The wheels of the carriage rolled on the dirt road in Muxi Town, making a "creak" sound.
Seeing Todd's figure appearing in the motorcade, the residents on both sides of the road stopped their work and stopped their ongoing conversations. Their upper bodies stood upright and their heads hung down. Their bodies moved with the pace of the priest in silent respect.
Quiet air filled the air. There were only five or six young children, laughing and following the motorcade, shouting "Father" respectfully.
In the team, Walton, a short and fat man who was looking around with a sense of freshness and talking loudly to his companions, was shocked into silence by this strange atmosphere. He turned around to look at Todd's familiar face, but there was no trace of him again.
A way to connect this person with the monk who was toasting people everywhere in the church camp.
"If I remember correctly, more than three months ago, this place was still a deserted beach..." Holding the crossbow tightly on his back, Walton muttered to the woman beside him, Adelina: "Now it is here.
It turned into a lively and prosperous town... What kind of magic power does that person have?!"
Walton scratched his hair angrily: "Ah! How unlucky! If I hadn't had a mission, I would have stayed in Silver Ring City to witness the trial!"
The boy with red lines on his forehead who was walking in front of him turned around, saw the boots from the top of his head, and said in a mocking tone: "Even if you were there at that time, you wouldn't be able to see it unless you brought
A pair of stilts.”
Listening to the noise of the people behind him, Todd turned his attention to the girl next to him as he walked.
Since they experienced the thrilling heresy trial together, he is confident that his relationship with Karin Foreman will become more harmonious. Who knows that the saying "a woman's heart is as deep as the bottom of the sea" is not true at all, and the relationship between the two
Not only is there no progress at all, but there is a trend of regression.
When he and the girl's eyes met, the girl would always avoid his eyes; when the two were alone in a room, Karin would always find various reasons to leave the room.
There is no reason for this to happen. Did you do something wrong?
With such distress, Todd, who was puzzled, chose to turn his attention to the knight in front.
Under Alfonso's chain armor and iron mask, the giant parasite covering his whole body really impressed him deeply. However, the power of "clairvoyance" can only penetrate cloth, wood and flesh.
, for this kind of metal object, only a vague image of the interior could be seen. At this time, Todd's hopeless curiosity began to trouble him again.
It would be great if the knight could take off that obstructive armor, or could he take it off secretly when he's not looking?
This dangerous and absurd idea ran through his mind several times before he was finally thrown off the cliff by reason.
The convoy drove out of Muxi Town and followed the road eastward. Although the distance was not very far, due to the slow speed of the carriage, the total journey was estimated to take one day and one night, half of which was spent traveling and the other half.
Come and rest.
After traveling on the Yuexi Plain for about an hour, Todd could see the "San Sidro Monastery" on the hill in the distance, as well as the workshop at the foot of the mountain that was emitting light smoke.
It held too many memories for him, Master Miles, the seven morning classes, poor food, farm work, underground laboratories, silver refining fields...
The church gave him a letter of authorization to establish the Duxi Harbor Church and also granted him the holy order of a priest. He had to take off the gray robe of a monk, but this did not mean that Todd was completely separated from the monastery.
On the one hand, he handed over the secret recipe for silver refining and all the refining furnaces at the foot of the mountain to the monks in the monastery. Although the profits may not be enough for hundreds of monks to live comfortably, at least they
This would make their ascetic life less poverty-stricken and more peaceful. On the other hand, he also privately agreed with Bishop Fabian that the church should stop all actions to annex the "San Sidro Monastery".
The motorcade continued to move forward, and the scenery along the road became more and more familiar to Todd.
This was the road he and Karin traveled on.
The priest turned to look at the girl next to him. The girl looked at the scene in front of him with dreamy eyes and a face full of nostalgia.
"Karin, I..."
Hearing Todd's voice, the girl suddenly woke up, like a frightened rabbit, jumping and hiding in the distance.
The speaker touched the bridge of his nose awkwardly and thought to himself, am I that terrible?
After taking a short break at lunch time, the convoy marched forward for another four hours, and finally arrived at Watching Fortress at around six o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was setting.
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Watch Castle was built at the pass of the Fallen Star Mountains. It is located at the junction of three important roads. It leads to the Yuexi Plain to the south, to the border of the Silver Ring Kingdom to the east, and to the barbarian land of the plateau and snowland to the north.
Place.
The standing strength of the Keep is about 225 men, with the main arms being spearmen, crossbowmen and heavy infantry. The defense commander is Sir Adams, who has five knights under him, three of whom are secular knights and two are
Church Knight.
Judging from the cross section of the castle wall, its height is much greater than its width. The wall adopts a structure similar to a sandwich bread. The inner and outer surfaces are made of bricks and stone masonry, with stones mixed with mortar in the middle. The shape is almost completely vertical.
Like a curtain.
The defenders inside the castle can walk freely on the stone wall under the cover of the thin, stacked stone parapet. And through the perforations on the parapet, they can shoot arrows or throw other projectiles at the besiegers.
The entrance and exit of the castle adopts a double-door design. The entrance to the south is a gear churning door; the entrance to the north is a four-cable suspension bridge door.
In general, the Watch Fort is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it was built in a dangerous place. It is an important barrier for the church and the secular state in the south to resist the barbarians in the north.
Not far from this barrier, pure water formed by melting snow from the mountains slowly flows along the mountain streams on the ground and flows into the groundwater in the mountains. It eventually becomes the main source of domestic water for the residents of Shouwang Town on the hillside.
After the sun went down, a group of uninvited guests wearing gray robes, under the cover of night, avoided the surging crowds, came to the well in the town, and began their long-prepared plan.
They opened the wax-sealed copper kettle hidden in their arms and poured the viscous light black liquid into the well.
A man straightened up, with the badge of "Crown of Thorns" engraved on his chest, shining with silver light. He looked at the vast night and the fire in the distance, and whispered in his mouth: "The experiment has begun..."