Chapter 426: Tracking the Truth

The name of the disfigured angel is 'The Coming of the Son', and the statue as a fake is a disfigured angel holding aloft the image of a child wrapped in sheepskin.

In the canons of the Church, God created all things, using the present as a point to connect the past and the future, creating the axis of mortal existence, and then creating space and time, and then giving the world the concept of time.

The sun and the moon alternate, the spring and autumn changes, the wheel of time is above, all existence will eventually return to nothingness, and only God and those who believe in God can attain eternity.

God dominates time, and mortals cannot see time, so as the god of time, mortals naturally cannot see the appearance of God, let alone depict the appearance of God, so the faceless person is the universal image of God in the church.

The formless person is only God, and the angel is the messenger of God, who is elevated from the believers who follow God, and is endowed with eternal qualifications, but only the formless qualification, so none of the angelic statues that exist can be faceless.

However, only the 'coming of the Son' is a special case.

God created man, but man born of original sin plundered everything in a rage of greed and selfishness, destroying God's world to the brink of collapse.

Sad and angry, God decided to destroy man in order to save the rest of creation.

However, all this was stopped by the angels of God.

"People are not useless, they still have a purpose to exist."

God, persuaded by the angels, decided to give humanity a final salvation.

God has given the Son to man, and under the Son's leadership, man will change all his past behavior, give up self-interest and strife, and rebuild God's home.

The Son will spend a hundred years on earth, and if one can follow the Son's guidance and protect the Son's longevity for a hundred years, God will retract His wrath when the Son returns to the arms of God.

The existence of the Son is a symbol of 'salvation'.

The angel obeyed God's will and went to earth at the coming of the Son, and saw the image of the Son in the manger, that is, the "coming of the Son."

In reality, however, the angels who walk on earth are infused with God's will the moment they embrace the Son.

God is omniscient and omnipotent, there is no corner that God cannot see, there is nothing that God does not know, and when the angel embraces the Son, it is also God who embraces the Son.

This represents the last vestiges of God's favor for mankind, and man will obey and protect the Son for a hundred years until he returns to God's arms.

I don't know if it's a coincidence, the butcher finally found the angel statue in a big city, and immediately bought it back with a lot of money, in order not to attract attention, the butcher announced that he had bought a piece of black walnut.

But when it arrived in the town of Yanan, the 'Son of God' was incomplete.

The Shadowless Angel was intact, but the Son was gone.

The mutilated relics could never be given to the priest, so the self-proclaimed butcher asked the carpenter goldsmith to modify the statue for him, carving the smiling face of little Alice on the face of the faceless angel, and the arms embracing the Son were also amputated, replaced with ordinary walnut, and replaced with the action of holding hands together on the chest, and gilding it with gold lacquer to be placed for people to see.

As a result, a holy relic was changed beyond recognition.

The Son means salvation, representing God's final forgiveness of man, and the loss of the Son means that salvation is no more;

The faceless angel symbolizes the will of God, and the engraving of a man's face is regarded as a blasphemy, and man tries to cover the will of God with his own desires;

Hugging the arms of the Son means embracing salvation, and the severed arms are seen as a new image of a person voluntarily giving up salvation and replacing them, and holding hands together is embracing oneself, that is, conniving with selfish desires.

No matter how you interpret it, the angelic statue sent by the butcher is a complete desecration of the holy relics.

The butcher was right that the spread of the 'Demon Pupil' was caused by a curse, but not a curse imposed by a witch, but an invisible curse that God unleashed on the hopeless.

Now that most of the puzzle has been solved, all that remains is the 'Eye of Truth' that inexplicably appears on the angel's arm, and the concept of the 'Demon Pupil' itself. And then there is the role of the old teacher.

Nightshade didn't believe that the old teacher would accidentally mention the 'Son of God', a scholar with a deep study of theology, and there was no one in the whole town of Anan who knew more about the affairs of the church than he did.

The gods they believe in are similar but slightly different from the gods of time, and these differences can be interpreted through the perspective of the old teachers.

As long as you can find the black door where the old teacher is, then the final puzzle can be solved.

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Next, Cangye has been following the butcher's perspective to see the madness of Yanan Town in the old days again.

The butcher was eventually found guilty of an affair with his wife and was burned at the stake on charges of being an accomplice to witches, including the mayor and his son.

After the butcher's perspective, Night's next step is to enter the perspective of the mayor's son.

This is a young man who is greedy for pleasure, and he loves Serra in his heart, but Serra does not mince words about him. On the other hand, he completely loses interest in his fiancée, Alice, after a private affair.

After many failed pursuits of Serra, the mayor's son became angry and accused the unknown woman of being a witch and collected a large amount of curse material that did not exist.

Prior to this, in order to win back her father's favor, Big Alice asked the mayor's son to fake symptoms for him when the 'Demon Pupil' spread, and later after Big Alice was discovered, the mayor's son was also found out.

The priest who fell into a frenzy directly executed the mayor's son and his father together.

Later, the night continued to track the priest's end.

Here he made a major discovery.

As the most powerful person in the Church of Anan, a priest with great ambitions, it is impossible that he should have no idea of his wife's relationship with the butcher.

In fact, the pastor has always known about it, but never made any moves, and the biggest reason is that his wife is the granddaughter of an old teacher, and the pastor's attitude towards his former mentor is always more fearful and respectful.

The biggest reason for this is that he knows the secret of the old teacher, and this secret is known to no one in the entire Yanan town except him.

The real age of the old teacher is not 80 years old, but twice that number.

They are dressed in black robes all year round, and the group they belong to in the church is the 'Secrecy'.

The doctrine of God was not fully published, and some forbidden knowledge could not be disseminated, but it could not be lost, and so the 'secrecy' appeared.

The more he learned about God's doctrine, the more uneasy the fear became, and the occasional words of the old teacher, who was a 'secrecy', stirred up the pastor's fear of God, so that he gave up the pursuit of faith and turned to the intake of worldly power.

Under the priest's cognition, the old teacher's apparent amiability was only a disguise, and as a 'secret', he knew too much forbidden knowledge to put him under considerable pressure, so his spirit tended to collapse.

There are not a few 'secrecy' who have gone crazy because of this.

Therefore, the pastor will try to prevent possible conflicts with the old teachers.

After the witch trial began, the old teacher remained in seclusion and no longer appeared in school, except to testify at the trial of Serra, but by then his appearance was surprisingly old.

Later, the priest, who gradually fell into madness, saw the old teacher mixed in with the crowd at the last glance when he was killed by the people.

His appearance has been restored, even to the way he was when he was 40 years old.