Volume 1 The Philosopher's Stone Chapter 22 The Jewel and the Maiden
Martin helped a groggy Juncker down the alley.
The Scream Tent experience allowed him to finally get a glimpse of the blur of the world, but it also made him clearly aware of the danger and madness involved.
The piper, the three Grand Arcana cards, the woman with the smell of the sea, and the man in the red apron who he had accidentally killed before......
It's like he and Juncker can be caught up in dangerous events just by walking on the road.
And his fears were finally confirmed, that the Twin Flames would make him go crazy until he became a "believer in the moon", he chewed on the title, feeling the weirdness it carried.
But the experience wasn't all fruitless.
Martin touched his cuffs, where there was the [Time Slice] given by Hines, he had a magical item in the true sense of the word, and it was no longer something like the [Queen's Mailbox] and the robe mask on his body that had been copied by [Red Flame].
And most importantly, he knows the whereabouts of Shishian!
Hines had no reason to deceive him, and although he had to wait until tomorrow, it was only a day.
Thinking of this, Martin's mood improved, and Juncker also woke up.
After waking up, Juncker seems to have no memory of what happened before, and Martin manages to make him think that he didn't sleep well the night before.
He was skeptical at first, but when he learned that Martin already knew the whereabouts of the "noble lady", he became very happy, and that doubt was instantly forgotten.
Martin could see that Juncker was genuinely happy for him, and he was a little glad that the few people he had met since coming to Cavides had been very nice to him.
They came to Rose Square again, and it was still the same lively. Juncker insisted on going to Capernaum's Cathedral to finish the service before he had time to do it, and Martin sent him, still a little confused, to the entrance of the cathedral, and then parted ways with him, and went back to the pharmacy himself.
Martin looked at the huge and mysterious church in front of him, and turned away, thinking about when he should go inside.
In his previous life, as a college student who didn't have enough living expenses, he had only seen those solemn and mysterious cathedrals in the West on the Internet, and after coming to this world, he had the opportunity to see the real thing, so he naturally wanted to go in and have a look.
He came to the corner of the church, and was about to walk towards Capernaum Street, when his left foot was suddenly struck by a hard object.
Martin lifted his foot, thinking it was just a stone, and was about to continue walking forward when he noticed that the thing under his feet was shining with a strange light.
Surprised, he crouched down and picked it up.
It turned out to be a gem!
Despite its small size, it shimmers in at least five colors, and it takes on different colors and patterns at different angles.
Martin looked at it for a moment, and felt that it must be a valuable gem, and he rubbed his fingers for a moment, and then carefully placed it in his pocket.
"It's too lucky... Is it really a great calamity, and if you don't die, you will have a blessing..."
He smiled and shook his head, dismissed the unrealistic idea, and walked toward Capernaum Street.
......
Martin walked along Axe Avenue, which was located in front of the Mercury Fountain, parallel to the Green Spider Lane of the Red House, but much wider than the Green Spider Lane, and the City Hall had installed street lights there, but there were many fewer of them than on Capernaum Street.
As soon as he came to a junction not far from the [Mercury Spring], he saw a group of people gathered on the side of the road.
Confused, he stepped forward.
Walking through the crowd, I saw a man wearing a high hat and a bearded sideburns holding a blonde girl in his arms, shaking her body and shouting, "What's wrong with you, Anne!" Annie! ”
The girl had curly blond hair, but her delicate facial features showed a painful expression at the moment, she grabbed her neck with both hands, as if she was being choked by the throat, and kept moaning hoarsely, and her face gradually turned blue visibly.
And next to the two, a man dressed in black and wearing a bird's beak mask said to the two helpless maids next to the girl:
"Quick! Untie Miss Anne's corset! ”
Then he said to the anxious man in the top hat:
"Don't worry, May. Sir Turner. Miss Anne is so tightly corseted that I have seen many ladies who are almost unconscious because of their tight corsets, so it would be nice to untie the corset and give Miss Anne some salt. ”
He watched as the maid untied the blonde girl's lace corset from behind, and his eyes glanced at the white skin behind the waist, intentionally or unintentionally.
That's called May. The man in the tall hat seemed relieved by Sir Turner's words, and while urging the maid to move quickly, he said to the masked man:
"Thanks to you, Bu. Dr. Gao Sen, if it weren't for ......"
Before he could finish his words, he was pushed away by the girl in his arms, and the girl's girdle had been untied from behind, but her expression was still very painful, and her face became more and more bruised.
The girl choked her neck with her hands, unable to make any other sound or cough, and she fell to the ground, groaning incessantly.
"It's not the reason for the chest binding, she's stuck!"
Martin rushed forward and shouted at the crowd.
"Did she eat anything just now?" He asked May. Turner.
"Who are you?" The man with the bearded sideburns did not answer Martin's words, but instead asked.
"Mademoiselle has just taken the painkiller that Monsieur Belisarius gave me."
A thin maid next to her answered Martin's question, looking anxious and patting the blonde girl on the back, but to no avail.
"Don't shoot it, the medicine will be stuck deeper." Martin first asked the maid to stop patting her on the back, then came to the girl's side and asked the maid to help the girl up.
He was about to hug the girl from behind, Mei. Turner stopped him.
Myturner stared at Martin's outfit and yelled at him angrily:
"What are you going to do? Miss Anne is the daughter of an archon, how can she casually touch an outcast like you! ”
"Stupid pedigree theory."
"Do you have a way to save her now? If not, listen to me. ”
Martin felt angry that he had met a medieval diehard, and that the girl next to him would be suffocated to death if he didn't get help.
Sir Namethona turned his head and shouted, "Bu. Takamori! Don't you have a panacea! ”
The bird-beaked stranger stepped forward, and said to Myturner with some humility:
"Sir, I'm in a hurry to go out today, and I didn't have the panacea with me...... My suggestion is to carry Miss Anne to my barbershop..."
"When you carry it back, this young lady is probably dead!"
In the crowd of onlookers next to him, I don't know who came from such a mockery.
Meturner clenched his fists at this, he couldn't think of any other way but to watch Martin do it.
Martin, on his side, ignored the man in the top hat after laughing at Meturner, but lunged and grabbed the blonde girl directly from behind, He put his hands on the girl's upper abdomen, made a fist with his right hand against the girl's upper abdomen, and then held the fist with his left hand.
"The position of the two fingers up the navel..."
Martin muttered to himself. In his previous life, he had carefully studied the famous Heimlich maneuver, but he didn't expect to use it in this world.
He adjusted the position of his fist, and then began to squeeze hard up and in.