"Why do I have to die?"
Angor stood in the shadow. Alex looked at the floor but did not see anything. He seemed to have realized something as he said, "I'm certain that no one in Ghost Town has a deep understanding of this continent. So, I assume you're going to the Holy City. "
"So, in your eyes, as long as I leave Guste, I'll die?"
Alex nodded. "That's right. Since you're still alive, Mister Padt, can you tell me why you came back? "
Angor blinked. "Do you want to know the truth behind those people's deaths?"
"No." Alex shook his head without hesitation.
"If you don't want to know, why did you ask me why I came back?" Angor grinned at Alex.
Alex remained silent. Angor's question meant the murders had something to do with leaving Ghost Town. Did someone kill the people who left Ghost Town? Or did they discover something that prevented them from leaving?
There was no way a massacre would leave no traces behind. They must have found something.
But what did they find?
"So, it's the Confinement?" Alex looked at the smiling Angor and asked, "So, the Confinement?"
Angor raised an eyebrow. "You're not stupid."
Alex already said that Ghost Town was like a birdcage, and anyone who tried to leave would break their wings. It was not hard for him to find the answer from Angor's question.
Still, Alex did not fully believe Angor's words. Angor was a mystery to him, and it was possible that Angor was trying to mislead him. However, Alex kept his thoughts to himself and did not reveal them.
"Once I crossed the river, there was a barrier I couldn't leave. I couldn't go any further, so I came back." Angor shrugged.
After Alex heard this, he didn't say anything. Instead, he thought to himself.
"Speaking of which, aren't you curious about what's outside Ghost Town?"
Angor recalled Alex's answer when he asked this question. Back then, Alex said that he was not curious at all. But he was more curious about this world.
At that time, Alex lifted his head and looked at the endless void through the ceiling.
For a moment, Angor felt like he saw a fellow traveler.
After walking around Guste Town, he was even more certain of this answer. As the others bent down to pick up sixpence, Alex saw the moon in the sky.
This was a seeker of knowledge who was looking into the distance.
However, those who seek knowledge also need to be flexible. If you only breathe in the wind from afar and don't lower your head to pick up the bread on the ground, then you will also starve to death.
He wanted to know if Alex was just an ambitious dreamer or someone who was chasing after the moon.
Again, Alex gave the answer without hesitation. "Yes, I'm sure you'll be able to do it."
But this time, the answer was different from before.
"I'm curious."
Angor gave Alex a meaningful look. If Alex could walk out of this cage one day, perhaps he would become one of those who pursued the truth. Of course, the prerequisite was that he had the talent and opportunity.
"I'm curious as well. I don't think we can figure out where this place is without solving the mystery. How about we talk about it?"
Alex didn't answer. Instead, he took out a small bottle of lamp oil from the box and poured it into the lamp. Judging from how fast the oil was being consumed, the lamp would last for at least an entire night.
Alex showed his support with his action.
Angor found Alex more and more interesting.
"What do you think about this cage?" Angor threw out his first question.
He only asked Alex because the boy was an outsider who accidentally stumbled into the Confinement. Alex, on the other hand, was the person involved. He lived in Auguste, so he should know something.
Alex thought for a moment. He knew what Angor wanted to ask. "I lived in Guste Town for three years, and I spent most of my time learning from Father Bollenlang's books. I rarely left the church. I don't know what secrets there are in Guste Town. "
"You didn't find anything strange about it?"
"I don't know." Alex was a strange person himself. He paid more attention to himself than to other people.
Since Alex didn't know, it meant he might have found something strange but didn't care about it. At least, Angor thought so.
"What do you think about it?"
Alex thought for a moment. He didn't talk about the cage itself. Instead, he talked about Kruje Church.
"According to the records I read in the church, Kruje Church in Guste Town has existed for two hundred years. During that time, the Holy City sent clergymen to the church. Until five years ago, the road to the Holy City was cut off. That's why the clergymen didn't come. "
"The road to the Holy City was cut off?" Angor looked at Alex in confusion. If that was the case, why did Raven and the others go to the Holy City?
"The main road was cut off. You can still reach the Holy City if you go through some dangerous or secluded mountain paths. But it's very troublesome. That's why the townspeople didn't go to the Holy City in recent years. Because of that, not many people died in the series of cases. " After Alex finished his explanation, he continued the previous topic, "So, if the records are not deceiving me, the Confinement was formed within five years."
After talking about the time when the Confinement was formed, Alex began to analyze the various major events that happened in the past five years.
But Guste Town wasn't a big place. Apart from the series of murders, nothing major happened in the past five years.
However, the evidence suggested that the murders were the aftermath of the Confinement, not the actual cause of the cage's formation.
Alex didn't know how to answer this question.
"If that's the case, why don't we think about it from another angle?" Angor suddenly asked, "What if the records are fake?"
"There's no reason for the people who wrote the records to lie about something like this, right?"
"You're right. But what if everything, including the entire Guste Town, is a hoax?"
Alex's pupils shrank. If everything was a scam, then the existence of the Confinement was for this scam! But why?
"If I remember correctly, you lost your memory, right?"
Alex nodded. "I was adopted by Father Brumlang three years ago. That's all I can remember."
"And did Father Berrenlang tell you where you came from?"
"He didn't know. He only said that I floated here along the river, and that I was unconscious."
Floated here along the river? Angor raised an eyebrow. "So, you're an outsider like me, right? Which means you can't be sure that the history of Guste before you came here is real. "
Alex gulped. "I'm not sure. But I don't think it's necessary to make up the history."
"You don't think it's necessary. But I think it's quite possible. " Angor reached out a hand, and an illusion of a sandbox appeared above his palm. "Since it's hard to find the reason for the Confinement, why don't we start from the real thing?"
Alex looked at the strange sand table illusion, and his mind moved. He wanted to ask what it was, but in the end, he suppressed his doubts and didn't ask.
"I think the Confinement has two forms," Angor said. He pointed a finger at the sand table, and the image of mountains and forests quickly showed up. A translucent glass box appeared above the sand table, and one of the mountains was placed inside.
"This glass box is the first form of the Confinement. It's a piece of land that's cut off from the outside world, so people inside can't get out. "
As for the second form, Angor removed the glass box, leaving the sandbox behind. "This sandbox is the second form. The Confinement is a man-made area. It has nothing to rely on and is just a box garden created by a certain Transcendent. "
Angor put away the illusion. "If the Confinement is the first form, then the history here might be real. But five years ago, the Confinement appeared and cut off the communication between Guste and the outside world.
But if the Confinement is the second form, then everything here might be fake, including the so-called history. "
Fragments of memories flashed in Alex's mind. He seemed to see a Confinement in the darkness.
As Angor spoke, he suddenly thought of something.
If the Confinement was the second form, then the Confinement must have been created for a special event or for a special person.
Angor spent a long time walking around Guste. He noticed that the people who lived here did not doubt their place of origin at all. They all believed that they were natives who lived here for many years.
The only exception was Alex.
The man lost his memories. He was the only one who did not know about the past. He might even be an outsider.
If the Confinement was the second form, could it be that Alex was the reason for its existence?
Of course, this was only a guess. Even if the Confinement was the second form, it could be someone else or something else.
"I'm sorry. I think the Confinement might be one of these two forms. But I think it's still too early for me to try to figure out the mind of its creator. "Alex paused." I think we can start from the truth of this murder case. "
Alex didn't mention the previous incident, nor did he talk about the memory that flashed through his mind. Instead, he talked about the previous murder case.
"This series of deaths, including Knight Riven, all happened because they wanted to leave the town of Guste, either subjectively or objectively."
"Once they leave Guste, they will definitely discover the truth."
Someone was trying to stop them from finding out. Perhaps we can learn something if we find the person who killed them? "
Alex's suggestion was reasonable. But …
"What if the murderer is not a person? Or someone who doesn't exist in the Confinement?"
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