Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 450 Crying
Milo has made it clear that he has no interest in the so-called Golden Law Bishop and has no intention of meeting him.

But by a twist of fate, he eventually stepped into the Golden Rule Cathedral.

……

In fact, he was never particularly interested in these proverbs and prayers from the church, or rather, he was too lazy to ponder all these riddles that could not be clearly expressed in normal sentences.

There are already enough riddles in those ancient books that have been passed down for countless years. It's one thing for a civilization that has turned to dust to speak like that, but if the living try to imitate the ancients in such a cryptic way, Milo will only consider them as deliberately mystifying.

However, in the cathedral, the girl's prayer was not the "fear of the blood of the old gods" that church clergy always uttered; she also mentioned Holy Communion.

This caught Milo's attention.

Holy Communion is a key factor in Milo's success today.

He still doesn't know the identity of the Red Witch, and she has never revealed her true origins, only mentioning that she comes from the Dreamland.

Milo was curious whether the Holy Communion spoken of by the girl in white, who was deep within the church, was the same Holy Communion spoken of by the Scarlet Witch.

From his preconceived perspective, the sect that the Red Witch believed in was definitely not the same as the Golden Law or the Golden Tree.

Just like their outfits.

One had a youthful voice, the other a weary and aged one; one wore a pristine white robe, the other a tattered red robe covered in filth.

……

...

However, seemingly driven by a strong thirst for knowledge, Milo still stepped into the sanctuary located deep within the church.

In the dim candlelight, he could only make out the back of the girl leaning over the golden tree sculpture.

Everything here is completely different from the impression the church has always given people.

But this actually gave Milo a sense of comfort.

...

“They said that entering the unseen land requires the bishop’s permission. I think if you are the bishop they are talking about, then the entrance to that so-called forbidden land should be nearby.”

Milo looked around the room.

There was an atmosphere of decay... no, not decay, but rather a sense of desolation.

This atmosphere is even more in line with the secret that Milo learned from Imnar: scholars unearthed the relics of a previous era on this ancient land, an era that was annihilated by the gods, and based on the knowledge they gained, they created a covenant organization, which evolved into the Golden Law Church of today.

If they inherited a lost era, then what lies buried underground are all the emotions of resentment and humiliation.

This has led to the humble attitude towards superiors found in the doctrine of the Golden Rule.

Because if we're talking about what the Contract Organization can learn from a fallen civilization, then the biggest lesson is undoubtedly—don't offend the gods who are above the order.

"If not for fear, death would go unmourned."

That was indeed an era of no mourning, because everyone was finished.

……

The young woman in the sanctuary never turned around, but after pausing her prayers, she slowly raised her head to look at the golden tree sculpture entwined with thorns and vines before her, and posed this question to Milo in a murmured tone:
"What can you see on the golden tree?"

“Dust,” Milo replied without hesitation.

"Your Excellency, do you not understand? The curtain of war has been drawn." The girl's voice echoed softly from the depths of the sanctuary.

But Milo simply shook his head calmly:
"Where are Daisy and Dillah Shaw? That's all I want to know."

However, the girl in white kept talking to herself:
"From the moment the ruins of Sumeru were unearthed, the disastrous end of this era was already destined. Your vision is broader than that of most of us, yet you have never realized this?"

"Where is the entrance to the unseen land?" Milo remained unmoved.

The girl made the same gesture as the blind nun before her, interlacing her fingers and placing them against her chest: "War will bring disaster, and disaster is the best opportunity for those in power to plunder faith. Or are you in cahoots with them?"

"Oh, I should have gotten the church's architectural blueprints first."

Milo frowned and walked straight toward the girl in white.

However, the girl continued to utter obscure words that no one could understand:

"You're always making what you believe to be rational choices, but have you ever considered that from the moment you were born until now, you've never truly saved anything? Those who were meant to die are already dead, and what was destined to happen has still happened. Your power is growing stronger, yet you're forever just a witness and bystander to countless tragedies. As your vision becomes clearer, you can only see more and more tragedies unfolding, but you can't save anything..."

……

Milo stopped in his tracks.

But after a few seconds, he stopped dwelling on what the girl had said.

He unleashed the power of fear.

The sanctuary was completely engulfed by darkness.

In just a moment, he had already captivated the girl's dreams.

What he captured was the soul's fear of all those in power, a fear inherited by the Church from a lost era known as Pumeru.

However, to Milo's surprise, the girl did not resist in any way, not even in her subconscious.

It was as if she knew from the very beginning that Milo would use the Dream Guidance technique to force her to reveal the entrance to the Unseen Land.

And when Milo had grasped the source of her inner fears, she began to convey those chaotic and fragmented messages to Milo in a clearer voice.

"Did you hear that? Through my soul, you must be able to hear the baby crying this time, right?"

"Did you really never doubt your own eyes, not even for a moment?"

"Wake up! Only by chewing your tongue thoroughly can you make your words clearer. Only by seeing the decay of the physical eye can you gain the favor of the thinking eye. True omniscience never relies on the senses, not even for someone like you in the shadow sequence. Truth is always unchanging; what is wrong is the blinding haze and the wrong way of knowing."

"Did you hear that? The baby crying?"

"Have you ever had even a fleeting moment of doubt?"

"No, you must have foreseen something long ago, perhaps in a dream, or... in the abyss, you must have seen your child, right? Subconsciously, you already knew that everything would happen, but you just ignored their existence."

……

Those strangely worded and seemingly pointed words entered Milo's mind through the connection of the dream.

He tried to ignore her.

But in reality, Milo felt that he could completely understand the girl's words.

Because, in the Abyss, Finn did indeed become his son, but Milo never considered this to be a metaphor or self-suggestion.

He remained convinced that everything in the abyss was an illusion.

The only thing I can't get over is the name "Tutis Claude".

...

Moreover, the girl's murmured words continued.

Milo could indeed hear the cries of a baby drifting from the surrounding environment.

The crying sounded very natural, like the sound of a baby crying from a residential building that you might occasionally hear while walking through the streets of Nanwei at night.

The difference is that Milo has no way of knowing the source of the crying he is hearing.

It seemed to appear out of nowhere in my mind; it wasn't noisy, but it was impossible to shake off.

……

"You heard it, didn't you? You must have heard the cries of the divine child."

"Try to save him, unknown superior. Your arrival is no accident. Unlike the gazes of those shadowy figures in the past, I sense goodwill in you."

"Please remember this: his name is Mego, a child who could not be born in the Lost Era. The Shadows will plunder him in this era. If... if you truly possess the will and the strength to resist, then please face the guidance that the Order bestows upon you..."

The girl's voice sounded increasingly weak and trembling.

A tear rolled down her fair cheek.

……

But Milo remained calm.

He remained unmoved and relentlessly pressed the other party to reveal the location of the "unseen place."

He then left the lonely girl behind in the gloomy sanctuary and went straight away.

...

The so-called unseen lands are, simply put, underground ruins from a lost era.

It was part of an ancient sanctuary that was first unearthed by the scholars of the Contracts during their archaeological expedition in this mountain range.

The entrance to the unseen land is located directly beneath this sanctuary.

However, the entrance is located deeper within the church complex, in a primeval jungle that has never been excavated by humans.

...

After leaving the gloomy sanctuary, Milo immediately severed his dream connection with the girl.

But the next second his expression became even stranger.

Because the baby's cries, transmitted through the girl's consciousness to Milo's mind, did not cease when the dream-inducing process was severed.

It still lingers in the air around Milo.

The crying continued.

"Wow...wow...wow..."

(End of this chapter)