Hearing that Alice was coming back, everyone hurried back to their seats. Zhang Jingxu also gave everyone a wink, saying that he wanted to chat with Alice later and asked everyone to cooperate with him.
Half a minute later, Alice walked in alone. Liu Xing could tell from the depressed look on Alice's face that her conversation with Ichiro Matsui did not go well.
Zhang Jingxu also took this as a topic and said: "Miss Alice, why do you look so sad? Is there something wrong with your conversation with Mr. Matsui Ichiro?"
Alice nodded and said helplessly: "Yes, Mr. Matsui Ichiro is too stubborn. He has always insisted on his original ideas and has no idea how to change them. I tried my best to persuade him to change those inexplicable ideas.
The statue of the god was moved out of the ancestral hall in Fisherman Village."
Idol?
Liu Xing raised his eyebrows. He didn't expect that Alice would say the wrong thing at this time, or tell the truth. She actually called those strange statues in the Fisherman Village ancestral hall "gods". Before that, Alice had always called
Those statues are handicrafts.
In this case, it is possible that those statues are the statues of the Ocean True God Sect?
Zhang Jingxu also grasped this point and immediately asked: "Statue of gods? Miss Alice, you mean those strange statues are statues of gods, don't you mean they are handicrafts?"
At this time, Alice also realized that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, but since Alice can serve as the intelligence manager of the Kyoto branch of the Deep Sea Evangelical Society, it means that Alice still has two brushes.
So Alice quickly reacted and said without changing her expression or heartbeat: "Oh, those statues are indeed handicrafts, but they can also be classified into the category of statues of gods. After all, just like those cross-shaped pendants, they can be regarded as
Jewelry can also be used for prayer at certain times."
Zhang Jingxu pretended to be suddenly enlightened and said with a smile: "So, Miss Alice, you see clearly, but in this case, Miss Alice, you want those statues because they are actually statues of gods.
Can you persuade Mr. Matsui Ichiro to take those statues out of the ancestral hall in Fisherman Village?"
Alice nodded, sighed and said: "You are right, that's what I think, because you should all be able to tell from the styles of those statues that the church from which these statues come is not a regular church.
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"Miss Alice, do you mean that Mr. Matsui Ichiro believes in some evil secret church?!" Miyako Goudong said pretending to be shocked.
Alice sighed again and said solemnly: "I'm not sure about this now, because I've just been trying to trick Mr. Matsui Ichiro into trying to determine how much he knows about those statues.
I was trying to determine whether Mr. Matsui Ichiro was a believer from an evil secret church. As a result, Mr. Matsui Ichiro's performance was really ambiguous, because according to my observation, Mr. Matsui Ichiro did not know the true identity of these statues.
I am not pious about the origins of these statues, but no matter what I say, Mr. Matsui Ichiro has never let go. He can always find various reasons and is unwilling to move these statues. This makes me very helpless.
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Zhang Jingxu also sighed and said, "Forget it then. Since Mr. Matsui Ichiro is not willing, we outsiders had better not interfere any more."
"No, no, no, I have to take care of this matter, because you may not know that the idols of these secret churches usually have a kind of magical power that confuses people's hearts, so that people who do not believe in them at the beginning become devout.
A believer, because I have encountered such a thing before." Alice said seriously.
Then, Alice began to tell her "personal experience".
Alice is an Englishman, born in a wealthy area of London, and her parents are both well-known local lawyers.
When Alice grew up, she would often listen to her parents discuss some of the cases they had handled at the dinner table, including some supernatural cases.
For example, in London's long-standing subway network, which extends in all directions, reports of sightings of mysterious creatures often occur in the middle of the night. The most important thing is that there was once a midnight subway serial murder case. The victims were all waiting alone at a remote subway station.
While in the car, when he was in the blind spot of the surveillance camera, he suddenly let out a scream, followed by the sound of some kind of sharp weapon tearing flesh, and the victim disappeared. However, from the large amount of blood stains and minced meat left on the ground, it can be seen that the victim
There is absolutely no possibility of survival.
In just half a month, nearly fifty victims appeared, and none of them survived. Because of the need to maintain order, the London police did not dare to make these incidents public. They could only investigate this horrific midnight series.
The murder case is under closed investigation, and the victim's family has remained tight-lipped, saying only that the victim may have been kidnapped.
At that time, Alice's father was still working in the police station. When he was about to get off work one day, the police station suddenly announced that after the subway was suspended tonight, all police officers would cooperate with the temporarily deployed troops to conduct searches along the subway lines and arrest possible arrests.
The murderer hiding in the subway.
At first, Alice's father didn't pay too much attention. However, when Alice's father came to the designated subway station in the middle of the night and looked at the heavily armed troops, he realized that something was wrong. After all, you could directly see this formation.
Went to arrest this**.
Therefore, this made Alice's father alert. After assigning the team to start taking action, he deliberately walked to the middle, which was also the safest position.
After a while, Alice's father suddenly heard the sound of someone firing in front of him, and it was the sound of more than ten people firing at the same time. But what surprised Alice's father even more was that it was also accompanied by some kind of strange howling.
A cry, a howl that is definitely not something humans can make.
As a result, Alice's father quickly followed his team to the scene of the incident, and then saw a scene that he would never forget and that destroyed his entire outlook - two ghouls were eating corpses, and these corpses
Naturally, they came from the team members who had just exchanged fire with them, including Alice's father's best colleagues and friends.
Then, Alice's father felt that his mind went blank, and he felt that the gunshots in his ears were getting farther and farther. When Alice's father came to his senses, he found that he had been sent to the hospital.
It's the second night.
After Alice's father was discharged from the hospital, he submitted a resignation to the police force and chose to quit the police force to become a lawyer because Alice's father did not want to face those terrible ghouls again.
However, Alice's father was still very curious about the ins and outs of this case, so he found his colleague Chris, who was assigned to the same team as him that night.
It happened that Chris performed well in the operation that night and killed a ghoul with his own hands, so he got a chance to be promoted. Only then was he able to get in touch with the truth of this case.
In this case, a total of two large, three small and five ghouls appeared, and these five ghouls were originally a happy family of five, a middle-class family living in London.
Because this family of five are all Chelsea fans, they followed the home team to Manchester City a year ago to watch the game between Manchester United and Chelsea, because this game is related to the ownership of the league championship this season.
Then, Manchester United won the game.
Although a little depressed, the family of five quickly adjusted their mentality and began to visit Manchester and buy various souvenirs, including a ghoul-shaped statue.
Later, the police found the merchant who sold the statue. To put it bluntly, he was a street stall owner. The street stall owner said that someone else had put the statue on consignment for him. Although the person who consigned the statue said that the statue came from an ancient castle,
But he asked the street stall owner to sell the statue at a low price.
Then, the police still haven't found the person who consigned the statue...
Back to business.
The family of five returned to London with the statue. Because the statue looked very curious, the eldest son, who was in adolescence, placed it in his room.
Half a year later, the eldest son began to express in school that he often had nightmares and that he was being chased by a ghoul. Three months later, the family of five said on various occasions that they had nightmares every day.
Then one month before the midnight subway serial murders, five members of the family suddenly disappeared at the same time. At that time, the London police also received a missing report and conducted an investigation... Of course, the result was nothing.
Therefore, after the police invited a highly respected magician in London, they officially identified the murderer of this midnight subway serial murder case. The five ghouls were the missing family of five, and the reason why they became like this
, it’s because of that statue.
As for the statue, it was not found in the end, but the magician had determined that the statue came from a certain branch of the Corpse Cult, and was also a statue of the secret church.
After listening to Alice's narration, Liu Xing couldn't help but frown. He didn't expect Alice's father to have come into contact with a ghoul, even though Alice's father fell into a temporary state of madness at that time.
But what worries Liu Xing the most is that the name of Alice’s father’s colleague is Chris.
Because if nothing else happens, this Chris is likely to be Elizabeth's adoptive father, and Elizabeth is the hidden boss in the module when Liu Xing played his first official Cthulhu running game, Charming Liu Xing
A successful centenarian witch!
Moreover, the statue that turned a family of five into ghouls was bought by the family of five in Manchester, and the consignor of the statue claimed that it was an antique from an ancient castle, and this ancient castle should be
The old castle where Elizabeth once lived.
Therefore, Liu Xing suspected that the consignor of the statue was probably Elizabeth's brother Gary.
Things are unpredictable.
Gary has now been killed by his slave ghoul, and Elizabeth has become Chris's adopted daughter... although Elizabeth can be Chris's grandmother.
As for himself, he changed from "Liu Xing" to "Watanabe Ryusei" and met Alice again.
Now Liu Xing has a vague hunch that he is likely to meet Elizabeth again, and will also go with Alice.
After telling her father's story, Alice concluded: "Learn from the past and learn from the future. Although you may think that I am a little too worried about this, I must say that there is nothing wrong with being careful. Although those statues
It has not had any substantial impact on us, but if you find that you have fish scales that day, it will be too late, okay, I will go back to the room to rest."
After Alice finished speaking, she went upstairs.
However, Liu Xing suddenly noticed that the connection between Alice's right wrist and sleeve had a flash of dark green, which caught Liu Xing's attention.
When Liu Xing wanted to continue observing, Alice had already turned around and went upstairs.
This made Liu Xing fall into silence. If he was not dazzled, the trace of dark green on Alice's wrist was probably a scale!
Combined with Alice's last words, Liu Xing was even more sure of his thoughts.
The most important thing is that Liu Xing discovered from the memory of "Watanabe Meteor" that the Deep Sea Gospel Society has indeed mastered a technology that can transform people into "deep divers". However, this technology is not yet mature, and the transformation
The completed "deep divers" can only be said to have their form but not their spirit. In the final analysis, they can only be regarded as human beings with the appearance of deep divers.
Liu Xing can also infer from this point that although the Deep Sea Gospel Society believes in deep divers, it does not have close contact with the deep divers. To put it simply, the Deep Sea Gospel Society has its hot face stuck to the buttocks of the deep divers.
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Having said that, as a middle-level cadre of the Deep Sea Gospel Society, it is reasonable for Alice to accept the "deep diver transformation".
However, Liu Xing could tell from Alice's tone that Alice did not want to "transform into a deep diver". After all, if Alice was willing, she would not say the word "fish scales".
Therefore, Liu Xing is now more and more curious about the NPC Alice.
After hearing the sound of Alice entering the room, Zhang Jingxu said with a smile: "Okay, after Alice leaves the villa later, I will get some anti-magic dust, and then Ishikawa Ling, you have to make another trip.
Enter Alice's room and dispose of the compound magic circle. Of course, Ishikawa Rei-san, don't worry, we won't watch your actions."
Ishikawa Ling nodded dumbfounded.
Miyako Wutong, who was watching the wind just now, asked very curiously: "By the way, by the way, Rei Ishikawa, why didn't you answer my question just now?"