Chapter 435: The Church
"What do you see?"
Xia Ren asked curiously.
"I heard them talking."
The real estate agent recalled the scene and said, "But they didn't use human language to communicate, so I didn't understand a word." ”
"......" Xia Ren.
The agent continued: "At the time I didn't know exactly what they were doing, because I was accidentally discovered, I was forced to fight, and killed the councillor who had fallen into paranoid beliefs and one of the infidels, but I, like you, didn't realize the horror of those fungi at first, and in the course of the fight, I became infected. ”
"They grow fast, and almost as soon as the fight is over, they're already attached to all the places of contact, and they're so deeply rooted in the skin that they've even connected to my brain, and by the time I found out, it's too late. Then I was in the basement and found the aberration. ”
"Relying on the fungus that inhabits my body, I feel the peculiarity of that aberration, and I finally understand what those aliens want to do in Solrey."
"They're growing that fungus, that kind of nourishment, it's humans."
"You mean ......"
Xia Ren subconsciously clenched his fists.
How similar is the cause of this outbreak of atypical phobia, these aliens, damn it!
"The fungus that lives in the body of the aberrant is infinitely close to maturity, and I can feel their desire to release and spread, it is like a bomb that, once fully mature, will scatter hundreds of billions of spores into the air and infect countless people. But I can't stop it, not even in the whole city, no one can stop it. ”
"That's when I saw a missed call from you."
"So, you just dropped this bomb on me?"
Xia Ren had guessed from the beginning that the aberration he met at the entrance of the hospital might be manipulated by a real estate agent behind the scenes, but he didn't expect that there would be such a complicated reason behind it.
"You trust me so much?"
Xia Ren really wanted to punch him twice.
The real estate agent smiled, his face was unapologetic, and said, "There is no way, and the final result, isn't it good?" ”
"What a fart!"
Xia Ren couldn't help but burst into foul language.
Because of this incident, he and Lily were directly infected, and thus fell into the current predicament.
However, Xia Ren can't help but admit that from the standpoint of the real estate agent and all the citizens of Sori City, the other party is doing the right thing, and once the fungal spores break out, he may not be able to survive in Sori City.
The real estate agent covered his mouth and coughed dryly, calmed his breath, and said: "At that time, there was another heretic who escaped, and it seemed that he was carrying something important, in order to continue the investigation, I didn't have time to greet you, so I followed all the way to this town." ”
"As you just met outside, when I arrived last night, the townsfolk had twisted into disgusting monstrous monsters."
"But before all the people here go crazy, there are still some people who have left a lot of valuable clues, the most important of which is in the only hospital in this town."
"What clues?" Xia Ren asked.
"It's a doctor's note."
Holding the ground with one hand, the real estate agent staggered to his feet, walked to the empty outpatient desk, picked up a notebook from the table, and threw it to Xia Ren.
"Let's see."
Xia Ren stretched out his hand to take it from the air and looked at it briefly.
The notebook was thicker, about four or five hundred pages, and it was evident that the owner used it frequently, but now the side was stained with a few suspicious drops of blood, and it seemed to have been torn by the struggle, and the appearance was somewhat broken.
Xia Ren opened the first few pages and found that the records on them were all about some patients, or medical points, and they didn't seem to be of much value to him.
"You flip straight to the back."
The real estate agent reminded.
Xia Ren turned to about three hundred pages in one breath before he finally saw the clue.
The owner of the notebook is a doctor from this hospital, and her handwriting is beautiful, and she writes from the first perspective how this town has become a hell on earth step by step.
As early as three months ago, the town was normal, and the pace of life of the inhabitants was unhurried, and it could even be called leisurely.
In the middle of the town, there is a church, and the inhabitants of this church have often prayed to comfort their faith since their ancestors, but as time goes by, recent generations have grown tired of the traditions of the older generation, and they like to be different, so fewer and fewer people go to church.
In recent decades, there has been only one priest in the church, and he has grown old along with the faith that once passed down from the town's ancestors.
The priest was a kind old man with white hair, who, in spite of his tall stature and usual majesty, was happy to play with the little ones, and everyone in the town knew the priest, and they greeted each other when they met him on the street, but no one wanted to go to the church, that rotten and boring place.
However, one day, something changed.
Some of the residents of the town suddenly suffered from a strange disease, and there were patches of dense dots on their skin, like moss, and at first the bulges of these skin were not painful or itchy, but only affected the appearance, and some patients came to the hospital, and the doctor only thought that it was some kind of warts, or caused by allergies, and only prescribed some medicine.
But it didn't take long for more and more residents to have the same symptoms, and these skin bumps began to malignantly change, and in severe cases, the skin ulcerated, pus-draining, and at the same time, the patient's movement was slow, and his thinking skills were reduced, and the doctors of the town did everything they could to alleviate the symptoms.
The incurable disease caused panic among the residents, who looked back to find that almost all of the newly infected patients had been in contact with the previous patients, and for a time, everyone knew that the disease was contagious.
But at the same time, they also found that some children who had also been in close contact with the sick did not have the same symptoms.
These kids all have one thing in common.
They like to play with the priest in the church in the center of town.
The inhabitants, who were suffering from illness, did not have time to think about it, so they went to the church together to ask the priest for advice.
At first, the priest was a little confused, because he did not know what was going on, and the inhabitants who had thought they had found hope returned home disappointed, but the next day they were pleasantly surprised to find that their illness had been greatly reduced.
It was uncertain whether it had anything to do with yesterday's visit, but the facts were in front of them, and the residents went to the church again.
As they spent more and more time in the church, the skin disease of the first group of people was quickly cured, so the remaining residents also went to the church to pray, even those who were not sick.
The unknown disease appeared in less than half a month before disappearing completely, and the doctors did little in the whole process.
A rumor gradually spread in the town:
They were sick because they had turned away from their faith and were punished by God, and because by returning to God's arms, their sickness was forgiven by a merciful God.