The sound of stepping off the boat and stepping on the wooden floor of the dock creaked

A fishy smell came to my face, and I heard the shouts of some merchants and sailors and the reprimands of the dock tax collectors.

Looking at it, there are not many people at the docks in Hulltown, but they are not too few, and they do not match some of the rumors heard outside.

Of course, there are differences.

Wright had been to Hull many times before, and had seen at least twice as many people on a few occasions as he did now, but that also meant a certain amount of chaos.

Thieves are rampant, and if you take a few steps, you risk breaking your money bag.

Gangsters keep an eye on every traveler who seems easy to provoke, and often engage in robberies and extortion.

So even though Hull is much more prosperous than Nyam, he doesn't have any affection for it, because he's one of those honest people who seems to be easy to provoke and blackmailed.

But this time, Wright found that it was all gone.

If you look closely, you don't see any sneaky thieves, and there's no one watching around the docks.

"That wasn't the last time I was in Hull, I heard something happened here not too long ago?"

There was a voice next to him asking.

Wright turned his head to see that it was a middle-aged man with a slightly exotic appearance, wearing a woolen robe and a front-opening tunics, and a round curly hat on his head, dressed like a businessman.

His name is Bardwin, and he is an Outland businessman and Wright's current boss.

So Wright replied honestly, "Yes, there were some pagans who made trouble a while ago, and then the church cleared them all. ”

"A heretic like me?"

"Well, I mean, it's some evil heretics who do a lot of bad things here......"

As they spoke, the two of them had already walked past the dock area and walked towards the location of a house called the Hull Town Pan-Merchant United Guild not far from the docks.

If an alien businessman wants to do business in the local area, he first needs to greet the local merchant union, and the one next to Wright belongs to the foreign businessman who wants to do business here.

But when they arrived at their destination, they didn't meet the leader as they had hoped.

"Sorry, it's evangelistic day, and the elders are going to church."

The man in charge of receiving them was an immature apprentice, and his words made the foreign merchant next to Wright raise an eyebrow.

"So, can you inform your vice president, I actually wrote a letter to explain this visit in advance."

"The vice president also went to church." The receiving apprentice replied with some embarrassment.

The merchant was stunned when he heard this, and then shrugged his shoulders at Wright, "Well, it seems that we can only visit somewhere else first." ”

Wright nodded, and then honestly led the way.

The two then went to the Craftsman's Guild, the Fishermen's Union, and even the Sailors' and Mercenaries' Guild, not far away.

However, with the exception of the Sailors and Mercenaries, where they had a vice-president, there were few stewards in any other place.

The reply was all that they had gone to Gülen Church to hear the priest preach.

"They are much more religious than I thought." The merchant couldn't help but sigh in the end.

There are sermon days every week, and if you don't have to, you don't have to run so neatly to listen to them.

"Father Bernie of Hull is a very good priest, and we were more than willing to run to listen to him when he was in Neuham." Wright replied without thinking.

"Hmm...... A priest who makes people respect. ”

Looking at Wright's attitude, he could get some information, and the merchant thought thoughtfully, "But as far as I know, this priest should not be in Hull for long?" ”

"Good people are popular wherever they are." Wright said dryly.

Neuham wasn't far from Hull, and he was half a local, but he didn't know much.

In other words, ordinary people often don't know anything about some things that happen in the upper echelons, and even if they do, they are all chasing after the wind.

The merchant Badwin apparently understood this, so he didn't ask much questions, and instead motioned for Wright to lead him toward the local church.

They were meant to visit the local church, because Bardwin's business would touch more or less the functions of the church, and the clergy of the church were a target group for him.

It's just that this kind of visit was arranged by him to the end, because he had actually greeted the higher church leaders before he came.

But now I don't have a choice.

So the two of them hurried straight towards the street where the church was located.

The sight along the way was deserted, as if the rumored hull town outside had become a reality.

But when they came to the church, they saw a surge of people.

As far as the eye could see, the people were sitting in a dense and orderly manner in the square in front of the church, black and oppressive, but there was not much noise.

Except for a few involuntary coughs, it was so quiet that standing at the edge of the square, Wright and the others could clearly hear the priest's sermon.

"He does not do rudeness, he does not seek his own gain, he does not be angry, he does not seek evil, he does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but he rejoices in the truth. Bear all things, hope all things, ...... all things"

The words heard by the two who arrived halfway seemed incomplete, but the emotions contained in the voices quickly calmed down their originally impetuous moods.

"What's going on with those pigeons?" The merchant next to Wright asked in a low voice.

If he didn't say that Wright hadn't actually discovered it, if he looked closely, there were many animals around this square besides people.

Not only pigeons, but also sparrows, crows, and even cats and dogs.

They either landed on the angel statue in the middle of the square, or crouched on the roof of the church at the end of the square, or simply mingled with the crowd, as if they were listening intently to the young priest's sermon, and some of the little things were even motionless and unblinking.

What do they understand?

No one could have guessed, but no one seemed to pay attention to their existence, and everyone was listening to the sermon silently, as if they were undergoing a kind of divine baptism.

It was indeed a baptism, because as the listening time deepened, Wright's originally somewhat scattered thoughts gradually coalesced together and slowly "sublimated" with the content of the priest's words.

The perception of love, the understanding of morality, the cognition of faith and the perspective of looking at problems......

In his previous life, Wright would have had moments when he had a sudden realization, or a sudden enlightenment, when it was like understanding something, and then feeling completely different from his previous self.

But those moments are generally few and far between, and are always forgotten over time.

But now, he felt that he was understanding something at every moment, and his heart was floating, changing, and sublimating with the priest's words. cδ7:8zw.

Many of the problems that he had struggled with in the past were now gradually relieved, and some things that he couldn't figure out seemed to have gained higher wisdom, which made him realize.

Even recalling his past life made him have to ponder......

This feeling can be said to be unique in his life, and he was so fascinated by it that he unconsciously mixed with the other people here, and found a random place to sit down, while completely ignoring the existence of the environment and time.

It wasn't until the priest's voice died down and the sermon was over that he gradually recovered from that state in a trance, but instead of getting up from the ground, he reluctantly reminisced about what had happened before.

Almost everyone around him was like him, and no one was in a hurry to stand up, as if they were all feeling the afterglow of that state.

Then, Wright suddenly found that these people, including himself, seemed to ......

Faintly flashing white light?