Chapter 804 “I I ”

There is an inconspicuous chapel in Padua, which is not as grand in appearance as the Church of Our Lady of Ankang and St. Mark, but it is famous for Giotto's frescoes inside.

Ancient murals are easily affected by materials such as water vapor and flashes, so only 25 people can enter the chapel every day, and an appointment must be made one day in advance.

Last night they improvised to visit Padua. At that time, it was too late to make an appointment. However, Gianluca has a doctorate in the protection of historical relics. He knows many people, so they went to visit in the afternoon.

Dante wrote in "Divine Comedy Purgatory": the vanity of human talent, Cimabue thought he was good at painting, and now Giotto's fame has eclipsed the former's reputation.

Dante and Giotto are people of the same age, and Giotto is known as Dante in the painting world. Although his paintings still have the characteristics of barbarian art in the middle ages, they hide a secular spirit that is relatively independent of religious culture, and also It's called humanism.

The biggest difference between the "Last Judgment" facing the main entrance and the "Last Judgment" painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel is that although the author knew Dante, the scene of hell did not borrow from Dante. description of.

In Giotto's paintings, the devil eats the wicked and excretes them, and then the devil swallows the wicked again.

According to the records of the New Testament, all sinners were punished into the lake of fire to die the second death, that is, the death of the soul; for all good people, Jesus gave him the water of life in order to seek eternal life for the soul. After the judgment, the heaven and the earth will be renewed.

The people depicted on the left side of Michelangelo's picture will ascend to heaven, and the right side will be the souls of the dead who will go to hell. On the boat on the water surface in the lower right corner, waving oars at the souls of the dead is the extradition man of hell, the god of the underworld "Xialong". Michelangelo painted Pope Julius II, whom he hated, into this work. In order to express his dissatisfaction, he painted the Pope into the hell below and was bitten by the basilisk. Inspired by the Inferno of the Divine Comedy.

The Egyptians believe that the body is the container of the soul, and many religions refer to the human body as a "skin", with the human body outside and the soul inside.

For people, the skin is just the appearance, and what plays a decisive role is the soul that dominates the body behind the skin.

Some people are still alive, but their skin has been dominated by evil spirits, and they have become walking corpses; some people may have past lives from heaven despite their ugly appearance.

What kind of clothes do you wear when you accept the final judgment? In Michelangelo's paintings, the characters, both good and evil, are depicted as nude, and in Giotto's paintings, those who go to heaven are neatly dressed.

Compared with Michelangelo, Giotto's guts are small. The Sistine Chapel is in the Vatican, and religious paintings cannot paint those "ugly things". The cardinal strongly objected to Michelangelo's actions, believing that such obscene, "blasphemous" and immoral paintings could not be tolerated in the most important church of Christianity.

The pope replied that his jurisdiction did not extend to hell, so the portrait was preserved. But shortly after Michelangelo's death, the Pope ordered the painter Voltera to add fig leaf strips to these nudes. This gave the painter the nickname "The Man in Shorts".

In 1596, Pope Clement VIII simply wanted to destroy all the murals, but fortunately he was dissuaded by the painters of the San Luca Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.

Giotto's paintings did not cause as much controversy as Michelangelo's, perhaps because the Scrovegni Chapel is so unremarkable.

The cutting-edge architectural masterpieces of the Renaissance were a sign of heresy at that time. If the Holy See had not been caught in power disputes at that time, it would not have allowed architects and artists to create at will in the church.

The Franciscans were spiritual, and during the time they ruled the Vatican, the pace of building cathedrals slowed down, and they were no longer being built everywhere as they were during the Renaissance.

The price of red brick is definitely cheaper than stone. In Venice, you can see many churches built with white stone. In Padua, there are mostly red brick churches. Even the "Holy Church" San Antonio Church is also red brick.

Rich people want to live a luxurious life, and at the same time, religion restricts people's desires. Donating money to build churches satisfies this desire to be respected and squandered. With the support of people with money and power, their Inquisition can be opened.

It is normal for people to desire to be noticed and praised. It’s fine to not be praised for doing good deeds, but also to be framed by others. There is a Good Samaritan Law in the United States, which is taken from the Gospel of Luke. There is a passerby. He was beaten half to death by the robbers on the road, and all his belongings were taken away by the robbers, even his clothes were stripped off, and he was lying on the road in the barren mountains. He needs timely help from others in order to have hope of survival.

Priests and Levites are priests in Judaism, and they are the closest to God. They not only bear the responsibility of offering sacrifices to the people, but also have the glorious mission of teaching and leading the people to obey the law and serve God. It can be said that they represent the orthodoxy and decency of Judaism.

However, facing the suffering person, they blocked their pity, and they turned a blind eye and walked over. At this time, a Samaritan passed by. He was a stranger and despised by the Jews, but he chose to help the fallen passerby with compassion and love.

The Good Samaritan's Law encourages voluntary assistance to the wounded and sick, and exempts those who provide assistance from legal trouble for inappropriate medical treatment, unless the act of assistance would cause self-harm.

This is a good law, but not everyone is worth saving.

There are farmers and snakes in the west, and Mr. Dongguo and wolves in the east. The farmer was bitten to death by a snake, and Mr. Dongguo was almost eaten by Zhongshan wolves. There is a famous painting in the Dunhuang murals, which tells the story of the nine-color deer, the kind-hearted deer. The snake charmer was saved, but the snake charmer sold the nine-color deer to the king for money.

The Samaritan is praised in Luke's Gospel, but it is not explained why the priests turned a blind eye to the robbed man.

Is it true that the sympathy of the priests is plugged, or does the man who was robbed deserve no sympathy at all?

There are thousands of ways to spell the last 18 characters of the Zodiac code, but Pomona chose the most ridiculous one.

HEIP ME OR II BE THE ETT.

A serial killer is calling for help, who will save a serial killer?

If Jack the Ripper had died, or been caught by the police, red-haired Mary would not have died so tragically in her apartment.

But if she really had syphilis, it would be a relief to die early, but the police responsible for cleaning up the scene would see such a dirty and evil scene.

The "devil" does exist, and it is covered with human skin. The job of the police is to find out those devils with human skin.

Zodiac was the "nickname" given to him by the newspapers and the police. He didn't give himself that name at first, and his crimes had nothing to do with the zodiac sign.

The letter sent by the killer contains a wealth of astronomical knowledge. When the West mentions astronomy, the first thing that comes to mind in the West is the zodiac. If people at that time named him "Twelve Dwarfs Dancing Tap", no one would worship him. Young People think he's cool, so more than twenty years after "zodiac" disappeared, there's a new Zodiac in New York State who kills people based on astrology, and like the old zodiac, he sent letters to the media with clues in In a coded letter sent by the murderer to the media.

The criminal purpose of the new zodiac is different from that of the old Zodiac. The old Zodiac once aroused global attention. The media reported on the mystery and madness of the Zodiac like a group carnival, as if they had found a new Ripper Jack.

People like Sherlock Holmes maybe because he is a private detective, but he is smarter than the real cop, everyone wants to be Sherlock, what zodiac did is tantamount to inviting everyone to humiliate the police.

The uniformed policemen that civilians usually see on the street don't seem to be very smart. If you are smarter than the police, then you can mock the corrupt policemen more to your heart's content.

Those codes of the new Zodiac involve astronomy, maritime signals, unlike the old Zodiac, what he wanted was the world's attention, and he was finally caught, Heriberto Seda is in his 20s, he was a good boy , was expelled for bringing a gun to school in high school, and his fate was reversed.

Since then, Heriberto has been eccentric, has few friends, and has been living in the same apartment with his mother and half-sister.

Herriberto's mother works in an orphanage with a meager income, and her younger sister works in a bakery while she is in high school.

His sister, Gladys, had many boyfriends, several of whom were drug dealers.

Gladys is very rebellious and often bullies Heriberto with her boyfriend. Their relationship with each other is very bad, and neighbors sometimes think they are too noisy.

But those neighbors will one day thank Gladys, who was the one who quarreled with her brother every day, and Herriberto's identity as a serial killer was accidentally exposed.

Young people are full of energy, often unable to control their own behavior, and try the forbidden fruit at a young age, leading to pregnancy, abortion and other behaviors, which is very "shameful" to the older generation.

In the survey released by the police, the victims of the old "zodiac" were mainly young couples, four men and three women, and only Paul Lee Steen was killed alone in San Francisco Heights.

He kills young people who can't control their behavior, to teach them a little "lesson", he is not ashamed of his killing behavior, and he even wants to be recognized by society, because he did the "right thing" .

Alessandro said of the football coach, which inspired Pomona, that perhaps old Zodiac was not a person, but a "coach" and a "player."

The highly intelligent and confident "coach" controls the young "team members" to act according to their own instructions. The young may be physically stronger than the old, but their intelligence is mediocre. The deciphered letter has many spelling mistakes.

In the field of cryptography, only when all or almost all experts agree with the proposed cracking method, the encryption code is really broken. In the translation she sorted out, spelling mistakes to explain this deciphering strategy is too far-fetched. For cryptographers, this is an excuse that amateurs will use!

The old Zodiac had two methods of killing, one was shooting, and the other was stabbing. When a man was young, he was full of confidence in the strength of his body, so he would choose to kill with a knife or hand, choose to kill with poison and Guns are usually women, or people who are not confident in their physical strength. Everyone knows that Pope Alexander VI used Cantrella, but there is no evidence to prove that poisoning is also a method of killing that "literati" often choose.

Soldiers, laborers, stevedores, and those engaged in physical labor would use their hands. Surviving witnesses said that the man who attacked them was a strong man. The Doge of Venice is playing around.

Young people are easily manipulated by adults in areas such as experience, money, and knowledge. The "coach" handed over the password content, key, and encryption method to the "team members", and the team members encrypted the files according to the handwritten content they saw.

He's not very smart, and he's not careful enough. If he was smart and careful, he wouldn't be a target for manipulation.

The old man was not only physically weak, but also unable to concentrate so much. He roughly checked the encrypted content and sent it out without any problems.

Anyone who has seen the password and key knows that such a dense string of characters makes their heads dizzy, and they don't want to take a second look at it. Only password enthusiasts will study it.

These people do not necessarily have high IQs. For example, the decipherers of the 408 characters are two junior high school teachers, not a university professor invited by the FBI and a cryptographer from the Pentagon. That letter is definitely the most proud and most poignant letter Pomona has ever seen. disgusting:

I like to kill because it's so much fun, it's a lot more fun than hunting in the woods. Because of all the things that are hunted, people are the most dangerous prey, which brings me a very exciting experience. And the most wonderful thing is that after I die, I will be reborn and ascended to heaven. And those I kill will become my slaves. I will not tell you my name as you will try to slow or prevent me from acquiring more slaves for the rest of my life.

But these characters are encrypted with astronomical symbols, which may be interesting to "people" with blasphemy.

On September 27, 1969, Brian Hartnell and Cecilia Shepard were picnicking on a small island with a sandy beach at Twin Oak Ridge on Lake Beyesa. A man wears a black executioner-style hood with sunglasses covering the eyeholes, overalls, and a white 3"x3" cross-circle pendant on his chest. He approached them with a gun, which Hartnell believed to be a .45 caliber. The masked man identified himself as an escaped criminal from a Montana prison where he killed a guard and stole a car, explaining that he needed their car and money to go to Mexico.

He brought pre-cut plastic rope and asked Shepard to tie Hartnell with the rope, and he tied Shepard. What kind of fugitive would prepare plastic rope in advance? He also took a lot of trouble to kill people, and he was clearly wearing the executioner's hood.

That strong man is not smart. If, as Pomona thought, the last string of characters, the last string of characters for help, was written by the "coach" or the "player"?

The final text looked chaotic and illogical, and it was not the same as the information in the front of the letter, although the spelling was wrong, but the meaning could be roughly understood.

If it was written by the "coach", and the "player" encrypts it according to it, and accidentally takes the lowercase L as an I, then the "coach" is calling for help.

At worst, Zodiac is a schizophrenic with multiple personalities, sometimes he's super smart, and other times he's telling the same clumsy lies as the guy in the hood.

But one thing is certain, he is very, very angry, which is beyond the description of "cynical".

This anger prompts him to act aggressively, and he does not stop until the young man "controls his behavior" according to his own ideas.

"What's wrong with you?" Monica asked.

"I hate the 70s." Pomona rubbed the bridge of her nose and said wearily. It was an era full of rock, high-profile publicity and personality frenzy.

She knew it would be bad to see the retrograde Zodiac dial on the bell tower of San Marco.

"I hate crazy people," she said.

"Zodiac is not crazy, he is controlled by the devil." Monica said sympathetically, "Do you think he is still alive?"

"Of course he's still alive." Pomona said without hesitation. "The Zodiac II in New York is only in his 30s this year."

"I mean the old one."

"Goodness needs to be inherited, and evil must be inherited." She looked at Giotto's "Last Judgment" and sighed helplessly. "When you stare at the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. Be careful not to turn yourself into a monster, my dear." of."

Monica also looked at the painting.

"I want to go to university," Monica said. "I don't want to go to Milan."

"The University of Padua is very difficult to pass."

"I will try my best." She said to Pomona with a smile, "Nice to meet you, tourist, I think it is God's arrangement for us to meet in St. Mark's Square."