In the early morning, it finally became brighter around.

Although it was still covered in thick fog, at least visibility had improved a lot.

Lu Ban looked at the time. It was already seven o'clock in the morning.

It was very cold outside the window. The fog itself was formed when water vapor encountered tiny particles in the air and condensed. At this moment, the white mist seemed to be made of ice crystals, hitting the car window glass with crackling sounds.

He was just about to check the Internet when he suddenly found that there was no signal.

“Do you have a signal on your cell phone?”

Lu Ban asked Scott beside him. The driver was waiting for others to wake up so that they could take over their shifts. After yawning, Scott decided to park the car on the side of the road.

"No, it seems that this place is still some distance away from Miskatoke."

Scott glanced at his phone and shook his head.

"I'll go get some water and wait for them to wake up."

He took a bottle of water from the car's refrigerator, took a big sip, wiped his face with the water, and seemed to be a little more sober.

Lu Ban also got out of the car.

He took a breath of the fog-filled air and felt his lungs burning.

Instead of smoking, Scott had his camera in hand and was filming his surroundings.

Lu Ban looked at him alone and moved his gaze to a farther place.

He saw that the gray mist seemed to be dissipating.

"Um?"

Lu Ban saw that there seemed to be buildings appearing in the fog.

"look."

He pointed forward, causing Scott to turn his head.

In the fog, a house with a pointed roof appeared as the fog dissipated. It looked like a church, with a pointed roof and colored glass.

But this church looks like it has been abandoned for a long time.

"What's wrong?"

At the door of the RV, Wes yawned and slowly got out of the car.

“There’s a church there, and there’s a street sign.”

Scott said that there was a road sign on the road next to the church, indicating that it was less than 20 kilometers away from Miskatoke.

“This church looks nice.”

Wes looked up at the church. If a proper church was full of sacredness, then this church was obviously more dilapidated and had a bit of a weird feel.

"Hey, wake up, James, we found something good."

He immediately went back to wake up his companions, but the other three were still sleepy and hadn't reacted.

"Let's go in and take some pictures, let's go."

Wes called out, and he quickly pulled Scott up with him.

Lu Ban followed them and walked into the church.

It turns out that the church has indeed been abandoned, because except for the part seen on the front, the rest has collapsed. It is not known whether it was due to disrepair or a natural disaster.

Tornadoes are easily generated in such wastelands. Those strong winds can sweep through farmlands, pastures, and even easily destroy houses.

The shabby benches are weathered, the wood is already mottled, the prayer platform has collapsed, and the faith is no longer there.

Scott's camera lens moved and soon turned to the statue behind the pulpit.

Normally, such churches should not have statues.

The objects used for prayer in churches are usually either crosses or some other objects, and specific statues of gods are rarely seen.

But this church has a tall statue.

The statue seemed to have been ravaged by wind and rain. The originally grayish-white statue had become somewhat dirty and slightly damaged. The camera moved downwards to capture the face of the statue.

This should have been a statue of the Virgin Mary, and she should be holding her son in her arms, but now the arms of the statue are empty. It is not because of damage due to the baptism of time, because the cross-section of the statue is very neat, as if the thing in her arms has come to life and crawled away by itself.

There was nothing wrong with the facial features of the statue, only the eyes were covered with a black cloth.

This black cloth was obviously put there later. It covered the eyes of the statue, adding a dark and weird feeling to the originally holy statue.

"Damn, this statue is so cool!"

Weiss shouted, he moved closer, stepped over the collapsed pulpit, came to the side of the statue, reached out and touched it, feeling the rough texture.

"Why is she blindfolded?"

As he said this, he was about to climb up the statue.

"Wes, what are you doing?"

Scott still held the camera and recorded it all. He shouted, even if he was not a devout believer, this behavior of climbing the statue was still a taboo and made Scott feel uncomfortable.

“This place has been abandoned.”

In a blink of an eye, Wes had climbed to the shoulders of the statue. He held the Virgin Mary's neck and reached out to the black cloth covering the eyes of the statue.

“Hey, what are you doing?”

James, who had just walked into the church on the rubble, shouted, causing Wes's hand to stop for a moment.

"Look what this is."

As he spoke, he had already grabbed the black cloth.

The texture of the black cloth was rough, but it didn't look like cloth, giving people a strange feeling. Wes didn't think too much about it, he just tried to tear off the black cloth.

However, the black cloth was wrapped very tightly, and Wes had to exert force. But at this moment, the black cloth suddenly loosened, and he lost his balance and fell backwards.

"!!!"

Scott was about to hold him up, but Wes was quick-witted and quickly grabbed the Virgin Mary's arm again. Scott slipped and was left hanging on that arm.

Fortunately, this place was not very high. Wes took a look below, then let go and jumped down, landing steadily.

"I was scared to death."

Weiss cried out, glanced at the black cloth in his hand, then raised his head and looked at the face of the statue of the Virgin Mary.

There is a pair of eyes there.

Different from the gray and freehand style of the deity, the pair of eyes of the Virgin Mary are very realistic, as if they were carefully carved and embedded.

The eyes were filled with colorful starlight, as if they had contained the entire Milky Way. On the grayish-white stone statue, the eyes were so charming that Weiss was stunned for a moment.

Scott was also stunned. His camera recorded the scene of those eyes faithfully. For some reason, he felt that these eyes were staring at him.

James was also attracted by this pair of eyes. He took a breath and his voice trembled a little.

"This shouldn't be like this. How could this be possible?"

"It seems that it was these eyes that allowed them to cover the statue."

Lu Ban said that these eyes were not from human beings, but from some indescribable great being, or at least, they might have witnessed something.

"I think we'd better put it back the way it was."

Lu Ban took the black cloth from Weiss's hand. He rubbed it carefully with his fingers and roughly judged the material.

"This is not cloth, but some kind of treated leather, like cowhide or deerskin..."

Thinking of this, Lu Ban had a guess.

He said nothing, but climbed up the statue and covered the Virgin Mary's eyes with the black cloth again.

"Let's go, we'll be in Miskatoke soon."

After Lu Ban finished doing all this, James, who was still immersed in those eyes, said in a trance.