Chapter 64 A Disillusioned Person

The nave of the church is the core of every cathedral. It is the place where believers are accommodated during worship activities. The two sides of the vertical hall are filled with benches. There is a path on the left, middle and right of the bench array for priests to walk.

There is a statue of a goddess in the semi-circular independent nave. She is a lady wearing a loose robe, holding a lantern, and covering half of her face with a scarf.

Even with Giles' knowledge, Chen Ke could not get any additional information when looking at the statue. Chen Ke has no research on theology, not to mention that this is the Great Void, so he has no idea which belief this goddess belongs to.

So Chen Ke turned his attention to the rows of benches. He estimated that there were three people sitting on one bench, four benches in a row, and a total of eight rows. A total of 96 priests can be seated here, not to mention the number of people that can be accommodated on the surrounding paths.

Chen Ke not only daydreamed, in this lost era, before the people living here became ash zombies, every Sunday, hundreds of priests all dressed solemnly, neatly and silently came to this church, and prayed solemnly to the unknown goddess under the auspices of the Pope.

That scene must be both sacred and weird. People are herd-like. When individuals integrate into the group, their individual consciousness will be submerged by the collective consciousness. This is the so-called assimilation.

Chen Ke is an atheist, but after witnessing monsters and holy objects, his old ideas have been shaken a little. Perhaps, in the mysterious darkness of the universe, there are really many indescribable things, always spying on this blue ball.

No, maybe he just hit the jackpot and traveled to a universe with mystery and magic, witnessing miracles that only appeared in movies and novels in the past.

The small passage that Chen Ke came out of is located on the right side of the goddess statue. It is a passage leading to the library. It seems that the library is not open to everyone, otherwise the entrance would not be built in such a deep place.

Combined with Giles' memory, Chen Ke guessed that the library should be a library that stores the historical files and various codes of the Kingdom of Vanhede, and may also hide a lot of dangerous wisdom.

As the great mentor of the Kingdom's library, Giles's knowledge should be the best in the kingdom.

He walked down the steps and strolled along the path paved with red and gold-edged carpets. There were very gorgeous paintings on the top of the church, describing a majestic king leading his brave knights to fight. Their enemies could not be described in words, like a mass of black thick paste.

As he imagined, the time period of this place should be similar to the Middle Ages, but the European Middle Ages spanned a thousand years. Where exactly was the Kingdom of Vanhede?

From the 5th century AD to the 15th century AD, many famous historical events occurred during this thousand years, such as the Black Death and the Crusades.

In the description of later historians, this was a dark millennium, when the development of science and technology and culture in Europe was almost stagnant, the wars between the nobility and religion were endless, and the average life expectancy of ordinary civilians did not exceed 35 years old.

It was not until the European Renaissance in the mid-14th century that human thought was liberated from religion, and then the Age of Exploration kicked off at the end of the 15th century, that the course of human history continued to roll forward.

Even in this world, the general direction of history and the division of eras have not changed. Where did the Kingdom of Vanhede in this great void come from? What was the black thick paste that the Knights fought against?

After seeing the murals on the dome, Chen Ke suddenly realized that the candlestick chandelier on the top of the church was actually illuminated! The orange-yellow candlelight illuminated the windowless church, with only a few corners still hidden in the dark shadows.

Following the orange-yellow candlelight, Chen Ke looked at the church gate, and on the steps near the corner, there was actually a person sitting.

Even Chen Ke could tell at a glance that this person, like himself, had come here from the outside world, because his clothes were more modern than Chen Ke’s.

He was a white man with orange hair, wearing a combat uniform similar to P.W.A.T., but it looked more advanced anyway. It was probably a gel-like one-piece combat uniform with a baffle similar to armor on the chest, and a single-soldier outfit on his body.

On the wall next to him, there was a long rifle with a very sci-fi shape leaning against it. Chen Ke guessed that the gun should have come from the weapon boxes with the letters HCP written on them.

Because the man was sitting in the shadows and didn't say a word, Chen Ke didn't notice him at the first time.

"Hey!" Chen Ke greeted the man.

The man looked up at Chen Ke, then lowered his head and stared at the ground in a daze. He should be very excited to meet a living person in the void, but he seemed to be accustomed to Chen Ke's arrival.

Chen Ke walked up and greeted him again: "Are you from the Administration? It seems that our luck is not very good."

When he got closer, he was able to take a closer look at the man. The armor he was wearing was not like the stuff that the United Federation could produce in 2009.

Just like the tight combat suits in video games with enhanced artificial muscles, and passive camouflage function, the color of the suits where the man leaned against the wall and sat was automatically adjusted from dark blue to a color close to the floor and wall.

He wore a wrist guard-like device on his right wrist, which was gray-black with a small groove. Other than that, it was bare. Chen Ce guessed that it should have some special function.

The man put his hands on his knees, crossed his fingers in front of him, and looked up when he saw Chen Ke coming up to greet him.

"Are you from the Administration?" Chen Ke asked.

The man did not answer, but looked at the candlestick and broadsword in Chen Ke's hand, and looked up and down at his clothes, and said slowly: "Oh... Another person who has lost his way. Did you come here from your world to complete the cycle here? You will probably return empty-handed like the previous people. After all, those people are great heroes of all ages. We can challenge strange things with the help of what they left behind. How can we be their opponents? Hohohohoho..."

The man's tone was very much like mocking Chen Ke, and it seemed like he was mocking himself, and even the words he said made Chen Ke confused.

"I don't know what you are talking about, brother..." Chen Ke shrugged.

"Ah, it seems that you really don't know anything... Let me tell you some basic common sense. This is a fragment of a period of time in the Kingdom of Vanhede. If you want to end the cycle here, you must first solve the secret of this church." The man said slowly.

"You mean, the time here is different from the time down there?" Chen Ke asked.

"No one can leave this church before the cycle of the church is solved. And I have to tell you a bad news, you can't go back now. Those who want to solve the mystery must first be prepared to be trapped in the mystery. Do you have this awareness? Hohohohoho..." The man laughed after he finished speaking.

Chen Ke looked up and looked around the church. He ran to the door and tried to push it.

As expected, the door did not move at all, and when Chen Ke touched the door with his hands, he did not feel the touch of wood, but felt that he touched a wall of air.