old dream

Chapter 12 Photos
After leaving the newsroom, Colin didn't get into the carriage directly.Instead, he deliberately detoured among some alleys next to the college, so as to avoid any strange remarks among the idlers in the seminary.

Stade is a sprawling city from the scattered settlements of the pioneers, so its alleys are winding and complicated like a labyrinth.Even locals can get lost if they're not paying attention.

In the depths of these alleys, there are still buildings built by applying plaster on wooden frames, which may be hundreds of years old, exuding a light and complex smell in the humid air of late summer.

It seems that some people call Heine "skilled", but Colin doesn't know what kind of class that is.

At one point, Colin put his hope of entering the transcendent on Heine.

The end result is that he is validated as untalented.But before that, this matter was also strongly opposed by Uncle Craigie.

Uncle is not a supernatural person, and Colin is not sure if he has that talent.

But if my uncle can successfully develop his own perception and see the existence of those imaginary consciousnesses "with his own eyes" instead of just sorting out other people's second-hand materials, maybe his achievements will be far more than what he is currently doing.

But Craigie's attitude toward the transcendence of human beings is unusually cynical.

Although the earliest group of Cinthilian immigrants had fully integrated into Ankh's life and named their children Ankh, their views on some things were still as stubborn as they were hundreds of years ago.

Most of them have not been able to obtain accurate knowledge about the supernatural, but in the long secular life, they still cling to a simple and hazy concept of those supernatural things:

"Any power has a price."

A certain person is greedy for something that should not belong to him, and he does not hesitate to ask the power of ghosts and gods for help, and finally suffers retribution.Stories with similar motifs are constantly being staged in many legends of Sindhili.

Uncle Craigie has worked in the seminary for many years and should have a deep understanding of the extraordinary, but he is still deeply influenced by these concepts.

So after Colin was found out to have no talent, he always felt that his uncle was relieved.

Even his eye disease seemed to improve a lot in those days.

……

……

Heine abides by the precepts and does not use abilities on ordinary people without authorization.However, if he were to monitor the reporters as a supervisor of a seminary reporting agency, it would be within the scope of his authority.

I don't know if he started doing this, but do something about it as soon as possible.

After getting out of the alley, Colin planned to go to a nearby carriage station.

Then he saw a black-painted car parked on the side of the road.

It may not be accurate to say that it is a car. The shell and mechanical structure are similar to the old cars before World War II, but its power core is not an internal combustion engine, but a masterpiece of alchemy called a redstone engine.

Although it has been used for civilian use, the requirements for materials and craftsmanship are still very high, so the output is scarce.

After looking at it a little longer, just as Colin was about to turn around, the car's brass air horn sounded.The sound was a little harsh, and at the same time someone opened the rear door towards him.

Colin thought it was someone related to Julio, so he ducked sideways on guard, thinking that he didn't have a gun now.As a result, he saw Luka's face.

"It's a coincidence, I was going to pick you up." Luca said, motioning for Colin to get in the car.

Dazed, Colin reached out and opened the front door, and sat in the passenger seat.

The curves of the seats are not too snug but finely wrapped in dark red leather, and the glass front windows are vertical.

He fumbled around the seat and found that there was no seat belt. Colin suddenly felt terrified.

"How do you feel?" Luca asked.

"pretty good."

"It's close to two thousand Ori." Luca lit a cigarette, "You can get one too."

"forgive me."

His performance was somewhat inconsistent with Colin's impression, after all, "old friend" Luca has always been unpretentious.

"If it weren't for the distinguished guests from 'home', I wouldn't want to spend the money," Luca said.

"Home" refers to the "home" in Sindhi.

It was only then that Ke Lin noticed that there was another person sitting in the back row, and he could only see a shadow from the corner of his eye, without speaking.

The car starts, the thin tires are pressed against the stone road, and the suspension system improved from the base of the carriage has limited effect and is actually not very comfortable.

Luka didn't speak for a long time, and Colin guessed that he was going to mention the warehouse of the gambling hall.

"That inner responder..." Luca said lightly, "I didn't punish him, I gave him a pass as agreed, and I hope you don't trouble him either."

"Even if he's bad?" asked Colin.

After all, as an internal response, he missed such important information as "Capello's daughter was present".

"It wasn't his fault." Luca put out the cigarette on the tray in the middle of the double seat.A stack of photos was removed from the jacket.

Colin took the photos and flipped through them one by one.He noticed that the few people he knew in the photo were all senior leaders of Capello.

"This is the photo that was given to him at the time, and he did memorize it all on the spot."

Turning the photos to the end, Colin felt that something was not right, because there seemed to be one person missing.

Some looked at it again in disbelief.

None of them found Julio Capello, daughter of "Mind" Nevio.

"has leaked?"

"Look at the third from the bottom."

Colin took out the one that Luca said, it was indeed a woman, but he didn't recognize it.

Look carefully at this photo, the picture is a little blurry, it should be taken with a small mechanical camera under the exposure condition.

It can be seen from the content that it is a funeral, it should be Capello's funeral, and he was there at the time.

After carefully identifying the dress and position of the woman in the photo, Colin felt extremely confused.

That attire and position... He clearly remembered that it should be Julieo standing there.

But then he vaguely felt that the woman he saw that day seemed to be the woman in the photo.

Turn the photo to the back, and it says in black and white: Giulio, daughter of Nevio Capello.

Cold sweat slowly broke out from behind him.

"what happened……"

"You don't think it's her?" Luca asked.

"I have no idea……"

"So this matter is not the fault of that internal response. Since he does his best for me, I will give him what he wants."

"Then what is going on here?"

Luca glanced at the driver who was driving, and the latter parked the car on the side of the road with interest.

At this time, the car had driven to the edge of the Seber River, a tentatively decided unmanned place on the long embankment.Luca got out of the car, and Colin knew he had something to say, so he followed.

The driver and the unidentified passenger remained in the car.

"After last night, you also know that the world is not as simple as it seems," Luca said.

"You always knew?"

"No, I didn't actually hear these things until five months ago when they made sure I was going to be one of the five hands."

Colin thought that Luka had always been engaged in the redstone trade, and probably had some dealings with those wizards who were overt or dark, such as Heine.

So even if he heard something, he shouldn't be too surprised.

As a result, Luca slowly shook his head and said:

"It's crazier than I thought."

(End of this chapter)