Chapter 51 Public visions

Chapter 51 Open Vision

After lunch, Duncan watched Nina clean up the table, he wanted to help wash the dishes, but was forced to stop the other side of the “uncle’s health doctor said to touch less cold water” reason, so he had to rely on the stairway near the newspaper bought in the morning while watching the girl busy in the kitchen.

This kind of daily scene, as if it were an ordinary family, gave him a strange feeling in his heart.

Just then, Nina’s voice came from the kitchen, “Uncle Duncan, is there any news in the newspaper?”

Duncan looked down at the newspaper, the first thing he saw was the date of “August 14th, 1900”, followed by the news that the Church Inquisitor had led a team to arrest dozens of cultists: this should be the most important front-page news in the whole newspaper.

“It says that the Inquisitor led a team to capture dozens of solar heretics,” he said casually, “and that it was the largest heretical gathering the Church had managed to break up in the last four years, followed by something reminding the public to be safe at night and to be aware of the heretical beliefs around them. ”

“Ah, I heard about it on the way over here too!” Nina put the cleaned bowls into the cupboard with her hands and feet, “That’s scary, I’ve heard from my teacher before that those sun-worshipping cultists would even do things like sacrificing living human beings to the sun god …… Who do you think would be so deranged as to believe in such a sect?”

Duncan didn’t know what to say for a moment, because no matter what he said he felt that it was too subtle – should he say that he had immersed himself in the sacrifice package on that altar not long ago, or should he say that your uncle was such a heartless cultist?
However, one thing is very obvious, from Nina’s reaction, she obviously does not know the fact that her “uncle” is a solar heretic – she even has the normal outlook of ordinary people, think that the sun god believes in that kind of living human sacrifice is a terrible thing.

The “uncle” from her perspective was just a bit grumpy because he was sick, a bit drunk, and had some “weird friends”.

The body she occupied might have been a bloodthirsty mess, but at least he had raised Nina to this day, and had so far protected the girl from the Sun God’s beliefs.

Maybe someday in the future, some cultist named “Ron” would really take the last step and drag his last family member into this endless abyss, but at least until today, that hadn’t happened yet.

Nor will it happen in the future.

“Uncle? Why are you suddenly silent?” Nina was a bit curious about the silence behind her, she looked back with concern in her eyes, “Not feeling well again?”

“No, just a little bit lost in thought,” Duncan reacted and shook his head, “What you said is not false, that is indeed something deranged …… The newspaper also mentioned for the public to pay attention to their safety, and promptly report the heretical behavior around them , and you should try not to wander outside of school and home for a while.”

Nina nodded, but immediately afterward, she let out an “ah”, her face showing a somewhat hesitant and anxious look, “But …… but I still have a date with a classmate, and I’m going to visit a museum in the next two days… …”

“Museum?” Duncan asked casually, “What museum?”

“It’s the one near the school, near the edge of uptown, the Maritime Museum,” Nina explained, “I’ve heard that it’s been displaying specimens of offshore minerals lately …… Is that okay?”

“Go if you want,” Duncan thought about it and nodded, “There are patrols of Church Keepers and City State Magistrates all over the place right now, and the cultists don’t think they’ll be bold enough to jump out in the next two days.”

Nina nodded happily, “Uh-huh!”

“Do you still have to go to school this afternoon?” Duncan asked again.

“Well, it’s history class this afternoon, and I don’t want to miss old Mr. Morris’s class,” Nina said with a nod of her head, “That’s a very famous expert in the field of history …… But it’s also really strange, an old gentleman as famous as him. But it’s strange why an old gentleman as famous as him wouldn’t lecture at an uptown university, but come to a downtown public school. A big chunk of the class doesn’t like history class, they all sleep during the old man’s lessons ……”

Duncan shook his head matter-of-factly, “How should I know.”

Jokes aside, let alone that old Mr. Morris who taught history, he’d only just met Nina – he’d have to pour over his memory for a few hours to figure out where the public school Nina went to was ……

And I’m afraid that even the original owner of this body wasn’t much better informed about his niece’s recent past – he’d obviously been too deep in the Sun’s heretical beliefs for too long by the time Duncan took over his life.

Nina had classes in the afternoon, so she didn’t stay long in the antique store after lunch, and after hastily packing up her things and taking with her the textbook she’d left behind at home, the girl trotted her way out of the house – it was nearly an hour’s journey from the antique store to that downtown public school, and it was going to take her not wasting a minute of it to avoid being late for being late for old Mr. Morris’s class.

Of course, there was public transportation in the city, even in the more backward downtown area, where steam-engine-powered railed locomotives and trackless buses rolled through the streets, but these cost four to six pesos for a ticket. Nina laughed and told Duncan that more running would be good for his health.

Her way to school would be a lot easier if she had a bicycle – Duncan had seen people riding this mode of transportation on the streets of the lower city.

In a society that had developed steam machinery, an industrial product such as a bicycle was not so expensive that it was unaffordable to the average person, but it was by no means cheap for the residents of the Lower City either, and the most common bicycle could cost a family of three half a month to a month’s worth of living expenses …… counted as a burden.

Duncan did not know where this set of identities he currently occupied would go in the future, but watching Nina trotting along and disappearing around the corner of the street, he always felt that …… with room to spare, it seemed as if he should be a little nicer to this girl.

Even if it was for the vegetable soup and savory pancakes from earlier.

Not to mention, she was a diligent student.

Perhaps she should think about ways to make money in this “civilized city-state”.

With various thoughts in his mind, he put down the newspaper in his hand, slowly paced to the end of the second floor corridor, and after opening the narrow window, he looked at the city streets under the sunlight with some fascination.

In this world, “anomalies” and “visions” have long been accompanied by the process of civilization, no matter whether it is the authorities or the church, there is no concealment of the transcendent realm from the public, even a girl like Nina who is still in school can learn about anomalies and visions directly from textbooks. and visions.

She even knew the classification standards for anomalies and visions left behind by the ancient Cretan Kingdom and used to this day, and she also knew the public numbers and names of some of the anomalies and visions whose laws had already been detected.

Yes, some of this knowledge is even publicized to the entire community – though not all of it.

The authorities and churches of the various city-states recognized a list in which the most famous or dangerous anomalies and visions had their own special numbers, which were not permanent; under special circumstances, some anomalies and visions were eliminated or transformed for various reasons, and their numbers could be transferred or left vacant, but no matter how they were changed, one thing was certain on the whole:
Anomalies and visions that can have independent numbers and names must have their own special dangers or powerful features.

The authorities have made some of these anomalies and visions public, on the one hand to ensure that every citizen is aware of these specific dangers, so that all people have the common sense to protect themselves, and on the other hand …… it is because certain anomalies and visions are really too close to people’s lives.

These things have even been immersed into every corner of ordinary people’s lives, into every aspect of the functioning of society, so that people can see them at any time, and there is no way to hide them, nor is there any need to hide them.

Duncan raised his head and silently gazed at the sky.

Vision 001, the sun.

A great body of light orbiting in the sky, a great vision that dominated the skies in the Age of the Deep, born in the early morning of the day after the collapse of the ancient kingdom of Crete.

Area of influence – worldwide, units of influence – infinite, orbits and moves on its own, cannot be interfered with by human hands, meets the definition of a vision.

History records that on the day of the collapse of the Ancient Kingdom, the sea was raging, the city-state was shattered, and the entirety of the first dynasty died generously in the darkness, and their blood soaked the sea, so Vision 001 rose from the sea, and only since then has there been daytime peace on the infinite sea.

The ancient kingdom of Crete, the first city-state civilization established by the survivors after the opening of the Deep Sea Era, lasted only a hundred years, but left behind countless legacies that have blessed the world to this day.

The word “Crete” means “eternal night” in the ancient language.

It was a night that lasted a century.

It’s all written in Nina’s history book.

(End of chapter)