Old days in the box

Chapter 109: Writers and Mental Illness

At this time, the blue curtains in the distance were retracted one after another, and the dark lampposts on the steam carriage were retracted into the carriage, lifting the blockade.

A large number of night watchmen came out of various alleys, and some people carried stretchers to escort the people involved in the case found inside to the car.

Because the greedy snakes devoured a large number of fish-turned-believers inside, the church found few survivors inside and quickly lifted the blockade of the site.

"I just heard from onlookers that those arrested this time were heretical believers from the Sea Father Church. What is the relationship between these churches?"

Freya took this opportunity and quickly asked Duke.

"Miss Freya is interested in the church? In fact, the relationship between the Church of the God of Raging Waves and the Sea Father Order... is quite complicated." Duke frowned slightly.Put the hat back on your head.

"Both of them are actually sects that believe in Niord, the god of wrathful waves. However, because of their different understandings of how to interpret the god's will, they eventually had differences and split into two different factions."

Some steam carriages left the scene first and drove back to the church branch from the alley. Duke lowered his voice and spoke slowly to Freya with his back to the leaving church carriage.

"The Church of the God of Raging Waves you see now believes that the only correct way to interpret the will of the gods is through words."

"The church has a large extraordinary miracle in the city of Marseille called the 'Watch of the Sea'. That thing can instantly pull objects back from the distant sea, whether they are lost ships, lost cargo or ruins. The church is Through this extraordinary miracle, they continue to open up the ancient scrolls of the Raging Waves from the deep sea, interpret the teachings of the God of Raging Waves from those lost documents, and summarize them into the Book of the Sea and spread them to the world, so they are also called the Book Sect."

The Church of the God of Raging Waves is divided into interpreters and night watchmen. Among them, the interpreter is a civil servant responsible for interpreting ancient scrolls and documents.

Through the extraordinary miracle "Watching of the Sea", they dug out the Ancient Scrolls of Raging Waves from the deep sea, obtained the warnings, prophecies and teachings of the God of Raging Waves from them, and compiled them into the supreme "Sea Scripture" for all believers to abide by and follow.

"What about the Sea Father Order?" Freya asked while listening.

"But the Sea Father Order is in a completely different direction."

Once the topic came to the Sea Father Order, Duke's expression was obviously not so relaxed.

"The Sea Father Order is called the Divine Sense Sect. They believe that the only way to interpret the will of the God of Raging Waves is for believers to achieve spiritual connection with the gods through their five senses and embrace the gods' intentions."

"In order to achieve a spiritual connection with the gods, these spiritual sects often try various ways to stimulate their senses. They believe that the stronger the sensory stimulation, the closer they can get to the gods, so they will take the initiative to use their own bodies to stimulate their senses. Inflicting pain, wearing various torture instruments and shackles... in short, they are a very strange group of believers."

After hearing Duke's narration, Zhou Xiao immediately remembered that when they were in the alley square just now, the group of believers took off their robes to reveal their bodies. Each of them was pierced with different torture instruments and chains. It turned out to be for this reason.

But it sounds like this group of spiritual sects from the Sea Father Religion are indeed crazy. At least this method is definitely not acceptable to ordinary people.

This is probably why the Church of the God of Raging Waves has risen, but they can only hide underground, right?
Moreover, their behavior of actively communicating with gods has another big hidden danger, which is that you are not sure what thing you have made spiritual contact with.

How fragile is the human spirit?
Once you take the initiative to seek connections with the outside world, it is equivalent to opening your own forehead to welcome all kinds of monsters and weirdos to enter. There is no telling what kind of things you will provoke at that time.

Just like now, they thought they were contacting Niord, the God of Raging Waves, but in fact they were the followers sent by Egil.

This wave can only be said to be self-inflicted. It is no wonder that Egil would choose the Sea Father Order to attack...

Zhou Xiao continued to focus on returning to the window and listened to their conversation.

"So, the Sea Father Order is also a formal church allowed by the Frankish Kingdom?" Freya asked curiously. "Of course, as I said before, as long as it does not affect other people, any belief is tolerated here. In fact, the Sea Father Order has always abided by this rule. Until recently, heretics appeared frequently. I don't know how... …”

Duke is obviously not interested in these things between churches. He only cares about profits and business, and supporting the Church of the God of Raging Waves is just to obtain shelter on the sea.

"Stop talking, miss, I think, with heresies appearing so frequently, the church is probably going to hold another interpretation conference!" At this time, the female hotel employee on the side couldn't help but interrupt, chirping to express her opinions.

"Interpretation Conference?" Freya wondered.

"The Interpretation Conference is the excavation of the Raging Waves Scrolls that I just mentioned, and the interpretation of the gods' teachings and instructions from the documents. They are usually held only once a year, but if the church encounters trouble, it may indeed be held in advance." Duke explained road.

"Such an important ceremony is actually open to the public?"

"Of course! Since we are interpreting the will of the gods, we should first be open and transparent. Otherwise, who will be convinced?"

"Each interpretation by the Church of the God of Raging Waves is made public. It activates extraordinary miracles in front of everyone, unearths ancient documents and interprets them on the spot, and records the new content in the Book of the Sea, which is consistent with the previous content. merge."

Although he had no interest in faith, Duke became visibly excited when it came to openness and freedom.

Compared with the Shengan sect who chatters all day long and behaves strangely and coldly.

The clerical sect of the Church of the God of Raging Waves is obviously much gentler and easier for the people to accept.

In addition, every time the church interprets divine will, it will be publicly displayed to the outside world, and people from all walks of life will be actively invited to visit. The Ancient Scrolls of Raging Waves will be excavated under the witness of everyone, and they will be interpreted and verified on the spot. After being confirmed to be correct, they will be directly merged into the Book of the Sea. There is absolutely no possibility of fraud. .

Such a sincere attitude naturally allowed them to quickly rise along the coast of Europa and become the most powerful church.

After listening to Duke's explanation.

What Zhou Xiao is most concerned about is naturally the large-scale extraordinary miracle known as the "Watch of the Sea".

According to what Duke just introduced, this thing can instantly locate the distant sea from land, extract objects and return them, and can even dig out ancient scrolls of gods from the deep sea. It is definitely not an ordinary extraordinary prop.

If we could absorb the divinity in this large extraordinary miracle, wouldn't we have a chance to take away the power of authority from the God of Raging Waves?
Moreover, the Church of the God of Raging Waves is a clerical sect and believes in oracles interpreted from texts.

Although this method of interpretation is indeed safe enough, it has a potential risk - that is, it can easily be used in reverse to influence the public.

These Europeans may not understand, but Zhou Xiaoke learned a lot from history books.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's campfire fox roars, Liu Bang's legend of killing the white snake, and Wu Zetian's Madonna and Stone.

In history, whenever these heroes wanted to do something big, they would first send people to create a vision for themselves and pretend that destiny was revealed to gain the support of the people.

This trick may also be applied here.

Zhou Xiao smiled secretly, and suddenly a preliminary plan came to mind.

(End of this chapter)