Hearing that Alice was coming back, everyone hurriedly sat back in their places first, and Zhang Jingxu also gave everyone a look, saying that he wanted to talk to Alice later, and asked everyone to cooperate with him.

After half a minute, Alice walked in alone, and Liu Xing could tell from Alice's depressed look that her conversation with Ichiro Matsui was not going well.

And Zhang Jingxu also took this as a topic and said: "Miss Alice, why do you look sad, is there a problem with the conversation with Mr. Ichiro Matsui?" ”

Alice nodded, and said helplessly: "That's right, Mr. Matsui Ichiro is really too stubborn, he has always insisted on his own original idea, and he doesn't know how to work around at all, and I haven't been able to convince him to move those inexplicable idols out of the ancestral hall of Fisherman's Village." ”

Idol?

Liu Xing raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect Alice to say the wrong thing at this time, or to tell the truth, and even called those strange statues in the ancestral hall of Fisherman's Village as gods, you must know that Alice had always called those statues handicrafts before this.

In this way, those statues could indeed be the idols of the Ocean True God Sect?

And Zhang Jingxu also grasped this point, and immediately asked: "Statue? Miss Alice, do you mean that those strange statues are gods, don't you say they are artifacts? ”

Alice also realized at this time that she seemed to have said the wrong thing, but because Alice was able to serve as the intelligence head of the Kyoto branch of the Deep Sea Gospel Society, it meant that Alice still had two brushes.

So Alice reacted quickly, and said without changing her face and heartbeat: "Oh, those statues are indeed handicrafts, but they can also be classified into the category of gods, after all, just like those cross-style pendants, they can be regarded as jewelry, and they can also be used for prayer at certain times." ”

Zhang Jingxu pretended to be suddenly enlightened, and said with a smile: "I see, Miss Alice, you can see it thoroughly, but in this case, Miss Alice, you want to persuade Mr. Matsui Ichiro to take those statues out of the ancestral hall of Fisherman's Village because those statues are actually gods." ”

Alice nodded, sighed, and said, "You're right, that's what I thought, because you should all be able to tell from the patterns of those gods that the church from which these statues come is not a regular church. ”

"Miss Alice, do you mean, Mr. Ichiro Matsui, he believes in some evil secret church?!" Miyako Wutong pretended to be shocked and said.

Alice sighed again, and said with a solemn face: "I'm not sure about this now, because I've just been using Mr. Matsui Ichiro's words, trying to determine how much he knows about those gods, so as to determine whether Mr. Matsui Ichiro will be a believer from an evil secret church, but Mr. Matsui's performance is really a little ambiguous, because according to my observation, Mr. Matsui Ichiro does not know the true origin of these gods, and his attitude towards these gods is not religiousBut no matter what I say, Mr. Matsui Ichiro has never let go, and he has always been able to find various reasons for not wanting to move these statues to another place, which makes me very helpless. ”

Zhang Jingxu also sighed and said: "Then forget it, since Mr. Matsui Ichiro is unwilling, it is best for those of us who are outsiders not to interfere anymore." ”

"No, no, no, I have to take care of this, because you may not know that idols like these secret churches usually carry a kind of demagogic magic that can turn people who don't believe in it at first into devout believers, because I've been in this situation before." Alice said seriously.

Then Alice began to tell her "personal experience".

Alice is an Englishman, born in a wealthy London borough, to parents who are well-known local lawyers.

Growing up, Alice would often listen to her parents discuss some of the cases they had handled at the dinner table, including some supernatural cases.

For example, in London's long-established and well-connected subway network, there are often reports of sightings of mysterious creatures in the middle of the night, and the most important thing is that there was a midnight subway serial murder case, the victim was waiting alone in a remote subway station when he was waiting for the ride, and when he was in the blind spot of the surveillance camera, he suddenly let out a scream, and then accompanied by the sound of some sharp weapon tearing the flesh, the victim disappeared, but from the large amount of blood and broken flesh left on the ground, it can be seen that the victim has no possibility of survival.

In just half a month, there were nearly 50 victims, and none of them survived, because of the need to maintain order, the London police did not dare to make these incidents public, so they could only conduct a closed investigation into this terrible midnight serial murder case, and kept silent about the victim's family, only saying that the victim may have been kidnapped.

Alice's father was still working in the police station at the time, and when he was about to get off work one day, the police department suddenly announced that after the subway was suspended tonight, all the police would cooperate with the temporarily deployed army to search the subway line and arrest the murderer who might be hiding in the subway.

At first, Alice's father didn't care too much, but when Alice's father came to the designated subway station in the middle of the night and looked at the heavily armed army, he realized that something was wrong with the situation.

So, this made Alice's father alarmed, and after assigning the team to start the operation, he deliberately walked to the middle and safest position.

After a while, Alice's father suddenly heard the sound of someone firing in front of him, and the sound of more than a dozen people firing at the same time, but to Alice's father's surprise, it was accompanied by some kind of strange howl, a howl that was by no means human.

So, Alice's father followed his team to the scene of the incident, and then saw a scene that he will never forget—two ghouls were gnawing on the corpses, which were naturally from the team members who had just exchanged fire with them, including Alice's father's best colleagues and friends.

Then, Alice's father felt that his mind was blank, only that the gunshots in his ears were getting farther and farther away, and when Alice's father came to his senses, he found that he had been taken to the hospital, and it was already the next night.

After being discharged from the hospital, Alice's father submitted a resignation to the police force and chose to quit the police force to become a lawyer, because Alice's father did not want to face those terrible ghouls again.

However, Alice's father is still curious about the ins and outs of this case, so he finds his colleague Chris, who was assigned to the same team as him that night.

It just so happened that Chris got a promotion because he did a good job in the operation that night, killing a ghoul with his own hands, and he had a way to get into the truth of this case.

In this case, there are a total of five ghouls, two large, three and five ghouls, and these five ghouls would have been a happy family of five, a middle-class family living in London.

The family of five are all Chelsea fans, so they followed the home team to Manchester City a year ago to watch Manchester United play Chelsea, which is the title of the league this season.

Then, Manchester United won the game.

Although a little frustrating, the family of five quickly adjusted their mindset and began to visit Manchester and buy all kinds of souvenirs, including a ghoul-shaped statue.

Later, the police found the vendor who sold the statue, and to put it bluntly, it was a stall owner, who said that the statue was placed by someone else to sell it on consignment, and although the person who consigned the statue said that the statue was from an ancient castle, he asked the stall owner to sell the statue at a low price.

Then, the police still haven't found the person who consigned the statue...

Straight to the point.

The family of five returned to London with the statue, which was placed in his room by his eldest son, who was in his adolescent years, because it looked so curious.

Half a year later, the eldest son began to say at school that he often had nightmares, being chased by a ghoul in various ways, and after another three months, the family of five said on various occasions that they had nightmares every day.

Then a month before the midnight subway serial murders, the family of five suddenly disappeared at the same time, when the London police also received a report of disappearance and conducted an investigation... Of course, the result is naturally nothing.

Therefore, after the police invited a well-respected magician in London, they officially identified the murderers of the midnight subway serial murders, the five ghouls, as the missing family of five, and the reason why they became like this is because of the statue.

As for the statue, it was never found, but the magician had determined that it was from some branch of the Negivorous Cult and that it was an idol of the secret church.

After listening to Alice's narration, Liu Xing couldn't help frowning, he didn't expect Alice's father to come into contact with ghouls, although Alice's father fell into a temporary state of madness at that time.

But what Liu Xing cares about the most is that the name of Alice's father's colleague is Chris.

Because if nothing else, this Chris is likely to be Elizabeth's adoptive father, and Elizabeth is the hidden boss in the mod when Liu Xing was playing the first official Cthulhu Run game, the centenarian witch who successfully charmed Liu Xing!

And the statue that turned a family of five into ghouls, but the family of five bought it in Manchester, and the consignor of the statue claimed that it was an antique from an ancient castle, which was supposed to be the same castle where Elizabeth once lived.

Therefore, Liu Xing suspects that the consignor of the statue is likely to be Elizabeth's brother Gary.

The world is impermanent.

Gary has now been killed by his own servant ghoul, and Elizabeth has become Chris's adopted daughter... Although Elizabeth can be Chris's grandmother.

As for himself, he changed from "Liu Xing" to "Watanabe Meteor", and met Alice again.

Now Liu Xing has a vague hunch that he is likely to meet Elizabeth again, and he will also walk with Alice.

After telling her father's story, Alice concluded: "Lessons from the past, teachers from the future, although you may think that I am a little too worried about this, but I must say that I am not wrong, although the statues have not made any real impact on us, but if you find that you have grown fish scales that day, it will be too late, well, I will go back to my room and rest." ”

With that, Alice went upstairs.

However, Liu Xing suddenly noticed that a hint of dark green flashed at the junction between Alice's right wrist and the sleeve, which attracted Liu Xing's attention.

When Liu Xing wanted to continue observing, Alice had already turned around and went upstairs.

This made Liu Xing fall silent, if he wasn't dazzled, the dark green on Alice's wrist was probably a scale!

Combined with Alice's last words, Liu Xing was more sure of his thoughts.

The most important thing is that Liu Xing found out from the memory of "Watanabe Meteor" that the Deep Sea Gospel Society has indeed mastered a technology that can transform people into "deep divers", but this technology is not yet mature, and the transformed "deep divers" can only be said to be only in their shape, not their gods, and in the final analysis, they can only be regarded as human beings with the appearance of deep divers.

From this point, Liu Xing can also deduce that although the Deep Sea Gospel Society believes in deep divers, it does not have close contact with deep divers, simply put, the Deep Sea Gospel Society has a hot face on the butt of deep divers.

Having said that, as a middle-level cadre of the Deep Sea Gospel Society, it is reasonable for Alice to accept the "deep diver".

However, Liu Xing could hear from Alice's tone that Alice did not want to be a "deep diver", after all, if Alice was willing, she would not have said the word "fish scales".

Therefore, Liu Xing is now more and more curious about the NPC Alice.

After hearing the voice that Alice had entered the room, Zhang Jingxu said with a smile: "Okay, after Alice leaves the villa later, I will go get some anti-magic dust, and then Ishikawa Ling, you have to run again, enter Alice's room and dispose of the compound magic array, of course, Ishikawa Ling, you can rest assured, we will not watch you act." ”

Ling Ishikawa nodded with a smile.

And Miyako Wutong, who was looking at the wind just now, asked very curiously: "By the way, by the way, Ishikawa Ling, you haven't answered my question just now?" ”