Chapter 310: Burning at the Stake
The changes continue.
Everything in front of me seems to have experienced thousands of years of time in an instant, with broken walls, broken stone bricks, black iron fences surrounded by forest cold, and collapsed bell towers.
The noisy voices in my ears are also getting clearer and clearer.
"Burn them!"
"How dare you do such a dirty thing in a holy place!"
"The gods will anger the whole Templar because of you!"
“……”
"What's going on......?"
Cheng Shen's eyes flickered, and he saw many strange figures around him and Govia, all of them wearing black and white classical religious uniforms, priests and nuns, all with indignant faces.
He tried to move but found himself tied to a stake, with firewood piled at his feet, the liquid spilled on which smelled of kerosene.
Also tied to the stake was Govia.
She was also dazed at first, then showed coldness, and struggled with her hands and feet.
"Foggy Mirage ......"
Cheng Shen swept around and judged the situation in front of him.
"If you are injured in the surface world of nightmares, you will die, and if you are burned to death in this foggy mirage, it will definitely mean that your soul will be destroyed...... I don't know what crazy these gods are doing, but the priority now is to get out of here......"
The cold hard object in the sleeve of his arm made Cheng Shen's mind come alive, and the sudden appearance of the fog mirage, although it put him in a difficult predicament, did not affect the items he carried.
The Nightmare Blade is still there.
Then.
A priest dressed in solemnity stepped forward with a torch and said:
"Poor Daniel, Govia! The souls of both of you have been corrupted by demonic desires and defiled by evil, and only the Holy Fire can cleanse your bodies of sin and purify your hearts! ”
"This is God's punishment, and it is God's gift, and God's incomparable forgiveness toward her believers......"
"You have one last chance to repent to a forgiving and merciful God before you are thoroughly purified, and God knows that what you are doing is not your own will, and you can enter the sanctuary of God......"
He said in a tone full of pity.
"Confess you**!"
Govia couldn't help but scold, she heard the whispers of people on the side, and roughly understood why she and Cheng Shen were tied to the stake.
This made her feel extremely angry when she had just been rejected by Cheng Shen.
"I wouldn't choose to be with anyone I fornicated! You blind dogs! Hypocrisy! Vile! Shameless! A stinky god with a vicious heart! After being dead for 1,800 years, he is still restless, pretending to be a god here! ”
She kept scolding like a cannon.
Cheng Shen couldn't hear it, and glanced at her, "Don't take the opportunity to point fingers at Sang and scold Huai!" ”
The crowd below was already excited.
"Maniac!"
"It's evil!"
"Govia has been eroded by the devil and is hopelessly incurable!"
"It was because her faith in God was not strong enough that she was exploited by the devil, and her soul and faith were already impure!"
"Burn these adulterers and adulteresses!
”
“……”
The priest who presided over the purification ceremony turned pale, his palms trembled, and he said sharply: "I will pronounce the judgment of God on you......"
"Wait! I'll confess! Oh no, I repent! ”
Cheng Shen hurriedly shouted.
The priest's face softened, he stopped throwing the torch, and turned his head to look at Cheng Shen, "What else do you want to say?" ”
"We have been deceived by the devil and committed unforgivable sins, we deserve God's punishment, I sincerely repent to God, and pray that my soul will be purified and ascended to God's sanctuary......"
Cheng Shen chattered a lot of fake and fake chatter.
Followed by.
His tone changed suddenly.
"But...... It's not just the two of us who deserve to be punished! ”
"Phew!"
Govia on the side suddenly guessed what he was going to do, and couldn't help but take a sip and curse shamelessly.
Even ghosts are liared!
"You mean there are other people in the Sanctuary who have been tempted by the devil!?"
The priest's expression was cloudy in the light of the fire.
"That's right! I want to be honest with everything in return for God's forgiveness of both of us. ”
Cheng knew how to defeat magic with magic, and she had become her most devout follower......
"Tell me carefully, if there is solid evidence, the glorious land of God will not shelter any evil that is bewitched by the devil!"
The priest said solemnly.
Cheng Shen turned his head and glanced at the crowd, originally the believers who were harshly accusing him, righteous and awe-inspiring, and eager to burn him to death on the stage, but the expressions on their faces changed subtly at this time.
Some people subconsciously hide behind other people's backs, for fear of being seen by Cheng Shen; There are also people who look at him angrily, as if they are fearless, but there is more in those eyes.
There was a commotion among the crowd, hidden in the darkness.
Cheng Shen called a good guy from the bottom of his heart.
He just wanted to stall for time, but he didn't expect it to be really fried! Did he come to Xiaoleiyin Temple? What kind of demons and monsters are these people!
I have a number in my heart.
Cheng Shen looked at one of the nuns who shouted the most fiercely before, "I saw her having an affair with a religious disciple the night before yesterday, still in front of the statue!" ”
"You talk nonsense!"
The nun immediately exclaimed.
Cheng Shen didn't want to listen to her explanation, and continued to look at another tall believer, "I saw that he had hidden God's wealth!" ”
"I, I didn't!
”
"I've seen him torture and kill innocent animals, perform evil rituals, and find statues of evil gods in his room!"
"I saw him deceive his most trusted companions, conceal and not report the merits of others, and take it for himself!"
"I also see ......"
Cheng Shen was a little bit famous in the crowd, and he didn't plan to confront them face to face anyway.
simply made up charges and covered them up.
In this hellish place, I don't know what kind of evil breeds evil places, and everyone has evil hidden in their hearts.
Therefore, when Cheng Shen said the sins committed by a person, the first reaction of others was not to question it, but to subconsciously believe it......
The priest's expression could no longer maintain his composure, and his cold gaze swept through the crowd, and the terrible green tendons were stretched and his face was hideous.
"There's proof for what you're saying!?"
He asked.
"Huh."
Cheng Shen didn't answer, but said, "Don't forget that there is still you." ”
"You have committed more sins than you can count, and your hands are stained with innocent blood! Why can't we get a response from the gods? For the caretakers of the Church have long since fallen into the devil's minions! ”
The conclusiveness of his impassioned words made Govia feel a little stunned.
Could it be that what he said was true......?
Wrong!
This shameless liar!
An inexplicable emotion of empathy made Govia feel quite complicated.
On the one hand, she should be happy to see that the horror in this mirage was caught by Cheng Shen in a few words.
On the one hand, she can't even stand it and wants to stand up and expose it justice...
"What nonsense are you talking about!?"
The priest exclaimed.
"Oh?"
The surrounding believers heard Cheng Shen's revelations, and they couldn't help but focus their eyes on him.
"You're slandering! I understand...... The devil has taken possession of Daniel's body! Everything it says is false! ”
The priest hurriedly explained.
"I'm going to frame you with my life!" Cheng Shen said in an exaggerated tone.
"You damn devil!"
The priest regretted it to the extreme.
He shouldn't have given Daniel a chance to confess and speak!
"Purify!"
He immediately threw out the torch in his hand, and as soon as the burning flame touched the dry wood stained with kerosene, a raging fire immediately rose!
Call!
"Your sins will be ...... in the sacred fire"
The priest was grim as he pronounced the sentence, but before he could finish his sentence, he saw a black shadow swept out of the flames in front of him! There are still fluttering flames hanging on the corners of his clothes, and the sound is as strong as a tiger descending from the mountain!
Swish!
Chill Shock!
The priest only felt a cold throat, and couldn't help but reach out to cover it, he pointed at Cheng Shen's back and wanted to shout for the guards to grab him, but his mouth could only hiss, and he saw that the eyes of the believers around him became very strange.
"Split up! Meet at the old place! ”
After Cheng Shen killed the priest with one blow, he immediately disappeared into the crowd, leaving only one of his shouts in the field.
"The old place?"
Govia was also stunned, and then she reacted quickly, the purpose of Cheng Shen's words was to mislead everyone and distract them from the power of investigation, but she couldn't help but scold her own people in her heart!
"The devil has run away!"
"But Father Hughes was killed by the devil!"
"Catch them!
”
“……”
It wasn't until the priest's body stiffened to the ground that the believers, who were still suspicious of each other, finally reacted to what had just happened.
There was chaos in the field.
Some people went to arrest Cheng Shen and Govia who had escaped, some knelt in place and prayed in panic, some people stepped forward to pick up the priest's body and tried to heal it, and some people secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw the chaotic scene.
No one noticed.
But the blood that spurted from Father Hughes's neck slowly flowed on the surface of the ground, and then silently seeped into the ground.
The ground that should have been filled with the blood of Cheng Shen and Govia was weirdly outlined a series of evil lines......
"Catch him! He ran over there! ”
The shouts behind him were only one corridor away from Cheng Shen.
He fled through the intricacies of the Templar building, killing two more pursuers along the way.
The blade in his hand gradually became crimson.
Cheng Shen was unfamiliar with the terrain, he knew that escaping inside the temple was throwing himself into a net, and the route he chose was to lead to the periphery as much as possible, but when he ran to the fence outside the temple, his eyes were blocked.
Outside the cold iron fence was an endless white mist, and the occasional glimpse of the fog surging through the tide would make his heart tremble.
White Mist Zone!
This terrible fog mirage brought them to the White Mist Zone!
Cheng Shen took out the small town soil in his arms with the last glimmer of hope, but there was no response. His location, which was not far from the town he had first entered, had been completely cut off.
"Look for ...... here!"
The sound ringing in his ears made Cheng Shen immediately squat down and hide his body in the dense grass.
The sudden turn of events threw his mind into a daze, but he soon calmed down.
"It's not the worst at the moment...... At least he wasn't burned at the stake......
As long as you live, you will find a way out one day. ”
Cheng Shen came to his senses.
"Now we need to figure out what this foggy mirage is...... Scenes from the past reappear again through the power of nightmares? But what could be called a nightmare in such a re-enactment of the past? ”
Cheng Shen rubbed the blade in his hand to make it bright and reflective again, but the mirror-like blade reflected not his face.
It's a blood-red world.
Cheng Shen couldn't see anything, and his thoughts quickly returned to his eyes, "The priest and several chasing soldiers I killed just now are equivalent to the level of ordinary people, could it be that they will also become dream demons after they are killed?" ”
Shook his head.
He sensed that there should be other horrors in this foggy mirage.
"Did you find it over there?"
"Nope!"
"Where are you?"
“……”
Cheng Shen peeked through the gap between the grass and the several pursuers who caught up, some of them were ordinary believers, wearing simple cloth clothes, and there was no threat to Cheng Shen.
But there are also guards who are heavily armed and dressed in metal armor.
To take out such a guard, it is somewhat unrealistic to rely on a nightmare blade in his hand alone. His ability to kill other pursuers in seconds is based on the dual advantages of physical and psychological qualities.
However, this advantage was not enough for him to achieve cross-division combat.
"Huh?"
When Cheng Shen was moving slowly in the grass, he suddenly touched something under his feet, he lowered his head, and with the help of the dark skylight, he dug lightly with the Nightmare Blade for a while, and a foul-smelling rotting corpse fluid suddenly flowed out.
"It's ......"
Cheng Shen held his breath and continued to dig, and soon dug out a human arm that had grown maggots. He has a strong psychological quality, and of course he will not be frightened by this mere corpse.
But just as he was about to look away, he suddenly caught a glimpse of the fingers that had been exposed and the joints seemed to jump......
"Ahh
”
A scream rang out.
"Rehan? Rayhan! ”
Cheng Shen immediately heard the shouts of other disciples, and after a long time of no response, someone whispered in horror: "I heard that a demon has been buried in this garden behind, and strange things have happened more than once......
"What demons can haunt in the glorious land of God!?"
Someone immediately scolded.
"It must be Daniel, possessed by the devil, hiding here! This crazy guy, Hugh Yins is so good as he usually is, but he was brutally killed! I swear I'm going to get him out! ”
However, his righteous words did not make the others change their minds, "Then you continue to look here, let's go to the other side and have a look......"
Less than a moment.
There is only one figure left who is still checking this area.
"You fools who don't have a firm faith! …… Daniel, I know you're hiding inside! I, I'm going to guard the entrance today and see how long you can hide! ”
Cheng Shen looked through the gap and watched this guy bluff and shout.
I was about to sneak up and kill him.
Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something in the grass beside the man......
It was a "man" with reversed joints, twisted limbs, and a venomous face.