I weave fate in parallel time and space

Chapter 129 God Will Not Punish The World

Alicia obviously still remembered this agreement, she quickly took out all kinds of clothes from the closet, and then put them on for herself.

Although it is only the simplest long skirt, it is still very cumbersome.

About ten minutes later, the well-dressed Alicia looked at Shaar, "Let's go."

Shaar raised his hand and grabbed her hand. At that moment, the magic of the rotation of heaven and earth caused them to cross tens of thousands of kilometers almost in the blink of an eye, and arrived at the last place in Britannia. south side.

They landed in a small southern town. The town was not considered prosperous, and the houses on both sides were stone houses left over from the Middle Ages, but they were smaller than the abandoned short houses Shaar saw when he was in Sleepy Hollow. The room is better and has two floors.

Most of the roads were dirt roads, which seemed to be muddy because of the rain just now. A few wooden planks were laid on the puddles in the front part of the road, and countless mosquitoes were flying on them.

Weeds were overgrown on both sides, and a wooden cart was randomly parked on the side of the path. There were bloodstains of some unknown creatures on the wooden cart, and flies lingered on the bloodstains.

There was no one on the road, and the whole town was eerily quiet. It was completely opposite to the bustlingness of Saxili and the imperial capital, and had an unusually weird aura.

"Why is there no one here?" Alicia asked suspiciously.

"Yes." Shaar's eyes flickered, "But they are all watching us in secret."

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

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

"It's very close to the front line," Shaar said, "so they will naturally be wary of foreigners."

Alicia nodded, and continued to follow Xia further, and came to the central square of the town.

Alicia frowned deeply at what she saw in front of her eyes.

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

But at this moment, a high platform was erected on the open space. On the high platform was a charred and charred pillar, and a scorched corpse was locked on the pillar with iron chains. The smell of blood was mixed with the smell of burnt.

Her skin was basically all carbonized, her mouth was wide open, and her limbs were also distorted, so she should have been burned to death during her lifetime. It is hard to imagine what kind of torture she had suffered during her lifetime.

Shaar's eyes flashed with brilliance, but he didn't speak.

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

"It's part of the reason, but not all." Xiaya said.

If it was because of the plague, then people would not be hanged on the pillars and burned. This is a criminal law.

Burning was abolished by Britannia in the past, and now it is more of a hanging. Behaviors like this are generally related to religion.

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

Alicia frowned and looked at him, "What is that?"

"It seems that this world hasn't happened yet." Shaar raised his head and looked at the charred and charred pillar, "And now, it's delayed."

Alicia seemed to want to say something, but then, many villagers began to emerge from the alleys around the square, each holding a pitchfork and a hoe, and surrounded the two of them with unkind expressions.

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

"It's them! I didn't see them coming in from outside at all, as if they suddenly appeared in the town!"

The leader was a man wearing a priest's uniform. He looked at Shaar and Alicia, and waved with a bad expression.

"The outsiders must also be wizards, evil spirits who draw out evil spirits.

These evil spirits attacked our children and caused them to grow black things. "

He looked at Shaar and the others vigilantly, and warned.

"This will be the last town you infect.

Catch them and send them to Tribunal! "

The crowd was in an uproar, and the vigilance and hatred in Xia Ya's and others' eyes became even more intense.

People were coming up, shouting, and there was a tendency to send them to the stake now.

But at this moment, everyone stopped moving.

People maintained the posture of holding the pitchfork high, and the priest also kept his mouth slightly open, his face was ferocious, and his finger pointed to the center of the square, as if time had paused.

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

Shaar ignored the villagers, but led Alicia slowly through the crowd and stood beside the priest.

"Who is he?" Alicia frowned.

"Father." Shaar said.

"Father?" Alicia frowned even deeper, "How can there be a priest in Britannia?"

The Puritans attached great importance to the Bible and regarded the Bible as the only true law of God. They believed that everyone and every fellowship was directly responsible to God, rather than through intermediaries such as priests and bishops.

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

"Not all places in this country are Puritans." Shaar said, "In this era of inconvenient transportation, the laws of the country cannot reach every corner.

There is also the natural possibility that other churches exist. "

"What's going on here?" Alicia looked at the people whose eyes were full of hatred, "Why do these people have so much hostility to foreigners?"

Xiaya didn't speak, but took Alicia away silently, and they continued to walk through the town.

They saw that the gates of many houses were painted with huge white crosses, and they were even locked from the outside.

Alicia wanted to take a closer look, but was held back by Shaar.

"That represents the people infected with the plague." Char said.

Alicia stared at the door, infected with the plague, and locked in the house. If no one sent supplies or took care of her, she would almost die.

Xiaya did not continue to stay here, but took Alicia out of the town.

Alicia's sense of smell is very sensitive, she can clearly smell a faint smell of blood and decaying corpses in the air.

Following this smell, Alicia and Shaar came to a deep mountain near the town together, and a huge pit dug artificially attracted their attention.

There are hundreds of corpses in the huge pit, most of them are children, with some sarcoma on their bodies, haggard, skinny and skinny, they all look like they died of illness.

These corpses were just piled up in this big pit, covered with a thin layer of soil, and the ruler who ordered the disposal of these corpses probably wanted to bury them.

But obviously, the executors were not completely buried because of fear, and these corpses came into contact with the air and began to rot gradually. The germs that existed in the first place would become even more terrifying in such an environment.

If it rains one day, and the corpses here infect the water source through the rain, the people in that town, and even the nearby towns, are almost certain to die.

Alicia raised her head, magic power gushed out from her hands, a dark blue flame burned on these corpses, and spread everywhere, the pungent smell of rotting corpses mixed with burnt stench was disgusting.

Alicia clutched her nose, looking a little pale.

Obviously, she also knew what it meant to pile up these corpses here.

Alicia noticed that there were several deep axle marks beside the big pit. Following the axle marks, they saw a church standing on a hill in the distance.

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

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

It is almost impossible for a marginal town like this to have an official secular hospital. Generally, it is like the one handed down from the Middle Ages. The church here will also be a hospital.

Members of the church regard medicine as doing good deeds, and generally have some medical skills. In fact, modern medicine basically originated from church hospitals, which is why the logo of many hospitals is a cross.

However, after they arrived at the church, the expected hospital beds were placed in the church lobby, and the scene of church members treating patients did not appear.

Instead, a group of people, topless to the waist, kneel in front of a crucifix and beat themselves on the back with thorn-filled whips.

Their backs were dripping with blood from the whipping, but even so they still didn't stop, and at the same time they were still murmuring their confession.

"I'm guilty, I'm guilty"

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

That is, the stench of ignorance.

Alicia frowned deeply, and there was almost undisguised disgust in her eyes.

In fact, this is not the first time she has seen such behavior.

For incurable diseases, the church usually stays under the understanding of "God damnation", that is, incurable diseases are a means by God to punish human misbehavior.

The solution is to confess your sins to God.

And for a plague like this, the theory of divine condemnation has a vast soil.

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

Therefore, Alicia's royal family is quite familiar with the Holy See, which is why Alicia chose to leave after being cursed by the wilderness witch.

The way they banish the curse can only be more terrifying than this.

The most taboo thing about the plague is gathering. The church is also a place where patients and corpses are placed. The blood dripping from the back of the whip is slapped, and the wound is more likely to be infected if it comes into direct contact with the environment full of germs.

These gathered people transmitted the virus to their family members after returning. Under such circumstances, it is strange that the plague can be stopped.

Alicia trembled 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 will not punish the world." Xiaya quietly watched all this, "but people's ignorance will."

(End of this chapter)