Chapter 77: The Church

It was a Sunday, and Adale and thousands of believers gathered in the underground core area of ​​St. Peter's Basilica to secretly meet the three Cardinal archbishops.

As usual, the bishop usually gives a speech at this time. But to Adair, this speech is not so much a spiritual cleansing for the believers, but rather arousing himself to believe in God's power with a more crazy enthusiasm.

Under the candlelight, Adair and all the believers were injected with a mysterious red potion in sequence. Not only them, including priests, deacons, all the parish priests, monasteries they knew, and even senior pastors from various churches, were among the injectors. The cuffs of their right arm were high, and their eyes were filled with unprecedented piety and fanaticism. Even the Supreme Cardinal joined them. When the man as old as seventy-six years old passed by, Adair clearly felt that he was smiling at himself. The sacred gaze that was so kind that he could almost make people cry made him feel that he wanted to kneel down and worship on the spot.

The potion is very effective. Only ten minutes after receiving the injection, Adale felt hot all over and quickly lost his mind. After waking up, a whole week had passed.

Among the first injectors, only Adair and another pastor from a parish in Italy survived. All senior members of the church, including the Supreme Cardinal, died within twenty-four hours after the injection because they were unable to adapt to the strong physiological rejection caused by the parasitic parasites.

That day was October 22, 2015.

More volunteers entered the underground area of ​​St. Peter's Basilica. Among them were teachers, workers, ranchers, business managers, soldiers... there were also thieves, homeless men, murderers, scammers, prostitutes... They held the sacred cross in their hands and murmured prayer poems in great devout manner. While accepting the holy water that the clergy drifted from their heads, they carried the worship of God, rolled up their sleeves, and let the cold needles penetrate the blood vessels, slowly pushing the mysterious red potion into their bodies.

The Church has a large number of believers.

Regardless of their status or occupation, they can always find several devout believers of God in any corner of the world. According to incomplete statistics, the number of believers who crawled before the cross in the old era had reached a terrible number in units of "billions". If we want to select the most pious, most fanatical, and most persistent believers from them, there would be at least tens of millions.

No one forced them, and under the temptation of the clergy, they received injections that could not be predicted in a voluntary manner. In the eyes of believers, this is the best worship of God.

This is a large-scale so-called "selecting". The church did not announce the specific selection items and contents to the public. Only those believers who enter the church are qualified to be the injection targets. Everything is carried out in a semi-public but very confidential state.

Adair never calculated how many people died from the injection of this mysterious potion. He only knew that the huge crypt underground of St. Peter's Basilica, which had existed since the Middle Ages, was filled with tens of thousands of dead bodies.

This is just an inaccurate statistics within the Vatican. The same secret injection process is being carried out in churches all over the world. According to the bishops, priests and pastors, this is the most direct manifestation of piety to God. The omnipresent God will use this blood-like liquid to identify worshippers who can inherit the ultimate faith.

After becoming a parasitizer, Adair was promoted to bishop of the diocese. This is certainly because he adapted to the characteristics of the virus and became a powerful host. The more important reason is that almost all the core figures of the entire church died and could only be promoted from parasitizers like him who already had clergy.

In less than half a month, all the upper classes of the church were lost, from the archbishops with noble status to ordinary monks, the number of dead was over 60,000. The entire Vatican City was filled with a smell of decay. Due to the large number of dead, cemeteries and underground morgues were filled with dead bodies that needed to be dealt with but could not be buried normally. During that time, including Adal, there were less than 500 people left in the entire Vatican City. The armed crusaders recruited from Switzerland and Italy, together with the Pope Guards who were directly controlled by the church, blocked the entire city. No matter what the outside world requested to enter under any excuse, they were told: "The Vatican City was infected by unknown viruses from outside. For safety reasons, His Majesty the Pope personally issued a blockade order, which strictly prohibited anyone from entering and visiting."

This excuse is reasonable. During the same period, a large-scale virus spread broke out in the southern Italian city of Nicastro and the small northern border town of Brunico. The death toll was as high as 220,000. In comparison, the Vatican blockade information was not too important for a world that was already in fear.

During that period, more than 60 journalists were killed by the Pope's Guard. Their bodies were piled up with the infected corpses, and no one could tell what was going on.

By chance, Adair, who became the bishop, learned from another new bishop the real source of the mysterious red potion.

It was a dedication of an American believer to the church. It is said that he himself participated in a very confidential biological project. The final result was this synthetic drug similar to blood. According to this devout believer, the drug possesses the power of only the divine God. Because... it can "born and die, so that those selected by the gods will have nearly infinite life."

On November 25, on Thanksgiving Day, Adal, along with hundreds of other new bishops and priests, met the Pope Benedict XVI, who was 88 years old at the Vatican Palace.

In Adal's impression, Benedict XVI was a shrewd and capable old man. He was wise, rigorous, enthusiastic, and his face was filled with a kind and gentle smile at any time.

Unlike in my memory, the old man sitting on the golden throne had lost all the beautiful qualities he had. His hair was completely gone, covered with alopecia areata, and there were sores of knuckle-sized pustules everywhere. The swollen muscles and pustules squeezed and deformed the entire face. His vision was almost completely lost, and his dazzling white skin was wrinkled. From time to time, you could see yellow-green rotten liquid flowing out of the broken wound, soaking the golden robe into dirty fabric that emitted foul smell.

Obviously, the Pope himself also injected with that mysterious red potion.

The terrible illness caused Benedict XVI to lose the ability to speak. Relying on the explanation of the servants around me and several documents written in advance, Adal understood the meaning of the old man who was about to face death.

According to the Pope, the Almighty God is about to destroy this world full of sin and filth. Unlike the last flood-destroying battle recorded in the Bible, this time God will use the "Sword of Death full of light" to cleanse the entire human society again. Except for specially selected clergy like Adal, all human beings will be turned into ashes in this war of destruction of the world. What the surviving clergymen have to do is to re-establish God's divine majesty in the dead and silent future world like the legendary saint Adam.

When leaving the Pope Palace, Adal clearly saw the tears flowing from the corners of Benedict XVI's eyes. The dying old man's lips were opened, as if he was trying hard to say something, but he could not make a sound.

On December 24, 2015, after enjoying the last Christmas meal of the old era, Adal, together with all the selected ones, held the Bible and the cross in his hand, and entered a refuge located more than 2,000 meters below the Vatican Palace, under the leadership of the new pope.

The dark cave exudes a damp and moldy smell.

Lin Xiang sat on a cold and smooth rock, looking at the dark blue night sky covered by thick dark clouds through the gaps of pointed conical stone pillars hanging from the top of the cave, and slowly released a trace of confusing or infected turbidity in his clear eyes.

On Christmas Eve in 2015...Adair entered the underground shelter only four days earlier than the final time when the nuclear war broke out. There is no so-called error between the two, and it is shockingly accurate.

Obviously, the Vatican Church knew the so-called "final moment". The full-scale nuclear war on December 28 was no secret for them. These fanatical believers wearing robes and crosses on their chests entered underground shelters before the world was destroyed. As for the mysterious red potion, it should be the enhanced injection made from the R12 virus.

Not only the Skeleton Knights, but even the Clans are involved...

Lin Xiang raised his head and looked at Adele sitting opposite him with a scrutiny. The young clergyman looked calm. In addition to the occasional faint fatigue in his eyes, more of them were sad and helpless sadness and pain.

Time is enough to let the most terrible secret be faded.

Nearly a century has passed, humans in the old era have almost died, the natural environment has been completely destroyed, and the prosperous civilization has become broken rubble... All the secrets of the past have no longer had the value of preservation. Telling them out is much more comfortable than becoming scars that will last forever in your heart.

In addition to the regular clergy, there are also a considerable number of managers and maintenance personnel in the shelter. They also believe in God, but are not as fanatical as devout believers. In Adal, they should be considered the most rational group of believers.

Five years later, the new pope demanded the opening of the shelter and leave the dark and gloomy underground world forever.

This request was unanimously opposed by the shelter managers. The reason is simple - according to computer calculations, it will take at least twenty years for the impact of radiation dust on the environment and organisms to be weakened to a barely acceptable level. Going out now is undoubtedly seeking death.

The new pope was a crazy pious man. All his actions came from the Bible. He opened the part of the book that recorded Noah's ark and angrily rebuked the other party's short-sightedness and ignorance. At the same time, he claimed that the terrible disaster had passed, and as God's solemn agent in the world, he had to go out of here and spread the glory of kindness and kindness to every believer who needed it.

Compared with the omnipotent God, science is undoubtedly a ridiculous existence.

Under absolute power pressure, the shelter manager can only surrender.

A total of 2,681 people, including the Pope, all the top leaders of the church, including the new Cardinal, as well as various clergy and ordinary refugees, all left the refuge on that day.

Six hours later, two priests who had nausea, vomiting and bleeding throughout the body were sent back to the shelter due to drinking radiation water. It was at that time that the underground base manager made a shocking decision - to close the shelter gate, destroy all human-controlled procedures, hand over the highest authority to the computer, reset the time for automatic opening of the gate, and move backwards to fifteen years later.

From then on, a terrible disaster began.

The clergy and the manager quickly split into two camps with different positions. The former demanded to leave, while the latter firmly opposed it based on the failure of control procedures. The verbal quarrel quickly turned into a comprehensive confrontation with force. Using the weapons reserved within the base, the manager launched all attacks on the clergy, while the clergy sent reinforced parasites to fight back. Two days later, all non-priests were killed, and the remaining survivors in the base were only 124 people, including Adal.

The underground shelter has truly become the legendary hell.

There are corpses everywhere, and the smell of decay fills every corner. The computer whose program is locked will only slowly and firmly reduce the time for opening the base again according to the numbers displayed on the time reader.

The base gate has been specially thickened, and even the strongest five-star parasites are unable to shake the base gate. Compared with science, human power once again shows unprecedented weakness.

Food and drinking water were abundant, but the surviving people did not feel the meaning and value of survival at all. At that time, Adele would sit next to the thick steel gate almost every day, pressing his ears against the cold door wall, listening to every movement coming from outside.

This is an unbearable torture.

Alive, but unable to leave.

There is no sunshine, but you can feel the flow of air.

People try to expel fear and fear in their hearts by reading books, watching movies and TV works, or praying to God. However, whenever they think of their companions who were killed in the struggle, they will inevitably feel uncontrollable despair and guilt deep in their hearts. The bodies of the dead have rotted, but the white skeletons remain intact for a long time. This often causes the survivors to forget the reality and create a horror illusion of themselves and the dead in the same grave.

Two months later, a Samsung parasite who could not bear the huge psychological pressure exploded his head with a Bronning pistol.

Soon, the first crazy man appeared.

Immediately afterwards, the first hunger striker was starved to death.

The first clergy who was immersed in fantasy and thought he had become an angel, cut off the heads of his living companions with an axe, and laid the dead body into a huge cross, and stood high on the top of the wall of the house.

Some people feel that they have transformed into the Virgin Mary, and without the help of anyone, they have cut off their male genitals with a knife. What he does every day is to hold the Bible and a skeleton of the dead, sit beneath the golden cross in the base hall with kind face, stuff his shrinking nipples into the mouth of the dirty skeleton, and look at the dead head with an extremely loving look...

Fifteen years later, when the base gate finally rose slowly under the control of computers, there were only fifty-two survivors in the entire base, including Adair.

The majestic St. Peter's Church no longer exists, the majestic and gorgeous Pope Palace has become a pile of wasteland, and the Vatican city in my memory is left with only a piece of steel bars shrouded in the dark and cold air.

Adair suddenly realized that living is actually more painful than death.

Just when everyone was confused and desperate, a team of soldiers wearing colorful combat uniforms and embroidered golden crosses appeared. The visitor claimed to be a parishioner in the French diocese. According to the other party, they had left their base five years ago. In order to concentrate the forces of the churches scattered in various places, they sent contact personnel near each shelter according to the coordinates distributed before the war.

These men took over control of the base, and together with all their companions, Adal was sent to Asia to become a priest in the local diocese. There, he received a new robe and a cross missing from Jesus. According to the instructions of the archbishop of the diocese, his only task was to lead "the new crusaders reborn from the ruins, and with the sword of anger, to conquer those evil lands ruled by the devil."

This so-called "New Church" is completely different from the church in memory.

They tampered with the original doctrine, symbols, beliefs, and worshipers became the sword-holding Lord, the Son and the Virgin Mary were cancelled, and the way of preaching was no longer gratitude and calling, but naked killing and conquest. The sacrifice to the gods became living people. According to the relevant description in the New Bible, the pure virgin is the best lamb to God.
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