Chapter 493 The Hunt Begins (Part 1)

When everyone was sitting at the white cloth table filled with sumptuous food, enjoying dinner and gradually relaxing their nerves, a sound of gasping caught their attention.

"Pierre, what's wrong with you?"

Mike seemed to have discovered something, stared at the handsome man closely, and asked.

I saw Pierre slowly lifting his thumb and index finger, which were twisted together, and spread them out, showing something floating in the air.

It was an extremely thin, silver-white silk thread.

It seems like... spider silk.

"hiss……"

Crunch.

In the restaurant, there was a sound of gasping and the sound of tables and chairs being moved on the floor.

Except for Bishop Saint-Louan and the waiter at the corner of the table, everyone tensed up.

Among them, Catherine had the biggest reaction. She stood up directly, scanned the surroundings vigilantly, and fully developed her mental power.

"Purify!"

Then in the next second, a pure flame was suddenly released from the palm of his hand and shot to the top corner of the restaurant, causing it to burn with a crackling sound.

A black thing less than half the size of a palm fell down.

Mike was the first to realize the gaffe of himself and others. After smiling awkwardly, he said to Catherine:

"Catherine...it's okay, sit down, it's just an ordinary spider silk and a common spider."

After finishing speaking, he expressed his apology to Saint-Louan:

"I'm sorry, Mr. Bishop, our nerves are too sensitive right now."

"Don't be nervous, everyone." Saint Luan smiled helplessly:

"The Statue of Liberty respects the existence and rights of every life. Regarding this harmless insect, we clergy allow them to survive and multiply in the church."

Catherine's state was not relaxed at all, she snorted coldly:

"Mr. Bishop, you underestimate that evil god. How can you be sure that the spider just now is not one of his descendants?"

"Especially because it is an extremely ancient and evil god. We must be careful in every detail to find signs of danger before it breaks out."

Saint-Louan shrugged, used a fork to put the turkey leg cut up by the waiter next to him into his mouth, chewed it and swallowed it, then said slowly:

"Miss Catherine, I fully understand your feelings. After all, you are not familiar with the enchantment of Saint-Surich Cathedral..."

"But if... I mean, if, the 'Spider God' really extends his tentacles into the church, and even looks at us dirtyly in a dark place, ready to harvest our lives at any time..."

"Then I want to tell you that it would be a great pity not to enjoy a delicious Holy Communion and cherish the quiet time before a fierce battle, or death."

Catherine looked very unhappy and sat down without saying a word.

…

At the same time, there was a commotion and exclamations among the pedestrians passing by the gate of Saint-Surich Cathedral.

"Goddess bless you! What is that?"

One by one, they stayed away from this famous church, as if this was not a tourist attraction, but a place of supernatural horror.

And indeed it is.

Because they saw masses of substantial darkness rising from the ground, and a curtain composed of black mist covered the porch of the main building of the cathedral.

Next, there is the entire door, to the entire front, sides, and top of the main building, including the internal main hall, nave, chapel, choir, main altar, baptistery, exhibition hall, etc.

Including ancillary buildings, the entire church covers an area equivalent to two standard football fields, exceeding 10,000 square meters.

But such a huge building complex was completely shrouded in darkness in a matter of ten seconds. No outline details could be seen, and there was no way to know what was going on inside.

The sudden abnormality caused a large number of citizens and pedestrians to evacuate and move in panic, and attracted soldiers to maintain order and blockade the scene.

What is strange is that from the time the darkness invaded until now, there has been no sound in the Saint-Surich Cathedral, including calls for help, and no clergy, tourists or believers have escaped.

It's as if it has become an independent space.

Soon, all the extraordinary beings who had been stationed in the capital Tisne arrived here. They looked at it nervously and did not approach rashly.

"Damn it! Why did this happen when the 'Thinking Circle' reappeared?!"

"Be careful! Don't get caught by these black ones!"

"This is at least a ghost-level weird incident. We alone can't solve it... But what kind of existence dares to attack the church's main church?"

Some people complained, some were wary, and some were suspicious.

Until the darkness suddenly changed again, and undead creatures walked out of the rolling darkness, making all kinds of strange screams, laughing and neighing, and moved towards the surrounding extraordinary beings with malicious intent.

Only then did they put down their own thoughts and join in the battle.

…

And inside the restaurant of Saint Zurich Cathedral,

Everyone seemed unaware of the external changes and quietly enjoyed the Holy Communion provided by the church without saying a word;

Although the light outside the window was slightly dim, it was normal for 6 p.m.

The atmosphere was oppressive and strange, with only the subtle sounds of chewing and the sound of metal touching tableware echoing.

Like a robot, Catherine buried her head and numbly brought the food to her mouth, but she couldn't taste anything, so she had to chew it twice and swallow it.

So she couldn't understand what Bishop Saint Luan said. When people are facing a life-and-death crisis, they have lost the ability to enjoy life.

At this moment, she had only one thought in her mind -

that is to survive.

Gradually, the sound of dining in the restaurant became quieter and quieter, and she thought that the routine dinner process was finally coming to an end.

Although there was still a lot of food on her plate that she hadn't finished, she couldn't wait to get out of this self-deceiving silence.

So she raised her head and looked at Bishop Saint Luan on the opposite side, intending to say something.

However, what she saw was a scene that froze her eyes and chilled her back.

The seat that originally belonged to Bishop Saint Luan was empty, including the dinner plate...

No, the dinner plate was not, it was covered with a layer of dirty spider silk, which wrapped the food residue in the web, and several spiders climbed onto the plate and began to work on the food residue in the spider web.

It seemed that several years had passed.

"Bishop... Where is Mr. Bishop?"

She looked around hurriedly, but found an even more chilling fact -

At some point, except for herself, the restaurant was empty. Mike, Pierre, Chang and the waiters were all gone.

And their plates were also covered with a layer of spider webs, with dense spider silk connecting to every corner of the restaurant, attracting hungry spiders to eat.