Chapter 31

Since Amun left, the disaster in Duke began to appear. On the third day after Amun left the town, there appeared the first boy who died young in the town. He was the son of the missing bushimaqi, who was only 14 years old like amon. Then within a month, three more children died. The youngest was only 12 years old, and the oldest was no more than 15 years old. They were all boys.

Xiao Gu, a priest and doctor in the town, had no way to deal with it, because all of these children died of a violent illness. When they were examined with therapeutic magic, they could only find that their blood vessels seemed to have withstood the force impact that they could not bear. Xiao Gu secretly speculated that it might be that they had not learned the skills of miners in Duke town when they were young.

It seems that the miners can't bear the hidden danger when they are young, but they can't afford it when they are young. Aristotle once explained to Amun the spiritual origin of the ancient oracle. It was really protecting the residents here, but Aristotle did not know the secret of the miner's skill.

Xiao Gu and dasti have no way to punish these townspeople. First, it is meaningless to investigate whether these children have not received the grace of the patron saint; second, the families in which the tragedy happened will not admit it, and no one has any evidence. Of course, there are more than a few families who let their children learn miner's skills privately. Everyone seems to know it, but no one talks about it.

I'm afraid that the cause of this situation should start from amon.

At the age of 14, Amun has not only mastered the skills of miners handed down from generation to generation, but has also been lucky to obtain so many sacred stones, including a blue god stone that adults Xiao Gu envies. Since Amun can do it, why can't his children?

The boys in Duke town have been helping the adults to pull the wind box and carry the ore since they were young. They are much stronger than other children of the same age outside. Amun doesn't seem to be the strongest among them. He is just the son of an old drunkard, who has taken up the heavy burden ahead of time because of his life. However, it is not clear that the old madman let Amun take a bath in the strange cold spring for more than two years.

Unfortunately, of course, there are also lucky ones. Not all the children will die young. Some of them can't learn it, and a few of them are lucky enough to learn the skills of miners in Duke town in advance. Naturally, people like this will not say it, nor will they publicly tell others that the stone is mined by children.

There is only a thin line between simplicity and ignorance. Many people even look forward to their children's exploitation of special stone like Amun. The villagers are still talking in private that Amun may have mined a god stone called tears of the gods, which is extremely precious.

The great man of wangdulai announced in public that the miner who mined the tears of the gods would receive great reward from the Kingdom, but if he handled it privately, he would also bear the most severe punishment.

In addition to the old madman, dasti and Xiaogu, the contemporary residents of Duke town have never heard of the tears of the gods, let alone what God stone it is. I don't know who was the first to secretly suspect that only children can mine such divine stones. Otherwise, so many people have mined so many sacred stones for so many years, why only Amun got it?

This kind of speculation gradually became a plague like rumor in Duke town. People talked about it in private, but never said it publicly. Finally, it led to a series of tragedies.

It is said that the oracle of Mu Yun, the protection god, is in vain. However, on the surface, people show more respect for the gods, and they have never respected the priest Xiao Gu. Even when they see him, they dare not raise their eyes to speak.

The old madman became more insane than ever. He often waved his stick and said to himself in front of Muyun Temple: "this is a place that is rejected by the gods, and will be punished by the gods The God is so cruel! But what are you doing here, people? "

No one paid attention to the old Madman's nonsense and took a detour to see him. Dusti and Xiao Gu are not good at taking care of him. Anyway, everyone thinks he is crazy. But the tragedy of Duke continues, with several more boys dying of sudden illness without warning.

Don't people really understand that miner skills may not be suitable for minors? We all know that, but there are other children who are lucky to succeed, not only Amon, then the tragedy of others is only regarded as a kind of bad luck. The child's body will not be careful at any time.

How many children in Duke have learned miner skills in private when they are young? The answer is all boys over ten years old! Everyone does this, and there is no reason why they should not. This is already a semi public secret. People just try to be careful not to let others seize the evidence, especially the mayor of Dusti and Lord Xiaogu.

It's hard to stop the spread of the disaster. Although the town of Duke is not small, it has only more than 2000 residents. Moreover, its miner skills are handed down from generation to generation in a closed environment.

The hot summer is coming. This summer is particularly sultry. At night, many people do not sleep in the house, but enjoy the cool in the courtyard or square, spreading straw mats or boards until dawn. One night, people sleeping outside suddenly felt a trace of coolness, opened their eyes and touched their bodies. Unexpectedly, they found that there was a thin rain in the air.Duke town does not rain a few times a year, especially in summer, the dry season over the years, almost never rain. Everyone cheered happily.

After dawn, the rain has not stopped, and gradually more and more big, raindrops like water curtain sprinkle on the dry land. The clouds in the sky can't be seen. They cover the black fire forest in the West and the Syria desert in the south. People were more and more excited, and they gathered in the Muyun temple to thank the gods. They could hear cheers at any time, because it rained heavily and did not stop for a day or a night.

Such a rain can permeate the barren land and desert around. After the rain, the desert will grow a sea of grass, which will be suitable for raising a lot of sheep this year. This has been the case before, but it took many years for such a heavy rain here, which has always been regarded as a gift from the gods.

The gods seemed to hear the prayers of the townspeople. The heavy rain had not stopped for three days and three nights. Some people are gradually a little uneasy, because this is a memory never had things.

The gullies in the black fire jungle have been filled with water, the low-lying parts of the post road have been submerged, and more mountain torrents are flowing down from the Assyrian plateau in the north, overflowing the black fire jungle and approaching Duke town. The town is surrounded by muddy deserts, swampy jungles, and flowing plateaus.

When people finally realized the bad news, they suddenly heard the thunder rolling from the sky. From afar, the towering mountains of the Syrian plateau have been covered by thick clouds, and flashes of electric light flash between the dark clouds. People here have almost never heard of thunder, and have an indescribable fear.

No one cheered any more in Duke town. They hid in the leaky houses and prayed to the gods, hoping that the heavy rain would come to an end soon. But the rain did not stop as people hoped. After the thunder, it had been raining for three days and three nights, and suddenly turned into a torrential rain. It was like a huge tear in the sky.

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When the thunder sounded, Gloria, the chief priest of the temple of Syria, stood on the high wall, looking at the direction covered by low clouds and raging lightning, and murmured to himself, "Nietzsche, is this the catastrophe you predicted? Is it really coming! But why do you stay in Duke yourself

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