Chapter 154: Archives
In charge of the archives was an elderly priest with a hunched waist, sparse white hair, a complex set of lenses made of brass cranks and crystal lenses, and the smell of motor oil.
The old priest sat behind a dull circular table, and was studying what looked like a Rubik's cube with a lens, and with the help of some ingenious tools, he had dismantled the Rubik's cube into a pile of parts, and the glow of the gas lamp shone on them.
When Vana approached, her tall body blocked the light next to her, and the old priest raised his head, removed the lens in front of him with his fingers, and smiled after seeing the person who came: "Oh, it's Your Excellency the Inquisitor - what help do you need today?"
"Where are the various disasters and accidents recorded in the city-state around 1889?" Vanna asked with a nod to the old priest.
"Records of the Disaster of 1889-?" The old priest grunted as he tapped on one of the tables on the large circular table, under which there was a slight sound of mechanical friction, and then a board stepped down, and a mechanical table with many cranks, numeric discs, and paddles rose from inside.
With the sound of the creaking machinery, the old priest began to operate the delicate machine with the help of the paddles and digital discs, and after entering the necessary information, Vana heard the characteristic low roar of the large machinery, she felt the floor under her feet vibrate slightly, and countless gears and connecting rods running happily under the impetus of the steam core, and then she heard a crisp "ding" from the mechanism in front of the old priest, and a printed paper tape was spit out of the machine.
"From this road, turn left on the third row of bookshelves, turn right at the end, and one of the bookshelves is already lit up, and the row where the lights are on is. It's a lot of fun, and all the incidents that can be called disasters are recorded, including the smallest steam injuries, and the bell rings if you need help."
As he spoke, the old priest handed over the note—he was holding it in a prosthetic hand, a brass palm and forearm with an elaborate mechanical structure, and a gear set could be seen ticking in a transparent window on the back of his hand.
Vanna thought that this might be a veteran of the Guardians who had retired from the front lines—a veteran who was not uncommon in the civilian division of the Church of the Storm.
Their bodies have been mutilated and have proven their faith and loyalty with blood and sacrifice, and the assistance of steam traps or magical prosthetics allows them to continue to serve the Holy See, and the various positions dealing with the archives are the final destination for some of these veterans.
In a sense, of course, this is a preferential treatment for soldiers, and the relatively quiet and well-equipped archives department is suitable for "retirement", and from another point of view, this is actually an excellent "application of talent" - these veterans may no longer be physically fit to continue fighting heretics, but their will is still tenacious, and the job of guarding books and archives...
·· It has always required a strong will.
A hint of respect appeared in Vanna's heart, and she took the tape with both hands and bowed her head slightly, "Thank you."
"Remember to pack up the books after reading, and don't touch the books that are not in the list," the old priest waved his hand, "There are a lot of books here that have been sitting for a long time, don't disturb them."
With that, he went back to his "job" and ignored Vanna.
Vanna didn't care, but walked to the depths of the archives with the paper tape with the catalogue printed on it, the shelves tall enough to be described as "magnificent" lined up neatly on either side of her, one after the other connected to the dome above, like a queue of ancient guards, looking down on the small figures below, and the bright electric lights and precisely calculated gas lamps alternated between the bookshelves, making the place brightly lit, even between the deepest and deepest bookshelves, leaving no shadow of darkness.
Vanna found the bookshelf that the old priest had mentioned—a row of small light bulbs lit on the shelves, indicating the files she could flip through.
The files weren't low, but she was relieved that Vanna was tall and she didn't need a ladder to get the books down.
Pushing a ladder around in such a huge stack is no easy task.
She gently
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Taking a breath, he found the file on the shelf, pulled out the numbered file, and began to flip through it.
What she was looking for was simple, the fire that had happened eleven years earlier, or the fire that had been packaged as a factory leak.
In fact, this was not the first time she had investigated the matter - as an inquisitor, she was already sensitive to all "unusual phenomena", including what happened to herself, and after knowing that she was the only one who remembered the fire in her childhood, she had privately investigated some information from that year, but those superficial investigations did not yield.
At the time, she was quick to put the matter behind her.
For in any case, she was only twelve years old at the time of the accident, and she was neither a believer in the goddess, nor had any brilliant mind, and it was not impossible for a panicked child who had smoked poison to have some false memories in his head, and there was really no need for her to be too dizzy in this matter, so she put the matter down after consulting some public files.
But now, she suddenly discovers that there are still people in the city-state of Poland who have experienced the fire she remembers. The doubts and countless speculations that had once been put on the back of her mind came flooding up in an instant, and her "professional alertness" as an inquisitor rang wildly in her head.
It was precisely because of this professional vigilance that she rejected Heidi's suggestion to "return to the antique shop" at that time, and waited quietly until today, going directly to this archive favored by the goddess to investigate the original materials that are not open to the public.
The reason is simple, there is a danger in this matter - erasing a fire sounds easy, but in fact it involves the cognition and memory of thousands of people, and this incident also involved a large number of cultists in the sabotage activities of the year, if all this is really the work of some "behind the scenes", then this behind the scenes will definitely not sit idly by and watch someone find out the truth.
The memories that remained in his own mind, the memories that remained in the mind of the girl named Nina······ It is very likely that these "remnants" are the negligence of the person behind the scenes, and the "person" who is hidden behind the scenes may not have discovered these omissions yet, but if he did····· I'm not afraid, Nina and her uncle, and the girl named Shirley, but they are all ordinary people.
So she rejected Heidi's suggestion at the time, and asked Heidi not to mention the matter again in the future - on the one hand, because she did not want to startle the snake, and wanted to carry out an investigation in secrecy, and on the other hand, to avoid harming innocent people.
Until you have some information, you must not show any more attention than necessary to the antique shop. window
Slowly flipping through the dossier in her hand, Fanna's mind fluctuated.
For some reason, when she noticed a shadow, she had the illusion of being watched and watched by the ubiquitous gaze, and the bad feeling of being watched in the shadows was really like a man, which made her feel a little irritated. {
She put down the file and went to pick up the other one next to her.
At the same time, she was thinking about what had happened in the city-state in recent times.
At present, many solar heretics active in the city have been arrested, and it seems that the resolute actions of the city-state have effectively deterred those heretics, or it may be that the channels for them to infiltrate have really been completely destroyed, in short, the solar heretics in the city have been greatly reduced, and the heresy prisons under the cathedrals are full.
The purpose of the solar heresy in the city-state has long been identified.
Look for the "Fragment of the Sun" that appeared briefly eleven years ago, and may still be hidden somewhere. Sun Fragments··· The fire of eleven years ago...
The "vision" that Heidi had glimpsed in the museum earlier.
Vanna's hand as she flipped through the file stopped, and clues that hadn't been taken seriously enough by her before suddenly coalesced and became more apparent as she began to examine the fire in her memory again.
"There's a connection behind these events... The fire of 11 years ago is definitely real······ Young trial
The judge took a light breath, and at the same time, her gaze inadvertently swept over some of the words on the file:
「···· On the X day of the Xth month, in the XX block, a vicious heretical worship incident, three households were built in their homes
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The altar, where blood is sacrificed and prayed to something that has never been recorded before, causes panic and nightmares among a large number of nearby residents, and the ritual is later reported and destroyed, but no clues from the scene point to any known evil gods or spirits
"Theoretically, the sacrificial ritual could not have had any effect, and it should have been a blind attempt by ignorant fools for their own personal desires, but the mass panic and nightmares of the local population did occur. Follow-up investigation confirmed that the area had indeed been affected by supernatural forces at that time..."
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