Chapter 958: Chapter 25 The Old Vampire from Lanton
Wang Yunxiao played house with this bunch of skinny kids until the afternoon.
A ssage from Li Mumu appeared in the notebook: “Where are you?”
To be honest, after being trained by the annihilation, this notebook has beco much more obedient, or at least it looks much more obedient.
It’s important to know one’s limits, even for a notebook.
Right now, it can still call itself a magic object, but in a few years, when mobile phones co around, this level of magic item will be thoroughly obsolete.
Many ancient gods have disappeared like this, leaving no trace behind.
After finishing a cup of coffee, a car stopped in front of the café, and Li Mumu and Shen Qingxi got out.
Notably, when these two young ladies maintain a positive image in broad daylight, their charisma is quite stunning.
The foreigner at the next table couldn’t help but whistle.
“Weren’t you supposed to be at the study session?”
What Wang Yunxiao actually wanted to ask was, how did she kidnap Eldest Miss Shen? Wasn’t she pretending to be mysterious in the temple?
“I signed up for that study session too, and my paper was so good that the teacher praised !”
Shen Qingxi casually sat in front of Wang Yunxiao: “Commander Wang, is your ‘busy work’ sitting here drinking coffee?”
Wang Yunxiao hesitated for a mont, considering whether to slap her.
Looking at Li Mumu, who nodded and said, “Find a place where no one is around.”
“Hey, hey, hey! What are you two plotting?”
Feeling the malice in their gaze, Shen Qingxi panicked: “In broad daylight and under the clear sky! What do you plan to do to such a delicate young lady like who can’t even truss a chicken?”
What proper young lady can transform into a locomotive?
Wang Yunxiao was too lazy to respond to her and turned to Li Mumu instead: “On that street ahead, she’s been in there for half an hour already.”
“What?”
Shen Qingxi blinked hard: “Commander Wang~ Can we have so background on this?”
“An old vampire from Lanton took a fancy to Tang Moli and forcibly abducted her using summoning magic.”
Wang Yunxiao explained to Li Mumu.
“Tang Moli’s still underage, right?”
“Yes.”
“Tsk, tsk, tsk…”
It’s true that vampires are immortal and look like young people after hundreds of years. But it’s also true that the Tang siblings are minor kids, born to the Tang family after they immigrated to Tiann.
The Tang family has adapted to the local customs over the years; during the New Year, they would take the younger ones to visit the elders. Who would have thought that not only did the elders not give them red envelopes, but also took a fancy to the young descendants of the Tang family, directly asking for them?
Even if it’s New Year, you’re not a child, and Tang Moli is not so collectible figure. Who would indulge you in such bad habits?
And so, the visit ended unhappily.
Initially, they thought the matter would end there.
But unexpectedly, the old vampire didn’t stick to the warrior code and did sothing to Tang Moli, setting up a magic array to summon her directly.
With Tang Moli’s sudden disappearance, the already unstable Spiritual Network exploded on the spot.
This was the background of the incident.
“Why would a vampire from Lanton co to Tiann? Wouldn’t such a thing get stopped by customs?”
Shen Qingxi found it hard to understand after hearing the explanation.
“I don’t know. We could ask customs later. Speaking of Lanton, you should be quite familiar with that place, right?”
The other force under Shen Qingxi’s command, currently in the Thousand-Year Dynasty World’s chanical God Sect, originated from Lanton.
Back then, when she had a car accident, it was also the priest of the chanical God Sect who summoned her to Lanton, accidentally making her the Alpha Sage of the chanical God Sect.
Wang Yunxiao was only familiar with the London, England, from his own tiline and knew nothing about the United Kingdom’s Lanton in this one.
They have been in self-isolation for many years now.
“Lanton, huh… It’s a peculiar place, split into an Upper City and a Lower City.”
Shen Qingxi thought for a long ti, unsure where to start.
“In the past century, the Imperial Academy of Sciences in the United Kingdom gathered the world’s geniuses. These scientists foresaw the coming apocalypse and devised a plan called ‘Avalon.’
“They crazily plundered resources from colonies worldwide, brought them back ho, and built high walls around the entire Lanton. At the sa ti, they gathered countless scientists and wizards to construct a land of ‘Absolute Truth’ within those walls.
“Simply put, anything in Lanton’s Upper City that defies the universe’s objective laws is not allowed to exist; all mysteries unexplainable by science are eliminated.”
“This approach has only one benefit, which is preserving that city intact amidst the shaking of temporal tides.”
Wang Yunxiao was puzzled: “A temporal tide isn’t scientific?”
Shen Qingxi pointed to her head: “It’s not that temporal tides aren’t scientific, but the cognitive distortions brought by their shock aren’t scientific. For example, if a tide washes over, your entire life trajectory changes, and suddenly you have a wife and are a father with kids…”
Are you hinting at sothing?
“Did they ultimately succeed?”
“As far as I’m aware, it doesn’t seem so.”
Shen Qingxi shrugged: “This is also why Lanton has an Upper City and a Lower City—their plan might theoretically have so possibility, but after decades of operation, various problems arose.”
“Firstly, there’s the labor issue. The lords in the Upper City didn’t want to share resources with the poor, so they made many chanical puppets to replace human labor. The lower-class poor, driven off lands because of enclosures, moved into the city for work. Now replaced by chanical puppets, with no work and nowhere to go… These people gathered outside the high walls, forming the present Lower City.”
“To be precise, it should be the Underground City. Only sewers provide shelter from the elents for the poor, but at the sa ti, they endure the industrial wastewater discharged from the Upper City.”
“So workers attempted to operate the discarded machinery from the Upper City and restarted the primitive industrial system… This is the origin of the so-called chanical God Sect. They lacked sufficient knowledge and operating manuals, relying on old thods like incense burning and kneeling to operate these advanced machines.”
“Then there’s the problem within the Upper City, which I’ve never been to, but I’ve heard gossip and black material about it.”
“It’s said that so new generation young nobles are tired of life within the walls; they crave freedom, more thrills, a unique experience… But their needs can’t be t in that closed environnt.”
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