Chapter 67: The Borrowing Channel
Under Screaming Beach, Catherine was treating Hepburn, some simple infusion equipment was restoring Hepburn's strength, but her withered appearance didn't seem to be able to recover in a while, and the coma would last at least three days.
This is the diagnosis that Catherine came up with.
"I'm very lucky to have survived. Catherine added that after dealing with Hepburn, she staggered out of the hall humming a ditty.
At this point, Bob changes his outfit and motions for Roddy and Ash to go to his office, as Ash says he has made an important discovery.
"I didn't know what was going on at the time, my kerosene lamp went out suddenly, and then I was under siege, and I was sure that it was some ordinary people who did it, but there were a lot of them. ”
Roddy didn't ask why Ash was overthrown by ordinary people as an extraordinary being, because this is a very simple question, extraordinary people can't be made public, and naturally they can't use their abilities in front of ordinary people.
Unless you can promise to make them dead, when in reality these people have become dead people, they have died in the cocoon, they have become nourishment.
"When I woke up, I was in a cocoon, but that didn't stop me from hearing something. ”
"They shouted Lord of Liberty, performed suspicious rituals, and I could feel the ominousness, it was clear that this was some group that believed in fallen gods, and they mentioned the Duke's Palace. ”
"Duke's Palace?" asked Bob in surprise.
"Yes, Duke's Palace, they say, 'The slaves have entered the Duke's Palace, and the Lord of Liberty is about to be restored, and we will be born again in the kingdom of God.'" ”
Slave, Roddy muttered the word, he had never heard of it, and it was clear to him from Bob's expression.
Ash seems to know more, but the source is Hepburn.
"Slaves are monsters that can control humans, they come from the abyss, that's what Hepburn told me, and I want to ask for more when she wakes up. ”
Bob pondered for a while, and the information provided by Ash was not difficult to guess the true purpose of this fallen god organization, in fact, the purpose of every fallen god organization in recent years was to summon a certain fallen god, and they thought that it could change their fate.
But what Bob doesn't understand is the origin of the slaves and why they entered the Duke's Palace, because of the serial murders, Detective Morabi provided a detailed list of possible victims includes the Duke's son Ida, so the Duke's Palace is under the covert protection of the police.
In addition, the Duke's Palace has always been under the protection of the Church, and the leader of the Church's protection of the Duke's Palace is Bob, not to mention that the Duke's Palace is not an ordinary noble, and there are also many extraordinary people who belong to the Duke's Palace.
It is hard to imagine that the slaves would be able to bypass the layers of protective nets and enter the Duke's Palace.
At this point, Bob realized that when the serial killings were linked to the Fallen Gods and the Duke's Palace, it was enough to rise to the attention of the church.
"Roddy, you're in charge of going down the city as well as the outer city to see if there's the same extraordinary ritual, and if so, just roughly determine the location, don't go deep alone. ”
"Ash, you stay here until Hepburn wakes up and makes detailed inquiries, making sure to find out the origin of the slaves. ”
"I'm going to the Church, and anything dangerous will have to wait until I get back, understand?"
Roddy and Ash answered at the same time, keeping Bob's orders in high regard.
After leaving Scream Beach, Roddy arrives at the newspaper office, but unfortunately Issad has not returned, and the note on the table has become Barty's plaything, the kind of broken corpse, and finally Roddy stays alone in the office until the end of the day.
After returning home, Roddy came to the room as soon as he could, and began to read the Basic Occult, about the lack of attack methods of the Voyeurs, Roddy hoped to rely on some of the occult rituals to make up for it.
For example, the restraint ritual used by Em, which is a relatively basic occult ritual, is also included in the "Basic Occult", and Roddy has not yet read the chapter introducing the restraint ritual, but has already attracted attention by the chapter in front of him.
"Sacrifice items to the gods of faith for protection. ”
This is a kind of basic prayer ritual in the equivalent exchange ceremony, it is mostly used to pray, such as so-and-so hopes to have a big fat son, and such as blessing to make a fortune, etc., Roddy was surprised by the roughness and down-to-earth way of written description, and at the same time perceived the real message behind it, that is, "contact with the gods".
In fact, after a short crude and ridiculous description, the introduction of this prayer ritual suddenly becomes more rigorous.
It clearly reads:
Under the premise of the extraordinary, this prayer ritual will indeed connect with the god you believe in, for which you must be prepared in advance, piety and reverence are the most acceptable to the gods, and if you also sacrifice enough valuable things, you will be able to be blessed by the true god.
Roddy then found a parenthetical statement at the end of the paragraph: "Most of the extraordinaries say that this prayer ritual has no real effect, but others who have succeeded in it are in awe and fanatic."
In this way, Luo Di sorted out some points of attention for the prayer ceremony, first of all, it must be faith in God, then the degree of faith, and finally enough sacrifices and success rate.
There is no doubt that Roddy does not have any belief in gods, let alone any degree of faith, but Roddy does not care about this at all, because he is a god himself, and the real reason why he is interested in this ritual is that it may not be just a one-way ritual of offering sacrificial objects.
From a different perspective, let the divine body operate the ritual, and then transfer the extraordinary items found in the Forsaken Lands to the human body of Roddy.
It also made Roddy realize that if you want to have a means of attack, you can rely not only on the occult, but also on extraordinary items, which are more applicable and timely, and extraordinary enemies will not wait for you to prepare a ritual to deal with it.
"It's very feasible!"
The more Roddy thought about it, the more he felt that the idea was very experimental, so he hurriedly brought enough kerosene lamps and blankets to keep him warm.
First, he drew the pattern needed for the prayer ceremony according to the description of the book, and then Roddy put the "Basic Occult" in his hand in the center of the ceremony, and began to chant his own prayer in his heart.
"Shelter us who have been forsaken..."
"The Creator of Time Travel..."
"The only, special deity..."
Soon Roddy felt the difference, he saw the temple in a haze, saw the figure of the first majestic shore, and when he opened his eyes again, the Basic Occult had disappeared in place.
Roddy suppressed his excitement and quickly put on the blanket, then closed his eyes.