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

Lancelot is dead.

As one of the transfer students who had problems with Mandy and Lin Nian, Lancelot's death should have made the two of them gloat or open champagne to celebrate, but they had no such interest at all at the moment - Mann to be precise. Dee had no such interest. After leaving the death scene, she rushed to the school library without looking back.

In the library, Lin Nian was sitting on a chair holding a copy of "Portraits of Criminal Minds" and chewing on it. Mandy hurriedly walked through the countless bookshelves, muttering and flipping through the books on the shelves, making noises that repeatedly caused She came to the librarian's attention, but due to what happened at noon, there were not many people who could bear to stay in the library and read books, so she couldn't disturb other people with her misbehavior.

"What are you looking for?"

"A very old book."

"How old?"

"Your dad wasn't even born when it was written."

"How do I know when my father was born? I am an orphan."

"Oh, sorry. I found it!" Mandy suddenly shouted and pulled out a dusty black-covered book from the bookshelf in front of her.

Lin Nian, who was sitting on the long table next to the bookshelf, glanced sideways at the book in her hand, "It took you so long to find this book?"

"It is not easy to find a Bible that is intact and without graffiti in an era when young people dare to make fun of God. Who dares to read a Bible that is placed in an obvious place? Open the cover and read the contents They have probably all been replaced by "PlayBoy"." Mandy walked to the table in a hurry, put the book in her hand on the table, dusted it off and opened it.

"What is PlayBoy?"

"Don't act innocent, I saw you raising your eyebrows." Mandy muttered, flipping through the Bible back and forth, as if trying to find something.

"After we found a transfer student dead in the toilet, you immediately ran here to find a Bible to read. Were you frightened and wanted to use God's manuscript to warn the evil devil, or did you think the transfer student's death could be traced from this? What clues were found in this old book that has been gathering dust?" Lin Nian finished flipping through the "Criminal Psychology Portraits" in his hand and closed the book and looked at Mandy who was concentrating on it.

"The transfer student named Chu Zihang said that the things that were nailed to the victim's head were tent pegs." Mandy said, "The tent pegs are not wooden pegs, not BBQ skewers, but tent pegs. Don't you wonder about the murder weapon? Thousands, why does it have to be tent pegs?”

"I'm not curious." Lin Nian said, "Why do I need to be curious about such an obvious thing?"

Mandy was still looking for the contents of the Bible, but Lin Nian had already reached out and helped her turn to one of the pages. Mandy originally wanted him not to cause trouble, but after taking a look at the contents of the page, her eyesight It can't be pulled out anymore.

“The Israelites were fickle and unsatisfied with one god, and most of the time they were in trouble because they had rebelled against the teachings of God. They were then suffering the brutal rule of their enemies, King Jabin and General Sisera. After God knew it, he sent a prophet to form an army. The prophet found a man named Barak to lead the army. Barak said that if you want me to believe in you, then you must join this army and fight for me."

"But the prophet said that their enemy, the enemy of God, General Sisera, would not die at her hands, but would die by a woman. This is God's will, and anyone who does not obey the gods will die. ." Mandy glanced at Lin Nian, lowered her head and pointed to the story in the Bible and continued to narrate in a low voice, "The Israelites who returned to their faith in God soon won, but General Sisera successfully escaped from the battlefield. He hid. After entering a tent, the owner of the tent gave him a glass of milk. After drinking the milk, Sisera fell asleep."

“Then the owner of the tent drove a tent nail into Sisera’s head with a hammer. The nail penetrated Sisera’s head from the temple, and then came out from the other side and penetrated into the ground. Sisera's head was nailed into the ground, and he seemed to be confessing and praying to God on his deathbed." Lin Nian then finished the last cruel paragraph.

"Tent nails." Mandy slowly pushed the Bible to the center of the table, "This is the way to die in the Bible."

"The clues you want." Lin Nian stretched out his hand and rubbed it on the pages of the Bible, then took back his hand to lick the dust on his fingertips, "So you spent so much time coming here just to verify this. You should have told me earlier. Maybe I’ll tell you directly.”

"I didn't know you were so bored memorizing the Bible? I didn't expect you to be a Christian!"

"I told you, I just have a good memory." Lin Nian wiped the dust off his hands on the table, "How can this clue help us?"

"The person who crucified General Sisera was originally named Jael in the Bible, which is a female name. She was a foreign woman, but she had full faith and knowledge of God, and understood God's will. After seeing Sisera's body, the prophet They all had respect for the heroic woman and frankly said that they saw the glory of God in her. She was God’s agent at the moment she killed Sisera.” Mandy looked at the Bible and read out a passage from the original text, “Sisera He will bow down at her feet; he will bow down at her feet; and where he will bow down, there he will fall down and perish.”

"The Israelites fell into the violent rule of Sisera because they abandoned God. After believing in God again, they received the blessing of the gods and killed their enemies. Does this mean that people who do not worship God will eventually face a cruel death?" Lin Nian said, "In China, this story can probably be summed up in two idioms: Is it not too late to remedy the situation?"

"Why did the murderer choose such a religious method of death? What was he hinting at?" Mandy asked herself softly, stroking her fingers.

"His actions were directed by God. Anyone who pursues him is against God? Oh, in that case, the tragic situation of the transfer student being nailed to the wall can be explained. The murderer is God's chosen one, God's It is understandable that the agent has some power." Lin Nian said with a low smile.

"This joke is not funny. It turns out that in modern society anything that dares to call itself a 'god' will be crushed by realism." Mandy whispered.

"There are many ways to die in the Bible. Those ways of death simply don't look like they should appear in the Bible. On the contrary, they are more suitable in a horror movie." Lin Nian crossed his fingers, "But these ways of death basically have a reason. , the more miserable the death, the more excusable it is, and most of them have only one reason - the deceased betrayed God's will."

"Crisp by fire, pierced in the internal organs, eaten alive by bugs, intestinal diseases, and eaten by dogs." Mandy quickly flipped through the Bible, and the more she read, the more her heart palpitated. With Lin Nian's prompts from time to time, she quickly These zeros and zeros were all related to the ways of death related to betraying God. After reading it, her face turned a little pale.

These deaths in the story are extremely tragic. What kind of horrific scene would it be if put in reality? Being roasted to a crisp by fire. What kind of painful process would it be for a living person to be roasted to a crisp by fire?

"The tent nails are obviously just the beginning." Lin Nian looked directly into Mandy's eyes and said, "There are still fourteen transfer students, and the remaining fourteen people will probably have to suffer the suffering of betraying God. Even if they are Do you still want me to stay out of the matter? You may not be able to solve this problem alone, right?"

"We can't let him continue to do such evil things." Mandy took a deep breath, "If our inference is true, then we will face fourteen lives next!"

"Even if fourteen people had thought about kidnapping you before?" Lin Nian looked sideways at Mandy, who had already told him more or less about the transfer students.

"They are looking for the murderer, and we are also looking for the murderer. We kind of have the same enemy."

"When two parties are facing each other head-on, the best solution is for a third party to intervene and establish a foreign enemy?" Lin Nian smiled, "It's a very old trick, but it is often very effective."

ps: Five updates today (1/5)