Chapter 402: Catacombs
For example, the closest location found by Allen is the Paris Saint Infant Cemetery.
This cemetery is located in the centre of Real in Paris. Its name comes from the Santa Crown Church next to the cemetery, but now along with the church, the cemetery has disappeared.
The Holy Infant Cemetery began to be used in the 12th century. In the 18th century, due to the overcrowding of the cemetery and the plague breeding, the Dharma King announced on March 10, 1775 that it would close it in 1780 and emptie it in 1786.
The skeletons in the cemetery were then transferred to the Isol Cemetery in the Montparnasse neighborhood. This cemetery was at the outskirts of Paris at that time and was formerly an underground quarry.
In other words, more than a century ago, the Holy Infant Cemetery had disappeared. And after learning that this Holy Infant Cemetery is notorious in Paris, which turned out to be the largest and oldest cemetery in Paris.
Because of the population growth, the original cemetery could no longer meet the needs. The purpose here began to turn into collective burials. More than 1,000 corpses were buried in one pit, and when one pit was full, another pit was dug.
Despite this, there were too many people who died due to the plague at that time, and many bodies were thrown directly on the edge of the cemetery. At the same time, this was the largest slum in Paris, with various dirty and messy environments imaginable, and Nicholas Mai left many symbols on the arch wall of the fourth tomb chamber of this cemetery.
These symbols were recorded by those who studied Nicholas Mai, and Allen saw it in some data. The changes in Paris made many of the data collected by Allen completely useless, and Allen needed to collect information here again in the next time.
As Nicholas Mai's hometown, there are many rumors about him here, but many of them have been processed as they think, and some are completely forged. Allen needs to find the information he needs.
Allen found the director of the Paris Library at that time and used a spiritual hint to easily get permission to enter and exit freely. This place contains the historical changes of the entire Paris and even the Kingdom of Gaul. Allen began to screen relevant information here.
After spending a little extra time, Allen finally found some useful information, such as the large number of symbols left by Nikola Lemay, and some places.
Allen came to the Place Denfer Rochelo in the 14th district of Paris. This is the largest cemetery in the entire Paris, and it also has a name called the Skeleton Tomb.
This place was originally an underground limestone quarry. Later, a plague broke out in Paris, and the death toll continued to rise. The cemetery was seriously insufficient. A large number of bodies were discarded in the cemetery. The sanitation environment had deteriorated to the extreme. In the end, people transferred the corpses buried in all cemeteries in the city to this point.
Since then, it has been used as a cemetery until 1814. The catacombs are 200 miles long and are piled with 6 million human corpses. Because there are too many corpses, many of them have been built into a skeleton wall.
This place has now become a museum, and tourists come in every day. Of course, it is only about two kilometers open to the public. The catacombs that people see now have been artistically processed by later generations. They are piled into various shapes by artists, including caves composed of skulls, corridors and arch bridges, and bone walls built by other skeletons of human bodies.
Like the famous and complex underground waterways in Paris, the catacombs are surrounded by mazes, "winding paths lead to secludedness". The difference is that this place definitely gives people a gloomy and breath-holding feeling.
At this time, Allen was standing at the entrance of this huge cemetery. The first thing he saw when he entered the cemetery was a stone tablet, with the inscription written in Latin: "Insult the dead, the heavens will be punished by the earth!" There is also a warning below: "Remember, every day is your end of the world."
Alan hovered down the 130th step. As he went deeper, the light around him gradually dimmed. Alan obviously felt that the negative energy aura around him gradually became stronger. The top part of the tomb was a limestone mechanism with a solid and gloomy texture. On one side of the passage was a limestone wall, and on the other side was a wall of undead made of bones, tibia, skulls.
The width of the passage is only two meters and the height is 2-3 meters. The gaps in the bone wall are filled with a large number of broken bones, and all the bones are neatly stacked. In the dim light, they extend to the depths of the darkness.
"It's really gloomy." Alan walked freely through the sea of bones, and the bones here were assembled into many patterns. Alan also saw some arch bridges built by human skulls. Under the dim light, there was a strange atmosphere.
Just pass through the arch bridge made of human skulls, it is a corridor made of human skulls that are more than 20 meters long. Tens of thousands of skulls are neatly placed into two factions, and many of them still have very obvious scars on them. Many of these are relics left by various movements in the Gaul Kingdom.
"It's a bit strange. There are no abnormalities in so many corpses piled up here except for the heavy yin energy." Alan looked at the tomb in front of him. The corpses buried here can be said to be the most corpses Alan has ever seen, but the imagined undead aura did not appear.
You should know that even the undead aura naturally gathered, it is enough to show several legendary undead creatures. Moreover, Alan did not just collect information in Paris this month. He also discovered many dark creatures, including blood clans and werewolfs. Alan also discovered traces of some monsters and other dark creatures.
It is said that this catacomb is so vast and has a strong negative energy aura, so it should be an excellent gathering place for dark creatures, but strangely, so far, no dark creature has been seen here.
Although this era has experienced two industrial revolutions, there are still many dark forces. Some news from Allen has received that in the mountains of Poland, there have been consecutive dismemberment cases. The victim's bodies were torn into terrible minced meat by unknown beasts in the mountains and forests. The news that the local government and the church have jointly concealed for social stability, but this is only for ordinary people and has spread among the witch hunters.
According to news from Viken, there are at least fifteen adult orc activities, and many witch hunters have already gone to solve the problem. In Northern Europe, people have found some huge footprints, and many women have disappeared. The disappearance of these populations has caused panic among local residents. It is said that few women are out alone there.
However, despite this, the number of missing people is still increasing slowly.
In Gaul, tomb robbers appeared in many cemeteries. These tomb robbers dug out the bodies from the tomb and took them away. However, Alan knew that this was just to deceive ordinary people. Alan went to inspect and found that the tombs were obviously dug out from the inside, and there was a strong undead aura around them.
Chapter completed!