There wasn't much written in the work journal, but it was enough. Li Wei read it through in silence. Then Katie and the old man took turns examining its contents.
"How horrible... They actually pushed people into the Furnace? How could they do something so monstrous?"
Katie stared at the work journal in disbelief.
"If that god really told them to do it, then it must be an evil god!"
The old man said nothing, but his trembling hands and misty eyes showed how deeply this had shaken him, too.
"Well... how should I put it? More or less, yes..."
Hearing Katie's reaction, Li Wei shrugged. Her view was certainly the prevailing one these days, but he couldn't exactly tell her that, according to the information in the Wisdom of Solomon he had acquired, human sacrifice had been the norm in Solomon's time.
And every place had its own reasons for offering sacrifices.
Some brought their captives before divine statues and sacrificed them to prove their valor to their gods.
Others dragged over their servants, wives, concubines, and slaves and slaughtered them all as gifts to the gods.
According to King Solomon's memories, some places even sacrificed people who had rendered great service and earned tremendous prestige and respect once they grew old, believing their souls would dwell with the gods after death.
So, whether people weren't treated as spoils of war,
Or were treated as gifts,
Or were treated as people,
There were a hundred and eighty excuses for human sacrifice... Given that this god had actually ordered the miners to build a Divine Body, it was probably another relic of that era. Perhaps, in its eyes, sacrifice wasn't evil at all...
Of course, Li Wei had no intention of judging it in terms of good and evil. All