Chapter 288 Chapter 288

"The...priest of the Serko cult?" Tony looked confused.

The door behind the man was pushed open, and a girl with short dark brown hair walked out, followed by a floating book. The book was opened upwards, and a light blue halo emanated from the pages.

She turned her head and looked over here: "What's going on? Why is there someone here?"

Tony quickly explained how they got lost and came here, and asked, "Can you take us out, Mr. Priest?"

"Priest?" She was stunned and looked at the man.

The man turned his head and looked at the sky.

"We are not priests yet." The girl introduced herself. "I am Hannah, and his name is Bryce. We are indeed clergy of the Cult of Seker."

Bryce: "Anyway, when we get out, we can become priests. What's wrong with that?"

"That's about getting out alive." Seeing the puzzled expressions on Tony and Flynn's faces, Hannah said, "After the Cult of Seker grew stronger, there were also internal divisions of levels and positions. In short, in terms of status... it's equivalent to the archbishop."

However, Archbishop is a title within a certain Western religious sect, and the Sekh Religion would naturally not use it.

I just described it this way to make it easier for both of us to understand.

It doesn't sound that impressive, but only by reaching this position can one be qualified to meet Lord Kailet and preside over a state's church. There are fifty states in the United States, and there are fifty priest positions available, which have not been filled yet.

Many people have a desire for power, so it's no wonder that everyone is trying to get it.

Of course there are higher positions, such as high priest and priest, but this is not something Hannah and Bryce will consider now.

"You said... get out alive? You will die here too?" Flynn was a little panicked.

Hannah nodded as a matter of course: "This is a restricted area. Lord Kellet has marked the danger level as S-level. We came here after writing our wills and meeting our relatives and friends."

She and Bryce were new members who had just joined the Seko Cult. Although they were quite capable, they were still inexperienced. If they had the merit of helping Lord Kailett deal with the forbidden area, no one would question their becoming priests.

This mission, which was almost a suicide mission, was something she and Bryce had fought hard for.

You have to give it a try in life.

"Can you please help me? My girlfriend Sarah and other people are trapped here." Tony begged, "Just send them out."

"I'm sorry, but from what you said, I know that the space here has become chaotic. Even if you cut down the trees, you can't leave." Hannah shook her head. "It's too late."

Dark clouds appeared from nowhere, covering the sky, and the wind began to howl again.

Bryce hurriedly took out a battle axe from his bag and looked around vigilantly.

"It's time to start." Hannah turned and walked into the room. "Come in."

Bryce backed into the room and shouted to the people at the door, "You come in too!"

"What should we do?" Flynn looked at Tony.

Tony took out his cell phone, but there was no signal. He said, "Come in. I'll go find Sarah and the others and ask them to come over."

The feeling of having no cell phone signal is very much like being in a strange zone. Since I'm already trapped here and can't escape, staying with the clergy of the Serko Church will at least give me a better chance of survival.

"Okay, come back soon." Flynn ran into the room.

The door was closed with a bang by the wind.

Outside the house, Tony drove away.

Inside, Hannah and Bryce both sat in chairs.

"You guys are not doing anything?" Flynn asked.

"You're right, we should do something." Hannah stood up, rummaged through the cupboard to find the coffee machine and half a bottle of coffee powder, and started making coffee.

Flynn: ?

"Can it still use electricity?" Bryce walked over, his battle axe tucked onto his waist, ready for use at any time.

"The time-space overlap isn't complete yet, but it's okay for now." Hannah said, staring at the coffee machine that was starting to steam.

Then there was a snap and the coffee machine suddenly lost power.

"…That won't work now." Hannah said regretfully.

“It’s already hot.”

"Would you like a drink?" Hannah asked Flynn.

Fulin nodded: "Then... have a drink."

*

On the other side, since Tony drove away, Sarah and the other two hid in the car, waiting quietly.

Since there was nothing to do, Jenny talked to pass the time. Talking about happy past events could help them divert their attention and face the current situation more calmly.

Then the topic turned to the birthday party.

"I wanted to give you a surprise tomorrow," Sarah said, leaning against the car window. "A surprise birthday party."

"Really? Just don't put a scary doll in the cake box like last year." Jenny recalled the past and laughed, "That cracked doll face really scared me."

"Then you got so scared that you punched the doll and it broke its head."

"You expected me to react like this, didn't you?" Jenny raised her wrist. "The bracelet hidden in the doll's head, your surprises are always different from others."

"But we won't do that this year. We'll just do the normal ones..."

The two girls were chatting and laughing together.

Sarah sat in the passenger seat, and Paul was the only one in the back seat. He held his bag tightly, like an outsider, not joining in the conversation between the two girls, nor did he want to strike up a conversation.

No matter how heatedly Jenny and Sarah talked about the topic, it couldn't affect his heart which was full of fear.

Paul kept looking out the car window, listening to the two girls' descriptions of last year's dolls.

The sky began to turn gloomy and a thunderstorm seemed to be about to begin again.

The wind blew through the trees, making a terrifying whimpering sound. Paul trembled and said, "Hey, why don't we just leave..."

Before he could finish his words, he saw a dark shadow flash through the woods from the corner of his eye. He turned his head suddenly to look in that direction, but only saw swaying branches.

"What did you say?" Sarah asked, turning around.

"I mean, let's go to town..." Paul said, "I feel like something is wrong here."

"It's going to rain." Jenny looked at the sky through the car window. "He's right. We'd better leave here. If another tree is struck by lightning and falls on us, we'll be dead."

Then he started the car.

But after several attempts, the car just made a buzzing sound and wouldn't start.

"Hmm?" Jenny lowered her head to check the dial in confusion.

At this moment, a doll head with a cracked face suddenly appeared on the front windshield. It was looking down from the roof of the car, and its rough bulging eyes carved out of wood were staring at the people in the car.

At first glance at the horrible face, both Sarah and Paul screamed.

The next second, the doll's head disappeared, and the car started moving.

"What?" Jenny looked up. "What's wrong with you two? Why are you screaming?"

"In front, just now, it cracked, doll..." Paul pointed in front and spoke incoherently.

"Anyway, get out of here!" Sarah shouted.

Jenny nodded, shifted the gears and stepped on the accelerator in one go, quickly steering away from here and heading towards the town.

Sarah and Paul looked back in confusion, but they could no longer see the doll.

"Just now, the doll with the cracked face that I told you about appeared on the front glass." Sarah's lips trembled. "It was really scary, but...how could it be possible? That was last year. I have thrown away the doll."

It was a funny doll, whose head would break if the slightest force was applied. It was a defective product from a funny toy store. Sarah happened to see the owner of the store getting rid of this defective product. She bought it at a very low price, thinking that she could use it as a "surprise" for Jenny. After using it once at the birthday party, she threw it into the trash.

It's worth less than a box of balloons, so there's no need to feel bad about throwing it away.

At that time, someone was joking with Sarah, saying that if she threw it away, the other party might become a terrible monster and come to seek revenge on Sarah.

Sarah didn't take it seriously, and she didn't encounter any strange incidents for a whole year.

The defective dolls were taken away by the garbage truck and sent to the landfill for disposal.

Why is it here again? It's still so new, it looks like I just bought it at my birthday party last year.

The car kept moving forward and there was no sign of the doll anymore. Sarah breathed a sigh of relief, thinking she had gotten rid of it.

Whatever it is, I hope I don't encounter it again.

At this time, no one in the car realized that the real terrible crisis for them was not the doll.

Because in the next five hours, they neither reached the town nor could they return to the place where the tree fell. Instead, they were driving endlessly on this road with no starting point or end point, as if they had entered a Möbius loop.

In the East, there is a peculiar term for this, called "ghost wall".

In fact, it was because of spatial confusion. There was clearly only one road without any forks. However, when Tony drove back to find them, he drove all the way to the place where the tree fell and did not see Sarah or their car.

At this time, on the mountain west of the town of Semiril, Mangtao, Kailet and Bai Yixin stood in front of a huge mirror.

"It has been connected to the anchor point of the other world, and soon this area will overlap with a part of the other world." Bai Yixin said, "The time and space overlap will last for about 12 hours."

"Buildings, life, and weird things will all enter that world. Theoretically, except for dead things, all other existences have a chance of being left in that world. If we can successfully abandon all the weird things in the other world, the plan will be considered initially completed."

Mang Tao looked up at the huge mirror, which reflected a snowy scene.

"Thank you for your hard work." Mang Tao placed her hand on the mirror, and the mirror surface rippled with water patterns.

"Let's get started."

"The first test will be very dangerous, so I brought two awakened people into this area as observation subjects. However... now there is another group of ordinary people who are not awakened."

"The Seko Church has already announced the matter of the restricted area, and there are also reminders in the weird live broadcast software. How could someone break into this remote town?" Kailett said calmly, "Life and death are determined by fate, and it just so happens that there are more ordinary people as observation cases."

In view of the valuable experimental data they provided, Carey was willing to give them some rewards through the channels of the Secor Church.

Of course, the premise is that you don't die at the hands of a weirdo, and you can't be left in another world and come back alive.