Mystery Makes Me Strong

"Old Wen, how do you think these two guys will choose?" Xiao Huan said happily while lying on Wen Rensheng's head.

"Can't you see their choice?" Wen Rensheng asked doubtfully.

"I can't see it, they are surrounded by a fog, the power of this city is really strange." Xiao Huan scratched his ears and cheeks.

"Then why can I see clearly?" Wen Rensheng asked back.

"That's why I asked you." Xiao Huan urged.

"Teaching a man to fish is worse than giving him a fish. I can't give you the answer directly, but I can tell you how to see through the fog."

"How to see through?"

"You have to see your own heart clearly before you can see through this city."

…………

Three days later, Hector and Odysseus emerged from the city of deceit.

And their followers were all naked and ashamed.

The two of them were intact, and the artifact was not lost.

Only they know what they have lost and what they have been cheated of.

They lost the most precious things.

Faith in the gods.

strong mind.

The wise Odysseus was also full of confusion at this time.

Can that transaction be successful, and will the gods notice it?

The other party will definitely not keep their promises. How can I get the reward in advance during the transaction process?

And how to ensure that the reward can be owned until the end?

Rather than the end of the Trojan War, the great military exploits and rich looting were turned into nothing because of the anger of the gods. They could only pretend to be beggars, sneak into the palace, and kill those noble suitors who betrayed themselves.

One question after another lingered in the mind of the smartest man.

Suddenly, he thought of a place.

He needs a neutral and impartial third party to guarantee the transaction between the two parties.

That big, innocent-looking shark.

And the real master behind it, the behemoth he can only glimpse a corner of with his wisdom.

Until then, though, he needs to hide from all eyes and ears, from the city of deceit, from the Greek gods, from Hector.

And Hector, who was silent on the side, also had countless questions lingering in his mind.

He rejected the group of liars, but how can he change the future fate of his city-state?

His strength is too weak, and Achilles is not something he can deal with.

Not to mention those gods.

What on earth should he do?

He couldn't think of any way out.

The limitations of the times, personal struggles, the pressure of responsibility, and the burden of conscience filled the heart of this tragic hero with anxiety.

Do you really want to listen to those liars?

They only ask themselves to do one thing -

Raising bandits is self-respecting.

As long as the city of deceit exists forever, the gods will not be in the mood to play the game of golden apples. Their own city-state, their own brothers and sisters, all have the freedom to decide their own lives.

The gods will only focus on this city, and will not encourage the Greeks to attack them.

And what he has to do is to occasionally reveal a little bit of news from the gods, so that the city of deception can respond in time.

In thinking, the group returned to the station outside the city.

Then they got word that Achilles had left alone.

He only took a dozen water bags and five pieces of bacon, and went across the desert.

"How can this work? We are going to chase him." Hector said immediately.

At this time, he knew that he would die at the hands of Achilles, but he still had to fulfill his responsibility at this time.

Just like before the Trojan War, even though he knew that Helen was the trigger of the war, he never accused the other party.

Because the situation is the same, his fate is not decided by these two people, but by the gods above.

"Well, we should go after him." To his surprise, Odysseus agreed with him.

Then a group of people packed up their tents and started to walk back.

…………

The sandstorm appeared again.

Only this time without the crutch of Achilles, they lost their way and lost Odysseus.

Fortunately, Hector's mirror is still there, so he doesn't have to worry about food and drinking water. He can only lead everyone to continue westward.

Odysseus naturally left secretly.

He came to a sand dune.

Then he piled up the sand to form an altar, and finally placed the olive branch on it as an offering.

"Unknown and just god, please hear my prayer."

"I know your eyes are on me."

"I want you to witness my transaction with a group of liars. For this reason, I offer you the gift of the Goddess of Wisdom as a sacrifice."

"Please make sure those liars don't take my share."

The olive branch is gone.

Wen Rensheng's voice appeared next to his ears:

"I will witness all of this and agree to your request, because I am also very curious about how you will use to pull the gods of Olympus from their thrones."

Odysseus bowed down on the sand: "Thank you, unknown and just god, I will not disappoint your curiosity."

…………

Seaside pier.

Hector returned with his men, and then heard that Achilles had returned home by ship.

He shook his head, knowing that the great hero was too proud to face defeat.

Not long after, Odysseus returned alone, but his artifact was also lost.

Odysseus said it was because of being separated from him, he saw the olive branch begin to rot, and finally disappeared without a trace.

Although he knew it was an illusion, he couldn't find it and could only return.

Hector knew that this guy must be lying, because the other party was relying on deception to break into his royal city.

But he has no way to point out the other party's mistakes.

That desert is a place where even the power of gods cannot cover it.

"Okay, now let's start the sacrifice and report your findings to the gods." King Agamemnon of Mycenae said.

Hector had a complex expression upon hearing this.

Among the heroes and kings gathered at this time, if the city of deceit did not appear, most of them were his enemies.

And this brother of Agamemnon, the wife of the king of Sparta, was abducted by his own brother, which led to the later war.

Of course, all of this comes from the game of the gods.

Why do we have a group of gods over our heads?

The words he heard in the City of Deceit resurfaced in his mind.

The sacrifice soon began.

First the prayers of the first survivors.

Then came the words of the second group of explorers.

In the end it was Odysseus and Hector's turn.

Odysseus put it this way:

"It's a city that touches people's hearts. It can capture the deepest greed in everyone's heart and evolve the most exquisite deception to defraud you of your last copper coin."

"To crack it, you have to see yourself."

Hector was silent for a long time before saying:

"Odysseus was right, what he saw was what I saw, and they promised eternal peace to my city and family."

"They asked me not to attack their city, they knew exactly what everyone wanted."

He spoke ninety percent of the truth.

Because he couldn't tell it all.

And Odysseus lied nine times.