Chapter 212: The Temple
"By the way, the city lord's sister usually works as a priest in the temple on the mountain!"
"Here?" Su Xiaoting was a little staggered, although the scenery here is picturesque and intoxicating, after all, it is far away from the world, and there is less fireworks.
"Hey, you don't know how many people want to worship the goddess Sephone! This is the highest glory in the boundless land~~"
One of them squinted his eyes and looked at the direction of the temple hidden on the mountain with a reverent face, "It's not just anyone who can go, it's all fairy-like characters who are one in a million~"
Then he thought of something interesting, and a mouthful of white teeth appeared on his wheat-colored face.
"It's not that I'm boasting about Haikou, even if the best girl arrives here, it's not the most outstanding, there are the last two of our Mu Ling Sanmei in this temple, one is Lord Yazi, and the other is our eldest lady~ Hehe!"
"Mu Ling Sanmei? Then the eldest lady must be very beautiful! Thinking that Ji Yuning said that his sister is also from a partner country, her appearance must not be bad.
Su Xiaoting asked casually again: "What about the first place?" ”
"First place? Ahem~, that, you'll know later! One of them coughed lightly and glanced at the people in the pavilion.
"First, bring Miss An over for dinner~" Liu Da, who happened to be in the distance, greeted, and pulled Su Xiaoting and walked over.
After eating, Su Xiaoting returned to the carriage, and the convoy slowly moved in the direction of the Goddess Peak.
Running a dead horse near the mountain ~ This walk is more than half an hour, as one of them said on the road, from time to time you can see or walk together, or alone in the post pavilion resting passers-by.
Finally walked to the bottom of the main peak, only to see more than 100 meters high on the mountainside, a rectangular building made of creamy yellow marble, standing on the top of the side peak of the goddess peak, the huge stone pillar set off the style of the Roman temple.
A strict stone staircase paved with white marble slabs winds its way up to the temple in the mist, like a stairway to heaven in the mist.
Against the backdrop of the sun and blue sky, a sense of awe and reverence arises for no reason.
Ji Yuning turned over and dismounted, stood solemnly, his palms folded, and the rest of the attendant guards followed closely behind, saluting in the direction of the temple from afar.
"Let's go!" Ji Yuning retracted his gaze.
"City Lord, don't you go to the temple to pray for blessings?" The chief guard asked.
Ji Yuning tilted his head slightly and said, "I haven't agreed in advance, I'm afraid of disturbing the purity of the temple." Let's wait for next month's festival! With that, I didn't know what I saw, so I turned around and galloped towards the carriage behind.
Seeing that Su Xiaoting was still looking at the direction of the temple from the window, Ji Yuning slowly walked to her side and said:
“…… If you're tired, take a nap, and it will take an hour to enter the capital! ”
"City Lord? Oh, I'm fine, I slept well last night~" Su Xiaoting immediately cheered up and sat up straight.
"Yes! When I arrived in the capital, if there was anything I wanted to buy, I could tell Liu Da~"
"En~ Thank you, city lord." Su Xiaoting nodded, and out of the corner of her eye, she looked through the horse's head, and inadvertently caught a glimpse of several women holding a young child in their arms, walking towards her.
Those people were only 5 or 6 meters away from them, and this distance was like being in front of Su Xiaoting's eyes.
The abnormality in front of her made her heart skip a beat, and she blinked in disbelief, those children!! It's not that she is vicious, I'm afraid it can only be described as a freak.
One of them had three eyes and could barely find a nose, but compared to the other children, he was in good shape, and the other had a head that seemed to have been forcibly put together, which was really terrifying.
The most terrifying one, she has double limbs on her body, which reminds Su Xiaoting of Spider-Man.
Goo! Su Xiaoting wanted to close her eyes, but the dazzling picture made her seem to forget to breathe.
Until a large, warm but slightly rough hand obscured her vision.
"Don't be afraid!" These two simple words were full of too many emotions, which made Su Xiaoting raise her head and look at the owner of her hand.
The long eyelashes brushed across the palm of his hand, and when he saw Su Xiaoting's eyes except for the indescribable consternation, but without a trace of fear and disdain, Ji Yuning's heart was relieved and he withdrew his palm.
As if to answer the question in the girl's heart, he said slowly: "In the boundless land, not only babies, but also the offspring of birds and beasts are also deformed, and their situation is just more serious!" ”
"......" Su Xiaoting's mind suddenly flashed through the mutated creatures in the nuclear radiation area that she had seen on the Internet, which were very similar to what she saw in front of her. And there seems to be a 10% chance that it will lead to a genetic mutation in the next generation.
"Is it caused by nuclear radiation?"
"Just part, more...... I'm afraid it's the genetic inheritance of the past generations~" Ji Yuning's gaze seemed to have traveled through the long river of time and traced back to the source of the past.
He has done research and found that the radiation of Boundless Land is not higher than that of the partner country, but the genetic mutation rate of newborns in the partner country is only 2%, which is far lower than here, so the only reasonable explanation is that their genetic error rate is higher.
"Are they going to the temple?" Su Xiaoting saw that there seemed to be a mother holding the child in the distance walking towards this side, and couldn't help but speculate.
"Well, they are there to pray for the child and ask the goddess Sephone to remove the curse."
Su Xiaoting thought of the pious eyes of those mothers, and the affectionate appearance of licking calves, her heart ached slightly, thinking that she had hardly seen similar children in the partner country or even in modern times, and suddenly woke up to the fact that those deformed children were probably screened out at the prenatal examination stage.
"It would be nice if I could screen in advance......" Su Xiaoting wasn't sure if there would be any taboos here, but she couldn't help but say.
After all, a deformed child is often not only a physical mutation, but also more likely to die prematurely, which is undoubtedly a catastrophe for a family.
"That's right~ Mu Ling already has a machine like this~ but it's not enough!" A trace of bitterness flashed in Ji Yuning's eyes, in addition to the scarcity of medical facilities, the means of propaganda and the concept of the people were far from being in place.
“? A ...... "There is already electricity here, so why not buy it in the United States?"
Su Xiaoting didn't ask any more, and the questions she had had were hovering in her mind again, why did the United States isolate the people from the information here, and they didn't communicate with each other for a long time, there must be some unspeakable secret.
She then said, "Those mothers are great ......, they seem to have come a long way!" It seems that even in the era when there are more men than women, maternal love is still the indelible nature of women.
"Indeed, they all come from all over the villages and towns of Muling. However, the child's fatherly love was not inferior, except that the temple forbade individual adult males to enter. ”
"Huh? ......" Su Xiaoting was surprised again.
Ji Yuning realized that for the best girls in the other world in her life, answering a question may lead to more questions at the same time, and thought for a while, "There is a library in the castle, if you want to know about the things of the endless land, you can find detailed answers there!" ”
"Great, thank you city lord~" Su Xiaoting was overjoyed when she heard this, the city lord was so caring.
I've been here for more than a month, and the only electronic product she has seen, apart from electric lights and cars, is a music player in Ah Tao's hand.
For her, who has just adapted to the future life of information flooding, it is as if she has lost her right hand and has an intractable spiritual deficit.