Staring at the sheepfold with only haystacks and grains of manure left, Lane frowned and said:
"The underground altar was repaired so quickly?"
He suspected that the three sheep had been taken for sacrifice.
"Those evil god believers may have some special abilities." Valentine responded with a look of disgust.
Listening to the discussion between the two, Lumian suddenly recalled the sheep cry he vaguely heard last night.
Could it be the sound that one of them made when he was sacrificed? With such doubts, he told Lane and Valentine about the speculation.
"Unlikely." Ryan shook his head, "The church is hundreds of meters away from your home, and the altar is underground."
What he meant was that even if the "hunter" had strengthened his hearing, it would never have been possible to receive sounds coming from the ground of the church.
Lumian himself thought so, but then he couldn't explain why he heard the sheep meowing, and at the same time, there was an obvious burning sensation in his chest, and the black thorn symbol was half-stimulated.
This can't be faked!
Burning sensation...... Lumi moved with peace of mind and remembered something the mysterious lady had said:
Pray to yourself...... Principle of proximity......
Thinking of the ritual of praying for the power of the "dancer", the black thorn symbol on his chest also stood out, and he suddenly had a new guess:
He could hear the sheep crying during sacrifices, which stemmed from a mystical connection!
To put it simply, when the priest and others in this hall held a ceremony and prayed to the hidden being, because of the principle of proximity, it also pointed to the pollution in Lumian's body, which half-inspired the black thorn symbol, so Lumian could faintly hear a sheep's cry from such a long distance.
Since he did not respond, he didn't know how to respond, after all, those pollutions were sealed by the owner of the blue-black pattern, and the priests and their rituals finally "contacted" the hidden being.
When the ceremony was over, the burning sensation in Lumian's chest naturally subsided.
From this point of view, there was no invisible or strange force eroding into Auror's room last night, it was simply that the abnormality in my body was semi-stimulated by the rituals of the priests in the parish...... Lumian probably figured out the cause and effect.
At this time, Lane reminded his companions:
"It seems that our exploration of the underground of the church gave the parish priests a strong sense of crisis, and they found a way to repair the altar and prayed for strength in advance.
"From now on, we must be doubly careful not to feel that the situation will become dangerous until Lent."
"If it weren't for the worry about restarting, they would have been solved long ago!" Valentine said with hatred.
Then, he added sullishly:
"Can you stop calling the servant of that evil god the priest of the parish? He is not worthy!"
Why did he become a priest in the parish if he was not worthy? Lumian didn't dare to say what was in his heart.
He was not afraid this time, but mainly wanted to maintain his image in Valentine's eyes, after all, he might have to persuade the fanatical believer to do something, such as using suicide to verify the nature of the cycle.
Ryan nodded:
"Let's hurry up and visit Madame Puaris, replenish food and water, and try not to go out if we can."
Lumian didn't say much, turned around and left the shepherd Pierre. The back door of Berry's house, towards the hill where the castle is located.
Through the purple and red garden, the three of them came to the door that only opened the lower half, and said to the male servant wearing a red coat and white trousers:
"We have something we want to see Mrs. Puaris."
"Wait a minute." The male servant glanced at Ryan and Valentine, turned around in a hurry, and disappeared at the door.
Not long after, the "midwife" wearing a gray and white dress came out.
Compared to last time, her face became more and more blue, and her eyes were so dull that it was chilling.
If Lumian hadn't told Ryan and Valentine in advance that the "midwife" was not "dead", they would definitely be shocked now.
The "Sun Priest" is specialized in dealing with this kind of thing, there are not a hundred, but dozens of similar things purified by Valentine, but the humans who have been split into pieces of flesh can still reproduce their original appearance, and they are closer to the living than the corpse, which is not something they can understand now.
The "midwife" opened her mouth and said in a completely unfluctuating tone:
"Madam doesn't want to see you, let you go back."
"We have something very important." Lumian did not shy away from it, and asked directly, "Isn't Madame Pualis worried about the one underground ruining her follow-up arrangements?"
"Midwife" maintained the tone just now:
"Madam said, that won't affect her."
Hearing this, Lumian suddenly felt a cold feeling all over his body.
This meant that it would be difficult for them to get the help of Lady Puaris, a strong man, afterwards.
Lumian laughed, without any frustration or depression, he looked at the "midwife" and said:
"But we might explore that burial chamber."
His implication is that during the exploration process, no matter which side has an accident, the cycle may be restarted in advance.
The expression of the "midwife" did not change, she was still so stiff and dull:
"You can try, but the result will only disappoint you."
What does it mean? Lumian couldn't understand what Madame Pualis was trying to express for a moment.
She means that although we explore, she will provide some help at critical moments, but we should not be able to find any valuable clues? The more Lumian thought about it, the more he felt that Mrs. Pualis probably not what she meant, otherwise she would not have directly rejected the request to meet through the "midwife".
Without waiting for Lumian to think about other possibilities, Ryan asked considerately:
"Did Madame Pualis want to tell us that the person in the tomb or that person could easily control us and successfully prevent us from investigating without touching the loop?"
"Yes." The "midwife" nodded slowly, turned around, and walked into the depths of the castle.
Lumian, Valentine, and Ryan looked at each other, and they all left here a little helplessly.
Their next destination is the old tavern, where you can buy a lot of ingredients and barrels of cheap wine.
——Compared with water that is easy to perish, wine is easier to store, as long as the degree is not high, it can be used to replenish water in the later stage.
Entering the old tavern, Lumian immediately looked around and did not see the mysterious lady.
He retracted his gaze with a slight disappointment, walked all the way to the bar, and told the owner Morris what he was going to buy. Bene.
When Ryan and Valentine went to carry the barrel out, Lumian asked in a low voice:
"Where is the other lady?"
Morris. Bene shook his head:
"I don't know, maybe in the room, maybe I went to another place in the village, maybe I went to Liège, anyway, her rent was paid on the 9th, and she could toss as much as she wanted."
Number 9? Twelfth night? Lumian nodded thoughtfully.
April 9 is the so-called "Twelfth Night" that he and Aurore calculated.
This also means that March 29 is indeed the first day of the cycle.
And if Ryan and the other three outsiders didn't happen to enter Cordu Village on the first day of a cycle, it means that as long as an outsider breaks into this area, the cycle will immediately restart and start on March 29th.
"Oh." Lumian patted his head and said to the tavern owner Maurice. Bene said, "I don't feel well in my stomach, go to the bathroom, tell them to wait for me."
Maurice. Bene had an expression of "what bad things you want to do again":
"Don't make trouble with me!"
The disadvantage of a bad reputation has appeared again...... Lumian laughed:
"Don't worry, it's really just borrowing the bathroom!"
He waved his hand as he spoke, and ran to the entrance of the stairs.
He did want to borrow the bathroom, but he borrowed the one upstairs.
Maurice. Benet glanced at his back and muttered:
"Spring is here, this bastard kid is also in heat......"
His voice was just right for Lumian to hear.
Going up to the second floor, Lumian came to the opposite side of the bathroom and stood in front of the mysterious lady's room.
Dong dong dong, he knocked on the door.
No one responded.
Seeing that there was no Do Not Disturb sign hanging on the handle, Lumian knocked on the door twice, louder each time.
Unfortunately, the mysterious lady never appeared.
Lumian thought for a while, took out a thin piece of iron wire, and pried it a few times at the keyhole.
The door creaked open, and the inside was empty and no one was there.
The quilt on the bed was neatly folded, as if no one had lived there during this time.
Lumian exhaled silently, did not try to enter, and closed the door directly.
…………
In the afternoon, under the pretext of teaching Lumian Hermes and urgently improving his strength, the siblings gathered in Aurore's bedroom.
Lumian suppressed his voice and told his sister the key points of his exploration experience in the dream ruins last night, and finally asked:
"Do you have anything to add? Hunting flame monsters."
Even if he was prepared and had the ability to "Fall Mercury" and "Invisibility", he still didn't have much confidence in hunting flame monsters.
That is a sequence of qualitative changes in the "hunter" path!
Aurore laughed:
"I have considered all aspects, the only thing I can add is ......"
She raised her hands, clenched them into fists, and shook them gently:
"Come on!"
"......" Lumian was defeated by his sister's jokes at such a time.
But his inner tension was also relieved a lot.
Aurore then said:
"All that's left is nothing new:
"Be careful, be careful, be careful."
She then sighed:
"It's a pity that the mysterious lady is not here, otherwise I can make some simple, auxiliary charms, along with the 'Integrity Brooch', for you to bring into your dreams."
"Yes." Although Lumian was lost, he was not depressed and had no intention of giving up on the action.
…………
At night, at 9:50, Lumian left Aurore's bedroom and walked to the bathroom.
He plans to empty his lower abdomen before the night shift.
Under the crimson moonlight, the bathroom was dark, and only the area where the toilet was located was still clear.
Lumian leaned over and unfastened his belt.
Behind him, the shadow on the wall suddenly wriggled and turned into a figure holding an axe high!
ps: Ask for a monthly pass~
(End of this chapter)