novelonline Chapter 2811 The Old City
Chapter 2811 The Old City
Chapter 2811 The Old City
Since the ruins in the forest were temporarily useless, Shade went back into the city with the black-haired lady. Compared to thirty years later, Vista City today is completely unworthy of the reputation of "Music City".
Just talking about the poor infrastructure level of the city, it is actually a large country town. There were no gas street lights in this era, the streets were bumpy, and only a few roads were passable for horse-drawn carriages.
Because of the large-scale burning of trees to open up wasteland, the entire city was shrouded in gray fog. People wrapped in black or gray clothes hurriedly walked on the streets with their heads down and their mouths covered, and from time to time they had to pay attention to whether there was feces or other unidentifiable disgusting things under their feet.
The buildings along the street are low and appear extremely dilapidated due to years of pollution. Various signs are hung in various places in front of the shops in a random pattern. When a child approaches people on the street, the first thing to consider is not whether the other party is a newspaper boy, but whether the other party is a thief.
Compared to the era thirty years later, this place was more in line with the outsiders' imagination of the "barbaric steam age". For a moment, he even felt that the choking fog was approaching the level of Tobysk City.
Although it was summer, both of them wrapped themselves up tightly, and Ms. Helena Carter even wrapped a scarf around herself.
However, the further you go up the hill, which is the future center of Vista City, the more modern the city becomes. After all, this is a newly built urban area, and from the beginning of the expansion of Ximu Town, it has been decided to use the concert hall on the top of the hill as the future city center.
There were no performances in the concert hall on that midsummer morning, only workers were still renovating the east side of the concert hall. Xia De found that the concert hall was not only smaller now, but also had no four-leaf clover-shaped square around it.
Of course the closed door could not stop the two men, but after entering the concert hall, Xia De also did not feel that there was any power here that could help him.
Finally, the two came to the center of the ancient temple, which was the main hall of the concert hall. No one was using this place for practice today, and the auditorium and stage were empty.
The black-haired lady sat down in the front row and watched Shade looking around. In the end, he had to admit that he had thought too simply, and after jumping off the stage in a somewhat dejected manner, he sat next to Ms. Carter:
"You may laugh at me if I tell you this, but I'm a little homesick."
"Forgive my curiosity, but is there someone waiting for you to return home?"
She asked, and Shade nodded:
"Yes, some girls are waiting for me to return, and I have a pet cat."
The sorceress was not surprised at all, but comforted him:
"Since there is no solution for the time being, be prepared to stay here for a long time. Look at the bright side. Am I not here to accompany you? If you still cannot go back after this summer, I will take you back to St. Byrons. By the way, you should be curious about what Danister is like now, right?"
She laughed.
"Young Danister would have been very different from what you think. The last time I saw you, I saw her in her eighteen-year-old form because of the curse, but I bet her personality was definitely different from what you know."
Xia De couldn't help laughing:
"It's better not to do something that would cause a time paradox."
But speaking of it, some of my friends were indeed born in 1821. There is no need to say much about Father Augustus. Except for business trips, the old priest served in the Tobesk Diocese all his life. When Shade met Doctor Schneider, he was already in his forties, so the doctor today should be only a teenager.
Carina is still breastfeeding, and Resia, Dorothy, and Luvia are not yet born. Professor Manning, who has had a wonderful life, should not have retired yet, Major Rades, the "Captain of Eight Guns", is probably just learning to walk, and Mr. Bernhardt should be about the same age as the doctor.
As for Number 6 St. Teresa's Square in Tobesk, before Detective Sparrow Hamilton took over, it had been closed off as a famous haunted house in the center of Tobesk for hundreds of years.
Detective Sparrow is probably still a child now, so his "home" now should be in a dilapidated state with doors and windows closed by wooden boards, the interior covered with dust, and even the third floor about to collapse.
Rather than meeting Miss Danister of this era, Shade actually wanted to see his current home:
"If I set out for the tree hole in the forest now, I can walk out of the basement in twenty minutes. After all, the coordinates of the [Space Maze] are recorded in everyone's soul, not just standing upright in the white fog."
In other words, once a signpost is opened, it will exist no matter what era it is.
Thinking of this, Shade thought about going to Tobesk's house. But just as this thought came to him, before he even stood up, a voice came from the entrance of the performance hall behind him.
The sorceress raised her eyebrows and tapped the armrest of the seat with her fingers, and the two figures immediately disappeared.
However, the two people who walked in from the door of the performance hall did not discover them. The girl in costume and the serious-looking young man seemed to be looking for a quiet place to have an argument.
"Marisa, why the hell didn't you tell me?"
The man who was speaking looked to be about 25 or 26 years old. His accent was very standard, the accent of the capital, Willendel. He seemed quite excited:
"What have you been doing every night these days? In the past three months, every time I asked you out at night, you always found various excuses to refuse.
Last night you said you were going to memorize your lines in your apartment, but when I went to your place to look for you, the lights were on in your apartment, but there was no one inside! "
"A sad girl."
Shade, who was sitting in the front seat and looking back, whispered, while the black-haired sorceress smiled but said nothing.
The young man was not simply angry at the girl, but was expressing his doubts:
"Marisa, what's wrong with you? I thought there were no secrets between us. What are you hiding from me?"
He wanted to reach out and hug the girl, but was gently pushed away by the girl in the flower girl costume. She lowered her head and looked sad:
"Don't ask, please, Faris. Don't ask this question. This is my own business. I don't need your concern."
“But Marissa”
The girl turned and walked out of the door, and the lost young man lowered his head and did not chase her. He stood there for a long time before leaving.
"It looks like a tragic love story, but why is there a blasphemous element in that girl? She is just an ordinary person, she shouldn't be able to use the power of an evil god, right?"
Xia De said, and then asked the lady beside him:
"Did you encounter any cultists during your time in Vestal Glade?"
"At least I haven't encountered one in the city. You know the population here is not as large as that of big cities, so the probability of evil god worshippers appearing is also very low."
She stood up:
"Let's go and take a look. Don't you think it's a coincidence? We came here to find a way to help you, and then they showed up. What could it be this time? I don't know if Danister has told you about my hobbies. I like writing reports and then sorting them out. Maybe the teacher chose me because of this hobby of mine."
It was not difficult to find out the identities of the young couple just now. The girl called "Marisa" was an actor in the local opera troupe. The Golden Music Hall also undertook opera performances in this era, and only focused on concerts thirty years later. Marisa was rehearsing with her companions this morning.
This girl was not a very important figure in the opera company, but judging from the fact that Ms. Shad and Ms. Helena Carter were hiding in the audience watching their rehearsals, she was quite popular.
From her conversation with her companions during the break, we can learn that this girl is working in the opera troupe while preparing for the entrance exam to the "Riverwood Town Conservatory of Music". In addition to the income from the opera troupe, she also works as a maid in a local noble family and has a good relationship with a noble lady that Shade has never heard of.
The identity of the man called "Faris" was also known to Xia De and his companions through the discussion among the people in the opera troupe.
He is a genuine "knight" like Shade, but his knighthood is inherited. Of course, although he has the title of knight, his family has long been in decline.
Shad knew that in 1840 Carsenrick would issue a decree to restrict the continued inheritance of low-level noble titles such as knights. Therefore, this "Faris" was not a person of completely different status and rank compared to "Marisa".
Although the girl in the opera troupe had an element of blasphemy, Shade could not see any sign that she behaved any differently from ordinary people due to the influence of the element.
In fact, when Xia De heard the conversation between the two young people in the performance hall just now, he thought that the young girl was engaged in some kind of undignified job, or was blackmailed because of her beauty, but it didn't seem to be the case.
So for the rest of the day, Shad followed Marissa with Ms. Helena Carter, following her to rehearse at the opera house, following her to have lunch with friends at noon, following her to work as a maid for the noble lady in the afternoon, and following her to return to her apartment in the old town in the north of the city after get off work in the afternoon.
Of course, from the perspective of 1821, it could not be called the Old Town.
Although following this ordinary girl seemed boring, the day seemed quite fulfilling because I had someone to chat with.
Shad talked to Miss Danister's teacher about what he had learned from Miss Danister, about how he saw Miss Danister also use the "Moonlight Greatsword", and even about the scabbard that Miss Danister had recently given him.