The Good News: The Staff Have Been Found. The Bad News:...

Without wasting any time, driven by quick thinking and a pragmatic approach, they soon left the lounge and headed to the church to find information about the staff of the Evil Infant Tribunal.

Originally, everyone should have split up to scout in order to improve efficiency, but for Zhang Jizu, such efficiency was insignificant compared to his purpose in participating in the Trials. He only sought to be safe, so he always followed behind Cheng Shi.

Seeing that the two big shots had teamed up, Scorpio naturally wouldn't be foolish enough to leave on their own, so they followed behind.

Gao Ya's goal was to avoid being alone, so she wouldn't leave the group.

In short, the four of them became conjoined twins.

Cheng Shi felt helpless, but there was nothing he could do. He could only put more effort into finding out the methods to improve efficiency.

Although the court appeared to be abandoned, the church members clearly knew about the institution and were very familiar with how it operated.

So Cheng Shi found a staff member who seemed easy to fool, pretended to be his colleague, offered him some small favors, took him to a secluded corner, and got all the information about the court from him.

"The courthouse was not abolished, but it is not operating normally either."

There are indeed some staff members living inside, but I advise you, no matter how curious you are, don't go in and disturb them.

"Why?"

"You really haven't heard of this? That shouldn't be the case. On your first day joining the church, those senior members who act like they know better should have told you that you... you're just here to get paid?"

"Huh?" Cheng Shi was taken aback, then quickly nodded. "You have a good eye for people!"

"Reading between the lines is the way to conduct oneself in the church. I've long suspected you're not a devout Believer, but don't worry, I won't expose you, because I'm not one either."

Don't look at me like that. One should be loyal to others. I admire all those who are not devout. The people behind us have long lost themselves and abandoned wisdom in their fanatical Faith. People like you and me who are hypocritical are the truly independent and free people!

Through so many years of church life, I have come to the following conclusion:

Humanity, wisdom, and Faith can only be chosen from two of them.

We have both abandoned Faith and chosen wisdom and humanity, so we are both wise people.

Of course, even smart people need to eat. I don't think it's unreasonable for them to feign piety to make a living. What do you think?

Cheng Shi was stunned. He thought he had randomly picked a fool, but he didn't expect the other party to be a eloquent thinker.

Master, you are absolutely right, I understand now.

As Cheng Shi's gaze grew increasingly adoring, the thinker became carried away, and he began to reveal his secrets incessantly:

"That person is a cursed sinner. You can't ask anyone else about this, because very few people know about it."

If it weren't for me... Shh, you mustn't tell anyone about this. If I hadn't sneaked into the leader's room, I wouldn't have known.

The establishment of the Inquisition had nothing to do with the so-called evil infants; it was a decision made a hundred years ago by a certain religious leader out of a moment of personal pity.

That institution wasn't the First called that; it was known as the Confession Place of Blasphemy. Explaining the relationship between the two institutions is a bit complicated, but I don't have much time, so I'll keep it brief.

Cheng Shi nodded to himself, thinking that this person was indeed enthusiastic, but he never expected that this person was not enthusiastic at all, but a complete chatterbox.

He hadn't shared his secrets with anyone in a long time, and when he finally met someone who was interested, he talked to Cheng Shi for an entire afternoon.

Cheng Shi didn't interrupt him, because there was indeed something to say about this man. However, he had added a lot of nonsense to his account of the history of Dolgo D, in a ratio of about 10:1, with 10 sentences of nonsense to 1 sentence of history.

Cheng Shi had a headache listening to it, but he had no choice but to listen patiently until the end. Finally, as the sun was setting, he understood everything about the Evil Infant Tribunal.

Ironically, he was also involved in this matter.

Do you remember the female citizen who gave birth using [Divine Seeding Technique] that Cheng Shi delivered?

Although Cheng Shi's delivery was merely a projection of the history of the Life Era into the game, in real history, this female citizen did indeed give birth to that child, and that child was the cult leader mentioned by this talkative thinker.

As he grew up, he gradually realized that he was a Wuda Rioters, but he did not resist this identity at all. In fact, he used the "Divine Seeding Technique to continuously improve his status among the " Birth "Believer, successfully infiltrated the church, and became a star in the church at that time.

He used every means to constantly promote his piety and spread his offspring throughout the city. The church thought he was putting the will of "Birth" into practice, but little did they know that he was just taking the opportunity to expand the bloodline left by Uda.

Years later, the Wuda Rioters, whose prestige had reached its peak, were successfully elected as the leader of the sect. It was at this time that his and his people's identities were accidentally leaked. However, it was not the public who learned of this news, but the Uma people who were wandering around the Dol Empire and homeless.

When these Uma people learned that their former relatives had gained new power in Dolgo D, they flocked to join them.

The cult leader, who had lost his historical Memory and only had the Bloodline Memory, took them in out of pity. However, he could not overcome the objections and use taxes to support a group of idle people with nothing to do, so he established the Confession Hall for Blasphemy.

The Wuma Sinners, having committed blasphemy in the past, were constantly repenting for their sins. In order to make the citizens more devout, the leader began to brainwash all the people with this repentance, making them waste all their energy on repentance except for procreation, in order to ensure the stability of his rule.

However, this policy clearly angered all the citizens, and with the intervention of the bishop of the Dol Empire, the papacy was dismissed.

On the day of his impeachment, he revealed his identity and denounced the Dol Empire's decision as the greatest blasphemy against Him. However, this action only enraged the people of Dolgo D, who picked up stones from the roadside and bludgeoned him to death in front of the church.

When the leader died, the Wuma Sinners who had been taken in by him should have been executed as well. However, the next leader discovered the stabilizing effect of the penance center on society, so he found an excuse to save them.

The Protestant leader made slight modifications to the blasphemous confession, changing it from a nationwide confession to individual guilt. He fabricated charges of blasphemy against evil children and sentenced all citizens who disobeyed him to death.

Thus came the golden age of the Church of Divine Nurturing Church. Dolgo D experienced an unprecedented period of stability, and all the citizens respected and loved him, because the rebels had long been sentenced to death for blasphemy.

Later, this patriarch was promoted to bishop of the Dol Empire, and the Inquisition of Dolgo D fell silent once again.

This was originally a stain on the bishop's reputation, which should have been erased after he left office. However, he died suddenly not long after taking office as bishop, so the Evil Infant Tribunal fell into silence after losing the bishop's support. The next head of the church knew that it was dangerous for the public to discover this thing, but he dared not dismantle it because of the influence of the deceased bishop. So the Inquisition was abandoned.

Therefore, Dolgo D never spoke of evil infants, nor did he ever have the Life That Should Not Be Born.

Upon hearing this, Cheng Shi's teammates behind him were shocked.

Squinting eyes widened, Gao Ya frowned, Scorpio looked bewildered, and Cheng Shi had a half-smile.

He looked at the "thinker" in front of him and asked in a playful tone:

"There are so many historical secrets that you probably wouldn't be able to find out just by going into the leader's room, right?"

Interesting, who exactly are you?

Could it be one of my good teammates?

The "thinker" shook his head, clearly not understanding what the word "teammate" meant, but he was certainly not an ordinary church worker. Seeing that Cheng Shi seemed to doubt his identity, he grinned:

"Actually, I rarely meet new people who don't know me, but even fewer are willing to talk to me."

My name is Tullatin. Well, since you didn't recognize me even when I was right in front of you, you must not have heard of my name before.

However, there's another name you should know.

"My father, Berios, do you recognize him now?"

Cheng Shi gave a dry laugh and shook his head, and the "thinker's" face instantly froze.

At this Cheng Shi, Gao Ya, who was behind Cheng Shi, sneered and said:

"Berios, the contemporary head of the Dolgo D Divine Nurturing Church."

"That's interesting. So, by 'finding a suitable person to gather information,' you mean you've found the son of the current head of the Divine Nurturing Church?"

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Cheng Shi suddenly turned around, looked at Gao Ya, then turned back to Tullatin in front of him with some disbelief, and exclaimed in surprise:

"You spent the whole afternoon talking about rejecting fanaticism and Faith, and now you're telling me your father is the head of the Church of Divine Nurturing Church?"

Tullatin didn't see anything wrong with it at all; he shrugged and said:

"It is because he is the head of the church that I despise everything here."

His fanaticism for Faith had turned Dolgo D into a hell of Faith, where people only saw pregnancy, and from birth to death, everyone had only one thing on their minds: Faith. Little did they know that they had already died, spiritually dead.

They lost themselves, lost their freedom, lost everything except their fanatical Faith.

This kind of life is too oppressive, terrifying and suffocating. If people live only to mechanically worship the supreme "Birth", then why did He endow mankind with thoughts and wisdom when He gave birth to them?

So, it was all wrong, everything was wrong.

I can't say where things went wrong, but I know that if things continue like this, people will no longer be human.

I have always hoped that someone would destroy everything here and then build a new Dolgo D on the ruins, without Him.

Finally, today, I met you all.

To be honest, I brought all the new people into the church, but I've never met you before, so you're not church members at all.

Who are you?

No, that's not important. What's important is you...

Do you need any help?