Chapter 25: Monte Town
In addition to Acadia National Park, Mount Desete Island is home to several small towns and small harbors around a forest park.
Because it is far away from the bustling area, other industries are not well developed except for tourism. There is no light and heavy industry, the local atmosphere is close to nature, and the small town here is simple and simple compared to the larger cities and bustling areas. Except for a few star-rated hotels, most of the buildings are low-rise two- and three-story single-family apartments.
However, no matter how simple and simple the modern apartment is, there is still a difference between it and the 18th-century house.
In the 21st century, the earth's population ~ exploded, and the land was expensive, although there were not many permanent residents of Mount Dissert Island, the architectural style was still a practical type that focused on the use of three-dimensional space, which was very different from the architectural style of the first industrial revolution in the 18th century.
But now that it is presented to everyone, the country town below the cliff is clearly not in the style of modern architecture. Most of the modern buildings are reinforced concrete, but most of the buildings in this town have log columns and obvious wooden beams.
Modern Western architecture, although some houses still retain fireplaces, are mostly electrical, and no longer burn charcoal to reduce flue gas emissions, so exhaust ducts are used instead of chimneys. And the buildings in this town, every house has a square chimney made of masonry on the roof, and most of them are now smoking.
"Illusion? Or did you travel through time again? Ciel and the others immediately checked the information in the Apostle's Soul Seal, but they soon found that there was no hint in it.
"Look at what the townsfolk are wearing!" Hansen observed for a moment, then handed the telescope to the others.
"If these townsfolk are entities, then I'm afraid we're in trouble!" Hill looked at it for a moment, put down the binoculars, and said with a blank face.
In the telescope's view, all the townspeople he saw were dressed in strange costumes. Although Hill didn't study fashion, he could at least tell that their linen shirts with wide cuffs and wide hips were very different from modern clothes.
They could only stay in this world for seven days, and now it was the third day, but they hadn't found any trace of Qin Lun yet, which was not a good start.
"There's no way out of our way!" Hansen came from behind, and as the king of mercenaries, he was sensitive to changes in his surroundings.
Just now, when everyone was observing the town under the mountain, he reconnoitred in the opposite direction, and found that the road they came from yesterday was completely different. They are currently in a sparse grove, not the primeval forest from which they came.
"There is no hint in the soul seal, which means that we have not yet left the original world, at least not completely." Hill crouched down, grabbed a handful of weeds and dirt, and felt the feeling in his palm, "Everything here is too real, I'm afraid it's not a dream or an illusion, so it seems that this should be an environment like a space-time loophole?" ”
No matter how real the illusion is, the details cannot be compared with reality.
The minds and souls of Hill and the others are protected by the shattered starry sky, as long as the superstring space is not specifically aimed at them, there are almost no other world laws that can blind the apostle soul seal, so as long as the apostle soul seal is not prompted, it is impossible for them to be in a large-scale illusion.
"Space-time vulnerability? You mean Bermuda-like environment? Rand asked in surprise.
The Bermuda Sea of the Earth World has a magical legend of a space-time passage.
It is said that at a specific time, in a specific place, Bermuda will create a space-time channel. Those who strayed into it will either return to the past and the future, or they will pass through the rift in space and reach other mirror worlds of the earth.
"Well, Arcadia may be an overlapping point of multiple planes and planes, which would explain why there were no mysterious forces here before, but last night several suddenly appeared." Hill said solemnly.
"But...... Could it be a bit of a coincidence? Grant asked curiously.
"It's not surprising that since Superstring Space has chosen this time and space point to put reincarnators, it means that all kinds of wonderful historical plots will occur at this time." Rand shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands.
"But we're not reincarnators chosen by the Superstring Space." Han Sen said coldly, his gaze skimmed to Qin Mei on the side, "Qin Lun's sister, you'd better explain what plot line that world token inherits, so that you can choose this point in time." ”
The so-called world token is not born at random, its function is to allow the apostle or reincarnation to return to a certain mission world.
Since the Shattered Starry Sky and the Superstring Space choose to condense such a thing, it means that after returning with the World Token, a certain plot line or a specific plot character will definitely be connected.
"Don't worry, everything is under control." Qin Mei looked up at the sky and said softly, "This is our destination, this place is called the Shadow of Time and Space, which is a place of time and space generated by the overlap of several mirror worlds with the back of the earth~......"
"No, you weren't the one who brought up the idea of coming to Arcadia, why did you know that Arcadia would produce this Shadow of Time and Space?" Hansen asked warily.
"There is no pattern in the distribution of the Shadow of Time and Space, and I did not encounter the Shadow of Time and Space in Arcadia when I entered this world before." Qin Mei shook her head, "However, I know that the mysterious power I encountered before will definitely lead me to the location of the Shadow of Time and Space, because only here can it have a chance to kill a high-level powerhouse." ”
"Mysterious powers you've encountered?" Hill looked at Qin Mei with suspicion on his face.
"Well, a mysterious force called the Grim Reaper." After entering the shadow of time and space, Qin Mei seemed to let go of most of her worries and no longer concealed Hill and the others, "You can all see that this world is at the fork of magic and technological civilization, and the two world laws are competing for the control of the origin of the world, and the participation of the reincarnation is to make this transformation a smooth transition.
The Grim Reaper is the most powerful mysterious force in the creation of the Magic Law, and he dominates the wheel of fate in this world, also known as the thread of the law of cause and effect. It's just that at the moment his power is not strong, and he can only harvest souls through some worldly tools.
If it is against ordinary people, his power is as unbreakable as a god, but against the middle and high-level powerhouses, it is useless to skillfully use worldly tools, and our body is far beyond the scope of his control.
But because of the rules of his mysterious powers, he could not fail to fulfill his responsibilities, so he had to lure me into this shadow of time and space. The restraint on Him here is even weaker, so that it can kill me. ”
Qin Mei said this and said with a smile, "And this is also my purpose, because only here can we create the environment we need and break my brother's psychological defense." ”
"How do you know that Qin Lun's master personality will also come in." Hill and the others will be skeptical.
"This is inevitable, this world is a low-demon world after all, and the power of the god of death is not strong. He couldn't control the changes in the Shadow of Time and Space and deal with others in the outside world at the same time, so he would lure all the target characters to Arcadia before, and then catch them all to reduce energy consumption. ”
Qin Mei laughed mockingly, "Here he doesn't have to scruple to be exposed to the mass media, as long as everyone is dead." Even if one or two slip through the net, the mass media will treat them as psychotics. ”
"But in this way, isn't the difficulty of the reincarnation's task greatly increased?" Hill asked with a strange look on his face.
The reincarnation of this world originally only needed to protect those plot characters from various accidents. But once they entered the Shadow of Time and Space, the Grim Reaper was unrestrained, and God knows how difficult their mission would be.
"Hee-hee, then good luck to them!" Qin Meijiao smiled and took the lead and ran down the mountain.
The cliff wasn't too steep, with a 45-degree angle, making it easy for Hill and the others to descend.
"Mr. Rand, what is this place, can we still find Susan?" Hiding in the woods outside the town with a few apostles, Karin asked softly, because the apostles had deliberately concealed their conversations, so the girl did not yet understand her environment.
"I don't know yet, but I believe Susan was taken captive. Look at the clothes of the people in the town, they are similar to the ones you see. Rand explained with a smile.
"The style is somewhat similar!" Karin whispered that the man she had seen was dressed as a gentleman, and that most of the people in the town were poor people who passed on linen, but they were relatively outdated in modern clothes.
"Replace these, I stole them from a small town hotel, the style is very common, no one will notice!" Qin Mei, who left first, soon returned, bringing a few sets of old clothes to everyone, which made it easier for them to integrate into the town without arousing suspicion.
"So, those townsfolk are flesh and blood humans!" Ciel sighed as he picked up his clothes, convinced that this was not an illusion.
"Since it's the backdrop of the earth~ the scene, have you ever found out where this is?" Rand asked softly towards Qin Mei.
"You won't believe it, this is a British colonial town in the interior of South Carolina called Monte!" Qin Mei showed a mischievous smile.
"South Carolina?"
South Carolina is thousands of miles away from Maine, almost the southernmost point of the eastern United States, and Maine is the northernmost point of the eastern United States. The shadow of time and space actually jumped so far at once, which made everyone complain.
"Shouldn't we be glad we're still on the North American continent?"
"Qin Mei, have you ever inquired about the whereabouts of Susan and the murderer?" Karin asked anxiously.
"I haven't started to inquire about this yet, but this town is mostly full of poor immigrants and laborers, and it should be easy to want a weirdo who dresses like a gentleman." A smile appeared on Qin Mei's face.