Chapter 17: Vampires in the Church

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On Sunday, just as the sun was rising, two well-dressed boys and girls arrived at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, located in the heart of the city.

Christianity after more than ten centuries of exhibition, and different cultures after the fusion of countless churches, now the world's church architectural style can be roughly divided into four kinds, according to the history of the exhibition, the first appeared is the Romanesque arch building, and then the European traditional Gothic spire building such as Notre Dame Cathedral, Baroque architecture is known for its domes such as St. Paul's Cathedral, as well as modernist style churches, modern churches are made of wood, glass, metal, concrete, etcThe structural relationships are becoming more standardized, making the symbolism of the individual parts less significant, as in the church of Santa Maria Mary in front of us.

An Yuxi has liked this kind of building since he was a child, because it is in line with his fantasy of magic, just like what he saw in the novel, with a mysterious color, the East is the dream of martial arts for scholars through the ages, and the West is a magic dream.

The church near the sunset area is a baroque building, An Yuxi often takes Jessica to worship, this church is a dome building, it looks like a miniature version of St. Paul's Church, the dome is a cross, the exterior wall is gray-white, no attention is paid to the exterior decoration, but the interior is gorgeous, some places use marble bricks and marble columns, with colorful paintings and sculptures, it looks very atmospheric, the interior changes the darkness, solemnity and mystery of the old-fashioned church, with light-colored paint, plus colorful decoration, which makes people feel relaxed, It seems to have a fresh fragrance.

One of his favorite things to do after his rebirth was to take a walk around the buildings of different architectural styles, such as the Palazzo des Arts in Rome.

It should have seen his son run the church so diligently, as a Christian hypocrite, Father An recommended An Yuxi to go to St. Mary's Cathedral to have a look.

Located in the center of San Francisco, the Cathedral of Santa Maria is one of the three largest cathedrals in California, USA, by the famous Chinese design master Bei Luming. Its exterior completely rejects traditional notions, and a bird's-eye view of the top of the main building shows a huge cross.

The first thing you see from the outside is: Nima, is this a museum or a gymnasium? An Yuxi and Jessica, who were also at a loss, stood in the square and looked at the tower-like building in front of them, saying that this modern element is too rich, is it really the church that my father said? This is the first time An Yuxi has seen a modern church, and he is a little unsure if this is a church, although the previous sign indicates that this is a church, but since he is here, let's go and see it first, An Yuxi, who is full of doubts, took the small hand of Jessica, who was also curious with wide eyes, and walked towards the church in front of him.

After seeing the relief of Jesus on the door from a distance, An Yuxi finally believed that this was a church, but in retrospect, the front of this church really looked like a papal crown.

This wonderful designer, An Yuxi couldn't help but secretly complain, destroying the beautiful image of the church in my heart.

Passing through the relief gate, you will see the red brick paved floor, the circular altar, and the altar that looks like a petal, the whole main body of the church is in a dark tone, and when you look up, you will notice the chandelier-like decoration composed of countless crystals hanging down from the central axis of the dome, or the layered structure like a pagoda, it is said that this is called Richard Lippo1, which is a sculpture designed by the designer based on the principle of dynamics, and is suspended on the ceiling 15m above the ground with gold wire.

The light casts through the windows of the dome, and the light refracted on the crystals is really like the chandelier in the Palace of Versailles, which also looks graceful and luxurious in the gloom, solemn, and this is the taste of a church.

As they walked, they looked around at the never-before-seen church decoration and came to the chandelier, where the middle of the building protruded, on which a surprising number of prefabricated triangular panels formed the inside of the cupola, and at the top plane of the structure, four glass ribbons changed direction and extended horizontally to form a cross made of stained glass.

The sunlight shines through the stained glass, reminiscent of the vision that Emperor Constantine saw more than a thousand years ago: a huge cross appeared in the sky, with the inscription "Victory by this". It seems that the design was inspired by the cross, and there is a strong emphasis on both horizontal and vertical lines. As the eye is drawn to the ubiquitous and magnificent cupola overhead, the mind will also look to the heavens and worship the gods.

“This_is_amazing!” Jessica sighed quietly.

"Eun." An Yuxi was also shocked by this, this designer is really ingenious, a god-level character! As an engineering student, An Yuxi admires the gods of the industry from the bottom of his heart. Although this church has been built with too many modern elements, it has a more perfect interpretation of the profundity of Christian teachings.

The entire church covers a large area, and colorful light pours into the church through the windows, but due to the architectural design, the light can only reach the periphery, and the view from the audience highlights the beautiful scenery of the surrounding city. There was light coming from the multicolored glass at the altar, probably to create some kind of atmosphere.

Most of the churches are full of Western faces, young people, middle-aged people, and many old people, and they will greet each other kindly when they see the two children, and An Yuxi and Zheng Xiuyan will also return the salute very politely.

During the service, they were all very strict, and the two children had already come out of the shock, and they were not looking around and were curious about anything, but An Yuxi's heart was obviously not on this, although this solemn atmosphere was very good, An Yuxi did not come here to listen to the gospel of God or repentance, but just to listen to the choir sing.

Looking at it, Xiao Xiuyan also closed her eyes and prayed sincerely, she wouldn't bring the child badly, although An Yuxi didn't believe in God, she came over and believed a little, so should I believe in God or Nuwa? An Yuxi was very entangled, I am Chinese, but I came to the United States again, and finally decided not to believe anyone. As a young man of socialism, An Yuxi felt that he had the responsibility to bring Xiao Xiuyan to the road of science.

"Xiuyan, this priest is a vampire." An Yuxi prankfully leaned into the ear of Xiao Xiuyan, who was praying, and said. If you add a pair of sharp horns, a pair of wings, and a tail, you are a demon.

Obviously seeing Xiao Xiuyan's body shocked, she opened her eyes and looked in horror at the kind pastor who was praying under the cross, bathed in divine light, and opened her small mouth to shout.

An Yuxi hurriedly covered Xiao Xiuyan's mouth to prevent her from shouting, just kidding, if you shout it here, you will definitely be kicked out.

"Don't let them show up, I don't know how many accomplices they have." Ahn Woo-seo couldn't help but laugh and said to Xiu-yeon in a serious tone.

"Eun." The simple Xiao Xiuyan's wide eyes were full of horror that could not be concealed, and the chick nodded like a peck of rice, hearing that there were vampires in this church, Xiao Xiuyan felt that she was going to stop breathing.

At this time, the person next to him noticed the movements of the two children and made a "shhhh

"There really are companions." Xiao Xiuyan leaned into An Yuxi's ear and said cautiously.

"What!" This time it was Ahn Woo-hee's turn to be dumbfounded, and Su-yeon was convinced of Ahn Woo-xi's words.

Another thing that surprised the two children was that the choir played the huge organ on the second floor, and when the two children saw the huge pipe organ, they immediately felt that the piano gods were weak, and felt that this church was really high-end and high-end.

As soon as the service ended, Xiao Xiuyan, who couldn't sit still for a long time, dragged An Yuxi, who still wanted to visit, to run outside the church, and An Yuxi felt for the first time that Xiuyan still had a little athletic ability.

"Brother, will the vampires come to us at night?" Xiao Xiuyan hugged An Yuxi's arm tightly and looked around cautiously, still panting heavily.

"Why?" An Yuxi's mind was no longer on the vampire, he wanted to see the organ.

"I think they know their secrets now." Xiao Xiuyan looked at An Yuxi very strictly, and kept beating the drum in her heart.

"Su-yeon, do you know how I knew they were vampires?" An Yuxi sweated in his heart, didn't he just make a joke, he really took it seriously, sure enough, there is a good saying, a lie needs to be rounded with a thousand lies, An Yuxi, who is troublesome, is very single, and there is no round lie, the key is that it is not good if it really scares the timid Xiuyan, children just like to think nonsense, and like his previous self, he was scared to watch ghost stories for more than a month and did not dare to go out.

"How?" Xiao Xiuyan was a little nervous, and she didn't know what she had just thought.

"Guess ・・・・・"

"Yikes! An Yuxi, you lied to me again! Little Lori now An Yuxi's answer was different from her own thoughts, only to know that she had been deceived, let go of An Yuxi's hand, and kicked An Yuxi's calf in shame.

"Shhh An Yuxi squatted down holding her calves, this little Lori kicked people really painfully, just kicked An Yuxi's facebone, she shouldn't have been allowed to learn martial arts, An Yuxi had a faint resentment in her heart, and she didn't know if she was bullying other children at school.

"Sika, why do you keep saying the 'ah' modality word." An Yuxi hurriedly changed the topic.

"Because I might go back to Korea, my mother asked me to learn more Korean, and I often heard my mother call me Dad." Xiao Xiuyan saw An Yuxi squatting down with a painful face, and glanced at An Yuxi suspiciously, wanting to confirm whether An Yuxi was lying to her and wanted to win her sympathy and forgiveness.

"Su-yeon, the 'ah' is an impolite word in Korean." An Yuxi sweated at Zheng's mother's violence, and sure enough, the violence factor has been inherited. patted his trouser leg and stood up, it was just a half-truth to cover his feet just now, he just wanted to win sympathy, he always made a mistake and let the little Lori kick now that it doesn't hurt, and I'm used to it, who calls himself always like to tease this little Lori pinch, for Xiao Xiuyan who likes to be quiet and doesn't like to move, he can only make this decision.

"Yes." Zheng Xika's face turned red all of a sudden.

"So don't use this word lightly when you return home." An Yuxi rubbed the little Lori's head, the fluffy feel is very good, the key is to mess up the long straight It feels good, this is purely a hobby of bad taste.

"Are you deliberately changing the subject?" Jessica suddenly reacted and forcefully pushed away An Yuxi's evil claws.

"Of course, it's the art of language, and if someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, you can avoid the topic and make it less embarrassing." An Yuxi touched his nose and was a little embarrassed, why did this kid suddenly become smarter.

"Oh." Jessica twitched her little nose cutely, then took An Yuxi's hand and motioned for him to pull her away.

"So, are there really vampires?" There was a moment of silence as the two men walked; "There should be, haven't you read the novels, it's all written like this." An Yuxi didn't know how to answer this question.

"If there are vampires, why do they sneak into churches? Is there some conspiracy? But doesn't the cross restrain the creatures of darkness? A series of questions filled Xiao Xiuyan's head, making her not vomit or be unhappy.

"If it's a vampire, there should be good and bad like people, good vampires don't suck human blood, just like ordinary people, but bad vampires keep doing evil in order to drink human blood, and then get stronger and stronger, good vampires have to join forces with righteous humans to deal with vampires." Although An Yuxi felt that Xiao Xiuyan's thinking was very four-dimensional, like herself, she felt that she still needed to explain it.

"yes, then the church is a good vampire!" Jessica nodded earnestly and concluded.

"yes, that's it." An Yuxi also nodded hurriedly, he didn't expect that Xiao Xiuyan also had the potential of the Emperor of Truth, this kind of momentum of breaking the casserole and asking the end was really frightening.

"Vampires are creatures of darkness, churches are holy places of light, how can vampires be priests?" Su-yeon blinked with big eyes and was eager to learn.

"Ah, this..." An Yuxi saw that little Lori consciously entered the story mode, "It's not dark yet, and it will be interesting to talk about it at night." ”

"But I'm curious now, when you first asked me why you knew, I thought you were a vampire too." Little Lori said very stupidly and innocently.

"Huh?" An Yuxi was frightened by Little Lori's four-dimensional, "If I'm a vampire, you're also a vampire." ”

"I'm a vampire too?!" Jessica was inexplicably perked.

"We're all vampires." An Yuxi didn't know why Xiao Xiuyan was suddenly so happy, so she had to nod in order to cater to the child's thoughts.

"Then I won't grow taller!" Jessica suddenly thought of a very strict question, and asked with a puffed up face.

"Of course not, you won't stop your metabolism until you're an adult, and now you're a young vampire, and you'll stay young forever when you're an adult." An Yuxi deliberately ignored a serious problem to face to become a vampire, that is, blood sucking, fortunately, Xiao Xiuyan didn't expect that she smiled with satisfaction after hearing that she could grow up and be able to maintain her youth, and she wanted to stay young at such a young age...

"What kind of situation is this?" The corners of An Yuxi's mouth twitched, and he pulled Xiao Xiuyan, who began to let go, and walked out, now is not the time for him to be empty, if the two of them don't look at the road, God knows what will happen.

"Why do you like to go to church, do you believe in Christ?" A certain Lori blinked at An Yuxi with big bright eyes, and An Yuxi was a little weak-hearted, in order to come to the church, this was to pull the sleepy Lori off the warm bed early.

"Well, no, I'm just, well, don't you think the choir is very interesting, it feels very good, I like it very much." An Yuxi smiled flatteringly.

"Are you just going to listen to the choir chorus?" a certain Lori looked a little unkind.

"Of course, what else can you do if you go?" An Yuxi touched his head awkwardly, learning from Jessica's appearance, blinking his eyes and selling cuteness, poor child, he has completely forgotten that he is an adult after all these years.

"It's so far away, you have to walk to change trains!" A certain Lori resented deeply, and counted An Yuxi with her fingers.

"Well, I won't go after that." An Yuxi swore solemnly.

"Where are we going next?"

"Let's go to Mr. Hydra."

"Okay." Little Lori suddenly became excited again, she loves to sing!

Pedestrians on the side of the road looked at these two teenagers, the boy was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, his hands in his pockets, plus the head that had not cut his eyes for two months, he couldn't hide his melancholy and decadent temperament, the girl was dressed very delicately and held the boy's arm with both hands, it seemed to put the weight of the whole body on the boy, and the two people talked in Chinese as if no one was around, and then gradually drifted apart.

"What two very sweet children." A passer-by came to such a conclusion, although he didn't know what they were talking about, but he felt that way.