Chapter 3231: The Shadow of Faraines (Part 2)

Chapter 3205 The Haze of Faraines (II)

There was a book under this piece of paper. The cover looked like parchment, as if it was a product of the last century. The name of the book was "Diary of Sailor Pik".

Schiller opened the book and found that many pages were missing. Ignoring these missing things, the content can be roughly summarized as follows: a man named Pik boarded a large ship and became a sailor. On the way, they encountered a storm, but fortunately they landed in time under the guidance of the lighthouse.

This content has no beginning or end, and it is inexplicable. If you have to say it, it may have something to do with the lighthouse in this village, but because there are too many missing contents, it is also unclear whether the lighthouse they encountered is the lighthouse covered by heavy snow.

Schiller instinctively felt that this story was very important, because the most torn part in the middle was the description of the storm.

Schiller felt that there must be some relationship between old Siltek putting this note and this book here. Did he discover some conspiracy of the church from this book?

Unable to make out anything, Schiller put the note and the book away and began to investigate more on the bookshelf.

His skill in reading literature finally came in handy, because the books here were not only in English, but also in many minority languages. With this skill, he could basically understand them without judgment.

Finally, Schiller found an important clue in a book called "Records of Major Insurance Accidents in the Past Century" at the bottom of the bookshelf.

The book mentioned that about 80 years ago, based on the current era, it might be around 1930, a hotel in Massachusetts had a major safety accident, which caused the death of more than 230 guests, ranking third in the history of hotel safety accidents in the United States.

The group that owns this hotel once bought a huge insurance for this hotel, and the huge compensation caused by the safety accident of this hotel became a hot topic for a while. According to the insurance company's estimate, they had to bear more than 20 million US dollars in compensation, which was an astronomical figure in that era.

The various lawsuits related to the case have been going on for a long time, even for more than half a century. The reason is that most of the victims died in a very tragic way, and the source of the safety accident has not been found.

The hotel is not a cruise ship. Once an accident occurs, there is no other way except to sink with the ship. The hotel is located on the mainland. Even if there is a safety accident such as a fire, the guests in the lobby on the first floor should at least be able to escape.

However, the list of the dead in this safety accident includes almost everyone in the hotel. Except for some people who are still missing, almost no one has escaped.

Moreover, the local police station also stated that it had not received any distress information, the fire department had not received any fire warning, and even the people who were on guard in the next door buildings did not hear any movement.

Overnight, all the residents in the hotel died tragically for unknown reasons, and according to reporters at the time, the wounds on some people looked completely unhuman.

Because the situation was too weird, the insurance company questioned the necessity of compensation. The lawsuit between the insurance company and the medical group behind it and the hotel owner and the victims' families lasted for half a century. In the end, many of them did not reach a settlement and are still in litigation.

Schiller can see from the various pictures in the book that this hotel is the weird hotel that the bishop went to at that time, and the style of the house number is exactly the same.

And someone happened to take a picture of the corridor on the 19th floor, and it can be seen that the house number of room 1913 is missing.

In other words, as he speculated, this hotel really existed in the history of this world, and it seems that the tragedy caused by the advent of the outer gods really happened at that time.

What made Schiller feel even more frightened was that he learned from another history book that it was almost exactly ten years after this tragedy that the weirdness swept the world.

And it was during this era that the church began to rise gradually. Because they could solve and control weird events well, various government departments began to tilt resources to them to ensure that the basic state form was not threatened.

In the following 70 years, the church gradually grew larger and larger until it became an indispensable part of human society.

And in a book about news and current affairs, Schiller discovered that after so many years of evolution, the church has not only solved strange events, but has also extended its hands to various fields, and has been present in all aspects closely related to human society.

Combining various information, Schiller roughly judged that the current church is probably the world's largest religious oligarch economy. It looks like a religious institution, but in fact it is still a huge global company with very complex subordinate institutions and various personnel factions intertwined.

Schiller actually didn't know what department he belonged to, because he was arrogant and didn't ask, and didn't set it. It is estimated that he didn't expect the church to be so complicated.

However, from the fact that he did many things without verification, it can be inferred that he is not the kind of priest who recites scriptures in the church.

After that, Schiller began to focus on finding books about the church, and finally found favorable evidence of his identity and department in a modern encyclopedia.

This book describes the dress standards for religious people. There are no requirements for ordinary believers. Just dress appropriately when going to church. The priests in regional churches wear black robes, which is the very common dress of Catholic priests. Other higher-level clergy also wear Catholic clothes.

There are several special departments that dress differently. The Tribunal, which replaced the functions of the judicial institution, wears black robes, but the black robes have blue patterns and scales on the sleeves.

The Inquisition, which replaced the functions of the law enforcement agency, also wears black robes, but the black robes have golden patterns and swords on the sleeves.

Schiller glanced at the long sword pattern on his sleeves and was silent. So after all this time, he is still an agent.

No wonder Hef thought he was here to silence him when he saw him. The Inquisition was doing the work of silencing people. His job as a requiemer might really be physical requiem.

The book says that the Inquisition is a global spy organization. If you have to say it, it is similar to S.H.I.E.L.D., which solves the impact of various strange events around the world.

Schiller knew that this was a euphemism. The Inquisition was basically a violent law enforcement agency that maintained the church's rule, a hammer that hit moles, hitting anyone who didn't obey.

Of course, the book also said that the Inquisition had been involved in assassination scandals more than once, but because of the importance of its functions, it was mostly raised high and gently put down, and it was almost never really held accountable.

Schiller continued to look down and saw several pictures of the Pope's travels. The Pope was nothing special, just an old man with white hair and beard, but he looked in good spirits.

However, the note below the picture said, "The Pope and his guards traveled." Schiller looked at it and found that the clothes he was wearing were very similar to the uniforms of the guards. My goodness, he was still a Jinyiwei.

Then the question came, why did the members of the guards not stay in the Holy City and run to such a remote village?

Schiller speculated that there were two possibilities. Either he came to perform a more important task of silencing, or he was the one who was silenced and fled here.

Schiller thought the latter was more likely, because there was really no one in this place who looked like he needed the guards to kill him successfully, even old Sirtek was not qualified.

In the correct version!

Because the victim of the last assassination case that the court failed to fool was the US Secretary of State.

Combined with the note, Schiller made a bold guess.

The hotel tragedy was indeed caused by the advent of the outer gods. To be precise, the Wayne couple provoked Naia at the time. After a series of operations, the abnormality of the hotel broke out and many people died.

But the subsequent strange events may not be natural disasters, because no matter in terms of expression or impact, they are far inferior to the hotel tragedy.

To be precise, those cases are not like the movements that the outer gods can make. In arrogant words, they are too typical and have no aesthetics.

The tragedies in the Cthulhu mythology all have a kind of indifferent weirdness, just like humans are not the losers in the fight, but ants that happened to be stepped on when passing by.

Whether it is the Outer Gods or the Old Ones, they did not come for humans with a clear purpose, but humans insisted on exploring the secrets behind it, which led to the strange aftermath affecting the earth, and they were crushed to death quietly.

But these subsequent weird cases look like carefully designed murder scenes. The victims are as miserable as they can be, and the scenes are as bloody as they can be. They can't wait to carve the words "I was killed by a monster" on their faces.

Many victims in the Cthulhu mythology were not killed by the Outer Gods, and their deaths had nothing to do with gods and ghosts. More of them did some irrational behaviors because of fear, such as jumping off a building because of fear, and dying because of madness infection.

But these later weirdnesses, among the hundreds of people who died in the whole case, none of them died in a conventional way. It must be a way that ordinary people can't do, such as exploding from the inside out, taking off their own heads, and suddenly vomiting out their internal organs.

And there is another very important clue: there were no survivors in the hotel tragedy, not even a single witness, and it happened in the middle of the night. When the police and reporters arrived in the morning, there was nothing left.

But these weird things that happened later must have happened in broad daylight in public, where there were many people, half of the onlookers died and half ran away, and those who ran away accepted various media interviews and desperately told the horror scene at the time.

The venues were all college graduation balls, crowded art museum exhibitions, and the victims were all well-known novelists and painters with little fame. At the very least, they must have been documentary filming locations, popular tourist check-in spots, etc.

And the way the weirdness broke out must be extremely dramatic, with a strongest impact at the beginning, followed by a slow rhythm, and finally a fast-paced chase, just like making a movie.

Deliberate, too deliberate.

This is how these cases made Schiller feel.