The white stone brick house on the other side of the river was originally a chapel. ?. .
Hao Ren came to the door of this white building with a kettle in his hand. On the closed door, he saw the familiar Leta rune and a coat of arms composed of circles, triangles, and lightning. The sect's logo, he had learned about it when he heard Vivienne's introduction to the Huiyao sect, and knew the meaning of each part of it: the circle represents the church's interpretation of the world, that is, everything belongs to perfection and returns to chaos, and in the cycle of reincarnation Forming a world, the triangle represents the authority of the goddess. It is located inside the circle. The three vertices support and determine the shape of the circle, which means that the power of the goddess determines the rules of the world. The lightning in the center of the pattern is the church. Its top It is one of the vertices of the triangle, which means that the authority of the church comes from the blessing of one-third of God's power. This is a very interesting sect. They have precisely delineated their scope of authority, that is, "one-third of the divine power". Part of a god, so remember this very clearly.
If he hadn't seen this sign at the door, Hao Ren really couldn't connect this small house with the church: it's too small, and it's not that kind of characteristic steeple building, and there are no gorgeous stained glass windows outside. Compared with religious decorations, it seems that the churches in small villages in the countryside cannot be compared with those in towns. This should be an affordable church. The church seemed to glow for a little while when the light appeared, only because its doors were closed and the main windows were on the side. Hao Ren didn't notice the abnormality in the church immediately from the direction of the small river.
Hao Ren put his hand on the door of the church. After a slight push, he found that it was still standing still, and he frowned: "The door is locked."
"Want to go in and take a look?" The data terminal floated beside Hao Ren, seeming to be very interested. Because it has business to do now, it has not played with the little mermaid for the time being, and Doudou is currently resting obediently curled up in a ball at the bottom of the pot: the horror scene in the river just now made the little mermaid a little frightened, she should be quite quiet in a short time up.
By the way, thinking of the scene where this little guy was thumping in the rapids with all his strength, Hao Ren really wanted to laugh!
"Go in and set a target. Then send me there." Hao Ren came up with a good idea: high-tech gadgets should be used flexibly, and the calibration and transmission function of the data terminal is a miracle of stealth. No matter how tight the defense is. As long as there is a gap bigger than a mouse hole, Hao Ren can "sneak" into it! There is no one in the church, and the solemn dark red carpet is spread in the rectangular empty room, and there are no seats or other things in sight: the churches of the Radiance Sect are not set up for believers like the churches on earth. Benches for resting and listening to lectures, because this sect preaches "human atonement theory", so even the pope cannot enjoy seats in the church.
The tall pulpit not far ahead is the only furnishings in the room.
Hao Ren came to the podium and walked up the four steps step by step. He has noticed that the number "four" seems to have a special meaning in this world. There are four sanctuaries and four ruins in Holleta Kingdom, and the orb of the temple will stay on the blood lake for four days. And now the steps in front of the church pulpit are exactly four steps, what does this mean? He has not yet heard of a religious explanation for it.
There was a heavy black book on the pulpit. The deep black of the cover seemed to be mixed with a little bit of extremely imperceptible dark red. Hao Ren opened the book and found that it was just a very ordinary book. The "Bible".
What he opened happened to be the chapter about the achievements of the Goddess, which stated in a grammatically obscure way what he thought was an empty and uninteresting story: "... the heaven and the earth first opened, and He slept in the heaven and the earth, with spirit and without spirit, the supreme being, Mortals cannot understand... He is the first water, the first sea, the first source, the first storm and thunder, the place where life is born and promised...Because she is the mother of all kinds of life, she is regarded as a goddess... She has thousands of incarnations and exists Among the stars, he sculpts the world and sows hundreds of millions of mortals like dust and ants. This is his authority and mercy... "
"I don't understand." Hao Ren felt lost after reading for a long time, so he flipped to the back of the Bible. Without repentance, there are four foolish kings of ancient werewolves, blood races, elves, and humans who are arrogant and absurd, and want to seize the sea of origin as their own back garden, so God was furious and said: "It is a big mistake for you to have spiritual consciousness, you have to get it." Correction', and burned the old world. But the sages of all races bowed down... and everything survived."
After watching it for a long time, Hao Ren felt that he couldn't understand it anymore.
However, after flipping through it a few times, he came to a conclusion: Although the Hui Yao sect worshiped a definite god, their teachings never seemed to mention the image of this god.
The passages in this sacred book that refer to the goddess all use vague sentences such as "the place of origin" or "the first" to describe the god, and never clearly or vaguely indicate what kind of god the god has like other belief systems. Appearance, whether she has wings or is eight feet tall, whether she is covered with holy light or dignified, all these elements are not involved in this religious book at all. The goddess seems to have no entity, and even the vague and abstract image description has no meaning. No, it feels as if the Cult of Radiance is worshiping a symbolic thing.
Although she is called the "Goddess", what Hao Ren saw from the scriptures seemed to be a natural phenomenon.
What they are worshiping is a certain "phenomenon that created everything in the world" itself.
"Their views on gods are quite interesting." Hao Ren couldn't help thinking of Raven 134, and then shook his head vigorously. "There is no comparison at all."
"Where did the light just come from?" Putting down the scriptures, Hao Ren looked around the empty chapel curiously, but couldn't find anything that could be called a light source. He turned around and looked at the murals behind the podium. It stands to reason that there should be statues of gods or other religious symbols in this position of the church, but what the Glory Sect placed behind the podium was a distorted black shadow, red mist I don't know if other churches are the same, but Hao Ren feels that this small church is quite weird.
After searching everywhere for a long time, he still found nothing. Remembering that other people were still waiting for him at the village chief's house, Hao Ren could only give up the investigation here and hurried back to the village of the mountain people.
The chapel was once again in darkness, only the dim light of double moons slanted into the room from the stained glass windows, and a beam of moonlight fell on the weird murals behind the pulpit impartially. Under the moonlight, the twisted and grotesque murals The black and red continued to surge slowly at a speed almost invisible to the naked eye.
And between the black and red bands, the bright hues representing light are a little dimmer than before.
As soon as Hao Ren returned to the house, Vivian greeted him: "Where have you been for so long and haven't come back... Uh, what's wrong with your pants?"...
Before he had time to explain, Lily jumped over: "Ah! Landlord, are you suffering from diabetes insipidus?"
Hao Ren's mouth full of words made the husky dissipate at once. For the first time, he couldn't restrain himself from rushing up and pinching Lily's ears and pulling them from side to side: "You can't use your brain when you talk! You can't use your brain!!"
Lili jumped up and down, and raisedly groaned: "Oh, oh, sore ... I was wrong, I was wrong ... I forgot that people should pee so much all day ..."
Hao Ren: "..."
He casually threw the hopeless husky aside: "I went to the river to wash my hands just now, and accidentally slipped my foot. By the way, is there a small church on the other side of the river?"
He casually mentioned the church on the other side of the river, but he didn't say anything about the strange condition of the church or how he went in to inquire.
"Oh, it was built with the help of the pastor of Lumber." The village chief doubted him, "Hehe, the mountain people believe in the spirit of the forest, but they are not against the Huiyao sect. The pastor will come to the church every full moon Sermons, and then help the villagers to see a doctor, but usually the church is closed. Are you a believer? If you want to go in and pray, I have the key here, but you have to do it tomorrow."
There are two rounds of bright moons shining over this land. The larger moon is called "the main moon", and it is also commonly known as the big moon or the big moon, while the smaller moon is called "the second month". Seven days is exactly half of the full moon cycle of the main month. Many religious activities of the Hui Yao Sect are linked to the full moon cycle of the main month and the next month. The full moon of the next month is one of the more meaningful days.
"Um, no, I just asked by the way, I didn't expect there to be a church here." Hao Ren smiled and waved his hand, showing no abnormal expression at all.
"Aha—I'm sleepy," Betsy yawned exaggeratedly at this time, "The village chief arranged for us to rest in the two rooms next to us, girls, please squeeze, you two old men will be happy There are so few people.”
Hao Ren thought for a while, and felt that the Huiyao Sect would not be able to run away in this world anyway, and there would be many opportunities to explore the mysteries of the world's myths, so he temporarily put this matter aside and found his own under the guidance of Becky. room, recharge your batteries and prepare for the journey tomorrow. )