When the Saint comes, she does not collect food

Chapter 991 A New Cage
"How's the situation?"

Upon seeing the doctor come out, Jeanne rushed over and asked him questions.

This Sylph is Jeanne's best friend and dog, like family; she's even more worried about her than Horn.

At the town clinic in Black Pottery, the doctor who had come from J.J. de J ...

Because at that moment he was being held by two Cheka officers, one on each side. It's just a medical appointment, why are they so nervous?
"Breathing has returned, and his condition is returning to normal. It was likely a sudden cardiac arrest..."

Stepping aside to let the door open, Sylph lay on the bed waving to the crowd outside, and Jeanne was the first to rush forward.

Seeing the pale-faced Shilov, Horn did not approach her, but instead casually found a place to sit down in the room.

His gaze was fixed on Shilov, but his mind was elsewhere.

As he guessed, Shilov's illness was caused by being too far from the Machine Palace, or rather, Autumn Twilight Island.

This area is roughly around Dazexiang.

As for the cause, the doctor explained it very clearly: cardiac arrest.

Does this mean that the gear heart is not a perpetual motion machine, but has an unseen power source?

Most importantly, this power source does not come from within, but from the outside.

There must be a signal tower-like structure on Autumn Dusk Island, constantly transmitting energy to Sylph's heart.
Or perhaps Sylph's heart itself is connected to an astral portal, allowing her to draw in ether directly from the astral plane.

No, if that's the case, how could she have suffered cardiac arrest as soon as she left the Mechanical Palace?

So, could the tiny gears on Shilov's heart be smaller versions of the star-forged gears?

But this raises another question: how does ether power her heart?
Does Sylph's mother possess such powerful abilities that she can directly guide and solidify ether from the void?

This time, the invisible hand of the Father truly manifested itself.

Just as Horn was deep in thought, he noticed that Sylph suddenly looked at him: "Horn, I have something to say to you... I want to say it to you alone."

Everyone else left the room, and Jeanne's wary and worried face slowly closed behind the crack in the door, leaving only Horn and Sylph.

Sitting on the hard bench, the cold wind outside blew through the cracks in the window, making the curtains flutter.

Horn walked to the bedside, looked at Shilov lying on the snow-white sheets, and gently took her cold hand in his: "What do you want to say?"

“You know something, don’t you?” Sylph stared intently into Horn’s eyes. “What exactly happened to my body?”

"Don't overthink it." Horn didn't take advantage of her vulnerability, but gently stroked her head. "You're fine. Around when did you start to feel something was wrong with your body?"

Shilov pondered for a moment: "It was probably near Joan of Arc; I was just feeling dizzy at that time."

But later, after leaving J.A.B. Castle, the further south the ship sailed, the more seasick I became, and the more difficult it was to breathe.

"Then why didn't you say so?"

Sylph was silent for a long time before she spoke: "I thought it was just seasickness..."

Horn is pretty sure that Shilov's range of activity cannot go beyond the radius of the Holy Mechanism to Jeanne d'Arc.

So, when Sylvie's mother cut off her legs, it was to prevent Sylvie from going out, which would lead her to kill herself?

Why not just say it directly? Why resort to such a horrific method as cutting off both legs?
As Horn pondered, Sylph sat up, propping herself up on the bed, and stared blankly at him: "Horn, will I ever see the sea again?"

Horn suddenly realized what was happening and quickly opened his arms to hug Shilov's slightly thin body.

"Don't worry, there's definitely a way."

She buried her head in Horn's arms, her shoulders trembling.

It's not setbacks that kill people, but expectations.

If she had accepted being trapped in the mechanical palace, she wouldn't be in pain now.

But she had already seen the sky, she had already seen the plains, and she waited, waited, hoping that in time she would see the sea! But fate told her that she had only been placed in a bigger cage.

The walls of the Machinery Palace are still visible, but the invisible wall in front of us is not.

Horn held Shilov in his arms for a while, stroking her back, until her tears gradually stopped.

Wiping her eyes with the back of her hand, Sylvie sat back down. "I'm sorry, I lost my composure."

Looking at Shilov's pitiful appearance, after much deliberation, Horn couldn't bear it and told her the truth about the mechanical heart.

Upon hearing this, Sylph showed no emotion, but instead suddenly realized, "No wonder you were able to spot me that day!"

What Sylph was referring to was how Horn miraculously discovered Sylph's secret chamber.

"That's strange, the sound shouldn't be that loud, how did you hear it?"

Horn shrugged helplessly: "How would I know? Maybe it's because my magical power is greater."

Hilov nodded thoughtfully, but then her thoughts shifted: "So, there must be a place on Autumn Twilight Island, or rather, within the Daze Township area, that is remotely transmitting ether to me?"

"Correct."

"Then how is it transmitted? Where is it?" Sylph spread her hands. "The Ether Pump technology requires a lot of space. Even if Mother can calculate the weak points of the astral plane every day, who will operate it? Autumn Twilight Island is not a big place."

Horn also fell into deep thought.

Yes, after occupying Dazexiang, they thoroughly searched Qiumu Island to prevent the reappearance of the long-haired zombies from before.

He was certain that there were no other etheric spires on the entire Isle of Autumnfall.

Could it be underground? That would make the project quite difficult, but we can have someone explore it when we get back.

Or perhaps... coincidentally, Horn and Sylph both looked up at the sky outside the window.

No way?
Shaking his head, Horn returned to reality: "There are too many doubts. I can't figure it out right now. Let's talk about it when we get back."

"Aren't you going to Black Snake Bay?" Shilov asked in return.

"If you can't even go to Black Snake Bay, what would I do there?"

Shilov shook her head: "Do you think Cynthia asked you to bring me here because she anticipated this situation?"

Horn abruptly raised his head, his eyes sharpening rapidly: "What do you mean?"

"You should still go." Shilov shrank back under the covers, covering the lower half of her face.

Now things are really messed up. What was originally a group of two has become a group of four, and unfortunately, I'm not one of the four!
Sylph's ears drooped so low with sadness they almost touched her eyelids, which made Horn feel both sorry for her and amused.

He simply reached out and patted her head, comforting her, "You've come all this way to explore the area around Jendelburg, there's no reason for you to just go back like this."

"Okay, then I'll wait for you to come back." In this vulnerable moment, Sylvie unusually nuzzled Horn's hand with her head.

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The next day, Saint Sun's ship set sail again, but this time it did not travel slowly as before; instead, it traveled through the night.

Less than two weeks later, Horn arrived at Long Causeway once again.

In the morning mist, as Horn stepped onto the deck, the distant city of Long Beach was drawing ever closer.

"What is that?" Horn quickly walked to the bow of the ship, blinking in disbelief.

On the dike of Long Causeway City, how come there is a giant dragon...?

Wait, something's not right, there's a giant dragon head here?!

(End of this chapter)