Wu Heng looked at Ben's eyes, flipped through the contents of Bible, and continued in a gentle voice:
"According to what is said in <Bible>, at least one third of God himself is a ghost."
"If you read Bible, you will find that Bible believes in the existence of demons. When Jesus grabbed a handful of demons out of the man's body, Jesus asked the man what the name of the possessed person was, but it was the demon who answered, saying, 'Let Jesus go back to the Foreign Legion.'"
"<Bible> also believes in the existence of witchcraft, because it says in it: 'A woman who practices witchcraft must not be allowed to live'."
"Some people were thrown into the oil pan, some were hanged. When King Ahaz fell from the tower and died, hungry dogs swarmed up and licked his blood. When Moses and Jesus Christ were born, large-scale infant slaughter occurred."
"Some people resurrected from the grave or flew into the sky, some soldiers used sorcery to knock down walls, some prophets foresee the future, and there are all kinds of evil monsters. These are all recorded in <Bible>. If God exists, then every sentence in this is true."
Having said this, Wu Heng closed <Bible> with a snap, and then he asked Ben in a serious and serious tone:
"My child, do you believe that God exists?"
These words made Ben completely stunned.
If he believes in God, it means that he believes in the existence of ghosts. If he does not believe in God, then why should he come to the church to pray.
If he could, he would rather not believe God, but stroking the scar on his stomach, he already knew the answer in his heart.
"I believe God!"
Ben's lips wriggled hard to say these words. He picked up a lemon and dropped it into his nose three times. He choked and sneezed violently, and the vitality in his body declined visibly to the naked eye.
He didn't speak for three minutes, and kept swaying, as if he was very cold. Wu Heng waited quietly, with soft eyes, looking at Ben with concern, which made Ben feel a touch of warmth.
"Father."
"I received a call from an old friend last night, a guy named Mike Hanlon. Hanlon."
"Hell, I forgot about him a long time ago. After all, I knew him when I was very young, and children forget things. I thought it was normal."
"But when I woke up this morning, I discovered a terrible thing. I suddenly realized that not only had I forgotten Mike, but I had also forgotten everything about my childhood. I had completely forgotten it."
"It's like amnesia." He emphasized, seeming to think of something, and asked Wu Heng:
"Father, have you ever heard of anyone who suffered from severe amnesia and even forgot that he had amnesia?"
Ben's question made Wu Heng burst into laughter. He remembered the cold joke in his previous life: after he got amnesia, he forgot that he had amnesia, and then his amnesia was cured.
Wu Heng still shook his head calmly. At this stage, he only needed to be a listener and slowly wait for Ben to finish speaking before doing what he wanted to do.
This is a play, a play for Maturin.
Although Maturin is restrained by "it" and may even be dead, it still has an impact on the direction of the world.
I saw that Wu Heng made no sound.
Ben may also feel that this question is a bit stupid, but he really doesn't want to admit another terrible possibility:
"I haven't heard of it either, but that's how I am. One second I was racing, and the next second I suddenly had a memory. I remembered Mike Hanlon. Hanlon because he called me. His phone was like a key."
"I have never recalled my childhood. From that phone call, everything started to emerge, and the memory of Derry gradually emerged."
Ben's shirt was still open, and he lowered his head thoughtfully, looking at the old wrinkled white scar on his abdomen.
"Father, this scar was not there originally. Hell, my belly was smooth the day before."
"It wasn't until after that phone call that this scar appeared on my belly. I knew its origin. It was as if it had always existed on my belly, but I never knew it before."
"I remember a girl or a stammer who saved my life with silver coins. I was so scared that I almost went crazy, but I don't know why I was scared. Maybe that memory will emerge later."
"But now there is a ball of fear in my heart. It is there, expanding like a big bubble. I watch it getting bigger and bigger, as if it will explode at any time. Just looking at it makes me scared. I dare not imagine what is inside."
Ben was talking, but there was no response from the priest.
He lowered his head, which was looking at the scar on his abdomen, and raised it.
Where could there be Wu Heng next to him? Wu Heng just disappeared silently, even though he was still in front of him a second ago.
Ben's body trembled even more violently. He felt the emptiness of the church. This emptiness made the bubble of fear in his heart expand a little more.
He hurriedly raised his head and looked at the statue of Jesus. Since God exists, then Jesus will bless him!
Then Ben was completely stunned.
On the steps of the church, where Jesus was, there was only an empty cross.
Could it be that Jesus was so frightened by his story that he broke away from the cross and ran away?
What a boring joke!
But he didn't understand what happened. He only knew that his support was gone. Even God couldn't be relied on these days.
This weird scene almost made him suffocate.
"Go, get out of here!"
After this idea popped up in Ben's mind, it was like an alarm bell urging him to leave here immediately.
Then he saw a red balloon floating out from behind the huge cross. The balloon was floating in the air 1.5 meters above the ground, with a white string attached to it hanging to the ground.
The red balloons floated out along the corridor between the seats.
The bubble of fear in Ben's heart seemed to expand to the point of exploding. His heart beat violently and he quickly turned to leave, but there was a rolling sound like a kicked stone under his feet.
He glanced slightly and saw that it was a strange egg. The old eggshell was full of holes. Through the holes in the eggshell, you could see the hot magma flowing inside.
This familiar scene emerged from the depths of his memory, and he remembered It Comes.
Ben looked around hurriedly as if he was looking for something. The church at Silence did not disappoint him.
There seemed to be a person lying on the fifth row of seats in the middle. He was lying on the chair, his body was blocked by the back of the chair in front, and his feet were exposed to the aisle.
When Ben looked at it, the figure twisted and stood up. It was wearing a school uniform, and its thin limbs staggered towards Ben as if it had taken a psychedelic drug.
There was no head on its neck, and the broken wounds were uneven, as if its head had been bitten off by some ferocious beast.
The bubble of fear in Ben's heart completely exploded. The red wine on his cheeks instantly faded and turned pale. The exit was blocked by a headless corpse. He could only run towards the church platform.
"Hey, Easter Egg Boy!"
This fearful call that he had only heard once, but which he would never forget, rang out again on the huge cross.
Ben looked up in horror. He saw a figure nailed to the cross where Jesus was originally nailed. The figure was lowering its head and calling him.
Its face was painted white with oil paint, and its big bloody mouth showed a murderous smile. There were two hollows in its eye sockets, and a bunch of balloons were tied to each of its nailed hands.
The hands that were pierced by the iron nails are slowly pulling away from the iron nails.
The wide nail head sank deeply into the palm of the hand, and the flesh and blood around it was squeezed out, as if milk was being squeezed out.