Chapter 155: Suspicion
Vanna's gaze lingered on the record for a few seconds, and the Inquisitor's acuity allowed her to smell something noteworthy from the short words.
The heretical act of sacrifice that suddenly appeared among the ordinary residents, the sacrifice was aimed at an invalid existence, and the sacrificial action that did not meet the needs of the ritual at all really attracted the attention of the supernatural powers, and there was a small area of insanity, and there was no follow-up investigation......
Vana suddenly remembered something, put down the file in her hand, and hurriedly opened a record she had just seen.
Also in 1889, a little earlier, there was a sudden armed wounding incident in a street shop in the lower city, which was originally the responsibility of the Sheriff's Bureau and should not have appeared in the archives of the church, but the later investigation proved that the armed wounder was a "customer" who had a sudden mental disorder in the store, and the suspect insisted that he saw the shadow of desecration in the shop window, and "fought back" with a knife in order to escape the "pursuit of invisible objects".
During subsequent investigations, the church found traces of heretical worship in the basement of the shop, but the sacrificial symbols at the scene were chaotic and could not point to any valid existence, and through interrogation, it was learned that the owner of the shop, who was secretly performing rituals, did not understand the mysterious rituals at all, and his indiscriminate sacrifice was guided by "unknown guidance".
The same indiscriminate sacrificial rituals that could not have been effective at all in theory have also caused insanity on a small scale, and there are no more conclusions of the investigation.
Vanna frowned slightly, these two events didn't seem to have anything to do with the factory leak or the fire that was erased eleven years ago, and they didn't correspond at all in terms of time, which was not the focus of her investigation today, but the fact that there were two similar heretical cult incidents in such a recent record in a row touched her nerves as an inquisitor.
After a few moments, she put down the two files in her hand and continued to rummage through the bookshelves for the follow-up files, and this time, she deliberately took the initiative to look for records of events that might be related to heretical worship.
After another unknown amount of time, she suddenly stopped.
The third record, still at a certain point in time before the "factory leak" incident, occurred on the edge of the upper town, when a maid working in the home of a wealthy man suddenly went berserk and seriously injured three servants and the male owner of the house, and then locked herself in a warehouse, and when the church guards and sheriffs arrived and broke down the door, the maid had already committed suicide.
The sacrificial symbols carved by the deceased with a dagger on his deathbed were found in the warehouse, and traces of heretical sacrifices were found in the deceased's chamber - pointing to another invalid being, and the sacrificial process did not conform to any norms, except that the invalid sacrifice in this record did not drive others crazy, but the sacrificer himself.
It's already the third......
If Vanna only cared slightly when she saw the two records just now, then when she saw the third record, the expression on her face was completely serious.
She quickly arranged the information of the records in her mind, analyzing them according to when and where they occurred.
The events were scattered, independent in time, unrelated in location, and theoretically unrelated to each other.
And it has nothing to do with the factory that leaked eleven years ago, and no solar heretics have been found in the investigation afterwards.
Vanna calmed down and continued to rummage through the follow-up files, and it didn't take long for her to find the information from the leak at the factory.
It was a major event, with a wide range of influences, and the number of heretics caught in the last twenty or thirty years was almost the highest, so the whole thing was recorded in a separate file, a thick file that included a large number of pictures and interrogation reports.
But it didn't take long for Vanna to go through the entire file.
Because she had seen the contents many times in other places, and in the past few years, she had accessed the relevant documents of this old case more than once.
It seems that even in the archives located in the depths of the church, there is no more information about the factory leak eleven years ago.
Vanna put back the leaked files from the factory, and she rummaged through them for a while, and suddenly found one thing:
After that "factory leak" incident, it was similar to the previous three "heretical cult" cases
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The record never appeared again.
The factory leak occurred in the middle of the year, and there was still half a year to go.
This gave Vana the feeling that all the heretical cults that were "supposed to be ineffective but effective" had all appeared before the factory leak, and that the factory had become a node after the accident, and all heretical cults had come to an abrupt end after that.........
Of course, this can also be explained by common sense: after the factory leak, the church and the authorities arrested thousands of cultists, and this large-scale arrest operation cleared the heretical forces in the city-state, so it is normal that there will be no more heretical cults in the next six months.
But for some reason, she always felt that there shouldn't be such a simple logic behind these seemingly unrelated events.
She paused by the large bookshelf, pondered for a long time, and then returned to where she had been, pulling out the first file on "heresy cult", and pondering as she flipped through it.
These events were too loose and drowned in a jumble of disaster records, and if she hadn't suddenly come to sort through them today, and had planted the thought of "this matter is suspicious" in her heart in advance, I am afraid that even she herself would not have noticed anything unusual when she first got these materials - but strange is abnormal, and once she noticed it, the feeling of disobedience and awkwardness began to take root in her heart like a seed, and it was difficult for her to ignore the warning in her intuition.
And just as Vana was carefully looking through the information, a burst of unhurried footsteps suddenly came from nearby, along with the smell of non-existent engine oil mixed with incense.
Vanna looked up and saw that it was the old priest who was in charge of the archives walking towards her.
He limped as he walked, apparently not only in his right hand, but also in his legs and feet.
"There's no one in the Archives this time, so I'll come and have a look," the old priest said with a smile, "Have you found what you're looking for?"
Vanna exhaled softly and put the file back in her hand, "I found some information, but I didn't find the answer I was looking for."
"Answer?" The old priest was a little curious, "What kind of answer do you want?"
「…… How long have you been here?" Vanna didn't answer directly, but suddenly asked a seemingly unrelated question.
"Ah, that's been a long time, I think about it...... It's been almost twenty years," the old priest laughed, "I've been in this place ever since I was blown off a hand and a leg by the homemade bombs of those heretics." Vanna thought for a moment and asked curiously, "Is this place so deserted on weekdays?" Will anyone else come here to look at these files like I did?"
"Most of the time is very deserted—there are people who come to access the archives, but there are not many," the old priest laughed, "Books are people's memories of the world, and this archive is the deepest part of memory—they are all stored here are 'old cases' that have been processed, or secret files that have been judged to be unfit for public disclosure, and they have been buried in the depths of time along with the past history.
"There are countless new things happening every day in the city-state, and everyone is busy moving towards tomorrow, so how can there be so much time to come back and dig through these sealed files. And ......"
The old priest paused abruptly at this, and he looked up quietly at the scrolls, which were almost stacked on the dome, before he spoke softly.
"And...... Sometimes the sealed dossier is not just a record of the past, but there may also be some 'history' that is itself sealed in those pages, and the past, present, and future of our world are based on instability, and there are so many things to turn over in this archive that it is not good for physical and mental health."
「…… That sounds like a warning from the fire-bearers."
"Yes, the Fire Bearers like to warn about this, they guard history, they are always worried that something will spread from ancient times and pollute the foundations of our world - they are so overly sensitive to this that some even think that the Last-Time Preachers who preach the 'Apocalyptic Pollution' are the Fallen Fire Bearers......
The old priest said, smiling and shaking his head, "When I was young, I had a close relationship with a few friends from the Fire Bearer Sect, and naturally I heard a lot of their theories, though
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It's different from the Storm Goddess's teachings, but everyone is a righteous god, and there are some things that are worth referencing."
For some reason, while listening to the old man's story, Vanna's mind calmed down a little, she had some respect for this senior who had dedicated most of her life to the church, and she didn't mind chatting with the old man at the moment, so she casually asked, "Do you still keep in touch with those friends?"
"No contact," the old man shook his head slowly, "one morning, I suddenly realized that I didn't know their names all along, so most of them were martyred......
(In the new month, the double monthly pass has begun, so let's count the tickets somewhat~~)
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