Chapter Seventy-Eight: Whose Church
A church ...... As I judged...... Crane looked at the ruins in front of him and muttered to himself silently.
At this time, a little crimson moonlight that pierced through the sedimentary mist sprinkled on the half-collapsed buildings, much richer than before, closer to the color of blood.
Keeping Gelman Sparrow's signature coldness, Klein spoke without emotion:
"Where were you exploring?"
As he spoke, Klein glanced at the long-suffering but unbroken horse lamp in the hand of the "Hanged Man", and was subconsciously tightened his muscles and epithelia by the light reflected by the flames.
Although the flames were always kept out by thick glass and metal fences, they still scared him a little.
Alger didn't notice the subtle changes in Gelman Sparrow, raised his right hand holding the short blade, and pointed to the most intact and magnificent building in the ruins:
"There. ”
Only the main body of the building remains, so it is impossible to know what its original layout looked like, only from the remaining parts of the building, it has the characteristics of thick walls, magnificent and huge, narrow windows, etc., and once had a tall tower and a bell tower, with a simple appearance and an ancient shape.
This is an early Quaternary style of architecture, and it is documented in the canon of the Church of the Storm, and it is said that similar forms were widely used in the construction of churches during that period. Alger was impressed by the ruins, and over the years, he had read a lot of books and had a certain grasp of the situation, "Its most important feature is that the upper temple and the lower tombs, life and death are united, but I am not sure that the interior of this ancient church is the same as I described, because I have not penetrated deeply." ”
This may be an architectural style left over from the Tertiary period...... Crane made a certain guess, and walked first to the unusually tall ruins of the ancient church in the doorway, leaving the lantern behind him, enjoying only the light, not the flames.
The two soon walked up the exaggerated gray-white stone steps to the doorway, and saw the remnants of classical stone pillars and concentric multi-layered arches.
Crane didn't rush in, but reached into his pocket with his left hand, took out a gold coin, and made it flip and jump between his fingers, as if he was babbling something.
Suddenly, he flicked up the gold coin with a bang, spread out his palms and waited for the other party to fall, and turned his head sideways to the "upside-down hangman" and said:
"On what basis do you judge that there are objects in the depths of this church that are no less valuable than the 'Plaque of Blasphemy'?"
With that, he glanced at the gold coin that had fallen into his palm and casually put it away.
Alger pointed inside:
"As I said, my strength at that time was not as good as that of Zilingers, and the depth was naturally not as deep as his, and I had no way of knowing what he had seen, and I could only judge from some of his words that there were very precious and very important things in it, and it was possible to obtain at least the level of true sequence 5.
However, the frescoes near the entrance and the marks on the ground may tell us something. ”
Crane nodded, and walked into the deep doorway where the crimson moonlight could not directly shine, and the black trench coat he was wearing rose slightly, while Alger followed with a horse lamp and a short blade.
Through the doorway, Crane could see clearly that there was a large hall in front of him with the help of the crimson moonlight falling from the hole in the dome, and the classical stone pillars that supported it had collapsed and broken in half.
It ended not at the altar, nor did it go up the stairs, it was dark, difficult to see in detail, and it seemed to go deep into the ground.
Not an upper temple lower tomb...... The temple and the tomb are underground, it is impossible to tell, you have to go down to know...... Crane subconsciously glanced to the left and right, and saw that there were side doors on each side, but the area they led to had completely collapsed, and there was no way out.
Frescoes near the entrance and traces on the ground...... He remembered the words of the "Hanged Man" just now, took two diagonal steps, released the invisible "Resentful Spirit" Seigno, and with the help of his night vision, he looked at the remaining murals on the wall.
The background of the mural is a majestic mountain peak, topped by a huge cross covered with layers of light.
In front of the cross, there stood a majestic figure, surrounded by angels with two, four, and six wings on their backs.
This...... Klein only glanced at it cursorely, and there was a strong sense of familiarity.
Similar frescoes, he had seen, in the mausoleum of Amun the "blasphemous"!
Looking at it again, Crane quickly made out the difference, there were no two babies representing Amon and Adam, and there were no twelve-winged angels, but a majestic figure with divine light in front of the cross with his hands on his chest, holding a simple stone tablet.
The slate is painted in a very vague way, but it has a sense of being old and young, sacred and evil, and the meaning is extremely contradictory.
Flagstone...... Klein's pupils dilated slightly, and a proper noun flashed through his mind:
"Desecrate the slate"!
This is supposed to be the ancient sun god, the creator of all things worshipped in Silver City...... Sure enough, the "blasphemous tablets" had a close connection with Him...... It is not known if this is the first "blasphemous slate", or the second...... Crane had a rough idea of who belonged to the church, and he began to believe that there might be something precious and important hidden in the depths of the ruins.
He withdrew Segnon's gaze, allowing the "secret puppet" to look at the ground instead.
The stone slabs were covered with cracks and strange marks, dark red, the size of human foreheads, overlapping from time to time, all the way to the end of the hall.
At this moment, Klein naturally imagined a scene in his mind:
One by one, devout believers crawled forward, striking their foreheads with their foreheads for every distance they walked, knocking out blood.
Seeing that Gelman Sparrow had turned his gaze and no longer looked at it, Alger asked tentatively:
"The ancient sun god?"
At the same time, he inexplicably felt a cold wind blowing from Gelman Sparrow's side, and suspected that there was a hidden ghost or ghost around him.
Thinking of the strange control of the mutant curly-haired baboon, Alger vaguely guessed something, but didn't say it.
Hearing the question of the "hanged man", Klein wanted to chuckle and reply, "You can also call Him the Lord who created everything, the all-knowing and all-powerful God", but he immediately realized that the tone and wording were closer to "fool" than to Gelman Sparrow, so he restrained himself and only nodded slightly:
It's not hard to see. ”
Alger breathed a sigh of relief, looking forward to the object buried in the depths of the church.
The two of them made a decision at the same time, and they all walked to the end of the hall.
As he got closer, Crane finally saw the steps descending from there.
"Underground area?" he asked succinctly.
Alger shook his head and said:
"I'm not sure, I haven't gone down.
Although Ziringus tried to go deeper, he returned here in less than ten minutes, and his breath became quite weak. ”
Klein nodded thoughtfully and said casually:
"You and he seem familiar. ”
In other words, Alger would have not heard it and not responded positively, but in his mind, Gelman Sparrow of the "World" was a relative of Mr. "Fool", and his question may represent the meaning of that being, and must be treated with caution.
After pondering for a few seconds, Alger said in a deep voice:
"He and I were fellow villagers and served as servants in the same chapel.
"The priest there was an irritable man who liked to punish his servants, and Ziringus couldn't accept it, so he secretly fled and became a pirate. ”
There is such a past...... Mr. "The Hanging Man" is also a person with a story...... Crane didn't ask any more questions, and walked down the stairs in the extremely quiet ruined church.
Although the sound of his footsteps was very slight, it was still obvious in such an environment, and it was far away.
Soon, the two of them walked up the stairs and saw a doorway with arches.
On both sides of the doorway, two black shadows stand, standing quietly, silently, and unchangeably.
Crane and Alger stopped at the same time, looked at the two dark shadows, and saw that they were two stone statues.
They were all male, grayish-white throughout, one wearing bucket-shaped full-body armor and the other wearing a more modern jacket, both with pained expressions and eyes bulging out as if they were staring at something.
Seeing this scene, Klein suddenly struck a wit and remembered what he had encountered in the outside world before:
He and Alger also showed signs of petrification, but luckily they got rid of the effects in time and didn't really turn into statues!
This...... It can't be a human who is going through the same thing...... If we were petrified just now, would we also be "moved" into the ground of this ancient church, guarding a doorway for hundreds of years and thousands of years? Isn't the power of petrification afraid of this ruin? Klein was inexplicably frightened, and his scalp was a little tingling.
He controlled the fluctuation of his expression, glanced sideways at the "upside-down hanged man", and found that the rugged sea man's pupils had also become larger, and the hand holding the short blade was obviously much tighter.
Mr. "The Hanged Man" has the same guess, so I don't need to say anything more...... Klein pointed to the doorway and said:
"There may be more stone statues in there. ”
Alger nodded, and said half-worriedly, half-jokingly:
"I just hope you don't see us. ”
If we believe that we have escaped the effect of petrification, and at the same time see our own statue in the underground, it is a horror story...... Klein thought for two seconds and said to the "Hanging Man":
"Do you have night vision?"
What he really meant was that the light of the horse lantern was very conspicuous in the purely dark underground part and could easily cause unnecessary changes, so if you had night vision, it was best to extinguish the fire.
And this hidden meaning, he believes that Mr. "Hanged Man" can taste it.
Alger replied calmly:
"Yes. ”
A "sailor" who can dive deep must have the ability to "night vision".
Klein glanced at him and didn't speak, but the meaning was very obvious:
Then why do you still use a horse lantern?
Alger replied solemnly:
"One is to mislead the enemy, when they see me using the lantern, they will instinctively think that I don't have 'night vision' ability, and when they destroy the lantern and try to create a dark environment, I can surprise them. ”
It's insidious...... Klein couldn't find the words to respond.
Alger continues:
"The second is to guard against a situation similar to that of Silver City, where the pure darkness may hide the ultimate danger. ”
Reasonable...... Crane didn't signal the other party to extinguish the lantern, but first passed the two stone statues, and in their frozen painful eyes, he stepped into the doorway to the underground area.
- Because he didn't know what the petrified statues actually represented, or whether the petrified person was completely dead, Crane didn't try to break them up and harvest the extraordinary properties and magical items that might exist.
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