Alicia obviously remembered this agreement, and she quickly took out various clothes from the closet and put them on for herself.

Although it is only the most modest long dress, it is still very cumbersome.

After about ten minutes, Alicia, who was fully dressed, looked at Char, "Let's go." ”

Char raised his hand and grabbed hers, and in that instant, the magic of the Wheel of Heaven and Earth Transposition caused them to cross a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers and reach the southernmost part of Britannia in the blink of an eye.

They landed in a small southern town, which was not very prosperous, and the houses on both sides were stone houses left over from the Middle Ages, but they were better than the abandoned low houses that Char had seen in Sleepy Hollow, with two floors.

Most of them were dirt roads, which seemed to be muddy because of the recent rain, and some of the puddles in the front part of the road had been paved with wooden planks on which countless mosquitoes were flying.

The sides were overgrown with weeds, and a wooden cart was parked haphazardly on the side of the path, and there were blood stains of some unknown creatures on the wooden cart, and flies swirled on the bloodstains.

There was no one on the road, and the whole town was quiet and terrible, contrary to the prosperity of Sasili and the imperial capital, and there was an unusually strange atmosphere.

"Why isn't there anyone here?" Alicia asked, confused.

"Yes." Char's eyes flickered, "But they are all watching us secretly. ”

Alicia frowned slightly, and she looked at the second-floor window of the house on one side, and a pair of unfriendly eyes were quietly watching her.

When they met her gaze, the man disappeared by the window in an instant.

"It's close to the front line." "So naturally they are wary of outsiders. ”

Alicia nodded, and continued to follow Char into the central square of the town.

What she saw in front of her made Alicia frown deeply.

The square is not big, just a small open space.

But at this moment, a high platform was erected in the open space at some point, and on the high platform was a charred black pillar, and on the pillar was a charred corpse chained, and the smell of blood was mixed with the stench of burning.

Her skin has been basically carbonized, her mouth is open, and her limbs are twisted, so she should have been burned alive before she died, and it is hard to imagine what kind of torture she suffered during her lifetime.

Char's eyes lit up, but there were no words.

"It's . What's going on? Alicia frowned, "Is it because of the plague?" ”

"Part of it, but not all." Char Road.

If it was because of the plague, then there would not have been a person to be hung on a pillar and burned, it was a penal code.

The stake was abolished in Britannia in the past, and now it is more of a hanging, and acts like this are generally related to religion.

"Alicia." Char said slowly, "Have you heard of the witch hunt?" ”

Alicia frowned at him, "What's that?" ”

"It looks like this world hasn't happened yet." Char raised his head and looked at the charred pillar, "And now, it's been postponed"

Alicia seemed to want to say something, but then a large number of villagers began to pour out of the alleys around the square, each with a pitchfork and a hoe in their hands, and surrounded the two of them with unkind faces.

One of the women pointed to Char, Alicia and the others.

"That's them! I didn't even see them coming in from outside, like they were suddenly in town! ”

The leader was a man in a priest's suit, he looked at Char and Alicia, and waved his hand with an unkind face.

"This group of outsiders must also be sorcerers, and these evil spirits have brought out evil spirits.

These demons have attacked our children and caused them to grow something black. ”

He looked at Char and the others vigilantly and warned.

"This will be the last town you'll infect.

Catch them and send them to the Tribunal! ”

The crowd was in an uproar, and there was even more vigilance and hatred in the eyes of Char and the others.

People shouted and poured in, and there was a tendency to burn them at the stake now.

But at this moment, everyone stopped moving.

The people held up the pitchforks, and the priest kept his mouth slightly open, his face hideous, and his fingers pointing to the center of the square, as if time had stopped.

However, looking at the fallen leaves flowing with the breeze all around, you can see that time has not stopped.

Char ignored the villagers, and led Alicia slowly through the crowd, standing beside the priest.

"Who is he?" Alicia frowned.

"Father." Char said.

"Priest?" Alicia's brow furrowed even deeper, "How can there be a priest in Britannia?" ”

The Puritans held the Bible in high regard as the only true law of God, and they believed that each person, every fellowship, was directly accountable to God, not through intermediaries such as priests and bishops.

This is why the royal family chose this kind of church as the only official and legal church.

"The country, not everywhere is Puritans." Char said, "In this age of inaccessibility, the laws of the country cannot reach every corner.

There will naturally be the possibility of the existence of the rest of the church. ”

"What the hell is going on?" Alicia looked at the people who were full of hatred in their eyes, "Why are these people so hostile to outsiders?" ”

Char didn't speak, but silently left with Alicia, and they continued to walk through the town.

They saw that the doors of many houses had been painted with huge white crosses, and even locked from the outside.

Alicia wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but Char stopped her.

"That represents a person infected with the plague." Char said.

Alicia stared at the door, infected with the plague and locked in the house, and if there was no one to deliver supplies or take care of her, she would almost surely die.

Char didn't stay here any longer, but walked out of the town with Alicia.

Alicia's sense of smell was acute, and she could clearly smell a faint smell of blood and the smell of decomposing corpses in the air.

Following the scent, Alicia and Char went to a deep mountain near the town, where a huge pit had been dug by man attracted their attention.

The pit was full of corpses, at least hundreds, mostly children, with some sarcomas on their bodies, and their faces were withered and skinny, and they all looked like they were all sick and dead.

The bodies were piled up in this pit, covered with a thin layer of earth, and the rulers who ordered the disposal of the bodies must have wanted to bury them.

But apparently, the executors were not completely buried due to fear, and the corpses began to decompose in contact with the air, making the germs even more terrifying in such an environment.

If it rains one day, and the corpses here infect the water through the rainwater, the people of that town, or even the nearby town, are almost dead.

Alicia looked up, magic pouring out of her hands, and a dark blue flame burned on the corpses and spread in all directions, the pungent smell of rotting corpses mixed with the scorching stench.

Alicia covered her nose and looked a little pale.

Obviously, she also knew what it meant for these corpses to be piled up here.

Alicia noticed that there were several deep axle prints beside the pit, and following the axle prints, they saw a church standing on a hill in the distance.

The church is built of stone, which is not luxurious, but the shape is very standard.

She walked towards the church without hesitation, and Char followed her quietly.

It is almost impossible for a marginal town like this to have an official secular hospital, and it is usually the case that the church here is also a hospital, as it has been handed down from the Middle Ages.

The members of the Church see medicine as a good deed, and generally have some medical skills, in fact, modern medicine basically originated in church hospitals, which is why many hospitals are marked by a cross.

However, when they arrived, the expected church lobby was filled with hospital beds and Church members treating the sick.

Instead, a group of people, topless, knelt in front of the crucifix, slapping themselves on the back with a whip full of thorns.

Their backs were bloodied with whiplash, but even then they didn't stop, and they murmured repentance.

"I'm guilty, I'm guilty"

The whips in their hands were red with blood, and the smell of blood in the air was mixed with an indescribable stench.

That is, the stench of foolishness.

Alicia frowned deeply, her eyes almost undisguised with disgust.

In fact, it wasn't the first time she'd seen this kind of behavior.

For incurable diseases, the church usually stays under the "damned" understanding that incurable diseases are God's means of punishing human misdeeds.

The solution is to confess your sins to God.

And for plagues like this, the theory of heavenly damnation has a vast soil.

The royal family has always been jealous of the power of the church, but at the same time, they also need the church to stabilize the people.

So for the Holy See, as Alicia's royal family, it is quite familiar, which is why Alicia chose to leave after being cursed by the Witch of the Wilderness.

The way they banished the curse could only be more terrifying than that.

The most taboo thing about the plague is gathering, and the church is a place where the sick and the corpse are placed, and the whip slaps the back with blood, and the wound is more susceptible to infection if it comes into direct contact with the environment full of germs.

When these gathered people returned, they transmitted the virus to their own families, so it is no wonder that the plague was stopped.

Alicia shuddered and closed her eyes, she could imagine that the situation in the south would be chaotic, but she didn't expect it to be so chaotic.

"God does not punish the world." Char watched all this quietly, "But human foolishness will. ”

(End of chapter)