Twilight War

03

Corinthian Church.

White doves flew up from the gray flying buttresses.

"My merciful father, I come here to solve my confusion." The woman with a black veil brushed her finger over the long painted red table of the church.

Today is not a prayer day, and very few people come to church.Only Aquinas was alone in the confessional.

The woman's voice was a little arrogant, without the slightest hint of reverence.The woman's lips are red under the black veil.

The woman raised her head, her face under the black veil was as delicate as a finely crafted jewel.

It's Carter.

"Ma'am, the Corinth Church is not open to the public today, and it is past the time for prayer." Aquinas bowed to Carter and said, his eyebrows lowered and pious like a holy son.

"But I'm confused, isn't God here right now?" Carter asked Aquinas, tilting his head.

"God is everywhere and at all times," said Aquinas.

"If that's the case, what does it matter when I come? God is everywhere and all the time, so I'm confused at the moment, and he should be here." Carter walked to a statue of a little angel and used His fingers were playing with the pendant hanging from the angel's hand.

"Okay, what's your confusion?" Aquinas asked, and he sat back on the chair, as if he wanted to listen to the bewildered Father God of the world.

"Well..." Carter tilted his head and thought, like a student being questioned by a teacher struggling to think about what to say.

"Why did God destroy Sodom and Gomorrah?" Carter asked after thinking for a long time.

"Because there are sinners in those two cities except Rhodes. Even if there are ten righteous people in that city, God will not destroy those two cities."

"Then you think God did the right thing." Carter turned around and asked in a rather frivolous tone.

"Everything God does is right. God is Will, Wholeness, and One."

"God destroys the sinful and the unclean. Then why is there so much evil in this world?" Carter asked with a frown.

"Because God still has forgiveness, God is still waiting for the final judgment." Aquinas said piously.

"Really?" Carter said dubiously.

Aquinas bowed his head like a suffering son of God.

"No, not at all," Carter said, turning suddenly to Aquinas.

"Because the god is not there at all. I have called out to the god, but the god has never answered me. I have called out to the god on the mountain, but the god is not there. I am calling him in this huge palace now, and he is not there." Answer. I can hear the sound of the wings of the angels in this great palace, but I cannot hear the answer of God."

"Madam, we must not test God," said Aquinas.

"Why not?" Carter suddenly knelt down on one knee gently in front of Aquinas, then looked up at him, his blue eyes under the black veil were as bright as sapphires, "Because he's not here at all, right?"

"God asked Abraham to kill his son to show his will, but he didn't even give us an answer. Isn't this too unfair?" The woman frowned and lowered her eyes.

"God is no longer on his throne." Carter raised his eyes to Aquinas.

"Ma'am, what is the purpose of your visit this time?" Aquinas avoided Carter's gaze, and his sideways face was hidden in the dappled skylight falling from the stained glass window.

"God is yet to come, so I will judge for him first." Carter said.

04

Genesis Library.

"I seem to remember where I saw the Corinth fire." Huang Xuanjin put down the book in his hand and said suddenly. He tilted his head and thought for a while, then jumped off the railing in the middle of the fourth floor.

Vehipel turned around but couldn't see the young boy's figure, he put the book that Huangxuanjin put down just now back on the shelf with some helplessness, and then walked down the stairs.

When Wisipel found Huangxuanjin, Huangxuanjin was standing on the second floor flipping through a copy of "Empire's Erotic History" among a pile of periodicals.

"This is it." The boy raised his head and said.

"This is an issue 25 years ago, after the fire in Corinth." Huang Xuanjin handed "The History of Imperial Erotica" to Wisipel, "The topic of this issue is 'Unsolved Supernatural Events'. The chapter specifically talked about the Corinth fire that year, and all kinds of reliable and unreliable news about that fire. But how did we care when we saw it at the time? At the beginning, we were more interested in the ghost of the Holy Rosary Palace. , and the phantom of the Golden Palace..." Huang Xuanjin said to himself, as if he was nostalgic for the days when he and Dai Wen were reading such pornographic magazines in the Creation Library.

"Before that fire, there were rumors of an immortal earl in the old aristocratic district." Huang Xuanjin jumped over the long table and pulled out another "Empire's Erotic History" from the bookshelf, "This is an issue 33 years ago. There is also something about the old earl. It is said that in the depths of the old aristocratic area lived an earl who had inherited the title of earl for more than [-] years. The earl lived in seclusion in his mansion all day long. He wore a mask every time he went out. According to him I said that he was born with a deformity, and I was afraid of scaring others, but someone had accidentally knocked off his mask."

"The face under the mask is not deformed at all, and it even looks like 20 years old, without any signs of aging." Huang Xuanjin turned the book in his hand to a page, "This is the portrait of the earl drawn by someone. "

"Golden branches?" Wihipel looked at the patterns on the earl's mask and said, "The patterns on this mask are golden branches."

"And this earl once spent a lot of money to buy a lot of valuable jewelry." Huang Xuanjin said: "It is said that his family left him an amazing wealth."

"At that time, many people speculated that the fire was man-made. There was a steam factory next to the old aristocratic district. At that time, the silver of the great abyss in many factories disappeared. After the fire, there were many unburned silver of the great abyss. Silver." Huang Xuanjin said as he flipped through the "Empire's Amorous History".

Wisipel pulled out the "Empire's Erotic History" written on the title page of the bunny girl special issue in his hand, "Concentrate."

Huang Xuanjin shrugged helplessly, "How could it be possible not to look at it?"

Wisipel glanced down, "This dress is very nice."

Huang Xuanjin immediately covered his chest, "Don't even think about it!"

Vehipel put the book back on the shelf, "Since you don't want to, don't let me see you read this kind of thing again."

"There are still a few rumors. Before the fire, there were many cases of missing girls, including Queen Street and the old aristocratic district." Huang Xuanjin said.

"I remembered, Mrs. Violet said at the auction that she was a survivor of the fire." Huang Xuanjin suddenly turned over from the table, and pressed the 25-year-old special issue in Wisipel's hand on the Rummaging for something on the table, "It stands to reason that her family's mansion is here, which is the place where the fire is the biggest. It is a miracle that she survived."

"And don't you think that Mrs. Violet is too young." Huang Xuanjin said: "She should be in her teens when the fire broke out, and she should be a woman in her forties now, but she looks It doesn't feel old at all."

"You suspect that what happened back then has something to do with her," Wihipel said.

"Very likely." Huang Xuanjin nodded.

"I always feel like a web has been woven in the dark, but I haven't even seen where the spider threads are." Huang Xuanjin said with a sudden smile.

"Okay, I've finished all I need to see, and it's time for me to go back to Corinth." The boy spread his hands.

05

Collins, St. Louis Street.

Huang Xuanjin was walking on the street alone, wearing a windbreaker.

There are so many things going on recently that he can't figure it out.The days of chaos have passed for a long time, and there is really no strength to risk your life for one thing.

Next to the street was the porcelain shop he had visited. After looking at the door for a while, he walked in quietly.

As soon as I entered the door, there was still the smell of burning bamboo.

He looked at the beautiful sacrificial red-glazed plum vase, and thought for a while that it was not suitable to buy such a thing if he had a dog at home.

His water glass was knocked to the ground by Xiao Peizi, and a hole was missing, but he has not thought of changing it to another one so far, so he just uses it like that, and he must be careful to avoid the gap every time he drinks water.

"Don't look at it, my lord, this shop doesn't do your business."

The boss's voice came from behind.

"Don't worry, you don't have money even if you are me." Huang Xuanjin said with a nonchalant smile, and stepped forward to go out.

"My lord, why don't you ask me why I don't do your business?" Boss Ma said, looking at the young man's back with his sleeves in his hands.

"The boss doesn't do my business, that's because the boss likes it, why do I ask. I can't buy and sell by force, can I?" Huang Xuanjin turned to look at Boss Ma and said, his picky eyes were still bent slightly.

"Because you are Huangxuanjin, I won't do your business." Boss Ma said.

Huang Xuanjin bit his lower lip, then suddenly nodded, "En."

"The boss's business is booming, I'll go first." The boy turned around and wanted to step out of the shop.

"Huangxuanjin! Are you really willing to be Vana's lackey! Major General of the Empire, is this what you want in Vana?" Boss Ma suddenly shouted behind him.

"A running dog... is better than a lost dog." Huang Xuanjin said.

"Do you know what kind of chaos Donghuang has become?" Boss Ma said word by word, the eyes under the tortoise's eyes were like ancient wells.

"Donghuang? It doesn't matter to me if Donghuang is in chaos."

"Huangxuanjin, I thought you had other secrets behind you in the second twilight battle back then. Looking at it now, I was wrong." Boss Ma said with the corner of his mouth sarcastically.

The young man turned his head to look at a blue and white porcelain beside him, and suddenly said, "Boss Ma, have you ever been to a porcelain kiln?"

"Naturally." Boss Ma was stunned, not understanding what the young man wanted to say.

"I've been there once too. I heard the sound of pieces of porcelain just out of the kiln opening in the wind." The young man said, "It's very nice."

After speaking, the boy directly stepped out of the store.

You talk about these people, he has shed all his blood for Donghuang, but they want him to burn his bones and sprinkle ashes on Donghuang.

Huang Xuanjin spread out his hands, looking at the huge scar left on his palm.

That was the result of the battle that year, when he shed all his blood and entered the sword mound with death.Huang Xuanjin looked up at the foggy sky in Corinth with his head lightly raised.

06

Collins Pier.

Huangxuan Jin walked along the wooden boards on the shore, and the wooden boards would creak when the laborers carrying goods passed by.

"That day I remember a walker with a pipa on his back, named Ye Qi, is he still here?" He asked the owner of the noodle shop.

"Yes, yes. Working over there." The boss said, "Are you looking for him?"

Huang Xuanjin shook his head, "Just ask."

Looking at the setting sun falling at the mouth of the canal in the distance, he leaned on the sign of the noodle shop and suddenly asked, "Boss, how long have you been away from Donghuang."

"Two years." said the boss.

"Then do you know how Donghuang is doing now?"

"It's just a mess. Donghuang's laborers are much cheaper than Vana's workers. They don't have a good life here. But in Donghuang, they don't even have a living head, otherwise they wouldn't Come here." The boss said while wiping the panel.

"Why messy hair?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"Ever since the Huangxuan family disappeared, Donghuang has had a hard time." The boss grabbed a ball of dough and threw it on the panel.

"Hey, are you looking for me?" The man carrying a bag of tea bags threw the bag on the ground and looked at Huangxuan Jin.

At the pier port, two people were leaning against the fence, Ye Qi only wore an undershirt today, and kept wiping his sweat with the hem of his clothes.

"What is your son looking for from me?" Ye Qi asked directly.

"Most of the people who come to Vana can't survive in Donghuang. You are very good at martial arts, so you won't fail in Donghuang. Why did you come to Vana?" Huang Xuanjin asked.

"Come to kill people." Ye Qi said directly.

"Who?"

"Two people. One is an official of Vana, and the other is a traitor of Donghuang."