Chapter 153 - Jinling City (2/2)

Many years ago, Mount Zhong was called “Mount Jinling”. Yangtse River flows past the west side of the mountain, which made the Jinling City a strategic location of the country. Therefore, King Wei of Kingdom Chu chose Jinling City as his capital in order to rule his kingdom with Yangtze River as the natural barrier.

According to Veritable Records of Jiankang City(the former name of Jinling City), King Wei of Kingdom Chu “used the mountain’s name as the t.i.tle of his capital”. Nowadays, though Jinling City no longer needs the Yangtse River’s natural moat to protect the citizens, Mount Zhong is important as before.

The center of Mount Zhong scenic zone is located at the northeast of Jinling City, Su Province. The well-known Zhongshan Mausoleum is at the core of the zone. Zhongshan Mausoleum is the tomb and memorial hall of a famous person of foresight in modern time. Let alone holidays, tourists are always coming here from everywhere around the country.

This is a sunny Sat.u.r.day.

The hot sun can’t stop the pa.s.sion of the tourists. The stairs in Zhongshan Mausoleum are crowded. This is just a normal day in summer, but the tourists here will never forget what they see today.

First, a family resting by the stairs discovers that a shade suddenly appears on their head like someone is holding an umbrella over them. When the family is wondering, the tourists around start screaming as they are looking at a ghost.

A grandma in her seventies are here with her family. Looking at this, she becomes too nervous to speak.

“Hawk…” The little girl at the age of four or five is still learning to read with the aid of pictures. She claps her hands and giggles at the hawk in front of her which looks so much like the hawks in pictures.

The little girl knows the hawk from pictures she saw, but she has no idea what the normal size of a hawk is. But the little girl’s mother knows. Hearing her daughter’s laugh, the mother covers the little girl’s mouth and drags her back, hoping the hawk didn’t hear what the girl just said — there can’t be such a huge hawk in the world, let alone a hawk with golden and s.h.i.+ny feathers.

“What is it? Is the Condor Heroes filming?

“No way— ”

“Shut up and take pictures!”

The fearless youngsters are the first to make any response. These young men in skinny pants and girls wearing heavy make-ups use their smartphones and take pictures of the golden hawk from every angle.

Other tourists also come back from the shock and start taking pictures.

The golden hawk is standing on a stone railing. It came at such a high speed that everyone thought it just popped up here. Standing straight, the hawk is twice as tall as an ordinary person!

No one has ever seen such a handsome golden hawk!

Is it the beast in the myths of Huaxia?

Now, even the youngsters who love to use emojis want to go to the library and search for some information — who can tell them what on earth the golden hawk is?

Seeing that the hawk is standing there quietly, more people are coming closer to look at it.

Goldie looks down at the crowd. It has no appet.i.te in the human flesh tainted by grey smoke. It’d rather eat the fruit its master used to give it.

However, this place is the end of the smell of its master… Where should it go?

Goldie tilts its head, looking confused.