Alien Knights

"Elijah! Here!"

On the square of the East Post Station in Muxi Town, a middle-aged man looked tired, with a slightly raised chin, and a matted beard, curly and yellow as if scorched by fire. He heard someone calling his name, turned his head and searched hard among the bustling crowd.

Ulysses struggled to push away the crowd in front of him, and stumbled to the middle-aged man.

"My God! It's so great to see you again!" Elijah looked at the familiar face in front of him, patted him on the shoulder, and said joyfully.

The surrounding environment was too noisy, so Ulysses had to ask Elijah loudly what he just said.

The middle-aged man shrugged, pulled the former out of the station, and asked as he walked, "Are there so many people coming to Muxi Town every day?"

Ulysses replied: "It's like this every day, so the town has been planning to build a new station on the south side."

Walking on the street, Elijah looked at the endless regular buildings and straight roads on both sides, and was a little surprised: "It's really hard to think that there are towns of this size on the western seaside."

Ulysses puffed out his chest proudly: "This is just the outer edge of Muxi Town. If you walk ten minutes further, you will be able to enter the more prosperous and lively inner city."

When Elijah really walked into the core area of ​​Muxi Town, the prosperous scene in front of him made his mouth open, and he didn't move his heels for a long time.

The magnificent triangular-roofed buildings are neatly distributed in the urban area within a radius of three kilometers. Different from the dark and monotonous buildings in other towns, the concrete houses in Muxi Town have the characteristics of ancient Tyro, North Island and Southern Empire in their architectural style. There are large framed stained glass windows on all sides, the roof is microscopic and generous tiles, chimneys are gathered in the four corners, and there is a vast and beautiful garden in front of and behind each house, which is full of fragrant ancient flowers and trees.

Looking at the residents on the street, the dressing style gradually escaped the shackles of religion, and brought more retro style and self-awareness. Most of the men wore expensive thin, dark linen clothes. Decorate some lace at the cuffs of the dress, turn up the collar, and wear a wide belt around the waist; women get rid of the common tradition of tightly wrapping their bodies and showing off their sex, and appear more skin-exposing clothing. Make two small slits longitudinally at the chest and breasts, and tie the straps on both sides of the slits like shoelaces.

Elijah looked at the whiteness on the chest of the women passing by him, and was dumbfounded: "Music Town...is the territory of the church, right?"

Ulysses, who was leading the way, turned around strangely: "Yeah, what's wrong?"

Just as Elijah was about to say something, he couldn't help being attracted by a young man standing on a high platform in the distance.

Holding a stack of manuscript paper in his hands, the young man read his script aloud to the audience gathered in front of him, and when he recited something exciting, he would always raise the volume and add some exaggerated expressions and movements.

Elijah asked Ulysses, "What is he doing?"

The latter glanced at it, and said indifferently, "Oh, that's 'storytelling'."

"storytelling?"

Ulysses explained: "The unknown writers and screenwriters in Muxi Town, after finishing their novels or scripts, usually find a place with a lot of people to select and read out the wonderful chapters of their works. One is to increase their popularity, the other is to gain the opinions of the people, and the third is, if they are lucky, they may even meet rich people who are willing to move his works to theaters and find people to perform them. On that day, these people may become famous and rich overnight..."

Elijah listened carefully for a while. The young man was telling a love story between a mortal man and the goddess of the mountain, Esther. He asked Ulysses suspiciously, "If I remember correctly, the goddess of the mountain is a myth and legend in the ancient Tyro culture, right?"

The latter nodded yes.

Elijah frowned and said, "In the territory of the Knights of the Church, there will be no problem telling stories about pagan gods?"

"It's not a big deal." Ulysses walked towards the center of the town: "Someone raised the issue of the regulation of pagan speech to the Holy Son before, and the Holy Son just told that person, 'God has never deprived believers of their right to speak out. Everyone is free to say what they say, but everyone is free to believe whatever they want'."

Elijah was stunned for a moment, then quickened his pace later, and while following Ulysses' pace, he said, "This Holy Son... Compared with those people in the church, he is really... different..."

"There is something I must remind you." Ulysses stopped suddenly, with a serious expression on his face: "In Muxi Town, you can question authority, discuss academics, and even refute teachings, but... don't do anything disrespectful to the Holy Son. The residents here know that Muxi Town, this paradise for everyone to live freely, was created by the Holy Son from scratch. It can be said that without him, we would have no chance of finding a foothold in this dark world. land."

Elijah looked at the young man in front of him, thought about the Holy Son he was talking about, and smiled slightly: "If possible, I would like to meet the head of the knight order."

The other party's request made Ulysses difficult. He couldn't help but think of the incredible experiences of this famous senior at the Royal Academy of the Papal State.

When Elijah was studying painting, he once helped the painting teacher of the college to draw a little angel on the unfinished painting. Because its image surpassed all other characters in the teacher's painting, the old painter gave up painting and devoted himself to sculpture.

He invented the spinning wheel for winding rope, the machine for cutting wool, the conical mill for beating color, the horizontal turbine, the pulley, and winches of all kinds. Also designed blueprints for digging canals, modifying river courses, improving soil, building reservoirs, and large machines that use water as power.

He even disregarded religious prohibitions, personally dissected more than 30 corpses, and discovered for the first time the growth process of fetuses in the mother's body.

Such a talented person, because the secular rulers are keen to fight for power and novelty, those great research results are not taken seriously at all. When he was wandering in Tyro City, the Church of the Heavenly Father rejected his science as "magic", making it difficult for him to survive. As a last resort, he had no choice but to go all the way east, and stayed in the ancient holy city, the birthplace of religion under the jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church, for five years.

After the "disaster of truth" happened, Elijah, who got the news, rushed back from the ancient holy city to Taylor City, found Tristan of the church, and asked to see Teacher Terrence. Although the latter rejected the request, he suggested that he rush to Muxi Town, and at the same time wrote a letter in hand and sent it to Ulysses in advance.

"How can it be possible for the Holy Son to see you?" Ulysses rubbed his forehead with a headache, shook his head and said, "If Dion is still in office, we might still recommend you to go to the headquarters of the Knights, but now..."

Elijah was silent for a moment, then raised his head to look at a huge building under construction in the center of the town. After observing for a while, he asked Ulysses, "What is being built there?"

The latter followed the former's line of sight and replied, "Muxi Cathedral."

Elijah nodded and said, "I want to meet the designer of the cathedral."