Verse 107: If
The three great men in the South Transept are the metropolitan of Cárdenas, the head of the local church, a high-ranking cardinal priest, and even more remarkable, the archbishop of both churches.
These three were well-informed and clear-headed men, not as ignorant as ordinary short-sighted people, who immediately thought that something magical was a miracle, but on the contrary, when they saw Norman's strange appearance, they immediately thought that Norman was pretending.
There has been no miracle for more than a thousand years, how can it be so easy to suddenly descend a miracle?
But these three were indeed clear-headed people, and some of the doubts immediately came to mind.
"Priest Hardy, has he ever been to the Cathedral of Abbe?"
Gustav asked Hardy this way, and he was not as hostile to Hardy as he had been before.
After all, Norman is now pretending that the father has come, if this is implemented, but it is a great crime to blaspheme the father, no matter how much he admires this young man, it is impossible to guarantee him, so this also causes Gustav to become alienated from the original closeness to Norman, and even a little hostile.
It was a sin to dare to pretend to be the Father! But he had some questions to ask before he could do so.
Faced with Gustav's doubts, Hardy shook his head, "No. ”
"He'd lived in that village for eighteen years, and he never came out, and even when he came to Cárdenas, he didn't enter the First District. "This is the information he investigated, and the evidence is conclusive.
This answer puzzled Gustav.
If Norman had never been to Abel Cathedral before, how did he know that Abel Cathedral would have the wonder of the Father's coming and was ready for it?
And Hardy gave his own guess at this point.
"Perhaps he got this information from someone else's mouth, for even I, who is in the White Mountains and has never been to Cárdenas, knows the wonders of the Father's coming. ”
Gustav nodded, temporarily accepting Hardy's speculation, but a new round of suspicion came again.
But how did he know that the miracle of the Father's coming would take place today? Even I didn't know that the miracle of the Father's coming would appear today. ”
Gustav explained the reasons to Hardy and Thomas.
"The cathedral has a special dome structure, which is the reason for the wonders of the Father's Descent, but only the morning Father's Coming is fixed every day, and the evening Father's Coming only occasionally occurs in the summer twilight, and the time of appearance is not regular, and the designers of the year did not leave any explanation. If anyone could have known that there would be a miracle of the Father's arrival today, it would have been the same designer more than 200 years ago, but I don't think he would have known either, otherwise there would have been no gods left. There has even been a rumor in the Cathedral of Abel that the Father's arrival at dusk was a miracle in itself, not by the will of the designer......"
This is really difficult to explain, and Hardy thought about it for a long time before coming up with a very far-fetched possibility.
"Maybe the designer from two hundred years ago had descendants living in Cárdenas, and he happened to meet the designer's descendants, so he learned the exact time from them......"
Hardy spoke, his voice getting lower and lower.
This explanation is so far-fetched that even he doesn't believe it himself, because there are so many doubts in it.
First of all, Gustav himself said that even if the designer of Yabei Cathedral survived until now, it is likely that he himself did not know that the Father would come down this evening. Finally, even if the designer knew how to calculate the time of the Father's arrival at dusk, would he really have offspring? Finally, even if he did have offspring, even if he did pass on this secret, would his descendants still keep this secret intact after more than two hundred years?......
There are so many uncertainties in this that it is really not a convincing reason, and Norman has been watched by the people he sent for most of his time in Cárdenas, has Norman come into contact with the so-called "descendants of the designer", can he not have points in his heart?
Gustav also heard the far-fetched nature of this explanation, but he held it down for the time being, and said what he felt was the biggest doubt in his heart.
"What puzzled me the most was that the Father came at dusk and suddenly changed direction. ”
"Even if all the previous assumptions are true, he did know the vision, location, and time of the Father's coming from the designer's descendants, but how did he know that the Father's coming would temporarily change direction today?"
Hadimer thought for a moment and said, "This is probably his ghost, and maybe someone helped him." ”
In this discussion between the two, the identities of the two gradually changed, and Gustav gradually became the one who dominated the situation - this is normal, after all, this is Cárdenas, and it is still the matter of the Cathedral of Yabei.
In the case of the Yabei Cathedral, it is clear that Gustav, a native, has more say, and in line with the principle of seeking the truth, it is also the right choice for Hadi to let Gustav take the lead in the situation.
And after hearing Hardy's speculation, Gustav was noncommittal.
"Maybe. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, the three of them saw the light man who had descended from the Father God in the magic prism suddenly straightened out of his previous half-lying posture and quickly moved five or six meters, returning to the position where the light man should normally appear.
At the same time, they also saw Norman start to write through the magic prism.
These two people originally deduced and eliminated doubts in order to find out the truth that Norman was pretending to be the Father, but they didn't expect that the more they deduced, the more they felt that this was really the Father's arrival, especially in this current scene, as soon as Norman moved his pen, the light man returned to his original position, which added a mysterious color to the current scene, making the two of them more and more swaying.
Could it be ......
Just then, someone knocked on the door of the South Transept.
After inviting in, a deacon walked in with a handful of hairs in his hand.
"It's something that falls on the dome. ”
At Gustav's signal, the deacon approached, placed the handful on the long table, and then exited the room, the last three of them staring at it.
The pile of hair was very long, as long as a normal man's arm, and it was also very soft, and the whole body was golden yellow, and it was stacked together, which looked like soft straw that had been dried in the sun, but it was much softer than straw just by looking at it.
It was the griffon's hair, and it was what Gustav had asked him to go up to the dome to find: the Father had come to a different position, and it must have been something unusual in the glass skylight of the dome, which Gustav could still imagine.
But he never expected it to be griffin fur.
Gustav looked at the griffin's fur on the table, and then at the man of light in the magic prism who had returned to his original position, and his heart was surging.
Apparently, it was the griffons who had fallen on the dome during the long hovering process that had caused the Father's arrival to change its position, and the sight of the Father's arrival had returned to its original place as the deacon had collected the hair.
And more importantly, if you follow the truth that he and Hardy just speculated, combined with the current evidence, then the ins and outs of the whole thing will come out.
He sought out the descendants of the designer of the Cathedral of Abbe, and learned from them all the secrets of the Father's coming, that the sight of the Father's coming would appear at dusk, and that his first co-conspirator, Thomas, would appear. ”
Gustav pointed at Thomas and continued, "Because of Thomas's appearance, I have reason to ask Duke Lake to send griffon troops to help the church round him up, so that the griffon troops can hover over Yabei Cathedral. At this time, he cooperated with me, and together the two of us deliberately delayed the time, so that the griffin troops could hover over the Cathedral of Abel for a long time, so that they could shed enough hair, and then I had people quietly go to the dome of the church and arrange the griffons' hairs into a special shape, as the descendants of the designer had told us, so as to change the position and posture of the Father's arrival. ”
"Here I am his second conspirator. ”
Hardy and Thomas were silent, listening to Gustav in silence.
Then a third conspirator, Priest Hardy, came into the picture. ”
"Priest Hardy, you cooperated with him and deliberately changed the exam papers and made him retake the exam, so as to keep him in the nave until the appointed time came, and he was finally able to appear in that position exactly at that time according to the predetermined plan, and create the miracle of the Father's arrival. ”
Gustav made his concluding remarks.
"It can be done if the designer had bequeathed the secret of the Father's coming to his descendants, if his descendants had not left Cárdenas after more than two hundred years, were still alive and kept the secret, if Norman had found this descendant in just one month of his arrival in Cárdenas, if Hardy Priest, Thomas, and I were his conspirators in the plan. ”
Well, well said, but pointless.
Fools know that this is obviously impossible......
Gustav looked at the magic prism again, and the scene in the magic prism made him dizzy and doubtful about life, and finally added another condition with a wry smile.
"If this illiterate farmer a month ago only needs a month of study, he can answer the one-star blue-robed mage's paper without even reading the test paper...... Shit, shit......"
In the magic prism, Norman was looking ahead, not even looking at the test paper, just answering the one-star blue-robed mage's test paper, brushing and writing down the answers.
And by this glance, Gustav had already seen a question clearly and was sure that the answer was correct and not scribbled......
This scene made Gustav, who was a two-star blue-robed mage, couldn't help but burst into foul mouth, because he thought of how painful he was facing that exam paper of the same difficulty when he first obtained the one-star blue-robed mage qualification. Under Norman, however, the test paper was as simple as 1+1.
Well, I'm answering without even looking at the test papers.
That's the most infuriating thing.