Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 20 Sacrifice

The scale of

this sewer system is so huge that it has completely exceeded the necessity of the single function of "urban sewage" in Duncan's eyes, and the gas lamps with runes everywhere in the sewers and the reinforced structure that can serve as shelter have made him speculate about the location of this underground facility.

But regardless of what the builder's idea was carried at the beginning of the design, one fact is obvious: deep within this huge facility, outside the eyes of the earthly world, this dark and cold place has become a nursery for some evil force.

A cult group that nominally worships the sun but only makes people feel chills.

At the intersection of several corridors of the sewer is a wide underground space, with solid cement pillars supporting the masonry dome, and the cast metal pipe structure is connected in all directions near the dome, like a spider's web, and the bright gas lamps illuminate the entire space, and also illuminate the crowd gathered at this "meeting place" -

at a glance it seemed that at least hundreds of people in black robes were gathered in this dirty and damp place, and in the middle of them was a high platform protruding from the ground, on which stood a tall figure also in a black robe, who was obviously the highest-ranking person in this group of black-robed people.

The man standing on the high platform was not wearing the same hood as the others, but a golden yellow mask, which was strangely styled, like a disk radiating endless flames around, and its surface was engraved with a large number of fragmented cracks.

Behind

the masked man, there was a peculiar totem on the high platform—it was a tall wooden stake, and a blazing fireball was fixed on the top of the stake, and the core of the fireball seemed to be some kind of metal, and there were many small holes on its surface, from which flames gushed out.

When Duncan was "escorted" here, what he saw was such a scene.

The black-robed people

gathered in the assembly hall also noticed him.

"We caught an escaped sacrifice on our way to the assembly hall!" One of the black-robed men who had been in charge of escorting before stepped forward and said respectfully to the "leader" on the high platform, his tone was not without the intention of asking for credit, "This sacrifice has been in the dark for too long, and my thinking is already a little confused, may you use your power to let the glory of my lord come upon this pathetic body!"

The cult leader wearing the golden mask on the high platform turned around and stared at the expressionless Duncan tightly, with a hint of surprise and coldness in his tone: "The sacrifice of the fleeing?"

Duncan didn't react at all, he was just observing the place curiously, including the golden mask on the cult leader's face, and the totem of the burning fireball behind the other party.

Perhaps, these symbols were weird and bizarre things for ordinary people in this world, but he could see them almost at a glance, these things...... were imitating the sun.

Instead of imitating the "ball of light" that was bound by a large number of flames and two rings of runes like today, it was an imitation of the blazing sun that Duncan was familiar with, emitting immense light.

These people were really worshiping the sun, worshiping a sun that seemed to have "fallen" in a very ancient era, and they were worshiping it as some kind of god.

Duncan raised his head and looked at the black-robed priest who was looking down on him from the high platform, but perhaps because of the necrosis of his facial muscles, his calm appearance was more like some kind of numbness of losing his sanity in the eyes of the other party.

The priest wearing the golden mask looked at Duncan for less than two seconds, then turned his head and ordered a man standing next to the high platform: "Go and check the place where the sacrifices are being held, and quickly return to them."

After giving the

order, he nodded to the black-robed men who had "escorted" the sacrifices back, with a hint of praise in his tone: "You have done a good job, even if it is a small merit for the Lord, which will turn into your eternal glory after the sun shines on all things again."

It was

just a non-salty and routine compliment, but several black-robed men seemed to have received great encouragement, and one by one they became excited, praising the "true sun god" while pushing Duncan to the high platform, while the masked priest did not speak to Duncan until this moment: "Poor man who has gone astray...... Can you feel the deep cold among the dull rocks and soil?

Duncan couldn't understand what the god was saying at all, so he could only remain silent, and the priest obviously didn't care about how the "sacrifice" in front of him would react, his words were not addressed to Duncan, but more like addressing the believers around him, and to the "sun god" he firmly believed in:

"Cold and darkness are the suffering left to this world by the false sun, under the rule of the false sun, the deep and dark ocean is raging in the world, only the fragmented small piece of land makes the living beings breathe, but even on these fragmented land, the world is unable to get rid of the suffering, the shadow of the old days is entrenched underground, the lightless earth xue is wriggling their minions that choose to devour people, the earth is full of hatred and disputes, and the pure souls of human beings are stained by the breath exhaled by the evil gods......

"How can we endure this long suffering? How can we endure the distorted and absurd world brought by the false sun?"

"We cannot bear it, we only hope that our Lord will return, and that the true sun god will come to the earth again, burning fiercely from blood and fire, and bring order and prosperity back to the world!"

Under the incitement of this masked priest's highly agitated tone, Duncan could clearly feel the atmosphere in the assembly hall change, and the believers in black robes became agitated one by one, they first echoed, and then this echo turned into an eager cry: "May the true sun god come to the earth again! Burning from blood and fire!" "May the true sun god come to the earth again! Burning from blood and fire!"

"May the true sun god come to the earth again," the priest on the high platform said in a loud voice, then stretched out his hand and pointed at Duncan, "And today, my lord will wake up further from his slumber - the blood of the lost will soothe the scars after the sun breaks down!"

"Bring the sacrifice up!"

A few black-robed men rushed up from the side, but Duncan was faster than them - he didn't need anyone to push him, he turned over and climbed onto the altar.

Although this body is not very useful, it is still possible to climb a platform.

After climbing up, he came to the masked priest's eyes, and the latter still maintained the majestic and mysterious posture he had just given the order - the change happened very suddenly, and the way it unfolded completely beyond his previous experience made the cult leader not react at once, he looked at Duncan through the golden mask, and the area around the altar suddenly became eerily quiet.

Duncan didn't seem to notice the change in the surrounding atmosphere at all, he just felt that he had gathered more information about this world, and was very much looking forward to seeing more rare scenes before this temporary body was "scrapped".

"What," Duncan rubbed his hands with a certain sense of inquiring anticipation, and inquired very seriously, "What then?" What's next?

Masked Priest: "......"

"Didn't you hear clearly?" Duncan frowned—but because the muscles on his face weren't very good, he didn't wrinkle, "I said, what should I do next?"

At this time, the priest finally reacted, although through a mask, there was obvious confusion in his eyes for a moment, but soon he suppressed his low voice and spoke: "The shadow in the darkness has indeed affected your mind, but don't worry, the supreme and holy sun will end your suffering...... Bring the offering to the totem!

The

two black-robed men immediately walked up to the stage from the side, took Duncan's arm and walked towards the totem pole holding the fireball, Duncan didn't know much about this step, so naturally he couldn't "cooperate in advance", but he still maintained a state of non-resistance, and honestly stood under the blazing fireball under the "clamp" of the two black-robed men.

Although Duncan did not show any resistance on his body, the two black-robed men who grabbed his arm still used great strength to clamp the arm of the "sacrifice", as if they were afraid that this sacrifice would break free violently at the last moment, their strength was abnormal, Duncan could even feel that the bones of this temporary body were bursting little by little, which made him look at the two black-robed men in surprise.

And then the masked priest came over again.

Duncan's attention was immediately attracted, and he saw the priest take out a strangely shaped dagger from his arms, which was curved and strangely like dry and twisted knuckles, the blade was pitch black as if it were made of obsidian, and its surface reflected the fire on the totem, looking strange and extraordinary.

Duncan was silently ready to cut off the "soul projection", he knew that the information that this temporary body could collect should be here.

The prayers of the cult priests sounded from the high platform:

"O Supreme and Holy Sun God! Please accept the sacrifice on this high platform! I offer you the heart of this sacrifice, and may you return it from blood and fire!

Duncan immediately stopped cutting off the soul projection, and looked at the cult priest in front of him like a fool.