Chapter 45: The Secret
"With such a big footprint, how tall is the owner of this foot?" Lin Xiaoxue compared the size of the footprints and made a very exaggerated gesture.
Lin Feng leaned over and glanced at it: "The footprints on the ground are at least fifty yards, I estimate that this person must be more than two meters tall!" ”
Remembering that the black car driver told me that this church was haunted, I guess it was the owner of this footprint who caused it, and if you want to continue to investigate further, you still need to pay attention, in short, be careful.
With a flashlight, I walked down the hall to the right, and soon came to the worship room.
The worship room is a place used by the congregation in the church to worship, and it is supposed to be very professional and sacred, but after the fire three years ago, a huge room has been burned beyond recognition, and if it were not for the name on the door, I would not have known the original purpose of this room.
The roof of the room was still carved with a seven-pointed star, which was barely recognizable despite being blackened by smoke.
In the middle of the auditorium, there is a huge statue of a cross nailed to the legendary god of Christianity, Jesus. However, all this is also presented in the form of carving.
I wondered how the whole room had been eroded by the fire, but this statue of Jesus was an exception, and when I looked closer for a while, the statue was not damaged, but not even dusty, and it looked very out of place in this dilapidated room.
It seems that the previous estimate was not wrong, and that there were people who often returned to the abandoned church. The other party should be a faithful believer in Christianity, so he will cherish this statue of Jesus so much!
"Goofy, look at this!" Lin Xiaoxue, who was in the distance, suddenly let out an exclamation, as if she had found something unusual.
rushed over and found that on the wall where Lin Xiaoxue was, there were a few framed photos hanging, and if you looked closely, what was recorded on the photos was the past history of this church.
In each photo, there is a pastor with many congregants. The expressions of those sect members, some stupid, some with fierce faces, and some were playing with their fingers, and around the photo, some guards could be vaguely seen.
Lin Feng looked at the things in the photo, and said with a solemn face: "In the past, I just heard about it, but I didn't expect it to be true!" St. Mary is indeed a psychiatric hospital in the name of a church! ”
"Oh? How so? ”
"Nonsense, not to mention the demented expressions on these people's faces, have you ever seen a church that needs so many guards when taking pictures?"
I have to say that Lin Feng still has some brains. The purpose of the guards should be to prevent these mentally ill people from escaping. Since it is essentially a mental hospital, it can be told openly and honestly, so why use another church as a cover to confuse the public? For a while, I couldn't figure it out.
"Hey, I said you two, don't you see the point at all?" Lin Xiaoxue saw that Lin Feng and I were talking fiercely, and she was a little sullen. She wiped every picture on the wall again, pointed to the pastor's location in the photo, and spoke.
"Take a good look at who this person is!"
I stared wide-eyed, carefully paying attention to the appearance of the pastor in a few photos, and the next second, I unconsciously trembled, and big drops of cold sweat rolled down.
The pastor in the ten photos on the wall is obviously the same person, and this person, I saw not long ago, is none other than Ren Fengyun!
Unexpectedly, he is the pastor of this church of Santa Maria!
Ten photos, each one, were taken around Christmas. In other words, the photo wall in front of me spans a whole decade. In the past ten years, Ren Fengyun has all looked like an old man, and there has been little change.
Ten years ago, Ren Fengyue was only a child in his early twenties, and at that time, he actually had such an old face, no different from the people I saw yesterday, a person has not changed a little in ten years, which is completely contrary to the laws of nature.
Looking at the photo wall in front of him, he unconsciously swallowed a cool breath, Ren Fengyue, what are you?
Lin Feng took out his mobile phone, recorded the scene in front of him, and then muttered: "Let's go, let's go in again and take a look, what secrets are hidden in this church!" ”
Now, he has to admit that the church of Santa Maria does have a great connection with the case of spontaneous combustion of the human body!
The night was deeper, and there was silence in the huge church. The three of us are like ghosts shuttling through it, getting closer and closer to the secrets hidden inside.
Out of the worship room, there was a long narrow corridor in front of it, which was also filled with scenes of fire and destruction. Although there is a courtyard on one side of the promenade, the courtyard is completely enclosed by barbed wire. In other words, it is impossible to walk from this courtyard to the outside of the church.
Lin Feng glanced at the situation around the courtyard, and shook his head a little helplessly: "The scene here is similar to some prisons abroad, I'm afraid that the people who built the church had ulterior motives in the first place." ”
"Not necessarily, maybe the other party built it according to the prison in the first place!" Originally, it was an unintentional lifting of the bar, but I didn't expect it to become a prophecy. Wait until you walk through the promenade and discover the interior of the church of Santa Maria, which is truly a closed prison!
Dining area, work area, single room for lodging. Between each area, there is a steel gate, which is opened and closed by the central room of the entire area. Because the church has been wrecked for a long time, the power has long been cut off, so all the gates can be entered and exited at will, and we can go deep into the interior.
Lin Feng investigated a few accommodation rooms on the side, and found that these places were originally built to hold those mentally ill people, and according to the patient's condition, the accommodation was divided into several different areas from A to C.
Area A and Area B are basically connected together, but Area C is separated independently.
I guess Area C is used to house the highly dangerous mentally ill, and the defense of the entire area, compared to the previous two districts, the floodgates inside the zone are even connected to the power grid to prevent the mentally ill from escaping, but now, those grid facilities are all useless.
To my surprise, since entering the church, the traces of the fire have decreased dramatically, especially in the C area, where there is almost no trace of smoke.
This is a bit unbelievable, according to the original words of the black car driver, most of the people burned to death in the fire three years ago were mentally ill, if this is the case, then the center of the fire should be concentrated in the internal "prison". But this is clearly contrary to what I have seen.
Could it be that there was another hidden meaning in the original fire?
"Find them separately, one person searches one area, it's faster!" After Lin Feng finished speaking, he took Lin Xiaoxue to Area A and Area B. I thought about it for a while, and then I broke the iron fence on the side and drilled into Area C.
All the way into one of the single rooms, in the small space, all kinds of infrastructure are still well preserved, and you can vaguely see the scene of the former owner living here.
When I turned on the flashlight, I was surprised to find that the wall behind me was depicted with blood.
In the center of the picture is a violently burning fire, and many living people are depicted in the fire, moaning in pain. And on the side of this fire, there is also a circle of small people with shackles in hand, who kneel and worship the fire in the center, as if performing some kind of ritual.
Underneath the portrait, a phrase written in blood is repeated:
"I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the end he will stand on the earth. After this flesh of mine is destroyed, I will see God outside of the flesh. ”
This is a classic quote about salvation and hope. It can be seen that the person who once lived here was a religious fanatic, and he used this phrase many times, indicating that this sentence should have a special meaning for him. As for the scene depicting the fire, whether it is the scene from the fire in the psychiatric hospital three years ago.
If this is the case, and in the context of the situation presented throughout the church, I have come up with a terrible situation, but that situation is only my own speculation, and I dare not draw conclusions at this time.