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Blue waves crash against the golden sands, the salty sea breeze blows through the rows of coconut palms, and not far from the shore, cascading tropical flora is verdant, with a few cultural stones looming.

Several inflatable boats were towed onto the beach, fixed to stones, and in the distance, a steamer could not be parked close to the shore.

A string of fresh footprints on the beach spreads into the deep and dense tropical jungle.

Along artificially carved paths, a mystical ruins of scale are hidden in the jungle, and the mossy vines are covered in scattered buildings.

A group of people who came here were archaeologists from all over the world, including a middle-aged Chinese man, who was able to join the team because he was commissioned by a European explorer who had known him for a long time, and the two of them had a lot of experience in dealing with the mechanisms in the monuments.

However, the strange thing is that in this monument, they have not encountered a single mechanism so far, although they saw a lot of bones on the road, but they seem to have gone through vicissitudes, the bones are very incomplete, and some parts have been dissolved by fungi.

After walking for a long time, the Huaxia men clearly felt the direction they were heading, gradually going deeper into the ground, and finally after passing through those ancient passages, they entered an open hall, and in the center of the main hall, there was a high platform made of stones, and something seemed to be placed on it.

After the Chinese man and his friend humbled each other, the explorers from Europe threw away their excess equipment and climbed to the high platform with their bare hands.

"I got it!"

However, as soon as the words fell, a gunshot rang out! A bullet hit the stone platform next to the explorer.

A group of armed men armed with various weapons rushed into the main hall and surrounded the archaeological team.

The head of the armed men, a burly man, walked into the hall and laughed proudly: "Hahaha, I didn't expect that there was an archaeological team on the cargo ship that was ready to rob, thanks to you, now I can not only get a large ransom, maybe I can also get a priceless treasure, by the way, what did you find?" ”

It turned out to be a group of pirates, who had already set their sights on the cargo ship that the archaeological team had boarded, and this group of pirates now also took a fancy to the treasures in the ruins.

Soon, the pirates had scavenged all the belongings of the archaeological team, and the pirate leader saw that in the pile of 'trophies' in front of him, except for some broken jars and rotten stones, there were no imaginary gold and silver jewelry, and he immediately became a little angry, and in his opinion, the glittering ornaments were worth more than ceramic jars.

At this time, the pirate leader took a mysterious box from one of his subordinates, boxy, with mysterious patterns on the surface, it was the object that the European explorer had just picked up on the high platform.

"What is this?" The pirate leader approached an archaeologist with the box and asked sharply.

Then the bald scholar with glasses shook his head nervously, with horror on his face, he had not studied the box carefully and did not know what it was.

Bang!

Warm blood splattered into the faces of the scholars around them, their eyes full of despair, the pirate leader was so murderous that he didn't give a chance to explain.

With a pistol in one hand, the pirate leader approached the second scholar and continued, "What is this?" ”

"I ......," the scholar said, catching a glimpse of the pirate leader's gun out of the corner of his eye, and said with a crying voice, "We really don't know, we haven't had time to study it yet." ”

His body trembled violently, and the scholar's eyes widened as he saw the muzzle of the black hole slowly rise in front of him, and the shadow of death loomed over him.

"Bang!" The pirate leader suddenly made a sound with his mouth, and the scholar in front of him was so frightened that his legs fell to the ground, and then a strange smell faintly wafted away.

The pirate leader was even happier when he saw the cowardly scholar who was afraid of death, and laughed and said, "Take them all back to the ship, I want to see what kind of good thing this thing is." ”

In the face of a large number of pirates, even Chinese men and European explorers with combat experience did not dare to resist, they were just hired, the ownership of the treasures had nothing to do with them, they would not be desperate, and these pirates generally did not kill people, these living people were 'goods' for them, just piles of banknotes.

The exception was the scholar who was killed, he was more unlucky, and was used to Liwei and kill chickens to show monkeys.

Out of the jungle, the members of the archaeological team saw the cargo ships on the sea in the distance, surrounded by several pirate ships, although these pirate ships were smaller than the cargo ships, they were fast and well concealed. Seeing that the ships were also controlled, the last trace of luck in everyone's hearts was also snuffed out.

The pirates brought all the members of the archaeological team to the cargo ship and gathered them all on the deck, because these pirates had to check the identities of some people, such as some ordinary crew members, who would be put back by the pirates. The pirates who take hostages also need to be reported, and these crew members who don't know how much money will be released.

And now, the pirate leader is trying to figure out if the strange box is a treasure or not.

The cargo ship had some research equipment and historical materials from the archaeological team, and in the face of some advanced equipment, these pirates could only stare dryly.

Several archaeologists were forcibly intimidated into studying the box, and given a time limit of twenty minutes.

Faced with the robbers' unreasonable demands, an archaeologist stood up in protest and was thrown into the sea to feed the sharks.

Twenty minutes passed in a blink of an eye, and several archaeologists were sweating profusely with strange expressions on their faces.

"What? Haven't found out yet? Do I say that you experts and scholars are idiots? Give you so much time, there is no fart conclusion, come on! Throw them all into the sea to feed the sharks...... Never mind! Just threw away hundreds of thousands of dollars, so one person cut off a finger. "The pirate leader was a little angry, and almost threw a few archaeologists into the sea in a fit of rage, but fortunately he thought about the importance of the 'ransom' in time, but cutting off a finger had little effect on the ransom, and it was still possible for the crew to take it back and tell them that the hostages were indeed in the hands of the pirates.

"Slow...... Wait, we've got preliminary results, it's just ......" A white-haired old expert stood up, and when they came to a conclusion, it was incredible, that kind of legendary treasure, would these pirates believe it?

The pirate leader waved his hand impatiently and drank, "Don't mother-in-law, is there an answer?" ”

The old expert gritted his teeth and said firmly: "Yes, this box is the legendary 'Pandora's Box'!" After saying that, many members of the archaeological team showed shock on their faces, and then a wry smile, did a 'treasure' that existed in the legend really exist?

The pirate leader scrambled to his seat, walked up to the old expert, and gently stroked the delicate lines on the box like caressing the carcass of a sensual and seductive woman. Although the pirate leader did not go to school much, he would read novels and stories outside of work, and he had heard of the legend of Pandora's Box.

"You say, this is the magic box in Greek mythology?" The pirate leader held the magic box, his eyes shining, and said as if he was asking, "In order to verify your research, let me open it and try it, huh?" Why can't this box be opened? ”

After a long time of wasted effort, the pirate leader could not open the box, so he put the box back into the old expert's arms again, and said angrily: "Give you ten more minutes, and open this box for me!" ”

The old experts holding the 'Pandora's Box' and several archaeological colleagues looked at each other, although they found that in addition to some ancient Greek words on the box, some of the depictions on the box were talking about the scene after the 'Pandora' opened the box - various disasters turned into 'monsters' to destroy the world.

But after a few minutes of study, the scholars were helpless about how to open the box.

At this time, among the hostages, the Huaxia man suddenly stood up and said, "Let me try." ”

"What do you do?" The pirate leader couldn't help but wonder when he saw an Asian face.

The Huaxia man introduced himself: "I'm just a person who can pick locks. ”

The pirate leader nodded, the experts didn't stand up to refute, he didn't say anything, since someone thought that he could open it, he was still very satisfied, and he thought about whether to consider leaving him if this person could really open the box, he was lacking in this kind of talent.

Coming to the archaeological expert, the Chinese man took the magic box. In the eyes of those Western scholars, how can an Asian understand Western institutions? But since this person has stood up with a big head, the matter of opening the magic box has nothing to do with himself and others. If the Chinese man can't open it, the pirate will blame him, and even kill him, in case he opens it, the pirate leader will find that the box is not 'Pandora's box' at all, and there is a high chance that this person will be blamed.

As for the last conjecture, if it is really 'Pandora's Box', this Chinese man is the 'Pandora' who opened the box, and he will become a sinner!

The Chinese man didn't know what some archaeologists thought, he just looked for the switch through years of experience and the clues on the surface of the box. There is also a violent practice of opening the box, but he will never do it, because in his homeland how many treasures with rich cultural value are forcibly destroyed.

As the minutes passed, the pirate leader's expression became a little ugly, and his face was slightly impetuous.

The Huaxia man here was meticulously concentrating on studying the box, and when he saw the 'disasters' on the surface of the box, each incarnation entity had a distorted face, either angry or sinister, and when his fingers pressed these faces one by one, the magic box in his hand made a crisp click.

Whew!

Sou!

Click!

All kinds of strange and terrifying sounds came from inside the box, the surrounding archaeologists trembled their lips, and the old expert said with his teeth smashing: "Demon ...... Box, Pan ...... Pandora...... Demon...... Box! ”

With a terrifying sound from the box, strings of eerie black smoke burst out of the cracks in the box and disappeared into the sky in an instant, some of which went straight into the mouths of some crew members, scholars, and pirates.

"Haha, hahaha......" The pirate leader looked at the change in front of him, there was not the slightest fear in his eyes, but instead there was a wave of madness, and the crazy laughter was eerie and terrifying, and his face became dark and hideous.

The only thing on the ship that seemed to be unaffected was the Chinese man holding the box, shocked that the 'Pandora's Box' really existed, but he was using his last strength to cover the box. However, in the end, it was useless, the power contained in the magic box was by no means trivial, the magic box was finally completely opened, and the 'black fog' that rushed to the sky gushed out, and the originally clear and cloudless sky was suddenly overcast, lightning and thunder, and the waves were monstrous, engulfing the cargo ship in an instant......

When the darkness was about to be completely enveloped at the last moment, the Huaxia man saw the bottom of the magic box, a soft flame was shining, different from the previous mysterious black fog, the flame conveyed hope to the Huaxia man, but he refused with the last trace of consciousness: to the east, there is my child, I have committed a heinous sin, the heavy shackles make me no longer able to bear the burden of hope, my child will inherit my legacy and bring new hope to the world......

The waves are like monsters of the deep sea, engulfing the cargo ship.

The box with the flame disappears from the sea......

A meteor streaked towards the mysterious east......