I didn't expect to see Alice, who haunted me in this situation, which shows that there is a certain number in the dark.

Alice was lying there quietly, still wearing the white dress we bought when we parted, still with that beautiful but heart-wrenching face, did I hurt her too much? Or is there a double-edged sword that has broken my heart and broken hers by a thousand pieces?

Perhaps since the day I met Alice, I had been robbed of everything by her black eyes, and that indescribable affection was buried in the deepest part of my heart.

Alice's large bed was enveloped in a pyramid-shaped pillar of light that emitted a soft yellowish light, and I came to the bed without being blocked by that light, and that light felt comfortable on my body.

I sat on the edge of the bed and called softly, "Alice, wake up." ”

Although Alice was breathing evenly, she didn't react at all, and suddenly heard someone talking outside the house, only to hear a voice say, "Hey, you two came here?" ”

One of them replied: "Report to the captain, someone just said that they saw a suspicious person, and they suspected that someone had smuggled onto the boat, so let's take a look here." ”

The captain said, "Oh, I'll know that there's someone here, so go to work, and I'll take a nap and don't disturb me." ”

The two searchers were chased away by the captain, as if the captain knew that I had done this on purpose in my room, and heard the sound of footsteps walking back to the room and the door closing, and a large rock fell in his heart.

Now the top priority is how to take Alice off the cruise, so why don't you take the captain away while she is napping now, and kill all those who stop me.

I was just about to help Alice up, when the door of the room was pushed open, and a calm voice asked, "Who are you?" ”

The voice was calm and not high, but it didn't sound like a thunderbolt to me, and I was startled and turned my head to see that it was the archbishop who had presided over the wedding, standing at the door as steady as Mount Tai, his golden eyes staring at me with an unkind expression.

There was a flash of murder in my eyes, and I wanted to rush over and kill the archbishop, but I found that my body had been frozen at some point, and at this time I couldn't feel the nerves beating and completely petrified, completely in a state of static.

I felt that the archbishop was not an ordinary person, but I didn't expect it to be so powerful, I didn't even need to move a finger, so that I fell into a situation of being slaughtered by others, since I met Jenya, I already knew how small my power was, and I had no power to fight back in the face of this kind of supernatural power, just like now, I couldn't move in the face of the archbishop, and my heart was filled with a sense of depression.

The archbishop walked to the chair to the right of the bed and sat down, straightened his face and asked, "Tell me, who are you and what are you doing here?" Do you know Alice? How did you get on the boat? You have to answer honestly, I will not hurt you. ”

Now, I have nothing to hide, so I briefly told me about the things from the church to Atlantic City and to the cruise ship, of course, I omitted the things with Mary, and the things with Lake and Jennya.

Hearing that the archbishop's expression gradually eased, his expression was full of sympathy, and he suddenly said: "I see. ”

The archbishop sighed, showing a look of reminiscence, and only listened to his narration: "The priest in Sister Anne's mouth must be one of our four bishops, the blue bishop - Safi Meadows, he used to be a good friend of mine, at that time I had a deep friendship with him for more than 30 years to study the ancient secret arts, since he and Anne rebelled against the Holy Cross ten years ago and escaped from the Holy See with young Alice, and his whereabouts have been unknown, until a recent period, we have received news through the scattered priests, They said that they were hiding in the church in the small town of Horkwera on the outskirts of New York, and we were sent by the Holy Cross Pope to find it, and when we arrived, the church was already in ashes, and I used the ancient secret method to track the dark aura on Alice's body, and according to the signs when you left, I chased it to Atlantic City, where we met Blackjack Cowboy - "Silver Wolf", and only then did we take Alice to the cruise ship. ”

The archbishop looked a little sad after speaking, and I couldn't help but ask, "So what's wrong with Alice now?" ”

The archbishop said with a solemn expression: "When I came into contact with Alice, I had already found that the dark aura on her body had weakened, and at the same time, I also found that her life energy was not much left, and I now used the "Silence" to draw an enchantment, in which time is static, so I can stop the passage of time, so that I can take her to meet the Holy Pope while she is alive." ”

As soon as I heard this, it dawned on me that no wonder I couldn't move when I entered the pyramid-shaped space, because my head was located outside the oblique section of the pyramid enchantment, so my speech was not affected, even if people took Alice away under my nose, I was powerless in the face of this magical power, and it was no wonder that the "cowboy" who beat me to the ground had to give Alice to the head of the archbishop.

Still having doubts in my mind, I asked, "Why did you bring Alice to the Holy Pope?" ”

The archbishop closed his golden eyes and said as if he were in memory: "As early as 16 years ago, Safi came to me one day, and learned from him that the church found a witch in a small mountainous area, who had been burned to death by the church, and that a child left by the witch was Alice, and at that time Alice was just able to walk, and no one noticed her potential danger, so he put her in the orphanage of the church to raise, But two years when she was 5.6 years old, the people who came into contact with her gradually died inexplicably, and the people in the church were very afraid, so the church sent Safi and me to investigate the matter together, and we came to a conclusion from the ancient documents, that is, Alice is a descendant of the ancient contractor, and after looking through her ancestral home, she learned that Alice is the last person in this clan, and Alice may sign a new contract with the demon or the god of death as soon as she dies, and you can get strange abilities, because this is a kind of evil law, I wrote a secret letter to the Holy Church Pope, and the Pope learned of this and insisted that we take Alice to the church headquarters to be burned at the stakeWhen I was about to return to the main church, Safi told me that the Pope wanted to monopolize the contractual power, and I was faithful to the Pope's rebuttal, so Safi left with Sister Anne the next day, and the Church had made an all-out search for him as an apostate, but there was no news. ”

Speaking of this, the archbishop paused, I knew that the story was not finished, and I was silent, so I only listened to him continue: "Later, 7 years ago, Safi's words were confirmed, and at that time, the people of the church were sent out from time to time to find Alice's whereabouts, and at the same time found that a little boy was carrying a contract, and the pope secretly took it back, and since then the little boy has disappeared from this world, and now the church has grown and grown, but it has deteriorated not as before, this time the pope has suspected that I have different intentions, and specially asked me to supervise this matter and take back Alice as the pope's sacrifice. ”

I was shocked when I heard this, and said hurriedly: "The contract is already on me, let Alice go, I'll go with you." ”

The archbishop shook his head and said: "It is true that you have a strong dark aura on you, but the Pope has a secret order for me to take Alice there, since the day I was on the cruise ship, my mind has been struggling, and today I see your affection for Alice, which makes me lose my way, and I definitely can't take Alice there, how can I be a good person who uses this evil method?" It is not my own work to deprive others of their lives at will, and I disdain to be an accomplice. ”

I was overjoyed to hear this and grateful, "Thank you." ”

The archbishop said calmly: "No need to thank me, everyone should have the right to choose his life, however, you have a contract, and some people know that there will never be fewer people who will kill you, you must pay attention." ”

With a wave of the archbishop's sleeve, the pyramid barrier disappeared into invisibility, and my body was free again, and at the same time, with respect for this upright old man, I knelt forward and thanked him, and the archbishop hurriedly said with his hands: "It doesn't have to be like this. ”

At the same time, the archbishop let out a "huh" with a strange expression.

I asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The archbishop said: "Well, the dark aura on your body is different from what I encountered before, it has lost the gravitational force that absorbs the life force, there is no suction force at all, and it is still full of vitality, but this vitality is not warm, but a kind of coldness. ”

I've always been interested in killing people and absorbing white air masses, and I don't quite understand it, but now when I meet an expert-level person, he immediately kills me, or tells the archbishop about the white gas coming out of my dead person.

The archbishop gasped and blurted out: "It turns out that people who are cursed by the contract can absorb life energy as long as they go to kill, so as to give it to the god of death or demons in their bodies, no wonder people gradually die one by one after touching Alice at that time, at that time her life was fragile and she really couldn't kill, and some people who had just become adults were cursed by the contract and didn't know that there was such a way to continue their lives, so when they became adults, their lives were already close to the stage of running out of oil and lamps, so they all died naturally, And the same thing happens in the family all the time, which makes people think that it is a disease, so it is not until the family roots destroy the contract, and after the death of that person, it becomes the medium of the new contract to pass it on, and the cycle of evil magic goes on endlessly. ”

The archbishop gritted his teeth and said: "Such a vicious evil art, it is not a slave of death, a lamb raised by the devil, and life is their main meal!" ”

Then the archbishop glared at me and said, "Now you know, will you kill for your own life?" ”

I said helplessly: "I am now being chased and killed by the killer group, and I want to live an ordinary life, and I will not take the initiative to kill unless I have to." ”

The archbishop's eyes flashed with gold, and he couldn't make up his mind, and I added: "If the bishop thinks that I will kill indiscriminately, then you can kill me now, you can sink my body into the sea, as long as you take good care of Alice on my behalf until the end of my life, I absolutely believe in the bishop, and I will not fail Anne's request to me." ”

At this time, I did report the wish of dying to thank his grace, anyway, if there was no such curse, I would have died many times, and Alice was taken care of, and I also wanted to open, human life will eventually die, rather than living so meaninglessly, it is better to die happily.

Since I met Anne, I have indeed been touched a lot, from the ruthlessness of many people who died at my hands since I became a killer, to the fact that I can now save people in distress, and I can die for my beloved, the change can be described as earth-shattering.

The archbishop saw that I was thinking of death, and sighed: "Not all the people you kill are good people, but let me know that you will take your life if you kill innocents indiscriminately." ”

The archbishop said earnestly: "I think that Safi must have studied the method of breaking the contract when he took Alice away, and I don't want to die without success, now that you have learned about this, I hope you can find a way to break this cycle and make ordinary people no longer suffer from it." ”

I nodded, and seeing that Alice hadn't woken up yet, I asked, "Why hasn't Alice woken up yet?" ”

The archbishop and I were in a very different mood at this time, and said with a slight smile: "I am the white bishop of the Holy Cross - Albus Donsabanco, you can call me Bishop Albus, the captain of this cruise ship is my old friend, because Alice was very emotionally unstable when she was picked up, so Captain Wabu ordered her to be given a sedative, which has nothing to do with my secret method." ”

As I had been talking to the white bishop for a long time, time slipped away unconsciously, and I looked at the electronic clock hanging above the door of the room, it was already 7:30 p.m., and it had already been talking all afternoon, and then asked with concern: "If Alice is not brought back, then the bishop is not implicated." ”

Bishop Albus patted me on the shoulder and said, "Sister Anne really didn't see the wrong person, in fact, it was not a big deal to be removed from the position of archbishop by the pope, and then I can find a small church to spend the rest of my life." ”

As soon as I saw that Bishop Albus was open-minded, and not moved by fame and fortune, I admired it even more, and was about to speak, when suddenly there was a heavy knock on the door of the room.

We turned our heads at the same time, and at this moment a bloody arm pierced through the door panel, and with a "bang" another arm was pierced and the doorknob was unscrewed, and a group of crew members with bloody mouths and canine teeth broke in like wild beasts.

Bishop Albus said heavily: "Demons! ”