The first thousand and sixty-three chapters dark alley area
(Sure enough, there is a double monthly ticket, so I asked for a ticket decisively, but I forgot about it yesterday - of course this seems to be a normal phenomenon. In short, although it is only the last one or two days at the end of the month, it is better to ask for a ticket.)
The Little Crow, the God of Grocery Stores, this is the conclusion Lilina came to after accurately evaluating the godly symbolic power of that silly bird.
Perhaps because she is still incomplete and too immature, Medivh's symbolic influence on surrounding things is highly random. A person who believes in the Crow God may not know what blessings he will receive: it may be new power, it may be
It may be that all diseases are eliminated, it may be mysterious knowledge, or it may be the new technology of awakening to eat two hundred cherries in a minute from now on (no mistake), this random blessing makes Lilina very headache,
Because this means that the Crow God cannot be defined: What kind of god is she in charge of? What kind of power should believers in her have? What is the standard way of praying? If these three major items cannot be determined, what is the authority of a god?
It's just a castle in the air.
"The church does not need to be serious, but the 'idol' of God must be serious, at least the image it appears to the believers must be serious," Lilina rarely said to me seriously, "The little bird is not concerned about this matter right now.
The method is serious. Look at the goddess of life. Although she has various problems (as the bishop of Dingdang, is it really okay for you to say this yourself?), but at least her power is impeccable. What should the followers of the goddess do?
If you do it, what will happen? In the power system of the goddess, everything is as unshakable as the law. This is the way God should lead his people, but now believers in the Crow God are like a lottery, waiting three minutes after praying
, and then the system pops up a dialog box: 'Congratulations on getting today's defense +10086 reward', isn't this nonsense..."
It's not easy for Lilina to say "nonsense". It seems that this girl also has a world view...
"There is a long way to go," Lilina sighed, covering her forehead, and then pointed at the vanilla without restraint. "This is all your mission. You have to be responsible for getting all these things done. At least understand the prayer rituals and blessing effects.
Let’s talk about the corresponding relationship.”
Vanilla was picking her fingers attentively. When she heard this, she raised her head blankly: "Huh?"
Lilina let out a long sigh and began to roll on the ground: "I'm so stupid, so stupid, so stupid! Do you have any consciousness at all? You are the only one among all the followers of the Crow God who can't write the "Crow God's Canon". Do you know that?
!”
Vanilla scratched her hair in embarrassment and giggled: "Because I can't write in the first place."
"Come on, don't embarrass Vanilla." I stretched out my hand to pull Lilina up from the ground, and tidied up the messy dress for the little dwarf. "Medivine is still young. With the life span of a god, she is now older than
The strength of a fertilized egg is limited... Ahem, one day she will be stable when she grows up. I remember what Xiaoxue said, the god of crows is the patron saint of something, which means that she will have a fixed future.
Priestly." When I said this, I glanced at Xiaoxue, who rolled her eyes: "The patron saint of magicians, thieves, assassins, and summoners. Dad, you should also serve snacks. Otherwise, in the future, you will really have to make people.
Hanging it at the door of the delivery room is specially used to bless mother and child for their safety... Ah, Mom, I was wrong!"
Before I even took action, Miss Lin decisively dragged this naughty kid Xiaoxue aside for repairs. Lin Xue was getting more and more into her role now.
Although the current Crow God is a bit frivolous, and the hungry people's belief in the stupid bird seems unserious, Lilina also summed up a lot of valuable information. She figured out the general process needed to sacrifice to the Crow God, and also
There are basic methods for deriving a small part of Medivh's power to release miracles, as well as several effective "prayer". With these things, it is enough to at least establish a prototype of religion.
"The symbolic power of gods does not take effect at will. Otherwise, even pagans will gain power as long as they live in the city of gods. Wouldn't it be a mess," Lilina explained the so-called "sacrifice", "'Sacrifice"
', which is to use some special items and actions to simulate scenes with God, or to simulate some of God's characteristics and deeds, and at the same time exert psychological hints on believers. Symbolic power is something that takes effect with the help of information disturbance, so
This kind of unscientific 'sacrifice' can trigger practical and effective miracles due to the information orientation. Christianity has a saying that bread and wine refer to the flesh and blood of Christ. This is to use special items and psychological suggestions to connect oneself with God.
To worship the Crow God, you need to clip black bird feathers to your clothes, build a nest with flexible grass, and place pebbles or other similar shapes in the nest. The first character before praying should be 'ga
', after the sacrifice, a handful of grain seeds should be scattered in the nest. The above is the most effective process I have summarized so far, which allows mortals to borrow power from the birds. Of course, in this process, the center must be sincere, at least
Be pious enough to exert psychological suggestions on yourself, such as...for example, you firmly believe that you are a bird..."
What Lilina said earlier makes sense, but at the end of the sentence, it almost stuck in my throat. I immediately admired those who believed in the Crow God Sect: What a strong psychological quality do you think they have?
It's not easy to be a priest in this kind of sect. It's not easy to believe in this stupid bird. And when praying to the Crow God, you need to add a "ga" in front of the prayer... I finally found that you need to add your name and address after praying.
This is even more nonsense.
"Well," while we were whispering to Lilina about her missionary work these days, the door of the lounge was carefully pushed open, and the short cat lady appeared at the door with her head lowered, "the room has been tidied up.
Okay, dinner is also ready."
"Wow, it's so fast!" Qian Qian jumped down and strode out, "Eat, eat, I'm really hungry after walking around for a day..."
After a while, she pushed the door open again and came in: "What, where is the dining room?" The cat lady quickly followed: "I will take you there."
"Is she too timid?" I muttered, looking in the direction where the rabbi disappeared.
"I have been bullied since I was a child and have developed the habit of being submissive," Lilina sighed old-fashionedly. "There are only two ways to survive in the south. Either you are strong enough or smart enough to beat people down or you can rely on them."
You can make a living by cheating, or you should lower your profile and pick up other people’s leftovers, just like a weak rabbi. If you don’t have a good brain, what else can you do besides being beaten and criticized?”
Perhaps because he is an agile cat, Rabbi works very quickly and has prepared a large table of meals for us: you must know that there are more than a dozen people here. But when I saw a table on the long table in the dining room,
After the big table of food, I couldn't help but glance at Sandora silently. The food here was obviously not enough.
The cat probably couldn't understand that there were only two kinds of chefs in the world who could feed Sandora, one was Anweina. The other was a team of hundreds of chefs. The meal she prepared for Sandora was not enough for Her Majesty the Queen.
What about the gaps between teeth?
We sat down at the long table. Sandora immediately started to take out food from her pocket. She also knew her appetite, so she would fill her pocket with food reserves when she went out. After all,
Although Her Majesty the Queen can live in the wild, she will never refuse when she can eat normal food. Shandora's move immediately startled the cautious cat lady, and she asked: "Well...
…Does the food cooked by the rabbi not suit your taste?”
"Even if you make a pot of sand, it will suit her appetite," Bingtis stuffed food into her mouth, not caring about the appearance of the food. "It just doesn't suit her appetite." Then she suddenly patted Lin: "Little girl,
Make friends with the rabbi."
"Ah?" Lin raised her head in confusion. She met Bingtis's narrow gaze, and the latter nuzzled at the cat girl: "She is also a victim. You two must have a common language together, such as sharing your experiences of being bullied.
.”
Lin shook her head expressionlessly: "No, there is no plot if the two suffer together, one attacking and one suffering is the perfect match."
The whole world fell silent. People in the room watched in horror as the usually honest Dragon God girl spoke so shockingly. Bingtis stood still with a vegetable leaf hanging from the corner of her mouth, and then Lin bit her spoon carefully.
He looked around and whispered: "Pao Pao taught me."
Paopao, who was feeding Little Paopao, immediately jumped up from the chair: "Dad, please eat first while I go to the kitchen to see the hot milk for the child... Wow!" Then she was suppressed by her elder sister.
We criticized this guy for several minutes, seriously condemning her behavior of not only being a coward and a coward, but also trying to infect this abnormal tendency to the most honest person in the family. Finally, Paopao finally admitted her mistake and stated that she would be responsible for correcting the Dragon God girl.
Worldview, she ran to Lin and said seriously: "One attack and one reception should be limited to two men, and you are a woman, so you don't have to worry about being with this cat and there will be no plot - you two can be Lily.
.”
Lin: I didn’t know what it meant but I said “oh”.
So Paopao was ordered by us not to eat tonight.
After resting for a night and regaining our energy, we began to discuss the next itinerary. It seems that there are no tasks that must be completed in this world. This is a relatively rare situation for us, which means that everyone can play here as much as they want.
It's been a while - everything is running normally in the Shadow City, and all the affairs have been assigned before leaving, so there is no need to worry too much. A group of young people have no plans. They can just follow the adults wherever they go. Pandora and Victoria
Ska wants to conquer the world, so he ignores it. Qianqian believes that no matter what he does, as long as he is with Arjun, it is interesting, so he ignores it. The five-person group of protoss wants to go to the south to see Lilina's missionary work.
What a strange achievement, this is in line with their profession, but Lin Xue and Lilina want to stay here for a few more days: they haven't had enough fun yet.
Maybe we can stay here for another two or three days, and then set off to the south: I'm also quite curious about what the Crow God Sect looks like.
"Speaking of which, Vanilla, you haven't gone back to your hometown to visit?"
After coming out of the secret society, I was going to go to another city that I didn't come to yesterday to play for a long time (the cat girl named Rabbi was left to look after the house. It wasn't that I didn't want to take her out, but she seemed to be quite afraid of going out on the street).
I glanced at Vanilla who was muttering behind the team with Little Crow. The little girl's mood had been very high. For her who had grown up in the mountains, a big city like Sentu was quite open to her.
Eye-opening: Of course, Shadow City is more eye-opening. But the standards are too high, too high for her to understand. In comparison, it is a place like Sentu that is both prosperous and not dizzying.
It makes vanilla feel more intimate.
I remember Vanilla mentioned before that she used to live near a small mountain town called "Lauren", and that town seemed to be in the southern region. The southern region... the southern region of this country seemed to be a very backward place.
, what I have heard so far about the southern region are either barren mines or abandoned mountain villages. For example, Luolun Town, where Vanilla originally lived, seems to be economically developed.
"The day I first came back, I sneaked over and took a look," Vanilla stuck out her tongue, "But no one seemed to care where the girl selling vanilla near the town ended up. However, some people were talking about the spirit of nature appearing outside the town not long ago, attracting
They mentioned the matter of the kingdom’s soldiers and mentioned me by the way. They probably thought I was dead. Not many people cared anyway, so they didn’t want to go back.”
"Is that so..." I don't think this is something to be happy about, but seeing Vanilla's indifferent attitude towards it, I won't say anything more. "Speaking of which, the two half-dragons seem to live in a dark alley.
It looks like the area, we didn’t go to the dark alley area yesterday, right?”
Lilina had already heard about the half-dragon Sakina and Sona from my mouth, and immediately nodded: "By the way, let's go to the dark alley area to have a look - but make sure you agree in advance, the dark alley area means slums.
, there’s nothing interesting about that place.”
"Slums?" Qian Qian had gotten along well with the two half-dragon girls before, and muttered after hearing this. "It seems that the status of half-dragons in this world is not very high. The half-dragon I saw on the street yesterday
No one is wearing good clothes."
My sister has been in this world for almost half a month. She also has some understanding of the customs and customs of this world. She nodded: "Half-dragons--in fact, not many people here admit this statement. Only they themselves can
They call themselves half-dragons because they firmly believe that their ancestors were dragons and became what they are now because they were cursed and had their powers sealed. Almost **10% of other races on the mainland believe that this is theirs.
Superstition and delusion. For other races, those half-dragons should be called 'lizards'. Just these two names, you can tell something about the situation. It is said that the half-dragons also had a glorious era a long time ago, leaving
There have been very powerful civilization ruins, but their race has a fatal weakness, that is, they cannot learn anything related to magic, and they have been stuck in a civil war. Later, when other races became stronger, these half-dragons occupied half of the living area of the continent.
Humanity quickly declined. After many years, they have now become low-status 'lizard people'. In addition to a few half-dragon 'countries' on several islands across the sea, the remaining
The half-dragons on the continent can only survive by relying on other races. Every race on this continent has its own land, only the half-dragons do not."
"The history is glorious, but the current situation is miserable," Lilina sighed, "Now they only have strength and glorious history left to show off, oh, and also the pride of calling themselves Dragonborn. This
I admire them very much. The half-dragons still firmly believe that they have the blood of dragons, and would rather die than change this view. I really don’t know what supports this self-esteem."
I have heard the past stories of Sakina and Sona, but I have never heard that half-dragons have such a history. Based on what I have seen in the past two days, I know that half-dragons have an embarrassing status in this world. Now from my sister
What I learned here is very emotional. This is the silhouette of a race from victory to decline. I suddenly recalled that when I met the two half-dragon girls two days ago, they introduced themselves.
When he said: "...We are half-dragons!" There was a look of pride on his face, but maybe there was also a look of helplessness and preparation for ridicule in his eyes. After all, for half-dragons, those three words have already
It's history.
Bingtis suddenly touched Lin's arm and muttered: "Hey, don't you see if those half-dragons are really related to dragons? What if it's really the mistake you made when you were young..."
Everyone sprayed a lot, and I dragged the female gangster aside: "I said you are talking nonsense! How old is Lin this year? You just made it up like this - by the way, Lin, how old are you now?
Already?"
The Dragon God girl's face was flushed. It was obvious that Bingtis's joke just now had exceeded her shame level. She was stunned when she heard my question, then raised her head and answered: "Seven...seventy thousand years old. I am more than 70,000 years old."
I’m still young, and I’ve never been in love.”
I:"……"
I was wrong, I shouldn't have discussed this issue with these guys who don't even know how to write the word "time" from the beginning!
The dark alley area is easy to find. The layout of this port city is very neat. Each residential area is separated by almost straight lines and borders the central square. A simple map can be found under the sculpture in the central square, showing
General directions of several residential areas.
I took the address that Sajina left for me that day and compared it with the house numbers of the surrounding buildings. It seemed that the place where they lived was in the middle of this messy area: it was already a relatively good area, and the deepest part of the dark alley area was completely hidden.
In the slums, almost no complete houses can be seen, and naturally there are no so-called house numbers. The homeless and beggars huddle in the shabby shacks there. The middle part of the dark alley area is where civilians live, although the houses
It’s old, but at least it’s a normal place to live. The Sentu authorities also maintain management and security here. As for the entrance to the dark alley area, it is connected to the trading market next to it. As mentioned before, there is the Explorer
A place to do business with local scholars (mainly traveling scholars from the Mystic Society). As one of the largest ports leading to the Lost World, Sentu is also the first stop for the turnover of "Lost World Materials". The size of the explorer trading market here
It is naturally so big that it spans two urban areas.
The road underfoot is full of potholes, and the stone slabs have long been broken into pieces. Due to the lack of drainage facilities, many of these potholes are filled with stagnant water. The surrounding buildings are low, and they are basically one-story bungalows with walls.
The body is mottled and cracked in many places. It is obvious that everything here has been in disrepair. The only slightly brighter color here can be seen occasionally when passing by the fork in the road. The notices posted by the Sentu authorities, but these are colorful
Whether anyone reads the notices posted here is another matter: in my opinion, they are far less interesting to the residents here than the graffiti made with inferior paint elsewhere on the wall.
Finally, we found our destination in the corner. "The door is carved with a picture of two dragons with a knife." This is the symbol Sakina told me at the time, although it seems that the door should be carved with two hungry dragons.
Dead bat, but the address is probably still correct.
But after we knocked on the door for a long time, there was no movement inside. (To be continued)