The story of Greek mythology has been circulated along with the opening chapter of Homer's epic, and through the influence of many major movie studios and pornographic industries in the West, the little thing in Olympus is about to reach the level of a household name.

The stories of Greek mythology were indeed of such high quality that they were snatched away by the Romans, descendants of the Trojans, and changed their names to become Roman Mythology and the Roman Pantheon.

Then, as the Son died under the orders of the Roman consuls and Jewish elders, the story of the Bible was born.

Most of the contents in the Bible are copies of myths from various countries.

For example, the story of Cain and Abel, the sons of Adam, few people know that the story of these brothers fighting each other is actually completely based on the Egyptian mythology in which Seth, the god of the desert, killed his brother, the god of sky Osiris, and even Cain and Abel’s youngest brother was named Seth.

Many demons in the Bible are simply gods from other myths. For example, Baal, the leader of the seventy-two demon gods, is the sun god in Semitic mythology.

The story of the exodus of the Jews from Egypt and God's ten plagues is simply a story of large-scale fan power comparison. The core of this story is that God in the Bible beat the Egyptian gods violently.

Most of the archangels in the Bible, including Vulcan, Michael, and Gabriel, were copied from Roman mythology. Even the story of the Great Flood was copied from Deucalion. story.

It's not that all the flood stories in the world come from Greece, but the problem also has many elements of "because of human sins", "kind and good people survived" and "opening up a new era". No one will believe it if it is not plagiarism. .

The description of the image of God in later versions of the Bible is simply a copy of Zeus or Jupiter, and the huge suture monster of the Bible can be said to be the ultimate product of stitching everywhere based on Greek mythology.

Then, it became the world's largest religion.

This is still a story where the ancestor is miserable but the grandson is exceptionally prosperous.

"People always associate the images of Zeus and Jehovah with each other, but in fact, the current Jehovah looks like the Zeus of the past, while the current Zeus looks like a different set of images."

Standing in front of a small local bank in Athens, Wednesday held a cup of hot coffee and looked at the Parthenon in the distance. He smiled and told these stories to Banner who had changed into a hooded pullover.

"Interesting story, so God still defeated all the gods?"

Banner shrugged and said, he is not a believer or not a devout believer, so he doesn't care about Wednesday's joke about God.

"You can't say that." Wednesday laughed.

“Rach did not step out to kill Moses during the Exodus, and Marduk did not step out to kill the Tower of Babel when Gabriel smashed it. And the only time he caused a great flood, those who drowned were basically believers. His Jews.”

"Are you saying that except for the Great Flood, when God punishes mortals, it is always when other gods are absent?"

"You can understand that." Wednesday shrugged.

“But in terms of religious belief, I don’t really recommend you to believe in Christianity. Although most gods are bastards, bastards like Jehovah who kill everyone else because of one person are definitely the bastards among bastards. And he is not merciful. He has to go through all kinds of hardships and hardships to be qualified to serve him after death? Oh, even if you go to Valhalla, you can still enjoy yourself for a while."

Wednesday showed extreme disdain for Jehovah, and Banner thought for a moment and retorted.

"You can't say that. In fact, didn't the story of the Great Flood in the Bible also imitate the behavior of Zeus?"

Zeus decided to go to the world because of the evil deeds of mortals. He came to Arcadia to meet King Lycaon, and the king's cruelty and arrogance did not change even after Zeus revealed his identity.

In order to disgust and blaspheme Zeus, Lycaon even killed and cooked an innocent man and then entertained Zeus. As a result, Lycaon was turned into a bloodthirsty wolf by Zeus, and the angry Zeus Then he ordered Poseidon to cause a tsunami to destroy mankind.

The similarity between this story and Noah's Ark is that Zeus also left behind the lives of two kind and good people. The two old men who warmly entertained Zeus who concealed his identity, Deucalion and Pyrrha, survived, and because of this, they survived. They and humans also began to reproduce again.

"When we talk about whether someone is an asshole, you can't prove that someone is not an asshole just because someone else is an asshole."

Having said this, Wednesday sighed and shrugged.

"Forget it, actually, if you have to say it, which mythical god has a clean butt? From a human perspective, everyone is just a smaller bastard and a bigger bastard."

Banner didn't know why the other party was talking about such topics, and they had been here for a while.

"Aren't we going to meet someone?"

"Of course, of course we're going," Wednesday said with a smile.

"But we have to be polite. We are visiting a woman, so we have to bring gifts and be well-dressed - which means we need money."

Banner was stunned for a moment. Although he had been on the run for so long, to be honest, he had never thought about money.

Not only Betty, he himself had several unregulated personal accounts overseas before, many of which were 'gifts' given to him by others, and Banner also lost weight. After all, research costs money.

But now that all the bank cards and other items on his body are gone, these slow-tempered guys have to wait for more than two months for the replacement business here in Greece!

However, money is a big problem.

"We are here to make money." Odin pointed at the bank behind him and smiled.

"...You don't want to rob a bank, do you?"

"No, no, no, although this city has always had a tradition of being proud of bandits, but this time we are not robbing, we are - borrowing."

"Borrow it?" Banner raised his eyebrows, but Wednesday hugged his shoulders and patted him affectionately.

"Come on, Vodis, imagine an extreme weather situation?"

"What?"

"I mean, imagine extreme weather, blizzards, rainstorms, hail, whatever. Come on, let your imagination run wild."

39. Science and magic

Wednesday is a very mysterious person. At least with Banner's 'wonderful' experience, he has never met such a mysterious and special person as Wednesday in his life.

Banner knew that he was definitely not a normal person like himself, and he was full of nonsense. If Banner wasn't a scientist who insisted on materialism, he might really think that he was a god or something like that.

But even so, since entering Athens, Banner felt that this guy's mental illness was getting more and more serious.

"An extreme weather, come on Wodis! Give me an extreme weather, one where no one wants to take another step!"

"Um...that storm?" Banner gave his answer

"Very good! Lightning and thunder, torrential rain, and thunderstorms are raging! This is such a good weather that most people are not willing to take another step!" Wednesday rubbed his hands excitedly and held Banner's head.

"Now, imagine a storm, the biggest storm you can remember! Then sit here and don't move while I print out business cards and posters from last year."

Banner did as Wednesday said in a daze, or he also wanted to see what kind of medicine this guy was selling.

He closed his eyes and began to imagine the biggest storm he had ever seen.

That was the night he and Betty went to bed for the first time, uh... In New Zealand, during the day they had just gone to the filming location of Helm's Deep to see the Lord of the Rings, and when they returned to the same hotel as The Hobbit, they started It rained heavily.

Thunderstorms continued in the sky, dark clouds filled the sky, and the hobbit wooden house began to shake due to the violent wind and rain.

Betty couldn't sleep and slept with Banner. She said she was scared, and Banner was actually a little bit too, but he was more afraid that this unreliable house would be blown away by the wind.

After that day, he vowed not to live in a wooden house, but that night, he and his girlfriend naturally completed the great harmony of life.

When I think of Betty, your graceful figure at night, your faint body fragrance, and...

Well, Banner is also a normal man, and he can't help but think about it. But he still turned his attention to calm down and began to imagine the storm that night.

The crazy storm blew up the grass and photos, the thunder roared in the sky as if it was about to tear the world apart, and the heavy rain beat on the roof as if someone was playing drums again.

Those clouds, he should be filled with dark clouds! He should rain down! He should thunder and lightning!

His imagination is getting deeper and deeper, becoming more and more concrete!

It all seemed to be happening right in front of his ears!

"I think enough is enough, Vodis, this city will be paralyzed if this continues."

A pair of hands put on his shoulders. Banner opened his eyes. Wednesday put a cup of hot coffee into his hand, smiling at him with a business card and a poster.

Banner wanted to say something, but the cold rain hitting him made him tremble all over. He looked behind him in disbelief. The sky that was clear just now was now covered in a crazy storm!

Pedestrians on the road screamed and hid in nearby shelters, the strong wind blew up the signboards, and the heavy rain hit the ground like a drum!

Everything was just as he imagined!

"This this……"

Banner seemed a little incoherent. Although he himself was an unscientific creature, what appeared in front of him now was too beyond common sense!

Of course, all this can be explained by the weather, but Banner could not regain his calm scientific thinking at this moment.

"Shh~~~Wordis." Wednesday put his finger up to his mouth and stopped Banner's incoherent questioning.

"We are making an analogy. You can trust the villain on TV to predict the weather in the future. Why can't you trust that you can predict the weather in ten seconds? Maybe this is just a little psychological suggestion on my part."

"Meteorology is science! And what you're talking about...you're talking about like..."

"Like magic?" Wednesday smiled.

"But no, Wodis, it's not. Do you remember what I told you on the plane? Belief, faith, these are magical enough powers. For ordinary people, this is thin, but for you To me, belief is a powerful force.”

"But this is fantasy... we are in reality!" Banner was obviously a little scared.

"Really? Is the world apart from fantasy and reality?" Wednesday seemed to be laughing at Banner.

"Tell me, Vodis. Have you seen the world? Have you seen the planet beneath your feet? Have you seen the entire solar system? Have you seen the Milky Way?"

Yes, I haven't seen it.

We have never truly seen the planet below us with our eyes, just as we have never seen the magic that was thought not to exist.

Banner could answer without hesitation, in fact, ninety-nine percent of the people in this world have never seen the planet under their feet with their own eyes.

"Do humans rely on their eyes to understand the world? No, they rely more on their ears, or in other words, they rely on 'other people's words'."

Wednesday twirled his fingers in his ears and whispered

"What do you humans often say...the essence of practice is the material activity that actively transforms objects? What kind of doctrine is that?"

"Marxism."

"Ah, yes, that's what Marx said. And also, truth and falsehood can be converted into each other. Vodis, tell me, how can you determine the truth even if you don't have real practice? And why can't you think of the truth? What about conversion to what you think is a fallacy?”

Banner was silent again. He could not refute Wednesday. He was not a believer in Marxism, so he should not accept this trick.

After all, most of the philosophies in this world are based on the essence that only practice has the right to speak.

But as Wednesday said, the truth that most people in the world know is never based on practice, but based on what others tell them.

Because his parents told him that he thought the teacher was educating him, because most people in the world think so, so this is the truth.

This is the truth for most people - others tell you it is the truth, so it is the truth. It is not so much that you see the truth, but that you feel that these are the truth.

"Come on Vodis, instead of discussing philosophy here we should go make some money."

Wednesday patted Banner on the shoulder and led Banner in a daze to a store.

"Go buy something, then go to the phone booth on the corner of the street and wait. If anyone comes, tell them you are waiting for your girlfriend to call back."

As he said that, he handed over a stack of business cards. Banner looked at them and was stunned for a moment.

"J. Vodis, Director of Security for Hyperion Services, what is this?"

"This is you." Wednesday shrugged, then handed over his business card.

"Let me meet you. I am Green Andre. My friends call me Greer. This is my new identity. Now get ready and go to work."

After that, Banner watched helplessly as Wednesday came to the ATM with a large bag of things. He first put a poster that said 'out of order and cannot be used' on the ATM, and then pulled up a small stool. Sitting next to him with an umbrella, when a person who wanted to come over to make a deposit in a hurry walked by, he greeted him, and then handed him a document, a pen and a business card. After the person signed his name, he The money was given to Wednesday.

Banner seemed to suddenly understand what Wednesday was doing.

He disguised himself as a service employee who replaced the faulty ATM machine to deposit money in the bank, and just stayed in front of the ATM machine. The nearest bank's main store is three blocks away, and people are always reluctant to walk that much in such bad weather.

Laziness is a common characteristic of humans all over the world, and people always give some instinctive trust to the elderly in formal clothes.

This guy is actually committing bank fraud to get money.

For a moment, Banner felt a huge sense of absurdity. Such a powerful and mysterious person - he actually uses unscrupulous methods to defraud people out of money?

"Oh, shit."

After seeing a police car parked there, Banner's expression changed. No matter how perfect the real scam was, it was of no use in front of the police.

But he looked at the business card in his hand and seemed to realize something. He went to the phone booth next to him, and sure enough, the phone rang soon.

Banner hesitated for a moment, then he answered the phone, and the voice of the police questioning came out.

"I'm looking for J. Wordis!"

Across the street from here, the policeman was checking the information on the phone given to him on Wednesday, and right here, the kind and upright Dr. Banner was playing a role in Wednesday's fraud game.

All this is so funny and absurd that it seems like a farce.

"...Yes, I am Jimmy Wattis." Banner was silent for a moment and said in his own lab accent.

"Mr. Wattis, do you have any employees at Shouhe Bank? At the intersection of Supermarket and Second Street..."

"Yes, there's a broken ATM. His name is Green Andre. Is there a problem?"

"No problem, everything is fine, just asking. It's best for two people to handle this kind of thing."

"Yes! I think so too. You'd better talk to the people at Shouhe Bank. The people below me will be questioned by you more than ten times a day when dealing with this kind of trouble!" Banner sped up his speech. like he is angry

"Um, yes sir, I'm sorry for wasting your time."

The call was hung up, and the policeman across the street took off his hat to Wednesday and left. Banner straightened up and looked like he had eaten shit. Aware of Banner's gaze, Wednesday raised his head and looked at him, showing a pleasant smile.

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