"Father, Leon Padt invited us to the manor for tea tomorrow night." Eton read the invitation and looked confused.
The old man was also surprised by the invitation. Then he chuckled. "Looks like this family is not destined to die tonight."
Eton was a little surprised. He knew his father was not going to let him go to the manor tonight. He smiled. "He knows what's good for him. But why did he change his mind?"
The old man chuckled and pointed at the wooden box. "Maybe it's because of this box."
The night slowly faded away. The bloody night did not come to Padt Manor. The sun of the second day was still shining on every inch of land in the manor.
None of them knew that they had just escaped a calamity. Including Angor.
Early in the morning, Angor brought several maids to the tea garden to pick the freshest tea leaves. It was winter in the outside world, and everything was frozen. However, thanks to Jon's improvements, the tea garden was still as warm as spring.
Angor asked the maids to pick a lot of Morning Dew tea leaves for the tea party in the evening. Some of them were used to brew tea leaves in the evening, while the rest was given to Mana to stir-fry. Only by "killing" the tea leaves with high temperature could they retain their original fragrance for a long time. Angor planned to give the stir-fried tea leaves to Count Eton as a gift.
Seeing that the tea leaves were about to be finished, Angor left the tea garden and returned to the yard of the stilt house.
Jon was sitting on the balcony on the second floor, enjoying the rare warm sunlight in winter. He even hummed a little tune.
Angor walked to him, took the ointment from the mute servant, and began to apply it on his teacher's body. Jon glanced at him but did not say anything. He already explained to Angor why his limbs withered yesterday, but Angor did not seem to believe him. Jon did not care. He would just take it as his student showing his filial piety. He did not have much time left to enjoy his student's filial piety. Perhaps he could not even make it through the Month of Freezing Earth.
Chown laughed and hummed an unknown tune in the wind.
He felt sad, but also free.
More than that, he missed his family.
"If I can go back to Earth, even if I have to die the next moment, I'll do it." Jon did not understand the concept of returning to one's home before.
Angor looked worried. He did not know what to say to comfort his teacher at this moment. "Parting" was the most painful thing, and it was the distance between two worlds.
The silence did not last long. Jon suddenly pointed at a half-transparent crystal in a flower pot on the balcony. "Can you get that for me?"
Angor nodded. He took the crystal out of the wet soil, wiped it with a handkerchief, and handed it to Jon.
The crystal was oval shaped and looked like a glass bead from afar.
Jon held the "bead" for a long time... His expression was sometimes resentful, sometimes sad, and sometimes bitter.
"Three years ago, I abandoned it in the forest. I didn't expect it to appear in a flower pot." Chown shook his head. "Perhaps this is fate?"
Angor watched his teacher talking to himself and blushed. After a while, he hesitated and mumbled, "I picked it up … I saw you playing with it a lot. You always cried when you looked at it, so I thought it might belong to your family. That day, when I saw you throw it into the forest, I thought it was because you didn't want to think of her. Later, I picked it up and buried it in a flowerpot, thinking that it might come in handy if you regret it one day. "
Jon was surprised. He muttered in a voice only he could hear, "Maybe it was meant to be with you?"
"The orb doesn't belong to my family, but it's a gift from the Marquis Family. But … it's something from Earth, right? I don't know where it came from. "
"Let me tell you a story. A story about the bead."
…
Angor was more surprised as he listened to Jon's story.
He thought it was just a souvenir bead. He did not expect the bead to have such a mysterious origin!
The story started twenty years ago. When Jon was still on Earth, he was a researcher born in Huaxia. Later on, because of a worldwide mysterious research project, he brought his wife and daughter to Long Island, New York in the United States to conduct a secret research that lasted more than ten years.
The project was called "Montauk Project".
Montauk Project was a famous project in space physics on Earth. Jon was born in the middle of the 23rd century. Montauk Project was already started two centuries before he was born. It was delayed several times and took more than 50 years to complete. This was the sixth time Montauk Project was started.
The predecessor of Montauk Project was the Philadelphia Experiment in 1942. Radar was just invented back then. The American military conducted an experiment on the destroyer USS Edrich in order to gain the ability to hide warships from radar waves. The main hull of the ship was equipped with an omnidirectional antenna. Two energy coils were placed on the deck, which were powered by the ship's generators. The experiment went wrong at the beginning. The second and third experiments were even more disastrous. The generators ran wildly and went completely out of control. In the end, the Edrich disappeared from sight and teleported to a place seven thousand kilometers away in an instant. The Philadelphia Experiment was forced to stop. As a byproduct, long-distance teleportation was discovered.
In short, Montauk Project was a physics project to study space travel.
In the beginning, the Montauk Project's research direction was inseparable from the Philadelphia Experiment. Unfortunately, there had been no progress. Until the early part of the 23rd century, an extraterrestrial object made all scientists excited.
The object fell in the southwest part of the Sahara Desert in Mauritania, Africa, right in the center of the famous Eye of Sahara.
The object attracted the attention of many countries. Mauritania was only a small country in Africa, and it could not compete with a world power. In the end, the object was left in Long Island, New York in the United States. Many countries, including Huaxia, England, France, Japan, and Russia, participated in the research. It was named the Alien Eye.
During the research, scientists found that the Alien Eye had energy waves that defied most of the known physical coefficients. When it was first stimulated by high-energy rays of a certain wavelength, the Alien Eye even had the magical effect of teleporting objects within a small range.
It was scientists who saw the effect of teleportation that launched the sixth Montauk Project.
In the Montauk Project, Jon was actually just an ordinary researcher. He recorded the effects of the wave frequency produced by the Alien Eye on plants.
One day, as usual, Jon brought a few sealed plant seedlings to the heavily protected area of the Alien Eye to record and sample.
At first, everything was normal. Most of the plants withered and died under the waves released by the Alien Eye. Only one tea seedling from Huaxia survived.
Just as Chown was holding the tea seedling and turning on the parasitic chip to record the information, a few more high-energy rays hit the Alien Eye. Then, a huge change occurred in the laboratory. It was unknown whether the control panel had made a mistake or not.
The space collapsed, and darkness was everywhere. The horrifying aura released by the Alien Eye instantly covered everything in the laboratory. The next second, before Jon could react, he was swallowed by the darkness with the tea seedling still in his hand.
Along with the Alien Eye, it passed through layers of barriers and arrived in today's world, full of scars.
Later, Jon was rescued by the old Viscount Padt.
Later, the Alien Eye was no longer magical. It turned into an extremely ordinary … glass bead.
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