Deep Sea Embers - Chapter 19

[Chapter 19 The Underground Assembly Hall]

Those figures in burqas and hoods naturally noticed Duncan standing in the middle of the road without dodging or avoiding.

At this moment, Duncan is still the same as when he just left the cave. His thin and dry 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. , but it looked like they were frightened by the “hooded man” who suddenly appeared-and those figures in burqas were obviously surprised, they were obviously stunned for a while, and then the leader Then suddenly he yelled: “A sacrifice has escaped!”

Immediately afterwards, Duncan saw them running towards this side, and another person shouted while running: “Quick! Stop him! Don’t let him run away! “

Duncan shrugged, and just continued to look at these figures running towards him with no expression. No matter how they looked, they didn’t look like good people.

He rushed over while yelling: “Don’t let him run away!” The people who were running and shouting this way obviously felt that something was wrong halfway through the run, and the shouting in their mouths stopped involuntarily, but they had to continue running this way. Duncan could almost see through their black hoods. Down there smelled embarrassment mixed with irritation—and then these awkward and angry people surrounded him from front to back, side to side.

Only then did Duncan look around at the figures around him, and after hesitating for a moment, he said, “Should I run away just now? After all, the atmosphere is here…” The figures in burqas seemed not to

hear Duncan’s cold joke, they just glanced at the latter vigilantly and cautiously, and then looked in the direction behind Duncan. Two of them quickly lowered their heads and had a conversation, and Duncan vaguely heard the content of their conversation:

” Why did one come out?”

“Could it be that the church’s hyenas discovered this hiding place…but he doesn’t look like he was released…”

“Anyway, take it back first. There’s something wrong with this sacrifice that escaped…it needs to be dealt with quickly.” “

Let the envoy make a decision.”

Duncan had no idea what the details of this group of people were, let alone what the other party had mentioned. What does the “messenger” mean, but thinking of what he saw along the way and the word “sacrifice” mentioned by the other party, he has already vaguely guessed some of the truth here.

He didn’t know how he should react to be considered a “normal sacrifice”, and he had no intention of cooperating with these people to “perform” at all. Outside the Lost Homeland, he used a temporary body. There were obviously few things to worry about, so after a little observation of the surrounding situation, he simply asked, “Where are you taking me?

” They were obviously surprised when they opened their mouths. Even though their hoods were still wearing black veil masks that completely covered their faces, even so Duncan could guess their surprise at this moment. One of the men in black robes looked fiercely at the person in front of him through the mask. “Sacrifice” glanced at him, and said in a low voice, “You are not qualified to ask—take it away!”

Several men in black robes stepped forward immediately, but before they could do anything, Duncan took the initiative to take a step forward: “You don’t need to do it, I will Just go with you guys.”

Several black-robed men looked at each other, probably feeling that the spirit of the “sacrifice” in front of them was a bit abnormal, but the leader of the black-robed man waved his hand: “This is the best, you can run anyway. Don’t let it go…Come with us, you may still be able to meet the glory with dignity.”

Several men in black robes surrounded Duncan in this way, blocked all his “escape” routes from front to back, left and right, and led him towards the Go deeper into the sewer.

The stench and filthy smell in the sewer was disgusting, but these men in black robes walked on the dirty and moldy road calmly as if they didn’t notice at all. Duncan remained expressionless as he followed these men in black robes forward. He listened attentively to the conversations of these people—these men in black robes didn’t talk much among themselves, but in the occasional few conversations, Duncan still heard words such as “Prand”, “Consul”, and “Church”. useful words.

“Is this the city-state of Purland?” Duncan said suddenly, as calmly as if he was chatting with an acquaintance.

“Nonsense…” One of the men in black replied subconsciously, but then he reacted and gave Duncan a ghostly look, “You are very calm, boy, do you know what will happen next?”

“I can probably guess it,” Duncan nodded, even with a smile on his face, and then he asked tentatively, “The real sun god… right?” The steps of the men in black obviously stopped

. In an instant, they seemed to have misunderstood Duncan’s strange reaction, and one of them whispered to his companion: “Wait, is this also a believer of the Lord?” “Impossible, he is obviously an escaped sacrifice

… …” Another black-robed man whispered, and then he glanced at Duncan, “You are pretty clever, but don’t think that you can avoid sacrifices… The Lord has already ruled your fate, you’d better accept it gladly “

Duncan was noncommittal, he knew that his overly calm reaction caused the group of suspected cultists to have a wrong imagination, most of them thought that they were pretending to be calm and pretending to be “believers” to try to survive, but The real situation is only known to Duncan himself.

The temporarily occupied body is struggling to move normally, and the muscles on his face are as stiff as the extremities of necrosis… Of course, there is only a calm expressionless face left!

But he didn’t care what these cultists were thinking. He just wanted to collect as much information as possible in this “one-time exploration operation”, so he asked casually: “What do you think the current situation in the sky is?” Is the ‘sun’ a false sun? Do you think it will fall sooner or later?”

“Of course the false sun will eventually fall!” This was obviously a topic that could irritate these cultists, and Duncan got his wish to hear one of them actively and enthusiastically Response, “Even the lackeys of the Holy See have to admit in the general history that the sun in the sky is a twisted and grotesque thing that appeared only after the Great Annihilation! It is the sun god who really brought life and order to all things in the world, but my lord was taken by that A despicable fake has usurped power… sooner or later, that despicable fake will fall from the sky!”

Immediately afterwards, Duncan heard the surrounding cultists responding: “Sooner or later, the false sun will fall!” “The real sun god will recover soon!” “The excess sea water in the world will be driven back to nothingness by the great power of the sun god.” In the deep space, the earth will return to a fertile and stable era!”

Listening to the words of these cultists who have obviously begun to rise above, Duncan’s mind was spinning his own thoughts quickly, and he knew that this kind of fanatical evil The believers cannot understand common sense, and most of what they believe in is distorted and falsified information, but some of the information they revealed is still worthy of reference-the “

sun” hanging in the sky is a fake…

The real sun has been usurped They believed that

the real sun was a fallen god, and they believed that the god would “resurrect from blood and fire”…

They also mentioned the excess sea water in the world, and the era of abundance and stability… …and what do these words mean?

Duncan had a lot of thoughts in his mind, but those few cultists calmed down after a while. They still remembered the business and that they were escorting an escaped “sacrifice”, so the few people closest to Duncan returned to silence. The two at the end of the line murmured a few words:

“Do you think this ‘sacrifice’ is a bit evil   ?

“

He stayed in the dark underground for too long when escaping, and his spirit was given by something…” “

That’s just right, the power of the Lord will purify him.”

Duncan listened to the conversation behind him, and he especially noticed “Nothing Underground of Light”, but just when he wanted to gather more information from this conversation, the leader in black robe stopped in his tracks.

“We’re here.”

The cultist in black said in a low and cold voice.

Duncan felt a little regretful in his heart, but immediately after, he was attracted by the scene in front of him.

Ahead is the end of a road, where several sewers meet, and in this wide space that looks like a small underground hall, there is a meeting place of black-robed cultists!

(end of this chapter)