Chapter 268
When the steam metro arrived at the southern bank of the Tussock River, Klein rented a carriage and headed to the Aston Cemetery on the outskirts of the South Borough, which was managed by the Church of the God of Steam and Machinery .
Under the darkness of dusk, the trees around the cemetery seemed to bare their fangs and brandish their claws, blocking out the light like monsters lurking in the darkness .
After the carriage driver took the 4 soli Klein paid, he looked at the cemetery and muttered, "Do you need me to wait here for you?"
"No, there's no need . I'm here to visit a friend . " Klein came up with an excuse, and he immediately noticed the change in the driver's face .
This is a cemetery… to visit a friend with the sky already dark… The driver could hear his own heart thumping .
Klein jolted to his senses, smiled, and added, "He's the tomb keeper here . "
The carriage driver was immediately relieved, but he didn't dare stay . He quickly drove the horses and left .
Klein circled the graveyard until the night truly set in .
After dark, the smoke and dust emissions decreased by a lot . In addition to the biting cold wind, the fog in the air thinned a lot . Although few stars could be seen, the crimson moon made a furtive appearance, covering the ground with a veil-like glow .
Klein tapped his chest four times clockwise, drawing out the crimson moon . Then, he put on his gloves, pushed himself over the iron fence, and entered the cemetery .
He looked around with a high degree of caution, randomly found a secluded corner, took out Azik's copper whistle, and held it in his hand .
Not far in front of him was a tombstone . The photograph on it was dirty, and the epitaph appeared extremely blurry in the moonlight . Klein carefully read it for a few seconds before figuring out what they were .
"Friend, if you are passing by, help me up . Thanks!"
A very humorous gentleman… I choose you! Klein stopped, leaned back against the trees that sheltered the grave from the sun and rain, and waited patiently in the cold, chilly night .
He threw Azik's copper whistle up before catching it firmly, repeating it several times to pass the time until twenty minutes later .
No signs of the dead coming back to life… Klein clicked his pocket watch shut, surveyed his surroundings, and confirmed the results .
I'll come back here in two days to see if there are any additional changes . If there are none, it means that Mr . Azik's copper whistle won't be able to affect corpses that have been laid to rest through a priest's ritual . Klein silently muttered to himself, and he put the ancient and exquisite copper whistle back into his pocket .
There were three kinds of burials in the Loen Kingdom . The first type had coffins and corpses, suitable for the middle and upper classes living in abundance . The second type was the ones without corpses, so a cremation was held . The remaining ashes were placed in urns . This was the choice of the lower middle class and technical workers who could pay for the cremation but found coffins to be too wasteful . But there were also times when religious and governmental factors had an impact, such as the believers of the Eternal Blazing Sun . The majority of them underwent cremation, and the poor people only needed to pay a small fee for the cremation due to the help they received from the government .
The third only belonged to the poor . They couldn't afford coffins, and they didn't wish for cremation, so they just wrapped the corpses up and buried them .
But Klein had already determined from the tombstones and tombs that the target of his experiment was the kind which involved a coffin and a corpse .
If Azik's copper whistle really can cause the dead to rise, even if the target had rotted into a pile of bones, there shouldn't be a complete lack of reaction . Even if the lid of the coffin cannot be opened, it should've at least created a dull thud .
As he walked towards the fence, Klein suddenly thought of a non-rigorous part of the experiment .
Yes, I need to categorize them . The corpses here have been buried for quite a while . I should find a target that was recently buried .
Only by doing so will I be able to arrive at the most accurate conclusion .
After that, Klein basically played a game of cat-and-mouse with the cemetery guardians before finding a grave that had completed a burial ceremony during the day .
This time, he waited for half an hour, but he still didn't find anything abnormal .
Phew, I can basically determine that Mr . Azik's copper whistle can't affect a corpse that has undergone a ritual that puts the soul to rest . That's quite weak, no—that's not right . This copper whistle isn't meant to cause the dead to come alive . It's used to summon messengers, so affecting a corpse is a negative effect! Klein tightened his double-breasted coat and walked toward the iron fence .
He planned on heading home to have a change of clothes before trying out his second experiment .
The target of the second experiment group were the recently deceased corpses that haven't been laid to rest via a ritual .
Such targets often existed in a hospital's morgue!
Climbing over the fence, Klein made his way back to the South Borough on foot in the dreary, dark night . The surroundings were deathly still and quiet . Only the evergreen, dust covered trees lightly swayed .
It reminded him of the night he had been resurrected from the dead . Back then, he too had to walk from the cemetery to the city .
Sigh… Klein sighed and suddenly began to run, as if trying to get rid of the melancholy that filled him .
More than half an hour later, he rented a carriage in South Borough and headed for the nearest steam metro station .
There was still about an hour before the metro stopped running, and this could save him quite a bit of money .
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In the wee hours of the morning, Klein changed into a grayish-blue worker's uniform and wore a cap as he made his way to St . Estin's Hospital in the Backlund Bridge area .
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