Father Lavoisier wants to enter the Abnormal Zone to investigate?......
The Holy Sun Church also has plans to investigate the Abnormal Area?...
Originally, the other party's words should have sounded 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 strong 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 now scattered and frequent, 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!
...Mr. Father, I would like to take the liberty of asking you for news about a person. On the eve of several people 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 forward, 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 such a blessing. The sentence was hastily organized and a little unnatural.
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 traveling like this for four days, with stops and starts, 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 town", in fact, it is a village.
The fields and rivers are wider.
"The head 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 opened the carriage curtain and 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 have been bombed, and 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 felt a little hard to understand.
This kind of steam aircraft is huge and bulky, has poor maneuverability, and is covered with soft materials... If it appeared on the front line, I can understand how it could fly into a relatively remote county without incident.
Where is the city?
"It was a shorter, smaller and lighter military aircraft, which had not yet become popular at the time when I went to the battlefield."
It was learned from the previous conversation that this old priest named Durk also participated in the war when he was young - the local turmoil in various places in this era has not stopped - he was originally a country musician and 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 famous 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 advantages in detection..."
"Once you have the motive to do your own reconnaissance, you have the motive to hinder 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 people tried to install knives on the tail fins.
Cut open the skin of the airship, and successfully shot down some enemy planes..."
"The issue of air combat caught 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..."
"Someone in our Janus army 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
The mainland's Tioleon 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, and various countries and fields will inevitably be affected, including the military, directly or indirectly.
"The inventor is Carmen Leon, the mentor of the Guidance School, a 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 can pour out firepower without any scruples. Whenever the blades turn in front of the machine gun, the interrupter system can exquisitely temporarily stop the bullets from being ejected... The Lydians are very optimistic about this invention and very optimistic about it.
As for some other weapons, in the past few months, the amount of arms sold to them by Tioleon was more than four times that of Janus."
"Isn't Lydia's state religion enshrined in 'Raven'?" At this time, Ms. Hermosa, who was accompanying Luo Yin next to her, spoke up, "The priests of their 'Lingyin Discipline Society' mainly study 'Desolation', which is more expensive than Gui."
The religion also values introspection and moderation. Since the beginning of this war, we have been suppressing you continuously, and it is indeed strange that our tactics are so aggressive."
"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
That a rhetoric that was overused hundreds of years ago can once again become the reason for starting a war is nothing more than that they want to use the topic 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’s not necessary.”
"After the Southern Kingdom evaporated out of thin air, the whole world is now in a difficult situation. 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 fortune, 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
If it is fully loaded and there are enough orders from the upstream and downstream industries, 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 each other, and they also made plans for the factories, facilities, and warehouses below the plane. Finally, they finally brought the cannonballs up...
.... So a month ago, Carmen Leon invented an automatic bombing device with a shell rack, a release system and a bomb sight based on the needs of the battlefield. Now 'air strikes' have almost become a routine for both warring parties.
One of the military actions..."
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 buildings along the streets and riversides, or halfway up the hillsides, crookedly crowded.
A simple shelter.
Most of them are made of bamboo and wicker, with a small amount of stone and cement, which makes them look very loose.
But Luo Yin sensed inside them that there was a simple, basic and relatively low-cost "key" ritual altar in operation, which ensured its basic functions of blocking sight and sheltering 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 can be built quickly and flexibly. These women and children have almost all their belongings laid out, including buckets, basins, bowls, and dishes for cooking.
Kitchen knives, chopping boards, stoves, grills, oil jugs locked in greasy cabinets, milk pails and sugar bowls, folding beds or broken sofas for sleeping, kits for sewing clothes...in the "simple shack"
One part is lying there, another part is lying on the sidewalk...
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, or even on rainy days..."
A clergyman and a local official explained.
Luo Yin nodded politely in response, and then stopped in front of some lively "small ponds".
These are actually craters left after the bombers 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 hit their clothes with long mallets.
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 take advantage of the next price increase to change to wheat flour, bread, and sugar as soon as possible.
Or oil..." The city official was explaining, 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 her.
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 a few other big 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 was a surplus of 600,000 pounds, but the number of believers in the city who needed food and drink was 2 million. Several days.
There are nearly a hundred people who come to me to advise, be alert, pardon, or judge and condemn, but there are tens of thousands of people practicing sorcery, smuggling, and worshiping idols. There is more than just the country of Janus in the world. It should be noted that those who have not heard
The people of the gospel, together with the corn plants of the field, the livestock in the ground, and the birds in the air, continue to flourish and grow in the sun.”
Luo Yin said softly: "I once had someone, someone..."
"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 sorrow he couldn't understand."