Fernando grabbed the notebook, cast "Advanced Invisibility" on himself, and disappeared into the study, quietly listening to the sound of footsteps.
One, two, three, more and more footsteps sounded at the door.
"Why are there so many people? They are so sneaky..." Fernando created the Peeping Eyes and let them fly away to monitor the entire villa. Although this spell has a limited range, Tuc's villa is old and narrow.
, but it’s all under control.
In a deserted corner, a crystal ball suddenly lit up, showing the scene in the hall - even "advanced invisibility" could not conceal this effect.
In the hall, men and women wearing ordinary clothes walked like ghosts, their steps were very light, as if they were afraid of waking up the owner here.
There were about a dozen of them, and they dispersed one after another, surrounding a horrifying-looking man in the middle.
This man has thin reddish hair, a protruding forehead, eyebrows broken off in the middle, half of his nose missing, an everted mouth and a pair of eyes with only the whites of his eyes left. His facial features are so ugly that he doesn't look like he was born at all.
Like a rag doll made by a willful child, and like a monster that only appears in illogical dreams.
His blind eyes were looking up at the ceiling, and his ears were trembling slightly as if they had been bitten by a dog. After the dozen men and women stood in strange positions, he suddenly said: "Gods save the world."
His voice is not as "ugly" as his appearance. It is ethereal and distant, seeming to descend from an infinite height, making people feel fearful.
"Please God, please save us." The men and women clasped their hands together and slowly fell to the side and forward. Their postures were weird and twisted.
The man continued his previous tone and said solemnly: "After birth, everyone is suffering and paying for their crimes. Everyone will encounter hunger, trauma, jealousy and betrayal. They will not be happy for a day, and will be endlessly tortured.
The pressure was overwhelming, and in the end, no one could escape death, but could only walk towards death step by step with fear."
"But the true God tells us that death is eternal and peaceful. There is no distress at all. There is no pain at all. When we face death, we must thank God for His grace and thank Him for preventing you from continuing to sink in this dirty and dirty world.
…”
He spoke sentence by sentence. A quiet and addictive atmosphere filled the entire hall. The dozen men and women listened very attentively, and seemed to gradually understand the true meaning of death.
"Could it be that the Apostle Church, which believes in the God of Death, is preaching?" Fernando roughly figured out what was happening in the hall by peering into the surveillance of the magic eye, and made a preliminary guess.
This place has been infiltrated by the Church of Alien Gods, so it is normal for similar situations to occur.
Just as this idea flashed across his mind, he suddenly realized something was wrong: "But why did they come to Tuke's house to hold a preaching ceremony? Do they know that there is no one in Tuke's family?"
Strong doubts arose. Fernando looked carefully and did not find Tu Ke who was trying to study the mysteries of faith among the group of people. Fran used her own memory to create an image of Tu Ke for him to see, so that he could find it conveniently.
Tuke.
"Strange, are they related to Tuco's 'disappearance'?" Fernando observed this group of "believers" more carefully.
"...As long as we can gain the favor of the true God, we will gain eternal life in death, eternal life without pain..." The priest's voice suddenly became high-pitched, and he raised his right hand.
As he raised his right hand, the dozen men and women got up from the ground and danced a strange dance that Fernando had never seen before. Their postures were all abnormally twisted, as if they were not afraid of damage to their joints and could not feel anything.
pain.
"It's not like a normal religious ceremony..." Fernando still did some research on this, "Is the believer of the God of Death so special?"
As the "dance" became more and more weird, the atmosphere in the hall became confused. They took off their clothes one by one, naked and crawled in front of the priest.
The priest lowered his right hand, but there was a sharp dagger with a silver-white cold light on it.
Just when Fernando thought that the priest wanted to harvest the lives of these believers to please the God of Death, the priest turned his right hand and directly inserted the dagger into his chest, and blood flowed out.
"Uh?" Fernando was completely stunned. He knew many sacrificial rituals, but he had never seen the host commit suicide first!
Blood dripped on the dirty floor. A prostrate man seemed to have been summoned by a god suddenly. His eyes turned red and his tongue stretched out to lick the drop of blood.
Then, he made a roaring sound from his throat, and pounced on the priest who fell limply to the ground like a wolf. Two rows of white teeth were exposed, and he bit the priest's neck fiercely, tearing off large pieces of flesh and blood with a brush.
Swallowed it hurriedly.
Other men and women also went crazy. They also jumped on the priest, biting his flesh and blood, chewing and devouring it with great reverence.
Seeing these believers with mouths full of blood and scraps of skin and flesh, Fernando couldn't help but feel nauseated. Although he also studied necromancy, he had never seen such a disgusting scene.
In the crazy fight for food, a lot of blood was wasted and pooled under the corpse, forming a puddle.
The blood in the "puddle" suddenly evaporated, creating a hazy blood mist around everyone.
And in the blood mist, a face suddenly popped out.
The dark red color is like a veil, tightly stretched over this face. Only the protruding parts such as the eyes, nose and mouth are visible, making it indescribably weird and terrifying.
He shouted hoarsely:
"help me!"
Aroused by the sound, Fernando's whole body trembled, and the sleepiness that had arisen at some point left his body.
Only then did he realize that the scene in the crystal ball was still a "normal scene" of priests reciting prayers and men and women "dancing".
"What happened to me just now?" Fernando asked himself subconsciously, and soon realized that he was affected by the illusion and entered a dream without knowing it!
He looked around warily and thought to himself: "The person who can let me enter the dream without knowing it through the previous scene is definitely not just a high-level person, at least he is also a magician, and he is also a magician who is good at the field of dreams. What does he want to do?
?”
Suddenly, he thought in shock: "The one who shouted 'Save me' is the master who created the dream? He created the dream just to cry out for help to me?"
Fernando did not rush out to investigate the dozen Aberrant God believers, because the "caller for help" obviously called for help in this way to escape the monitoring of certain entities. If he acted rashly, he would probably encounter something unexpected.
"Is the person who called for help imprisoned? No, if he is imprisoned, the little power he leaks will not be able to affect me at all. Unless his strength is above legendary, then whoever can imprison him is not someone I can provoke.
, if he is not imprisoned, but is injured and hiding somewhere in the city, then the person who can force a master to be so difficult is at least a ninth-level strongman, and he may be nearby..."
"This method is obviously that of a magician, so why doesn't he directly ask for help from the people in the 'Mage's Residence', where he should be able to contact Alto, unless, unless the 'Mage's Residence' is monitored by that strong man in the dark, maybe
There is also something wrong with the people in the 'Master's Residence', they have betrayed or been replaced..."
"So, will the strong man in the dark let people leave Kufre City and help this magician seek help?"
Fernando shook his head resolutely, definitely not. Maybe if he tried to leave the city, he would be caught, tortured, and killed quietly.
At this time, the believers who were dancing and praying gradually slowed down, as if tonight's ceremony had come to an end.
Fernando looked at this scene without focus, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "Could it be that the 'help seeker' did this deliberately to scare me and not dare to leave Kufre City, and then, like
Tuk disappeared like that..."
He is a very smart person, so he thinks a lot and is hesitant for a while, not knowing which possibility to believe.
But since he thought of Tu Ke, he seized the time, opened his notebook, and read the records at the back:
"The prayer ceremony here is so weird, very different from what I know..."
"The more I study the secretly developing church here, the more it scares and frightens me. What is this?"
"No, why have I never seen anyone leave the city! Why do those who deliver water and food only arrive at the city gate and then return, never entering the city!"
"I want to escape from here!"
The scrawl is followed by a hopeless blank.
"Does everyone know that they can't leave the city..." Fernando became even more confused.
In the crystal ball, the prayers stopped and prepared to leave under the instructions of the priest.
Fernando suddenly had an idea and ran directly to the hall, shouting: "Who are you? Why did you come to Tuke's house without permission?"
If you are here to find Tuke, you must behave as if you are looking for Tuke, so as to delay as much time as possible and avoid being noticed and suspected!
"We were invited by Tuk." The ugly monster-like priest answered majestically and candidly.
"Tuke invited you here?" Fernando was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect this answer.
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Fran and Antaike took the tokens given by their teachers and flew towards Kufre City quickly.
"By the way, who is on duty to guard the place recently?" Antaike usually didn't pay much attention to it.
Fran thought for a while and said: "Your Excellency, 'Original Flame'." (To be continued...)