On the same morning that the Far Eastern Knights returned to the Fort of Atonement on the magic train, almost no one in the city noticed that a large silver-gray airship was also quietly sailing towards the Fort of Atonement under the cover of the clouds.

In the cockpit of the bow, Lyudmila is steering the airship in place of Jennifer, who is going to breakfast, and Roland is sitting in the assistant pilot's seat to observe the "monitoring crystal", looking down on the earth through a small magic crystal ball, a magnificent city is presented in the projection, the blue-gray city wall is undulating, the White Deer River meanders around the city wall, and the river surface reflects the autumn sun, like a shining ribbon.

After more than two years away from the city, the landscape in front of him made Roland both familiar and unfamiliar, and he couldn't help but see it.

Lyudmila is obviously a forest ranger, and it stands to reason that she prefers to work with flowers and trees and dislike man-made machinery, let alone military airships equipped with the most advanced lethal weapons. Yet she seems ambivalent on this issue. Perhaps by nature, she had an unquenchable love for mechanics, and after studying with Jennifer for a while, she mastered most of the techniques of piloting and repairing airships, so much so that Roland sometimes joked that she was a "buried genius mechanic".

But then again, compared to an airship composed of tens of thousands of parts, Lyudmila cares more and wants to understand the mind of her boyfriend who is more complex than any mechanical device. While skillfully maneuvering the airship to hide in the clouds, she turned her head to look at her boyfriend's handsome side face and asked him softly: "Aren't you a little nervous when you finally return to your hometown?" ”

"It's a little bit homesick, it feels like reading a thick book, and the protagonist has gone through a long journey of two million words and finally returned to the place where he was born." Roland hugged his girlfriend's waist and sighed with a detached attitude.

The female ranger seemed to be touched by him, the deeply hidden, delicate nerve in her heart, like a docile cat nestled in the crook of his arm, and replied softly: "If our life is a book, and this story has just begun, where can there be two million words as long......"

Roland smiled knowingly, lowered his head and kissed her lightly on the cheek. Lyudmila gave him a strange look, and glanced at the monitor above the driver's seat, reminding her boyfriend not to play hooligan here, knowing that it was Lord Rudolph who was sitting in the airship monitoring room at the moment.

"Don't mess around here, it's embarrassing to be seen by your dad."

Roland suddenly thought of a very complicated question, and couldn't help laughing: "Sooner or later, it's your father." ”

"Phew, who's going to marry you playboy!"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm talking about seniority from Aunt Genia's point of view, and sooner or later I'll have to change my name to Mom, right?"

Lyudmila was stunned for a moment before she understood Roland's intentions, and suddenly she was a little ridiculous, leaning on his shoulder and thinking for a long time, feeling more and more embarrassed.

"That's a problem, if your father and my mother are together, then won't we be brother and sister...... No, no, no, it's a brother and sister! ”

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter." Roland said nonchalantly, "They belong to them, we are us, and we do not interfere with each other." ”

"But I always feel a little awkward, in case my mother gives birth to another baby in the future...... What do you think about this generation? ”

"I don't mind having more than one brother or sister."

"So am I a sister or a sister-in-law?" The poor girl scratched her head in sorrow.

Roland couldn't help but smile and patted her hand, "Just now someone said that he didn't like me as a playboy, and now he automatically brought in the role of sister-in-law, and a woman's mind is really hard to fathom." ”

"You hate it!" The "cat" instantly turned into a "tigress" and pounced and beat it in shame.

Roland resisted his girlfriend's "Wang Ba Fist" with one hand, and freed his left hand to protect the crystal ball, "Don't make trouble, there seems to be an accident in the city!" ”

"If you don't come to this set, I won't be fooled by you...... Hey, how can there be fire? No way...... Something really happened! ”

The crystal ball projects the scene of the city on the mirror platform, the reduced picture is not clear in detail, the street is only as wide as a finger, the surging flow of people is like a black pressure ant colony, even in this blurred picture, you can still clearly see the landmark building of the provincial capital "Pero Temple", at this moment the square in front of the temple has been shrouded in firelight, it seems that there has been a violent conflict.

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The Age of Light (Holy Assanian Empire calendar) is a day that is destined to be remembered by all Far Easterners. After a night of deliberation, with the support of the "Club of the Awakened", the reformist pastors, and the newspapers and media, the street movement at Fort Atonement reached a new climax that morning, with more than 20,000 citizens taking to the streets to participate in the protest march.

In the Great Temple of Perot, where the crowd was most dense, Abbot Denis led all the Reformed priests to change into civilian robes and mingle in the crowd, leading the people to shout a resounding slogan in the unique and solemn tone of the priesthood:

Philip!

Philip!

We need Philip!

Philip!

Philip!

The people need your leadership!

Following the example of the reformist priest in civilian clothes, the people held up the evening newspaper in their hands, waved their arms in a neat rhythm, and petitioned the archbishop with the anonymous article on the front page as a common voice, imploring Philip to accept "the people's claim" at once.

On this morning, Pastor Denis had God's help and burned all his passion to organize the "10,000 Petitions" movement to near perfection. Colonel Camp and his security forces were also very cooperative and low-key: instead of wielding sticks against the mob as usual, the police simply drew a symbolic cordon along the walls of the Grand Temple, holding shields in a passive manner, and there were many people who took off their uniforms and blended into the crowd to join the petitioners.

The negative attitude of the police was quickly conveyed to the petitioners, and everyone understood that the police were also their own people, and they were more confident in this huge people's movement. Now that everything is ready, it is time for the archbishop to take to the balcony and deliver an exciting speech.

Philip was also very anxious, and he had already written two drafts of "Letter to the People of the Far East", but he was not satisfied, and had to scrap and rewrite it, so angry that he cursed Krautz, a dead star, and disturbed his train of thought.

The secretary Werther was frightened by the surging crowd of petitioners outside the window, worried that people would be impatient to wait, and rushed into the main temple with uncontrollable emotions, turning a grand ceremony into a riot, and persuaded the teacher to write casually.

Philip seemed to be enchanted, and reprimanded Witt angrily: "What do you know! This will be the most important moment of my life, every word I say to the people of the Far East will go down in history, and every word must be carefully considered to ensure that it is impeccable, otherwise I will go from a hero to a clown, and I will be laughed at by posterity! ”