Chapter 43: Under the Church
The church of Father Harpy, as described in the diary, is easy to find. Pen Γ fun Γ Pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ ο½ο½ο½ο½
The main body of the church is a four-story stone building with a gray and black faΓ§ade, a sign of the thunder and lightning pattern on the top, and those colorful glass windows.
As described in the diary, there is a small garden in the back.
It's no different from a regular church.
The church could not accommodate all the soldiers to enter and search, so Hobut asked the soldiers to conduct a detailed search with the church as the center and a radius of 500 meters.
From wooden shelves, desks, statues, to pots and pans, and floor crevices, all inspections are the same.
The eighth master did not rush into the church to search like the others, he felt that there might be clues hidden in the garden behind the church.
With Wren and Mo He, the eighth master came to the garden behind the church.
The garden is untended, the weeds grow taller than the flowers, and there are some arbors all around the garden, which are still flourishing this season.
There are houses all around the yard, and there are trees and plants to shade it, so it is not easy to see the situation in the yard from the outside.
There is an alley that connects the small garden to another street, and daily necessities such as food materials can be easily transported from the alley to the back door of the church by horse-drawn carriage.
"Mohe, Wren, look for any signs under the tree. β
"Okay!
The eighth master felt that those flowerbeds with flowers were more suspicious, and the grass in the flowerbeds seemed to grow too luxuriantly.
If this is a yard that is often tended, then the weeds in the flower bed will not grow so lush during the time since the accident.
Unless the owner is suspicious of not removing the grass from the garden, but only prunes it short, or there is something buried under the garden, and the soil in which it is buried is mixed with grass roots, and the person who buried it does not pay attention, or does not pay attention at all.
The diary records that Father Harpy had a shovel that day, which is the reason why the eighth master is suspicious of the backyard.
A priest chats with people early in the morning, and when he finishes talking, he takes a shovel and goes to work, whether he plants flowers or trees or something else.
Usually priests go to Mass early in the morning, so shouldn't they go to Mass first and then work after chatting with people?
Even if the priest has finished Mass, the church garden is usually managed by a special gardener, is this priest's hobby to grow flowers and plants?
Then he's a kind of a special priest.
The eighth master searched among the weeds in the flower garden, hoping to find the expected shovel.
There are six flower beds in the small garden, each with its own shape, with edges enclosed by bluestone bricks.
When the third flower bed was found, a rusty shovel lay across the weeds.
"Wren! Come here, help the eighth master!"
Wren put the shield with the sword on the ground, picked up the rusty shovel over there, and began to dig up the soil in the lush grass in the flower garden as the eighth master ordered.
I dug about half a meter deep and saw some clothing.
The eighth master asked Wren to get those clothes out to check, and found that the clothes were stained with blood.
The eighth master asked Wren to dig in a different flower garden, but the clothes that were dug up were still bloodstained.
Among the clothes dug up from the two flower beds, it was mainly the clothes commonly worn by the poor people in the slums, and there was also a piece of clothing made of better and more decent materials, which should be the clothes of people in the civilian area.
"These may be the clothes of the residents of the East Side, Wren! The Eighth Master stopped Wren from continuing to dig the current flower bed.
The third flower garden was also dug up with clothing.
"Okay! Wren! No need to dig. I think that's enough. Let's go inside the church. There shouldn't be any clues in the yard. β
With Ren and Mo He, the eighth master entered the interior of the church through the back door of the church.
Commander Hobold was waiting for the results of the search in the middle of the church, and the eighth master said to him: "Hobut! Some bloody clothes have been dug up in the back garden! β
"Oh?!Great! Lord Eight! It seems that there is something wrong with this church. Come on, go to the backyard and check it out. β
"Did you find anything in the church?" asked Hopot.
"Not yet! Now that we've been sure there's something wrong with this church, I'm sure we'll hear from it soon. Why don't you sit here for a while and wait for news from the soldiers. β
"No! There are things that ordinary soldiers can't see or feel. But the eighth master can, and you should be able to do it too. Hobut, let's continue to walk around, Wren, you and the eighth master, why don't you look around by yourself. β
"Okay, Eighth Master, pay attention to safety!" Hobut didn't stop him, if he wasn't the commander-in-chief of this operation, he would also want to take people around, it would be better than being here all the time waiting for news from others.
There were still soldiers searching on the first floor of the church, and Mo He and these soldiers were not familiar with each other, so they didn't care so much about what they were doing.
He paced aimlessly back and forth in an empty room by himself, thinking about what the Eighth Master just said that ordinary soldiers could not see, what he could see.
"Is it qi? no, a magic element! It should be a magic element. Mo He quickly thought of the answer.
Ever since he and the Eighth Master had cultivated the Possession Dou Qi, he could already sense the fluctuations of the magic element.
In other words, it can sense the fluctuations of other objects.
It's like closing your eyes and seeing the heat radiating out of a bonfire in a circle, for a person who can control and gather magical elements, there will be magical element fluctuations around his body.
Ordinary people also have magic element fluctuations, but they are very faint and do not deliberately sense them, and they will not notice them at all.
If the eighth master refers to the fluctuation of the magic element, then he can concentrate on finding something with abnormal fluctuations of the magic element.
At present, this room is a single prayer room for the faithful, with a bed, a wooden shelf with a bronze washbasin, and a small round table with an oil lamp.
Mo He carefully felt the situation in the house, and found no suspicious magic fluctuations.
"Wait! Behind this wall!" there was nothing unusual in the room, but there was something unusual behind the wall.
There is some kind of subtle fluctuation of magic, not like it is emanating from a human body.
Mo He poked the tail of the silver iron spear twice at the wall where the magic fluctuations were transmitted, and then poked at the wall elsewhere.
The sound is different!
He poked a few more times at the wall where the magic ripples were coming from.
"There's a hole in there?!"
The walls of this house are made of stones, and there are gaps between the stones, but even the blades cannot be inserted, and they cannot be warped out.
Is there any mechanism that can be opened?
If there is, those soldiers who have come in and searched before should be able to find out.
Either the mechanism is not distinguishable with the naked eye, or the mechanism is not in this room.
By the way, there should be a room next door.
Sure enough, out of this humble prayer room, there was a larger, richer stone house in the back.
There were also soldiers in the house checking on them.
There were two bookshelves full of books, an office desk in front of the bookcase, a small fireplace on the wall with a blanket and a coat rack in front of the fireplace, two long chairs for reception, a coffee table in between, and a screen in the corner of the room with a coat rack and a wooden shelf with a copper washbasin.
It could be a priest's house, or it could be a high-class prayer room.
The strange magic fluctuation was the wall behind the bookshelf, and the soldiers didn't move the bookshelf, but took the books out of the bookshelf to check them.
There are so many books, and it is not time-consuming to take them out one by one to check them later, so it is better to move them away and view them directly.
"Can you help me move the bookshelves off the walls?" Mo He spoke to one of the soldiers who were looking at the bookshelf.
This warrior was wearing the black armor of the White Wolf Regiment, he was a little strange when he heard Mo He's inquiry, but he didn't refuse, nodded at Mo He in agreement, put the book in his hand aside, and helped Mo He move the bookshelf together.
This bookshelf should have contained almost a thousand books, which was very heavy, and Mo could not handle it, but the soldier was a little struggling.
Mo He looked at the other two fighters in the house, they were also paying attention to the actions of Mo He and their companions, and guessed that Mo He might find clues, so without saying a word, they also came over to help.
The bookshelf was moved out of a one-meter gap, Mo He turned to the back of the bookshelf, and sure enough, he saw a stone that could be pulled out with one hand, and behind the stone was a black metal object.
The metal object is a five-fingered claw, somewhat like a lizard's claw, with a bulge on the back of the claw that can be pinched to lift it.
This thing is the source of magic fluctuations, and the fluctuations are not weak, and it seems that the stone wall has a very good blocking effect on magic fluctuations.
Several of the warriors were very excited to see that they had really found something, and they seemed to want to take it from Mo He's hand to take a look, but Mo He did not give it to them, but said to them, "Thank you for your help! I will give it to Master Hobut first, and you should also pay attention to see if there is any groove that can put this object in, this one looks like a key." β
After saying that, Mo He went out directly and handed over what he found to Hobut, who was still waiting in the prayer hall on the first floor.
Hobut was overjoyed to get what Mo He had found, and shouted at everyone in the church to look for the grooves in the shape of the lizard's claws.
On the second floor, the leader of the White Wolf Regiment, Onilu, ran to the corridor and looked at the things in Hobut's hands downstairs, his face seemed unwilling, and then led people downstairs to check the rooms that his people had already inspected before.
After a while, Saruman, the white-robed priest of the Temple, came out of the corridor behind one of the walls and said to Hobut and Mohe, "Come! in the basement. β
The eighth master and Wren came out of a stone room, the leader of the White Wolf Regiment, Onilu, and his soldiers also ran from the room where they were searching to the hall, and the leader of the Dragon Eagle Regiment led people down from the third floor.
Things went so smoothly that Hobbt called out to a group of soldiers, and then asked a commander beside him to tell all the legionnaires to assemble outside the church gates.
Then they followed Saruman into the hallway, until they reached the end of the hallway, where there was a staircase that led to the basement.
This is just an ordinary basement staircase entrance, the entrance has an iron fence door that can be opened and closed, and generally large buildings will have such a basement staircase for easy access and exit.
There was an oil lamp on the wall of the staircase, and everyone stepped down the wooden stairs to the basement.
The basement was divided into several large rooms, one for food, one for clothes and bedding, one for metal and iron utensils, and one for weapons.
Saruman led the group through the rooms, down the hallway and into the innermost wall, which had been impassable, but now had a secret door in the wall.
Entering the secret door, there is a large room inside, which is actually a place to store the belongings of the church.
Saruman pointed to a wall that had been removed from the middle of several murals, with a groove in the shape of a claw.