Fernando grabbed the notebook and cast a "high invisibility" on himself, then disappeared into the study, quietly listening to the sound of footsteps.
One, two, three, more and more footsteps sounded at the gate.
"How can there be so many people? The sneaky ......" Fernando created a peeping eye, causing them to scatter and monitor the entire villa - although this spell has a limited range, Tucker's villa is old and small, but it is under control.
In a no-man's corner, a crystal ball suddenly lit up, revealing the scene in the hall - even "higher invisibility" could not hide this effect.
In the hall, men and women dressed in 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 man with a terrifying appearance in the middle.
The man had sparse red hair, a protruding forehead, broken eyebrows in the middle, half of his nose missing, a turned mouth and a pair of eyes with only the whites of his eyes left.
His blind eyes looked up at the ceiling, his ears trembled slightly as if they had been bitten by a dog, and when the dozen men and women stood in strange positions, he suddenly spoke: "God saves the world."
His voice was not as "ugly" as his appearance, it was ethereal and lofty, as if he had descended from an infinite height, which made people feel afraid.
"Please God save us." The men and women clasped their hands together and slowly fell forward sideways, their postures strange and twisted.
The man continued his previous tone and said solemnly: "After birth, everyone is suffering, paying for their crimes, everyone will suffer, trauma, jealousy and betrayal, not a single day of happiness, overwhelmed by endless pressure, and, in the end, no one can escape death, can only walk towards death step by step with fear."
"But the true God tells us that death is eternal, that death is quiet, that there is no distress, that there is no pain, and that when we face death, we should thank God for the grace of God and thank Him for not continuing to sink in this filthy world......"
He told word by sentence, the entire hall was filled with a quiet and addictive atmosphere, and the dozen men and women listened very attentively, as if they gradually understood the true meaning of death.
"Is it the pagan church that believes in the god of death preaching?" Fernando probably figured out what was happening in the hall by peeking at the surveillance of the magic eye, and made a preliminary guess.
This place is infiltrated by the Church of Different Gods, and it is normal for similar situations to occur.
As soon as this thought flashed to him, he suddenly realized something was wrong: "But how could they come to Tucker's house to hold a preaching ceremony? Do they know that there is no one in the Tuk family?"
Deep doubts arose, Fernando carefully discerned, and did not find Tuk trying to study the mystery of faith among this group of people - Fran used his memory to make an image of Tuk for him to show him, so that he could find Tuke.
"Strange, could it be that they are related to Tucker's 'disappearance'?" Fernando observed this group of "believers" more and more carefully.
「…… As long as we can receive the favor of the true God, we will have eternal life in death, eternal life without pain......" The priest's voice suddenly became high-pitched as he raised his right hand.
As his right hand was raised, the dozen men and women got up from the ground and danced a strange dance that Fernando had never seen before, their postures were extremely distorted, as if they were not afraid of joint breakage at all, and they didn't feel any pain.
"It's not like a normal religious ceremony......" Fernando still studied a little about this, "The believers of the god of death are so special?"
As the "dance" became more and more strange, the atmosphere in the hall became chaotic, and they took off their clothes one by one and crawled naked to the priest.
The priest's right hand was lowered, but there was an additional sharp dagger, which glowed with a silver-white cold light.
Just when Fernando thought that the priest was going to harvest the lives of these believers to please the god of death, the priest flipped his right hand and inserted the dagger directly into his chest, and blood flowed out.
"Huh?" Fernando was completely stunned, he knew a lot of sacrificial ceremonies, but he had never seen the host commit suicide first!
Blood dripped on the dirty floor, and a prostrate man seemed to have suddenly received a call from a god, his eyes turned red, his tongue sticking out, and licking the drop of blood.
Then, the sound of a lotus coming from his throat, he pounced on the priest who fell to the ground like a wolf, the two rows of white teeth were exposed, and he bit the priest's neck fiercely, brushed off a large piece of flesh and blood, and swallowed it hurriedly.
The other men and women also went crazy, and also pounced on the priest, biting his flesh and blood, chewing and devouring with unusual reverence.
Looking at these believers with mouths full of blood and broken flesh, Fernando couldn't help but feel a wave of nausea, although he had also studied necromancy, he had never seen such a disgusting scene.
In the frenzied struggle for food, a lot of blood was wasted and gathered under the corpse, forming a puddle.
The blood in the "water puddle" suddenly evaporated, creating a hazy blood mist around everyone.
And in the blood mist, a face suddenly drilled out.
The dark red color was like a veil, tightly wrapped on this face, and only the protruding parts such as the eyeballs, nose, and mouth could be presented, making it indescribably weird and terrifying.
He shouted in a hoarse voice:
"Save me!"
Excited by this sound, Fernando's whole body was shaken, and the drowsiness that occurred at some point left his body.
At this time, he realized that the scene in the crystal ball was still a "normal scene" of a priest reciting a prayer and a man and a woman "dancing".
"What happened to me just now?" Fernando subconsciously asked himself, and soon realized that he was affected by illusion and entered the dream without realizing it!
He looked around warily, and said to himself: "The one who can pass through the previous scene and let me enter the dream realm unknowingly is definitely not only a high-level master, but at least an archmage, and he is also an archmage who is good at the dream realm, what does he want to do?"
Suddenly, he thought in shock: "The one who shouted 'save me' was the archmage who created the dream? He created dreams to call me for help?"
Fernando did not rush out to investigate the dozen or so believers in the gods, because the "caller for help" used this method to escape the surveillance of some beings.
"Is the person who called for help imprisoned? No, if he is imprisoned, a little of his leaked power cannot affect me at all, unless his strength is above legendary, then what can imprison him is not something I can provoke at all, if he is not imprisoned, but is injured and hiding somewhere in the city, it can force an archmage to be so difficult, at least a ninth-level powerhouse, he may be nearby......"
"This method is obviously a magician, so why didn't he directly ask the people of the 'Mage Mansion' for help, who should be able to contact Alto, unless, unless the 'Mage Mansion' is monitored by that secretly strong man, maybe the people of the 'Mage Mansion' also have a problem, betrayed or been replaced......"
"So, will that secretly strong man let people leave Kufre City and help this magician call for help?"
Fernando shook his head resolutely, definitely not, maybe as long as he tried to leave the city, he would be caught, tortured, and quietly killed.
At this time, the believers dancing and praying gradually slowed down, and it seemed that tonight's ritual had come to an end.
Fernando's eyes looked at this scene unfocused, and a thought suddenly flashed through his mind: "Could it be that the 'helper' did this on purpose, so that I could scare myself and dare not leave the city of Kufre, and then, like Tuke, disappeared......"
He is a very intelligent person, so he thinks a lot, hesitates for a moment, and does not know which one to believe.
But now that he thought of Tucker, he seized the time, opened his notebook, and looked at the following records:
"The prayer rituals here are so strange and very different from what I know......"
"The more I study the church that is secretly developing here, the more I fear and fear, what is this?"
"No, why have I never seen anyone go out of town! Why do those who deliver water and food only return to the city gate and never enter the city!"
"I want to run away from here!"
The scribbled handwriting is followed by hopeless blanks.
"Is it impossible for everyone to get out of town......" Fernando was even more puzzled.
Inside the crystal ball, the prayers stopped and prepared to leave at the priest's command.
Fernando had an idea, flashed directly to the hall, and said loudly: "Who are you? Why did you come to Tucker's house without permission?"
If you are looking for Tuk, then you must behave like you are looking for Tuk, so that you can try to delay time and not be noticed and suspected!
"We were invited by Tuke." The priest, who was as ugly as a monster, replied majestically and frankly.
"Tuke invited you here?" Fernando was slightly stunned, not expecting this answer.
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Fran and Antek took the token given by their respective teachers and flew quickly towards Kufrey City.
"By the way, which is the one who has been guarding there recently?" Antek usually doesn't pay much attention.
Fran thought for a while and said, "Your Excellency 'Flame of the Origin'."
(End of this chapter)