The church was not as tightly guarded as expected, and there was not even a light hanging at the back door.

Su Xian observed for a while, then carefully stepped over the wall that was only half left, and then passed through the water curtain under the eaves, and came to the edge of the back wall of this building.

The material of this wall seems to be something special, pitch black, smooth, and exudes coldness.

He leaned against the wall and listened, but he couldn't hear anything, as if the sound inside was absorbed by the wall and couldn't be heard.

There was a window overhead, one of those cross-framed windows, old and rusty, covered with moss.

There was no light coming through, indicating that the other side of the wall was not a lighted lobby.

He thought about it and reached sideways to the back door of the church.

This back door is one of those two doors, and it's ...... It turned out to be wooden!

Although the wooden door is a very heavy and hard wood, the wooden door has fallen into disrepair, and the façade is full of cracks and wood chips.

He reached out and touched the door lock, and found that it was one of those big head locks with iron chains, and it was locked outside.

It's just that the lock and the chain have been fused together, it's a whole lump of iron, even if you pry the keyhole open, it won't help.

"It seems that this back door is a dead end, no wonder it is unguarded......"

The idea was fleeting.

Because after fiddling with the lock for a while, he found the doorknob used to wrap the lock...... It's loose!

With a hint of luck, he grabbed the doorknob over there, twisted and pulled it hard, and even pulled it out with the screws!

"Whoa."

The sound of the chains shaking is particularly ironic.

He lowered the chain chain with the doorknob to the ground and tried to push the door open, only to find a deadbolt stuck behind the door.

If you hit the door hard at this time, it may be knocked open, but it will attract the attention of the people inside.

So he took "Link's Baybing Sword" from the card book, pierced the crack in the door, and used the old method to pull the wooden deadbolt out little by little.

"Smack!"

The deadbolt fell, and the back door, which had not been opened for an unknown amount of time, slid open on its own with a "creak".

Su Xian inhaled slightly, stepped over the threshold, and entered the back door.

……

A stale air came to my face in an instant, and the footsteps were full of dust, and the rain slipped from the corners of my clothes, mixed with the dust, and mixed into mud.

He glanced down, and then consciously moved the soles of his feet, destroying the footprints.

Behind the door were discarded wooden cabinets of tables, chairs and chairs, filthy and broken, with only a narrow path to walk on.

After closing the back door, he began to walk inside, pushing open a small door, and suddenly the light poured in, and some faint human voices began to be heard.

"Just came in?"

Su Xian himself was a little surprised, he knocked on his head, and found that the "spirit of villager Toko Scat" did not give an early warning, so it can be seen that there seems to be no trap in it, at least there is no trap in the physical sense.

"Isn't this meeting what I imagined?"

With a hint of suspicion, he groped his way to the source of the light, gradually approaching the lobby where the voice came from.

Turning a corner, I saw a staircase, which was very light, but there was a faint light reflected in it.

He thought about it, and went up the stairs, and sure enough, he came to a floor that looked like an attic, and the side of the attic facing the lobby had a carved hollow, and the light shone in through those hollows.

Wrapped in a raincoat and not afraid of dirt, he just lay down like that, carefully moved behind the hollow carving, and looked sideways.

The hall of the church where prayers to God is held, and where the bride and groom receive their blessings in Western weddings.

The lobby is supposed to be the only part of the church that has been cleaned, and the lamps used for lighting are also lanterns brought in from the outside and are hanging from the walls.

Directly opposite the gate, an old woman with a white beard sat there with a stool.

This old woman wore a felt hat and a veil, and even though she was old, she couldn't hide her nobility.

There was a crack in the door in front of her, just enough for her to see out.

When someone came before, she identified the person through the crack in the door, and if the identification was correct and there was an invitation, she opened the door and put it in.

The people who were invited knew this rule, so no one knocked on the door, just stood behind the crack in the door and waited.

Now there are already a lot of people in this lobby, and if you count them carefully, there are more than two hands in the field of vision!

Among these more than ten people, there are quite a few that Su Xian can recognize by Mark's memory!

"That's Old Lady Green, the owner of Redwood Winery, and the wife of Viscount Green! Talking to Professor Buck down there is Barkis, an explorer even more famous than Lyanwar! The explorer was at least eighty years old, and he didn't expect his complexion to be so good. And Mr. Karl over there, the owner of the largest toy company in Brut City......"

Su Xian observed carefully and found that the people who came to the meeting were either aristocratic businessmen or academic bulls.

What they all have in common is that they are old, at least sixty years old.

Professor Buck is already a young man among them.

Su Xian looked down a little further, and finally confirmed that these people who were either rich or noble were all private tonight, and they didn't even bring their own servants and bodyguards!

"No wonder...... Is it any wonder that the back door of this church is not guarded at all, and they don't even bring basic guards, so they are not afraid of walking too much at night and encountering thieves? This is the city of Brut! Or is it that each of them has something to rely on? ”

Thinking of this, Su Xian became much more cautious.

He slows his breath and calms his emotions, like a predator waiting patiently at the trap for his prey to take the bait.

He wants to know more, to know more, because that's how he can get more.

……

After another tea time, when the last old man had entered the hall on crutches, Mrs. Green finally stood up and joined the crowd.

At this point, there were no more and no less in the lobby, just enough for twenty people.

If you add Su Xian, it is twenty-one people, which is the number of three or seven.

"Seven" is a lucky number and has a special meaning.

……

Su Xian took out his pocket watch and glanced at it, the time passed a little faster than he wanted, and now it was already half past eleven, and there was less than half an hour, that is, twelve o'clock on the night of July 13, and 0:00 on July 14, Sunday of the second week of July.

For some reason, many people in the lobby also took out their pocket watches and looked at them, as if they were very concerned about this time.

Judging from the scene, Professor Barker's position among the twenty people was not prominent, and there were other people who gathered everyone to come.

One of them was Mrs. Green.

There is another one, but he is wearing a black robe and a hood, because he has his back to the attic, Su Xian has not been able to see his face clearly.

But this man, who is supposed to be above Mrs. Green, is the real convener of the assembly.

Everyone else called him - "Dimon".