Red Moon Returns

On March 28, 1396, two professors of road planning from the Federal School of Steam Engineering in Salt were invited by the Roman University, a long-established university, to conduct an academic visit to the Roman University in Nolin, the capital of Rand. During this period, they were in the auditorium of the House of Lords. He held four public academic lectures in the Rose Palace and the Rose Palace. Before the end of the visit, he was invited to attend a royal dinner at the Rose Palace. During the dinner, he proposed to King Rudolf II a plan to build a railway connecting the two major towns in the north and the south.

This is the origin of the Norling-Rhine Railway.

After a year of discussion and evaluation, in May 1397, the advance budget reached half a million pounds. The railway project plan, which was expected to last for three years, was officially approved by the upper and lower houses of parliament, and preliminary preparations began. Planning, exploration, design…

There is no doubt that this is a major event that will affect the entire Rand Centenary Plan, and the person in charge of this project is none other than the future Rand Crown Prince, Prince William.

The initial work was all normal and progressing steadily, but since the second month when Prince William took over as the overall director of the project, that is, August 1397, the entire project has been cast into a haze.

At that time, a seminar on route planning was held at the Rhine Academy in Rhine City, and twenty-four master craftsmen gathered in Rhine. Prince William did not attend, but was represented by Mayor Howard.

During the dinner on August 15, geological expert Master Tal was reviewing the planning drawings while dining. In front of one hundred and thirty-eight attendees and twelve waiters, multiple large-scale ulcers suddenly appeared on his body for three minutes. Later, the Church of the Cross officers on duty arrived and judged it to be mysterious erosion but were unable to stop it. Five minutes later, he lost his vital signs, and ten minutes later, he completely turned into a skeleton.

On August 17, after studying the tunnel design for three hours, tunnel expert Master Saul left the workplace on the pretext of going out for air. He entered a metallurgical laboratory not far away, started the steam forge and lay down in it. When he was discovered, he had been beaten into a pulp by a forging hammer.

On the night of August 21, after Ms. Kailin, a blasting expert, completed the planning of some construction blasting points overnight, she suddenly went crazy on her way home. She rushed into the maternity center of the nearby Tribulation Church, cut open the bellies of three pregnant women alive and rummaged inside. After getting no results, he laughed and chopped off his own head.

What follows is a long list of accident records, including hundreds of reasonable and unreasonable deaths. Although he had heard the Archbishop of Dark Night Trinleth briefly mention it when he accepted the commission, he had no intuitive feelings at that time. When he saw the detailed records, Lin Qi realized that the Archbishop's few descriptions represented hundreds of cold and cold times. And a strange death.

From the shock at the first sight, to the nausea later, to the final numbness, Lynch looked through the descriptions and even photos of the scene one by one, and felt cold in his heart.

Every file means a life has been lost and a family has been torn apart.

No matter whether he is an academic master that everyone admires or an unknown ordinary worker, no matter how wonderful his life was during his lifetime, the final outcome is nothing more than a few photos and a description.

There is no special treatment in the face of strange death.

Phew, so many people died, what is the reason?

For some reason, when Lynch looked at these shocking death information, he suddenly felt a desire to find out the truth.

Although I have no obligation, I still want to do something for these innocent victims if I can. Even if we can't save them, we can at least try to avoid this kind of thing from happening again, and try our best to teach the people who caused all this an unforgettable lesson. Let me watch these people die tragically because of some people's desires and ambitions. I really can't stand it. Go down.

Lin Qi closed the document, rubbed the stinging forehead, closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

When he opened his eyes again, a cup of coffee had been handed to him.

That evil princess should really learn how to be a noble lady.

The two looked at each other and smiled. Lin Qi smelled the aroma of coffee and whispered: "Diana, what do you think?"

"Um?"

"No, it's nothing. It's just a joke to entertain myself. You..."

"Their deaths are very similar to the strange deaths they suffered after being corrupted by filth after being connected to a mystery."

Hearing Miss Valente's answer, Lynch nodded. He also thought of what happened when he first traveled through time. Drunk Peter, Granville from the antique shop, and the hateful Randall were all the same. Strange death.

"But it's not, it's just like."

"Huh?" Lin Qi was stunned, then opened his eyes, and then realized that this girl was also a mystic, much more professional than the wild path he had discovered in actual combat.

"More than a hundred deaths may seem like a lot, but they are actually very few."

Lynch frowned, waiting for Miss Valente to explain.

"The railway plan has been advanced for more than two years, and at least hundreds of thousands of people have been involved. If it itself was a mysterious incident, then most of these people would be involved, and a large proportion of them would be strongly related. Many of them are ordinary people, and the incident may be related to advent-level rare objects. If they are involved, they may not die, but the death rate cannot be so low. "

"I understand. It is indeed like you said, compared to the total base of hundreds of thousands. It is indeed very small." Lynch followed the train of thought and said, "So it must be something more specific. If you come into contact with it or understand it, you will die. "

"Yes, I thought so too, but I didn't pursue it because of that incident before. At that time, I thought, anyway, I have to oppose the railway plan. As long as the railway plan is not allowed to continue, no matter what conspiracy there is, it will automatically be invalid. But Now it seems that they will use the termination of the railway project to blackmail Princess Chloe, indicating that the termination of subsequent plans will not affect them, which means..."

"The preliminary preparation work itself is their fundamental purpose." Lin Qi smashed his palms and drank, "As for whether the follow-up project can be promoted, they do not pay attention to it. Therefore, the mysterious factor that caused the death of hundreds of people is hidden in the preliminary preparation work. middle."

"Survey, measurement, design, planning, calculation..." Miss Valente sighed and said with a wry smile, "There is so much preliminary preparation work, but the results are just a lot."

"You might as well look for the commonalities between the deceased." Lynch recalled his past experience of watching dramas. "All serial murders, even those that kill randomly, as long as they are related, there must be something in common."

With that said, Lynch opened the case file and sorted out all the cases again.

“From designers who plan routes, to engineers who design tunnels, to architects who perform specific operations, to archaeologists and geologists who survey the environment, to workers who cooperate with the construction of engineering facilities, to students who teach and survey the environment, and even The person in charge of the Rhine section of the preparatory work has been changed.”

While reading and reading, the two of them looked at each other in confusion until they had finished reading more than a hundred cases.

"Except for the fact that they are all related to railway engineering, there seems to be no other obvious things in common." Lynch stared at the case file in a daze. Suddenly, an idea flashed and he slammed the desk. "No, they still have something in common. Their biggest problem is What they have in common is that they all happened after August 15, or more broadly, after that seminar.”

"Huh? The time is the same? But it's right." Miss Valente was stunned when she heard this, and then nodded repeatedly, "Everything was fine before that, but after that, accidents happened frequently, which shows the mysterious factor we are looking for. , it is likely that it is hidden in the results of that seminar, and at least has some relationship with the results.”

Lynch's breath tightened, and without waiting for Miss Valente's request, he rummaged around and dug out the results of the seminar.

That is the overall plan of the Nolin-Rhine Railway, including the planned route and various parameters.

When he dug out these, Lin Qi's eyes suddenly lit up and he realized that he might be looking in the right direction.

Because part of this information is very similar to several blurry photos of Downey in his memory.

Those photos were blurry and it was impossible to see the specific content clearly. But now that he had found out the true identity and then corroborated it with the photos in his memory, Lin Qi realized that some of those photos were taken from these research results. Therefore, the truth is very clear. Maybe it's hidden in these pictures.

Lynch's heartbeat quickened, and the hand reaching for the materials trembled a little. Miss Valente also clutched the folding fan tightly and watched nervously as Lynch opened the seminar materials bit by bit.

"Will the target be hidden in these materials?" Miss Valente said uneasily, "I have also read through these materials carefully, and such important results must have been read by countless people in the past two years. All subsequent projects are based on them. To advance, that means too many people have seen it. If there is really a problem, doesn't everyone see it? "

"Of course there is, so they're all dead."

When Lin Qi was about to take a closer look, a rapid ringing sound suddenly came from outside the library.

Lynch was startled and quickly raised his head to see Miss Valente's surprised and nervous eyes:

"It's broken, this is a fire alarm."