"The Desolation City is the old city of Palladowa," Alan explained.
Elrond's cities were built with concrete and steel, as well as steam-powered machines. They were obviously different from other countries.
However, this was not the case for all Elrond's cities.
Elrond's rapid development only happened in the last century. Many cities still retained the style of the previous era. The buildings of the previous era, on the other hand, were filled with the smell of decadent religion. The king of Elrond strongly urged the cities to reform. As a result, many cities had two different styles of architecture.
One was a newly built concrete forest, while the other was an ancient Byzantine-style building.
Palladowa's city was divided into the new city and the Desolation City. The new city was the main city, where most of Palladowa's citizens lived. The Desolation City, on the other hand, was the old city, which was mostly abandoned. Only a few homeless people and poor people lived here.
"So it's in the middle of a new era." No wonder most of the cities in Elrond were covered in smog.
"Is there anything special in the Desolation City?" Angor asked.
Alan shook his head in disappointment. "No. I walked around the city, and it's peaceful. I saw some crimes here and there. But just like the young man said, it's full of homeless and poor people. It's inevitable.
"But my sister wouldn't owe the young man a tour guide fee. She must have gone missing after entering the city. I'm thinking, maybe she ran into some kind of enemy in the city."
This was why Alan came to find Angor.
Since he knew where Aleen went missing, it was very likely that Aleen ran into some kind of enemy in the city. Even if there were no traces of battle, there must be some energy ripples left behind. If the incident happened recently, Alan could check it himself. But since it had been more than a month, he could only rely on Angor.
Alan gave Angor a pleading look.
Angor considered for a moment. He could go to Palladowa, but he needed to know more about the situation first.
"If there are still people in the city, did anyone see Aleen? If there was a battle a month ago, someone should have seen or heard about it, right? "
Alan said, "There wasn't a battle, but a tramp said he saw Eirinn."
Alan paused for a moment, as if he was considering something. After a while, he said, "That tramp's eyes were flickering, and he was full of lies. I was in a hurry to find my sister, so I didn't pay attention to him."
In short, Ellen didn't know if what the tramp said was true.
"What did he say?"
"He said that when he was sleeping in an abandoned building that day, he saw a woman with a very good temperament go in the direction of the parish."
Parish? Angor looked at Alan in confusion.
Alan explained, "There are also various areas in Desolate City. The parish is the area of ancient religious activities. There are churches and worship halls inside. I also went to take a look, but there was no trace of Eirinn, so I think that tramp is lying. "
In order to find Eirinn, Ellen used gold coins as a bounty. The tramp must have lied for money.
Angor understood what was going on. After Eirinn entered the Desolation City, it was as if she had vanished from the face of the earth.
If the barren city was where Eirinn had gone missing, then there might really be remnants of energy there. It seemed that Xiao Chen would have to go to Desolate City to take a look.
"The Desolation City Parish of Palladowa?" Someone suddenly spoke up when Angor was about to go to Palladowa.
Angor and Ellen turned around and saw one of the two witches who had been watching them quietly.
It was Shalee, an apprentice that Ellen hated so much.
"Hey, Shalee, do you have any questions about this place?" Angor noticed that Shalee's eyes were unfocused, as if she was trying to recall something.
Greya was also looking at Shalee curiously. She was just bored and wanted to kill some time by listening to some gossip. Could it be that Shirley knew something?
After a long while, Shirley came back to her senses and saw that everyone was looking at her. "Why are you looking at me like that? Did I say something?"
She didn't look like she was pretending. Clearly, she just mumbled something under her breath.
"You were questioning the Desolation City Parish," Ellen said in an annoyed tone.
"Did I say that?" Shalee mumbled to herself. Seeing Ellen's confident look, she considered and said, "Fine. Maybe the place you mentioned reminded me of something, so I just repeated the name of the place."
"You've thought of something? What is it? "Angor asked.
Shirley shrugged. "It's not a big deal. It's just that some time ago … Well, maybe a few years ago, I was invited to perform in the capital of Yi Rong."
"What's with that look?" Shalee gave Ellen a disdainful look. "I'm the most famous magician in Evron. I've been performing before I joined the wizarding world."
Ellen muttered in a low voice, "What magician, swindler?"
Shirley didn't care about the title of Swindler. Instead, she raised an eyebrow. "You could say that."
"Anyway, when I went to perform in Evron, I saw a bounty notice posted on the bulletin board. The content of the bounty says that a shocking case has happened in Padua's Desolate City Parish. We hope that someone can provide us with clues. "
A bounty notice from a mortal city several years ago? He didn't think it had anything to do with Aleen's disappearance.
However, as an Extraordinary, Shirley would think of an inconspicuous bounty when Alan told her about this matter. Perhaps it was also a kind of … omen.
With that in mind, he continued to ask, "What's the big case?"
"I think it was a case of missing persons. About 20 people from a certain religion disappeared overnight."
"Missing persons? A religion? "Ellen's ears perked up when he heard the word" missing ".
"Yes. I think it was a small and unpopular religion. There were only about 30 people who believed in it. But after so many people disappeared overnight, the rest of the Germinal Organization members left the religion. Some said that it was the revenge of an evil god. Others said that the Germinal Organization took them to their divine kingdom. Either way, it was unreliable. If there really was something wrong, Floating Mech City would have taken over. "
"I don't think it has anything to do with your sister's disappearance, do you?"
After listening to Shalee's explanation, Ellen also believed that Aleen had nothing to do with the case. He still believed that Aleen might have run into some supernaturals in Palladowa.
Many contestants who participated in the Rising Star Competition went to Floating Mech City from all over the world. Maybe some of them did it.
Angor suddenly looked at Shalee and asked in a strange tone, "What did you say? Germinal Organization members? What do you mean? "
Shalee was surprised. "That's what they called it. I think they believed in something called Germinal Organization. They called themselves Germinal Organization members."
"Germinal Organization … Germinal Organization …" Angor repeated the name in a low voice.
"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with the Germinal Organization?" Greya noticed Angor's serious expression and knew something was wrong.
Angor shook his head. "Nothing. I just thought of something, and I need to confirm it."
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