Deep Sea Ember

Chapter 31 Residue

Vanna raised her head and looked at the lady in black who was checking the mental status of some cultists, who noticed her gaze and raised her head slightly in salute.

The other party looked to be only in her early twenties, but he had a calm temperament that was far more mature than his age, his long black hair was curled up at the back of his head, and the light blue crystal earrings on his earlobes reflected the reflection of the gas lamp not far away during the shaking.

“…… Heidi also came...... Was she sent by the city hall? Vanna asked the young guard beside her.

"No, Ms. Heidi happened to be around here when it happened, and when she heard the news, she came directly over - what's wrong?"

"No, it's nothing, although Heidi is an employee of the city hall, she has also had a long-term cooperative relationship with the church, just make up the on-site registration when she goes back," Vanna shook her head, and quickly refocused her attention on the matter in front of her, she checked the cult priest who had lost her heart and died, while casually asking, "What else did those cultists who could still communicate say?" What was the situation at that time?

"Their language was confused, two of them mentioned that the normal sacrifice ceremony was over, but suddenly someone caught an escaped sacrifice near the assembly hall, so the messenger decided to sacrifice this sacrifice to the sun god...... The guard recalled, "The two cultists were standing far away from the altar at that time, and did not see the specific scene on the platform, they only said that the sacrifice pierced the heart and did not die. And instead, he chanted the name of the sun god and directly designated the messenger as a sacrifice...... As a result, the messenger was sacrificed. ”

“…… A person who was selected as a sacrifice chanted the name of the evil god on the spot, and directly sacrificed the person who presided over the ceremony? Vanna seemed to have heard some kind of fantasy, and she only felt extremely absurd in her heart, but these words came from the mouth of a strictly trained, loyal and reliable church guardian, and she had to face it seriously, which made her expression strange, "How could there be such an outrageous thing - if this is also possible, then how many victims at the cult sacrifice site will not be able to kill those heretical priests as long as their mouths are faster?"

"Who says no, even the most lame priest occupies an absolute dominant position when presiding over the ceremony, how can a weak ordinary person let the ritual get out of control to that extent with a casual sentence - not to mention that we also checked this priest, he does have traces of being eroded by the projection from the 'deep' part of the world, this is a real ' Baptist', and according to the cultists at the scene, he was still holding a ritual dagger with a blessing in his hand......"

The young guard said, shaking his head, and then came to another corpse next to him.

"But...... Come and take a look at this, this is the 'sacrifice' that 'counter-killed' the priest.

Vanna glanced at the guardian before her gaze fell on the corpse that had completely lost its life, and the next second, her gaze became sharp.

It was a thin young man, and even because he was too thin, his body size was closer to that of a teenager, and the most obvious anomaly in his body was the empty hole in his chest.

“…… He has already been sacrificed......"

"Yes, this is a sacrifice that has already been sacrificed, judging by the traces of the scene and the testimony of the cultists, this 'sacrifice' may have lost its heart before it was pushed onto the stage," the guardian said in a serious tone, "So...... The real situation at that time was that a walking corpse walked to the stage in full view and killed the priest who presided over the ceremony as a sacrifice. ”

“…… Necromancer's trick? Vanna muttered to herself in her thoughts, "No, the power of the black sun has great restraint on the necromancers, and it is impossible for the walking corpses they control to walk to the totem of the black sun carelessly...... Is it a resuscitator controlled by an anomaly?

"Have you checked the lights around here?" She suddenly raised her head and looked at the guard beside her, "Is there a completely lightless underground space within five hundred meters?"

"We have checked, there is no lightless xue existing—even the cultists know the danger of the lightless xue, they have left torches and oil lamps in the cave where the body was discarded, and they are very careful in this regard."

Vanna didn't speak for a moment, but bent down in front of the young man's body with a deep question, she carefully examined the "sacrifice" that had sacrificed an extraordinary person in plain sight and caused the ritual to completely spiral out of control, while reaching out to flip the opponent's stiff eyelids, trying to find clues left by some heretical forces in his body.

Suddenly, there seemed to be a glimmer of light out of the corner of her eye—she seemed to see the young man's corpse open its eyes slightly, a dark green fire jumping up in the empty eyeballs, and a faint spark burst out on the tip of her right index finger, which was sticking out, and then drifted away with the wind.

Vanna's eyes flickered, and she instantly took out the dagger from her waist with her left hand, waved her hand without hesitation and cut off her right index finger, and then nailed the dagger to the corpse's forehead with her backhand, and the priest's dagger engraved with runes suddenly burst out of flames, completely devouring the corpse.

It took her less than a second to do all this, and at the moment the corpse was engulfed in flames, she had straightened up and took two steps back, then took out the blessed holy oil from her waist, bit off the cork with her teeth, and poured the grease inside on her right hand, which was frantically bleeding—the holy oil touched the flesh and blood, and a large amount of white smoke instantly snorted.

She saw that the guardian who had been following her had quickly drawn the steel sword from her waist, slashed off the head of the burning "sacrifice" with one sword, and then threw a potion mixed with seaweed extract and silver powder into the flames.

With a continuous explosion and flames that suddenly rushed into the sky, almost licking the roof, the alienated corpse turned into ashes in the blink of an eye.

And this powerful flame did not spread to the other corpses next to it at all.

The surrounding guards had already reacted one after another, half of them instantly pulled out their rune steel swords and gathered around Vanna, the other half pulled out large-caliber revolvers and quickly formed a guard on the periphery, and the two priests at the scene also pulled out their revolvers hidden under their robes, and chanted the name of the storm goddess Gemona while blessing the muzzle with an incense burner, and kept pointing the muzzle at those crazy, The cultists are in a commotion due to changes in the surrounding environment.

"Your Excellency, Inquisitor!" The young guardian with a steel sword in his hand came to Vanna at this time, "How are you? Just now......"

"There is some kind of power left in that 'sacrifice' body, and this power bypassed all the protection given to me by the goddess, and even bypassed my psychic vigilance." Vanna waved her hand, her eyes falling on her right hand - the gift of the goddess took effect, and the index finger that had been severed by the dagger was wriggling and recovering little by little, but even though she felt the severe pain gradually dissipating, her heart did not settle down at all.

"The situation is not right, there is not only the 'Black Sun' here, but there may be another powerful force that has visited this sacrificial ceremony...... And this force has not completely left, it still has a plan," the inquisitor quickly made a judgment, "transfer all the evidence and physical evidence, take it to the church for strict supervision, and then all inspections and interrogations will be carried out in the church, and the scene here must be thoroughly purified...... Are there people elsewhere?

A guard next to her immediately replied, "Yes, we rescued a group of imprisoned 'predetermined sacrifices' in another nearby cave xue before, and they are now temporarily placed in the pipe room next to them."

"Take them with you, take them to the church—even though they are victims, they must be strictly inspected before they can be sent home," Vanna said quickly, and then seemed to suddenly remember something, "Where is Miss Heidi?" Is she okay?

"I'm here," a calm female voice sounded from nearby at this time, and the "psychiatrist" in a black dress and employed by the city hall came over unhurriedly and nodded to Vanna, "Don't worry, I didn't react at all just now - so what the hell happened?" ”

“…… As many classic stories say, cultists have provoked something more evil than they are," Vanna glanced at the "psychiatrist", "I strongly recommend that you take extra protection when examining these cultists and hypnotizing them afterwards...... There were forces here that shouldn't have appeared, and there were residues.