"Why should I die?"
Angel stood at the place where the light and shadow communicated. Alex glanced at the floor, but there was no shadow. He seemed to understand something and said: "I can be sure that there is no one in Gust Town who has a deeper understanding of this continent. I speculate that you will leave Gust Town and go to the Holy City."
"So, in your eyes, as long as I leave Gust Town, I will die?"
Alex nodded: "Indeed. Since Mr. Pat is not dead, can you tell me why you are back?"
Angel's eyes flickered, and without answering, he asked, "Do you want to know the truth about the deaths of those people?"
Alex shook his head without hesitation: "I don't want to."
"Since you don't want to know, why do you ask me why I'm coming back?" Angel looked at Alex with a smile.
Alex was silent for a moment. Since Angel asked so, is the murder really related to leaving Gust Town? Did someone kill the leavers, or did the leavers find something, and someone wouldn't let them leave
The words of the slaughter cannot be without traces, so they must have discovered something.
But what has been found
Alex looked at the smiling Angel, and finally spit out a sentence: "So, is it a cage?"
Angel raised his eyebrows: "It doesn't look like you're stupid."
Alex originally said that the town of Gust is like a bird cage, if you go out, you will break your wings. Therefore, it is not difficult for him to deduce the answer from Angel's question and answer.
However, Alex did not fully believe what Angel said. Angel was also a mystery to him, and it was possible that he was misleading himself. However, Alex just pressed these thoughts to the bottom of his heart and did not show them.
"After crossing the river, it is a barrier that cannot be left. You can't move forward, and there is no way to go to the ground. I will come back." Angel shrugged and said.
After listening, Alex didn't say anything, but thought secretly in his heart.
"Speaking of which, you are still not curious, what is outside Gust Town?"
When Angel asked this question, he unconsciously recalled the previous answer from Alex. At that time, Alex firmly expressed that he was not curious. Compared with this, he was more curious about... the world.
At that time, Alex raised his head and seemed to look through the ceiling to the boundless void.
At that moment, Angel seemed to see a fellow traveler.
He turned around in Gust Town and confirmed the answer even more. While everyone else was looking down to pick up sixpence on the ground, Alex saw the moon in the sky.
This is a seeker who looks to distant places.
However, seekers also need to be flexible. If you only breathe the wind blowing from a distance and don't bow your head to pick up the bread that falls on the ground, the seekers will also starve to death.
So Angel asked this question again. He really wanted to know whether Alex was a dreamer with high ambitions, or a seeker who was really chasing the moon.
Facing Angel's question, this time Alex still didn't think about it, and said the answer without hesitation.
This time, however, the answer is different from the previous one.
"A little curious."
Angel took a deep look at Alex: If one day, he can get out of this cage, maybe he will really become a companion in pursuit of truth. Of course, the premise is that he has talent and opportunity.
"I'm also a little curious. After all, it seems impossible to know the location here without cracking these secrets." Angel smiled to Alex: "Why don't we talk?"
Alex didn't answer, but he took out a small bottle of new lamp oil from the box and poured it into the lamp. Judging from the consumption rate of lamp oil, it can last at least all night.
Alex showed his support with action.
Ingres finds this Alex more and more interesting.
"What do you think is the meaning of this cage?" Angel threw the first question.
The reason he asked Alex was because Angel was an outsider, and he was a passer-by who broke into the cage inadvertently. And Alex is the client. He lives in Gust Town and should know something.
Alex pondered for a moment, he obviously knew exactly what Angel wanted to ask, and said directly: "I have lived in Gust Town for three years, and I have basically studied the divine scriptures with Father Bron Lang, and rarely leave the church. I don't know what secrets the town of Gust has."
"Then you didn't find anything weird?"
"I don't know." Alex himself is actually an eccentric person who pays more attention to himself and less attention to others.
Alex's answer was I don't know, which means he may have spotted the oddity, but he didn't take it to heart. Angel understands this.
"Then what do you think about that?"
Alex thought for a while, not starting from the meaning of the cage itself, but from the Kruya Church.
"According to the documents I saw in the church, this Kruja church in Gust has existed for two hundred years. And, during these two hundred years, the holy city has been sending clergy to the church until the fifth Years ago, the road to the Holy City was cut off, so the clergy did not come."
"The road to the holy city is broken?" Angel looked at Alex suspiciously. If it was broken, why would Knight Raven and others go to the holy city again
"It's the main road that is broken. If you go over mountains and mountains, and take a more dangerous or remote mountain road, you can still reach the holy city. But it will be very troublesome, which has caused the townspeople to not go to the holy city in recent years. That's why the series There are not many people who died in the case." After Alex explained, he continued the previous topic: "So, if the literature did not deceive me, the cage was formed in five years."
After talking about the time when the cage was formed, Alex began to analyze the various major events recorded in the book in the past five years.
However, the town of Gust itself is not big, and nothing major has happened in the past five years, except for this series of murders.
But the current evidence shows that the murder case is the aftermath of the cage, and definitely not the reason for the cage.
So, Alex was also a little stumped.
"Since this road doesn't work, it's better to think about it from another angle." Angel suddenly said: "Let's think about it, what if the literature is fake?"
Alex: "The person who recorded the document shouldn't have to lie about this, right?"
"It's really not necessary, but is all this, including the whole of Gust Town, a scam?"
Alex's pupils shrank, if everything is really a scam, then the existence of the cage is for this scam! Why
"If I remember correctly, do you have amnesia?"
Alex nodded: "I was adopted by Father Burren Lang three years ago, and my memory is only within these three years."
"Did Father Bron Lang tell you where you came from?"
"Father Burren Lang didn't know either. He just said that I was floating down the river, and I was in a coma at the time."
Floating down the river? Angel raised his eyebrows: "So, it is possible that you are an outsider like me? That is to say, you are not sure that after you came to Gust Town, the previous history of Gust Town is true. ."
Alex's throat moved: "I really can't be sure, but I don't think it's necessary to make up these histories."
"In your opinion, it is unnecessary. But in my opinion, this possibility is not small." Angel stretched out his hand, and the illusion of a sand table naturally formed above his palm, "Since the meaning of the cage exists, It's hard to find now, so let's start with the cage itself."
Alex looked at this strange sand table illusion, his mind moved, and he wanted to ask what it was, but in the end he pressed his doubts in his heart and did not ask.
"Fan cages, in my opinion, have two forms." Angel pointed a finger, and undulating mountains and forests immediately appeared on the illusion of the sand table. At this time, a translucent glass box appeared in the sky, and one of the mountains was placed in it. in the box.
"This glass box is the first cage form. It is on a continent, and an area is cut off, so that the people in the box cannot go out."
As for the second form, Angel directly removed the glass box, leaving this sand table out of thin air: "This sand table itself is the second form, this cage is an artificially created area. A certain extraordinary life created the Little Garden Garden."
Angel put away the illusion and said to Alex: "If the cage is the first form, then the history here may indeed be true. It's just that five years ago, the cage appeared and cut off the town of Gust. communication with the outside world.”
"But if the cage is the second form, then everything here may be false, including the so-called history."
After listening to Angel's words, some memory fragments flashed in Alex's mind. He seemed to be in the dark and saw a cage...
In fact, when Angel said this, he suddenly thought of something in his heart.
If the cage is the second form, then creating such a cage must be for a special thing or a special person.
Angel walked around Gust Town for a long time this day, and he noticed that the people who lived here did not doubt their place at all. They deeply believe that they are the aborigines who have lived here for many years.
The only exception is Alex.
This man lost his memory, he was the only one who didn't know the past, maybe even an outsider.
If the cage is the second form, will Alex be the meaning of the cage
Of course, this is just a guess of Angel, even if it is really the second form, it may be someone else or something else.
"It's because of my lack of thought. I agree that the cage may be in these two forms. However, I think it may be too early to try to figure out the creator's mind with my ability." Alexton paused: " I think we can start with the truth about this murder."
Alex did not mention the previous batch, nor did he talk about the memory that flashed in his mind, but talked about the previous murder case.
"This series of dead people, including the Raven Knights, died because subjectively or objectively, they wanted to leave Gust Town."
"Once they leave Gust Town, they will surely discover the truth."
"Someone is trying to prevent them from discovering the truth. Maybe if they find the people who killed them, they will know something?"
Alex's proposal is a logical one, but—
"What if the murderer is not a human, or even exists in a cage?"