It's such a strange world here. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Li Jie wore the gray hood of the Nightcrawler, standing on the Moondew Bell Tower in Moondew City in the Dawning Realm and looking down.

The black asphalt pavement is evenly paved, which is no different from the pavement of the road with road rollers. There are also towering street lamps on both sides of the street, although only kerosene lamps, but they are enough to provide enough light for pedestrians walking on the city roads in the dark.

Most of the houses on both sides of the street are relatively low. Two- and three-storey houses are the most common, and there are very few high-rise buildings, with the exception of a huge dome-like structure that rises in the center of the city, which has a height of about sixty meters, and few other houses exceed twenty meters in height.

The tallest building in the city is the 280-meter-tall Moon Dew Bell, where Li Jie now stands. From here, you can see the whole city.

The city has walls and is built in a style very similar to that of the late Renaissance colonial era in Europe, with large blocks of granite or similar cornerstones as the base material. There are also decorative marble slabs that have been polished by water sandals, some of which are hung on the exterior walls for decoration, but more often than not, as floors in the interiors of high-end buildings.

From the perspective of architectural style, to make a more vivid analogy, it is more like the architectural style of the old western-style buildings on the Bund in Shanghai.

The city is also walled on all sides, rather than an open city in the true sense of the word. The 30-meter-high walls divide the city into two areas, the inner and the lower.

These buildings give Li Jie an indescribable sense of disobedience. You can think of the city as part of 15th-century Europe, but partly like 19th-century Europe.

What is even more surprising is the language of this world, Li Jie noticed, the world uses English. It's not the kind of British English or American English that Lee Kit uses on Earth.

Rather, it's a more traditional Old English. Old English is compared to modern English what vernacular is compared to classical Chinese. There are differences in grammar and sentence choice.

If it weren't for the fact that when he was with Arashi, he had studied a piece of Old English to read Kamataiki's collection, and it would have been very difficult for Li Jie to understand the words of this world now.

Li Jie thinks that if he has to define the world, then the word "steampunk" is very appropriate. Because he saw someone using a staff to swing a fireball or something.

I also saw some huge machines that didn't know what power source to use as a power, forging steel parts.

Some people wear garments made from artificial leather, an artificial chemical. This proves that the basic chemistry of this world has developed to a certain extent, otherwise it would be impossible to make such an item as artificial leather.

Li Jie stood at the height of the moon dew bell and looked into the distance, and could see some chimneys more than ten kilometers away in the northeast corner of the city, and Li Jie suspected that it should be a factory.

The long road stretches out of the city, and after reaching the factory area, it extends even further. On the road, there are horse-drawn carriages, as well as some cars with mechanical power structures.

Li Jie wasn't sure if he could call a car, because the devil knew if they burned gasoline.

"It's really strange that in Howard's notebook about the set of numbers followed by the word [Di], I can only assume that the calculation is presumed to be latitude and longitude. Li Jie turned on the invisibility device and jumped down from the moondew clock.

It wasn't until no one was paying attention that he turned off the invisibility device and revealed, walking through the streets of Moondew City, looking at this strange world and thinking, "The numbers that Howard scribbled on at random seem to be random drafts of some equation when calculating an equation. The numbers are cluttered and not correlated. If it weren't for the fact that I'm sensitive enough to the word Di. ”

"And seeing that Howard is mentioned in Newton's miscellaneous book, I'm afraid I won't even notice a connection between the two. Li Jie held his chin while walking on the road. Before I knew it, I walked to the door of a tavern with a sign of "Broken Axe Bar".

He stood there and continued to think: "Through the measurement of latitude and longitude, there is no definite discovery on the earth. But the last time I left Earth One, I wondered if there was someone who, like me, had left a backdoor in another dimension to return to. ”

And that idea seems to be correct. Is it only the Guardian who can enter this special half-dimension, or is it possible for a powerful power like Newton and the Ancient One to do it?, but what tricks are Howard and Newton playing?"

But now his curiosity was completely ignited, and he wanted to know what Newton had done before. Who is the previous owner of his pendant, Di, and what role does Howard Stark play in it? And does all this have anything to do with Tony Stark?

All of this made Li Jie very curious, and curiosity made him desert. Until Arrizo put a short-barreled musket against his waist.

The footsteps inside the tavern were already cluttered. Arrizo, on the other hand, was just an ordinary patrolman, and there was nothing noteworthy about him. Li Jie didn't even feel any danger from above.

The Arrizo is armed with short-barreled muskets that are not even as powerful as the large-caliber pistols on Earth. However, it was Arrizo's most effective support, but this short-barreled musket could only fire two rounds and needed to be reloaded, so he also needed to wear a bow and arrow and a short knife as a supplement to his force.

While Arrizo is smug about having caught a target he can (the cult's idiot), the person he catches doesn't seem to be very cooperative.

That kind of lazy voice is very unpleasant: "Sir, do you want me to stop moving, or do you want me to turn around? ”

Arrizo didn't understand what Sir meant, but he could clearly hear a kind of ridicule in the other party's tone.

It made him feel that he was being despised and that a fool who believed in an old cult would dare to despise himself?

Arrizo said fiercely, "Tell you to stop moving, turn me around!" Don't you understand? Let me see your face!"

The gray-hooded man continued, "Are you sure?"

Arrizo smacked the hooded man with a musket and said, "I'm pretty sure!"

"Well, I hope you don't regret it. The hooded man turned slowly, his eyes level at Arrizo. Arrizo was going to stare at this cult fool fiercely and scare the other party.

But the expected thing of killing each other by looking at each other didn't happen. Because Arrizo can't see the eyes of the counter at all, it should be said that he can't see any facial features.

The other party's entire face under the hood could not see anything clearly, as blurred as a mass of chaos. Just like the legendary Faceling.

Arrizo's ten years of training allowed him to pull the trigger of the musket the first time, and two shots in a row.

The sound of loud muskets and gunfire drowned out the music and noise coming from the Broken Axe Bar, and many drinkers flocked out of the bar to see where the gunshots came from.

Paul, the owner of the bar, was the first to rush out, and when he saw Arrizo in a daze with a musket, he asked, "Did you shoot just now?" Arrizo has been a patrol guard for ten years, and many of the old residents of this area know him.

"Who are you attacking?" Paul looked at Arrizo in some surprise, only the wall of the bar was in front of him, and two lead projectiles were deformed and embedded in the wall.

"I, I just found a cultist, and I wanted to capture him, but he suddenly disappeared. Arrizo stammered. He didn't know what was going on between the lightning and the flint.

Paul gave Arrizo a suspicious look, then said, "But there's no one else here." Are you attacking the walls, or are you hallucinating because you've been patrolling too long lately?"

Arrizo opened his mouth but couldn't say anything, what had just happened was so weird. Even if the magician from Wangcheng came, he probably wouldn't be able to explain what he had just seen.

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"Ahh The faceless hooded man in the dream smiled strangely at him, and no matter how much he attacked, he couldn't hit him.

In the end, he was choked by the neck by the Facelings and screwed himself to death. The dream was terrible, but when she woke up, Arrizo felt even worse when she faced it.

Because of the investigation team sent from above, there was no breath left by magic fluctuations in the place where Arrizo was shot, and there was no breath left by the gods and demons.

This can basically rule out that it is a magician or a ghost made by gods and demons. So the psychiatric department issued a diagnosis that Arrizo was a fatigue hallucination caused by excessive overtime.

Because Arrizo often volunteered to help others work overtime, according to the testimony of Arrizo's colleagues, the work pressure was too high, so the brain needed a way to vent the stress. So the Faceling, which didn't exist, was conceived by the brain.

And that's why Arrizo shot outside the bar that day. There is basically a consensus on this point from top to bottom of the patrol team, that is, Arrizo's work pressure is too great.

Fortunately, because he has always worked hard and rarely made mistakes. This time, he was given an accidental misfire. The punishment will be recorded for criticism in the whole team.

"Is it really too stressful?" Arrizo went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water, it was still dark outside, and the time was only five o'clock in the morning. But he couldn't sleep anymore.

"Maybe I'm wrong. Arrizo said to herself as she stared at herself in the bathroom mirror.

But a voice that made goosebumps stand up all over Arritzel's body suddenly appeared in the house where he lived alone: "I say, if you read it right?"

A man in a gray hooded suit with no clear face took a can of beef from Arrizo's kitchen and was sitting in Arrizo's living room, opening the can and asking Arrizo as he ate.

"My canned beef!" Arrizo's first reaction was that his canned beef had been stolen and eaten, this kind of canned food was not cheap, it cost ten shillings a can, and Arrizo was reluctant to eat it during the holidays.

Then his second reaction was to spot the man in the gray hood, and he shouted in horror, "It's you!" Arrizo's tone was a little distorted.

"Yes, it's me. But your voice is really special?Is your deputy a gelding singer?"

Note: Gelding singers, before modern bel canto and soprano singing methods are systematically and scientifically summarized and taught. In the Middle Ages, even female singers could hardly meet the pitch of some operas.

As a result, in order to train soprano singers, the opera troupe castrated boys at an early age, so that they did not enter the period of voice change, and always maintained the high-pitched singing voice of boys. When I went to the theater stage, I went to the female role and sang the high notes.