American Variety: Scientific Exorcism

Even so, things have come to this.

Instead, Yorkist saw uneasiness on Mirta's face.

This was very obvious. Her hands were already clenched under the table, and there was visible hesitation on her face.

It is far different from the cold and capable look before.

"Are you really a priest?" she asked again uneasily.

"certainly."

Yorkshire nodded gently, he was really curious now.

Be curious about the world.

Why is the identity of the priest so mysterious even when there is already a priest?

If one were to identify a very specific point of difference, it would be that exorcism is among the duties of the priest.

Therefore, he had already thought of the devil.

But if he is a demon, then the difficulty of this world is too easy for him?

"call."

After confirming again, it seemed that he was about to give an explanation, and Mirta's breathing began to become heavy.

"I told you before that God and the Church are dead."

Yorks nodded.

"I'm curious, why?"

"because……"

Myrta looked at the kerosene lamp, and the firelight illuminated her solemn expression, and she saw her mouth: "Rot."

Suddenly hearing such a new word, Yorkshire narrowed his eyes habitually.

"Rot?"

After thinking about it for a moment, he still didn't understand what it was, so Yorks spoke calmly.

"What it is?"

"As expected, you don't know." Mirta breathed a sigh of relief in some way.

"Rot, the messenger chosen by the devil."

Mirta said quietly, she took a special look at the man in front of her who could bring a sense of security, trying to figure out what the man's expression changed at that moment.

As a result, she only found that the man seemed to have a look of astonishment and surprise.

There was none of the fear and distrust she had imagined.

On the contrary, she saw that men believed that there were demons in this world, which meant that men believed in the existence of demons...

"You don't seem surprised at all?"

When he heard the word devil, Yorks smiled: "Because I am a priest and have faced such things as devils."

As soon as these words came out, Mirta's breathing suddenly became heavier.

"Are you surprised because of my identity as a priest, just because the priest can exorcise demons?" Yorks looked at Mirta and said calmly.

"Is there no priest in this world anymore?"

Mirta pursed her lips and closed her eyes.

"Because we never believed in the existence of demons."

After hearing these words, Yorks had already begun to have some clues.

The situation in this world may be really different from what he knows.

"Because of the long peace, priests are more popular with people than serious priests."

Mirta sighed.

"Over time, the priest disappeared."

So that means there are no exorcists? Or is there no inheritance and means of exorcism? The operation of this world is indeed somewhat different, which makes Yorks feel that each world has its own history and characteristics.

There is no supernatural on earth, there is the supernatural in the real world, the Church is unified, but here God and the Church are dead.

Seeing the whole thing at a glance, he could already conclude that the people in this world and this country probably no longer have so-called faith.

Yorks glanced at Myrta and followed her words.

"The priest disappeared, and finally the devil you didn't believe in suddenly appeared?"

Yorks was curious as to what the word Rot would look like. It sounded like someone chosen by the devil to possess.

Hearing this, Mirta nodded. At this moment, she felt inexplicably sad.

"Would you like to hear my story."

"Of course I do."

Of course York is very willing to have such an NPC character who introduces the world view in the game.

"I used to be from the church..." Mirta stared at the table, her hands underneath slightly clenched.

"My husband used to be a pastor."

Hearing this, Yorks was not surprised. After all, he had already guessed it from everything in the room.

But what he didn't expect was that Mirta quietly said that they were liars.

"We once had a church, but we were all liars, not true believers in God, liars who had no faith."

Yorks narrowed his eyes.

"So we, like everyone else, don't believe there are demons in this world."

“We did a lot of blasphemous things to make money.”

Mirtana had no emotion, and only the voice of narration began to echo in the ordinary room.

"..."

"We hired some actors and asked them to act like they were possessed by demons, and let them perform, just like those possessed people recorded in ancient books,"

"Then we'll go off and perform an exorcism."

"As a result, our reputation grew and we started getting people asking for help because they had family members who were possessed."

At this point, Mirta's face showed pain.

"However, those people were just sick. My husband and I pretended to exorcise demons while using medicine to accumulate a lot of wealth."

Mirta was in pain, but Yorks shook his head and said in his heart.

"God exists."

After saying this, Mirta probably understood it deeply now, but Yorks still obediently treated him as a listener, just like when he listened to believers in the past.

"Wealth is real, and the devil is fake. We once fell into a carnival, and we thought this life would last forever."

Mirta's face was filled with pain, and her eyes turned red. Perhaps because the man in front of her was a legendary exorcist and priest, she took off her disguise for the first time.

"In the end, the devil appeared. The first possessed person in Alliston just appeared in our church. Even though the church was only in such an inconspicuous corner, it still appeared like this."

Mirta said with some pain, she seemed to be instantly immersed in the fearful memory of that day.

"The appearance of the possessed person in the performance made us shudder at first, but we thought it was just an actor we hired,"

"He was very cooperative, until during the ceremony he happily vomited all over us, pointed at God, smiled ferociously, and said loudly that you are dead."

"We just woke up with fear and found out..."

"What he vomited was his family. He vomited out all the family members he had eaten the night before..."

Mirta's voice entered despair.

"It was then that we discovered that the person in front of us was possessed by a demon. We began to panic and wanted to seek any help.

But the people around us looked at us with hope, because they believed that we, the clergy who had exorcised countless demons, could successfully exorcise the demons. "

Hearing this, although he still hasn't figured out what the devil looks like or what other mechanisms it has, Yorks can already feel Mirta's despair.

"But what they didn't know was that we were just liars. In the end, my husband became an evil spirit controlled by the devil and died in the exorcism ceremony. The entire village and town died because of the devil's appearance. Fully half of them..."

Myrta was in more and more pain, so much so that she showed obvious fear and was trembling all over.

"On that day God died, and the Church died on that day..."

While she was talking, her body was shaking non-stop before she could get over the memory of fear. Seeing this, Yorks couldn't bear to tell her any more information, so she could only snap her fingers.

With a snap, with him as the center, the mighty sacred power spread throughout the place.

So that the already cold atmosphere suddenly became warm.

As the holy light filled the air, the flame of the kerosene lamp became brighter.

Mirta was directly interrupted by this step, and his fear was also driven away by this step.

She walked out of her memory and looked in front of her in confusion with tears streaming down her face, only to find a smiling face.

"I have a question. Have you solved the demon or how to solve it? Can you also tell me all about the so-called rot seed..."

York's tone was calm and gentle, but Mirta could hear an undoubted smell and the aura of a superior person in it, even though he looked so young.

"Who is this man?" she thought.

But in the end, Mirta wiped her tears, put away her previous mood, and told everything.

She hoped that the man in front of her was the legendary priest, a real clergyman. This was her current wish.

"God, please spare your gaze and stay in this world..."

"..."

And Yorks also learned about the world at this time.

It was so different from the real world he lived in, even history had changed.

In this world, there are churches, and there are also clergy such as priests, priests, and bishops, and they were once very prosperous.

But I don’t know since when, the church suddenly plummeted from its peak.

But history was interrupted at this moment, and people only knew that the church had lost its former glory in that era.

People can only understand past events from the remnants of inherited information and fragments of words.

In other words, the current church is no longer the prosperous church of the past. At most, it is only built from the remains of the previous church.

It’s just that there are no more clergy such as priests because there is no inheritance.

The whole world has been peaceful all this time, and the times have slowly developed into modernity.

As the church's clergy developed, the institutional system became disorganized. Anyone with or without faith could become a clergy, and the conditions were ridiculously simple.

As long as you buy a church from the church, you can become a pastor and a clergy member of the church.

You can make use of God and use God as a mantra on your lips to facilitate your actions.

As Mirta said, in the end, many clergy began to only see money, and nothing but money.

So not only do they hire actors to deceive believers, but many, many clergy are actually liars.

When Yorks heard this and looked at Mirta who was talking obediently in front of him, he didn't know what to think.

He could completely imagine a picture in which the church still had believers, and the believers still had faith and believed in God.

Eventually the devil suddenly appears and everything begins to be revealed.

Believers who placed their hopes in the church eventually turned into disappointment, shouting that God was dead and the church was dead.

The clergy who were unable to exorcise demons have become a thing of the past and have become the garbage of history.

In addition to the originally disappointed believers, many people also had faith at this time, but the God on the other side of their faith died at the moment they had faith.

the most important is……

Yorks frowned slightly. The demonic mechanism of this world and the real world were somewhat different from what he imagined.

To say it is a demon, it is better to say it is some kind of monster similar to a demon.

People in this world don't know how to describe it, so they can only cover up the devil.

Of course, Yorkist just followed the Romans and thought it was a devil.

As for why the mechanics are different, that's a long story.

When the possessed person appears, the confrontation between humans and demons officially begins.

People have also gradually learned that demons are also divided into categories, and the birth of demons also requires a long process.

The one chosen by the demon is called a Rotspawn.

The rotten body will slowly decay, and eventually a demonic entity will be born from its body.

Rot spawn releases demonic "spirits" that infect everything around them like a virus.

The infected creature is the evil spirit, which can be a possessed person or an animal.

Although evil spirits will not turn into demons, their brains and thoughts will be controlled by demons, telling lies, deceiving and killing.

Generally speaking, evil spirits are equivalent to the hands, feet and minions of demons.

After learning this, Yorks couldn't help but knock on the table in front of him. This mechanism is really special.

The demons that Myrta believes are evil entities bred from rotten seeds. From rotten seeds to demons, it is "the devil comes into the world".

According to her, every time the devil comes to the world, it will bring disaster to the world.

So much so that the entire world's population shrank by a quarter in an instant.

This reminded Yorks of what happened during the day. No wonder he walked for so long without seeing anyone.

As for why three quarters of them are still alive, of course there are people who can resist the devil.

It's just that this profession has a special name, called cleaner.

They are familiar with the tricks of demons and have professional equipment to destroy demons and eliminate evil spirits.

At the same time, from Mirta's mouth, this is a very ancient profession.

The struggle between cleaners and demons has been going on for thousands of years, and ordinary people don't know it.

It was not until God died, the church died, and the first demon appeared more than ten years ago that the cleaners became known to the public.

It's just that the cleaners are on the losing side, and the population begins to shrink to one-third at this moment...

The most special thing is that in the long-term confrontation with the devil, coupled with the dictation of the cleaner, people summed up 7 rules:

① Electric lighting is not allowed (evils will lurk in its shadows).

②Do not approach animals (animals are more likely to be possessed).

③Do not take away anything around it (because it will be infected, the devil's spirit is as contagious as a virus).

④Do not harm them.

⑤ Never call them by their real names (it will summon demons).

⑥Do not use firearms to kill them (they will be possessed or die immediately).

⑦Don’t be afraid of death.

This alone is enough to make York think that this is just some kind of dark monster similar to a demon, rather than the demon he is familiar with.

However, he was very curious about the group of cleaners. From Mirta's words, he knew that cleaners were actually just ordinary people and had no extraordinary power at all.

"Cleaner?"

Yorks raised his eyebrows and looked at Mirta who was hesitant.

"Yes." Mirta, who had calmed down his mood, looked at the man in front of him and said hesitantly.

"Actually... I am also a demon cleaner."

As she spoke, she added: "Today's cleaners have become like police, special public officials. All localities will report cases of suspected rot or evil spirits, and some cleaners who obey the official will report Sent to remove these "stains\

,"I don't like being controlled by others, and I don't like taking orders from others, so I have been living here alone. "

Hearing this, Yorks sighed in his heart: "This world is really special, even the monsters are very special."

But the next second, Yorks suddenly stared at Mirta, making Mirta panic.

But what she didn't know was that she was not in York's eyes.

Yorks had already been immersed in the sudden mechanical sound in his ears.

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[Conditions met: trigger a random mission, the world is seeking salvation]

[Task requirement: Rescue, help people find their own faith, or become their faith]

[Task reward: +100 attribute points + closed space cracks and regression]

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