More than 300 villagers were driven by night watchmen to the loess square in the center of the village.
The recent series of mysterious deaths have already made the villagers panic, and now they are semi-forced to come here by the more powerful Night Watchmen. Everyone, regardless of adults or children, has fear written on their faces.
Mark and the three of them were drinking tea leisurely in a suite on the second floor of the village's only wine steward and hotel near the square.
Helena stood there a little worriedly, looking towards the square from time to time. She was a little worried as she watched the night watchman, with the help of the only two guards in the village, control the exits from three directions of the square surrounded by stone houses.
Conrad next to him looked calm.
On the high stone platform in the north of the square, Vivian leaned against a wooden stake, lowered her hood, raised the collar of her leather jacket, covering 80% of her face, and even put on a black mask. She
He folded his arms across his chest, seemingly asleep.
Dida, the expired shot, was a little at a loss as he stood behind Inquisitor Abner with Captain Mofft of the Night's Watch.
The Lord Inquisitor folded his hands on his lower back and stood proudly at the front of the stage. When he opened his voice, his majestic and loud voice echoed in this small square of about 500 square meters.
"You claim to believe in the goddess of light and night! You are invaded by evil spirits and call for the support of the Night Watch and the Judge of Light! We are here. But how did you treat the servants of the great twin goddesses?" Abner's eyes widened.
Like lightning, two golden eyes turned into reality and scanned the faces of each villager.
Eyes are not an adjective, but the power of light really shines out, examining the soul of every villager.
"We stopped for you! We sacrificed for you! We drove out evil spirits for you, but you actually deceived the servants of God!?"
The coercive voice scared all the villagers to the point where they fell to the ground and knelt down in worship.
"No! Your Excellency, Judge, we dare not deceive you."
"We really didn't lie to you."
The villagers begged for mercy.
Abner sneered: "Well, let me ask you, what is going on in that bamboo forest?"
Abner pointed to the farthest point on the west side of the village.
The terrain of the square is relatively high. Looking from here, through the tiles of the stone roof, you can clearly see the bamboo forest.
As soon as the judge finished speaking, many villagers were stunned for a moment, and the expressions of four villagers changed greatly. The most outrageous thing was that two more tried to escape.
Vivian opened her eyes, a stern look radiating from her eyes.
In a flash, she and the night watchman took action together and controlled all the villagers.
Vivian didn't show any respect for the elderly and arrested a hunchbacked old woman.
In front of all the villagers, several other villagers were forced to kneel on the high platform, and the old woman was escorted to Abner.
Abner ordered: "Speak!"
"Your Excellency, spare your life! This, this is all caused by Agna's evil spirit!" The old woman said on the spot that she was once a witch.
Three years ago, in order to appease the terrifying bamboo forest demon, she deceived a married woman back and sacrificed her alive to the demon.
This kind of nonsense is a typical superstition in a world without ghosts and gods.
It's different here.
From that time on, anyone who came close to the bamboo forest, whether passing by outside the forest or swimming in the small pond next to the bamboo forest, would be drowned for no reason.
No matter local villagers or outsiders, there are no exceptions.
She was not a simple witch. She and the kneeling villagers invited a passing occult scholar to set up a magic circle outside the bamboo forest to drive away strangers who approached.
Most villagers will leave subconsciously when they walk nearby without leaving any dangerous memories.
That's why most villagers don't know.
It's just that for some reason, the magic circle has obviously failed recently, so I got through.
"Hmph! Leave three people to watch these guys, the rest follow me." As a judge, Abner has considerable power. Based on this, he has no problem in sentencing the old woman to death with the "Light Judgment Ordinance"
.
Abner must be a good old man, or he may think it is useful to keep the old woman around for the time being.
After asking about the situation, a group of them, plus Mark's trio, rode to the bamboo forest.
Just by being close to the forest, they felt an abnormal aura.
It was September and autumn, and the bamboo forest was still strangely growing at a rapid pace. The bamboo shoots in the entire bamboo forest seemed to be in spring when all things were growing at a rapid pace, and the crackling sounds of sprouting could be heard all the time.
When Abner raised his hand, everyone stopped.
He turned back to look at Mark: "Advisor, do you have any comments?"
"Yes! Please wait while I read a newspaper."
This was undoubtedly a strange request, and the joyful expression on Vivian's face was keenly noticed by Abner.
He said without hesitation: "Okay!"
Just like that, everyone dismounted, and most of them looked at someone sitting on a big rock reading a newspaper in a strange way.
One minute, two minutes, five minutes passed.
The look on Mark's face became more and more serious: "Mr. Miller, please write a request for the dispatch of the nearby Guardian Knights. I will help co-sign. I hope that this time it can be done with the help of the Guardian Knights."
The regular combat forces of the Church of Light and Night are generally divided into two categories: the Guardian Knights of the Church of Light, who are like guards, responsible for guarding churches everywhere; and the night watchmen, punishers and judges of the Church of Night. The first two
They are policemen in the extraordinary world. When they reach the level of judge, they are the pinnacle of extraordinary force displayed in front of mortals.
Only when it is determined that the above conventional force is ineffective against the enemy will higher-level combat capabilities be deployed.
Generally speaking, the procedure is for an inquisitor who knows both light and night secret arts to make an application, and then the local commander of the Guardian Knights decides whether to accept it. This is to prevent one family from dominating the power.
Many times, there will be situations where the knight leader is unwilling to take action. After all, the two churches are unified in name, but in fact there are many internal problems.
Mark's willingness to co-sign is undoubtedly due to his family's influence. It just so happens that the leader of the knights here is also one of Lao De's disciples.
This undoubtedly opens the door to convenience.
But, is it really that serious?
There was unconcealable horror on Abner's face: "It's so serious, I didn't feel such a powerful evil aura!"
Mark smiled bitterly: "I sensed a breath of [water]! It was like a special seal, sealing a big hole. Unfortunately, this seal probably won't last long. I used a special method to identify dozens of strands.
A powerful evil aura is faintly revealed. Based on my experience of entering S-level worlds many times, this place is at least SS-level."
This is the power of [newspaper].
He tried to control this bamboo forest, but found that it was not a question of competing for the spiritual power of this land at all. This bamboo forest was not a single space.
The seemingly normal bamboo forest is divided into upper and lower spaces by the hidden space door.
Abner asked cautiously: "Where is the entrance to that place?"
"Then! Walk a hundred steps forward, look up and look due east. About three floors above the ground, there will be an O-shaped entrance made of bamboo as thick as a human arm. You will not recognize it when you see it.
." A drop of cold sweat oozed from Mark's forehead: "But I want to remind you that the guys inside are not alerted now. If you don't want to start a war immediately, it's best not to use too powerful detection methods."
"Okay! Thank you!" Abner nodded heavily, then took out the pen and paper he carried with him, scribbled a few lines, stamped it with fire paint and soul power, and handed it to Weiwei after Mark signed it.
An: "If I don't come back, you can just give this thing away."
"yes."
Abner felt a little nervous for the first time in a long time.
Imagine that there is a secret entrance to the world that can be hidden even from the Inquisitor's perception. It is extremely dangerous inside. If there is a problem, the whole team will be trapped inside.
Now Mark has helped him explore the path, helping him offset more than 70% of the risks in disguise.
If he is being tortured to death, he should stop being a judge and go back to his hometown to grow sweet potatoes.
Most of them stayed at Bamboo Grove Bay, and everyone watched nervously as the judge's back disappeared into the dense bamboo forest.
However, within three minutes, an accident happened.
Everything happened very suddenly.
A second ago, more than a dozen people were still waiting.
The next second, everyone was shocked to find that they had fallen into the well.
In the field of vision, there is a large round well as wide as a bathhouse. With a diameter of more than thirty meters, this well looks extremely special. The walls of the well are made of large bluestones. Because they are covered with moss, they are quite slippery.
The height of the wall is at least ten meters.
Suddenly falling into the well water, everyone subconsciously struggled or started swimming.
At this moment, a woman suddenly appeared in the middle of the well, and her scream attracted everyone's attention.
"Nightwatch! Save me! Save me -" She didn't scream out of nowhere. Right next to her, there were really terrifying arms covered with pustules stretching out from under the water, trying to pull her up.
She was pulled down to the bottom of an unfathomable well.
"Help-" She first asked Mark for help, but unexpectedly she looked away as if she was electrocuted, and instead stretched out her white arms to the night watchman nearest to her.
Mark said coldly: "Stay away from her!"
As he shouted, the crack of the 40mm revolver echoed in the well.