Chapter 50: Item 2: Picking up the item - Candy store
Shen Li returned to the dormitory, and unexpectedly, the blind man came back.
He disappeared for a night, and when he came back, he had transformed from a black goat back into a human.
Chen Li pushed open the door and stood there in a daze. The blind man had his back to him and was not holding a cane in his hand.
Hearing the sound, the blind man turned around and glanced at Shen Li.
That's right, look.
"Your eyes?"
"I can see." The blind man smiled at him.
The blind man, who regained his sight after a long time, was curious about everything around him.
He didn't want to miss any color in front of him, and looked at the surrounding environment carefully, and finally returned his gaze to Shen Li.
"Why, are you unhappy that I regained my sight?"
Chen Li seemed to have suddenly sensed something and became wary of the blind man.
"You smell bad."
He probably knew something, and advised: "You can't get anything in this world for nothing."
Just like his magic of talismans, there are gains and losses, he is very familiar with this.
"So...what price did you pay to restore your sight?"
Chen Li's words hit the nail on the head.
The blind man was silent.
He said nothing, just stood in front of the mirror, put on his black cloak, and turned away.
In the afternoon, Yu Qianqian and Dakuai came to Song Buyu to summarize the information.
After a long discussion, we came up with the following clues:
First, the Star-Breaking Cult is a □□.
It is said that the Archbishop of the Star-Breaking Cult died suddenly the night before yesterday, and the Angry High Priest became the new Archbishop last night.
Second, someone in this small town dies suddenly and mysteriously every seven days.
The corpse dismemberment case existed before the Star-Breaking Cult ruled this town, and it continues to this day.
No one has ever caught the murderer. The members of the Shattered Star Cult claim that the murderer is a demon and that anyone who joins the Cult will be protected.
Third, there was something very wrong with Mr. Charlie.
Last night, when Yu Qianqian was delivering the tooth, she heard an argument between Mr. Xia Li and Miller.
Miller cried and asked Mr. Charlie whether he had also joined the Star-Breaking Cult, because he saw Mr. Charlie coming out of the church with his own eyes.
Fourth, Song Buyu found a photo of Mr. Xia Li and Ada on the counter of the candy store.
The resentful girl buried in the cemetery was actually Mr. Charlie's sister.
Mr. Xia Li's sister died a long time ago and was also one of the victims of many dismemberment cases.
While they were discussing these things, Shen Li stood in front of the window, lost in thought.
After sorting out the clues, Song Buyu's mind was in a mess. He didn't know whether these clues would be related to the final delivery task.
"What are you looking at?"
Song Buyu rubbed his hair and walked to Chen Li.
Chen Li's gaze fell on the hillside not far away, and he murmured, "The smell of this town has changed."
"odor?"
Song Buyu didn't know what he was talking about.
"Is there anything?" He opened the window and smelled carefully, but could smell nothing.
"Meh..."
Suddenly, there were the sounds of sheep bleating one after another outside the window.
The black goats cried so miserably and so loudly that passers-by on the street stopped and looked towards the hillside.
The shepherd closed the fence and slaughtered the black goat with a knife.
The townspeople who were watching did not show any fear on their faces.
On the contrary, everyone was excited.
They all walked out of the sheepfold and smeared the black goat's blood on their faces like crazy.
Like celebrating something.
The air was filled with the smell of sheep's blood.
In the blink of an eye, the herd of black goats that had been worshipped and respected by everyone like gods were slaughtered.
Song Buyu had a premonition that something big was going to happen.
He quickly went downstairs, grabbed an aboriginal and asked, "What are you doing?"
The native said excitedly, "You don't even know this. You can tell from the looks of it that you didn't go to church last night."
"The new archbishop announced last night that the Black Goat God has fallen and will no longer bring us blessings. So why keep those black goats? Of course, they are all slaughtered."
"You didn't go to the cathedral last night, so don't forget to go tonight."
The passerby was very enthusiastic in giving Song Buyu some advice: "The Archbishop will summon a new patron saint tonight. I am looking forward to it just thinking about it."
Song Buyu, who has obtained new clues, is still struggling over whether to go to the church tonight to investigate further.
As soon as I entered the door, I heard Miller and Charlie arguing again.
"Mr. Xia Li, how could you do this? I thought you would be different, but I didn't expect that even you would join the Star Shattering Cult."
"What's so good about that place?"
Miller has always hated the Star-Breaking Cult. He thought that Mr. Charlie, who had always been reviled as an "alien" by the Star-Breaking Cult members, would at least stand on the same front with him.
But now, even Mr. Xia Li has become one of the followers of the Star-Breaking Cult.
"I'm so disappointed in you!"
Not only did the Star-Breaking Cult cause his parents to ignore him, but now they are even trying to take Mr. Charlie away from him.
He stood there stubbornly, still waiting for Mr. Charlie to give him an explanation.
Mr. Charlie took off his monocle and helped Miller wipe away tears. "Actually, there's nothing wrong with joining the Shattered Star Church. You see, since I joined the church, the followers of the Shattered Star Church have put aside their prejudices against me and come to the store to buy candy. Recently, the store's sales have increased several times..."
Money, money, money, it turns out it’s all about money.
Miller mocked him sarcastically:
"Now Mr. Xia Li has started to speak well of the Shattered Star Cult? Even if you give me more money, I will not become a puppet of the Shattered Star Cult!"
After saying that, the boy turned and ran outside.
There were too many customers in the store, so Charlie couldn't chase him.
Someone died in this town a few days ago. Calculating the time, today is not the seventh day, so we should not encounter the murderer.
Xia Li just let him go, always letting him vent his anger and only come back after he had calmed down outside.
Whole flocks of black goats died today.
Sheep's blood flowed down the hillside and seeped into the brick cracks of the street, enveloping the entire town in a bloody smell.
This smell can suppress appetite, and Song Buyu has no appetite for the whole day.
At night, I grabbed a handful of candy and decided to put on my cloak and go to the church to see what they called the ceremony.
The old site of the cathedral has become a ruin because of the previous "accident".
The believers could only sit in the open air and light a bonfire on the hillside.
When the Broken Star Cult was worshipping the Black Goat God, it required all its followers to respect the black goats, so they were not allowed to eat goats.
Now that the ban has been lifted, everyone is excited and starts skinning, deboning and roasting the whole sheep before the ceremony begins.
Du Ruo followed Song Buyu, covering her mouth and nose. She didn't like the smell of sheep.
If Song Buyu hadn't said that something big was going to happen tonight, she wouldn't have wanted to come at all.
Song Buyu was looking around in the crowd and suddenly saw a familiar figure not far away.
"Shen Li?"
Why is this guy here?
He wanted to go over and tell him to be careful later, but Du Ruo beside him suddenly pulled him to sit down.
The archbishop wearing a white mask appeared on the altar at some point, and the reveling crowd below suddenly fell silent in tacit understanding.
Everyone was sitting, and it would be strange if Song Buyu stood up at this time.
So he sat down.
The man with glasses squeezed over at some point and sat behind Song Buyu, staring at him with resentful eyes.
The ceremony begins.
Five priests stood beside the archbishop, chanting words they could not understand.
The church members around him lowered their heads.
Song Buyu quickly followed suit and crawled on the ground with his head down. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of an alien in the crowd from the corner of his eye.
Shen Li!
This guy doesn't know how to read eyes at all!
Everyone was crawling on the ground, except him, who was still standing there in a daze, neither humble nor arrogant, with a fearless look.
This is too conspicuous!
Song Buyu quietly looked up and gave him a secret signal, but this guy didn't receive it at all.
The archbishop on the altar also cast his eyes on him, but he just glanced at him.
The priests ignored Chen Li and began to carve strange symbols on the altar with black goat blood.
The archbishop held a book as thick as a dictionary in his hand, reading it intently, and occasionally checking the formation symbols with the high priest.
Shen Li stared at the symbols on the altar and realized their intention.
They are trying to open the gates of hell!
The high priest used the flesh and blood of the black goat as bait to open the gates of hell and lure out the evil spirits in hell.
But the runes around it controlled the lured evil spirits within the formation.
The gates of hell opened and closed, releasing thousands of evil ghosts in an instant.
The evil ghosts killed each other in the small formation, just like raising a Gu, and in the end only one would be left.
The evil ghost that is left behind will be worshipped as a god by the Star-Breaking Cult.
This formation is too dangerous. If there is even a slight mistake, thousands of evil spirits will be released and harm innocent people.
This is not something that ordinary people can access.
Judging from the hasty way they drew the talismans, they seemed unfamiliar with it.
The priests drew the pictures according to the contents of the book.
"Wrong, the symbol is wrong."
In the silence, there was a sudden sound of Shen Li.
Shen Li pointed to a symbol in the corner and claimed that it was wrong, and the Archbishop checked it several times against the book.
It's obviously right.
Song Buyu was almost driven crazy by Chen Li.
"He's looking for death, isn't he?"
The man with glasses behind him sneered: "What does he know? How dare he say that? I hope he won't implicate us later."
Du Ruo also lowered his head and couldn't help complaining, "Where does he get the courage, Song Buyu, this is the roommate I went through so much trouble to protect? Once other people find out his identity and the existence of the courier, he will kill us sooner or later!"
"That's right." The Archbishop checked it several times, "The contents of the Necronomicon cannot be wrong!"
"I think you are here to cause trouble on purpose, catch him!"
At the Archbishop's command, thousands of the surrounding churchgoers came forward and savagely tied up Shen Li.
"The ceremony continues!"
"Wrong, the ceremony cannot continue."
Chen Li was tied up, but he still tried to stop them ignorantly.
"Shut his mouth!"
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