As time goes by, the sun rises to its highest point of the day, and the city experiences its highest daytime temperature.
Under the scorching sun, the jellyfish looked gloomy, with a layer of crystal clear water exuding from its skin, showing obvious symptoms of dehydration.
Tang Rou didn't look too good either. She sat under the shade of a tree, spraying water on Yue with a small watering can, and spraying herself twice from time to time.
Beside her feet were several empty mineral water bottles.
The need for water suddenly increased, and he also became averse to sunlight, his body temperature dropped, and he was unable to eat traditional foods.
All signs make her no longer look like a human being.
Aslan came back from the other side, his face was ashen, he covered his mouth, and lay down by the tree and retched for a while.
After a long time, she walked over to Tang Rou with red eyes and sat down.
"How is it?" Tang Rou asked her.
Aslan shook his head, looking like he was about to vomit.
"Everyone in the church has disappeared. The warehouse you mentioned... is indeed a warehouse, a warehouse where sacrifices are stored."
The sacrifice is a human being.
"There were many sacrifices inside that had not been taken away. I thought something was wrong when I smelled it. The strong smell of alcohol couldn't suppress the stench of corpse gas..."
Tang Rou frowned.
Aslan found a few familiar faces in the warehouse behind the white building complex. They were Noah's people who were traveling together.
They died before being sent to be sacrificed, and were thrown away as scraps.
Those people's eyes, mouths, and noses were sewn together with a special silver thread, their limbs were cut off, and they were soaked in wine vats.
As he said this, Aslan covered his mouth and was about to spit it out again. Tang Rou's face turned pale when she heard it.
"Oh my god, I really feel like vomiting just thinking about it. What kind of god needs such a sacrifice?"
Aslan cursed.
"With such an evil ritual, I don't think the gods summoned are any fun. Don't they themselves think they are worshiping evil gods? How can any god be like this?"
Tang Rou shook her head, "I don't believe there is any agent of God. Maybe the person with the right to speak is using the name of God to satisfy his own selfish desires."
This was how Europe in the Middle Ages used the name of God-given human rights to satisfy its own dirty greed.
"Besides, their way of handling the so-called 'sacrifice' is very similar to some records in ancient documents. They should have figured it out by themselves."
So, it's more like rules made up by people themselves.
"But this city really hasn't been invaded by plague or virus, don't you think it's strange?" Aslan's eyebrows were filled with uncertainty, "Moreover, this place is really infested with alien species. I heard that Xiang Haiyang
No one who has been sacrificed will be infected..."
"How is it possible? Is there really something in the sea that needs sacrifice?"
Tang Rou didn't believe this.
Pour wine and coca, sew eyes, mouth and nose, this is a religious ritual that sounds extremely evil.
It's not so much a way of handling sacrifices, but more like a curse recorded in ancient books...
There is some weird smell flowing in the air.
They gathered in a certain direction and then...disappeared.
Tang Rou was thoughtful and pointed somewhere, "Asselan, what is that?"
Aslan took one look and said calmly, "It's the sea."
sea.
Those cold breaths gathered into the sea and then disappeared.
wrong.
Tang Rou suddenly woke up.
"You said they were soaked in wine?"
"Yes."
Tang Rou had difficulty breathing. She could not see her eyes, but it did not hinder the existence of other senses.
The air was filled with the same scent as the dark green smoke before. Tang Rou could feel it. That scent made her tremble with fear, and just touching it made her feel like she was falling into the abyss.
If she had to describe it, Tang Rou would rather boil it down to a concept.
sin.
That dark green smoke is the smell of sin.
And on the white church not far away, there is a gathering of extremely rich sin.
But those dark green things were swallowed up by something and disappeared completely.
It was eaten by things in the sea.
Could it be...that something really exists in the sea?
Tang Rou found Xiaoyue's hand behind her and squeezed it tightly.
She remembered the scene when Xiaoyue stood on the roof and touched the dark green smoke. She also remembered the feeling when she touched the dark green smoke. The anxiety and hunger in her body disappeared as she absorbed the green smoke.
But she and Yue only absorbed a very small part, and the dark green smoke that was so huge that it almost covered the sky suddenly disappeared, proving that there was something big and terrifying in the ocean that was devouring this evil.
Yes, sin.
Tang Rou had some difficulty breathing.
The aliens are attracted by sin.
So what causes these evils?
If offering a pure bride is a beautiful wish, then offering a living person soaked in a wine jar with his mouth and nose sealed and his limbs cut off is definitely...
Aslan noticed Tang Rou's strangeness and asked doubtfully, "What's wrong with you, Rou?"
Tang Rou spoke slowly, but her voice contained a subtle tremor.
"Atherland, I understand, these are not sacrifices at all, but means to attract alien species."
"……What's the meaning?"
"What they are doing is not a sacrifice at all."
She grabbed Aslan's shoulders and said, "Do you remember when Alphinaud brought us to Oss City?"
Speaking of this, Aslan became angry, "He was the one who brought us to that city full of dead people. If he wasn't raised by you, I would definitely..."
Tang Rou interrupted him, "Alphinaud wanted to enter Os City because he was seriously injured. His injury recovered quickly in Os City. I don't know what he did at that time."
"But Alphinaud once told me that sin would feed him.
He said that there are two ways for them to come to the human world. One of them is that we make mistakes and break the rules, and then they can use the rules to come to this world and replace humans."
"rule?"
When she was dreaming, the future Narcissus once told her that human beings killing each other is a violation of the rules.
Tang Rou took a deep breath.
Do these religious people think they have summoned the Poseidon?
They did summon something, but I'm afraid it wasn't the god they imagined.
god.
Is the so-called God really here to save them?
Tang Rou didn't know who discovered it first. By killing the same kind in an evil way, she could summon unknown creatures with powerful power in the ocean.
Even, a deal can be reached to some extent.
They thought that this kind of transaction was the benefit brought by their own sacrifice, but they never thought that those alien creatures were just asking for sin.
What they want is nothing more than to use these evil people to kill each other endlessly and break the rules, so that they can enter deeper and deeper into this world.
No wonder she felt an extremely strong smell of sin from the moment she entered the city, and the sky above the entire city was dyed dark green by smoke.
The City of God is a city covered in sin, but they are still complacent, thinking that they are favored by God.