Detective Agency of the Bizarre
Chapter 527 - 527 Forty-six

527: Forty-six.

The fifth believer 527: Forty-six.

The fifth believer Light and shadow began to move faster, representing the rapid passage of time,

As time passed, everything happening in the church was reflected in Lu Li’s mind in an incomprehensible way.

Lu Li “saw” the priest leaving the church; during that time, believers were praying and celebrating Mass on the benches, or chatting with a nun.

As time went on, the first familiar figure appeared in the church.

Olivia and her child sat down on the bench, a gentle glow falling on her flaxen hair, occasionally interrupted by the child’s coughing.

The nun came over, asked something, then left, and soon reappeared with some food.

Then came Green and his daughter.

The twice-seen sorrowful girl was now a cheerful young lady, sitting on the bench next to Olivia and her child, arm in arm with her father.

They talked about something, knowing each other had been summoned by the priest.

But after that, the girl who once thought of Lu Li never appeared, until the church’s light turned into the warmth of the afternoon, and the tired priest returned to the church.

He talked with Olivia and Green, who were standing up, approached the confessional, and there he bowed his aged head to say something, but due to the accelerated passing of time, Lu Li was unable to respond to him.

The priest, receiving no response, sadly returned to Olivia and Green’s side, waiting for dusk to arrive.

Observing the church from this strange perspective, Lu Li noticed some details.

With some time still left before dusk, the nun brought several lit oil lamps ahead of time.

The priest, Olivia, and Green often looked toward a strangely placed radio on the church podium, seemingly important in its content.

The former perhaps signified that this place, too, was enveloped in the calamity of the night, the latter Lu Li could not yet understand.

The slipping light from outside the confessional grew increasingly dim, the figures by the oil lamps becoming clearer.

The girl seeking help still had not appeared.

Despite some flaws, everything was transforming into a better scene.

Seemingly.

Then suddenly, as night was about to fall, a sunset-like fiery glow ignited outside the church.

The startled clergy standing at the bench told Lu Li that it was not the afterglow of the sunset.

Huge flames enveloped the church, smoke billowing into the sky, never before had it been so close to the residence of the Divinity.

As the fire spread, everything in view became distorted, the silhouettes seemingly trying to escape, but were consumed by the flames amid the blurred light.

Burning frameworks collapsed, and flames fell like raindrops from the ceiling paintings.

In these raging flames, only the confessional on the edge remained isolated, maintaining its original form in the flames that consumed everything.

The flames licking at Lu Li’s face brought no warmth.

Lu Li frowned, silent, unable to understand the reason for the disaster.

In this trial, was failure inevitable?

Otherwise, Lu Li could not think of any reason for the sudden fire in the church.

Regardless, the flames signified that this layer of the trial had ended in failure.

As the flames outside the confessional continued to burn like a scene from hell, Lu Li no longer needed to stay.

He took the faintly glowing oil lamp and opened the carved wooden door behind him.

The walls were eroded away by darkness, and the broken stone steps scattered like uneven soil, extending downward.

They emitted a faint glow, like the stars in the night sky.

But they did not impart a sense of beauty or mystery.

At the same time, the abyss fully exposed before his eyes allowed Lu Li to see the two carved wooden doors below.

At their very bottom was an abruptly existing, intact corridor in the abyss.

Two more layers remained in the trial; these were Lu Li’s last two chances.

Lu Li didn’t know what would happen after the passage completely vanished, and he could only continue downward.

The broken stone steps became hard to navigate, and to reach the next level, Lu Li had to leap to the next layer as if stepping on stones protruding from a riverbed.

The carved wooden door connected to the edge of the rubble seemed to stand in the midst of a gloomy void.

Opening the wooden door, the soothing flow of organ music and interplay of light once again dispersed the dense oppression in the gloomy void.

[Divinity’s eyes can also be deceived by its most loyal servant]

The counsel on the wall was ambiguous.

His gaze swept across the church; the hall was empty, with the light behind the door approaching midday.

Closing the wooden door, setting down the oil lamp and sitting in a wooden chair, Lu Li waited for the fifth believer to arrive.

Soon, a staggering figure appeared outside the door.

He was very young, his legs seemed injured, and he came limping to the confessional, leaning on the wooden chair as he sat down and said urgently, “Father, please help me…”

“My name is Ole Peters, my brother has committed unforgivable sins…”

Lu Li’s eyes gradually narrowed.

Like his brother, Jonah Peters, Ole Peters told a somewhat similar story, but with different characters.

In the story he described, his brother Jonah had been like a snake since childhood, possessing a natural gift for slaughter.

His victims ranged from insects, to small animals, to humans not long ago…

Yes, in the mouth of his brother Jonah Peters, the one called the Gut Cutter was his younger brother.

But in the mouth of the younger brother, Ole Peters, it was his older brother Jonah who became the Gut Cutter.

Realizing something, Lu Li picked up an oath of secrecy.

[Your brother came here not long ago and told me the same story, only in it, your roles were switched]

Ole Peters paused briefly, then understood everything that had happened.

He wanted to say something, but suddenly there were noisy footsteps at the church entrance.

Several figures burst into the church, yet unlike what Lu Li had imagined, they were a group of police officers.

They walked briskly towards the confessional, led by a nun.

Ole Peters looked back briefly, then suddenly tore off a piece of paper, stuffed it into his mouth and swallowed it, pleading with a certain decisiveness, “I hope you can keep this secret for me.

My brother had his reasons for doing this, he won’t do it again, I promise—”

The rushing police officers pinned Ole Peters to the wooden chair, roughly shackled him in iron chains, and pulled him up, causing Ole Peters to let out a pained grunt.

The police officers faintly heard the conversation in the confessional and opened its wooden door out of suspicion, but obviously, they found nothing.

The confessional was empty.

In Ole Peters’ wide-open eyes, he was led away from the church by the police officers.

Lu Li slightly bowed his head to organize the logic of events.

The murderer known as the Gut Cutter was not Ole, but Jonah.

Perhaps sensing that he would soon be discovered by the police, Jonah had come to the church earlier and told a fabricated story in the confessional.

It was a clever plan, thinking that the priest inside would hear his fictional story and even if he didn’t go to the police, would at least testify for him.

And even if the Police Station had clues, they would find it hard to differentiate this pair of twins who were born just minutes apart.

Although there was no priest in the confessional, his plan still succeeded through Lu Li.

The priest alerted the police, the officers appeared, and just as Ole happened to come to the church, he was arrested.

Jonah was absolved of his sins.

The cost was that he personally sent his brother Ole to the gallows.