Chapter 1072 Ten. The Land of Light

Snapped.

   The Sunken Land, which smelled of ink, was gently closed.

   "Mom, did Mr. Wilkin really go to the Badlands?"

  In a small bedroom that can only fit the bed and cabinets, little Amy asked curiously after listening to the bedtime story.

   "I don't know, but I think so, because the exorcist has returned." The mother put the book on the cabinet and said softly.

   "Then he died, right? It's really sad..."

   "No, Amy, you should be happy for him." The mother tucked the child into a quilt that might leak: "He feels the same way, because at the last stage of his life he found the meaning of life."

   "What is the meaning?"

   "The meaning is when you are lost and helpless, the road revealed under your feet; the meaning is when you fall into despair, the light that makes you firm in your beliefs and wait; the meaning is when you are old and look back on the past.

   "My meaning is to protect Mom and Dad!"

   Little Amy says what all kids would say.

   "Of course, we'll wait for Amy to grow up to protect us." So did the mother.

   When the child fell asleep, the mother gently placed the fluorite lamp next to the book, and the dim light from the living room and the window made the bedroom light comfortable, and walked out of the room.

   "It's too early for you to tell little Amy." The husband in the living room whispered to her.

"This is not Ender's age when we were kids. Remember our neighbor Mann and his daughter before we left Wiener Refuge? The girl who was only twelve was married to a boy a year younger than her. Amy should have understood the meaning of life earlier."

   "Everything sucks, right..." Ender sighed.

   "You have sighed many times." After the wife came to her husband's chair, she gently kneaded his forehead for him: "Even more than in the Wiener Refuge, what happened?"

His wife also asked many times, and Ender never said anything, but after the exorcist returned to the land of light, the pressure was too much for him to bear and he needed to share with his family: "I'm worried about what we're going through now, all the dreams. Such beauty will dissipate with the wind like the smoke from the burning fire..."

  The speciality of the land of light is like a bonfire in a dark jungle, even if the fire is far away. No one knows how many coveted beings are dormant in the dim darkness that cannot be illuminated around, and no one knows whether they will cross the dividing line between light and darkness.

   and whether the bonfire itself is just an illusion of generosity before dying.

   "All we can do is do what we should do..." Mina didn't want her husband to think too much. Although for a former bard, emotional thoughts are almost instinctive.

   "At the foot of the back of the world, walks an exorcist with black hair and black eyes. The thorns blocking the road lie ahead, melting into his brilliance..." Ender whispered in the living room.

"What are you doing?"

   "Prayer."

   "Mr. Exorcist doesn't like us doing this."

   "But that's all we can do for Mr. Exorcist..."

   "No...Ender, all we can really do for Mr. Exorcist is right under our feet..."

   Mina was leaning on her husband's shoulder as dawn approached outside the window.

  …

   In the depths of the holes in the clouds, the starry sky is exposed without any concealment, and the vast galaxy brings the magnificence and...

  The shacks and mansions guard the Onyx Lake, which surrounds the center of the island, and under the Anne tree with young branches stretched on the soil.

  Lu Li talked with the distorted figure in the image of Elena.

   "It's sad...he thought...he was preaching for you..." said the twisted figure.

   They're talking about "The Sunken Place" and its author Clarence Wilkin, which is popular from the Badlands to the Wiener Refuge to the Light.

   This book will soon be as well-known as other exorcism stories, a pillar of support for those struggling with despair.

   It's just that they won't know, the twisted figure perceives the lingering conspiracy from "The Sunken Land".

  When unknown stories are widely circulated, the plans of the original souls will no longer be secrets——

   Was that parchment's last counterattack or what, Lu Li didn't know.

  The businessman Anthony appeared at this time and brought back a reply from Mateus: The mayor has ordered all publishing houses to stop printing "The Sunken Place", but he has not prohibited the public from talking about it, and he does not want to do so - it is too obvious. He said that Lu Li would not have imagined how popular this story was in "Wenner Freeze Harbor". Clarence Wilkin's roommate, old Eugene, became a celebrity and was invited by the rich and aristocratic all day to tell Wilkin's story. Even the guards who "sympathized" with Wilkin that night were hired by the nobles as personal guards-the root of all this was because of Lu Li.

   In addition, Mateus' reply contained the merchant's trade records and his additional advice.

The trade records were requested by Lu Li. He needed to know what was true and what was false in the more than three months he entered the illusion. It turned out that the merchants given by quaint lithographs and weird collectors were the only things that existed apart from knowledge. .

  The businessman Anthony in the illusion is also not real - the New Year's gift sent to **** does exist, but it becomes a fake businessman who is given by Lu Li, who is then given to a real businessman, and the real businessman takes it to hell.

   Mateus' additional advice concerns the 341 inhabitants of the Land of Light.

   There are 341 inhabitants, a quarter of the population comes from the Church of the Twisted and the Vine and their increasing number of believers, and the remaining 258 are refugees brought back by Andrea from the ruins of Vener's Port Freeze four times.

  Three months only these people were slower than expected - but Andrea couldn't be faster. Although the direct route between the Land of Lights and the ruins of Wiener Unfrozen only takes three days, there is always danger along the way. Weird lairs, wandering predators, migratory packs, and more crucially: Andrea has no effective means of combating weirdness, it can only bypass any weirdness it perceives in the vast deep sea, lest the humans on board be smelled breath.

  Mateus told Lu Li to take precautions against them and not treat them as "subjects", at least not for the time being. He used the offensive "they and we are almost two species" to describe the people who escaped from the Wiener sanctuary.

  What makes Mateus so extreme is not only because of the murderers, cultists, and disregard of the law who have left the refuge, but also because the weirdness has interrupted the backbone of human beings-civilization. Humans who have lost their civilization have returned to the age of blood and blood, and even worse: they have experienced life, reproduction, and death, but many people do not understand the meaning of these words.

   An unattended child will live like a wild beast on a dark surface; a church child will dedicate his body and mind to his Lord; only a gathering place child will continue the civilization that originated from his father.

  Lu Li looked at the hole in the sky above Old Belfast, the starry sky was gradually pale and dim.

   For the dawn is dawning.

   (end of this chapter)