"Elijah!

On the square of the East Post Station in Duxi Town, a middle-aged man looked tired, with a slightly upturned chin and a tousy beard, curly and yellow as if it had been burned by fire. He heard his name called, and turned his head to search the crowd.

Ulysses struggled to squeeze through the crowd in front of him and stumbled in front of the middle-aged man.

"Heavenly Father, it's great to see you again!" Elijah said joyfully as he patted the familiar face in front of him.

The surroundings were so noisy that Ulysses had to ask out loud what Elijah had just said.

The middle-aged man shrugged his shoulders and pulled the former out of the inn, asking as he went, "Are there so many people who come to Dusk West Town every day?"

Ulysses replied, "Every day, so the town has been planning to build a new inn to the south." ”

Walking down the street, Elijah looked at the neat buildings and straight roads on both sides, and was a little surprised: "It's really hard to imagine that there is a town of this size on the western seaside. ”

Ulysses puffed up his chest proudly: "This is just the outskirts of Twilight Town, and if you walk ten minutes further, you will enter the more prosperous and lively inner city. ”

When Elijah actually stepped into the heart of Twilight, the sight of prosperity made his mouth open and his heels didn't move for a while.

Unlike the dim and drab buildings of other towns, the concrete houses of Twilight Town are architecturally similar to those of the ancient Taylor, the North Island and the Southern Empire. There are large framed stained glass windows on all sides, the roof is covered with microscopic and generous tiles, and the chimneys are clustered in the four corners, and in the front and back of each house, there is a large and beautiful garden, which is full of fragrant ancient flowers and trees.

Looking at the residents on the street, the style of dressing gradually breaks free from the shackles of religion and brings more retro style and self-awareness. Most of the men wore thin, black linen clothes of great value. Dresses were trimmed with lace at the cuffs, with a collar raised and a wide belt around the waist, while women broke away from the usual tradition of wrapping themselves tightly around their bodies and appeared more revealing of their skin. Make two small longitudinal openings on both breasts in front of your breasts and tie the straps on both sides of the openings like shoelaces.

Elijah looked at the women passing by him, the snow white on his chest, and was dumbfounded: "Twilight Town...... It's church territory, right?"

Ulysses, who was leading the way ahead, turned around strangely: "yes, what's wrong?"

Elijah was just about to say something when he was caught by a young man standing on a high platform in the distance.

The young man held a stack of manuscript paper in his hand and read his script aloud to the audience gathered in front of him, always raising his voice and adding some exaggerated expressions and movements when he read the highlights.

Elijah turned to Ulysses and asked, "What is he doing?"

The latter looked at it and said nonchalantly, "Oh, that's 'storytelling'." ”

"Storytelling?"

Ulysses explains, "The lesser-known writers and screenwriters in Twilight often find a crowded place to pick and read out the best chapters of their work after they have finished or written a script. One is to increase popularity, the second is to obtain the opinions of the people, and third, if you are lucky, maybe you can meet a rich person who is willing to move his works to the theater and find someone to perform. When that day comes, these people may become famous and rich overnight......"

Elijah listened carefully for a while, and the young man told the story of a mortal man's love affair with the goddess of the mountains, Esther, and he asked Ulysses suspiciously, "If I remember correctly, the goddess of the mountains is a myth and legend in the ancient Taylor culture, right?"

The latter nodded yes.

Elijah frowned and said, "Wouldn't it be a problem to tell stories of pagan gods in the territory of the Knights of the Church?"

"No big deal. Ulysses walked towards the center of town: "The Son was once asked about the control of pagan speech, and the Son simply told the man, 'God has never deprived believers of the right to speak out, saying what is everyone's freedom, but believing is also everyone's freedom.'" ”

Elijah was stunned for a moment, then quickened his pace, and while keeping up with Ulysses, he said, "This Son...... Compared to those in the church, it's ...... ...... different"

"There's one thing I must remind you. Ulysses stopped suddenly, the expression on his face more serious than ever: "In Twilight, you can question authority, you can discuss scholarship, and you can even refute doctrine, but ...... Don't do anything disrespectful to Your Son. The inhabitants of this area know that the Son of the Holy Son created the paradise of Twilight Town for everyone to live freely. Suffice it to say that without him, we would not have had any chance of finding a foothold in this dark world. ”

Elijah looked at the young man in front of him, thought about the Holy Son in the other party's mouth, and smiled slightly: "If it is possible, I would like to meet the chief of the knights." ”

Ulysses stared at the senior who had once been famous in the Royal Academy of the Papal States, and remembered the incredible experiences of the other party.

When Elijah was studying painting, he discovered that air has a visible thickness, so he created the "method of air proximity" in painting. He helped the painting teacher of the academy to draw a cherub on the unfinished painting, and because its image surpassed all the other figures in the teacher's painting, the old painter gave up the brush and devoted himself to sculpture.

He invented a spinning wheel for winding ropes, a machine for shearing wool, a conical mill for coloring, a horizontal turbine, a pulley and a variety of winches. He also designed drawings for the excavation of canals, modification of river channels, improvement of soil, construction of reservoirs, and large-scale equipment using water as power.

He even defied religious prohibitions, dissected more than 30 corpses with his own hands, and discovered for the first time the growth of a fetus in its mother's womb.

Such a man of great talent, because the secular rulers were keen to compete for power and curiosity, those great research results were not taken seriously. While he was wandering in the city of Taylor, the Church of the Father rejected his science as "witchcraft", making it difficult for him to survive. As a last resort, he had no choice but to go all the way east and stay for five years in the ancient holy city, the birthplace of religion under the jurisdiction of the Most Orthodox Church.

After the "Plague of Truth" happened, Elijah, who got the news, rushed back to the city of Taylor from the ancient holy city, found Tristan of the church, and asked to meet with Mr. Terrence. The latter refused the request, but advised him to rush to Twilight, and at the same time a handwritten letter was delivered to Ulysses in advance.

"How can the Holy Son say that you can see it?" Ulysses rubbed his forehead with a headache, shook his head and said, "If Dion was still in office, we might be able to recommend you to go to the headquarters of the Knights, but now ......"

Elijah was silent for a moment, then looked up at a huge building under construction in the center of the town, and after observing it for a while, he turned to Ulysses and asked, "What is being built there?"

The latter followed the former's line of sight and replied, "The Cathedral of the Twilight." ”

Elijah nodded and said, "I want to meet the designer of the cathedral." ”