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"What a nice weather, Letty, what do you say?"

Seeing that Audrey still didn't seem to react, Richard waved his hand, and the stack of papers on the shelf not far away flew over of its own accord, falling neatly in front of him like a card in the hand of a magician.

"In such good weather, it's good to do some good things."

"For example, emptying the magazines, decorating our streets, emptying the family property for the decorations, and using their money to build schools and factories for the children."

Audrey's expression was slightly glazed, and she didn't seem to react until now. The corpse still hanging outside in the protrusion of the wall made her feel an inexplicable fear - she was afraid of the dead, which was normal, she was a girl who was not yet 19 years old and had never actually seen a dead person before. But the deaths of the three hanging on the wall are not terrifying, they can only be regarded as terrifying, and Audrey wants to take another look, but she holds back.

She couldn't tell what this sudden fear in her heart was.

But as a psychiatrist, she also guessed why.

"I really want to do the same in the Northern Continent."

Richard expertly flipped through the files and documents in his hand, stamping or punching and crossing, his face as gentle and warm as ever, in stark contrast to what he was doing, had done, and was about to do. It was as if the two sides of the demon and the righteous were completely integrated into the body of the same person, and she never thought that anyone could be so pure in kindness and so cruel in so mad - just like that day, once again made Audrey deeply aware of the level of mental abnormality of the high-ranking people of the "prisoner" pathway.

Corpse...... The corpses that appeared directly on the street were somewhat beyond Audrey's cognition.

And people, who should theoretically be frightened or even silent, are now singing and laughing in a language she does not understand.

In the midst of this uncanny frenzy, Audrey felt a vague temperature that burned her spine.

She clutched her apron tightly and regained her voice.

“…… What? ”

"Oh, of course, I'm not talking about anything else here, if you lose, you lose, our national strength and cohesion back then were really like garbage. …… There seems to be a proverb in the Northern Continent that says, 'If you fall behind, you will be beaten,' but I think this sentence is slightly biased. ”

Richard pronounced the death sentence of the two families again, and said heavy words on his lips, but the expression on his face was still light and smiling:

This sentence is not the truth, it is like the heartache of the weak, and it is like the superiority of the strong, but in essence it shows the hostility between human beings. Suppose there is a child who is born weak and disabled, who just exists there, but is bullied, beaten, and finally even killed, is it the child's fault? What do you think - it's all the people who do it are morally corrupt. ”

Audrey blinked, regained some courage, and asked in as smooth a voice as she could:

"Your Highness Richard, did you bring me here to see all this so that I could realize the mistakes of the war?"

"If that were the case, I would have known it for a long time, and I would have hated it when I learned of the outbreak of war in the Amanda Mountains, and when I had experienced the horrific bombardment myself."

Or do you want me to see the end of the nobles of the Highlands now, so as to knock me as a nobleman of the Northern Continent?

"Neither."

Richard shook his head: "No one in this world likes war, except for those extraordinary people who need war, everyone else who advocates war is a brain cicada...... Actually, I don't know what I'm telling you for, maybe I'm just trying to find someone to talk to. ”

"Huh?" Audrey was also a little surprised.

"It makes me feel good to hang them up, Audrey, and I'll tell you a little story."

"Before our god, the god of bondage, was defeated by the Northern Continent, we also had an official church. The right to interpret beliefs and doctrines, as well as the qualifications for the inheritance of extraordinary powers, are all grasped in the hands of the church, and the transmission is carried out with a relatively strict master-apprenticeship system. ”

Richard propped his chin in one hand and gave him a rare look of remembrance.

"I was a highlander more than 200 years ago, so it is only natural that my master is a member of the Church of the Bound God, and so is my master's master. However, my master's qualifications are relatively mediocre, and he was accepted as an apprentice purely because of his family and bloodline. His master was able to become the administrator of the Museum of Ritual and Theology, guarding an ancient cursed item, but he was Sequence 6 until his death. Hehe, Audrey, Sequence 6 in her forties, is far worse than you. ”

For the first time, Audrey heard the Angel of Temperance talk about her past.

As an angel, an angel who has lived a long time, although he is relatively young when he is only more than 200 years old among angels, when talking about his life, Richard still reveals some memories unique to old people.

"My Master's Master...... The old man was a demigod who had a close personal relationship with my master's father, so he was promoted. The old man didn't like me very much when he was alive, because I was not of aristocratic descent, my ancestors were commoners, and I was a colonizer of mixed blood. But at that time, the talent withered, and my master was just a down-and-out little nobleman, who fell into the middle of the family in the war, and was even almost drawn to join the army, but he had no choice. ”

"Seeing that I drank potions at the age of ten, and became a sequence 8 at the age of eleven, he reluctantly looked at me squarely, and began to consider using his connections to put my identity under the name of a middle-level nobleman, as an illegitimate child, and then slowly climb up in the future, and sneak into the museum as an apprentice......"

"My master was also relieved, and even said that he wanted me to be his godson, and then he was scolded by the old man, saying that the glory of your family was all ruined by you and your brother, don't come out again and be embarrassed, and make my master sad for several days."

Richard tried to think about it for a while, and found that he was about to forget the old man's face, and could only vaguely remember that the other party liked to wear a white robe in the traditional clothing of the highlands, never wore any ornaments, and adhered to the rules, and his skin looked darker than others against the white robe. And the serious and wrinkled face in the memory, the light-colored eyes shone sharply, as if to see through the souls of others.

And the face of the master, who was not yet fifty years old when he died, was also very blurred, and it was clear that the other party was also a handsome middle-aged man.

At the end of the memory, the only thing that was clear was the corpse that had been disemboweled, limbs broken, and entrailed, and the other party's blond hair and brown eyes were the color of coagulated blood.

Destroy corpses, remove internal organs, and expose corpses to the wilderness.

In the culture of the Highlands, such a dead person could not meet the gods and have an afterlife.

“…… But during the war, how could there be so much 'slowly'. ”

The Angel of Temperance sighed.

Then He buckled his fingernails:

"My master was mediocre and timid, and after resisting for two years, he fled to the Northern Continent, and the old man is a demigod, and he is also a divine servant who has dedicated his life to gods and asceticism, and he will protect those things to the end with his own glory and his own priesthood."

"But in the face of the army of the Northern Continent, did they hold for a total of five days or ten days? Then the soldiers of the Northern Continent who stormed the temple and the museum smashed our stone monuments and sculptures, melted the handicrafts into gold and silver nuggets in the city, and burned the fire with our ancient books and cultural relics...... When the old man died, he was hung in front of the temple with his legs hanged, and his dead head was placed directly below him, as the Master told me. ”

The angel of temperance tells a story about a part of his life.

He must have a good eloquence, otherwise he would not have relied on his ability to pull in funding. Even a psychiatrist would struggle to maintain his emotions all the time before emotions and desires were involved, even if Richard didn't bother to guide a small sequence5.

As an out of place in the Northern Continent, Audrey felt a little unconfident in her words: "The invaders at that time were ......"

"It's a Fursack."

Richard nodded: "Our small place is not as rich as Bailang, but there are many small countries, and we also have some assets." First, Fursack's army took advantage of the opening of new shipping routes, and when Byron's gold drove the northern continent crazy, they enslaved us. Then the Fursacks were driven out in exchange for the rule of Intis, and Rune also got a piece of the pie...... You say, is it necessary for me to divide you very carefully? ”

Audrey fell silent again.

She felt that she could understand Richard Ernst's thoughts - nonsense, if a war witness and victim tells things in front of you, but you can't feel the emotions and thoughts of the other party, you better not be a psychiatrist! - To be honest, Audrey was a little surprised by her calm attitude now, the corpse hanging outside made her feel uneasy and instinctively afraid, but at the same time, empathy, she seemed to have accepted the reality that "my ancestors were resented, and I will be implicated". Because Tawfik had already shown it to her.

"If the two of them were still alive, they would definitely expel me from the division."

Richard teased himself, and a little narrow smile appeared on his face: "If these two guys who have kept the precepts of Qing cultivation all their lives see their apprentices and disciples mixed into the leaders of the indulgent faction, it is estimated that they will be so angry that they will go to God on the spot." ”

Audrey was silent, not knowing what expression to use to face the words.

The study was quiet for a while, and Audrey's eyes lowered, and she asked softly:

"I see."

"After I came here, I could feel the blood debt and the sorrow, and the greed, the scars of war. I understand what you want me to see, what to think, but there's only so much I can do, Your Highness, if you kill me......"

Richard interrupted Audrey's words with a surprised look:

"What are you talking about, although I do wish that your Northern Continent would explode in place, do I seem to be too idle to hurt the employees?"

Yes. The words that she mustered up the courage to say were stuck in her throat, and Audrey was a little embarrassed, only to see Richard wave her hand, urging her to hurry back to work:

"Okay, you've been talking to me for so long, the patients in the hospital should be waiting for you in a hurry, and I'm going to deduct your salary if you delay your work? There are so many things you have to do, don't think about what you have and don't have. ”

"But—though, you do have to think about it, Audrey."

Richard's waving hand stopped, and there was an inexplicable emotion in Audrey's eyes as he looked at him:

"You know the situation in the Northern Continent, right? You can really think about it, although I don't know what the future holds, but if there is a real day of subversion, or if you are my enemy, think about how you will face the world again when that day comes. ”

After saying this, Richard laughed, smiled and sighed again.

Audrey couldn't help but laugh as well, she nodded lightly as she laughed, then lifted the hem of her skirt and turned around and walked out.

"I will, Your Highness."

She turned around and left the small study of more than ten square meters, gently closed the door, and came to the corridor outside. Letty Orr was already a familiar face here, and the people who approached her in the hallway, whether they were indulging or temperate, would simply say hello to her.

Audrey looked at the ground in front of her, thinking about her own thoughts, lifting the hem of her skirt and slowly walking in a straight line in the hallway.

Outside the window, the sun is shining, and there are two more decorations on the wall.

……

"Am I late again?"

In the wilderness of the Forsaken Lands, the tattered figure finally stopped, and began to put back the parts of his body that had run away from the thread because of the lack of sewing skills. He sat down on a random stone and began mending his makeshift container.

"I didn't delay this time, but the leg of Sequence 5 was too slow."

He sat down on the stone and muttered a few words, then began to search for the figure of the incredible wolf.

He knew that the other party was avoiding Him, and he was like a telescope for stargazing at the highest magnification, but with a small three-wheeled cart underneath. Because the speed difference between the two is too great, I can see the shadow of the target and the possible location, but I can't catch up. And the wolf became unhurried when he realized this, and even tried to sneak him around like a kite.

"Don't let me catch you."

He whispered to the other party: "There was something abnormal in the seal leading to the Western Continent before, and he will definitely pass it again." If I get caught, I'm going to have to take that thing off of Him and look at it. ”

……

Moon City.

As soon as Klein approached Moon City, he felt his scalp tingle, and every cell in his body resisted entering here.

He felt that this should be both instinct and spiritual awareness, because there were many Amun in the city, and he hated Amun very much, and it was natural that he didn't want to get close while feeling danger.

"Venerable oracle."

Seeing that Klein seemed to be stopping himself, the high priest of Nimes took the initiative to stop and asked with concern, "If you don't want to enter the city, we can also set up a tent for you at a safe distance outside the city." ”

Klein didn't speak, his gaze turned to the face of the Moon City Extraordinaire who had just put on a monocle in front of him, and the extraordinaire subconsciously straightened his back after being seen by the divine envoy, and a natural nervousness and confusion appeared on his face.

The feeling of "as if it was Amon" before is gone.

"No, you don't." Klein took a breath and stiffened his head and said, "I'm going in with you, that's what I'm here for." ”

He didn't know if it was his nerves that were too nervous, or if Amon really only flashed in this extraordinary person, the main thing is that Amon is the "god of fraud", "the god of mischief", and in a city where there are already many Amun, it is not surprising that such an ornament as monocles appears. If you are too nervous and think that the person with the ornament is Amon, then you may be fooled.

But it never hurts to be cautious.

"Okay."

The High Priest was very touched by the attitude of the envoy responsible, and he did not think that there would be any danger in the Moon City, but he still asked:

"Why don't the other two Honorable Lords come to Moon City together?"

Because if they come in, Amon may really look here, and the difficulty of our survival will be directly raised to a higher level...... And if it's just me, only me, the weakling, Amon will probably play with me...... On top of that, I'm also gambling, and since He feels that I can temporarily resist the "fate of becoming a Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" for him, then He will definitely not dare to let me die......

Klein's thoughts raced, and he finally smiled:

"Both of them are followers of the sun god, and there are other tasks to be done here."

"Oh."

The high priest nodded knowingly, and although he didn't understand, he was also very sensible and didn't ask much.

The team continued to move forward, and in about half an hour's effort, the High Priest had already led Klein through several simple guarded fortifications, and saw the towering and ancient walls of Moon City in the distance.

In the process, no one suddenly put on monocles anymore, which effectively relieved Klein's anxiety.

Approaching, the High Priest led Klein straight towards the gate. And the instinct of the "ancient scholar" was troubled, Klein couldn't help but step forward, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the walls of the city - the hand was cold and heavy, and each deep ravine represented an extremely dangerous attack, and this wall blocked all these dangers, allowing the city-state to continue in the dark for more than two thousand years.

Although this was once a city of the Blood Clan, there is no trace of the Blood Clan after thousands of years of human habitation and modification.

Klein followed the high priest into the city, it was night, there were not many people in the streets, and the walls of the sturdy and old main houses were silently lit with torches or lanterns, illuminating the city.

Although the darkness is no longer dangerous, the people here are still not used to coming out at night.

Returning to his city, the High Priest was visibly relieved, and he turned around and asked Klein modestly, "Venerable Oracle, do you need me to gather everyone together and convey to them the will of the 'Fool'?" ”

Klein pondered for a moment, thought for a moment, and then reached out and pointed to the east:

"Don't worry, the time hasn't come yet. I will be here for a period of penance, and if you want to feel the Lord's radiance and listen to His teachings, you can come at any time during the day. ”

"I do a cleansing and healing once a day, after the sun rises."

According to the words of the High Priest, there were still many people in the city who were just polite believers in "fools", so he did not try to directly convert the inhabitants of Moon City, nor did he plan to go directly to the city-state or ask for specific information, leaving them with plenty of buffer room.

The High Priest of Moon City, Nim, quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and responded with more and more respect:

"I will relay your words to everyone."

Klein pursed his lips and added, "It is the mercy of the Lord to cure the disease, and those who have already done the treatment can do it again." ”

The high priest was a little puzzled by this sentence, why should a person who had already been healed by God once be healed again? But the thought disappeared from his mind in the next second, along with the sentence.

All he remembered was that he had promised to relay the words of the oracle to everyone, so he bowed earnestly to Crane and departed with the other extraordinary.

Crane looked at his back, and after a moment, he also carried his animal skin lantern and walked towards an empty uninhabited room to the east.

TBC

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The fever finally subsided.