Since the ruins in the forest were of no use for the time being, Shade entered the city again with the black-haired lady. Compared with thirty years later, today's Vista City cannot afford the reputation of "Music City" at all.
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Let’s just talk about the poor infrastructure level in the city. This is actually a large rural town. There were no gas street lights in this era, the streets themselves were full of potholes, and there were only a few major roads that could allow horse-drawn carriages to pass.
Even due to the large-scale burning of trees to open up wasteland, the whole city was shrouded in gray fog. People were wrapped in black or gray clothes and walked hurriedly on the streets with their heads lowered and their mouths covered. From time to time, they had to pay attention to whether there was anything under their feet.
Feces or other unidentifiable disgusting matter.
The buildings facing the street are low and look dilapidated due to being polluted by polluted gases all year round. Various signboards are hung irregularly at the entrances of shops. When there are children approaching people on the street, what should be considered first?
It's not whether the other party is a newsboy, but whether the other party is a thief.
Compared with the era thirty years later, this place was more in line with the outsiders' imagination of the "barbaric steam age". For a moment, he even felt that the choking fog was approaching the level of Tobesk City.
Although it was summer, both of them wrapped themselves up tightly, and Ms. Helena Carter even put a scarf on herself.
However, the more you walk toward the top of the hill, which is the future city center of Vista City, the more modern the city's appearance becomes. After all, this is a newly established urban area, and it has been decided from the beginning of the expansion of Ximu Town.
This concert hall on the top of the hill will serve as the future city center.
There were no performances in the concert hall in the midsummer morning, and only workers were still renovating the east side of the concert hall. Schad found that today's concert hall was not only smaller, but also did not have a four-leaf clover-shaped square around it.
Of course, the closed door couldn't stop the two of them, but after entering the concert hall, Shade also didn't feel that there was any power here that could help him.
Finally, the two of them arrived at the center of the ancient temple, which was the main hall of the concert hall. No one used it to practice today, and both the auditorium and the stage were empty.
The black-haired lady sat down on the front seat, and then watched Shade looking around. In the end, he had to admit that he thought too simplistically, and jumped off the stage with some dejection, and sat down next to Ms. Carter.
Around:
"Maybe you will laugh at me if I say it, but I am already a little homesick."
"Forgive my curiosity, are there people in your home waiting for you to return?"
She asked, and Shade nodded:
"Yes, some girls are waiting for me to come back, and I also have a pet cat."
The sorceress was not surprised, but comforted:
"Since there is nothing you can do for the time being, be prepared to stay here for a long time. Thinking on the bright side, am I not here to accompany you? If this summer passes and you still can't go back, I will take you back to the Holy Temple.
Lens, speaking of which, you must be curious about what Danist is like today, right?"
She laughed:
"Young Daniste is probably very different from what you think. The last time I saw you, I saw her turned into an eighteen-year-old due to a curse, but I bet her personality is the same as yours.
It’s definitely different knowing.”
Shade couldn't help but laugh:
"It's better not to do something that will cause a time paradox."
But speaking of it, some friends were indeed born in 1821. Needless to say, Father Augustus, except for business trips, served in the Tobesk Diocese all his life; when Shade met Dr. Schneider, he was already four years old.
He is over ten years old, so today’s doctors should still be teenagers.
Carina is still at breast-feeding age, and Lecia, Dorothy and Luvia have not yet been born. But Professor Manning, who has experienced an extremely exciting life, should not have retired yet, and Major Rades, the "Eight-Gun Captain"
He probably just learned to walk, and Mr. Bernhardt should be about the same age as the doctor.
As for No. 6 Saint Teresa Square in Tobesk, before Detective Sparrow Hamilton took over, it had been a famous haunted house that had been closed in the center of Tobesk for hundreds of years.
And Detective Sparrow is probably still a child now, so the current "home" should be in a dilapidated state with the doors and windows closed with wooden boards, the interior covered with dust, and even the third floor is about to collapse.
Rather than meeting Miss Daniste of this era, Shade actually wanted to see her current home:
"If I set out to the tree hole in the forest now, I can walk out of the basement in twenty minutes. After all, the coordinates of the [Space Maze] are recorded in everyone's soul, and they are not simply erected in the white mist.
inside."
That is to say, once a road sign is opened, that road sign will exist no matter what era it is in.
Thinking of this, Shade thought that he might as well go to Tobesk's home. But the idea had just occurred. Before he even stood up, a voice came from the entrance of the performance hall behind him.
The sorceress raised her eyebrows, tapped the armrest of the seat with her fingers, and the two figures immediately disappeared.
However, the two people who walked in from the door of the performance hall did not notice them. The girl in costume and the young man with a decent face seemed more like they were looking for a quiet place to quarrel.
"Marissa, why on earth didn't you tell me?"
The man who spoke looked like he was in his mid-twenties, and his accent was a very standard Willundale accent. His mood seemed quite exciting:
"What are you doing every night these days? In the past three months, every time I ask you out on a date at night, you always find various excuses to shirk it.
Last night you said you were going to recite your lines in your apartment, but when I went to where you lived to find you, although the lights were on in your apartment, there was no one inside at all!"
"A sad girl."
Shade, who was sitting in the front seat and looked back, whispered, while the black-haired sorceress smiled and said nothing.
The young man did not simply get angry at the girl, but expressed his doubts:
"Marissa, what's wrong with you? I thought there would be no secrets between us. What are you hiding from me?"
He wanted to reach out and hug the girl, but was gently pushed away by the girl in flower girl costume. She lowered her head with a sad look on her face:
"Don't ask, okay, Faris, don't ask this question. This is my own business and I don't need you to care about it."
"But Marissa"
The girl turned around and walked out of the door, but the disappointed young man lowered his head and did not chase her. He stood for a long time before leaving.
"It looks like a love tragedy, but how can there be blasphemous elements in that girl? She is just an ordinary person, so she shouldn't be able to use the power of the evil god, right?"
Shade said, and then asked the lady next to him:
"Did you encounter any cultists during your time in Vista Glades?"
"At least I haven't encountered them in the city. You also know that the population here is not large compared to big cities, so the probability of evil worshipers appearing is also very low."
She stood up:
"Let's go and check out the situation. Don't you think it's a coincidence? We came here looking for a way to help you, and then they showed up. Is it going to be something this time? I wonder if Danister told you
It exceeds my preference. I like to write reports and then collect them into categories. Maybe the teacher chose me because of this hobby of mine."
It is not difficult to find out the identity of the young man and woman just now. The girl called "Marissa" is an actress of the local opera troupe. The Golden Concert Hall also undertook opera performances in this era, and only focused on concerts thirty years later.
, and this morning Marissa was rehearsing with her companions.
This girl is not a very important figure in the opera troupe, but judging from the fact that Shade and Ms. Helena Carter are hiding in the audience to watch their rehearsals, she is quite popular.
From the conversation between her and her companions during the break, it can be known that this girl is working in the opera troupe while preparing for the "Ximu Town Music Academy". In addition to the income from the opera troupe, she also works as a maid in a local noble family.
He has a good relationship with a certain noble lady whom Shade has never heard of.
And the identity of the gentleman known as "Faris" was also revealed to Shade through discussions among everyone in the opera troupe.
He is a genuine "knight" like Shade, but his knighthood was obtained through inheritance. Of course, although he has the title of knight, his family itself has long been in decline.
Shade knew that in 1840, Kasenlik would issue a decree to restrict the continued inheritance of low-level noble titles such as knights. Therefore, this "Farris" was not of a completely different status level than "Marissa".
people.
It's just that although the girl in the opera troupe has blasphemous elements in her body, Shade can't see that she behaves differently from ordinary people due to the influence of the elements.
In fact, when he heard the conversation between two young people in the performance hall just now, Shade thought that the young girl was engaged in some kind of disgraceful job, or that she was being coerced because of her beauty, but it didn't look like that.
So for the next whole day, Shade followed Marissa along with Ms. Helena Carter. He followed her to rehearse at the opera house, followed her to have dinner with her friends at noon, and followed her to get off work as a maid for a noble lady in the afternoon. Then he followed her back to her apartment in the old town in the north of the city after getting off work in the afternoon.
Of course, from the perspective of 1821, it could not be called the old city.
Although it seemed boring to follow this ordinary girl, because I had someone to chat with, the day seemed quite fulfilling.
Shade and Miss Daniste's teacher talked about what he learned from Miss Daniste, talked about how he saw Miss Daniste also use the "Moonlight Sword", and even talked about Denise