When Ringer brought a large group of people to the old man Pancras, the latter was obviously startled. He probably didn't expect so many people to follow him. But he quickly came back to his senses and said with a smile.
He said, "It would be better if there are more people, it would be more lively", which relieved the young man's embarrassment.
After that, the old man took them to the confession room located in the side hall, and gently pulled down the brass candlestick embedded in a pillar. With a low rumbling sound, the solid stone wall in front of him first sunk inward, and then inward.
Panning to the side, a spiral staircase leading to the ground silently opened up. On the walls on both sides of the staircase, a torch was inserted at regular intervals. The flickering firelight stretched the shadow of the steps very long, as if it could
It extends infinitely to the end of the underground world.
"Please come with me."
Old Pancras turned around and said something, then took off the candlestick next to him, and took the lead to walk into this passage full of mystery and enchantment. Behind him, Ringer, Saint Shalia, Alice and others followed in turn.
Step by step, Countess Neville walked at the back. When she also entered the passage, the secret door behind her closed quietly, and it was seamlessly connected with the original stone wall. It was impossible to see through the hidden door with the naked eye.
The mystery.
Siesta did not participate in this operation because she seemed not to be interested in the "City of Ten Thousand Cities", Renweiting, so she stayed at the Evangelical Academy and played with the three photon elf sisters. It is said that she also invited them to board the Cloud Whale
Sky Island, going to the Fairy Sleep Inn as a guest. With her and Shelia here, Ieta who stays on Sky Island will not feel too lonely.
The stairs are very long and do not go straight down. Sometimes they are interrupted suddenly. You need to pass through a semi-enclosed stone platform or a passage that has obviously been repaired in the later period before you can continue to climb down. From this point
Judging from his judgment, Ringer believed that this staircase should not have existed from the beginning, but was built after the Evangelical Cathedral was completed. Its purpose was to connect the incomplete ancient ruins scattered underground into a whole, so they
The platforms or passages you pass through are the real ruins inherited from ancient and medieval times.
This is undoubtedly a huge project that requires the mobilization of huge manpower, material and financial resources, and there is also the risk of being jointly discovered by the religious group. Judging from the situation at the time, if someone does not provide help, just these aliens from the Evangelical Academy
, there is no way to complete the project, many of them don’t even understand construction knowledge at all.
As for the person who provides help, there is no other possibility except the spiritual prayer meeting.
Old Man Pancras once said that he was a member of the True Spirit Sect. In this way, if there are still members of the Spiritual Prayer Society in Renwetting City, they can only be believers of this sect. Because of their teachings
Animism, which is closest to the original, is the most moderate, and will not attempt to summon gods to achieve the so-called "Return of the Saints". Understanding it from another perspective, it is also the most likely to achieve reconciliation with the religious order.
Don't think that this is impossible. In fact, it should be said that there is no other possibility, because the cleverness of the "Religious Decree" is that it does not forcibly ban the churches mentioned in the decree, but allows them to retain their own beliefs.
At the same time, large-scale preaching is prohibited.
The Spiritual Prayer Society has taken root in the land of Renkweil for a long time. There are so many believers in animism. Using violent means to suppress them all will only trigger another turmoil. For this reason, the best way should be to suppress a group of believers.
While criticizing, win over a group at the same time - suppress those die-hards who try to summon the gods, demonstrate their determination to promote the "Religious Decree", and at the same time win over the Zhenling sect with relatively moderate doctrines, allowing them to manage the remaining believers and avoid unrest.
Further expansion also laid a wedge of division within animism.
I have to say that this is a very good plan. It may not be perfect and cannot meet everyone's needs, but one advantage is that it will never fail because everyone in the plan will follow the designed route whether they like it or not.
To act. Could it be that a group of die-hards, including the Druids, would compromise and choose to tolerate it if they knew someone was being spared? Could it be that the fundamentalists of the True Spirit Sect knew that the United Order was using them?
Can we just ignore those innocent believers?
The best plan in the world is not that it meets everyone's needs, but that once it is implemented, there is no possibility of failure.
As for why the True Spirit Sect and the United Order have reached a tacit understanding, but old Pancras is still in exile, there is a very simple reason: he is an alien, and the United Order has always had zero tolerance for aliens.
Just because he is an alien.
Who makes him an alien?
…
The firelight flickered, and figures passed through the ruins of the ancient era one by one. The dark environment blurred the perception of time and space. Judging only from the senses, Ringer felt that they had advanced for at least fifteen minutes before finally reaching the ground——
In other words, we arrived underground.
What appeared in front of everyone at this time was an abandoned corridor. It was wide enough to accommodate three or four people walking side by side, and the height was about three meters. The stone pavement underfoot was extremely solid and was still undamaged after many years; the ceiling above was made of
The entire granite was sealed and later artificially reinforced, tenaciously withstanding the pressure of gravity; the walls on both sides appeared incomplete and mottled after years of erosion, with many stone bricks peeling off, exposing dark brown rock formations and
Twisted roots. Abandoned stone bricks and broken wall roots are scattered at regular intervals on the ground, and the torn cracks lead to dark and unknown depths.
There is a water channel on the left, but it has dried up. Inside is a cracked river bed, a rusty drain fence, mud and sand, broken weapons, fish bones, human bones, rotten sediments and rat carcasses as big as a puppy.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "We are under Brooks." The old man Pancras, who had been silent for a long time, turned to everyone and said: "In the Middle Ages, the five-town garrison of Kenkville Green defended against the barbarian invasion.
, they built complex underground passages connecting five towns so that when a battle breaks out, soldiers from each town can rush to support quickly and timely. In addition, they also built underground barracks and hiding caves for the elderly, weak, women and children.
Cave dwellings to avoid war, warehouses for storing food, underground canals and reservoirs for storing drinking water and ensuring water and air circulation, etc. These buildings were gradually deposited deeper into the ground as the land of Renkweil sank again and again.
In the end, it was basically isolated from the ground, but it still retained its intact appearance. The militiamen of Brooks Town also walked through the corridor we are walking now six hundred years ago, and perhaps they also fought with the invading barbarians here.
Fierce fighting broke out."
No wonder there were human skeletons and broken weapons in the dry waterways. Ringer answered a question in his mind.
To the southeast of the Kenkerville Green is the most critical defensive section of the Varyan Great Wall. Throughout the Middle Ages, the number of times it was attacked by barbarians was perhaps second only to the capital Lenkstin (it also fell the same number of times). No wonder there are always people.
It is said that each of the 13,000 ancient ruins on this land represents a painful history. Even the most knowledgeable and wise archaeologists cannot fully understand their background and origin. But the person who said this said
People obviously don't know that the history of Kenkville Green is not only on the ground, but also buried underground.
If this scope is expanded from the Kenkwell green space to the entire Renwetting city and even the entire land of Renkwell, it must make sense - or in other words, it makes more sense.