“Father, Leon Pat invited us to Pat Manor for a tea party tomorrow night.”
When Ethan finished reading the invitation card, a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes.
The old man with a white beard was stunned for a moment by the invitation card, and soon laughed softly: “It seems that the family will not die tonight.”
Ethan was stupefied knowing that his father was no longer ready to let him go butcher that home tonight. He smiled and said, “It’s a matter of keeping up with the times. I don’t know why he changed his mind at the last moment.”
The old man with a white beard smiled and pointed to the wooden box. “Maybe it has something to do with this wooden box.”
The night faded, and the b.l.o.o.d.y night did not come to pa.s.s Pat Manor, and the next day, the sun warmed every inch of the land.
n.o.body in Pat Manor knows that they had just escaped a ma.s.sacre.
Including Angel of course.
Early in the morning, Angel came to the tea garden with several maids to pick the freshest tea leaves.
Although the season in the outside world is still during the freezing winter, but after Jon’s greenhouse improvements, the tea garden is still kept as warm as spring.
For the evening tea party, Angel ordered the maid to pick a bunch of tea leaves to make Morning Dew After the Rain.
Some of the leaves will be used for brewing tea in the evening, and others will be given to Mana for tea processing. Only by rolling ‘drying’ tea leaves with a high temperature can the tea leaves retain their original flavor for longer.
The processed tea was also going to be given to Count Ethan as a complimentary gift.
Seeing the tea leaves at the drying stage, Angel felt more a.s.sured leaving the tea garden while he heads back to the Pendulum Building’s courtyard.
Jon sat at the balcony on the second floor, basking in the rare warm sun during the winter.
Feeling comfortable and humming a little song.
Angel came forward, took some ointment from the mute servant, and began rubbing it on his mentor.
Jon glanced without a word.
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Even though he had explained to Angel yesterday why his limbs were atrophying, he still did not seem to believe it.
Jon doesn’t give it any more attention. Angel is a filial apprentice.
After all, there is not much more time for him to enjoy this filial piety from his apprentice. Maybe he may not even survive past the Month of Frost, possibly?
Jon smiled, humming an unknown tune into the wind.
A little sad, a little free, and a little easy.
Filled more with an endless yearning.
“If I could return to earth, I would be willing to die this very moment.”
Before, Jon didn’t understand the reason why fallen leaves returned to their roots, but now he does.
Angel had a touch of sadness in his eyes, he didn’t know what to say or do to comfort his mentor at this moment. ‘Parting’ is the most painful experience, and the distance is between two worlds.
The quiet moment did not last long. Jon suddenly pointed to a half-exposed transparent crystal in the balcony flowerpot and said, “Can you get that for me?”
Angel made an “En.” sound, pulled out a transparent crystal from the wet soil, cleaned it off with a handkerchief, before handing it off to Jon.
The transparent crystal is oval in shape and looks like a glazed bead from a distance.
Jon took the gla.s.s bead and gazed at it for a long time.
His expression was sometimes resentful, sometimes sad, and sometimes holding a bitter smile.
“I abandoned it in the forest three years ago, but I didn’t expect it to appear in my flowerpot. “
Jon shook his head. “Maybe this is destiny?”
Angel looked at his mentor as he was talking to himself, and his face flushed, after a while he hesitated to say, “I picked it up for you.”
“In the past, I used to watch mentor play with it, and I saw your sad expression when looking at it. I guessed it might be something from mentor’s family.
That day, when I saw you throw it in the woods, I thought you’d want to see it again. So I picked it up and buried it in a flowerpot, thinking that one day mentor might have regret what he had done, and that it would come in handy to have it again.”
Jon froze and murmured to himself in a voice only audible to himself: “Maybe this has something to do with you?”
After a while, Jon looked at Angel: “This glazed bead is not something from my family. But… it’s also not something of from earth. You know, I really don’t know where it comes from.”
“Let me tell you a story about this gla.s.s bead.”
…….
As Jon spoke, the look in Angel’s eyes grew more and more surprised.
He thought it was just a glazed bead with some commemorative significance, but he didn’t expect that the origin of this glazed pearl would be so mysterious!
Twenty years ago, Jon was a scientist born in China when he was still on Earth, and later, because of a worldwide phenomenon, he was invited to Long Island in New York with his wife and daughter.
In order to carry out a secret study that lasted for more than a decade.
The subject of this study is called the Montauk Project.
The Montauk Project is a famous topic regarding physics on Earth. Jon was born in the mid-23rd century, and the Montauk Project was launched two centuries before he was born.
It was stalled several times and has been c.u.mulatively studied for more than 50 years.
Jon’s partic.i.p.ation in the Montauk Project marks the sixth launch.
The predecessor of the Montauk Project was the Philadelphia Experiment in 1942, when radar had just been invented and the US military started experimenting with it using the USS Eldridge in order to gain stealth capabilities on their warships using radar waves.
The main body of the warship is equipped with an omni-directional antenna and two energy coils on deck powered by the ship’s generators.
There was a sudden change at the beginning of the experiment, a big disaster occurred in the second and third minute of the experiment, and during the operation, the generator went completely out of control, and finally made the USS Eldridge disappear from sight, moving a distance as far as 7,000 kilometers away in an instant.
The Philadelphia Experiment was forced to halt, and its by-product was the discovery of long-distance teleportation of objects.
In short, the Montauk Project is actually a physics subject for the study of s.p.a.ce travel.
At first, the Montauk Project focused on the Philadelphia Experiment, but unfortunately, there was little progress.
Until the early 23rd century, an alien object excited all scientists!
This alien object fell right in the middle of the famous eye of the Sahara, at the southwest of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, Africa.
This alien object has attracted the attention of all countries around the world, and as a small African nation, Mauritania could not compete with the world super powers to vie for this object.
In the end, the object was left on Long Island in New York, USA. China, Britain, France, j.a.pan, Russia and other countries partic.i.p.ated in the study of this object, which was named the “Heavenly Eye”.
In the course of the study, scientists have found that the Heavenly Eye has energy fluctuations that violate most of the known physical coefficients in the universe, and when it is initially stimulated by high-energy rays of a certain band, the Heavenly Eye even has the magical effect of transmitting small-scale objects a short distance away.
It was scientists who first-hand saw the effect of this s.p.a.ce transmission that led to the launch of the sixth installment of the Montauk Project.
Jon was actually just a common researcher in the Montauk Project, doc.u.menting the effects of the wave frequencies produced by the Heavenly Eye on plants.
One day, Jon, as usual, brought several sealed plant seedlings to the heavily protected Heavenly Eye area for recording and sampling.
At first, everything was normal. Most of the plants withered and died under the fluctuations released by the Heavenly Eye, But this time only one tea seedling sample from China had survived.
As Jon took the tea seedling and turned on his bio chip for recording, he didn’t know if the console had malfunctioned or what, but a few more high-energy rays. .h.i.t the outer edge of the Heavenly Eye, what followed was a dramatic change that occurred in the lab.
The s.p.a.ce collapsed, darkness followed, and a terrifying breath was released by the Heavenly Eye which instantly obscured everything in the scope of the laboratory.
The next second, before Jon could react, he was swallowed up by the darkness with tea seedling in hand.
Holding the Heavenly Eye while traveling through many barriers, he saw a dimension full of s.p.a.cial cracks with the Heavenly Eye.
Later when he came to, Jon was saved by old Viscount Pat.
After, there was nothing magical about the Heavenly Eye anymore, as it incarnated into an extremely ordinary gla.s.s bead.