Laura's Beautiful Journey

Peru, ruins of the Mission of St. John.

This is the former missionary site of the Seven Difficulties Sect, a new branch sect founded by an apostate high-ranking member of the Holy Trinity Order.

However, due to unknown reasons, this sect has long disappeared in the long river of history. The government has now converted part of the remaining residence into a new church and an orphanage.

Naturally, such a sparsely populated place does not have any oil and water taxes, so the local government only spent a small amount of symbolic money to help repair the dilapidated houses, and then gave the priests and nuns who stayed here a Tax exemption policy.

Today, it was just dawn. Father Romario finished his prayers, folded his Bible and prepared to make breakfast for the children. The orphanage he was in charge of was very poor and could not afford to hire helpers. Fortunately, the climate here was not bad, so they A vegetable patch was cultivated around the abandoned library, which was barely enough for daily vegetable supply.

"Good morning, Father Romario."

"Good morning, Sister Maria."

After the two greeted each other, the priest planned to continue walking to the kitchen, but was stopped by the old nun.

"Father, there is not much flour in the warehouse. It can last for three days at most. Rivaldo is driving a truck to the town to purchase today. Should we also buy some daily necessities?"

"Oh! Yes! I almost forgot about this. I'll go up and get the money for you. Wait a minute."

The priest who walked quickly back to his room took out his dusty money bag from an old safe, shook everything in it onto the table, and then let out a long sigh.

The total of these fragmentary banknotes and coins of different denominations is 305 new soles (approximately equivalent to more than 540 yuan in RMB).

I originally wanted to buy some second-hand teaching materials. After all, in the new century, even the church has to teach the children some other knowledge. The priest knew clearly that these children who have no family to rely on should hold a Bible and study every day. There is no way out from now on.

But the little money I have left now may not be enough to purchase necessary daily necessities, let alone textbooks.

"Drip drip!"

Just when he was ruthlessly wrapping up his last few assets and preparing to go downstairs, the mobile phone on the coffee table sounded a text message alert. This mobile phone with a black and white screen was already the most high-tech electronic product owned by the church.

After wrapping the three hundred and five new soles tightly in a cloth bag, Father Romario put on his reading glasses and walked to the coffee table and picked up his mobile phone.

"US dollars have been deposited into your personal account"

He checked the short line of small words back and forth many times, and even counted the number of circles on his fingers one by one like a child.

"One, two, three, four, five... five zeros? Ten, one hundred thousand dollars?!"

After confirming that it was correct, Father Romario almost threw the phone away. Their church occasionally received charitable donations from the outside world. If the currency is US dollars, it is generally a charitable donation.

But the previous largest donation to an unknown mountain church like theirs was only US$1000. This sudden donation of US$ was so unreal that the priest couldn't help but wonder if he hadn't had a good rest last night. He was dreaming, and then he reached out and grabbed his cheek.

"Hiss---it hurts! So this is real? This is not a dream!"

When Father Romario, who was usually extremely steady, ran downstairs happily with his cell phone in hand, sharing the joy with everyone, Laura, who had sneaked into the old library invisibly, waved her hand to disperse the light curtain in front of her.

The mysterious donor was Laura. If he saw her on the way, he would naturally help. One hundred thousand dollars is enough for this church-based orphanage to operate normally for several years. If it takes more, they are afraid that they will be targeted by some people with ulterior motives. superior.

Worried that the children would accidentally enter the library, which was already a dangerous building, the church locked the door with chains. Laura entered the room through a big hole in the roof, and the big lock at the door could help her block a lot of things. unnecessary trouble.

Whether in terms of appearance or interior, this library converted from an old church is not much different from an ordinary church.

But as Laura broke through the cracked wall and followed the clues hidden in the murals to find the idol switch and activate it, a secret underground passage appeared in front of her.

Originally, it was necessary to unlock the various optical activation switches left by the crazy Lopez to enter the underground temple. The clue was about the crucifixion of Jesus in the Bible.

Laura could naturally untie it step by step, but that would be too time-consuming. In addition, the obstacles blocking the way were just cast-iron machine doors. Taking out the artifact tomahawk to cut them was no different than cutting tofu.

Soon, Laura, who passed the last iron gate mechanism, arrived at the underground temple of the Seven Difficulties Cult.

Said to be a temple, the scene inside is not far behind the tragedy scenes left by those crazy cults.

Countless mummies sit on rows of chairs in the temple that is arranged like a church. On both sides of the passage are two rows of mummies kneeling in extremely upright postures. All of these people have listened to the lies of the Seven Difficulties Cult and voluntarily This self-sacrificial cultist.

As for their mad leader, it was Lopez, one of the two men who stole the silver box from Paititi.

At first, he just wanted to build a large underground temple under the mission library as a place to hide the silver box.

But in the process of building the underground tomb, Lopez's mentality began to slowly change, and he gradually felt that no one was worthy of the great power in this box, and he wanted to completely bury this silver box in an unknown place.

In order to prevent anyone from knowing the location of the silver box, Lopez even imitated the cruel ancient emperors and killed all the fanatical believers who built the tomb in the tomb.

He was really gifted in deceiving people, so when this talent was used not for preaching but for brainwashing, he turned the Seven Difficulties Sect into a cult with the ultimate goal of martyrdom. According to the seven-step approach to God taught by the Seven Difficulties, the last two steps to approach God are to be crucified and buried. So after the tomb was built, he directly incited his followers to commit suicide in the tomb. After part of the suicide, the remaining believers mummified the dead body and placed it on a chair as if praying. Then the remaining believers committed suicide. This was until they were all dead, and only the original two, Serrano and Lopez, were left. Lopez wrapped a shroud around his lower body and stood in the sarcophagus. He tied his body with ropes and stood in a standing position holding the silver box in his hands. He asked Serrano to build a brick wall and seal himself in the sarcophagus. When Serrano was finished, Lopez fired a shot from his musket through the brick wall in the tomb—Serrano was killed outside the coffin.

Lopez himself stayed in the coffin holding the silver box and waited to die. He thought that no one would know the location of the silver box.