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Sixteen people and sixteen shovels were digging vigorously in the swamp.

The excavated soil has piled up hills next to it. The formation far exceeded the level of "looking for lost items", but the workers didn't care because they had money to take it. Clayton also hired people to send food and wine. Put aside, they don't have to think about anything but work.

As for the doubts of those who are interested, Clayton Bello certainly has reasons.

"My stuff is right here. If you don't find it on the surface, keep digging deeper!"

He himself joined in the excavation work and mingled with the workers, so no one dared to slack off in front of them.

As many people dug together, they gradually reached depths that the werewolves could not reach alone before. Even the tomb robbers on Easter Island were far inferior to them.

A worker finally unearthed something unusual.

He thrust the shovel into the soil next to him, bent down and pulled out a soil-covered cross.

"Mr. Bello, is this what you are looking for?"

The worker stepped deeply and shallowly through the holes dug by others. The others gradually stopped and watched him shouting and walking towards Clayton.

The object passed into Clayton's hands, and he recognized it as a mourning cross, exactly like the one he had excavated before, an offering carved by Saint Mored for the unknown dead.

He stretched out his palm to wipe off the dirt on the surface of the cross. There was also an ancient number on it.

113

Clayton frowned.

The number of the Mourning Cross he dug out was 43. This number was not small, and 113, this number also made him feel frightened. A full company, including the cook, was only over a hundred years old. How many people had died here?

Ancient extraordinary beings may be stronger than contemporary extraordinary beings, but it does not mean that there are more ancient people than contemporary people.

In an era before agriculture developed, this was almost the entire population of a town.

Or is it that the people who died here did not die in the same era, but that Saint Mored made crosses for their corpses?

Creighton, who was not a professional archaeologist, quickly gave up on the matter.

"What I threw was not the cross, but a necklace. Keep digging."

With more than a dozen people working hard to dig, a huge pit that was still growing appeared in the swamp.

The workers stood in the black mud, and after Clayton directed them to reserve an entrance and exit to the hole, they dug deeper without hesitation.

As the sun's position in the sky shifted significantly, more and more crosses were unearthed.

They are stacked on top of each other and are stacked together artificially. However, some are damaged and decayed due to various reasons, making it impossible to accurately calculate the number.

Clayton asked the workers to collect these relatively complete crosses so that he could count them. Before dusk, they excavated a total of 179 well-preserved mourning crosses, of which the largest number was 306.

At the same time, some broken corpses wrapped in mud began to appear.

These corpses are very old, but they are relatively well preserved due to the special environment. Their faces have not rotted away, but the flesh has shrunk and clung to the facial bones, giving them a hideous and painful expression.

The situation was truly bizarre, as corpses were not unique in this era, but the bad religious atmosphere associated with them made the two workers refuse to continue digging.

They just take today's money and leave, making it clear they won't come back the next day.

Clayton said nothing. He respected other people's beliefs.

The remaining people are not afraid of corpses, nor do they feel that exhuming these ancient corpses is a blasphemy to their ancestors. They just choose to leave because the time is getting later and later.

Clayton promised there would be work for them tomorrow.

Five decided to stay and work overtime—as long as Clayton was willing to pay for the hours worked.

Clayton agreed and issued a reward of up to 3 pounds for the non-existent lost object, so they started working even more desperately.

As the sun set, Clayton lit the lanterns he had prepared in advance and hung them on ropes to sink into the bottom of the pit to help illuminate the workers who were still working. Each of them worked diligently, trying to find a different and special light. thing.

But they found nothing, only more and more of the same stuff piling up outside the pit - more mourning crosses and the corpses of ancient people.

At half past six, they finished their work and returned to the town together.

Clayton returned to Perot's house, sat down under the gaze of others, and exchanged today's results with them.

Julius told him that Marietta was talking again today and it looked like she would be able to move again soon.

Donna also gets along well with the horses, and there are currently no new threats to the livestock.

Barbara and Clara cleaned the house to make sure that the calamitous beast, which was larger than a sheep and smaller than a horse, did not come near the house.

Perrault's story is the most complicated, because the other protagonist in the story now has a complicated identity.

The town of Gévaux is in a stalemate.

It was probably around the time that Creighton was leading the workers to the swamp that Perot had an exchange with the mayor's son, Braden, in the town.

Jeffrey died less than a day ago, but he still had some unfinished business, so his heir needed to negotiate with hunters and public opinion representatives - that is, when Clayton met Chud Osmar, they These things are being discussed.

For example, should Salvation Army prisoners who are still alive be sentenced to death, and if so, when should they choose?

For example, for those who died while fighting the Salvation Army, according to tradition, the town mayor and the local priest should give a speech to them, and then hold a collective funeral. But now that both of them are gone, no one knows what to do next. What to do if you go down.

Also, how should the Salvation Army’s head bounty be divided?

However, these matters can be postponed, but the imprisoned priest Lewis is a difficult matter that must be dealt with as soon as possible.

The bodies of the mayor, Jeffrey, the jeweler Lawrence, and the three Weir brothers must be buried as soon as possible, but there is no priesthood in the town who can conduct funerals. Louis, the only priest, was in prison and mentally disturbed.

After the death of the mayor, Priest Louis' identity became even more embarrassing.

Not many people currently know about Priest Lewis’s crimes, because Mayor Jeffrey has not disclosed the entire process for the time being for the sake of stability. All most people know about Louis' imprisonment is that he committed the murders of jewelers Laurence and the Weir brothers.

However, this crime did not win the trust of most people. Only the family members of the deceased believed it.

Because there was no holiday between Priest Louis and these people, and there was no need to kill people, most people would rather believe that this priest was talking nonsense because he was insane, rather than believe that he suddenly became evil and killed innocent people indiscriminately.

Some people even speculated that Priest Lewis was assassinated by the Salvation Army, and the mayor imprisoned him for protection.

In fact, Louis' biggest crime was holding a Black Mass.

But the people who reported him for holding the Black Mass all died at the hands of Julius and Perrault, and no one could continue to firmly testify that he had done such a blasphemous thing.

And even out of friendship and faith, Jeffrey's eldest son Braden was unwilling to continue to imprison the priest.

As long as Pastor Lewis changes his mind and denies his murder, there is still a possibility that he will come out.

But Perot talked to him and he had no need for it.

Padre Lewis just wanted to die.

"I told him that the big problems outside have basically been solved. If he wants to come out, we will help." Perot said helplessly: "But he was unwilling. Instead, he told me that since people no longer need him, then he He will wait for his death in prison."

Julius was dismissive of the pretensions of the priesthood.

"I think he is just pretending. If I want to die, I will die in less than ten minutes. It is impossible to wait for someone to kill me."

"No, he can't die even if he wants to. We need his help to keep an eye on Chud Osmar. Even if he is a mortal, he must know more about religious matters than we do. Especially the situations in the swamp."

Clayton told his listening companions what he had discovered.

"Such an unusual scene, so many mourning crosses, a disaster must have occurred there. If the Dinon people went to sea there, they must have built a large number of ships, and there would be ruins of shipyards nearby. I don't People who believe in the church really don’t have any records of this. Maybe there are other clues in the church, but we don’t know.”

He said this not without basis.

Every church in the White Church contains historical records from the beginning of the church's establishment, including order documents from various cardinals and even the throne, just like the private records of Purple Bishop Bohema left in the classics room .

However, Bohema's records clearly stated that the throne would send a reply to the discovery here, and he did stay to garrison Gévaux because of subsequent orders.

It stands to reason that these replies from the throne should be placed together with Bohema's private documents, because the messages they convey are coherent, but Creighton did not see those replies.

Thinking about it now, they were either hidden, or the carriers were destroyed, and the information they contained was passed down orally by the priests. There was also a certain probability that they were accidentally destroyed.

But Clayton believed they existed, and knowing what was written on them would require the help of Padre Lewis.

"Donna, tomorrow it's up to you to persuade Priest Lewis. No matter what, you must know what special features were found nearby when this church was first established."

Even to build such a cathedral, workers have to find suitable stones nearby to lay a deep foundation for the building, which inevitably requires digging underground, and there are a large number of dead bodies buried underground. Nothing was found at the time, and Clayton absolutely didn't believe it.

"Me?" The girl pointed at herself in disbelief.

Clayton looked at her encouragingly: "You are the most suitable."

Aside from Seranne, who has a low status, Donna is the only normal human being in this team.