Not long after returning to the cleaned bedroom, Yu Siqi lay on the bed and fell asleep.

When he woke up and opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that there seemed to be more people in his room.

"Looks like you're finally willing to get up and eat. Is it because of the body's instinctive reaction? Or is it just a simple urgency? ”

Father An stood by the window, leaning against the wall, looking at Yu Siqi.

"When did you come back?"

Yu Siqi hurriedly sat up from the bed and asked.

"While you're snoring."

Father Ann tilted his head and said with a smile on his face.

"I don't know why I fell asleep as soon as I lay down." Yu Siqi tried to find a suitable reason for himself, but he found that the priest seemed to know the answer for a long time, and said to him, "I think I happen to know why." In the final analysis, mental exhaustion is obviously more imperceptible than the upper one. I guess you know what I mean, right? It is commendable to be good at discovering secrets, but what if the 'secrets' that are hidden should not be discovered by the unsuspecting? ”

"I'm sorry, I won't be rummaging through your stuff next time, Priest."

When Yu Siqi heard this, he had already realized that the priest had realized his previous 'reckless behavior', so he hurriedly expressed his self-examination of him.

"You don't have to blame yourself too much, I'm just reminding you of the risks." After all, the responsibility of putting such a dangerous thing in a place where you can easily find it should actually be counted on my own head. ”

"So, you're not going to blame me for that?"

Yu Siqi was still a little surprised by this. Because according to his previous understanding of the priest, if he did such a thing, he would inevitably receive a meal or several 'criticisms'.

"Didn't I already say that? It's not your fault. ”

Father Ann blinked.

"Can I ask you a few questions? About what I saw in that memory."

Yu Siqi breathed a sigh of relief and tentatively inquired about Father An.

"You know you never get a lot of questions. After I've answered a few of your questions, more new questions will undoubtedly arise. But given your personality, even if I don't answer you, you're probably going to be absent-minded.

Well, I'll just reluctantly try to answer it. ”

Father Ann pulled a chair for himself, sat down, and made a 'please' gesture to Siqi.

"First question, I want to know what a surrogate is?"

As soon as Yu Siqi saw that the priest had agreed to his presumptuous request, he hurried to find any questions in his mind that he was more concerned about. At this time, the first thing that came to his mind was the word 'surrogate'.

He then asked Father Ann the above question.

"As soon as you came up, you wanted to know the core secret of the church, and you were really a little 'greedy'!" Father An smiled, pointed at Yu Siqi with his finger, and said, "The so-called 'surrogate' actually refers to volunteers who walk in the world in place of the god. They are usually selected from among very devout believers. Churches usually only assign these people to volunteer in the community, or to teach in remote areas. Essentially, they exist only to maintain the church's influence in the secular world. As for me and Setas, and Henrik, who had the misfortune of being killed, we were 'special people' who were selected from among the clergy to deal with some of the more difficult situations for the church. ”

"How special?"

Yu Siqi asked.

"It's so special that the efforts and sacrifices we make a lot of times may not always be correctly and positively evaluated. For example, Henrik's death was portrayed as a 'sign of weakness and incompetence' by some people with ulterior motives. Setas, on the other hand, was confined for two months because of his verbal excesses. Even I myself have been subjected to a rather targeted scrutiny. Father Ann shook his head a little helplessly, and said, "Now that I think about it, many times the past is really unbearable. ”

"But this is unreasonable, aren't you heroes? Didn't you kill that renegade Ling Xi with your own hands? Aren't they supposed to reward you? ”

Yu Siqi's three consecutive questions can be said to be in one go, as if they came out at the same time.

"You're quite right. But you have overlooked a crucial issue, which is that all three of these issues are based on the same fact, that is, Ling Xi the renegade was indeed killed by us.

Unfortunately, we didn't have the means to prove it. And the church happened to get the news that Ling Xi was haunting elsewhere. After this back and forth, how much credibility do you think our words have? ”

Father Ann's expression was a little sad, and it was obvious that he really didn't like to recall those bad old days.

"How can they do this! I mean, you're on the orders of the church to go out to ask, aren't you? ”

Yu Siqi said angrily. terminal

"It was ordered to be requisitioned. But instead of let's go to crusade against the renegade Ling Xi, I hope we can clean up some of the Twilight Sect's strongholds. After all, you only see a part of the memory, and it is natural that you don't understand the relevant premise. ”

When Father An emphasized this to Yu Siqi, his emotions seemed to have adjusted.

It was calm, as it usually is.

"Then how did you deviate from the 'established direction'?"

Yu Siqi wasn't sure if it was appropriate for him to continue asking, so he considered the words and felt that it was still necessary to figure out the whole thing.

"If it were me in the past, I would probably say to you, 'It's all Setath's fault, I have to go to the chapel that the believers call it.'"

But after so many years, I haven't had a good self-reflection.

If I had thought about it for a while, I probably wouldn't have been so 'indulgent' with Setas.

So in the end, it was because I was a little bit 'fanatical' at the time.

It was this 'fanaticism' that prompted me to do something that wanted to get rid of the scum of the 'deviant', and even did not hesitate to indulge my own stupidity for this. Fr. Ann turned his face to look at the hidden door and said, "This foolish act, even in retrospect, makes me feel a little ashamed." ”

"You just did what you had to do, and I know that."

Yu Siqi comforted the priest.

"Perhaps. However, judging from the current situation of Setas, it seems that the mistakes of the past are still continuing. ”

Father Ann rested his hands flat on his knees and tapped it lightly, as if he were playing a drum.

"How did he get the Book of Damnation?"

Yu Siqi knew that the best thing to do now was not to continue asking, but he couldn't help it!

"Stealing, the same as the renegade Ling Xi did before. They were all taken away privately from the church's large library. ”

Father Ann said calmly.

"Didn't you try to stop him? I mean, since your relationship is so good."

Yu Siqi crossed his legs and asked.

"We have a really good relationship. But I ignored the extent to which he was influenced by the renegade Ling Xi, and the scale of the impact that those two months of confinement had on his faith.

In fact, by the time I found out that he was starting to waver, everything was irreparable.

You know, I can defeat him and take back the Book of Damnation. Or even give it back to the church, and maybe the church might forgive me and let me regain my membership.

But to do so will only allow the tragedy to continue to repeat itself over and over again.

Because when that book identifies you as your master, it doesn't leave you.

I'm not just talking about 'leaving you' in the 'literal sense'.

No matter where you take the book, throw it into the sea, put it in a hot furnace and destroy it in a purely physical way. When Setas opened his eyes the next day, the book would return to his arms.

And the most exaggerated, do you know what?

Together, Setas and I discovered that the original renegade Ling Xi was defeated by me and Setas together. In fact, the more factor is that he was abandoned by that book.

In other words, as long as the book still identifies Setas as its owner. As long as the book served Setas, they were in a state of mutual influence. Unless both are eliminated, the other side will inevitably return to reality with the help of such rules. ”

As soon as Father Ann had said a tirade, he stood up and put his chair back in its place.

Yu Siqi knew that this was a hint that 'this is the end of the topic', so he did not continue to ask questions in a disinterested manner, but opened his mouth to tell Father Ann about his meeting with Albert.

Although the previous conversation had already made Father An feel that there was no need to continue the conversation, Yu Siqi's sudden arrival still aroused a trace of Priest's attention.

If nothing else, let's just say that the chair that had been put back by Father Ann was inadvertently moved back, and I know that Father Ann was really interested in it.

After noticing this, Yu Siqi worked harder to share the entire content with Father An.

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