If I don't have money to go to college, I can only go to slay the dragon.

The place where the bells rang was a church. The huge vaults and rows of buttresses, as well as the strong contrast between light and dark created by the stone curves, showed that this was a church built in a Roman style.

Chu Zihang stood under the eaves of a factory, overlooking the church in the heavy rain. His mobile phone was abandoned on the road and he could not check the current time. But judging from the time he left the subway station, it should be close to nine o'clock at night. Due to the heavy clouds and heavy rain, even though it is summer, the sky is dark and gloomy, which makes people feel depressed.

According to Christian and Orthodox Christian customs, bells are ringing every night from 8 to 10 p.m. This time the bells ringing means prayer or dinner, but it is still hard to imagine that in an abandoned place like Babaoshan, there are still churches that ring bells. habit. If Chu Zihang remembers it well, it was true that before it declined a few years ago, this was a place for religious believers to pray. But now the new church has been moved to Times Square and can be reached by subway line 5. , there will simply be no believers who would come to this kind of place.

Soon, Chu Zihang discovered that he was wrong. There were still people who cherished their own things, and there were many of them.

The bells sounded like the shepherd's flute, and groups of black lambs quietly walked out from the factories in all directions. They were wearing pure black raincoats and hiding their faces in their hoods. Young and old, they clasped their hands together and prayed devoutly in their hearts, for the heavy rain. We walked towards the church on foot.

At first glance, there were nearly a hundred "Black Lambs" in front of the church. As they were walking in the sound of rain, vehicles with license plates on the road not far behind them came step by step and stopped at the roadside of the factory. , people who got off the car also put on black raincoats and joined the pilgrimage.

Chu Zihang held on to the wall of the factory and looked at everything outside in silence. For some reason, he felt a little cold in his heart. His eyes hidden in the darkness slowly scanned every pilgrim. He wanted to know about Cassel. Is the student girl among this group of people, but the raincoat covered most of the pilgrims' faces, so he couldn't find his target at all.

After a long time, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He put on his hood and slowly walked out of the darkness. He blended into the crowd as smoothly as a stream returning to the mainstream, and walked towards the majestic church in the rainy night.

After joining the crowd, it became easier to control the current situation. By Chu Zihang's side, he noticed that the pilgrims were not a specific group of people. For example, most of the religious people in modern cities were old people and young people. Most people have become unbelievers due to the impact of the Internet era. Only the elderly who have difficulty accepting new information are easily captured by their faith. Therefore, more than 80% of those who pray in most churches are elderly.

However, among the pilgrims around him, they can be seen from young to old, male to female, and the frequency is also inconsistent. It is difficult to infer what activities are being carried out in the church from the broad categories of people. As an organization that can capture such a wide range of people, Chu Zihang has probably only seen the offspring of Ponzi schemes, pyramid schemes.

But even if it is a pyramid scheme, it should not set the gathering place in such a place. The positioning of the pyramid scheme should be closed, imprisoned and brainwashed. The most important part of brainwashing cannot be mixed with such a strong religious connotation. After all, the Lord is noble. There is no smell of copper in the world. Many doctrines are essentially in conflict with preaching. No matter how hard MLM leaders seek death, they will not use religion to brainwash them.

For an organization that dared to write about religion, captured people regardless of gender, old or young, and used this method to gather people, Chu Zihang could only think of one possibility now, and at the same time, he quietly felt wary and disgusted in his heart.

But when did this kind of organization appear in the city?

Chu Zihang didn't know, but he was certain that the emergence of this kind of thing would definitely have a huge impact on society. The bad impact would make the city's atmosphere become smoky. No matter where it is, as long as there is such a form All signs of gatherings must be completely eradicated and pulled out!

As the crowd entered the church, sure enough, there were bonfires burning on the walls and hundreds of candles lit in the dim space. The candlelight swayed and cast a shadow on the statue of the crucified Jesus with his head cut off in the center of the high platform. Everything shows the deep faith of this place. All the religious images on the cut glass have been wiped out with red paint. Any items with original Christian teachings have been smashed into debris and replaced by medieval witches. A doctor's crow's mouth mask, and skull decorations that are unknown to each other.

Every pilgrim found his or her own place in the church and sat down in rows. Chu Zihang was no exception. He sat in the second row closest to the podium, completely hiding his face in his rain hat. People sat down one after another, there was no noise of discussion, it was orderly, as if this was not the first time such a gathering had been held.

On the high platform of the church, there is a powerful stove burning charcoal to provide maximum lighting for the entire space. The fire light rises half a foot high. In the corner, there are one or two people wearing red sheep heads and black robes. man, with a huge copper bell and wooden bumper beside him. It can be guessed that the bells that rang throughout the ruins of the factory were rang by them. Under the hanging bell, there were many pale skulls piled up into a small hill, but each skull looked extra special. They were so small that they were tied together by ropes and barely managed to fall apart.

Why would students from the Kassel cadets come to a place like this?

Chu Zihang felt confused in his heart. From the shooting incident to the current cult venue, everything was impacting his outlook. He could only bury his face deeply in his hood to hide all his questions. In this case, it was impossible for him to turn around and look for traces of the girl.

When no one entered the church anymore, the door slammed shut, isolating the rainy night from the outside. The blown air disturbed the candlelight, and in the unsettling silence, two men wearing red sheep's heads on the high platform came up from behind the scenes. He picked up a red box. Two words written in a darker red color on the box attracted Chu Zihang's attention.

eternal life.

The handwriting is sloppy, not any mainstream font, more like an essay written casually by someone with their fingers.

Before Chu Zihang could chew on the meaning of these two words, a believer in black robes and a wolf head walked directly to him without saying a word. Just as he tensed up, the other party just held a big He folded a white cloth and placed it on his knees and left.

Chu Zihang slowly relaxed and quietly raised his head to look around, and found that many believers wearing wolf heads were distributing these white cloths. Those who were seated next to them and got the large stack of white cloths passed the white cloths to one side in turn, and everyone was on their knees. There is a layer of white cloth spread on the top and the hands are folded together to pray quietly.

After distributing the white cloth according to the gourd's pattern, he quietly twisted the white cloth on his knees with his hands. There was nothing special about the white cloth. Except that the white cloth was exceptionally transparent and clean, even if it was held flat in front of him, it would be fine. Looking at the blurry shadow through the light, it looks a bit like the hijab that a woman wears when she gets married, except that it is not the bright red of a festival, but the pale color of a funeral.

After the distribution of white cloth was completed and everything seemed ready, the bell rang again.

The two red goat men held the wooden stick and hit the big bell again and again. The huge and loud bell reverberated throughout the space. The deafening and deafening sound of the bell in the airtight room made people almost have a splitting headache. Many believers did bow to death. He bent his waist and endured the loud noises one after another, not even reaching out to cover his ears even though he had a splitting headache.

While enduring the torture of the sound and waves, Chu Zihang saw in the corner of the church's high platform a surgical trolley with a red goat's head slowly pushing it to the center of the high platform. On top of it lay a woman with a painful face. The abdomen was bulging high, and it was obvious that she had been pregnant for several months and was in the stage of giving birth.

The moment the woman was pushed out, Chu Zihang noticed that all the believers in the church sat up straight. The temperature of their eyes under the black hood was instantly higher than the temperature of the flames in the furnace, as if the believers saw God appearing. He stared at the woman on the cart.

The moment the woman let out an unbearable howl of pain, Chu Zihang instantly realized the effect of the white cloth in his hand and guessed what would happen next. In an instant, the veins on his forehead burst out, and his eyes reflected the depth of the rising flames on the stage. Virgo has strong desire.

The amniotic fluid breaks and the fetus goes into labor.

ps: no more