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As the sun sets, the whole world falls into darkness. Only the bright moon and starlight in the sky can bring a glimmer of light to the earth.

As the fire of civilization burned, the nights were no longer as dark as before. The discovery of electricity and the invention of electric lights made the nights no longer difficult.

In this era, the city at night lights itself up with civilization.

But such a situation did not appear here, in this stagnant city unwilling to move forward.

The darkness still shrouded the city as it did a hundred years ago, and the residents in the city didn't think there was anything wrong with it.

They have lived this way for generations, and what they want is peace and tranquility, a life without fluctuations, like a pool of stagnant water.

With the coming of winter, it gets colder and colder.

Under the howling cold wind, several figures shuttled through the darkness.

In the darkness of this city, they still wear robes darker than the darkness to cover their actions.

"Hiccup, tomorrow...tomorrow, after..."

On the street, a figure was walking unsteadily, holding an almost half-empty bottle in his hand.

With his swaying figure and intermittent muttering, it was almost certain that he was an alcoholic who drank late into the night.

"You, you guys don't sleep...do..."

The oncoming dark figures attracted the attention of the drunkard. He looked at these figures and raised his voice as if he was asking them something.

However, he was only halfway through his drunken words when a dark figure rushed in front of him.

When he barely reacted, a palm hit the back of his neck.

Plop.

The figure fell down in response, and the wine bottle was engraved on the ground along with the falling figure.

A half-filled bottle of liquid slowly flowed from the slender doorway.

The drunk man who was knocked down was not dead, he was just unconscious.

The cold wind howled.

The figures in the dark night have disappeared.

Along with the cold wind, snow seemed to fall.

As for whether the drunkard is dead or alive, it depends on when he is discovered.

Shadows moved from the main road through the alleys, weaving in and out of the dirt lanes between the houses.

Passing through the shoal that the moat turned into, crossed the small river, and arrived at the other side, thus arriving outside the city.

From a distance, you can still see the light of fire in the darkness, which is on the bridge of the moat.

There are refugees huddled against the cold.

Even across the moat, there are still sparse houses intertwined.

Through the darkness, they got into a wooden house that was no different from other places and disappeared.

When their figures disappeared, the figures who had been waiting for a long time in the alley next to them came out of the darkness.

And there seemed to be shadows twisting in the darkness beside him.

In the wooden house, there is a door that connects to a long warehouse on the side of the wooden house. After the figure got in, two other people immediately came to greet him.

"Are you all ready?" the figure in black robe asked, pulling down his hood.

He also took off the black robe on his body and hung it next to him.

Only then were the clothes worn by these people revealed, and their blue and gray robes revealed their identities.

These are members of the Jinghe Religion.

"No problem, everyone has been brought." The man who came over nodded, and he and his accomplices carried oil lamps and led the members of the cult towards the warehouse at the rear.

Pass through some cover and walk through the wooden door into the basement below.

This is usually a cellar built in a house to store perishable food.

The moment the wooden door was opened, the faint smell of blood immediately poured out.

But they have long been accustomed to it.

With the illumination of the oil lamp, the situation in the entire cellar was revealed in front of them.

The blood had a fishy smell, and the cold and hot blood flowed on the stone ground.

They swam like living bloody snakes on the stone slabs.

As they flowed, they left bloody traces.

The flowing blood formed a dense magic circle that almost filled the entire cellar.

The combination of the complex array makes people feel dizzy when they look at it, as if it is some kind of visual pattern used to confuse people.

Watching too much can even make you sick.

In the center of the magic circle is a huge hook lowered from the ceiling. This thing seems to exist in the cellar.

Those large animal bodies were hung in the air using such hooks.

At this moment, what was hanging on the hook was the corpse of a naked man. The sharp hook passed through his chest and hung it in the air.

Blood traced dense lines from his chest and gathered on his vertical toes, dripping at his feet like fine water.

That is the origin of the magic circle and the center of the magic circle.

Blood-colored red candles were dotted around the circle, but the light it emitted could not bring warmth to people at all.

The three members of the Jinghe Religion who came all the way looked at the scene in front of them with satisfaction.

"Bring up the devout believers."

As the leader's voice fell, someone was immediately taken to the cellar.

This is a woman wearing simple but almost pure white clothes.

It can be clearly judged from the bulge in the abdomen that this woman has been pregnant for a long time.

I'm afraid it's less than a month before giving birth.

She was not brought here by force, but walked over on her own, escorted by two people who looked like bandits.

Her eyes were always closed, her long, light yellow hair was draped down softly, and her face was calm.

She couldn't be called beautiful, but she could see a hint of maternal brilliance from her ordinary face and expression.

She frowned slightly, her nose twitched, and she smelled the undisguised smell of blood in the air.

"Father, where is this?"

When the leader heard this, he looked at the woman in front of him with satisfaction. He replied with a calm and magnetic voice: "This is the place where you can wash away your sins and receive God's grace for you and your child who is about to be born."

"The smell of blood represents your sins that are about to fade away."

Upon hearing this, the woman nodded without any doubt.

He raised his hand to gently support the woman, his movements were so careful. It was as if this woman was his wife and her belly was his child.

"Come this way, pray, and sing for my God."

The woman's eyes were closed from beginning to end, like a blind person.

Convinced of the priest's words, he clasped his hands in front of his chest and muttered something softly with his mouth slightly open.

His expression was still that calm one, as if he was in a happy life.

The priest looked at this scene and his eyes became a little obsessed. He raised his right hand and shook it gently at the body hanging by the iron hook.

Invisible gas lingered on the body of the corpse. From the hook hole in the middle of his chest, dense lines began to spread throughout his body.

Like protruding red and purple blood vessels.

The flames burst into flames and enveloped the body.

Dark green, miserable green flames.

As the flame burned fiercely, but could not feel the slightest temperature, the flame on the red candle next to it also changed accordingly.

In such flames, the corpse seemed to melt, and the original small column of blood immediately turned into a fully opened faucet.

A large amount of blood slid down, as if someone had opened a floodgate to release water.

The sound of splashing resounded in the ears, and no one would believe that the sound was caused by a large amount of blood.

The blood was tinged with dark red and green, and it immediately filled the entire formation. A large amount of blood instantly filled the entire cellar.

Attached a thin layer on top.

This place can already be called a blood pool.

The pregnant woman with bare feet noticed the thick liquid coming from her feet, but she couldn't feel what it was.

It has a slight coolness, a scalding heat, and a hint of stickiness.

Very strange touch.

As the flames burned, even the smell of blood in the air disappeared, followed by a smell like sandalwood.

Even sweet.

This kind of fragrance made the pregnant woman seem to see the response from the god she prayed to, and her originally calm face became a little excited and pious.

The priest stepped in the blood, but the blood automatically avoided his shoes.

The head was gently close to the pregnant woman's ear.

Whisper in her ear: "Come on, go forward, walk gently, follow the guidance, and enjoy the eternal tranquility with your child.

You will be free from suffering, wash away your sins, welcome the day of flawlessness, and enjoy the beauty of tranquility.

with children. "

As he spoke, he also raised his right hand and gently stroked the pregnant belly of the pregnant woman.

The gentle touch seemed to bring more courage to the woman.

The pregnant woman didn't speak, just nodded slightly and stepped into the blood.

In the still dark environment amid the flames, the cellar under the floor is covered with a layer of blood and sweet fragrance. And the pregnant woman walking on the blood, dressed in pure white, gently lifting her pregnant belly.

She walked barefoot on it, her white feet stained with blood, which was a kind of beauty.

Twisted, full of contrast, beauty.

She came to the place illuminated by the fire, and came to the place where the body was hanging just now.

It's like listening to God's words.

He slowly turned around and faced the few people standing at the entrance of the cellar.

The closed eyes seemed to bring a vision.

The priest standing there felt the gaze, and his facial expression became pious. Close your eyes and start praying as well.

He knelt down slowly, his gray-blue robes soaked in blood, and his entire knee and calf were covered in blood.

The person behind him made the same move as him

They knelt lower and lower until they were all prostrate in the pool of blood.

The blood pool became quiet, stopped flowing, and became like a pool of stagnant water.

It's like a mirror, without any fluctuations.

The blood seemed to grow, and the thin blood lines began to climb up and stretch from the pregnant woman's ankles until they spread to her knees.

The pregnant woman wearing pure white clothes slowly knelt in the blood pool, facing the blood.

Slightly part your red lips.

…

Late at night, Zhuang Cai leaned in the dark alley and looked at the watch on his hand with the faint light.

It was already 3 o'clock in the middle of the night.

It had been an hour since Nan Subei went in to investigate the situation. If he hadn't heard any movement, he would have thought something was wrong with Nan Subei.

Soon there was the sound of footsteps, and Zhuang Cai immediately hid in the darkness and hid himself.

Following the faint inaudible sound of conversation, the three black figures that came before came out of this inconspicuous hut, and then returned to the original route and disappeared.

Looking at the three people who had left, Crop, who was hiding, raised his head and narrowed his eyes slightly.

Their target was gone.

Southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu.

"Ugh, vomit, cough, cough, vomit!"

There was movement behind Zhuang Cai, and it was very loud.

When he turned his head to look, he happened to see Nan Su Bei, who had torn off his cloak and was kneeling in the dirty muddy alley, vomiting.

While vomiting, he pressed his temples and rubbed them vigorously, as if he wanted to crush his head.

Seeing this situation, Zhuang Cai immediately frowned.

Nan Subei, who looked vomiting, had a splitting headache, and was in a daze, did not act rashly.

After observing it for a second or two, he reached out and hooked it.

A talisman flew out and was attached to Nan Subei's head.

Stick it with the charm.

Nan Subei, who was retching and uncomfortable, seemed to be attracted by something.

Suddenly his mouth opened even wider.

"vomit……!"

A large amount of green liquid is vomited out along with the contents of the stomach.

Through the moonlight, Zhuang Cai could see that there were even many things moving in the vomit in the southern and northern Jiangsu.

He raised his hand slightly, and the energy in his body turned into Qi and filled his hand.

The gathered Qi turned into a shimmering light.

There were actually a lot of maggots squirming in the vomit.

But South and North Jiangsu finally felt much better and stood up tremblingly.

He kept coughing.

Since there was no water, Zhuang Cai took out another talisman paper from his waist.

It's just that this is a blank spell.

When the talisman was taken out, Zhuang Cai glanced at the blank talisman, and new patterns and writing appeared on it.

The spell burned and dissipated, leaving only a fist-sized water ball in Zhuang Cai's hand.

The other talisman was already burning when it flew out, and got into the water ball while burning.

The gray and black smoke left over after burning paper melted into the water inside the water ball.

"Come on, wash your mouth."

Nan Subei, who still looked uncomfortable, nodded, reached over and sucked the water from the water ball into his mouth. Then spit it out like gargling.

You can see that the water spit out has become a little turbid.

That's it, repeat to use up the water in the water balloon. Nan Subei finally felt much better. With Zhuang Cai's help, he sat on a stone brick protruding from the wall of a house not far away.

By the way, he threw a piece of talisman paper and it fell into the vomit of Nansu Bei and burned into flames. Let the spell and the vomit burn together.

"What did you see in there?"

Nan Subei rubbed his eyes and waited for a while before replying: "The ceremony is like the ritual of a cult, no, it is the ritual of a cult. They first..."

As Nan Subei spoke, he slowly recounted all the rituals he had peeped in the cellar of the house.

It wasn't until Zhuangcai finished listening that he frowned and nodded, but then asked in confusion: "Although it's disgusting, it's not like this, are you affected just by watching?"

Among the things vomited out of his mouth, there was actually a large group of maggots, and he almost had a splitting headache.

The first charm Zhuang Cai used on him was a charm that soothed the spirit and alleviated mental fatigue and mental pain.

Think of it as a spell's version of a psychotherapeutic drug.

If it has an effect, it means that the spirit of Southern Jiangsu and Northern Jiangsu has indeed been stimulated or affected.

"I don't know. The more I watched the ceremony, the more my eyes became blurry. By the time the pregnant woman knelt down, double images appeared in my eyes, and I was all confused.

If it weren't for the fact that once the Shadow Cloak is used, it can last for a long time and cover me even if it is not maintained, I might have been exposed at that time. "

In other words, he basically couldn't control himself at that time.

"From the time when the pregnant woman knelt in the blood pool and lowered her head to drink the blood, the subsequent rituals were intermittent. I can't remember the specific situation at all.

All I know is that I was affected by the ritual, almost unable to move, even thinking had stopped, and I was in a daze.

It wasn't until the ceremony was over that I came back to my senses. I endured it until they left and then I rushed out. "

Nan Subei said, he is much better now, exhaling and blinking

I could hear in his tone the impact of what he saw inside, and I was still frightened.

They have been in this dungeon for several days. After many days of information collection, they finally determined that people in the church would secretly go to various places in the city at night, especially late at night.

But because they went to a different place every night and didn't dare to follow too closely, it was almost impossible to tell where their destination was during the first two nights.

Until tonight, they judged that they might be in this area through the information collected during the day, so they hid here early and waited for them to come.

When these religious sect members arrived in this area, they were keenly aware of it and followed them from a distance.

Naturally, Nan Subei used his strong hiding ability to follow them in to check their situation inside.

Now it seems that they have obviously paid a price, but at least they have finally achieved something big.

It's been five days since I came to the dungeon, and I finally caught an important clue.

"Wait another half hour and we'll go in and take a look."