"System Notice: Quest 4: Lead Fleeting Year Calendar to E Province Museum, quest refreshed."
"System Notice: Quest 5: Lead Fleeting Year Calendar to E Province Museum's signature treasure — Yue King Goujian Sword."
E Province Museum was established in 1953. It was one of the eight national museums built by China's central government a thousand years ago. It was a national first-class museum, a key research base of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, and a national AAAAA tourist attraction. It was also the largest, richest, and most powerful museum in E Province.
E Province Museum was located in Wuhan's East Lake Scenic Area. It covered an area of 81,909 square meters, with a floor area of 49611 square meters and an exhibition hall of 13,427 square meters. It was the largest museum in China for ancient musical instruments.
It had over 200,000 pieces (sets) of artifacts, with bronze, lacquer, and bamboo slips being the most unique. There were 945 pieces (sets) of Grade 1 artifacts and 16 pieces (sets) of National Treasures in China.
There were also the four signature treasures: Yue King Goujian Sword, Ceng Houyi Chimes, Yun County Skull Fossil, and Yuan Dynasty Four Loves Plum Vase.
Such a beautiful museum was now only left with half of its walls. On the first day of Yuan Yan's invasion, a squadron of Gundams had launched a destructive attack on the museum. More than half of the area had been destroyed, and only a small portion of the building was left standing.
"Brother Guhan, where are we going?"
Fleeting Year Calendar could not help but feel a chill run down his spine as he followed Guhan into the eerie building.
"Let's go to the Bronze Hall," Gu Han answered briefly.
"Why are we going there?"
"Because the entrance to the basement is there!"
Guhan blurted out, "There's a pipe that leads to the basement. You'll be able to see your mother through it."
Fleeting Year Calendar nodded and obediently followed behind Guhan. It did not take long for them to arrive at the Bronze Hall.
It had to be said that the Bronze Hall was quite lucky. Most of the museum had been destroyed, but the Bronze Hall was the only place that remained unscathed.
There were hundreds of transparent glass cabinets in the bronze hall. All kinds of bronze wares were neatly placed in these cabinets. There were bronze swords, bronze cauldrons, bronze mirrors, bronze musical instruments, bronze jars, and so on.
However, Fleeting Time Calendar was not interested in these bronzes at all. He ran around the hall but did not find anything that looked like an entrance to the basement. He turned around to look for Gu Han, wanting to ask what was going on. However, he found Gu Han standing quietly in front of the largest glass cabinet in the middle of the hall. Gu Han did not move at all.
"Brother Guhan!
Where is the entrance you mentioned?
I can't find the entrance. Hurry up and take me to see my mother. Weren't you in a hurry to bring me here? "Fleeting Year Calendar urged as he held Gu Han's hand.
"Fleeting Calendar, do you know what's in this cabinet?"
Gu Han ignored the calendar's urging. Instead, he pointed at the item in the glass cabinet and asked the calendar.
"I don't know. How would I know what's in there …" Fleeting Year Calendar shook his head without even looking at it.
"There's a sword in there, a famous sword …" Guhan paused for a moment, before continuing, "She's a famous sword — Yue King Goujian Sword!"
That's right. The sword in there was one of China's most famous swords, the Yue King Goujian Sword.
It was Gu Han's main objective, and the reason why he had tricked Fleeting Time into coming here was to obtain the Gou Jian Sword of the Yue King.
"System Notice: Quest 5: Lead Fleeting Year Calendar to the treasure of the E Province Museum — Yue King Goujian Sword. Quest refreshed."
"System Notice: Quest 6: Synchronize Fleeting Year Calendar with the Yue King Goujian Sword. Awaken the Yue King Goujian Sword into the Sword Maiden — Yue King Goujian Sword.
Note: The synchronization process will take 10 minutes. During this time, Fleeting Year Calendar must not take any damage. Every time he takes damage, the synchronization time will be increased by 5 minutes.
"System Notice: Quest 7: There are 3 swords around the Yue King Goujian Sword. Choose one of them as your Sword Maiden and synchronize it into the 'Sword Maiden Qingfeng', 'Sword Maiden White Iron', and 'Sword Maiden Hundred Refining'. Note: Yuan Kou's first wave of attacks will arrive in 3 minutes. Please complete the synchronization process within 3 minutes."
… …
According to historical records, a thousand years ago, the Sword Ancestor Fleeting Calendar, who had been hiding in Honest Man's grocery store for five days, suddenly received a message from his mother near the museum. He then decided to go to the museum to find his mother.
After experiencing many difficulties and troubles, he finally arrived at the museum. However, while he was looking for his mother, a group of Yuan Kou suddenly attacked the museum.
Feeling despair, the Sword Ancestor decided to fight to the death with Yuan Zhen. Thus, he broke the display window of the King of Yue Goujian Sword. The moment he touched the King of Yue Goujian Sword, he began to synchronize with the famous sword — the King of Yue Goujian Sword. This caused the King of Yue Goujian Sword to complete its awakening and become the first Sword Maiden in the world.
The Sword Ancestor Fleeting Calendar also became the world's first sword-wielder. After a difficult and cruel battle with the Sword Lady, King of Yue, Gou Jian, they finally defeated Yuan Shen, who was attacking this place. The Sword Ancestor naturally became the world's first human to successfully destroy Yuan Shen.
The initial dungeon in the game repeated this process. The dungeon had finally reached its most crucial moment, the moment when the Yue King Goujian Sword awakened.
… …
"Clang!"
Gu Han held the Impoverished Sword in his hand and slashed at the display window forcefully. The display window that was known as bulletproof glass shattered into pieces, and the four swords that were protecting the display window became easily obtainable.
"Fleeting Calendar, go and pick up the oldest bronze sword in the middle!"
Guhan ordered Fleeting Year Calendar. The bronze sword was naturally the legendary Yue King Goujian Sword.
"Why?
I don't want it!
This belongs to the country, I can't touch it! "
Fleeting Year Calendar shook his head. He did not care about the sword that was worth hundreds of millions. He urged Guhan, "Mom, big brother, hurry up and take me to my mom."
"Your mom is safe underground. You don't need to worry about her."
Gu Han pulled the fleeting calendar to the window of the exhibition hall and pointed at the sky in the distance. Looking in the direction of Gu Han's finger, one could vaguely see some black dots on the ground approaching.
"Do you see that?
Those black dots are a swarm of Yuan Kou, and their destination is this place. They want to kill every single survivor. They have discovered your mom's existence, and they want to kill her. That's why we must protect this place and the entrance to the underground. We cannot let those Yuan Kou harm your mom. "
"No, they can't harm my mom. I won't allow them to harm my mom. No … No …" Fleeting Year Calendar took a few steps back, "Guhan, my mom isn't here. You're lying to me, aren't you?!"
"Why did you trick me into coming here?"
This child finally realized that there was something wrong with Big Brother Guhan.
"Why?
To protect us humans, of course! "
Guhan shook his head, then nodded. He looked into Fleeting Year Calendar's eyes gently, "I don't have time to explain it to you. Trust me and pick up the Yue King Goujian Sword. It will explain everything to you."
"Alright, I trust you!"
Fleeting Year Calendar bit his lips and quickly walked to the broken window. After taking a deep breath, he reached out with his right hand and grabbed the hilt of the Yue King Goujian Sword.
"Synchronize — Begin."
An ethereal voice sounded, and the moment he touched the hilt, the Yue King Goujian Sword disappeared into the window.
Fleeting Year Calendar opened his mouth and looked at Guhan. He wanted to ask something, but he could not make a sound. His entire body was like a statue, frozen the moment he touched the hilt of the sword.
If one were to touch Fleeting Year Calendar's body with their own hands, they would discover that the originally soft youth's body had become as hard as bronze.
… …
The Yue King Goujian Sword was forged by the Yue King Goujian using all the finest copper in the world.
After the sword was forged, a true dragon soared into the sky. Goujian believed that it was a sign of the destruction of Wu, so he used it as his own sword.
The sword was 55.7 centimeters long, 8.4 centimeters long, and 4.6 centimeters wide. The sword's head was rolled up into a hoop shape, with 11 concentric circles separated by 0.2 millimeters. The body of the sword was covered with black diamond-shaped patterns. The front of the crossguard was inlaid with blue glass, while the back was inlaid with turquoise.
The body of the sword was slender, with a middle ridge. The two sides were sharp, and the front was curved inwards.
There were two convex hoops on the stem, and concentric circles.
The body of the sword was engraved with the words, "The Yue King Jiu Qian, Since Using the Sword".
After Goujian destroyed Wu, the sword became a royal treasure, and was passed down to the Yue King.
However, the world changed, and the Yue Kingdom was eventually destroyed by the Chu Kingdom. The King of Chu did not like the sword, and gave it to Qu Yuan.
Qu Yuan also did not like the sword, and gave it to Chu Yu. Chu Yu loved it, and wore it every day. After she died, she buried it with Chu Yu.
Two thousand years later, Chu Yu's tomb was excavated by the Celestial Empire, and the Yue King Goujian Sword saw the light of day again. It was kept in the E Province Museum until the apocalypse.