old dream

Chapter 60 Meeting Results
Colin had no way of knowing what events had brought Craigie's reputation into disrepute years before he knew him.

Heine said that Craigie was no longer involved in seminary affairs because of the inconvenience caused by his eye disease.

But Craigie himself is clearly passionate about research, even setting up a laboratory at his own expense in the basement of Dallozzo's ancestral home.With his reputation, Holy One Theological Seminary will not cut off his allowance even if he fails to produce results in a short period of time.

Colin never asked what experiments Craigie was doing now.

Uncle is just an ordinary person without imaging ability.It stands to reason that after leaving the expensive and mysterious instruments of the seminary, there is no way to reach the imaginary creatures with the simple conditions in the basement.

So what exactly is he pretending to study?

Sometimes Colin felt absurd about it, but he also deliberately didn't ask.

...after all, what can be the result of asking.Is it to expose him or remind him to stop this meaningless behavior?

If there is no need for research, then Craigie will no longer spend a lot of redstone for lighting, if it is only for ordinary life, it is not worth the waste.

It may not be that no one is willing to bear the burden for him, but that he is afraid that he will feel unworthy.

If there is nothing worth illuminating, will he be allowed to spend the rest of his life in complete silence?
Uncle's life is obviously very disordered. He obviously needs to use those medicines to fall asleep every day, but at this time he is holding the lamp and fumbling for a long time, but he can't find the medicine bottle that he placed not long ago.

He, who used to be clear-headed, is becoming more and more forgetful and disorganized.

Eventually Craigie found the tawny glass medicine bottle under some of the books on display.The damp medicine was a little stuck together. He shook his hand before pouring out some. When he handed it to Colin, he was still explaining:

"One tablet is enough at the beginning, and it will have a little effect after half an hour."

Colin agreed to take the medicine, only to find that Craigie hesitated, as if he was mumbling something vaguely, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Uncle should have a vague idea of ​​why his nephew needed these drugs.

Colin is not a mentally fragile person. When he needs to use these tranquilizers, it must be because of something related to transcendence.

But if Colin wanted to restore his memory, he would inevitably have to touch upon the transcendent, which was related to the clues to Lentz's survival, so he stopped talking too much.

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Leaving Craigie's laboratory, you will pass the deepest corridor in the Dallozzo family's ancestral home, and the walls are covered with portraits.Sooner or later, Colin thought, portraits of himself and Craigie would be displayed here.

In this mansion, all normal lamps have been removed, and the laboratory door at the end of the promenade is usually not closed to use as a light source.Walking in this promenade, you can only look at the faces of ancestors under the dim and bloody light and shadow of red stone.

The Dallozzo family was the first Sincilian immigrants to come to the alliance, and their family tree is almost as long as the history of the city of Stadt.The first three generations burned thorns and drained the swamp in the wilderness to build the original prototype of this mansion. After 300 years of subsequent repairs and expansions, it once became one of the most conspicuous buildings in the south of the old city.

But now the mansion has fallen into disrepair.After all, he and Craigie were the only remaining descendants of this family, and there was no man or money left to maintain it.From the courtyard to the bedroom, there are signs of disrepair and even decay everywhere.In recent years, because of Craigie's remodeling of windows and kitchens, the mansion has become less like a place to live.

Some say that both the rise and fall of Dallozzo are inevitable.As rumoured by the citizens of Stade, diametrically opposed blessings and curses swirled in their blood, and a perpetual madness and inspiration seemed to accompany the family's genes from generation to generation.

Only from the generation of the Craigie brothers, we can get a glimpse of the characteristics of Dallozzo: the eldest son Craigie overcomes several problems in the life of the imaginary world with extraordinary talent, but when the world's expectations for him are at their peak, they are not. Defeated by an inexplicable eye disease.

The second son Lenz, who grew up in the alliance, has no reason to sympathize with or even be obsessed with everything related to the "night people".Abandoned all of his career to go to that seemingly hopeless rebellion.

A few years later, the Sennarian royal family was finally restored, but the night people who had contributed a lot in the war were liquidated, and Lenz also died in a foreign land as he wished.

Although he was a transmigrator, it was difficult for Colin to determine whether these fateful reincarnations would manifest to him.

For example, miraculously winning a fortune of 80 Ori within half a year, but suddenly died suddenly the night before the cracking ceremony was about to be completed.

Shouldn't be so bloody.

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Even with the help of medication, this is destined to be a night of hard rest.

Without any thoughts in his mind, Colin couldn't be sure whether he fell asleep or not.When I woke up the next morning, I had a splitting headache and had to struggle to report to the room to finish the day's work.

In addition to giving Heine an explanation, it is more to continue to include the report letter from the overseas scholar in the Kayu subcontinent.

Colin guessed that the text accumulated at hand was enough to support himself to decipher the original text.It's just that because of the unexpected and urgent things that have happened in the past few days, there is no time to settle down and start cracking the password.

The experience of these days also means that he is entering the extraordinary world step by step, and he is bound to face more and more dangers.Therefore, there is an increasingly urgent need for the witchcraft that may be included in that material.

Although it may still be a very primitive witchcraft technique, preparing some means that others have not expected may have unexpected effects at a critical moment.

Once again, it took only one morning to complete the day's workload at the seminary.

Although Abundance of Life has returned to its previous "capacity", Colin only intends to track down the Kayu scholar and letters related to the breakthrough in epidemiology these days, so progress is faster than before.

Because of the effect of the drug, Heine didn't seem to notice the tiredness in Colin's eyes.While speaking, he seemed to think that Colin's efficiency was improved because he no longer had to worry about gang affairs and concentrated his energy.

Declining Heine's invitation to have lunch, Colin hurriedly left the reporting room, and there were more important things to do at this time.

He soon went to Luca Cestalo's "As Hotel", and he had to confirm the results of the patriarchal meeting in time, and what attitude the Five Hands were going to take towards the prohibition.

There were bright cars parked outside the simple and cheap Aspen Hotel. I am afraid that the other leaders of the Cestalo family gathered to listen to Luca's story of the patriarch meeting that lasted all day and night. What kind of decision was made.

Colin squeezed through the crowd and hurried to the top floor. There were already many people standing in Luca's office at this time. Many people were smoking and talking, and the expressions of several leaders seemed to be a little solemn.

Luca was still sitting behind his desk talking to the people standing beside him, the ground at his feet was full of soot.He didn't seem to notice Colin's arrival.

Colin felt a little bad, and he didn't have the intention to chat with them any more. He directly pulled a familiar companion and asked:
"What was the result of yesterday's meeting?"

(End of this chapter)