Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 890 "Redemption"

Just when Ke Lan thought that Bruno would be burned at the stake soon, a scene that was not recorded in historical documents was staged in front of the square——

A group of fanatics with crucifixes around their necks took two men with disheveled hair to the stake.

One of these two people looks only about 30 years old, and they should be ordinary traders in terms of clothes, but the identity of the other older person surprised Ke Lan—through the whispers of the surrounding people, Ke Lan Only then did I know that this balding middle-aged man turned out to be a lecturer in a missionary school.

Lecturer in a church school is actually just a part-time job. Anyone who can hold this part-time job must be a member of the church, and the person who is now being burned on the stake is actually a quite prestigious priest.

This is... a traitor in the church?
This seemingly unexpected "farce" seemed to have been originally arranged by the church. The cardinal who presided over the execution ceremony nodded kindly to the group of fanatical believers, and then began to read the "crime" of the two people to the crowd.

The crime of the dealer was selling a series of "banned books" including "Theory of the Movement of Celestial Spheres", and the priest was spreading the theory of "heliocentric theory" for Bruno in the church school.

"Burn them! Burn them all!" the crowd began to shout again.

"Archbishop! I don't know... I don't know that this heretic entrusted me to sell those banned books!" The vendor cried out immediately, "I thought they were just ordinary reading materials, and I was deceived by him... If I knew If those were banned books, I would have reported it to the church long ago!"

"It doesn't matter." With a kind smile on his face, the cardinal waved his hand to let the believers who were holding the merchant back away, stepped forward, and stroked the merchant's forehead, "The Lord will give every one of His people to change their ways." The opportunity to renew requires only one and very simple little thing.”

A believer placed a package in front of the vendor. The package was opened, and inside were several finger-thick spikes and a small hammer.

The cardinal still kept a smile on his face, and said: "As long as you nail the hands and feet of that heretic to the stake, the Lord will save you from your sins."

After Ke Lan in the audience heard this sentence, the corners of his eyes twitched involuntarily. He originally thought that the vendor would hesitate, but he didn't expect that the other party picked up the spike and hammer without hesitation. , nodded gratefully to the cardinal and said: "I will do it! I will do it!"

He walked up to Bruno with a spike and a hammer. Due to the angle, Ke Lan couldn't see the merchant's expression clearly at this time, and Bruno's head was always drooping, as if he was deaf to what happened on the burning platform.

The trader walked up to Bruno and pressed the spike on Bruno's palm. At the moment when the hammer was about to hit, his movements finally paused for a moment.

But it was only a moment's pause, and the hammer finally fell down and hit the tail of the spike.

The spike pierced Bruno's palm and drove into the stake.

Bruno only twitched his shoulders slightly, he was too weak, so weak that he couldn't even utter a scream.

It was not until four long nails nailed his hands and feet to death that the cardinal said to the trader, "Son, you have paid for your sins, you can go down."

"Praise the great Lord!" The merchant's lips trembled, and his face was extremely pale—I don't know if it was because the bloody act just gave him too much stimulation, or the residual tension after the surviving catastrophe and regaining a life was at work Well, when he was walking down the burning platform, he stumbled twice in a row, causing a burst of muffled laughter among the crowd.

"Bruno, you still have one last chance to repent." The cardinal turned around and said to the dying Bruno.

Blood flowed from his palms and soles, flowed along the rusty spikes to the stake, and then was absorbed by the wood fibers, showing a dark brown trace.Bruno lowered his head and said in an imperceptible voice: "I am...for the truth...dedicated...will not...retreat...compromise..."

The friendly smile on the cardinal's face froze for a moment. He frowned, looked up and down Bruno with some displeasure, and then signaled the congregation to bring the priest who preached "heresy" over.

"Father Charles, why did you even fall into the company of heresy?" The cardinal said to the priest, his eyes filled with grief, "You should have been the Lord's agent in the world, spreading His message for the Lord." Gospel...but look what you've been doing now..."

"I...I..." The priest named Charles thought for a long time before saying, "I...I was deceived by demons...that was not my original intention! I am willing to give everything for the Lord, and I hope the bishop My lord... I hope the Lord can give me a chance to redeem my sins!"

"Of course! The Lord is merciful. Everyone has a chance to redeem their sins, even heretics." The cardinal glanced at the tied man from the corner of his eye... No, he should be nailed to the stake now Bruno pointed out, "It's just that the heresy is obsessed with obsession, even if it is the Lord, it can only choose to purify it."

"Please... invite me to purify this heretic for the Lord!" Father Charles said with some difficulty after thinking about it.

"Of course, this is your path to salvation, Charles." The cardinal smiled gratifiedly, and an executioner wearing a white pointed hat handed a flaming torch to Father Charles.

Charles took the torch and walked tremblingly to the front of the stake.

Bruno's chest heaved twice, and he seemed to want to raise his head to look at the person standing in front of him, but he failed in the end—perhaps because of his identity as an "audience", the voice that only Father Charles could hear originally, Ke Even standing in the crowd tens of meters away from the burning platform, Lan could hear it clearly.

"Charles... my friend... is... is that you?" Bruno asked weakly.

"No... no, please don't call me that... I... I'm not your friend..." Charles responded, "You... are just a damned heretic, and I... I was deceived by you ...I will..."

"Chi..." Bruno didn't speak any more, but let out a contemptuous sneer, and a clot of blood sprayed out of his nasal cavity and fell to the ground.

"Heretic... Heretic Bruno, as long as you admit now that what you preach is wrong, you don't need to be burned to death." Father Charles lowered his voice, "This is really the last chance..."

(End of this chapter)