Chapter 189 Little Church

The white stone brick house on the other side of the river turned out to be a small church.

Hao Ren carried the kettle and came to the door of this white building. On the closed door, he saw the familiar Laita rune and a coat of arms consisting of circles, triangles and lightning. The latter is the brilliance of this world. The symbol of the sect. He understood this symbol when he listened to Vivian's introduction to the Huiyao Sect and knew the meaning of each part: the circle represents the church's interpretation of the world, that is, everything belongs to perfection and chaos, and in 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, and 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 accurately defined their scope of authority, which is "one-third of the divine power." This is the first time Hao Ren has heard of a clergy member of any sect who specifically states that he can only represent the three sects. One of the gods, so I remember this point very clearly.

If he hadn't seen this sign at the door, Hao Ren really wouldn't have been able to associate this small house with the church: it was too small, and it wasn't a characteristic spire building, and there were no gorgeous stained glass windows visible outside. In terms of religious decoration, it seems that churches in rural villages cannot be compared with those in towns. This should be an affordable church.

The light that hit the river just now has disappeared, and the chapel was completely dark. However, Hao Ren remembered that the light came from the round hole above the main entrance of the church. He let the data terminal float up to take a look and confirm this. The small round hole is a decorative hole in the wall, which can directly lead to the interior of the church. There are no lamps installed inside.

When the light appeared, the church seemed to glow for a short time. It was only because the door was closed and the main windows were on the side that Hao Ren didn't notice anything strange in the church immediately from the direction of the river.

Hao Ren put his hand on the church door, pushed it gently and found that it was still there. He frowned: "The door is locked."

"Want to go in and have a look?" The data terminal was floating next to Hao Ren, and he seemed to be very interested. Because it has to do business now, it has not played with the little mermaid for the time being. Doudou is curled up in a ball at the bottom of the pot and taking a rest: the frightening scene in the river just now frightened the little one, and she should be quite quiet in a short time. .

Speaking of which, thinking about the scene of this little guy flopping in place in the rapids with all his strength, Hao Ren still wanted to laugh!

"You go in, set a target, and then teleport me there." Hao Ren came up with a good idea: high-tech gadgets should be used flexibly. The calibration transmission function of the data terminal is really a miracle of stealth, no matter what No matter how tightly guarded the place is, Hao Ren can "sneak" in if there is a gap bigger than a mouse hole!

The data terminal didn't waste any time. It floated in through the round hole above the main entrance of the chapel, and sent Hao Ren into the church a moment later without making any noise or damaging the door.

There was no one in the church. The rectangular empty room was covered with a solemn dark red carpet. Other than that, there were no seats or anything like that: the church of Huiyao Sect did not have a place for believers like the churches on Earth. Benches for resting and listening to lectures. Because this sect preaches the "theory of human atonement," not even the Pope can enjoy sitting in the church.

The tall pulpit not far ahead is the only furnishing in the room.

Hao Ren came to the pulpit and stepped up the four steps step by step. He had noticed that the number "four" seemed to have a special meaning in this world. The Kingdom of Horleta had four sanctuaries and four ruins. What does it mean to stay on the Blood Lake for four days and the steps in front of the church pulpit are now exactly four? He has not yet heard of any religious explanation related to it.

There was a heavy-looking black book on the pulpit. The deep black on the cover seemed to be mixed with a little bit of dark red that was extremely difficult to detect. Hao Ren opened the big book and found that it was just an ordinary book. "Bible".

What he opened happened to be a chapter about the goddess's achievements, which stated what he considered to be an empty and uninteresting story in a grammatically obscure way: "... when the heaven and earth first opened, He was sleeping between the heaven and the earth, both spiritual and inanimate, the supreme being. , mortals cannot interpret it... He is the first water, the first sea, the first source, the first storm and thunder, the place of birth and promise of life... Because it is the mother of all kinds of life, it is regarded as a goddess... He incarnates Tens of millions, existing among the stars, He sculpts the world and sows billions of mortals like ants in the dust. This is His authority and mercy..."

"I don't understand." Hao Ren read for a long time and felt that he didn't understand the point, so he flipped to the back of the Bible. This time it was another chapter about the goddess's destruction of the world: "... Mortals pursue the truth and go astray, facing God's warning. But without repentance, there were also the four ancient foolish kings of werewolves, vampires, elves, and humans who were arrogant and absurd, and wanted to seize the sea of ​​origin as their own back garden. So God was angry and said: "It is a big mistake to give you spiritual consciousness. You must It must be corrected', and the old world was burned up. But wise men of all races knelt down to worship...so all things were able to survive."

Hao Ren looked at it for a long time and felt that he couldn't understand it even more.

However, after reading it a few times, he concluded that although the Huiyao sect respected a clear god, their teachings never seemed to mention the image of this god.

The passages that mention the goddess in this holy book all use vague sentences such as "the place of origin" or "the original XX" to describe the god. It has never clearly or vaguely pointed out what the god has like other belief systems. Her appearance, whether she has wings on her back or is eight feet tall, whether she is covered with holy light or has a majestic demeanor, these factors are not mentioned at all in this religious reading. The goddess seems to have no entity, even the vague and abstract image description None, it feels like the Huiyao Sect is worshiping a symbolic thing.

Although she was called a "goddess", what Hao Ren saw in the holy scripture seemed to be a natural phenomenon.

What they worship is a certain "phenomenon that created everything in the world" itself.

"Their views on gods are quite interesting," Hao Ren couldn't help but think of Raven 12345, and then shook his head vigorously, "There is no comparison at all."

"Where did that burst of light come from?" Putting down the holy book, Hao Ren curiously looked around the empty chapel, which was clearly visible everywhere, but could not find anything that could be called a light source. He turned around and looked at the mural behind the pulpit. Logically speaking, statues of gods or other religious symbols should be placed in this location of the church, but what the Huiyao Sect placed behind the pulpit was a twisted black shadow and red mist. , weird pictures made of light, and I don’t know if other churches are the same. Anyway, Hao Ren feels that this small church is quite weird.

After searching everywhere for a long time, he still found nothing. Remembering that others were still waiting for him at the village chief's house, Hao Ren could only give up the exploration here and hurried back to the mountain people's village.

The chapel fell into darkness again, with only the dim light of the double moon slanting into the room through the stained glass windows. A ray of moonlight fell on the weird mural behind the pulpit. Under the moonlight, the twisted and grotesque figures on the mural were revealed. Black and red continued to slowly surge at a speed that was almost imperceptible to the naked eye.

And between the black and red strips, the bright tones representing light are a little dimmer than before.

As soon as Hao Ren returned to the house, Vivian came to greet him: "Where have you been and you haven't come back for so long... Um, what happened to your pants?"

Before he could explain, Lily jumped over and said, "Ah! Landlord, are you suffering from diabetes?"

Hao Ren was full of words that made the husky's poke disappear. For the first time, he couldn't control himself and rushed forward, pinched Lily's ears and pulled them to both sides: "You can't talk over your head! You can't talk over your head!!"

Lily jumped up and down in pain, and cried miserably: "Oh, oh, oh, oh, it hurts, it hurts... I was wrong, I was wrong... I forgot that people shouldn't be able to pee so much in a whole day..."

Hao Ren: "..."

He conveniently threw the hopeless husky aside: "I was washing my hands by the river 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 did not mention the strange appearance of the church or how he went in to inquire about it.

"Oh, it was built with the help of the pastor of Rumbel," the village chief said, no doubt that he was there. "Haha, the mountain people believe in the spirits of the mountains and forests, but they are not against the Huiyao sect. The pastor comes to the church every full moon. Preach, and then help the people in the village see doctors, but the church is usually 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 bright moons shining over this land. The larger moon is called the "main moon", which is also commonly known as the big moon or the big moon. The smaller moon is called the "secondary moon". The cycle of the second moon is ten. Seven days is exactly half of the cycle of the main moon. Many religious activities of the Huiyao Sect are linked to the 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 casually. I didn't expect there would be a church here." Hao Ren smiled and waved his hand, showing no unusual expression at all.

"Haha - I'm sleepy," Betsy yawned exaggeratedly at this time, "The village chief arranged for us to rest in the two rooms next to it. Girls, just squeeze in. You two big men can't I’m taking advantage of the fact that there are few people.”

Hao Ren thought for a while and felt that the Huiyao Sect could not escape in this world anyway. There were many opportunities to explore the mysteries of this world's myths, so he put it aside for the time being and found his own place under Betsy's guidance. room, recuperating and preparing to continue the journey tomorrow.