Whispering Poems

Chapter 1183 Invisible Church
Compared with the back of the church where Shad just appeared, the main hall of the church is relatively well preserved, and even the long stone seats, at least half of them are still intact.The area here is very open, and in times of prosperity, it can accommodate at least a few hundred people to sit together and listen to the priest's lecture.

It's a pity that now, the windows around are blocked by sundries, short grasses that are still alive in winter grow in the cracks of the bricks on the ground, and there is no trace of the holy emblem on the wall behind the pulpit, so it is impossible to identify which church this church belongs to. An old god.

The wildness of nature and the solemn church are perfectly integrated together. Everything in the mortal world cannot resist the power of time after all.

The only thing worth noting is the stone statue of a middle-aged man in a robe sitting on the first row of long tables and chairs on the right side of the central aisle.The stone statue is very realistic, the details of the hair, the folds of the robe, and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are completely consistent with real people.The stone statue's eyes looked at the empty wall of the church where the holy emblem should be hung. Xia De could even see relief and melancholy from his eyes.

The face shape of the stone statue is a typical appearance of a southerner in Carson Rick. If it weren't for the sufficient light here, Shad would even think it was a living person.

"Stone statue?"

He walked over, put his hand on the shoulder of the seated statue, and felt a thick layer of dust on his touch.

[Ordinary stone statue. 】

"Is it just a stone statue?"

【Yes.If you don't believe me, try breaking it up. 】

Xia De hesitated, but did not do so.Although [Breath of Time] restores this kind of ordinary stone without difficulty, since this stone statue is the only thing that is relatively complete in this church, let it stay here.

After inspecting the place a little bit, while sighing at the scenery, Shad came to the main hall gate of the church.This is the gate of the entire church. Although it is not blocked by debris, the double metal doors are tightly locked together.

"The last person to leave with the lock on the inside locked himself in the church, or did he use the space maze to leave?"

He thought to himself, but the door lock is meaningless to Xia De. For him who has been promoted to Central, he just knocked on the metal door, and the lock popped open with a click, and even the hinges rattled. automatically fell to the snow-covered ground.

squeak~
Slightly bent down and exerted strength with both hands, amidst the ear-piercing sound, the double-opening metal door was pushed open a gap, allowing the sunlight from outside to shine in.He walked sideways through the crack of the door, stood on the platform above the church steps, covered his eyebrows with his right hand, squinted his eyes and looked around in surprise.

In Shad's imagination, since this abandoned church can still be kept relatively intact, without traces of human activities, it must be a mountainous area outside the Randall Valley, or deep in a dense forest.

But at this time, I really came outside the door, and saw that outside the church was a deserted courtyard covered with snow, and in the center of the courtyard was a statue fountain with only the pedestal left.And outside the courtyard, there are actually city streets.

A bustling stream of people passed through the old abandoned church, and the citizens in Kaserik's winter costumes continued their lives in the fine snowflakes.

The street is not very wide, but it can also allow two carriages to go towards each other. The gate of the church courtyard is a wrought iron fence gate that is common in church buildings. Outside the gate, on the opposite side of the street is a second-hand bookstore with three floors.Snow dyed the sloping roof silver, and ice hangings hung from the rainy eaves on the first floor of the bookstore entrance. Young people like apprentices were holding up their brooms and trying to knock them down.

Looking into the distance of the sky, the city's bell tower, the side spire top of the Orthodox Church, and the chimneys spewing black smoke into the sky are all clearly visible in the snow.

The newspaper boy passed by the door of the church without looking at it.A gentleman with a cane hurried past, but only glanced at his pocket watch.The carriage passed by the door of the abandoned church, making Shad focus on the black arched fence door at the door of the church courtyard.But then he realized that the people on the street didn't seem to notice this large church at all.

Not only was no one paying attention to him, but no one was even paying any attention to the deserted courtyard.Even the pedestrians who are familiar with this block, it is absolutely impossible not to cast their eyes here even once.

"It is unreasonable to have this kind of building in the city. The church will not allow the Old God Church to appear in the city. And even if the Orthodox Church allows it, it is unreasonable for homeless people not to come and occupy it as a winter residence. Arriving here? The exit this time is really interesting."

But the exit is in the city, which is also a good thing for Xia De, at least it saves him the time of running around.

He tried to walk down the steps in front of the church to the courtyard, but no one noticed him.So Xia De grabbed a handful of snow, squeezed it into a snowball, and threw it over the fence. The snowball fell on the street and spread out. The man passing by with a black briefcase immediately looked at the snowball on the ground, and then looked at the snowball in doubt. All around, as if looking for which naughty child threw snowballs.

But in fact the "naughty child" is in the yard on the other side of the fence.

"It seems that I really can't see it."

Although he didn't understand why, Xia De wanted to go out to have a look after all.In order to prevent himself from being unable to come back, he also tied a thin wire to the fence in the courtyard, and then he opened the fence gate with one end of the thin wire in his hand, and then walked out.

When Xia De's whole body came to the street outside, someone finally took a look at him, but he was not surprised at all, as if he was standing there in the first place.

"When I walked out of the fence gate, I felt as if I had crossed a layer of water. The power of space."

Thinking in his heart, he looked down at his hand and found that the thread was actually broken.Turning around and looking behind him, he found a wall behind him.

Go a little further and look again. On both sides of the wall are the courtyard of the "Randall City Public Printing Factory" and the three-story building with the sign of "Berkeley Botanical Exhibition Hall".

The house number of the building on the left is "11 Cherry Leaf Avenue", and the house number of the building on the right is "12 Cherry Leaf Avenue".But the abandoned church that Xia De walked out of just now has disappeared.

"It's true now"

He inhaled slightly, and pressed his hand on the wall, which was the outer wall of the "Berkeley Plant Exhibition Tube".The hand touches the wall, but can't feel the slightest abnormality:

"Can you feel something?"

[There are no traces of elements, and a specific method may be required to redisplay the courtyard just now. 】

Xia De sighed, turned around and leaned against the wall, lowered his hat, and looked at the street in front of him:

"This time I was really careless. So, how should I go back?"

After repeated inspection dozens of times, until the second-hand bookstore apprentices on the opposite side of the wall began to notice him, Xia De left here helplessly, temporarily accepting the fact that the abandoned church disappeared.

Without going far, he crossed the street and entered the opposite "No. 25 Cherry Leaf Lane" Terrence second-hand bookstore, walked through the bookshelves of the second-hand bookstore, and picked out an old book "Carson Rick Forest Story" that lacked a title page. ", intending to take it home as a gift for Dorothy, and then walked to the counter.

Watching the counter was an old gentleman in a woolen vest with gray hair and reading glasses.He was lowering his head, carefully repairing the torn part of an old book with missing pages.

The old man quickly settled the bill for Xia De, and after Xia De took back the change, he asked in his already proficient Kasenlik language:
"Sir, I'm actually a writer from out of town."

As he spoke, he raised the book in his hand:
"I heard that there are many interesting rumors on this street. Could you tell me something?"

"An interesting rumor?"

The old man's Carson Rik pronunciation is not very standard, which is probably the accent of Randall Valley. He raised his head and pushed his reading glasses, looked at Shad with slightly cloudy eyes, and said casually:

"If you're not concerned with rumors of the blacksmith who lives down the street having an affair with the young waitress in the tavern, then I think you want to hear the story of 'the church that doesn't exist.'"

"There really is."

Thinking in his heart, Xia De flicked the 1 pfennig small round coin in the change to the table:

"Can you talk to me carefully?"

"It's not an organized story."

The old man didn't care about the coin, but continued to deal with the old book in his hand with his head down:
"Every few years, someone claims to have seen an abandoned church on this street, yes, across from this shop. But no matter how people check, there is no sign of the so-called church. Even The priests of the nearby Peace Church came here to check, but obviously nothing came of it.”

"That's an interesting rumor. Have you ever seen the so-called church?"

"Of course not. To be honest, I don't really believe in such rumors, but if it were written into a story, I think it might be interesting."

Xia De smiled and nodded, as long as the church did not "appear randomly in any corner of the city", but was indeed on this street, but he couldn't see it.

"Oh, and there's one more thing I want to ask you about."

He left another coin:
"Local, is there a great noble with the surname 'Granger'?"

"It seems that you really came from another place, but the common language is so standard, it must come from Willendale. The Earl of the River Valley-Earl Granger's reputation, it is impossible that no one in the local area knows."

The old man said, still not managing the coins.

"count?"

Xia De was stunned. In this way, he had to pretend to be able to send the two medals back.

"Excuse me, where is the estate of Earl Granger?"

"Want to buy a city map?"

The old man looked up and asked with a smile, then pointed to the two coins:

"This can't be counted in the cost of information."

(End of this chapter)