Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 157

[Chapter 157 The Year That Disappeared]

The old man’s tone was very flat, as if he was calmly telling a story, and he just happened to appear in this story for a while.

“Sorry, it’s easy to talk too much when you’re old,” the old priest smiled, looked at Fan Na and said, “Do you have friends from other sects?

” “Fan Na thought for a while, “But she doesn’t tell me much about the admonitions of the God of Wisdom Rahmu.” “

The believers of the God of Wisdom… This is normal, and their creeds usually require a college degree or above to listen to them.” I understand, and sometimes you need to pass an advanced mathematics score test,” the old priest nodded with a face of course, “In contrast, the followers of the God of Death are the best to deal with – after all, we always have to die Yes.”

Speaking of this, the old man paused, and looked at the neatly arranged files behind Fan Na with some curiosity: “Your Excellency, can you tell me, what are you looking for?” Fan Na suddenly felt a little nervous

. hesitate.

She didn’t know whether she should tell the secret to the old priest in front of her. The hidden fire most likely pointed to a very dangerous shadow, and she couldn’t be sure whether that “shadow” was monitoring the city-state through some means, or He couldn’t be sure whether the old man in front of him could really help him. If he told the truth rashly, he might startle the snake.

But after a brief hesitation, she decided to reveal something.

This is the deepest part of the Church of the Deep Sea, the sanctuary favored by the Goddess of Storms, and the old priest in charge of the archives is a staunch warrior. He stays here to help visitors in this situation .

“I’m looking for a file—it’s not accurate to say that it’s a file, because it probably didn’t exist from the very beginning,” Fan Na said slowly while deliberating, “Strictly speaking, it’s a clue. In June of 1889, there may have been a fire, but all relevant information has been erased.”

“The fire in 1889?” the old priest was thinking, “I don’t remember any fire…”

He stopped suddenly and looked at Fanna thoughtfully.

“So, the erased data also includes our memories, right?”

“At least it includes people’s memories,” Fanna nodded lightly, “I don’t have enough evidence, except for my own ‘cognition’ , I don’t have any way to prove the existence of that fire, and I’m not sure what force is manipulating this matter, I… just doubt.” She suddenly felt a little embarrassed,

as a judge, she was used to questioning and investigation, but this time the situation was completely different from the previous ones. She didn’t know who the target she suspected was, and she wasn’t even sure whether the target was a human or a ghost. The behavior style is very inconsistent.

However, the old priest in front of her just nodded calmly: “Your piety and character are the evidence, Your Excellency the Judge.” After the words fell, the

old priest walked quickly to a pillar between the nearby bookshelves, and used his own The mechanical prosthetic hand knocked on a few specific protrusions on the pillar, and in the next second, a deep roar came from the depths of the floor, followed by the creaking sound of gears and connecting rods running.

The gate of the archives was closed, and some of the bookshelves in the archives began to move slowly. Some of the bookshelves approached and closed up. In the vacant area, pillars depicting many complex runes moved slowly. Rise from the floor.

As those pillars went up, the subtle sound of waves echoed softly in Fanna’s mind.

“…There is no need to mobilize so many people.” Fan Na was a little at a loss by the old priest’s actions. “This is just a preliminary investigation…” “Past

experience tells me that there is no ‘preliminary’ investigation for a huge threat,” the old priest said. The priest walked towards Fanna slowly, and he raised his mechanical prosthetic hand made of brass, “And I think something that can interfere with cognition on a large scale, and even erase specific historical events is a ‘huge threat’ “

…But your rash move to block the archives may cause a lot of people’s attention.”

“No, the archives will be closed randomly several times a month, so that the sacred installations and bookshelves here can move,” the old priest laughed, showing a set of jagged teeth, “‘Don’t let the ancient The scroll has been quiet for too long’, this is the rule.” “

Then I have no doubts.” “

You have checked a lot of information just now, and judging by your expression, you must have discovered something?” The old priest nodded, “I can help “

“I found some records about ‘heretic worship’—although it is not directly related to the incident I want to investigate, and the records themselves are scattered, but I don’t think it’s quite right,” Fanna said frankly, “Those heretics The worship has common characteristics, and it happened in the first half of 1889, and it came to an abrupt end after the factory leak in the Sixth Street…” The old

priest listened carefully to Fan Na’s description, and then found the corresponding ones under the identification of the other party. file information.

“That’s it,” Fan Na pointed to the document that was dug out. “The supposedly invalid sacrificial ceremony, substantial spiritual damage, although the scale is very small, they are all real acts of heresy worship. All cases The case-closing report also looks normal, and those who should be arrested and sentenced should be sentenced, but I think that each of these cases has… not been properly investigated.” “

For a case of this scale, the If the perpetrators are captured and tried, the investigation is already in place, but you are right, when several similar incidents are superimposed… the situation is different,” the old priest looked through the files and frowned, “All the incidents held The people who offered sacrifices were all “inexplicably bewitched”, but the source of the bewitching can’t be investigated…”

He muttered, and suddenly raised his head.

“Your Excellency, did you only check the files in 1889?”

“Yes,” Fanna nodded, and immediately realized, “You mean…”

“The incident you are concerned about did happen in 1889, but have you ever thought that these strange cases of heresy worship did not necessarily start in 1889,” the old priest said quickly, and then looked up Looking at the other rows of the bookshelf, “The earlier records are here, the three rows from bottom to top, all of which can be read.”

Fan Na immediately went to those files, and began to check the records in the file with the old priest .

But after a while, they found similar records of heresy worship events in the files they were reviewing at almost the same time.

1888, 1887, and even all the way back to 1886, there are.

“There is also a record here… the sacrificial event that happened in the port area, and here, it is only two months away from the last record!”

Fan Na quickly flipped through the file in her hand, feeling her heart pounding. Jumping straight, she raised her head and told the old priest about her discovery, but suddenly found that the old priest was standing firmly in front of the bookshelf, staring at a certain place motionlessly.

“Did you find anything?” Fan Na immediately frowned and asked nervously.

“There is no record of 1885,” the old priest said softly, as if muttering to himself, “it should be here, in this row, after 1884…but now after 1884 is directly 1886… “

…

“Let’s go here.” On the edge of the sixth block, Duncan glanced back at the direction he and Shirley came from, and said with a slight breath, “There should be no more gains from investigating here. “

They stayed in that chapel for a long time, but their current level of mysticism that “the two together are not as good as a dog” is obviously not enough to crack the strange space-time lock phenomenon in the underground temple.

Before they left, the underground sanctuary returned to its original state, and the nun between the ashes and the living was still praying devoutly in the main hall of the church, and did not respond to the departure of Duncan and Shirley. .

The exterior of the church is still dilapidated, and the surroundings of the church are still empty.

But Shirley didn’t really care much about the secrets in the church.

“I…can I really go home?”

She looked at Duncan quite nervously, her tone was disturbed but mixed with an inexplicable hesitation.

“Of course, I have never restricted your freedom to leave,” Duncan smiled and rubbed the other party’s hair. Although Shirley was about the same age as Nina, he couldn’t bear the girl’s petite and thin body. Zhu regarded her as a younger child, “Today’s investigation is over, you can go home.” Shirley

subconsciously turned her head and glanced at the direction of home, and wanted to move, but suddenly hesitated: ” Then…will we continue to investigate after that?”

“Of course, this matter is far from over,” Duncan raised his eyebrows, “Why? Are you reluctant to leave?” “Ah, no, no, no

!” Shirley said. Listening hurriedly waved his hands, “I’m just… the next time I investigate…”

“I’ll find a way to contact you, or you can come to me on your own initiative,” Duncan smiled and rubbed Shirley’s head again, “and Not just for investigation, but if you encounter any other difficulties, you can also come to me directly for help.”

Shirley blinked, feeling something strange, but she nodded slightly in the end, but before turning around and leaving, she again I couldn’t help asking curiously: “Then… do you have any plans for the future?”

“Me?” Duncan was taken aback, thought for a while and said, “I’m going to buy a bicycle this afternoon.”

Shirley was stunned “…Huh?”

“Buy a bicycle,” Duncan repeated seriously, “I promised Nina for a long time, and it’s time to fulfill my promise today. Why, what’s wrong?” Shirley snapped

. After a long time, she finally choked out a sentence: “Ah… Ah Gou said, no matter what, you have to do something that subspace invasion should do…” Before she finished speaking, a shadow suddenly appeared in the air

next to her, Ah Gou said. The broken voice of the dog yelled hastily in the shadows: “I didn’t say!!”

The shadow disappeared in the next second – Agou was obviously afraid that people would see him if he showed his head outside.

Duncan: “…”

He held back for a long time, and finally let out a helpless smile: “Okay, now the Subspace Invasion is going to buy a bicycle for his niece—let’s leave it at that.” (End of this chapter

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