Chapter 2765: The City of the Past

Since the ruins in the forest were temporarily useless, Xia De entered the city with the black-haired lady. Compared with thirty years later, the Vista City of today could not afford the reputation of "City of Music."

Just talking about the terrible infrastructure level in the city, this place is actually a large country town. There are no gas street lamps in this era, the streets themselves are bumpy, and only a few main roads can allow carriages to pass.

Even because of the large-scale burning of forest land for reclamation, the whole city is shrouded in gray fog. People wrapped in black or gray clothes walked hurriedly on the streets with their heads covered and mouths covered, occasionally paying attention to whether there was feces or other indistinguishable disgusting things under their feet.

The buildings along the street are low and look exceptionally dilapidated because they have been eroded by polluted gases all year round. Various signs hang on all parts of the shop entrance without any rules, and when children approach people on the street, the first thing to consider is not whether the other party is a newsboy, but whether the other party is a thief.

Compared with the era thirty years later, this place is more in line with the outsider's imagination of the "barbaric steam age." Even for a while, he felt that the suffocating fog had approached the level of Tobesk City.

Although it was summer, both of them wrapped themselves tightly, and Lady Helena Carter even wrapped a scarf around herself.

However, the closer they got to the top of the hill, that is, the future city center of Vista City, the more modernized the city's style became. After all, this is a newly established urban area, and from the beginning of the expansion of Creekwood Town, it was decided to use this music hall on the top of the hill as the future city center.

There is no performance in the music hall on a midsummer morning, and only workers are still decorating the east side of the music hall. Xia De found that today's music hall is not only smaller, but also does not have the square in the shape of clover leaves around it.

The tightly closed door certainly couldn't stop the two, but after entering the music hall, Xia De also didn't feel the power that could help him here.

Finally, the two came to the center of the ancient temple, that is, the main hall of the music hall. No one borrowed this place to practice today, and the auditorium and the stage were empty.

The black-haired lady sat in the front row of seats, and then watched Xia De search around. Finally, he had to admit that he thought too simply. After jumping off the stage somewhat dejectedly, he sat beside Miss Carter:

"Maybe you will laugh at me if I say it, but I already miss home a little."

"Forgive my curiosity, is there anyone waiting for you to go back home?"

She asked like this, and Xia De nodded:

"Yes, some girls are waiting for me to go back, and I also have a pet cat."

The female warlock was not surprised, but comforted:

"Since there is no way for the time being, be prepared to stay here for a long time. Looking at it from a good side, am I not accompanying you here? If the summer of this year passes and you still can't go back, I will take you back to St. Byrons. Speaking of which, you should be very curious about what Danister is like now, right?"

She laughed:

"The young Danister would probably be very different from what you think. The last time I saw you, I saw her become eighteen years old because of a curse, but I bet her personality is absolutely different from what you know."

Xia De couldn't help laughing:

"It's better not to do that kind of thing that will lead to a time paradox."

However, speaking of which, some friends were indeed born in 1821. Needless to say, Father Augustus, except for business trips, the old priest served in the Tobesk diocese all his life; when Xia De met Dr. Schneider, he was already over forty years old, so the doctor should only be a teenager now.

Galina is still at the age of breastfeeding, and Leisia, Dorothy, and Luvia have not been born yet. On the contrary, Professor Manning, who has had an incomparably wonderful life, should not have retired yet, Captain "Eight Guns" Major Rads should have just learned to walk, and Mr. Bernhard should be about the same age as the doctor.

As for No. 6 St. Deran Square in Tobesk... before Detective Sparrow Hamilton took over, it had been closed as a famous haunted house in the city center of Tobesk for over a hundred years.

And Detective Sparrow is probably still a child now, so the current "home" should be in a dilapidated state with doors and windows sealed with wooden boards, dust inside, and even the third floor about to collapse.

And compared to seeing Miss Danister of this era, Xia De actually wants to see his home now:

"If I set off to the tree hole in the forest now, I can walk out of the basement in twenty minutes. After all, the coordinates of 【Space Labyrinth】 are recorded in everyone's soul, not just standing in that piece of white mist."

That is to say, once a landmark is opened, the landmark exists in every era.

And thinking of this, Xia De thought it would be better to go to his home in Tobesk to have a look. But this idea just appeared, and before he even stood up, a sound came from the entrance of the performance hall behind him.

The female warlock raised her eyebrows, tapped the armrest of the seat with her fingers, and the figures of the two immediately hid.

However, the two people who walked in from the entrance of the performance hall were not that they found them. The girl in costume and the upright young man looked more like they were finding a quiet place to argue.

"Marisa, why on earth didn't you tell me?"

The man speaking looked like he was twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with a very standard Willendale accent. His emotions seemed quite agitated:

"What on earth have you been doing every night these days? In the past three months, every time I asked you out on a date at night, you always found various reasons to shirk.

Last night you said you were going to memorize lines in your apartment, but when I went to find you where you lived, although the lights in your apartment were on, there was no one inside at all!"

"A sad girl."

Xia De, who was looking back from the front row of seats, said in a low voice, and the black-haired female warlock smiled without saying a word.

And the young man was not simply getting angry at the girl, but expressing his doubts:

"Marisa, what on earth is wrong with you? I thought there would be no secrets between us. What on earth 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 seller's costume. She lowered her head and also had a sad face:

"Don't ask anymore, okay, don't ask this question. This is my own business, you don't need to care."

"But Marisa..."

The girl turned and walked out of the door, and the lost young man lowered his head and didn't chase, and stood for a long time before leaving.

"It looks like a tragedy of love, but how can there be blasphemous elements on that girl? She is just an ordinary person, it shouldn't be that she uses the power of an evil god, right?"

Xia De said, and then asked the lady beside him:

"Have you encountered any evil cultists during your time in the Vista Forest?"

"At least I haven't encountered any in the city. You also know that the population here is not large compared to big cities, so the probability of evil god worshippers appearing is also very low."

She stood up:

"Let's go, go and see the situation. Don't you think things are a bit coincidental? We came here to find a way to help you, and then they appeared... Is this some kind of thing? I don't know if Danister has told you about my preferences. I like writing reports very much, and then classifying and storing the reports. Maybe the teacher chose me back then because she saw this preference of mine."

It is not difficult to find out the identity of the young man and woman just now. The girl called "Marisa" is an actress in a local opera troupe. The Golden Music Hall in this era also undertakes opera performance business, and it only focuses on concerts thirty years later, and this morning Marisa is rehearsing with her companions.

This girl is not a very important character in the opera troupe, but from the situation where Xia De and Lady Helena Carter were hidden under the stage watching them rehearse, her popularity is good.

From the conversation between her and her companions during the break, it can be known that this girl is working in the opera troupe while preparing for the "Creekwood Town Music Academy." And besides the income of the opera troupe, she also works as a maid for a local noble lady, and her relationship with a noble lady Xia De has never heard of is quite good.

And that gentleman called "Faris" also let Xia De and the two know his identity and background in the discussion of everyone in the opera troupe.

He is a genuine "knight" like Xia De, but his knight identity was obtained through inheritance. Of course, although he has the title of knight, his family has long since fallen.

Xia De knows that Karsinik will issue a decree in 1840 to restrict the continued inheritance of low-level noble titles like knights, so this "Faris" is also not a person whose status level is completely different from "Marisa."

It's just that although the girl in the opera troupe has blasphemous elements on her, Xia De can't see how she has anything different from ordinary people due to the influence of the elements.

In fact, when hearing the conversation between the two young people in the performance hall just now, Xia De thought that the young girl was engaged in some indecent work, or was threatened because of her beauty, but it didn't look like that.

So for the whole day, Xia De followed Marisa with Lady Helena Carter. Following her to rehearse in the opera house, following her to eat with friends at noon, following her to work beside the noble lady in the afternoon, and then following her back to her apartment in the old city in the north of the city after work in the afternoon.

Of course, from the perspective of 1821, that place cannot be called the old city yet.

Although following this ordinary girl seems boring, because there is a chat partner, this day seems quite fulfilling.

Xia De talked to the teacher of Miss Danister about what he learned from Miss Danister, talked about the "Moonlight Greatsword" he saw Miss Danister also use, and even talked about the sword scabbard that Miss Danister recently gave him. ===== CHAPTER 2766 =====