The city of Xiluoan spreads over a rolling hill, like a white sand that is scattered everywhere. Over the city, many criss-crossing flight tracks are woven into a fine net, and many colorful aircraft or dual-purpose vehicles reflect the golden sunlight and gather into a colorful mist. In the densely built city center, there is a circle of exquisite gardens. The center of the garden is surrounded by a group of circular or octagonal buildings, and the stars are surrounding a red crescent building like the moon, which is the Temple of the Red Moon.
The silver-white dual-purpose vehicle slowly landed in front of the two humanoid sculptures. The two sculptures are the same as those in the spaceship mooring bay, one is a white old man with a long beard, and the other is a black young man in a gorgeous golden robe. They all have the appearance of Eves, but the strangeness and unnaturalness in their expressions felt a bit inconsistent.
Ethan and Samuel got out of the car with Tanisel, all wearing the dark brown priest clothes that Tanisel had found for them. It was the most basic apprentice's clothes, and you could see a lot of people entering and leaving at the gate. The young man who came out was wearing the same clothes, with a ten thousand breath ball swirling around him, and holding some heavy paper books in his hands. Ethan and Samuel looked at each other, both were not used to the young and unfamiliar appearance of the other, and both saw a trace of tension in each other's eyes.
The crescent-shaped building standing in the center of the field of vision in the distance is like an outstretched arm, opening to both sides. The dense reliefs on it are woven into dense and complex light and shadow, and the whole building looks heavy and vicissitudes, with a blood General sadness. Because it is surrounded by trees, the noise of the city seems to be blocked, the air is quiet and solemn, and there seems to be no one who speaks loudly.
Tanisel came out of the aircraft and immediately attracted the attention of many apprentices. Ethan noticed that many shyly hidden glances came from all corners, and the crowd of threes and twos was always visible. Tanissell seemed to have long been accustomed to this kind of attention, and smiled lightly at Ethan and Samuel, "Let's go."
Almost all the apprentices who passed by them along the way were paying tidy priestly ceremonies to Tanethel, and Tanethel also nodded calmly in response. It's just that Ethan noticed that there were many apprentices who had traveled far away, and he had to come up and say hello to Tanisel. Taking advantage of the fact that there were a little less people, Samuel sneered and slapped Ethan with his elbow, "It seems that you have a lot of rivals in love."
Ethan rolled his eyes at him, "Shut up what you are talking about as a mute."
They walked straight to the central shrine, where the tall, spired door was open, and inside was a prayer hall wide enough to accommodate several hundred people. The vaults on the walls are full of murals with a strong Eve style. A tall machine is displayed next to the preaching stand in the front. There are many colored glass sheets arranged in order from large to small. There are things that resemble cotton pads, and there are gears that are tightly coupled to each other, attached to a table made up of many pedals. It looks like it should be Eve's unique instrument, the Lyra.
Ethan couldn't help but glance at those Qins one more time. The only similar musical instrument on earth is probably the long-lost glass harp. It is said that the sound of that wonderful musical instrument is ethereal and mysterious, and has the ability to charm people. "The Devil's Piano". And Eve's lyre is obviously many times larger than the glass piano, and it is not "played" by the touch of fingers, but by skillfully stepping on the pedals with people's feet, and the other glass sheets spin, to touch the cotton pad near them to make a sound. Ethan once saw the famous Eve play this kind of instrument. The man's posture on the pedal was extremely elegant and beautiful. It was a unique and light dance. It is vast and distant, like the clouds, mountains, rain and fog in the sky.
Tanisel noticed Ethan's gaze and smiled, "Are you interested in Lyon?"
"Ah... no..."
"That's such a pity." Tanisel said lightly, "It will be Holy Spirit Festival in two days, when the temple will hold a grand requiem ceremony, and I will play it myself."
"Holy Ghost Day?"
"Yes, it is a festival to commemorate the prayers of the dead for them."
Speaking of the dead, there was a fleeting sadness on Samuel's face. Probably reminded of Schneider.
But at this moment, a timid voice came from behind, "Tanither is offering sacrifice, you are back."
Tanisel turned his head in response, and saw a very handsome and lovely young man wearing a light blue priest's uniform. Ethan recalled the grade of color, which should be the grade of a junior priest.
Tanisel gave the boy a gentle smile, "Ah, I'm back. Is the priest looking for me?"
The boy nodded with some kind of obedience, but there seemed to be a twinkle in his eyes looking at Tanisel. Just then, his eyes quietly turned around Ethan and Samuel. He looked back and said respectfully, "The priest heard that you are back, and I hope you will see him immediately."
"Do you know what's going on?"
"It seems to be about the king's participation in the Holy Spirit Festival Soul Offering."
"What?" Tanisel seemed to be very surprised, and it was not the kind of accident of joy, and his brows were wrinkled, "The king is coming?"
Samuel and Ethan looked at each other with curiosity. Isn't King Eve Tanisel's uncle? Why is Taniser's face with a headache
King Eve and the others saw them occasionally on TV in middle age. He was a male Alpha in his sixties. This kind of age is still middle-aged for humans with an average life expectancy of 120 years, and King Eve is indeed a very handsome man.
The young man replied, "Yesterday, the State Councilor came to discuss this matter with the priest. It should be true."
Tanisel looked back at Ethan and Samuel, then suddenly turned to the boy and said, "Hadir, these two are my apprentices, this one is Eldrin, next to this is Yasani Er, I haven't had time to take them to register their names, you help me take them there."
The young priest known as Hadil looked at Ethan and Samuel with a strange look, but he still smiled friendly, "Hello."
Ethan quickly and respectfully bowed to the "little boy" in front of him. After all, based on his current appearance, he is probably even smaller than the young man in front of him, and he is still just a pre-priest, the young man's younger generation. Although Samuel was very reluctant, in order to avoid trouble, he still bowed like Ethan.
Tanisel pressed Ethan's shoulder, leaned into his ear and said, "Call me in your heart if you have something, and I will always listen."
Ethan couldn't help showing a sweet smile and whispered, "You hurry up, I'm not going to get dressed so soon."
The priest gave him a secret wink with his right eye, and pretended to tell Ethan and Samuel to listen to Hadir's words, and then left in a hurry. The remaining three stared wide-eyed.
Hadir led them out of the prayer hall on the left, into a long, sun-drenched corridor. There were brown-clothed priests or green-clothed apprentices coming and going, but the voices of everyone talking were very low, and the air seemed extraordinarily quiet. The smell of the sacred and solemn spreads in every ray of sunshine's heat.
"You are very lucky." The boy named Hadil said suddenly.
Ethan wasn't sure if he was talking to himself, "Huh?"
Hadil turned his head to look at him, "Did you know that Tanisir never accepted apprentices before? I first entered here as an apprentice, originally wanting to apprentice under his name, but it didn't work. ... how did you meet him?"
Ethan laughed dryly, carrying the answer he negotiated with Tanissell on his back, "When he passed by our planet, the two of us begged him to take us in. He agreed that we were orphans."
But Hadil didn't seem to be persuaded. The seemingly gentle eyes shot at Ethan with a sharp edge. Although the third eye had not yet opened, it gave Ethan an inexplicable sense of oppression. Of course, this sense of oppression is still too tender compared to Tanisel and can be completely ignored. The boy's eyes looked at Ethan, and he didn't know if it was an illusion, but Ethan felt that there was a bit of coldness in those smiling eyes.
"Really, you are really lucky, you must cherish it."
Samuel rolled his eyes behind him, probably feeling that the encouragement was sour and not sincere at all. Ethan also felt that the atmosphere was a bit weird, so he asked one after another, "Is your mentor the priest of Theonil?"
"good."
"Wow, that's amazing! It turns out that the priest himself is your mentor!" Ethan pretended to be admiring and acted to coax the child. Samuel could only bear it if he wanted to laugh.
"Then... Has the chief priest of Theonil recently had some disputes with the priest of Taniser?" Ethan continued to test the boy's smug look.
Hadil gave him a strange look, "At first there was, but it seems to have reconciled later. What? Do you know the reason?"
Ethan quickly replied, "No, I don't know much about it."
"To be honest, I also find it strange. The priest and the mentor are like father and son, and they rarely quarrel. Fortunately, it is all over now."
Has it passed
It's hard to imagine that the terrifying man who was smiling and tearing apart his mental defense a little bit, would turn a blind eye to such a big thing as Taniser privately brought a bounty for fugitives from other countries, and even agreed with Tanee Ther brought him to the temple.
Is it because he and Tanisel have privately chosen the God of Entropy as their main god, so they are favored by the mutant celestial star who has entropy in his body
Ethan always felt that Tanisel brought him Eve, not just to save him... He was like a prisoner waiting for the final judgment, waiting anxiously for the truth to be revealed every day. But the priest has been taking care of him so meticulously that he almost lost himself in the tenderness again.
But... After seeing the tomb of Tanisel's father buried under the castle, Ethan suddenly woke up.
He knew that Tanithel had not told him the whole truth.
And the strange mausoleum under the castle, as well as the books placed on the tombstone, always felt a bit strange atmosphere. A very filthy and evil atmosphere.
The smell was always with him, and it's been with him since that night, until now. Even in this sacred temple, the smell not only did not fade, but became clearer and stronger.
After Hadir registered their names with them, he explained the apprentices' schedules. Most of the time, apprentices have to follow their mentors, as assistants and attendants of the mentors, and at the same time study the priest's lessons at a fixed time each day. The only problem now is that there are not enough dormitories in the temple, and Tanisir may be responsible for arranging their accommodation for the time being.
At this moment, Hadir's 10,000 breath ball flickered, and a message was transmitted. Hadil glanced at him and hurriedly said, "The teacher is calling me. You should wait in the prayer hall and wait for Taniser to sacrifice." After he turned around, he was about to leave. Too natural to turn his head to stare at Ethan, his mouth wide open, to an unbelievably wide grin, into a terribly distorted smile.
"Eternity is coming to an end, and the sleeping king is about to wake up. The time has come, and you should accept his blessing."
It was obviously no longer Hadil's voice, but the voice of the black man in the dream.
He actually heard the man's voice in reality, when he was not dreaming at all!
Are dreams eroding reality? !
Ethan's body froze, but in the blink of an eye, Hadir had already run away. As if it never stopped.
"What did he just say?" Ethan asked, grabbing Samuel.
Samuel was at a loss, seeing that no one on the left or right said in the Earth language, "Say let's wait for Tanisel in the prayer hall."
"I mean, he suddenly turned around and said..." Ethan is actually not quite sure now, whether what he saw just now is real or...
But Samuel became more and more confused, "What are you talking about, he left without looking back."
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