Chapter 1063: Dark Alley District

(Sure enough, there was a double monthly pass, so I asked for a ticket decisively, but I forgot about it yesterday - of course this seems to be normal.) In short, although it is only a day or two after the end of the month, it is better to ask for tickets. )

Little Crow, the god of the grocery store, is Lilina's conclusion after accurately assessing the silly bird's divine symbolism.

It may be due to her incompleteness and immaturity, and the influence of Mediwen on the symbolic power of the surrounding things is very random, and a person who believes in the crow god may not be able to get any blessings: it may be a new amount of power, it may be the elimination of all diseases, it may be mysterious knowledge, or it may be the new technique of awakening and eating two hundred cherries in a minute in a minute from now on (correct), this random blessing makes Lilina very big, because it means that it is impossible to define the crow god: she is the god in charge of something? What kind of strength should believers in her have? What is the standard way of praying? If these three items cannot be determined, the authority of a god is a castle in the air.

"The church can not be serious, but the 'idol' of the god must be serious, at least the image that looks serious in the community of believers," Lilina said to me in a rare and serious way, "Little Bird can't be serious about this matter now, you see the goddess of life, although there are all kinds of problems (anyway, as the bishop of Jingle Bell, you really have no problem saying this yourself?) But at least her strength is invulnerable, what should the goddess's followers do, what will become, the goddess's strength system, everything is as unshakable as the law. This is the way God should lead his people, but now believers in the Raven God are like a lottery, waiting three minutes after praying, and then a dialog box pops up: 'Congratulations on getting the reward of Defense +10086 for the day', isn't that nonsense......"

It's not easy to say the word "" from Lilina's mouth, and it seems that this girl also has a worldly view......

"There's a long way to go," Lilina sighed, clutching her head, and then pointed at vanilla without restraint. "It's your job, and you're responsible for getting it done, at least figuring out the correspondence between the prayer ritual and the blessing effect."

Vanilla was concentrating on picking her fingers, and raised her head blankly when she heard this: "Huh? ”

Lilina let out a long sigh and began to roll on the ground: "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid!" Are you realised? You are the only one among all the believers of the Raven God who can't write the "Raven God Canon", do you know the Dao! ”

Vanilla scratched her hair embarrassedly and smirked, "Because I can't write." ”

"Come on, don't embarrass vanilla." I reached out and whipped Lilina off the floor and straightened the little man's messy dress. "Madiwen is still young. With the lifespan of a god, she is now stronger than a fertilized egg...... Ahem, one day she will grow up and be stable, I remember Xiaoxue said come over, the god of crows is the patron saint of something, which shows that she has a fixed priesthood in the future. Speaking of this, I glanced at Xiaoxue, and the other party rolled her eyes: "Magician." Thieves, assassins. The patron saint of the summoner, Dad, you usually have a snack. Otherwise, in the future, you can really only have people hang at the door of the delivery room to bless the safety of mother and child...... Ah, Mom, I was wrong! ”

Before I could do it, Xiaoxue, the bear child, was decisively dragged aside by Miss Lin to repair it. Lin Xue is now getting more and more into the role.

Although the current Raven God is a bit of an oolong nature, and those hungry people don't look serious about the belief in stupid birds, Lilina has also summed up a lot of valuable information. She figured out the general process of sacrificing to the Raven God, as well as the basic method of extracting a small portion of Mediwen's power to perform miracles, and a few proven "prayers" that would have at least established a rudimentary religion. …,

"The symbolic power of the gods does not take effect at will, otherwise even pagans, as long as they live in the city of the gods, they will also get the power power, isn't this a mess," Lilina explained the so-called "sacrifice", "'sacrifice' is to use some special items and actions to simulate the scene of being with the gods, or to simulate some characteristics and deeds of the gods, and at the same time to exert psychological hints on believers." Symbolic power is something that takes effect with the help of information disturbances, so this kind of unscientific 'sacrifice' can lead to practical miracles because of the information orientation. Christianity has a tradition of referring to the flesh and blood of Christ with bread and wine, which is to associate oneself with God with special objects and psychological innuendos. The sacrifice to the Raven God involves clipped black bird feathers to clothing, a nest made of pliable grass, pebbles or other similarly shaped objects placed in the nest, the first character to be 'Ga' before the prayer is performed, and a handful of grain seeds are sprinkled in the nest after the sacrifice is over. That's what I've come up with as the most effective process known to allow mortals to borrow strength from birds. Of course, in this process, the heart must be sincere, at least to the extent that it can exert psychological cues on oneself, such as ...... For example, if you believe that you are a bird......"

What Lilina said earlier was quite reasonable, but when it came to the worst, it still made me almost stuck in my throat, and I immediately fell to the ground with the admiration of those who believe in the Raven God Sect: You said that this has to be a strong psychological quality to be a priest in this kind of sect, it is really not easy to believe in this stupid bird. And to pray to the god of crows, add a "ga" before the prayer...... I finally found a canon that was even more than the need to add a name and address after the prayer.

"Well," said the little cat lady with her head bowed as we muttered to Lilina about her missionary work of the past few days, when the door to the common room was carefully pushed open, and the short cat lady appeared in the doorway with her head bowed, "the room is cleaned up, and dinner is ready." ”

"Wow, so fast!" Shallow jumped down and strode out, "Eat, eat, I'm really a little hungry after a day......"

After a while, she pushed the door open again and came in: "What, where is the dining room?" The cat lady hurriedly followed: "I'll take you over." ”

"Is she too daring?" I muttered as I looked in the direction the rabbi had disappeared.

"I grew up being bullied. "There are two ways to survive in the South, either strong enough or smart enough to beat people down or cheat for a living, or lower your profile and pick up other people's leftovers, which is weaker than the rabbis." The brain is not good, what can I do except be beaten and angry? ”

Probably because he is an agile cat, the rabbi is very quick to work, and has prepared a large table of food for us: you must know that there are a dozen people on this side of the road. However, after seeing a large table of food on the dining room master's table, I couldn't help but glance at Sandora silently, the food here was obviously not enough.

The cat probably couldn't understand that there were only two kinds of chefs in the world who could feed Sandora, one was Anvina. One is a group of 100 chefs, and the meal she prepared for Sandora is not enough for Her Majesty to stuff her teeth.

We sat down at the long table. Sandora immediately began to take food out of her carry-on space. She herself knows the amount of food she eats, so when she goes out, she will definitely stuff her carry-on space with reserve food, after all, although Her Majesty the Queen can be stocked in the wild, she will never refuse when she can eat normal food. Sandora's action immediately startled the cautious cat lady everywhere, and asked expectantly, "That...... Is the rabbi not to your liking? ”…,

"You just have to make a pot of sand to her liking," Bingtis stuffed food into her mouth, not caring about the way she looked. "It's just not enough for her to eat." Then she suddenly patted Lin: "Little girl, make friends with the rabbi." ”

"Huh?" Lynn looked up in confusion. met Bing Tis's narrow gaze, and the latter said to the cat lady Nunu: "She is also a sufferer." The two of you must have a common language together, such as exchanging experiences of being bullied. ”

Lin shook her head expressionlessly: "No, there is no plot for two people to be together, one attack and one is the right match." ”

The entire world fell silent, and a room of people looked at the usually honest dragon god girl in horror and said so amazingly, Bing Tis still had a piece of food hanging on the corner of his mouth, and then Lin bit the spoon and looked around carefully, and whispered, "Bubbles taught me." ”

Bubbles, who was feeding Little Bubbles, immediately jumped up from the chair: "Child, her father, you eat first, I'll go to the kitchen to see the hot milk for the child...... Wow! Then she was suppressed by her sister. We criticized this guy for several minutes, and seriously denounced her behavior of not only rotting and cultivating but also trying to infect this abnormal tendency to the most honest people in the family, and after the most Lu Bubbles finally admitted her mistake and said that she would be responsible for correcting the dragon god girl's view of the world, she ran to Lin and said very seriously: "The situation of attacking and receiving should be limited to two men, and you are a woman, so you don't have to worry about no plot with this cat - you two can lily." ”

Lynn: I don't understand what it means, but "oh".

So Bubbles was ordered by us not to eat tonight.

After resting for the night and recovering our spirits, we began to discuss the next trip, there seemed to be no tasks that had to be completed in this world, which was a relatively rare situation for us, which meant that everyone could enjoy themselves here for a while - everything was working normally in Shadow City, and everything was assigned before leaving, so there was no need to worry too much. A group of small ones don't have any plans, they just play with the adults wherever they go, Pandora and Viska want to conquer the world, so they ignore it, the shallow view is that no matter what they do, as long as they are with Ah Jun, it will be interesting, so they also ignore it, the five members of the Protoss want to go to the southern region to see what strange results Lilina's missionary work has tossed, this is in line with their profession, and Lin Xue and Lilina still want to stay here for a few more days: they haven't had enough fun.

Maybe I'll stay here for another two or three days, and then leave for the south: I'm curious what that Raven God Sect looks like.

"Speaking of which, vanilla, didn't you go back to your hometown to see?"

Before I came out of the secret festival and was going to play in other urban areas that I didn't turn around yesterday for half a day (the cat lady named Rabi was left to look after her, not that she didn't want to take her out, but she seemed to be quite afraid to go out on the street), I glanced at the vanilla who was muttering at the back of the line with the little crow, the little girl's mood has been very high, for her who grew up in the mountains, a big city like Sentu is quite eye-opening: of course, the shadow city is even more eye-opening. However, the specifications were too high, so high that she couldn't understand them, and in comparison, it was a place like Sentu that was both prosperous and not dizzy, which made Vanilla feel a little more intimate.

I remember that Vanilla mentioned earlier that she used to live near a small mountain town called Loren, which seems to be in the South. The South...... The southern part of the country seems to be a very backward place, and what I have heard so far about the southern region is either barren mines or deserted mountain villages. Like the Fragrant Prairie, the town of Loren seems to be economically developed. …,

"I sneaked over and took a look on the day I first came back," Vanilla stuck out her tongue, "but no one seems to care where the girl who sells vanilla near the town has gone, but some people are talking about the fact that the spirit of nature appeared outside the town not long ago, which attracted the soldiers of the kingdom, and by the way, they probably thought I was dead." Not many people care anyway. I don't want to go back. ”

"Well...... "I don't think it's something to be happy about, but look at Vanilla's attitude towards it. I won't say anything more. "Speaking of which, those two half-dragons seem to live in the Dark Alley District, we didn't go to the Dark Alley District yesterday, did we?"

Lilina had already heard about Sakina and Sona, the half-dragons, from my mouth, and immediately nodded: "By the way, let's go to the Dark Alley District - but say it in advance, the Dark Alley District means slums, and there is nothing fun in that place." ”

"Slums." Qianqian got along well with the two half-dragon girls before, and muttered when she heard this. "It seems that the status of the half-dragon people in this world is not very high, and none of the half-dragon people I saw on the street yesterday were wearing good clothes."

My sister also stayed in this world for almost half a month. She also had some understanding of the customs and customs of this world, and she nodded: "Half-dragon people - in fact, not many people here admit this statement, only they themselves call themselves half-dragon people, because they firmly believe that their ancestors are dragons, and they have become what they are now because they were cursed and sealed." Almost ten percent of the other races on the continent think it's their superstition and delusion, and for the other races, those half-dragons should be called 'lizardmen', and you can tell a little bit about these two titles. It is said that the half-dragon people also had a glorious era a long time ago, leaving behind the relics of a very powerful civilization, but their race has an Achilles' heel, that is, they can't learn anything related to magic, and they have been stuck in a civil war back then, and then after the other races became stronger, these half-dragons who occupied half of the living area of the continent quickly declined, after many years, they have now become low-status 'lizard people', except for a few islands across the sea There is also a half-dragon people' Outside of the country, the half-dragons who remain on the continent can only depend on other races to survive. Each race on this continent has its own territory, except for the half-dragons. ”

"The history is glorious, the status quo is very hard," Lilina sighed, "Now they only have a body of strength and a glorious history to show off, oh, and there is also the pride that is simply the dragonborn, which I admire very much, the half-dragon people still believe that they have the blood of the dragon clan, and they would rather die than change this opinion, I really don't know what this self-esteem is supporting." ”

I've heard the stories of Sagina and Sona in the past, but I haven't heard of the half-dragon people having such a history, but based on what I have seen and heard in the past two days, I know that the position of the half-dragon people in this world is embarrassing. Now I know a lot of things from my sister, this is the silhouette of a race from victory to decline, I suddenly recalled what they said when they first met the two half-dragon girls two days ago, they introduced themselves: "...... We are half-dragon people! There was a look of pride on his face, but perhaps there was also a look of helplessness and readiness to accept ridicule in his eyes. After all, for the half-dragon people, those three words are already history.

Bing Tisi suddenly touched Lin's arm and muttered, "Hey, don't you see if those half-dragon people really have anything to do with dragons?" In case it was really your mistake when you were younger......"

Everyone squirted, and I dragged the female rascal aside: "I said that your mouth has a score or not!" How old is Lynn this year, you're just making this nonsense - by the way, Lynn, how old are you? ”…,

The dragon god girl's face was flushed, obviously Bing Tis's joke just now had exceeded her shame line, she froze for a moment when she heard my question, and then hooked her head and replied, "Seven...... More than 70,000 years old. I'm young, and I've never been in a relationship. ”

Me: "......"

I was wrong, I shouldn't have discussed this with these guys who didn't even know how to write the word "time" in the first place!

The alley area is easy to find, the port city is neatly laid out, each residential area is separated by almost straight lines, and borders the central square, where you can find a simple map showing the general direction of several residential areas under the sculptures in the central square.

I took the address that Sagina had left for me, and compared it to the house numbers of the surrounding buildings, where they lived seemed to be in the middle of this messy area: it was already a relatively good area, and the deepest part of the dark alley area was a complete slum, and there were hardly even complete houses to be seen, and naturally there were no house numbers, and homeless and beggars were crowded in the dilapidated shacks there. The middle part of the dark alley area is where civilians live, and although the houses are old, they are at least normal residences, and the authorities of Sentu also maintain management and law and order here. As for the entrance to the Dark Alley area, it is connected to the adjacent market, which, as mentioned earlier, is where explorers do business with local scholars (mainly traveling scholars from the Arcane Order). As one of the largest ports leading to the Lost Realm, Sentu is also the first stop for the "Lost Realm Supplies", and the explorer trading market here is naturally large, so much so that it spans two urban areas.

The pavement underfoot is potholed, the stone slabs have long since broken into pieces, many of these potholes have accumulated unpleasant stagnant water due to the lack of drainage facilities, and the surrounding buildings are low, basically all one-story bungalows, with mottled walls and cracks in many places, and it is clear that everything here has fallen into disrepair. The only slightly bright colours here are the occasional notices posted by the Sentu authorities when passing through the forks, but whether or not anyone looks at them here is another matter: they seem to me to be far less interesting to the inhabitants than the graffiti made with inferior paint elsewhere on the walls.

Eventually, we found the destination in the corner, "a drawing of two dragons carved with a knife on the gate", which was the symbol that Sakina told me at the time, and although it looked like the door was carved with two bats dying of starvation, the address was probably correct.

It's just that after we knocked on the door for a long time, there was not the slightest movement inside. (To be continued)