Chapter 119: Abandoned
The believer snorted coldly, turned his head away, and made an expression as if he would never say anything even if he was beaten to death.
Since forcing him wasn't working, I had to change my tactics. I squatted down in front of him and said with a smile, "If you tell me what's going on, I might consider showing you another miracle from God."
Sure enough, when that person heard this, his eyes immediately lit up.
"real?"
The next second he looked at me warily again.
"Why should I believe you!"
I was amused by his appearance:
"I didn't ask you to believe it. It's a blood sacrifice anyway, so it doesn't matter who is sacrificed."
In fact, even if he didn't say it, we could roughly guess what they were trying to do.
However, the current information is too vague and needs more explanation.
Sure enough, when the believer heard that he was going to be sacrificed in blood, he hesitated.
Then he looked up at me, his eyes filled with confusion and inquiry:
"Since you know about the blood sacrifice, why are you asking me?"
There's hope!
Having successfully piqued his curiosity, I continued:
"The divine descent ritual failed once, the Son escaped, and the Lord was very angry. Do you understand what I mean?"
After hearing what I said, the believer's pupils shrank drastically, and he was so excited that he couldn't even speak clearly:
“You…you are…”
Although I don't know what he has imagined, I absolutely cannot let him down at this moment. I look down at him, neither confirming nor denying.
Then he tried to struggle to get up, but found that he was tied up tightly, so he had to lower his head respectfully.
"You must be a messenger from God!"
He was so excited that his voice trembled a little.
I almost collapsed.
That was close, I almost laughed out loud.
When you are away from home, your identity depends entirely on other people's imagination.
But this way, the clichés become very simple.
"Tell me, why do you want a blood sacrifice? I haven't heard any oracle from the Lord that a blood sacrifice is necessary. Your blood sacrifice is not for the Lord."
I said this on purpose to scare him, but I think what I said was pretty close to the truth.
Considering the abnormal units summoned by the Apocalypse Sect in Hanwan City and the coincidental discovery of a corpse pit, it is not difficult to guess the target of the Apocalypse Sect's blood sacrifice.
I just don't know what their purpose is.
When the man heard what I said, he was really frightened by me and told me everything he knew.
"The Son of God escaped and the divine descent failed, but we see the opportunity for another divine descent coming soon. We can't miss it! This blood sacrifice is to create a vehicle for the divine descent."
As he spoke, a twisted fanaticism appeared on his face:
"Once God descends successfully, the Lord will walk upon this earth again! Then, I will be a favored one under the throne of the God!"
He became more and more excited as he spoke, and was completely oblivious to the increasingly sympathetic expressions of the others.
But now is not the time, I need to ask something else.
What he just said about artificial carriers is a bit concerning to me.
"That new divine carrier is the one you summoned, right?" I asked.
"It wasn't summoned, but created by us!" The man was very proud.
Directly man-made abnormal units?
I was a little surprised, and even had some respect for the Apocalypse Sect. They always managed to make something big happen every time.
"Huh, ninety-nine people summoning an artificial container?" I asked doubtfully with a deliberately disdainful tone.
"Of course not! We have captured all the survivors in Hanwan City! As long as we continue to perform blood sacrifices, the carrier of God will become stronger and stronger. One day, the Lord will return to the world!"
Hearing this, I frowned slightly, and the others wanted to skin him alive on the spot.
"Are there any other altars for blood sacrifices?"
Hearing my question, the man chuckled strangely a few times, then said with immense pride: "The entire Hanwan City is a huge altar! I participated in the design of every node of this altar..."
After hearing this, the others could no longer sit still and clenched their fists, ready to hit.
Even I find it unbelievable. Although I am not a saint, it is really outrageous that so many people died because of the so-called blood sacrifice.
But there is one last question.
"Where are the other blood sacrifice pits?"
The man looked at me angrily and sneered, "I won't tell you. You don't know anything. You are not a messenger of God! You are a damned pagan!"
Oops, it’s exposed.
It looked like he wouldn't say anything else.
I could only sigh and say, "What a pity! You think you're a core member, but you haven't even seen the Holy Son."
The man's expression froze for a moment.
When I was in the mirror world, I had appeared in front of all the believers there, which means that all the believers in the mirror world should have seen me.
He didn't recognize me, which meant he had never been to the mirror world, and he didn't know that the escaped "Holy Son" he was talking about was me.
"Do you know where the headquarters of the Apocalypse Sect is? You haven't been to the headquarters, right? Why didn't you go? Don't you like it?" I stood up and asked him with a smile.
This believer was captivated by my series of questions. For a moment, he didn't know how to answer. He just kept shaking his head and repeating:
"No... I'm clearly God's chosen one, they can't do this to me! I'm clearly a core member!"
"Core members?"
I sneered and continued, "You probably don't know yet, do you? The headquarters of the Apocalypse Cult is in the mirror. Have you ever been inside?"
After saying that, the man looked at me in disbelief.
"You lied to me! You lied to me! You damned pagan!"
I scoffed, "If I was lying to you, why not ask the people who sent you? It's just... sad that you weren't chosen by your god, nor by the church. Even your companions have abandoned you and run away alone."
I shook my head and smiled faintly. "What a pitiful core member."
I spoke to him word by word, emphasizing the words "core members" deliberately.
The man took a deep breath, then collapsed and said loudly:
"impossible!!!"
Then his body began to twist and melt, and in a moment, he turned into a monster that was neither human nor ghost.
"Kill you...I'm going to kill you!"
At this time, the man's voice was no longer the same as before, but more like the roar of a giant beast.
The rope that originally bound him was also broken at this time.
"Everyone be careful! He's out of control!"
As soon as Song Nanxing finished speaking, the mutated believer rushed straight towards me.
And hidden in his slightly melting flesh was an eye.
The same eye as the one on my arm.
I easily dodged his attack, drew my sword and slashed at him.
However, his flesh and blood was currently in a semi-melted state, and the knife had no effect on it. Instead, it was wrapped tightly around him.
Seeing this, Jiang Wang rushed up and fought with him.
Although they had similar abilities, the eyes embedded in that mass of flesh and blood seemed to be able to see through Jiang Wang's next move, and for a moment, no one could do anything to anyone else.
Others also joined the battle.
This person has obviously evolved many times. Although he does not have many direct means of attack, his abilities are strange. Unconsciously, that feeling of numbness all over the body came back.
Except for Lin Hanning, everyone present froze in their tracks.
Fortunately, I had this experience once before, and I quickly got rid of that feeling of stagnation with the help of the cloud and thunder pattern.
Lin Hanning had no direct means of attack, so he could only dodge the attacks while helping others to deal with them.
"No, the control power has become stronger, it may take me some time!"
Lin Hanning frowned and shouted at me.
The others were unable to move for a while, and Lin Hanning was busy protecting others, so the situation became one-on-one again!
Seeing that the others couldn't move, the man laughed wildly and attacked them.
"Bang—"
I blocked his attack on my teammates with my knife and fought with him.
I have the speed to suppress him, but his melting flesh is also very troublesome.
Moreover, this person was sure that I would protect my teammates, so he would suddenly attack others from time to time.
If it was a simple one-on-one fight, I might still have a chance of winning, but I have to take other people into consideration, which would restrict my ability to act.
In order to avoid affecting other people, I tried to lead him away.
This is not a solution...
While I was parrying his attacks and preventing the battle from affecting others, my mind was working rapidly to think of a countermeasure.
Although the principle is unknown, his ability to make people unable to move for unknown reasons is actually somewhat similar to fear projection.
All of them happened silently and unexpectedly.
Unfortunately, the fear projection seemed to have no effect on him, but instead made him feel good.
By the way, you can try your new ability and try to directly steal his inspiration!
But the next second, I gave up this idea. Not to mention that it might not succeed, he was already out of control. The moment I took his soul, my spirit would briefly merge with his. If I was infected by his madness, I would be at risk of losing control.
Soon, I suddenly had a guess.
What if my status is high enough? Even if they are all abilities that evolved from the same pollution source, I have the power to directly reach the apocalypse.
Thinking of this, I decided to take a risk and give it a try.
I gathered all my strength and quickly moved backward to create a small distance between me and him. In the process, I tried to mobilize the little bit of power I had obtained from the Lord of Apocalypse.
The next second, I rushed to him again and used that power to launch a fear projection.
Of course I know he's not afraid of this, but this is launched with the power of the evil god, so maybe it will be different.
Sure enough, the believer paused and opened his eyes wide, but he didn't look at me. It seemed as if he was looking at something else through me.
"My Lord..."
He said in a trembling voice.
“Uh…ah…”
Immediately afterwards, his body mutated again, but this time, it did not go out of control, but directly disintegrated into a pool of flesh and blood, collapsing rapidly.
Only a set of clothes and a pool of sticky blood were left.
"Dead?" I asked uncertainly.
"Dead." It was Lin Hanning who answered me, and there was not much surprise in her tone.
At this moment, Lin Hanning had almost eliminated the negative states of the others, but their movements were still a little sluggish.
I held the Miao Dao in one hand and looked down at my free hand, which was covered in blood.
Looking at such hands, I was a little dazed for a moment.
The one with the mutated mother last time, the fanatic this time, and every previous battle, although most of them are mutated monsters, there are also people who have struggled to survive like us.
These hands have been stained with blood without me even realizing it...
At this time, several other people were walking towards me while stretching their muscles.
Seeing me looking at my hands in a daze, Chen Yubing patted my shoulder and comforted me:
"The road we're walking is a bloody one."
I lowered my eyes and didn't answer. I understood the principle, but experiencing it personally was another matter.
I shook off the remaining blood on my hands, but the blood had already dried and solidified, and I couldn't shake it off.
I glanced back at Chen Yubing and asked lightly, "When will the apocalypse end?"
The answer I got was silence.
No one knows the answer to this question.
"There is no way to have the best ending in the apocalypse."
It was Jiang Wang who said this. Perhaps because the atmosphere was a bit dull, he tried to use a very cheerful tone to continue:
"If that's the case, why not just give it everything we have in our short lives? What we're doing is obviously super cool, right?"
Looking at his expression, I smiled slightly and echoed:
“Yeah, we’re super cool!”
Deliberately ignoring the dark corner, everyone perked up again.
No matter what, the mission still needs to be completed.
"Okay, let's summarize the information we just received." I suggested.
"It is now completely certain that this corpse pit was created by the Apocalypse Sect, and judging from what the believer just said, there may be more than one such corpse pit." Song Nanxing frowned.
"Well, but what I'm more concerned about is that he just said that the entire Hanwan City is a large altar... Then how to destroy this altar may be the key." Chen Yubing lowered his head and analyzed.
Lord Steel quickly summarized our conclusions and said, "I'll pass the message on to headquarters first."
As he spoke, he turned on the communication device, edited a short report and sent it out.
Compared to these, I actually care more about what this believer calls the coming of God.
It seems that I still have to find an opportunity to find out more about this abnormal unit that was summoned.
However, everything still needs to be done according to orders. If I act alone, I am afraid that everyone will be put in danger.
Besides, it's the middle of the night and no one has gotten much sleep. I used fear projection twice and got into a fight, so I'm really exhausted.
The matter came to a temporary end, and I quickly felt sleepy and couldn't help yawning.
Gang Jue saw this and looked up at everyone, saying, "You guys go to sleep first, especially Ji Ling and Lin Hanning. Thanks to you two, I'll be on duty."
I never argue with others when it comes to night duty. After all, I rarely get a good night's sleep when I'm on a mission, so the longer I sleep, the better.
I nodded, moved the sleeping bag a little, and got into it to continue catching up on my sleep.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
