Chapter 569 Spiritual Vision
On the fourth hour after landing, Milo learned that the name of this peninsula was Pohnpei Peninsula.
Its eastern edge is the canyon where the Iloa forest that Rebecca said is located. Going further east is the vast sea, but in fact this area only occupies the area of the peninsula. Less than one-tenth of that, and the map of the island that Milo bought on the town street showed that the forest Rebecca was talking about was marked as an "aboriginal reserve". This is an official name, but in fact it is a reserved area. The real meaning of land is not much different from that of a pen for livestock.
When Milo asked a vendor in the town about going to the reservation, the other person said: "Who wants to go to that damn place? Speaking of which, I haven't seen Chun Chun again in two years. Have you seen the natives? They probably died in that forest."
It seems that even these "locals" know about the so-called Iloa Forest. Very little.
However, regarding the so-called canyon, the vendor selling the map vaguely mentioned some rumors he had heard - "Since the announcement, many indigenous reservations have been established overseas, but now the The reservation has been basically 'cleared', except for the Iloa Forest area, where the navy has no way to do anything. Some people say that the natives in the canyon have died from the miasma of the swamp and turned into evil spirits, because there were ships at night. When passing by the sea on the east side of the peninsula, I saw some sneaky white firelights fluttering rapidly in the dark forest."
As for the subsequent stories that came from rumors, Milo just listened casually. refer to.
Although the policy of the reservation was promulgated by the Royal City, it is actually basically certain that this is Solomon's request. The royal family and the parliament only made a public announcement on this matter.
It is true that apartheid is apartheid. This can better compress the indigenous people into a smaller area and make it easier to deal with.
Normally speaking, this is Solomon's matter and has nothing to do with the Monsis school represented by the raven.
If Rebecca hadn't mentioned it, Milo would not have set his sights on this isolated forest.
But Rebecca’s attitude is very determined.
As she said, the essence of Solomon is a huge organization that plunders resources, but Monsis is not. Raven will not be very interested in wealth, or wealth is not of interest to him. Words have different meanings than ordinary people.
Obviously Rebecca has a much deeper understanding of this land than Milo, but for some reason she seems unable to express it too clearly.
But Milo can understand it completely.
When he was on the boat, he clearly captured her deep fear that originated from the depths of her heart when facing the deep sea, and then combined it with the helpless murmurs in her dreams at night, plus the previous experience through Nero. From the perspective of the undead, we learned that Rebecca was less than four or five years old when she was brought back from the colony by Nero.
Even she may not be able to remember clearly the memories and scars this ancient and primitive land left on her.
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But Milo believed her. The reason was that not long after he walked through half of the town towards the east, he began to smell spirits in the moist air. The breath of sight.
The waking world is no different than the dream world.
In the dreamland, there are as many visionaries as dogs everywhere, but in the waking world, the concept of vision in this era only appeared in the second year after the end of the great plague.
That is, the conversation that transcended time and space that Milo had with the raven from the perspective of Karl's undead, that was the starting point of the era of visionaries in this civilization.
But only a few years have passed now.
In the small city of Nanwei alone, there were so many psychics appearing before and after.
Hunter’s psychic vision, little kid’s psychic vision, vampire’s psychic vision…
If Nanwei City has its own special characteristics because of the existence of Milo, the fearful devourer, then the sighters appearing in other places, especially in the colonies, are very intriguing.
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It's just that the breath of spiritual vision is still very weak at present, Milo needs to get closer.
He strolled on the road of this noisy port town all the way east, rented a horse, and filled his fearful jug with whiskey at the tavern, simply doing After making these preparations, continue heading towards the Iloa Forest.
On the way, we also got a glimpse of the colonial style under Solomon's rule. It must be admitted that colonial expansion did bring civilization from the upper class to this originally barren and primitive land, but it only brought the dross of the upper class.
The town on the Pohnpei Peninsula near night is almost a replica of Arden Village with better conditions. The relatively loose order allows the wild and base side of human nature to be infinitely magnified. All contraband and behaviors that are not allowed to exist within the national borders can all appear on the same open-air street at the same time here. In contrast, Now, Nanweicheng can indeed call its people simple and honest this time with a clear conscience.
Perhaps it is this atmosphere that attracts more and more people like Zadok Allen.
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The noise in the town can still be heard clearly even by Milo, who has walked several miles outside the town area.
But in comparison, the noisier the rear, the darker the dark road ahead appears.
Milo had encountered a similar situation not long ago.
The relationship between the port towns on the Pohnpei Peninsula and the indigenous reservations is the same as the relationship between Os-Nargai and the restricted area in the east.
In two different worlds, two unrelated lands, the one near the east is conquered and imprisoned, while the one behind the dividing line is intoxicated in joy. The watcher who cannot help himself.
And here, it is the Solomon Gang who plays the role of gods.
If you look at it this way, no one is more noble than the other in the waking world or the dream world, and there is not much difference in essence between humans and gods.
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Walking on the dark forest path, Milo suddenly had an idea.
Maybe I can spread the word and preach in the indigenous reservation?
This strange idea that suddenly appeared made Milo himself a little confused.
When did you first come up with this crazy idea?
Is it the instinct of the Shadow Sequence to plunder faith? Or a sense of smell for potential believers?
Maybe it was simply influenced by the Scarlet Witch.
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Night.
Milo did not deliberately follow the route on the drawing, but followed the breath of the visionary he captured.
The surrounding environment is the same, and the area we walked through is not much different from the scenery we saw a few minutes ago. It gives people a feeling that they seem to be standing still, but also seem to have traveled for a long time.
As he continued to go deeper and did not follow a fixed path, the road under the horse's hooves soon became no longer a man-made road. He had penetrated deep into a relatively primitive tropical jungle.
The sensitive senses at the Shadow level allow Milo to still hear the noise coming from the towns behind even when he is far away. This is also the basis for him to roughly judge his relative position.
But after going deep into the jungle, the noise coming from the west that he could capture was gradually replaced by some obscure babble directly in front of him——
“Ph’ngluimglw’nafhCthulhuR’lyehwgah’naglfhtagn!”
(End of this chapter)