Part 4 The Undead Chapter 78 Whose Church
A piece of church …… is the same as my judgment …… Klein looked at the ruins in front of him and muttered two words to himself silently.
At this moment, the slight scarlet moonlight that penetrated the sedimentary fog splashed on those half-collapsed buildings, which was much denser than before, getting closer and closer to the color of blood.
Klein maintained Germaine Sparrow’s trademark sense of coolness and spoke without emotional ups and downs:
”Where did you guys explore before?”
As he spoke, Klein glanced at the lamp that had survived the ordeal in the Hanged Man’s hand, and subconsciously contracted his muscles and skin membranes at the glow from the flame.
Although the flame was always insulated by thick glass and metal bars, it still made him cringe a little.
Not bothering to pay attention to Germaine Sparrow’s subtle changes, Alger raised his right hand, which was gripping his short blade, and pointed at the most intact and grandest building in the ruins:
”There.”
Only the main body of that building remained as well, leaving no way of knowing what its original floor plan looked like, and one could only judge from what was left of it at the moment that it had thick, grand and massive walls and narrow windows, and had once possessed a high tower and bell tower, with a plain appearance and ancient form.
”This is an architectural style from the early Quaternary Period that has been recorded in the Storm Church’s canon, and it is said that during that period, the major churches widely adopted similar shapes to build their churches.” Alger was deeply impressed by this piece of relic, having gone through many books over the years and grasped a certain amount of information, “Its greatest feature is that it has a temple on top and a tomb underneath, with life and death united together, however, I can’t be sure that the interior of this ancient church is the same as what I have described as I haven’t gone deeper into it.”
This may be an architectural style left over from the Third Age …… Klein made a certain guess, and walked ahead towards the remains of the ancient church with its unusually tall doorway, leaving his horse lamp behind, enjoying the light only and not bearing the flame.
The two soon made their way up the exaggeratedly high tier of gray and white stone steps to the doorway, seeing the remnants of classical stone pillars and concentric multi tier architraves inside.
Without rushing inside, Klein reached into his pocket with his left hand and pulled out a gold coin, letting it flip and jump between his fingers as he seemed to chant something under his breath.
Suddenly, he popped up the gold coin with a clang, spread his palm and waited for the other side to fall, while turning his head sideways to the “inverted hangman” and said:
”On what basis do you judge that there is an item no less valuable than the ‘Blasphemous Sign’ in the depths of this church?”
After saying this, he glanced at the gold coin that had fallen into his palm and casually put it away.
Alger pointed inside and said:
”As I said, I was not as strong as Zylingus at the time, and naturally my level of depth was not as deep as his, so I could not know exactly what he saw, and I could only judge from some of his words that there were very precious and very important things in there, and that it had to be at least at the level of a true Sequence 5 in order to be able to acquire them.
”However, the murals near the entrance and the traces on the floor might tell us something.”
Klein nodded his head and walked into the deep doorway that the scarlet moonlight could not directly illuminate, the black trench coat draped over his body rising slightly back with him, while Alger followed behind, carrying a horse lamp and gripping his short blade tightly.
Through the doorway, Klein, with the help of the crimson moonlight falling from the dome’s breach, could see clearly that there was a deep hall in front of him, and that the classical stone pillars supporting it had collapsed and broken half of them.
It ended not at the altar, and there were no steps upward; it was dark and hard to see details, and seemed to go deep into the earth ref.
Not up the temple and down the tomb …… The temple and the tomb are both underground? Unable to tell, must go down to know …… Klein subconsciously glanced to the left and right and found a side door on each side, but the area they led to had completely collapsed and there was no way out.
The murals near the entrance and the traces on the floor …… He remembered the words of the “upside down man” just now, and took two steps diagonally, released the invisible “Spirit” Seignior, and used his night vision to look at the remnants of the wall. The mural that remained on the wall was a fresco with the background of a lofty building.
The background of the mural was a majestic mountain peak, with a huge cross covered in layers of light at the top.
In front of the cross, there stood a majestic figure, surrounded by angels with two, four, and six wings on their backs.
This …… Klein just took a cursory glance and had a strong sense of familiarity.
He had seen similar murals before, in the tomb of “blasphemer” Amon!
Fixed his attention and looked again, Klein quickly found out the difference, here there is no representation of Amon and Adam’s two babies, there is no twelve-winged angels, in front of the crucifix, the majestic figure covered with divine light held his hands in front of his chest, holding an ancient and simple stone plate.
That stone tablet was painted extremely vague, but there is a feeling of both old and young, both sacred and evil, with extremely contradictory meanings.
The slate …… Klein s pupils dilated slightly, and a proper noun flashed in his mind:
”Profane Slate”!
This should be the ancient sun god, the silver city worship of the Lord of the creation of everything …… Sure enough, the “blasphemous slate” and k have a close connection …… did not know that this is the first piece of I don’t know if this is the first “blasphemous tablet” or the second …… Klein roughly understood to whom this church belonged, and began to believe that the depths of this relic may be hidden in a very precious and important thing.
He withdrew Seignior’s eyes, let the “secret puppet” turn to look at the ground.
In addition to the cracks on the stone slabs, there were also some strange traces left on the stone slabs, which were dark red in color, the size of a human’s forehead, sometimes overlapping, and stretching all the way to the end of the hall.
At this moment, Klein naturally imagined a scene within his mind:
A devout believer was prostrate on the ground, crawling forward, and every time he walked a certain distance, he hit the ground heavily with his forehead, knocking out blood.
Seeing Germaine Sparrow’s gaze turn back and stop gawking, Alger asked tentatively:
”Ancient Sun God?”
At the same time, he inexplicably felt a chilly wind blowing from Germaine Sparrow’s side, suspecting that there were lurking spectral shadows or resentful spirits around.
Associated with the mutant curly-haired baboon being strangely controlled, Alger vaguely guessed something, but didn’t say it out loud.
Hearing the question of the “inverted hanged man”, Klein wanted to give a low laugh and reply “You can also call k the Lord of creation, the all-knowing and all-powerful God”, but then realized that the tone and the words used were closer to “fool” than to “Gulliver”, and not to “Gulliver”, which was the word he used. ” rather than Germaine Sparrow, and restrained himself with only a slight nod:
”It’s not hard to see.”
Alger breathed a silent sigh of relief, growing more and more excited about the object buried deep within this church.
Both men made a decision at the same time and walked in unison to the end of the hall.
When they got close enough, Klein finally made out that there were steps going down one level at a time.
”Underground area?” He asked in terse words.
Alger shook his head and said:
”I can’t be sure, I haven’t been down there.
”Zilingus did try to go deeper, but he was back here in less than ten minutes, his breath becoming quite weak.”
Klein nodded thoughtfully and said casually:
”You seem to be familiar with him.”
If anyone else had said that, Alger would have ignored it and not responded positively, but in his mind, “World” Germaine Sparrow was a dependent of Mr. “Fool”, so his question might represent the meaning of that being, and had to be treated with caution.
After a few seconds of deliberation, Alger said in a low voice:
”He and I are from the same town, and were servants in the same chapel,” he said.
”The priest there was a man who was irritable and violent and liked to punish his servants, and Zilingus couldn’t accept it and secretly escaped and became a pirate.”
There is such a past ah …… “Inverted man” Mr. also has a story of people …… Klein did not do in-depth inquiry, in the incomparably quiet ruins of the church, along the ladder layer by layer He went down the stairs one by one in the quiet of the ruined church.
Although the sound of his footsteps is already very slight, but in this environment, it is still obvious, far away.
Soon, the two of them finished walking down the steps and saw another doorway with arched coupons.
On each side of the doorway, two dark shadows stood, silent, wordless, never changing.
Klein and Alger stopped in their tracks at the same time, looked at the two black shadows, and realized that they were two stone statues.
They were both male, grayish-white in color, one wearing bucket-shaped full-body armor, the other draped in a more recent-flavored jacket, both with pain-filled expressions and bulging eyes as if glaring at something.
At the sight, Klein suddenly winced, remembering his earlier encounter in the outside world:
He and Alger also showed signs of petrification, but fortunately got rid of the effects in time and didn’t really turn into statues!
This …… will not be the same encounter of human beings, right …… If we were petrified just now, will not also be “moved” into the ground of this old church, hundreds and thousands of years unchanged to guard the If we had been petrified, wouldn’t we have been “moved” into the ground of this old church, guarding a doorway for hundreds and thousands of years? The power of petrification is not in fear of the ruins? Kraven’s scalp tingled with inexplicable fear.
He controlled the fluctuation of his expression and glanced sideways at the Hanged Man, noticing that the pupils of the rugged sea man had also widened, and his grip on the short blade had tightened considerably.
”Inverted man” Mr. also have the same guess ah, do not need me to explain what …… Klein pointed to the doorway said:
”There may be more stone statues inside.”
Alger nodded, half worried and half joking:
”I just hope we don’t see ours.”
It would be a horror story if we were convinced that we were free from the effects of petrification while at the same time seeing our own statues in the underground area …… Klein thought for a couple seconds and said to the “Inverted Hanging Man”:
”Do you have night vision?”
What he really meant was that the glow of a horse lamp was very conspicuous in the pure darkness of the underground part of the city and could easily trigger unwanted changes, so it would be best to extinguish the flame if one had night vision.
The hidden meaning of this he was sure that Mr. “The Hanged Man” would be able to appreciate.
Alger answered frankly:
”Yes.”
A “sailor” pathway serialist who could dive deeply must have the ability of “night vision”.
Kraven gave him a look, not saying anything, but the meaning was already very obvious:
Then why do you still use a horse lamp?
Alger responded solemnly:
”One is to mislead the enemy, when they see me using horse lamps to illuminate, they will instinctively think that I don’t have the ‘night vision’ ability, wait until they destroy the horse lamps and try to create a dark environment, I can give them a surprise.”
That’s insidious …… Klein couldn’t find the words to respond for a moment.
Alger continued:
”The second is to guard against a situation similar to Silver City, where the sheer lightless darkness may harbor extreme danger.”
It makes sense …… Klein didn’t signal the other party to extinguish the horse lamp again, and was the first to cross over the two stone statues, and stepped into the doorway leading to the underground area in their eyes frozen with pain.
–Because he didn’t know exactly what the petrified statues represented, and it was not clear whether the petrified people were completely dead, Klein didn’t try to break them and harvest the extraordinary properties and magical items that might be present.