1087 Additional Mission (1/2)
To predict what would happen today, one only needed to look into history.
If one carefully compared the cat torture incident this time with the cat torture incident in the middle centuries, it would be easy to find some similarities between the two.
The statue in their shop was modeled after the original one in the British Museum, but was there only one original statue? There was only one such statue, and the humans were so lucky as to dig it up? Would anyone believe these kinds of odds?
The more logical explanation was that there was actually more than one of these Holy Cat statues, and that a thousand years ago, Europeans had dug one up. They had then dug up another at the beginning of the 20th century and placed it in the British Museum.
According to the olden text The Voices of Rome, the first Holy Cat statue was a little luckier. It didn't meet Vladimir and successfully gained life from being just a lifeless statue. The only things that were unclear were how much it had gained and whether it had completely broken free of its copper body.
The church had definitely never seen something that paranormal and nearly sh*t their pants. This led them to implement a solution that was way too extreme—they wanted to exterminate all of the cats in Europe, not knowing that was exactly what the Holy Cat statue wanted.
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Due to the extensive influence of the church and the amazing prowess of their executive abilities, they near-completely extinguished all cats from Europe. But due to that, there were not enough cats around to hunt rats, and with how unhygienic they were, rats soon overran the streets. The fleas on the rats ended up spreading the Black Death, and the Europeans had to suffer a great consequence.
Millions of lives were lost, and the world became a living hell then. The Black Death killed almost half of Europe's population and changed Europe's history. It inevitably weakened the church's influence on Europe too. Who knew what would have become of Europe if this hadn't happened?
This war had caused casualties in both the church and cats, and the rats and fleas ended up as the winners instead.
But the thing that Zhang Zian was more interested in knowing was how they had dealt with the living statue. Even without Vladimir and its Iron Meow Meow Doctrine Fist, the Holy Cat statue was still eliminated in the end. But by whom?
That was surely a question to ponder.
The church had had great power back then, definitely on par with the royal family. The church must have had their own share of talented and strong individuals, one of whom might have been an expert in killing demons. Maybe it was these Christians who had destroyed the German extremists, ending the previous Holy Cat statue's life and ruining the statue.
They thought that everything would be fine after they destroyed it and that there would no longer be problems. They would have never thought that thousands of years later, a similar thing would happen yet again.
When Fina brought this up, it clearly wasn't to help Zhang Zian revise his history knowledge.
The similarity between the two was that humans were the ones that dug up the Holy Cat Statue.
After Zhang Zian gave it a thought, he understood but wanted to clarify. ”You mean…”
”Some things should just remain buried forever,” Fina declared.
Zhang Zian asked, ”You're saying we should dig a hole and bury it, not allowing it to come into contact with any humans? Bury it where? How deep? Is it okay if it's the grass patch?”
Fina nodded its head before shaking it. ”We should bury it. But we can't just do it anywhere.”
Zhang Zian thought so too. It would be dangerous to bury it anywhere in the city. Someone might just dig it up again one day if they needed to build something or repair the subway lines… Even if they wanted to bury it, they had to find somewhere with few people.