Lu An looked a little embarrassed, he also understood that the blood clan was very good at reading people's hearts, and even if he pretended to be normal, they could sense the emotional changes when he lied.

And now the embarrassed expression that could not be controlled betrayed him even more, and just as he was about to explain, Victoria spoke again.

"Don't be nervous, Mr. Lu. Annie's Emissary once said that we cannot interfere with any of your actions, even if you hurt the Bloodline, we will tolerate it. I think you have your reasons for lying, and the actions of the prophets and messengers are difficult for people to understand, and we just have to follow their instructions. The Prophet is very important to my Bloodline, so I do wonder if there is really news of the Key. ”

Lu An smiled bitterly and nodded.

At this time, Victoria's eyes were full of blood, and she knew that Lu An was not lying, and her body trembled a little.

"If the prophet can be rescued, my dark forces will rise!"

"I wonder if Her Majesty has already determined the location of the prophet?"

The excitement on Victoria's face subsided a lot, "We have found out all the secret places of the Holy Religion, and for so many years, there are only two places that we have not penetrated, in addition to the Vatican, there is Mount Sinai in Egypt. ”

"Mount Sinai, do you mean St. Catherine's Abbey?"

Victoria nodded, "St. Catherine's Monastery has always been heavily guarded by Holy Cult soldiers, and the spies sent by our Dark Council have never returned when they get there. ”

Ruan was a little surprised that St. Catherine's Monastery was located in Egypt, not in Europe. In the private sector, it has been designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

St. Catherine's Monastery was founded in 565 A.D. and is located in the southern part of the Sinai Peninsula on the main road of Eurasian communication. The monastery is square in shape, with a courtyard of about 85 meters long and 76 meters wide, walls about 15 meters high and ranging from 1 to 3 meters in thickness, and 18 Byzantine churches of various forms, the main buildings being the cathedral in the southeast corner and the library in the south.

St. Catherine's Monastery is one of the oldest surviving monasteries in the world, with a collection of 3,500 ancient manuscripts, two-thirds of which are written in Greek and the rest in Latin, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Slavic, Armenian, Coptic, Georgian and Ethiopian languages.

Among them, the 800-page parchment manuscript of the Sinaiticus in the Greek New Testament in the mid-fourth century C. D. is older than the Vatican Codex in the Vatican, although the manuscript is now in the British Museum because it was borrowed in 1865 by the Russian Bible scholar Tisondelov in the name of the Russian Tsar and never returned. In 1933, the British Museum paid £100,000 to buy the rare Bible, and the monastery kept the Tsar's IOU, which is estimated to be lost.

In addition, the monastery houses the Torah of Moses, written in Syriac script from the 5th century AD, and the Persian archives, which were recopied in the 8th century. The rest of the manuscripts date from the fourth to the seventeenth century. Its collection is second only to the Vatican in Italy in terms of quantity and value. St. Catherine's Monastery and the Ten Commandments given by Jesus to Moses on Mount Sinai are reflected in this desolate red land.

Saint Catherine was born in Alexandria, Egypt, into a non-Christian aristocratic family. At the age of seventeen, he was initiated by Syrian missionaries and was baptized as a Christian. In 307 AD, he was tortured and martyred by Maximinus for his rebuke to the Roman Emperor Maximinus for his repression of Christians in Alexandria. After the martyrdom of Catherine at the age of eighteen, angels ordained her body to be placed on the highest peak in the Sinai Peninsula.

Seventeen years later, in 324 A.D., a group of Christians came to Sinai, claiming that the land at the foot of Mount Sinai was the site of spontaneous combustion of thorns that Moses had seen, and asked the Empress Helena, the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, to allow them to build a church there, which was built in 334 A.D. with the support of the Empress Dowager. Two centuries later, the Roman Emperor Justinian I further expanded the church and built the fortress-like monastery in 565 AD, then known as the Monastery of Santa Maria.

In the 8th century, the monks of the monastery found Catherine's bones on the top of the hill based on a dream and transported them back to the monastery to be buried in a golden coffin in the main church. This miracle was brought back to Europe by the Crusaders, Catherine was posthumously canonized as a Christian saint, and the monastery was renamed St. Catherine's Abbey. 】

Ruan's mind was caught up in the history of St. Catherine's Abbey, and Victoria's words woke him up.

"If we launch a sneak attack on the Vatican and St. Catherine's Monastery at the same time, it is estimated that we are sixty percent sure that we will be able to attack these two places, I wonder when Mr. Ruan will be able to give us the 'key'?"

Ruan shrank his neck in fright, it was okay to attack the Monastery of St. Catherine, after all, it was in a desolate place, but if it attacked the Vatican, Christians all over the world would probably go crazy. What's more, the Vatican is a "state of China", it is located in Italy, Italy is full of holy religion transcendental, and it may be difficult for the Dark Council to sneak into Italy quietly.

Cold sweat flowed from Lu An's forehead, and after thinking for a long time, he replied: "After the God Cup is over, I estimate that I can bring you the 'key'." ”

"Okay, then I'll start laying out the attack plan now. ”

Victoria was excited again, she seemed to be eager for war and blood, and suddenly, her expression changed, and she looked at Ruan with some seriousness.

"Mr. Ruan, I heard that you are going to 'visit' the Temple of the Gods?"

Lu An smiled indifferently, "I'm going to them to get justice, they shamelessly want to get back what they have sold." Fortunately, the Sword of the Nine Shadows came forward to help, otherwise my $400 million would probably be in vain. ”

"Hmph, I've heard about this too, and they're despicable. However, you have to be careful when you go to the Temple of the Gods, we can't come forward, we can only protect you secretly. ”

"It's okay, I don't plan to go myself, the Sword of the Nine Shadows is already negotiating with them, and it is estimated that I will recover some economic losses. No matter how much money I recovered, I promised to donate half of it to the Sword of the Nine Shadows, after all, this time thanks to their voluntary help. ”

"The Sword of the Nine Shadows is a fair organization, but they have always been prejudiced against us. Victoria laughed helplessly.

***

After Ji Tianci finished painting "Hundred Flowers", Lu An returned from Europe, and he fell in love with this huge and gorgeous painting at first sight.

"God, this painting is too much of a hindrance at home, I think I'll put him in the hall of my company's headquarters, and I'll arrange for someone to come and get this painting now." ”

Lu An basically didn't ask Ji Tianci if he was willing, and directly called someone to drive a truck to tow away the "paper". The size of this painting is too large, although it is only a piece of paper, but because it cannot be folded, after rolling it up, ordinary cars still can't fit it, so they can only be dragged by trucks.

"Oh, by the way, God's gift, I inquired in Europe about the ten 'Divine Weapons' from the Holy Sect in this God Cup, and there are indeed two artifacts, namely the 'Staff of Light' and the 'Seraph's Sword', and they should be announced to the public the day after tomorrow. Also, the goddess of Iceland and Drassus have been guarded by the 'guards' sent by the Holy Cult all these years, but after Christmas, it is time to rotate the 'guards' of the Dark Council to be on duty, and it will be much easier to ask her for any news at that time. ”

Ji Tianci was overjoyed, "Christmas, next month is Christmas, and I have a lot of questions for her." ”