"Church of the Dawn?"

Thinking of the fire that night, the deformed monsters that broke through the window, and Father Louis's mutated head, including the evil power emanating from his body, Jiang Chenchuan felt that this matter was not simple.

"In other words, it's the reason for the conflict between the Church of Dawn and Goattown."

Ethan said slowly, his eyes narrowed slightly, probably thinking about something.

Although Goat Town believes in Alona, the goddess of dawn, it does not accept the sermons of the Dawn Church, especially after the appearance of valuable alchemy raw materials such as "Black Goat Horn", the church's dissatisfaction with Goat Town has reached the extreme.

From the exchange of letters, it can be seen that the church wanted to meddle in the management of Goat Town, but the mayor of the town righteously refused.

Later, news came out that Goat Town was carrying out evil sacrifices, and the church was the place for sacrifices.

Every once in a while, the townspeople of Goat Town would pick a batch of live sacrifices, feed the strange moths, and send them to the cross of death, and the chosen ones would even feel lucky that they would receive a large sum of money for their families if they became sacrifices.

"This is also ...... It's too much! ”

Rena couldn't accept that the townspeople of Goattown had become indifferent to life to a point of madness.

"Not everyone is born with a good education, Miss Rena."

Jiang Chenchuan flipped through the contents of the letter while calming Rena's excited emotions.

The last letter was an ultimatum approved by the Queen, and the Church of the Dawn would use the power of the Knights to take over Goat Town.

What no one probably expected was that the Knights of the Dawn encountered stubborn resistance, and the townspeople regarded the White Knights as heretics and took up primitive weapons to fight.

It turns out that the untrained townsfolk are like a plate of loose sand, which is easily suppressed by the Knights, and the battle that can be ended as long as they surrender is because of the obsession and madness of those townspeople, and they fight until the last moment.

Not a single one was spared.

"No, perhaps, someone survived...... And more than one. ”

Jiang Chenchuan thought of something, that man may not be Father Louis, he has the power of the relic on his body, I am afraid that it has been eroded.

"That is, that fire...... Is it likely to be the revenge of the Goattown survivors? ”

Ethan also thought of the same thing as Jiang Chenchuan.

"What fire? Where is it on fire again! ”

Thoma walked over with a blank look on his face, searching for him who was the hardest working and busy, but in the end he found nothing.

"Please, Thomas......"

Ethan was a little helpless.

However, it is also fortunate that Thoma broke the heavy atmosphere in front of him, and a fire erased the traces of existence, perhaps, someone wanted to bury the secrets and unbearable of Goat Town in the valley.

"Do you want to keep looking? Ewelly. ”

Ethan put away the letter, looked at Jiang Chenchuan and said, no one said anything, but everyone knew in their hearts that if they went deeper, it would involve the realm of the church.

"It depends on whether my employer wants to look it up or not."

Jiang Chenchuan looked at Rena.

After all, he is an aristocrat, and he has a good grasp of this sense of proportion of "what should be investigated and what should not be investigated".

"The information we need is here, Ewell, it's time for us to go home."

Rena shrugged, her emerald eyes dimmed as she looked into the darkness in the distance, as if someone was responding to her.

Nika is dead.

They lost a partner.

Rena was still a little sad, but the tentacles that wanted to strangle her ...... Whether it had anything to do with Nika or not, they couldn't be 100% sure.

"Ewell."

Rena suddenly stopped Jiang Chenchuan.

"How?"

"Then you say, how were those moths born?"

"Who knows."

The letter said that he had been accidentally found in the woods by the townspeople, but they had no idea what the truth was.

Since there were still people active in Goat Town, the situation was unknown, Jiang Chenchuan didn't dare to sleep deeply, he and Ethan planned to take turns to get up and keep vigil, looking at the silent and uninhabited darkness.

"I'm a little curious."

After Rena and Thoma fell asleep, Ethan quietly appeared by Jiang Chenchuan's side.

"Aren't you afraid? Ewelly. ”

"Why do you say that?"

Jiang Chenchuan lowered his head and watched the time in his pocket watch pass little by little.

"I have a chance to escape, but I always want to rush forward, and that night in the church was the same, fear and escape should be human instinct."

After this period of time together, Ethan also has a general understanding of Jiang Chenchuan's character, and every time he encounters danger or unknown things, he almost instinctively steps forward.

"Ethan, what do you think fear is?"

"Trembling? Afraid? ”

Ethan tried to explain fear in other words, but it was not accurate enough to describe it, and even the most common words became unfamiliar when specific reactions became objective theorems.

"For example, Ethan, what do you do when we come to a strange place and see a sign in front of us that says, "Do not enter?"

Every time he talks about this, he can bring back some not-so-good memories of Jiang Chenchuan, even if he is no longer engaged in the profession of a cleaner, but the habits engraved in his soul can no longer be erased.

"Under normal circumstances, you should stop looking at the warning, be scared, and then leave, and the curious person may want to find out what is hidden there."

"This is 'fear', the psychological state that exists under awe, a negative emotion generated in the face of unknown and uncontrollable things, and escape is the instinct to protect oneself under fear."

He never overcame fear, as long as it was a person, he would feel fear.

"But this world needs people to rush ahead, Ethan, get used to fear, overcome instinct, someone has to do it."

"Iwell, I'll admit, you're different."

Ethan couldn't help but sigh.

"It's just a little more courage."

The words of the end were scattered in the cold night wind, Jiang Chenchuan felt a little tired, stood up and patted Ethan on the shoulder, and then, it was handed over to him to guard.

Listening to Jiang Chenchuan's footsteps going upstairs, Ethan wiped the silver gun in his hand and said softly as if muttering:

"Perhaps, this is the purpose of your soul's existence...... Outlander. ”

I still remember that when I first saw Jiang Chenchuan's corpse, Professor Erwin saw at a glance that it was just a shell, although in alchemy academics, "soul" is defined as an existence independent of the body, but no one has ever succeeded in proving it.

Those alchemy arrays that were sealed in textbooks were also scoffed at by the current alchemists, but that day the ghost made a mistake, and he wanted to try it on Jiang Chenchuan's corpse.

According to the guidance of the alchemy compass, he tried to find out where Jiang Chenchuan's soul was, and finally, he stopped in front of a house, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a man with eyes as blue as the sky, lying on the balcony railing and looking into the distance.

His instincts told him that was what he was aiming for.

Finally, he noted down the address where the compass stopped directing:

121 Brad Street.