Chapter 165: The Beginning of the Star Sulasi (4) Beginning Point - Carterus
Dante set out from the outskirts of Senama, first walked to the main city of Senama, and through the extensive transportation network of the main city of Sennama, he began to make his way towards Carthus. After all, now I am not wandering, but doing things, and it is safer to take the official road.
For the next month, Dante was mixed in with the caravans that traveled back and forth on the official roads, slowly walking from Senama to Carthus. A quiet month passed quickly, and Dante finally reached Carthusian territory.
At the end of the spring of 1450 A.D., Dante braved the drizzle and crossed the Carthusian Mountains to the south, and the main city of Carthus, shrouded in a drizzle, appeared in front of Dante's eyes.
The walls of the main city of Carthusian are not high, not to mention the side of Napolica, even Senama is firmly higher than the main city of Carthus, but the main city of Carthusian is at least much better than other cities in his jurisdiction, and one of the most exaggerated cities I have ever seen on Dante Road, the so-called wall is a mound of earth that is not as high as Dante, and there is no city gate.
The drizzle hit the walls of Carthus, a pale yellow wall, not unlike the mounds of the villages, but a little bigger.
The outskirts of Carthusia were also a mess, with barbarian camps and serf farmlands intertwined like an ugly puzzle, and the original picture was of the caterpillar kind.
"Phew, this weather is unbearable for the dead, let's go to the city first," after looking at Carthus, Dante's hopes for Surassi's return to the country dropped a few points.
The main entrance of the Carthusian official road is used to welcome the nobles for interviews or military trips, and the second gate is opened for commodity trading.
Since Dante chose the side gate with the most traffic, even though it was still raining, the side gate was still congested, and the main force of congestion was those vendors who were not qualified to go to the second door.
Although the things transported by the hawkers are not worth much, but the scattered ones add up to a non-negligible income, so each hawker looks at his own things tightly, and some hawkers with capital have hired some helpers to surround the carriage that transports goods to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the opportunity.
Waiting in line at the side gate, crowded and crowded, few people will honestly line up, some thieves mixed in, hapless vendors screaming from time to time, plus it was raining again, the heat on the ground was rising, combined with the wet clothes, the crowded air, all this made Dante's mood very irritable.
"Can't you hurry up with shit-like management?" the Carthusian bureaucrats should all be hanged," Dante glared back as he muttered something as he muttered to himself.
After a few minutes of brief eye contact, the queue cutter realized that Dante was a hard stubble, and moved aside to find other soft persimmons.
"Senama has long stipulated that hawkers cannot go through the same gate as other passers-by, and Vignon even stipulates that hawkers can only stay in the peasant markets unless they are qualified, and they are not allowed to enter the city.
Then Dante saw that a few shit-like nobles, swaggering through the main entrance, rode horses and roared past the main entrance, shaking off Dante, who had been in line for a long time.
The main gate is a door with military purposes, and after being specially thickened, ordinary violet level cannot be broken with a full blow, so it takes a lot of manpower to open the door, so the rule of Su Xi is that the main gate can only be opened when dignitaries visit and military operations.
However, the previous one obviously does not belong to the above two situations, and those bastard nobles are using public weapons for private purposes.
As for today's incident, Dante decided that after Sulasi returned to the country, he must hang the whole family of these bastards and improve the quality of Sulasi's population.
Damn, if it weren't for the priest in this city, once you use your strength for fear of being hunted down, one of my extraordinary legends will accompany you to squeeze the city gate here?
After finally entering the city after half a day's effort, Dante went to the southern city to find a hotel to stay in, and the first day of arriving in Carthusian and beginning the restoration of Surasi was over.
Dante slept until the next day, and on the second day of his arrival in Carthus, Dante did not rush to start planning, but revisited the place with the idea of browsing the past.
Although he doesn't dare to use the power of the devil, with his extraordinary and legendary physical strength, as long as he doesn't have nothing to do, he can still get mixed up.
It's not that Dante hasn't been to Carthus once, and after Nissell's death, Dante brought Nischer's relics to Carthus.
While Nishir was alive, Goshoge didn't go to war with Suhey, but the relationship between the two sides wasn't much better. Therefore, when Nishir was alive, he only went to Sushi once, and was to give lectures to Sushi's academy in the North Star Keiki, and as for going to a remote place like Senama or even Carthus, Goshuge would never let him go.
So Nizuel has always had a regret that she couldn't go to her ancestors' place to have a look.
After Nishiol's death, Dante was free, so he took one of Nishi's relics to Sushi, followed the official road all the way to Carthus, hung Nishi's relics in front of the Carthusian statue, and left.
The reason for the brisk walk is simple, Carthusian at that time was the same backward and chaotic as it is now.
Now that I think about it, it has been more than 300 years since I last came to Carthus, and in addition to the same management, there have been big changes in the layout of the city, to be precise, in the northern district.
While Dante was wandering around the country, he once overheard the troubadour in the tavern that when the blind Shoge III was on his expedition to Sushi, Senama evacuated Carthus's forces in order to defend against Thuger III, and Carthus's defense was empty.
As a result, more than sixty years ago, in 1396, the surrounding barbarians united to breach the city walls, and Carthusian fell.
After the fall was a massacre, and in the end the barbarians set a fire - some say that the defenders themselves set it on their own, but no one knows the exact situation, and the only sure result is that the fire destroyed half of the city, and all the northern cities that Dante had seen were destroyed by that fire, and now the buildings in the northern city were built later.
Because it could be rebuilt after it was burned, all of the Carthusian magnates now live in the northern part of the city, and the old southern city has become a symbol of old and chaotic city.
Dante walked to a familiar spot, where he stopped and looked up to see a statue more than five meters tall in front of him.
The statue is a Carthusian statue and the ancestor of Nishiol, but unfortunately, there is no relic of Nimuel above this statue - this statue is also a new product with a history of less than 300 years, and the old goods were burned down more than 60 years ago.
Of course, it is not the oldest, in fact, the oldest Carthusian statue was burned by the Sushi themselves as early as the rise of the Suthi people more than 600 years ago, and the statue of Dante to put the relics was newly made by the Sussi four hundred years ago.
After paying homage to the third Carthusian statue, Dante moved on to the next attraction, the Carthusian House.
When's ancestor, Carthus, had just taken control of the city, he built a mansion here to serve as his family's office. After the invasion of the Suhi people, the Carthusian family ran all the way they could, such as the ancestors of Nishier, and those who did not run were driven out of the house, and this became the location of the Sushi people's office.
With the expansion of Carthus, the offices of the Suthi people were later moved out of here. By the time Dante visited Carthusian three hundred years ago, it had become half an office for Carthusian goods to manage the import and export of goods, and half as a lodging for the bulk traders.
Three hundred years later, Dante arrived again and saw that the house had fallen into disrepair, and most of the east side had collapsed, and it looked like it was going to die. As for the office workers who used to be bustling in the past, there is no trace of them, and only a group of dirty poor people remain, who clean the dilapidated houses at will and go in to make do with them.
With a sigh, Dante left the house, which had changed so much that there was nothing left to remember.
Okay, the rest is over, the memories are over, let's start the pact with the Saint Ancestors! At least, at least, those damned Carthusian nobles will hang me!
In the middle of the moon, a group of people who covered their faces in black robes gathered in the slums, twisted and tied a dirty little girl, and then placed it on the altar, and then began to sing a carol in a whisper under a goat-masked leader.
While they were singing carols, several black-robed people outside were looking around nervously, and one black-robed man didn't sing or care about the movement outside, just stared at a small instrument, and whenever the instrument was tapped, the black-robed man would look panicked and say something like "lower your voice".
It didn't take long for the carol to end, and when the carol ended, all the black-robed people breathed a sigh of relief, and the goat mask led by him untied the rope of the little girl: "This time the signal is not good, and I still can't contact the devil, congratulations on you have lived again, go get paid, I heard that your brother has not eaten enough for three days." ”
Looking at the little girl who was happily going to get paid, a black-robed man on the left muttered dissatisfiedly: "How many times has this been? I said if I want to change the sacrifice? Maybe the devil doesn't like her?"
"If you can't connect, you can't connect, and if you don't want to be satisfied, you can negotiate, but the devil is exquisite," the goat mask stopped talking in time and replaced it with a more appropriate adjective, "Then the principle of not going to be empty, so it can only be because it can't be connected to hell." ”
"I feel like it's that girl's problem, what if we do this a few more times? How much did that girl get paid for us before and after?" a slender black-robed man shook his head, and from the curve of his body, it could be seen that the black-robed man was a woman, "We don't have so much spare money, why don't we change another sacrifice next time." ”
The goat mask thought about it for a long time, and just when he wanted to say "okay", the altar moved.
Seeing the moving altar, the little girl who was still in the midst of joy turned pale in an instant, and the black-robed people surrounding the altar all showed ecstatic expressions - although they were covered by the black robes, their expressions were not revealed, but judging from their movements, they must have been in ecstasy.