Chapter 939 Different Churches of the Victims

The name Alice Belmont brought Leo's memory back to Yam Island, and some scenes solidified in memory soon appeared in his mind.

Leo's memory of Alice Belmont is very deep, even surpassing his descendant William Dodd who may come from the future and become a new victim. The reason why he has such a deep impression is because Alice Belmont The first psyker he had ever seen from the world of Velen.

Later, Leo also thought of Alice Belmont because of Sylvia's matter, because he was confused about Alice Belmont's power. It stands to reason that with such a powerful bloodline of the Belmont family, Alice Bell Even if Monte gains extraordinary power, he should be based on his own blood power like Sylvia, but Alice Belmont's power is mainly based on psionic energy, which is really abnormal.

And another point is that Alice Belmongo is a psyker with a split personality, and her danger and growth are far beyond that of ordinary psykers.

At that time, when he returned to the world of Velen, Leo thought about looking for the whereabouts of Alice Belmont, but from Sylvia, he learned that Alice Belmont had disappeared a long time ago.

Now in this world of the Black Forest, he was surprised to hear news about Alice Belmont again.

"Yes, it's my ancestor Alice Belmont." Sylvia nodded and replied affirmatively.

"Are you sure?" Leo still couldn't believe it.

"Of course." Sylvia said, walked to the window of the hotel, drew the curtains, then pointed to a huge holographic billboard not far from the window, and said: "In the family manor, there are I have seen the portraits of the members of the Belmont family since I was a child, and I have not even recognized the appearance of my own ancestors."

I saw that the content of the holographic billboard that Sylvia pointed to was religious propaganda, and the leader of this religion appeared in front of the public in the form of a hologram, and this religious leader was Alice Belmont, What is even more interesting is that this religion turned out to be the Church of the Sufferers.

Of course, Leo knew the relationship between the deity of the victim and Alice Belmont, even if the victim was not the victim in Alice Belmont's heart.

Sylvia looked at the holographic image in the distance with a puzzled face, and couldn't help but questioned again and again: "This is really strange! Why did the Church of the Victims appear here? Why did my ancestors become victims of the Black Forest?" or the Pope of the Church?"

It is no wonder that Sylvia is so emotionally disturbed. Apart from Alice Belmont, the ancestor of the Belmont family, it is also incredible that the Church of the Victims, a unique church in the world of Velen, appeared in the world of Black Forest. .

When they were in the public area, Leo and Sylvia knew something about the gods of the Black Forest and the church of the gods. The gods here are all real, and they each occupied an area of ​​the Black Forest, and then fell into a deep sleep Among them, waiting for them to wake up when they can leave, some gods will still respond to their believers even in their deep sleep, but the vast majority of gods will not respond to any believers, they will only send out through them inadvertently. The power infects creatures in the area, making them their own kin.

Because of this, almost all the churches that Lanxi City has contacted in the Black Forest follow a fundamental principle, that is, there are churches with gods, and only intelligent creatures that truly feel the power of gods will establish churches for them.

But now, the Church of the Victims that appeared in the inner city of Lanxi City obviously did not follow this basic principle. The God of Victims can still perform some miracles in the world of Velen and endow church members with some divine power, so that The gods are definitely not trapped in the Black Forest, and naturally they cannot give any support to the Church of the Black Forest, so it is impossible for the Church of the Victims in the Black Forest to have miracles.

But judging from the current situation, the Church of the Victims seems to be quite influential in Lanxi City, otherwise, such a large holographic advertisement would not be possible.

Leo also became interested in the Church of the Victims, and asked Sylvia, "What are you going to do now? Go get in touch with the Church of the Victims?"

"I..." Just as Sylvia was about to say something, someone knocked on the door of the hotel room.

Leo and Sylvia looked at each other. They had asked the hotel not to disturb them. Obviously, the person knocking on the door had nothing to do with the hotel.

After opening the door, Leo and Silvia saw a clergyman wearing the robes of the Church of the Victims standing outside, smiling at the two, then saluted the two, and placed the two invitation letters on the hand, then turned and left without saying anything.

"It's the tongueless one." Seeing the figure of the priest leaving, Sylvia did not rush to open the letter in her hand, but revealed the identity of the other party, and sighed: "I didn't expect that the Church of the Victims here They still choose to take the ancient way of suffering.”

Regarding this, Leo's face also showed a little surprise.

In fact, there are various churches related to suffering beliefs, because any intelligent creature will only become more firm in its beliefs when it is struggling in extreme hardship, and the suffering beliefs of the Church of the Sufferers are the strongest of all suffering beliefs. Difficult, and the ancient way of suffering is the most difficult among them.

Depriving human beings of external perception is only the first step. After that, they must suffer various physical and psychological sufferings without external perception, and finally complete the transformation of consciousness and the consciousness of the victim as a god. To achieve synchronization, so as to obtain the indoctrination of the victim's divine power and become the favored of the gods.

It is precisely because this way of suffering is the most difficult, so many believers died on the road, which eventually made the Vinen World Church of the Victims stop believing in the way of suffering, but split the way of suffering into various Passion Rituals.

While opening the exquisite invitation letter in his hand, Leo said, "It doesn't have to be a tongueless person in the way of suffering, maybe it's just an ordinary wordless suffering."

Sylvia shook her head and said: "No, it's the wordless one in the way of suffering. I have seen people who believe in the ancient way of suffering in the Church of the Sufferers. That person just now and those who believe in the ancient way of suffering They both have special marks on their bodies." Then, she saw Leo reading the invitation letter, and asked, "What's written in it? Did some of my actions just now attract their attention?"

"No." Leo shook his head and said, "They just treated us as ordinary senior bachelors and invited us to a banquet held by the Church of the Victims."

"The banquet of the Church of the Victims?" Sylvia also opened the invitation letter in her hand and looked at it, and saw the line of camouflaged student identity on it, then smiled and said: "It seems that the Church of the Victims is here. The development here is very good, two unfamiliar senior bachelors came, and they were able to get the news immediately, obtain the information related to the study certificate, and then send out the invitation letter." Then, she looked at Leo's clothes, and said : "Looks like we need to prepare a proper set of clothes for the Tangle Banquet."

After deciding to attend the banquet held by the Church of the Victims, Leo and Sylvia immediately bought a set of Lanxi people's costumes for the banquet at a clothing store near the hotel, and then hired a hotel suspension car to go to the invitation letter. written address.

Interestingly, after seeing the address of the invitation letter, the driver of the suspension car showed unusual enthusiasm and kept saying good things about the Church of the Victims. His respect and love for the Church of the Victims was beyond words.

Sylvia's attention was originally focused on the suspension vehicle. Even though she had seen other similar high-tech items, she was still very interested in this suspension vehicle. Only when the driver talked about it endlessly She turned her attention to this aspect when she heard good words from the Church of the Sufferers, and asked, "Are you a believer in the Church of the Sufferers?"

The driver quickly shook his head and said, "No! We are not believers. We are different from the churches of the gods outside. We are not believers. We are just members. It's like joining a reading association."

"Not a believer?" Sylvia was stunned for a moment, then asked again: "Then don't you need to pray to the victims?"

"The victims pray?" This time, the driver couldn't understand Sylvia's question, and his face was blank, but soon he realized the problem, and quickly said with a smile: "Ma'am, you may have misunderstood. The oracle is not a god, it is just a kind of thought, all of us are suffering from birth, we need to stagger and sneak through all kinds of tribulations, work hard to transform ourselves, and finally overcome all disasters and achieve physical and mental sublimation. We suffer Although the church is a church in name, it does not have a god of faith, but only a kind of thought, so we don't need to pray, because the trials we encounter every day are the best tests."

After listening to the driver's explanation, Sylvia had an incredulous expression on her face, because in her common sense, it was clear that there was no such church that only had doctrinal thoughts but no belief in gods.

However, for Leo, this situation is very understandable, because there are too many similar churches in the Earth Federation.

"Can you tell us about your Pope?" Sylvia asked again after returning to normal.

"Our Pope is a good man." The driver gave an extremely simple answer, and then he had no intention of continuing.

Of course, Sylvia was not satisfied with such an answer, and she said instructively: "I heard that she seems to be from the Belmont family."

"The Belmont family?" The driver looked at Sylvia in a daze, and asked, "Where did you hear this ridiculous rumor? The relationship between the Pope and the Belmont family is extremely bad. The thing that everyone in the city only wanted to see, if not for the guarantee of several senior bachelors, the Pope would have been arrested by the Belmont family and their minions and thrown into the abyss, just like the Belmont family treated him. like his enemies."

At this time, Leo and Sylvia heard the driver's words, and they couldn't help being stunned. After looking at each other, Leo asked in a deep voice: "Is the abyss you mentioned just now a real abyss, or is it a synonym for a certain prison?" ?”

"Of course it's the abyss! Which prison would be so stupid to call it the abyss." The driver looked at Leo and Sylvia in puzzlement, then showed a look of surprise, and said, "The two bachelors should be the first Coming to Lanxi, is it even the first time to come to the domain of the mother of filth? Otherwise, the two of you would not be so surprised by the abyss. Yes, for people in other places, the abyss is a terrifying unknown, But for us, the abyss is something we need to face every day, and there is nothing to be surprised about. As long as the fortress of war does not disappear, even if the abyss infiltrates into the city, it will not be serious. In terms of safety, please Don't worry, walking in the inner city is definitely much safer than walking in the black forest for the two of you."

While talking, the hover car sensitively shuttled through the low-level blocks, then followed a guiding light belt, entered the middle-level block, passed several high-rise buildings, and finally stopped on a huge platform. On the edge is a building that is incompatible with the surrounding architectural style.

Compared with the sharp-edged and technological buildings around them, the building in front of Leo and Sylvia looked much older. It was all made of wood, and an artificial forest was built around it. It must be said that it was in a steel jungle. It is indeed inexplicably comfortable to see some natural atmosphere inside.

In Sylvia's eyes, the manor-style building in front of her gave her an inexplicable feeling, because the style of this building was almost the same as that of the Belmont Manor in France, and it was like a replica of the original. The only difference is that there are two annex buildings missing.

However, considering that the building in front of me may have been built by Alice Belmont, the absence of the two auxiliary buildings is not so difficult to understand, because the construction time of the two auxiliary buildings was after Alice Belmont disappeared.

When the two walked off the suspension platform, a person among the attendants waiting at the door came out, saluted Leo and Sylvia, and asked them to show their invitation letters.

After checking that there were no mistakes in the two people's invitation letters, the attendants immediately led the two of them through a man-made forest to the garden of the main building of the manor.

At this moment, many people have gathered in the garden. Judging from their clothes and speech, most of them are the low-level people in the inner city of Lanxi. It seems that this is not the first time they have come to this kind of banquet. All of them behaved very naturally, gathering in groups of three or four, chatting about what happened in the city recently.

On the contrary, in the small garden near the manor, the atmosphere is completely different from other places. It feels like everyone is very reserved, no one wants to talk, and they are all calmly drinking the wine in their glasses.