Although the winter is not over yet, there is still a cold wind blowing outside, but the sunshine these days is exceptionally fine.
On a sunny day, Patty's favorite thing to do is to stay in a place where the sun can shine, listen to the maid telling her a story in the rare physical comfort, or watch those interesting magic net programs.
There are many interesting things on the Monet, including stories about distant places, unheard knowledge, and novel and interesting magic creations. Recently, the smart people in Cecil City have also made a kind of magic called "Magic" ◇Lingling Kanshu.com◆things about movies and dramas.
It was a drama performed on the magic net terminal, and more and more people were talking about it recently.
Patty hadn't been to the theater. She lost the chance to go out when she was just old enough to go to the theater with her parents, but she still saw the theater. They had performed a classic burlesque at the castle, and Patty couldn't remember exactly what that play was about.
She didn't make it to the end of the scene, and was sent to the doctor by the maid and the housekeeper.
But only from those fragmented childhood memories, she still felt that the dramas she had watched back then were definitely not as interesting as the "Magic Shadow Drama" on the magic net terminal.
The sunlight quietly poured into the room, outlining a warm and bright area in the room. Patty sat happily in his little wheelchair, looking at the magic net terminal not far away without blinking. In the holographic projection, the immigrants who have finally arrived at the southern port safely after all the hardships are helping each other down the springboard, and the port personnel in the uniform of the sheriff are maintaining order.
This is the third time she has seen this scene.
The personal maid stood quietly by the side. This mild-tempered lady looked at the scene in front of her with a smile on her face. When the witch lady appeared in the picture, she heard the little lady's excited voice: "The witch The lady lives in Cecil City, doesn't she? Does she really welcome travelers at the port?"
"It's just a show, Miss Patty," the maid said with a smile as she bent down slightly, "but Miss Witch really lives in Cecil City."
"That's great..." Patty couldn't help sighing softly, "I want to visit Cecil City too..."
"When your health is better, there may be a chance." The maid said gently.
"... still not, Mom will be worried," Patty shook her head lightly, and then returned her attention to the Phantom Show, "Is everyone watching this? Will there be a new Phantom show?"
"Yes, everyone is watching it. Madam showed it for everyone in the castle three times. Everyone in the castle has seen it. More and more people outside the castle are watching it. Many people have watched it more than once. As for Will there be a new phantom drama... I don't know, but there should be."
"That's great..." Patty sighed again, "Then you like to watch it too? Do you like Mr. Knight?"
The personal maid thought for a while, then nodded with a smile: "That Mr. Knight? Of course, many people like him, and I like him too, but my favorite is the weaver girl..."
"Why?"
"Because I have an older sister who is a textile worker," said the maid. "She is working in a factory now."
The maid answered patiently, but the little girl still had a lot of questions: "Is the mechanical ship really that big? Can everyone live on the ship for a month or two? Is it really that cold outside the castle? Why didn't the lord at the beginning Distribute charcoal to people who are about to freeze to death? He already has so much charcoal... Do people really go to catch mice to eat when they are hungry? Do they still do it now? Why did Mr. Knight run away when he saw the sheriff after getting off the boat? ?He's obviously a good guy..."
The maid looked at the girl in the wheelchair dumbfounded. She had already answered some of these questions more than once.
But she bent down again and patiently explained from the beginning.
…
In the long hall of Glenn Castle, the Viscountess Glenn, who had high cheekbones and a tall stature, and whose appearance had regained a bit of her former beauty, stood in front of the steps, welcoming Gao Wen and his party who came here as guests.
When the Duke of Gawain became His Majesty Gawain, this ordinary visit became very meaningful. Although His Majesty's New Deal has been promoting the system of streamlining etiquette and reducing ceremony expenses, as a well-educated noble Ma'am, Ropeni Grant still strives to be as decent and meticulous as the system allows.
"I salute you, my supreme majesty," said the countess, lifting her skirt and bowing in salute. The attendants and knights in the castle lined up neatly on both sides of the long carpet, like two neat rows of sculptures. "You made this castle Be honored."
"Actually, you don't need to be so troublesome. The last time I came to visit, the etiquette was much simpler." Gao Wen nodded and responded with a smile, with a relaxed tone, "Just treat it as a friend's visit."
"I'm honored, but there are always necessary etiquettes." Countess Luo Penny straightened her waist, showing a sincere smile on the face that was always tense, "I have arranged a rest for your entourage The room and dinner have been prepared, of course, in full compliance with the regulations of the Government Affairs Office."
"That's good, I worked hard to arrange it," Gawain nodded, "Is Patty in the room?"
"Yes, she should be watching a phantom drama at this time, with a maid accompanying her," the Viscountes replied, "Do you want to see her first? I'll send someone..."
"No, she's not in good health, I'll go find her," Gawain interrupted the Viscountess, and said with a smile, "She hasn't seen me, 'Uncle Gawain', for a long time. Wouldn't it be a surprise for her to come?"
"Of course she has mentioned you more than once recently," the Viscountess said with a smile in her eyes. "She very much hopes that you can continue to tell her those stories."
Gao Wen was silent for less than a second, and said softly, "Is that so good."
…
Mind network, city of dreams, inside the central temple.
In the resplendent conference hall, the archbishops gathered around the round table depicting many mysterious symbols (decorative lighting effects), and Pope Megaul III in the shape of amorphous starlight polymer was suspended in the mid-air in the center of the hall, solemn and solemn. In the atmosphere, a crucial meeting was going on.
"...This is the whole process of this exploration," Archbishop Yuri's voice echoed in the hall, in front of him, memory projections restored with spiritual power are presenting several key images in the phantom town , "There is no need to repeat the various weird properties and psychological symbolic meanings of Phantom Town. Everyone must have done a lot of research in these fields. This time, we should mainly focus on the 'upper-level narrators' priests possessed." Magic' case.
"At present, we can at least be sure that the 'magic' cast by the projection priest can take effect in Phantom Town, and can actually attack the minds of us 'real people'. This is already the sublimation of the power of the upper storytellers , Proof of being close to the gods.
"The 'God's Arrival' technique released by the projection priest failed, although the most likely reason is that his 'projection essence' prevented him from releasing such a high-level divine technique, or it was due to the relationship between Phantom Town and No. There is isolation in the No. 1 sandbox, but it does not rule out the possibility that the upper-level narrator in No. 1 sandbox has not yet fully formed or unexpected situations occur... ”
The starlight aggregate above the hall was shrinking and wriggling, and the voice of Megal III entered the minds of everyone present: "Archbishop Yuri, Archbishop Magnum, you were almost polluted by the upper-level narrator in the process of calibrating your minds. , According to your own experience, do you think that the upper-level narrator has peeked into the situation outside the sandbox during this pollution process? Has it extended part of its body into that small town?"
"...I don't think so, Your Majesty the Pope," Yuri said after thinking for a moment, shaking his head, "Although that kind of pollution is hard to prevent, its essence is still just a projection, and after the pollution failed, it didn't show any 'initiative'." ’, it should not have established a connection with the upper narrator in the No. 1 sandbox.”
"Phantom Town has completely disappeared now," Archbishop Magnum also got up and said, "I used Psychic Storm to 'flush' a few times afterwards, and follow-up monitoring can confirm that the data area has been completely emptied. Worry about it no more."
"The phantom town is gone, but the No. 1 sandbox is still there," a deep and hoarse female voice sounded, and a gorgeous and mature woman in a long black dress stood up and looked at the Pope in midair, " Your Majesty, it seems that we have to take some risks. The danger of the 'monsters' bred in the No. 1 sandbox has exceeded the limit. It is not meaningful to continue to maintain the status quo of the sandbox. We... need to carry out a 'Active disposal'."
Archbishop Magnum glanced at the woman in the black dress. The woman's ears were pointed and longer than those of humans, showing the characteristics of an elf hybrid. At least, her avatar was like this.
Magnum nodded slightly: "I agree with Archbishop Miyue. Entering the sandbox, facing and solving the problem, this is probably the only solution. His Majesty, Archbishops, we should summon our psionic choir and spiritual Cavaliers."
Yuri frowned, opened his mouth, and said after a while: "Our number of spirit knights is limited, maybe..."
Before Yuri finished his sentence, a loud siren suddenly interrupted him, and then a slightly nervous young female voice came into the hall: "This is a large hole outside the West 16th District of the Dream City of the monitoring team!"
The archbishops who were attending the meeting were startled, and then one after another figures disappeared in the hall in an instant. In an instant, the figures of the twenty-three archbishops came to the sky above the area where a large void appeared outside the city of dreams.
In the border area of the splendid and majestic dream city, a shocking gap penetrated the outer barrier of the city, connecting a small part of the block with the vast wasteland outside the city. Inexplicable forces are raging in the gap area, and will be swept away The entered neighborhoods and wasteland are torn and squeezed into a huge vortex of chaotic light and shadow. Gorgeous palace vaults, towering towers, and smooth streets are all stirred into this terrifying vortex, and they go crazy in the "big void". Spin, roar endlessly!
The archbishops floated above the "big void", staring at the rotating fragments of light and shadow. The expressions on everyone's faces were extremely ugly.
They could see that there were a large number of bewildered and panicked congregants gathered outside the shredded block, and in the huge whirling vortex, there might also be congregation believers who were involved in it...
This is no longer a problem that can be solved with a memory cleanse and area reset or two.
Archbishop Magnum's short red hair stood on end. He looked at Yuri with an unusually solemn tone, and his voice was the same as before: "Archbishop Yuri, we must gather our troops immediately."
"As you said," Yuri took a deep breath, "we must gather our troops."
Selina Geerfen quietly floated in the bishops, suddenly tilted her head slightly, and muttered with a strange expression: "Assemble the troops..."
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"At that time, we assembled our troops. As long as there is an order, everyone will come." Gawain sat beside Patty's wheelchair, with a gentle smile on his face, slowly telling the story from memory, " At that time, our food was not as good as it is now. Every time the army gathered, no matter how much the lords emptied their homes, they could only gather enough food for a month or two, so many knights, even knight retinues, and apprentices prepared their own food. Dry food. There is no gain in the war against mutants, and everyone paid voluntarily."
Patty's eyes widened. "Like Dad once told me, 'Go for glory'?"
"That's right, that's when the term "Going for Glory" came from. It meant that everyone went to the battlefield not to plunder interests, but to fight for the glory in their hearts. However, this concept was later destroyed by the corrupt nobles and became A term used to glorify predatory behavior."
Patty thought for a while, then nodded: "... I seem to understand."
Gao Wen looked at the girl in the wheelchair quietly, and said slowly, "Is that so... that's good."