In the year 823 of the Holy Calendar, at the end of the dormant month (February), Lentat, "Sadni" district.
This area was originally outside the city, inhabited by ordinary merchants selling fish in the Storm Strait, and gradually gathered citizens who made a living by pickling, processing, sorting, and intermediary fish, and gradually prospered, and flourished in the Kingdom of Holm due to the influence of the Magic Council, and was included in the city when the city was expanded for the second time, named after the "Sadni" bream, a specialty of the Storm Strait.
However, as the magic steam train traveled between "Puerto Padre" and "Lentate", the fishing industry was monopolized by big merchants relying on rich funds, cheap prices, and fresh goods.
Fortunately, at this time, the initial popularization of alchemy items and the increase in alchemy workshops made the unemployed citizens not find a way to survive, and it took only a few years for the Sadney district to become a neighborhood of half-workers and half-fishermen.
The night was dark, and the houses were still flickering with dim candlelight because they couldn't afford magic crystal lamps, but the street lights on both sides of the street were bright and dazzling under the black threads like spider webs.
"Bah, dog men and women!" A fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy looked at the men and women snuggling up in the shadows behind the street lamps, and spat fiercely, although the Holm Kingdom style was conservative, except for hugging and whispering, the couple did not kiss and stroke, but the boy's eyes still lit up, full of envy and jealousy.
"Andy, don't look at it, that's about to start." A faint sound came from behind the street trees on both sides of the road.
Andy was startled and quickly turned around, only to see the three friends sticking their heads out from behind a thick street tree, waving their hands indisappropriately.
"What, that ......" Andy came back to his senses, his expression changed suddenly, and he showed a look of nervousness and excitement, as if he was doing something very dangerous and exciting.
Quietly leaning closer to the street tree, he complained in a low voice: "William, Mickey, Martin, why didn't you come to me earlier?"
The brown-haired Martin laughed softly: "How dare I come to you? You must be spying on someone else's date."
"Yes." The blonde William cleared his throat, "Spring is coming, everything is breeding, there is a vigorous commotion, Andy is in heat again."
"Do you want to die?" Andy gritted his teeth and glared at them, his blue eyes full of anger.
"Speak up! You really want to die!" Mickey, who was the shortest but held his face tightly, pressed down violently with the palm of his right hand.
Andy took a deep breath, closed his mouth tightly, pointed into the distance, and signaled with his eyes to leave now?
"Well, otherwise I will be late and I won't be able to hear Miss Nightingale's voice at the beginning." William looked fascinated.
"This guy is in heat too...... "Martin looks like I don't know you.
A few friends whispered and laughed while cowering and tiptoeing forward, like thieves.
Turning around a dozen houses and passing through two sparse woods, their voices gradually subsided, unusually quiet, and their breathing became heavy.
Ahead was a row of civilian houses in a remote corner of the "Sadni" district, and they walked to the vicinity of the ordinary two-story building in the penultimate building.
After pulling up the collar of his clothes and covering half of his face, Andy knocked on the door six times in a rhythm of two fast and three slow.
The door opened silently, and a middle-aged man with a serious expression quickly looked left and right, signaling Andy and the others to come in quickly.
Andy, Martin, Mickey, and William flashed into the room very skillfully, only to see that the hall was crowded with people, sitting or standing around the center, which could be called the three floors inside and outside, and the curtains had been closed, and the room was dimly lit and swaying under the light of a candlestick, which reminded people of the ghost stories they had heard.
There are strong men, girls, old people, children, Andy and other "estrus" boys, and several young girls in their prime.
Looking at each other, Andy, William and others took advantage of their short stature to squeeze around in the crowd, and finally rubbed next to a few girls, smiling shyly: "Scarlett, Selma, are you here too?"
The beautiful little girl with blonde hair and blue eyes glanced at them and put her white and slender fingers on her mouth: "Shh, be quiet, it's time to start."
Hearing this, Andy and the others trembled suddenly, and they temporarily lost the mind to get close to the girls, and waited intently.
The owner of the house, the serious middle-aged man with a straight face, wearing an old white shirt, squeezed into the middle and fiddled with the strange thing the size of a head on the coffee table.
The color of this thing was gray, it was engraved with strange patterns, a row of black buttons and two circular knobs, like a sheep's horn with two long lines of shimmering metallic luster, about half a meter long, also entangled with strange patterns.
Watching the serious middle-aged man fiddling with this strange thing, Andy and the others, whether old or young, male or female, rude or gentle, were all waiting with their breath as if they were worshipping in a church, as if it were an extremely sacred thing.
Sizzle, the familiar sound of electricity sounded, Andy's back straightened up, and the people around him made similar movements almost at the same time as him.
A vague and noisy female voice came out of the strange thing, and as the middle-aged man fiddled with it, the voice gradually became clearer:
"Hello everyone, FM 592.6M Holtz, this is the 'Voice of the Mystery', thank you for listening, it's 10 o'clock in the evening Alinge time, and the next four hours will be spent by your friend 'Nightingale' I will accompany you."
The sweet and moving female voice made William, Andy and others itch their hearts, guessing how beautiful Miss Nightingale was.
"The first program is 'Life Common Sense', I will bring you a healthier and more reasonable lifestyle, so that you can avoid all kinds of hazards you may encounter in life."
"In recent months, in Rentat and other cities in the Kingdom of Holm, there have been many unscrupulous merchants selling toothpaste, bath gel and other items under the name of 'radioactive', claiming to be more fashionable, more effective, and can prolong life, but in reality?"
"We have to start with this matter five months ago, Arcane Review Committee member, senior arcanist, three Holm Crown Awards, one Immortal Throne Award, one Arcane Scepter Award, and one Ice Medal winner Lucian Evans released a paper that had been sealed for three years, that is, the paper he won the Order of Ice and Snow: "A new element capable of radiating electron streams and two other types of rays", in which he pioneered the concept of "natural radioactivity", believing that some elements are structurally unstable. It emits new streams of elements and electrons."
"Amazing! Selma, many of the works in "Music Corridor" were created by him, and our favorites are! He also has such a long list of titles! It also has the same name as that great musician!" After more than a year of "popular science", Scarlett, who probably understood the meaning of these titles, said in surprise and admiration, and the suppressed exclamations in the hall came one after another.
Andy is very conflicted, on the one hand, he is the girl he admires, and on the other hand, he is a musician and magician he likes very much, what attitude should he use to treat this Lucian Evans?
As for the description of natural radioactivity, which was a bit difficult just now, they can probably figure out what is going on after the fatigue bombardment of merchants in the past few months, in the words of those merchants, "This is the best toothpaste that can emit new elements and electron streams, which can effectively remove dirt from your teeth and restore them to whiteness, and the new elements can make you healthy, which can only be used regularly by those great nobles."
"On this issue, we interviewed Mr. Lucian Evans, who elaborated on 'natural radioactivity', and while emitting new elements and electron streams, these materials also emit 'curses', which change your body, causing your hair to fall out, teeth to loosen, blood distortion, body failure, and new elements and electron flows can also cause serious damage within a certain range."
Oh? The sound of horror and fear broke through the oppressive atmosphere.
"And this kind of damage will not only affect you, but also through your body, bring it to your children, so that they will become deformed at birth, so all listeners, don't be misled by unscrupulous vendors, radioactivity is only bad for you, not good, you can't buy them just because they are fashionable."
"Finally, to summarize in Mr. Evans' words: Religion harms a lifetime and radiates three generations!"
"I, I want to throw away that toothpaste quickly! Fortunately, I came to listen to the mysterious voice!" Similar voices sounded one after another, with fear and joy to relax, and I was not in the mood to oppose "religion harms a lifetime".
Suddenly, Scarlett said with a crying voice: "I, I have been using it for a month, will I ......" destroy three generations......
Nightingale's sweet voice continued: "Those unscrupulous vendors' toothpaste, shower gel and other items are not added due to the small amount of additives, or even not added, stop using them immediately without any sequelae."
Huh, when I exhaled, there was almost a strong wind in the hall, it's okay, it's okay!
"After a short period of beautiful melodies, we will begin the 'Church Revealed' program hosted by Mr. Sage, telling the story of his 38 years of dealing with pastors and bishops as a municipal official, fading the divine aura of pastors, bishops, etc., and restoring the joys and sorrows they should have as real people."
"Wow, are you having an affair with a nun again?" Andy got excited.
A strong man with Andy's thick thighs next to him looked back at him and joked: "Maybe it's a little boy like you......"
Just as I was about to refute, a wonderful melody sounded on the strange radio, calming and tranquil, cleansing people's hearts.
"It's Mr. Evans' light music 'Castle in the Sky'." Scarlett said in a low voice, afraid of interrupting the beautiful music.
After "Revealing the Church", "Into the Arcane", and "Magic Lecture Hall", the sweet voice of the nightingale sounded: "Next is everyone's favorite 'Body Mystery' program, and we continue to invite Mr. Felipe, an authority in the field of the human body, as a guest."
"Well, I like Mr. Felipe too much, I like his cold and arrogant attitude too much......" Thelma said with a smile on her eyebrows.
"Hello, Mr. Felipe."
"Good evening, nightingale."
"Mr. Felipe, as we all know, the human body will have a rapid development period when it reaches the age of twelve, accompanied by great changes in the body, which will bring about the depression and distress of boys and girls.
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"Mr. Felipe?"
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"Mr. Felipe, you, calm down......"
(End of this chapter)