Chapter 421: The Church

The sky was darker than usual after the night walked out of the second black door, and the clock suspended in mid-air stopped oscillating before fading, and all portals closed again.

The significance of the closure period is the equivalent of the halftime of the game, and the night is used to carefully comb through the relevant information that has been obtained so far.

The purpose of the Black Door's existence is to allow the Trialists to uncover the mystery behind the witch trials.

One of the important things to note is that there is a significant time limit to the time it takes to enter a black door, and when the time is up, it will turn into a white door.

Tip 2: The number of black doors will not increase, and in the long run, all that will be left in the town will be white doors;

Tip 3: Entering the Black Door is to substitute the role of the townspeople, and they are all important characters directly related to the witch trials;

Tip 4: If you are attacked by the Shadow of Anan, you can also enter another Yanan town, and if you are attacked, it will also cause the portal to change, but if you don't succeed, the portal will remain the same.

The witch trial case was a key point in the change of fate in Yanan Town, or to be precise, the fuse that led to the witch trial, that is, the spread of strange diseases.

Both the butcher's son and the priest's daughter were the first victims of the strange disease.

Little Alice is an important tipping point, and Nightfoot can continue to observe as the butcher's son.

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The next day, the edge of the sky turned white, and the clock reappeared at the same time.

The portal slowly opened, and it only lasted less than 5 hours, and in the limited time, Cangye had to gather enough information.

A black door is chosen at random to enter.

This time, Nightshade plays the role of little Alice's father.

It was the day before the birthday party, but three days earlier, the pastor had already been busy with his daughter's birthday.

This is a character who is commanding to outsiders, but is very doting on his daughter, and can be regarded as a good father.

There is only one church in the town, and the priest is the most powerful person in the church, one of the only two pastors in the town, and the other is the principal of the school, and it is also the teacher who testifies against Serra, the old man, and the priesthood of the priest only exists as a symbol of honor, and the power is far less than that of this ambitious middle-aged man who is only 40 years old.

From the priest's point of view, the night enters the church.

As the only church in the town, it has received donations from countless wealthy people, so that the church has been expanded three times in a year, and it has been built larger and larger over the years, and finally it is even extravagant enough to use stained glass as windows, expensive silver as tableware, solid gold to cast statues of gods, and invite well-known architects from other places to design many times.

In keeping with this magnificence, countless high-priced works of art were transported to the church for display, and even a painter was hired to paint ornate and sacred frescoes on the ceiling of the church.

Faith is a wonderful being, which reflects the spiritual world of ordinary people in a particular social period.

From the priest's point of view, Cangye saw the idol of the god enshrined in the town of Yanan.

The sculpture of the god is a figure of a man dressed in a robe, with his arms outstretched and tilted upwards at a 45° angle, in the form of a hug, arms not spaced apart and at nearly parallel angles, but the arms stretched straight.

It is worth noting that the idol does not have a face, that is, it has no face.

The symbol given to the Church of the Gods is the god of the 'secret sect', but many proud churches believe that only those with ulterior motives are unwilling to reveal the true face of God.

In fact, there are indeed many cults disguised as secret sects to carry out missionary activities, so another meaning of the symbol of the faceless person is an evil god.

But what is even more strange is that there is no record of God's name in any of the scriptures, in the prayers of pastors, or in the mouths of the people.

It is so secret that even the name of the god has to be hidden from the believers and believers, and even the evil gods will not do this.

Observing in the role of pastors, the very existence of the church is another big mystery.

Two hours in the outside world, but a full day has passed in the immersive experience.

On the eve of Little Alice's birthday party, the pastor spends most of his time decorating the room with his wife and Big Alice for his little daughter.

Big Alice is 16 years old this year, and the priest gives the eldest daughter obviously less love than the younger daughter, and the adult Big Alice has been engaged to the mayor's son under the arrangement of the pastor, which is a 19-year-old brunette with freckles on his face and quite energetic.

When decorating the room, Big Alice complained more than once about her father's partiality, while Little Alice's father, who was always amiable in her eyes, slapped her eldest daughter in the face, who complained endlessly and was even jealous of her sister.

Big Alice slammed the door in tears and left, but the priest was still focused on what was in front of her.

It is worth mentioning that the spread of the strange disease only appeared in children under the age of 16, and the great Alice returned home 3 days after the spread of the strange disease, when she was also infected with the strange disease, but it also ended here, and there was only one 16-year-old child in the entire Yanan Town, and the children over the age of 16 were not infected.

The so-called strange disease is characterized by the peeling of muscles all over the body, prolonged lethargy, occasional painful moanings, and the appearance of eye-like red spots on the body.

When Big Alice returned, her face was yellow, and the red spots spread very quickly, covering only one forearm and half of her face on Little Alice, but on Big Alice, it covered a third of her body.

This strange disease is called the 'Devil's Pupil', and it is believed that the red spots on the patient's body are the greedy eyes of the devil, torturing people to death and then devouring the soul of the patient.

However, after the trial of Serra, there has not been a single case of death.

In the world of ordinary people, there is no specific division between demons and devils.

There is also the possibility of so-called witches committing crimes, but it is impossible to exceed two people at most, and it is impossible for a small town with no more than 1,000 people to have about double digit witches.

Carefully comparing the shape of the 'Demon Pupil', Night's memory overlaps it with the eyeball carving on the black door, and the priest also makes a pupil-like gesture during the sacrament.

In religious texts, the eye pinched out by the sacraments is called the 'eye of truth', the eye that God has left to the world to see through evil and to see into true thoughts.

After gathering only this information, Nightnight was kicked out of the gate.

To solve the mystery of the witch trial, the main strategy is to find out the main cause of the strange disease.

In terms of common denominators, little Alice is the first case, followed by her inseparable friends, and the subsequent infections are also people under the age of 16 who have direct contact with the infected person.

At present, the mode of infection is unknown, and the infected people are suffering, but there have been no deaths for the time being, and there are only signs of improvement.

There are currently two directions for verification:

First, with similar characteristics, starting from the direction of God, there are not many religious texts in the church, and the pastor himself is a priest who is more ambitious than pious, and the only thing that can be gained is the headmaster of the school, who runs a school in the name of the church has collected a lot of religious texts, and the headmaster himself is a devout believer and a theologian.

The second is to start with what you eat or what you come into contact with.

The birthday party is held in the form of a barbecue party, and it is the butcher with ulterior motives who provides the meat, so the butcher's son Henry can also be used as a strategic direction.