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- Aesop (Greek fabler, Phrygian)

After the surrender of the Governor of Cyprus with the 25,000 troops of the Kingdom of Egypt stationed on the island, the Augustan Empire's attack on the island came to an end; Without the resistance of the army, the sea route was blocked by the fleet of the Augustan Empire and Oles, and the island of Cyprus was already in the pocket of the Augustan Empire.

When the governor of Cyprus saw Cleopatra, he immediately expressed his loyalty to her, and was willing to lead his army of 25,000 to follow Cleopatra back to Memphis and help Cleopatra ascend to the throne of pharaoh of the kingdom of Egypt.

When Cleopatra asked if the governor of Cyprus would help him defeat Ptolemy XIII once and for all, the governor who had always insisted that Cleopatra should succeed to the throne as pharaoh of the Kingdom of Egypt along with Ptolemy XIII proved his own pedantry once again; He did not agree to help Cleopatra defeat Ptolemy XIII, but he still wanted the two to inherit the kingdom of Egypt together.

Cleopatra paid no attention to the governor of Cyprus, who advocated the supremacy of internal stability in the kingdom of Egypt, and even less to the so-called traditions of the kingdom of Egypt in his remarks; She told the honest man bluntly that she was married to the Emperor of the Augustan Empire, and promised to exchange the island of Cyprus for the Augustan Empire to help her regain the throne of Pharaoh.

Upon receiving this sad news, the governor of Cyprus chose to leave Cleopatra's ranks; He left all his army to Cleopatra, but he himself stubbornly demanded to return to his home in the city of Salamis.

For this rising old man, Oscar is not willing to embarrass him, nor does he want to worry about these meaningless things with him; Besides, he also willingly handed over all the 25,000 garrisons to Cleopatra before leaving, and what could Oscar say to this old man, he could only go with him.

After Oscar led the main army of the Augustan Empire into Salamis, he sent the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Legions of the Augustan Empire to the port area, and the 25,000 Egyptian troops that now belonged to Cleopatra were also sent to the port area, and the remaining Augustus Emperor's ** team began to receive the entire island of Cyprus.

At the same time, Oscar also took Cleopatra and Shi Xiu, escorted by the Samonai Regiment and the Fourth Cavalry Legion, to the location of the treasure on the island of Cyprus, which Shi Xiu knew, that is, the city of Paphos on the island of Cyprus.

On the way to the city of Paphos, Oscar asked Shi Xiu what kind of treasure this treasure on the island of Cyprus was, and Shi Xiu replied that this treasure was related to Pygmalion, a famous king of the island of Cyprus; For this Pygmalion kingdom, Cleopatra, as one of the pharaonic heirs of the Kingdom of Egypt, is naturally very familiar.

So, at Oscar's request, Cleopatra simply told Oscar what she knew; This legendary story of Cypriot mythology goes like this:

Pygmalion was a king of Cyprus during the reign of the Greeks, and was good at carving; He didn't like the mortal women of Cyprus and decided never to marry. He carved a beautiful ivory maiden with miraculous skill, to which Pygmalion gave all his energy, all his passion, all his love, to which he worked day and night.

He caressed her as he had treated his own wife, dressed her up, named her Galatea, and begged the gods to make her his wife; Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was moved by him, gave life to the statues, and made them husband and wife.

Cleopatra's simple description is actually the story about Pygmalion that Cleopatra knows, and the overly simple storyline makes Oscar completely unaware of what this story has to do with the treasure; Because this story is purely a mythological story, could this treasure still be left by the mythical goddess of love?

In response to Oscar's doubts, Shi Xiu told a complete version of the legendary story of Pygmalion; The story goes like this:

Pygmalion was the king of the Kingdom of Cyprus and a sculptor of the Kingdom of Cyprus, who believed that women were worthless, and was disgusted with them, and resolved not to marry for the rest of his life; He once carved a statue of a woman out of ivory, graceful and graceful, beyond the reach of any woman in the world, as if she were a living maiden, standing with her breath only out of politeness.

Pygmalion cherished his work, and over time developed a love for the humanoid statue; From time to time he touched the statue as if to find out whether it was a living or inanimate object, and he always refused to believe that it was nothing more than an ivory figure.

He caressed it and gave it all sorts of maiden gifts—brightly colored shells, smooth pebbles, small birds and purple flowers, beads and amber; He dressed it, put on a jeweled ring, and hung a necklace; He also wore a pendant on his ears and a pearl necklace on his chest. Her dress fits well, which brings out the original appearance even more.

He placed it on a couch covered with Tyre's purple sheets, called her his wife, and decided to ask the gods for a rich life in the upcoming festival of Venus; It took a lot of courage for Pygmalion to make such a decision, but he had already made it.

The festival of Venus is approaching, which is to be celebrated in the Kingdom of Cyprus; Offerings were made, incense was burned in front of the altar, and the air was filled with incense smoke. After attending the ceremony, Pygmalion came to the altar and prayed, "O God Almighty! I pray that you will give me a virgin like me in ivory. ”

In the end, he did not dare to say, "Give me my ivory virgin as a wife!" ”

The god Venus came to the celebration, and when he heard this, he guessed what he meant if he wanted to say it; She gathered the incense on the altar into flames and flew into the air three times, which was a sign of her gratitude; When Pygmalion got home, he went to see the statue, and he leaned down and kissed the figure lying on the couch, and his mouth seemed to be warm.

He kissed it again, and reached for the statue's arm, and found it soft, and when his fingers touched it, it was elastic, like honey wax in the mountains of Imitos; He stood there surprised and delighted, unbelievable, he was afraid that he had a delusion, so he touched the portrait with his hand again and again with the passion of a lover.

The statue really came to life! When he touched the place where there was a vessel, the skin was sunken, and when he removed his hand, the skin was swollen again; At this time, the believers of Venus remembered to thank the goddess Venus.

He kissed the mouth again, the mouth of a living man like himself, and the maiden, feeling that someone was kissing her, turned red with shame, and timidly opened her eyes to her lover; Venus blessed the marriage she brokered, and after the marriage they gave birth to Paphos, and the city dedicated to Venus took its name.

Well, the Shixiu version of the myth only let Oscar know the origin of the name of the city of Paphos, and did not make Oscar feel that it had anything to do with the so-called legendary treasure; In this regard, Shi Xiu's explanation is that this so-called legendary treasure is actually the wealth accumulated by the king of Cyprus for his beloved son Paphos.

Perhaps, in ordinary countries, the wealth that the king accumulates for his descendants is nothing more than gold and silver; However, how could a legendary king like Pygmalion leave an ordinary treasure of gold and silver to his child, not to mention that this child was also the crystallization of his love with Tyre, the gift of Eros, and the wealth left by Pygmalion is even more coveted by future generations.

In fact, Shi Xiu has never entered this so-called legendary treasure, all she knows is that this legendary treasure is the wealth left by Pygmalion to her son; In addition, it was Shi Xiu who had been lucky enough to get a million gold coins on the periphery of this treasure.

Millions of gold coins can be obtained just by being on the periphery of the treasure, so you can imagine what a terrifying wealth this treasure holds inside; In Oscar's opinion, even if there is nothing surprising in this treasure, only gold and silver treasures worth millions of gold coins, it is also a big windfall for the Augustan Empire.

After the group arrived in Paphos under the escort of the soldiers of the two legions, Oscar left the soldiers of the Fourth Cavalry Regiment to garrison the city of Paphos, and he himself led the Samonai Legion to a place more than five miles east of Paphos with Shi Xiu.

After coming to this place surrounded by mountains, Shi Xiu took Oscar into a very secret cave; The entrance to this cave is unusually hidden, completely blocked by several other small mountain bags, but the size of this cave is very average, and at least five or six people can enter the cave at the same time.

Antio himself led a large group of soldiers to follow Oscar into the cave, while the other Samonai soldiers guarded the cave; After entering the cave, there was a very dark and damp mountain road, and after walking for about 500 meters, Oscar and the others came to the outer square of this treasure.

This small square carved out of the mountain is littered with wooden chests full of gold and silver treasures, which have long since rotted in the dark and damp environment, so that the gold and silver treasures in the chests are so exposed in the square, and people can't help but feel that this is definitely a treasure full of gold and silver treasures.

According to Shi Xiu's account, it was in this small square that she obtained gold and silver treasures worth millions of gold coins; As for the place behind the two huge stone doors at the back door of the square, she simply didn't have enough people to enter it at that time, otherwise she wouldn't have left the square with only a million gold coins. (To be continued.) )