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48. The Apple of Discord

48. The Apple of Discord

Lam picked up his phone and started thinking about the last message Wei sent to him, which was the Apple of Discord.

What did this mean? Lam didn't understand. So Lam read the information to everyone, hoping that others could give him some clues.

Mathilda read it and told Lam directly: "This is an ancient Greek mythology story, a war caused by a golden apple, so it is called the Apple of Discord."

Lam was overjoyed and motioned to hr to elaborate the story without missing any plot of the story.

Mathilda nodded in agreement, and then introduced the story of Discord Apple to everyone.

There was a prophecy on Mount Olympus that the child born to the sea goddess Thetis would have greater power than his father. Zeus and Poseidon wanted to marry Thetis to a human, and finally married her off to Peleus, a human being.

So Zeus's wife Hera held a marriage on Mount Olympus, and the gods on Mount Olympus were invited and brought gifts. Only Eris, the goddess of strife, did not want to invite her to the wedding because she often brought strife.

Eris, the goddess of strife, felt that she had been insulted. The dissatisfied Eris came to Mount Olympus and saw Hera, Athena and Aphrodite chatting happily, so she took a golden apple with ulterior motives.

The apple was thrown to the feet of the three goddesses and then left quietly.

Peleus saw the golden apple on the ground and quickly picked it up. He saw the words "Dedicated to the most beautiful goddess" written on the golden apple. Now Peleus was in trouble. He could only hold up the apple and ask the three goddesses who was the most beautiful, and wanted to give her the apple.

Sure enough, Eris's golden apples caused a dispute. Every goddess has the same vanity as humans. They all think that they are the most beautiful and should get this apple.

The three goddesses argued with each other and were in a stalemate. Finally, Zeus told them that Paris would decide who was the most beautiful.

Paris was the son of King Priam of Troy and Queen Hecuba.

Before Paris was born, Hecuba dreamed that the child turned into a beam of fire and burned down the entire palace. Hecuba told the seers about the dream and asked them what it meant.

The prophet said that this meant that the child would bring disaster and misfortune to the kingdom.

The queen was so frightened that she gave her newborn child to a slave and asked him to kill her child.

The slave took pity on the child and couldn't bear to kill him with his own hands, so he threw him into the forest on Mount Ide. A female bear later adopted him and raised him as her own.

Finally, a shepherd found Paris and brought him back to raise him, so that he could grow up healthy and strong.

Since the decision of who was most beautiful now rested with Paris, each of the goddesses approached Paris and promised him a gift if he chose them.

Hera, the mother of the gods, promised to make him a king.

Athena, the goddess of wisdom, promised to make him a wise man, and Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, promised to make the most beautiful woman in the world his wife.

Paris was not interested in becoming a wise man or a king. He wanted to marry the most beautiful woman in the world, so he gave the apple to Aphrodite.

At that time, the most beautiful woman in the world was Helen, but she was already married to Menelaus, the king of Sparta.

Soon, Paris visited Sparta to end the war between Sparta and Troy. The king warmly entertained him with royal courtesy. Although Paris received warm hospitality and gained the king's trust, he met Helen there.

Paris begged Aphrodite to let Helen fall in love with him, so one night, he secretly took Helen away. He eloped with her back to Troy.

Menelaus and the Greeks were extremely angry and immediately marched towards Troy vowing to recapture Helen. The city of Troy had an impenetrable wall. The Greeks fought for ten years to break it, but ten years later, Troy was still not captured.

Finally, the Greeks came up with a trick. They built a huge wooden horse, hid the soldiers in its belly, then placed the wooden horse outside the walls of Troy, and then left by ship, pretending to give up the war.

The Greek spies told the Trojans that the Trojan horse was a gift from the gods and that it should be moved into the city. However, a priest in Troy named Laocoon told everyone not to touch the wooden horse because he thought it was a conspiracy of the Greeks, but people did not listen to him.

However, for some reason, just as Laocoon was advising everyone in Troy, several big snakes suddenly swam out of the sea, attacked Laocoon and his two sons, and killed them.

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The Trojans believed that this was a warning from the gods, that is, an omen, telling them not to trust Laocoon. Therefore, they decided not to accept Laocoon's advice and moved the Trojan into the city.

But the wooden horse was too big to be transported through the city gate. In order to get it into the city, the Trojans had to tear down part of the city wall.

At night, the Greek soldiers got out of the wooden horse and opened the city gate. The Greeks waiting in the distance immediately returned, passed through the city gate and the hole made by the Trojans in the city wall, conquered Troy in one fell swoop, burned the entire city, and Helen also She was taken back to Greece by her husband.

"It's really hard for a hero to be a beauty. But I have a question about why Zeus asked Paris to decide who is the most beautiful. This is obviously a trap for him. Saying who is the most beautiful can easily offend the other two gods, especially women. ".

After listening to the story about Apple of Discord, Han saw that everyone was thinking with their heads down and no one said anything, so he opened his mouth to express his doubts.

Hearing what Han said, Mathilda couldn't help but cover her mouth and smile, and then explained the intentions of Zeus, the mastermind behind the scenes.

It turns out that Helen was the daughter of Zeus, and Helen had an agreement with many suitors, that is, when Helen was in danger, these suitors must come to save her. When Helen was taken to Troy, many of the former suitors, now Greek heroes, rushed off to fight.

Since most of these heroes were born from the union of gods and humans, in order to maintain the rule of the gods, Zeus must find a way to eliminate these heroes, and the best way was war.

In addition, Zeus's biggest target in this war was Achilles.

Achilles was the son of Peleus and Thetis. According to the prophecy, Achilles would become the greatest human being, so Zeus's purpose was to use war to get rid of Achilles. This was why Achilles was shot to death by Paris in the end.

"Sure enough, these so-called gods are not exempt from the world. There are power struggles everywhere. They will not hesitate to start a war for their own rule. Human beings are just tools in their hands." Han said angrily.

"It's just some myths and legends, so don't take them seriously." Mathilda laughed and passed.

She also knew that the legends must come from reality, but she didn't want to waste time with Han on these topics. Now was really not the time to discuss these topics. .

So Mathilda turned to look at Lam. Seeing that he lowered his head and remained silent, ignoring everyone, she asked him, "Lam, can you find any useful clues?"

Lam was minding his own business, looking down and thinking, and didn't hear her speak at all.

When Mathilda saw Lam didn't respond, she couldn't help but raise his voice and asked again. Only then did Lam react, and then shook his head at everyone, saying that he didn't get any valuable clues after listening to the whole story.

"The first two passwords given by Wei are all numbers. I think according to Wei's logic and caution, the third password may not be a number. The main reason for having this idea is that I have never find any plot or clue related to numbers in this story." Lam expressed his opinion.

"There are three goddesses, and the Trojan War lasted for ten years. These are all related to numbers." Mathilda said to Lam doubtfully. Wren't these all related to numbers?

Lam smiled bitterly, if only it were that simple. If we can think of this, others can also think of this. It is impossible for Wei to not think of such a thing.

"How about giving it a try?" Mathilda was a little eager to give it a try.

Maybe the more this kind of idea was, the more unexpected it would be. Didn't Wei like to play with his imagination and like to think counter-intuitively?

Lam originally held his hands in front of his chest. When he heard hr say this, he stretched out his right hand to signal "please" and let her try it herself.

Mathilda came to the computer, opened the third email, and entered 3 and 10 in the password box. As expected, it was wrong. When Lam saw this, he shrugged and said, "Let me just say it, it's not that simple."

As soon as Lam walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside the window, he began to slowly recall the story.

The apple led to a dispute between the three goddesses. The dispute between the three goddesses led to Paris getting Helen, and Paris took Helen with him. Troy in turn led to war between Greece and Troy.

The Trojan War ultimately relied on the trickery of the Greeks to win. The key to the Greeks' victory was the Trojan Horse. The purpose behind it was that Zeus wanted to eliminate human heroes and consolidate his rule. However, thiswais only a cause-and-effect relationship, and it was indeed difficult to deduce numbers.

Lam once again went through the entire logic line of the story of Discord Apple according to the logic just mentioned.

According to his own understanding, Lam believed that the final key to the entire story line of Discord Apple was the Trojan horse, and Zeus's purpose may simply be a distraction.

What does the Trojan horse represent? Lam paced back and forth, holding his chin in his hand and began to wander around the room.

Suddenly Lam patted his head. Trojan horse, wasn't this the full name of the Trojan horse virus? It's a Trojan horse virus.

Lam probably knew what Wei meant, and used a Trojan horse virus to open the third email.

Lam then carefully observed the third email. Sure enough, if the email was opened with a password, the email would be automatically deleted the moment it was opened. .

They must use a Trojan horse virus to hack into Lam's mailbox, and then steal the information in the third email, but this required using another computer to hack Lam's computer.

First, Lam's computer needed to be implanted with a Trojan virus, and then the server of the Trojan virus was installed.

The control port was on another computer, so that the "control terminal" could be used to enter the computer running the "server".

Just do what he said. After Lam installed the Trojan virus, he asked the person responsible for network security to hack into his computer, and then copied the information of the third email to the computer where the virus control terminal was located.

The person in charge of network security nodded in agreement. After a brief operation, the contents of the third email were displayed on his computer.

The third email contained two lines of text.

The first line read "War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength", and the second line was a line of numbers "1111100000".

Seeing this and thinking of the previous two emails, Lam already had the answer in his heart, so he ordered everyone to set off quickly. He had already found the place where Wei was hiding.

Everyone was still confused after seeing the third email, but when they heard what Lam said, they could only hold back their curiosity and immediately followed Lam's instructions.

Before setting off, Lam specifically asked Mathilda to bring more security personnel. However, Lam did not explain the address toher in detail. He just told her to take people to follow his car.

Mathilda didn't say much. She led the people out of the embassy and followed Lam's car.

She don't know how long it took, but finally she saw Lam and his car slowly stopped in front of No. 1984 Charing Cross Street.