Angel stood at the intersection of light and shadow. Alex glanced at the floor, but there was no shadow. He seemed to understand something and said: "I can confirm that no one in Gust Town knows more about this continent."
Deep understanding. I speculate that you will leave Gust Town and go to the Holy City."
"So, in your eyes, as long as I leave Gust Town, I will die?"
Alex nodded: "Indeed. Since Mr. Pat is not dead, can you tell me why you came back?"
Angel's eyes flickered and he asked instead: "Do you want to know the truth about the deaths of those people?"
Alex shook his head without hesitation: "No."
"Since you don't want to know, why do you ask me why I came back?" Angel looked at Alex with a smile.
Alex was silent for a moment. Since Angel asked this, then the murder was indeed related to leaving Gust Town? Was someone killing the leavers, or was the leaver discovering something and someone not letting them leave?
If there was no trace of the massacre, then they must have discovered something.
But what was discovered?
Alex looked at Angel who was smiling, and finally whispered: "So, is it Fan Cong?"
Angel raised his eyebrows: "It seems you are not stupid."
Alex had originally said that Ghost Town was like a birdcage, and its wings would be broken if it went out. Therefore, it was not difficult for him to deduce the answer from Angel's question and answer.
However, Alex did not completely believe what Angel said. Angel himself was a mystery to him, and it was possible that he was misleading him. However, Alex just kept these thoughts in his heart.
, was not revealed.
"After crossing the river, there was a barrier that couldn't be left. There was no way forward, no way to heaven or earth. So I came back." Angel shrugged.
After hearing this, Alex didn't say anything, but was thinking secretly in his heart.
"Speaking of which, are you still not curious about what is outside Gust Town?"
When Angel asked this question, he unconsciously recalled Alex's previous answer. At that time, Alex categorically stated that he was not curious. Compared with this, he was more curious about... this world.
At that time, Alex raised his head and seemed to be looking through the ceiling into the boundless void.
At that moment, Angel seemed to see a fellow traveler.
He walked around Guster Town and confirmed the answer. While everyone else was picking up sixpence on the ground, Alex saw the moon in the sky.
This is a seeker who looks to distant places.
However, seekers of knowledge also need to be flexible. If you only breathe the wind blowing from afar without lowering your head to pick up the bread falling from the ground, then seekers of knowledge will also starve to death.
So Angel asked this question again. He wanted to know whether Alex was a visionary with high ambitions or a seeker who really chased the moon.
Faced with Angel's question, Alex still didn't think twice this time and spoke out the answer without hesitation.
But this time the answer is different from the previous one.
"I'm a little curious."
Angel looked at Alex deeply: If one day, he can get out of this cage, maybe he will really become a fellow pursuer of truth. Of course, the premise is that he has talent and opportunities.
"I'm also a little curious. After all, it seems impossible to know the location of this place without cracking these secrets." Angel smiled at Alex and said, "Why don't we have a chat?"
Alex didn't answer, but he took out a new bottle of lamp oil from the box and poured it into the lamp. Judging from the consumption rate of the lamp oil, it could last at least one night.
Alex showed his support through actions.
Angel found this Alex more and more interesting.
"What do you think the meaning of this cage is?" Angel asked the first question.
The reason why he asked Alex was because Angel was an outsider, a passer-by who broke into the cage by chance. Alex was a client, he lived in Guster Town, and he should know something.
Alex pondered for a moment, and he obviously knew what Angel wanted to ask, and said directly: "I have lived in Gust Town for three years, and I have basically studied the sacred scriptures with Father Brunang, and I rarely leave the church.
I don’t know what secrets there are in Gust Town.”
"Then you didn't find anything weird?"
"I don't know." Alex himself is actually a weird person. He pays more attention to himself and less to others.
Alex's answer was that he didn't know, which meant that he might have discovered something weird, but he didn't take it to heart. Angel understood it this way.
"So what do you think about this?"
Alex thought about it for a moment, and started not from the meaning of the existence of the cage itself, but from the Kruja Church.
"According to the documents I saw in the church, the Kruja church in the town of Gust has existed for two hundred years. Moreover, during these two hundred years, the Holy City has been sending clergy to the church until the fifth century.
Years ago, the road to the holy city was cut off, so the clergy did not come."
"The road to the Holy City is broken?" Angel looked at Alex in confusion. If it was broken, why would Raven Knight and others go to the Holy City again?
"The main road is broken. If you go over the mountains and take more dangerous or remote mountain roads, you can still reach the Holy City. But it will be very troublesome. This is why the townspeople have not gone to the Holy City in recent years. It is also because of this that the series
Not many people died in the case." After Alex explained, he continued the previous topic: "So, if the documentary records did not deceive me, the cage was formed within five years."
After talking about the time when the cage was formed, Alex began to analyze the various major events that happened in the five years recorded in the book.
However, Gust Town itself is not big, and nothing major has happened in the past five years, except for this series of murders.
However, the current evidence shows that the murder case was the aftermath of the prison, and was definitely not the cause of the prison.
Therefore, Alex was also a little stumped.
"Since this road is blocked, why not think about it from another angle." Angel suddenly said: "Why don't you think about it, what if the document is fake?"
Alex: "The person who recorded the document shouldn't have to lie about this, right?"
"It's indeed unnecessary, but is all of this, including the entire town of Gust, a scam?"
Alex's pupils shrank. If everything was really a scam, then Fan Cong's existence was just for this scam! But why?
"If I remember correctly, you have lost your memory, right?"
Alex nodded: "I was adopted by Father Brunlon three years ago, and my memory is only within these three years."
"Did Father Brown tell you where you came from?"
"Father Brunlon didn't know either. He just said that I floated here along the river. I was unconscious at the time."
Floating along the river? Angel raised his eyebrows: "So, it is possible that you are an outsider like me? In other words, you cannot be sure that after you come to Gust Town, Gust Town will
The history before that is true.”
Alex's throat moved: "I'm really not sure, but I don't think it's necessary to make up these histories."
"In your opinion, it is not necessary. But in my opinion, the possibility is not small." Angel stretched out his hand, and the illusion of a sand table naturally formed above his palm, "Since the meaning of the existence of Fan Cong,
It’s hard to find now, so let’s start with the cage itself.”
Alex looked at this strange sand table illusion, his mind moved, and he wanted to ask what it was, but in the end he suppressed the doubt in his heart and did not ask.
"In my opinion, Fan Cong has two forms." Angel pointed his finger, and undulating mountains and forests immediately appeared on the sand table illusion. At this time, a translucent glass box appeared in the sky, and one of the mountains was placed in it.
In the box.
"This glass box is the first form of cage. It is a continent with an area cut off so that the people in the box cannot get out."
As for the second form, Angel directly removed the glass box, leaving this sand table out of thin air: "This sand table itself is the second form. This cage is an artificially created area. It has no basis, but
A certain extraordinary being created Hakoba Garden."
Angel put away the illusion and said to Alex: "If Fan Cong is the first form, then the history here may indeed be true. But five years ago, Fan Cong appeared and cut off Gust Town.
Communication with the outside world.”
"But if Fan Cong is in the second form, then everything here may be false, including the so-called history."
After Alex listened to Angel's words, some memory fragments flashed in his mind. He seemed to see a cage in the dark...
In fact, when Angel said this, something suddenly occurred to him.
If the cage is the second form, then such a cage must be created for a special thing or a special person.
Angel walked around Gust Town for a long time that day. He noticed that the people living here actually had no doubt about the place where they lived. They deeply believed that they were the aborigines who had lived here for many years.
The only exception is Alex.
This man has lost his memory. He is the only person who does not know the past and may even be an outsider.
If Fan Cong is in its second form, will Alex be the reason for the existence of this Fan Cage?
Of course, this is just Angel's guess. Even if it is really the second form, it may be someone else or something else.
"It's because I didn't think carefully. I admit that Fan Cong may be in these two forms. However, I think it may be too early to try to figure out the creator's mind based on my ability." Alex paused: "
I think we can start with the truth about this murder case."
Alex did not mention the previous incident or the memory that flashed through his mind, but instead talked about the previous murder case.
"This series of dead people, including the Knight of Raven, died because subjectively or objectively, they wanted to leave Gust Town."
"Once they leave Gust Town, they will inevitably discover the truth."
"Someone is trying their best to prevent them from discovering the truth. Maybe if they find the person who killed them, they can learn something?"
Alex's proposal is a logical one, but——
"What if the murderer is not a human being, or even exists in the cage?"