"I know that my Redeemer lives, and that He is the living Lord. ”

"When I was lost in the deep valley, he led me to the right path. ”

......

In a small chapel somewhere in Community 13, Father Ryan is reciting words from the scriptures, holding a stick of incense, and lighting the candles on a three-tiered iron platform in front of him.

Behind him sat a row of benches a few plainly dressed children, with small flashlights for lighting beside them, shaking their legs out of boredom, and some yellowed sneakers rubbing against the bricks underneath, perhaps because they had stepped on puddles outside, leaving a few dark marks on the floor.

"Father Ryan, we're hungry, you said you invited us to a big meal last month. ”

The little boy, who is already in the third grade of primary school, is the "leading brother" of these children, and they are here today because the priest in front of them has told their parents that today is a God-given day and has prepared a big meal to invite them.

Even though this is the 13th community, their parents are just workers in the neighborhood and the opportunity to eat a big meal is not common, so they gladly agreed.

"It's going to be fine right now, and when I light all these candles, the cake in the oven will look like the one in the window, and you won't be able to smell the smell in the air?"

The nails of the thumb unconsciously scratched the incense ash wrapped outside the incense stick, so that the nails were filled with a layer of light red, and the little finger bent and turned, crossing the gaps, and the incense ashes fell outward, and before they landed, they turned into a layer of pale white mist, mixed with the smoke rising from the burning candle in front of him.

"I seem to smell it, it's so fragrant, it's the smell of honey cream cake, I ate it on my birthday, and I still haven't forgotten it. ”

The little girl with two ponytails jumped off the bench, her face full of anticipation, and after a while, as if she had discovered something, ran forward to the pulpit in the church, and looked up at the front.

"Shinnosuke, come and see, this cross is so beautiful, Father Ryan, is this made of silver?"

"What are you thinking, it's just silver-plated, I heard my parents say that it can't be sold for any money......"

The child doesn't care if his words are appropriate, and what adults say, he just subconsciously imitates.

Turning suddenly, Father Ryan's gaze fell on the group of children who were gradually surrounding the cross, his fingertips twisting incense, and his deep sunken eyes were filled with inexplicable emotions.

"Faith is priceless, it is rude to talk about other people's beliefs like this, you are only children, you must not be misled by these obscene thoughts, it will cost you a good future...... It would be a great pity. ”

Lighting the last candle, Father Ryan slowly walked over to the children and whispered,

"The cake should be ready, I'll bring it to you, and the rest will have to wait for your parents to come." ”

"Good~"

Several children responded in unison.

Turning into the inner hall kitchen of the church, Ryan walked freely through the darkness, past the oven that had not yet been plugged in, to the innermost cabinet.

"This filthy world should not be a place for you to live, rather than sinking into this, it is better for me to lead you to a new world!"

He opened the cabinet door and took out the contents of the cabinet, put them on a plate, and when he was neatly arranged, he turned around and returned to the prayer hall without hesitation.

"Kids, the cake is baked, one by one, no one is allowed to rob others, what are you doing?"

Footsteps froze, Ryan looked ahead in amazement, the honey cream cake on the plate in his hand was only a little warm.

The children who should have gathered around are now surrounding a young man at the door.

"You're Father Ryan, aren't you?"

The young man apparently noticed him as well, and raised his hand and waved, his face looking a little hesitant,

"I was introduced here, actually...... I have something I want to confess to you. ”

"I'm sorry sir, it's a godsend day, I'm preparing dinner for these kids and their parents, I really don't have time, you may be able to understand come back again, at eight o'clock in the morning, I'll set aside spare time for you. ”

Ryan noticed something in the young man's hand, some dried meat and snacks, and before the man could answer, he saw him bow his head and say something to the children, causing them to run out of the church with cheers.

"Hey, Shinnosuke, Kazama, you can't ......"

"Don't worry, I just gave them some coupons from the supermarket next door, and on this condition, I fought for half an hour. ”

The young man interrupted the priest's words, took a few steps forward, rubbed his hands, first looked left and right, it was a small church, and the walls on both sides were no more than five meters away from him, but he still looked a little nervous, always kept his eyes in the shadow of the corner, and when he walked in front of Ryan, he said in a low voice,

"Forgive me for being selfish, but I really need your help, I've come across something that science can't explain...... I've seen psychiatrists but those damn pills they prescribed didn't work at all, and I thought it might be because of something else...... There's a church like yours near my house, and I don't know who else to look for but you."

"I think a psychiatrist is a good choice, probably because you haven't taken the medicine enough times to make it less effective. ”

Placing the plate on the table next to him, Ryan didn't want to waste time with the young man.

"No, I don't have any mental problems at all, I can see ghosts...... I can see them walking around in front of me when I'm sleeping, at work, and even in the shower...... It's not an entity, it's some phantom, and no one else believes in me, and I think you believe in God, and you must know what I'm doing, right?"

"Ghosts?"

Ryan, who wanted to let people leave directly, began to look at the man in front of him, and he clearly didn't feel anything.

"Yes, ghosts!"

The young man sat down on the bench next to him, covered his face with his hands, and replied in a muffled voice,

"I don't know why....... No one else can see it, but I can see it, and if I continue like this, I will definitely be considered crazy by those people!"

"Sir, can you describe it specifically, I am willing to believe you and help you, but only if I know the details. ”

Standing in the aisle, Ryan asked, staring at the young man.

"Sometimes I find that I feel like I'm in a dream, the world is different, it's beautiful...... No, there are occasional scary times when I can't tell if I'm in a dream or in reality, at first I can tell the difference, but lately I've been in another world for longer and longer, and I'm starting to feel like it's real, as if I should have belonged in that world. ”

The young man's words were a little confused, but Ryan heard something he wanted to know.

It was the first time he had met someone who was self-conscious, and it was really strange.

"Father Ryan, there's something important, just yesterday, yes, probably late at night, I was in a dream...... Sorry, I don't know if it was a dream or something, I saw something stranger than a ghost, right in the central hollow of Thousand Sails, I saw a black cocoon, I wasn't quite sure what it was, but I could feel that something was being conceived in it...... Do you think this is some kind of omen?"

The young man looked down on himself, suddenly looking up at Father Ryan with anticipation in his eyes.

At this time, Ryan was stunned in place, his expression changed, and his gaze at the young man was also uncertain.

The scene described by the latter is not at all something that a servant or a believer can see, let alone that the person in front of him is not even the first two identities, but just an ordinary person who has been infected.

The gibberish of the mentally deranged?

It's impossible, the odds of being so close to the truth just by making it up are negligible!

Could it be that he really received the will of the great being in the dark?

To be on the safe side, he decided to take a test.

So he turned around and went to get the cake on the table.

"Sir, you must understand that what others say is not necessarily right, and what you see is not necessarily an illusion. ”

Handing the cake to the young man, Ryan continued,

"If I don't like it, here's my homemade honey cream cake, and the sugar will help you calm your mood. ”

"Uh...... I don't need to, I really don't have an appetite right now. ”

The young man glanced at the cake on his plate and pushed it away.

"Hunger only exacerbates your current strange state, which in turn affects your thinking, and you have to change if you want to recover. ”

"I don't think so, I'm really not hungry, I ate when I came!"

"Eat it!"

With his left hand, he pressed the young man's shoulder, secretly added strength, and with his right hand, he took a piece of cake from the plate.

Ryan didn't want to waste any more time on this kind of thing, and he had to find out what the condition of this person was as soon as possible.

Boom!

The muffled sound of objects colliding.

A figure flew upside down and crashed into the table, sending smoke and dust everywhere.

"I said I'm not hungry, isn't it good to keep talking honestly?"

The young man wrinkled his brows, picked up the honey cake that had fallen on the bench, put it under his nose and sniffed it, and there was no smell of honey cream at all, but another strange smell.

There is no doubt that this is the Zhu Jue who came to search for the target.

Since Suzi failed to completely lock on to the target, Zhu Jue could only test them one by one, before coming to this church, he had already tested the two of them, and this church was the point where the last coordinate was located.

Even so, Zhu Jue still didn't choose to do it directly, after all, the positioning is only in the church, and there is no guarantee that the other party is the priest here.

The words just now were Zhu Jue's temporary idea, wanting to take advantage of Father Ryan's surprise to get some information as much as possible, who would have thought that this guy would actually think like a pervert and forcibly feed him cake.

Although his physical fitness was different from ordinary people, Zhu Jue still didn't plan to try this kind of obviously added thing, so he had to choose to reveal his identity.

Strike first!