foreigner's journey

Chapter 320 Astrology

In April 2004, the weather was still a bit cold.

The Qifan Street slums were crowded with people, and there was an unfamiliar face among them.

This is a young beauty with an oval face and a high nose bridge. Her long brown hair is tied into a ponytail behind her head, and she is wearing a deliberately worn casual dress. Her eyes are very agile and she observes the environment here and there.

Jesse Radsberry has always been a standard action.

If you want to personally participate in the gathering of [Astronomy] and join an organization called [Avalanche], then you have to come to this slum in Qifan Street.That's how it goes around the corners of Uptown.

It is not difficult for Jesse, who is lively and cheerful by nature, to act when he thinks.

After nearly a year of expansion, the Qifan Street slums have become complex again. Many new houses have been added out of thin air, making the so-called map in Jesse's hand useless.

Tsk, if I knew it, I would have spent more money to buy the latest version of the map in the hands of the old mouse.

Jesse waved his fist depressedly, then shook his head left and right to observe the terrain, his beautiful lips were tightly pursed, but he refused to ask anyone.

It's not that I'm embarrassed to ask for directions, but I'm afraid of showing my flaws and being seen as a "fat sheep" from the upper city.

Although everyone said that the Qifan Street slum and the Fifth Street slum are relatively good "safe areas", Jesse, who has been educated in the upper city, still has a natural sense of fear of the slums.

Jessie is an actress, according to her own words - [second-rate level, but at least on the big stage of Kingdee Playground].Half a year ago, just as her career was just starting to show off her ambitions, a phone call dragged her out of her dream and faced the cruel reality.

Jesse's father turned into a vegetative state due to an accident.

Her parents are employees of Shinra Company, and her father is responsible for the operation and maintenance of No. [-] Mako Furnace.In an accident half a year ago, Jesse's father was exposed to too much mako and turned into a vegetative state of severe mako poisoning because he fainted in front of the mako furnace for too long and was not treated in time.

He sought help and treatment in many ways, but all he got was unified - he would only be like this for the rest of his life. Although his body was still alive, his 'heart' was dead.

Because of the compensation and monthly subsidy from Shinra, Jesse's family will not be in financial crisis, but Jesse is not reconciled, she always feels that her father's thoughts still exist.

A month ago, she encountered the strange viewpoint of [Astrology] by chance.

According to the scholars of astronomy, there is a wonderful cycle inside the planet under your feet.

Once a human being dies, the body will return to the earth, but the spirit will be absorbed by the planet and become the life flow of the planet.The life flow of the planet will continue to circulate inside the planet, enrich the planet, moisten the earth, and finally return to the surface of the planet in the form of new life.

More often than not, even if life changes its appearance, it will never die, and the river of life will flow to eternity.

The planet is the eternal carrier of life.

When I first came into contact with this point of view, it had a huge impact on Jesse's three views.Because she has been educated by Shinra since she was a child, she has been instilled with the view that "there is nothing left when a person dies, and nothing will be left behind", which is said to be a conclusion that Shinra has verified through scientific testing.

However, scholars of astronomy say that this is just a scam by Shinra.The Republic before the emergence of the Shinra Corporation is another school of rhetoric, saying that after death, people will be judged by [God] and decide to go to heaven or hell.Before the theology of the Republic, it has always been the thinking ethics of astronomy.

"Jessie, think about it in a different direction. If your father's spirit breaks away from the body and merges into the planet, and then your heart is attached to the planet, isn't it closely connected with your father's spirit? Your father is always by your side. "

That's what the old gentleman who learned his astrology from Jesse Copp said.As he spoke, his eyes seemed to drift into the distance, and he saw his wife who had been dead for many years.

Jesse quickly believed the story.Rather than being persuaded, it is better to say that she forced herself to believe this statement.

Then, she came into contact with a fact from the old gentleman that shocked her so much that the Moko extracted by the Shinra Company was actually the life stream of the planet.

In other words, every spray of fluorescent light in the night sky represents that countless souls from ancient times to the present have been thrown into the melting pot of the magic furnace.

In the huge roar of the magic furnace, how many wailing souls are mixed with it?If the Shinra Corporation is allowed to continue to act recklessly, the flow of life will eventually be drained, and the planet carrying countless lives will also march towards death.

【The planet is screaming, but no one can hear it】, the voice of the old gentleman trembled when he said this.

Knowing this fact suddenly, Jesse hid in the house for two full days and did not come out.The truth of Mako is too cruel, how can a young girl who has been relying on Shinra and Mako accept it?

Until the third morning, under the worried eyes of his mother, Jessie walked out of the room with a pale face, leaving only one sentence, "I'm going to Kingdee Playground to challenge the big stage again", and then left home with a salute and a small amount of money .

If Shinra continues to act like this, father's soul will be consumed as fuel one day, right?There are very few organizations or countries in the world that can resist Shinra, and even Wutai has been completely conquered and turned into a docile and harmless tourist area.

Sure enough, I had no choice but to find the mysterious [Avalanche] organization.

She searched for information from various sources, some of which were true and some were false. Once, Jesse was almost tricked into going to the Walled Commercial Street, but in the end she got the exact news—the clues to [Avalanche] might be found in the slums of Qifan Street.

In this way, Jesse came to the Qifan Street slum almost recklessly.

But where to start?Jessie was in a difficult situation. After much deliberation, she finally had to take the risk of asking others for clues, asking where the most well-connected people or the most concentrated news of the Qifan Street slums were.

"Aren't you going to ask [Seventh Heaven] directly?" The passer-by gave him a strange look.

Jesse blinked his big eyes: "Seventh Heaven?"

"If you want to relieve your fatigue and hunger after get off work, the best place to go is the [Seventh Heaven] bar. This is common sense in the slums of Qifan Street, the eldest lady from the upper city."

"Oh? I, I, I am not..."

"Your face is so clean, and your body doesn't have the faint smell of rotten water from the slums. The key is that you are wearing brand-name goods that are only sold in the upper urban areas of Bafan Street. It's okay, since Seventh Heaven opened, it has been a year since Qifan Street There will always be strange faces, and you are not one of them."

Passers-by pointed out the direction of the Seventh Heaven to Jesse and then walked away.

Only Jesse was left in a daze.

　PS: In FF7RE, Jesse has a lot of roles, teasing Claude, but unfortunately, his life and death are uncertain in the end... I quite like this character.

　
(End of this chapter)