Chapter 71 Message on the Door

"I don't know him, he may be from another department." Chen Ke said.

"HCP? The Administration has an HCP department, right? What does that do?" Parker has completely regarded Chen Ke as an agent of the Administration, so he changed his appearance from the old driver he first met in the building to his younger brother form.

"HCP...well...that's right, they are special...foreign operations...and intelligence search troops..." Chen Ke said nonsense.

"Oh...oh..." Parker frowned and looked at the discouraged brother cautiously.

"This church is very big. I just went to take a look below. Those monsters are not easy to deal with without holy objects, so you'd better stay here. When I find a way out, I will come back to you immediately." Chen Ke explain.

The cooldown time of the portal in the corner of his eye was still more than an hour and ten minutes away. He decided to check outside the church to see if he could find more information about the Si Consortium team, and then when the time was up, he would open the door and bring Parker with him. Take it out.

As for the discouraged brother, ask him when the time comes. If he is not normal, don't take him.

"Okay, but these swords are sacred objects? Why not turn them into diamonds?" Parker looked at the two swords on the chair curiously.

Chen Ke suddenly became curious. The reason why the investigators could not use the holy objects was because they did not have enough spiritual power to summon the holy objects in diamond form. But in the Great Void, the holy objects do not need to be summoned! The sword is physical.

"Pick it up and try it?" Chen Ke suggested.

Parker was also a little curious and tried to grab the hilt of Van Heder's straight sword. However, something strange happened. When his finger touched the hilt of the sword, it went straight through it, as if the sword was not important to Parker. does not exist.

Parker tried a few more times, but his hands could only pass through the two swords again and again and press them on the bench.

"It seems that the physical state of holy objects is relative..." Chen Ke thought to himself.

"Investigators cannot use sacred objects, Chen Ke, you and I both know that." Parker smiled.

He nodded and picked up the Van Hede straight sword. The fire-drawing broad sword was not in use at the moment, so he would not bring it with him for the time being.

"Chen Ke, don't you think it's a little cold here?" Parker said suddenly.

"cold?"

Chen Ke was stunned. It was indeed a bit cold here, but Chen Ke was not sensitive to the body sensations of cold and heat. In other words, Chen Ke was not bothered by the two states of "cold" and "hot".

"I don't know why, it's really cold here." Chen Ke said, picking up the fire sword, finding a gap on the ground, inserting it, and then lit the sword body, like a bonfire.

"Oh! It's so warm." Parker came forward, his face flushed by the fire.

Is the temperature of this sword so high? Chen Ke wondered why he didn't feel it before...

"It can only be burned for a while. I don't know how long. You can find something to burn. I'll go outside and take a look. I'll be back soon." Chen Kedao took the Van Hede straight sword and set off.

This time, he decided to look under the stairs on the left side of the hall.

Come to the hall again.

The zombies and knights killed before have dissipated into ashes. It seems that these things will return in some way before long. If the cycle of this area is completed, will they be resurrected?

Chen Ke is unknown.

He was standing at the entrance of the downward stairs outside the mountain wall on the left side of the hall. This staircase was connected to a corridor hanging on the outside of the mountain wall. A cool breeze came out of the stairs.

I don’t know what method these people used to build such a corridor on a mountain wall of several hundred meters. In fact, the very act of carving out a mountain wall to build a church is incredible.

Chen Ke carefully stepped on the stone steps and slowly went down. Although it looked very strong, the church had a history of how many years, and Chen Ke didn't want to fall to death because of this.

Fortunately, what he was worried about did not happen. The somewhat charred stone corridor under his feet was still very strong. It seemed that the fire was so fierce that it could not even escape the top of the church a hundred meters above.

Looking down over the stone handrail, the street view of the Kingdom became clearer. Now Chen Ke was high enough from the ground to get close to the spires of the buildings on the ground. The surfaces of these houses were also scorched black.

What exactly caused this unprecedented fire?

Chen Ke couldn't help but think of the famous Great Fire of London. In the mid-16th century, plague broke out across Europe, and London could be said to be the hardest hit area. In just a few months, the city's population dropped by one-tenth.

The royal family, politicians, wealthy businessmen and intellectuals all fled London for refuge, leaving only the fragile middle class and poor in the city.

In the early morning of a certain morning in 1666, a fire broke out in a bakery in the city. The fire spread quickly through the wooden houses and the bodies of the people who died of illness.

Soon, London was in flames. The fire burned for three days and three nights, destroying at least half of London and 300 acres of land.

However, this unexpected fire also indirectly purified the city of plague. Tens of millions of rats and sick poor people were all burned to death in their nests and homes, and the bodies of the patients who died of the disease were also reduced to ashes.

Chen Ke couldn't help but connect the Great Fire of London with the Kingdom of Van Hede. A disease called "Dark Terminal Disease" broke out here. Could it be that the priests of the Black Ring Sect also tried to use fire to completely purify this disease?

It makes sense, because there are also traces of fire burning on the top of the church on the towering mountain wall. If there was just a fire, it would be difficult for the fire to spread here.

But if the fire was set by humans, it would make sense.

But Chen Ke has not yet come to a conclusion, because it is obvious that the fire has engulfed everyone in the kingdom.

People were burned to ashes, and only a few survivors left intact bodies, dying in the long years. The sky of the entire kingdom was filled with white ashes, like the silent wailing of the dead.

Was the old king Van Hede also burned to ashes?

Chen Ke continued to move forward and found a closed door at the end of the corridor. The door was engraved with a pattern of a goddess holding a lamp with her face covered. There was a keyhole at the bottom of the door.

Were there such things as keys and locks in the Middle Ages?

Chen Ke couldn't help but frown. He really didn't know much about this aspect of historical knowledge. In his impression, in the early knight era of the Middle Ages in Europe, various doors were generally bolted, and locks and iron keys were the products of the Renaissance.

He touched the door and found that it was made of stone. He could feel the material, which meant that this area was not separated by an air wall. The scene behind the door was also part of the cycle. Obviously, a specific key was needed to open it.

This road is temporarily blocked. It seems that we need to return to the hall and continue exploring from the stairs on the right.

When Chen Ke turned around and prepared to leave, he saw the notes left by the marker on the wall next to him again.

"Miles, this road is blocked. We will meet at the other end. You must hurry."

But this time the notes were a little abnormal, because under the original text, there was another line of small words.

"Be careful Miles."

From the depth of the color, it is obvious that the two lines of text were written at different times. The longer message was written first, and the shorter message was written later.

Chen Ke pinched his chin and frowned slightly. He saw some useful information from these two lines of text.