Chapter 450: Under the Monastery
Not long after, Du Di'an saw a towering stone wall fortress, standing at the end of this official road. The fortress was more than fifty meters high. The outer wall of the fortress was like the back of a hedgehog, full of sharp stone thorns, and some stone thorns were stained. With dried blood, the mummified corpse of the monster hangs.
"The scope of this fortress seems to be quite long." Du Dian said.
Francis laughed and said: "This is not very long. This fortress encircles the entire central area and is the first line of defense outside. The actual length may not be comparable to the length of one side of our giant wall."
Du Di'an frowned and said: "There are so many experts in the inner wall area, there are so many strong people like you, why do you need these fortress lines of defense, to guard against these wild beasts?"
Francis shrugged, "It's always safer to live inside the walls than to live outside the walls."
"But inside the wall, the view is blocked, how can you see the vast scenery outside the wall?"
Francis smiled and said, "This piece of wild weeds, what kind of scenery is there, don't look at it."
Du Di'an said indifferently: "What you see is desolation, what I see is freedom."
Francis shrugged and rode a snow lion to the stone wall fortress. The soldiers in standard armor at the gate saw his costume and mounts, and opened the gate of the fortress from a distance to greet him on both sides.
The group rushed into the stone wall fortress, and behind it was a suburb with several military camps and villages.
Du Di'an said: "I didn't expect that there are such desolate villages in this central area."
Francis smiled slightly and said: "Mr. Du, we don't have the concept of 'village' in the inner wall area. The people who live here are the wives and children of the soldiers stationed in the fortress. These soldiers can't go home for a long time, so they moved their wives and children to Living near the fortress, they can accompany them, and their wives and children can also farm here and take care of each other.”
Du Di'an's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't speak.
Everyone galloped along the road, left the vicinity of the fortress in a blink of an eye, and ran along the road among the rolling hills. After more than half an hour, everyone came to a towering mountain and saw towns on the hillside and at the foot of the mountain. The outline, faintly heard the lively voices.
"This is the St. Paul's Hill branch of our monastery, Mr. Du, it's almost here." Francis said loudly in front.
Du Di'an observed silently, a town was built on a mountain, with scattered buildings and beautiful scenery. Francis did not bring Du Di'an into the town, but detoured along the back of the mountain road to the top of this high mountain,
When passing through a stone-built mountain gate, two young men in standard armor can be seen standing at the gate.
When the two saw Francis and the others, they immediately saluted respectfully: "See Your Excellency Saint."
Francis nodded slightly, entered the mountain gate and continued up the mountain road. After a while, he took Du Di'an to a vast square on the top of the mountain. He turned over at the steps and jumped off the back of the snow lion and entered the square on foot.
The same was true for the other five saints, and Du Di'an saw the snow lion and followed behind.
At the end of the snow-white square is a magnificent monastery building with a style similar to that of a Western monastery, which is very different from the quaint Buddhist monastery.
"This is our major seminary, and there are small seminaries and preparatory seminars on the mountainside." Francis introduced to Du Dian with a smile.
Du Di'an was surprised that the "monastery" institution originated from Christianity, and is roughly divided into a preparatory seminary, a minor seminary, and a major seminary. I didn't expect to use this setting here. Could it be that this monastery is from the Inherited from old times? Otherwise why are the size names exactly the same as in the old days?
When Francis came to the steps, the dawn of dawn just came and fell on the door of the main hall. It can be seen that the location of the major seminary was extremely elegant.
"Follow me." Francis took Du Di'an to enter through the side door. The light inside was dim, and the wall lamps were flickering. Inside the side door was a long passage. After walking for more than ten meters, there were several forks. Francis chose one to walk, the light became darker as he walked, and there were still secret corridors on both sides. After walking for a few minutes, he encountered several forks, and he chose one of them to continue walking.
It didn't take long for a spiral staircase to appear in front of the secret passage corridor. After going down the stairs, it was still a maze-like secret passage corridor.
"Is it like this inside your major seminary?" Du Dian asked, he didn't ask directly where it was, lest the latter be too lazy to say it, so he irritated him.
Francis smiled indifferently and said, "How can you imagine that the major seminary contains the universe and the universe? It's just that as you are, if you enter the main hall of the major seminary, it is a blasphemy against the gods. What I want to take you to now is the interrogation. So, oh, there is another name for this interrogation room, called 'Sura Hell', then you can enjoy it yourself!"
Du Dian frowned.
Continue down the secret road and go down seven or eight spiral stairs. Du Di'an felt that he was hundreds of meters below the square. After walking on, he suddenly heard a faint voice coming from the front of the secret road. The closer he got, the clearer the voice became, and it was actually a series of shrill screams.
From the fork to the bottom of a secret road, a clear scream came from outside.
Francis turned the mechanism, and the chain pulled the iron door and fell off. Inside was a prison cell-like place, but it was much larger than a normal prison cell. The walls were covered with various torture instruments, hooks, and iron brushes. , scumbags, whips, etc. In addition, there are some human skins with hair attached. On the counter next to them, there are seven or eight glass jars, which are soaked with human heads, tongues, hearts and other organs.
Anyone who suddenly came to such a place would be so scared that their legs would go weak. Just the surrounding furnishings and the bloodstains splashed on the walls could make people think of how much cruelty had happened here.
Du Dian glanced at it, frowning slightly.
Francis glanced back at Du Dian, saw that his expression was still calm, chuckled lightly, and said, "Mr. Du also seems to have seen strong winds and waves."
Du Dian said indifferently: "There is no conclusive evidence, I advise you not to punish me."
"I thought you weren't afraid." Francis laughed.
Du Dian glanced at him indifferently and said, "I just don't want to be touched by idiots."
Francis chuckled and shrugged, "I hope you can maintain this attitude. By the way, it's not me who is interrogating you, it's the elder criminal of our St. Paul's Monastery." Saying this, he turned to a strong man beating the prisoner next to him. Han said, "Come here and open the door."
This burly man was fat, with a round belly, and his upper body was taken off. His shirtless body revealed white fat. He was wearing a black plastic mask. He looked like a butcher who killed pigs in a vegetable market. A bunch of keys opened an iron door next to it. The iron door was stained with blood and dust and was dirty. No wonder Francis asked him to open the door.
Du Di'an glanced at the prisoner who was hanged and beaten. The latter had unkempt hair, burns, welts, and only half of his fingers and toes, apparently suffering inhuman torture.
The door opened, and there was a passage inside.
Francis took Du Dian into it, and after a short walk, he came to several forks. One of the passages was much wider than the other passages, and the oil lamps on the walls were brand new. The damp ground was actually covered with wooden floors and a layer of carpets. .
In the middle of the passage is a thick wooden door, with scarlet paint, revealing a bit of cold air.
Francis knocked on the door and said, "Francis asks to see you."
After a while, an old voice came from the room, "Come in."
Francis pushed the door and entered. Seeing the scene inside, he immediately pulled the door that was about to open completely, turned to the five saints behind and said, "Go back first and wait for me outside."
The five people in the back were slightly startled, but they nodded their heads and retreated without doubting his orders.
Du Di'an's perspective vision has already seen that there are two heat in the room, the outline of the human figure, which are sticking together at the moment, a realistic picture suddenly appeared in his mind, but the picture was not good, but he was a little surprised when he saw what Francis did. Now, he took a deep look at the back of the saint captain and followed.
"Elder." Francis entered the room and bowed his head respectfully.
After Du Di'an entered the door, he saw the scene in the room. The floor was covered with a soft carpet. The room was very spacious and decorated with many works of art. Among these works of art, there were some snow-white skeletons. On a big bed, an old man in his seventies leaned against the head of the bed, holding a graceful figure with a hot body that made nosebleeds in his arms.
Du Di'an's face changed slightly.
Is this the monastery's criminal minister?
"Is this the little genius Du Di'an?" The old man on the bed stretched out his hand, took the glasses handed over by the woman who was coquettishly leaning against him in his arms, put it on, and looked at Du Di'an.
Francis bowed his head respectfully, didn't look sideways, only looked at his toes, said in awe, "Yes."
Du Di'an was also looking at the old man, collided with his eyes, and suddenly felt a sense of majesty pressing on his face, although the latter was lying on the bed like a slut with nephrite on the side, but his eyes The middle is extremely deep, like a bottomless quagmire. It seems that a giant is looking down at himself and can understand all the secrets in his heart.
Du Di was secretly shocked, his hair stood up slightly, and his thermal vision could see that the heat on the old man's body was normal, no different from ordinary people, but the woman in his arms was like a vigorous fireball , the heat emitted is even more terrifying than Francis in front of him. And such a woman with terrifying combat power, like a showgirl from the Moulin Rouge, doesn't care about him and Francis being there, and concentrates on playing with the beard on the old man's chin. It seems that this is the most interesting thing in the world.