Chapter 385, Screening
A huge ruin unfolded in front of Xiao Yan's eyes, the ruins were still surrounded by a cordon, and the water sprayed all over the church had not yet dried out, and there were black water stains everywhere, which seemed to give birth to a sense of depression out of thin air.
Especially directly opposite this ruin, there is a constant stream of vehicles, and the prosperity of the metropolis contrasts sharply with the complete disappearance of this monastery. Behind Xiao Yan, there is the colorful shijie, and in front of Xiao Yan's eyes, there is only two colors of black and gray. There were no police cars parked nearby, and pedestrians occasionally drew a cross on their chest as they passed by, and then hurried away muttering something. No one took the initiative to lift the cloth fence pulled out by the police, and there seemed to be something in the ruins that made the pedestrians panic.
This is undoubtedly a very complete destruction, even if Xiao Yan doesn't know what accident scene analysis is, he can find too many problems from this place. As far as the eye can see, almost all of the ruins are the same color, which means that the entire monastery may have been on fire at the same time from front to back. Instead of the kind of fire that slowly spreads, causing some places to overburn and there is a difference in color.
In the direction of what used to be the prayer hall, Xiao Yan could see something glassy. It was supposed to be a beautiful glass window on the roof of the church, but now it has become like a slag. This means that the fire was not only fast, but also so ferocious that it directly caused the shattered glass to remelt and re-cool with dust to its current gray appearance after the goods were shipped.
Arson, and it is a precisely calculated act of arson.
Xiao Yan was able to confirm this, although he knew that the Povsky family would immediately abandon their first hiding place. But I didn't expect them to be so decisive.
Are they afraid that this church will expose some problems? Xiao Yan frowned slightly. The real enemy he faced was that Charlotte. In the face of such an enemy, any judgment needs to be constantly overturned and restarted. Even if this kind of overthrow is repeated, it is not necessarily close to the truth. Including the actions of the Povsky family, what the purpose is, Xiao Yan has not been able to confirm until now. So, this church may have been burned down by the Povsky family, but it may have been just a cover-up.
Charlotte has so many options. It also brought too much trouble to Xiao Yan's judgment.
Looking around, Xiao Yan was sure that there were no police officers left nearby, so he decisively lifted the cloth strip and burrowed into the ruins.
In the first few meters, it should have been in the area of the previous prayer hall, and Xiao Yan could see some carbonized wooden strips at his feet. It was supposed to be the remnants of the benches in the prayer hall. Although with the advancement of technology, many of the long wooden benches in Parisian churches are now made of plastic or metal, and some are even made of carbon fiber and fiberglass. But in this church, the ancient rituals are still followed, and the walnut benches are still preserved. And now. These benches, which may have a classical literary style, have been reduced to slag.
Xiao Yan continued to walk along the black passageway, and there were four confessional rooms in this church. It's on the other side of the prayer hall bypassed. After this confessional room, there is a place for the faculty to work and rest. Xiao Yan and the others had been living here temporarily, but not all of them, at least Findel and Novan didn't live here. Those two guys arrived at the back door of the church every day to pick him up and go to the location of the Industrial Bank, basically staying for a whole day, and then rushing back.
When Xiao Yan walked past the largest wall of the prayer hall, he happened to see the broken cross lying on the ground, the martyr on the cross still bowing his head, and the original brass-colored exterior was covered with black stains. This was originally a lifeless statue, but when Xiao Yan saw it, it happened to be completely on the front of this statue. If the cross was originally hung on the wall, then Xiao Yan's current position should be by that wall, directly below the cross. The expression of the statue, which could not be seen from the oblique side, was now clearly seen by Xiao Yan.
The statue was neither depressed nor miserable, and of course, such emotions should not be expected to be forged by secular humans hundreds of years ago.
The first thing that caught Xiao Yan's eye was the eye of the statue closest to the wall. Unlike the outer eye, which was often seen by the praying, the more hidden eye on the inside should have been tightly closed, but now it was hollow, as if its eyeballs had been gouged out.
And at the corner of this statue's mouth, Xiao Yan could vaguely see that it seemed to have a strange smile.
Xiao Yan was stunned for a moment, wanting to take a closer look at whether this smile was the expression of the statue itself, or whether it was stained by the previous stains and formed by accident. But this thought was interrupted by a voice behind him.
"Hands up, male, don't keep moving, turn around slowly, and don't let me find out if you have any plans you shouldn't have."
The sound was accompanied by the sudden honking of police cars and the loading of two pistols.
Xiao Yan frowned slightly, turned around slowly, looked at the police officers who came out of nowhere, and said loudly in German: "What's going on, what's going on?" ”
Hearing Xiao Yan's fluent German, the two policemen glanced at each other. As French police officers who use "the most beautiful language on shijie", their mastery of foreign languages is unimaginably low. Xiao Yan couldn't understand where the disdain for the German language came from, even though it shares a border with Germany. Nor can it be understood that these French policemen Weishenme would rather learn English and maintain a defensive attitude towards German.
"Who are you? weishenme got here? ”
The policeman on the far left re-grasped the gun in his hand, turned his head sideways into the intercom on his shoulder, and said a few words to the policewoman beside him in broken English like Xiao Yan. Behind these two policemen, there is already a large void, and Parisians, although they love romance, will definitely shy away from possible dangers.
Xiao Yan showed a dazed and ignorant look, and replied in English: "I'm from Germany, I just came back from China, and someone asked me to come here to get something, saying that it was something in the confessional, but now who can tell me what's going on?" ”
"You said you were from Germany, what proof do you have?"
Xiao Yan reached out and reached into his arms, wanting to take out the passport, but this action was immediately misunderstood by the other party.
"Wait a minute, put your hands there, don't move, walk slowly."
"Walk through? Are you sure? ”
As soon as Xiao Yan's words fell, he had already stretched out his left hand, and a light flashed slightly under the feet of the two policemen, and in the blink of an eye, they were standing on the spot.
Without wasting the opportunity for this shock and deterrence technique to work, Xiao Yan rushed to the side of the two policemen, pulled out the handcuffs from their waists, and handcuffed them to the window of the police car. Then he snatched the police weapon from the hands of the two people, took a few steps back, raised his pistol and pointed it at the two policemen, and asked with a smile: "Okay, let's talk about it, you have been hiding around here, or has someone called you to call the police and say that I am here?" ”
The two policemen never expected to change hands in the blink of an eye, they didn't even understand that Weishenme would not be able to act at all for a moment, but this did not affect their awareness of the danger now, especially now that the pistol was pointed at their heads.
"Someone called the police, and we just received the call that someone was destroying the remains of the fire in the monastery."
Xiao Yan smiled slightly, and heard the sound of the police car honking in the distance rapidly expanding, he casually dropped the two revolvers under the police car, saluted the two slightly, and then quickly ran away.
In less than 30 seconds, 3 police cars came one after another, and the two policemen before had already untied the handcuffs, looking at the direction Xiao Yan left, a feeling of powerlessness arose.
"Someone found Xiao Yan, 1 minute ago, he was still in the Cathedral of St. Tuka in District 11."
At the same time as Xiao Yan disappeared, Alyssatia put down the phone in her hand, turned her head to look at Du Ruoxi, who was still motionless, and said.
This answer was obviously unexpected by Du Ruoxi, she turned her head to look at Elisatia and asked repeatedly: "St. Tuca's Cathedral?" ”
"That's right, the ruins of the Cathedral of Santa Tuca, to be exact. The other day, this church suddenly caught fire and was completely in ruins within 20 minutes. The 21 priests and nuns who lived inside were burned alive by the fire. ”
Du Ruoxi frowned and asked, "Have you found out the real murderer?" ”
"No, it was done by a veteran, how could it be so easy to find the real culprit. But there is a rumor in Paris that the greens may have planned the burning, and some are said to be planning to build a new mosque on the site of the church. However, none of these things can be corroborated, but in Paris, sometimes rumors can cause big trouble. ”
Du Ruoxi tapped his head lightly and said, "Xiao Yan will definitely not go to that church for no reason, but there is such a relationship between the burning of this church and those green sects. If I guessed correctly, Xiao Yan is conducting a round of screening, but I don't know what the purpose of his screening is, and what the basis is. ”
"Religious upheaval in Europe has intensified recently, and similar situations have occurred many times in France and the United Kingdom, not only in churches, but also in mosques in some places. Excluding the radicals, I believe that this turmoil in Europe will eventually turn into a religious struggle from an economic point of view. ”
Alyssatia whispered, "Religious struggles are more brutal than other turmoil. ”
Du Ruoxi whispered, "You mean, Xiao Yan is still insisting on his mission to come to Europe, not to obtain the Shijie Tree Fragment, but to quell this turmoil?" (To be continued......)