56. Meaningless repetition
It was pitch black in the deep alleyway, and the first spring lit up a cloud of light to illuminate the long steps below before going down.
The passage is obviously quite old, but the steps are very dry, could it be that the Pope himself cleaned it? There wasn't even a single piece of moss in such a damp passage. Hatsuizumi thought wonderingly.
The walls are painted with scenes from the classics: an angel blowing a trumpet, a gray horse bringing death, a red dragon with seven heads and ten horns...... It's the end of the world, and humanity is about to be judged.
The strange thing is that all religions describe the scenes of hell in great detail, but they are silent about heaven, as if it were a glittering white and nothing else.
But these warnings apparently had no effect on their current owner, as if he had turned it into a living hell: many men and women were imprisoned underneath, and the harsh instruments of torture used in the Middle Ages were visible here.
I don't know if this is the case for everyone, her tasks are always accompanied by unspeakable blood, the smell of blood piled up over the years and drilled straight into her nose, why bother to go into it? In the chaotic age of unenlightened science, it is only in the tormenting of one's own compatriots that man's ingenuity is terrifyingly revealed.
Many of the prisoners had lost the ability to speak, and when they saw this strange visitor, they only let out a few "ahh
Even if Hatsuizumi did let them out, how would they escape from the heavily guarded sanctuary? Hatsuizumi shook his head slightly, and walked deeper into the cage.
None of these people deserved her stopping, and the Pope undoubtedly regarded these people as mere objects of "entertainment", although there were many prominent people among them, but what could a farmer or a merchant hinder his great cause?
The innermost door was locked with a few sturdy locks, as if it were thought to be indestructible.
Then the door was kicked open by the woman, and along with it the lock made of the strongest metal of the day, with the bonus of power, of course.
Several pieces of paper flew down under such a strong impact, and a whole room of Wen Jiàn was finally found. She thought.
I can't finish reading them one by one for another month, but fortunately, she never has to "look" by herself. Scanning it with his consciousness, Hatsuizumi accidentally found his name on it.
No, it's not "Hatsuizumi", Arena was also reported as the "witch" of that village, as a witch who disappeared mysteriously, her name was able to reach the heavens, it was really unexpected, she thought that she would burn a few people to death when she was idle these years.
Before she had time to sort out more things, someone came, and her alarm was sounded the moment the study door was opened, and it was of course too late to return the same way, but this kind of place will definitely not have only one road, pull open the mechanism on the other side, and a road to the outside world will be revealed, and the other party's footsteps seem to be quite hurried, but who let the builder build such a long road? Hatsuizumi glanced back at the cages, waved his hand, and the locks on the cages fell, as for how many people could be rescued in the end, it was not a matter for her to consider.
"Stretch out your sickle and reap, for the time of harvest has come." The woman muttered a low sentence and quickened her pace.
As for how visitors would be treated by the object of his play, the woman walking in the dark curled the corners of her mouth strangely.
The cardinal, dressed in red, was so carried away by his agitation that he hurried into the archives, not realizing that all the prison locks had fallen to the ground.
At first, the prisoners could not believe what was happening in front of them: the missing locks, the inexplicably broken shackles, and they carefully turned their wrists, tentatively pushing the heavy door, which creaked and pushed open a small gap, and there was no greater luck for them.
Together, they twisted their heads in the direction of the archives and sharpened their teeth, their eyes shining with a chilling glint in their eyes.
The secret passage was connected to the sewer, and from the mouth of the well, which had been covered with dry grass and sludge outside the holy city, Hatsuizumi looked gloomily at the dirty and unsightly robe, but fortunately she didn't need it for the time being, so she simply burned it and destroyed the evidence.
The starry sky was clean and pure, and the first spring lay on the fairly dry sandstone floor, staring at the sky, which was indistinguishable from reality to the naked eye.
After so many tasks, the doubts that had accumulated in her heart finally grew stronger: whether this qiē she did was meaningful, and whether this world would be emptied after the Devourer left, then what she was doing was just a boring waste of time.
She should leave all her feelings behind and find the devoured one straightforwardly, so what should she do to transform people? Wouldn't it be faster to analyze it with a machine?
"Why can't the machine do this, but let people do it", this question has been lingering for a long time, Chu Quan took a deep breath of the cold air of the night, and threw this thought out of his mind.
The gaps in the city wall were quite tightly connected, but it was not a place to do nothing, she climbed up quickly, the night perfectly blocked the figure of the first spring climbing, she calculated that she reached the city wall in the gap where the guards patrolled, and then jumped over the platform on the city wall, and landed steadily on the haystack below.
By the time she finally returned to the inn, the sky was already slightly white, and Southwark had already gotten up to practice swords, and it was naturally impossible to practice in the courtyard, but no one would disturb him when he swung his sword in the room, and he was stunned for a moment when he saw the figure of Hatsuzumi turning in from the windowsill.
Hatsuizumi knew that his current appearance was quite wolf, crawling out of the dirty tunnel, with a city wall and a haystack, where can he see it?
“…… Want water? The boy's lips twitched, as if to say something, and finally he said.
“…… No. Chu Quan shook his clothes, and suddenly his whole body was completely renewed, as if it had been bleached.
Southwark's eyes widened in surprise.
Hatsuizumi felt that he was becoming more and more like a witch, still the most vicious kind.
"Let me sleep for a while." When she had finished this, she fell headlong on the bed, which took a lot of energy, and even if the bed was cold and hard to fit the ascetic status, she quickly fell asleep.
As for the news that the most favored cardinal under the Pope has been summoned by the Lord, let's wait until she wakes up.