Deep Sea Embers Chapter 31: Residual

Fanna raised her head and looked at the lady in the black dress who was checking the mental state of some cultists. The latter noticed her gaze and raised her head to greet her slightly.

The other party looks like he is only in his early twenties, but he has a calm temperament that is far more mature than his age. His long black hair is coiled behind his head, and the light blue crystal earrings on his earlobes are reflected not far from the shaking. Reflection of gas lamps.

“…Heidi is here too…Did the city hall send her here?” Fanna asked the young guard beside her.

“No, Ms. Heidi happened to be nearby when the incident happened, and she came directly when she heard the news—what’s wrong?”

“No, it’s nothing. Although Heidi is an employee of the City Hall, she has a long-term partnership with the church. After returning home, you can make an on-site registration.” Fanna shook her head and quickly regained her focus. On the matter in front of her, she checked the cult priest who lost her mind and died, and asked casually, “What else did those cultists who were still able to communicate with? What was the situation at that time?”

“Their language was confusing, and two of them mentioned that the normal sacrificial ceremony had ended, but suddenly someone caught a fleeing sacrificial near the meeting place, so the messenger decided to put the sacrificial offering. Sacrifice to the sun god…” The guardian said while recalling, “The two cultists were standing far away from the altar at the time, and they didn’t see the specific scene on the altar. They only said that the sacrifice penetrated the heart and did not die. , and instead shouted the name of the sun god, and directly designated the messenger as a sacrifice… As a result, the messenger was sacrificed.”

“…A person who was chosen as a sacrifice, shouted the name of the evil **** at the scene, and then directly sacrificed the person who presided over the ceremony?” Fan Na seemed to hear some fantasy, and she only felt extremely Absurd, but these words were spoken from the mouth of a strictly trained, loyal and reliable church guardian, and she had to face it seriously, which made her expression strange, “How can something so outrageous– If this is also possible, then how many victims of the cult sacrifice scene can kill those heretic priests as long as their mouths are quicker?”

“Who said no? Even the crappy priests still occupy an absolute dominant position when presiding over the ceremony. How could a weak ordinary person let the ceremony get out of control to such an extent— What’s more, we also inspected this priest, and he did have traces eroded by projections from the ‘deep layers’ of the world. This was a real ‘baptized person’, and according to the cult on the scene, he was still holding a belt in his hand. The blessed ritual dagger…”

The young guard shook his head as he spoke, and then came to another corpse next to him.

“But… let’s take a look at this, this is the ‘sacrifice’ that ‘killed’ the priest.”

Fanna glanced at the guardian before her eyes fell on the corpse that had completely lost its vitality. In the next second, her vision became sharper.

It was a thin young man, and even because he was too thin, his size was closer to that of a teenager, and the most notable abnormality in his body was the large empty hole in his chest.

“…he has been sacrificed…”

“Yes, this is a sacrifice that has already been sacrificed. Judging from the traces at the scene and the confessions of the cultists, this ‘sacrifice’ may have lost its heart before it was pushed to the stage,” the guard said solemnly. He said, “So… the real situation at the time was that there was a walking corpse that walked to the stage in full view of the audience and killed the priest who presided over the ceremony as a sacrifice.”

“…The necromancer’s trick?” Vanna muttered to herself in thought, “No, the power of the Black Sun has great restraint on the necromancer, and the walking corpses they control cannot walk to the black sun carelessly. In front of the totem…is the resuscitator under abnormal control?”

“Have you checked the lights around here?” She suddenly raised her head and looked at the guard beside her, “Is there a completely dark underground space within five hundred meters?”

“We’ve checked and there’s no Lightless Crypt – even the cultists are aware of the dangers of the Lightless Crypt, and they are very careful about leaving torches and oil lamps in the caves where the bodies were discarded. .”

Fanna didn’t speak for a while, but bent down in front of the young man’s body with strong doubts. She carefully inspected the man who had sacrificed an extraordinary person in front of everyone’s eyes and led to The “sacrifice” whose ritual was completely out of control stretched out his hand to flip the other’s stiff eyelids, trying to find clues left by some heretical forces from his body.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a glimmer of light in the corner of her eyes – she seemed to see the young man’s corpse opened his eyes slightly, a faint green fire jumped up in the empty eyeball, a little spark of sparks At the tip of her right index finger sticking out, it drifted away in the wind.

Fanna’s eyes widened, and she instantly took out the dagger from her waist with her left hand. Without hesitation, she waved off her right index finger, and then backhanded the dagger to the forehead of the corpse, a priest’s dagger full of runes. A raging flame suddenly erupted, completely swallowing the corpse.

It only took her less than a second to complete all of this. At the moment when the body was swallowed by the flames, she had already straightened up and took two steps back, and immediately took out the blessed holy oil from her waist. After biting off the cork with his teeth, he poured the oil inside onto his right hand, which was frantically oozing blood—the holy oil came into contact with the flesh and blood, and a large cloud of white smoke erupted instantly.

The heart-piercing pain surged up, but the expression on Fana’s face did not change at all. She saw that the guardian who had been following him had quickly pulled out the steel sword from his waist, and cut down the burning sword with one sword. The head of the “sacrifice”, followed by throwing a potion mixed with seaweed extract and silver powder into the flame.

With the continuous explosion and the flames that suddenly rushed into the sky and almost licked the ceiling, the alienated corpse turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

And this powerful flame did not spread to the other corpses next to it.

The surrounding guards have already reacted. Half of them pulled out their rune steel swords and surrounded Fanna, the other half pulled out large-caliber revolvers and quickly formed a vigilance around the periphery. The two priests at the scene also Pulling out the revolver hidden under the robe, while blessing the muzzle with the incense burner, he recited the name of the goddess of the storm, Gormona, and kept pointing the muzzle at those crazy people who were rioting due to the changes in the surrounding environment. cultists.

“Your Majesty Judge!” The young guard with a steel sword came to Vanna at this time, “How are you? Just now…”

“There is some kind of power remaining in that ‘sacrificial’ body, and this power bypasses all the protection the goddess has given me~IndoMTL.com~ and even bypasses my psionic vigilance.” Vanna swayed She started, her eyes fell on her right hand – the gift of the goddess took effect, and the index finger that was cut off by the dagger was wriggling and recovering a little bit, but even though she felt the pain gradually dissipating, she did not settle down at all.

“The situation is not right. Not only is there a ‘black sun’ here, but another powerful force may have visited this sacrifice ceremony… And this force has not completely left, it still has plans,” The judge made a quick judgment, “Remove all the evidence and materials, and take them to the church for strict custody. After that, all inspections and interrogations are carried out in the church, and the scene here must be thoroughly purified… Elsewhere Anyone else?”

A guard next to him immediately replied: “Yes, we rescued a group of imprisoned ‘predetermined sacrifices’ in another nearby cave before, and they are now temporarily placed in the adjacent pipe room. “

“And take them away, and take them to the church—even if they are victims, they have to undergo strict inspection before they can be released home,” Fanna said quickly, and then she seemed to suddenly remember something, “Ms. Heidi What? Is she all right?”

“I’m here,” a calm female voice sounded from nearby. The “psychiatrist” in a black dress and employed by the City Hall walked over casually and nodded to Fanna. “Don’t worry, I didn’t react at all – so what happened?”

“…As in many classic stories, cultists provoked something even more wicked than them,” Fanna glanced at the “psychiatrist”, “I strongly recommend that you check these cults later. Cultists and hypnotize them with an extra layer of protection… There have been powers that should not have appeared here, and there are residues.”