The ball lamp hit the ground with a "thump thump" sound, rolled to a corner and hit the wall before suddenly lighting up. For a moment, the bright light instantly filled the entire second floor. Cheng Shi was prepared and covered his eyes to avoid being dazzled by the light, and then quickly put down his hand and looked forward.
But who would have thought that just this one glance would make cold sweat break out on his back.
"This is......"
Looking inside through the gaps between the bookshelves that were arranged like a maze, he immediately noticed that the ceiling of the second floor was densely covered with the corpses of babies. They were curled up like fetuses still in the womb, with umbilical cords wrapped around their ankles and hanging upside down from the ceiling.
The space was closed and windless, so these strange babies would not shake at all. However, as sounds gradually arose, they actually began to shake slowly along with the sound waves, like a string of creepy human wind chimes.
Cheng Shi was really frightened. He instinctively took a step back, but someone held his back with a hand and pushed him back.
Zhang Jizu walked up with a frown on his face, and glanced at these upside-down strange babies. There was no shock in his eyes, but he said with more doubt:
"Evil baby?
That's not right, didn't you say the evil baby was split open and burned?"
"......"
It was this sentence that almost exposed Cheng Shi's lie. It instantly purified the fear in Cheng Shi's heart and made his toes unconsciously dig into the floor.
He didn't dare to look back for fear of being discovered, so he walked forward with an embarrassed look on his face, saying as he walked:
"...That was just a form of punishment from a certain era. Maybe it has changed now."
"It seems to make sense." Zhang Jizu nodded slightly and followed his pace.
“However, since the evil babies represent the Church of Divine Education’s denial of faith, why do they still hang these things here instead of destroying them?
No matter how I look at it, I feel that this is more like a sacrificial ritual of an evil priest than a method of dealing with an evil baby."
Cheng Shi couldn't answer this question, so he could only laugh and say:
"You think too much, what if it's not that complicated?
Maybe the court was not treated well after it was abandoned, and the staff here just wanted to dry some bacon to eat. Don't you think this is more reasonable?"
Zhang Jizu did not refute, but just continued:
"Air-dried meat should be ventilated through windows. It's a bit illogical to seal the windows."
"......"
No, brother, I'm just joking to lighten the mood, you don't have to be so serious...
Cheng Shi twitched his lips and said nothing more, shifting all his attention to the "human wind chime" above his head.
The arrangement of these hanged dead babies was obviously regular, with the same distance between them, and they even vaguely formed a symbol.
Out of caution, Cheng Shi did not touch them, but he wondered if someone was really desecrating [Birth] and this place was a secret blasphemy site.
But then he thought of the Church of Divine Childbirth. This church that worships "pregnancy" does not seem to attach as much importance to the status of newborns as the believers of "birth" do. In addition, the accusation of "evil baby" makes it possible that this is really how they deal with evil babies?
After all, I didn't understand what was written on the file.
The same goes for Zui Ge, he still refuses to say a word.
Cold-blooded! Merciless!
If this is really the way the Divine Education Church deals with evil babies, then this method is indeed a bit crude.
But it is also reasonable. After all, the civilization of the Life Era has never been sophisticated. They have always been rough.
Just as [Memory] said, the gods of [Life] are also rough.
While Cheng Shi looked up, Zhang Jizu was not idle either. He squinted his eyes and pushed Cheng Shi forward, looking around as he walked.
Just as they walked through the bookshelves and reached the empty back area, the two men suddenly stopped.
Because they suddenly discovered a horrifyingly large pool of blood on the floor in front of them!
In the still warm pool of blood, a severed hand fell alone to the side. The body that should have been connected to it was sitting on the floor between two rows of bookshelves, leaning against the wall with its eyes closed.
"!"
When the two men saw the corpse, their eyes fixed and their faces darkened at the same time.
Gou Feng!
This believer of Birth seemed unable to survive even half a day in the trial sent down by his benefactor.
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