Why do withered believers appear in Sabbath?

How many of them are? Is there only one violent person?

Is it the same as me, who came here to find a doctor in Turin? If so, what is the motivation?

I pondered as I walked down the streets of Rest, flax following me closely.

The town of Rest may seem like a deserted place just by looking at its name, but as a well-known spot, it is actually crowded with tourists.

Hu Ma seemed to be afraid that I would be separated from the crowd, and always kept an eye on my distance, and if I walked a little farther, he would gently tug my arm and shake his head slightly.

At the same time, he is also like a suspicious wild canine, scanning the surroundings vigilantly, and the dog's ears shake from time to time, with a very "eyes to see six ways, ears to listen to all directions" style.

I couldn't take it anymore and patted him on the shoulder.

He shook violently like an electric shock.

"Don't be so tight." I say.

"That's not going to work." He said solemnly, "What if you get hurt?" It's hard for me to explain to Captain Xu. ”

"Do I look vulnerable to injury?" I asked rhetorically.

He looked at me silently, and I looked at myself. Indeed, his disguised disability posture looks quite weak, even if he is just walking on the street, he looks like he will be knocked to the ground by someone at any time. But even so, there was no need for him to be so nervous.

Suddenly, he tentatively asked, "May I ask a question?" ”

"Say it." I nodded.

"Do you hate Facelings?"

"Why do you say that?"

"Because you said some bad things about the Facelings before."

"I said it, but I don't think it's annoying." I replied, "Neither the Facelings nor the world Facelings live in is too far away for me as an ordinary person. ”

As I spoke, I glanced at him, "I want to ask, do you hate me?" ”

"Huh?" He was stunned.

"You see, not only did I speak ill of the Facelings you liked, but I was also a good-for-nothing disabled person who had to be accompanied even when I went out on a long trip. If I hadn't insisted on coming to Rest this time, you wouldn't have had to accompany me on this journey. I tried to smile that I wasn't particularly good at, "Do you think I'm just a wayward second-generation police officer who only relies on the majesty of my father to cause trouble to others, so I look down on me?" ”

"How so!" He immediately shook his head, "Captain Xu is my savior, and Captain Xu's son is naturally also my benefactor, how can he have the idea of looking down on him." ”

"You don't have to transfer his favor to me." As I spoke, I couldn't help but wonder, "But what do you mean by 'life-saving grace'?" ”

He seemed a little hard to talk about.

Seeing this, I didn't ask any questions. At this time, I am not a "ruthless faceling", but just a "Xu Fu who is kind to others". So he said, "Let's go to the hotel to book a room first." ”

In this way, we walked along the road, all the way through the streets and alleys of the town of Sabbath, and on the way we also passed the fire worship church that had been built in the town.

Zoroastrianism is the religion of the Alliance's largest audience, mainly believing in flames, regarding the sun as the supreme deity, and is recognized by the laws of the Alliance, and has a high status. Just in terms of popularity, it's like the Catholicism of Europe and the United States on Earth in the previous life. The exterior of the church is similar to that of Catholicism, except that instead of a cross, the symbol on the top of the building is a black ring marking.

As far as I know, the people who live in this world are not disgusted with Zoroastrianism, even if they are not Zoroastrians. But when Hu Ma saw the church, he seemed a little resistant. I took him on a long detour and asked, "Don't like Zoroastrianism?" ”

"Hmm." He admitted with some hesitation, as if he was afraid of incurring my disgust.

"I'm not a Zoroastrian, you can rest assured." I comforted.

It didn't take long for us to arrive at the "Fugu Hotel", which is considered the best hotel in the town, and it is also a rare tall building here, as if it was moved directly from the big city, and it looks quite magnificent.

After putting his little luggage in the double room, he looked at the cleanly packed bed and seemed a little moved. It's no wonder that he dozed off on the train in front of him, probably because he didn't sleep well last night. Actually, I'm similar to him, because I'm active as a Faceling again during this time, so day and night are reversed, and I always want to sleep during the day, and I also took a nap when I was on the train before, and I only woke up when I arrived at the station. When I asked him if he was sleepy, he said, "I heard that I was going on a trip, so I was a little excited last night and didn't sleep well." ”

Are you an elementary school student on the eve of an outing? I swallowed the phrase into my stomach and said, "I have to tell you the truth." ”

"What?"

"That's right, I'm not here for tourism this time."

"What's that for?" He was curious.

"It's to find someone called 'Doctor Turin.'" I say.

"Find a doctor......" he said confusedly.

My idea at this point was simple: instead of deliberately getting rid of him and looking for the Turin doctor alone, it was better to give a justifying reason. So I said, "Please keep the rest of the matter secret and don't tell my father." ”

He looked a little embarrassed, but I didn't wait for him to say yes, and said to myself, "The reason why I came to him was to treat my hands and feet." ”

"Healing hands and feet?" He was surprised, "But, isn't this a complicated old injury that even a regular hospital can't do?" ”

"I've heard that the Doctor of Turin is a very capable wandering psychic doctor, and perhaps he has the skills that some doctors in regular hospitals don't have. And he seems to be right here in the resting town, so I rushed over first. Frankly, I didn't expect much from it, I just wanted to try it out as much as I could. "But if my dad found out about it, he probably thought I was concerned about my disability and would be unnecessarily stressed." That's not what I want to see. ”

"I see......" he accepted it quickly, and his face showed admiration, "You are really a filial person." ”

"Perhaps." I replied with no change in my face.

"But how are you going to convince the doctors of Turin to treat you?"

"I have my own way." I pretended to smile mysteriously. In fact, he is just preparing to use money to open the way.

After a little tidying, we walked out of the Fugu Hotel.

*

The doctor's temporary residence in Turin is not this puffer fish hotel, but a homestay.

The reason why I know this is because of the drone. Having said that, I've recently commissioned a drone to investigate a lot of information. If Faceless Shadow were to be my second partner, he seemed to be on the verge of becoming my third partner. Even he himself seemed to feel the same way, so much so that he said to me on a cell phone call, "If this continues, we won't be officially partners, right?" ”

Hearing him say this, I couldn't help but feel a chill in my back, as if he was going to stab me from behind at any moment.

Back to the point, when the drone helped me investigate the temporary residence of the Turin doctor in the town of Sabbation, it excluded the itinerant people whose permanent population did not match most of the time, and on this basis, it was carefully screened, and finally came up with a "suspect" who was most likely the Turin doctor.

Right now, we're going to the homestay where this man is staying.

Hu Ma explained that he had heard about the address from an acquaintance, and he accepted it immediately. It's so good to deceive him, but I can't bear to deceive him again.

The person who runs the B&B is a proprietress in her forties, and when I asked about the doctor in Turin, she looked at me as an uninvited guest, seemed to think that I would not be a guest, and frowned and said that she would not divulge the customer's information.

But after changing to flax, her attitude was much better, and she even answered my question truthfully: on the one hand, it is true that the face of flax is indeed very lethal to women; On the other hand, it is because the person who is suspected to be a doctor in Turin has long since left the B&B.

"It was true that a man who called himself 'Doctor Turin' came to stay." She smiled and said, "But he left yesterday, and obviously the money he gave was enough for a month's stay." ”

Hu Ma asked curiously, "Is he called 'Doctor Turin'?" What is the real name? Since you are staying here, you have taken out your ID card, right? ”

"This ...... Strange to say, I don't remember exactly. The proprietress shook her head.

"So what does he look like? The name must have been registered, right? Hu Ma asked again.

The proprietress looked at the handsome face of Hu Ma.

I don't quite understand what a glorious image Hu Ma is in the eyes of those women, all in all, the proprietress saw Hu Ma, her mental age seemed to have been cut in half, and her smile was much more enthusiastic.

But flax seems to lack the perception of good or bad of its own appearance, which is very puzzling to me: no matter how dull a person is, if he is born good-looking, he should at least understand this. I've only seen people who are so slow to this point in fictional stories, and it seems that Hu Ma really is such a person, which is really unreasonable.

Not to mention this, the proprietress took out the registration book at the moment and opened it for us to see.

One of the names on the register reads "Doctor of Turin" instead of his real name, and there is no contact information.

"We're not that strict about registration here, as long as the customer can come up with the money and ID." "As for his appearance," she said...... He seems to be a blonde gentleman in his fifties, dressed in a black suit and with a goatee. ”

I'll write it down, but the appearance of the Turin doctor is always changing in the information of the past, and he may not really be a gentleman in his fifties.

We left the B&B.

Hu Ma regretted: "It seems that he probably left the rest of the town yesterday." ”

Is that really the case? I didn't say a word in doubt.

According to the intelligence, the time when the violent entered the town of rest was also yesterday, and the coincidence is really hard to ignore. In particular, the Turin doctor does not seem to have left as planned, but in a hurry, as if there was an urgent matter. Could it be because he sensed that withered believers were entering Sabbatical and wanted to take shelter in a hurry?

Further, could he be the target of Violence's trip, so he is hiding from Violence?

Although under the premise that the clues at hand are seriously insufficient, it should not be reasoned with, but with the current development, it is difficult for me not to think so.

If that were the case, then perhaps the Turin doctor had not left the town of Sabbath.

For an organization of the size of the Church of the Earth, once it really targets anyone, it is not easy for anyone to get away. Assuming that the target of the furious is really the Doctor of Turin, then it is likely that the town of Sabbath has set up a lockdown against the Doctor of Turin. The Doctor of Turin is either still in hiding within the town or has fallen into the hands of the Church of the Earth.

If it is the latter, then I simply abandon the route of the Turin doctor; And if it's the former, I might be able to try a little harder.

"Why don't we spend two or three days sightseeing in Sabbath Town and then return to Beaver City." "I haven't gotten to know the town well, and I don't know why it's called the unlucky name 'Rest Town.'" ”

At this moment, a voice came from not far away: "The name 'Rest Town' comes from the 'Dream Monster' that was born here three hundred and fifty years ago. ”

We turned our heads at the same time to see that the person who spoke was the gray-haired girl we had seen on the train before. She was still in a wheelchair, her eyes closed, and a faint smile on her face; Behind her was a young woman who was not good-looking, helping her push the wheelchair and approaching.

I habitually be vigilant, examine them, and try to find something suspicious in them.

"Dream monsters?" Hu Ma read it again.

The wheelchair girl smiled and asked a question that sounded like a horse and a cow, "Did you know that just six centuries ago, there were actually two moons hanging in the sky?" ”

"Of course I know that." Hu Ma nodded frankly, "Six centuries ago, a powerful undead from the earth's mantle somehow came to the surface and later dragged one of the moons into the abstract universe. ”

"The Moon, which was dragged into the abstract universe, is now known as the 'Moon of Forgetting.'" "And the spirits of the undead who do such things are called the 'Doomsday Deities,' and he has brought five centuries of hell to the surface of the earth." Even civilized societies that had developed into the information age were falling apart. ”

"What does this have to do with the Dream Monster and Rest Town?" Hu Ma asked.

I had checked this beforehand, so I turned to Hu Ma and explained.

Six centuries ago, due to the appearance of the Doomsday God, a large amount of dead air erupted from the interior of the planet to the surface, and the surface was instantly reduced to hell.

Hell here does not mean the rhetorical device of "like hell", it is hell.

At that time, the town of Sabbath (I don't think it was called at the time) was quite fortunate to be located in an area with a very low level of disaster. But Rao is so, and there are also a large number of undead who have stormed the town. Even if there is a powerful psyker in this place, it is still impossible to avoid a large number of casualties.

To make matters worse, this powerful psyker had problems with himself, and he was so desperate at such a tragic reality that he had a strong desire to escape to his dreams.

He naturally understood that such thoughts were not advisable, but his spiritual powers did not.

Psionic energy will only faithfully respond to the imagination of the psyker.

"So, his psionic energy formed a happy dream and then forcibly brought himself in?" Hu Ma said suddenly.

"No, quite the opposite. His psionic energy was eroded by the dead air of the outside world, and he eventually transformed himself into a nightmare that wandered the land—not a description, he was reduced to a nightmare in the literal sense of the word. The wheelchair girl took over my narration with a pitiful expression, "He repeats the tragic dreams that are consistent with reality day and night, and at the same time brings the people he meets into them. Even if humanity has come out of the catastrophe of hell, rebuilt its civilized society, and returned to the information age, he can still only repeat the catastrophe of hell in a nightmare, over and over again, and there will be no liberation from it. ”

Hu Ma stiffened his face and asked, "Then where is he now?" ”

"Right here." I rubbed my cane on the ground, "right under our feet." ”