In the gray-yellow city area, flat-roofed houses of various heights are scattered around. On the uneven streets, countless civilians in long robes are queuing up and walking forward one by one. This is the scene on almost every main road. They are heading in one direction, which is the central area of this ancient city.
Here, there is an open square with several thin towers standing on the edge of the square. On the north side of the square stands a tall church. Although this church looks somewhat similar to the Glorious Church, its style is quite different. It does not have all kinds of sharp spires, but instead has many smoother round shapes, which is more in line with the characteristics of northern Ukraine.
This is a church set up by the Savior Advent Sect in the area controlled by itself. It is dedicated to worshipping the Glowing Savior. It is generally called the "Glowing Temple" and provides religious services such as prayer or confession for people who believe in the Savior Advent Sect. However, the Glowing Temple in Bastis is a little different from the past. All the Glowing Savior marks on it have been destroyed. Instead, there is a strange link mark, which looks like a series of worms interlaced and connected to a circle. The Savior clergy who used to wear robes are now gone. Instead, there are many black warriors wearing small pieces of leather armor and some masked monks wearing brightly colored robes.
At this early morning, countless people from all over Bastis were pouring into the square in front of the church. Here, with weak looks and light steps, they were arranged in several squares and led by monks to kneel and pray in front of the open gate of Guangjiu Temple one by one. After a short prayer, they stood up and walked back, and then the next square was replaced to continue kneeling here to pray. Those who finished praying seemed to be much more energetic, and their energy and spirit were more vigorous.
Inside the open gate of the Shining Savior Temple is its original chapel. In the chapel, the altar that should have displayed the Shining Savior has disappeared, and instead, there is a huge primitive "idol".
This idol is not similar to the statues in some other places on the main continent. It is not an exquisite work of art, but a totem woven purely from thick straw ropes entangled with each other. Its overall appearance is a flying bird with spread wings. Although the totem is in the shape of a bird as a whole, the straw ropes that construct it are actually too thick. At first glance, it looks like countless long maggots tangled together, making the whole bird look like it is made up of countless long worms.
'The bird-shaped body...means that the disease can spread as quickly as a flying bird, which means that the plague is swift. The insect-shaped body means that the disease is dirty and filthy...I wonder if this interpretation of this totem is correct?'
Dorothy looked at the totem in the church through the corpse hidden in the crowd, and thought to herself, she knew that it was the totem of the Plague Vulture, one of the three gods of the afterbirth.
"The Lord of Longevity, the God of Longevity, the God of Epidemic... I feel that this god has more of the nature of 'insects' than 'birds'... Compared with his other two brothers, this one's influence on the social level seems to be much stronger... In a sense, it is more troublesome."
While using various visions to observe the scenes in the surrounding square, Dorothy sighed in her heart. After a preliminary observation of the religious activities of Bastis under the control of the Longevity Cult, she controlled her corpse to leave the square where the crowd gathered and went to some other places.
Dorothy the corpse doll was walking on the remote and deserted streets of Bastis. Mosquitoes were flying everywhere in front of her eyes, and the buzzing of insects was heard one after another. Various animal and even human corpses could be seen scattered everywhere. These corpses were all highly corrupted and emitted a strong stench because no one collected them.
All kinds of insects were swirling in the rotten meat. Scavenger birds fell from the sky and pecked at the flesh greedily. Every discarded corpse was surrounded by a circle of thick ropes, which seemed to make it a small ritual site. No one in the city was in charge of these rotting corpses.
Directly blocking the sense of smell conveyed by the corpse puppet, Dorothy controlled the corpse puppet to move forward in the city of Bastis, heading towards the north of the city. Along the way, Dorothy observed through her spiritual vision that among the mosquitoes all over the city, there were many flying mosquitoes with signs of high spirituality. Dorothy bypassed these flying mosquitoes and thus bypassed the spies of the Changsheng Sect in the city.
The Immortality Cult in Bastis City did not have anyone in charge for the time being, so Dorothy easily broke through their surveillance and controlled her corpse to reach her destination, which was in front of a huge charred building in the north of the city.
This was a huge building that had obviously suffered from a fire. It was completely charred with almost no intact walls and some areas showed signs of collapse. Since it was obviously a dangerous building, no one lived inside.
Looking at the charred and dilapidated building in front of her, Dorothy paused slightly, then controlled her corpse to quickly walk into the building without anyone noticing, and made it move through the messy and empty ruins until it found a staircase that extended downwards and seemed to lead to a dark basement.
Seeing the staircase, Dorothy let the puppet go down without thinking much, and then came to a dark and narrow basement with obvious signs of collapse. Dorothy asked the puppet to continue exploring here with a gas lamp, and finally found an abandoned heavy bookshelf against the wall in a hidden corner. Dorothy asked the puppet to push the bookshelf open, and then what appeared in front of her was a bookshelf on the wall, continuing to go down the corridor and stairs.
Seeing this, Dorothy seemed to let the corpse walk in directly. She turned around and straightened the bookshelf, then went straight down the stairs. After moving forward all the way, she finally came to a spacious and dark underground space.
Here, Dorothy asked the zombie to light one kerosene wall lamp after another installed on the walls of the underground space. As the brightness of the space increased, Dorothy gradually saw the whole picture of the space.
This is a huge basement supported by several stone pillars. On the edge of the basement are countless bookshelves carved directly from the stone wall. On these stone bookshelves, countless parchment scrolls, books, and paper piles are placed. In the center of the basement is a long stone table. Next to the stone table are many dusty wooden chairs. On the stone table, there are not only many books piled up, but also many scattered manuscripts on the corresponding positions of the wood. These manuscripts are all written with tons of handwriting.
"Found it..." Through the eyes of the corpse, Dorothy looked at the scene in front of her and couldn't help but mutter to herself.
Here, the underground library of Basti was originally part of the Basti Library, but when the Santo Dynasty fell, the war that burned Basti completely burned down the upper part of the library. Although the main building of the entire library was burned down by the fire, part of the underground library was fortunately preserved. This was the place where the Santo Dynasty was founded and Santis ordered the compilation of the History of Buserite. The traces on the stone table seem to show the busy work that was carried out here at the time.
After the Savior Advent sect accepted Bastis, this place was found by its main member Jemal, who used it as a base for his various secret research. Dorothy learned about the existence of this place from her trusted subordinate Alima, so she sent the zombie to find this place today.
Dorothy let the corpse walk slowly in the underground library while observing the surrounding scenes. Finally, she found a special room among the countless auxiliary rooms with storage functions in the underground library. Unlike other dusty places in the underground library, the seats in this room were very clean and there was not much dust at all.
On the large table in this room, there are a lot of bottles and jars filled with liquids of different colors. Some liquids are soaked with various strange-looking small animals, limbs and even organs. In addition to these bottles and jars, there are many test tubes, beakers, petri dishes and other chemical and biological experimental tools on the table. There is also a large crucible next to the table, and there is visible black charcoal under the crucible.
It was obvious that this was Jemal's laboratory, where she was immersed in her research. On one of the corners of the huge desktop were a number of books and tons of hemp paper, which seemed to be Jemal's research handwriting.
After Dorothy looked at the papers, she controlled the puppet to walk over, pick them up and start reading.
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