There is a book placed under this piece of paper. The cover of the book looks like parchment and seems to be a product of the last century. The name of the book is "Sailor Peake's Diary".
Schiller opened the book and found that many pages were missing. Ignoring these missing things, the content can be summarized as follows: A man named Peake boarded a large ship and became a sailor on the road.
, they encountered a storm, but fortunately they landed in time under the guidance of the lighthouse.
This content has no beginning and no end, and is inexplicable. If I have to say it, it may have something to do with the lighthouse in this village, but because there is too much missing content, it is impossible to tell whether the lighthouse they encountered is actually this snow-covered lighthouse.
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Schiller instinctively felt that this story was very important, because the most torn out part was the description of the storm.
Schiller felt that there must be some relationship between Old Siltke's placing this note and this book here. Did he discover some conspiracy in the church from this book?
Seeing nothing, Schiller put the note away with the book and began to investigate more on the bookshelf.
His literature reading skills finally came in handy, because the books here were not only in English, but also in many minor languages. With this skill, he could basically read them without any judgment.
Finally, Schiller found an important clue in the book "A Century of Major Insurance Accident Cases" at the bottom of the bookshelf.
The book mentions that about 80 years ago, or based on current times, it may have been around 1930, a major safety accident occurred in a hotel in Massachusetts. The accident resulted in the death of more than 230 guests. It was the worst hotel accident in the history of the United States.
Safety accidents rank third among major accidents.
The group that owns this hotel once bought a huge amount of insurance for this hotel, and the huge compensation caused by the safety accident in this hotel became a hot topic. According to the insurance company's estimate, they have to bear more than 20 million US dollars.
The amount of compensation was an astronomical sum in those days.
Various lawsuits related to the case have been going on vigorously for a long time, even spreading for more than half a century. The reason is that most of the deceased died in very tragic circumstances, and the source of the safety accident has not been found.
The hotel is not a cruise ship. If something goes wrong, there is no other option but to sink with the ship. The hotel is located on the mainland. Even if there is a safety incident such as a fire, the guests in the first floor lobby should at least be able to escape.
However, the list of dead in this security incident included almost everyone in the hotel. Except for some people who are still missing, almost no one escaped.
Moreover, the local police station also stated that it did not receive any distress call, the fire station did not receive a fire warning, and even the night watchers in the neighboring buildings did not hear any movement.
Overnight, all the residents in the hotel died tragically for unknown reasons, and according to reporters at the time, some people had wounds that looked completely inhuman.
Because the situation was so weird, the insurance company questioned the necessity of compensation. The lawsuits between the insurance company and the medical group behind it and the hotel owners and the families of the victims spread for half a century. In the end, many cases did not reach a settlement and have continued.
It is still in litigation status.
Schiller could tell from the various pictures in this book that this hotel was the weird hotel where the bishop went at that time, and the door numbers were exactly the same.
And someone happened to take a picture of the corridor on the 19th floor, and you can see that the door number of room 1913 is missing.
In other words, as he speculated, this hotel really existed in the history of this world, and it seemed that the tragedy caused by the arrival of the alien gods really happened.
What made Schiller even more frightened was that he learned from another history book that almost exactly ten years after this tragedy occurred, weirdness swept the world.
It was also during this era that the church began to gradually rise. Because they could solve and control weird events well, various government departments began to allocate resources to them to ensure that the basic state form was not threatened.
In the next 70 years, the church gradually developed larger and larger until it became an indispensable part of human society today.
And in a book involving news and current affairs, Schiller discovered that after so many years of evolution, the church has gone beyond just solving weird incidents. Their hands have extended to various fields, and they have their presence in all aspects closely related to human society.
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Combining a variety of information, Schiller roughly judged that the current church is probably the largest religious oligarchic economy in the world. It seems to be a religious institution, but in fact it is still a huge global company with very complex subordinate institutions.
Humanoid factions are intertwined.
Schiller actually didn't know exactly what department he belonged to, because he was arrogant and didn't ask, and he didn't set it up. He probably didn't expect the church to be so complicated.
However, it can be inferred from the fact that he does many things without checking that he is not the kind of priest who chants scriptures in church.
After that, Schiller began to focus on looking for books about the church, and finally found favorable evidence of his identity and department in a modern encyclopedia.
This book describes the dress standards for religious people. Ordinary believers do not have any requirements. They can dress appropriately when going to church. Priests in regional churches wear black robes, which is a very common Catholic priest dress. Others are more
The senior clergy are also Catholic.
There are several special departments that dress differently. The tribunal, which has replaced the functions of the judicial body, wears black robes, but with blue patterns on the black robes and scales on the sleeves.
The tribunals that have replaced the functions of law enforcement agencies also wear black robes, but there are golden patterns on the black robes and sword patterns on the sleeves.
Schiller glanced at the long sword pattern on his sleeve and was speechless, so after working on it for a long time, he was still an agent.
No wonder when Hef saw him, he thought he was there to silence people. This tribunal was engaged in the job of silencing people. His job as a requiemr might actually be physical requiem requiem.
The book says that the Inquisition is a worldwide secret service organization, similar to S.H.I.E.L.D., that solves the impact of various weird events around the world.
Of course, Schiller knew that this was a euphemism. The Inquisition was basically equivalent to a violent law enforcement agency that maintained the rule of the church. It was a hammer used in whack-a-mole, knocking anyone who disobeyed.
Of course, the book also says that the Inquisition has been involved in assassination scandals more than once, but due to the importance of its functions, it is mostly held high and put down gently, and it is almost never really held accountable.
Schiller then looked down and saw a few pictures of the Pope traveling. The Pope was nothing special. He was just an old man with gray hair and beard. He seemed to be in good spirits.
However, there was a note at the bottom of the picture, "The Pope travels with his bodyguards." Schiller looked at it and found that the clothes he was wearing were very similar to the uniforms of the bodyguards. Good guy, he was still a royal guard.
So the question is, why did the members of the Guards come to such a remote village instead of staying in the Holy City?
Schiller speculated that there were two possibilities, either he was here to carry out a more important silence mission, or he was the one who was silenced and escaped here.
Schiller felt that the latter was more likely, because there was really no one in this place who seemed to need the help of the Guards to successfully silence them, and even old Siltek was not qualified.
Check out the correct version one by one!
Because the victim of the last assassination case that the court failed to clear up was the Secretary of State of the United States.
Combined with the note, Schiller made a bold guess.
The tragedy in the hotel was indeed due to the arrival of external gods. To be precise, the Waynes provoked Naia at that time. After a series of operations, anomalies in the hotel broke out and many people died.
However, the subsequent bizarre events may not necessarily be natural disasters, because both in terms of manifestation and impact, they are far inferior to the hotel tragedy.
To be precise, those cases don't look like things that can be caused by outside gods. To put it in arrogant terms, they are too typical and have no sense of beauty.
The tragedies in the Cthulhu Mythology all have a kind of cold weirdness, just like humans are not the losers in a fight, but ants who happened to be trampled to death while passing by.
Regardless of whether they were alien gods or the Old Ones, they did not come for humans with clear goals, but humans insisted on exploring the secrets behind them, which caused strange aftermath to spread to the earth, and they were crushed to death quietly.
But these subsequent bizarre cases look like well-designed murder scenes. The victims are as miserable as they are, and the scenes are as bloody as they are. I wish I could have said "I was killed by a monster"...
The words are engraved on the face.
Many of the victims in the Cthulhu Mythos were actually not killed by outside gods on their own initiative, and their deaths had nothing to do with gods and ghosts at all. They were more caused by fear and irrational behavior, such as because
Afraid of jumping off a building because of madness and infection.
But what happened later was weird. Among the hundreds of people who died in the whole case, not one of them died in a conventional way. It had to be the kind of death that ordinary people couldn't do. For example, they exploded from the inside out and died by themselves.
He took off his head and suddenly vomited all his internal organs.
And another very important clue is that there were no survivors in the hotel tragedy, not even a single witness was left, and it happened in the middle of the night. When the police and reporters arrived in the morning, there was nothing left.
But all these strange things that happened later must have happened in broad daylight in public. They broke out wherever there were many people. Half of the onlookers died and half ran away. Those who ran out were interviewed by the media and desperately recounted the horrific scenes at that time.
The venue was a college prom, a crowded art gallery exhibition, the victims were all well-known novel writers, slightly famous painters, or at worst a documentary shooting venue or a very popular tourist check-in.
Attractions and the like.
And the way the weirdness breaks out must be extremely dramatic. There will be the strongest impact at the beginning, then a slow pace, and finally a fast-paced chase, all like filming a movie.