Old days in the box

Chapter 179 There is no home to go back to

Under the leadership of Raleye, Mist Gate set off again, heading towards the southern European town in her memory.

Zhou Xiao didn't have any objections to sending her home. After all, this octopus girl gave him 4% of the ocean power for free, so it didn't hurt to do good things.

Originally, when he teamed up with the two gods, he thought he would encounter a fierce battle at the bottom of the sea.

Unexpectedly, after working for a long time, the true identity of the deep sea monster Kraken turned out to be an octopus girl, and she was also the kind of silly child who actively sacrificed herself for her town.

If she hadn't been lucky enough to gain divine authority at the bottom of the sea, this girl would have fallen into the hands of the eight-headed snake demon.

At this time, R'lye was sitting excitedly on the bow of the Mist Gate, looking forward expectantly.

After five years of absence, we are finally going to see our home again. How can we not look forward to it?

The green tentacles behind her squirmed happily, making the deep-diving elves on the ship afraid to approach her. Only Freya walked up to her and looked at her smile with relief.

"What are your plans after going back?" Freya asked her.

"I haven't thought about it yet. Find a way to hide these hands and continue living?" Raleye chuckled, "Thank you for saving me, you are all good people!"

"It's nothing. I have been oppressed by powerful people like you before, and I know that this kind of life is not easy."

"No way! You are so powerful and someone dares to bully you?" Raleye looked at this elf sister who was covered in golden divinity in surprise.

"I used to live in a very poor fishing village. My mother died while fishing in order to pay tribute to the kingdom. Later, when I grew up, I had to take over her skills and continue to go to sea."

"What then?"

"Later...my god appeared."

The girl looked curiously at the longing flashing on Freya's face, unable to tell whether it was the love between a man and a woman or the sincerity of a believer.

"The favor of the Son of the Past came to our fishing village and made us grow stronger step by step. It was He who turned me, a girl who once only knew how to fish, into the extraordinary saint she is now. He saved my life...and now, I I want to bring this kind of miracle to others in need, just like my God did when he saved me.”

Raleye listened with great interest, lying on the edge of the boat and laughing: "It sounds like this son of the past is really powerful!"

Just when the two of them were chatting happily, Taiyin suddenly walked up to them and looked at the front of the ship.

"We're almost there," he warned.

As the Mist Gate advanced at full speed, they soon followed the Golden Strait and entered the territorial waters of the Holy Roman Empire.

The coast of this strait is complex and bifurcated into many unique and steep terrains. Almost all independent small towns that have not joined the big countries are built on these terrains and live a peaceful life in a quiet corner.

The town of Raleye is naturally included in this list.

At this time, before the Gate of Fog could approach, Zhou Xiao had already taken advantage of the wider field of view to zoom in and scanned the coastal map of the Holy Roman Empire.

However, what he saw along the shores of the Holy Roman Empire was a startling scene.

"Is that your town?"

On board the Mist Gate, Taiyin pointed to the direction they were heading in the distance and asked.

There, the line between sea and sky gradually became clearer as they approached. On the other side of the land, they saw a huge gear device, like a water wheel and windmill standing on the horizon, with plumes of smoke emitting from it. .

"This is the right place, but...it shouldn't be like this big wheel." Raleye's smile faded and he looked forward in confusion.

At this time, at Zhou Xiao's window, the real situation along this row of coasts had already been seen clearly.

These areas that used to be independent towns have all been transformed into steam factories at this time. They are connected to each other by mine carts and railways. Countless stoves are arranged in them, and the fire is soaring into the sky.

Zhou Xiao zoomed in on one of the areas and saw countless poor people being pushed to work.

They hauled the heavy ore from the mine to the factory. The high temperature of the furnace and the haze from the chimney made them blackened and sweaty. However, the supervisors behind them continued to curse and wave their long whips. Many people His body was beaten with blood.

The big wheel that was glowing with flames was the largest casting device here. Countless poor people climbed on it without any safety measures, braving the high temperature and constantly adjusting the gear structure on the device.

And at the output of this device, the items produced one by one turned out to be the steam cylinders in Otto's hands!

That is, those weaponized devices handed over to the Knights of the Tribunal that can open their claws and inject brainwashing liquid!

This place has become a weapons factory for the Church of the God of Raging Waves!

"This... is too much."

Zhou Xiao dragged the camera to look all the way around. In addition to those steam cylinders, there were also many different types of strange weapons being produced from these factories one by one.

These weapons are all adapted from the technology of Miracle Creation and are dangerous tools designed for mass killing.He saw that the supervisors were all wearing religious robes, branded with the symbol of the God of Raging Waves, while the poor people working were half-clothed, and they seemed to be from two different worlds.

Zhou Xiao randomly clicked on a poor worker to check his information.

"David, 29 years old, worker at a southern weapons factory."

"He was once the heir to the family tailor shop. Five years ago, because of the holy war, the whole city was forced to join the Holy Roman Empire in order to seek peace. However, he was still classified as a citizen outside the city. Two months later, the Raging Tide Inquisition found Iron Man near the town. Mine, decided to designate this place as a weapons factory and implement comprehensive transformation, and all local residents outside the city will automatically become factory workers."

"Click to see more information."

Almost every worker here has a similar biography, which clearly explains what happened here in the past five years.

It turns out that R'lyeh's voluntary sacrifice only brought two months of brief peace to the town.

Once traces of iron ore veins were discovered, this place quickly became an outsourcing factory for the Holy Roman Empire and a furnace for producing killing weapons for them.

At this time, the Mist Gate had gradually approached the coast and clearly saw the major changes that had occurred on the shore.

The town in memory has long since disappeared without a trace, replaced by a giant factory area towering on the coastline.

Under the huge gear device, countless furnaces were emitting thick smoke. A large number of poor people were climbing up and down there, climbing and carrying them. People from the Church of the God of Raging Waves were urging them loudly, with unconcealed hatred in their eyes. .

"Why, why is this happening?" Raleye looked at the factory in the distance in disbelief and asked in shock.

"I told you a long time ago, don't have high expectations." Taiyin replied calmly, seemingly not surprised by what he saw in front of him.

"But haven't they already joined the Holy Roman Empire? Why are they still enslaved?" Freya also asked with confusion and anger on her face.

"The Holy Roman Empire had a three-class system. The highest-status people were the natives of the empire. Foreigners who joined from outside the city and non-joined areas could only be counted as second- and third-class people and had no real civil rights."

"Ninety percent of their locals are believers. They don't need to work or produce. They just study the teachings of the so-called gods in the church every day. Who do you think is working in such an empire?"

Taiyin had obviously been mentally prepared for a long time and slowly talked about the Holy Roman Empire that he knew.

A theocratic state controlled by priests is often not as benevolent as it appears.

All the benefits they promised to their followers were secretly paid for with blood and sweat.

This is why all countries with supreme theocracy are particularly keen on launching holy wars and heresy trials.

Because only by finding those "dissidents" can they have a way to plunder profits and maintain their beliefs.

"Then my town will be..."

Looking at his unrecognizable home, Raleye suddenly became confused and lost his mind.

She is an orphan in that town. She has never known who her parents are since she was a child. She has never stepped outside the town and has always regarded the town as her home.

But now, the only home she knew has been razed to the ground and turned into a smoldering factory that enslaves the entire city.

And the killing weapons produced by these factories will be used to conquer more places in the near future and create more such factories, and the cycle will continue endlessly.

This is how the kingdom of the God of Raging Waves, which claims to be benevolent and merciful, grew up to become a powerful nation in the western half of Europe.

"Tai Yin is right. The renovation started in the second month after her sacrifice. Now this place is just a weapons factory of the Raging Wave Trial Bureau, specializing in manufacturing large-scale killing weapons."

The divine guide of the Son of the Old One fell from the sky, confirming Tain's statement, which was equivalent to a death sentence for this place.

This place has been completely controlled by the Holy Roman Empire and has been transformed beyond recognition. It is impossible to restore it to its original appearance.

Not every village or town is as lucky as Haiding Village and has the opportunity to wait for its own salvation.

It is the normal state of most mortals to wait for no miracle to appear throughout their lives.

"My Lord...can we at least do something?" Freya begged towards the sky with an unfounded anger igniting in her heart.

Zhou Xiao, who was outside the screen, was also in a bad mood. He stared at the steaming weapons factories in front of the screen and pressed F2 again to speak.

"Tyne."

The Voice of God gave a brief command, and the chosen champion representing death stood Frostmourne on the deck, and a bone-chilling black mist began to rise all over his body.

"Don't worry, my lord, I know what to do." Taiyin replied in a low voice with red light flashing in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)