"What did you find?" The others immediately gathered around.
"Look at the cave wall. There are man-made chisel marks," Sun Hang said. "It looks like a cross."
Just as he had said, about half a meter inside the cave entrance and at roughly mid-height, there was a cross-shaped carving.
The mark seemed to have been painstakingly chiseled out with some kind of metal tool. Its lines were uniformly thick; both the vertical and horizontal strokes were about a finger-width wide and roughly two millimeters deep. The top, left, and right ends of the cross were similar in length, while the lower end was noticeably longer.
"Isn't this the symbol of a crucifix?" Wang Xiyi said at once. "A crucifix, and Cave Number Thirteen... Doesn't that seem to carry some special religious significance?"
Yang Lian had numbered the cave entrances in sequence. Starting from Number One, this entrance happened to be the thirteenth.
"A hidden underground religious ruin?" Candle Dragon looked quite intrigued. "Hmm, interesting."
"A cross and the number thirteen... This must be related to Christianity, right?" Yang Lian said. "I remember that Christianity was once widespread throughout Shuzhou, and it was also one of the main areas where Western missionaries operated in Xiazhou..."
Yang Qi continued, "But after Anomalies began appearing on a large scale, many church organizations started changing for the worse. A great number of Cult Organizations sprang up from them... After that, the Federal Government imposed many restrictions on religious organizations and activities within Xiazhou. Numerous churches were dissolved, and churches and temples were demolished. Only a small number were preserved as tourist attractions or historical relics."
"It's normal for them to turn into cults. No one knows whether God exists, but Anomalies with all kinds of supernatural powers definitely do," Sun Hang said, having dealt