Chapter 423: Faceless Angel
The statue of an angel is about 40 centimeters tall, carved out of black walnut wood with the image of an angel, with hands clasped in front of his chest and a stigma of the 'Eye of Truth' on the back of his hand. The face is completely the smiling face of little Alice, because it is an angel, so the statue makes loveliness and holiness coexist, and the outer layer of pure gold is to sublimate this holiness one step closer.
I have to say that not only little Alice likes it, but even the priest especially admires this statue that is enough to meet the standard of holy relic.
Cangye remembered that in the priest's impression, the meaning of the statue was already partly equivalent to the bride price, but the marriage was successful, and the priest's second wife, who was also the stepmother of Alice and the Great, also played a big role in it.
Little Henry had seen a very young, kind-eyed and temperamental lady.
There are no conditions for the 'Demon Pupil' to appear and spread in Yanan Town, and the few things that come from the outside world, mainly concentrated in the artworks inside the church, do not have any special viruses attached to them.
After all possibilities were ruled out, the only thing left was this angel statue. In fact, the children who came into contact with the statue also contracted the strange disease, and then the next transmission was through contacts and reinfection.
This shows that the 'Demon Pupil' has the characteristics of rapid onset, but also has a strong transmissibility, turning contacts into carriers of the virus...... No, it's possible that the 'Demon Pupil' is not a virus.
At least Night's presence on this angel statue doesn't show any signs of a virus lurking, but even so, it's a key item.
At least there is a clue at the moment.
From the time the angel statue was made, it passed through the hands of a butcher, a carpenter, a goldsmith, and a priest, and as creators, carpenters and goldsmiths were the subjects of key investigation.
After walking out of the gate, Cangye went to several other black gates one after another, and continued to act as little Henry.
Through the perspective of the butcher's son, Nightshade sees the experience of more than two months from the beginning of the spread of the 'Demon Pupil' to the frequent witch trials, and then to the butcher being taken away as a witch and falling out of bed in pain.
From the point of view of little Henry, the night meets the butcher.
This is a middle-aged man with the same fat figure as his wife, a fierce face but dressed like a rich man, and the most common thing in his eyes is naked desire, including the desire for power, and some lust, especially the prettiest beauty in town, Serra.
On more than one occasion, the butcher shouted in front of his son that the old shoemaker was an 'insatiable bastard'. He had wanted to keep Serra as his lover in private, but the old shoemaker was not inferior to the butcher's greed, and she wanted her nominally 'daughter' cash cow to be the mistress of a big man like a priest or mayor, and the butcher was not qualified.
Because of this greed, Serra did not marry until she was 19 years old.
After experiencing the full life of little Henry, Cangye randomly enters the perspective of the shoemaker.
Before the disease spread, he was just a nasty old man who was annoying to his neighbors but had to deal with, because he was the only shoemaker in the whole town.
The most important behavior of Cangye is that he even instructed his daughter to seduce the mayor of the town, trying to blackmail him, but naturally Serra angrily refused.
And after his daughter was burned as a witch, the old man who escaped the disaster hid in his room all day drinking, getting drunk, and then scolding his daughter and the mayor, they deprived themselves of the opportunity to become a high-class person.
From the shoemaker's point of view, Cangye sees the fate of Yanan Town, which is further than little Henry.
After the Great Alice trial, the priest's insane revenge sent more than 100 people to the stake one after another, one of whom turned out to be Big Alice's fiancé, the son of the mayor of the town.
After that, the town of Yanan was plunged into chaos caused by extreme despair.
The social order collapsed, morality was degraded, laws and dogmas were trampled to the ground, and the priest ended up being killed in the church by the angry people, having his stomach cut open, his intestines and organs being dug out, hollowed out and nailed to the frescoes of the church, and the statues of the gods being smashed to pieces in the struggle.
After the priest's death, the shoemaker hid at home alone, watching the neighbors die in the streets one by one in a frenzied cannibalism, which lasted for half a month, and the corpses piled up on the street already emitted a strong stench.
The shoemaker turned out to be the last survivor.
He took advantage of the night to pack his baggage and prepare to escape from the town of Yanan, but this vision stopped when the shoemaker fled to the farm on the outskirts of the town.
As the last survivor, Nighty finally knows the end of Yanan Town after the witch trial.
But it is worth paying attention to whether the shoemaker survived in the end, and what happened to him during the escape.
Next, the night enters the goldsmith's perspective.
This once again proves Night's speculation, as there are thousands of people in the town, but the number of Kuromon is less than a tenth, and the results of several random selections are directly related to the witch trials.
At the very least, it is certain that goldsmiths and carpenters played an important role in the trial.
They were twin brothers, one with excellent carpentry skills and the other skilled at making goldsmiths, as well as gilding.
Three months before little Alice's birthday, the brothers received an order from the butcher.
The black walnut from the big city was considered a 'rare and good material' by the carpenter, but at first he was afraid to start the work, because the walnut had already been carved into an angel before it arrived, and unexpectedly, there was no model of the carved face.
Angels do not have the same status as God, so the symbol of the facelessness is considered by the goldsmith brothers to belong to the gods, but in the end they still succumb to the cruelty of the butcher and have to start work.
The disfigured black angel was finally carved with the adorable smiling face of little Alice, then coated with a thick layer of gold lacquer, and completed a week before the butcher came to pick up the order.
The existence of this statue has never been shown to anyone except the butcher and the goldsmith brothers.
But during this time, Cangye noticed that the back of the angel's hand when the two brothers carved it did not have the stigma of the 'Eye of Truth', but when the butcher came to pick up the goods, the stigmata appeared inexplicably.
If the supernatural element is excluded, then a fourth person appeared and carved a stigma on the statue.
The two brothers did not come into contact with the angel statue all day, and the statue was hidden most of the time in the shop they ran, under a hollowed-out wooden plank on the ground.
In addition to the customers, the shoemaker's daughter who comes to help from time to time is 19-year-old Serra, who has no wife or children, and the two brothers are like their own daughters, and most of the time, Serra will find time to come to the store after finishing the housework.
However, she was unaware of the existence of the angel statue; But she knew where the loose plank was.