Vanna's eyes stayed on this record for a few seconds, and the judge's keenness allowed her to smell something worthy of attention from this short sentence.
Heretical acts of sacrifice suddenly appeared among ordinary residents. The targets of the sacrifices were ineffective beings. The acts of sacrifice that completely failed to meet the needs of the ritual actually attracted the attention of extraordinary powers in the end. There was a small-scale insanity with no follow-up. Investigative action...
Vanna suddenly remembered something, put down the file in her hand, and hurriedly opened the record she had just seen.
Also in 1889, a little earlier, there was an incident of armed injury at a street store in Xiacheng District. This incident was originally the responsibility of the Public Security Bureau and should not have appeared in the church's archives. However, subsequent investigation proved that it was The person who stabbed someone with a weapon was a "customer" who suffered a sudden mental disorder in the store. The suspect insisted that he saw a blasphemous shadow on the store window and took the knife to escape "the pursuit of invisible things." Fight back".
During the follow-up investigation, the church discovered traces of heretical worship in the basement of the store. However, the sacrificial symbols on site were confusing and difficult to discern and could not point to any valid existence. Through interrogation, it was learned that the owner of the store who conducted sacrificial activities privately did not understand at all. Understands mysterious rituals, and his random sacrifices were "guided by the unknown."
It was also a random sacrificial ritual that was theoretically impossible to take effect. It also caused insanity in a small area, and there were no more investigation conclusions.
Fanna frowned slightly. These two things seemed to have no connection with the factory leak eleven years ago or the wiped-out fire, and they didn't correspond at all in terms of time. This was not the focus of her investigation today. But the fact that there were two similar incidents of heretical worship appearing in such recent records touched her nerves as an inquisitor.
After a while, she put down the two files in her hands and continued to search for subsequent files on the bookshelf. This time, she paid some attention and actively searched for records of events that might be related to heresy worship.
After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly stopped.
The third record was still at a certain point in time before the "factory leak" accident. It happened on the edge of the uptown area. A maid working in a rich man's home suddenly went crazy and seriously injured three servants and the man of the house. She locked herself in the warehouse. When the church guards and the sheriff arrived and broke in, the maid had committed suicide.
The sacrifice symbol carved with a dagger by the deceased was found in the warehouse, and traces of heretical sacrifice were found in the deceased's room - pointing to another invalid existence, and the sacrifice process did not comply with any standards, but this The ineffective sacrifices recorded in the stakes did not drive others crazy, but drove the sacrificers themselves crazy.
Already the third one...
If Fanna was only slightly concerned when she saw the two records just now, then when she saw the third record, the expression on her face became completely serious.
She quickly arranged the recorded information in her mind, analyzing them based on when and where they occurred.
The events occurred very scattered, independent of each other in time and location, and theoretically there was no intersection between the parties involved.
Moreover, they have no connection with the factory where the leak occurred eleven years ago, and no trace of the Sun Heretic was found in the subsequent investigation.
Fanna calmed down and continued to search through the subsequent files. It didn't take long for her to find the information about the leak in the factory.
It was a major event, with a wide impact, and the number of heretics subsequently captured was almost the highest in the past 20 to 30 years. Therefore, the entire incident was recorded in a separate file. The thick file book was quite heavy. It also contains numerous pictures and interrogation reports.
But it didn't take Fana long to read through the entire contents of the file.
Because she had read the contents in other places many times before. In the past few years, she had reviewed the relevant documents of this old case more than once.
It seems that even in the archives located deep in the church, there is no more information about the factory leakage eleven years ago.
Fanna put back the leaked files from the factory. She rummaged through them for a while and suddenly discovered something:
After that "factory leak" incident, similar to the previous three "heresy worship" cases
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The record never appeared again.
The factory leak occurred in the middle of the year, and there was still half a year to go.
This gave Vanna a feeling, as if the heretical worship incidents that "should be invalid but are effective" all appeared together before the factory leak, and after the factory accident, it became a node, and all the heretical worship incidents were It stopped abruptly after that...
Of course, this can also be explained by common sense: after the factory leakage accident, the church and the authorities arrested thousands of cultists. This large-scale arrest operation eliminated all the heretical forces in the city-state. Therefore, in the following six months, It is also normal for heretical worship incidents to no longer occur in China.
But for some reason, she always felt that there shouldn't be such a simple logic behind these seemingly unrelated events.
She stopped by the big bookshelf, and after thinking quietly for a long time, she returned to the beginning, pulled out the first file on "Heretical Worship," and thought about it while flipping through it.
These events were too loose and were submerged in a lot of messy disaster records. If she hadn't suddenly wanted to sort them out today, and had planted the idea that "this matter is suspicious" in her mind in advance, I am afraid that even her When she first got the information, she wouldn't notice anything strange - but the strangeness was strange. Once she noticed it, the inconsistent and awkward feeling began to take root in her heart like a seed, making it difficult for her to ignore her intuition. That warning.
And just when Fanna was looking through the information carefully, a burst of unhurried footsteps suddenly came from nearby, along with the faint smell of engine oil mixed with incense.
Fanna raised her head and saw the old priest in charge of managing the archives walking towards her.
He walked with a limp, and it was obvious that not only his right hand was injured, but his legs and feet were also injured.
"There is no one in the archives at this time, so I came over to take a look," the old priest said with a smile, "Did you find the information you wanted?"
Fanna exhaled softly and put the file in her hand back to its original place: "I found some information, but I didn't find the answer I wanted."
"Answer?" The old priest was a little curious, "What answer do you want?"
"...How long have you been here?" Fanna did not answer directly, but suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question.
"Ah, that's a long time, let me think about it...almost twenty years," the old priest laughed, "since one of his hands and a leg were blown off by the homemade bombs of those heretical lunatics. I've been here all the time." Fanna thought for a while and asked curiously: "Is this place so deserted on weekdays? Will anyone else come here to check these files like me?"
"Most of the time on weekdays it is very deserted - there are people who come to check the archives, but never many," the old priest smiled. "Books are people's memories of the world, and this archives is the deepest memory. Department - stored here are all old cases that have been processed, or confidential documents that have been judged not to be disclosed to the outside world. After they were sealed, they were buried in the depths of time together with the past history. .
"Countless new things happen every day in the city-state. Everyone is busy heading towards tomorrow. How can there be so much time to come back and flip through these sealed files. And..."
The old priest suddenly paused when he said this. He raised his head and quietly looked up at the books that were almost stacked on the dome. After a long time, he spoke softly.
"Moreover...sometimes the sealed files are not just a record of the past, but may also have some history, itself sealed in those pages. The past, present and future of our world are all built on an unstable foundation. , flipping through too many things in this archive is not good for your physical and mental health."
"...This sounds a bit like the warnings of the fire bearers."
"Yes, the Fire Bearers like to warn about this matter. They guard history and are always worried that something will spread from the ancient times and pollute the foundation of our world - they are overly sensitive in this regard, and As for some people even think that the group of final preachers who promote the 'doomsday pollution theory' are the messengers of fire after the fall..."
The old priest said, smiling and shaking his head: "When I was young, I had close contacts with several friends from the Firebringer sect, and naturally I listened to a lot of their theories. Although
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The direction of the teachings is different from that of the Storm Goddess, but at least we all belong to the righteous god, and some of the things in it are worth referencing. "
For some reason, while listening to the old man's story, Vanna's mood calmed down a little bit. She had some respect for this senior who had dedicated most of his life to the church, and she didn't mind chatting with the old man more at this moment. , and asked casually: "Do you still keep in touch with those friends?"
"No contact." The old man slowly shook his head. "One morning, I suddenly realized that I never knew their names, so they must have been martyred..."
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