An Du had a rare good night's sleep and had no dreams.

When Andu put on his black cotton jacket and pushed open the door, he was surprised to find that Elizabeth had gone out early, leaving only Andu's lonely figure in the empty living room.

"What a busy brother and sister. ”

Andu smiled helplessly, reached out and touched the pocket in his arms, took out three Groch coins with a face value of five and two face values of one, and then carefully put them back into his arms, and gently patted the position of the copper coins on his chest, and his heart instantly became a lot more steady.

Andu had already greeted Elizabeth last night, saying that he should not be back at noon, but Elizabeth was relieved to tell him to pay attention to safety.

"It seems that Elisabeth must have eaten at Mrs. Goethe's house at noon, and if I hadn't brought some money with me, I would have had to beg on the roadside to-day. ”

Andu sorted out what he was going to do and where he was going today, pulled the slightly wide padded jacket with both hands, showed a smile on his face, and calmly opened the door of the apartment.

Still crowded aisles, still naughty bad children, still the same familiar damp and dark pungent smell, as in countless mornings before, one by one the inhabitants were anxious or lazy ready to start the day's work.

The smile on Andu's face grew even brighter after seeing all this, and he opened his arms and breathed in the pungent air of the hallway.

Then, he choked.

Mr. Hozia next door looked at Andu a little strangely, and stepped forward and asked carefully, "What's wrong?"

"No, no. Andu was choked with tears and was about to stay, took out the handkerchief specially prepared by Elizabeth in his pocket, blew his nose fiercely, and said to Hozia on the side embarrassedly: "I have a cold, a small matter." ”

Huo Ziya didn't ask more, nodded and said: "I haven't seen you for a while, things are going well in the academy, right? I heard that there is still a month to go before the assessment, you have to come on, you kid is most likely to move out of our apartment." ”

Andu felt the gradually unobstructed nose, and quickly covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief to prevent his nose from being invaded again, and responded to his neighbor Hozia hesitantly.

"Don't worry, if it's really over, I'll give you a drink or two. ”

Hearing this, Hozia immediately became energetic, and a big face full of beards showed a hideous pirate-like wild smile, and patted Andu's shoulder vigorously and said, "I knew that you kid was fine, you were smart from before." ”

Andu couldn't help but roll his eyes, and had a new insight into the thickness of Hozia's skin, and the neighbors used to laugh at him for being dull and wooden.

Without much conversation with the snobbish neighbors who lived at the bottom of society, Andu quickly fled the apartment and was walking down the streets of MacDonald in a short time.

Although the vendors on both sides of the road are not as lively as spring and autumn because of winter, they are also lively, and for the vendors in the slums, if they don't set up stalls for a day, they may not be able to eat for two days, after all, no one can say for sure that there is such a thing as business.

While looking at the "new" things around him, Andu gradually found that there were fewer and fewer vendors around him, until he came to a wide area.

There should have been a huge locust tree more than 30 meters tall standing here, but at this moment, it has completely lost its former trace, leaving only charred black all over the ground and a large area of charred black roots.

It can be seen that most of the roots of the tree have been burned, leaving only a small part of the remains of the roots, and even then it covers several meters.

Andu looked around, and found that there were no pedestrians at this time, so he quickly came to the remnants of the roots, then leaned down, and stretched out his right hand to be stained with some burned powder.

Andu gently rubbed the blackened powder, as if thinking about something, and put the powder to the tip of his nose and sniffed it, then gradually showed a serious expression, looked up and looked around to find that no one noticed his actions, and quickly got up and left here.

Andu walked briskly out of MacDonald's block, his hands clapping hard, as if his hands were stained with something terrible, and his forehead was oozing fine beads of sweat even though it was winter.

It wasn't until he was completely away from the Macdonald district that Andu casually found a breakfast stall and asked for a bowl of hot porridge and two malt breads.

Andu recalled the feeling just now, and his body couldn't help trembling slightly again, and he wiped it over and over again with the clean rag he asked the boss for in his right hand.

After a full five minutes, the hot porridge had gradually gentle, and the bread had completely lost its temperature, Andu put down the rag in his hand under the strange eyes of the people around him, picked up the bread, and bit it down one bite at a time.

"It's really not caused by demons and devils. ”

"There is no smell of sulfur, and there is no smell of rot. ”

After seeing the black powder in his heart and feeling it himself, Andu thoroughly confirmed the situation of the matter.

Andu, who was biting the bread, unconsciously looked at the Origin Ring in his hand, and his movements gradually stagnated, obviously it was daytime, but Andu's eyes revealed a fear that could not be concealed!

"What kind of power brought the Ring of Origin to my side, and why did it not possess the Ring of Origin that deprived the life force, but it directly stripped the locust tree of its life power, causing it to produce a mutation similar to demonization?"

Andu's brain was running rapidly, and he had seen a lot of similar life-depriving powers in his previous life, but whether it was a demon or a devil, it was simply to destroy, or absorb the life force of things, and the Ring of Origin was even more terrifying to the mutant locust tree, which was to directly strip the life, in other words, unless the true god came, no matter how much life force there was, it would not be able to resurrect the locust tree, because it no longer had the power to have life!

The power without life and the power without life are two completely different things!

In his previous life, Andu had only truly seen the power of stripping away life once.

But now, in this remote, backward city of Halma, he saw this power for the second time.

Aside from the Ring of Origin, Andu couldn't think of any other possibilities.

"Did the Ring of Origin come to reality and produce an anomaly, or did it undergo a change that I didn't know about and gained this power?"

The doubts in Andu's heart could not be calmed, and before he knew it, the two pieces of bread in his hand had been eaten, he picked up the porridge in front of him, drank it in one gulp, and then dropped two Grohi coins, and quickly got up to leave.

Andu found that the more he knew since he came into the world, the more things he couldn't explain, and whenever his sense of urgency eased, reality often hit him in the head.

"Either way, the cards and rings thing has to be on the agenda. ”

Andu didn't know exactly what had happened to the Ring of Origin, or why it had deprived the locust tree of its right to life.

But even if it doesn't seem to be harmful to him at the moment, and may even be his greatest help, this uneasiness, the unknown of everything, makes Andu desperate to gain strength, great power.

At least to be able to reach the level he was able to reach, or even higher!

......

The southern branch of Halma Pastor Church is located at the intersection of Ferrol and Bangor districts, covering an area of more than 8,000 square meters, which is divided into four areas: the main church, the prayer area, the retreat area, and the living area.

Among them, the main church is located in the main position of the southern branch, and after entering the church area, you will be greeted by the main church, which is made of milky white granite, some areas are painted with red carved lacquer, and the top is a variety of spire-like defensive talismans carved with golden runes, as well as a few white crosses engraved with special talisman effects, which are beautiful and can also be used for defense during critical periods.

The hierarchy of churches from lowest to highest is the chapel, the chapel, the cathedral, and the basilica.

Because Halmar is not large enough, even the Halmar Cathedral in the center of the city is technically only a small chapel, so in order to distinguish between the two priorities, there are many details that the Southern Synagogue Church does not have very elaborate, including the bamboo shoot tower at the top of the building, the multicolored glass mosaic on the windows, and the three gates in the middle of the dome, etc., which the Southern Synagogue does not have.

Andu looked at the main church in front of him, which was thirty meters tall and quite spectacular, but the details were harsh everywhere, there was no fluctuation in his eyes, he tightened his padded jacket and quickly walked into the main church area.

"Wait!" a young missionary called out to Andu, who was dressed in a scrimply manner, and was moving quickly.

Andu stopped his steps, stood a few meters outside the main church gate, looked left and right, and finally pointed to himself with a little hesitation, and asked, "You said me?"

The young missionary was stunned for a moment, and then said with some irritation, "Who else could it be?"

Then the missionary looked Andu up and down twice, and said with a sarcastic look: "Are you still coming to worship like this?" Do you plan to "eleven" or "dedicate"?"

Then the missionary didn't wait for Andu to open his mouth and mocked again: "Just like you, I'm afraid there aren't many even 'Eleven', right?"

For those who come to church to worship, they usually make some donations to express their hearts, which are divided into offerings and eleven offerings, of which the offering is no fraction, even if it is just one Groch, and some very devout believers will donate one-tenth of their assets, which is the eleven mentioned in the Bible.

And some upstarts and outbursts who usually want to gain the favor of the church, in order to accumulate their reputation and gain a foothold in the city, will conduct an eleven, which is also an unwritten rule for those upstarts and outbursts in the Aaronic Empire now.

An Du quietly looked at the young missionary in front of him, and at this time, because of the other party's actions and words, many people had gathered nearby to attend the service.

Because today is Friday, and it is not yet a Saturday and Sunday, there are not many people gathered at the entrance of the church at this time to prepare for worship.

When they saw Andu's dress, some of the crowd looked disgusted, some sympathetic, and some looked at the young missionary, their eyes already filled with anger.

Andu's gaze swept over the noblewomen in expensive mink coats and the pot-bellied aristocratic merchants, slowly skimmed over to the well-dressed bourgeoisie with ruddy faces, and finally landed on the crowd of people with ordinary appearances and simple clothes.

Andu's disregarded gaze made the young missionary even more annoyed, but before he could continue to taunt, the young man dressed as an inferior pauper on the other side suddenly spoke.

"When a man has knowledge, he is not slow to anger. It is our own glory to forgive the sins of others. ”

As soon as Andu finished speaking, without waiting for everyone present to be stunned, Andu continued.

"Do not judge anyone, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn anyone, and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven. ”

Andu watched everyone present lower their heads and fell into deep thought, then turned his gaze to the young missionary in white, who was already flushed and speechless at this time, and sighed softly.

"If he sinned against you seven times a day, and seven times he returned, saying, 'I am repentant,' you must forgive him." ”

Ignoring the crowd, Andu tightened his shabby padded jacket and walked straight into the main church, leaving behind a pensive worshipper and a distracted young missionary.