"The Rosewade neighborhood is in the western suburbs of the city, closest to the southern foothills of the Thorson Mountains. In ancient times, it was still a barren highland, and the wind fairies drifting here brought it the distant past.
The call of the wind stirred up the breath of life. When the ancestors of Rosting came here to build their first house with reeds and straw, the wind fairies quietly watched their smiles in the leaves of the tree crown.
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"For a long time, the wind fairies did not interfere with the local residents. In other words, they maintained an equally alienated attitude from all life, because this is their nature. They are as distant and vague as the wind.
Elusive. Therefore, even the Fairy Sleep Inn rarely receives guests from the Wind Fairy family, and Miss Angelis is the only exception."
Shelia mentioned the name in the registration book, which also brought the story back from the ancient and poetic era to the cold reality.
"The city expanded so rapidly that a thousand years seemed like a blink of an eye. Before the wind fairies could deviate from their memories, a giant beast had already devoured their home, turning the originally lush woodlands, green fields and rivers into ashes.
The small rivers are all incorporated into the houses made of wood and stone, becoming part of what you call 'civilization'."
"What followed was an encirclement and suppression by the night watchmen."
When the bartender said this, a rare flash of fear flashed in her eyes: "I don't want to use words to describe the killings that happened under the curtain of light again, but every guest who often registers his name at the hotel will not come back here in the end.
They were either afraid of the guns of the night watchmen and fled to more remote wilderness, or they had been reduced to piles of ashes under the smoke of gunfire, unable to make a sound. In just a few decades, there were not even a single outlier in this city.
Everyone lives in fear. No one has ever stepped in front of the hotel door, and it is gradually covered with weeds. That is the forest you passed through when you came, and it may also indicate our fate in this city." p>
"It's not that no one tried to resist, but the long-awaited resistance looked more like a counterattack by a caged beast in the eyes of the Night Watchmen, which only made them a laughing stock. They have overwhelming power, which is a horror you can never imagine.
Things, Mr. Ringer. Like the uplift of mountains, and like the falling of stars..."
She pursed her lips and suddenly fell silent.
Ringer did not disturb the girl's trance. Perhaps he could understand the other party's feelings, because the strength of the religious alliance was not only reflected in the extraordinary power, but also had supreme authority in the secular world. A piece of "Religious Decree",
It destroyed the spiritual destination of countless people, and he was also an ant floating in the tide.
After a while, Shelia calmed down a little, and then she continued to speak, but she talked about a topic that seemed to have nothing to do with the matter: "Did you take the train when you came to Rosting City?"
Ringer nodded slightly.
"Then I should tell you something." Shelia said: "When the Rodlands Railway Station project was first established, there were many voices of opposition among humans because they were worried that the thick smoke emitted by the train would pollute the pure air and make the city unsafe.
How beautiful.”
As a tourist city, if it is no longer beautiful, it seems to have lost its value of existence.
"When people were arguing about this, the wind fairies, who were gradually being occupied by the city in their living space, heard about this and suddenly had a new idea: they wanted to negotiate with the night watchman and use their own magic to help the city.
Purify these polluted smoke and haze. Wind fairies are born as the darlings of the sky and wind. It is easy to do this. The only thing they ask for is the qualification to live in peace on this land without fear.
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"It is clear that they are the earliest residents of this land, and it is they who have brought to this land the vitality and prosperity that mankind is proud of. Without that gust of wind from the ancient times, what would the current city of Rosting be like?
Where? Wasteland? Swamp? Dead forest? No one is sure."
She shrugged, and this action felt casual. Linge was speechless and could only ask: "What is the result of the negotiation?"
This is a win-win cooperation. A normal person would have no reason to refuse, but judging from Ringer's understanding of the alliance of religious groups, this may not be the case.
Sure enough, Shelia answered him: "The attitude of the night watchmen has always been as resolute as the bullets they fired, so they did not hesitate to reject the proposal of Miss Anjies who came to negotiate, and soon, the wind fairies felt guilty for their naivety.
They paid a price: they exposed their position, were raided by the Night Watch, and suffered heavy casualties. The remaining tribesmen had to leave the city of Rosting and wander in search of a new hometown."
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"There is a precedent for the wind fairies here. Those who are originally afraid of the Night Watch are even more afraid; those who originally hate the Night Watch are even more hateful. But whether it is fear or hatred, we are unable to resist, so we can only live in silence.
In the shadows, I am frightened, enduring a life without guests or friends, depressed to the point of going crazy, with no hope for the future, just like this hotel."
She raised her head and looked around the hall. She felt nostalgic for the bright light, the old tables and chairs, Mr. Rabbit jumping past the counter, and the potted plants in the corner: "It will die one day.
, now it’s just dying.”
……
While the young man and the bartender were talking about the past history at the counter, the goblin maid Xemmi took Alice and Metien and pushed open the door to the underground garden. The proprietress Xie Si was in the kitchen preparing tonight's menu.
Ta turned around and warned slowly: "Be careful, Xie Mi~ don't let the guests be frightened~"
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"I know, eldest sister!"
Semi waved to acknowledge receipt, and then took the two guests into the sloping underground tunnel, which was similar to the tunnel they entered the hotel. The only difference was that there was an extra train track, and there was a train on the track.
A small mine cart. Next to it are piles of wooden shelves and barrels, which contain various tools of unknown purpose: mining manuscripts, shovels, pickaxes...
Xie Mi took down three yellow safety helmets from the shelf nearby, handed them to Alice and Metien, and said solemnly: "Pay attention to safety!"
It left Alice speechless: Goblins and minecart tracks, what kind of trendy combination is this?
After tightening the straps of the helmet hard, Xie Mi pressed the searchlight on his head, and a white beam of light suddenly shot out, illuminating the dim shadows. But if you look closely, you can find that there is actually a six-piece embedded in the searchlight.
For side-shaped gems, the light source is refracted from the inside of the gem.
Alice was even more speechless: Is this high-tech or fantasy?
Xemela led the two of them onto the mine car, unlocked the safety valve, and then... flapped her wings vigorously, her little face turned red: "Hey!"
It was clearly a narrow tunnel, but suddenly a strong wind blew up, pushing the mine car forward slowly, all the way down the track. The beam of light emitted by the searchlight was like a sharp sword, guiding the people in front of it straight.
Road.
Alice collapsed in the minecart and sighed silently: It is still driven by human power, this is too retro.
This was the first time he had such an experience. Metien was very excited. He looked around and couldn't help but observe the scene around him. Within the scope of the searchlight, he could see that the material of the tunnel wall was constantly changing. At first, it was brown with the texture of trees.
, then turned into a hard solidified black soil layer, and finally turned into some kind of metal with a cold luster, as if traveling through the underground pipes of the city.
All the way down, about a few minutes later, Miss Xie Mi, who was sitting at the front of the mine car, shouted: "We're here!"
Alice and Metien looked up at the same time and saw a large hazy light at the end of the tunnel.