A church... It's just as I thought... Klein looked at the ruins in front of him and muttered to himself silently.

At this moment, a little crimson moonlight penetrated the accumulated mist and sprinkled on the half-collapsed buildings. It was much thicker than before and closer to blood color.

Klein maintained Gehrman Sparrow's signature coldness and spoke without any emotion:

"Where did you explore before?"

As he spoke, Klein glanced at the lantern in The Hanged Man's hand, which had been through many trials and tribulations but had not yet broken. The light reflected by the flames made him subconsciously contract his muscles and membranes.

Although the flames were always isolated by thick glass and metal fences, he still felt a little scared.

Alger paid no attention to Gehrman Sparrow's subtle changes. He raised his right hand holding the short blade and pointed at the most intact and grandest building in the ruins.

"There."

Only the main body of the building remains, making it impossible to know what its original layout was like. The only thing we can judge from the remaining parts is that it had thick walls, was magnificent and huge, had narrow windows, and once had high towers and bell towers, with a simple appearance and ancient structure.

"This is an architectural style from the early Fourth Epoch. It is recorded in the books of the Church of Storms. It is said that during that period, all the major churches widely adopted similar styles to build churches." Alger was deeply impressed by this relic. Over the years, he has read many books and has a certain understanding of the situation. "Its biggest feature is that it has a temple above and a tomb below, unifying life and death. However, I cannot be sure that the interior of this ancient church is the same as I described, because I have not been in it deeply."

This might be an architectural style left over from the Third Epoch... Klein made some guesses and walked towards the ruins of the ancient church with an unusually tall doorway. He left the lantern behind and only enjoyed the light without bearing the flames.

The two of them quickly walked up the exaggeratedly high gray-white stone steps and arrived in front of the doorway, where they saw the remaining classical stone columns and concentric multi-layered arches.

Klein didn't rush in. He reached into his pocket with his left hand and took out a gold coin. He let it flip and jump between his fingers, and seemed to be muttering something.

Suddenly, he flicked up the gold coin with a clang, and while he spread out his palm and waited for the other party to fall, he turned his head and said to the "Hanged Man":

"On what basis do you judge that there is an item of value no less than the 'Blaze Card' deep within this church?"

After saying this, he glanced at the gold coin that fell into his palm and picked it up casually.

Alger pointed inside and said:

“I said before that my strength was not as good as Qi Lingos’s at the time, and my depth was naturally not as good as his. I had no way of knowing what he saw. I could only judge from some of his words that there were very precious and important things in it, and that it would take at least a true Sequence 5 level to obtain it.

"However, the murals near the entrance and the marks on the ground may explain something."

Klein nodded and walked into the deep doorway that the crimson moonlight could not directly illuminate. His black windbreaker fluttered slightly backwards. Alger followed behind him, holding a lantern and holding a short blade tightly.

Passing through the doorway, Klein used the red moonlight hanging from the gap in the dome to clearly see that there was a large hall in front of him. The classical stone pillars supporting it had collapsed and half of them had broken.

There was no altar at the end, nor were there any stairs leading upwards. It was pitch black with no details visible, as if it was going deep underground.

It's not the temple above and the tomb below... The temple and tomb are both underground? It's impossible to tell. You have to go down to find out... Klein subconsciously glanced left and right and found a side door on each side, but the area they led to had completely collapsed, and there was no way to go.

The murals near the entrance and the traces on the ground... He remembered what the "Hanged Man" had just said, took two steps sideways, released the invisible "Ghost" Senior, and used his night vision ability to look at the remaining murals on the wall.

The background of the mural is a majestic mountain with a huge cross covered with layers of light on top.

In front of the cross stood an extremely majestic figure, surrounded by angels with two, four, or six wings on their backs.

This... Klein only took a cursory glance and felt a strong sense of familiarity.

He had seen similar murals before, in the tomb of Amon the Blasphemer!

Looking again with full concentration, Klein quickly found the difference. There were no two babies representing Amon and Adam, nor were there twelve-winged angels. In front of the cross, a majestic figure covered in holy light had his hands clasped in front of his chest, holding up an ancient, simple stone slab.

The painting on the stone slab was extremely blurry, but it had a feeling of being both ancient and young, both sacred and evil, and its meaning was extremely contradictory.

Slate... Klein's pupils slightly dilated, and a special term flashed through his mind:

"Desecration of the Slate"!

This should be the ancient sun god, the creator of everything worshipped by the City of Silver... As expected, the "blasphemous stone tablet" is closely related to him... I don't know if this is the first "blasphemous stone tablet" or the second one... Klein roughly understood who this church belonged to, and began to believe that there might be something very precious and important hidden deep in the ruins.

He took Senior's gaze away and made the "secret doll" look at the ground instead.

In addition to being covered with cracks, the stone slabs also had some strange marks left. They were dark red in color, the size of a human forehead, sometimes overlapping, and extending to the end of the hall.

At this moment, Klein naturally imagined a scene in his mind:

The devout believers prostrated themselves on the ground and crawled forward. Every time they walked a certain distance, they banged their foreheads against the ground, drawing blood.

Seeing Gehrman Sparrow's gaze turned away and no longer looking at him, Alger asked tentatively:

"Ancient Sun God?"

At the same time, he inexplicably felt a chilly wind blowing from the side of Gehrman Sparrow, and suspected that there were lurking shadows or resentful spirits around him.

Thinking of the mutant curly-haired baboon being strangely controlled, Alger vaguely guessed something, but did not say it out loud.

Hearing the Hanged Man's question, Klein wanted to chuckle and reply, "You can also call Him the Lord who created everything, the omniscient and almighty God." But he immediately realized that the tone and wording were closer to The Fool than Gehrman Sparrow, so he restrained himself and just nodded slightly.

“It’s not hard to see.”

Alger breathed a sigh of relief silently, and became more and more excited about the item buried deep inside the church.

The two made the decision at the same time and walked to the end of the hall together.

As he got closer, Klein finally saw clearly that there were steps leading down.

"Underground area?" he asked simply.

Alger shook his head and said:

“I can’t be sure, I haven’t been down there.

"Although Qi Lingos tried to go deeper, he returned here in less than ten minutes, and his breath became quite weak."

Klein nodded thoughtfully and said casually:

"You seem to be familiar with him."

If someone else had said this, Alger would have certainly pretended not to hear it and not responded directly. But in his heart, World Gehrman Sparrow was the follower of Mr. Fool, and his question might represent the intention of that being, so he must treat it with caution.

After pondering for a few seconds, Alger said in a low voice:

"He and I are from the same hometown and worked as servants in the same small church.

"The priest there was an irritable and violent man who liked to punish servants. Qilingos couldn't accept it, so he ran away secretly and became a pirate."

There is such a past... Mr. "The Hanged Man" is also a man with a story... Klein did not make any further inquiries. He walked down the stairs one level at a time in the extremely quiet ruined church.

Although his footsteps were very light, they were still obvious and far-reaching in this environment.

Soon, the two walked up the stairs and saw a doorway with an arch.

On both sides of the doorway, there were two dark shadows standing, quietly, silently, and never changing.

Klein and Alger stopped at the same time and looked at the two shadows, discovering that they were two stone statues.

They were both male, grey in colour, one wearing a barrel-shaped full body armour, the other wearing a jacket with a more modern style, both had painful expressions on their faces, their eyes bulged out as if they were staring at something.

Seeing this scene, Klein suddenly became alert and recalled his previous experience in the outside world:

He and Alger also showed signs of petrification, but fortunately they got rid of the influence in time and did not actually turn into statues!

This... Could it be that there are other humans who have had the same experience... If we were petrified just now, would we also be "moved" underground in this ancient church, guarding a doorway unchanged for hundreds or thousands of years? Isn't the power of petrification afraid of this relic? Klein felt an inexplicable fear, and his scalp was slightly numb.

He controlled the fluctuations in his expression and glanced sideways at the "Hanged Man". He found that the pupils of this rugged seaman had also become larger, and his hand holding the short blade had obviously tightened a lot.

Mr. The Hanged Man has the same guess. I don’t need to explain anything more… Klein pointed at the doorway and said:

“There may be more stone statues inside.”

Alger nodded and said half worriedly and half jokingly:

"I just hope they don't see us."

If we firmly believe that we have escaped the effects of petrification, but at the same time we see our own statues in the underground area, it would be a horror story... Klein thought for two seconds and said to The Hanged Man:

"Do you have night vision?"

What he really meant was that the light from the lantern was very conspicuous in the pure darkness of the underground area and could easily cause unnecessary changes, so if one had night vision, it was best to turn off the light.

He believed that Mr. "The Hanged Man" would be able to appreciate the hidden meaning.

Alger answered frankly:

"have."

A Sailor who can dive deep must have the ability of night vision.

Klein glanced at him and said nothing, but his meaning was very clear:

Then why do you still use a lantern?

Alger responded solemnly:

"One is to mislead the enemy. When they see me using the lantern to illuminate, they will instinctively think that I don't have the ability of 'night vision'. After they destroy the lantern and work hard to create a dark environment, I can give them a surprise."

How insidious... Klein couldn't find the words to respond for a moment.

Alger continued:

"Second, we must be prepared for situations similar to those in Silver City. The pure darkness without any light may hide extreme dangers."

That makes sense... Klein didn't signal the other party to turn off the lantern. He walked past the two stone sculptures and entered the doorway leading to the underground area under their eyes filled with pain.

Because he didn't know what the petrified statues represented, nor was it clear whether the petrified people were completely dead, Klein did not try to break them and harvest the possible extraordinary properties and magical items.

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