Chapter 206 Father and Son
“Nanwei City in the early morning is enveloped in a turbid air that is not friendly. The buildings here are antique, but they also inherit the aloofness of the previous era. The temperament outside is similar to the last time I arrived in this land..."
The sound of the train wheels colliding and rubbing against the rails continued.
But the slight vibration did not affect the handwriting of the man in the carriage at all.
He recorded what he saw and heard along the way in his notebook.
At this time, the locomotive sounded a shrill whistle.
After 20 hours of long and tiring travel, the man was finally able to see the outline of Nanwei City shrouded in fog outside the car window.
He stood up slowly, carefully arranged his tie and cuffs in front of the mirror on the door panel of the carriage, and then put his notebook and pen into his arms.
I packed up some other belongings and put them into my suitcase.
His movements paused for a few seconds before closing the suitcase.
After thinking for a moment, he took out the pistol pouch from the suitcase and fixed it on the inside of his coat. Then he took out a silver badge and fastened it on the left side of his chest above his formal suit.
This circular badge consists of wheat ears on the left and right sides and a book shape in the middle.
There is an exquisite M-shaped totem carved on the top of the book, and on the lower edge is a year label with 1690 written in Arabic numerals.
The outermost periphery of the badge is etched with the words "Miskatonic University".
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The train slowly pulled into Innsmouth station.
The man from Miskatonic University did not stay one night in the town as the professor suggested because his trip was already behind schedule and he could only look forward to this trip. If the investigation of the incident can be successfully concluded, then I may have the opportunity to taste the aquatic delicacies of Innsmouth on the day I leave Nanwei City.
Siting on the carriage that went directly to the city, the man kept looking at the canals he could see along the way, his eyes were calm and deep.
This big river winds down from the far north and passes through the Severn Valley. After crossing Nanwei City here, it goes straight to the southeastern sea.
The man sat on the bumpy carriage and stared at the canal for a long time.
He took out his notebook and pen from his arms again and wrote:
“Since eternity, water has been a symbol of life. It runs through the entire human civilization and also carries the legacy of some older civilizations. I hope it It’s not a disaster for this city, I sincerely hope so.”
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The gurgling water flows into the ocean.
And in the depths of this sea, on the colonial archipelago that was once full of mystery, there is another pair of deep eyeballs watching the direction of Nanwei City at this moment.
This is the raven's fourth month in the colony.
For some reasons, he had to leave the interior.
The people there pushed him so hard that Raven had many plans that could not be put into practice.
But compared to three years ago, there was no confusion and confusion in Raven's eyes at this moment.
After that night's conversation with the stranger, many of the mysteries surrounding Raven's academic career had been solved, and those that had troubled him in the past no longer existed.
Whether it is the church's contract organization or the teacher's Monsis school, at this time Raven no longer confines himself to a certain academic philosophy.
He found his own piece of driftwood in the ocean. His vision was correct. All he needed to do next was to remove the roadblocks on the right path he believed in one by one. Just clean it up.
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"Fear the blood of the old gods..." The raven stood on an ancient altar on the island.
The sky above the archipelago is surrounded by fog that is dozens of times denser than Nanwei City.
Behind him, countless people wearing Solomon military uniforms were searching and exploring in the dense forest.
They excavated all the ancient tombs in this mysterious sea area, and relied on the local natives who had been captured to interpret the words on the tombstones to screen and identify all the tombs.
The same thing does not happen only on this island.
The Solomon Gang does the same thing on all the fringe islands of the colony.
What they held in their hands were proverbs written by a raven.
What we are looking for is the tomb of a scholar who was exiled in a previous era.
The name of this scholar is - "Fenich Wilfred".
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The islands are far east of Nanwei City.
According to common sense, this place should have received the scorching sun earlier than Nanwei City.
However, the fog blocked the warm sun in the sky, causing the islands to be dark as in the evening.
Just like the current living conditions of the indigenous residents here.
The farmland they had inherited from generation to generation was trampled, and the forest gods they believed in were destroyed.
From the moment the colonial army set foot on this land, all the indigenous civilizations living in this sea area fell apart in an instant, and even the self-contained city-states on the larger islands were not spared.
No group or individual can stop the colonial army. The ships that sailed from the west brought all kinds of terrible weapons and brought back rich resources, obliterating and destroying everything here.
The royal family and its people far inland thought that the army had opened up a new world here, and that the people on this sea area were living the same life as them.
However, the fact is that the civilization that humans have evolved to this day has been abandoned here.
The primitive wildness hidden deep in human genes has been vented to the greatest extent.
Looting, massacre, and various acts were rampant in this originally peaceful and peaceful sea area.
Without anyone realizing it, the seeds of hatred have been quietly sown.
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Above the altar, the raven looked calmly to the west.
A stout, tall creature covered with ferocious bone spurs, its back hunched, slowly climbed up from under the altar.
This creature has thick and long limbs, with a basic skeletal frame of a primate, but is larger than any existing primate in the world, even larger than the giant skeleton excavated by the archaeological team in the Far North.
There are many hideous scars on its bare pale skin. Almost no inch of skin is intact, and there is a hard bone spur extending from each scar, which is extremely scary in shape.
Its body is so huge that there is no place for it to stand on the top of the altar. It can only use its long claws to hook the frame of the altar and stick its huge head full of eyeballs to the top of the altar. .
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The raven slowly turned around, stretched out his hand, and caressed the creature's forehead.
The tone was calm and gentle:
“Don’t worry, my child, the hunting is going on, it’s not time for you to show your fangs yet, it’s almost... Believe me, my apprentice will use the visionary’s The body will be buried in this land, and we will return to our homeland at that time."
(End of this chapter)