201. Crazy Circus
Zong Jiu took the cane from the servant.
The cane was made of an unknown fragrant wood, and a huge sapphire was inlaid on the top, reflecting a clear halo. It felt heavy and substantial when held in the hand.
The magician took the cane in his hand and weighed it, and found a Duke's family crest engraved on it.
The butler lowered his head, and his eyes only dared to fall on the sapphire.
This humble human must not know that this is the brilliant hope gem known as the "Heart of the Ocean" in the empire, and it is also a family heirloom passed down by the Duke's family for many years.
His Excellency the Duke has great power in the court, so the meaning behind this cane is naturally needless to say.
As long as this cane is in hand, even the royal family cannot give orders beyond their level, and seeing the cane is like seeing the Duke.
However, Zong Jiu did not look flattered at all. After turning it around in his hand for a few times, he threw it back to the butler without any regrets.
The housekeeper was so frightened that he hurriedly tried to catch it, fearing that the cane would fall to the ground and break any corners. Even if he chopped off ten heads, it would not be enough.
"Tell him I don't need it."
After saying this, Zong Jiu walked away without looking back, not bothering to see what the other person's expression was.
The Duke's residence was within a few miles, and no blind civilian dared to come to the noble's territory to make trouble. Under the devil's order, no servant dared to stop him. So Zong Jiu left this huge manor very smoothly.
After leaving the manor, he quickly disguised himself and hurriedly ran towards the circus.
Because he really didn't want to take the human carriage, and there was not even a bicycle in this era, so Zong Jiu had to choose to walk.
The Duke's manor is in the center of the royal city, very close to the royal city and not far from the circus.
It's night now, and it will take about a few dozen minutes to run.
At this point, Soujiu frowned: "Subsystem, can you contact Tsuchimikado?"
Tsuchimikado and he were separated, and the two of them shared a system, so they should be able to contact each other through the subsystem.
[Although private contact between trainees violates the rules of the game, but...]
Obviously, the subsystem also remembered that it was now a grasshopper on the same line with these two trainees.
So it was silent for a while, and quietly let out a water [You pass a navigation skill, and each time you succeed in judging, you can refresh the coordinates of the other party once]
Song Jiu curled his lips and turned the ten-sided dice.
......
On the other side, Tsuchimikado's situation was not much better.
He was squatting/body, quietly squeezed into the kitchen of the underground farm.
Because of the lack of raw materials, the chef ran to the slaughterhouse to urge the goods, and disappeared with a spatula.
Now there was only a flame burning on the stove in the kitchen, and some bloody meat pieces needed for side dishes, and a bunch of colorful bottles and jars on the table. It was incredibly quiet.
But fortunately, there were many baskets for placing ingredients here, each one was taller than a person, and they were full of things.
For example, the basket of cabbage next to Tsuchimikado, another basket of carrots, and another basket of potatoes next to it.
The Yin-Yang Master just huddled in this pile of food, shrinking himself inside.
For some reason, Tsuchimikado felt a little strange now.
After running out of the basement of the cult, he used the invisibility item again and ran all the way.
But I don't know what happened. Maybe because he was running all the time, he didn't have time to think carefully. Now that the Yin-Yang Master squatted down and thought carefully, he found a lot of problems.
It seems that these pursuers who came to chase him seem a little too casual.
So casual that the two black cloak cult members who were seen at the beginning didn't even appear. What appeared on the road were all bull-headed and horse-faced. Even gradually, the pursuers became fewer and fewer...
Thinking of the conversation he overheard in the conference room not long ago, Tsuchimikado felt that something seemed to be wrong.
After pondering for a while, the Yin Yang Master turned the ten-sided dice and passed the Listening.
Before a walking magician took advantage of his luck, his luck could be called sneaking. It was not 100% accurate, but at least better than that of ordinary people.
[Your roll result is 13/20, the Listening judgment is successful]
[You feel that your hearing has become sharper all of a sudden, and you can easily hear the sound in the corridor outside behind a wall]
"Hey, did you see the husky that ran away?"
"No, it's okay, it's almost time to go back and report. The adults of the cult have told us not to chase too far, just scare them, anyway, they can't escape on the day of the carnival."
"Indeed, the prey that was branded early on, as long as there is a magic circle, can't escape the palm of the hands of the adults of the cult on the day of the carnival, disperse, disperse."
......
Tsuchimikado was startled, and a certain line was connected in his mind.
His eyes widened, and then he realized that he had overlooked a very fatal problem.
He and the magician were summoned to this super S-class dungeon world, which can be confirmed by the system.
There are summoning spells in Onmyoji, but Onmyoji summons Shikigami.
This type of summoning spells, whether in the East or the West, have the same significant commonality.
For example, if the summoned person cannot resist the first time...
Then of course he cannot resist the second time.
No wonder when he overheard the conversation between the two survivors of the cult, the two survivors said that it didn't matter whether the Duke sent the magician back or not, anyway, there was a magic circle.
"How could I forget this matter? I am still an Onmyoji, so I am more like an idiot."
He was so angry that he hit his head with his fist on the spot: "It's over, it's over, if this is the case, those survivors must have set locations on me and the magician, ah ah ah ah but I don't have the ability of an Onmyoji now, what should I do now——"
"Puff, yes, you are quite stupid."
Just when Tsuchimikado was lamenting with tears on his face why he was still so unlucky after removing his Onmyoji ability, the lazy voice of the magician suddenly sounded above his head.
Tsuchimikado was stunned for a moment and then jumped up.
"Fuck, when did you come? I was scared to death!"
He was startled, and only reacted when he saw Soujiu's face with a teasing expression.
"......You have been running all the time. Do you know how many pilots I threw before I found you?"
Soujiu was also very angry when he mentioned this.
I don't know what Zhuge An did to their luck. After Soujiu and Tsuchimikado separated, his own luck became particularly unstable.
That's all. It's hard to succeed in a desperate bet, but Tsuchimikado's coordinates changed again, causing Soujiu to run around here.
He disguised himself well, but many animals saw the Duke's family emblem on his suit and thought he was a big shot, so they let him in.
Soujiu didn't expect that after he threw back the cane sent by the devil, he could still get some benefits from the puppet NPC controlled by the other party. It was a bit magical.
But if you don't take advantage of it, you're a bastard. He didn't take the initiative to take it.
Soujiu walked into the underground farm like a big shot this time, looking for the traces of Tsuchimikado nearby.
"Okay, now is not the time to talk about this."
He briefly recounted what he had experienced in a day and a night, "What about you?"
"I..."
Tsuchimikado cried: "The survivors on us gave us the location. No matter where we escape, as long as they draw a magic circle on the ground on the day of the carnival festival, they can summon us anytime and anywhere."
This is indeed bad news. Especially when Soujiu asked the subsystem, and the subsystem also said that all the skills of the ten-sided dice were powerless against this anti-summoning.
"Don't be impatient." Zong Jiu put his index finger on his chin and fell into thought: "You mean, almost half of the survivors 20 years ago are not dead, and they are even dormant and have established a cult that believes in evil gods?"
The Yin Yang Master nodded, "The animals in this copy firmly believe in an evil god named Sadah Hegra. The Sussex Manuscript says that Sadah Hegra is just an incarnation, and He has a higher body. However, even the manuscript says that believing in this evil god is a completely crazy act, because from the moment you believe in the evil god... you will be eroded by the indescribable ominousness and darkness and become crazy."
"But they still believe in Him unswervingly, and prepare a carnival festival every ten years. In fact, the festival is a ceremony to sacrifice to the evil god. It is said that only when a satisfactory sacrifice is chosen, the evil god will show mercy and fulfill the wishes of the cultists."
This is not right.
The survivors in the infinite loop rarely have faith, and even if they do, they cannot believe in evil gods. Even if it was twenty years ago, these survivors would not be so outrageous as to run to a horror dungeon to spread evil/cults.
Unless... this super S-level dungeon itself has a tradition of believing in evil/cults and evil gods.
Just when Zong Jiu realized this, the subsystem sent a warm reminder.
[Triggering key clues, inspiration check, please]
It must be said that Zong Jiu's luck has improved again next to Tu Yumen.
[Your roll result is 21/35, inspiration judgment is successful]
[Some fragments of memory that are difficult to notice suddenly connect in your mind, and some previously ignored details happen to be pieced together along this clue, so you seem to have a new and extremely bold speculation about the situation in front of you...]
Accompanied by the cold mechanical sound of the subsystem, Zong Jiu suddenly recalled the part that he and Tu Yumen didn't notice when they were looking for clues in the underground farm.
For example... When standing above the farm and looking down, you can see the obviously oversized pigpen. No matter how you look at it, the size is not suitable for small humans. Many unreasonable and even architectural styles that are not suitable for animals but for humans. There are also some strange facilities in the underground farm, and everything seems to be swapped with the real world.
Zhuge An once said that the source of all horror copies is the real world. No matter how absurd it is, it is impossible to break away from the background of reality.
But this world is obviously a little too wrong.
With the blessing of the successful inspiration judgment, Zong Jiuru was assisted by God.
"Wait, did you just say that if you summon the evil god, you can successfully realize your wish?"
The copy that was suddenly dragged from the light dimension to the dark dimension, and the darkness that filled this copy was like a plague everywhere. Crazy animals, cruel rule, sick class system and concepts.
Suddenly, the survivors who were left in the dungeon after losing contact with the main system voluntarily became the backbone of the cult, and even practiced black magic, intending to hold the ceremony again. Even... devoutly believed in it.
Under what circumstances can a survivor without faith voluntarily believe in the evil god devoutly and rack his brains to summon the evil god a second time?
Unless——
"Then you say, twenty years ago... is it possible that the evil god has been summoned successfully once?"
Seen it with my own eyes.
And, a wish has been fulfilled once.
The author has something to say: This copy will probably be finished in the next two days~
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