On the side of the silent hallway, suddenly, a crack cracked in the wall. It then retreated further to the side, creaking and creating a black entrance.

Then, a figure groped its way out of the hole, short and with round thief eyes. The figure lowered his head and took out the matchbox, and it lit with a thud, a dazzling flame in the darkness, reflecting the chubby face of the Paparal.

He cautiously looked left and right, and muttered, "There's a secret passage here." ”

The light of the match dimmed, and then went out.

"But where should I go?" He muttered, "What did the alchemist say, the chapel, the basement, the central schoolhouse, the kitchen, the kitchen, ......?" ”

"Oops, not very lucky, I can't remember." The Paparal man moved his finger and muttered to himself in confusion: "Did he talk about the kitchen?" Sounds familiar, I should have said, maybe I should go to the kitchen, it must be a big cafeteria-"

"But where's the kitchen?"

Parker sniffed through the air with his nose.

"I guess it must be up to the north."

"Dear God, please be sure to tell me the answer."

In the darkness came the sound of dice throwing, and the excited shouts of the Paparals: "Sure enough, it's north!" ”

He thought for a moment, opened the Elector system, and sent a message to Fang Yuan: "Dear Alchemist and Captain, the best night thief in your team has successfully infiltrated the cathedral and is on his way to his destination, everything is going well-"

"I'm in Horstins Cathedral."

There's also news from Momiji's side.

Fang Yu glanced at the communication between the two of them, and felt that it was a little unbelievably smooth. However, he glanced at Parker's crepe wording, only to think that it was not so reliable, and sent a reply casually: "Where have you been?" ”

System prompt: The other party has turned off the communication system——

"Shit, this bastard!" Fang Yu scolded in his heart.

He had told him not to turn off the communication system, because this guy had a criminal record before, and the reason was that the charges of Otherworldly Telecom were too expensive!

Fang Yu was angry, but he still had to ask Momiji patiently: "Momiji, where are you?" ”

"Judging from the drawings, this should be a side hall, this place is so big, it's like a labyrinth, I'm afraid it will take a little time to find Hollit's school building."

"Labyrinth?" Fang Yu was stunned, the outer area of the Horstins Church is very large, but the church area is not big, how can it be built like a labyrinth.

This is not a town hall, there is no real need to defend against attack, right? Who would be fine to attack Ori's Sanctuary, and the cultists don't have the guts.

He was puzzled, but saw Heath parting the low bushes, and in the cold moonlight in front of him, a row of masonry walls and a small door were revealed.

The girl wiped her hands on her apron and said to him, "Mr. Ed, here we are." This is a stable, but it hasn't been a horse for a long time since the Templars stopped stationing here. It may taste a little weird, after all, no one has taken care of it since. ”

As she spoke, she opened the door, and sure enough, a strange smell hit the end of Fang Yuan's nose, not the stench of feces, but a rotten and moldy smell.

Heath cautiously looked inside the door and whispered a reminder, "Be careful, Mr. Eddard, there's something dirty in the church." ”

"Dirty?"

Heath shook her head and remained silent.

There will be some monsters in this kind of place more or less, or undead, or something else strange and strange, and it is not surprising that Fang Yu saw this, so he only took out the information device and opened a light door to release Type III walkers.

After his simple repairs, the durability of the 'Sword Bearer' has been restored, but the damaged part of the shell armor is very troublesome to repair at his level, so he can only put it there for the time being.

The few sword wounds left by the musketeer on the Type III walker remained there in their original state, and a few ugly openings were very unsightly.

Fang Yu let the walker take the lead, and then he himself followed.

It took him a moment for his eyes to adjust to the utter darkness, the stables were low and cramped, and the ground was piled with black, moldy straw or something, and it looked like a disgusting mass of rotting flesh if you didn't look closely.

Clumps of yellow-green mushrooms grew on the rotten flesh, and a layer of spores filled the floor, as if they were filling the chest, as if suddenly suffering from asthma, and breathing became more and more cloudy and difficult.

Fang Yu is still a little strange, how did the stable become like this, even if no one takes care of it, but this is a little too strange, right?

He continued to ask the previous question: "Heath, when did the incarnation of the dragon's golden pupil take Hu Di, and how do you know?" ”

Heath had hurriedly told him the ins and outs of the situation, so that he could figure out what had happened in the time since he had been to the town hall.

When he and Heath were separated, the latter left to find Hudi.

According to the latter, she and Hu Di agreed to meet at a place where Fang Yu thought it should be the 'home' she had been referring to—but Heath told him that she was to blame for wanting to go back to her father's workshop to get the frame, so that Hu Di did not wait for him.

Her eyes turned red as she spoke, and she cried out holding her apron, and her tears couldn't stop falling.

"It's all because I didn't think much about it, and when I got back there, I found that Hudi was not there," said Heath sadly, "I thought he hadn't arrived yet, but there were signs of a fight in the house, and I realized that he had come." ”

"But if there are traces of a fight, it is not necessarily the incarnation of the dragon's golden pupil," Fang Yu shook his head, he was not very likely to comfort people, and said bluntly: "To be honest, I don't think that with Nicol Bolas's strength, there is no need to leave traces of the fight. ”

Heath shook her head vigorously and said anxiously, "But I clearly felt the breath of the dragon's golden pupils near there. ”

"Can you feel the breath of the dragon's golden eyes?" Fang Yu was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically.

Heath's face turned pale, and she lowered her head and stopped talking.

Fang Yu looked at her, suddenly remembered something in his heart, and asked, "Did you go and get that picture frame?" ”

Heath nodded sadly.

"That ......" Fang Yu asked a little weakly, "have you noticed anything missing?" ”

The girl shook her head, and said with a blank face that nothing was missing.

This answer made Fang Yu stunned for a moment and fell into thought.

But since then, Heath has been looking very depressed, and Fang Yu didn't know how to ask her further for details, but fortunately, the other party took the initiative to bring him to this place, so as to avoid the embarrassment between the two.

And it wasn't until this moment that he saw that Heath's mood was much more stable, and he opened up the question he had always wanted to ask.

In the darkness, Heath thought for a moment before replying, "I think it should be Hu Di that not long after he arrived in that place, the dragon's golden pupil found him, in fact, I always knew it...... She's been trying to get close to him......"

"When was that?"

"It should be about shortly after we parted, Mr. Eddard."

A trace of doubt flashed in Fang Yuan's heart, but he clearly remembered that at that time, the shadow of Nicol Bolas, which had been transformed by the dragon's golden pupil, had been in the sky above the area of the town hall, hitting the enchantment.

Could this be a doppelganger?

"But why didn't you tell him?" Fang Yu asked again.

Heath looked nervous, and she grabbed her apron tightly, not knowing what to answer.

Fang Yu could probably guess her thoughts, maybe this girl wanted to maintain the status quo, and wishful thinking hoped that the situation was not as bad as she imagined, and constantly comforted and deceived herself, just to save such a small wish.

He couldn't help but wonder a little about the story between Hu Di and this girl, and what kind of changes had happened in this illusion before he came here.

After a while, his next question came from the darkness:

"Heath, the dragon's golden pupil took Hu Di for the sake of the Blade of False Victory? But why did it bring Hu Di to this place, and is there any connection to this? ”

This is exactly what makes Fang Yu puzzled.

He had thought that according to the plan of the Cultists of the Dragons, they should go to the town hall with the Blade of False Victory, where the next step would be triggered.

He originally thought that the followers of the Dragon Worship Sect and the Dragon Fire Guild had not found Hu Di for the time being, and did not get the False Victory Blade in his hand, but listening to Heath's description, since the Dragon Golden Pupil had already found Hu Di.

So how did you come to this place?

Could it be that he had always thought badly before?

If that were the case, he would have to tell the others about it quickly, lest the next move go wrong.

But Heath was silent for a moment before replying, "That's because she's trying to trick Hu Di into destroying the Blade of False Victory in the Underground Sanctuary, and I know that's what she's always wanted, but she can't do it herself, so she can only do it herself." ”

Fang Yu was taken aback when he heard this.

"What do you say, the dragon's golden pupil wants to destroy the blade of illusory victory, but how is that possible!?"

Isn't the Blade of Illusory Victory a prop created by the Dragon's Golden Pupil, in order to distort this illusion and constantly weaken the power of the seal.

But how could it destroy this sword on its own? And according to Heath, it seems that it has not been able to get close to the sword on its own, and must destroy it under the guise of Hudi's hand.

And it seems that only in the underground altar can this weapon be truly destroyed.

Fang Yu didn't know what the connection was, but he could also guess that the so-called underground altar should be the place that Tianlan had seen in his dream.

But none of this is logical-

Could it really be that he was wrong before?

But a voice in the darkness told Fang Yu that he had not thought anything wrong, and his inferences were logical, and the real history could never be reversed.

So what went wrong?

"Heath," Fang Yu came back to his senses and asked in a somewhat hurried tone, "Why did the Dragon's Golden Pupil destroy the Blade of Illusory Victory?" ”

Heath looked at him a little strangely.

"Because that sword is its nemesis, Mr. Eddard."

Fang Yu opened his mouth, and said in his heart that you said that you were so reasonable, and I couldn't refute it. It seems that the truth is that simple, in that scene in Grey Oak Square, the blade of false victory is the sword used to kill Nicol Bolas.

But as Miss Sylvede said, a vain victory is a vain victory.

"In that case, what danger will Hu Di have?" Fang Yu couldn't help but ask subconsciously.

Heath closed her mouth.

After a long time, she replied faintly, "To destroy the sacrificial sword, someone must sacrifice themselves." ”

"The Sword of Sacrifice?" Fang Yu saw that Heath was about to cry again, and he didn't dare to ask anything more, so he only silently remembered the name. Although he secretly thought that Hudi, as a Recruiter, was not irretrievable even in the most dangerous circumstances, somehow at this time he suddenly remembered Miss Atila's brother.

The young man named Kidd—

Then he naturally closed his mouth, and faintly felt in his heart that this matter was not so simple. But if the Dark Dragon could really destroy a person's starlight, how could there be no record in history?

Fang Yu suddenly stopped.

He looked around alarmedly, then looked back with some unnatural expression and asked, "Did you hear anything, Heath?" ”

The girl was stunned, shook her head, and said, "No, Mr. Eddard." ”

"But the question is," Fang Ou had been asking before, and now he always noticed that something was wrong: "We have been walking in this stable for a long time, why haven't we walked out yet, this is really the stable of Horstings Cathedral?" ”

He looked up at the left and near, and vaguely felt that room after room was in this narrow space.

It's not like a stable, it's more like a labyrinth.

At the mention of the word 'labyrinth', Fang Yu's heart suddenly suddenly, and he hurriedly sent a message over: "Red leaves, have you found a place?" ”

The Elector system flashed, and the reply was quick-

Momiji: "No, Ed, I think this place is a bit weird. When I looked outside, it didn't feel that big at all, or I had been spinning around and not finding the right way. ”

Fang Yu thought for a moment and simply typed, "Be careful, it may not be that simple here." ”

He looked up.

Heath also looked a little nervous, and whispered, "Mr. Ed, I'm sorry, I haven't been to this place either. The man told me that I couldn't easily come here, if it weren't for the ...... of Hudi."

"That person?"

Fang Yu suddenly stopped his mouth.

There was a rustling sound in the darkness, as if many things were gliding near and far. The voice was so clear in the narrow space that it was terrifying to hear, even if he was as bold as him, his scalp tingled, and he hurriedly commanded the Type III walker to step forward and block it in front of him.

Heath was also pale and hid behind him with some fear.

It was only after a moment that Fang Yu saw the thing rolling over.

It turned out to be a bloody human head—its mouth wide open, its purple tongue hanging down to the bottom, its eyes white, and blood oozing from its nostrils, ears, and sockets, and it looked miserable.

The human head has no flesh from the neck down, only a white spine with blood streaks hanging from the body, as if it has just been pulled out of the body.

It leaned on its spine and coiled on the ground like some cold-blooded animal, staring at the two of them motionless with its white eyes.

Seeing this thing, Fang Yu only felt that his hair stood on end.

What the hell is this?

Is there such an undead spirit?

"Ahh But a moment later, the girl let out an even more terrible scream: "Behind, behind, Mr. Eddard!" ”

Fang Yu turned his head with a pale face, only to see that it was not just behind him, but from the ceiling, from the gap in the walls everywhere, these ghost things were pouring in from all directions like reptiles.

And their shape is not limited to resembling snakes.

Rather, it resembles a variety of twisted forms like various insects and arthropods, and there are even those that fly in mid-air.

The first human head to appear was the first to attack, screaming hoarsely at the plover.

Fang Yu didn't think about it, with a wave of his hand, a sword light in the darkness, and the 'sword bearer' slashed at the head with a backhand.

With a snort like a quick knife cutting through flesh, the human head exploded like a blood bag, and the foul smell of blood splattered everywhere, and the human head, which had been divided into two pieces, fell to the ground like rotten flesh.

Fang Yu was stunned for a moment and hurriedly checked the system records - only to find that the level of this thing was not high, only level seven, but the name was extremely disgusting, called the Ulcer Living Sacrificer.

At that moment, a flash of inspiration crossed his mind.

Suddenly I realized what it was.

Flesh Sacrifice –

These things were all living sacrifices used by the dragon worshippers in the first place, and Hollitt College was indeed a cover for the dragon worshippers on the surface, and these fanatics did not know what kind of terrible deeds were being carried out under this church under such a name.

Fang Yu couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach when he thought of the dream described by Tian Lan and looked at these disgusting monsters.

But my heart is even more tired.

These things are certainly not undead in the traditional sense, in fact they are evil things, filthy things, monsters created by those fanatics, and legend has it that these things are only related to the mysterious master behind them.

Legendary scourges.

……