Overturned Tower

—If you want to ask, what kind of impression does Delphinium have on Sogo Island when they met for the first time.

Then, her answer is "sacred solemnity".

When Delphinium followed Russell out of the private airship, they were actually mentally prepared to be surrounded by layers of reporters.

This is not an exaggeration. She is even 100% sure that if the incident of "mysterious private airships from other empty islands suddenly landed at the airport" happened on Happy Island, then at least seven newspapers would use their own methods to catch up with the airships before the airships landed. to the airport.

And no matter which newspaper office was the first to arrive... When the reporters from Tianen Daily arrived in a helicopter gunship, they had to reluctantly give way to their surroundings.

Immediately afterwards, as long as you get off the airship, you can see the flashing lights covering your face, and then your face will enter the live broadcast room of Tianen Daily; a bunch of journalists have to watch the live broadcast room of Tianen Daily to extract key information Information, while starting to make up quickly..... Before the live broadcast ends, the news feeds from major media will be directly photographed on the faces of the viewers who are watching the live broadcast.

The coolest thing is that the news details of each company are not exactly the same. Highlight a blooming flower.

However, when they left the airship, Delphinium did not see any reporter appearing in front of her. Accompanied by the melodious and low-pitched hymns that sounded in the airport, two gray-haired old men with long beards were waiting for them at the door of the airship with solemn faces.

They all wore steel-colored, helmet-like eye patches on their faces.

There are three lenses at about the position of the eyes, two small and one large... The small one is at the position of the eyes, and the big one is between the eyebrows. And the lenses are all glowing....one face is glowing bright yellow and the other is glowing red.

It is precisely because they are all emitting light, so if you look in from the outside, you can't see their eyes through these lights.

And they were wearing long-sleeved white robes that covered their hands and feet, and silky white gloves. On their chests, there is a similar but subtly different logo belonging to the Sogo Group—it is a pentagram at least the size of a head, and it also shines with the same color as their eyepatch. One is bright yellow, the other is red... and as they breathe, the light on their chests is still on and off.

Delphinium's first reaction was: Is this some kind of RGB cultist? It also has a breathing light effect...

Seeing Russell and Delphinium, they bowed their heads at the same time, drew a pentagram on their chests along the light path, and then clasped their hands together: "Excuse me, are you Mr. Ultramarine and Ms. Delphinium? "

"-Yes, parishioner."

Seeing the delphinium still a little dazed, Russell came over from behind the delphinium.

He reached out and touched his brow lightly, and then tapped on the largest lens on their foreheads. Delphinium suddenly felt hesitant.

It seemed like some kind of ritual, but Russell didn't tell himself what to do on the road...

Just when she was hesitating whether she should learn from Russell to do it together, she saw Russell reached out and gently supported her shoulder. So the delphinium immediately understood that this meant telling herself not to move.

Seeing Russell's return gift, the two old men nodded in a friendly manner.

The "golden" old man introduced himself to Russell: "Offended, church member. I can feel your sincere psychic power...May God bless you.

"Introduce yourself, you can call me 'prefrontal cortex'. This is the "Insula"." "Two doctors came to see me, what's the matter?"

Russell asked softly.

"It's nothing, kid. Don't be nervous.... The elf entrusted us to take a look. We should take care of the wanderer when he returns home."

Dr. "Insula" heard this, and made a gentle and kind voice—it was only then that Delphinium realized that this old man with a shaved head and a flat figure was actually an old woman.

"Prefrontal Cortex" nodded: "I heard that you haven't been back for a long time...

... Sogo Island has not been peaceful recently. "

"What happened?" Russell asked a little warily.

The prefrontal cortex was about to explain, but the insula stopped him. "It's not a big deal."

The old lady said gently: "A group of children are ignorant and just messing around. Don't worry too much about them. "We have prepared the car...please come with us."

Delphinium heard this, and looked back at Russell with some doubts. If she remembers correctly...

The reason why she and Russell came to Sogo Island was because Russell wanted to take her back to his hometown to see, right? Why does it sound like this is really a mission given by the Elf Director?

- Doesn't that seem right? Isn't the chairman Russell himself? Then why can the "elves" know that they will come here?

Russell shook his head slightly, indicating that this is not the place to talk. But seeing that Russell was not nervous, Delphinium was slightly relieved.

Russell looked at the delphinium and was still a little at a loss, so he reached out and took her hand. After firmly holding Russell's hand, Delphinium relaxed a little...

After all, it was the first time to leave home. Moreover, he went to a place he had never been to before, and it was reasonable for the delphinium to blow its hair.

Watching their small movements, the two old people just smiled kindly and cheerfully. "It's such a good relationship."

Dr. Brain Island said cheerfully: "My grandson is about your age...but no matter how much you push him to find a wife, start a family and start a business, he just doesn't move. He would rather take care of other people's children in a church school, I don't want a child of my own either."

Russell interjected, "If he is so caring, he should have been commended by the bishop, right?"

"Yes, he just received the second commendation this year, and he will receive the third commendation and be promoted to bishop in about two or three years. My grandson, although he just doesn't find a wife and doesn't listen to me. But he The level of teaching and attitude are very good....."

The old lady said in a babbling voice: "Although he always finds me annoying, he is also very filial. He often comes back to see me. That child is hard-spoken and soft-hearted...even occasionally being bullied by his students. But he is among the students. It is also popular, and every year on Saint Christ's Day, we can accept paper flower baskets made by children."

"...is he an elementary school teacher?" Delphinium whispered.

She is not a talkative person, and speaking suddenly at this time is precisely to relieve her tension.

Delphinium could clearly feel that the heart in her chest was beating restlessly and throbbing—this was such a rare and clear tension that even made her feel strange. If there were no strangers present, she would definitely grab Russell's hand and put it on her chest, letting him feel the violent beating of her heart.

"If you're in a church school, you can't be called an elementary school teacher." It wasn't the two of them who explained, but Russell who was next to Delphinium. He said softly, "That should be called a 'priest'. "

"Priest?"

"Yeah. If it's one level higher, it's 'Bishop'." Russell replied.

On Sogo Island...is the relationship between Cyber ​​Church and Sogo Group so close? Delphinium vaguely realized something.

Those two "doctors", if nothing else, should be senior researchers belonging to Sogo Group. But the grandson of the old woman is serving as a "priest" in a missionary school and a primary school teacher...

In Happy Island, the status of the profession of "teacher"—especially pre-university "teacher"—is quite low.

Because the best teachers have all been hired as tutors for the rich. If they are any better, they will be directly "buied out" by rich people with several times more money, that is, they are asked not to teach other students at the same time. Through this method, it is also possible to minimize the difficulty of enrolling in Tianen University.

Only teachers that no one wants will enter primary and secondary schools to teach. Their purpose is to teach those ordinary "salary slaves".

No matter how good and caring the teacher is, yes

It doesn't make any sense for students to go to higher education.

—Because the knowledge needed to be admitted to Tianen University in Happy Island is simply not within the scope of teaching in middle schools.

The "College Entrance Examination" of Happy Island requires first passing the unified high school examination to obtain the "entry quota", and then go to the university to do the questions given by the university lecturers - and the difficulty of these questions is equivalent to that of a first-tier university. Second, the level of the final exam of the first semester; and the entrance exam questions of the first-tier universities are equivalent to the difficulty of the final exams of the second semester of the second-tier universities.

In this case, the vast majority of ordinary students can only enter second-tier universities. Because the knowledge needed for further promotion has been completely monopolized.

In any case, it is impossible to master this depth of knowledge by self-study. Those who can pass the Tianen University exam by passing the "cram class" are considered geniuses.

Before entering the freshman year, they already possessed half of the knowledge of an ordinary university—this even requires some medicine produced by Ampoule Biomedicine to develop their brains to this level. And this is when they also need to pass the general college entrance examination to obtain a place in the exam. In other words, the knowledge in their classes cannot be left behind.

Of course, strictly speaking, nothing is actually taught in class.

The students don't go to school until 9:00 in the morning, and they have a two-hour nap time at noon. They start class at 3:00 pm and leave school at 3:45. This is the new teaching time introduced by a human director not long ago... Before he changed it, in fact, there was only one extra class in the afternoon.

The trustee simultaneously axed one-fifth of the curriculum in secondary schools across the island in the name of "students need naps for better physical development." However, everyone knew that this was just to reduce the difficulty of entering Tianen University.

Because of the time freed up, you can learn more "university knowledge" and do more questions and test papers.

From this point of view, although the students of Tianen University are also four years old. But they have two to three years of professional course foundation before they go to school.

Therefore, it is only natural for them to become excellent talents after graduation, and to directly enter Tianen Group to become corporate executives... Graduate students from first-tier and second-tier universities are not as valuable as their undergraduate graduates. When they were sophomores, what they learned was already the content of other people's seniors or even graduates. There are no "university basic courses" at all, and they are advanced professional courses, and the class hours are directly full.

Because of this, the status of the profession of "teacher" in Happy Island can be said to be extremely low. It's not even as good as an Internet anchor or a street singer, and it's probably at the same level as a restaurant waiter—the same low difficulty of finding a job, and the same mixed working style.

Not to mention the so-called "religious schools".

It was from the welfare organization of the Cyber ​​Church, and it was not even paid. Unless it is a rich young lady who does not worry about life, she usually enters a missionary school after retirement...or it is a social service worker similar to a volunteer. After completing their work, they can use more Time out to go to church schools to do good deeds.

It's not really a job at all.

...but this situation seems to be completely different in Sogo Island.

The children of these high-ranking researchers are even sent to missionary schools...and they seem to think there's nothing wrong with that.

Sure enough, it's completely different...

Delphinium thought to herself, and followed the two into the floating vehicle.

The style of this floating car is also completely different from that of Happy Island - the floating car of Happy Island pays attention to the sense of technology and speed. Its case is like a gemstone, its head is as sharp as a shuttle, and it looks like a terminal or a disc.

And the floating car on Sogo Island...

.. How should I put it, it's like a huge floating coffin. Its interior height is at least twice as high as that of Happy Island's floating car, and it can even stand up directly from inside. The two old men didn't even sit down, they stood directly in the front compartment.

Pure white floating car with special paint on the car surface

A "woody feel" was made, and it was wrapped in gold around the edges. Before getting on the car, you can see the curved curved decoration inlaid on the front and rear of the car, which looks like golden vines wrapped around a pure white coffin...—.

Of course, there is no coffin in Happy Island. But Taoyuan Island has... Delphinium knows what a "coffin" is because her mother told her these stories.

But there was at least one place where the delphinium could breathe a sigh of relief... and that was that it was divided into several blocks, separating Russell from the delphinium and the two old men, and the sound insulation was very strong. After entering, the looming chant outside was completely blocked.

But after sitting down, Delphinium found that—after entering the floating car, it was completely transparent from the inside out!

Not four sides are transparent, but six sides are transparent.

She can even see the sky and the earth clearly! ...how is it transparent? ! "

When the floating car started to lift into the air, Delphinium subconsciously covered her skirt and pulled her legs together tightly. "Wait, it can't be..."

Delphinium realized it without waiting for Russell to explain...it cannot be completely transparent.

Because no matter how transparent the floating vehicle is, it will also have engines, energy storage rooms and floating devices. But the delphinium couldn't see them at all, not even the two old men.

She could only see that she and Russell were sitting in the sky—under them was a golden and white lotus seat.

"This is a real-time reflective screen. The shell of the floating vehicle is a huge camera... The scene it collects from the outside will be mapped to the inside, and then the picture will be completed by AI. In this way, it can be realized standing in the In the sky" is the ultimate human dream. "

Russell still held Delphinium's hand tightly, explaining softly to Delphinium: "Besides, it can still be like this..."

Before Russell finished speaking, a gentle young female voice came from inside the "flying coffin": "What instructions do you have?"

"Play the simulated wind."

Russell ordered, "Medium intensity."

The next moment, the delphinium's hair flew away.

Her long white hair fluttered wildly behind her, and she subconsciously stretched out her hand to grab it, but she could only catch the bitter air. It was as if she was really flying in the sky.

She suddenly opened her eyes wide, feeling the extreme exhilaration accompanied by a sense of suffocation when facing the gust of wind, and the shock of being blown by the wind so that she might fall at any time—

"what is this-"

She subconsciously raised her voice and yelled, as if she couldn't pass the sound to Russell's ears through the hunting wind.

The delphinium clenched her hands tightly and breathed heavily, her cheeks were slightly red because she couldn't breathe smoothly and steadily, her ears stood up, and she looked down and out of the window in excitement and fear. She only felt numbness in her fingertips and a slight dizziness.

Her chip immediately alerted her that she was at risk of oxygen poisoning.

At this moment, Russell suddenly leaned over, hugged Delphinium and kissed her, and took a few breaths. Delphinium was calmed down almost instantly.

She felt that she had suddenly learned to breathe again...or maybe she had completely forgotten to breathe. And when she calmed down completely, the red alarm prompt also disappeared.

"Let's change it to Breeze."

Russell touched the delphinium's slightly red face, and said with a smile.

At this time, only the warm breeze of early summer is left. The delphinium was finally able to breathe steadily. She opened her eyes wide and realized that she was in the sky.

The sky-reaching tower of light is not far away, and three curved altars are like open hands, separated by 120 degrees, serving beside it.

Countless huge statues fit perfectly in the city:

The weird and sacred Thousand-Handed Bodhisattva stands at the entrance of the subway with thousands of arms open~www.wuxiahere.com~The shirtless boy with nine eyes, three heads and six arms holds six weapons and stands on the tall building on the other side. one-eyed old man in robe

Hanging in the bell tower...

The river flowing with light flows out of thin air, like a winding and soft white chain. If you look carefully, you can find the forging belt composed of countless luminous thin lines, linking different temples.

With the silent ringing of the clock tower at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, brilliance circulated in those temples. People on the road raised their heads and silently praised.

The countless huge statues driven by mechanical devices also moved slightly, and the postures of all the statues were different from the previous hour.

Those chaotic sounds were blocked out by the good sound insulation of the floating car, and all Delphinium saw was the silent worship.

It is a silent, shocking sacred.

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