Chapter 389 Includes Us (Two Chapters in One)
Stephen Swain.
A native of Norland City in the Sailer Republic of the Ancient Continent, she is the daughter of Jeff Swain of the Swain Farm in the suburbs. When she was a teenager, she traveled to the Ancient Continent and Middle-earth with her elders. Later, he returned to his hometown of Norland and settled down, making a living by helping people cure diseases and exorcise evil spirits. He died during the ghoul invasion in May 684 of the Third Age at the age of 31.
This is an introduction to Stephen Swain from the information provided by the Church of Tribulation.
Originally there was no such thing. This was recorded during the first two manual tests organized by Ms. Daisy. In fact, even the small town of Norland failed to leave its name in history, let alone Let alone Stephen, an ordinary victim in the massacre.
The previous two testers did not have much contact with the aborigines in the memories, and only recorded a very few citizens. Doctor Stephen Swain was still selected because she was the subject of the memories. The tester recorded it by the way.
There are too many omissions in the content, at least there is no record that this doctor enjoys beating small animals in the street.
The beaten little animal limped away crying, which made Lynch feel that this kind of education should be vigorously promoted in the King District.
After listening to Judy's translation, Ms. Stephen stared at the four people for a few seconds, and suddenly snorted coldly. Just as Lynch was thinking about whether she would hit someone suddenly, her expression suddenly softened: "Then come to my house. There may not be room in those houses. I have a few empty rooms for people who come to see the doctor. Anyway, there haven't been many patients recently, so it's cheaper for you."
"Why...huh?" Lynch suddenly realized that the other party had changed to a different language, and the pronunciation and words were somewhat similar to Rand's official language. He could barely understand most of it without even guessing, "Can you speak our language? "
"Your clothes are strange and your accent is strange, but it sounds like the language of the countries established by the pioneers of Middle-earth. The difference is a bit big, but I can guess it."
Yes. Ah, this lady has traveled through Middle-earth, and it seems that today's Rand language evolved from the language of those pioneer countries.
"I like the outside world and the people outside. So, I'll give you a little advantage."
"That's great, I like this word." Lynch glanced at Ms. Swain's finger Ring, indicating to the other three that he had a plan, he took out a silver bead the size of his little finger, "But we didn't exchange your money, we only have this."
This is also the Church of Suffering. The ones prepared were put together with the seeds of the Human Face Fruit, five for each person. Lynch wanted to order more, but Ms. Nightingale kicked them away, which made him very sad.
"Such a big silver bead." Dr. Swain was quite surprised. "Then I'll cover your food and lodging for the next few days. It's getting late, so come with me."
As he said , the woman roared at the onlookers, scaring away all the spectators. Even the naughty children who laughed at the crazy old man were scared away. Then she took the silver bead handed over by Lin Qi and motioned for the four of them to follow. .
"Ms. Swain, you just said that several other houses that host travelers have no room? Are there many travelers coming recently?"
"There has been a bit of chaos outside the city recently. Many people have seen ghoul activities. Travelers passing nearby do not dare to continue walking. The city is at least protected by city walls and is relatively safe, so they are all stranded in the city. Come here. Didn’t you hear it when you were around?”
“We can’t understand it. It’s not possible to meet a lady like you who has seen the world. Our translator doesn’t know much about these things. "Lin Qi blinked at Judy, but found that the girl had begun to wander, and could only say sadly, "Is it serious? Didn't you ask for help from the outside?"
"There is actually a ghoul tribe nearby. , I can see ghouls occasionally, but this time I always felt something was wrong." Dr. Swain shook his head and changed the topic, "To be on the safe side, the city lord sent someone to the capital to ask for help yesterday. The reinforcements will arrive in four or five days. There is nothing to worry about. Just stay here for a few days and everything will be fine once the reinforcements arrive. ”
Lin Qi secretly sighed. In fact, the reinforcements arrived after everything was over. They didn't even catch up with the finishing touches, but only caught up with the collection of corpses. Just as I was sighing, the voice of the crazy old man came from far away:
"The natural disaster of the undead is coming, the ghouls are around us, we are all abandoned poor people, no matter what Whether you are an aboriginal or an outsider, we are all the same, everyone must die, die!"
Although the voice was faint, it left a shadow in the hearts of the four people.
Dr. Swain's clinic was not far from the city center, and the four of them soon saw a stone and wood building.
It is incomparable to the heavy masonry buildings of the Victorian era, but compared with other simple earth-timber houses here, it can be called a mansion.
The most important thing is that the door and window frames are also decorated with vines and floral flowers, which looks quite sentimental and quite unusual in this small border town.
Along the way, the four of them started working. While recording the path, they dropped five seeds of the Human Face Fruit into the bushes along the roadside.
These seeds looked like miniature versions of shriveled human heads, and their appearance was quite strange, so the four of them did not dare to let Dr. Swain see them. Fortunately, they could take root when they came into contact with the soil, so it was very easy to sow. Next It is daily maintenance, the most important of which is to water it with water mixed with Lynch's blood once every day after nightfall, and never stop it.
The four of them have discussed it before. It will take two days to plant twenty seeds in different locations. At the latest, the last seeds will mature and bear fruit before the memories end automatically. In this way, with twenty samples, no matter how bumpy the process is, there will always be several successful results in the end.
This thing can bear four to six fruits per plant, and as long as you bring back five fruits from this trip, you will have exceeded the task. If it is really difficult, you can just bring back one.
Lynch also asked Ms. Nightingale the day before yesterday, why is this thing used? Can't it be replaced by something else?
The old woman stared at him with a creepy and strange look for a long time, and then said faintly: "Yes, how about you cut off your head and put it in, the two will replace each other. , the original version is better, one is enough.”
Considering that he would not be able to grow a second head in a short period of time, Lynch decided to bring back the Human Face Fruit, and it was best to take as much as he could, not only for medicinal purposes, but also in case the two ladies suddenly became interested in his own. There is also a substitute when the head is of interest.
So he worked extra hard to sow seeds, and finally threw out all five of his seeds when he arrived at Dr. Swain's house.
Dr. Swain lives alone. Her father, Jeff Swain, lives on a farm in the suburbs. It is precisely because her father is old and she is the only child that she ends her travels early. Life, he returned to his hometown to take care of his elderly father, but the stubborn old Sven still stayed on the farm most of the time to take care of the farmland. This time, he used the excuse that it was too dangerous outside the ghoul city, so the old man promised to finish the farm work in a few days. Just go back to the city and stay for a few days.
The second floor of Swain's house is his own residence, and the first floor is similar to the most primitive clinic. There were indeed many guest rooms, seven or eight in total. Lynch wanted to rent just one, but apparently he was the only one who thought so, so his opinion was ruthlessly suppressed. But the good news is that at least before nightfall on the first day, I found a place to stay, and there was a bed, quilts, and hot food. Compared with the first experience of the out-of-control strange object, this place is simply Like heaven.
“This is the only way to deal with those little bastards. The harder they beat, the better. The people in this city are the same, they are vulgar. If you don’t be more cruel to them, who knows what they will do. "
It is indeed not easy for her to live alone as a woman. No one commented on what happened just now. They sat patiently at the dining table in the fading sunset, watching Dr. Swain. The murderer, disguised as a housewife, served five portions of vegetable stew and white bread.
It was even simpler than the dinner on No. 221. I didn’t know if Miss Diana could adapt to it. Lynch looked at Miss Diana and saw her scooping up a spoonful of vegetable soup naturally, just...
Dong dong dong dong .
The closed door was suddenly knocked, the knocking was rapid and hard, full of urgency. "Sven@#￥!@#￥"
The cry was urgent, and it sounded like something was wrong. The four of them looked at each other and put down the tableware, but the female doctor had already walked out and opened the door.
Outside the door was a soldier wearing leather armor, speaking quickly.
"Something happened?" Lin Qi, who had no intention of eating, had already followed him to the door.
And Dr. Swain nodded gloomily: "Something happened to Kemet."
"Who is that?"
"The soldiers sent by the city lord to ask for help are suspected of being attacked by ghouls. We...will not have reinforcements for the time being."
Huh?
A few people looked at each other, doubts rising in their hearts.
Something is wrong.
The reinforcements must have arrived. The testers saw the reinforcements entering the city with their own eyes, and the results were the same both times.
The memory of strange objects is a fixed history that cannot change. Just like the plot of a filmed drama is fixed every time it is broadcast, how can it suddenly change?
"I'll go take a look. I hope there's still hope. You guys should eat first."
Dr. Swain couldn't understand the doubts in the minds of several people. He went to the second floor to get some medicines, closed the door and left with the soldiers. Four tenants were left in the house. Before she left, Officer Natalie winked at Lynch and asked if she wanted to find an excuse to follow him, but Lynch shook his head.
It is too easy to follow him now and arouse unnecessary suspicion. It is better to wait and see what happens and wait for Dr. Swain to come back before finding a way to silence him. There are more important things to do now.
Read suppression conditions.
Originally, Lin Qi thought that he would have to wait at least three days for the fruit to mature before he could escape, so he was not in a hurry to read it, but the sudden change made him smell danger. This also gave him a memory. When suppressing out-of-control strange objects in the future, no matter whether it is urgent or not, he must first read the suppression conditions, and at least know where the escape route is. Otherwise, if he encounters such a weird situation again, it will be easy. Caught off guard.
"However, it is indeed strange. Have you encountered, no, heard of a similar situation before?"
One of the three ladies is a professional mysterious hunter, one is a theoretical occultist, and the other is simply an apostle of the evil god. They all have a deep understanding of the mysterious world. However, all three of them shook their heads, and fixed memories suddenly appeared. Change, truly unheard of.
“My father once told me that the memories of strange objects are not completely unchanged. In fact, suppressing the strange objects is essentially reversing the direction of the memories. When it reaches a certain level, the memories will naturally stop. Officer Natalie said hesitantly, "The people in the memories are essentially normal people, and their reactions will change based on what we do. The greater our influence on the memories, the greater the changes. I think." This situation may be related to this. For example, we contacted Ms. Swain. "But... we haven't done anything yet." Lynch rubbed his forehead and felt his head was getting bigger. "And the time is unreasonable. If we extrapolate forward, we had not come in or had just come in when the courier was attacked, so there would be no time to affect it."
"Perhaps the original history was like this. In the end, some unexpected circumstances occurred, which led to the arrival of reinforcements." Miss Diana guessed, "It is a bit too early to think that the memory has changed based only on the attack on the courier. Let's assume history first. It should be like this. It would be better to dig deeper to find out the reason if we have concrete evidence."
"Uh, that's right. The lack of reinforcements is just what Ms. Swain said. It may not be true. I was a little overreacted." Lin. Qi smiled self-deprecatingly, "But to be on the safe side, I'd better start reading now. It will take forty-five minutes to an hour. Natalie, please help me protect you."
"Then Zhu and I will Let’s go out for a walk with Miss Di,” Miss Diana said, “We will plant five more human face fruits around this building, and we will plant the remaining ten tomorrow morning and evening.”
After this incident, although their doubts were temporarily put aside, no one was in the mood to study the food issue anymore. It only took a few minutes to finish the dinner without knowing the taste. Lin Qi sat cross-legged on the floor, with his right index finger touching the ground. Entered deep reading state.
Seeing that Lynch had already started, Miss Diana and Judy did not hesitate and left Swain's house with their own seed wine.
As soon as I went out, I felt something was wrong.
It was already dark. According to the experience of the two tests, due to the hidden danger of ghouls, it was very quiet in the first few nights with almost no one going out. However, at this time, Miss Diana discovered that there were several groups of people in the distance carrying Torches were interspersed with patrols, making the atmosphere increasingly tense.
It’s different from what was said in the introduction. Has there really been a change?
Miss Diana was a little bit murmuring in her heart, but regardless of whether there were abnormal changes or not, the main task still had to be completed. The two carefully avoided the patrolling citizens, walked around Swain's house several times, and threw the seeds to different locations.
The most troublesome problem with this thing is that the waterer must water it with his own blood in order to survive. This is why Lynch must come in personally. As for who is sowing the seeds, it is the least important, as long as it is a human being.
After hastily planting, the two hid in the dark and listened to the conversation of the patrollers. It seemed that it was precisely because the attack on the messenger Kemit made the city lord and the general feel in danger that they stepped up the patrol.
After listening to Judy's translation, Miss Diana's doubts became more serious, but seeing that it was almost time, the two of them had no intention of listening anymore and quickly returned to Swain's house.
As soon as he entered the door, he found that Lynch had regained consciousness and was sitting face to face with Officer Natalie, both of whom were in a daze.
Seeing that Diana and Judy had returned, Lynch said directly without waiting for them to ask: "The results are out."
"Huh?"
"End the ghoul transformation ritual."
"Whose?"
"It belongs to everyone in the city." Lynch pointed at himself with a wry smile, "Including us."
(End of this chapter)