The place where the bells rang was a church. The huge vaults and rows of buttresses, as well as the strong contrast between light and dark created by the stone curves, showed that this was a church built in imitation of Roman style.
Chu Zihang stood under the eaves of a factory, overlooking the church in the heavy rain. His mobile phone was abandoned on the road and he could not check the current time. But judging from the time he left the subway station, it should be close to nine o'clock at night.
Now, due to the heavy clouds and heavy rain, the sky is dark and gloomy even now in summer, which makes people feel depressed.
According to Christian and Orthodox Christian customs, a bell will be ringing from 8 to 10 o'clock every night. This time the bell ringing means prayer or dinner, but it is still difficult to imagine that in an abandoned place like Babaoshan, there will still be a church that maintains ringing bells.
Habit. If Chu Zihang remembers it well, it is true that when this place was not in decline a few years ago, it was a place for religious believers to pray. But now the new church has been moved to Times Square. Take Metro Line 5
It can be reached, and no believers will come to such a place.
Soon, Chu Zihang realized that he was wrong. There were still people who cherished their own things, and there were a lot of them.
The bells sounded like the shepherd's flute, and groups of black lambs quietly walked out of the factories in all directions. They were wearing pure black raincoats and hiding their faces in their hoods. Young and old, they clasped their hands together and prayed devoutly in their hearts, for the heavy rain.
We walked towards the church on foot.
At first glance, there were nearly a hundred "Black Lambs" in front of the church. As they moved forward in the sound of rain, vehicles with license plates on the road not far behind them came step by step and stopped at the roadside of the factory.
, people who got off the car also put on black raincoats and joined the pilgrimage.
Chu Zihang held on to the wall of the factory and looked at everything outside in silence. For some reason, he felt a little cold in his heart. His eyes hidden in the darkness slowly scanned every pilgrim. He wanted to know about Cassel.
Is the student girl among this group of people, but the raincoat covered most of the faces of the pilgrims, so he couldn't find his target at all.
After a long time, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He put on his hood and slowly walked out of the darkness. He blended into the crowd like a stream returning to the mainstream, and walked towards the majestic church in the rainy night.
After joining the crowd, it became easier to control the current situation. By Chu Zihang's side, he noticed that the pilgrims were not a specific group of people. For example, most of the religious people in modern cities were old people and young people.
Most people have become unbelievers due to the impact of the Internet era. Only the elderly who have difficulty accepting new information are easily captured by faith. Therefore, more than 80% of those praying in most churches are elderly people.
But among the pilgrims around him, they range from young to old, from men to women, and the frequency varies. It is difficult to guess what activities are going on in the church from the broad categories of people. An organization that can capture such a wide range of people? Chu
Zihang has probably only seen the offspring of Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes.
But even if it is a pyramid scheme, it shouldn’t set its gathering place in such a place? The positioning of a pyramid scheme should be closed, imprisoned and brainwashed, and the most important brainwashing link cannot have such a strong religious meaning? After all, the Lord is noble?
Not to be stained by the smell of copper in the world, many doctrines are essentially in conflict with preaching. No matter how hard the MLM leaders seek death, they will not use religion to brainwash them.
An organization that dares to write about religion and arrest people regardless of gender, age or age? And uses this method to gather people? Chu Zihang can only think of one possibility now, and at the same time, he quietly feels wary and disgusted in his heart.
When did this kind of organization appear in the city?
Chu Zihang didn't know, but he was certain that the emergence of this kind of thing would definitely have a huge impact on society. The bad impact would make the city's atmosphere become smoky, no matter where it is? As long as there is such a form
All signs of gatherings must be completely eradicated and pulled out!
As the crowd entered the church, sure enough? There were bonfires burning on the walls, and hundreds of candles were lit in the dim space. The candlelight swayed and cast a shadow on the statue of the crucified Jesus with his head cut off in the center of the high platform. All of them
Everything shows the deep faith of this place. All the religious images on the cut glass have been wiped out with red paint. Any items with original Christian teachings have been smashed into debris. They have been replaced by medieval witch doctors.
Crow's beak mask? And skull decorations that are unknown to each other.
Every pilgrim found his or her own place in the church and sat down in rows. Chu Zihang was no exception. He sat in the second row closest to the podium, completely hiding his face in his rain hat.
People sat down one after another, there was no noise of discussion, everything was orderly, as if this was not the first time such a gathering had been held.
On the high platform of the church, there is a powerful stove burning charcoal to provide maximum lighting for the entire space. The fire light rises half a foot high. In the corner, there are one or two people wearing red sheep heads and black robes.
The man stood next to a huge copper bell and a wooden hammer. It can be guessed that the bell that resounded throughout the ruins of the factory was rang by them. Under the hanging big bell, there were many pale skulls piled up.
It was a small hill, but each skull looked extraordinarily small and was tied together by ropes to barely prevent it from falling apart.
Why do students from the Kassel Academy come to a place like this?
Chu Zihang felt confused in his heart. From the shooting incident just now to the current cult site, everything is impacting?