Aizu Castle Cemetery has added 17,534 lines of death information, which is the total number of residents who died in the rat tide.
Gravekeeper Izumi Yamazaki and his family have been dedicated to this profession for generations, trying to remember every dead person in the city as much as possible.
Like the Suzuki family who guarded the sea monster, the Yamazaki family also had a glorious tradition on the surface. However, it declined due to changes in the times and eventually moved to the underground city. The Yamazaki family enshrines an ancient book. According to the teachings of their ancestors, they are only qualified to guard it.
, you are not allowed to read it, and you must wait for the prophesied "wizard" to come and take away this ancient book.
Judging by the time, the person who took away the ancient book will be here soon.
Yamazaki Izumi is 65 years old and is the oldest man in the city. He knows that the death rate in Aizu City is 4.75% per year. On average, 39 people die every day from different forms of disasters such as violence, malnutrition, and mental breakdown. Next to the cemetery
, he built a simple two-story self-built house.
The so-called cemetery itself is a server cluster that collects and updates death information in real time. It is divided into two layers. The inner layer is a large equipment for storing files. Like the library of an ancient monastery, files with different death dates are staggered and stacked.
The outer layer looks like an Internet cafe, with different terminals placed side by side, and 780,000 pieces of death information available for query, which is the total number of deaths since the opening of Aizu Castle.
Whenever people miss their deceased relatives, they will visit Aizu Castle Cemetery and look for death information of their relatives on the outer terminal. If they want to check the files, they have to pay 50 funds to maintain the operation of the server.
Excluding the cost of maintaining the server room, Yamazaki Quan saves about 200,000 yuan every year.
He was also a lonely man. He sympathized with the orphans of the deceased living on the streets, so he spent the funds on his children and built an underground school next to his small building. Now he has gathered 600 children, divided into 6 grades.
20 classes.
The cemetery, the gravekeeper's home and the cemetery primary school were lined up in this order. He hoped that the ringing of the school building's bell would not disturb the souls of the dead sleeping in the form of data.
Most of the courses are taught by robots, and Izumi Yamazaki is responsible for teaching geography.
He likes to travel and has been to many places in the world when he was young.
Yamazaki Izumi has seen the coconuts in the Taiya Islands, the six-legged snow bears in the Great North, the vast rice fields in Baixiangzhou, and the magnificent Xin'an Mansion in the Xia region. According to the concept of "infinite urbanization", every inch of soil is covered
Without cement and steel, in Xin'anfu, there is no transition between cities. Highways and waterways are like rulers in the city, and buildings are connected to buildings, making it difficult for him to see.
Above Xin'an Mansion are resort hotels, huge buildings and luxury apartments that reach into the sky. The closer to the ground in the traditional sense, the more complicated the situation becomes. He once got lost among the stalls selling steamed buns and fire-roasted buns between the 5th and 6th floors.
中. Whenever I think about how big the world is, Izumi Yamazaki feels small.
Since he never saved any money, Yamazaki Izumi returned to the family after ending his youthful debauchery, inherited the job of the tombkeeper, and waited for the arrival of the book wizard.
There is no night in Aizu City, and he will only go back to the cemetery to rest when the dusk bell rings. He is a strict teacher. He is not afraid of downloading ready-made lesson plans from the Internet and prefers to prepare lessons by himself. He often stays up late at night to take care of orphans who suffer from headaches and fever.
Problem, personally take them to the automatic doctor at the other end of the street to prevent them from being captured by sneaky human traffickers and perverts.
The cemetery is located at the very edge of Huicheng District, close to the natural underground rock wall. Even rats are not afraid to attack this place, which makes Yamazaki Quan feel lucky.
On this day, he went to class very late. The dusk clock struck three times before he returned to his cabin. From here, he could see the computer room cemetery downstairs, and every screen was glowing with a glaring blue light.
Yamazaki Izumi took off his shoes and walked into the entrance.
On the wall is a photo of their family. In the photo, the wife and daughter are smiling sweetly. Only Yamazaki Izumi has a straight face. They were both very young at that time, which made the old tombkeeper feel momentarily absent-minded. The wife is from a company, and she is from the company.
Less divorce, more death, early death. When she was 17 years old, her daughter disappeared on the way home from school. She spent 110,000 yuan to hire someone, but it took a month to find her. At the organ harvesting den, her internal organs were eviscerated and she died. Yamasaki
Quan only felt that he was cowardly and did not go with them immediately, so he lived shamelessly to this day. But he had to live until the ancient family book was taken away, and the responsibility inherited from his ancestors was not over.
The only consolation was a girl he adopted from Cemetery Elementary School eight years ago. She looked very similar to Yamazaki Izumi's dead daughter. He named her Yuko Yamazaki. She is also 17 years old this year.
Yuko was very beautiful and energetic, and it felt to him as if his daughter had come back to him from the resurrection. He regarded Yuko as his own child and was ready to pass on the responsibility of the tombkeeper to her.
He heard a strange noise coming from the living room, like a cow lurking, and there was a light on in the room.
After opening the door, he saw Yuko being pressed on the tatami, a giant man with disheveled hair swaying with his back to Yamazaki Izumi. Yuko remained silent and was bleeding a lot.
Yamazaki Izumi's legs softened and he fell back tremblingly.
When the giant man heard the noise, he got up from Yuko, pushed her lifeless body aside, let out a comfortable hum, fastened his belt, and turned to Yamazaki Izumi.
He is about 2 meters tall. He wears a linen corset embroidered with light blue star spots and purple rings. It is of ancient style. His coat is a dark brown leather windbreaker, but it is this year's new style.
"Book." He grabbed the wand placed on the kotatsu and gave a brief command to Yamazaki Izumi, "Give me the book."
"Book? No no..." Yamazaki Izumi's mind went blank. He lay back on the ground and crawled back, "Book..."
"Your situation is very dangerous," the giant man stepped past Yamazaki Izumi, his eyes sweeping around the room, "The killers of the Black Fire Revolution will arrive soon, but she doesn't know anything."
"You...what did you do..." Yamazaki Izumi raised his head, hoping that what he saw just now was just an illusion, but Yuko was still lying like that, with many bruises and black blood sticking to his legs.
"I traveled a long way to save the Yamazaki family. I have to take a rest." The giant man said, "Give me the book now so that your family no longer has to protect this secret."
Seeing Yamazaki Izumi's complicated expression of fear, grief, and disappointment, the giant man knew that he could no longer hear any information from his mouth.
The giant man shook his ebony wand and chanted the wizard's incantation. The pale silver phantom light covered Yamazaki Izumi's head. The giant man began to peek into his memory, and Yamazaki Izumi's expression became hollow.
Many of the powers of wizards are designed to be developed against witches, and the psychic clairvoyance series of spells is one of them. Any secrets of the witch will be revealed during the torture of the wizard, allowing them to be the first to understand the information the witch possesses.
It is even more effective when used on ordinary people. Their thoughts are as clear as reading a children's book.
Not bad... Not bad... The giant man nodded slightly, now he had counted everything.
When the witch was powerful, the wizards were almost extinct, so the surviving wizards everywhere chose to write down what they had learned throughout their lives and entrusted various trustworthy mortal families to protect them. When the witch declines, the wizards will write these books again.
Collect heritage books.
There are 10 sets of such inheritances, representing 10 very different wizarding systems.
The witch was gone, and they wanted to collect it all, but the "Corporate Alliance" across the world appeared again. The wizards knew that once their skills fell into the hands of the alliance, they would inevitably become a new tool used by the company to control the witch.
, there is no freedom at all, so they hide their whereabouts even more and stay away from civilized society.
Now the good times are coming. The "Corporate Alliance" that controls the world has collapsed. The "Error Crisis" has completely destroyed its prestige. The major giant corporations have officially divided the world. In this chaos, the escapist wizards have announced that the era of revival has arrived.
, began to recycle these ancient books and reshape the world of wizards.
After examining Yamazaki Izumi's mind, the giant man was satisfied and allowed the old man to faint on the ground.
He found the wall where Yamazaki Izumi hung the family photo, threw the photo on the floor, opened an old safe according to the password he found, took out a very thick black-covered book, and hid it inside his coat.
The mission of the Yamazaki family is not completely over yet. The giant man thought to himself. The company has the ability to extract information from the heads of dead people, but their efforts for generations cannot be wasted, and the dedication of the Guardian family must not be in vain.
He walked to the living room and found a stack of documents in the cabinet, which seemed to be a group of children's medical records, health reports and physical examination results. He lit these files with a lighter, and the flames quickly spread.
The house built by the tomb keeper was very poor in terms of fire resistance. After the fire was lit, the flames slithered on the ground like poisonous snakes. The giant man walked around the house twice more, lighting the curtains, wardrobes and every door.
After it is burned, the company will no longer be able to extract information.
The fire was too strong and would soon completely scorch the house. The wizard used the incantation to disappear into thin air and take the spell book with him.
The wizard's inheritance was successfully recovered.
Several more hours passed after this.
In the rat track, the gray-haired rat sentry leads the way to look for shadows.
It looked back worriedly from time to time. The Rat Sentinels never thought that a human would use a Rat Sentinel to communicate with them.
"Don't be afraid, you are a partner of justice," Miying bent forward and crawled forward, "and I am the savior of the shadows." This is also an anime line, which has been learned by Miying and included in her corpus.
"Chichi..." Rat Sentinel had no idea about this.
Climbing to the exit of the rat passage, the rat sentry sat on the edge of the ventilation duct and kept sniffing out. It smelled a burning smell. The huge rotating fan above blew its hair. Miying needed to lie down on the ground.
, to prevent herself from being cut by the fan blades, she lowered her head and saw that the tombkeeper's street had been razed to the ground by the fire.
It's too late...
"The Yamazaki Spring House has been burned down." Miying communicated with Xu Yang and transmitted the information captured by his camera to him. "The cemetery and a school building next to it were all burned down."
Xu Yang received the on-site report. The scene was shocking. The fire burned for a long time and turned everything into ashes. The Aizu Castle Cemetery stores death information in the form of a computer room. Now the entire server cluster has been completely burned, and Aizu City has lost its most important part.
Important historical records, countless people have lost their last traces.
"...Go to the scene to look for clues." Xu Yang said, "Find out who set the fire."