After listening to the answer of the high priest Nim, Crane took the lantern and walked twenty or thirty steps to the right along the gray mist.

Then, he half-closed his eyes, as if sensing something, which made the Moon City Extraordinaries who followed behind him completely afraid to make a sound, for fear of disturbing the oracle.

After four or five seconds, Crane stretched out his right hand and slowly grabbed the air in front of him.

A stone altar then fell from nothingness into reality, with three candles made of grease and seven or eight spiritual materials placed on it.

As a demigod of Sequence 4, Nim was stunned for a moment, and seemed to be a little unconvinced of his eyes.

He had seen Gelman Sparrow take out his cane and heal his companion, only thinking that the other party had spatial abilities or had been favored by the "fool" gentleman, but now, his judgment was completely overturned, because the altar, the candles, the spiritual materials, he was all familiar with them.

He's used it before!

He was able to get out of the things I had used? This is from history, from the power of time? Nim thought back to some of the remaining texts of Moon City, combined with his own knowledge of demigods, and had a certain initial guess.

At this time, Crane turned his head and looked at the high priest and said:

"You can get started. ”

Nim took a breath quietly, and under the watchful eyes of Adar, Sin, and Ruth, he walked to the altar step by step, creating a spiritual wall.

After glancing at the symbols, logos, and patterns inscribed on the altar, and confirming that there were no problems, he performed the ritual with great skill according to the process that had been engraved into his memory.

At the end, he buried his head and recited in a low voice:

"The eternal and unchanging fog;

"The barrier that solidifies time and space;

"All-inclusive existence......"

Before the prayer was over, Crane had already focused on the gray mist, hoping to hear voices coming from the depths.

To this end, he scattered the large number of monster puppets that he secretly controlled and walked in the darkness around him, placing one at intervals to avoid any suspicious traces.

But until the ritual was complete, he was unaware of any anomalies.

After waiting for a while, Crane turned his gaze to Nim, the High Priest of Moon City, and said flatly:

"One more time. ”

............

Beckland, Queens, inside the study of the Hall family.

With permission, Audrey pushed open the door and walked in, where her father, Earl Hall, and her brother, Hibbert, were discussing something.

"Oh, baby, you don't seem to be looking good?" Count Hall looked at the door.

Audrey didn't have to play, and smiled reluctantly sincerely:

"There is a great shortage of food for the Poor Fund, and I would like to raise some more, and I have visited many nobles to-day, but they have all told me that there is no surplus of food, even if it is bought with gold pounds. ”

When saying these words, those aristocrats are either in the small living room or in the place dedicated to afternoon tea, with high-quality black tea and a variety of exquisite desserts in front of them, and from time to time ask Audrey to comment on the cooking skills of the pastry chef at home.

Their servants were ruddy-faced, and their steps were light, barely making a sound, so as not to disturb their guests.

"The current situation......" Count Hall sighed when he heard this.

Audrey thought for a moment and said seriously:

"Dad, I remember that there should be a lot of food at home, can I spend some money?"

"Audrey, you've done too much and don't need to do it anymore. Hibbert Hall frowned slightly and spoke, but Audrey just looked at her father and did not respond to her brother's words.

Count Hall's expression was much more relaxed because of his daughter's arrival, and slowly became serious:

"Audrey, the premise of charity is not to affect your own life and that of your family, and this is a principle I want you to keep in mind. ”

Audrey, who was dressed in a gold and white dress, frowned slightly and relaxed, and said sincerely:

"Dad, the family has enough food to feed everyone in this house for a whole year, or more, and there's plenty of food in East Chester County. ”

Because Winter County had not yet completely fallen, the Fursack army that invaded through the Sea County did not attack East Chester County, and the fleets of Fursack, Intis, and Feneport at sea were suppressed by several ironclad fleets of Rune, and could only barely maneuver around to protect the supply lines at sea.

Count Hall looked at his daughter's emerald eyes for several seconds, and then suddenly sighed and smiled:

"Audrey, you've really grown up, you have your own ideas and good persistence.

"However, none of us knows how long this war will last, we don't know what the final outcome will be, and we have to set aside a lot of food to deal with all this.

"I can accept that every meal is one less than two delicious dishes to help those in need, but I don't want my table to become like the middle class that the newspapers say it is, which would make us completely lose our dignity as aristocrats, which is something that we have been holding on to for every generation.

"Do you know what I mean? I just made an analogy, and the essence of the matter is that I value the survival and future of my family more than anything else, our identity and status, and I only show my love and kindness if it does not affect them.

"Audrey, what I said may be cruel, but you have grown up, it's time to listen, everyone is selfish, just to a different degree, in my heart, the whole Hall family is more important than me and your mother, more than you, more than Hibbert and Alfred, beyond these, first faith and good friends, then acquaintances, and finally all over Beckland, in need of relief.

"I wouldn't mind helping them if it didn't affect the previous ones, but alas, I have to think about more things now. ”

Speaking of this, Count Hall shook his head self-deprecatingly:

"I'm sorry to let you know that your father was such a selfish man. ”

As Audrey listened intently to her father's words, her expression changed slightly, and then she disappeared, and until the end, there was no additional emotion.

At this time, she was silent for a while, and asked again:

“...... But we've got more than we need, can't we even get a part of it?"

Hibbert Hall interjected, a little annoyed:

"Why give away what we've worked so hard to get to others?

"It's what we produce in the fields, pastures, and woodlands, and it's what we buy for gold and pounds, and the money and assets are inherited from the family, earned by my father's precise vision and great courage, and accumulated from generation to generation.

"We do charity to help others as an extra show of love, not that we have to do it, you know?"

Count Hall nodded:

"Hibbert said that there is no problem with that, and that's what I think. ”

Audrey pursed her lips and nodded slowly:

"I understand ......"

Earl Hall withdrew his gaze and said to Hibbert:

"The hoarded food must be guarded, and if the outcome of the war is really irreversible, you try to contact the Intis guys and show our sincerity.

"The war has lasted so long, they have also killed a lot of people, many fields are deserted, prices in the cities are skyrocketing, there must be a strong demand for food, for pastures, for woodland, plus my shares in the Bank of Intis Suchit, and part of the shares of the Bank of Bavart and the Bank of Beckland, I should be able to buy them, hehe, at this time, you can only talk about kinship if you first meet this demand. ”

Intis and Rune were often married, and many nobles were relatives of each other, especially the Vapor believers.

"Dad, are you thinking of surrendering?" Hibbert asked, somewhat surprised.

Count Hall bowed his head lightly and sighed again:

"How could I not consider this situation?

"When the time comes, you will be the new Earl of Hall. ”

Heber listened with a stir and was puzzled:

"Dad, what about you?"

Count Hall replied with a wry smile:

"Your mother and I are both devout believers, and we also have a certain status in the church, and when Rune falls and the church falls, if we are not willing to leave the front desk, it will not end well. ”

Speaking of this, he comforted his eldest son:

"As long as the Hall family is still there, the title is still there, and the loss of core assets is not much, we will not have a miserable old age, after you convert to steam, remember to prepare a secret prayer room for us at home. ”

During the conversation between the two, Audrey, who was wearing a gold and white dress at the door, watched and listened quietly, her green eyes were like jewels.

............

After repeated attempts, as the altar projection disappeared, Nim, the High Priest of Mooncity, pondered and said to Gelman Sparrow, who had made the strange lantern:

"It doesn't seem to work today, you can wait until tomorrow to try again, and it won't take more than two months at most. ”

At this moment, Klein's mind was full of another question:

Could it be that it is the perfunctory use of historical pore images that makes the ritual unsuccessful?

He examined himself deeply and decided to listen to the words of the High Priest of Moon City, and try again tomorrow, and when the time comes, he must ask the other party to bring the real materials.

He was about to nod his head when a vague voice suddenly sounded in his ears.

The voice came from the depths of the gray mist, layered, faint, and unusually vague.

Does this ritual work, but the delay is too high...... Crane was overjoyed in his heart, and immediately raised his right hand and pressed it down slightly, signaling the extraordinaries of Moon City not to speak.

He immediately held his breath, gathered his thoughts, and began to listen intently.

The sound that reverberates in the gray mist seems to come from a number of different objects, intertwined, sometimes interfering with each other, canceling each other, sometimes overlapping, and resonating.

Gradually, the voice became a little clearer in Klein's ears, especially the moment of resonance.

It seemed to be a familiar language, and it seemed like countless people were chanting a name together.

That name is:

"Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun".