Since the beginning of autumn, Chen An's work has been much busier than usual, every day the Chamber of Commerce is turning over a large number of recently harvested grain trade, which undoubtedly adds a lot of difficulty to their accounting work in terms of accounting, basically from the morning to the evening rhythm, until the middle of the frost month (November), the work of the Chamber of Commerce gradually returned to normal.

In view of the hard work during this time, Mr. Ackerman consulted the directors of the Chamber of Commerce and won a three-day rest for his employees, while Chen An arranged for the last rotation, because Ackerman specially named him to preside over the final finishing work of the accounting, so when Chen An rested, the sky was snowflaked.

Knock Knock Knock –

In the early morning of this day, a quick knock on the door suddenly woke up Chen An, who was immersed in his sleep, and in a daze, he seemed to hear someone calling his name.

"Ann, Ann, open the door, I'm Alex!"

"What's the noise early in the morning, don't you know that I'm so busy these days, I can't finally take a lazy nap and rest!"

Chen An staggered out of bed, and when he opened the door, he saw Alex knocking on the door, and vented his angry anger when he shook his head and face.

"Ann, sorry, sorry, sorry, it's me, it's not ......," Alex said apologetically.

"Tell me, what's the matter? If there's nothing important, I'm going to go back to sleep. Chen An yawned sleepily.

"Ann, listen to me! Bela Oka's security team arrested a group of cultists who had secretly assembled a few days ago, and planned to hang them in Triumph Square today, do you want to go with me to see this excitement?" Alex quickly explained his intentions. "I heard that the gallows have been erected now, and if you go later, you may not be able to see it. ”

“...... Wait for me a while, I'll go change my clothes. ”

Chen An was shocked after hearing this, he was silent for a moment, and sighed in his heart.

Having lived in Bela Oka for more than half a year, coupled with the help of Alex, a native, Chen An is familiar with many things that are not in the books, taking the cultists mentioned by the other party, in the world of Osgard, there are mainly two kinds of cultists, one is a cultist who believes in the abyss demon, and the other is a cultist who preaches "truth".

The former is easy to understand, but Chen An has deep sympathy for the latter.

The cultists who preach the "truth" can basically be regarded as scientists in this world, and they have unique scientific views on the real nature and unknown life, environment, and phenomena, and have proved the existence of the truth through practical exploration.

It was a materialist challenge to the idealistic world, and the result was undoubtedly a complete failure, just as the heresy that preached heliocentrism in the Middle Ages of the earth was burned to death by the Church.

With the exception of these "cultists" who pursued the truth in their hearts, almost everyone in Osgaard thought that they were a bunch of madmen, because idealism had long been ingrained in their minds, and there were often very few truly enlightened people.

The gods have issued an oracle to exterminate this group of people, but ideas cannot be destroyed, and as long as humanity does not perish, the germination of science will never be cut off.

So since knowing the deeds and fate of these people, Chen An has never talked about any related scientific topics in front of people, Alex may be the only exception, after all, the two have known each other for a long time, and they will always inadvertently expose some of their cognitive ideas in science in daily chats.

Alex would come early in the morning to inform himself about the cultists, and I am afraid that there is no shortage of suspicions in his heart that he is a believer in the so-called "truth".

......

Changing into thick robes, Chen An followed Alex out and walked all the way to Triumph Square, the streets have always been deserted in the early winter morning, but now there are many people, from the direction they walked, it can be known that each other seems to be preparing to go to Triumph Square to see the excitement.

When Chen An arrived at Triumph Square, the gathered people had already surrounded the place, and a vague shadow of a gallows could be seen from a distance, and before he could figure out how to get close to the gallows, Alex took his hand and squeezed directly and violently in the crowd, and soon, the two were sweating profusely and squeezed into the isolation zone in front of the gallows.

The gallows in front of him reminded Chen An of many scenes that had appeared in movies, but it was the first time he had watched such a real gallows scene, in front of the separation belt, there was a soldier covered in armor every three steps to guard the order, and next to the gallows was a group of prisoners with their hands tied, surrounded by soldiers, if there was any change, these soldiers would definitely not hesitate to kill them.

Looking closely at these prisoners, there were men and women, large and small, about 20 people, each of them was ragged, scarred all over, obviously suffered inhuman treatment, looking at those gray-haired old men, half-grown children with immature faces, Chen An only felt a throbbing pain in his heart, because he really couldn't accept the fate of these people who were about to be executed.

I don't know when it started, but a man who looked like an official stood on the gallows and announced their crimes.

blasphemy, spreading heresy, and inciting demagoguery......

When the officials announced the decision to sentence these people to death, the entire Victory Square burst into loud cheers.

Chen An clenched his fists and watched expressionlessly as the "prisoners" brought the gallows and put on the noose, and then with a click, the planks on the soles of their feet parted, and the "prisoners" writhed and struggled in pain until their bodies stopped moving at all.

Whenever a prisoner died, the crowd would erupt in enthusiastic cheers, which was undoubtedly full of great irony in Chen An's view.

This is the barbaric, ignorant, dark Middle Ages!

He thought that these "prisoners" would say something before they died, but when he saw that there were blood stains on the mouths of these people, and they could not speak with their mouths open, he suddenly realized that it was not that these people did not want to speak, but that they could no longer speak.

The hanging ended quickly, and the lively people in the square also dispersed quickly, Alex pulled Chen An, who was still stunned at the gallows, with his hand, and reminded him quietly.

"Ann, the hangings are over, it's time for us to go!"

"Let's go. ”

Chen An, who came back to his senses, nodded, and then turned to leave with an expressionless face.

"Ann, do you sympathize with them?"

On the way, Alex, who has always been lively and talkative, was unexpectedly silent, and after a long time, he couldn't help but ask when he saw that there was no one around.

"It's more pity than sympathy. Chen An shook his head and sighed.

"It's a pity?"

"It's a pity that they were born at the wrong time. Chen An smiled and rubbed his head.

"Don't touch my head!Be careful that I turn my face with you!" Alex opened Chen An's hand dissatisfiedly, but turned his head and forgot about it, looking a little worried. "Ann, I advise you not to get involved with these people. ”

"Rest assured, I have never been a martyr defending the truth, in fact I am just a vulgar mortal. Chen Andao.

"Ann, you're my best friend, and I don't want to see anything happen to you. Alex said emotionally, although he had some ill intentions towards Chen An at first, but after a long time of contact and a deeper understanding of each other, he knew that the man from a strange background in front of him was a good friend worthy of his deep friendship.

Born into a poor single-parent family in Bela Oca, Alex grew up following his mother and was told that his father abandoned them when he learned that he was pregnant, and his mother never mentioned his father.

In order to support Alex, his beautiful mother became a **, and Alex grew up in the eyes of others, when he was 8 years old, his mother died of illness, and Alex, who lost his source of livelihood, has since embarked on the road of stealing chickens and dogs.

In fact, he does not believe in Thor, the god of the sun, but in Ricky, the god of deception and lies.

As he grew older, Alex, who was good at disguising himself, was always able to use different methods to grab various benefits, but he knew that sooner or later he would end up in prison, so he began to resolve to become a god, as long as he had the status of a god, he could say goodbye to the past and move towards a glorious future.

After meeting Chen An, Alex met someone who treated him sincerely for the first time, and even for a promise, he would always take the time to patiently teach himself about finance, and the more time passed, the more he could feel the plain and warm aura of Chen An.

He cherished Chen An, because he didn't know if he would be able to meet such a friend in the future, and after learning that the security team had arrested a group of cultists, he rushed to Chen An's chamber of commerce as soon as possible, and only breathed a sigh of relief after finding that he was safe.

He approached Chen An and proposed to watch the cultist's hanging ceremony just to remind the other party that he hoped that he would not do anything stupid, but it turned out that he seemed to be a little concerned and confused.

"In half a month, I'm going to go to the awakening ceremony. ”

"Hmm, have you scraped together enough money for the awakening ceremony?" Chen An looked at Alex who suddenly said this in surprise.

"Of course, will you come over to watch the ceremony?!, I'm not very confident, I probably wouldn't be nervous if you were around. Alex said.

"Watching the ceremony, ......" As soon as he thought of the temple, Chen An subconsciously felt repulsion in his heart, so he politely refused. "I probably won't have time to go then, after all, the Chamber of Commerce is about to do the year-end audit. ”

"That's right...... I know. Alex's mood couldn't help but be a little low, and for a moment, he seemed to think of something, and his face was rejuvenated.