Chapter 171: Cemetery at Night
The clear night sky is deep black and has a transparent feeling, like a fine velvet cloth.
In the night sky, stars of different brightness are linked together by people's imagination and combined into one constellation after another, which converge and form a brilliant galaxy.
A semicircular crimson moon hung above the galaxy, sprinkling crimson moonlight.
The cool September breeze blows, and the treetops in the distance swing like a tidal wave, making a rustling sound.
This is the northern suburb of Tingen, in the Raphael cemetery.
Because of the afternoon showers, the soil was still wet, and there were still water marks on the blades of grass, and a dark leather shoe stepped on it, pressing the blades of grass into the dirt, leaving a footprint that overflowed with a little water.
Dunn walked slowly but surely through the quiet to somewhat cold cemetery,
After laying flowers to mourn old Neil and Crean, he came to his grave with a heavy and complicated heart.
He looked at the black-and-white photograph of himself with a gentle expression, looked at the epitaph on the tombstone, and fell silent for a long time.
"True Guardian;"
"The most trusted companion;"
"Captain forever."
After reading these three epitaphs, Lydia, who was following Dunn, also felt her eyes sour and her throat a little chosen.
The "Guardian" in the epitaph evokes her longing for Corvo.
After a long while, Dunn exhaled softly, and his tone was a little gloomy:
"Let's go."
"I can't believe that I retired like this......"
The two turned around and left the cemetery one after the other, following the path they had come.
The cool breeze has not stopped, but the moonlight is still there.
After an unknown period of time, a medium-sized figure appeared out of thin air somewhere in the cemetery.
After walking for a short distance, the bronzed-skinned Azik came to Crane's grave, looked at Crane's bookish black and white photos, and was silent for a long time.
Finally, he sighed and said:
"I know who it is......"
"I'll catch him, I will."
Azik bent down and put down the white flowers in his hand and turned to leave.
Under the crimson moonlight, the suburban cemetery was deserted again.
Suddenly, the stone slab that sealed the tomb was flipped over, and a slightly pale hand came out of the dirt.
Exhale-inhale-
Crane pushed open the lid of the coffin, poked his head out of the slightly damp dirt, and breathed in the cool air.
After the confused time when he just woke up, he continued the memories that were still fixed on the bright pair of leather boots and the palm holding the urn of St. Selena, and then realized that he had been resurrected again-
Just like when you first crossed over.
He got up from the mud, unbuttoned his shirt, and sure enough, he saw that the hideous wound on his chest was wriggling and healing.
Crane took a moment to gather his thoughts, and then moved quickly.
He restored his tomb and stood at the tomb to "look ahead" at his tombstone.
Underneath his bookish black-and-white photograph is a three-line epitaph:
"The best family;"
"Best colleague;"
"The Last Lovers."
Benson, Melissa, Leonard, and Valera...... Crane silently read the inscription on it, and a corresponding figure seemed to appear in front of him at the same time, feeling sour in his heart, and feeling the grief of his relatives and friends in reverse.
Maybe...... It's okay that I can go on my own, level up sequences, revenge, and ...... Go home.
After a while, Crane cleaned up his mood, untied the citrine pendant wrapped around his wrist, and with the help of divination, found the graves of Neil Sr. and Dunn successively.
Is the captain still dead...... He stood in front of Dunn's grave, thinking back to the bits and pieces of the past two months, and thoughts of revenge suddenly surged in his heart.
After the memorial service, Crane found a nearby hidden place and walked four steps backwards into the gray mist.
He wants to use the means of divination to find out who killed him that day, and figure out the real murderer behind the scenes.
However, the first thing that caught his eye was a crimson star in the gray mist, the crimson around it shrinking and expanding one after another.
It's the one that "temperates" Valeera...... Why did she pray to the "fool" again?
Crane unfolded his spirituality and spread to the "stars", and then he saw the distorted ritual picture of the lake, and heard the illusory and overlapping prayer sentences-
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Valera stood in front of the four flickering fires, beside his "remains", bowed her head in reverence, and reverently recited:
“……”
"I ask you for a wish, that you will bring this Cleon Moretti back to life."
“……”
He can even see his white face clearly in the picture!
This...... Aren't you afraid of the "fools"? Crane felt a mess in his heart, moved, excited, a little ashamed, and other indescribably complex emotions.
They were mixed together, causing Crane to temporarily lose the ability to control his expression in the Fool's high-backed chair.
After a long while, he let out a long sigh of relief, and barely found a normal heart.
"The hardest thing to accept the grace of the beauty, what should I do?"
Crane sighed softly, not knowing for a moment whether he should respond to the plea. If so, how?
Let's leave it there for now...... In front of him, he embodied a yellow-brown parchment and a round-bellied pen, and after a moment's thought, wrote the first divination statement:
"The one who killed me."
He recited it seven times, leaned back in his chair, and with the help of meditation, entered the dream.
……
6 Daffodil Street, Moretti House.
Valera leaned against the head of the bed, staring sideways at the red moon outside the window, thinking that by this time, Crane should have almost come back to life.
How will he respond to my prayers?
And the phrase "the last lover"...... Thinking of this, the corners of her mouth hooked up, revealing a hint of a playful smile.
I'm afraid that no one but herself could have thought that there was another understanding of this sentence-
"Lover" is the "lover" of the tarot card, referring to the "wrong" card and referring to the "wrong" god position.
In the original book, Crane defeated Amun, who was the double god of "Gate" and "Mistake", and obtained his god position at the end, isn't it the "last lover".
Valera was thinking of something interesting, when she suddenly felt a little cold around her.
She tapped her teeth and turned on her vision, and sure enough, she saw the tall bone messenger, and saw that it had dropped a slightly bulging envelope, which seemed to contain more than Mr. Azik's letters.
Valilla accurately attached the envelope to her hand, and when she opened it, she saw that in addition to a simple folded letter paper, there was a drop-shaped amethyst pendant worn on a fine silver chain.
A magical item, why did Azik give me this?
With such doubts in mind, Valeera opened the letter and began to read.