Chapter 39: The Monster and the Moonlight (5)
Cheng Mo and Athena walked through Ares Park, and no cell phone equaled no map. Athena doesn't go out much, dealing with experiments, machines, computers, and data every day, rarely socializing, and is almost a standard scientific research nerd. It took almost two hours to wander around the city like headless flies on the map of Athens that Cheng Mo remembered, and finally found a bank in a suitable location in the Grateis neighborhood.
This location does not have a lot of people and traffic, and it is also far from the police station. Cheng Mo was still not at ease, and took Athena around for more than two hours, observing the surrounding terrain, finding the monitoring location, and determining the escape route.
To Cheng Mo's surprise, Athena tossed with him for several hours, and did not say a word of complaint, but did not show any pleasant emotions, like an observer who stayed out of the matter, and like a game experiencer who was separated by a layer.
Cheng Mo tried to get to know this elusive woman through conversation, only to find that her personality was really strange.
She won't pay attention to you, she will answer whatever you ask, she can't say anything, she can't say anything, she will tell you this directly, I know but can't say it. When it comes to more complex questions, whether they are about scholarship or the Black Death, she answers them in detail without showing impatience.
But you can say that she is kind! She has always had a very mechanical and indifferent attitude, and it is easy to judge from her voice and expression that she is ignorant of people, but in fact, in Cheng Mo's opinion, Athena is a typical case of impersonal feelings.
In short, in Cheng Mo's eyes, Athena has become a complex polyhedron, making it more and more difficult to figure out what kind of woman she is.
After asking Athena what she thought was a better escape route, and she replied "yes", the two fell into a situation where they had nothing to say, but neither of them was the kind of person who had nothing to say, nor was she afraid of embarrassment, so they didn't force their mouths to create a topic.
Cheng Mo stood in the shadows outside the radial range of the street lamps across the road from the sparse traffic, staring at the bank diagonally opposite, while carefully paying attention to whether there was anything unusual around him, like a cunning fox with ears pricked up.
Athena's eyes are a little blurry, as if she has emptied her brain and wandered out of the world, and her empty eyes make people feel like a cute koala who only knows how to eat, drink and sleep.
Two people stand side by side in front of the window of a bakery, but neither of them says a word, looking like a couple who have had a conflict.
Cars loom in the cool breeze at midnight, making the long street even quieter. All the shops had roller shutters on their faces, except for the small building with the blue "Alfa-Bank" sign that was not completely closed, and the two glass doors on one side of the bank let in a warm glow.
Money never sleeps.
I don't know how long it took, the frequency of vehicles passing by became lower and lower, and no passers-by could see it, Cheng Mo whispered: "It's almost time." โ
"Is it enough to just grab the ATM?" asked Athena, somewhat confused.
"A full ATM is about 200,000 euros, and at this point in time, even if there is not much left in the cash box, it will definitely not be a problem for three ATMs to get 100,000 euros. After a pause, Cheng Mo asked rhetorically, "Isn't 100,000 euros enough?"
Athena ruthlessly exposed the rich and noble face of the bourgeoisie, "What can you do with 100,000 euros?" After thinking for a moment, she immediately added, "It's not enough to buy the shell of the Blue Giant's mainframe....."
Cheng Mo thought that Athena would say that 100,000 euros was not enough to buy a limited bag of Hermes, but she said a word that he didn't understand very well, it sounded like a word full of science fiction, like a powerful weapon from the Chosen One system, Cheng Mo immediately remembered the body in EVA, Fu Yuanzhuo's dream was to install a 1:1 scale first machine in the courtyard of his home.
To be honest, Cheng Mo also thinks this idea is very good. Of course, what is even more appreciated is the idea of installing an astronomical telescope on the roof of the building with Xie Minyun.
"Is the Blue Giant mainframe a battle armor like a Gundam?" asked Cheng Mo.
"Of course not, how could there be such a weapon that does not conform to the scientific setting! The blue giant mainframe refers to IBM's super server. โ
Athena explained it bluntly, and did not despise Cheng Mo's slightly ignorant question. Cheng Mo shrugged his shoulders and simply admitted: "I don't know that much about computers. This direction of the computer does not seem to be very suitable for the combat ..... of the Chosen One"
"This does not detract from the fact that 100,000 euros is too little. Athena said noncommittally.
Cheng Mo didn't quite understand why Athena felt that 100,000 euros was less, and asked seriously: "We don't need to shop, we just want to leave Xila, what is 100,000 euros not enough?"
According to the agreement between the two people, if Cheng Mo did not alarm Napoleon VII to take Athena away from Sila, Athena would take Cheng Mo to the "Garden of Eden", and now this agreement has been half completed, as long as Xila can go smoothly, they can go to the "Garden of Eden". It's just a matter of leaving Xila, and Chengmu's default price of 100,000 euros is completely sufficient. He guessed that maybe it was more money to go to the Garden of Eden, but Athena's answer made Cheng Mo cry and laugh.
Athena rightly said, "It's not enough to eat." โ
Cheng Mo looked puzzled, "What kind of royal food do you want to eat, 100,000 euros is less?"
"Isn't everything very expensive? I don't remember the price much, but I probably remember that a jar of caviar seems to cost 30,000 euros (about 230,000 RMB), and I can eat three cans at a time, and tuna, which can cost more than 100,000 euros, as well as lobster and beef, which are not very cheap......
Thinking of the inhumane aerial aquarium in Athena's abode, and the gooseneck barnacles full of pools, you don't have to think about it to know that what Athena said must be top-quality ingredients. A jar of caviar costs 30,000 euros only for white rays, and a 100,000 euro is likely to be Atlantic bluefin tuna. As for lobster and beef, Cheng Mo believes that Athena will never eat ordinary lobster and beef, and there is no doubt that there is only Scottish blue lobster and Kobe beef, which are not things that money can buy.
Top-notch ingredients like these are only available to a certain class and a few influential three-Michelin-starred restaurants. Even if the ordinary rich plan to be extravagant, it is difficult to get what they want. Even if you can afford to eat a meal, you can only eat inferior ingredients. The caviar restaurant of white rayfish can't be eaten at all, but the caviar of the fish can be, and it is a lot cheaper; Atlantic bluefin tuna except for a very small number of those that reach a certain weight will be auctioned, and the vast majority of them have flowed into the hands of fixed buyers, of course, there is no substitute, the price of Pacific bluefin tuna will be a little more realistic, most ordinary people can't tell what is the difference between Atlantic bluefin tuna and Pacific bluefin tuna, generally speaking, only rich gourmets know that the muscles on the back wall of the body cavity of Atlantic bluefin tuna are deeply embedded in the meatThe muscles of Pacific bluefin tuna are smooth along the muscles and have a "U" shape, and the Atlantic bluefin tuna is more delicious on the palate because it will have more fat.
As for the Scottish blue lobster and Kobe beef with the "Noji chrysanthemum" pattern, these are no longer food ingredients, they are symbols of class. Assuming that ordinary people can spend money to eat, then they are not worth the price, so scarcity and taste are not their value basis, but their value basis is the targeted supply for the class.
Don't say whether you can find these foods or not, even if you can find them, according to Athena's terrible appetite, 100,000 euros really can't even eat a meal. Cheng Mo rolled his eyes, "Can't you eat something cheap?" I see you ate meatloaf and skewers just now, didn't you also eat very fragrant?"
Athena also realized that there might be something wrong with her cognition, so she turned her head to look at Cheng Mo and asked, "It's cheaper?"
"I'll do the math," replied Cheng Mo, after a slight calculation, "three cups .....of coffee, five servings of sufulaki, five servings of moussaka, and one kebab burrito, a total of two hundred and thirty-three euros." โ
"Two hundred and thirty-three euros?" Athena opened her mouth slightly, and there was a hint of surprise in her tone, "How can it be so cheap? I thought that so many things would cost one or two thousand euros!"
Seeing Athena's slightly stunned look, Cheng Mo concluded that Athena, who had lived in a family since she was a child, had no concept of the worldly cost of living at all, and in her eyes, money was really just a number, so she would not hesitate to lend him Ulopolos, and even planned to mortgage Ulopolos in the restaurant, which was more than a billion and priceless things!
It seems that Athena is the "rich woman" that everyone dreams of, no wonder Napoleon VII is determined to get Athena, like Athena who marries not only herself, but also her descendants don't have to work hard, who doesn't like it?
"Okay!" Cheng Mo sighed in his heart, "Why don't you eat minced meat" and "Why don't you eat cake" The ruling class is still there, but he can't say that Athena is ignorant, and her academic achievements are enough to prove her wisdom, only that she doesn't care about worldly life.
In short, Athena's ignorance made Cheng Mo feel that she had the simplicity of an intellectual who only lived in an ivory tower, so Cheng Mo tilted his head and said in a very normal tone, "Actually, what you eat today is already relatively expensive, or it will be cheaper if it is not in a tourist attraction, an ordinary meal is only ten to twenty euros, and a special barbecue meal is only one hundred euros." If you're not that demanding food, 100,000 euros is more than enough. โ
"I usually eat seafood and beef as the staple food, I don't like sweets, and I eat a lot of food, as for the food requirements, just fresh.....
"How much do you eat?" After a pause, Cheng Mo said again, "I'm sorry, if you find this question a little offensive, you don't need to answer it." โ
Athena shook her head, then said, "Actually, I don't know, I can eat as long as I want." I'm not going to do that, though, and as soon as I'm hungry, I'll stop. I don't have any hobby of eating, and I hate to go to banquets, because the overly elegant way of eating really doesn't make me happy, and what's worse is that the portion of French food is so small that most of it is sweet, even if I eat it open, and eat the whole table of meat, it's not enough to stuff my teeth, so I might as well go home and sit in front of the computer to eat at the banquet. โ
Cheng Mo imagined the picture of Athena sitting in front of the computer in a white coat eating potato chips and drinking Coke, and felt that as a senior otaku, Athena might try such cheap happiness, so he asked, "Have you tried Coke with potato chips?"
"Coke with potato chips?" Athena shook her head, "I have Coke in my house, which the servants use to wash the toilets." What's more, I personally prefer pure natural food, and I am not very interested in chemical reagents. โ
Cheng Mo said with some regret: "Maybe you can try it when you have the chance, maybe you will like it...... Tend to self-indulgent pleasure, especially the cherry-flavored cola with plain potato chips. โ
"Self-sinking pleasure? That's a strange way to describe it. โ
"It's like taking drugs. Cheng Mo paused, as if recalling the taste of Coke with potato chips, "Actually, it's not bad, sugar is originally a drug for human beings, especially for women, but you shouldn't care, anyway, you belong to the king of big stomachs, you can't eat fat, this is a top skill that women envy." โ
"No, it's completely different, I eat a lot because lizards have a lot more brown fat cells in their bodies than ordinary people. and does not increase the risk of free radicals...... Because they have a proprietary protein in their mitochondria, decoupling protein 1, when protons (H+) flow through them (bypassing ATP synthetase), they produce not ATP, but free heat that is (for nothing) lost. This allows mitochondria to continuously burn heat regardless of the rotation rate of ATP-ADP and keep electrons flowing smoothly without increasing the chance of electron leakage โ in other words, they squander excess calories in the body, i.e. glucose or fatty acids. โ
Athena explained the role of "brown fat cells", and Cheng Mo asked, "This is the secret of your lizardmen not only living long but also maintaining a youthful state?"
"Let's just say that the 'brown fat cells' not only keep the body young, but also increase bone strength and keep us from the cold, and more importantly, it also gives us stronger immunity and higher insulin sensitivity......
"It sounds like it has something to do with the 'God gene'. โ
Athena didn't deny Cheng Mo's speculation, but just asked, "I don't know if you've heard of a product, a nutrient solution called 'Eternal Water' from Ouyu's 'Grifols'?"
Cheng Mo immediately remembered Bai Xiuxiu, Bai Xiuxiu spent a sky-high price to buy this divine water that can keep young, "I have heard that it is developed according to the 'God Gene', and the main ingredient in it is Coenzyme Q10.....?
Athena nodded, shook her head again, and said in a low voice, "I used to think the same way, but I found a very strange change in Izumi, which made me change my opinion again, and I guess there must be some kind of mysterious connection between the 'God Gene' and the 'Lizardman'." โ
Talking about the "God gene" made Cheng Mo fall into memories again, and Cheng Mo couldn't help but think of the person he was haunted by. He stared at the misty light across the street, was silent for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask, "According to your understanding, is it possible for a person who has been injected with the 'God gene' to be resurrected?"
Of course, Athena knew who Cheng Mo was referring to, and she said lightly: "Theoretically, the possibility of 'resurrection from the dead' is not non-existent in the possession of the 'God Gene'....."
Originally, Cheng Mo didn't have any hope in his heart, but when he heard Athena say this, he could no longer suppress his excitement, turned around and grabbed Athena's arm, and asked in a low voice, "Really?
Athena looked at Cheng Mo's hand on her arm like an iron hoop trembling slightly, and then looked at the face under the human skin mask faintly blue, she didn't break away from Cheng Mo's hand, just frowned and said: "It's just a theory, the role of the 'God gene' is to carry the ontology, so her physical strength is completely different from that of a normal person, I have not been in contact with a human with a 'God gene', but according to the condition of the carrier, it is inferred that as long as her brain is not devastated, it can be resurrected, but inUnder the attack of the 'Staff of God', not a single cell will be left, so this possibility does not exist......"
Cheng Mo stared into Athena's eyes for a long time, and didn't find a trace of abnormality in her eyes, so he put down the hand holding Athena's arm a little dejectedly, and asked with a wry smile: "Is it really impossible at all?"
Athena thought seriously for a while before replying, "If you can find the creator who created the Chosen One system, there is still a chance......
"Creator?" Cheng Mo's heart had never been so up-and-down, he grabbed Athena's arm again, and asked in a trembling voice.
"I don't know anything, but I speculate that there must be a Creator. Otherwise, where did the 'Chosen One' system and so many 'relic lands' come from?"
Cheng Mo felt that he was still too out of shape to think calmly, he put down the hand holding Athena's arm again, secretly took a deep breath, calmed down and said, "I thought you had studied the Creator and the Chosen One system and knew some truths that I didn't know. โ
"Only Stargate has the most in-depth study of the Chosen One system, and they have the most information. The rest of the organization, including us at the Black Death, had just too little to do. But as far as I know, even Stargate has not figured out the relationship between the 'God Gene' and the 'Lizardmen', let alone the 'Chosen One System' and the 'Creator', and it may take hundreds or even hundreds of years for human beings to study where the 'Chosen One System' comes from and what is the use. โ
"Hundreds of years?" Cheng Mo snorted coldly, "I should have died long ago by then." โ
"That's why I said that if you can find the Creator, there is still a chance ....."
"It sounds ridiculous out of reach. โ
"There is also the possibility that humanity suddenly turns hostile and strife, forming a united community, and all countries and organizations in the world work together and work together, maybe to speed up the process of studying the 'Chosen One System', so that we don't have to wait for hundreds of years, maybe only a few decades, we can figure out a series of mysteries about God's genes, lizardmen, and the Chosen One system. โ
"Let humanity let go of hostility and strife?" Cheng Mo shrugged his shoulders, "Then it's more reliable to find the Creator." โ
Athena sneered: "That's true, if human beings can really unite and fraternize, and have the Chosen One system, human beings should be using quantum communication glasses to talk about the investment in transforming the Centaur Alpha Star into the largest entertainment city in the universe on the satellite city of Pluto's synchronous orbit." โ
Cheng Mo didn't think that what Athena said was a fantasy, but quite agreed with Athena's words, nodded and said: "Yes, people always think that they are enemies of each other, but they don't know that everyone is an enemy of human nature.....
Athena looked across the street at the warm and soothing light of money, "So..... Let's rob the bank!"
Cheng Mo put aside those unrealistic ideas for the time being, waved his hand and said, "Good idea, I'll take you to eat and drink spicy food when you grab the money!"
"So what are you waiting for?" Athena stepped out of the shadows.
Cheng Mo didn't move, "But we're still short of something?"
"What's that?"
Cheng Mo looked down at the black mesh stockings under Athena's denim shorts, there is no doubt that this is definitely the highest benefit belonging to the stockings, he licked his lips and said, "Of course it's something that can cover your face......"
Athena is not a hypocritical person, let alone think about it, leaning on the green-painted railing, she simply took off her shiny black boots, ripped the stockings off her legs, and handed them to Cheng Mo.
Cheng Mo took the stockings that were still fragrant with his skin, and said in his heart: "Athena's **** must be auctioned online at a sky-high price, at least Napoleon VII will definitely not allow such a thing to fall into the hands of others......"
Just when Cheng Mo was thinking about how much Napoleon VII would pay for this stocking, Athena patted Cheng Mo on the shoulder, looked down at the boots under her feet, and ordered lightly: "Help me put them on." โ
Cheng Mo looked at Athena's smooth and white jade feet, she grabbed the railing with both hands, the back of her foot arched into a crescent, and the cute pink toe light point between the round calves, posing a beautiful ballet movement, this action is really beautiful, so Cheng Mo directly ignored Athena's round mask, her eyes were a little dull, and she subconsciously said: "What?"
"Help me put on my shoes, I am at home with maids who help me put on shoes, I don't know how to tie my shoes. Athena lifted her foot, placed the beautiful seductive figure like petals in the center of Cheng Mo's gaze, and said as a matter of course, "Now that your hand is mine, what's wrong with letting it help me put on my shoes?"
Cheng Mo thought to himself, there was indeed nothing wrong. He stuffed the stockings into his pockets and bent down, Athena's skin was so clear in the dark, and the jade foot was like a work of art carved in pink with a little light, and he couldn't help but think of a good poem: "A few folds of Hunan skirts are thin, and a hook of socks is bent." Like a flying fairy in a dream, the socks are slightly stepped, and the flowing water is green.......
The poem is really a good poem, Cheng Mo remembered that this poem simply felt that the Chinese culture was broad and profound, and did not take the opportunity to take advantage of Athena's meaning, and the clean action helped Athena put on her shoes, and waited for Athena to take off another sock, Cheng Mo once again took on the job that men dreamed of, and after helping Athena put on her shoes, the two put the stockings on their heads, crossed the railing together, and rushed towards the 24-hour self-service bank.
A few minutes later, the alarm bell rang loudly, blowing up the long street that was silent at midnight. Cheng Mo grabbed Athena's hand and rushed out of the self-service bank, he didn't hesitate for a second, leading her towards the street corner on the right. A large chunk of the black stockings that covered his head dragged behind his head, like a fluttering ponytail in the cold wind, and the two men were like wild horses on the loose, jumping through the Athenian night......
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Hydra ninety-ninth floor.
Athena's workout room was converted into a reception room with a sofa and coffee table, as well as a wine cooler and bar.
A bottle of 1811 French brandy from Napoleon's own cellar sits on a white Sila marble coffee table, and a group of people wearing bird's beak masks are sitting on the sofa with Napoleon VII talking on the sofa.
One of the men wearing a bird's beak mask turned his head to look at Ayala, who was standing behind Napoleon VII, and said in a deep voice: "Ayala, don't say that you don't know the escape route of Byret, Byrett never cares, we all know ......"
"Lord Astalo, Lord Beret should have left through the secret passage, but the secret passage has been completely blown up, and no one knows where Lord Beret left in the end. Ayala said neither humbly nor arrogantly.
A bird-beaked doctor next to Astalous sneered: "At the last moment, you can let Beret leave quietly, I really don't believe it. โ
Napoleon VII smiled and said, "I don't think you need to be too concerned about my fiancรฉe. He picked up the crystal glass containing the dusky liquor on the coffee table, and said lightly, "This is my family business." โ
Astalous, who was sitting across from Napoleon VII, stared at Napoleon VII, "Your Excellency, although you are the fiancรฉ of Berette, I think you may not know Beret as well as my enemy. โ
Napoleon VII took a soft sip of brandy from more than two hundred years ago, and lowered the glass gracefully before looking up and meeting Astaro, "Really?"
"You probably don't know who Beret's mother is, or even why Beret was born. โ
"I really didn't know anything about it, and things as a kid were never something we talked about. Napoleon VII said disapprovingly.
"Beret is Athena's father, Socrates Onassis is a paranoid man who strives for perfection in everything, but he himself cannot achieve perfection because of some physical defect, so he is bent on giving birth to a perfect offspring like a god. So he found Chloe Delome, one of the Four Pillars of the Black Death, who had studied the lizardmen the most in the entire Black Death, and Her Majesty the Queen of England operated on her own hands......"
Napoleon VII straightened up, "Athena's mother turned out to be Chloe Delรฅm, the Light of Europa?" and then he shook his head, "Impossible, didn't she never marry?How could she have a relationship with Socrates Onassis?" Facing Napoleon VII's questioning, Astaro said indifferently: "The two of them really did not have a substantial husband and wife relationship. But Chloe Delรฎm was interested in Socrates Onassis's plan to create a perfect human......"