It was a terrible intuition. He clearly didn't realize that the "Gehrman Sparrow" in front of him was just a substitute, but he still felt that something was wrong... Klein, who was hiding in a house far away, hissed in his heart. His mind raced, and he quickly came up with a strategy to deal with it.

He manipulated the Wrathful Spirit, Senior, and made the puppet speak in a low voice:

“I’m a little worried, too.

"After opening the door, if you leave first, then when I go out, you can ambush me outside. You don't even need to ambush me, just wait.

"I think I should go out first. Before that, you need to return my flesh, blood, and hair to me. Then, you can get closer to the 'door'. This way, you will have enough time to pass through the 'escape door' before the 'spiritual line' floats to the top of the church."

The Witch of Despair Panatia listened in silence and asked:

"Then how can I prevent you from destroying the 'Escape Door' after you get out?"

"That's my problem, too." The puppet in Gehrman Sparrow's image responded without showing any weakness. "When I get that special symbol, I'll show it to you. That way, even if I close the 'Escape Door,' you can reopen it."

Panatia closed her mouth again, as if she was thinking about the details, but she seemed a little irritable and difficult to calm down, as if her mind was filled with a lot of crazy tendencies.

After about ten seconds, she spoke again:

"I feel that pure curses may not necessarily harm you. The 'Fortune Tellers' have plenty of ways to avoid harm, just like the 'Paper Doll Substitute' you used before."

There really isn't a single loophole left. Fortunately, the person in front of you is completely fake... Klein complained inwardly while asking the "Ghost" Senior to take out one paper figure after another from his pocket and burn them all in front of the "Witch of Despair".

"I can't be sure if you have another one hidden." Panatia still said with some nervous suspicion.

Gehrman Sparrow pulled the corner of his mouth expressionlessly and said:

"You can tell fortunes, aren't witches good at that?"

Panatia smiled impatiently:

"There is no way to communicate with the spirit world here, and my spirit..."

She didn't finish her words, and her eyes became quite dangerous.

Klein knew exactly what the Witch of Despair meant. He knew that her spirituality had been polluted by the "eating" she had been eating for the past six months. She was confused and a little crazy, and could no longer give a sufficiently reliable "answer," especially when facing an Beyonder who was the best at divination.

The two of them stood there, unable to solve the problem of how to build trust.

At this moment, a hoarse and vague voice came from the roof on the left:

"I can help you 'witness'."

"German Sparrow" and Panatia turned their heads at the same time and looked over, only to see Mr. A "growing" out from the shadows, his hooded robe blood red.

"How to 'witness'?" Klein asked the Wrathful Spirit Senior.

Mr. A pulled down his hood and laughed in a low voice:

"I use 'flesh magic' to get into your body and monitor your condition. Once you stop manipulating the 'spiritual thread' or try to use the 'paper substitute', I will immediately give you a warning or try to stop you.

"When the 'escape door' you mentioned opens, I will leave your body and enter the door before the 'spiritual thread' is affected."

Do you think Gehrman Sparrow is a fool? Klein asked the secret puppet to curl his lips and said:

"From what I know, the Rose Bishop can indeed hide inside someone else's body, but when it comes out, the host will die on the spot."

"No, that method is used to avoid detection, so it is necessary to merge with the host's flesh and blood. But this time it is not necessary. I will stay quietly in your stomach." Mr. A explained in detail.

No, it’s not my stomach, it’s the stomach of the secret puppet Senior... Klein asked Gehrman Sparrow to take out a gold coin and pretended to try divination.

This "crazy adventurer" kept whispering, and gold coins began to jump between his fingers.

With a clang, the gold coin flew into the air and then fell into the palm of his hand.

Gehrman Sparrow took a closer look and said:

“It seems that he didn’t lie.

"However, you must leave my body before I show that special symbol to 'Lady Despair'."

Otherwise, "German Sparrow" might be murdered by the two of them - if Panatia got the "door opening symbol" and controlled the obsidian, and had more time and didn't need to worry about the "spiritual thread" mutating, then she could completely do without "German Sparrow"'s help, and Mr. A's presence would prevent the use of the "paper man substitute".

If Mr. A came out earlier, "German Sparrow" would not have to worry about this, and he would not even have to be afraid that Panatia would turn against him after knowing the "door opening symbol". At that time, he could rely on the "paper substitute" to avoid his inevitable death, and Panatia would not chase him in the church, because as time goes by, she will be hung up, and she must seize the opportunity and escape immediately!

On the other hand, the obsidian slab could not be taken away, so Gehrman Sparrow would have the possibility to escape later.

Although this plan still has some flaws in the details, it takes the situations of the three parties into full consideration. The Witch of Despair Panatia raised her hand and grabbed the hair that had fallen from her temples. Suddenly, she asked:

"If I escape first, aren't you afraid of being ambushed?"

This was also the problem that Gehrman Sparrow was worried about before.

Klein immediately asked the secret puppet to slightly raise his lips and said:

"Fear.

"But I still have some ways to escape, I can take a gamble."

Panatia paced a few steps irritably, and finally spoke:

"That's what we'll do."

After making up her mind, she smiled very happily and said:

"You are such a special man, a man who gives me hope. Once we leave here, if you are not afraid, I don't mind letting you experience the ultimate pleasure."

Gehrman Sparrow looked away with great effort, turned his head and looked at Mr. A.

"I have no problem anymore."

There was a sudden sound of wind, and Mr. A flew down, landing not far from "Gehrman Sparrow".

His body and his "clothes" melted quickly and turned into a mass of sticky flesh and blood.

Then, the flesh and blood kept overlapping and compressing, turning into a "stream" as thick as an arm, flowing towards "Gehrman Sparrow".

In a distant house, Klein dry-heaved with a slight nausea, then asked Gehrman Sparrow to open his mouth.

The "stream of flesh and blood" then climbed up the body of the secret doll and went all the way into his mouth. The slightly warm but slippery feeling passed through the esophagus and entered the stomach.

It’s heavy... However, Mr. A’s flesh and blood are helping to support the stomach so that it doesn’t sag too much... Klein checked the puppet and asked him to look up at the red moon obscured by the mist in the sky. He said to the Witch of Despair Panatia:

“Let’s start now.”

"Okay." Panatia, who had long been unable to suppress her inner impulse, walked impatiently to the door of the church.

Klein asked Gehrman Sparrow to follow him. He first pulled out a handful of hair, then made two buds grow on the skin of his arm, and then pulled them off directly, causing blood to flow.

If there were someone who was very familiar with me here, they would definitely find the problem, because I can't be so decisive in hurting my body... Well, in the eyes of others, the crazy adventurer Gehrman Sparrow should be able to accomplish similar things easily... While Klein was discovering the problem and summarizing his experience, he asked the secret doll to hand over the hair and flesh in his hand to the "Witch of Despair" Panatia when he stepped over the half-open door of the ancient church.

Panatia slowed down, took out an ugly palm-sized puppet, smeared blood and flesh on it, and wrapped the hair around the thin neck.

She held the cursed puppet in one hand and finally passed through the church gate. Klein immediately asked "German Sparrow" to manipulate the "spiritual line" of both parties. As for Mr. A's, since it overlapped with the secret puppet, there was no need to go through so much trouble.

Well, I can do it. With the ability shown by Zaratul, He can completely help Beyonders who are not "Fortune Teller" solve the problem of losing control of the "Spirit Line" inside the church. In this way, as long as He finds a way to let the "Witch of Despair" in, He can "open the door" a long time ago... Why doesn't He do this? He can't communicate with the outside of the church, and even the use of power must be limited to the vicinity of the dark altar? Therefore, Beyonders who are not "Master of Secret Dolls" and above the "Fortune Teller" path can't even come to Him? Klein used the senses of the secret doll to analyze the situation from a distance.

Inside the church, the corpses were still hanging in the air, with their heads lowered and their eyes rolled back. They swayed gently in the wind that blew from time to time, and made mumbling sounds of "Honakis...Fregela..."

When the "Witch of Despair" Panatia saw this scene, her body suddenly stiffened, but she quickly adjusted herself and walked with "German Sparrow" under the "overlooking" of the suspended people.

It wasn't long before they saw the dark altar and the statues of the descendants of the ancient gods.

Zaratul was still sitting diagonally behind the stone statue, wearing a hood and with a full white beard.

When Gehrman Sparrow and Panatia approached, He slowly raised His head and laughed:

"Very good. Beyonders of the Fortuneteller path must know how to use their brains instead of always thinking about fighting."

He seemed to have foreseen that the paper figure of "Gehrman Sparrow" would be almost completely destroyed. He stretched out his dry palm and reached forward, grabbing out a piece of yellow-brown parchment, a feather pen stained with ink, and a bottle of ink.

Seeing this, the "Witch of Despair" Panatia couldn't help but raise her eyebrows.

Zaratul picked up the feather pen and wrote words and symbols on the parchment, then rolled it up and handed it to Gehrman Sparrow:

“The ‘open door’ symbol, and the ‘trickster’ potion formula you requested.

"They can only last for three quarters of an hour and cannot be taken to the outside world."

Klein avoided the Witch of Despair and unfolded the parchment, allowing the potion formula and the 'open door' symbol to come into view at the same time.

Suddenly, his eyes narrowed and froze.

The "open door" symbol is basically the same as the complex symbol provided by the Antigonus family notes with the help of the "Doom Puppet", which is a vertical eye composed of many mysterious patterns and hidden symbols!

However, there is a slight difference in the details between the two, a crescent pattern and a broken line logo have swapped positions!

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