Chapter 83 Joint Investigation Team (First Shift Monthly Pass)
Leah also noticed something was wrong with Michele, looked sideways at Ryan, and asked with her eyes if she wanted to knock her unconscious directly.
At this time, Lumian spoke, and he said to Michele:
"Is the priest not here?"
Michele's eyes suddenly became enthusiastic:
"The priest is resting, you can come to me to pray."
His face was full of pleading.
Lumian "hesitated" for a few seconds and reluctantly said:
"Okay."
Seeing Michele's excitement and happiness on his face, he turned his head sideways and said to Leah and the others:
"What's wrong with you? Coming to church to pray is something every believer should do, what is there to be afraid of?"
What he implied was that we were all out of the basement and were not caught, so what is there to worry about?
As a believer in the "Eternal Sun", it is normal to come to the church to pray, as for taking a shortcut to the side door, it is a negligible problem, and what does it have to do with us that the priest and a few handymen take too long a lunch break?
Lumian knew that such an excuse could only deceive ordinary people, and he would never be able to fool the priest of the parish, but before the priest of the parish received the "gift", he would inevitably pretend to be confused, and it was impossible to expose it, unless Ryan and the others put on a pretense of immediately reporting to the emperor and ending all abnormal postures in Kordu Village.
As long as Leah and the others still maintain their style of wandering around the village, chatting with people everywhere, and looking like they haven't gained enough information in the basement of the church, the priest of this parish will definitely be happy to maintain the status quo.
Coupled with the fact that the underground altar was destroyed by Ryan, it is estimated that it will take some time for the group to repair, and Lumian estimates that the priests in the parish have had little hope of receiving the "gift" in the past two days, and it is only possible to get it one day before Lent at the earliest.
When Lent begins, abnormal outbreaks occur, it doesn't matter if you are not suspected, "normal" is the biggest problem.
Hearing Lumian's words, the priest of the dungeon hall, Michelle. Gary Gu nodded frequently in agreement:
"Yes, yes! No matter what you have done, as long as you pray sincerely and are willing to repent, God will forgive you."
Really? What if the priest of this parish now repents to the "Eternal Sun" and says, "I went astray some time ago, believed in evil gods, and now I want to return to the right path?" Lumi was unbelieving in his heart, but on the surface he was very religious, and walked towards the altar.
Michele led the way in front very briskly, looking like she was about to fly.
Seeing such a fanatical and devout clergyman, Leah couldn't help but glance sideways at Valentine, only to see that this companion had a rather complicated expression.
This should have been a state that Valentine greatly appreciated, but he knew very well that the priest of the Dungeon Hall was obviously abnormal.
Retracting her gaze from Valentine, Leah rushed to Lumian in two steps, leaned close to his ear, and said in a low voice:
"When you said those words just now, did you consider that half of the people present were not believers in the 'Eternal Sun'?"
"Aren't you?" Lumian was quite stunned.
It wasn't that he was keen and understood Lia's hint, but the five people present, except for the abnormal dungeon hall priests, among the remaining four, Valentai must be, and Lumian himself barely calculated, already half.
Leah nodded slightly, causing the bell to ring.
She smiled and whispered:
"Ryan is a 'mechanical heart' person, I am from the Eighth Bureau, and I do not belong to the 'Eternal Sun' Church."
Lumian heard his sister mention that the "Mechanical Heart" is slightly equivalent to the "Eternal Sun" Church's Court, and is a branch of the "God of Steam and Machinery" Church responsible for handling extraordinary affairs.
"I thought you were sent by the church?" He asked curiously while finding a chair to sit down.
Liya sat down next to him and said with a smile:
"In recent years, there have been many dangerous incidents involving extraordinary people in the border areas of various countries, especially in places where jurisdiction is disputed, so as soon as we receive a letter of help from Koldu Village, we attach great importance to it.
"Who knows, ...... here"
She suddenly couldn't say anything anymore, and couldn't help but shake her head with a ding.
The abnormalities and horrors here were beyond her imagination.
Sometimes, she felt that Valentine's idea of reporting the matter in full and requesting the direct destruction of Kordu Village was correct.
However, she didn't want to die yet, so she had to suppress her professional instincts and morality in her heart.
At this time, the priest of the copy hall, Michelle. Calvary picked up the books on the altar and turned his gaze to the four men who were preparing to pray.
Leah then raised her arms, crossed them over her chest, and buried her head and body slightly.
"......" Lumian was a little stunned.
You still say that you are not a believer in the "Eternal Sun"!
Lia sensed his gaze and smiled sideways:
"If you pretend to be a believer in other churches when performing a mission, the gods will not blame, if you don't believe it, look at ......"
She pointed to the other side of herself with her mouth.
Lane from the "Mechanical Heart" also crossed his arms in front of his chest, very religious.
It turns out that there can be a flexible moral bottom line when performing tasks...... Lumian wanted to laugh at Leah and Ryan like this, but everyone started praying that he couldn't fall behind.
When he also posed and closed his eyes, the priest of the replica hall, Michelle. Galligu turned over the scriptures and recited solemnly:
"God said, 'Let there be light,' and there will be light in this world......"
Being in the church he frequented, listening to the familiar sermons, Lumian suddenly felt a little emotional.
When he came to pray before, he just followed the crowd and was never attentive, and many times he would look left and right, whispering, but now, how much he hopes that everything will be the same, even if he needs to pray the most devoutly.
The activities he used to like very much now make him miss them very much.
By the time Lumian and the others left the "Eternal Sun" church, the priest and the handymen had not yet woken up.
Lane glanced in the direction of the castle and said with sincere emotion:
"That lady is much stronger than I thought."
"How strong?" Lumian asked curiously.
Ryan thought for a moment and said:
"It seems that the door of divinity has been touched, but it seems that there is none."
You seem to say something and don't seem to ...... If it weren't for relying on Ryan and the others recently, Lumian would have already spoken out what was in his heart.
However, he is not bad at all in high-end occult knowledge, and he can probably guess what Lane is referring to by the divine gate:
Sequence 4! The beginning of demigods and half-men!
He thought for a moment and said:
"I think Pualis was in a bit strange state when she appeared as the 'Night Lady'."
He had previously told Leah and the others about the world on the other side and the legend of the "Night Lady".
"I feel that way too." Liya said with a smile, "It's like a suture monster, and it's the kind that hasn't been successfully stitched yet."
Ryan nodded:
"We actually have a certain understanding of the 'Lady of the Night', in this area where we are at the junction of the kingdoms of Intis and Feneport, in the past few years, there have been many similar things, some are called 'Lady of the Night', some are called 'Lady Helt', some call themselves 'Benevolent Lords', and some call themselves 'Evil Lords', but so far, we have not caught any 'Ladies', and there is still a lack of systematic understanding of them.
"Well, this is the first time I've heard of 'The Other World'."
As Leah walked towards the edge of the village square, she said with a ding:
"I did think of something from the description of 'The Other World'."
"What?" Lumian never felt that asking was a shameful thing.
Leah glanced sideways to the south:
"In the 'Earth Mother Goddess' Church in Fenneport, there is such a saying:
"The soul returns to the earth."
Souls return to the earth...... Lumian suddenly thought of the wilderness and the undead wandering in the wilderness.
He had to admit that the association that Leah had made did have some truth.
Coming to the elm tree at the entrance of the village, Lane looked around and said:
"Let's stop provoking that lady, in the matter of breaking the loop, even if she doesn't help, she won't become an enemy, we just need to pay attention to her movements and see if we can take advantage of the specific time node she said."
Isn't it because it is obvious that you can't beat it? Lumian suppressed his mouth that was about to move.
He turned to ask Valentine:
"How many minutes are left?"
He was worried about missing the time, and his sister triggered the cycle to restart everything.
Valentine took out a pocket watch with a gold case, pressed it open and glanced at it:
"Ten minutes left."
"That's okay......" Lumian breathed a sigh of relief and waved to Ryan and the others, "I'm going to find Auror, if you're okay, help find Sybil's husband Jean. Mori's whereabouts, investigate who is spreading the constellation is about to change, everyone will usher in good luck rumors, if you have a harvest, you can go directly to my house to find me, goodbye, my cabbages!"
This was what Liya and the others planned to do, so naturally no one objected.
…………
As he bid farewell to the joint investigation team and walked to the edge of the agreed village, Lumian fell into deep thought.
After completing the exploration of the underground of the church, he had a complete speculation about the mutation in Kordu Village:
The cause of the cycle must be the group of priests in the parish, who have been quietly worshiping evil gods for at least half a year, secretly sacrificing many foreigners and foreigners in the basement of the church, in exchange for a lot of "gifts".
Before Lent, with the help of the shepherd Pierre. The three extraordinary people that Berry brought back, or one of them, the parish priest and Pons. Bennett and others received the "gift", and the former suddenly became quite powerful extraordinary, so they began a grand ceremony starting with Lent.
On the twelfth night, in the final stage of the ceremony, the hidden being in the name of fate accepted a large-scale sacrifice, preparing to complete something prayed for by the priest and others, but at this time, something happened, and the ritual was not completed, and the forces involving the past, present, and future were dissipated, bringing about the cycle of time.
As for why there was a change, Lumian thought of a passage that the mysterious lady had said:
"You originally belonged to someone who was about to be heavily polluted, but fortunately, the mark left by that great being was stimulated, and the corresponding power descended on you, sealing the source of pollution and forming a balanced ......"
ps: The first is to ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)