I weave my destiny in parallel time and space

Alicia obviously still remembered this agreement. She quickly took out various clothes from the wardrobe and put them on herself.

Although it is only the simplest long skirt, it is still very complicated.

About ten minutes later, Alicia, who was fully dressed, looked at Xia Ya and said, "Let's go."

Char raised her hand and grabbed her hand. At that moment, the magic of the rotation of heaven and earth made them cross tens of thousands of kilometers almost in the blink of an eye, arriving at the end of Britannia. south.

They landed in a small southern town. The town was not prosperous. The houses on both sides were stone houses left over from the Middle Ages, but they were shorter than the abandoned ones that Char had seen in Sleepy Valley. The room is better, with two floors.

Most of the roads were dirt roads, which seemed to be muddy due to the recent rain. A few wooden boards were laid over the puddles in the front part of the road, and countless mosquitoes were flying on them.

There were overgrown weeds on both sides, and a wooden cart was parked haphazardly on the roadside. There were bloodstains on the wooden cart from some unknown creature, and flies were lingering on the bloodstains.

There was no one on the road, and the whole town was eerily quiet. It was completely opposite to the prosperity of Sashili and the imperial capital. It had an extremely strange atmosphere.

"Why is there no one here?" Alicia asked doubtfully.

"Yes." Xia Ya's eyes flickered, "But they are all observing us secretly."

Alicia frowned slightly, and she looked at the second-floor window of the house on one side, where a pair of unfriendly eyes were watching her quietly.

When his eyes met hers, the man disappeared by the window in an instant.

"This place is very close to the front line." Xia Ya said, "So they will naturally be wary of outsiders."

Alicia nodded and continued to follow Xia further, arriving at the central square of the town.

What she saw in front of her made Alicia frown deeply.

The square is not big, just a small open space.

But at this moment, a high platform was erected in the open space at some point. On the high platform was a burnt blackened pillar, and a charred corpse was chained to the pillar. The smell of blood was mixed with the smell of burning.

Her skin has basically been carbonized, her mouth is wide open, and her limbs are twisted, so she must have been burned alive before she died. It is difficult to imagine what kind of torture she suffered during her lifetime.

Xia Ya's eyes were filled with light, but she had no words.

"What's going on?" Alicia frowned, "Is it because of the plague?"

"It's part of the reason, but not entirely." Xia Ya said.

If it was because of the plague, then people would not be burned at the stake. This is a criminal law.

Burning at stake had been abolished by Britannia long ago, and now it is more of a form of hanging. This kind of behavior is generally related to religion.

"Alicia." Xia Ya said slowly, "Have you ever heard of the witch hunt?"

Alicia frowned and looked at him, "What is that?"

"It seems that this world has not happened yet." Xia Ya raised his head and looked at the burned black pillar, "And now, it has been postponed."

Alicia seemed to want to say something more, but then, many villagers began to pour out of the lanes around the square, holding pitchforks and hoes in their hands, surrounding the two of them with unkind expressions.

One of the women pointed at Char, Alicia and others.

"It's them! I didn't see them coming in from the outside at all, they seemed to suddenly appear in the town!"

The leader was a man wearing a priest's uniform. He looked at Char and Alicia and waved with an unfriendly expression.

“This group of outsiders must also be witches, and these evil spirits have led to evil spirits.

These evil spirits attack our children and cause them to develop black things. "

He looked at Xia Ya and others warily and warned.

“This will be the last town you infect.

Catch them and send them to the court! "

The crowd was in an uproar, looking at Xia Ya and others with even more vigilance and hatred.

The people came up screaming, and there was a tendency to burn them at the stake now.

But at this moment, everyone stopped.

People kept holding their pitchforks high, and the priest also kept his mouth slightly open, his face ferocious, and his finger pointed at the center of the square, as if time had been suspended.

However, looking at the fallen leaves flowing in the breeze, you can tell that time has not paused.

Charia ignored these villagers, but slowly walked through the crowd with Alicia and stood beside the priest.

"Who is he?" Alicia frowned.

"Father." Char said.

"Priest?" Alicia's frown deepened, "How come there is a priest in Britannia?"

The Puritans attach great importance to the Bible and regard the Bible as the only true law of God. They believe that every person and every fellowship is directly responsible to God, rather than through intermediaries such as priests and bishops.

This is also the reason why the royal family chose this kind of church as the only official legal church.

"Not all places in this country are Puritans." Xia Ya said, "In this era of inconvenient transportation, the laws of the country cannot reach every corner.

Naturally, there is also the possibility of other churches existing. "

"What is going on?" Alicia looked at the people with hatred in their eyes, "Why are these people so hostile to outsiders?"

Xia Ya did not speak, but silently took Alicia away from here, and they continued to walk through the town.

They saw huge white crosses painted on the doors of many houses, and they were even locked from the outside.

Alicia wanted to get closer and take a closer look, but was held back by Char.

"That represents people infected with the plague." Xia Ya said.

Alicia stared at the door, infected with the plague, and locked in the house. If no one sent supplies or took care of her, she would almost certainly die.

Xia did not stay here anymore, but took Alicia out of the town.

Alicia's sense of smell is very sensitive, and she can clearly smell the faint smell of blood and the smell of rotting corpses in the air.

Following this smell, Alicia and Xia came to a deep mountain near the town. A huge pit dug by humans attracted their attention.

The huge pit was full of corpses, at least hundreds of them, mostly children. They had some sarcomas on their bodies, and they were haggard and skinny. They looked like they must have died of illness.

These corpses were piled up in this big pit, covered with a thin layer of soil. The ruler who ordered the disposal of these corpses probably wanted to bury these corpses.

But obviously, the executioner did not completely bury them out of fear. These corpses came into contact with the air and began to gradually rot. The bacteria that were already there would become more terrifying in such an environment.

If it rained one day and the corpses here infected the water supply through the rain, the people in that town, or even nearby towns, would almost be dead.

Alicia raised her head, magic power gushed out from her hands, and a blue flame burned on the corpses and spread everywhere. The pungent smell of rotting corpses mixed with the stench of burning was nauseating.

Alicia covered her nose and looked a little pale.

Obviously, she also knew what it meant for these corpses to pile up here.

Alicia noticed several deep axle marks next to the big pit. Following the axle marks, they saw a church standing on a hilltop in the distance.

The church is built of stone and is not luxurious, but its shape is very standard.

She walked towards the church without hesitation, and Xia followed her quietly.

It is almost impossible for a marginal town like this to have an officially established secular hospital. Generally, as has been handed down from the Middle Ages, the church here will also be a hospital.

Members of the church regard medicine as a good deed, and generally have some medical skills. In fact, modern medicine basically originated from church hospitals, which is why the logo of many hospitals is a cross.

However, after they arrived at the church, the expected scene of hospital beds placed in the church lobby and church members treating patients did not appear.

Instead, a group of naked men knelt in front of a crucifix and slapped their backs with whips filled with thorns.

Their backs were whipped with blood, but even so, they still didn't stop, and they were still mumbling repentance.

"I'm guilty, I'm guilty"

The whips in their hands were stained red with blood, and the smell of blood in the air was mixed with an unspeakable stench.

That's the stench of ignorance.

Alicia frowned deeply, with almost undisguised disgust in her eyes.

In fact, this is not the first time she has seen this behavior.

When it comes to untreatable diseases, the church usually remains under the "sunsake" understanding, that is, incurable diseases are God's means of punishing human misbehavior.

And the solution is to confess your sins to God.

And for a plague like this, the theory of divine punishment has even wider ground.

The royal family has always been wary of the power of the church, but at the same time, they also need the church to stabilize the people.

Therefore, Alicia, as the royal family, knows the Holy See quite well. This is why Alicia chose to leave after being cursed by the Witch of the Wild.

The way they exorcise the curse can only be more terrifying than this.

The most taboo thing about the plague is gathering. The church is also a place where patients and corpses are placed. The whip will draw blood on the back, and the wound will be in direct contact with an environment full of germs, making it even more susceptible to infection.

These gathered people then infected their families with the virus when they returned home. Under such circumstances, it would be surprising that the plague could be stopped.

Alicia trembled and closed her eyes. She could imagine that the situation in the south would be chaotic, but she didn't expect that it would be so chaotic.

"God will not punish the world." Xia Ya watched all this quietly, "but human ignorance will."