Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 235 Your Church is Fake

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fries:"."

Beatrice's heart was pounding. She knew that what she was doing was a bit risky, but she didn't care about anything else.

What happened to Castel became a thorn in her heart. She was even distracted by it and didn't have time to save the queen. This also made her particularly want to get information about Castel.

It was originally just a momentary curiosity, but gradually she found that she had invested too much in Castel, which made it even more difficult for her to let go. Once she gave up the exploration, wouldn't it mean that all her previous efforts would be in vain?

Moreover, although she was unwilling to admit it, she knew that she actually cared about Count Hughes in her heart.

Moreover, throwing out some information to show that she knew more and had greater value was also her plan.

Beatrice is no longer the naive little girl. The triple crown on her head does not allow her to be naive anymore. That is why she named herself Scepter - the person holding the scepter, the day the scepter falls, is the day he falls into the abyss. This is a common saying in the empire.

She was trapped in this cage and had to try to grasp at every straw.

The three of them fell silent. After a while, a somewhat weak voice broke the silence.

Gwen: "Chips, Captain, are you still there?"

fries:"!"

Chips: "Gwen! Are you okay?"

Gwen: "Well, I don't think I died. I took a nap, and when I woke up, I felt a little hungry."

Gwen touched her stomach in surprise. She hadn't felt hungry for a long time. The wild vegetables she swallowed yesterday seemed to have activated her hunger and rekindled her hope for survival, but it also burned her body and made her tortured by hunger.

Gwen: "I'm going to go dig up some more wild vegetables. There are still quite a few of those with heart-shaped leaves here."

Captain: "Don't eat too much at once. Eating only wild vegetables will make your body collapse. What else do you have nearby?"

Gwen thought for a moment, then slowly spoke, "Some villagers used to grow vegetables, but now they're gone. The fields are all barren. We did grow some potatoes, but they were all dug up by the soldiers who came last time."

French Fries interrupted: "Is there a church where you live? You can go to the church and ask for some food."

Scepter: "Don't go to church."

fries:"!"

Gwen was a little surprised to feel the new voice in her heart. She suddenly felt happy. She had more and more friends, which was something that had not happened for a long time.

Ever since the war began, her number of friends has been gradually decreasing, and after a while, several of the familiar people in the village would disappear.

When she could no longer find anyone she knew, she put on her favorite dress and prepared to die quietly. Her sister once told her that the dead would go far away and eventually meet again in another world.

She missed her friends, her father, her mother, and her sister.
French Fries: "Why don't you go to church?" Scepter: "Why should you go to church?"

After a moment of silence, Ken tentatively spoke, "The church distributes some food during difficult times. It's not much, but it's enough for people to survive. Gwen needs this care now, right?"

This time it was Beatrice's turn to be confused. She hesitated for a moment before speaking: "Are you talking about the Candlelight Club?"

Ken thought about the Candlelight Church on the island, and Sister Chloe, who wasn't very kind but at least gave people food, and nodded seriously: "Yes."

Scepter: "Then you might have gone to a fake church. I'm not kidding. Some heretics or cultists will use the name of the Candlelight Society to maliciously perform good deeds, trying to gain support by deceiving the common people. A real church won't have much interaction with the common people. The Candlelight Society's teachings are to keep mortals away from the supernatural and to distance themselves from the secular world. You won't get food if you go to church."

Ken scratched his head. This was totally inconsistent with what he knew, but he didn't believe that Miss Chloe was a cultist. He had come into contact with Chloe a lot after becoming a student in the advanced class. This nun just liked to pursue knowledge, and he had never seen her do anything bad.

Ken still doesn't know that his sister has joined the Fire Moth. If he knew about this, his impression of Chloe would probably change.
Jeremiah frowned and suddenly asked in his heart:
"Then how does the Candlelight Society recruit believers? I remember that the Candlelight Society is the state religion of the empire, right?"

Beatrice was a little puzzled. These two people didn't seem to be from the Empire. How could they know so little about the Church? But if they weren't from the Empire, then... were they from the Southern Continent?
It can't be the barbarians from the west of the empire. The Storm Ocean and that side span the entire empire.

Wait, Storm Ocean Beatrice's eyes lit up.

Scepter: "You should have been at sea. I heard that the Martha Islands worship the evil god. Only the evil god's church actively contacts the secular world. Other countries, even countries like the Silent Temple that have a unified political system, have churches that stay away from the mortal world."

Beatrice felt her heart skip a beat when she said this.

Wait, if the church is indeed moving away from the world then what is she?
The Queen was assassinated, the church army surrounded the palace, and she, a former noble, wore the triple crown and became the Pope.
Only the Church of the Evil God will take the initiative to contact the secular world
Thinking of the gears and machinery under Hela's black veil, it is obvious that they are inextricably linked to the Mechanical Temple. The Candlelight Society has always regarded those mechanical priests as lunatics, so why are they suddenly cooperating with them?

Beatrice had been worried about her situation. Thinking back on it, she suddenly realized that the church's recent actions were inexplicable and strange.

Before she knew it, her back was covered in cold sweat.

The Scepter suddenly stopped talking. Ken didn't think much about it and turned to Gwen and asked, "Gwen, then don't go to the church. What, uh, organization are you near?"

Gwen: "I don't know. The flags those soldiers hold are different every time. I don't recognize them."

Jeremiah frowned and glared at Ken. "She has no strength now. Even if she knew where to go, she couldn't walk. Let's find her something to eat first."

Ken nodded quickly.

Captain: "How are you now? Is it difficult for you to walk? Can you go out and find something to eat?"

Gwen: "I'm not feeling well. I have trouble sitting up in bed. I might not be able to go out. There seems to be no one in the village lately. There used to be some stray dogs at night, but now even they are gone."

Jeremiah and Ken looked at each other, and their hearts sank.

Captain: "Do you still have that weed?"

Scepter: "Wait, I have a good idea, but it may involve the supernatural."

(End of this chapter)