"Do you want to learn about mythology, now?" Father Zhang was a little surprised, "I thought you weren't interested in these things after graduating from the sixth grade." ”

The four of them had finished dinner, and after cleaning up the tableware, Zhang's mother and grandfather flipped through the old photos of the past in the study together, while Zhang's father and Zhang Heng watched TV while eating fruit in the living room.

"Okay, if you want to know anything, as long as it's something I know, just ask." Father Zhang picked up an apple, took a bite and said happily.

Zhang Heng thought for a while, "Is there really a god in the world we live in?" ”

"Poof~" Father Zhang almost choked on the apple he had just swallowed, coughed twice and cried and laughed, "What's the matter, do we really have to pretend that you are still in the sixth grade now?" ”

He took a sip of water and smoothed out, "I remember that we seemed to have discussed this issue a long time ago, although your mother and I are theology majors, but we don't have any beliefs ourselves, in fact, I am interested in the part of mythology about history and humanities, your mother and her...... Well, she's just interested in all the weird stories, and she likes to travel around in the name of religious archaeology, take pictures, taste the food, and if I'm not mistaken, her master's thesis was about medieval diet.

"From my personal point of view, the so-called myths are nothing more than stories written by mortals, just like fairy tales, just for adults, for example, the Homeric Epic, according to legend, was written by the blind poet Homer of ancient Greece, and we all know that its theme is the Trojan War, in which not only mortals, but also the half-human and demigod Achilles, the sun god Apollo, the sea god Poseidon, and so on.

"But in fact, only the Trojan War is a real occurrence in history, and the rest is just the artistic processing of Homer, and the academic community generally believes that Homer, if there was indeed a person, he lived around the ninth century B.C., when there were no serious historians, and no one would emphasize the authenticity of history, so the way people record history is to mix real events with myths and legends, and then we have "Homer's Epics."

Father Zhang paused, "In fact, if you are really studying a mythological system, you will find that they have their origins, generally some oral folk tales, on the basis of which they continue to develop, such as Celtic mythology, which originated from Celtic folklore, and was influenced by ancient Rome and Christianity in the process of formation, if the stories in it are true, how can it continue to change with the migration of civilization, and it is more typical of Greek and Roman mythology." ”

Father Zhang said while nibbling on an apple, "Roman mythology is completely born from Greek mythology, many gods have different names, just because of different pronunciations, as for the storyline is exactly the same, how can they all be true." ”

Zhang Heng was silent, in fact, this is the same as his consistent cognition, but in this case, where did those so-called gods come from, the existence of the self-proclaimed Celtic ancient gods he encountered in the copy of Black Sail, and the supernatural creatures he encountered in the real world, if the legends about them are all fictional, why are they real.

Zhang Heng remembered the guy named Einstein he met in the copy of the Apollo training camp, and from his words, it seemed that he was the same level of existence as the old man in Tang costume that Zhang Heng met before, but Zhang Heng didn't feel anything connected with myths and legends in his body, as well as the game props he saw at the auction before, some of which were obviously products of modern society......

Zhang Heng decided to put this question aside for the time being, and asked a question that he had always been most concerned about, "What are the gods about time?" ”

Father Zhang raised his eyebrows, "The god of time, indeed, there are gods related to time in many mythological systems, but to say that the most famous is the super-primitive god in ancient Greek mythology, Chronos, he is the supreme god worshiped by Orpheus, symbolizing the first cause that transcends everything, exists before everything begins, is the supreme god in the "Narrative of the Twenty-Four Sacred Words", has a power above all things, and has no entity in itself, but sometimes appears in the image of a snake, with three heads - man, ox and lion, But he is better known for the image of the old man, as he is often depicted in modern art as an old man with a scythe. ”

"Old man, old man like this?" Zhang Heng took out the old photo he picked up when he was tidying up the study from his pocket and put it on the coffee table in front of him.

A flash of surprise flashed in Zhang's father's eyes, and he picked up the photo, "Ha...... Where did you find this thing? ”

"You've been involved in a lot of research projects, and your mom takes a lot of photos almost everywhere you go, so why is this only one of these photos in the whole room? Where are the other photos? ”

"Because we lost one sled near the end of the study, and four sled dogs, they fell into the ice hole, and they also turned over with the sled stuff, including our Kodak, and then we tried, but in the end we couldn't pull the four poor little guys up, let alone the sled, and as for Mr. Tem, he was the patron of the study, but we haven't seen each other for more than ten years after the study."

Although Zhang's father tried his best to maintain a relaxed tone, Zhang Heng could hear that his heart was not as calm as it seemed, especially when he saw the photo, his pupils had a significant dilation, and then he obviously concealed some things, but to Zhang Heng's surprise, that incident did not seem to have much to do with Mr. Tham.

For when he spoke of Mr. Tim later, his body relaxed again, and he changed to a more comfortable sitting position.

Zhang Heng didn't quite understand why his father lied about the film, and his grandfather also knew about this research activity, in other words, he was the only one in the whole family who was completely kept in the dark. The question is why, why his parents disposed of the photographs, and made no mention of the research project they had taken to Greenland 18 years earlier.

What exactly happened on that island in the Arctic Circle, and what does it have to do with him, who was only one year old at the time, if the Tang costume weirdo had met his parents 18 years ago, then his choice of Zhang Heng after 18 years was obviously not just admiration and accident as he initially said.

It's not so much an encounter as an 18-year wait.