Nolan's night wind blew Jenkins' skin, his vision was temporarily disabled, and his ears heard footsteps approaching. He lowered his hands covering his eyes and shook his head to wake up his consciousness. At the same time, he did not forget to steam the blood with fire to prevent it from dripping on the ground.
"I'm fine."
He said that it suddenly occurred to him that although his vision was temporarily damaged, he could not only rely on vision to distinguish. With a thought, the Eye of Reality opened immediately. This was the first time he used the Eye of Reality when his normal vision was completely disabled.
In the past, the spiritual lights and abnormalities seen in this special field of vision were all superimposed on the normal scenery. But this time, in the pitch-black world, only the aura is shining.
In fact, all objects and non-objects in this world have spirits. After all, the so-called spirit is not just a kind of energy. According to the old man, "spirit" is energy, rules, information, history, and destiny , is the sum of all concepts that humans can understand.
In the past, due to the interference of normal vision, only those lights with stronger auras could be seen. But this time when he opened his eyes, what he saw was the entire world of fluctuations and cycles, and his eyes were filled with various auras. These lights together formed a somewhat distorted painting.
The light is flickering, fluctuating, and flowing, but the overall bound shape still points out to Jenkins everything in front of him.
Looking at the "painting" in front of him, he suddenly felt that he understood something. Except for the different painting styles and colors, everything in front of me is the same as the objects in normal vision, but the flow of subtle aura and distorted details give Jenkins some inexplicable feelings.
He was stunned, and similarly, the surrounding people were also stunned.
This time, everyone saw the purest purple brilliance flowing in the bloody eyes of the believers of lies. The miraculous light was not strong, but in this small square covered by smog, it was as dazzling as the only candlelight in the darkness.
"Fate? Real?"
The demigod of the Church of Destiny and Law said suddenly, and suddenly turned to look at the sky behind him. But under the cover of dark clouds and smog, the purple star of destiny beside the double moon could not be seen at all.
"I'm still alive, at least for now."
Jenkins, who came back to his senses, said that the moisture in the condensed air gathered on the nails, so that the ends of the nails were attached with thin ice blades, and then he gently stroked the wrist with the nails:
"Look, red blood. What came out of my eyes just now was also red blood, not oil."
Feeling natural light gradually appear in the field of vision is a sign that the eyes are healing themselves, he emphasized.
"What did you see in it..."
As Miss Bennet's voice said, Jenkins immediately turned his head to look at the location of her aura, and was watched by those eyes with purple light. Miss Bennet subconsciously took a small step back, not understanding the situation at that moment just now. Where did the panic from the heart come from
Jenkins couldn't observe the details of the other person's face, but reached into his chest and pulled out two pieces of paper and threw them forward:
"This is what I saw in it just now, and it's all drawn."
After finishing speaking, regardless of everyone's reaction, he whistled to summon the unicorn, and then quickly got on his horse:
"As for our negotiations, I will naturally come to you when the time comes. Also, this tower is very dangerous. If the Orthodox Church can find a way to destroy it, believers in lies will be very grateful. Finally, when entering the tower, the gear It started from the heart, and then spread to the whole body, maybe the church can come up with some countermeasures based on this. Oh, and one more thing, the light inside is very dazzling, and I was just hurt."
He pointed to his eyes and patted the unicorn's neck lightly. The unicorn flapped its wings, took two steps forward, and then suddenly flew its master into the dark sky. The believers of the righteous god did not stop him, and most of them were still trapped in the inexplicable panic caused by being watched by those eyes just now.
After the believers who confirmed the lie disappeared completely, the demigods came to Miss Bennett. The demigods of the Church of Nature unfolded the papers thrown by the lie believers, and the demigods stretched their heads to look together.
"this… "
No one spoke for a while, until finally someone did. On the piece of paper shown by Miss Bennet was a drawing like a pencil sketch. The effect of light and shadow fully shows the light in the tower, but it also shows the scene after the dazzling light just right.
It is not the evil thing that everyone imagines, nor is it a heterogeneous space that is completely different from the material world. What is shown on the paper is a meeting room about the size of the observation space outside the tower. The meeting room is very empty, and the top seems to go straight to the spire. There is only a round table in the center of the space, and three bronze-colored metal figures sit beside the round table. The brush strokes of the believers of lies are very vivid, and the metal statues of Salhi II, Queen Isabella and Tarquin the Proud are vividly expressed.
"But... why them?"
This is also something Jenkins didn't understand. Before entering the tower, he guessed countless possible situations, but he didn't expect that there would be statues of three kings inside.
When I got home that night, the eye injury was almost healed. But looking at himself in front of the mirror, he could find a very light purple mark in his eyes. This is a detail that can only be noticed by close observation, so it is not afraid of being easily discovered.
But Jenkins couldn't figure out the reason for this strange change. He just guessed that it had something to do with observing the world with only real eyes just now. What he also didn't understand was the situation inside the tower. Even after thinking hard all night, he still couldn't figure out what was going on there.
Fortunately, Britney showed up in Jenkins' bedroom later in the night, which made the night much more interesting.
The church has no new discoveries for the time being, so Jenkins did not go to church on Wednesday, nor did he continue to attend boring meetings. He found Alexia and told her what happened last night, but the short lady also couldn't tell what happened to the tower, but guessed it was related to the difference engine.
When she was in Loen, she had some gains in the high tower library, which could be used to speculate on the role of the underground differential engine. It's just that those ancient texts are difficult to understand, and Alexia has not yet completed the analysis of all the contents.
At present, the only clues about the tower are the three statues inside. Jenkins has no idea of entering the Metal Black Tower again in a short time, so the next step of the investigation should start with the three kings.
These three people have their own doubts. Salhi II is using unknown means and exists in two places at the same time; Queen Isabella is cooperating with the tree house, and I don’t know what kind of conspiracy they are planning; so far, they have not been involved The extraordinary proud man in the southern country was hurt by a curse some time ago, and he was deeply involved in the vortex of politics and conspiracy. It is hard to say whether he has done some unexpected things in private.
The direction of the church's investigation was the same as Jenkins thought. When he came to the church in the evening, he learned from Captain Bincy that the church was going to break through the constraints of the high tower agreement and directly investigate the royal family and members of the royal family.
Needless to say about the private actions, on the surface, it is preparing to hold a joint meeting of the Twelve Churches next week. The first topic at that time is to abolish the "High Tower Agreement" that has lasted for the entire eighteenth century. Then the monitoring and investigation of the royal families of various countries was officially launched.
This kind of thing is even more serious than whether the war between the two countries will continue. Jenkins knows the helplessness of the church having to make a decision. But now is a special period, and all this is understandable, at least he can understand.
The appearance of the metal black tower broke most people's arrangements for the future, and it was like a stone thrown into a pond. Although it was small, the aftermath was enough to implicate the entire material world.
Maybe he noticed that the Orthodox Church planned to investigate the royal family. On this slightly peaceful Wednesday night, Jenkins once again received an invitation from Dolores' father, the king of the Hampawa Kingdom, to stay in his mansion in the city. meet with him.
Yesterday, I saw this middle-aged man in the small conference room of the city hall. Although he was still wearing an out-of-season cotton coat, at least his complexion was normal and he seemed to be in good spirits.
It was only a day later, when I saw him again, the king of the Northern Kingdom seemed to have aged ten years. He huddled in a chair with a red velvet back in the reception room, his face was pale and sleepy, and when he saw Jenkins coming, he just nodded at him, and he didn't even have the energy to say some polite words, such as talking about today's weather.
"I'm dying."
After Jenkins took his seat, Salhi II said. Jenkins stroked the cat on his lap, and for a moment didn't know what to say.
"It's a little bit earlier than I thought, and I thought I'd be able to last at least until the end of the summer."
The king in the red blanket said, looking at Jenkins with tired eyes, under the light and shadow of the reception room, this king who has always been known for his tough tactics actually looked so fragile, he looked more like a sick dog than a king The old man with his last breath left.
Jenkins knew he wasn't lying, and Salhi II's life spirit was a good indication that his lifespan was running out. But he didn't understand how this happened, since he wasn't like this at the meeting yesterday.
"What... did you encounter?"
"The Orthodox Church is planning to abandon the "Great Tower Protocol."
Salhi II closed his eyes and said, his voice was extremely hoarse. His face was old, and although there were not many wrinkles, they were as obvious as ravines on the plain.
"So you are worried that the church will discover your secret?"
Jenkins also doesn't hide that he knows something.
"Not only that, after I received this news today, I planned to find some items left by my ancestors in the royal treasure house of Loen, hoping to temporarily conceal what I did. But I was wrong, I I was really wrong, my ancestors gave me guidance, that fate is really ridiculous... "