"Why hasn't Sister Zhenzhen come back yet?"

Xu Da, who was sitting on the chair, took the straw and inserted it into the ice drink in front of him in every kind of boredom, and the white and tender calves under the skirt also swayed, making the small and delicate toes with cardamom-colored nail polish draw a tempting trajectory in the air. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Regarding the complaints of the class leader Xu, Xin Yuan, who was sitting opposite, operated his tablet without squinting and did not make any additional reactions.

It's true that he can't respond to anything, because he knows that something happened to Xia Zhen, and Xu Youran is the same, of course she doesn't know that he already knows, and her complaint is just boring and casually talking, if Xin Yuan answers, it will really be called hitting the muzzle.

Because Xia Zhen encountered a problem that every girl would have - the elders who had to come once a month found her very punctually again.

Maybe it's because of the water and soil environment or diet, this time it's very serious, so that she, who is far stronger than ordinary men, can't stand the pain, last night it was not light, Xu Youran, who lives in the same room with her, naturally won't be unclear, and Xin Yuan heard it from several rooms with his increasingly keen perception.

Although the two girls hid it from Xin Yuan, they didn't know that the boy in front of them had an uncle-level soul in his body, and he was still very experienced, so that he judged her situation from Xia Zhen's slightly pale face, awkward walking movements, and faintly smelly smell of blood, and other details, just pretending to be naïve and ignorant.

No, on the way to play today, Xia Zhen suddenly couldn't stand it anymore, took care of the two children and stayed where they were, don't run around, and go to a store selling women's necessities alone to solve the next personal problem.

So there is the current scene.

"Xin Yuan, have you written your travel report?" Xu Youran suddenly asked.

"The outline has been written, the title is the investigation of the current situation of the Buddhist temple in Jialuo, the framework is complete, now you just need to sort out the information and fill it in." Xin Yuan raised his head and looked at the other party, "What about your side?" ”

"Mine is to see the architectural features of Tonglan from Jialuo, and I have almost all the preparation materials after visiting here today."

"Well, you're sure you'll get a high score." Xin Yuan habitually complimented.

"The same goes for you." Xu Youran smiled and praised back, after a period of getting along, she was also a little used to talking to Xin Yuan like this.

The place where Xin Yuan and Xu Youran are located is a very famous building in Quanjialuo and even Quantonglan - the Lotus Building.

The design of the rosette building is very distinctive, the bottom of the main building is a vast podium, on which stands a main building and eight auxiliary buildings, which are connected by multi-storey air corridors, and the whole constitutes the gorgeous shape of the inverted nine-hole rosette, which has attracted much attention not only in Tonglan but even in the world when it was completed, and is a must-visit place for architecture lovers who come to Jialuo.

Now Xin Yuan and the two are eating cold drinks in a tea restaurant on the fifth floor of the main building of the Lotus Building, which is Building No. 1, waiting for Xia Zhen to come back.

The first, second and third floors of the main building and the annex building are all combined with the podium, in fact, from the fourth floor onwards, each building is considered an independent part.

Building 1 has an open frame structure from the fourth floor to the seventh floor, and the dining table where Xin Yuan and the others sit is next to the fence on the fifth floor, and can directly look down on the empty central venue on the fourth floor, which can be used for various events.

Today, a charity auction has been held for a while in the center of the fourth floor. The auctions are all items of low value but some commemorative value, most of which are donated by the participants on the spot, such as the essay poems of someone present, the imitation sculptures of those who attended, and so on. Obviously, this charity auction is a public show, so not too many security forces have been mobilized to block Building 1, and visitors are still allowed to come and go, and they can also watch, but they are not allowed to approach the central area of the auction hall on the fourth floor, so as not to affect the guests in the auction table.

So some tourists came to the fence on the fifth and sixth floors to watch the auction, anyway, the auction list is provided free of charge on the spot, as long as the voice of the auction host can be heard, and other information is queried with the electronic products they carry, like Xin Yuan The two female tourists at the table next to them are like this.

Xin Yuan wasn't too interested in this auction, but Xu Youran thought it was very interesting, and specially asked the waiter to bring the auction list, and he had nothing to look through a few times.

The auction host's ability to control the field is very good, and the cliché slogan comes as soon as he opens his mouth, which has instigated the atmosphere of this auction all the time. The participants present are also very cooperative with the bidding, but compared with the regular auction hall less competition, more civilized courtesy, often many people take a fancy to an auction object after a few rounds of auction and then no longer compete, after mutual consultation to decide who will buy, the bid is not low, will not let the people present to provide the auction object lose face.

In such a noisy environment, time flies quite quickly. Sometimes, when religious auctions appeared, Xin Yuan would check the specific information on the tablet computer according to the information on the auction list, which enriched a lot of materials that could be added to his travelogue report.

Suddenly, he felt that there seemed to be some kind of change in the venue below, so he got up and looked down, and saw a number of strong men in black suits and sunglasses suits who were afraid that others would not know that they were bodyguards entered the auction hall and scattered to all corners, and there was another group of the same bodyguards at the entrance to persuade the tourists there, and they made a safe passage out, but there was no noise in the process, and they seemed very well-trained.

Which big shot is this?

Xin Yuan thought secretly.

At this moment, the host on the stage began to introduce the next auction item, as soon as the cart where the auction item was located entered the venue, Xin Yuan felt the rune stone in the sea of knowledge vibrate violently, if you make a comparison, last time in the Sinnaro Temple was just a simple reminder, but this time it was an impatient urging, I can't wait for him to jump from the upstairs at once.

What is it?!

Xin Yuan resisted the sudden impulse, turned his head to look at the auction item that had been carefully brought to the stage by the staff, and for a moment it seemed that he couldn't feel anything but it.

It was a mask.

One floor apart, Xin Yuan couldn't see it completely, so he took the auction list with a turn of his mind, flipped through it quickly, and then stopped abruptly on a certain page.

"This is it!"

The beautiful picture of the manual shows a gray stone mask, which is made of some kind of gray stone, with three-dimensional and vivid facial features, but it is a little damaged, and a quarter of the lower left side is gone, and the remaining part is covered with cracked lines, which has a feeling of simple vicissitudes.

King Theodon's Stone Ghost Face!

At this time, the host's voice also sounded at the right time: "The auction below is the lot provided by Sir Hutson, the stone ghost face of King Theodon. Of course, this is just an imitation of later generations, but the history of the present day is also more than 200 years old, and the experts who have identified it agree that this mask is a very real reproduction of the style of King Theodon's period, and it has a great reference role in studying the mysterious history of King Theodon. ”

There was a buzz in the venue immediately, compared to the previous lots, although this stone mask is also an imitation, it also has a certain historical value, and the grade has completely improved to a higher level. In particular, the legend of King Theodon has been passed down for a long time, and the vast majority of people here can be said to have grown up listening to the story of King Theodon, which can be said to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there are very few genuine objects that King Theodon has really handed down, and even the real history has been blurred, which adds a lot of chips to this high-imitation mask.

"You're interested in this mask?" At this time, Xu Youran came over and asked curiously.

"Well, I think this mask is special." Seeing that the people in the field began to bid, Xin Yuan replied with some absent-mindedness.

"That's right." Xu Youran nodded, and then asked, "Do you know the story of the Thousand Faces Palace?" And do you understand why this mask is broken? ”

"Thousand Faces Palace? What is it? Is it very proven? Hearing Xu Youran say this, Xin Yuan's attention was immediately pulled back, he wanted to know the information about this mask, so he kept a little heart and continued to pay attention to the auction venue, wanting to see who finally bought this mask, and the rest of his mind was on Xu Youran's words.

"It's quite a history." Xu Youran pointed to the album in Xin Yuan's hand and said slowly: "It is said that King Theodon almost fought every day during his reign, and spent his whole life fighting and rushing to the battlefield, defeating countless opponents and never defeating himself once until he died. He has a hobby of peeling off the faces of the most powerful enemies, making masks from various materials, and then placing them in the palace of the army, which is rumored to be able to obtain the power of the enemy through this special method, and when he died, the number of masks stored in the palace of the army has exceeded thousands, so the palace was named the palace of a thousand faces.

After the death of King Theodon, his empire fell apart, and various warlords engaged in brutal scuffles, and most of the masks in the Palace of a Thousand Faces were destroyed in the war, and only a few survived. After that, there were people who wanted to imitate the mask of the Thousand Faces Palace, but as long as they were successfully imitated, the holder would encounter all kinds of bad luck and die, so there were rumors that the masks of the Thousand Faces Palace were cursed, and the imitation also had the power of the curse, and only by destroying part of the imitation could the power of the curse on it be resolved, so the mask that was imitated afterwards would knock off this part of the lower side of the left face.

Of course, these are just legends, and even the experts and scholars who specialize in these histories cannot tell what the real situation will be. When I was a child, I was fascinated by this legend, and for a while I desperately collected all kinds of information, but the real mask of the Thousand Faces Palace has been handed down so few that I have never had a chance to see it, and I can't say whether it is true or false. ”

Xin Yuan nodded, he had also heard some of the legends of King Theodon, but he didn't know as much as Xu Youran, so he knew that King Theodon was known as the Sun King and had conquered most of the territories in the world at that time, so it was not clear how much he had.