Chapter 3 The Mysterious Preacher
Chen Miao, who was carrying a suitcase, was wearing a wide windbreaker. The top hat on his head was slightly pulled down, and the shadow of the brim covered half of his face.
This outfit is walking on the street with a brown suitcase, as if travelers can be seen everywhere in Oriental Harbor.
After walking out of the apartment, Chen Miao did not walk towards the nearest railway station, but walked straight towards the port.
The entire Cohen continent has just entered the steam era, and trains are still very high-end and novel for most people, so the inspections in the train stations are particularly strict for travelers.
Ordinary poor people in the lower class cannot even be allowed to take the train without a letter of recommendation.
Under normal circumstances, Chen Miao, as the editor-in-chief of Oriental Daily, naturally would not have the threshold for taking the train.
But the accident that happened in the newspaper today made Chen Miao dare not use his current identity to register the train.
Therefore, the complex port became the only opportunity for Chen Miao to leave Dongfang Port.
Having caught a carriage two streets away from the apartment, Chen Miao casually reported the port location, he sat on the carriage and observed the situation outside through the gaps in the curtains.
The events that occurred in the Oriental Daily seem to have not yet spread, and the streets still maintain their former prosperity.
The matter did not develop to the municipal guard blocking the area around the Oriental Newspaper, which made Chen Miao feel much more at ease.
Sitting in the shaking carriage and feeling the vibration caused by the simple carriage on the uneven bluestone brick floor, Chen Miao couldn't help but complain in his heart:
“The roads in the city are so bumpy, and it may be worse if you walk outside the city.
I remember that the principle of the shock absorber does not seem to be difficult. If you can create a shock absorber and hit the carriage, there will definitely be a business opportunity!"
An inspiration appeared in my mind, but after thinking about the environment I was in, Chen Miao could only smile bitterly.
After truly coming to the Steam Age, you can see with a deep and advanced perspective that there are opportunities everywhere under the background of the times in front of you.
For example, the carriage that Shenmiao is currently riding in. The steam era has just arrived and the car has not been invented, so the mainstream means of transportation in the city is still a carriage.
No one in this era could have thought that a vehicle would be born in the future that would completely replace the carriage.
With a deep eye, as long as you have the reputation and capital to invest before the wave of the times comes completely, you will definitely be able to catch up with the wave of the times and become a trendsetter among them.
Unfortunately, with the incident that happened in the newspaper, all the routes Chen Miao planned for himself became a luxury.
Inside the carriage, Chen Miao sighed heavily and whispered softly:
"If it is an extraordinary event, with my reputation in Oriental Harbor and the relationship between the Lords and friends who have close contacts, I can barely seek self-protection from the official hands.
Even going to the Eternal Sun Church to seek help from the Archbishop may not be an option.
But... this is not an ordinary extraordinary event..."
The photo in the file flashed through my mind, and the bitter smile on the corner of my mouth became stronger and stronger.
Against the backdrop of the arrival of the steam era in the entire Cohen continent, all emerging aristocrats in the Cohen continent jointly abolished all the laws on speech under the joint promotion of the old nobles and royal power.
As a civilian, you can scold the king and criticize the policies of the House of Lords without any legal punishment.
But there is only one thing that is independent of the law, that is - blasphemy.
For religion, gods are everything. In this extraordinary era where true gods exist, the so-called law cannot limit faith at all.
Blasphemy's words and acts of blasphemy will all lead to punishment from the Church of Orthodox.
It is precisely because of his deep understanding of this that Chen Miao immediately chose to escape from Dongfang Port after being exposed to the extraordinary event that was blasphemous.
His status and his connections could not remove him from this blasphemy incident.
Although Chen Miao is just a victim, those crazy believers will never allow anyone who sees that blasphemous picture to survive.
Including...the believers themselves!
Chen Miao in the carriage was stunned and lost his mind, as if the pictures inside the newspaper were reappeared in front of him a few hours ago.
The glory and majesty and the depravity intertwined each other, and the absurd, distorted, and the depravity of the will quietly attacked him.
Suddenly, a cool feeling on his chest awakened Chen Miao from his lost state. Chen Miao subconsciously shivered and stroked the position on his chest.
There, there is a wordless book of heaven that has been placed with high hopes by Shen Miao.
Forcibly suppressing the throbbing in his heart and not thinking about those terrifying things, Chen Miao estimated that the carriage was still away from the port, slowly closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep...
I don’t know if it was because of Chen Miao’s fear before, and Chen Miao fell asleep surprisingly.
When Chen Miao opened his eyes again, the sun, which had risen to a high altitude outside the carriage, seemed to have gradually set in the west.
The afterglow of the setting sun fell from the gaps in the curtains into the car, giving people a lazy and tiredness.
Chen Miao, who had just woken up, had a slightly downtime in his brain subconsciously prepared to ask the coachman if he had arrived at the port.
However, before Chen Miao could speak, the surrounding environment made Chen Miao frown subconsciously.
“It’s so quiet!”
Such a thought emerged in Chen Miao's mind.
From the city to the port, you have to cross half of the Oriental Port, and the places you pass by are prosperous places.
Even the short slums on the way, the daily traffic of people coming and going is an extremely astonishing number, and it is impossible to have such a quiet place.
Moreover, although the remaining carriage in Shen Miao was still driving, the sound of the wheels rolling was clearly visible, it lacked the bumpy feeling that made Shen Miao very dissatisfied.
The whole carriage is a bit too unreal, smoothly.
The extraordinary scene in front of him made Chen Miao know that the things he had been worried about finally came.
Once the extraordinary people of the Eternal Sun Church lock on themselves who survived the incident, as long as they have not left the Eastern Port, there will be nowhere to be hidden in the eyes of the Eternal Sun Church.
Locking a carriage is no problem at all.
He sighed in his heart, and his dim right hand gently stretched towards the position in front of his chest.
......
Outside the carriage, two priests who appeared in the Oriental News Agency several hours ago stood in front of the simple carriage that Shen Miao was riding.
The driver in the driving position had long disappeared, and the whole carriage was parked quietly in place, and the dilapidated houses in the slums were scattered with shadows to bring strange silence.
Behind the two priests, dozens of soldiers holding pneumatic guns looked at the carriage with a serious expression.
Among the two priests, the slightly younger priest raised his right fingertips seemed to rise with a delicate sun, just like the light of the afterglow of the sunset falling on the carriage in front of him, reflecting a twisted scene.
The young priest looked at the older priest and asked:
"Mr. Kevin, the man in the carriage has not made any noise for so long. Could it be that he is not an extraordinary person?"
The young priest Kevin couldn't help but frown slightly, and he was confused about his judgment.
But in order to protect his self-esteem as a senior, Priest Kevin did not respond to the young Priest immediately, but just spoke indifferently:
"wait!"
The young priest dared not speak anymore, so he could only lower his head and keep silent.
Time passed quietly, and there was still a silence in the carriage, as if there was no one in the carriage.
The dozens of soldiers holding pneumatic guns behind the two priests also turned from seriousness at the beginning to doubt, and then to at a loss.
Such a long silence finally made the young priest ask unbearably.
"Mr. Kevin..."
Before he could finish his words, a quiet and peaceful wave suddenly came from the carriage, which instantly attracted the attention of the two priests.
Kevin's eyes flashed with such a look, and he spoke to the young priest indifferently:
"Remove your afterglow vision!
The person in the car did not point out your little tricks, but just left you with some face."
Then, the older priest Kevin spoke loudly at Shen Miao in the carriage in a shocked face, amid the young priest's face:
"The mysterious Eastern preacher, the Eternal Sun Church has no malice to you, please show up and see you!"
In the carriage, Shen Miao, who had just taken out the wordless book and was about to fight to the death, looked out of the car with a confused look on his face.
Chapter completed!