4434 The Other Side 403
The man felt a little helpless.
Facing the heretics, he had no idea how they would play their cards. He said, “The Sacred Temple is sinister and cunning. I didn’t expect them to make such a move. However, no matter what, if it’s really the Sacred Temple behind this, then I’m not giving up on anyone, no matter how slim the chance.”
Youyou couldn’t agree more.
Just as everyone was panicking, the Hurricane Group received an email. A few photographs were attached to the email, along with a threatening note. However, it verified his terrifying guess without leaving a hint of doubt.
The email was sent from an account signed “Sacred Temple”. There were a total of five photographs. Four of them were solo photographs of Alice, Natalia, Hua Jin, and Romanka. Their heads were covered in black hoods and they were secured to chairs. Alice, in particular, was covered in wounds, and Hua Jin was obviously no better. Although Natalia was a child, she did not receive much preferential treatment. She too, was covered in injuries.
However, it was the one last photograph that horrified Gong Jie. In that image, the four people had their hoods removed and were kneeling on the ground. In front of them were the decapitated bodies of the crew members…
The image was full of threat.
The glorious beheading.
The Sacred Temple had done many dirty deeds.
The sect had set up free dining halls, day nurseries, clinics for the elderly and provided a host of other social services.
The disciples of the Sacred Temple were people who despaired of life and those unable to get social help, drug addicts, the elderly, and the lonely. They were dissatisfied with social realities, uncertain about their future, and abnormally fearful of nuclear war.
Many people were influenced by nihilism and believed that life was unpredictable and that living was a sort of suffering. Therefore, after they entered the church, they often talked about suicide.
The Patriarch of the Sacred Temple had even organized a “group suicide drill” in Guyana.
However, some believers were affected by the ugly methods used by the church. Therefore, some believers wanted to escape secretly and leave the organization. Escaping was deemed a betrayal by the Church. Anyone who betrayed the church would face an honorable execution upon discovery.
The Church would even behead these traitors in front of thousands of believers to make an example out of them, using this as a deterrent. This move was extremely intimidating, and the Church had done it time and again.
Gong Jie realized that the crew had been beheaded. It was obvious that Natalia was in a bad mental state. At such a young age, she must have been shocked to witness such a cruel scene.
However, Alice and the actor were clearly calm, although Romanka seemed to be on the verge of collapse. Alice had seen many such scenes, and Hua Jin deeply understood that horror, uneasiness, and fear could not change fate. Instead, they would leave him alone and helpless. Hence, he remained calm.
Romanka, however, was quite horrified and in a bad mental state.
