Chapter 651: The gradually increasing sense of abnormality
But if the girl doesn’t know her ‘parents’.
Why do we have the term ‘ancestor’?
Su Wen raised this question the moment he reacted:
"Since you don't have the concept of parents, how do you know the concept of ancestors?"
"The nun taught us this.
I heard her say:
Although the ancestors died a long time ago, they were all very powerful."
The girl raised her chest and continued confidently:
"so,
I found out from a certain picture album that their coffins were buried in quicksand, so I wanted to dig them out.
Mr. Kevin, you must be an ancestor because you have so many delicious things."
Hearing her strange logic, Su Wen couldn't help laughing.
"Your ancestors are probably lying there, but I am still alive."
"That's right."
The miner girl nodded subconsciously.
The ‘church institution’ that socializes and raises children and the ‘nuns’ who pass on incomplete knowledge.
Su Wen seemed to have captured the key point. He had already determined that this border or the other side was abnormal at the moment he met Joyce:
"Can you take me to see your church?"
But at this moment,
Joyce seemed to have caught a glimpse of something from a distance, and there was a rare hint of paleness on her cheerful, gray face:
"Hurry in, the Gray Umbrella Messengers are coming.
If they knew I just sneaked out.
He will probably be arrested."
Su Wen followed her line of sight and could see an approaching motorcade far away in the town.
But the appearance of those fleets was shiny silver-white, which seemed to be in sharp contrast with the steam town of the entire backward era.
Unfortunately,
The target was too far away, too small, and even moving quickly, so Su Wen's identification angle could not be completely locked.
He was pulled into the house by the girl.
The girl's small home looks shabby and depressing inside in the shadow of the pipes entrenched in the steampunk town.
From the walls to the floor, from the ceiling to the corners, everything is filled with all kinds of debris.
On the walls of the hut, intricate steam pipes are like ancient vines, entangled and intertwined, covering almost every inch of the wall.
These pipes are stained with rust, seeming to tell the vicissitudes of time, exuding a heavy sense of depression.
The pipes were hung with all kinds of weird gears and clocks, which shone with a cold light in the dim light, adding a bit of eeriness and depression.
On the ground, various steampunk-style debris piled up.
Those were all abandoned steam locomotive parts, rusty tool boxes, scattered drawings and parts that the girl carefully collected. These items were piled up in a haphazard manner, with almost no place to stay.
But in Miss Joyce’s proud introduction,
Su Wen heard that she valued these things, so he didn't have any contempt for them.
He understands:
Anything that seems cheap may be extremely valuable to its owner.
So the handsome scholar just found an empty wooden bench and sat down.
In the center of the hut, there is a bed surrounded by clutter. The bed is covered with thick cloth, but in this depressing environment, it is the only thing that can still show a warm atmosphere.
In the corner of the hut, there are some mineral specimens carefully collected by the girl. Although these minerals are beautiful, they have lost their former glory in such a depressing environment.
The edges of the ore were piled with dust and debris, as if they were treasures forgotten in a corner, unnoticed.
However, although this small family is full of depression and chaos, the girl makes up for it all with her optimism and tenacity.
It was as if these sundries were her most precious possessions.
Just ten minutes later.
The convoy coming from afar also drove into the town with a huge roar and disappeared in just an instant.
Su Wen found a stool in the corner and sat down, then looked at the source of the only light source in the girl's room:
A rusty iron window that provides very little shade.
Even so, the window was still sealed with an iron seal.
Just like:
A 【prison】general.
As for the sun outside the small window, there is no obvious sun in the sky.
Ashy,
It was the same day as he had experienced in the Jupiter Faroe Islands in the Lost Sea or the first route super trade port [Starfall Transport].
He didn't have much doubt about this, he just kept it in mind, and then asked Joyce about the news about the Gray Umbrella Messengers:
"Who are they?"
And until now, Miss Joyce has been clenching her little fists in an extremely nervous state,
It wasn't until the motorcade of the group of people passed by that they relaxed a little and began to answer Su Wen's questions:
"I do not know,
Gray Umbrella's envoys usually come here to check on the ore harvest.
Fortunately, they were not discovered,
correct,
Today is my day off, so I can be absent from work reasonably."
The girl let out a long sigh of relief and could not help but show off to Su Wen:
"You can take four days off a month,
That's great.
I heard that some towns can only take two days off a month."
"I can only say that he is more evil than most capitalists I know."
Su Wen couldn't help but complained,
He felt more and more the strong sense of distortion and fragmentation brought to him by the border of the lost sea, or the other side of the secret sea, that he was currently on.
That feeling of inaccuracy reminds me all the time:
How closed the border must be to create such a repressive environment.
Even the handsome scholar couldn't help but sigh:
"Joyce, it's really admirable that you can grow up to be so optimistic and cheerful."
"right."
The girl knew that he was praising her, and she smiled brightly.
"hey-hey,
Others say I am an optimist."
Looking at her smile, Su Wen also fell into deeper contemplation:
Although the Great Library does not interfere with the development of civilization, it will only choose to 'survive' when a certain civilization is on the verge of extinction, or simply preserve the traces of its past existence.
But it’s unlikely that Director Yu or Dean Constance chose not to inform themselves in advance that this situation existed.
If this is how Breeze City treats border people or pioneer descendants,
Su Wen believes:
There is probably no point in going to Laurenzril next.
But in his mind, the probability of another possibility may be higher.
That is:
What is happening here is probably not even noticed by Laurenz Riel.
In this regard,
Su Wen did not change his next game method: [Exploration]
As the chief player,
He understood something profoundly: ‘The advancement of the game needs to be supported by continuously unfolding clues and prompts’.
The place where he was most likely to get clues was probably the 'church' that the miner's lady mentioned. He had to go there to take a look, even if it was to sneak in secretly.
Even at the same time, he still needs to know what the 'nun' actually knows: