Chapter 839: A Broken Spirit
"Guess the riddle?!"
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Evan recalls the description of the Sphinx in The Yokai Book of the Monsters: they have been used by wizards to guard their precious objects and secret places for more than a thousand years. The Sphinx is a very intelligent animal and loves riddles and anagrams.
They are happy to communicate with wizards and usually only become dangerous when what they guard is threatened.
Regardless of the other party's gentle talk to him, Evan had no doubt that if he answered incorrectly, the result would be very bad.
Fight the enraged Sphinx, and face the pursuit of at least a hundred goblins......
In the current situation, he has no other choice but to choose to answer, hoping that the riddle of the other party will not be too difficult.
I chose to answer. Evan said, "What's your riddle?"
The Sphinx sat on her hind legs, blocking the middle of the road, and looked at Evan with a smile, "There is an animal in the world, this animal has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs at night, the more legs, the weaker the strength, what kind of animal is this?"
She blinked and looked at Evan with a mysterious smile on her face.
This is the famous mystery of the Sphinx, also known as the mystery of human life, and anyone who has heard the story of the Sphinx has heard this riddle.
The correct answer is people!
In the morning of life, man is a delicate baby, crawling on all fours.
At noon, in the prime of life, he walked on two feet.
In his later years, he was so old and weak that he had to rely on crutches as a third foot.
The monster opposite Ai Wen gave him water, and many people know the answer to this riddle that has been passed down for thousands of years.
"It's a man!" Evan paused for a moment and continued, "Why?"
He wanted to know why the other party came up with such a simple riddle, and although Evan promised to help her untie the shackles on her feet, it was not in line with the Sphinx's personality to do so, and she couldn't let Evan go for no reason.
If that's the case, the goblins won't let the Sphinx guard the vault, then it's too dangerous!
A random wizard promised to help her unshackle, and she let the other person go, which is a caretaker, it is better not to have it.
"Because I do get homesick, and you showed up just in time. The Sphinx smiled more kindly, she stood up, straightened her front legs, and stepped aside, "One more thing, I can feel your heart, there is no malice." And the goblin next to you, I happen to know him, he has done a lot of sinful things and deserves to be punished. ā
The Sphinx are magical creatures of goodness, which in themselves represent benevolence and nobility. If it weren't for this, she wouldn't have appeared in so many legends, and the ancient Egyptian spellcasters wouldn't have built giant sphinxes to honor the creature and show the pharaoh's kindness.
"Thank you. Evan said, tapping his wand lightly against the shackles on the Sphinx's hind legs.
With his movements, the shackles shattered and opened, and the Sphinx was free!
"I should thank you, I've been here for more than ten years, and I can finally go back to my hometown to have a look. ā
"Do you need me to help you out?" Evan continued, his impression of the monster in good.
"No, I can get out of here myself, there's an underground river down there to get out of this place. "I can hear the sound of the water, and the goblins can't find me." ā
"Well, where is your hometown?"
"In the depths of the Sahara Desert, you can come there if you have time. Goodbye, human wizard, thank you again for helping me. After the Sphinx finished speaking, he ran down the road into the distance, and gradually disappeared.
Evan waved his hand and turned around.
At the end of the corridor, there is a semicircular hall where you can see a vault and a heavy door.
Evan took control of Zuo Sai to look at one of the doors and pressed his hand on it.
The door to the vault then vanished, revealing a hole.
Inside the cave is an incredible number of treasures, stuffed from floor to ceiling with gold coins and goblets, silver armor, beautifully crafted scarab amulets, pure gold pharaonic coffins, and statues of various gods, and here is a cave full of mirrors.
If Evan hadn't seen the cave where Nicol Lemay kept the pure gold of the Book of Abraham, he might have been surprised.
But now I don't feel anything, just a little regretful that I was late, all the really valuable things were packaged and sold to Malfoy by Zosai, and now there are only a bunch of useless gold and no magical artifacts left, I really don't understand, why those goblins are so obsessed with these things.
Despite this, there are still many rare treasures of ancient Egypt, which are of great artistic and collector's value.
All of them had been dug up by the Zosai thieves, or had been secretly hidden during the regular excavations, and behind each item was a bloody and dark crime, and he had no qualifications to possess them, which should have been handed over to the Egyptian Ministry of Magic.
That alone is enough to keep this goblin in prison for the rest of his life.
"Undo the magic from above and put all these things up. Evan said, kicking the box on the ground.
These chests have all been expanded with the Traceless Stretch Charm and can hold a lot of things.
While Zuo Sai was loading things inside, Evan was not polite, he walked into the stone room, and when he saw something of interest, he bumped into his pocket, among which were many priceless decorations and some stone tablets written in hieroglyphs, books, and so on.
Although all the ones with research value have been sold by Zuo Sai, there are still many fish that have slipped through the net.
After combing through it carefully, it still brought a lot of surprises to Aven.
He was going to go back and learn about the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, and perhaps learn some secrets from the stone tablets he had arrived.
Egypt, an ancient land beloved by the gods, has too many secrets to be discovered.
It was impossible for Evan and Hermione to explore all of them on this trip, and they could only feel some of them.
But with these things from the Zosai vault, it was enough to make Aven's trip very worthwhile, and it was no less meaningful than a trip to Sicily, Italy.
It took more than an hour for the two of them to sort out all the treasures.
"Let's go, go back!" said Aven, waving his wand, "Take these things back and turn yourself in." ā
Not surprisingly, the outcome of the left game will be ruined.
In the face of these things, no matter how much he quibbles, it is useless.
At that time, there is no need for Aven to control it, what should the Aurors do in the natural way, and the goblins of Gringotts will not be able to help him......
Looking at this astonishing treasure, Evan felt that the Ministry of Magic should award him a first-class Sir Merlin medal in recognition of his contribution to the preservation of ancient Egyptian artifacts and the fight against the unknown evil forces.