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Eve Star (9)
The city of Silo'an spreads on an undulating hill, like a piece of fine white sand scattered all over the field. Many criss-cross flight tracks above the city are woven into a fine net, and many colorful aircraft or dual-purpose vehicles reflect the golden sunlight, converging into a colorful fog. In the densely built city center, there is a circle of exquisite gardens. The center of the garden is surrounded by a circular or octagonal building group. The stars are surrounded by a crescent-shaped red building like a moon. That is the Red Moon Temple.
The silver-white dual-purpose vehicle slowly landed in front of the two human sculptures. The two sculptures are the same as those in the spaceship mooring bay. One is a white old man with a long beard, and the other is a black young man in a gorgeous golden robe. They were all Eve's appearances, but the strangeness and unnaturalness in that expression felt a bit contrary.
Ethan and Samuel got out of the car following Tanisel, both wearing the dark brown priest's clothing Tanisir found for them. It was the first-level apprentice costume. You can see many in and outs at the gate. The young man who came out wore the same clothes, with a respirator spinning around him, and holding some heavy paper books in his hands. Ethan and Samuel looked at each other, they were not used to each other's young and unfamiliar appearance, and both saw a trace of tension in each other's eyes.
The crescent-shaped building standing in the center of the field of vision in the distance is like an outstretched arm, open to both sides, the dense relief on it is woven into dense and complex light and shadow, and the whole building looks heavy and vicissitudes, with a kind of blood. Generally sad. Because it is surrounded by trees, the hustle and bustle of the city seems to be blocked. The air is quiet and solemn, and it seems that there are no people talking loudly.
Tanisel came out of the aircraft and immediately attracted the attention of many apprentices. Ethan noticed many shy hidden sights shuttled from every corner, and the whispering groups of people were always visible. Tanithel seemed to have been accustomed to this kind of attention, and smiled at Ethan and Samuel blindly, "Let's go."
Almost all the apprentices who passed by them along the way were making a neat priestly ceremony to Tanisel, and Tanisel also nodded calmly in response. It's just that Ethan noticed that many apprentices had walked far away, so he wanted to come forward and ask Tanisel a good word. Samuel sneered while there were a few fewer people, and elbow Ethan, "It seems you have a lot of rivals."
Ethan gave him a blank look, "You mute, shut up."
They walked straight to the central temple, the tall spire door was open, and inside was a prayer hall wide enough to accommodate hundreds of people. The vaults on the walls are full of murals with a strong Eve style. A tall machine is displayed next to the preaching platform at the forefront. There are many colored glass flakes arranged in order from large to small, and each flake is nearby. There are something similar to cotton pads, and there are some closely integrated gears connected to a table composed of many pedals. It looks like Eve’s unique instrument, Tianyinqin.
Ethan couldn't help but glance at those pianos. On the earth, there is probably only the glass piano that has long been lost. It is said that the sound of that wonderful instrument is ethereal and mysterious, and it has the power to charm people. Some people call it the "sound of angels" and others. It is "The Devil's Piano". Eve’s Tianyin piano is obviously many times larger than the glass piano, and it is not "played" by the touch of fingers, but by people using their feet to skillfully step on the pedals, and the glass flakes are rotated. Touch the cotton pads near them to make a sound. Ethan once watched Eve’s famous player play this instrument. The person stepping on the pedals is extremely elegant and beautiful. It is simply a unique and light dance. Under his dance steps, the glass flakes rise and fall like tides, and the music is played. The vastness and long distance, like the clouds and rain and mist in the sky, are light and dusty. After listening to it for a long time, it will indeed make people enter a realm of meditation, and it will be a long time for the concert to end.
Tanisel noticed Ethan's gaze and smiled, "Are you interested in Tianyinqin?"
"Ah...no..."
"That's really a shame." Tanisel said lightly. "The Holy Spirit Festival will be in two days. Then the temple will hold a grand requiem ceremony, and I will play it myself."
"Holy Spirit?"
"Yes, it is a festival to commemorate the dead praying for them."
Speaking of the dead, there was a flash of sadness on Samuel's face. I probably thought of Schneider.
But at this moment, a timid voice came from behind, "Tanisel, you are back."
Tanisel turned his head in response, and saw a very beautiful and lovely young man wearing a pale blue priest's clothing. Ethan recalled the rank of the color, which should be the rank of the junior priest.
Tanisel smiled softly at the boy, "Ah, I'm back. Is the priest looking for me?"
The boy nodded with a kind of well-behaved obedience, but the eyes that looked at Tanisel seemed to flash like stars. Just then his gaze quietly rolled around Ethan and Samuel again. He retracted his gaze and said respectfully, "The priest heard that you are back, and I hope you will see him immediately."
"Do you know what it is?"
"It seems to be about the king's participation in the soul sacrifice of the Holy Spirit Festival."
"What?" Tanisel seemed to be very surprised, and it was not an accident of joy, frowning, "The king is coming?"
Samuel and Ethan looked at each other, their expressions a little curious. Isn’t King Eve the uncle of Tanithel? Why did Tanisel have a headache on his face?
King Eve and the others occasionally saw him in the middle of life on TV, and he was a male alpha who was about 60 years old. This kind of age is still middle-aged for humans with an average life span of 120 years, and King Eve is indeed a very handsome man.
The boy replied, "The Lord of the State came to discuss this matter with the priest yesterday. It should be true."
Tanisel looked back at Ethan and Samuel, then turned around and said to the teenager, "Hadir, these two are my apprentices, this is Eldrin, and the next one is Asaniel. I haven’t had time to take it. They go to register their names, and you can take them there for me."
The young priest known as Hadir looked at Ethan and Samuel with a strange look, but he smiled friendly, "Hello."
Ethan quickly and respectfully paid a priestly ceremony to the "children" in front of him. After all, in terms of his current appearance, he might be smaller than the boy in front of him, and he is still just a preparatory priest, belonging to this boy. younger generation. Although Samuel was very reluctant, but in order to avoid trouble, he still worshipped Ethan.
Tanisel pressed Ethan's shoulder and leaned into his ear and said, "Call me in your heart if you have anything, I will always listen."
Ethan couldn't help showing a sweet smile, and said in a low voice, "You go now, I won't be able to put on a gang so soon."
The priest secretly blinked his right eye at him, pretending to instruct Ethan and Samuel to listen to Hadir, and then hurriedly left. The remaining three people stared with big eyes.
Hadir led them out of the prayer hall from the left, into the long and sunny corridor. There were priests in brown clothes or apprentices in Tsing Yi when they were going around, but the voices of everyone talking were very low, and the air seemed very ancient and quiet. The taste of sacred solemnity spreads in the heat of every ray of sunlight.
"You are very lucky." The boy named Hadir suddenly said.
Ethan was suddenly unable to determine if he was talking to himself, "Huh?"
Hadir turned his head to look at him, "Do you know that Tanisel never accepts apprentices in the past? I first entered here as an apprentice. I originally wanted to apprentice under his name, but I didn't succeed... What are you doing? Know him?"
Ethan laughed dryly, carrying the answer he had discussed with Tanisel, "That is when he passed our planet, the two of us begged him to take us in. He agreed that we were orphans."
But Hadir didn't seem to be persuaded. The seemingly gentle gaze shot at Ethan with a sharp edge. Although the third eye had not opened yet, it gave Ethan an inexplicable sense of oppression. Of course, this sense of oppression is still a bit too tender compared to Tanisel, and can be completely ignored. The boy looked at Ethan for a while, and didn't know if it was an illusion. Ethan felt that there was a little coldness hidden in his smiling eyes.
"Really, you are really lucky, you must cherish it."
Samuel rolled his eyes behind him, probably because he felt that the encouragement was sour and not sincere at all. Ethan also felt that the atmosphere was a little weird, so he asked one by one, "Is the mentor who sacrificed your mentor the Sionier chief priest?"
"Not bad."
"Wow, that's amazing! It turned out that the priest himself was your mentor!" Ethan pretended to be worshipping the child and coaxed the child. Samuel could only bear it when he wanted to laugh.
"Then...Is the Sionier chief priest recently arguing with Tanisel?" Seeing the young man's triumphant expression, Ethan continued to test.
Hadir gave him a strange look, "It was at first, but it seemed to be reconciled later. Why? Do you know the reason?"
Ethan hurriedly replied, "No, I don't know much about it."
"Seriously, I also find it weird. Tanisel and his mentor are in love with father and son, and rarely quarrel. Fortunately, it's all over now."
Has it passed?
It’s hard to imagine that the scary man who smiled and tore his mental defenses a little bit would turn a blind eye to such a major event as Tanisel’s privately carrying a reward for fugitives from other countries, and even agree to Tanisel’s taking him there. The temple comes.
Was it because he and Tanisel both chose the god of entropy as the main god in private, so they favored him, the mutant Celestial man with entropy in his body?
Ethan always felt that Tanisel brought him to Eve not just to save him... He was like a prisoner waiting for the final trial, waiting anxiously every day for the truth to be revealed. But the priest has been taking care of him so meticulously, making him almost lost in the warmth of the pulse.
But... after seeing the tomb of Tanisel's father buried under the castle, Ethan suddenly became sober.
He knew Tanisel didn't tell him the whole truth.
And the weird tomb below the castle, and the books placed on the tombstone, always felt a bit strange. A very filthy and evil atmosphere.
That smell is like a shadow, and it has been with him since that night until now. Even in this sacred temple, the smell not only didn't fade, but it became clearer and thicker.
After Hadir followed them to register their names, he explained to them the apprentices' schedules. Most of the time, apprentices have to follow their own tutor, as the tutor’s assistant and waiter, and at the same time learn the priest's course at a fixed time each day. The only problem now is that the temple’s dormitories are not enough, and Tanisel may be responsible for arranging their accommodation temporarily.
At this time, Hadir's breath flickered, and information was transmitted. Hadir glanced at me and said hurriedly, "The tutor is calling me. Just wait for Tanisel in the prayer hall." He turned around and left, but after a few steps, he turned in an unnatural way. He turned his head and stared at Ethan, his mouth wide open, his grin widened to an unbelievable width, showing a twisted and scary smile.
"Eternity is about to end, and the sleeping king is about to wake up. The time is up, and you should accept his blessing."
That obviously was no longer Hadir's voice, but the voice of the black man in his dream.
He actually heard the man's voice in reality, when he was not dreaming at all!
Are dreams beginning to erode reality? !
Ethan's body stiffened, but in the blink of an eye, Hadir already ran away. It's like never paused.
"What did he say?" Ethan asked Samuel, grabbing him.
Samuel was confused, seeing no one on the left or right, said in earth language, "Say let's wait for Tanisel in the prayer hall."
"After I said that, he suddenly turned around and said..." Ethan is actually not sure now, whether what he saw just now is real or...
But Samuel became more and more confused, "What are you talking about? He left when he finished, and didn't look back."