Your Majesty, drink the medicine quickly

Chapter 363 How many years have passed?
There are three checkpoints in front of the gate, and all three checkpoints must be inspected.

There were so many people in front of the first checkpoint that it took them a long time to squeeze through.

When Katerina followed Lip to the guard, they took out their citizen IDs. At this time, Katerina discovered something.

My citizen ID and Lip's were both clean, and the blood had been wiped off. But my citizen ID was a man, and Lip's was a little boy. It had a photo, gender, and detailed records.

Katerina was secretly very nervous, but the guard took one look at the two people's attire and let them pass.

There were 80% fewer people queuing in front of the second checkpoint, but it was still a lot.

When it was two people's turn to be checked, Katerina saw the person in front of her took out his ID and knew that this time he would really check his ID.

But Li Pu waved the ID in his hand in front of the guard, and the guard let him pass.

Katerina followed suit and took up her ID. The guard glanced at it casually and let her pass.

"I didn't expect it to be so loose."

At this time, there were only a few people left in the queue.

Standing in front of the two men was an old woman. Although she was dressed simply, she was clean and had a certificate in her hand.

This old woman should be a refugee, but for some reason, she was allowed to enter the city. And she should have been in the city, otherwise her clothes would not be washed so clean.

When it was almost her turn to pass, she was shaking all over.

The inspection here is very strict, and it is not the guards but the prosecutors who check the documents.

This prosecutor looked very decent and was very meticulous in his work. When someone tried to bribe him, he called the guards and sent the person away.

Soon the people in front of her left and it was the old woman's turn. After she handed in her ID, the prosecutor checked it very carefully.

"There is indeed nothing wrong with your temporary pass. It is not forged. But the time on it is wrong. It has expired."

The prosecutor frowned and said, "What were you doing earlier? Why didn't you go into town and get on the ship earlier? Your family has been canning for this pass!"

These words shattered the old woman's last will. She collapsed and knelt on the ground, crying bitterly: "I came out to look for my granddaughter. She is lost! The priest said he would take her to atone her sins, but she is not in the church. It has been two weeks. I have searched everywhere in and outside the city. Please, let me go into the city to look for her again. I won't cause any trouble. We plan to leave by boat and will not take her with us in the city."

The prosecutor was deeply moved after hearing this. He asked softly, "How many boat tickets did your family get in exchange? The price of boat tickets has increased recently. They all cost 20 gold coins."

The old woman wiped her tears and said, "We don't have that much money to buy two more tickets. I only have a son, a daughter-in-law, and an old man. Woo woo woo, all of us together only bought one ticket. I have to go to make canned food soon. There is only one day left. Please let me go in and bring my granddaughter back."

The old woman's words were a little incoherent, but Katerina understood.

Four of the five members of this family traded everything they had to the devil and became "canned slaves" used by the devil for experiments.

This price also bought some money and a boat ticket. The family hoped that this heavy boat ticket could send their granddaughter to the south and completely leave this desperate place.

The granddaughter was originally taken care of by the old woman, but she heard that the missionaries could redeem the little girl's sins, so the old lady was tempted.

The old lady thought that she would board the ship in a few days, but life on the ship was not peaceful, and her granddaughter was alone on the ship, so she didn't know what would happen. So she asked the priest if her granddaughter could get the goddess' blessing in addition to atonement.

The priest told the old lady that the goddess of dawn was omnipotent, but she had to pay.

The old lady gave all the money except for the boat ticket to the priest, and then sent her granddaughter into the Cathedral of Dawn.

When they were inside the church, the old woman was always following her granddaughter, but during the baptism, the little girl disappeared.

When they asked the priest again, he said he had never seen the little girl and drove the old lady away.

The old lady went crazy that day. She searched for her granddaughter in and outside the city for many days, but could not find her. The prosecutor felt sad when he heard this. He comforted her, "Don't cry. Although it's very dirty here, there is one good thing, that is, people can't die. I will take you to the church to ask the priest. I'm sure he can find your granddaughter. Do you have the boat ticket?"

The old lady was deeply moved. She choked up and said, "No, I'm at home."

The prosecutor blamed the old woman and said, "Oh, how could you keep such a valuable thing at home? Let's go quickly and find the boat ticket first, and then I will take you to find your granddaughter."

After saying this, the prosecutor winked at his deputy, and then, without even taking the guards with him, he took the old woman into the city alone.

"Nip, how could those priests of the Dawn Church be so careless that they lost other people's children?" Katerina was very angry when she heard this.

Li Pu said, "Don't blame the priests. It was the old woman who was careless. Didn't you hear that the priests had never seen the little girl? The old woman probably has some mental problems. She lost the child herself, but blamed the priests of the Dawn Church."

Katerina suddenly realized.

At this time, the adjutant sat at the desk. After hearing the conversation between the two, he sneered: "You are too naive. It is the work of those damn priests. I think you two should be new nobles. I am kindly reminding you. Stay away from the Cathedral of Dawn. Those priests are the only priests in the city, but the evil things they do are even more despicable than the devils!"

Katerina did not listen to the adjutant's one-sided words. She felt that even if there were bad people in the Dawn Church, they were a minority.

That was his mother's church. She was one of the few true and kind Gods in the world who cared about all living things, and this was the only church she had left.

He gave everything he had to bring dawn to the world. There must be priests in the world who inherited his will.

Next, Li Pu took out the ID cards of two people from his arms. After the adjutant took a look, he frowned.

He looked up and wanted to say something to the two of them, but before he could open his mouth, Lip threw a handful of gold coins at his face.

"When my wife came out, she brought the wrong ID. It was my son's ID."

The adjutant suddenly realized what was going on. He looked at the seven or eight gold coins on the table, then looked at the two guards who were secretly looking over here, and asked Lip, "Excuse me, where do you live?"

Lip threw out a dozen more gold coins. The guards behind the adjutant were all staring, but the adjutant seemed unsatisfied: "Sir Bart, I believe you, but you know, according to the rules of the city, if the certificate exists..."

Before he could finish his words, Lip roughly took away all the documents and gold coins on the table. He said to Katerina, "Let's go to another channel to queue up."

The two guards were immediately anxious. They hurried over, smiled and stopped the two men, then angrily said to the adjutant: "Lance! According to the current price, two silver coins can allow the three of us to spend half a month outside the city. This is more than 20 gold coins. If we go to the places run by missionaries every day, it can last for several months. Don't be too greedy, just divide the money among the three of us!"

"Gentlemen, let me correct you." Lip took out his pocket watch and checked the time. He said, "You only have 10 gold coins left now - in one minute, that will be 3."

The faces of the three people suddenly became very ugly.

Half a minute later, Lip swaggered into the city with Katerina.

"Nip, what were they talking about just now?" Katerina was shaking all over. She asked in a very cold tone: "What kind of place are those Dawn Priests running?"

"Well, it's the devil's priest, Katerina." Lip lied with his eyes open.

Katerina took the book directly from Lip's arms and asked, "Elizabeth, tell me, what are they running?"

[Elizabeth: For example, "slaughterhouses", "dismemberment houses", "cannibal houses" and so on. Tsk tsk tsk, people are too lazy to open brothels because they are not exciting enough, right?]

Lip snatched the book and interrupted with a smile: "Yeah, listen, this looks like a place run by the priests of pleasure and pain, right?"

Katerina suddenly realized something, and she said angrily, "It's only been a few years since we last came here. Have the devils in the Pleasure Hell fallen to such a level?"

Li Pu nodded deeply. He looked at the city that was already so dirty that it couldn't be any dirtier and sighed, "Yes, it has only been a few years since Saint King Margaret's last expedition to the west. The 'devils' have forgotten the fear brought by the Saint King."

(End of this chapter)