No one can count how many churches there were in Rome in ancient times.

They all look similar, but they are different, like two fruits growing on the same tree, even if they are the same size, they will have different textures.

But one thing that doesn't make a difference is that in these churches, you can see Bibles with the same scriptures written on them, and they are arranged on the prayer table, and they all look so heavy and sacred.

Whenever someone walks into a church, the Bibles are opened, and it is natural for people to pray to God in their hearts as they read the verses.

But tonight, in one of Rome's old and empty churches, a crowd of uninvited guests—four or five grizzled rats, led by a black mouse whose beard grew so long that it almost dragged to the ground, crept up to the solemn pulpit.

The ancient manuscript of the Bible placed on it was opened, and by the light of the candle on the altar, which would never be extinguished, they saw the papyrus page with a picture of Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit.

"Oh, that's what Father Priest is talking about today," said the black mouse, stumbling through his old eyes and twisting his thin beard, "you all hear that, right?"

"I heard it, but in the end, they were expelled from the heavenly Garden of Eden by God for stealing a mouthful of fruit, and it is a pity to think about it!" exclaimed a fat brown rat pounding his chest in a sympathetic tone, in fact, he was extremely reminiscent of the tone of the priest's sermon in the morning.

"Since they have stolen the fruit, they have sinned, and of course they will be expelled!" the other gray-brown thin mouse reminded his companion in a hearty manner.

"What crimes they have committed, you can tell me!" replied the fat mouse, unconvinced.

"The priest said that they were guilty of original sin!" the skinny mouse sneered.

"Then what is original sin, you can tell me!"

"I-I-"

"Well, don't you fight, can you figure out what original sin is, and if you do, I won't have to take you to the rest of the book in the middle of the night!" said the black mouse, stretching out his two bony paws, and with great effort, he turned another page of the Bible.

"Do you really recognize the words on it?" said several little mice, looking at the black mouse in disbelief.

"Of course, I don't know how to tell you!" said the black mouse, twisting one of his longest whiskers and reaching it to the top line of the page, which were all handwritten in Latin, and each word seemed so long and complex that it was not easy to read them. "In the morning, the priest told you the story of the man whom God created, namely Adam and Eve, who did not listen to God's advice, ate the forbidden fruit, and were expelled from the Garden of Eden. But that's just the end of the story of man in the Garden of Eden, and he hasn't told you the story of the animals in the Garden of Eden!" the black mouse rolled his dim eyes, as if he really understood the words.

"Ah, is there any other animal in the Garden of Eden besides the serpent that tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit?"

"Are there rats there?"

"Did they steal the forbidden fruit?"

"Shut up, all of you!" the black mouse stomped his feet and shouted, but he accidentally stepped on his beard, so painful that he almost jumped up again: "Lord Almighty, I should not lose my temper on your turf, it will only disturb your holy peace, please forgive me, Amen!"

"Amen!" the other unexplained little mice prayed.

"Alright, now you just have to listen to me—

Our Almighty Lord created everything in the world in six days, including us animals.

Let me find out what day he made us.

Haha, he started creating animals on the fifth day, a day before the creation of man, and what an honor it is!

On the sixth day, the Lord created man in His own image, breathed the Spirit into His body, and gave Him the right over us, but we were still free there, and we had all that man could enjoy!

Later, after the original man Adam and his wife Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, we still lived there, and everything there was ours from then on!

Unfortunately, however, we witnessed the temptation of human beings and the subsequent process of eating the forbidden fruit, and although we also saw the terrible punishment they suffered, we also began to be attracted to the tree of wisdom that bore the forbidden fruit, because it was so beautiful and lovely, and the fruit on it had different colors, which meant that they had different tastes.

When we were created by the Lord, we were appointed to eat, but those things were so simple that we soon became tired.

So, the wisest and boldest of us animals could not help it, and they secretly approached the tree of wisdom while the Lord was not wandering in the Garden of Eden.

Can you imagine what kind of animals they are?

They are our most intelligent mice, our cunning predator, the cat, and the most fearless and proud of all animals.

The first to run under the tree of wisdom was the tiger, which ran like a wind, and he jumped up and bit down on a white and shiny fruit, but the flesh of the fruit was golden, and they turned into juice and dripped into the tiger's eyes, which made the tiger's body shine with a golden light, and then he disappeared!

Seeing this scene, the cat was so curious that he rushed over, jumped up, and bit a golden fruit, but the flesh of the fruit was black, and they also turned into juice and dripped into the cat's eyes, so he turned into a cloud of black smoke and disappeared!

It was so strange that the other animals didn't dare to move forward when they saw this, for fear that they would become something more terrible than black smoke.

But we are not afraid of the sky, and our nature is the most like to take advantage of the small, so a little black mouse ignored the obstacles of the animals, and jumped up to the tree of wisdom. It spotted a black fruit and bit into it, and guess what color juice came out of it?

Haha, it's blazing blood red!

The little mouse turned into a fire all at once, and after burning desperately for a while, all that was left was a puddle of blood solidified on the ground!

This frightened the animals, and they screamed and ran away, and no one dared to come even one step closer to the Tree of Wisdom!"

Hearing this, the other little mice were so frightened that they gasped - the fat mouse almost planted the lectern on its back because it was pumping too hard.

"They're just gone?" asked the youngest mouse, who hadn't spoken much, timidly.

"To be precise, they were expelled from the Garden of Eden in the wrath of the Lord, who was hiding in the shadows and watching everything!

But there were times when they were reluctant, because whenever they recalled their life in the Garden of Eden, they regretted it.

But they don't want to find fault in themselves, so they always go against humanity, just as humanity can't forgive each other because they committed original sin!"

"What is the original sin?" asked the skinny mouse, sighing.

"Is that the fruit they ate?" the fat rat had been in the church for a long time, and had begun to feel hungry.

Who knows, the Lord just expelled them from the Garden of Eden and didn't give them an answer. The black mouse said, putting away his longest beard, and then yawned heavily, "Well, that's all for today's scripture - actually, I just can't sleep tonight, and I want to share with you the story of my ancestors, and don't forget, the mouse that was first expelled from the Garden of Eden, the same mouse that stole the forbidden fruit, is also black!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of wind blew into the church, blew out the candles on the altar, and blew back the page of the book with Adam and Eve that had just been turned over.

For a moment the church was pitch black, and nothing could be seen—the darkness, like the chaos when nothing existed before the creation of the world, was boundless.