The Modern Age of the Mysterious

The time in the spirit passed quickly. Sean and Moonlight see many key scenes in their lives. During the period, an old security guard in a textile factory discovered Annie's special features and accidentally leaked her words after being drunk.

There was also a man in a top hat who came to see Annie, but when they were talking, the voice was too low for Kate to hear.

Sean and Moonlight thought it was someone from the divine court, and they were inquiring about Annie's special abilities - the divine court would recruit some children with special talents, which often happened.

Due to the many scenes and events, the two could not pay attention to all the details.

Then something big happened - what Kate had been secretly doing was known to her mother...

Kate's mother turned over the letters she received from the union and various textile mills across the country, only to find out that Kate had been writing letters to the unions and representatives of female textile workers across the country—her eldest daughter in her twenties actually planned A strike that engulfed half of Newlander.

Mom cried and yelled, scolding Kate for messing around, and scolding her for doing things without considering the consequences.

Kate felt very sad that she was trying to make things better for her mother and herself, but was not understood.

After that, Sean and Moonlight followed the remaining thoughts and came to that night—

At night, Annie woke up from her sleep and shook Kate: "Sister, I just had a nightmare..."

Kate pulled Annie into her bed: "Stop thinking about it, you can sleep with me."

Before she could finish speaking, Kate smelled a choking odor. She rolled over and sat up. Several female workers around her started coughing. More people found something wrong and sat up from the bed, looking at each other blankly.

Someone realized that the situation was wrong, and ran out of the dormitory to check while they woke everyone up.

The man was barefoot and ran back quickly: "The second floor is on fire!"

Kate's mother was a little flustered and hugged Kate and Annie in her arms with a nervous expression on her face.

All the female workers jumped up from the bed in panic. Someone was about to run to the second floor. The female worker who came back first shouted, "The fire on the second floor is too big to escape!"

There are many flammable fabrics and clothing piled up in the textile factory, and it is impossible to get close after burning.

The female workers all ran with bare feet. They were horrified to find that the concrete floor was terrifyingly hot!

Someone ran to the stairwell and tried to open the door to the fourth floor, but he couldn't open it no matter how he shook: "The door is locked!"

In order to prevent theft, the factory gate and the door leading to the fourth floor are locked from the outside when the female workers go to bed at night.

A female worker ran to the window and smashed the window open with a chair, but outside the window was a burglar-proof iron grille, at most the cat could only get out.

However, the night wind was not so choking. The female worker ran to the bedside, put her mouth and nose between the fences, and breathed in the air outside the window.

"Someone!" Kate found several people standing downstairs.

The four were dressed in sackcloth robes and covered their faces with sackcloth sacks with holes cut out like scarecrows. One of them stuffed the torch in his hand into the snow and extinguished it.

In the darkness on the other side of the river, there were several cars parked and a dozen people standing, all wearing uniform black suits and black hats.

The female worker started waving and shouting at the people downstairs. But those who stood in the wind and snow, whether it was the "scarecrow" on the side of the river or the "men in black" on the opposite side of the river bank, just looked up, motionless like sculptures.

"The Haleywood massacre was caused by arson?!" Moonlight stood beside the female worker and looked at the four men wearing linen hoods in disbelief, "These arsonists seem to be members of the Witchcraft Tribunal. people!"

Sean's face was gloomy: "The Witchcraft Tribunal is an extremist organization among the people. They still have the tradition of burning witches. Rockfield should have disclosed Annie's situation, and then let the extremist organization set fire to it - so , even if the precepts are traced, the direct arsonist is not him.

"The people in black across the river should be Rockfield's men.

"Cate Brandt organized a general strike to improve the situation of female workers. If workers are brought to the negotiating table, the trust giant will suffer the most.

"In order to prevent the strike and kill a person who dared to challenge the rules of the game, they planned this massacre and let more than 30 female workers be buried with Kate..."

Kate was the first to discover that calling for help was useless. In the panic, she quietly looked at her mother and then at Annie: "Mom, let Annie go out and report! If she can find someone, we will be saved!"

Mom lost her mind in the panic, stayed for a while, and then nodded.

In order not to cause a commotion, Kate pulled Annie to the corner.

There was a vent there, so narrow that only Annie could get in. For several nights, Annie slipped out of there to play, unnoticed by her mother.

In the cry of the female workers, Kate said, "Be sure to avoid the people downstairs and the people in black on the other side of the river. It would be better if you can find a night patrol officer!"

Annie nodded numbly, because of shock and fear, her whole body seemed to have lost her soul.

Kate sighed and pressed her forehead to her sister's. Her voice was not loud, but it overshadowed the other noisy voices:

"The Holy Father looks upon His children from heaven. He will know all the sufferings you have suffered, and give bread, milk, health and warmth forever, to good and godly children. Amen."

"A... Amen." Anne seemed to have just woken up from her sleep.

"Remember, avoid those people!" Kate's eyes widened, making sure Annie understood.

The younger sister nodded, and got into the vent in a panic.

Kate stood by the wall, looking at Annie's figure disappearing into the dark vent, with a pale smile on her face: "Annie, tomorrow is a new day..."

Annie went downstairs along the very hot ventilation duct, moving in the shadows through the dark night.

"Let's go take a look." Sean led the moonlight to Annie's place.

Moonlight was about to ask questions, but the scene had already shifted downstairs, and they followed Annie across the river.

"Isn't this spiritual room Kate's memory? Why can we see Anne's memory?" Moonlight turned and asked.

Sean pointed to his head: "I have Annie's memory." - The Witch Moon's diluted resentment contained Annie's memory, so the edge of the spiritual world was expanded.

Making sure that she bypassed the men in black, Annie suppressed the cry in her throat and ran forward, flustered in her heart, she could only keep reciting a prayer that would reassure herself: "The Holy Father will bless... His children. …”

Yueguang couldn't bear it: "It's too late... The fire is too fierce."

Sean didn't say a word, just followed behind the thin figure.

Finally, under the street lamp not far away, Annie saw the hurrying backs of a man and a woman.

Just as she was about to open her mouth to shout, a gust of wind suddenly swept in behind her. The turbulence of the wind was as sharp as a blade, as if being slashed by a random knife. Before Annie's voice could be heard, she fell to the ground, with her skin cracked and **** in several places.