At this time, a full moon was hanging high in the sky outside the town, but the cold and pale moonlight still could not shine into the church. Xiao Tangqiu used the flashlight to shine inside the church and suddenly found that the murals inside the church had also changed!

The original church murals were all various portraits of Lili Marlene, and they still are now, but the content of the paintings has changed. In the first mural, Lili Marlene seems to be floating in the river, and many people with blurry faces are standing on the shore. In the second mural, Lili Marlene is placed on a pile of fire, with flames burning below her waist, and she is still surrounded by a group of people with blurry faces.

"What is this?" Tang Mianmian was very surprised. These two murals were different from all the portraits they had seen before. They seemed to be murals with stories and content...but they couldn't understand them.

Xiao Tangqiu continued to shine the flashlight towards the huge statue in the center of the church. Sure enough, the statue had changed. It was originally a statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Child, but now it looked like Lili Marlene was being burned at the stake on the cross.

The huge statue of Lili Marlene was placed on the fire, which was very shocking. The statue itself was very lifelike, and its facial features were distorted and hideous due to pain, which was as realistic as a real person.

The others were also startled by the gigantic statue. Tang Mianmian muttered in disbelief, "Those murals are fine, but how could this statue have changed so much in such a short time? This is unscientific... Forget it. Who can I talk to about science in this world?"

"Being burned at the stake..." The aloof girl frowned slightly. "Could this Lili Marlene be a witch?"

The other girl nodded. "That makes sense. I remember that a long time ago, that's how they dealt with witches in Europe. Back then, it was called... something..."

"During the witch-hunting era," Xiao Tangqiu realized what the two murals meant. "Back then, people would force anyone they suspected of being a witch to undergo tests. One method was waterboarding, where they would throw the woman into a river. If she sank and drowned, it proved she wasn't a witch and was innocent. But if she floated up, it proved she possessed magical powers and was a witch."

Tang Mianmian exclaimed, "Isn't that cruel? Only by sinking and drowning can she prove she's not a witch, but if she's dead, what's the point? If she floats up, that proves she's a witch, and then she's dragged off and executed? In that case, she'll die!"

Xiao Tangqiu nodded. "It's that cruel. There's also a form of torture called burning a woman on a fire. If she burns to death, it proves she's not a witch. But if she survives, it proves she is a witch..."

Tang Mianmian continued to complain, "No matter what, they're all going to die anyway! Those who were burned to death are innocent, and those who weren't burned to death are still being tortured... So they must have a grudge against someone, so they can report that person as a witch and get revenge on their enemy!"

Xiao Tangqiu looked at the murals, then at the huge statue in the center. "I'm afraid this Lili Marlene suffered these tortures before. She was suspected of being a witch, so she was first waterboarded. But she survived the drowning and floated to the surface, so she was then burned at the stake..."

Tang Mianmian suddenly noticed something amiss. "That housekeeper in Lepnobet clearly said that a demon wreaked havoc in this town many years ago, and that a fire burned for three days and three nights. Later, Lilimaren stepped forward and sacrificed her life. After her death, a spring of clear water gushed out of her body, finally extinguishing the fire... Holy crap! Can NPCs actually lie?"

Duan Hongzhen listened with great interest. Hearing this, he played with his flying knife and said with a smile, "Who said NPCs don't lie?"

Tang Mianmian was stunned, but Xiao Tangqiu seemed to have vaguely grasped some of the so-called "rules." He frowned and continued, "It seems that NPCs can mislead us with information, but I don't think the housekeeper completely lied to us. She probably did hint at something. The so-called 'fire that burned for three days and three nights' wasn't necessarily a real fire. The reason for the witch-hunting frenzy and blind pursuit of witches back then was because people were ignorant and believed that natural disasters and diseases were caused by witches. Whenever a natural disaster or plague struck a small town, they would frantically hunt down the so-called witches."

"We can assume that many years ago, a plague struck the town of Dimon, killing many people and causing panic among the people. To combat the plague, they captured the witch Lilimaren and tortured her..."

Lu Si'er didn't react for a moment: "So this Lili Marlene is a witch?"

Xiao Tangqiu shook his head: "Maybe, maybe not."

"If she wasn't a witch, but just an ordinary woman, then wouldn't she be very innocent and miserable..." Tang Mianmian blinked, "That's not right! If Lili Marlene was a poor woman who was suspected of being a witch and burned to death, then she should have been dead for a long time, right? How could she become the wife of Lepnobet!"

"Yes, the witch hunt took place roughly during the Renaissance, which is at least several hundred years ago," Xiao Tangqiu frowned, "so Lili Marlene should have been dead for hundreds of years." And the time when Lepnobert married Maria was in the early twentieth century, which also spanned several hundred years.

Tang Mianmian's imagination began to run wild: "Could it be that Lepnobet is a vampire? So he has lived for hundreds of years? A love story between a vampire and a witch! Wow, how romantic!"

Xiao Tangqiu was about to say something when he suddenly discovered that the statue of Lili Marlene suddenly opened its eyes. He was immediately startled and exclaimed: "Its eyes!"

Everyone immediately noticed this strange sight. Lilimaren had been tied to the cross with her head bowed and eyes closed, but at some point the statue had opened its eyes and was looking at them with a strange and sinister look.

Xiao Tangqiu's heart suddenly skipped a beat: "I have a bad feeling..."

Tang Mianmian: "Fuck! Stop setting random flags!"

However, it was too late. As the statue opened its eyes, the church door suddenly closed. The heavy wooden door made a harsh "creak" sound and then closed tightly.

The next moment, a tear flowed from the statue's eyes and fell onto the floor of the church with a plop. It was an extremely huge teardrop.

Soon, more and more tears gushed out from its empty eye sockets like a faucet... No, to be precise, it was like a dam with the floodgates opened, and the flood spread instantly.

But in just a few seconds, the water in the church had already reached everyone's ankles. Xiao Tangqiu instantly understood: "It's going to drown us!"

At Shen Yuan's command, Duan Hongzhen immediately turned around and pushed the door, while the other two girls went to push the windows. However, something strange happened. The big wooden door seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds and could not be moved no matter how hard they pushed. The windows were obviously broken, but they were also as solid as iron and unbreakable.