Chapter 020: Hela's Purpose

Upon hearing this, Wang Bo couldn't help but remind her, "Anck-su-namun."

Evelyn stiffened, her mind drenched as if by a basin of cold water. "You mean Karen is Anck-su-namun, the woman who betrayed my father."

Wang Bo couldn't help but caution, "Evelyn, remember, past life is past life, this life is this life. Don't conflate them, understand? It will make you lose yourself."

Evelyn's heart tightened; she snapped back to reality, taking a deep breath to calm herself. "I understand, but is Karen really Anck-su-namun?"

Wang Bo nodded. "Yes, it's her."

He briefly recounted how O'Connell had become suspicious of Karen and came to him, and how he had accidentally discovered that Karen was Anck-su-namun.

After listening, Evelyn couldn't help but grab her hair. "She dared to steal my Book of the Dead. She dared to resurrect Imhotep. How dare she do this."

Wang Bo, somewhat exasperated, asked, "The Book of the Dead doesn't matter at all, and neither does Imhotep. I don't give a damn about that guy. What I care about now is O'Connell. What do you think I should do? Should I tell O'Connell about this?"

Evelyn looked at Wang Bo speechlessly.

She remembered the first time she met Wang Bo, how cautious he had been to prevent her from resurrecting Imhotep.

She never expected that when she saw Wang Bo again, he no longer considered Imhotep a threat.

That was the high priest who had been imprisoned for three thousand years.

The deeper one delved into the supernatural realm, the more one understood how terrifying a man imprisoned for three thousand years and subjected to torment could be. To put it bluntly, without divine intervention, no one in the mortal world could match Imhotep.

Not even her.

After all, how long had she been the Keeper of the Dead, and how long had Imhotep been one?

She couldn't even defeat the Imhotep before his death.

Let alone the Imhotep who had suffered for three thousand years.

Yet, despite how terrifying he was, Wang Bo didn't even bat an eye. That was arrogant, but considering his origins and friends, Evelyn had to admit he had the right to be arrogant.

Not to mention his own strength, even just the death goddess Hela was beyond Imhotep's ability to handle.

At that thought, Evelyn, who had been anxious upon hearing of Imhotep's resurrection, gradually relaxed. "I think you'd better tell O'Connell."

"So, tell him that his wife resurrected her past-life lover behind his back and cuckolded him?" Wang Bo rolled his eyes.

"Should I buy him a green hat and tell him to be strong?"

Evelyn glared at him. "Can't you be more tactful? Tell O'Connell that his wife was influenced by her past-life personality and did something irrational."

Wang Bo's eyes lit up. "That's a good idea, but how exactly should I say it?"

Evelyn sighed. "You men."

Seeing that she seemed about to say more, Wang Bo's eyes lit up. He snapped his fingers, and the next second, O'Connell appeared before Wang Bo and Evelyn.

Wang Bo immediately stood up, pointing at Evelyn. "O'Connell, Evelyn has something to tell you. It's about your wife. You two talk."

With that, before the two could react, Wang Bo teleported away, disappearing on the spot.

Leaving O'Connell and Evelyn staring at each other.

O'Connell was completely bewildered, clueless.

Evelyn's face flushed with anger, and she finally glared at O'Connell. "Sit down."

...

Meanwhile, after handing the matter over to Evelyn, Wang Bo played the absentee boss, left the estate, and went to find Hela.

In two days, the Scorpion King would awaken, so Wang Bo wanted to ask if Hela was interested in taking a trip to Ahm Shere to see the Scorpion King.

Although Hela had been playing hide-and-seek these past few days, Wang Bo could vaguely sense the death goddess's whereabouts.

This time, finding Hela didn't take much effort. He found her on the Himalayas, climbing a mountain peak.

"What are you doing here?" Wang Bo descended through the blizzard, landing halfway up a Himalayan peak, coming before Hela.

Hela looked at Wang Bo, who had suddenly appeared before her, and didn't hide her purpose. "I sense something ahead that interests me."

Wang Bo immediately knew what she was talking about and couldn't help asking, "How did you know?"

Hela smiled. "So, you've known about the Spring of Eternal Life being here all along."

After arriving in this world, she had found many legends and consulted numerous documents, finally determining that the Spring of Eternal Life was in this mountain range, but she hadn't expected Wang Bo to have already found it.

Wang Bo nodded. He had seen the plot, so of course he knew that the legendary Shangri-La was in a mountain range in the Himalayas, and in the cave leading to Shangri-La lay the Spring of Eternal Life.

But the Spring of Eternal Life had a guardian.

That was the witch who had cursed the Dragon Emperor, Zi Yuan.

Wang Bo had mixed feelings about this witch. Without Zi Yuan's curse, history might have changed—the Dragon Emperor would have been immortal, ruling the world, and the ancient Eastern kingdom would not have suffered such humiliation.

But the problem was, if the Dragon Emperor were immortal and ruled the world, would the ancient Eastern kingdom have remained in a feudal imperial era, never entering a republican period?

Although the Dragon Emperor was a great strategist, he was still a ruthless man, willing to do anything to consolidate his rule. The tide of the times, universal enlightenment—would that help his rule?

Of course not.

So the Dragon Emperor would never allow the people's wisdom to awaken; he might even suppress it. Perhaps thousands of years later, when Western nations had already developed firearms and cannons, this ancient country, under the Dragon Emperor's rule, would still be in the age of cold weapons.

Maybe Wang Bo's thoughts were a bit exaggerated. Perhaps the Dragon Emperor would also develop the tech tree, advancing firearms, cannons, even tanks and airplanes. But as an emperor, he would never allow anyone to shake his position.

Therefore, whether an immortal emperor would make the world better or worse, no one could say for sure, not even Wang Bo.

Of course, there was another possibility: after unifying China, the Dragon Emperor discovered the vast world and began to vigorously develop the military, embarking on a path to global unification.

This was not impossible. After all, an immortal Dragon Emperor would need some pursuits.

Unifying the Earth was a good pursuit.

So the question is, could the Dragon Emperor unify the world over the long ages?