Pivot of the Sky: 027, Disaster in Duque Town (Part 2)
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Since Amun left, the disaster in Duque Town began to appear. On the third day of Amun's departure from the town, the first dead boy appeared in the town, the son of the missing warrior Ma Qi, who was only 14 years old like Amon. In the following month, three children died in succession. The youngest was only twelve years old, and the oldest was not more than fifteen years old. They were all boys.
Xiao Gu, the priest and doctor in the town, has no way to deal with this, because these children are all violent and died. Afterwards, they were checked by healing magic, and they only found that their blood veins seemed to be suffering unbearable. Power shock. Xiao Gu secretly speculated that it may be that they did not have grown up and learned the skills of the miners in Duque Town privately.
The skills of miners in Duque Town seem to be very simple, as if anyone can start it, but the unconscious consumption is almost unbearable by underage children. If it accumulates to a certain degree, hidden dangers will suddenly erupt, and when they occur It's too late. Aristotle explained to Amon the spiritual origin of the ancient oracle, it is indeed protecting the residents here, but Aristotle is not clear about the subtlety of this miner's skill.
Xiao Gu and Dusti have no way to punish these townspeople. Once these children are dead, it does n’t make sense to investigate whether they have not obtained the patronage of the patron saint. No one has evidence. Of course, there are more than a few family members who allow children to learn the skills of miners in private. Everyone seems to know but nobody says.
I ’m afraid I ’ll talk about Amon ’s reasons for this.
Amon, who is only 14 years old, has not only fully mastered the skills of miners passed down from generation to generation, he can successfully mine **** stones, but also fortunately obtained so many **** stones, including a master Xiao Gu who is envious of Blue **** stone. Since Amon can do it, why can't his children?
The boys in Duque Town have helped adults in the family to pull the bellows and move the ore from an early age, which is far stronger than the average children of the same age outside. Amon does not seem to be the most sturdy among them. He is just the son of an old drunkard, who has been burdened by life in advance. However, it is not clear that the old maniac made Amon take a bath in the bizarre cold spring for more than two years.
Unfortunately, of course, lucky. Not all children will die. Some people ca n’t learn. A few people are lucky enough to learn the skills of miners in Duque Town in advance. People like this will naturally not speak out, nor will they openly tell others that the **** stone was mined by children.
Simple ignorance and ignorance are often separated by a line. Many people are even expecting inexplicably, hoping that their children can mine special **** stones like Amon. The townspeople are still discussing privately that Amon may have mined a **** stone called the tears of the gods, which is extremely precious.
The adult who came from Wangdu once announced in public that the miner who mined the tears of the gods will be rewarded by the kingdom, but if he handles it privately, he will also be subject to the harshest punishment.
In addition to the old lunatics, Dusty, and Xiao Gu, the residents of the contemporary Duque town have never heard of the tears of the gods, nor do they know what the **** stone is. I do n’t know who was the first to secretly suspect that such a stone could only be mined by children. Otherwise, so many people have mined so many stones for so many years, why is it that only Amon got it?
This kind of speculation gradually became a rumor in Duque Town. People talked in private but never said it in public, which finally led to continuous tragedies.
According to the legend, the oracle of the goddess Mu Yun, the goddess of protection here, is almost innocent, but people seem to have more respect for the gods on the surface, and an unprecedented respect for Xiao Gu, the priest. When he saw him, he did n’t dare to raise his eyes .
The old maniac has become more mad than before, often waving his cane and shouting in front of the temple of Mu Yun: "This is a place that is rejected by the gods, and will be punished by the gods .... The gods are Such brutality! But people here, what are you doing? "
No one paid any attention to the nonsense of the old maniac, and detoured when he saw him. Dusty and Xiao Gu are not good to control him, anyway, everyone thinks he is crazy. But the tragedy in Duque Town continued, and several boys died without warning.
Do n’t people really understand that miner skills may not be suitable for minors to master? Everyone knows how much, but there are other children who have been lucky enough to succeed, not just Amon, then the tragedy of others is only regarded as unlucky. The cautious people will remind the children to be more careful, not to be too reluctant to pay attention to the physical feeling at any time, but it does not dispel the idea of letting children learn skills.
How many children in Duque learn privately the skills of miners in their minors? The answer is all boys over ten years old! Everyone does this, and no one has no reason not to. This is already a semi-open secret. People just try to be careful not to let others grab the evidence, especially to let Mayor Dustin and Lord Xiao Gu know.
It is difficult to stop the spread of this disaster. Although Duque Town is not small, it only has more than 2,000 residents, and its miner skills are passed on from generation to generation in a closed environment.
The hot summer has arrived. This summer is extremely sultry. Many people do not sleep in the house at night. Instead, they cool off in the courtyard or in the square. One night, people sleeping outdoors suddenly felt a trace of coolness, opened their eyes and touched their bodies, and unexpectedly found that thin rain traces were floating in the air.
Duke Town can't rain a few times a year, especially in summer, the dry season of the past years, it almost never rains, and everyone cheered happily.
After dawn, the rain has not stopped, and it is getting bigger and bigger. Raindrops are sprayed on the dry land like a curtain of water. The clouds in the sky can't see the side at a glance, covering the Charcoal Forest in the west and the Syrian desert in the south. People became more and more excited, and gathered in the temple of Mu Yun to thank the gods, and cheers could be heard at any time, because the rain was heavy, and they did not stop all day and night.
Such a rain can flood the barren land and desert around. After the rain is clear, the desert will grow a sea of grass. This year will be suitable for a lot of sheep. This has happened in the past before, but it has been many years before such a heavy rain has been seen as a gift from the gods.
The gods seemed to have heard the prayers of the townspeople. The heavy rain had not stopped for three days and nights. Some people are getting a little nervous, because this is something that has never happened in memory.
The gullies in Charcoal Forest have been filled with water, the low-lying areas of the post road have been submerged, and more torrents have flowed down from the Assyrian plateau to the north, and over Charcoal Forest has approached Duque. The whole town is surrounded by muddy deserts, Jungle covered with swamps, and plateaus overflowing with flowing water.
When people finally realized that something was wrong, they suddenly heard the thunder coming from the sky. Looking at the towering mountains of the Syrian Plateau in the distance, it has been shrouded in thick clouds, and the black clouds flashes with a flash of electricity. People here have almost never heard of thunder, and inexplicably has an indescribable fear.
No one in Duque Town cheered anymore. Everyone hid in the leaking house and prayed to the gods, hoping that the heavy rain would end soon. But the rain did not stop as people hoped. After the thunder sounded, it had been raining for three days and three nights. Suddenly, it turned into a downpour. It was like a huge opening in the sky.
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When the thunder sounded, the chief priest of the Syrian Temple and the eighth-level great magician Gore stood on the high wall, looking at the direction shrouded by the drooping black clouds and the raging lightning, murmured Mumbling: "Nietzsche, is this the catastrophe you foretold? Is it really coming! But why are you still staying in Duque yourself?"
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