Chapter 3194

A book was placed under this piece of paper. The cover looked like parchment, as if it were a product of the last century. The name of the book was "Sailor Peek's Diary."

Schiller opened the book and found that many pages were missing inside. Ignoring these missing things, the content can be roughly summarized as: a man named Peek boarded a large ship and became a sailor. On the way, they encountered a storm, but fortunately, they docked in time under the guidance of the lighthouse.

This content was inexplicable and inexplicable. If he had to say it, it might have something to do with the lighthouse in this village, but because too much content was missing, it couldn't be seen whether the lighthouse they encountered was this lighthouse covered in heavy snow.

Schiller instinctively felt that this story was very important, because what was torn out the most in the middle was the description of the storm.

Schiller felt that Old Silterk must have some relationship by putting this note and this book here. Could it be that he discovered some conspiracy of the church from this book?

He couldn't see anything, so Schiller put the note and the book together and started to investigate more content on the bookshelf.

His literature reading skill finally came in handy, because the books here were not only in English, but also in many minor languages. With this skill, he could basically understand them without any checks.

Finally, Schiller found an important clue in a book called "Record of Major Insurance Accidents of the Century" at the bottom of the bookshelf.

The book mentioned that about 80 years ago, judging from the current era, it might be around 1930, a major safety accident occurred in a hotel located in Massachusetts. The accident caused more than 230 guests to die, which is the third-largest hotel safety accident in American history.

The group that owned this hotel had bought huge insurance for this hotel, and the huge compensation brought by the hotel's safety accident became a hot topic for a while. In the insurance company's estimation, they had to bear more than 20 million US dollars in compensation. In that era, this was an astronomical figure.

Various lawsuits related to the case were raging for a long time, and even spread for more than half a century. The reason was that the state of death of most of the deceased was very miserable, and no source that could lead to this safety accident was found.

The hotel is not a cruise ship. Once something happens, there is no other way except to sink with the ship. The hotel is located on the mainland. Even for safety accidents like fires, guests in the lobby on the first floor should at least be able to run away.

But the list of dead in this safety accident included almost everyone in the hotel. Except for some who were still missing, almost no one ran away.

And the local police station also stated that they did not receive any distress information, the fire department did not receive a fire warning, and even the people on duty in the few buildings next door didn't hear any movement.

Overnight, all the residents in the hotel died miserably for unknown reasons, and according to reports from reporters at the time, some people had wounds that didn't look like they could be left by humans.

Because the situation was too eerie, the insurance company questioned the necessity of the payment. The lawsuits between the insurance company and the medical group behind it, and the hotel owner and the victims' families, spread for half a century, and many were not settled in the end, and they are still in a state of litigation until now.

From the various pictures matched on this book, Schiller could see that this hotel was the eerie hotel that the bishop went to at the time, and the style of the doorplate was exactly the same.

And it happened that someone took a picture of the 19th-floor corridor, and you could see that the doorplate of room 1913 was gone.

That is to say, as he speculated, this hotel really existed in the history of this world, and it seemed that a tragedy brought about by the descent of an Outer God really happened at the time.

And what made Schiller feel even more shocked was that he learned from another history book that it was exactly in the ten years after this tragedy occurred that the supernatural swept the world.

And it was precisely in this era that the church began to rise gradually, because they could solve and control supernatural events very well, so various government departments began to tilt resources toward them to ensure that the basic form of the country was not threatened.

In the 70 years that followed, the church gradually developed and became larger and larger, until it became an indispensable part of human society today.

And in a book involving news and politics, Schiller found that after so many years of evolution, the church is no longer just solving supernatural events. Their hands reached into various fields, and they have their figures in various aspects closely related to human society.

Combining various information, Schiller roughly judged that the current church is probably the world's largest religious oligarchy economic entity. It seems to be a religious institution, but in fact, it is still a huge worldwide company with very complex subordinate institutions and intertwined personnel factions.

Schiller actually didn't know what department he specifically belonged to, because Arrogance didn't ask, and didn't set it up. It is estimated that he didn't expect the church to be so complex.

However, from the fact that he did many things without needing checks, it can be inferred from the side that he is not the kind of priest who chants in the church.

Afterward, Schiller began to focus on finding books about the church. Finally, he found favorable evidence for his identity and the department he belonged to in a modern encyclopedia.

This book wrote about the standards of religious people's clothing. Ordinary believers have no requirements. It is fine to dress appropriately when going to church. The priest in the regional church is in a black robe, which is the very common Catholic priest dress. Other higher-level clergy are also in that set of Catholicism.

There are a few special departments whose clothing is different. The Inquisition, which replaced the functions of judicial institutions, wears black robes, but the black robes have blue patterns, and the sleeves have the pattern of scales.

The Tribunal, which replaced the functions of law enforcement institutions, also wears black robes, but the black robes have golden patterns, and the sleeves have the pattern of a sharp sword.

Schiller looked at the long sword pattern on his sleeve and was speechless. So after a long time, he is still an agent.

No wonder Huff thought he was here to silence him as soon as he saw him. This Tribunal does the work of silencing, and his own job as a Soul-Soother might really be physical soul-soothing.

The book says that the Tribunal is a worldwide agent organization. If you have to say it, it is similar to S. H. I. E. L. D., solving the impact brought by various supernatural events worldwide.

Schiller of course knows that this is a euphemism. The Tribunal is basically a violent law enforcement agency that maintains the church's rule, the hammer that hits gophers. Whoever doesn't listen will be hit.

Of course, the book also says that the Tribunal has been involved in assassination scandals more than once, but because of the importance of its functions, most of them were raised high and put down gently, and almost never really held accountable.

Schiller continued to look down and saw several pictures of the Pope traveling. The Pope is nothing special, just an old man with white hair and beard, looking quite energetic.

However, the annotation below the picture, "The Pope and his personal guard traveling," Schiller looked at it and found that the uniform on his body was very similar to the uniform of the personal guard. Good guy, he is still a Jinyiwei.

Then the question comes, why are the members of the personal guard not staying in the Holy City and running to such a remote small village?

Schiller speculated that there are two possibilities. Either he is here to perform a relatively important silencing mission, or he is the person to be silenced and ran away to hide here.

Schiller felt that the latter possibility is higher, because there is really no one in this place who looks like they need the personal guard to take action to successfully silence them, even Old Silterk is not qualified.

Because the victim of the last assassination case that the Tribunal couldn't fool was the US Secretary of State.

Combining that note, Schiller had a bold speculation.

The hotel tragedy was indeed due to the descent of an Outer God. To be precise, it was the Wayne couple at the time who provoked Nyarlathotep. After a series of operations, it led to the outbreak of the hotel's abnormality, and many people died.

But the subsequent supernatural events may not be natural disasters, because whether it is from the form of expression or from the impact, they are far less than the hotel tragedy.

To be more precise, those cases don't look like the movement an Outer God can make at all. In Arrogance's words, it is too typical and lacks beauty.

The tragedies in the Cthulhu myth all have a cold eeriness, similar to humans not being the side that lost the fight, but ants that happened to be stepped on when passing by.

Whether it is an Outer God or an Old One, they are not purposeful and coming for humans, but humans insist on exploring the secrets behind them, leading to the aftermath of the eeriness affecting the Earth, and they were crushed to death so silently.

But these subsequent supernatural cases look like carefully designed murder scenes. The victims are as miserable as they can be, and the scene is as bloody as it can be. They just want to carve the sentence "I was killed by a monster" on their faces.

Many victims in the Cthulhu myth are actually not actively killed by Outer Gods. In fact, their deaths have nothing to do with gods and ghosts at all. More is because of fear and making some irrational behaviors, such as jumping off a building because of fear, and dying of infection because of madness.

But these subsequent supernatural events, among the hundreds of people who died in the whole case, there was not a single conventional way of death. It must be the kind of death that ordinary people can't do, such as exploding from the inside out, taking off one's own head, and suddenly vomiting all one's internal organs clean.

And there is another very important clue, which is that there are no survivors in the hotel tragedy, not even a witness was left, and it happened in the middle of the night. By the time the police and reporters arrived in the morning, there was nothing left.

But these subsequent supernatural events must have happened in broad daylight in the public eye. Wherever there are many people, it breaks out. Half of the onlookers die and half run away. Those who run out accept various media interviews and desperately tell the terrifying scene at the time.

The venues are all university graduation balls, crowded art museum exhibitions, and the victims are all famous novelists, painters with some fame, and at the very least, they must be documentary filming sites, tourist check-in spots with high popularity, and so on.

And the way the supernatural breaks out must be very dramatic. It starts with the strongest impact, then enters a slow rhythm, and finally comes a fast-paced chase, all like filming a movie.

Deliberate, too deliberate.

This is the feeling these cases give Schiller.