112 Fate's Blesser
On the afternoon of the 1st of the Fire Month in 795, the New Calendar, Fenghua Towns the Mountain.
Duan Qing, gasping heavily, finally stepped onto the stone slabs of the mountain square - although this was Duan Qing's third time to come to this place, he did not feel familiar at all when he looked at the strange building opposite the square and the tall stone statues on the other side.
Of course, he still didn't come alone this time. According to his original plan, Duan Qing had many questions to ask that woman to answer, so this time he was also inserted into the itinerary before leaving. But in Duan Qing's heart, he had no confidence to confirm whether the other party was willing to answer his question, so this time he brought Nina, hoping that the other party could help take care of the girl and slightly improve his good impression in the woman's heart.
The square of the mountain is still empty. I think if it weren't for something like that two days ago, this place would probably never be lively. Duan Qing looked at the girl holding her hand, looked at Nina's bright eyes for a while, and then reached out to put on her hood to block the whistling wind in the mountain.
Then, he knocked on the wooden door of the library.
The interior of the library was still silent and there was no sound, but unlike the last time, the wooden door was not only closed, but also slowly retreated with the force of knocking. Duan Qing looked inside the house with some trepidation, and confirmed that nothing strange happened, then he took Nina's hand and walked into the library slowly.
"I'm disturbing!" he shouted softly.
There was still no one in the main hall, as if no one was there. Duan Qing looked helplessly, then turned around and gently closed the wooden door, and took Nina to the center of the circular room. The sunlight shone in from the window on the other side, leaving a mottled shadow on the ground, which was a sign of the existence of vine plants lying outside the window. On the inside of the circular floor, the rocking chair and the round table that the woman often sat on before were arranged in a complete arc shape, and as Duan Qing looked around, it extended to the wooden chair on the other side. Behind the wooden chair was another door, and on the other side was a spiral wooden ladder leading to the second floor. According to Duan Qing's previous memory, the woman once explained that behind the door was the real library, but based on his current perception, the authenticity of this so-called "library" is still to be discussed.
Because from the outside of the entire building, the door should be outside the house.
However, Duan Qing did not focus on the door at this time, because next to the rocking chair, the woman often used it to place her wooden cups on the round table. There was still a cup on it, and the mouth of the cup was emitting white steam, and the whole house was filled with a rich fragrance of some kind of drink.
"Is anyone?" Duan Qing had to shout at the top of his voice: "It's me, I have something to do... I want to ask you!"
No one responded.
Waited for a long time until Duan Qing wanted to give up, Nina, who was holding her hand, suddenly raised her head and looked at the part of the spiral staircase, where a wooden board opened silently, and then an old female voice came out from there.
Duan Qing's body tightened.
"Don't be nervous, I have no malice." The woman covered her lips with one hand and chuckled softly: "And even if I have any malice, you... won't have a chance."
So Duan Qing gave up resisting again.
"Come with me." The woman turned around and walked around the back of the curtain: "Let's go to the rooftop."
This sentence sounded so uncomfortable... Duan Qing curled his lips helplessly, then took Nina's hand and followed the other party. It was not until he walked around the black curtain that he saw a door on the wooden wall behind him that he saw the same door as the first floor on the wooden wall behind.
The light escaped from the crack in the door - the woman pushed open the door and walked slowly out.
Duan Qing was familiar with the world outside the door. It seemed that the place where the woman was on the stage that night. The circular tabletop was not big, but it also surrounded the central cylinder. There were various potted plants on the outside of the tabletop, as well as some utensils that did not know what it was for. There were also large boxes in the middle, and there were no idea what was contained inside. Duan Qing looked left and right, and then a roughly understandable thing appeared behind the left side - the long cylindrical cylindrical object mounted on a certain triangle bracket, which seemed to be a telescope.
He looked back at the center surrounded by the circular tabletop and frowned clearly: From the outside, the size of the second floor room was indeed very unscientific.
"You can see the whole picture of Fenghua Town here, so I like it very much." The woman didn't care about Duan Qing's eyes watching everywhere, and successfully attracted Duan Qing's attention in one sentence: "Fenghua Town is a beautiful town, and I rarely see such a place in my life."
Duan Qing was very sensible and did not interrupt, so he had to follow the woman's wishes to look into the city.
"Rama has been here for too long." Unexpectedly, the woman did not continue her feelings and went straight to the topic: "So this is already his world."
"From taxation, to resources, as well as agriculture, handicrafts, defense, he controls everything."
"The surface of Fenghua Town is still peaceful, but that is peaceful under his gaze. Once there is a discordant sound, there will definitely be a strong force to suppress these sounds."
The woman turned her head to look at Duan Qing, who looked solemnly, indicating that she understood the meaning of it.
"During these years, not everyone has maintained the same trust in Rama, so naturally some people can realize the abnormality behind this peaceful town, among which there are people who maintain friendly relations with the mayor, and because of their closeness to the other party, they have discovered the problem earlier. Robin is such a person, and the path he chose after his appearance is also very extreme - he prepared for a while, then organized some people, and hid himself gingerly, hoping to overthrow the other party's rule like an emperor in a secret investigation."
"When Rama first showed that these resistances existed, he had no choice but to do so, because he was not prepared for his friend's betrayal. But Rama was a person who was good at adapting to the situation and taking advantage of the situation - you should have experienced this. At that time, a incident of a caravan in Green Stone Village was robbed. Rama had a sudden idea and fabricated it. A bandit group that was inhabited near Fenghua Town suddenly appeared. As the so-called crime fighting gradually increased, those groups that secretly opposed Rama were slowly squeezed out, and finally he had no choice but to withdraw from Fenghua Town and stay away from this place."
The woman held one hand on the edge of the railing: "For Yaschi, that is the beginning of his last fate."
"That..." Duan Qing scratched his nose: "I understand the cause of the matter, but what I don't understand is, how could you..."
"Fate told me." The woman's voice became soft, not sure whether it was because of the strong wind of the mountain or the depressed mood: "What the weaver of fate sees is destined and unchangeable fate, so we can only foresee and cannot interfere."
She looked at the other person with inexplicable eyes: "Because our intervention is useless."
"I have foreseen countless destinies in my life, whether about myself or others, poor or rich, they are the most unpredictable things in the world. Although I have seen everything, I dare not touch them at all, because no matter how hard I try, what will be born will still be born, what will become worse will still be worse."
"The Weaver of Destiny cannot use his abilities to make the world better." She said sadly.
"I'm sorry." Although I really wanted to complain about something, Duan Qing could only write these four words after holding it in for a long time.
"I originally thought that this was the fate of the weaver of fate, so I went around many places and finally boarded in the oldest building in the town, preparing to spend the rest of my life, but my eyes were still telling me the fate of life here, and I was unable to change, so I could only be happy for those beautiful things and sad for those tragic things, this was the case when I saw Rama, this was the case when I saw Yaschi, and that when I saw Nina... it was the case."
Her eyes were on the girl next to her, who also looked at her with curious eyes.
"You are the first person to escape from fate." The woman said so.
"What?"
"Nina's life should have ended on January 9, 795, New Calendar." The woman's voice became serious: "I can't see a better fate than this result, so I chose to stand by and watch. But when you brought Nina to the front of my house, I was extremely hesitant in my heart because... that was different from what I had seen before."
"In my foreseement, there was no scene where you took her to the mountain."
Duan Qing had nothing to say because he could no longer speak.
In the previous escape battle, Duan Qing subconsciously chose to escape to the mountain. In his heart, he believed that this beautiful and warm weaver of fate could help them at the last moment. Although the final result was indeed as he thought, there was a period of time in between that and he was still a little desperate.
Why did that woman ignore the things she had had at her doorstep? Could it be that she was actually a ruthless person? Or she was actually Rama's accomplice - this was his worst guess at the time.
"Because I hesitated." As if seeing through the other person's thoughts, the woman explained softly: "I have never seen something that is not foreseeable, and I cannot confirm... whether I should intervene, and I don't know what the consequences of my doing so."
"The unknown appears in my life, and I am afraid of the unknown."
The wind on the platform gradually changed. As the wind cooled down, the voice of the world at the foot of the mountain gradually came. Duan Qing looked at the bustling black at the foot of the mountain and suddenly realized the woman's hesitation in that moment.
"You... figured it out?"
Chapter completed!