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Chapter 409 The True Sahagun Faction

In the long and dark corridor, Liu Yonglu and Millie Tang walked slowly forward holding candlesticks.

"Mi Li'er, I feel like this time we're almost there, we've found the right place."

Even Liu Yonglu felt that the secret passage in front of him was somewhat unusual.

Compared with the previous three secret passages, the first impression that the passage in front of him had was that it was particularly old-fashioned. The road on the ground was bumpy and uneven, and the route inside was winding, turning left and right, but the overall trend was still extending downwards.

Liu Yonglu thought back to the time when Milly Tang was looking for the secret passage. There was also a complicated decryption process before finding the hidden lever, and there were even some false clues during the process.

If it weren't for an expert like Millie Tang, an ordinary occult scholar might not be able to find the switch even if he pondered over it in his study for a week.

"Well... so you have to be more careful, especially you. Don't be rash."

After finding the correct secret passage, Millie Tang did not show any joy. Perhaps only she, who had done her homework, knew what this secret passage meant.

"I hope we won't get poisoned suddenly. I read in a novel before that the air in secret passages that have not been entered for a long time is not fresh."

"Fortunately, the people who built the secret passage left some holes for ventilation, and I have prepared some potions to deal with this situation."

When Liu Yonglu heard this, he took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it. He felt more at ease with Mi Li'er, as it would be troublesome if he did it himself.

Because Liu Yonglu had an appointment with the four bishops, the two of them moved forward at a fast pace, and the terrain in the secret passage became increasingly open.

"Wow, this guy is really not that old, he has dug out the foundation of the Holy Throne."

"If you have read the history of the Holy See, you will know that the hill where the Holy See is located was artificially built."

Liu Yonglu really didn't know that Millie Tang had also aroused his curiosity:

"Mi Li'er, please tell me in detail what the story is."

"The Holy See was established about a thousand years ago. It was originally an unknown fishing port."

Fishing port? Liu Yonglu's heart moved, and he remembered Botticelli's dream. There was a cliff behind the Holy See, and the sea was below. Could the Holy See be built on the fishing village where the two brothers Bois and Bernus lived?

"You thought of this, right? This guess should make sense.

The city of Piedmont, where the Holy See is located, is also the capital of Vitalia. It has experienced countless dynasty changes in the past thousand years, but its main Sistine Palace was built a thousand years ago.

At that time, there was a lot of construction going on, including the construction of gardens and royal palaces. The excavated earth was piled up on the seashore, which was the prototype of the Holy See. "

After all the fuss, the Holy Seat turned out to be a large dirt hill park, and Liu Yonglu nodded.

“I found a rubbing of an ancient book in the library. Before the Holy See was built, this place was a fjord. At that time, the royal family of Virtalia built a fortress on the slope to deal with pirate attacks. This was the prototype of the Holy See.

Later, the Saint Maiden Cult appeared, and the holy war swept across the entire western continent. This seaside fortress was occupied by the Saint Maiden Cult, and later completely transformed into the Holy See. "

"So, Mi Li'er, let's keep going down...will we reach the ruins of a fishing village from thousands of years ago?"

Liu Yonglu has a strong ability of association. Since Bishop Qiaonie values ​​this place so much, it must be special.

“It is unlikely to be the complete remains of a fishing village, because the royal family simply piled earth on top, and whatever buildings there were at the time must have been destroyed.

However… since it is a reef fishing port, there may be caves recessed into the mountain. If someone hid the building under the cave at that time, it may still be preserved.”

The two walked forward while talking, and when they turned a corner, they suddenly saw several figures lying in the passage.

Liu Yonglu threw the cigarette butt to the ground, and the bookmark turned into a small shield. He took the lead and walked in front.

As expected, there were several skeletons sitting on the ground, all wearing tattered clothes. Liu Yonglu transformed the bookmark into a fire chopstick and poked it, and the clothes fell off like rotten leather.

"It's been a long time since he died, and the material is all bad."

"Light it up for me."

Millie Tang handed the candlestick to Liu Yonglu, put on special gloves and searched carefully, and actually found several letters on a skeleton.

The material of the letters is somewhat special, not ordinary writing paper, so they can be preserved after hundreds of years.

Even so, these yellowed papers were very fragile. Millie Tang took out a notebook from her bag and put the letters in it one by one to ensure that they could still be read even if they were broken into pieces. Then she started reading from the beginning.

"What's written? Could these people be tomb robbers?"

Even though Mili Tang was an expert in ancient Chinese characters, she couldn't guess what tomb robbing meant. But that wasn't the point. She frowned and said slowly:
"They are Sahagunites."

"Sahagun? Is he the heretic who wants to fight me in the next few days?"

“Well… However, I have a bold guess, also derived from these letters, that the Sahagunites outside are now different from the fundamentalist Sahagunites.

Bishop Jone is a member of the Sahaguni minority. ”

"Wait a minute...what's this about fundamentalism? I'm confused."

“The core idea of ​​the Sahagún sect is to acknowledge the good intentions in the canon of the Virgin Mary, but to distinguish between the canon and the divinity of the Virgin Mary herself, and to question the orthodoxy of the patron saint and the Holy See.

So for thousands of years they have been seeking evidence of the existence of the Virgin Mary and the Saintess." "It sounds quite reasonable, we should question it, and it is not advisable to believe in one side only."

While Millie Tang was reading the letter, Liu Yonglu was not idle either. He used a pair of hot chopsticks to pick open the clothes on the skeletons and checked the cause of death of several people.

After more than half a year of experience in the investigation department, Liu Yonglu has made some progress. Lin Bei and Marquette often talk to him about autopsy methods.

Liu Yonglu discovered that there was an extra hole on the forehead of these skeletons, some large and some small, and most of their vertebrae were dislocated and broken, but the ribs were intact.

This was a heavy blow from the back! Considering that these skeletons were all facing the exit, Liu Yonglu had reason to believe that something incredible was hiding deep in the cave.

These skeletons were seriously injured by the other side while escaping, and finally died in the secret passage due to serious injuries.

“But what Sahagun preaches now is a little different. I’ve read the pamphlet that Lorenzo got. The Sahagun sect now overemphasizes the divinity and sanctity of the Virgin Mary, and the spearhead of doubt is directed towards the saint and the Holy See.

I think the core ideas of the Sahagun movement were tampered with after these people died.”

"You mean... these people were once high-ranking members of the Sahagun faction?"

“Well, the secret of the secret passage was also secretly passed down by the fundamentalist Sahagun sect until Bishop Jone. However, because these high-ranking officials died in the secret passage, the fundamentalist Sahagun sect was unable to make any breakthroughs in their core concepts in the following hundreds of years.

Later, the sect was gradually usurped by heretics. "

All the clues have been connected. Bishop Jone is the fundamentalist Sahagun hidden in the Holy Virgin Sect. He has been inheriting the secrets of the sect for hundreds of years.

However, this secret has been fragmented. He spent a lot of effort to finally piece together the clues, but at the final stage he was discovered and brutally killed by the Sahagun faction that is currently in power.

The things in the secret passage...may point directly to the essence of the Saint and the Virgin.

"Let's go. We don't need to worry about these skeletons, right? They won't suddenly jump up and bite us, right?"

Liu Yonglu stood up and kicked the skeleton's arm bone.

"Well, they're no threat, but you have to be especially careful of what killed them hundreds of years ago."

Millie Tang took out the map and looked at it. The two of them had been walking for a while. Even if the space under the Holy See was large, it had a limit. They should be close to the end.

In the darkness, the flickering blubber candle emitted a faint light, and the two could only hear each other's breathing. Liu Yonglu stood in front and used a bookmark transformed into a trekking pole to explore the way, while Millie Tang followed behind holding his hand.

"what!!"

As Liu Yonglu was walking, he suddenly heard Millie Tang's scream behind him.

The next second, the witch leaped into Liu Yonglu's arms. All the muscles in Liu Yonglu's body tensed up. He didn't know what had happened to scare Mi Li'er so much.

"Spider...Spider..."

Millie Tang said in a trembling voice, even though she is a mystic scholar and has seen all kinds of monsters, Millie Tang is only afraid of insects!
It wasn't because of any childhood trauma, it was simply that she found these rustling little things a bit disgusting.

"Hey, you're so surprised, what am I thinking?"

Liu Yonglu looked up in the candlelight and saw a large spider web. At this moment, a dark green spider with long tentacles hung down along the web.

"Look how scared you are. It's just a big spider."

Liu Yonglu sincerely wanted to tease Millie Tang, and he even grabbed the spider's hind legs and held it in his hand and shook it in front of Millie Tang.

"Ah! Stomp it to death! It's disgusting just to look at, maybe it's poisonous!"

Millie Tang turned her head away and pinched Liu Yonglu hard.

"Crush it to death? That's too mean! It's a little life, what does it know? What does it know? Crush it to death? Mr. Liu would never do that!"

"You're sick! Then throw it away."

"Throw it away, throw it away! It's starving to death!"

As he spoke, Liu Yonglu reached into his pocket and took out the cigarette box. There happened to be one cigarette in it. Liu Yonglu put the cigarette in his mouth and locked the spider in the cigarette box.

"Ahem... I'll find you a fat guy later..."

Millie Tang rolled her eyes, wondering what had gotten into her to make her fall for such a thing:
"Keep going!"

She said unhappily, and the two walked for another three or four minutes before they reached the end of the secret passage.

There was no secret door here, but it led directly to a spacious space. Liu Yonglu raised a candle to look around and found that the ceiling of the space was not high, and it was definitely not like Baldwin Monastery where the edge could not be seen at a glance.

The entire crypt was slightly larger than the medium-sized chapel of the Holy See and was filled with the smell of decay and dust.

"It's OK. If it's too big, I'm afraid I won't be able to search it all."

The two of them were plunged into darkness.

Ten minutes later, a young priest also appeared at the end of the secret passage. He had nothing in his hands, not holding an oil lamp or candle. He just glanced coldly at the candle flame in the distance.

It was Nechuli who was in charge of Bishop Kosander's daily life!
(End of this chapter)