Music with religious content is often soothing, soothing music can relax people's nervous emotions, and even some religions will add some psychological hints to the music, unconsciously making the faith indestructible.

The music of the local religion of Nagalil is also soothing, but today there is a little more cheerfulness in the soothing music.

As the floats began to move, Lynch was surprised to find more families with children on the side of the road, these girls were very young, fifteen or sixteen, sixteen or seventeen years old, according to the local law of Nagalil, girls are considered adults when they are sixteen years old.

They were dressed very beautifully by their parents, wearing garlands, their immature faces were still a little ignorant, and the blankness in their eyes seemed to mean that they didn't know what they were going to do and what they were going to face.

The people on the floats were interested, discussing the girls dancing on the side of the road, and judging the girls.

They discuss the girls' tone in a way that doesn't feel like they're talking about a living person, but rather about a product.

"No, do you see her hair, I don't like this kind of yellow hair, it's not smooth and ......," said a representative of the noble clan who spoke, stroking the railing on the side of the float, as if reminiscing about something

"This girl is good, she is in good shape, I like this ......", said one of the representatives of the noble clan, throwing a garland of gold-painted flowers prepared on the float.

The girl's family was overjoyed to see the flying wreath, and forced the girl to kneel on the ground to express their gratitude.

The girl doesn't know what she's going to face next, what will happen to her, maybe her whole life will end in the unknown because of the coincidental fate of this day.

This scene is constantly played, the families who have received the garlands are grateful and Dade is on their knees, the families who have not received the garlands sighing, and some will even reprimand their daughters, or the parents will complain to each other.

People are singing, dancing, and celebrating festivals, and there is a lively scene everywhere, and everyone has a smile on their faces.

Hundred Flowers Festival.

The parade of floats is not very long, and there are only two roads in the city that are strictly suitable for the parade, the others are either rough or narrow enough to pass through the floats and the crowds.

From the beginning of the morning activities to the short break at noon, the whole festival has ended at more than 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

The float eventually returned to the largest temple in the province of Magulana, under a temple on a hill on the outskirts of the city.

It is said that it is a mountain, but it is actually a pimple on Mother Earth's face, and there are quite traces of artificial carving, so it can be seen that in order to reflect the "grandeur" and "dignity" of this temple, they must have spent a lot of labor to create a mountain in the Great Plains area.

The gold-painted exterior of the temple at the top of the mountain glows with a dazzling golden glow in the midday (1) sun, and when you stand at the foot of the mountain, you look up as if you have seen the place where the legendary gods live.

"Boss ......"

Asr was already waiting for Lynch at the bottom of the mountain in advance, and he was not yet qualified to board the float of the Hundred Flowers Festival, on the grounds that he was not a nobleman, nor a wealthy businessman, nor a foreigner.

It sounds ridiculous but it's true, but it's good that Asr himself is not unhappy, and he's starting to get used to all the perverse status quo these days.

Asr casually handed over a hand towel soaked in ice water, and Lynch took it and wiped his face, the cold breath instantly cooled him after a day of hot weather.

The hand towel soaked in ice water covered his face, and he took a deep breath, and the cold breath entered his body with his breathing, somewhat soothing some of the heat in his heart.

In 278 degrees Celsius, it is not pleasant to bask in the sun for a few hours.

After a few moments, he took off his handkerchief and wiped his bare skin in the air, the dust of the city was so heavy that the white handkerchief quickly turned black.

He handed back the handkerchief to Asr and began to walk towards the steps of the mountain, casually asking, "What are we going to do next?"

Asr gave the handkerchief and the basin with ice water to another man, who seemed to be his servant in the house, and when he came, Asr told Lynch about his house, and he was troubled.

Fortunately, Lynch enlightened him in time, and he now seems to have accepted the changes he has made when he was not at home over the years, and his mentality has become a little calmer.

Asr followed Lynch and climbed the stairs step by step, "Then the high priest will pray, then the gods will come down and pray for everyone, and finally the end of the event, and then the festival will be over." ”

He didn't say anything specific and detailed, and Lynch didn't dig any deeper, and the two chatted about some of the next things as they walked towards it.

"The things we want to bring back are already parked in the port, and we can board the ship the day after tomorrow, and we will be back in the federal ...... in about three to four days."

When they came, it took a week, mainly because they were on a cruise ship, which was not a two-point and one-line voyage, and had to stop at several ports on the way to hand over some letters, goods and passengers, so the speed was slower.

Lynch thought they were slow, so he hired a cargo ship this time, there was no intermediate docking, and the fuel could be filled up at one time, and if the sea conditions were better, it would be possible to reach the easternmost port of the Bayle Federation from Nagalil in about three days.

Lynch nodded, and Asr continued, "Federal reporters have also been found, including some heavyweight print media such as Federal Daily and Federal Times, and new media such as Federal Television, Eastern Television, and Northern Union Television have also accepted our invitation. ”

Lynch paused as he climbed the stairs and pondered for a moment, "Give each of them an extra check for five hundred dollars, we don't require them to be able to advocate for us, but we must report truthfully." ”

It's actually a very interesting statement, and it sounds like Lynch did it to make sure that his report wasn't distorted by someone with ulterior motives, who of course did exist.

Lynch, as a well-known newcomer among the more radical people in the current trend of the Federation, will always have some people who disagree with him on the standpoint, distort the report, and misreport, which are all effective methods used by politicians.

Propaganda has always been a very important front, and it is impossible for the people to have access to the real side of society and the situation abroad like Lynch, or other politicians and tycoons, and they all obtain these important information through the media, and it is also the only channel.

Blocking the channel will make people think that what they know is a real fact, because there is no other option for them to compare, question, and they will become quite "pure".

That's why it's important to make sure that the story isn't changed or distorted, which is why many political groups, and even individual politicians, have their own newspapers and even TV stations, and they want to make sure that their ideas are not modified and understood by the public.

But in fact, Lynch's purpose is not to maliciously distort his report, but to make the news media report "truthfully".

The news media hadn't been to Nagalil, at least not anytime soon, and they didn't know what was going on here, but it was clear that it was Lynch.

What Lynch said about truthful reporting is actually asking these reporters not to refer to other information, but to directly release what he wants to express into society, and what he says is "truthful".

Asr nodded vigorously, he looked at Lynch who walked to the top of the mountain again with some admiration, the sun and the golden temple became the background that dotted Lynch, making Lynch's whole body full of light.

He was only twenty-one years old, but he gave Asr an indescribable shock.

Looking at Lynch, who was a little far away, Asr came back to his senses and followed after a few steps.

As mentioned earlier, it was just a pimple on Mother Earth's face, and Lynch, who had a strong physique, quickly crawled to the temple.

There were already a few people in the temple, and surprisingly these were girls, all of them dancing on both sides of the street during the parade of floats.

Something made of a special spice was burning in the temple, and it smelled a little sweet, and the girls' faces were a little unusual, and they knelt in the courtyard uneasily, some of them looked as if they were drunk.

On the side were the girls' parents, each with a smile on their faces, who were bent over, bowed their heads, and humbly lined up to receive a wooden god card, which was in stark contrast to the childish blankness on the faces of those girls.

There are always people who say that life is precious and priceless, and that is because they live in a privileged environment, and once they leave their comfort zone, they will find that their previous exclamations are all a fart.

Life is not only not noble, but it is also cheap, so cheap that it only takes a piece of broken wood to dominate the future of these girls!

The wooden god card is the lowest level of the Nagalil religious system, and it is not at all the same order of magnitude as the bone inlaid gold wire god card on Lynch's body.

But even so, it is very difficult for 80 percent of the population to obtain this kind of divine card, and to enjoy the benefits of the lowest divine rights, such as access to temples and worship, and access to some public facilities – this is not a joke.

Public facilities are built for foreigners and international human rights organizations on the one hand, and class differences on the other.

Only those who wear wooden plaques can use these "public facilities" for free.

They can also take the train and buy tickets at a relatively low price, they can go to the hospital without queuing up for ordinary people, and even their children can wear a god card to the library to read a book!

This is enough to attract every family who wants to raise their social rank, and the only way for them to do so is to sacrifice the girls in the family.

These girls become saints in the city after being favored by some of the gods (the gods will somehow descend on some priests and guests attending the event, who will become representatives of the gods for a certain period of time), which is the most likely way for ordinary families to ascend.

Maybe it's a little cruel, a little cruel, but it's also a folk custom, a distorted and backward culture.