Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 127 Should we keep moving forward?

Capels and others left, and before leaving they left a piece of bad news for Linge and others.

"This is bad."

Xie Mi flew back to Metien's side with a worried look on his face. "No wonder everyone left their homes. It turns out that the Silver Mad Hounds of the Balance of Order are active deep in the mountains. I heard that they have wiped out several tribes, making everyone very scared. If we continue to go deeper into the mountains, we may encounter those mad hounds. What should we do?"

She lay on top of her friend, her hands supporting her cheeks, her brows furrowed as she tried to find a suitable method to avoid the Order Scales lurking deep in the mountains and find the mysterious castle safely. Unfortunately, based on her IQ, it would probably take longer for this method to take shape in her little head than for the goddess to create the world.

"Silver Rabid Dog?" It was the first time Alice heard this name. She pinched her chin and thought, "It sounds pretty cool. What do they do?"

The goblin, who was immersed in thought, ignored her, so it was Lingge who answered. Although he always appeared to be casual and indifferent, and had no yearning for the mysterious world, he would naturally not get involved in the struggles of aliens, religions, and politics. But he had talked about the night watchman with the bartender Miss Shelia in the hotel before, and he also knew a little about the balance of order, which was of the same nature as the night watchman.

"The Balance of Order is a subordinate organization of the Inquisition Church. They are the most pious and fanatical followers of the god who symbolizes 'majestic judgment' and 'the end of sin'. Each of them has sworn an oath before the Light of Purification, vowing to wipe out all the evil in this world no matter where they go."

The young man spoke in a calm tone, and the voice echoing in the forest had a clear echo when it passed through the branches, as if the oath that the arbitrators of the Scales of Order made to the gods that day also reached the ears of the traveler at this moment: "But their justice and evil are not based on positions, but on race. Therefore, they are essentially doing the same thing as the Night's Watch. The difference between the former and the Night's Watch is that the former only operates within the scope of the city, while the Scales of Order only operate outside the city."

"Wilderness, forests, swamps, canyons, oceans, islands... wherever humans cannot set foot, the footsteps of the Balance of Order follow closely and kill the aliens. In addition to aliens, this also includes believers of cults and pseudo-religions, as well as magicians who do not obey regulations. According to Miss Shelia, in the past fifty years, the Balance of Order has destroyed nearly a hundred secret societies and non-orthodox churches, and the strongest magician who died in the battle was even a Sequence 1 True God. In other words, the Balance of Order is an armed force that can kill gods."

At this point, he didn't know what he remembered, his eyes became deeper, but he didn't stop talking: "Because of their radical style and the uniform silver armor, they got the nickname 'Silver Mad Dogs'."

All of a sudden, Alice realized: Why speak so literary, doesn't rabies simply mean mad dog?

Therefore, this is not a cool title. In fact, it is a manifestation of the fear and hatred of the victims such as the aliens, pseudo-believers and unregulated magicians who are hunted by the Balance of Order towards this group of crazy arbitrators. Perhaps in their minds, the Balance of Order is a group of mad dogs. They have no grudges against them, but they still like to chase and bite people. Even if their keen noses remember the smell, even if you escape to the end of the world, you can't escape the pursuit of their minions.

After understanding, Alice sighed for the first time, her tone was quite sympathetic: "The mysterious world is really cruel. If you hide in the city, you will be hunted by the Night Watch. If you escape from the city, you will be hunted by the Balance of Order. Why does the cult alliance have to kill everyone? Could it be that they want to eliminate all creatures that can use magic except themselves, so that the seven major orthodox churches can monopolize the extraordinary power?"

Just like they are implementing the Religious Decree and trying to monopolize faith.

But faith and power are two completely different things. If, as Lingge's adoptive father Mr. Yang Ke said, gaining comfort is faith, then people with a certain faith can always change their positions and camps for the comfort given by another faith. In short, faith is illusory, and it is normal to abandon it when it is profitable or necessary, unless it is a fanatic who is willing to die for his faith, but such people are too rare. People with power usually choose to resist, because power is something you will not want to lose once you have it, and you will pursue it crazily if you don't have it.

Therefore, it is much more difficult to monopolize power than to monopolize faith. Even if the power is as huge as the united cult, Alice does not think they can succeed. On the contrary, she has seen many villains in the game who have the same goal but are defeated by the protagonist and his friends because they are too arrogant.

Could this be the main quest of Alcie Game? Is it that cliché? It's a cross-generational masterpiece, can't the game company come up with something new?
The golden maid fell into deep thought.

But what she was thinking about was irrelevant to the current situation, so Lingge didn't care what she was thinking, but cast his eyes on Saint Shallia, who had been silent, to know her opinion. Among the people present, in addition to Shemi being a traveler fairy, she was also an alien. Although she looked like a silver elf that was not much different from humans, the arbitrator of the Scale of Order would not care about such details, otherwise it would not be enough to call her a "mad dog".

In this quiet time accompanied by the rustling of leaves in the forest, one or two white-gold beams of light occasionally penetrate the dense tree canopy and fall from the branches, forming flickering spots of light on the ground covered with fallen leaves, which lighten and darken with the movement of the shadows of the trees. The tilted ocean of warm light is like a transparent sky, with tiny plankton floating on it, each of which is clearly visible, as if you can reach out and touch it.

When the light spots on the ground flickered for the third time and the plankton drifting aimlessly gradually sank into the deepest part of the transparent ocean, Saint Shallia finally spoke. Her voice was clean and clear, without any flaws, as if it was as pure as her eyes: "I think we should keep moving forward."

This was not an unexpected answer, so Linger was not surprised. He just wanted to know the reason: "Why?"

“The thread of karma guides people’s destiny.”

Saint Shalia's eyes fell on the golden thread between Ling'er's fingers, and she whispered, "If meeting someone from the Balance of Order is your destiny, then it will come sooner or later."

It will happen today, tomorrow, or in the distant future. No matter when it comes, people cannot be sure whether it is good or bad. It is possible that it happens today and the result is good, but it will become bad if it is postponed to tomorrow. Destiny is such an unpredictable thing, which is better than people's thousands of thoughts.

In this case, it is not necessary to set a clear deadline for it.

Everyone else was confused and half-understood, only Lingge understood this truth, so he looked at Saint Xia Liya deeply, then nodded and said:
"it is good."

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)