Chapter 678: The Land Obscured by the Gospel (2)
Looking at the rows of blackened wooden stakes, and the shriveled corpses on the wooden stakes, only dry bones remained, the real most shocking was Benedict.
"Brother Da Fei, Brother Bu, that ...... So what? Huang Mao pointed to a slight distance above the stakes...... It was probably a wheel held high by a stake, and the crows around the wheel, trembling and roaring.
In the end, most people focused their eyes on Tang Yun, and Tang Yun could only look at Benedict again. The previous stake was the infamous "burning", and this wheel, which was held high, was called "wheel execution". It is a painful punishment in which a sinner's limbs are broken and then placed on a wheel that is held high and he is subjected to a slow death.
Of course, in Tang Yun's team, no one other than Benedict would know these things that completely subverted the three views of the Federation.
But it is clear that Benedict also fell into some kind of consternation. "In those days, these criminal laws were used to deal with the most heinous sinners. I won't use it again in ten or twenty years, I really don't know how there are so many ...... here."
"In your ...... In that time, what kind of sinners would have been nailed to this? ”
"Hmm...... At the very least, like you and Du Feng, you can barely afford to slaughter hundreds of Zacharo gang members. ”
"Ralph, this joke isn't funny at all."
"I just want to say that I don't approve of what you did before you left Juguxing. In the same way, no matter what the reason, no matter who it is, I don't approve of him doing such a thing that goes against God's will, is inhumane, and will be damned! ”
Tang Yun looked around again, looked at the gruesome pillars of burning at the stake and the pillars of wheels, and said in a low voice.
"I think it was done by the Holy See for Original Sin."
"Impossible! The Holy See could not have done such a thing, some lawless robbers, robbers, or deranged nobles were torturing their slaves......" Benedict's rare words, spoken in a slightly agitated tone, but suddenly stopped. He's both Benedict and Sport. He was neither exactly Benedict nor Benedict. He has Benedict's personality and thought patterns, but he has the memories of countless people in Sleep's body.
No matter how unwilling he was to believe it, he couldn't deny what Tang Yun had seen and heard on the passenger starship before, and in front of the stake rack and wheel rack full of religious nature in front of him. The most likely person who really did such a thing was the Holy See for Original Sin.
Can......
How is this possible, and why is that?
The sky was still incomparably blue, and the floating clouds were still as white as freshly picked cotton. Towards noon, the rays cast by the sun were a little hotter, but still warm but not hot.
In broad daylight, it is bright and clear.
In the gentle sunlight, in the crisp breeze, stood pillars of burning at the stake, tied to the wheels of the corpses standing high. Crows whirl noisily around the wheels, and occasionally bird droppings fall from the sky and hit the green green leaves of the plants, making a snapping sound.
Iris is still sunny, but all that is left in everyone's hearts is the haze left by this terrifying scene.
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After walking for nearly six or seven hours, when the sky was getting dark, the group finally arrived at a town, the town of Pua.
The town of Pua is small, surrounded by low stone parapets in the style of old Rome in a circle of intermittent ashlar stones. Some places had collapsed into rubble, others seemed to have been demolished, and there were only a few foundations left, and some places grew out of the cracks in the masonry and stone with vines and plants that Tang Yun had never seen before, which looked dilapidated. There are cattle and sheep scattered around the town, and one skull is so thin that it really feels stuffy when you look at it. Rather, the fields that are small and tidy and tidy look good. It's just that I don't know what kind of grain is grown in the field, at least Tang Yun, a guy who grew up in the city, has only mixed in the city streets and battlefields full of war smoke, and has never been to the countryside or farms or farms, can't see it.
It is estimated that such a poor town will not be able to attract any robbers, and it is no wonder that the low stone walls are also abandoned. According to Gu Benedict, there are few dangerous wild aetheric beasts in the inhabited areas of Erestar. At most, these low walls are used to defend against common ones, such as coyotes and maned dogs that can't beat a single tooth in a beating.
In the eyes of the Uturs from the Federal Jugu Star, this place resembles a small backward rural settlement. But in the eyes of the 3 teams from Comia, it was much better, and there were also many settlements of similar size in the backward and chaotic Komia Star Field. Three to five thousand people got together to live on agriculture and basic handicrafts, and they were poor and tattered. The difference is that there are no Roman-style broken stone walls, thatched huts and so on. Of course, due to natural conditions, the low-level towns of Komia do not look as good as this place on the big picture. At least the air isn't so good, and it's not as "sunny" during the day.
Overall, the atmosphere of the place feels poor and run-down, but peaceful.
To say that what attracted Tang Yun's attention was nothing more than how remote and simple the thatched hut was, and the roof or lintel was also stained or nailed with wooden crosses. It was these seemingly solemn religious things that brought Tang Yun a sense of unease.
A visceral, deep uneasiness, even trepidation. Tang Yun couldn't describe this specific feeling, I don't know why, Tang Yun vaguely felt that this was a kind of panic that he might be surrounded by a large group of madmen in an insane asylum...... It's really a feeling that can't be touched.
The choice of route, arrival time, and so on were all planned in detail based on the earlier scanning map of the ship's radar. Under dusk, Tang Yun asked everyone to take shelter in the nearby woods for the time being. He and Benedict took Bu Peng, Lan Mao, Ye Xiaoxuan and others to change into the clothes they had stolen on the passenger starship earlier, and took the lead in going to the town to investigate. After making sure that there was no threat from the military or the Holy See in this small place, I tried to go around the lively place, trying to buy some local clothes for the brothers waiting in the woods, so as to better disguise the identity of the Federation.