Although Emerald Island is one of the largest islands on Beiluq Lake, it is not very suitable for human habitation because most of the entire island is composed of exposed rocks, with little soil and naturally no vegetation.

, very desolate.

However, a gem called emerald fluorite is abundant here. In order to facilitate mining, the early mine owners built some houses on Emerald Island to form a miners' village.

However, as the difficulty of mining green fluorite mines increases, and the benefits obtained from mining are very small, the mine owners can only stop mining the minerals, seal the mines, and wait until the mining technology is improved in the future before considering it.

Reopen the mine.

Although the mine has stopped, the miners living here have not completely left. Some people have become accustomed to this island life, so they stayed and formed a village, which is the only village on the island, Green Stone Village.

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The villagers of Green Stone Village usually make a living by fishing. In recent years, as cage aquaculture has been introduced from other countries, the people of Green Stone Village have also taken advantage of the superior geographical advantages to build the largest cage aquaculture in the Ote Federation.

factory, which also made the villagers of Green Stone Village a lot of money.

Although the money earned is not enough for them to improve the environment of the entire Emerald Island, it is enough to improve the living conditions of Green Stone Village. The simple houses that were originally piled with shale rocks and cemented with lake mud have now been renovated.

If you ignore the surrounding environment of small apartments in urban areas, Greenstone Village, an isolated island village, looks not much different from some urban areas.

The condition of Green Stone Village makes people who come to Emerald Island for the first time a little surprised. In their opinion, Green Stone Village should be a primitive village full of old-fashioned houses. This makes many people who hope to show the superiority of urban people

People feel a little disappointed.

For the people of Greenstone Village, the people who have poured into the village in the past few days are not only an opportunity to make money, but also a group of troublemakers.

The total population of Green Stone Village is less than 1,000 people, but in just a few days, almost 10,000 people poured into Emerald Island, seriously disrupting the order in the village. More importantly, the houses in Green Stone Village simply cannot accommodate such people.

There were so many people. On the day when so many people came in, many people slept directly in the small square in the middle of the village.

Fortunately, the Baptist Church, which organized the evangelistic activity, discovered the problem in time. The next day, it cleaned up the abandoned residential area in the nearby mining area, arranged some temporary daily necessities, and reluctantly accommodated the people participating in the evangelistic activity.

However, their troubles did not end there, because these people who came to Emerald Island in advance only accounted for less than a quarter of the total number of people who came to participate in the evangelistic activities. By the time the evangelistic activities started, there were several times more people like this.

People will flock to Emerald Island, so the Baptist Church responsible for the evangelistic activities has to continue to clean up the old mining area in order to clear a large square and rest area that can accommodate tens of thousands of people before the evangelistic activities begin.

Regarding the choice of Emerald Island as the venue for evangelistic activities, most people within the Baptist Church expressed their incomprehension. In particular, those who had visited Emerald Island to inspect the situation were directly opposed, and they also selected some more...

It was a suitable location for the baptismal missionary meeting, but in the end the upper management still ruled out other more suitable locations and decided to choose Emerald Island as the venue for the evangelistic activity. This really made people inside the church feel a little strange. Everyone was curious about the nature of Emerald Island.

If there is anything special about it, it will be taken seriously by the church’s upper echelons.

In fact, not only the remnants of this evangelistic event within the church were confused about this, but also everyone who paid attention to this evangelistic event was also surprised. Therefore, before the event officially started, many people and forces sent their own

His agents sneaked into Emerald Island to investigate the situation.

It's just a pity that no matter how much I checked, nothing useful was found in the end. The only thing that made people think it might be related to the evangelistic activities was the legend that there was a mysterious object in the nearby water area, but

To many people, that legend is just a rumor, just like most baseless urban legends.

However, compared to the church, many of those who participated in the evangelistic activities were very interested in this legend. They even felt that it was part of the evangelistic activities, even though they all knew that the federal government had carried out very serious actions because of this legend.

Careful exploration turned out to be nothing, but many of them still believed that the legend was true, so these boring people hired boats and boatmen from Greenstone Village to look for something in the nearby waters before the evangelistic activities began.

, I hope I can be that lucky person.

Some people even think that the reason why they did not find anything in the waters is because they were looking in the wrong place. In fact, the legendary mysterious objects are not in the water at all, but on land and on islands, so there are many

People went together to search on the island, and even ran into the abandoned mines. Many people got lost in the mines, so that people from Greenstone Village and the Baptist Church had to organize manpower to rescue them.

Fortunately, there was no trouble in the end. Everyone was rescued safely. Apart from being weak and a little frightened, there were no other problems. In order to prevent anyone from running into the mine tunnel again, the Baptist Church

People blocked the entrance to each mine tunnel with stones and sent people to guard the place.

After all, this evangelistic event is the first large-scale public evangelistic event carried out by the Baptist Church after receiving official permission from the Otter Federation. If an accident occurs during the event, it will have a huge impact on the reputation of the entire evangelistic event, even if there is an accident.

The person responsible for the event brought it upon himself, but in the eyes of others, there was a problem as the organizer of the event failed to protect the participants.

I don’t know whether it was because the Belluc City Government was worried that there would be problems with the event, or because the Baptist Church felt that it could not take care of the small number of people on the day of the event. The day before the event started, the Belluc City sent out police, including police.

, two thousand people, including reserve soldiers, were stationed on Emerald Island to assist the Baptist Church in maintaining order. The entry of police and soldiers also improved the originally chaotic situation. At least on the surface, everything was already very stable.

Leo and Sylvia came to Emerald Island on the day of the event. At this time, there were too many ships docked at the small pier of Emerald Island, which forced new ships to park in the outer waters and then leave from Green Stone Village.

The villagers drove boats through the gaps between the boats to deliver people to the island.

After landing on the island, looking at the bustling crowd on the pier, Leo and others couldn't help but frown. Solander said frankly to the villagers of Greenstone Village who were serving as guides: "I don't like it here, not at all.

dislike."

Hearing Solander's words, the villager smiled bitterly and said, "I don't like it as much as you do."

"Can you refuse?" Solander said again.

The villager just smiled, looked at Solander, and said nothing.

Although the villagers didn't say anything, everyone present could feel that what the other party wanted to express was that he would have refused if he had known this, and he also meant something like "you said so".

"Don't take us to the venue yet," Leo took out a map of Emerald Island, pointed to a place, and said, "Go to this place first."

"Giant's Shield?" The villagers looked at the location of Leo's place and immediately recognized where it was. They smiled with a hint of meaning and said, "You also believe in those legends and want to find the place lost in the water."

Is there a mysterious item in it? It’s useless. Many people have already explored it and can’t find anything.”

"Just take us there." Leo said without any intention of explaining to the other party.

"Okay, you are the employer, I will listen to you." The villager shrugged, then turned around and led a few people through the dock square, detoured to a path on the edge of Green Stone Village, climbed a stone step, and then opened up along the edge of the island.

A small path leads towards the place pointed out by Leo.

While on the way, the group also encountered an episode. The policeman responsible for maintaining order on the island recognized Solander, as well as Leo and Sylvia. He was very surprised that these people would appear on the island.

Surprised, he wanted to step forward to ask Solander, but was held back by the crowd surging around him, and he could only watch the group leave.

The villagers who acted as guides were very familiar with the roads on the island. After leaving the dock, it took less than half an hour to arrive at the Giant's Shield, the location designated by Leo.

It is called the Giant's Shield because it is a cliff, and the shape of the cliff is very similar to a shield. Although it has been exposed to wind and rain for a long time, the surface has become pitted, but if you look carefully

, but you can still see that this cliff is very flat, giving people the feeling that it was cut out with a huge knife.

The Giant's Shield is a very famous place in Beluk City, and it is also a place that anyone who comes to Emerald Island will definitely visit. The reason why it is so famous is not because of the appearance of the Giant's Shield, but because there was once a man in the New World.

After the very famous worldly man Barron finished writing his long poem "Game of the Gods", he chose to jump from the Giant's Shield, ending his short life of less than thirty years old.

After that, for a period of time, this place also became the preferred suicide spot for some people who committed suicide. According to incomplete statistics, at least more than 2,000 people chose to commit suicide by jumping off the cliff here. Only less than half of the bodies were recovered, and the rest were

Half of them have either sunk to the bottom or been eaten by fish growing in the water.

The reason why Leo and Sylvia came to the Giant's Shield as soon as they came to the island was partly because of the great poet Barron.

When Sylvia was looking through the information on Emerald Island, she unexpectedly saw an introduction to the poet Barron, learned about his life, and became interested in reading The Game of the Gods, which was finally written by the poet Barron, so she

I found this long poem and looked through it, and soon discovered that this long poem was actually about the religious war that year. In the poem, Barron described the war as a battle fought by some gods when they were bored.

game.

Although there are a lot of modifications, adaptations and beautifications in the poems, Sylvia, who is particularly sensitive to various intelligence materials, can still find the true content hidden under the cover of these gorgeous words, and in these truths

The content records the small war related to the mysterious item.

After extracting this content and eliminating a large number of descriptions about the battle process and the people participating in the battle, Sylvia found the most useful part, which was the location where the mysterious object last appeared, and this location was near the Shield of the Giants.

of waters.

Leo and Sylvia don't know if anyone in the past found out through this poem that the Giant's Shield was the last location where the mysterious object appeared. However, it can be determined from some past information that the various forces that searched for the mysterious object had also searched for it.

The waters of the Giant's Shield, but nothing was found.

Despite this, Leo and Sylvia still chose to take this trip, mainly because they felt that the people who originally searched the waters in this area might have found the wrong place.

They read through Barron's life and found that after he wrote the long poem "The Game of the Gods", Barron's reputation reached an unprecedented height and he was hailed as the New World poet most likely to become the Golden Crown Poet. In fact, this is indeed the case.

, because shortly after Barron's death, the Poetry Society of the Old World transported his golden crown to the New World. Judging from the speed of the spread of poetry and the time of transportation of the golden crown, it should have been determined before Barron's death.

He is a poet with a golden crown.

Moreover, at that time, Barron was not only extremely successful in his career, he was also very proud of his love. Before his death, he was engaged to the only daughter of the Grand Duke of a certain principality at that time. It is no exaggeration to say that after the Grand Duke died, he was the daughter of that principality.

The heir, such a person does not look like someone who would commit suicide.

But at that time, the whole world generally had a prejudice against poets, believing that poets were extremely emotionally unstable and could easily do unexpected things due to impulse. Suicide was the most common thing that poets did impulsively, with almost more than half of them doing so.

Famous poets often choose suicide to end their lives, so Barron's death is also considered a tragedy caused by this emotional impulse.

However, Leo and Sylvia don't think so. They think Barron's death might be just an accident, and Barron chose to come to the Giant's Shield on Emerald Island alone because he was collecting various materials to write poetry.

At that time, he discovered the location of the mysterious object from the data, so he came here to look for it. However, he obviously overestimated his ability and eventually lost his footing and fell off the cliff, which was regarded as suicide.

As for the location of the mysterious object that Barron guessed should not be in the water, it was most likely on the cliff, because according to the data, everyone was looking for the surrounding waters, but no one had ever looked for the Giant.

Shield Cliff.

"Have you discovered anything?" After arriving at the Giant's Shield, Sylvia asked Leo in a low voice.
Chapter completed!