Late at night, the sound of the tide came from afar. yan()kuai

The town was already silent, as if asleep, and the stars and the moon hung high in the sky.

In the darkness, only the lighthouse was still lit on the shoreline outside the town.

It has been towering over the coastline since the town was founded. The Order built it with lost technology, pointing the way for ships passing through the reef.

For 100 years, at the top of the lighthouse, the fire burned endlessly.

The flame burned with the power of the aether, emitting a blinding light.

Hundreds of mirrors are placed in intricate frames, forming a dense matrix that envelops the flames.

After the carefully designed refraction angle, those rays of light formed a complex trajectory, which was amplified dozens of times and cast in all directions.

This self-draining aether mechanism is almost semi-permanent and does not require any manual management. As long as every other month, a mechanically proficient specialist performs systematic maintenance on it to eliminate all faults.

It's just that it's not a priest dressed in black who is here today, it's two teenagers...... And a dog.

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The big golden retriever dog with dirt looked really ugly and ugly, and had been lying on the ground since he had come up, and had fallen asleep with his eyes closed.

One of the mosquitoes flew up to its nose and it sneezed. When he sneezed, his mouth turned up, like a grin, revealing a row of jagged dog teeth.

Next to it, the blonde teenager sat on the ground with his back against the wall, intently tearing the chicken in his hand. The chicken is unhurriedly torn into strips, then stuffed into the mouth and chewed carefully.

He eats slowly and seriously, but it makes people feel that he is not hungry at all, he just wants to kill time.

He looks handsome on the outside, but when he laughs, he makes people think that he is a bad blank, because those green eyes are always like beasts when looking at people, looking for a place to put their mouths.

Beside him, half of the wine bottle was empty, and he drank it all.

"Yezi, you already know, right?"

After a moment of silence, he whispered, "The place to go to the Holy City for further study was won by the third child of the Thomas family. ”

"I know. ”

In the light of the matrix, an indifferent voice came.

"He also said a lot of nasty things. ”

"I know. ”

A hand stretched out in the dazzling light, and the index finger of the hand also carried a ring that looked like a wire coiled, which was particularly eye-catching. And the voice was still indifferent, and I couldn't hear the emotional fluctuations:

"Vito, give me the number eight wrench. ”

"Are you really listening to me? ”

Vito's eyes seemed to be stung by the afterglow, and his pupils contracted: "For the opportunity to go to the Holy City to study, you have waited so many years and paid so much.

Now, you're going to just watch it fall into the hands of that whipped up the maid's skirt?"

The big golden retriever was woken up, raised his head, and barked, as if he couldn't even stand it.

"I said, give me the number eight wrench. ”

The hand in the matrix just shook a little, reminding Vito not to keep him waiting too long.

Vito picked up the wrench from the toolbox and placed it on that hand. The hand tried to be withdrawn, but its wrist was grabbed by Vito and could not be withdrawn.

The hand froze in the air.

Vito stared at the glare of light in the matrix of the frames, as if to see the boy's expression. He was already a little drunk, so his eyes were angry, not for himself, but because of this silent friend.

"Did you hear that during the day?" he asked softly, "he said you were an Oriental mongrel." ”

"I hear you. ”

He said the street child should go back to the brothel to find his mother. ”

"I hear you. ”

"So? Do you have to pretend that nothing happened?"

Vito clenched the wrench's palm, and a green tendon collapsed.

He looked directly at the matrix of the mirror, and saw the vague reflections in the matrix, but those reflections were petrified, silent, silent, just silent.

"Ye Qingxuan, if someone insults my parents, I swear, there will be a whole hell of poisonous snakes poured into his room. If someone insults my friend, then the same. ”

Vito said coldly, "I know, you don't want to cause trouble for the priest. But sometimes, if you step back, you will be seen as weak. If you are weak, you will be insulted! as you do today...... You've done so much for this town, and the result?

They don't care!

For so many years, your efforts have not been appreciated by those people, but taken for granted by them! No matter how many steps you take to build a lighthouse for another ten years, copy tens of thousands of proclamations, and take as many steps back as you want. ”

"I didn't expect anyone to be grateful to me. ”

"No one will be grateful to you, do you know why, for it seems to them that it is the greatest gift to leave a wandering beggar of unknown origin in this noble land!"

"That's enough, Vito. ”

In the matrix, the boy's voice came. The light was too dazzling for people to see his expression.

"It's not enough! Do you remember what Thomas said?"

Vito's eyes were sharp, as if he was hiding a knife: "He said he deserved this place! It could never fall on the head of an Oriental bastard! Because this bastard has stolen enough in our hands!"

Ever since you came here five years ago, he's treated you like a thorn in his side. You've spared him again and again, but what did he do to you? Are you really willing?"

There was silence in the matrix.

After a long time, the matrix opened, and the long mirror that fell to the ground was pushed away.

A teenager came out of the light.

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As the matrix merged, the dazzling light dissipated, revealing the figure of the teenager.

He wore thick sunglasses on his face, which were necessary equipment to work in the Matrix, otherwise the blazing light would blind a person's eyes after a long time.

But the most striking thing is not the sunglasses, but his hair.

Pure white, like flowing mercury, the slender white hair seemed to blend into it in the reflection of the light.

The kind of silver-white hair peculiar to the Oriental is his greatest characteristic and his greatest original sin...... It's proof of being a hygrel. Anyone can see that this is a mixed race, a person who will not be regarded as an outlier of the same race, whether in the East or in the West.

This kind of identity is even more disdainful than a beggar.

Ever since he came here, the criticism and attacks against him have never stopped.

After the priest adopted him and appointed him as a scribe in the church's library, Thomas, who had been studying copying in the church, looked at him with even more viciousness.

In order to get rid of him, Thomas even hid the Holy Book in his room, falsely accusing him of stealing books.

If it weren't for Ye Qingxuan reciting the holy scriptures on the spot and writing them silently to prove that he didn't need to steal them at all, he would have been driven out of the town a long time ago, and there would be no place for him.

"Vito, don't mess me off. You know, that set didn't work. ”

Ye Qingxuan didn't get angry, and he didn't argue anything. He just picked up the wrench and went back into the matrix, only the sound could come from inside.

"Anyone can say ugly things, but there is nothing to take advantage of in words. What if I win? Thomas's family threw money at it, and that spot won't be given to me. So, it's better to save some effort. ”

Vito scoffed, just sneering:

"Is your so-called effortless effort to come over in the middle of the night to repair the lighthouse and continue to contribute to the town?"

"At least make some money. If I don't come, I'm going to ask God Father to run on his own, and I don't want to trouble him. He's done a lot to help me get that spot. ”

"He doesn't want you to go to the Holy City!"

Vito said coldly, "He wants to train you to be a little god, to take over his class, and let you be the company of these cold iron bumps for the rest of your life! The only thing that accompanies you is this large pile of broken copper and iron. ”

"Actually, I don't think there's anything wrong with working with machines. ”

In the matrix, Ye Qingxuan whispered: "At least they won't lie, and they won't look down on you...... Sometimes I like them more than people.

As long as you know them, they won't betray you. ”

Vito stopped talking, he withdrew his gaze, silently tore the chicken in his hand, swallowed it in his mouth one by one, and chewed them into a puree with his canine teeth.

The angry beast is eating.

"That's not going to be the case. ”

He muttered softly, not like he was talking to Ye Qingxuan, but like talking to himself.

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This time the routine maintenance seems to be unexpectedly long.

In the silence, there are only trivial sounds in the frame matrix, and under the debugging of tools, the matrix is changing towards a new structure.

In the skillful operation of the teenager, this huge mechanical structure can be easily operated.

Hundreds of frames change position along the copper rails, adjusting to new angles, like the leaves of a lotus flower opening and closing in rotation. Complex trajectories of light jumped in it, flying into the sky.

Until the end, the maintenance had come to an end, Ye Qingxuan walked out of the matrix, checked it one last time, and nodded.

"Vito, give me the screwdriver, this frame is off one point. ”

"One point is one point, what's the use of you being serious in such a useless place?"

Vito tossed him the screwdriver pressed against the scratch paper, "They still look down on you, they just laugh at you for being dead-headed, and then lie down on your work and continue to enjoy their lives." ”

Ye Qingxuan turned a deaf ear, just carefully adjusted the scale on the frame with a screwdriver, and the hand holding the screwdriver was as stable as a rock: "Sometimes the slightest difference will make a completely different effect." ”

He paused and whispered in an Eastern language that Vito did not understand:

-- A slight mistake is a thousand miles wrong. ”

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As if in response to the boy's words, a strong sea breeze suddenly blew from afar. They poured into the windows and passed through the lighthouse.

Without a screwdriver pressing, the pile of scratch paper at the bottom of the toolbox was blown up, like wings, flying all over the sky. A piece of paper flew over Vito's face, causing Vito to rip it off.

He was angry and wanted to shred the paper, but when he saw the sketch on the paper, he was stunned and couldn't believe it.

On the white paper, the boy sketched a matrix of mirrors with a dipping pen, which had deviated from its original structure and moved to a deviant place with the rotation of the base. A new trail of light was marked, but compared to the original...... It's simply unrecognizable.

The inherent structure was shattered, and the preset orbit of the priests was completely disrupted...... This complex and sophisticated system has completely collapsed during this commissioning.

Simply, beyond recognition!

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In silence, Vito looked at his friend as if he were looking at a monster.

"Yezi, do you know what you're doing?"

"I know. ”

Ye Qingxuan's voice was still calm, just like just now.

"You know what a fart!" Vito jumped up, "Do you know how long it took the Order to design this matrix?!!

He lifted Ye Qingxuan's collar: "This is a reef area, Yezi! How many boats rely on it every night to guide the way, if something happens, you will be thrown into prison! Before anyone finds out, quickly change back to ......"

"Nothing will come out, nothing will happen, nothing will change. ”

Ye Qingxuan said softly: "I just made a little 'adjustment'. ”

He waved his hand, and Lao Fei got up from the ground and ran down with a grin.

"You must be crazy. ”

In the silence, Vito muttered, weakly letting go of his hands.

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"Vito, since when did you think I was a weak person?"

The white-haired boy picked up the wine bottle on the ground and walked to the window, overlooking the silent town at his feet.

Facing the hearty sea breeze, he drank the remnants of the wine, and then threw the empty wine bottle into the distance: "What's the use of the kung fu on the lips?"

At the very least, let your efforts be seen by everyone. ”

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He turned around and tugged at the hub beside him.

In an instant, the complex hub in the lighthouse moved, as if awakened from a deep slumber and moved along a predetermined trajectory. Gear riveting, winch rolling, mirror offset, angle change.

The clash of steel and steel erupted with sparks and muffled echoes, the small sound of mechanical collision echoing in the ears of the two of them like heavy breathing.

The frame, which had been stationary, spun wildly, like a frantically burning lotus flower in the dazzling light.

Vito stared blankly at the shifting flash, the sudden flash of light that exploded like an explosion and disappeared in a flash.

Immediately after, the lotus-like matrix closed again.

The light leaped in the air, like a tamed beast, and was thrown in all directions. It's still the same as it was before.

It's just that one of them was thrown into the dark town and landed on the mirror that was hung in front of the nail by Lao Fei. With the will of the boy, the light shuttled through the dark town, jumping with the mirror surface one by one.

Eventually, the blazing and blinding light fell on one of the largest houses in the town.

It's like a holy light coming down from heaven.

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Immediately after, the bell in the middle of the town vibrated as if it had been rang angrily. Underneath it, a smiling dog was biting on a rope and shaking it vigorously.

A loud and sharp bang woke up the silent town.

The people who had been awakened from their sleep got up from their beds and threw themselves to the windows in a panic, their eyes falling on the street.

There were no beasts rushing into the town, no robbers breaking into the town, nothing seemed to have happened. Only the sound of sirens echoed, and a divine light fell from the sky and fell on the Thomas family's house.

In the town, the startled residents were in a clamor of people.

"What's going on?" someone shouted.

"What's going on? Who's going to ring the bell?"

"Mom, I'm afraid. ”

"Hey, look at Thomas's house!"

"Thomas's ......"

So, in an instant, the hustle and bustle of the town was incredibly silent again.

In the gaze of everyone, the light that fell from the sky intertwined, forming a line of writing. The handwriting is so legible that it is like a blessing from heaven from the gods.

There were only a few simple words, but they were written in a smooth manner, and it was a kind response from a teenager.

- Son of a bitch!

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