The open-top steam car drove bumpily on the gravel beach.
Kate raised her hands and felt the cool touch of the wind between her fingers.
Ahead of them lay an endless barren plain, with only the inlets twisting into the ocean. The roar of the internal combustion engine, the smell of engine oil, and the smell of wood from the interior of the steam car pulled Lu Li from the dark and terrifying weird era back to the old industrial era.
.
"Woo——"
Puhan, a drunkard who had not yet fully sobered up, stuck his head out of the car, opened his mouth and let out a strange scream. One of his front teeth was knocked out by the gravel rolled up by the car, and he retracted in embarrassment with his mouth full of blood.
"Fortunately, it wasn't my eye that was hit... Bah."
Drunk Puhan vomited blood, as if he didn't care about the loss of a leg as much as the loss of a front tooth, and shouted to Lu Li in a whisper: "What do you want to know?"
Lu Li slowed down to make Drunk Puhan's voice clearer and asked without looking back:
"What are Heim and Spirit Sculpture?"
"What Heim's Spirit Sculpture?"
"you do not know?"
"I know about Heim Wine and Heim Tavern, but I don't know about Heim's Spiritual Sculpture."
However, several of the names mentioned by the drunkard Puhan all point to the noun "Haim".
"Why is it called Heim wine?" Lu Li asked.
"Because they come from Heim, idiot." The lack of a front tooth did not affect the drunk Puhan at all as he taunted his savior, "Where are you going? I advise you not to go, the people of Heim are all crazy."
"Why do you say that?"
"You have just as many problems as Anna!"
This name touches the common softness in the hearts of drunkard Puhan and Lu Li, connecting them together.
"Anna..." the drunk Puhan sighed, "because Heim is the territory of the indigenous people. They resist us and stay away from us... Damn it, I have to tell you more! For Anna's sake!"
Drunk Puhan cursed and started talking while vomiting blood and water.
The Arable Garden was inhabited by aboriginal people before it was discovered by Thorasylvia Him. The mystery that people talk about is that they speak the same language.
Although the aboriginal prophecies are mixed with local slang, they do belong to the language family of this world.
The current reasonable argument is that the locals in Guangdiyuan are the descendants of those wandering and shipwrecked sailors.
The colonization of the Main Continent inevitably caused conflicts with the indigenous people, but they were still friendly to the indigenous people who spoke the same language. They did not conquer them, nor did they kill them all. The indigenous people were therefore divided into three types - one integrated into civilization,
One is free from civilization, and the other rejects civilization.
We have already seen the first two types of land - bay towns and fishing villages.
The latter is Heim.
"But don't expect to see a bunch of ignorant natives to gain your pathetic arrogance." Drunk Puhan chuckled: "There are fewer and fewer such natives, and they have basically integrated into civilization."
"Where?"
"Hiccup... Then you are going the other way. We are going inland. Heim is on the coast, at... Cape Wang."
“Where is Cape Wang?”
"In the east...no, north...west, yes, it's the west."
"Southside."
Kate suddenly said: "My history teacher told me that Cape Lookout is a place where aborigines and descendants of sailors lived together."
"I said, they have basically integrated into civilization." Drunk Puhan had no shame in pointing in the wrong direction.
"Aren't you going to change direction?" Kate asked Lu Li, who was still driving along the inlet.
"Let's go to town first."
From there, they can learn what happened in the Farmland last night, get the local map, and tell them that the Immortal Titan ran aground.
Even though what he was experiencing was false and a dream, Lu Li still couldn't do anything.
Lu Li asked, "How much do you know about the Farmland Garden?"
"What?"
"How much do you know about the farmland?"
Puhan, a drunkard with a sly laugh, said something leaky: "Your question is like asking me what kind of wine I want to drink today."
"Tell me about Heim."
"There's nothing to say... There are locals there. They lived there when you came. They used to be very exclusive, but more and more things created by science are flowing into the farmland, and they have begun to use your things.
"
Drunk Puhan repeated what he had already said.
"Is there any legend there?"
"You asked the right question... Hiccups. I know many, many legends. Do you have any wine?"
"No."
"Then I won't tell you."
"This is important."
"Young man, you are threatening an old guy who has nothing..."
"I'm saving a lot of lives."
"Are you a policeman too?"
"I'm an exorcist."
"It's almost the same, almost..." Drunk Puhan waved his hand, "Let me think about it... Legend... Legend has it that an unnamed flower blooms in an unnamed pond in Heim, and the person who gets the flower can make a wish.
…”
Drunk Puhan told local legends one after another intermittently.
"...You will be healed when you hear the lullaby...Hiccup...You continue, I will take a nap first, and call me when you arrive..."
Drunk Puhan's voice became smaller and smaller. Kate looked back and saw that his head was gradually lowering, and the blood in his mouth flowed along his lips and onto his chin, staining the dirty brown collar into dark brown.
It seemed like all that was left was the shaking caused by the bumps.
"How are you?"
When Kate thought he was dead, the drunk Puhan shook his head again and tried to open his eyelids: "Who knows how much blood I lost, if Anna hadn't woken me up..."
"Bring me another bottle of wine, and I can chat with you for a while."
Kate opened the glove box and rummaged through it, and the head of the drunkard Poohan in the back seat dropped little by little.
"Anna..."
The sleepy whispers were blown away by the wind.
There were women's cigarettes, handkerchiefs, lipstick and rolled stockings in the storage box, but no wine.
Kate turned around to tell the drunk Puhan and found that he was already leaning against the car door, his head hanging down and his chest no longer rising.
"He's dead."
The open-top steam car gradually came to a stop. Lu Li opened the door and got out of the car, and he and Kate lifted the drunk Puhan out of the seat.
"Are we going to be buried here?" Kate looked around for something handy.
"Need not."
Lu Li brought the heavy Puhan to the beach and pushed the body into the inlet.
The cold river carries the body away, and as time goes by, it will be washed into the sea with the current.
Lu Li and Kate returned to the car and restarted the car.
Kate looked back and saw a circle of dark stains on the back seat, as if Pugh was still sitting there.
The dull abnormal noise made her shift her attention away and looked at Lu Li who stepped on the accelerator but the car only vibrated: "What's wrong?"
Lu Li turned off the engine, then re-ignited it and stepped on the accelerator. This time the steam car completely stopped responding.
"Can you repair cars?" Lu Li asked.
"This is not in the knowledge taught by my teacher."
Lu Li looked into the distance and saw a low mound blocking his view.
"Stay here."
Lu Li got out of the car again, Kate's gaze gradually moved away, and he climbed onto the mound that was only a dozen meters away.
Soon, Lu Li returned to the car and asked Kate to get out of the car.
