Maybe the psychological state before dying is similar...

Just when Xiao Tangqiu fell into despair, a figure suddenly appeared at the church door.

His heart skipped a beat. Could it be...

But the next second, he was disappointed.

The person who appeared at the church door was not the person he imagined, but someone he had not expected at all.

"...It's you? Why are you here?!"

Xiao Tangqiu was so shocked that he blurted out subconsciously.

"Run! Don't come in!"

The person who came in from outside the church was the young man who was still asking for a team this morning. He walked into the church with something in his hand.

At first, Xiao Tangqiu thought that the young man had stumbled upon the church, and he hurriedly shouted at him to escape. However, when he saw what the young man was holding in his hand, he was speechless for a moment.

The young man was actually holding five heads in one hand!

The cuts on the five heads were crooked and uneven, as if they had been sawed off bit by bit by a not-so-sharp saw, and blood was still dripping down... It was obvious that everything had happened not long ago.

Those five heads naturally belonged to the other three old players and the middle-aged man... and the little boy who had just run out and disappeared. Their expressions were extremely painful and distorted, as if they died with their eyes open.

Xiao Tangqiu stared blankly at the five heads, his hair standing on end. He looked at the young man in disbelief. Although the young man was obviously not a good person, he didn't seem to be so cruel and cold-blooded...

At this moment, he suddenly discovered that the material of the puppet and a joint were exposed at the young man's broken arm!

The young man walked towards Lepnobet, carrying the head. He looked humble and flattering. "Master, I have brought the remaining five people..."

Lepnobet frowned slightly, looking somewhat dissatisfied: "Why only the heads? Where are their bodies?"

"They were too uncooperative, so I had no choice but to kill them and bring their heads here," the young man said timidly, "They are so ignorant that they don't even know what an honor it is to be the master's sacrifice..."

Lepnobet said coldly: "That's enough, put down the heads, how many people are left?"

The young man said tremblingly: "I didn't find them just now..."

"Forget it, we already have enough sacrifices." Lepnobet turned to look at Xiao Tangqiu, his eyes cold and gloomy. "With so many sacrifices, this sacrifice will definitely be successful..."

Xiao Tangqiu gritted his teeth and looked coldly at the man and the puppet in front of him. It was not until this moment that he completely understood that the young man was probably dead a long time ago. Yesterday, their group of new players left the castle without permission... All the other newcomers were dead, how could the young man escape alone?

I'm afraid that young man died yesterday, and was then made into a puppet by Lepnobet, and returned to their group of players, becoming the "thirteenth person" among them.

And now fourteen of them have died, leaving only the last six survivors.

Lepnobet whispered the spell on the book. It seemed to be an ancient mysterious language, but for some reason it was full of weirdness and evil, like the whisper of a devil.

As he chanted the spell, the golden patterns on the cover of the book suddenly began to flow, as if the giant world serpent in the pattern had suddenly awakened. At the same time, a circular black totem suddenly appeared under his feet, with him as the center.

It seemed to be a magic circle, filled with strange and evil black totems, exactly the same as the tattoos on Shen Yuan's body.

Soon, the tail-biting snake in the black totem seemed to come alive, starting to move, flow, entwine and twist.

So the magic circle under Lepnobet's feet became bigger and bigger, and in the blink of an eye it had spread to Xiao Tangqiu's feet, almost covering half of the church.

Xiao Tangqiu instantly felt an unusual breath coming towards him, a bone-chilling chill, like the breath of death from hell, which made him tremble all over.

"Sacrifice... Let's use these guests first..."

Lepnobet stood in the center of the magic circle and sneered at the puppet residents in the church, "Let them go first. Go to hell and bring back my real bride..."

At his command, the tail-biting snakes immediately crawled out from the black totem, crawled towards the residents of Dimon Town who had long been turned into puppets, and climbed up the bodies of the puppets.

Wherever the snakes went, the puppet residents who still retained some human form showed their true form one after another. Their skin decayed and turned into powder, their hair withered and disappeared, and their clothes shredded and turned into dust.

In the blink of an eye, all the puppet residents in the church revealed their original form and turned back into bodies made up of several pieces of wood. But this seemed not enough. As the snakes continued to move around, their wooden bodies finally decayed and died, and eventually turned completely into dust in the wind, turning into ashes and disappearing.

Xiao Tangqiu stared blankly at the scene in front of him. It all seemed very familiar.

Although the puppet residents had long lost their self-consciousness and were unable to speak, he seemed to see them screaming, wailing, and struggling.

The church, which was once packed with people, became empty again.

Lepnobet laughed, as happy as a child who got a beautiful doll: "Who's turn next..."

Xiao Tangqiu wanted to escape but couldn't, and could only stare at Lepnobet helplessly. Is it his turn next?

Unexpectedly, Lepnobet did not play by the rules at all. He smiled coldly at Xiao Tangqiu and said, "Next it's your companion's turn, dear. Although your relatives and friends are not here, your companions are the same..."

The snakes turned and crawled towards the young man. The young man screamed in fear: "Master! No! Master..."

However, Lepnobet didn't even look at the young man. The snakes crawled onto the young man. As the young man screamed, his human disguise quickly disappeared, revealing the body and joints of a puppet.

"He's my proudest creation so far," Lepnobet said proudly, looking at Xiao Tangqiu. "He's the perfect fusion of puppet and human. He possesses human consciousness and thoughts, even capable of disguise and fear... It's a bit of a shame, but I believe the most perfect creation of my life is about to be born in my hands."

Xiao Tangqiu frowned. Could it be that when Lepnobet wanted to resurrect Lilimarlene, he was also planning to make her into a half-human, half-puppet like the puppet residents?