I am creating a esoteric religion in London

Chapter 112

The Crossroads Hospital was not equipped with carriages and other means of transportation, so Watson and Nello could only leave on foot.

Although he and Nello were the only ones when they left the dormitory, Watson knew that it was not just the two of them. When he was exercising in the room, he heard the door of Clovitt's room next door opening and closing slightly. , obviously the other party has already left to go out.

Inello mentioned that this trip may be dangerous or require fighting, and Watson also took out his familiar gun from under the bed, wrapped it in a roll of black cloth, and carried it behind his back.

At this moment, the two of them were wearing hoods and cloaks that were as dark as night, completely concealing their physical features. They walked silently along the deep alleys of the fog city, shuttled through the intricate alleys like spider webs, and shuttled secretly under the lights of the street lights. out of the shadows.

A drunken alcoholic staggered into the alley, spitting out the food scraps in his stomach heartily, vaguely seemed to see two flashing black shadows reflected in the sewage pool on the floor of the alley, but when he was terrified When he looked up, he couldn't see any trace, so scared that he thought he had run into a ghost, his dazed head immediately came to his senses, and he stumbled back to the shining light of the street lights.

Even the stray cats and dogs in the alleyway would furnish and run away screaming/meowing in horror when they smelled Watson and the others.

As soon as the two left the city, they immediately increased their movement speed and launched a long-distance raid under the darkness of night.

Although Watson's achievements in the secret transmission of the heart are not as good as Nello's, after all, he has received training for cross-country running at night in another time and space, and his skills and experience are quite rich. Even if the endurance is slightly insufficient, he can still follow Don't fall behind.

The two rushed out ten kilometers all the way, and came to the outskirts of the city where no one cared about. Outside the deep and dark dense forest, there were already other members of the religious order waiting here.

They originally hid behind bushes, haystacks, and stone shadows, but after hearing Nello's call, they slowly left the hiding place with their oil lamps in their hands and came to the road in front of the dense forest.

In addition to Watson and Nello, there are five other people on the field.

Marina, a lady about 30 years old.She seemed to have been a math teacher in the slums before, plump and short.There seems to be a light brewing inside the sarcoma in its chest, which leaks out through the gap like binoculars.

Gansel is a man of medium weight, height, and appearance.He belongs to the kind of ordinary person who, even if you have just met him, you will immediately forget his impression after turning your head the next second... There is no bright spot at all.But the sarcoma on his chest was particularly obvious. There was a sloppy wound on the top of the deformed flesh. The scars between the flesh and blood hadn't completely healed, and there was still a deep gap.

Clovet... Her happiness is the kind of happiness that cannot tolerate unhappiness, perhaps because all her unhappiness has been transferred to another face on her chest, her own sister.

Khalsa and Lido, two strong young men who are very loyal but not active enough.In the past, when I was working at Crossroads Hospital, I was able to complete the tasks assigned by the leader very quickly, but when the daily work was completed, I would fall into idleness and idleness, and I didn’t know how to take the initiative to find the work and complete the work... The two are not enough Qualified workers.The sarcomas of their hearts beat weakly.

Although Clovet was always laughing and laughing in the past and seemed a bit naive, but among the seven people on the field, her secret cultivation level can definitely be ranked among the top three.

As soon as she saw another black figure in a cloak following Mr. Nello, looking at the familiar silhouette and the sound of footsteps, she immediately reacted and exclaimed in a low voice: "John! Why are you here too?!"

"Me? Of course I'm here to help." Watson put down the hood of his cloak and nodded slightly to the other four church members present, as a greeting.

Everyone also nodded and smiled back, and gradually moved closer to form a tight circle, listening to the mission assigned by the commander and deputy leader of this operation, Mr. Nero.

Nello just waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, everyone, let's go to the old place deep in the forest first."

The trees and grass in this dense forest are lush, and the branches and leaves are like a big umbrella. It is planned to completely cover the dim moonlight in the cold night. The dense forest is pitch black, and it is difficult to see your fingers.

Fortunately, the five people who came first were equipped with adventure equipment such as lanterns and shovels. They lit up the cuboid lanterns, and the mirror glass behind the lights refracted all the light to the front.

But even so, the lantern light can hardly penetrate the darkness like a thick veil, and the dim yellow and dark colors are intertwined and intertwined, which seems to give birth to hazy and mysterious colors, making it difficult for people to see the road ahead.

But the ground under his feet is also extraordinarily rough, with potholes in the east and bulges in the west, and if you don't pay attention, you may step on the air and stagger and fall to the ground.

But the six church members ran with natural expressions and didn't look down at all. It was as if they were walking on the ground... Obviously, they often come and go to this place, and they have memorized the environment here, even with their eyes closed. Walk without hindrance.

Watson came here for the first time and didn't know the terrain at all, so he followed obediently at the end of the team, stepping on the footsteps of the church members ahead.

They galloped through the dense forest for about half an hour, and finally stopped in front of a dark natural cave.

With the help of the moth's vision, Watson could already see the inside of the cave from a distance—this is a typical Mithraic sun cave.

Ever since Watson knew that there were god-like Si Chen in the world, he began to consciously collect and read all kinds of myths and religious histories. When Watson was hospitalized, he relied on these reading materials to polish his time... Therefore, his current Knowledge about Mithraism immediately popped up in my mind.

Mithraism Mithraism, an extremely ancient secret religion, mainly worships the god named Mithra.

It is said that the belief in Mithras appeared as early as 4000 years ago in the Kingdom of Mitanni. He was originally the God of Contract, with thousands of ears, thousands of eyes, thousands of detectives, and thousands of insights.At that time, Mithraism was only a high-level god that existed in the belief of the ancient Aryans, but it was not until the first century AD that Mithraism began to flourish in the ancient Roman Empire, and the priesthood became more and more abundant and bright. The God of God and the Sun God, the God of Life and the God of War... It once suppressed the disciples of Jesus in its heyday, and it is even rumored that the date of Christmas was copied from Mithraism.

But such a powerful religion failed to resist the erosion of time after all. With the promulgation of the "Theodosian Code", all pagan rituals were banned, and Mithraism died out, but this religion remained. The remains of temples are still scattered throughout the continent of Europa.

Just like the Mithra Cave hidden in the dark night in front of you, there is a square shrine with a stone sculpture in the center of the cave...or it should be said that this is the altar for worshiping Mithraism.

The small altar of Mithraism seems to be only half the height of a person. After the erosion of time, it has become very dilapidated and old, and it is full of cracks like swords and swords.But in general it is still intact.

The top of the altar is a square plane, and the ivory-white stone seems to be stained with blood that cannot be washed cleanly. It seems that in the past years, many bloody sacrifices have been held here.

And the position directly in front of the small altar, which is the most glorious position in the cave, is engraved with the story of Mithra's bull slaughter.

In the carving, there is a young man with a handsome appearance and a mighty figure. He wears a leather helmet, a cloak on his shoulders, and flying shoes. His image seems to be the same as the demigod hero Perseus in Greek mythology... …but Watson knew that the young man in the painting was none other than Mithra, the supreme god of the Mithraic faith.

Mithra is riding on the white bull. His left knee is bent like a sharp point against the back of the bull. His left hand pinches the bull's throat from behind and forward, forcing the white bull to raise its head to the sky. The sharp knife pierced hard behind the white bull's ear.

The sharp blade penetrated halfway, and the white bull cried out in pain for help, but there were hounds, poisonous snakes and poisonous scorpions rushing to bite the body of the cow, and crows hovered in the sky, peeping and laughing mockingly.

Looking at the engravings, Watson only felt that this picture of Mithra's bull slaughter seemed to have a deeper meaning.

However, due to the secret biography of the moth, his thinking has gradually grown to be almost unconstrained, but he can't capture any strange inspiration from it at all, and falls into the illusion of finding out the truth... It seems that this sculpture is not related to Si Chen.

So, this small stone altar is not the goal of Neluo's trip... Then what is the secret treasure they are looking for?
This ancient cave temple has already been searched by those who are looking for strange things, and there is no valuable thing left, that is, the central altar is made of rough materials, and it is very heavy and difficult to move. Only then can it escape the treasure hunt The devil's claws... What are Nello and the others going to look for?What difficulties do you need my help with?
While he was thinking, everyone had separated and stood separately, and Nello also ordered: "Marina, do it."

Marina, a short lady, came to the end of the cave. She held an oil lamp in her hand. The dim yellow light reflected on the stone wall like a regular triangle. She silently recited incantations with unknown meaning. His eyes blinked, and a beam of incandescent light was emitted towards the portable oil lamp, making the dim yellow light of the lantern also dyed with a strange color.

The images of the stone wall carvings seemed to be distorted, and some deceptive powers began to fade temporarily. A hidden switch was revealed in the murals. As Ms. Marina twisted the switch, the cave reverberated with the extremely subtle sound of gears operating. .

The stone-carved altar began to fall back slowly, the ground cracked and separated slowly like a door, and it seemed that a huge mouth was slowly opening, revealing the narrow stone steps at the bottom like the esophagus/gut of a giant beast, leading to the dark unknown land.

The cold wind gushes out mixed with a stench like blood, and it seems to be the stench accumulated in the rotting stomach of a giant beast.

Even the flame in the glass shade of the lantern couldn't help flickering, as if the cold wind could break through the protection of the lamp shade and directly affect the flames inside.

"According to the rules of the night, I am still at the front of the team, Marina is second in the team, Ganssel is third, Clovette is fourth, Watson is fifth, Karsa and Lido We are in charge of guarding above tonight." Nello held the lamp in the left and the gun in the right, and took the lead down the stairs.

Marina followed closely behind, Ganssel continued to follow, Clovette's two faces were smiling lightly, and Watson also took out two short guns and held them in his hands.

The downward staircase is curved like a spiral, and is so narrow that it can barely accommodate one person passing by at the same time. If a strong man with a strong back comes, he may have to walk sideways.

"Although it seems that this is just a Mithraic sacrificial cave left over from the era of the Roman Empire, there is actually a deep and vast pyramid-shaped space hidden underneath. This is a place that existed before the Roman Empire, a mysterious temple older than Mithraism."

"We have already explored all the way down to the groom's floor, which is the second underground floor. On the way to the third underground floor, we encountered some obstacles... so we need your help, Mr. Watson, to help us clear the way. obstacles in the way."

Bridegroom level...Watson murmured this word in his heart, of course he knew the origin of this name-it was rumored that after Mithraism entered the Roman Empire, in order to meet the ruling needs of the Roman emperor, it specially created seven status levels system to please the emperor.

The seven levels of Mithraism are divided from low to high: Corax crow - Nymphus groom - Miles warrior - Leo lion - Perses Persian - Heliodromus sun servant - Pater father.

Watson asked: "The second basement floor is the groom's floor, so this pyramid-like building is likely to have a total of seven floors?"

Nello also replied: "According to our inference, it is very likely that it is true."

While talking, they had already landed in the regular triangle-shaped room on the first basement floor.

The spiral staircase happened to descend from the spire of this underground pyramid space, and they directly entered the center of the room on the first floor.

The first floor was already much wider than the cave above, enough to accommodate the seven of them standing apart, without bending their waists, they could stand upright as much as they wanted.

However, in the so-called first floor, dry bronze trees are everywhere, and green leaves cut from cloth are hung on the sharp branches like swords.

Even without the light of the lantern in his hand, Watson could clearly see that these sword-like steel branches were stained with long-dried blood, which seemed to be left over from a long time ago... Those scattered on the ground showed ancient The dry human bones that have been corroded by the ages are enough to prove this point, and they can be easily crushed into a pile of bone crumbs when stepped on.

"Don't worry, we have already solved the mechanism on this level, and these trees of swords will not move again." Nello reminded.

Organs, sword trees... so this is the real treasure trove?The ancient institutions with a history of at least 1000 years are still able to operate normally.Watson knew that there must be hidden power of occultism in it.

They cautiously crossed the forest of sharp swords and came to a door in the corner. The door had been cast a dull gray under the light of the lantern, and there was a metallic smell in the air...it was the smell of lead. .

Watson saw a string of ancient Latin characters printed on the top of the door leaf-Corax the raven.This is the Crow's Gate.

It's just that he looked around at the surrounding bronze sword trees and at the murals on the triangular roof, which depicted a dark and dark night, with only a severely faded arc moon hanging...why does it feel like this layer is imitating Built for the environment of Mansu woodland?

Do Nello and the others feel the same way?
Is there any connection with Mansu here?If the next six floors are built to imitate Mansu's environment, can I get a glimpse of other areas of Mansu?

But Watson is only a newcomer in the sect at the moment, and he has not had time to learn about Mengxingmansu, so he did not express these questions.

"Officer Watson, your heart secret practice is not yet complete, and your physique is not strong enough to withstand the environment ahead. Please put on this mask first."

　When the author looked up the materials of Mithraism, he found a commentary that explained that the picture of Mithras slaughtering the bull was a constellation, and the god Mithras happened to represent Perseus, that is, Perseus... What a fucking coincidence opened the door to coincidence!And Perseus happened to be the incarnation of that one in the world.

　　By the way, the author will take a long trip tomorrow and ask for a day off.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)