"Why should I die?"

Angel stood in the space of light and shadow, and Alex looked at the floor, but there was no shadow. He seemed to understand something, and said, "I can be sure that there is no one in Gust Town who has a deeper understanding of this continent. I'm guessing you'll leave Gusttown and head to the Holy City. ”

"So, in your eyes, as soon as I leave Gusttown, I'm going to die?"

Alex nodded: "That's true. Since Mr. Pat is not dead, may you tell me why you are back?"

Angel's eyes flickered, and instead of answering, he asked, "Do you want to know the truth about the deaths of those people?"

Alex shook his head without hesitation: "I don't want to." ”

"Why are you asking me why I'm coming back if you don't want to know?" said Angel as he looked at Alex with a smile.

Alex was silent for a moment, and since Angel asked, was the murder really related to leaving Gusttown? Was someone slaughtering the leavers, or did the leavers find something and someone wouldn't let them leave?

The slaughter could not have gone untraced, so they must have found something.

But what did you find?

Alex looked at the smiling Angel, and finally spit out a sentence softly: "So, is it Fan Cage?"

Angel raised his eyebrows: "It seems that you are not stupid." ”

Alex had said that Gusttown was like a birdcage that would break its wings when you went out. Therefore, it is not difficult for him to derive the answer from Ingres's question and answer.

However, Alex did not fully believe Ingres's words, and Ingres was a mystery to him, and it was possible that he was misleading himself. However, Alex just kept these thoughts to the bottom of his heart and did not reveal them.

"When I crossed the river, it was a barrier from which I could not go forward, and there was no way to go up to heaven and earth, and I came back. Angel said with a shrug.

After hearing this, Alex didn't say anything, but thought secretly in his heart.

"Speaking of which, you're still not curious, what's outside of Gust Town?"

When Angel asked this question, he unconsciously recalled Alex's previous answer. At that time, Alex categorically said that he was not curious, and he was more curious than this...... this world.

At that moment, Alex raised his head and seemed to look through the ceiling into the boundless void.

At that moment, Ingres seemed to see a fellow traveler.

He took a turn in the town of Gust and affirmed the answer. While everyone else was looking down to pick up the sixpence on the ground, Alex saw the moon in the sky.

This is a seeker of knowledge who looks to distant places.

However, seekers of knowledge also need to be flexible, and if you only breathe the wind blowing in the distance, and do not look down to pick up the bread that falls on the ground, then the seeker will starve to death.

So Ingres asked the question again, and he wanted to know if Alex was a visionary or a seeker who was really chasing the moon.

Faced with Angels' question, Alex still didn't think about it this time, and said the answer without hesitation.

This time, however, it was a different answer.

"I'm a little curious. ”

Ingres looked at Alex deeply: if one day, he can get out of this cage, maybe he will really become a companion in the pursuit of truth. Of course, if he has talent and opportunity.

"I'm also a little curious, after all, I can't seem to know the location of this place without cracking these secrets. Angel smiled at Alex, "Why don't we talk?"

Alex didn't answer, but instead he took a small vial of new lamp oil from the box and poured it into the oil lamp. Judging by the rate at which the oil is consumed, it can last at least all night.

Alex showed his support with actions.

Angel finds this Alex more and more interesting.

"What do you think is the point of this cage?" Ingres asked the first question.

The reason why he asks Alex is because Angel is an outsider, and he is a passer-by who inadvertently breaks into the cage. Alex is the one who lives in Gusttown and should know something.

Alex pondered for a moment, he obviously knew very well what Ingres wanted to ask, and said directly: "I have lived in Gusttown for three years, and I have basically studied the canons with Father Bronlong, and I rarely leave the church. I don't know what secrets Gusttown has. ”

"Then you didn't find anything weird?"

"I don't know. "Alex himself is actually an eccentric person who pays more attention to himself and less to others.

Alex's answer was that he didn't know, meaning he might have found something weird, but he didn't take it seriously. Ingres understands it this way.

"And what do you think about that?"

Alex thought for a moment, not from the meaning of the cage itself, but from the church of Kruya.

"According to the documents I saw in the church, this Kruja church in the town of Gust has been around for two hundred years. And, for two hundred years, the Holy City sent clergy to the church, until five years ago, when the road to the Holy City was cut off, so the clergy did not come. ”

"The road to the Holy City is broken?" Ingres looked at Alex suspiciously, if it was broken, why would Knight Revan and the others go to the Holy City again?

"It's because the main road is broken, but if you go over the mountains and take the more dangerous or remote mountain roads, you can still reach the holy city. However, it will be very troublesome, which has caused the townspeople not to go to the Holy City in recent years, and because of this, the number of deaths in the series of cases is not high. After Alex explained, he continued the previous topic: "So, if the literature doesn't deceive me, the cage was formed in five years. ”

After talking about the time when the cage was formed, Alex began to analyze the major events that happened in the five years recorded in the book.

However, the town of Gust 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 Fan Cage, and definitely not the cause of Fan Cage's formation.

So, Alex was also a little stumped.

"Since this road is not passable, it is better to think from a different perspective. Ingres suddenly said, "Think about it, what if the literature is fake?"

Alex: "The person who recorded the document, there shouldn't be any need to lie about it, right?"

"It's not necessary, but is all of this, including the whole of Gusttown, a scam?"

Alex's pupils shrank, if everything is really a scam, then the existence of Fan Cage is born for this scam!

"If I'm not mistaken, you're amnesia, aren't you?"

Alex nodded: "I was adopted by Father Bronlong three years ago, and I only remember these three years. ”

"Did Father Bran Lang tell you where you came from?"

"Father Bronlong didn't know, except that I was floating down the river and that I was unconscious. ”

Floating down the river?Ingres raised an eyebrow: "So, you may also be an outsider like me?" That is, you can't be sure that after you came to Gusttown, the previous history of Gusttown is true. ”

Alex's throat moved: "I can't really be sure, but I don't think there's any need to make up this history. ”

"In your opinion, it's not necessary. But in my opinion, this is not a small possibility. Angel stretched out his hand, and the illusion of a sand table naturally formed in the sky above his palm, "Since the meaning of the existence of the cage is difficult to find now, it is better to start with the cage itself." ”

Alex looked at this strange sand table vision, and his mind moved, wanting to ask what it was, but in the end, he still suppressed his doubts in his heart and didn't ask.

"In my opinion, there are two forms of cages. Ingres pointed his finger, and the undulating mountains and forests immediately appeared on the sand table illusion, and at this moment, a translucent glass-like box appeared in the sky, and one of the mountains was contained in the box.

"This glass box is the first form of a cage. It was on a continent that had been cut off by an area that prevented the people in the box from getting out. ”

As for the second form, Ingres directly removed the glass box, leaving this sand table out of thin air: "This sand table itself is the second form, and this fan cage is an artificially created area. It has no support, just a box garden made by some transcendent being. ”

Angel put away the illusion and said to Alex: "If the cage is the first form, then the history here may indeed be true. It's just that five years ago, Fan Cage appeared, cutting off the communication between Gust Town and the outside world. ”

"But if the cage is the second form, then everything here is likely to be false, including the so-called history. ”

After listening to Angels's words, some memory fragments flashed through his mind, and he seemed to see a cage in the dark......

In fact, when Angel said this, he suddenly thought of a little in his own heart.

If the cage is the second form, then the creation of such a cage must be for something special or a special person.

Ingres had been walking around the town of Gust for a long time, and he noticed that the people who lived here had no doubt about the place where they lived. They deeply believe that they are the aborigines who have lived here for many years.

The only exception is Alex.

This man has lost his memory, he is the only one who does not know the past, and may even be an outsider.

If the cage is the second form, could Alex be the meaning of the existence of this cage?

Of course, this is just a guess on the part of Ingres, and even if it is really the second form, it could be someone else, or something else.

"It's because I'm not thinking about it, and I think it's probably one of these two forms. However, I think it may be too early for me to figure out the mind of the creator. Alexton paused: "I think we can start with the truth of this murder case." ”

Alex didn't mention the previous stubble, nor did he say the memory that flashed through his mind, but talked about the previous murder.

"This series of dead, including the Riven Knights, died because they were subjectively or objectively conscious of leaving Gusttown. ”

"Once they leave Gusttown, they will inevitably discover the truth. ”

"Someone is trying to prevent them from discovering the truth. Perhaps, if you find the person who killed them, you will know something?"

Alex's proposal is a positive logic, but-

"What if the killer is not a human being, or even exists in a cage?"