Slowly on the way down.

The only sounds in Bai Tao's ears were his own breathing and the burning candlelight.

The unusual silence around him and the seemingly endless underground passage made Bai Tao feel that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense.

In this unusually quiet space, Bai Tao felt as if he was being pulled by some force. Perhaps it was an illusion caused by the oppressive space, he felt as if he had walked into a passage with no end.

I felt like I was being led by something, and it was the same feeling as when I was using the power of the abyss to refine my body under the body refining tower.

There was a vague evil will bewitching and guiding him, and all the voices seemed to come from all directions. He felt himself being pulled by this force, as if he would be taken away at any time.

The intensity of this induction is not high, and it may be fatal to people with weak minds, but for the well-trained Bai Tao, it is really nothing, and it also makes Bai Tao more certain that there must be some secret hidden in this basement.

He clenched the spiritual sword and the spiritual-powered pistol in his hands, ready to face any possible attack from any unknown source.

Now, he is confident that he can react calmly in a variety of situations.

The raven 12138 on his shoulder was also in this place where spiritual perception was inexplicably suppressed. He was alert and paying attention to everything around him.

Not long.

The narrow downward staircase reached the end, and the surrounding view suddenly opened up.

This is a fairly large basement.

There wasn't much light inside, making it difficult to see clearly, but with Bai Tao's trained eyes that had enhanced their photosensitivity, the dim light here was enough for him to get a rough idea of ​​everything around him.

The overall decoration style here is very dark and strange.

The entire basement is filled with patterns that make people feel uncomfortable: splattered blood, torn skin, exposed muscles, twitching tentacles, and a gloomy atmosphere. The dark tones and weird patterns make people feel uncomfortable after seeing them.

A creepy feeling came over me.

However, Bai Tao is an outstanding student of Dawn Academy after all, and is a reserve for a future official member of Everday. He has a special targeted training course for his ability to endure these things, and he has already honed himself.

Bai Tao simply ignored the strange decoration around him and looked towards the middle of the basement, where there was a round table.

Sitting at the round table were the two men that Bai Tao had seen here before.

Just as Bai Tao expected, they were not surprised by his appearance. Instead, they showed an indescribable smile on their faces.

They looked at Bai Tao, as if they had been waiting here for a long time.

One of the men slowly put down the strange staff in his hand.

Faced with this strange situation, Bai Tao swallowed his saliva and put a little more strength in his hands holding the sword and pistol.

"We are all His people. He will show us the way and lead us into the kingdom of eternal life."

Among them, the bald bearded man that Bai Tao had been following looked at Bai Tao with fanaticism on his face.

"Him?"

"Who is it?"

Bai Tao did not let his guard down, but he did not act rashly either.

Before the meeting, the two men wanted to preach to him. Bai Tao decided that whether it was to delay for a while or to gather information, he would just listen first.

“Everything in the world was created by Him, and all the material things in the world were created by Him.”

"He is One and All! He is You and Me!"

The bald bearded man's tone became more fanatical.

Apparently, Bai Tao's words hit the mark exactly where he wanted to madly tell, promote and preach.

He began to talk excitedly.

Bai Tao frowned when he heard this, and his frown grew tighter as he listened.

One? All?

Creation of everything? Was this plagiarism of a certain creator's setting? Or were these guys with faith all elevating the so-called gods they believed in to such a high level? Or were these people originally Christians, and now, after being bewitched, induced, and twisted by the will of the abyss, they merged their new faith in the will of the abyss into that Lord?

Anyway, no matter what, the overall decoration style here definitely does not look like it believes in any upright gods.

Coupled with the fact that the feeling he got when he was here was extremely similar to the energy reaction under the Body Refining Tower, Bai Tao could roughly confirm that he had really encountered the Abyss, the mortal enemy of Yong Zhou and mankind, here.

"You are welcome to join us."

The bald bearded man opened his arms and gave Bai Tao an expression that said, "We are already friends."

Bai Tao was stunned, his mind working frantically, and in an instant he understood the meaning of the man's words, as well as some of the doubts he had just had.

Obviously, the two fanatics in front of him were convinced that he would become their companion, so they took the initiative to open the door of the secret passage without any precautions and invited him, the uninvited guest, to break in.

Because they were confident that Bai Tao, the intruder, would become one of them on the way down.

If he thought about it this way, then the call and temptation he felt while walking down the stairs just now was not an illusion, but an erosion and inducement from the power of the abyss, trying to make him believe in the abyss as well! Perhaps, the power of that inducement came from the man holding the staff.

only……

That power was so insignificant to Bai Tao that he could only barely feel that it was somewhat like the abyss. After Bai Tao finished training in the Body Refining Tower, the residual abyss power that was led out of his body by those humanoid puppets was many times greater than the power here.

And the intensity of this induction is not high.

It may be fatal to a person with a weak mind, but it is nothing to the well-trained Bai Tao.

In Chenxi College, Dean Chen always attaches great importance to the character, quality, and will of the members. When he gives lectures every week, he will routinely lead everyone to hone their character.

The function of the Sea of ​​Learning in Chenxi Cave is that students are pulled into a fantasy world for training on their way to and from get out of class every day.

So, when the bald bearded man opened his arms and pretended to hug his friend, Bai Tao just stayed there silently without moving.

The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment, and the scene became awkward for a while.

Bai Tao showed an awkward but polite smile. Theoretically, if he went over and gave her a hug, he should be able to get into the organization.

Apparently, there was no way for the members of their organization to identify each other, otherwise they wouldn't have mistaken him for one of them.

But the problem is that Bai Tao is a little worried.

He was worried that the guy in front of him was just pretending, and was ready to use his strange ability to give him a ruthless blow the moment he got close.

To be cautious, Bai Tao remained unmoved.

The two Abyss believers also stood there in a daze, their expressions frozen, as if they didn't understand why Bai Tao didn't come over to hug them.

After a moment, they both opened their eyes wide in realization.

The bald bearded man was so angry that he blew his nose and glared, while the other man holding the staff slowly reached his hand under the table without saying a word.

"If that's the case, then who brainwashed you in the first place?"

Bai Tao continued to ask curiously, breaking the temporary tranquility.

But the two people who had already reacted obviously would not answer his doubts.

The expressions on their faces were first one of disbelief, and then twisted into anger to the extreme.

"heresy!"

The bald bearded man roared.

The next moment, the bald and bearded burly man stepped forward, ran wildly and tried to attack Bai Tao with a heavy punch.

Considering the physique of this bald, bearded man, his strength is naturally far greater than that of an ordinary person.

However, his opponent is Bai Tao, an outstanding student who has been trained in Dawn Academy for a long time and one of Yong Zhou's reserve members.

Even though he has not eaten the mulberries to officially awaken his spirituality, his physical body has basically reached a quasi-supernatural level after being polished by various supernatural means.

Bai Tao just slightly sidestepped the punch, then held the sword in his hand reversely and hit the back of the bald man's head with the hilt. The precise position and just the right amount of force made the bald man fall to the ground unconscious instantly.

Just in case, Raven 12138 then used spiritual power to cast a spell on the bald, bearded man lying on the ground to keep him in a coma.

"It's great to be young. You can fall asleep as soon as you lie down."

As Bai Tao spoke, he fired the pistol in his other hand almost without hesitation, aiming at another man who was making some movements nearby.

He was trained to extreme proficiency, and without hesitation used the Mozambique shooting method, shooting the man twice in the torso and once in the head.

Two shots to the body and one to the head, even a god would shake his head.

The man who had just taken out a portable rocket launcher from under the table was instantly dealt with by Bai Tao. The staff and the portable rocket launcher fell to the ground, leaving him no chance to react.

Then, Bai Tao first asked Raven 12138 to continue to keep the unconscious person on the ground from waking up.

Then he stepped forward cautiously and put the portable rocket launcher on his body aside.

He then came to the man who had been shot and without hesitation shot him once more in the head and heart as a finishing blow.

The body of the man, who had been shot three times, did not show any unusual symptoms after Bai Tao shot him two more times.

He stared at the staff on the ground and looked at it carefully, but did not pick it up without permission.

But no matter how he observed it, he always felt that it was just an ordinary magic wand toy, with even tiny English letters on it.

Out of caution, Bai Tao decided not to touch it for the time being as he was not sure whether it was a real toy or a real staff.

After standing up, Bai Tao looked around and couldn't help frowning.

Is that all these two guys have? They don't seem to have any extraordinary powers, nor do they have the ability to revive.

This made Bai Tao silent.

Before they came out for the social practice assessment, Vice President Zhang Zihang did explain the details of the task to them and did give a general account of the situation of these Abyss believers: basically, they would not be too powerful, but special cases were not ruled out.

However, he didn't expect that these two people were just ordinary people.

Apart from being able to pull out a rocket launcher, there seemed to be nothing special about it, and it was unknown whether the staff was real or fake. When he had just joined Dawn Academy for a week, he could easily deal with ten groups of such people at the same time.

And now, let alone him.

However, he did not ponder for too long. He quickly came to his senses and conducted a thorough search of the entire basement according to the search techniques taught in Dawn Academy.

The entire small basement was almost in sight, and Bai Tao had actually seen most of it when he first came in.

He did not find anything noteworthy here. Those strange decorations were all normal items that could be bought in reality. Many of them had the words MADE IN CHINA on them. There were no special items that could react to spiritual power.

As for the stairs he came from, Bai Tao went back and walked them again, and he did not experience the same mental confusion as before.

Everything seems to have returned to normal.

However, Bai Tao would naturally not jump to conclusion directly. The more specific and detailed reconnaissance situation would have to wait for the arrival of the support he had called for earlier.

Conduct a thorough appraisal of everything in this room, including the staff.

Looking at the one survivor he had specially left behind who was being kept unconscious by Raven 12138's continuous spell, Bai Tao's eyes gradually became solemn.

Bai Tao sat at the round table, deep in thought, waiting for the arrival of the support he had called for earlier.

The Abyss believers are indeed just as Vice President Zhang Zihang said, they are just a group of weak-minded people who suddenly believe in the Abyss.

The abyss doesn't use much power, so these abyss believers have no power except being crazy enough and listening to the abyss.

Only through a long period of waiting and under the guidance of the abyss can one accumulate enough strength to cause trouble.

The two Abyss believers that Bai Tao discovered at the moment had only become believers not long ago, and the strange changes in their personalities only appeared a week ago, so naturally they were not very strong.

This doesn't seem to be a big concern.

However, the most difficult thing about the Abyss believers is that the Abyss does not use much power, and thus can avoid the perception of Eternal Day on a large scale.

At present, there is a high probability that there are Abyss believers all over the world, lurking deep in the entire real human society.

Even the two Abyss believers that Bai Tao met were confirmed to be Abyss believers only after he discovered that they seemed to be able to perform some kind of spiritual magic.

Given their not-so-small number and good concealment, the issue of dealing with Abyss Believers will become a long-term problem.

At this moment, Bai Tao realized the importance of this social practice assessment.

All of humanity must continue to carry out the plan to eliminate the Abyss believers and include cults and other behaviors in the long-term key plan.

To ensure that these traitors will not cause any trouble during the long period of lurking.

"It seems like there is no crisis, but in fact there are already big problems."

"But fortunately, humans still have eternal daylight."

Bai Tao murmured, his eyes shining.

Yong Zhou had already considered this aspect, which made Bai Tao feel relieved.

With such an ancient and mysterious salvation organization, everything seems to be settled.

The defense is over, and there are still many things to do next, but they are all messy things. At least I can find time to maintain the basic daily updates.

Thank you for your understanding.

(End of this chapter)