"Do you know the Sphinx?" Sun Hang asked, staring intently at her.
"The Sphinx... the lion-bodied, human-headed statue?"
"That's right. The purpose of this trip to Egypt is to hunt the Sphinx," Sun Hang said. "As for why we need to hunt it, that's classified at the highest federal level. I'd advise you not to ask."
"The Sphinx... I never thought creatures from legend would become Anomalies." Bai Lingqiu murmured.
"I think you may have the causality backward. It wasn't legendary creatures that became Anomalies; it was because these Anomalies appeared in ancient times that those legends were passed down... Haven't many of the monsters from Xiazhou mythology been proven to be Anomalies?" As he spoke, Sun Hang's eyes suddenly lit up. "Come to think of it, does the list of monsters you can summon include the Sphinx? If you could summon a Sphinx directly, we could just cancel the Egypt operation!"
"The image of the Sphinx appears in the mythologies of ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, and West Asia, but there has never been such a creature in Xiazhou mythology... My book is Xiazhou Records of Strange Tales, and its content is limited to local Xiazhou legends..."
"Then what was that bird-headed, human-bodied monster you summoned the first time?" Sun Hang asked. "I remember Egyptian mythology having something like that... It was called Thoth, I think."
"That was Wei Xiu, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions," Bai Lingqiu said. "In the picture book, there was a story about him killing Ya Yu. Later, Ya Yu was revived, but turned into a bloodthirsty man-eating beast."
"Is that book really children's reading material? It feels more like children's cult fiction..." Sun Hang could not help complaining. "Does it have a story about Kui Niu?"
"It does... but Kui Niu is one of the