Deep Sea Embers Chapter 19: Underground meeting place

Those figures in burqas and hoods naturally noticed Duncan standing in the middle of the road.

At this moment, Duncan is still the same as when he just left the cave. His thin and shriveled body is covered with tattered clothes, and the rags temporarily put on his upper body block the big hole in his chest. He just stands carelessly. In the middle of the road, they looked as if they were frightened by the "hooded man" who suddenly appeared - and the figures in burqas were obviously surprised. They were obviously sluggish, and then took the lead. One of the talents suddenly shouted: "A sacrifice has escaped!"

Immediately after, Duncan saw them running towards this direction, and another person ran and shouted: "Quick! Stop him! Don't let him run!"

Duncan shrugged, but continued to stare blankly at the figures running towards him, who didn't look like good people no matter how he looked at them. After weighing the current situation, he had no intention of running at all. The individual is still rushing over and shouting: "Don't let him run away!" "There are sacrifices to escape!"

As a result, Duncan's act of standing in the middle of the road without dodging and dodging made the atmosphere awkward. The few people who ran and shouted in the middle of the road obviously felt that something was wrong, and their mouths The shouting stopped involuntarily, only to have to keep running in this direction, Duncan could almost smell the embarrassment mixed with exasperation from under their dark hoods - and then the embarrassed and exasperated people put him Surrounded by front and back.

At this time, Duncan looked around at the figures around him, and after a moment of hesitation, he said, "Should I run away? After all, the atmosphere is here..."

Those figures in burqas didn't seem to hear Duncan's cold joke. They just glanced at the latter cautiously and cautiously, and then looked in the direction behind Duncan. Two of them quickly He lowered his head and talked a few words, Duncan vaguely heard what they were talking about:

"Why did one come out?"

"Could it be that the church hyenas found this hideout... but it doesn't look like he was released..."

"Anyway, take it back first, this sacrifice that ran out is not quite right... It has to be dealt with quickly."

"Let the messenger decide."

Duncan has absolutely no idea what these people are, let alone what the "messenger" mentioned by the other party means, but he thinks of what he saw along the way and the "sacrifice" mentioned by the other party. Word, he has vaguely guessed some truth here.

He doesn't know how he should react to be considered a "normal sacrifice", and he has no intention of cooperating with these people to "perform" at all. Outside of Homeless, he uses a temporary The body, he obviously has few things to worry about, so after a little observation of the surrounding situation, he simply asked: "Where are you taking me?"

Those in burqas were obviously a little surprised to hear the "Sacrificial" in front of him speak calmly, even though they had black veil masks on their hoods that completely covered their faces, but even then Duncan could guess them. In an accident at the moment, one of the men in black robe gave a vicious look at the "sacrificial" in front of him through the mask, and his voice was low: "You are not qualified to ask questions - take it away!"

A few men in black robes stepped forward immediately, but before they started, Duncan took the initiative to take a step forward: "You don't need to start, I'll just go with you."

Several black-robed men looked at each other, probably feeling that the spirit of the "sacrificial" in front of them was a little abnormal, but the black-robed man at the head waved his hand: "This is the best, you can't escape anyway... Come with us, and you may be honored with honor."

A few men in black robes surrounded Duncan like this, blocking all his "escape" routes from front to back and left and right, and took him deeper into the sewer.

The stench and foul smell in the sewer is disgusting, but these black-robed men walk on the dirty and moldy road as if they didn't notice it at all. Duncan is expressionless and silent, while following these black-robed men to He walked forward and listened to the conversation of these people attentively - there was not much conversation between these black robes, but in the occasional conversation, Duncan still heard words such as "Pland", "Consul", "" Useful words like the church.

"This is the city-state of Perand?" Duncan said suddenly, as calmly as if he was chatting with an acquaintance.

"Nonsense..." One of the men in black robes replied subconsciously, but then he reacted and gave Duncan a hellish look, "You are very calm, boy, you know what will happen next. ?"

"You can probably guess," Duncan nodded, even with a smile on his face, and then he asked tentatively, "The real sun god... right?"

Several black-robed men obviously stopped for a moment. They seemed to have misunderstood Duncan's strange reaction. One of them whispered to his companion: "Wait, is this also a believer of the Lord?"

"Impossible, he is obviously a sacrifice that escaped..." The other man in black robe whispered, then glanced at Duncan, "You are quite clever, but don't think that you can avoid the sacrifice. The sacrifice... The Lord has already decided your fate, and you had better accept it."

Duncan was noncommittal. He knew that his overly calm reaction made the group of suspected cultists in front of him have wrong brains. Most of them thought they were pretending to be calm and pretending to be "believers" to try to survive. But only Duncan knew the truth.

This temporarily occupied body can't even move normally. The muscles on his face are as stiff as the necrosis of the extremities... Of course, there is only a calm and expressionless face left!

But he didn't care what the cultists thought. He just wanted to collect as much information as possible in this "one-time exploration operation", so he asked casually: "What do you think? Is the current 'sun' in the sky a pseudo-sun? Do you think it will fall sooner or later?"

"Of course the false sun will eventually fall!" This is obviously a topic that can stimulate these cultists, and Duncan got his wish to hear a positive and enthusiastic response from one of them, "Even the lackeys of the Holy See must The general history admits that the sun in the sky is a distorted and grotesque thing that appeared after the Great Annihilation! It is the sun **** who really brings life and order to all things in the world, but my lord has been usurped by that despicable fake... That despicable fake Sooner or later things will fall from the sky!"

Immediately afterwards, Duncan heard the cultists around him respond: "The false sun will fall sooner or later!" "The real sun **** will soon recover!" "The excess seawater in the world will be driven out by the mighty power of the sun god. Return to the void, and the earth will return to an age of abundance and stability!"

Listening to the words that these cultists have clearly begun to say, Duncan's thoughts are racing in his mind. He knows that ~IndoMTL.com~ such fanatical cultists can't make sense, what they believe in Things are mostly distorted and tampered with information, but some of the information they reveal is still worthy of reference—

The "sun" hanging in the sky is a fake...

The real sun has been usurped...

They believe that the real sun is a fallen **** and that that **** will "resurrect from blood and fire"...

They also spoke of the excess waters of the world, of the age of abundance and stability... What do these words mean?

Duncan's mind was full of thoughts, and the cultists calmed down after a while. They still remembered the business, and they still remembered that they were escorting a "sacrificial" who escaped, so the people closest to Duncan recovered. They were silent, and the two people walking at the back of the team whispered a few words:

"Do you think this 'sacrifice' is a little evil?"

"He doesn't seem to be quite right...I'm a little uneasy."

"Could it be that this sacrifice stayed in the dark underground for too long when he escaped before, and his spirit was given by something..."

"That's right, the power of the Lord will purify him."

Duncan listened to the conversation behind him, he especially noticed the words "lightless underground", but just when he wanted to gather more information from this conversation, the black-robed man headed stopped.

"We're here."

The black-robed cultist said in a low, cold voice.

Duncan felt regretful for a moment, but then he was caught by the sight in front of him.

Ahead is the end of a road, the intersection of several sewers, and in this spacious space like a small underground hall, there is a black-robed cultist meeting place!