Chapter 627 The Strange World and the Mysterious Hooded Man

It's a strange world here. Li Jie was wearing the gray hood of the Nightcrawler, standing on the Moondew Bell Tower in the Moondew City in the Dawn Realm, looking down.

The black asphalt pavement is evenly laid, and is there any difference from the road pavement paved with a road roller. There are street lamps standing on both sides of the street. Although they are only kerosene lamps, they are enough to provide enough light for pedestrians walking on the city roads in the dark.

Most of the houses on both sides of the street are relatively low. Two-story and three-story houses are the most common, and there are very few high-rise buildings. Except for a huge dome-like building that stands in the center of the city with a height of about 60 meters, other houses rarely exceed 20 meters in height.

The tallest building in this city is the 280-meter-tall Moon Dew Bell, which is where Li Jie is standing now. Standing here, you can have a panoramic view of the whole city.

The city has walls, and the architectural style is very similar to the European architectural style of the late Renaissance and colonial era, with large blocks of granite or similar cornerstones as the base material. There are also decorative marble slabs that have been polished by water, some of which are hung on the exterior walls for decoration, but most of them are used as floors inside high-end buildings.

From the perspective of architectural style, to use a more vivid analogy, it is more similar to the architectural style of the old western-style buildings on the Bund in Shanghai.

The city also has walls on four sides, rather than an open city in the true sense. The 30-meter-high city wall divides the entire city into two areas, inside and outside.

These buildings gave Li Jie an indescribable sense of disobedience in this city. You can think of part of the city as Europe of the fifteenth century, but part of it looks like Europe of the nineteenth century.

What is even more surprising is the language of this world. Li Jie noticed that the world uses English. It is not the British English or American English that Li Jie uses on Earth.

But a more traditional Old English. Old English is to modern English what vernacular is to classical Chinese. There are differences from grammar to wording and sentence formation.

If it weren't for the fact that when he was with Lan, he once learned a passage of Old English to read Kamateki's collection of books, it would be very difficult for Li Jie to understand the text of this world now.

Li Jie thinks that if he has to define this world, then the term "steampunk" is very appropriate. Because he saw someone using a magic wand to release a fireball or something.

I also saw some huge machines forging steel parts that did not know what power source was used as the drive.

Some people wear clothing made of artificial leather, an artificial chemical product. This proves that the basic chemistry of this world has developed to a certain extent, otherwise it would be impossible to manufacture such items as artificial leather.

Standing at the height of the Moon Dew Bell, Li Jie could see some chimneys more than ten kilometers away from the northeast corner of the city. Li Jie suspected that there should be factories.

The long asphalt road has been extending from the urban area, and after reaching the factory area, it continues to extend in a further direction. On the asphalt road, there are horse-drawn carriages and some vehicles with mechanical power structures.

Li Jie is not sure if he can call a car, because the ghost knows whether these cars burn gasoline.

"It's really weird. In Howard's notebook, I can only assume that the number following the word [Di] is the latitude and longitude." Li Jie opened the cloaking device and jumped from the moon dew clock. And down.

It was not until no one noticed that he turned off the invisibility device and appeared. Walking on the streets of Moondew City, he looked at this strange world and thought: "The numbers Howard randomly scribbled seem to be some calculation equation. Typed draft. The numbers are messy and unconnected. If it weren't for my sensitivity to the word Di."

"And I saw that Howard was mentioned in Newton's memoirs, so I'm afraid I won't even notice the connection between the two." Li Jie walked on the road while holding his chin. Before he knew it, he walked to the door of a tavern with the signboard of [Broken Ax Bar].

He stood there and continued to think: "Through the calculation of latitude and longitude, there is no clear discovery on the earth. But when I left Earth No. There is a back door in the dimension to make it easier to come back."

"And this idea seems to be correct. Are only guardians able to enter this special half-dimension, or are powerful powers like Newton and Ancient One also able to enter? But what tricks are Howard and Newton playing?" Li Jie was not very sure.

But now his curiosity was fully ignited, and he wanted to know what Newton had done before. Who is the previous owner of the pendant [Di]? And what role did Howard Stark play in it. And does all this have anything to do with Tony Stark?

All of this made Li Jie very curious, and his curiosity made him desert. Until Arrizo pinned his waist with a short-barreled musket.

The footsteps in the tavern were already very chaotic. And Arrizo is just an ordinary patrol member, there is nothing worth noting about him. Li Jie couldn't even feel any dangerous aura from his upper body.

The short-barreled musket equipped by Arrizo is not even as powerful as the large-caliber pistols on Earth. But it is Arrizo's most powerful support, but this short-barreled musket can only fire two rounds and needs to be reloaded, so as a supplement to force, he also needs to wear a bow and arrow and a short knife.

While Arrizo was complacent about catching a possible target (the idiot of the cult), the person he caught didn't seem very cooperative.

That lazy voice made me very uncomfortable: "Sir, do you want me to stay still or turn around? Your order confuses me."

Arrizo couldn't understand what Sir meant, but he could clearly hear a kind of ridicule in the other's tone.

This made him feel that he was underestimated. How dare a fool who believed in the old cult dare to despise himself?

Arrizo said fiercely: "I told you not to move, turn around! Don't you understand? Let me see your face clearly!"

The gray hooded man continued, "Are you sure?"

Arrizo shot the hooded man with a musket and said, "I'm very sure!"

"Okay, I hope you don't regret it." The hooded man turned around slowly, looking straight at Arrizo. Arrizo originally planned to stare fiercely at this idiot of the cult, scaring him to the point of peeing.

But as expected, killing the opponent by looking at him did not happen. Because Arrizo couldn't see Duo's eyes at all, it should be said that he couldn't see any facial features.

The opponent's entire face under the hood could not be seen clearly, it was as blurred as a mass of chaos. Just like the legendary Faceless Demon.

Arrizo's ten-year training allowed him to pull the trigger of the musket immediately, and he fired two shots in a row.

Bang~ bang! The sound of huge musket guns overwhelmed the music and noise from the Broken Ax Bar, and many drinkers flocked out of the bar, wanting to see the source of the gunshots.

The owner of the bar, Paul, was the first to rush out. He saw Arrizo who was holding a musket in a daze and asked, "You just shot? Arrizo?" Arrizo had been a patrolman for ten years. Yes, many old residents in this area know him.

"Who are you attacking?" Paul looked at Arrizo in surprise. In front of Arrizo, there was only the wall of the bar, and two lead projectiles were deformed and embedded in the wall.

"I, I just found a cultist. I wanted to arrest him, but he suddenly disappeared." Arrizo stammered. He didn't know what happened between the flashes.

Paul glanced at Arrizo suspiciously, and said, "But there is no one else here. Are you attacking the wall? Or is it because you have been on patrol for too long recently and have hallucinations?"

Arrizo opened his mouth but couldn't say anything, what happened just now was too weird. Even if the magician from Wangcheng came, he might not be able to explain what he just saw.

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"Ah!" Arrizo woke up from the nightmare again, this is the dream he had again in the past three days. The faceless hooded man in the dream smiled at him strangely, no matter how he attacked, he couldn't hit him.

In the end, he was strangled to death by the faceless man. The dream was bad, but Arrizo felt even worse when she woke up and faced reality.

Because of the investigation team sent from above, there was no aura left by any magical fluctuations at the place where Arrizo shot, and there was no aura left by the two races of gods and demons.

This can basically rule out the ghosts of magicians or gods and demons. So a diagnosis certificate was issued in the Psychological Appraisal Department, and Arrizo was a fatigue hallucination caused by overtime work.

Because according to the testimony of Arrizo’s colleagues, Arrizo often volunteers to help others work overtime, so the work pressure is too high, so the brain needs a way to vent the pressure. So the faceless man who didn't exist was conceived by the brain.

And that's why Arrizo shot outside the bar that day. On this point, the patrol team has basically reached a consensus, that is, Arrizo is under too much work pressure.

Fortunately, because he has always been serious about his work, he rarely makes mistakes. This time, he was dealt with as an accidental fire escape. It is not enough to report criticism and punishment to the whole team.

"Is it really too stressful?" Arrizo went to the bathroom and washed his face with cold water. It was still dark outside and it was only five o'clock in the morning. But he couldn't sleep anymore.

"Maybe I really got it wrong." Arrizo stared at himself in the bathroom mirror and said to himself.

But a voice that made Arrizo's goosebumps stand on end suddenly appeared in the house where he lived alone: ​​"I said, if you read it right?"

A man wearing a gray hooded suit who couldn't see his face at all took a can of beef from the kitchen of Arrizo's house. He was sitting in the living room of Arrizo's house. He opened the can and asked questions while eating. Arrizo.

"My canned beef!" Arrizo's first reaction was that his canned beef was stolen and eaten. This kind of canned food is not cheap, it costs ten shillings a can, and Arrizo is reluctant to eat it unless it is a holiday.

Then his second reaction was to find the gray hooded man, and he shouted in horror: "It's you!" Arrizo's voice was a little distorted.

"Yes, it's me. But your voice is really special? Is your deputy a ring singer? (Note)" The hooded man turned his head to look at Arrizo, his face was still in chaos.

Note: castration singers, before the modern bel canto and treble singing methods are systematically and scientifically summarized and implemented in teaching. In the Middle Ages, even the pitch of female singers was difficult to meet the requirements of some operas.

Therefore, in order to cultivate high-pitched singers, there is an opera troupe that castrates boys when they are young, so that they will not enter the period of voice change, and always maintain the high-pitched singing voice of boys. On the stage of the drama, she played the female role and sang the high notes.