There is a small island in the center of Beinz Blood Lake. It is also the only island in this lake. Because of its special geographical location, this island is regarded as a holy place among holy places. The Huiyao Sect believes that it is the place where the goddess lives.
This is the place where the world rests, so they built a magnificent chapel on the island as an above-ground palace for the goddess...
There are usually heavy guards around such a holy land. The outer edge of the island in the middle of the lake is where the most powerful knights of the Huiyao Sect are stationed. It is impossible to walk in under their noses.
Even Vivian's ability to hide at night might not be able to hide the strength of these church masters, but Hao Ren had other means to get in.
In a depression on the shore of the Blood Lake that could obscure the view, Hao Ren led a group of his tenants to sneak here. He took out the data terminal and said: "You fly to the church first and make sure there is no one there.
Let's teleport in. Be careful not to be discovered."
"What should I do if my machine is shot down?"
Hao Ren comforted him with kind words: "Don't worry, I will ask Raven 12345 to apply for a new one."
"Your uncle's!"
Hao Ren rolled his eyes and glanced at the data terminal: "Because I firmly believe that you can't be beaten down at all. Go quickly and don't waste time."
The data terminal shook its body provocatively at Hao Ren in the air, and then reluctantly turned off the lights all over its body, quickly flew across the sky under the cover of night, and flew towards the small island in the middle of the lake.
According to the information that everyone had heard before, although the small island in the middle of the lake is surrounded by heavy troops, only the church in the center is uninhabited. As a forbidden area, that church is almost always closed. When it only opens its gate twice a year, then
It is at this time when the Baozhu tours every year that the doors are opened to greet the Baozhu and when the Baozhu leaves, the door is opened to see him off. This church has been closed to most people since Pope Anthony III issued a new interpretation of the Holy Scriptures hundreds of years ago. Only those who can enter the church are
The following situations: when the orb tour reaches this point, four nameless ascetics enter the church vestibule as the orb's escort. They can stay there for four days; the pope of the Huiyao sect can use magic to determine the date of his death.
, they handed over the papacy to their successors one month before their death, and then spent the last month of their lives in the church; a special monk who always wears gray robes, no one knows his identity and name, this monk
Enter through the back door of the church on the night of the full moon of each Lord's month and be responsible for cleaning and other chores. Otherwise, not even the king of Horleta is allowed to visit this church.
The Huiyao Sect's extremely strict approach to these religious regulations has left an opportunity for Hao Ren and others to take advantage of. The Holy Orb is not in the church now, and the current Pope will not die for a while, and it is not a full moon today.
There is no one in the heart church.
While waiting for the data terminal to send back the message, Vivian couldn't help but turned to look at Lily: "Do you really need to dress up like this?"
Lily was dressed in black clothes. She even wore a black mask on her face with only her eyes exposed. She looked like a heroine preparing to break into the Forbidden City alone. When she heard Vivian's words, she immediately shook her head: "Humph, you
I don’t understand, this is called professionalism, how can you do covert operations without wearing night clothes?”
Vivian pointed to Lily's shining silver tail and ears: "Put these things away first."
Lily continued to shake her head: "No, this is the pride of the werewolf."
Hao Ren felt that the biggest variable in tonight's operation was the husky whose mind was often off track, but it didn't matter. If there was an emergency, Lily could be thrown out. This noisy canine was a perfect way to divert attention.
Take good care of yourself.
"Besides, why did we bring Doudou with us?" Vivian glanced at the little mermaid hanging on Hao Ren's arm again, "You also left her pot in the room."
"Don't worry," Hao Ren poked the little fish baby who was hugging his arm like an armband and wouldn't let go, "Without the revolving door, the little one is easily scared, and it's not like you didn't see her in the house just now.
I don't dare to let this little guy out of my sight now because he secretly gnaws on someone else's table. That Hilda has been acting like she has lost her soul. I don't believe she can help take care of Doudou."
At this moment, a slight wind sound suddenly came from the night sky, and the data terminal appeared like a ghost in the night: "There is no one in the chapel. The surroundings are also very quiet, let's start walking."
The figures of Hao Ren and others were distorted for a while, and the next moment they were teleported to the church on the small island in the middle of the lake.
The sacred island in the middle of the lake was still quiet. The church knights stationed around the island had no idea that their holy land had been invaded by outsiders. However, there was one piece of information that Hao Ren and the others did not find out clearly, that is, although there was no one in charge of the church in the middle of the lake,
But it also has defensive capabilities - the church is filled with defensive arrays and alarm magic left by past popes. Unless there are permitted visitors or senior members of the church close the church defense from a secret way,
Otherwise, any rash intruder will be mercilessly attacked by countless divine magic circles.
This is why the Huiyao Sect can safely leave its highest forbidden area "unguarded".
But tonight, when Hao Ren and the others broke into the church, all the defense and alarm systems here were quiet as if they were asleep.
The bright light of the twin moons shone through the tall and narrow stained glass windows of the church into the vestibule of the church, allowing every detail of the situation inside to be seen. Hao Ren and his party quickly got out of the brief dizziness caused by the teleportation and looked at everything here curiously.
Just like churches in other places, this front hall is simply furnished, with no benches or cushions for people to rest. Although the church looks magnificent, the front hall is very simple. The most luxurious part here is at the end of the front hall.
It was a small altar that symbolized the place where the goddess stepped. It was made of the most expensive radiant crystals and placed on a huge obsidian slab. There were also various exquisite instruments that symbolized the authority of the goddess displayed around the small altar.
Make this place look like a throne.
Not far in front of the small altar, Hao Ren saw that the entire ground there was sunken.
"This should be the place where the orb was originally placed." Vivian came to the sunken ground and bent down to touch the smooth section as if cut by a sharp blade. "It is said that there was originally a high platform here, but it seems that
The orb was moved away together, and part of the floor was also missing."
Lily turned her head cleverly and looked around, then suddenly raised her head: "Ah, by the way, there is also a part of the ceiling!"
Looking in the direction of Lily's finger, there was also a circular area neatly dug out of the ceiling of the front hall, which corresponded exactly to the depression in the floor below.
Vivian nodded: "Sure enough, it should be space teleportation, and it is a very primitive and crude teleportation method. It does not limit the teleportation target, but directly teleports everything within the range." As she said that, she retreated a few meters away.
, visually inspecting the prototype depression range of the floor and ceiling: "It should be an oblate spherical space bubble with a radius of five or six meters, not a perfect sphere."
"Is it man-made or a natural phenomenon?" Hao Ren was very concerned about this.
"I don't know, it happened two months ago. Even if there were man-made magic fluctuations, they should have dissipated completely." Vivian shook her head and looked around, "It seems that the situation on the day when the orb disappeared is still preserved here. It should be
To preserve the scene."
Lily squatted down and sniffed the residual smell on the ground as a habit, but she shook her head in confusion: "Strange, there is only a smell of fabric, it seems there is no..."
Nangong Wuyue kindly reminded her: "You are still wearing a mask..."
Lily: "...Oh."
Hao Ren came to the luxurious altar at this time, and his attention was attracted by the murals behind the altar.
This is also the kind of weird mural he saw in the mountain people's chapel, with weird colors of black and red intertwined, with a light of unknown meaning in the middle.
It seems that all the churches of the Huiyao Sect are decorated with this kind of thing. What does it mean?
Hao Ren stared at the mural for a while, always feeling like the black and red ribbons were moving slowly, but whenever he focused on the floating colors, they returned to their original positions in an instant - maybe
The place really hadn't been touched at all. He didn't understand why such an unknown thing should be placed in the church. Logically speaking, such a place should be placed with an icon of the goddess or other religious totems.
Moreover, he still vaguely remembered what the murals he saw in the mountain people's church looked like. The one in front of him seemed to be different from that one. (To be continued...)