Old-time musicians

Father Lavoisier is going into the Abnormal Zone to investigate?

The Holy Sun Church also has plans to investigate the Abnormal Zone?

Originally, the other party's words should sound a bit sad for no reason, but the moving target expressed by the other party completely attracted Luo Yin's attention, and he suddenly thought of the relevant people and things.

A powerful man of Father Lavoisier's level not only has more resources at his disposal, but also knows more secrets.

If Mr. Fan Ning is somewhere now, secretly making preliminary plans to enter the abnormal zone, is it possible for them to intersect or cooperate?

Luo Yin's thinking accelerated almost instantly.

The teams entering the Abnormal Zone are scattered and frequent now, but apart from the strategy of going alone or hiding in secret organizations, there are not many formal and relatively safe options, and the biggest possibility is to join the Special Patrol Office investigation team. For him, It can almost be ruled out directly.

Thinking about it this way, I’m not sure, but the possibility of having an intersection with the church is very high!

Father, I would like to take the liberty of asking you for information about a person. On the eve of everyone saying goodbye in the hotel lobby, these words almost came out of Luo Yin's mouth.

Moreover, I rehearsed it in my mind several times.

I was willing to obey his words of "don't go", but I really wanted to know more information.

Personal current situation, psychological state, people traveling with him, safety risks, how long is the general possible duration or, better yet, is there any reason why he can't go?

Even if there is no result, it is okay to talk about this topic.

But in the end Luo Yin opened his mouth but said nothing.

The investigation plan of the Abnormal Zone is a confidential task for any organized group, and what I am probing is Fan Ning's affairs. Even if Father Lavoisier is honest enough, he must be cautious even in private situations.

What's more, there are many people present here.

"I am not considered a guest in this city. Please ask them to treat Miss Luo Yin and his party with respect."

Fan Ning had already turned away, took steps, and told the receptionist priest to ignore him.

When Luo Yin came back to his senses, he realized that he had not responded for a long time, which was a bit rude. After all, his concern had nothing to do with Bishop Lavoisier's subsequent misfortunes, nor did it have anything to do with the faith and achievements of the church.

"The priest will return with the 'God's Theme'. Now Janus has new vitality. Then he will definitely welcome this glory with a completely different look."

She made up for the blessing by saying it in a hurried manner and a little unnaturally.

The figure of the grey-haired priest in front has disappeared at the top of the stairs.

The next day it was still an early meeting, dinner, and departure.

After walking like this for four days, stopping and going, accompanied by some necessary social interactions or "rescue" sessions by Lavoisier, everyone had visited the three small towns in the northeast of Pontua and the five districts in the county.

The person in charge of the diocese who was responsible for the contact was also rotating following the handover, but Luo Yin never found a suitable opportunity to talk about this matter.

At dusk on the fourth day, everyone passed through the county town and entered the southwest section of the long and narrow territory of Pontua County. There are three other parishes here. Although it is said to be a "small city", in fact, it is villages, towns, The fields and rivers are wider.

"The director of the Diocese of Laubken in the Lowlands, Duerke, met with His Excellency the Bishop and welcomed Miss Luo Yin."

This time, the person who came to the city gate was greeted by a one-armed, thin old priest. Under his slack eyelids, a dim and everlasting light seemed to be visible.

After settling in the church not far from the city gate, everyone transferred to the carriage provided by the diocese and inspected the situation in the small town of Laubken in the lowlands.

Luo Yin, who opened the carriage curtain, began to see many different people and things.

For example, there are traces of explosions, scrap steel bars, piles of rubble, and newly built simple houses.

"This shouldn't be considered the front line. Is there a war going on?" she asked with a frown.

Many of the original houses on both sides of the street were bombed. It is not as exaggerated as to turn into "ruins" or "ruins". At a glance, most of them still constitute the normal street scene of the past, just one building after another. Upon closer inspection, holes, cracks or tilts everywhere indicate that its load-bearing structure and basic functions have been severely damaged.

"The bombing comes from above." Old Priest Duerke pointed to the sky with his one arm, "But those guys usually don't come out after nightfall."

"An attack from an airship?" Luo Yin found it difficult to understand.

It would be understandable if such a large and bulky steam aircraft, with poor maneuverability and covered with soft materials, appeared on the front line. How could it fly safely into a relatively remote county?

"It was a shorter, lighter military aircraft that had not yet become popular at the time when I went to the battlefield."

I learned from previous conversations that this old priest named Durk also participated in the war when he was young - local turmoil in various places in this era has not stopped - he was originally a country musician who lost a string during his service. Arm, after returning to his hometown with the relief money, one of his children died of illness, and his wife had remarried. Frustrated, he went to the church, worked as a clergyman, and as an assistant to the choir conductor. Through various opportunities, he became a A priest.

Durk recalled the situation over the past four months: "Initially, the impressions of the armies and navies of the two countries on this gadget were that wood and metal were stronger and could fly faster. Too much interest until someone discovered their investigative advantages."

"With the motive of conducting reconnaissance, there is the motive of hindering the enemy's reconnaissance. But at the beginning, there were no weapons and equipment on it. Some people brought bricks and tried to smash other people's propellers, and some tried to install knives on the tail fins. Cut open the skin of the airship, and successfully shot down some enemy aircraft."

"The issue of air combat got the authorities' attention, and then they brought the guns up."

"From pistols, shotguns, rifles to sniper rifles, they found that in this kind of air combat situation, it is most useful to equip a fixed machine gun that can fire along the longitudinal axis of the aircraft. However, this machine gun also has a fatal problem. It shoots from behind the propeller. It’s easy to hit your own blades”

"In our Janus army, someone came up with a wedge-shaped deflector made of steel, which temporarily solved this problem. However, the strong impact of the bullet hitting it can still easily cause engine failure. At this time, the North Mainland China's Tiolian began to sell a component called a 'shooting interrupter' and said it had specifications suitable for more than a dozen common military aircraft models."

"I really don't know about this." Luo Yin heard this and smiled helplessly.

Tioleon is currently said to be a "neutral party" and has promised that it will never impose unreasonable restrictions on any party in trade. However, the motivation for everything is still profit.

Over the past 100 years, Tioleon has exported a large amount of industrial technology, which will inevitably affect all countries and fields, including the military, directly or indirectly.

"The inventor is Carmen Leon, the mentor of the Guidance School, the great physicist, and the founder of the second-generation difference engine." Durk said, "This device perfectly avoids the problem of the machine gun hitting its own propeller when firing from behind. The driver could pour out firepower without scruple, and whenever the blades turned in front of the machine gun, the interrupter system could exquisitely temporarily stop the bullets from being fired. The Lydians were very optimistic about this invention, and also very optimistic about some other weapons. In the past few months, the amount of arms sold to them by Theoline was more than four times that of Janus."

"Isn't the state religion of Lydia enshrining the 'Raven'?" At this time, Ms. Hermosa, who was accompanying Luo Yin, spoke up, "The priests of their 'Lingyin Discipline Society' mainly study 'Desolation', which is more expensive than Gui." The teaching also emphasizes introspection and moderation. Since the beginning of this war, we have been suppressing you, and it is indeed strange that we are playing so aggressively.”

"Who knows, they are the ones who are currently the most aggressive in the territorial dispute in the Southern Continent." An aide and deacon made a slight gesture of spreading his hands, "In the final analysis, the 'Apel region territorial dispute' is This rhetoric that was used indiscriminately hundreds of years ago can be used as a reason for war again, and it is nothing more than that they want to use it to achieve more demands in the enclosure competition in the southern continent. "

As if seeing some regret in Luo Yin's expression, the old priest Duerke smiled with relief:

"Miss Luo Yin has some thoughts about secular war. This is normal. However, you are both the eldest lady of the Extraordinary School and a musician in the art circle. What you did during this trip was a noble act. In my opinion, it is too much grudge. It doesn’t have to be.”

"After the Southern Kingdom evaporated out of thin air, the whole world is now having a hard time. As far as I know, the Northern Continent's debt default rate, unemployment rate, and bankruptcy rate all rank first. It can be said that Tioleon is starting a war by selling arms. But in the final analysis, the purpose of both warring parties is to make war profits, and no one is more noble than the other. "

"As long as the war starts, human imagination will make endless leaps in weapons and equipment; as long as the competition for enclosure in the South is fierce enough, other people will pay more attention to the contradictions there; as long as the operating load of the military factories is enough Fully loaded, there are enough orders from the upstream and downstream industries, and the unemployed young people lying on the streets will have more places to go.”

Fan Ning, who had been listening silently, couldn't help but take a closer look at the one-armed old priest.

Durk looked up at the sky again: "In short, the pilots started to think about shooting at each other, and they also made plans for the factories, facilities, and warehouses below the plane. Finally, they finally brought the cannonballs up, so they A month ago, Carmen Leon invented an automatic bombing device with a shell rack, a release system and a bomb sight based on battlefield needs. Now 'air strikes' have almost become one of the regular military actions of both warring parties."

The carriage slowed down, and everyone was talking and watching.

Looking all the way, despite the devastation of air raids, there are still citizens who choose to live in "dangerous houses", but more of them are newly built, crooked and crowded houses along the streets and riversides, or halfway up the hillsides. A simple residence.

Their materials are mostly bamboo and wicker, with a small amount of stone and cement, making them look very loose.

But Luo Yin sensed that there was a simple, basic and relatively low-cost "key" ritual altar in operation inside them, which ensured its basic functions of blocking sight and shielding from wind and rain, and it would not be possible for a while. Collapse.

In terms of resisting bombing, they will not be stronger than the original buildings, but their advantage is that they are fast and flexible. These women and children laid out almost all their belongings, including buckets, basins, bowls, dishes, etc. for cooking. Kitchen knives, cutting boards, stoves, grills, oil jugs, milk pails and sugar bowls locked in greasy cabinets, folding beds or broken sofas for sleeping, and a set of sewing and mending tools in a "simple shack", part of which is on the sidewalk. leave another part

This made the already narrow streets even more cramped, and the people squirming in them looked like crooked stitches sewn on a long wound.

"Whether it's work or housework, the work that people missed while avoiding air raids during the day can only be made up at this time, so you may feel that it is a bit crowded and noisy now."

"Fortunately, those guys were greatly affected by the weather and couldn't come out at night, even on cloudy and rainy days."

A clergyman and a local official explained.

Luo Yin nodded politely in response, and stopped in front of some lively "small ponds".

These are actually craters left by the bombers after they flew away. After the rain and snow melted inside, they showed a "lifelike" side - children squatted in a circle, washing scraped potatoes and vegetable leaves. , some women even used long mallets to beat their clothes.

Strictly speaking, this place does belong to the rear area of ​​​​the war.

There is definitely a difference between "rear area" and "front line".

But the "rear area" is also different from the previous "rear area". This place has indeed been completely far away from the influence of the thousands-year-old holy city.

"There's a long queue in front of us. What are they grabbing?"

Luo Yin saw people at the end of the field of view ahead lining up from the left side of the street to the right side, and then back to the left side. They actually "turned around" four times. Coupled with the already crowded sheds on both sides, the street was forcibly "turned around". "Cut in half" was divided into several pieces, and the way of the carriage was also blocked.

There were also faint sounds of doubts and quarrels about bargaining.

"It's the grain store. Now the price list changes too quickly. It changed in the first few days, and now it changes several times a day. Once the salary is paid, everyone will immediately take advantage of the next price increase to change to wheat flour, bread, sugar Or oil," the city official was explaining. He suddenly smiled bitterly as he spoke, and quickened his pace with a hint of embarrassment.

"Sorry, I saw some of my colleagues and I have to say hello."

Luo Yin also gave Fan Ning a pouty smile next to him.

It stands to reason that the streets are very lively, full of fireworks and life.

But she remembered what she had said to the priest yesterday that "new life has come", and suddenly she felt that it didn't seem very appropriate.

"This is probably not the first time Miss Luo Yin has visited Janus."

Fan Ning's eyes intertwined with hers for a moment, and then looked into the distance again.

"Well, I've been here nearly ten times, but I always stopped in San Pelto or several other large counties, and I always attended concerts."

"Do you think the light in this world is shining? Is this gospel preached to all? Do people in cities and villages have milk and honey to eat?"

Luo Yin was startled for a moment, then shook his head.

Fan Ning said with a leisurely look: "On that day in the Holy City, I prayed for mercy from the Lord with a mass. Her gift left a surplus of 600,000 pounds, but the number of believers in the city who needed food and drink was 2 million. In a few days There were nearly a hundred people who came to be warned and pardoned or convicted by me, but there were tens of thousands of people practicing sorcery, smuggling, and worshiping idols. The country of Janus was not alone in the world. Please note that those who have not heard of it. The people of the gospel, together with the grain plants in the field, the livestock in the ground, and the birds in the sky, continue to flourish and grow in the sun.”

Luo Yin said softly: "I once had one, one"

"Friends?" Fan Ning smiled.

Wearing a white trench coat, she had a look of wistful memories on her face, without nodding or shaking her head:

"He said the world was filled with a sadness he couldn't understand."