Chapter 239: Healing the Church
"Damn! Damn! What the hell are those lunatics doing? Damn Rupert, I'm going to impeach you in Congress!" Just as Leo finished telling what he had investigated, Sylvia couldn't help but curse repeatedly, her fists clenched, and the bruises on her arms appeared, and she walked back and forth in place, obviously angry.
Hearing Sylvia's roar, everyone else in the cave was startled and couldn't help but look this way.
Leo ignored Sylvia's annoyance, but noticed some small details in Sylvia's words, and said, "Do you know who those medical school members are in Miria City?"
Sylvia didn't think much about it, and blurted out, "Who else? Who else could do such a crazy thing except those madmen who heal the church!"
"Healing the Church?" Leo hesitated, for this was the first time he had heard the name, and there was no mention of it in all the materials he had seen about the medical school before.
Seeing Leo's puzzled look, Sylvia also noticed it, she took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in her heart, and then carefully explained the details of healing the church.
And after Leo heard about the healing of the church, he couldn't help but feel a little absurd, in a place where medical schools are full of rigorous biological sciences, there is such an underground church that is difficult to distinguish between good and evil. And from Sylvia's words, it is not difficult to hear that although the foundation of this sect is in the medical school, its influence is not limited to the medical school, and even other organizations in the outside world have many secret members of the healing church.
The basic idea of the Healing Church comes from a very pure medical book, which was compiled by dozens of biological experts in the medical school, and the main content of the book is to record the living habits, medical values and artificial cultivation methods of various organisms.
Like most other medical-related books published by medical schools, this book is full of medical articles written in jargon and is so obscure to read that few people but those who are immersed in medicine will turn to it.
It's just that in the prologue of this book, an interesting point of view is expounded, which personifies the entire world of Velon, believing that the world of Velons is declining day by day for various reasons, and that it needs careful maintenance and treatment by humans to make the world of Velons continue to be healthy. All in all, this prologue, co-authored by a dozen medical school scholars, is an explanation of a very popular environmental idea in the early days of the Earth Federation, and this idea is incomplete, but only a prototype.
At first, the prologue of the book did not attract much attention, and not many people even read the book until the medical school and the Orthodox Church cooperated to train church doctors.
Because it is more and more difficult to communicate with the gods through prayer and meditation, the magic skills to obtain the gods are becoming less and less, and the power is weakening day by day, especially some of the healing magic techniques that are most beneficial to the mission are weakened the most, and most of the healing magic techniques are only some light and shadow illusions, and only the higher priests, priests or bishops can exert a part of the healing effect.
For this reason, the Orthodox Church had to make some changes and pay some price in exchange for the support of the medical school to train some church doctors for the various churches.
The medical school is happy to see this, because it will allow the influence of the medical school to expand more widely through the influence of the church, and the additional benefits will naturally be more.
However, the influence is often two-way, and at the same time that the medical school began to influence the thoughts of various churches, the belief in the gods of the church also penetrated into the medical school, and even some chapels of the gods of the church were established within the medical school for people to pray and worship.
It is precisely because of this special atmosphere that the church doctors have also begun to try to combine the basic beliefs of their respective sects with the natural medicine of the medical school, trying to establish a new type of sect that integrates science and faith. It's just that all these attempts failed, and in the end they came out with a nondescript sect, and even the church doctors couldn't look past it, and took the initiative to destroy these failed products.
It wasn't until Joshua, a church physician who believed in the mother of plants, accidentally got this book from the library of the medical school, or more accurately, the prologue of the book, that he quickly religiousized and deified the content of this prologue as if he had received a divine revelation, and in less than three days, he compiled a complete set of core ideas and denominational systems, and officially founded the Healing Church.
The core idea of the Healing Church is in the same vein as the prologue, which is that the Velond world is now sick and needs treatment, and the treatment methods are completely different, the treatment method in that article is mainly to protect the environment and maintain the ecology, while the healing church blames the Velon's illness on the disappearance and slumber of the gods, so they think that as long as the gods return, then the Velond world will also return to order.
Just like some of the other secret societies and underground churches in the world of Velon, there were very few people who joined the healing church at first, only thirteen, and the medical school people laughingly called them the Thirteen Apostles, while Joshua was jokingly called the Son.
In the first few years of the Healing Church, there was nothing unusual about what they did, and the most they did was to cultivate or find herbs that would help the members of the various churches to enter a state more easily during meditation and prayer, and also to excavate some monuments with the archaeological community.
It wasn't until one day, the Church of the Lord of the Sky in the Kingdom of America suddenly captured Joshua and executed him for blasphemy before the medical school could react, and his thirteen disciples, one betrayed and twelve fled, and the healing church appeared in the eyes of the countries of the world.
However, at this time, more attention is focused on the religious lawsuit between the Church of the Lord of the Sky and the Medical College in the Orthodox Church, because this lawsuit will become a standard case to legally solve the problems encountered when religious canons and national jurisdictions conflict.
As for Joshua, who healed the Church, more people remember his madness of trying to steal the relics of the Lord of the Heavens, his speech on the kingdom of God on earth before he was burned by the Church, and his ridiculous-sounding name of the Son.
Originally, everyone thought that the Healing Church would disappear completely after this incident, but what they didn't expect was that after a few years, the Healing Church gradually developed, and it was much larger than at the beginning, forming a special religious organization that is inter-church and inter-society, just like the Orthodox Church. Moreover, with the increase of members, its influence gradually expanded, and the internal system was also improved, forming the current Twelve Patriarchal System, which eventually developed into the current huge scale.
The vast majority of people who join the Healing Church are attracted by Joshua's earthly speech on the kingdom of God before his death, from clergy who are disillusioned in the church to mechanics who advocate science, and people from almost all walks of life can join as long as they meet the criteria of the healing church. Lawrence Hillman, the Blood Wizard, was once a member of the Healing Church, and Anne Eve, Rupert Fitz, and Sylvia were all members of the Healing Church, but they all quit.
The reason why Sylvia will quit the Healing Church is because the healing churches are becoming more and more extreme.
In the beginning, the Healing Church was a very moderate academic sect that explored some philosophical ideas about people, gods, the world, and so on, but as people from all walks of life joined in, the denomination's ideas became more and more chaotic and extreme. For example, the blood wizard Lawrence Hillman, who did what he did when he implemented blood therapy, was absolutely not allowed in the healing church, so they took the initiative to expose Lawrence's evil deeds and expel him from the sect. But now, the Healing Church is no different from Lawrence Hillman back then, which shows that the Healing Church has been completely occupied by extremists, which is the main reason why Sylvia curses those people as crazy.
"Are you sure it was the Healing Church that did it?" asked Leo in a deep voice after listening to Sylvia's introduction to the Healing Church.
Sylvia, who had calmed down, sighed and said, "I can be sure, but I'm sure what's the use, there is no evidence to prove that they are meddling in this, everyone will only think that the medical school did it." β
"Isn't the Healing Church part of a medical school?" asked Leo, puzzled.
"Of course not. Sylvia immediately corrected Leo's erroneous view and said, "Although the Healing Church originated from the Medical School, and the members of the Healing Church are mainly medical schools, the Healing Church itself is not part of the Medical School, and likewise although it is called the Church, it is not part of the Orthodox Church. It should be an independent organization that parasitizes churches, medical schools, and governments. Their sole purpose is to create a new god to rule the world and make everything peaceful and orderly under the control of the gods. β
Leo asked curiously, "Why did you join such an organization back then?"
"Their set of earthly kingdoms of God is too demagogic, people can't help but devote themselves to it when they hear it, and the situation of our witch group at that time is not very good, if the healing church's set of earthly kingdom is really completed, it will also be of great benefit to the witch group. Sylvia explained briefly, but listened to it again as she spoke, and said, "In addition, I was also young at the time, and I wanted to know more, as long as it was an organization in the dark world, I could join, I have joined almost all of them, and the Healing Church is just one of them." β
Leo asked, "What are you going to do now?"
"Wait. Sylvia sighed and said, "Just wait and see how things go." As she spoke, she suddenly confirmed to Leo with some abruptness: "You just said that the magic in the old pit tunnels will make people feel terrified after contact, Vasqi said that it is a secret realm, right?"
"This fear is not felt by everyone, Vasqi can't feel this fear, and she does say that it is a secret place. Leo asked, "What's the matter?"
"No, nothing is wrong?" Sylvia shook her head, but there was a very obvious serious expression on her face, which clearly did not match what she had said. Perhaps because she also sensed that something was wrong with her expression, she changed her words before Leo asked, "I may know what is in there." β
"What is it?" asked Leo with interest.
"It should be a source of fear. Sylvia explained.
However, a mere noun could not solve Leo's doubts, so he asked, "What is the source of fear?"
"I'd love to know, too. Sylvia looked solemn and did not continue to explain, but deliberately diverted the topic and said, "What are you going to do?
Leo looked at Sylvia and asked, "Do you need me to stay?"
Sylvia was stunned when she heard such a direct question, and her face showed a slight blush, but she hesitated slightly, but she didn't ask Leo to stay, but took out some documents that had been prepared long ago from a box, and said: "It's better for you to leave here, there are some things that your identity is not suitable for intervention." In addition, my latest information indicates that there is something wrong with the situation in Port LeΓ³n, except for a few ships on the black market, the other ships are no longer able to leave, so you are better off crossing the mountains and going to the port of Lyon on the other side to take the international cruise ship to the Kingdom of England. I prepared these documents and money to keep you on the road. β
Leo didn't immediately reach out to pick it up, but looked at Sylvia with a hint of inexplicability in his eyes, and asked with a little seriousness, "Are you also involved?"
"Why do you ask?" Sylvia's expression didn't change, but Leo could notice that her pupils had contracted slightly.
Leo didn't answer Sylvia's rhetorical question, but reached out and took the documents and money, put them in his coat pocket, and then handed Sylvia the psionic firearm that he had never used, and said a little blandly: "This gun is for you, you should need him more than me." β
Sylvia hesitated for a moment, looked at Leo, reached out and took her gun, and said, "When your gun is repaired, I'll have someone send it to you." β
"I'm sorry for you. Leo nodded, didn't stay here any longer, and walked out of the cave quickly.
Sylvia stood silently, her face a little blank, not knowing what she was thinking, and after a while, she saw that she suddenly swept everything on the table beside her, even the table was overturned, and with her anger, her body also changed, gradually changing into the appearance of Baron Maupassant.
The subordinates next to "Head, you ......" were obviously the first time they saw Sylvia show this kind of change in front of them, and they were all extremely surprised and shocked, and they were speechless for a long time.
"As originally planned, continue to monitor them. Sylvia, who had become Baron Maupassant, said with a fierce face: "As soon as they have results, they will do it immediately, don't wait any longer." β
Hearing Leo's words, Sylvia squeezed out a little smile, nodded, and said, "I know." β
"Yes, head. The cave ** resounded with everyone's response.