Chapter 7 Chapter 7 The Abandoned Church

The two immediately rode Uda out of the city.The so-called "Uda" is a reminder of animals that are much smaller than Dalu Baba and about the size of a living foal, and the highland guards like to use it instead of walking when they patrol the grasslands or rock fields.The Uda is more flexible than the Darubaba, and it can pass through tight places without hindrance.Uda is also very smart and easy to get acquainted with people.After pestering Toren for a long time and asking him to teach me, I was able to ride easily.Uda's whole body is covered with tufted hair, and even without a saddle, her buttocks don't hurt.Throughout the southern continent, people ride a Daru Baba when they go far away, and ride an Uda when they go nearby.

Torun made it to the foot of the problematic rock field without incident.Although the landscape here is not as precipitous as the eastern end of the grassland and the canyon infested by screwhead wolves, the uneven rocks are stacked one after another under the blue sky, as if the son of a giant was playing with boulders and was called away by "eat!" Under such a stall. "Water wells in places like this..." Torun sullenly said, "The water wells on the grassland are all managed by the nearby towns in turn. So the location is very clear. There should be no wells here."

"Maybe the well was dug by the believers of that church. So, it must be abandoned now." Gen said, "Go to the ruins of the church and have a look. Where is it?" "Okay, okay, I understand." Toren grinned, "However, for you, this is the first investigation, and you must follow my instructions." "yes!" Torun rode over a small rock, rounded a medium rock, and stopped in front of a tall russet rock. "Ah, there it is!" You don't need to point it out, you can see it too.A few burnt-blackened building pillars stood abruptly on the hard, barren ground, like ominous black spears falling from the sky.If you hadn't squinted your eyes and looked from a distance, you couldn't immediately understand that these black spears constituted the overall shape of the building.

"The roof is burnt down." "It was still there after the fire. Then it was blown by wind and rain, and it gradually collapsed. It's been ten years." The two walked around the church slowly.If you just pass by and don't know anything, you may only have the impression of the remains of the fire, and you don't feel ominous.But because he heard about the church, he thought that on the ground surrounded by the pillars, there might be charred human remains mixed in those dark gray soil, and his mood became bad. Uda of Torun snorted sadly and backed away, and Torun patted Uda's neck and comforted it.

"It's scared." Uda of Wataru also stood still in the same place, as if he wanted to keep a certain distance from the remains of the fire. "The town of Gasala has not received any reports so far, saying that some incidents or strange fire lights are related to this place?" "No, it's because the people who come and go to Gasara Town have nothing to do with this kind of place." "Since this is the case, the so-called flashing gems should not be seen until you come to the front..." Toren responded with "Ooh" to Wataru's muttering. "So, it's not necessarily a gemstone, is it? Huh? Go down and have a look?"

The two tied Uda's reins to the rock field and walked towards the fire site on foot.With both hands empty, Torun took big steps, and felt that when his right hand touched the hilt of the Sword of the Brave, his heart was heavy. "It's really chilling..." "is not it." The two walked into the circle of residual pillars and took a look.Whenever he stepped on something that made a sound, or felt like he was stepping on something, Wataru felt a little frightened, thinking that he had stepped on a human bone. "It is said that all the remains of the believers have been transported away and buried in the public cemetery in the town." Torun said while looking around, "Therefore, there are no remains left here. Even if we trample on something, we won't be offended Human."

"Cough, don't worry." He said so, but still tiptoed unconsciously. "Look," Torun touched a charred pillar and said, "What a thin pillar, your calf is thicker than it? They are all old, weak, sick, disabled and women. At best, they can only be used to this extent." pillars to build the church." The sun was setting, but it was still bright enough.However, Gen surprisingly felt that within the range of the original building where the wall had been burned down, only the skeleton remained there, with so many gaps, but it looked a bit dim. "Geng, we found the well."

When Torun yelled, he hurried over to have a look, only to see a small water well pressed by a fallen pillar behind the building.The surroundings of the well were covered with rubble, but the stone well head was still solid. I probed to peek, but I didn't expect my face to be reflected in front of me. "The water is slow." "Oh, the underground will be rich in this area." Toren reached out and scooped up a handful of water.The clear water droplets glistened and fell, and he raised his hand to the tip of his nose to smell the water. "I don't know... it seems to have a smell."

Toren filled the other leather pouch with water and tied it tightly.Then, together with Heng, he used the rope he brought to surround the mouth of the well, and hung a sign saying "Do Not Use". "It seems that the merchant has entered the ruins of the church. Otherwise, it would be impossible to find a well in such a place." "He doesn't know the history of the church, so he doesn't feel terrible." "The so-called greed for profit, there may be brave men who value profit!" Torun's words made Gen suddenly think of his mother, and he couldn't help smiling.Whenever my mother went out during the big sale and brought a lot of things home, she always said this: "I resist so many things, I don't think it's heavy. It's really brave under the weight of profit!"

"Okay, let's withdraw." Toren said: "It's useless to stay longer, it's a cold war." The two went to the clinic first, handed over the well water to the doctor, asked him to help examine it, and then returned to the police station.They heard that the spirit of the merchants was much better, so they were relieved. Afterwards, Gen helped Toren search through the old records, and was busy until dark.It seems that Caquedas Vila and that church really caused headaches to the Garsala Police Station at that time. On the thin paper-bound case records, some people even secretly wrote some curse words on the edge of the paper, which would damage the official documents. rigorous.

"In the end, the identity of Cakedas Vera was not found." Toren took off his pince-nez and said, "What is the Old God?" "The so-called cure-all water is the water from that well? If it is, it may not only have medicinal properties, but also be poisonous." "It must have been mixed with something." Torun groaned, stretching his waist, "Gen, you can go home now, you must be hungry!" Gen returned to the hotel where the owner of the bearded shop stayed and had dinner.He tentatively asked the aunt who served up the meal about Caquedas Vera, and she replied that she didn't know. "Has anyone ever mentioned the buried treasure in the church at the Rock?" "Gee, I've never heard of it." The owner of the bearded shop who came to the table later said exactly the same thing as my aunt.However, he refused to give up.The blinding light from the ruins of the church.What is its true face? —probably not flashing during the day. Maybe go there at night and things will be different.Thinking of this, he couldn't help it.Wataru made some preparations, and after confirming that the sword of the brave was hanging on his waist, he left the hotel. It was the moment when the gate of Gasala Town was about to close, and the caravans and Darubaba merchants who rushed to the town were huddled together.Gen borrowed Wuda, squeezed into the chaotic crowd, and galloped towards the grassland at night.Because Wuda is an animal that is good at night vision, it runs briskly and is not afraid of the dark at all. After running for a while to reach the church, from the distance of the grass night, just at the horizon, I saw countless firefly-like lights flickering.It seems to be moving bit by bit.Possibly the Schüdinger Knights have returned.Was Ki Kima with them too?If he came back, his absence from the hotel would be revealed immediately.I don't want Ki Kima to worry in vain, so I have to finish it quickly and go back. The lantern pinned to his waist was emitting black oily smoke.I got off Uda at the same place during the day, and walked over there, only hearing the sound of the wick soaked in oil "squeaking" burning. The ruins of the church after the fire looked much darker than the darkness at night.During the Genbian meeting, the path that Torun walked during the day, while paying attention to the footsteps, slowly walked into the rubble. Night Breeze smelled of burning - he thought.But I can't feel it at all during the day.Gen pressed the sword of the brave with his right hand, trying his best not to think about anything.Look for the light, for that is the only goal. There was a "wow" sound from somewhere in the rock field, which made people jump.Possibly a bird of prey resting on a nocturnal crag, haunted by nightmares.As long as the Uda brought along is not afraid.Hey, maybe it's braver than me. Total darkness.There was no "dazzling light" to be seen anywhere.Standing by the well and looking around for a while, the only thing shining is the stars above the head.He smiled half-heartedly.Put down the lantern raised at eye level, illuminate your feet, and turn to the right. At this time, at the junction of the lantern light and the night, something white flickered. Gen turned around.This time it was on the left, something white bobbing up and down like the light of a lantern.Gen turned his head as if someone had patted his left arm. A white hand is suspended in the air. Rather than saying it was fear, it would be better to say that this too bizarre scene made Gen a moment of fascination.Arms grow straight out of the darkness.It is the part below the upper arm, white and soft, slender.It's a woman's arm, right arm. Swaying the arm left and right, the index finger pointed to Heng, and then signaled "come, come".It means to follow it. The arm is like a white and slender fish swimming in the dark night, and when it reaches a certain place, it suddenly points to the ground and is sucked into the ground.This is, the arm disappears pointing to start glowing white.The light shone on Gen's face, dazzling. Gen soaked in the past, "Boom", a piece of his foot collapsed, and he almost fell down.Like stepping on the floor. - There is a basement! It was covered by rubble during the day and was not found.Gen squatted down to check, and immediately found the handle of the cover that he stepped through just now.Light comes through from under the cover.He pulled up the cover, and the light suddenly became intense, and the eyes were white, but then weakened with a "hiss", as if the light source went away. There are stairs leading underground.The steps end at over forty steps.So long!It explained that it was quite high at the end of the stairs, although I don't know what's going on below.If you think about it too much, you will feel terrible, so just go on at this moment. His body was sweating, and when he was almost out of breath, the hard toe of the leather boots finally touched something different from the steps.Holding the ladder tightly with both hands, he looked down, and in the light of the lantern, he could see the wet rocks.It seems to have arrived. The cave—that's right, the steps are exhausted under the feet, and the path winds to the deep place. That white light seemed to be at the farthest point.Visible light is much weaker than that seen above the stairs. Gen took the lantern, grasped the sword of the brave, and took steps carefully.The color and feel of the surrounding walls are similar to grave stones seen in this world-is it called granite?Water seeped out from nowhere, bit by bit, wetting the cave wall and the ground.Touch it, it's cool.Then put your finger on the tip of your nose and smell it, there is no smell of medicine.Because I was in a hurry to go out, I forgot my gloves, so I couldn't touch the wall of the cave when I was a freshman.Where there is water, there may be creatures, and it is not surprising that these creatures are poisonous or have stingers. Going a little further, the rock passage turns to the right almost at a right angle.At the corner, Wataru leaned close to the cave wall to listen first, then quickly turned the corner and took a stance. Nothing special.It's just that the passage through the rock continues to extend.Although there was no one there, he stuck out his tongue.He's going to play around with that. This path is narrower and has a lower ceiling than the previous one.The path is crooked left and right, sometimes high and sometimes low.Finally reached the end of the road, the front is a rock wall, and at the junction with the ground, there is a hole that a person can barely pass through.A faint white light shone from it. --not feeling good. It was a reluctance to drill into such a narrow place.However, if you don't go in, you can't go forward, and no matter what, you can't see any other way. There is no way.Gen put the lantern by his feet, pressed his whole body to the ground, and peeped at the other end of the cave.It seems the road is still going on.The light is dim and the breeze is blowing. Ok.Gen made up his mind, stuck his head into the hole first, and crawled close to the ground. The wall of the hole was very thin, so he passed through it in no time. The inside is not just a passage, but there is a huge arched rock above the head, which is as high as the third floor of the hotel in Gasala, and it is also very wide, almost as wide as the campus of Heng.If compared with small detached houses, the cave can accommodate ten such houses. ——Under the ground there is a cave as big as a square. While wiping off his sweat, Wataru looked around in surprise.On the opposite side of the square, there are two passage entrances juxtaposed, leading to deeper depths.The tunnel on the right was larger, with what looked like metal debris stacked at the entrance, and the smaller tunnel on the left could not see anything shining white from inside. The sound of trickling water came from nowhere. By the way, lantern.He squatted down hastily, and when he was about to reach out to the other side of the cave, he saw the lantern being taken away.A black, withered hand like a mummy stretched out, grabbed the handle of the lantern, and disappeared from the field of vision.Just the blink of an eye. what the hell is it?What kind of hand is that?No, is that really a hand? As a highland guard, you should go through the hole here and go back there.That strange hand, maybe a monster.It could also be a thief, a mummy thief.All in all, the Lantern must be recaptured. It's bright here, though.The passage ahead was also illuminated by white light.Even if you can walk around without a lantern, let's go forward.Just do it, it's an aggressive decision.Not by any means the guy who is afraid to run into that withered hand. Holding the sword of the brave in his hand, he walked forward step by step and came to the center of the square.Walking here, the true colors of the metal objects piled up in front of the road on the right can be seen clearly. They are spear guns—very primitive spear guns, only the metal is made into pointed ends, like iron rods.It is further seen that on the rock wall deep in the right side of the square, there are traces of large-scale installations in the past.I can see the imprint of something driven into the rock wall, maybe it is the cause of burning pine. Many soot chips stick to the same place repeatedly, and even the color of the rock has changed.After careful observation, according to the outline of the traces, a dotted line is connected to the empty place, and it can be guessed that what is roughly placed there is something like a living church altar (as far as I know). Maybe, this is the chapel of Cacodas Vila and his believers. —But if so, why are there spears?