Chapter 17: The Church and the Nuns

Walking through the bustling shopping streets, passing through the square where white doves fly, stopping in front of the fountain where they made wishes, throwing coins inside like other tourists, and finally, Zhang Lin and Keshia arrived at a cathedral.

Standing in front of the church with blue tiles and white walls, relief frescoes, and golden lilies, Kashia suddenly turned around and asked.

"Do the people here also believe in gods?"

"It is true that even as science progresses and the level of human cognition increases, many people still maintain their beliefs, even if they believe in imaginary gods."

"But without God's blessing, how can they believe in God's existence?"

Zhang Lin thought for a while and said: "How to say, when human beings are still ignorant, they have a sense of awe for nature and all unknown things, so they make up the existence of gods, on the one hand, they can achieve the psychological effect of self-comfort by praying to the gods, and on the other hand, they can also blame the gods for things they can't understand." ”

"The religions that came out of it further catalyzed this, and the doctrines or ideas that were created by integration were implemented into guidelines, and some people regarded them as the wisdom of life, and some people took them as the creed that bound them, so belief does not have to have the existence of real gods." Zhang Lin said and smiled, "Moreover, death, an inevitable thing, is feared by countless people, so between hope and fear, the land of faith has always been set aside." ”

"Let's go in and have a look." Kashia nodded as if she didn't understand, she wasn't a clergyman, and she asked this question out of sheer curiosity, and even in Nain, who had a god, she hadn't explicitly believed in a god, even though the identity of the Dragonborn was inextricably linked to the time dragon god Akatosh.

Keshiya pulled Zhang Lin towards the interior of the church.

There weren't too many people in the church, because there were no extra activities, except for a few believers, a few nuns and priests, and most of them were just like Zhang Lin and others, who came in to visit out of curiosity.

Zhang Lin looked up at the mural on the ceiling of the church, which was a female figure surrounded by children with angel wings, holding a baby, which seemed to be a church of Our Lady.

Kashia looked around with wide eyes.

"Smack."

"Oops!"

The sound of the book falling to the ground was accompanied by the sound of the girl's exclamation.

I saw a blonde girl in a blue nun's robe apologizing to Kathia while picking up the Bible that had fallen on the ground and brushing off the dust on it: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I didn't see anyone. ”

It seems that the girl, who was still reading a book while walking, collided with Kashia.

"It's okay, I'm too distracted." Kashia shook her head, indicating that she didn't care, and then noticed the book that the other party regarded as a treasure, "Hmm, what is this one you are reading?" ”

"Well, this is the Bible, do you want to see it?" The nun handed the thick book with a brown cover in her hand to Kathia.

Kashia took it and looked at it cautiously.

Seeing that Kashia was interested, the girl stood aside and began to preach about the love of the Lord, God's love for the world, and so on, as if she wanted to develop Kashia into a believer, and Kashia did not stop her from going on, but raised some questions from time to time.

Zhang Lin, who was standing on the side, looked at the girl who was clearly different from the other nuns in the church in terms of dress, and the black robes worn by those nuns were all tightly wrapped and very conservative except for their faces and hands.

And the girl in front of her, in addition to also wearing a black nun hat, her blue robe can be described as bold, the high slit nun robe is separated from the root of the thigh, the white slender legs are directly exposed, many passing tourists can't help but look at a few times, people are worried that as long as the action is a little bigger, there will be a risk of going out, but the faintly visible black safety pants should exist to prevent this.

As if sensing Zhang Lin's gaze, the girl temporarily put down her preaching to Kashia, turned her head, stared at him with a pair of blue eyes and said, "This gentleman, don't you know that it is very rude to look at a girl like this?" ”

"I'm sorry, I'm just curious, your attire is different from other nuns."

Zhang Lin's apology made the girl's face look better, and judging from her performance, she was not an aggressive person.

"You say this nun suit, it's just for ease of movement, after all, I don't spend most of my time in church like they do."

"Aren't you a nun in this church?" Zhang Lin asked.

The girl tidied up, nodded, and said, "No, I'm a traveling nun, and my goal now is to travel all over the world, and this is just one of the stops." ”

"Traveling all over the world? Traveling? ”

"How can it be so simple as tourism, of course it is missionary." The girl said with some excitement, "By the way, sir, do you have faith?" ”

"I guess there is."

"Yes is yes, no is no, how can it be said to be so," the girl was even more excited when she mentioned the topic of faith, "People without faith are pitiful, so you have to have your own faith no matter what, you think about it, the Lord created us, we should be grateful......"

Listening to the girl's preaching, Zhang Lin, who was almost big enough to hear it, couldn't help but interrupt the other party, "That, have you heard of Amway?" ”

"......" The girl was stunned, and carefully rummaged through her memory, is there a sect called Amway, and frowned after a while, is it because she is lonely and unheard? No, my goal is to be the best nun in the church, how can I show ignorance, absolutely not, and soon, she thought of a way to deal with it, "Oh, sir, you are from Amway, the incarnation of the Lord is everywhere, and having faith is a good thing, so let's just take a good visit." And from the snickering joy hidden in her eyes, it was clear that she seemed to praise her wit.

There can't really be an Amway religion, right??

The girl's reaction made Zhang Lin almost think that he was just casually teasing, but it turned out that such a church really existed here, and then he guessed the truth from the other party's hidden expression that was not very smart.

At this point, Kashia roughly skimmed through the Bible in her hand, and judging from the traces and handwritten notes that she had read over the years but were still carefully guarded, the girl clearly took it seriously, and it was no wonder that she bumped into people as she walked and looked at it.

"Can you show us around?" While returning the book to the other party, Kashia made a request.

"Of course, no problem." The missionary girl, who considered Kashia as a potential believer, gladly accepted the request.

Nuns or priests who pass by along the way greet the girl with honorifics when they see her.

"You're respected here?" Kashia asked, a little confused.

"Eh, is there one?" The girl didn't seem to think that there was anything strange about the attitude of those people towards her, and when she heard Kshia's question, she thought for a moment and said, "Well, probably because I'm from the Italian archdiocese, I'm just an ordinary nun." ”

Kexia thought that the Italy in the girl's mouth was the holy place of the church, so she recognized the girl's statement, but Zhang Lin felt that it was not so simple, because the name of those people just now was "IND", Sister of the Wind, this seems to be her title, how can she be an ordinary nun if she can have a title.

"I just heard you say that you are traveling around the world, so where are you going next?"

"The next stop is Japan."

"By the way, I don't know your name yet?"

"Hmm...... My name is Saran Dagstino, and you can call me Saran. ”