Chapter 265 Young Man, Do You Want to Play Cards?

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[Secret Puppet Master - Klein]'s "Chanis Gate Infiltration Plan" has officially begun!

[Magic Mirror-Arrodes] activates the skill, and "Dawn Dantès's Phantom" has been assembled.

[Puppet Master - Klein] successfully disguised himself as a cleaning servant of the Church of the Night!

[Secret Puppet Master - Klein] successfully disguised himself as the old caretaker of Chanis Gate!

[Secret Puppet Master - Klein] I met Leonard Mitchell, the "Pendant of Pales Zoroastrian", in the Chanis Gate!

"Pales Zoroastrian" chose to remain silent because he discovered that Klein's disguise was beyond Leonard's ability, and exposing the other party would reveal his own existence. Therefore, "Leonard Mitchell" did not notice that the old guard in front of him was pretending to be an acquaintance.

[Puppet Master - Klein] successfully entered Chanis Gate.

[Secret Puppet Master - Klein] felt the call of "Antigonus Family's Notes", and he approached the notes.

[Secret Angel 0-17] appeared.

[Puppet Master - Klein] is hidden.

Klein fell out of this world.

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In short, after omitting nearly 10,000 words of theft notes, Klein was sent to Mount Honakis under the red moon.

The first thing that caught his eyes was the mist that filled the surroundings and the deep, cold night. And not far away, there was a small town.

The most conspicuous building in the town is a very ancient steeple church. It is completely black and has no bell tower. There are black crows hovering at the top.

There are many buildings scattered around the church, including ordinary two-story houses, simple wooden houses, bakeries with hanging signs, and gray-white mills powered by waterwheels. However, there are no pedestrians. They seem to be quiet and peaceful. fell into a deep sleep at night.

As a "divineer", Klein instantly felt that this town looked very familiar, as if he had seen it before somewhere!

After a brief moment of recollection, he remembered what it meant.

This is the source of danger at night in the ruins of the God War!

After entering the easternmost area of ​​the Sunya Sea, when night falls, if anyone does not sleep or enter the dream world, when the sky lights up and noon comes, he will be found to have disappeared without a trace. Ryan once woke up from a dream because of the "Black Saint" and saw such a mysterious and strange foggy town in the distance of the sea, shrouded in quiet night!

This town hid huge dangers. Klein did not dare to be careless and quickly began to confirm his situation.

He took out the "Creeping Hunger" and put it on his left hand. He was slightly relieved after confirming that it could still be used.

Klein immediately herded Louis Wayne, but the "Traveller's Gate" did not appear. He used his spirituality to try to travel through the spirit world, but found that he was still in the same place, but his body became transparent.

The reality and the spiritual world here seem to be completely isolated!

Klein was not too surprised by this situation, because the people who disappeared in the "Ruins of God's War" have never been found. If it can be connected with the spirit world, the missing people who are good at communicating with spirits will definitely not disappear without a trace. .

Then, he took four steps backward, preparing to use Source Castle to break the blockade.

But this time, after he silently recited the four sentences of Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun's name, no gray fog appeared in front of his eyes, and his spirituality did not rise!

Klein's pupils shrank and he suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.

He has always been able to escape danger without the help of Kaiyuan Bao. Now, this last trump card cannot be used!

Phew, it feels like the plug-in has been blocked... Klein used his words to relieve his nervousness.

Based on his own knowledge of mysticism, he initially suspected that the foggy town in front of him was probably related to the true god, because only in this way could he explain the problem of being unable to enter above the gray fog.

This place is closely connected with the night, and I was "sent" in after encountering the church's senior leaders... Could it be a "prison" built by the goddess herself? It is possible that He is the "Mother of Secrets" and may be able to directly transform people and objects into a "hidden" state so that people in the real world can never find them... Klein thought carefully for a while and decisively decided to enter the foggy town to explore , because that’s where the most likely way to escape is hidden.

He took a look at himself, then took out the "Blood Admiral" who was in a bad state, let him walk in front, and slowly entered the town in the distance.

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In the town, the doors of many houses were still open, as if they were welcoming guests from foreign lands. With the help of Marionette's sight, Klein saw half-eaten white bread and glasses of red wine placed on the tables inside. , messy silver knives and forks...

It looked like someone was enjoying dinner, but no one was there. The owners of the different houses seemed to have suddenly evaporated from life.

Evaporate... Such a word suddenly appeared in Klein's mind, and he quickly made Senior look towards the gray-white mill.

In the mill, the stone mill powered by the wind was still turning silently, but no flour came out, and a lot of it was sprinkled on the ground.

The town was so quiet that you could hear a needle drop. Although the stone mill, windmill and waterwheel were turning, there was strangely no sound of wind.

The red moon is still hidden in the clouds, but the gray-black clouds are moving slowly.

Klein roughly estimated how fast the clouds were moving. This is an area closely related to the goddess of the night, and the red moon is a symbol of the goddess. There is no moonlight now, so maybe we should pay attention to what will happen to the town after the moon appears. Variety.

He walked forward along the widest road in the town, following his secret puppet from a distance, using Senior's eyes to look at the town that seemed to suddenly stop at a certain moment in daily life. .

Is there no one here?

Klein looked around vigilantly. He was ready to fight, but he didn't see a single living person.

Where have all the people who disappeared before gone?

The houses and streets were clean, and the food showed signs of being eaten, but there were no bodies and no traces of blood.

No, there was a stain of blood.

Senior suddenly stopped.

Directly in front of him, on the clean ground, there was a large piece of sticky dark red blood, almost filling the entire street horizontally.

The blood stain was very new, with no signs of dryness. Senior took a step forward, and tiny bubbles suddenly emerged from the blood stain, surging as if alive.

The dark red camouflage faded away, and the blood became bright red as if it had just been spilled. Dark shadows appeared nowhere on the surface, as if countless monsters were sealed underneath, awakened by fresh life at this moment, scrambling to get out.

The ground was obviously flat, but the bloodstain slowly extended towards Senior.

A few meters away, strange changes immediately appeared on Secret Puppet Senior's body. Strange bulges appeared on his head and back shoulder blades, as if something was trying to come out from under the skin.

His limbs and arms began to swell, his knee joints strangely reversed backwards, and the color of his skin rapidly deepened.

In fact, Klein suddenly felt that the spiritual thread in his hand began to shake. A new personality prototype seemed to be born in the marionette's body, and it began to compete for control of Senior!

In just two seconds, the image of "Admiral Blood" has undergone unimaginable changes. If the facial features were not still there, Klein would almost not believe that this was his marionette!

Klein was horrified, and he quickly told the "Blood Admiral" to retreat, but the blood stain seemed to have found Senor's location, and a blood line quickly spread to follow him.

Senior's mutation became more and more serious, and Klein gradually saw what he looked like after the mutation——

demon!

At this moment, the surrounding world suddenly lit up, and the dark clouds in the sky slowly dispersed, and the clear light of the red moon spread across the earth.

Klein saw the somewhat out-of-control Senor marionette motionless for an instant, and then he suddenly felt a sense of crisis coming from all directions, like needles pricking his temples!

He didn't have time to think, he immediately took back the motionless Senior, and then hid in the nearest house with a lunge and a roll.

The next moment, this originally deserted town suddenly had many residents. They seemed to have emerged from the ground, walking naturally in the streets and alleys, saying hello to each other, and discussing how to buy only bread today. Let’s be a bit extravagant and get 1 pound of beef.

The foggy town suddenly came to life!

However, the vague figures did not try to enter the houses on both sides. They seemed to have been walking back and forth on the street, and the sounds they made were hard to believe that they were talking. They were closer to the low roars of wild beasts. .

"Can not Go Out!"

Klein couldn't imagine what was happening outside now. He only knew that the town had suddenly become extremely dangerous.

What would have happened if I had just taken a step slower? He didn't dare to think about it.

The dark curtains are tightly closed, and blurry silhouettes move back and forth like a shadow puppet show.

Klein released Senior again and used the spiritual thread to control him again. But the changes that have occurred have not disappeared. It is estimated that even if Senor comes back to life and looks in the mirror now, he will not recognize himself.

"A demon was injured in the misty town? He left a trail of blood, and because he was very strong, the traces remained. Just getting close would be contaminated..."

The devil is the "criminal" path, which happens to be adjacent to Senior's "prisoner", so why does it mutate so fast?

Klein suddenly thought of someone.

"Edward Vaughn seems to have disappeared immediately after I reported him."

He was a little unbelievable, but also thought it was reasonable. He felt that the possibility of his guessing right was very high.

Klein felt horrified for a moment: "Is He still staying here? No, it's impossible. Senior is walking in the town so brightly. It's impossible for an angel to not see it. If He wanted to do it, I would have done it long ago. died!"

"He's not here, or he's dead!"

Klein perked up. Under this special situation, he hoped the answer would be the former, because it represented an opportunity to get out.

The "shadow play" outside is still going on, and I don't know when the red moon will be covered next time.

Klein waited patiently for a while. Seeing that the people in the town were still going about their daily lives, he couldn't help but start thinking of other means.

He examined himself and the extraordinary abilities of the magical items one by one. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he found a way.

This method originated from the "opening the door" of the "traveler" that he thought was the most useless!

Under normal circumstances, this extraordinary ability is completely covered by "teleportation", but in this mysterious and strange misty town, it is more useful just with the help of the special spirit world!

Klein didn't act in a hurry. He took out the gold coin where "Resentful Soul" Senior originally lived, asked about his own spirituality through divination, and got the answer that he should "pass through the wall."

Since he could not directly obtain symbolic revelation from the spirit world, he could only choose to believe in himself. He immediately walked to the wall shared with the house next door and pressed his hands on it.

Silently, Klein penetrated the stone wall and entered the next door.

While passing by the pool of blood, Klein saw many figures living and talking normally around him, even though there was no one on the opposite side.

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The crow on top of the church overlooks the entire town.

In the dark night church in the center of the town, under the gaze of countless hanging corpses, Zaratul, who closed his eyes and fell asleep, felt the sound of light footsteps approaching him.

He opened his eyes, his eyes dark.

He saw a young man—according to his spiritual brilliance, he should be the "Secret Puppet Master"—standing in front of him, looking at himself warily and at the pile of interesting things placed at his feet. Old board games.

At the feet of this young "Secret Puppet Master", in the dark shadow there is a simple black and white eye.

It seems that because this place is isolated from the outside world, the eyes just turn left and right in a slightly dull manner at regular intervals to look at the surrounding situation.

"Finally another 'divineer' is here..."

The young man opposite stood a few steps away and asked without any timidity:

"why would you say so?"

"Do you want to escape from here?" He seemed clueless, so Zaratul avoided answering, "I can tell you a way."

The young man was not impressed and immediately asked:

"Then why are you still here?"

Zaratul smiled: "Because I was already dead."

Occasionally digesting "Cunning Mage" is good for physical and mental health. The young "Secret Puppet Master" was frightened and fell into silence.

Zaratul stared at the eyes in the shadow of "Secret Puppet Master" and chuckled twice:

"It seems that one has finally chosen his candidate..."

He looked at the surprised visitors and said in a vague and low voice:

"Young man, it looks like we could all use a little help from each other."

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the large collection of board games in his hand. He glanced at the other party with a proud look like "Young people like you must have never seen the crystallization of entertainment culture from these ancient times." He laughed softly:

"You're here, and you won't be able to leave for a while. Come and spend some time with me, an old man."

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Edward took a sip of his homemade milk tea, flipped the milk cap with a spoon, and looked at the person across the table with a hint of disgust.

"What are you still doing here?"

Richard looked around and planned to take away the pure silver spoon. He smiled and said: "Have you heard a story recently? A sudden outbreak of mass mental illness in a rural town in East Balam. The patients will Dance like crazy in red shoes until you die from exhaustion.”

"oh?"

"This kind of mass mental illness seems to have appeared frequently since last month. Once you start dancing, you can't stop it by any means. Even if you lose consciousness halfway, you will continue dancing after waking up until you die from exhaustion. This epidemic first started It happened in a rural town, but later spread to the city, and the church once suspected that members of a certain psychological alchemy society were conducting rituals or experiments."

"It feels very much like a story I heard before." Richard said, "Even the red shoes are exactly the same. Is this a mysterious recurrence?"

Edward took another sip of milk tea: "Is it difficult to solve?"

"It's not difficult. If there are no demigods to help deal with it, in theory, we only need to contain the epidemic within a certain area and wait for all the patients inside to die from exhaustion." Richard sighed, "I planned to help out, but I didn't expect it. I have become a wanted criminal."

"However, the incident was a bit strange. No matter how the circle was circled, the 'red shoes' kept spreading outwards. Later, the church realized that the source was still there, and then captured a pair of wooden feet dancing in red shoes. Now it is A first-level sealed artifact from the Church of Storms.”

After finishing speaking, seeing no reaction from Edward, Richard poured himself a cup of milk tea, sighed and said:

"The Northern Continent Church has begun to seal down my institution and restrict the power of the foundation!"

"I just moved all the people in the Rhoad Islands. Now at least 100,000 people in the Northern Continent have lost their homes and hospitals. Those guys can only react quickly at this time."

Richard rubbed his hands: "Teacher, can you borrow someone from the Rose School? Is there anyone who is not completely crazy? I want to go to the Northern Continent. Anyway, they won't give me money this year. I have no morals. I I’m going to rob someone.”

"Why don't you go to the Death Church for help?"

Edward said: "Wandering in the spirit world and teleporting through the gate of the underworld are much easier to use."

"The Church of Death is tight at the front and needs to manage the rear. After occupying one and a half counties, there is no more manpower left."

Richard spread his hands and said: "There will probably be a period of tug-of-war, but it is okay to continue fighting. After all, the 'War Angels' of the Aurora Society have already joined the war. It depends on what the emperor of the Balam Empire has in mind."

"Can I borrow it?"

"You can ask who is willing to help you."

"Thank you very much. By the way, where have you been recently?"

"abyss."

"Are you planning to get promoted?"

"I'm waiting."

"Oh. Traynor has been complaining to me recently that the 'War Angels' forced him to train soldiers and fight guerrillas, and asked me if he could jump to join me. What suggestions do you have?"

"Yes, if he wants to." Edward said without changing his expression, "My agreement with the true Creator is unbreakable..."

"Then I'll ask him later."

Richard asked again: "Have you allowed your relatives to move around recently? There are frequent traces of demonic activity along the coast of the Northern Continent, and they are very simple and crude traces. The local church has invested a lot of effort in hunting them down, but There is always no harvest, and the murderer always slips away due to various coincidences."

"coincide?"

Edward, who has been staying near the abyss recently and relies on prayer to understand the outside world, frowned slightly. Although the current demon relatives are all under his control, it is not impossible for a lone demon to commit a crime. But, coincidence?

A quill pen and a stick figure holding a pen with "Sequence 4" written on its head appeared in his mind.

"...What tricks are the writers doing?"

TBC

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Beidalu: I am not guilty.

Richard: I am a barbarian.

Klein: I am Chao, the King of You, the Rich Man, and the Chess Flyer. Isn’t this a fellow countryman?

What happened when Klein entered the town: One eye suddenly went dark