Chapter 39: Humility and foolishness
"How did you find out that I was following you?"
Diana had an interested look on her face.
"Hmph, Diana, don't underestimate a mage at any time."
Chen Sheng's face was calm.
Are you ornamental when my mind is snooping?
In the past two days, Chen Sheng has been reading frantically during the day, mastering the history and knowledge of this world, and at night, he has replaced normal sleep with the meditation technique of an arcane magician.
to better restore mental power and improve the cultivation of secret magic energy.
In the past two days, he has undoubtedly mastered the mystical magic more proficiently, and he has almost completely digested the muscle memory and vast occult knowledge given to him by the gem, and completely turned it into his own.
And in the midst of this, he also found some new changes in himself.
I don't know if it's because of the power of the mind gem, while gaining the ability to peep into the mind, his spiritual sense seems to have been greatly enhanced, thus giving birth to a kind of psychic derivation ability similar to super perception, which is commonly referred to as the sixth sense enhancement.
Although this super-perceptual spiritual sense is still relatively rudimentary, and he has not received direct enhancement from the Mind Gem.
But the Mind Gem did give him an unexpected surprise.
And presumably when he unlocks more psychic power in the future, sooner or later he may be able to be like a Kryptonian, and even an ant on the other side of the planet can clearly perceive it.
Seeing that Chen Sheng looked mysterious and mysterious, and more and more like a master (god stick), Diana didn't talk much about this topic, she blinked her eyes and looked at Chen Sheng with a smile.
"I just wanted to tell you something."
"Didn't you tell my mother two days ago that you wanted to study the mother box, and my mother told me that she would be waiting for you in the Firmament Temple in the afternoon."
The Firmament Temple was the dome-like building on the edge of the cliff of the island that Chen Sheng had seen before.
Hearing Diana's words, Chen Sheng's eyes lit up slightly and he nodded.
"Her Majesty agreed, that's great, thank you Diana."
Two days passed, except for meeting and saying hello once in the early morning on the day of the bonfire, arranging Chen Sheng's temporary residence, and saying a few polite words, Hippolyta did not meet Chen Sheng alone as Diana had guessed.
And this was within Chen Sheng's expectations.
The words he told Diana that night had already indicated his attitude and force field, Diana must have already told Hippolyta, as the queen of the Amazon, she could naturally understand that Chen Sheng did not want to get along with the Amazon in depth, he was just a 'passer-by', so there was no movement at all.
And this is probably what Hippolyta wants, because because of Chen Sheng's help to the Amazons, she can't do anything to Chen Sheng, who is low-key at the moment, and she won't want to destroy this delicate alliance, but after all, Chen Sheng is now known as a godkiller, if he really deliberately brushes up his prestige on Paradise Island, and fiddles with his magic that can be called miraculous in the eyes of others, I am afraid that he will immediately harvest a large number of worship, even if the throne is extremely strong, even if the Amazon Queen is extremely strong, This is also what it does not want to see.
Moreover, Hippolyta is estimated to be busy in the past two days, although a grand party was held to celebrate, but the dead and wounded Amazonian warriors also need to be buried properly.
In particular, after the death of a high-ranking Amazonian legion, Hippolyta held a so-called ascension ceremony for them, which is also the origin of the Amazons' slogan "Protect the gods, immortalize the heroic spirits" - they believe that the souls of their compatriots who died in battle can return to the legendary Olympic Mountain with glory and become the eternal heroic spirits under the command of the gods.
Back to the moment, Diana and Chen Sheng talked.
"You're welcome, how are you reading?"
"Huh? This "Titan Creation Epic", you actually saw 840 pages? Chen, don't you have a talent for forgetting? ”
Diana seemed to be surprised by Chen Sheng's speed of reading, you know, it took her nearly five days to read this mythological ancient book before she saw Chen Sheng's current progress.
"Guessed right, unfortunately there is no reward."
Chen Sheng replied.
His expression was as usual, and he didn't seem to be proud of it, after all, he was a wall hanger now.
As a mage, can you be called a mage if you don't learn quickly?
"Are you interested in the First Gods?"
Diana saw that Chen Sheng was reading the third major chapter, "Ode to Mother Earth", after "The First Part of Chaos" and "Second Chapter".
After the appearance of the first god Kaos (the representative of the original god of chaos in Greek mythology, which is equivalent to Pangu in China), Gaia, the mother of the earth, and Erebos, the god of night, were born in the chaotic void. After the birth of Gaia, the mother goddess of the earth, all the chaos in the world began to change from disorder to order, the birth of all things, destruction and new life, darkness and light, alternated in the initial creation, and finally the first real "gods" appeared, and they are also the children of the mother earth.
"Understand and understand, after all, you have too many ancient mythological books in your collection, I am looking backwards, I have basically finished reading the history of the mythological era and the relevant books of the gods of Olympus in the past two days, and now I am going to talk about the gods of the Titans."
Chen Sheng and Diana were chatting and not idle, turning a new page of the ancient book in their hands.
Amazon's collection of books, many written records are obscure, not only the text carrier is different from the current one, but also the language usage is very different from the current common techniques, but also thanks to Chen Sheng's mastery of the power of the soul can understand all laws, spy on all things, and can even be used to quickly learn the written language, even these ancient books, after reading for a long time, can basically be digested smoothly.
When Diana first came to accompany him the day before yesterday, she also praised Chen Sheng's amazing knowledge, and he could read all kinds of languages in ancient Greece, even the books on the language of God.
How did she know that in fact, it was just that Chen Sheng was an old silver coin.
"What, you've read all the books on the history of the gods?"
Hearing Chen Sheng say this, Diana was stunned.
Looking at Chen Sheng's eyes, it was as if he was looking at some kind of magical variety.
It's only been two days, and she didn't notice it at all, but in just forty-eight hours, the man in front of her was able to finish reading all the epics of the gods?
She couldn't help but ask a few questions and wanted to test Chen Sheng.
But it turned out that whether she asked about the deeds of the twelve main gods, or the stories of those sub-gods, slave gods, and various demigods and heroes, Chen Sheng answered them all without thinking.
He is a knowledgeable theological historian.
At the end of the question, Diana completely lost her temper.
Whether this guy actually knew more about mythology before, or whether he really remembered all the ancient epic books of the gods here, Diana couldn't tell the difference.
"Chen, you're such an incredible man."
"I'm standing here because Diana saved my life in the sea, otherwise I'd have fed the sharks in the sea by now."
Chen Sheng looked modest.
In fact, he also wants to complain, for Mao his crossing will fall from the sky? It's really going to kill people, okay.
The feeling of drowning and suffocating and facing death indefinitely, unlike the painless turning to ashes, he was still a little uncomfortable thinking about it now.
But the only thing that made Chen Sheng feel right was that he came to Paradise Island, if he hadn't 'harvested' a handful of Amazons with strong heritage, he would not have grown up so quickly, and if he appeared somewhere else, he really didn't know where to go to find artifacts and treasures that could exchange power with gems.
However, he seems to have forgotten that when he first arrived, he was thrown into the Amazon's prison, and he complained about why he had crossed over to an island full of 'savage women'.
"Chen, you are too modest, how could you be fed to a shark by such a powerful god killer as you."
Hearing Chen Sheng's reply, Diana smiled dumbly, only as if Chen Sheng was joking with her.
"Okay, if you keep reading, I won't bother you, and my mother will send someone to pick you up in the afternoon. If you have something to do with me, you can ask your people to bring me news. ”
Diana and Chen Sheng chatted for a while, and then left the Amazon library.
Chen Sheng also fell into the immersion of continuing to understand the world.
The time soon came to noon, and after getting some food casually, Chen Sheng continued to read, and after a while, he basically finished reading the main content of the huge "Titan Creation Epic" in his hand.
'Gaia, the Mother of Earth, is the second god of creation, born only before Kaos, the god of chaos, and is the original origin of all the gods of the Titans and the gods of Olympus. ’
In mythology, Mother Earth has a very high status, and through the various mysterious metaphors and descriptions in the book, it can even be said that in a sense, Gaia even represents the planet itself... It's the will of this planet...'
After putting the "Titan Creation Epic" back into the bookcase, Chen Sheng fell into thought.
He couldn't help but think of the last words of Ares' true spirit before he fled.
Is it just a simple threat, or does it mean something else?
What Chen Sheng is puzzled about now is why the mythological era came to an end, and what happened to Zeus and other gods?
There is no specific mention in the Amazon Library.
And figuring out the specific situation of Zeus and other gods will undoubtedly be very helpful for him to have an in-depth understanding of this specious DC universe world.
He knocked Diana on the side, and the reply he got was that the gods were deceived by Ares and killed by him, but Diana couldn't tell how the gods died, anyway, she only knew that only gods could really kill gods, so she believed what Hippolyta told her.
But as the so-called bystander is clear, unlike Diana's cognitive bias of trust in Hippolyta, Chen Sheng has read a lot of books in the past two days, and perceives from the clues of history that things may not be as Hippolyta told Diana.
"Looks like we'll have to ask Hippolyta for advice later."
Chen Sheng suddenly looked at the main entrance of the library and found that two Amazon warriors were entering the library and walking in the direction of him.