaven, thou art the one who glimpses the secrets, who inherits the ancient bloodline, and who keeps the eternal loyalty......"

......

"In 1968, a British red-haired girl was born in England, this girl was called Betty, and externally, she was claimed to be the child of the master of the Xunshan Hermitage Order. Since she was born, she has been protected by the Xunshan Hermitage, and only a very small number of people within the Xunshan Monastery know her true identity. ”

"The girl spent eighteen years in solitude, with no worries about food and clothing, going to a special church school, enjoying treatment that a princess could not enjoy, and living a life of great privilege. But she has no friends, she is not allowed to do anything dangerous, she has to block the streets when she goes out, all those who come into contact with her are carefully screened, and she is extremely lonely, there is only one ...... The guy who doesn't know if he's a friend accompanies her. ”

She envies the kids who can play football, climb rocks and travel, but that's all she can look at. Everyone thinks she is a princess, but only she knows that she is just a prisoner without shackles. ”

"So one day she begged me, who was a guard and barely half a friend, that she could take her out of this invisible cage......

As she spoke, Wendy looked at Roberts in front of her and said word by word.

And then ...... She met you. ”