The Modern Age of the Mysterious

John recounted everything that happened that night. Including the shrill screams he heard in his sleep, the human skin he thought was a black flag fluttering in the wind, and the priest Zach who was stripped to blood.

Sean frowned and pondered: "Do you want to attack the priest? The priest is an individual protected by divine power. This kind of blasphemous behavior is quite difficult. Only some evil things with high intensity or resentment will do this. kind of thing."

After listening to John's narration, the fat man Jock next to him pinched his hat and added: "In fact, before Pastor Zach's accident, the town was not peaceful... At first, someone heard strange things on the street at night. The sound of footsteps, but opened the curtains to see, the street is empty.

"There were also a lot of bats. In addition, in another family's house not far from John's house, there was a horse whose internal organs were eaten up..."

Will looked at Mayor Marshall: "I want to see the body."

Marshall looked embarrassed, and Pastor Winston next to him explained: "It's been buried - we dare not keep that ominous... thing."

Will sighed in his heart: A corpse can explain a lot.

However, there is no problem with what the townspeople do. The corpses that have been brutally killed by evil forces are likely to have cursed or evil remnants, and burying them in time is also a wise choice.

"However, we asked the indoctrination officer to take pictures of the corpse." Marshall handed the document bag on the table to Will.

Will took the photo out of the file bag, looked at it, and put it on the table. Sean and Moonlight walked to the table and browsed one by one.

Picking up the first photo, Sean felt the mental shock.

It was a completely stripped human skin, and it was laid on the table in a human shape. It can be seen that the surface of the human skin seems to be covered with text tattoos, and the content of the text cannot be clearly seen.

The second photo is of the corpse. The fascia, fat, muscle and tendon beneath Zach's skin were exposed like a fresh anatomical corpse.

As long as a sane person sees such a photo, it will cause severe discomfort.

But the four explorers all had stronger mental resistance than ordinary people, and did not show obvious discomfort.

Will pointed to a photo with dense text tattoos on his skin and asked, "Is this his original tattoo, or...?"

Reverend Winston held the diamond frame and took a few steps closer, avoiding the photos deliberately: "As far as I know, Zach doesn't have any tattoos on his body - we clergymen are not allowed to have tattoos on their bodies."

"That is to say, this should be done by evil."

"Maybe..." The old man Winston lowered his eyes, drew a diamond shape in the direction of his forehead, left shoulder, abdomen, and right shoulder, and whispered, "May the Holy Father bless this place."

Winston took a deep breath and said as if he had exhausted his energy: "The text on his body - we had the indoctrination officer copy it down. Since the letters did not form any familiar words, we thought at first that it was some secret word. arts……

"Then Pastor Winston discovered the mystery of these words." Mayor Marshall couldn't sit back and watch Winston's mentally tormented appearance, and took the conversation, "Those are the words in the "Holy Book", but they were written backwards come out.

"The pastor found out that it was a plot from the Book of Jonar..."

"The Book of Jonar?" Although Moonlight had a basic understanding of Salvationism, he had not read the entire text of the Holy Book.

Jasmine said, "The Book of Jonar records that the prophet took his tribe out of the great desert, and in order to imitate the transformation of God, he washed the filth and sand from his body in the river. It usually describes a person. When you are reborn, you will drink this story recorded in the Book of Jonah. In addition, it is said that the baptism is also from this story.”

After Jasmine finished speaking, she drew a diamond on her chest. Pastor Winston did this in sync with her, and then exhaled "Amen" at the same time.

Marshall continued: "The plot recorded by Zach's tattoo is a description of the transformation of God and the new life of man." He picked up a transcribed page: "God came out of yesterday's self, The whole body is completely renewed, leaving behind an empty shell of the past..."

John and Jock exchanged uneasy glances. Sean said: "So, this method of torture is to imitate the description of transformation in the Book of Jonar? Like a snake shedding its old skin?"

Winston lowered his eyes: "How can humans guess such a thought?"

Will said: "The situation is almost understood, let's go to the scene of the incident and take a look."

Marshall and Winston looked at each other, and the mayor nodded. The two and the mayor's young assistant led the team out of the council hall and towards the old church.

Along the way, Sean noticed a lot of glances from inside the building. The residents of Lewin Town were almost all standing behind their windows, like spectators, watching the team of explorers from a distance.

"It feels a little strange." Sean murmured.

Jasmine turned her head back and said nonchalantly, "Although people are deeply afraid, there will always be some curiosity."

The scale of this old church can only be intuitively felt when it is in front of the church gate. The frontal area is close to that of an apartment building.

Will raised his head and raised his eyes. The mayor walked beside him and looked up at the empty flagpoles that stretched out from the top of the church: "On festivals, we will hang up the national flag and the flag of the Holy Court."

Jasmine also looked up, and the sight of a human skin floating on the flagpole flashed in front of her eyes in the night sky, which made her shudder. She quickly closed her eyes and stabilized her spirit.

"Why did you hang Pastor Zach's skin on the flagpole?" Will frowned, "Is this a demonstration?"

No one could answer.

Sean looked back. They were now in front of the green painted double doors of the church, crossing the square. There were many townspeople from Lewin standing far away, watching from the outside.

Several people in the church came out, all wearing black indoctrination officer uniforms, and the silver diamond-shaped shield badges were prominent on their hats.

"This is Chief Williams, the indoctrination chief of Levin Town."

Williams is a short man with a golden moustache. Facing the explorers, he looked calm and said straight to the point: "My people and I have checked the entire church several times, and we haven't found any suspicious traces. , whether it's fingerprints or footprints, there's no..."

Although from the point of view of the modus operandi, this incident must involve evil elements, but in order to rule out the possibility of man-made, the Precepts Institute still has to conduct routine inspections.

As Chief Williams just said, he has completely ruled out the factor of man-made crime.

"In addition," Williams took a few steps towards Mayor Marshall, "we found some anomalies in the cellar..."

Marshall motioned to enter the church and then several people walked into the church together.

For the volume of the old church, the interior of this church is a bit crude. Generally speaking, churches of this scale are bound to have more solemn decorations, such as large chandeliers/stained glass mosaics and ceiling paintings.

In the old church, except for a chandelier that seemed to be a newly installed light bulb, everything else was very simple. The walls were painted with white paint, and the windows were just ordinary glass.

There are many traces of black handprints inexplicably on the white wall, which makes people feel uncomfortable.

The podium was slightly arranged. Below the dark red curtain was a wooden podium. There was a diamond-shaped frame slightly larger than the human body hanging on the wall. On the wooden floor directly below the diamond-shaped frame, there were obvious bloodstains.

"Pastor Zach's body was tied upside down on this diamond frame."

It is recorded in the "Holy Book" that the holy son Joshua suffered for mankind in that year, that is, he was tied to a rhombus and died, and then he was resurrected in the cemetery.

However, Joshua was bound upside down. The upside-down victim usually symbolizes "the evil against messianicism".

"This is obviously blasphemous!" Pastor Winston, who was holding the diamond frame, frowned, changing his tired look, and said angrily, "In the holy realm, blaspheme the Holy Father and Holy Father. Holy Spirit!"

Sean's guess about the team composition was correct. The incident was judged to be blasphemous, so there were only two Salvation clerics in the squad.

"Sir Williams, what was the abnormality you mentioned earlier?" Will asked.

There was also obvious fear in the eyes of the little man—ordinary indoctrination officers were only responsible for daily security events, and only the "shepherd" team would respond to the evil events that threatened the public's daily life.

However, the "shepherd" team is only a small organization established by the divine court to deal with sudden evil events, and it is affiliated to the precepts of various places. In a small town like Lewin, it is impossible to have a team of educators to fight against evil forces.

Therefore, in the event that there is no shepherd team, or the team is not enough to solve the problem, the divine court needs the power of a more professional explorer's association.

Williams said: "Today is the day to inspect the cellar behind the church.

"There was some dark liquid seeping on the wall of a room in the cellar~www.NovelMTL.com~. We began to think that it was the liquid flowing out of the cellar wall due to dampness.

"But after analysis, it was found that those seem to be human blood..."

A **** wall? Sean and Moonlight looked at each other: This is a typical spiritual entrance feature!

Will naturally understood and said directly, "Take us there!"

Williams and the other two indoctrination officers led everyone around the podium of the church, walked through a corridor, and reached the entrance of the cellar.

This cellar is as old as the church. The floor tiles around it have been eroded by the years, and the original appearance cannot be seen clearly. The closed wooden door of the cellar is almost decayed...

"Is there anyone down there?" Jasmine asked quickly.

"No." Williams shook his head. "It was a bit weird, so I pulled everyone out and closed the cellar door."

"Good job." Will patted the little officer's arm. Then he turned to the mayor and Winston and said, "According to my inference, the source of the evil is probably in this cellar, and then we have to go in and investigate.

"But I need two volunteers to go down to the cellar with us - for guides and news, it's not very dangerous."

Williams looked back at the two of his subordinates. The faces of the two young indoctrination officers were white, and they were somewhat dodging the eyes of their superiors. The little man turned his head: "I'll go."

Another indoctrination officer was somewhat regretful about his performance, and just about to raise his hand, Father Winston next to him took a step forward: "And me—this is God's territory, I am a servant of God, and I should be allowed to participate. "

Will nodded and opened the cellar door. After a creak, a musty wind blew out from the depths of the cave.