263 A misunderstanding
The bearded man's name was Abram, and he was the pastor of the church in Fort Tofora.
Chongxu and the others revealed the power of the deep source was discovered by him, and guessed that it was a vampire hiding in the truck and waiting until after dark to go out to forage for food, so he wanted to preemptively kill the demon who came to attack, but he never thought that he would encounter a hard bone to gnaw.
Abram thought Chongxu was a vampire duke...... Before this, although he knew that the duke was strong, he had never fought with the duke after all, and now when he encountered the heavy ruins, he knew that the gap in strength was beyond his imagination.
He was powerless in front of the heavy ruins.
Chongxu calmly coped with the siege of more than 50 people, and on the other hand, he played him around like a cat and mouse, and from time to time he was busy taking time to slap him.
What shocked him even more was that in this process, Chongxu did not reveal half of the magic fluctuations, and completely relied on skills and physical strength to suppress them.
In just a few minutes, half of the brother who came with him fell, and he himself was beaten with blood all over his face, lost half of his molars, and sighed in his heart: "Where did this vampire come from, why is he so powerful? Not afraid of the sun, not afraid of silver...... Isn't it invincible?"
After thinking about it, Chongxu slapped him again, interrupting half of his molars, "Don't apologize?"
From the sudden attack on the heavy ruins to Abram's blue nose and swollen face was just a matter of a moment, John hurriedly rushed over to persuade him, "Your Highness, don't fight, you must kill someone if you fight again!" He took out the cross around his neck and turned to Abram and said, "This brother, misunderstanding, misunderstanding! We are our own people, I am John Brusino, the priest of the Chinese Holy Light Society." That was Pastor Kevin. ”
Chongxu just wanted to give Abram some color and help Guoliang and Sun Xiaoqi vent their anger, but they didn't want to hurt Abram's life. When he saw John come out to make peace, he immediately stopped and distanced himself from Abram.
Abram looked at John and then at the ruins with an incredulous expression. In public, he was slapped more than a dozen times in a row by Chongxu, and it was impossible not to be angry, but he also deeply realized that if Chongxu had really moved, he would have died a long time ago, and he wondered why Chongxu didn't do it ruthlessly, but now he seems to have found the reason.
John condensed a ray of holy light in the palm of his right hand, "My Father in heaven, may you pluck out the thorns from our bodies with your mighty hands, wash away my afflictions with your charity, proclaim your glory with your strong body and fearless spirit, and defend your kingdom to come." As soon as the words fell, the light poured into Abram's cheeks. The bruises on Abram's face immediately began to heal at a speed visible to the naked eye.
John said to Abram gently, "Brother, it's time for you to believe!"
Abram was not suspicious, narrowed his eyes and wondered, "Why are you with vampires?"
"They're not vampires. ”
Abram said, "I've been dealing with vampires for more than 20 years, how can I admit my mistake?"
"It's a long story. This is not the place to talk, let's go to church and say anything!"
Abram was watching in the distance, and he faintly heard someone blowing a whistle calling for the police, and nodded, "Follow me!" He picked up a brother who had been kicked over by Chongxu, covered his painful face, and led John, Chongxu and others around the alleys of Fort Tofora to a slum-like place in the lower city.
The stone road, which only allows two people to pass side by side, is full of water and occasionally a rat slips by.
On both sides of the road are low-rise houses made of simple boards, and most of the simple houses are in disrepair and their roofs are dilapidated.
There were kitchen stoves at the door of several low houses, and it was now during dinner, and someone was cooking wood in front of the door, and when he saw Abram approaching from afar, an old man got up and said, "Good afternoon, Lord Reverend?"
Abram nodded to him and asked, "How is your wife's illness?"
"Hey, one day at a time!"
Abram glanced at the food in the other party's pot and said, "Drink porridge again, when will I get better if I always eat these things that have no nutrients?" He took an egg out of his pocket and handed it to the other party.
Chongxu also felt that the other party was pitiful, so he took a wad of banknotes from Kwa Mao and handed it over.
The old man didn't know Hua Xia Yuan, so he cast an inquiring glance at Abram, who smiled at him and said, "You have made a fortune, this kind of money is very valuable, enough for you to eat for a year." ”
The old man was excited, and drew a cross on his chest to send blessings to Chongxu, "Good man, Heavenly Father will bless you!"
Chongxu didn't understand the rules, thinking it was etiquette and drawing a cross, but it was misused for the right hand and the cross was drawn upside down.
Abram not only didn't care about it in his eyes, but also felt very kind, and said in his heart: "This guy is really not a vampire, I don't know what the origin is." ”
As the group continued along the narrow alley, they noticed that Abram was highly respected by the people here, and that he was greeted at intervals.
After walking about a few dozen meters away, John noticed that the atmosphere of the city was getting lighter and lighter, and all the houses in sight were low, not like churches. He asked, "Is the church almost there?"
"It's almost there!" Abram led the group all the way to the west, walked a hundred and ten steps, and turned to the north, and a rocky hill more than thirty meters high appeared in front of everyone.
There are artificially dug holes on the mountain rock, the holes are of different sizes, some are inlaid with doors and some are attached to windows, and there are more than a dozen cave rooms.
Abram pointed to the cave on the mountain and said, "Ah, this is our church." ”
Li Li knew that the clergy of the Heavenly Father's Church were mainly divided into two factions, one was the Enlightenment School, that is, the priests and priests who usually preached in churches, and the other was the Birth School, who called themselves monks and advocated returning to nature and living a simple life like the Garden of Eden.
Although the two factions have some different ideas, they have the same beliefs and have no disputes with each other.
The only difference between the two sides is that the Initiates are mostly concentrated in densely populated cities and towns, while the Initiates choose their places of practice in the wilderness and sparsely populated places, which are often referred to as monasteries.
Most of the monasteries are similar to churches in terms of architectural form, but there are also a few that choose to adapt to local conditions, combined with their own belief in returning to nature, and build a unique cave monastery with a mountain as a room.
Li Li muttered in a low voice: "I heard about the tradition of using caves as monasteries in the West, but I didn't expect to meet one here." ”
Abram smiled bitterly, "Our church was destroyed, and we are not here for penance, but for refuge." ”
"What? the church is gone?" ordinary people can't imagine what the loss of the church would mean to the clergy in the church, but Pastor Kevin knows it - it's like losing your soul.
There is a wooden ladder on one side of the rock, and Abram takes the lead in climbing the rock and leads the group into a stone chamber in the middle of the rock.
When passing by other stone rooms, Chongxu looked sideways, and saw that the stone rooms were basically the same form, each room had about 20 square meters, and there were four high and low beds in it, and the bed was simply covered with bedding, which should be the resting place of Abram's companions, and there were bookcases next to the bed, and most of the books on the cabinets were related to religion. Other than that, there is no other furniture, very simple.