Chapter 1063 Dark Alley Area
(Sure enough, there is a double monthly ticket, so I asked for a ticket decisively. I forgot about it yesterday - of course this seems to be a normal phenomenon. In short, although there are only the last one or two days at the end of the month, I still ask for a ticket.)
The little crow, the god of grocery stores, was the conclusion Lilina came to after accurately evaluating the godly symbolic power of that silly bird.
Perhaps because she is still incomplete and too immature, Medivh's symbolic influence on surrounding things is highly random. A person who believes in the Crow God may not know what blessings he will receive: it may be new power, it may be It may be that all diseases are eliminated, it may be mysterious knowledge, or it may be the new technology of awakening to eat two hundred cherries in a minute from now on (no mistake), this random blessing makes Lilina very headache, Because this means that the Crow God cannot be defined: What is she in charge of? What kind of power should believers in her have? What is the standard way to pray? If these three major items cannot be determined, the authority of a god will be a castle in the air.
"The church does not need to be serious, but the 'idol' of God must be serious, at least the image it appears to the believers must be serious," Lilina rarely said to me seriously, "Little Bird is not concerned about this matter right now. The method is serious. Look at the goddess of life. Although she has various problems (as the bishop of Dingdang, is it really okay for you to say this yourself?), but at least her power is impeccable. What should the believers of the goddess do? If you do it, what will happen? In the power system of the goddess, everything is as unshakable as the law. This is the way God should lead his people, but now believers in the Crow God are like a lottery, waiting three minutes after praying , and then the system pops up a dialog box: 'Congratulations on getting today's defense +10086 reward', isn't this nonsense..."
It's not easy for Lilina to say "nonsense". It seems that this girl also has a world view...
"There's a long way to go, there's a long way to go," Lilina covered her head and sighed, then pointed at the vanilla without restraint. "This is all your mission. You have to be responsible for getting all these things done. At least understand the correspondence between the prayer ritual and the blessing effect."
Vanilla was concentrating on picking her fingers. Hearing this, she raised her head blankly: "Huh?"
Lilina let out a long sigh and began to roll on the ground: "I'm so stupid, so stupid, so stupid! Do you have any consciousness at all? You are the only one among all the followers of the Crow God who can't write the "Crow God's Canon". Do you know that? !”
Vanilla scratched her hair in embarrassment and giggled: "Because I can't write in the first place."
"Come on, don't embarrass Vanilla." I stretched out my hand to pull Lilina up from the ground, and straightened the messy dress for the little dwarf. "Medivine is still young. With the lifespan of a god, she is only a little stronger than a fertilized egg... Ahem, one day she will grow up and be stable. I remember what Xiaoxue said, the god of crows She is a patron saint of something, which shows that she will have a fixed priesthood in the future." At this point, I glanced at Xiaoxue, who rolled her eyes: "Magician. Thief. Assassin. Patron saint of summoners. Dad. Serve snacks as usual. Otherwise, in the future, you will really have to hang them at the door of the delivery room just to bless mother and child... Ah, Mom, I was wrong!"
Before I even took action, Miss Lin decisively dragged Xiaoxue aside for repairs. Lin Xue is getting more and more into the role now.
Although the current Crow God is a bit frivolous, and the hungry people's belief in the stupid bird seems unserious, Lilina has also summarized a lot of valuable information. She figured out the general process needed to sacrifice to the Crow God, as well as the basic method of deriving a small part of Medivh's power to release miracles, as well as several effective "prayer". With these things , it is enough to at least establish a prototype of religion.
"The symbolic power of gods does not take effect at will. Otherwise, even pagans will gain power as long as they live in the city of gods. Wouldn't it be a mess?" Lilina explained the so-called "sacrifice", "'Sacrifice" ', which is to use some special items and actions to simulate scenes with God, or to simulate some of God's characteristics and deeds, and at the same time exert psychological suggestions on believers. Symbolic power is something that takes effect with the help of information disturbance, so This kind of unscientific 'sacrifice' can trigger practical and effective miracles due to the information guidance it generates. Christianity has the saying that bread and wine refer to the flesh and blood of Christ. This is to use special items and psychological suggestions to connect oneself with God. To worship the Crow God, you need to clip black bird feathers to your clothes, build a nest with flexible grass, and place pebbles or other similar shapes in the nest. The first character before praying should be 'ga' ', after the sacrifice, a handful of grain seeds should be scattered in the nest. The above is the most effective process I have summarized so far, which allows mortals to borrow power from the birds. Of course, in this process, the center must be sincere, at least Be pious enough to exert psychological suggestions on yourself, such as...for example, you firmly believe that you are a bird..."
What Lilina said earlier makes sense, but at the end of the sentence it almost stuck in my throat. I immediately admired those who believed in the Crow God Sect: How strong of a psychological quality do you think they have? It's not easy to be a priest in this kind of sect. It's not easy to believe in this stupid bird. And when praying to the Crow God, you need to add a "ga" in front of the prayer... I finally found a more ridiculous rule than the need to add your name and address after praying.
"Well," while we were whispering to Lilina about her missionary work these days, the door to the lounge was carefully pushed open, and the short cat lady appeared at the door with her head lowered, "The room has been tidied up. Okay, dinner is also ready."
"Wow, so fast!" Qian Qian jumped down and strode out, "Eat, eat, I'm really hungry after a long day..."
After a while, she pushed the door open again and came in: "What, where is the dining room?" The cat lady quickly followed: "I will take you there."
"Is she too timid?" I muttered, looking in the direction where the rabbi disappeared.
"I was bullied and grew up. I developed the habit of being submissive," Lilina sighed old-fashionedly. "There are only two ways to survive in the south. Either you are strong enough or smart enough to beat people down or you can rely on them." You can make a living by cheating, or you can lower your profile and pick up other people’s leftovers. The rabbi is a weak person. I don’t have a good brain, what else can I do besides getting beaten and beaten?”
Perhaps because he is an agile cat, Rabbi works very quickly and has prepared a large table of meals for us: there are more than a dozen people here. But after seeing a large table of food on the long table in the dining room, I couldn't help but glance at Sandora silently. The food here was obviously not enough.
The cat probably couldn't understand that there were only two kinds of chefs in the world who could feed Sandora, and one was Anweina. One is a team of 100 chefs. The meal she prepared for Sandora was not enough for Her Majesty the Queen to fill her teeth.
We sat down at the long table. Sandora immediately began to take out food from her pocket. She also knows her appetite, so when she goes out, she will always fill her pocket with food reserves. After all, although Her Majesty the Queen can live in the wild, she will never refuse when she can eat normal food. Shandora's move immediately startled the cautious cat lady, and she asked anxiously: "Um...isn't the food cooked by the rabbi to your liking?"
"You can just make a pot of sand to suit her taste," Bingtis stuffed food into his mouth, not caring about the way he ate. "It just doesn't suit her appetite." Then she suddenly patted Lin and said, "Little girl, make friends with the rabbi."
"Huh?" Lin raised her head in confusion. Meeting Bingtis's narrow gaze, the latter nuzzled at the cat girl: "She is also a victim. The two of you must have a common language together, such as exchanging experiences of being bullied."
Lin shook her head expressionlessly: "No, there is no plot if two people are together. One attack and one person are the perfect match."
The whole world fell silent. People in the room watched in horror as the usually honest Dragon God girl spoke so shockingly. Bingtis stood still with a vegetable leaf hanging from the corner of her mouth, and then Lin bit her spoon carefully. He looked around and whispered: "Bubble taught me this."
Paopao, who was feeding Little Paopao, immediately jumped up from the chair: "Dad, please eat first while I go to the kitchen to see the hot milk for the child... Wow!" Then she was suppressed by her elder sister. We criticized this guy for several minutes, seriously condemning her behavior of not only being a nerdy and a rotten person, but also trying to infect the most honest person in the family. Finally, Paopao finally admitted her mistake and expressed that she would be responsible for correcting the Dragon God girl. World view, she ran to Lin and said seriously: "One attack and one reception should be limited to two men, and you are a woman, so you don't have to worry about being with this cat and there will be no plot - you two can be Lily .”
Lin: I didn’t know what it meant but I said “oh”.
So Paopao was ordered by us not to eat tonight.
After resting for a night and regaining our energy, we began to discuss our next itinerary. It seems that there are no tasks that must be completed in this world. This is a relatively rare situation for us, which means that everyone can play here as much as they want. It's been a while - everything is running normally in Shadow City, and all the affairs have been assigned before leaving, so don't worry too much. A bunch of little ones didn't have any plans. They just followed the adults wherever they went. Pandora and Viska wanted to conquer the world, so they ignored them. Qian Qian's view was that no matter what they did, as long as they were with Arjun, it would be interesting, so they ignored them. , the five-person group of protoss men wanted to go to the south to see what wonderful results Lilina's missionary work had produced. This was in line with their profession, but Lin Xue and Lilina wanted to stay here for a few more days: they still wanted to Haven't had enough fun.
Maybe we can stay here for another two or three days, and then set off to the south: I'm also quite curious about what the Crow God Sect looks like.
"Speaking of which, Vanilla, you haven't gone back to your hometown to visit?"
After coming out of the secret society, I was going to go to another city that I didn't come to yesterday to play for a long time (the cat girl named Rabbi was left to look after the house. It wasn't that I didn't want to take her out, but she seemed to be quite afraid of going out on the street). I glanced at Vanilla who was muttering behind the team with Little Crow. The little girl's mood had been very high. For her who had grown up in the mountains, a big city like Sentu was quite open to her. Eye-opening: Of course, Shadow City is even more eye-opening. But that standard was too high, too high for her to understand. In comparison, a place like Sentu that was both prosperous and not dizzy made Vanilla feel more intimate.
I remembered that Vanilla had mentioned before that she originally lived near a small mountain town called "Lauren", and that town seemed to be in the south. The southern region... The southern region of this country seems to be a very backward place. The things I have heard about the southern region so far are either barren mines or abandoned mountain villages. Luolun Town, where Vanilla originally lived, seemed to be economically developed.
"The day I first came back, I took a sneak peek," Vanilla stuck out her tongue, "But no one seemed to care where the girl selling vanilla near the town ended up. However, some people were talking about the spirit of nature appearing outside the town not long ago, attracting They mentioned the matter of the Kingdom soldiers and mentioned me by the way. They probably thought I was dead. Not many people care anyway. So they don’t want to go back.”
"Is this so..." I don't think this is something to be happy about, but seeing Vanilla's indifferent attitude towards it. I won’t say anything more. "Speaking of which, those two half-dragons seem to live in the dark alley area. We didn't go to the dark alley area yesterday, right?"
Lilina had already heard about the half-dragon Sakina and Sona from my mouth, and immediately nodded: "By the way, let's go to the dark alley area to have a look - but make sure you agree in advance, the dark alley area means slums. , there’s nothing interesting about that place.”
"Slums?" Qian Qian muttered after getting along well with the two half-dragon girls. "It seems that the status of half-dragons in this world is not very high. None of the half-dragons I saw on the street yesterday were wearing good clothes."
My sister also stayed in this world for almost half a month. She also knew something about the customs and customs of this world. She nodded: "Half-dragon people - actually not many people here admit this statement. Only they call themselves half-dragon people because they firmly believe in their ancestors." They are the dragon race. They became what they are now because they were cursed and had their power sealed. Almost 80 to 90% of other races on the mainland believe that this is their superstition and delusion. For other races, those half-dragons People should be called 'lizard people'. With these two names, you can tell something about the situation. It is said that the half-dragons had a glorious era a long time ago and left behind very powerful civilization relics, but their race has a The fatal weakness is that they are unable to learn anything related to magic, and they have been stuck in the civil war. Later, after other races became stronger, these half-dragons who occupied half of the continent's living area quickly declined. After many years, Now they have become "lizard people" with a low status. Except for a half-dragon "country" on a few islands across the sea, the half-dragon people left on the mainland can only rely on other races. Survive. Every race on this continent has its own land, except the half-dragons."
"The history is glorious, but the current situation is miserable," Lilina sighed, "Now they only have strength and glorious history left to show off, oh, and also the pride of calling themselves Dragonborn. This I admire them very much. Half-dragons still firmly believe that they have the blood of dragons, and would rather die than change this view. I really don’t know what supports this self-esteem."
I have heard the past stories of Sakina and Sona, but I have never heard that half-dragons have such a history. Based on what I have seen in the past two days, I know that half-dragons have an embarrassing status in this world. What I learned from my sister now is very emotional. This is the silhouette of a race from victory to decline. I suddenly recalled the time when I met the two half-dragon girls two days ago. What they said when they introduced themselves: "...We are half-dragons!" There was a look of pride on their faces, but perhaps there was also a look of helplessness and preparation for ridicule in their eyes. After all, for the half-dragon, those three words are already history.
Bingtis suddenly touched Lin's arm and muttered: "Hey, don't you see if those half-dragons are really related to dragons? What if it's really the mistake you made when you were young..."
Everyone sprayed a lot, and I dragged the female gangster aside: "I said you are talking nonsense! How old is Lin this year? You just made it up like this - by the way, Lin, how old are you now? Already?"
The Dragon God girl's face was flushed. It was obvious that Bingtis's joke just now had exceeded her shame level. She was stunned when she heard my question, then raised her head and answered: "Seven...more than seventy thousand years old. I am I’m still young, and I’ve never been in love.”
I:"……"
I was wrong. I shouldn't have discussed this issue with these guys who don't even know how to write the word "time" from the beginning!
The dark alley area is easy to find. The layout of this port city is very neat. Each residential area is separated by almost straight lines and borders the central square. A simple map can be found under the sculpture in the central square, showing The general direction of several residential areas.
I took the address that Sajina left for me that day and compared it with the door numbers of the surrounding buildings. It seemed that the place where they lived was in the middle of this messy area: it was already a relatively good area, and the deepest part of the dark alley area was completely There are almost no complete houses in the slums, and naturally there are no so-called house numbers. The homeless and beggars are crowded in the shabby shacks there. The middle section of the dark alley area is where civilians live. Although the houses are old, they are at least normal residences. The authorities in Sentu also maintain management and security here. As for the entrance to the dark alley area, it is connected to the trading market next to it. As mentioned before, it is where explorers and local scholars (mainly traveling scholars from the Mystic Society) do business. As one of the largest ports leading to the Lost World, Sentu is also the first stop for the turnover of "Lost World Materials". The explorer trading market here is naturally so large that it spans two urban areas.
The road underfoot is full of potholes, and the stone slabs have long been broken into pieces. Due to the lack of drainage facilities, many of these potholes are filled with stagnant water. The surrounding buildings are low, and they are basically one-story bungalows with walls. The body is mottled and cracked in many places. It is obvious that everything here has fallen into disrepair. The only slightly brighter colors here are the notices posted by the Sentu authorities that can be seen occasionally when passing by forks in the road. However, whether anyone sees these colorful notices posted here is another matter: in my opinion , they are far less interesting to the residents here than the graffiti made with inferior paint elsewhere on the wall.
Finally, we found our destination in the corner. "The door is carved with a picture of two dragons with a knife." This is the symbol that Sakina told me at the time, although it seems that the door should be carved with two hungry dragons. Dead bat, but the address is probably still correct.
But after we knocked on the door for a long time, there was no movement inside. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)