The "crackling" sound of the oil lamp burning in the dark, damp room made the silence seem deeper. Cheng Mo stood in the middle of the inverted pentagram, staring at Anna wearing a bird's beak mask with an expressionless face, the shadow projected on the floor, next to the two solemn words "you" and "prayer", and the entire enclosed space was filled with lifeless horror.

However, Anna, who saw Cheng Mo's face clearly, gradually calmed down, she leaned on the workbench, and whispered tremblingly: "You.... You.... No...... Satan.....

Cheng Mo took two steps towards Anna, smiled and asked, "How do you know I'm not?"

Anna couldn't help but shrink back, but her back against the workbench was already unable to retreat, and she reached out and knocked down some glass bottles on the table, the sound of "clang" startled Anna, she screamed, "Don't come here!", and then raised the cross hanging on her chest with both hands, a pair of beautiful almond eyes opened wide behind the crystal lenses, staring at Cheng Mo deadly.

Unexpectedly, Anna was not completely frightened, she still had the courage to resist at this time, she seemed to be a very bold girl, considering her previous behavior, she should be a bold and extremely curious girl, otherwise she would not have run to the square in the middle of the night in the clothes of a bird-beaked doctor. If Cheng Mo could touch her, he would naturally not hesitate to threaten Anna with force, but he couldn't touch Anna at all, so Cheng Mo planned to change his strategy, he smiled as gently as possible, and said softly: "Don't be nervous, Anna, I didn't mean to hurt you." I'm just curious how do you know I'm not Satan, and ..... Where did this Doctor Bird's Beak mask come from?"

Seeing that Cheng Mo didn't move anymore, Anna was a little relieved, and she said in a trembling voice: "Lord Angel, I saw you coming out of the church, so you can't be Satan, and ......"

Anna stopped abruptly and didn't continue. Cheng Mo stood there and didn't speak, he looked at Anna in silence, with an expression of waiting for Anna to say the next words, Cheng Mo was very patient, he didn't believe that he couldn't deal with a little girl, so he just kept a smile and looked at Anna motionlessly.

Anna is the opponent of Cheng Mo, a demon who plays with people's hearts, leaning on the workbench and sitting in small movements, looking more and more cramped, just when the atmosphere is getting worse and worse, Anna involuntarily broke the deadlock, she continued: "The mask is made by my mother, she is a famous ..... Doctor..... This mask will help her keep out the plague......"

"Anna, don't lie to an angel, your mother is a witch, not a doctor!" Cheng Mo paused for a moment and said lightly, "At most, she is just a midwife's assistant, and she is far from a doctor." ”

Skepticism about Anna's mother's profession is silent, knowing that in the Middle Ages "doctor" was a high-status profession, and to become a female doctor required not only her to be intelligent, wise and knowledgeable, but also to have class requirements, and also to have a lot of money. There were no more than fifty female doctors in the entire history of the Middle Ages in France, and it is unlikely that there would be a single female doctor in a remote German town.

The "midwife", second only to doctors, was also a noble profession in the Middle Ages, and it was also not something that could be easily obtained by low-class women. Judging from the living conditions of Anna and her mother, Anna and her mother are not nobles, but they have a certain economic strength, so it is not unreasonable to be assistants to midwives. Don't underestimate the midwife's assistant, even if it was just a midwife's assistant in the Middle Ages, it was a great existence in a small town.

In addition, Cheng Mo concluded that Anna's mother was not a doctor or a midwife, and because the monk who knocked on the door called her "lifter", a title that was generally given to midwives who worked in the village or town, and they were often assistants who had studied beside the midwives, and that noble doctors and midwives generally only served the aristocracy, and would certainly not be condescended to a small place like Christianfield.

Of course, judging from the other party's collection of books, it cannot be completely ruled out that Anna's mother, Ms. Delome, is really a doctor, but it doesn't matter, whether it is or not, Cheng Mo said this, it will cause Anna's panic and anger, and make Anna say something Cheng Mo wants to get information.

Anna, a little girl like the Middle Ages, who is the opponent of a cunning modern person like Cheng Mo, was terrified when she heard the word "witch", and she was completely confused, and when she heard Cheng Mo slander her mother as just a little "lifter" and not a doctor, she immediately argued loudly: "I am not lying! My mother is a doctor who graduated from the Salerno Medical School! My grandfather's grandfather is the famous Platias III ......."

Cheng Mo knew that the Salerno Medical School, the world's oldest medical school, was the stronghold of medieval women's medicine, and that Anna was talking about Platias III Cheng Mo vaguely remembered that he was a professor of medicine with some fame in history, and the reason why Anna's mother was able to become a doctor was naturally because she was born into a medical family.

But why did Anna and her mother, Ms. Delorme, show up in Chrischinfield?

Cheng Mo had a brain teaser, Salerno was an Italian seaport city, and the Black Death spread from the Italian seaport city, perhaps Ms. Delorme and Anna came to Crischinfield to escape the Black Death. Cheng Mo remembered the anatomy book he saw in the study on the second floor, and glanced at the stone workbench behind Anna, which was almost exactly the same as the stone operating table in the medieval underground dissection room of Santa Maria Nueva Hospital when Cheng Mo went to Florence to visit it.

The Department of Surgery at the Salerno School of Medicine is also very famous, especially in anatomy, but due to the opposition of the medieval church to the dissection of the human body, the school's anatomy classes used animal carcasses as a model for teaching.

Cheng Mo smiled slightly, looked around the basement, and said lightly: "Anna, if others, especially the people in the church, know that there is such a place in your house, others will only think that your mother is a witch....."

Anna's hands holding the cross began to tremble, the silver chain rippled slightly in the air, she shook her head and said, "No, you can't do this......!

"Do you know why I'm going to the church of Sistu?" said Cheng Mo after a pause, "because the cardinal wants me to assist the church in capturing witches, who they believe are the culprit of the plague." ”

"They're talking nonsense, my mother says it has nothing to do with witches! Besides, she's not a witch, she's never hurt anyone, if you don't believe it, you can ask Uncle Hans next door, if it weren't for my mother, his hand would have been broken, you can also ask Aunt Stephanie, she almost died in childbirth last year, it was my mother who performed a caesarean section for her, she also used herbs and charms, I was right next to me, Aunt Stephanie and her baby are living a healthy life now. Even Lord Leo Hart followed my mother's advice and stepped up efforts to improve the sanitation of the town, isolating the sick with the Black Death, which brought the plague to a halt..... How could she be a witch who caused the plague......" Anna said eagerly.

"Anna, if your mother is not a witch, why should you be afraid?"

Anna didn't answer, she choked up, crying through the mask was a little dull, the fog blurred the crystal lens, Anna raised her right hand to wipe it, only to find that the mist was on the inside of the crystal lens.

Cheng Mo supported his knees with his hands, half-squatted down, looked at Anna and said in a voice of pity: "Okay, you answer my question honestly, I won't tell anyone else about your mother's autopsy, okay?"

Anna didn't expect Cheng Mo to say what she was afraid of at once, she was stunned for a moment, she even forgot to cry, and only after a while did she hold back her sobs and said, "God... Envoy.... My lord, yes... No.... Be... I'm honest.... Answered your question, you just.... Won't take my mother ..... Send it to the Inquisition?"

Cheng Mo nodded and said, "The Creator will not blame honest children and kind people. ”

"What do you need to ask?"

"First of all, why do you go to the church of Sisdu in the middle of the night, and how do you know I'm not Satan?"

"My mother was a diviner, she could see things through the crystal ball that no one else could see, and when she was in her teens, she noticed that many 'spirits' were flying towards the church of Sistu. I was curious, so I put on my mother's clothes and secretly went to the church of Sistun to have a second look..... I just saw you, my lord. ”

"Spirit" is a Gnostic concept, roughly equivalent to "soul" or "spirit", and the "Great Creator" of the Land of Asgardian Ruins is also the supreme existence of Gnosticism, which was undoubtedly outright heretical in the Middle Ages. Cheng Mo didn't expect that Ms. Delorme was not only a doctor, but also a follower of the Gnostic sect, and said in his heart: The mother and daughter are really related to the raid on the land of Asgard Ruins.

"I know you are not Satan because my mother told me that there is no real Satan in this world, and that Satan is not a demon. ”

"Satan is not a demon, what is that?" Cheng Mo asked.

"My mother told me that Satan is..... It's 'true knowledge'!"

Cheng Mo frowned slightly, fortunately he had done a lot of homework in advance, otherwise he would have been in a fog when he heard Anna say this. Anna's "true knowledge" can actually be understood as "wisdom". Because Gnosticism is derived from the Greek word "gnosis," which means "to know." The Gnostics profess to have higher knowledge, and that this knowledge does not come from the Bible, but from some mysterious higher being, the Great Creator.

Gnosticism and JDISM have many common concepts, but they are very different. J.D. doctrine is very different from J.D. religion in which belief in salvation is deliverance from sin, while Gnosticism teaches salvation through the acquisition of knowledge, and Gnostics claim that they are following the original teachings of the Bible. As a result, this sect was regarded as a heresy by the JD Sect and was wiped out from history.

Seeing Cheng Mo frowning, Anna hurriedly explained: "I didn't talk nonsense, my mother told me that this is all from the Book of Wisdom!"

"The Book of Wisdom?"

Anna turned her head and pointed to the bookcase next to her, and said, "The parchment scroll at the bottom of the bookcase, which is the Book of Wisdom, also known as the Book of Sefer Raziel......"

Cheng Mo was shocked, this news was too shocking, he didn't expect that the book he got from the Wangfumen thrift market turned out to be the "Book of Luo Jie Aier", which is known as the Book of Heaven. The Book of Roger-El is recorded in the Book of Enoch, which is known as the "Mysterious Angel of the Secret Land and the Supreme", and the Book of Roger-Air, which records 1,500 items of Sinnoh knowledge in heaven and on earth, and was awarded to Adam, who was expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating the fruit of wisdom, so that the Creator later used this incident to kill Roger-Air.

In addition, according to some mythological and historical records, the appearance of the Book of Roger-El is the beginning of the twilight that triggered the gods. After the war, Enoch reprinted some of the contents of the Book of Roger-El in the Book of Enoch, which was later given to Noah, who built the ark based on the knowledge in it, which King Solomon of Israel seems to have possessed for a short time before disappearing without a trace.

"Do you understand that book?"

"I don't understand. Anna shook her head.

"And what about your mother?"

"She can only understand a little, but surely you can understand it? It's full of angelic ......."

Cheng Mo was about to continue asking Anna a question, when he suddenly heard the sound of hurried footsteps and the soft sound of chain mail in the distance, no doubt it was the sound of the crusaders running, and this sound was getting closer and closer, it seemed to be coming in the direction of the tower. Cheng Mo whispered to Anna: "You stay here and don't move, I'll go out and have a look." ”

"What's wrong?"

"Someone from the Crusaders has come, as if they were coming for your house. Cheng Mo didn't wait for Anna to speak, he ran towards the exit of the dark room, and after quickly climbing the stairs, Cheng Mo immediately closed the secret door, and then pressed the heavy wooden table against the secret door. There were no windows on the first floor, so Cheng Mo could only run to the second floor and look down from the window of his study, where a group of Crusader soldiers wearing silver chain mail and white linen coats with red crosses painted on them walked down the alley to the front of the tower with torches. They stopped, and the soldiers at the head walked to the doorway, raised their hands and began to slam the iron-covered door fiercely, while shouting, "Open the door!"

Cheng Mo guessed that Anna's mother, Lady Delorme, had been captured as a witch, and he immediately teleported to the dark room, where Anna had taken off her beak mask and was standing on the stairs trying to push the secret door open.....

"Don't make a sound! the people outside are here to arrest you!" Cheng Mo said urgently, but Anna, who was not wearing a bird's beak mask, couldn't hear at all, she knocked the secret door, and shouted loudly, "Let me out."

Fortunately, the Crusaders outside had already begun to slam on the door, and the loud "bang, bang, bang" sound drowned out Anna's cries for help. But as soon as the other party smashed open the door and rushed into the house, he would definitely hear Anna in the dark room on the ground floor, and when the time came, not only Anna's mother, Lady Delome, but even Anna would not be able to escape, and would be sent to the city gate to be hanged.

The amplitude of the vibration of the iron door became louder and louder, and judging by the sound, Anna, who was about to be knocked open, and did not know that she was killing herself, shouted louder and louder.......

(There is another update today)