Reed's presence disrupted our pace to a certain extent, and we had to speed up in order to make a high-profile visit to the next location before ten o'clock as scheduled.

After returning to Gordon's small building, Qiao Wei and I went straight to the second floor, where Grace was killed.

When I entered the bedroom, the first thing I looked at was the fan that hanged Grace directly above the roof. It was an old-fashioned three-bladed electric fan, the hinge of the fan had been loosened, and one of the fan blades had also been deformed, I don't know if it was because it couldn't bear Grace's weight to become what it is now.

The bedroom was neatly organized, and there didn't seem to be anything reminiscent of a murder other than the deformed old fan.

To the right of the double bed was a small square table against the corner, on which were stacked four thick books, and I went over and picked up the top one and looked through it briefly.

The paper is very yellow, and the edges of each page are damaged to varying degrees, as if it has been read over and over again for a long time, and the reader does not cherish it very much.

"It's Norse mythology."

Qiao Wei looked at the book in my hand and explained.

"The one with Thor, Odin, and Rainbow Bridge?"

"Yes, and Loki, the god of fire."

"In Norse mythology, the evil god is supposed to refer to Loki, right?" All my knowledge about Norse mythology comes from that old American movie, but in the movie, the god of thunder and fire are not gods, and a group of aliens with a higher technological civilization, so I still have to ask Qiao Wei for advice on some key issues.

Qiao Wei nodded and said: "Loki is one of the fuses of the war of the gods, but the term evil god does not appear in the original text of Norse mythology, this is just an evaluation of Loki, which is very subjective." ”

"Your words seem to be a bit profound, I have to digest them."

Qiao Wei smiled, "Actually, there is nothing profound, Loki instigated the god of light to be killed by the god of darkness, and then he was tortured by Odin, and then in the Ragnarok Doomsday War, he stood on the opposite side of Odin, Zuihou was killed, and the result of the war was that the god's shijie was destroyed, but a new shijie of mankind was born." ”

"So Loki shouldn't be counted as an evil god, but should be a righteous god?"

"It doesn't matter if it's evil, but when it comes to Loki, there's another god worth mentioning, Prometheus!"

"Greek mythology?"

"Hmm." Qiao Wei nodded, "Prometheus stole fire for mankind, Zuihou was punished by Zeus, let an eagle peck at his liver forever, and let him suffer endless torture; In Norse mythology, Loki was punished by Odin for his mistake by using a large snake to constantly drip venom on Loki's face. ”

"What you're trying to convey is that Loki and Prometheus are actually the same god?"

"I can't verify, but from my personal point of view, I think Loki and Prometheus are probably the same god! They were all related to fire, they all violated the interests of the gods, and they were all cruelly punished, Loki caused Ragnarok to start a new shijie for mankind, Prometheus sent fire to mankind, and also brought new hope to mankind. ”

"Oh, according to what you say, Loki's title as an evil god is really wronged."

"At least I think it's wronged. Think about yourself again, you slaughtered the moon reading before, and fought with the god of fortune again, and now we are studying how to deal with other gods, if our behavior is written into mythological stories, it is estimated that we will also be regarded as evil gods. ”

"It seems that you have been learning a lot during this time, and you have also studied philosophy!" I said half-jokingly.

Qiao Wei smiled and waved his hand, "Don't discuss this, you see what Grace is studying, I'll go look elsewhere, this room is very 'clean', but I don't think Grace's ghost will just disperse." ”

“OK！ I'll leave it to me. ”

Qiao Wei nodded, glanced around the bedroom again, and then opened the door to look for Grace's ghost elsewhere, while I continued to look at the books on the bedside.

Although there are still a lot of obscure words in the book, and it is impossible for me to fully understand the content of the book, I can still see the general content of the book, after all, after so many years of exams, the ability of written English is definitely much stronger than that of spoken English.

Three of these four books are related to Norse mythology, one is an overview of Norse mythology, one is dedicated to Ragnarok, and one is dedicated to Loki, the "evil god". Grace not only flips through these books, but also draws many eye-catching circles with a red pen on them, some of which are related to Loki, and more about the "Golden Apple".

I carefully read the circled content of those books, and the general meaning is that the gods in Norse mythology Shijie are not immortal, but will age and die, and the way for them to keep their youth forever is to eat the golden apple picked by Eden, the goddess of youth, but Loki tricked Eden and gave her to a frost troll, but Zuihou Loki was forced by the gods to save Eden, and the frost troll who held Eden hostage was also burned to death by the gods.

In the content of these circles, Grace dotted a lot of dots under the words "golden apple", as if trying to explain something.

Did Eden come to earth with a golden apple, so the gods mistook humans for the sinners who abducted Eden, so they punished him? This is obviously not right, according to what I know about God, there is no concept of longevity, youth in their form of existence, let alone an apple.

Could it be that the golden apple symbolizes something else?

So what could it be?

What exactly did Grace find?

While thinking about these questions, I turned my attention to the book at the bottom.

It's not a book, it's a photo album.

I briefly flipped through the photo album, and it was full of photos of children, and it seemed to be a record of the activities of the town's elementary school. These photos are very new, and the children in them are also very fashionable, and they look like they should have been taken recently, and there are many photos in them that are marked with red pens.

Golden apple, Loki, kid...... What is the connection between these three?

Could it be that to the gods, the golden apple is a child? Loki kidnapped Eden in order to prevent the child from being devoured by the gods? The gods need to eat the golden apples that Eden picks with his hands, so Eden is actually an evil god who is responsible for taking children and providing them with practical use?

If this is the case, then the child in the photo is the "golden apple" chosen by the evil god Eden?

Thinking of this, I can't help but shiver all over my body!

"It's weird, this house couldn't be cleaner!" Qiao Wei's voice suddenly came from behind me, and it also pulled me back from all kinds of weird and cruel imaginations.

I didn't ask about the house or Grace's soul, but I lit up the photo album in my hand with the book about the golden apple.

"I seem to know what Grace is studying, Eden may be the evil god who came to town!"