“Question 1.”

Sphinx ignored Xin Sheng's eyes and then started to make questions after sitting back on his body.

"I am a handsome soldier in spring, and I will wear thick clothes in summer. When the weather gets cold, I will throw away all my clothes and spend the cold winter naked."

"Come on, answer."

Xin Sheng experienced countless brain teasers when he was young, and such a simple riddle could not defeat him.

"The answer is, the tree."

Sphinx smiled and nodded: "The first question is correct, continue."

"Never rest, never stand still, silently move from one hill to another."

“It doesn’t walk, it doesn’t run or walk quickly, and it will be cool where it doesn’t exist.”

Xin Sheng: "Sun."

A flash of surprise in Sphinx's eyes: "Correct, interesting, little guy, next question."

Sphinx's riddles sound obscure. Many people in this era have relatively rigid thinking patterns, and it is difficult to find out the clues from its roundabout questions.

But for modern people who are very flexible in their brains, the difficulty of these riddles can only be to coax children.

Xin Sheng quickly gave the correct answers to the next two questions, namely the stars and the river.

"The last question."

Sphinx withdrew his previous contempt and looked at Xin Sheng with some complex eyes.

It is difficult to describe the meaning contained in its eyes in words.

It seems to be expected to be liberated, and it also faces the anxiety before death.

This is the information Xin Sheng interpreted when he knew the ending of Sphinx in advance.

In Barnabas's view, Sphinx's eyes seemed to want to eat Xin Sheng in one bite.

"It can swallow all birds, animals, flowers, plants and trees."

"It can chew on steel and grind a solid rock."

"It can kill the kings of the world, destroy cities and villages, and destroy kingdoms."

“It can also push down mountains and fill the sea.”

Xin Sheng frowned and fell into thinking slightly.

‘Simple the meaning of this passage, this kind of thing can destroy everything.’

‘The supernatural powers were not included in Sphinx’s previous riddles. So… is it a rule?’

‘The rules that can move mountains and fill the sea...so that's it.’

Xin Sheng looked up at Sphinx and replied solemnly: "It's time."

A strange look flashed in Sphinx's eyes. Just as he was about to open his mouth and say something, his body suddenly began to emit golden light from the inside out.

"Ahhhh!"

This feeling of power leaking made Sphinx very painful, and it twisted its body and screamed.

"Barnabas, back!"

While Xin Sheng greeted the old captain, he also took a few steps back.

The sharp insight allowed Xin Sheng to observe the source of the Sphinx abnormal state.

On the left neck covered by thick eagle feathers, there is a small piece of feather that emits light brighter than other parts of the body.

Sphinx, who had suffered a huge pain, stretched out his left front paw to Xin Sheng with a distorted expression as he stood still, as if he wanted to convey some message to him.

But in the end it still couldn't say what it wanted to say. The body that lost its strength fell down from the platform, rolled a few times and fell right in front of Xin Sheng.

Only after Sphinx completely lost movement did Barnabas carefully approach Xin Sheng.

"It... is dead?"

"Uh~ Maybe."

Xin Sheng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. He thought Sphinx wanted to attack him at the last moment, so he almost drew his two swords to defend himself.

Bypassing Sphinx's head, Xin Sheng walked to the left side of his neck that he had observed before.

At this time, the light on Sphinx's body had completely disappeared, and only this small piece of skin still emitted a faint golden light.

"Click!"

Xin Sheng inserted the short knife into the neck of Sphinx's corpse and dug out the small luminous module.

While holding the luminous module with both hands, a sound that had never been heard suddenly sounded in Xin Sheng's mind.

“…the oppressors who outsmart ours and hide our truth in lies…”

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

While the strange words that penetrated into his mind sounded, Xin Sheng's brain seemed to be stirred up by someone using an electric drill.

As countless chaotic information poured in, Xin Sheng let out a roar of pain like a wounded beast under severe pain.

What Barnabas saw was another picture. The luminous feather stripped from the Sphinx was changing shapes, and finally formed a luminous golden ball.

The huge body of Sphinx was no longer visible where he was originally located, and replaced by a mummy that looked like a human.

"Dang ~"

In the pain, Xin Sheng couldn't hold the ball in his hand and let it slide to the ground, making a crisp collision sound.

As the golden ball left, Xin Sheng finally got relief from the pain, rolled his eyes and fell backwards, temporarily fainting.

...

"……Awake……"

“…Wake up…”

"Xin! Wake up!"

The touch of being shaken by someone makes Xin Sheng gradually regain consciousness.

As someone shakes, a long, soft and wet object swept across his face.

"Um~"

Xin Sheng's brain was still a little confused, and a large amount of messy information that could not be sorted out for the time being poured in, just like someone forcibly stuffing something into his mind.

This feeling is different from when systematically instilling knowledge, but it is slightly similar.

The knowledge given to Xin Sheng by the system is something that has been sorted out and can be used with it.

And the messy information Xin Sheng received just now could hardly find any clues.

For example, the information he obtained was like one of several pieces of fragments, and it was impossible to understand what was contained in it before getting the other pieces together.

“Ha~ha~”

The excited gasp sounded in Xin Sheng's ears. You can tell without looking at it, it must be rhubarb.

Seeing that the master suddenly fainted, the loyal hound immediately came over and tried to wake Xin Sheng up from his sleep.

The method is of course using the tongue.

Fortunately, rhubarb is not a big cat family, and there are not many barbs on the tongue, otherwise Xin Sheng would have been full of peach blossoms at this time.

"Okay, Dahuang, I'm awake."

With a wry smile, he pushed Dahuang's dog head away. Xin Sheng was still a little dazed and pressed his hands on the temples on both sides of the forehead and rubbed them.

"Thanks Zeus! You're finally awake."

Barnabas was relieved, thankfully: "How is it? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

"Fortunately... I'm still a little dizzy."

‘I should have thought of it long ago.’

Xin Sheng does not have Yishu's bloodline, and he cannot use it perfectly after getting the Artifact of Eden.

After looking at the golden ball rolling aside, Xin Sheng shook his head with a wry smile.

'Fortunately, this golden apple does not have the ability to control the mind, otherwise I might have lost myself.'

Eden Golden Apple, a magical tool used by Yishuren to record data, and its function is similar to that of a mobile hard drive.

Most of the Eden Golden Apples do not have other special abilities, but a small number of them have become weapons that can control people's hearts under the transformation of some ulterior motives.

Just like the two obtained by the leader of the Masiaf Assassin, Altaïr Ibn Harad, and the legendary Italian assassin Egio Auditorre.

Given the tragic situation when Xin Sheng held the golden apple, Barnabas did not dare to touch it with a desperate attempt, but kept staying by Xin Sheng's side to try to awaken him.

"Spit~"

Daedalus also landed at some point, docked on the platform where Sphinx stood, as if he was worried about his master's safety.
To be continued...