Chapter 684 A World Full of Heterogeneities
The big clock in the meeting hall rang. This newly completed clock tower is now the benchmark in the city. Many people adjusted their clocks and schedules according to the scale of the clock tower.
"Then today's meeting ends here."
The foxtail woman who presided over the meeting stood up, and then everyone stood up one after another, bowed to the girl sitting under the giant clock face, and then left.
The polished stone wall was a delicate blue-blue color, with smooth copper pointers on it, one large and one small, twisting like a hook, but the end was as straight and sharp as a sword. The sun is also a clock, as well as time and history. The golden burning edge sets off its power. It is located in the middle of the pattern. The clock face is inlaid with twinkling silver stars. They each have interlaced tracks, crossing the clock ground, as if shuttling between the stars, and these tracks are coated with gradient silver powder, so that they reflect flowing colors under the light.
Overall, there were about seven or eight meteors of different sizes carrying brilliant and interlaced trajectories, passing through the clock and rushing to the far left corner of the upper corner, while the slightly dim golden branding pattern on the clock dial seemed like a burning sun.
The metallic colors of copper and silver have a certain steamy retro meaning, but their sharp edges and three-dimensional structure make them more impactful than flat patterns.
Although the Star-Chasing Covenant is still a small organization, the great vision and ideals held by the founder can be seen from this artistic logo, especially the several silver stars passing through the clock dial, which seem to have the stunning beauty of tearing the sun.
When everyone left one after another, the figure sitting under the huge clock dial did not stand up. Today, Tilan wore a solemn black dress, and only the pattern on the cuffs had a little round lace to make her style not too cold and dark.
"Your Highness Heshia, someone wants to see you." A clerk from the Heshan Rescue Association stepped forward and asked in a low voice.
"Since they are here to consult me, they must be special." If ordinary people wanted to see her, they would have been stopped long ago, because her time and energy are limited, and many small matters will be directly handled by the staff below.
"Yes, one of them is a very famous figure in the Gray Feather Clan, they call him 'Gray Cape Scholar', and the other brought a letter of introduction from the Butterfly Eye Clan, who is said to be the descendant of a sage from the far north." The scribe answered.
"Did the two come together?" Tilan was curious.
"Yes." "Is
that so? Let them come." It just so happened that she was free at this time, and she was also curious about why the 'Gray Cape Scholar' who had always refused to show up chose to take the initiative to ask for an interview this time.
When the Stone Forest Fort fell last year, even at the last moment, he did not show up, but asked his Gray Feather Clan to pass on the message on his behalf.
A few minutes later, the door of the meeting hall opened again, and two figures stepped into the quiet and solemn hall. There was no scene full of various guards as they imagined, and it was better to say that this seemed a little too quiet and empty.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the sun shone through the small glass window and slanted into the hall. The light could not fill the hall completely. When walking through the aisle in the middle of the hall, one could still feel the significant changes in light and dark. The floor was divided and mottled by the light. The girl sitting under the tall chair seemed to be half hidden in the shadow. Only the ground in front of her, which was several steps higher, reflected the glittering colors in the sun.
The two came to the open space in front of the steps and stopped. Even with the dazzling interference of the sun on one side, they could slowly see the girl sitting under the high chair of the throne.
For the two people who saw Heshia for the first time, the girl seemed to have a face that was too young. The bright white cheeks seemed to have some green hair in the reflection of the light. The slender fingers were only partially exposed from the wide cuffs. It was hard to imagine that such fingers could hold the sword that killed the wolf-blood queen. The only thing that made the two people feel more at ease was the quiet and dark long hair, which seemed to tell a long history and some kind of cold truth.
The two bowed to the girl one after another, then raised their heads and began to tell the purpose of their visit.
"Your Highness Heshia, my name is Lindsay, and I come from the far northern frozen land," the red-brown-haired man put one hand on his chest and stretched out the other hand to introduce himself.
According to the letter of introduction just handed over, Tilan knew that this purple-clothed woman and the one she rescued by the Wolf Blood King were both apprentices of the previous generation of "sages".
The girl nodded slightly, and then turned her eyes to the healthy old man of the gray feather species beside her. It is said that this person is the "Gray Fur Maester". It must be said that such an image is a bit unexpected, but it is reasonable after thinking about it.
The "Gray Fur Maester" traveled to many places when he was young. He returned to the Stone Forest Castle when he was not young, built the city in the mountain, and gradually made the Gray Feather species prosperous. Someone who can have such ambition and action should indeed be a tough old man, not a weak white beard.
"Hello, Gray Fur Maester." Tilan expressed a certain respect. When she lived in the Stone Forest Castle before, the Gray Feather species left a good impression on her.
After a brief acquaintance, Tilan asked the guard at the gate to bring two chairs and let the two sit down to talk. She had a hunch that this conversation would take a long time.
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The sunlight in the hall slowly turned. When it reached noon, there was no direct light in the hall, but it was not dim at this time, and the bright blue sky could be seen through the small window on the wall.
Time passed quietly, just as Tilan expected. Lindsay talked for a long time, from when he was adopted as a child to gradually becoming an adult, following his mentor to travel through the mountains and frozen soil, learning all kinds of knowledge, and getting to know the settlements and races with different appearances and habits.
"According to the sages of the previous generation, the civilization on this planet has been destroyed nine times. After each time, the traces of the previous civilization were wiped out, and then the various races learned and accumulated experience from ignorance again, and gradually revived and expanded."
"Because of the destruction and rebirth again and again, many once glorious technologies and cultures have lost their inheritance and disappeared in the dust."
"Then how do you know all this?" Tilan was curious.
"We, or the 'sage', are an exception. When the fifth generation of civilization, that is, the civilization founded by the electric marrow species, flourished, many electronic documents were left behind. These were obtained by the first sage, who knew the secrets of this world, so he carefully avoided the areas of civilization and went to the northernmost frozen land to establish a place of inheritance and pass down this careful record of history." Lindsay described his mission and origin.
"Whenever civilization is destroyed, disasters always fall on places where intelligent creatures gather in large numbers. If you want to survive, you have to stay away from the crowd and go to a remote place where no one knows, a place where life is rare and no one knows."
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"I roughly understand, but since you are risking exposure to come to me, what is the reason?" Tilan knew that the other party would not tell her these secrets for no reason.
"I see some hope in you, so I took the risk to come to you and tell you the truth about the world. As for why, it is naturally because I hope you can lead the new civilization and break free from this endless spiral."
"It's hard to deny the reason, but I know it's not entirely your true words." Tilan nodded and shook her head.
She could see that the other party was not lying, but it was definitely not the main motivation for him to take the risk to come here. However, Tilan didn't want to force him at this time, so the girl turned her eyes to the gray-capped scholar beside her.
"As a legendary scholar who has traveled all over the world, Mr. Bernhard, do you have anything to say?"
"I just heard a lot, and many of the things this young man told me do echo some of the things I have seen and heard."
"For example, he said that in the mountains further north of Stone Forest Fortress, there is a sapphire lake. Its cause is obviously not natural, but was formed when a huge meteorite broke the mountain ridge in this area." "
Also, after the continent goes out to sea, there is a small continent full of swamps to the west and south. In the depths of the silt-covered swamp, some obvious man-made remains can be dug out, which can also correspond to what he just said, the destroyed seventh-generation civilization."
"Why can't you see a small island in the vast ocean between the northern and southern continents? From the geographical common sense of crustal movement and the collision and compression of continents, this is actually very unusual. My guess is that there used to be a broken island civilization in this sea area, but it was destroyed hundreds of years ago, and all the islands sank to the bottom of the sea."
With the endorsement of this 'Gray Cape Scholar', many of Lindsay's things just now became more credible.
"Like Her Highness Heshia said, since the lineage of the 'Sage' recorded something so important, it should be passed on more carefully. I wonder why you are so anxious?" He asked the red-brown-haired young man again.
Seeing that both the Gray Cape Scholar and Heshia pointed out the crux of the matter, Lindsay knew that in front of such a smart person, continuing to hide would only lose trust.
He sighed, sorted out his words, and then looked out the window.
"Like you said, my behavior is indeed very risky and a little difficult to understand."
He no longer sat upright, but leaned back in his chair, put his hands together, and occasionally tapped them to relieve his anxiety.
"I was raised by the sage since I was a child. The sage was very good to me, very kind and patient. Logically, I should not have any other emotions."
"But the thinking and logic that I have been trained since I was a child keep telling me a fact, that I can't fit into this world. It's like a person walking into a zoo, or an ant accidentally entering the kingdom of giants. The animals are very lively and have different and vivid lives. The giants are very powerful and have their own unattainable abilities and knowledge."
"However, we are fundamentally different from each other. Even if they are very good to me, I can still feel this alien feeling, as if I were watching an old horror movie."
"--They are just alien creatures with the same appearance as humans."
"I am very afraid of this world, so I have always tried not to go to crowded places. Only when I am alone can I feel relaxed and comfortable."
"Things formed naturally are like the annual rings of trees, with all kinds of wounds, mottled, and imperfect. Artificial things are straight, neat, and pure."
"If you live in the natural world and occasionally see the creations of civilization, you will feel a sense of wonder, and you will also have some curiosity and yearning."
"But if you live in a world where everything is well-ordered, everything is in line with standards, neat, pure, and straight, after a long time, you will have an inexplicable feeling of suffocation, which means that you have never actually gained freedom, everything is under control, there are no surprises, nothing new or different, and everything is repeated." "
Unfortunately, I happened to have this experience."
"I feel that this planet, this world is a huge cage. Even though I am happy to see the sunset occasionally, this joy will soon be over, and then there will be a cold feeling of suffocation spreading, like cold water over my ankles. Yes, it won't drown me, nor is it enough to kill me, but it will permanently and invisibly remind me of the indifferent truth of this world."
"I have been tortured by this feeling for a long time. Although I look as healthy as an ordinary person, I know that if this state continues, I am afraid that I will completely collapse one day."
"So after receiving the letter from my junior sister, I immediately set off and came here after a long journey. The fresh air and the vitality of this city relieved my anxiety and gave me some hope. Finally, these prompted me to make up my mind to come to you and tell you everything I know." After saying this, he seemed to be burned out and a little weak, but his eyes revealed satisfaction, probably because he had released the pressure hidden in his heart for many years. Listening
to the other party's catharsis-like statement, Tilan seemed to see a flame that was constantly struggling and swaying, and now it finally stopped shaking and calmed down.
I didn't expect it to be such a reason. She lamented the diversity and complexity of the world, and there were many things that could not be inferred by logic.
"I understand." Tilan nodded and recognized the man who had finished speaking his mind.
It seems that the other party should be too keen to perceive the truth of this world, so he also experienced the pain that ordinary people can't understand.
I didn't expect that under the seemingly wild and rough appearance of this planet, there are so many secrets hidden, just like a thousand-layer pie that is constantly uncovered. Who doesn't know what is hidden at the bottom.
After saying this, it was already past noon. Compared to the huge secret that Lindsay was carrying, Gray Cape Scholar behaved much more normally and rationally. After talking for half a day, Tilan felt that his personality was similar to those curious and playful old men on the street.
Only when he occasionally talked about key issues would he become serious, with a bit of the temperament that the title of "Gray Cape Scholar" should have.
"It seems that we still have a lot to face in the future. If you don't mind, I will arrange a place for you two to live in the city, so that you can live here in peace." After finishing the conversation, Tilan stood up.
"Thank you, Her Highness Heshia." The two bowed in the afternoon light to express their gratitude.
(End of this chapter)
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