The two of them walked one after the other in the gloomy corridor of St. Canaan, and God knows how much Qiu Xuan wanted to ask the nurse who seemed to be very talkative now what was wrong, what happened to the name Seraphim? But the damn chainsaw man's bondage mask on her face made her unable to open her mouth and say half a word - oh, the chainsaw man's bondage mask was still hollowed out in the middle, and there were a few bars separated by bars to make him speak, but she didn't have this fart.

She decided to give it a try anyway.

Qiu Xuan: "Hmm! ”

"What's wrong?" The sturdy nurse stopped his broken thoughts and turned his head, and saw Qiu Xuan's chin little by little, and the only eyes that were exposed looked a little urgent.

The nurse was stunned for a long time trying to understand what she meant, and suddenly clapped her hands and said, "You want to take off the restraint mask?" ”

After running into a wall with Ed and the Chainsaw Man who didn't know what to look at, Qiu Xuan finally felt that there were still normal people with a little bit of understanding. Before she could finish her sigh there, the sturdy nurse's face suddenly changed drastically, and he took a few steps back and pulled the electric baton out of his waist.

"Why are you like this, witch!" His tone was excited, "I was kind enough to show you a room, and I told you so many basic rules for surviving here, but you still want to curse me!" It seems that they are right, witches do not deserve sympathy, you simply do not have a heart! ”

"......" Qiu Xuan felt extremely tired.

So the nurse for the rest of the way shut up and stopped talking and walked quickly, his face grim, and he seemed to be immersed in the sadness of being broken by the merciless witch.

Qiu Xuan rolled his eyes after him, and waited until the middle of the dead race walking competition was halfway through, when the nurse who was walking fast in front of him suddenly stopped his steps with a big change in face, and bowed his head respectfully and shouted, "Lord Asaphil." ”

Asafir?

Qiu Xuan remembers the name. When she was first teleported to the Proving Ground, in the bar called the Dawn Star, the first strange man in a suit to call himself a "witch", and the holy water in his hand was, according to him, "consecrated by Lord Asafir himself, and capable of purifying most of the evil cults in the world." ”

And the so-called holy water of unknown material did unexpectedly cause substantial damage to Qiu Xuan. Qiu Xuan thought about it afterwards and attributed it to "following the script".

- In other words, since in this trial ground, the "script identity" she was assigned to was "witch", then correspondingly, the holy water that can restrain the witch will also cause corresponding damage to her.

So you have to pay attention to it later, it is very likely that the ways of dealing with witches that are circulating in this world plane may affect you.

Qiu Xuan thought, raising her head and glancing at the scarlet figure at the end of the corridor.

She squinted suddenly, trying to see better in the damp hallway that was too cold and dim. And in the next second, a tall figure in a red robe walked over, and the scarlet on his body almost burned the cold and dark deep corridor.

"Witch, don't you want to die?" Taking advantage of the fact that Azaphil was still some distance away from reaching his eyes, the nurse with his head hung down hated the straps of Qiu Xuan's restraint cloak, gritted his teeth and said, "That is Lord Azaphil, the cardinal who is personally managed by St. Canaan, how dare you still stare at him?!" ”

Who? Cardinal? Central Church Cabinet Members? Who's in charge of the madhouse? Or do you personally consecrate and purify the evil cults?

The moment he saw the so-called Lord Asafir, Qiu Xuan felt that the world was crazy. Then she reacted and wanted to laugh uncontrollably, but fortunately, the curvature of her mouth was perfectly covered by the restraint mask, otherwise the nurse alone would have seen it and would immediately punish the witch for blasphemy and tie her to the cross.

- If there is a cross in the canonical beliefs of this place.

"You're back."

The longing and respect on the nurse's face at this moment did not seem to be fake, and the tall man in the red robe approached, nodded simply and solemnly, and even asked very close to the people: "How is the new batch of admissions?" ”

"It went very well!"

At that moment, the nurse's face turned red, as if he had seen some miracle with his own eyes, he looked at the cardinal in front of him with reverence, and said busily: "Today we received messages from hunters from many places at midnight, and a total of twenty-three new patients have been successfully admitted to the hospital until now!" Thirty minutes ago we ......"

I'll leave this for a work report.

Qiu Xuan stood there and waited for a while, thinking of something, and then looked up at the expression of the bishop named Asaphil. She squinted her eyes for a moment, but she didn't notice any impatience in them, and the man in the red robe lowered his eyelids, and nodded slightly from time to time to indicate that he was listening.

Hell yes.

Qiu Xuan originally thought that the black market merchant in the previous world Qin Jiuyuan was already considered the limit, but he didn't expect that now the situation would start to go in the opposite direction and never return.

Qiu Xuan, a black businessman, accepted it quickly, because there were no shortcomings except that he was not very civilized in terms of speech (?). ）。 What's more, from the very beginning, the character traits that this person showed in front of him have never been a kind and good person, and Qiu Xuan is used to being able to imagine.

But now this cardinal, seriously?

Although she felt that the red-robed bishops in this world must have deviated from her understanding, they were generally not much different. It is precisely because there is not much difference that it seems absurd and inconsistent.

Let the source of darkness be a symbol of the sacredness of light? That's a lot.

She was sneering on one side, and after finally reporting all the work to the Bishop with a flushed face on the other side, the nurse looked up excitedly, "What else do you have to say!" ”

The bishop seemed to be slightly stunned by this enthusiasm, and then he shook his head with a light smile, "I don't have anything to do, you go and go about your business." ”

"Okay!"

The whole portrait of the nurse was beaten with a pound of chicken blood, he had already forgotten about the previous things, and even his attitude towards Qiu Xuan got better again.

"Wait." The red-robed bishop stopped the two behind him, and from this angle, his whole body was shrouded in dark shadows, and even the scarlet robe seemed to be obscured. "This is ...... This batch of new patients? ”

"Ah, who do you say...... Oh yes, yes! She's just been caught today, she's a witch, my lord! ”

Qiu Xuan raised her eyes to meet it.

"Witch ......"

The man muttered as if to himself, "I see." So you're going to the North side room now? ”

"That's right, North Side, North District Room 726!" The nurse still spoke in a high-pitched voice.

Qiu Xuan subconsciously wanted to speak, but was stopped by the restraint mask on her face, and only let out a meaningless sentence, so she closed her mouth again.

Qin Jiuyuan seemed to notice something suddenly, he walked out of the dark corner shadows of the corridor again, and walked in front of the two of them.

"Witch ......," he muttered, leaning slightly over and reaching for the clasp of the restraining mask. Qiu Xuan stood in place and didn't dodge, and even took the initiative to raise her face to let the other party touch, she bent her eyes imperceptibly, and heard the next second, the other party said-

"Witch, are you willing to return to the arms of the god of light?"

Qiu Xuan: Is there anything wrong with you????????

“……”

She endured and endured it so that she didn't swear in front of the cardinal who didn't know what was wrong—although she couldn't scold it now—pulled her face out of the other party's hand, and Qiu Xuan took a step back expressionlessly, and slammed the nurse with her immobile elbow and motioned for him to leave.

The nurse reluctantly refused to leave, saying that he wanted to continue to bathe in the holy and peaceful light of Lord Asaphile, Qiu Xuan directly gave each of them a roll of his eyes, and simply continued to walk forward.

"Wait! Witch, now is not the time for events, you can't do it privately! ”

The nurse finally barely woke up from the uncontrollable admiration and reverence, and apologized to the man very embarrassed, wanting to go up to chase Qiu Xuan. The latter nodded in agreement, and the nurse ran forward as if approved.

Qin Jiuyuan stood expressionlessly in the dark corridor that was once again shrouded in the shadows of the night, his wide-sleeved robe hanging down, he twisted his fingertips, and lifted something straight in front of him.

By the faint moonlight, the edge of the nameplate had begun to rust, revealing ochre-colored rust spots, on which a line of names could be faintly seen:

Seraph

Seraphim

……

"That...... Are you okay? ”

Ed cautiously sat down on his bed, looking back at the bed next to him with a slight hesitation.

Room 726, where they were at the moment, was said to be no less than a small cell.

The cramped space, the walls covered in moss stains and years of cleaning without grease stains, and the small window a few fingers wide overhead. Two equally small single beds, one left and one right, were placed against the walls on either side, and at the heels of the beds was a rudimentary toilet and a sink, and nothing else.

"It's fine."

Qiu Xuan finally took off the damn restraint mask, she raised her hand and touched the pressed marks on her cheeks, lay flat on the bed and closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.

"By the way, how did you get in St. Canaan?" She spoke suddenly, startling Ed, who was sneaky and didn't know what he was doing, "What happened to you after you were teleported to this proving ground?" ”

"Well, the first time I opened my eyes was in a small alley." Ed thought for a moment and replied honestly, "I don't know where it is, and I can't find you, so I didn't dare to run too far." But as soon as I got out of the alley, I saw several policemen pointing guns at me! I was scared to death, and then they held me down and said they had found some kind of necklace on me, and then I was escorted here. ”

"And I thought this was a prison when I was in the police car, but I didn't expect to get out of the car and look at the whole building and find that it was a church, and I didn't expect to know that this is a madhouse after I came in!" Ed's tone became uncontrollable and agitated when he said this, and then he noticed that he quickly lowered, "Even if I'm a 'thief', I won't be locked up in an insane asylum!" Thieves are not guilty of death!! ”

"Stop yelling."

Qiu Xuantou pressed his temples, "I thought about it, every 'patient' who is locked up here should be some social instability. It's like I'm a witch, you're a thief, and some murderer from somebody else, mental illness or something. You know that in some places, as long as a psychiatric certificate is issued, then ordinary prisons will not accept such prisoners, but will be handed over to psychiatric hospitals for management. ”

"So I reckon this St. Canaan is of the same nature. They are a hospital that manages and treats patients with mental illness...... Or rather, the sanctuary? Qiu Xuan now felt that his head was big when he thought of a certain bishop, so he simply mentioned it and hurriedly skipped it, "Our main purpose now is to find the main line as soon as possible, and then determine what the nature of this trial is, and then decide whether or not to cooperate with the group of executioners who came in with us." ”

Ed's bed was silent for a moment, "Then we ...... Will you be able to go back alive? ”

"I don't know." Qiu Xuan also told the truth, "No matter what the nature of the trial ground, there will always be all kinds of accidents, all I can do is to try to ensure that you are alive and let us go back alive." ”

"Okay......"

Qiu Xuan: "But even if you say that, it doesn't mean that you can take your underwear out to dry." Hurry up and take it back, or I'll hang your head on it to dry." ”

Ed shoved the hanger hanging in the middle back into the accompanying space.

A dreamless night.

At six o'clock in the morning, the whole of St. Canaan rang the bell to get up.

The ringtone is the kind that you can hear when you turn on the ringtone function of the mobile phone and click on the first song casually, Qiu Xuan frowned and got up from the bed, thinking that it is not easy for mental patients, and they have to get up at six o'clock every day.

She sat on the bed and got dressed while thinking about things, when the next second, the door of room 726, or cell, was opened from the outside, and a middle-aged woman dressed as a nun walked into their room with two nurses behind her.

"Since you are on your first day in the hospital, I will lead you through the morning exercises and prayer work."

The middle-aged nun smiled peacefully, so confused that Qiu Xuan thought that she and Ed were the black female singer who had just arrived at the convent in "Nuns Are Crazy".

Ed sat on the bed with his mouth open and his messy hair on his head, and watched a few people walk in, and the nun at the head handed each of them a hard, black-faced pamphlet, and stood by the door with a proper smile.

"Please turn to the first side, and today I will teach you how to sing prayer hymns."

Ed looked down, then raised his head with a sincere expression: "You might as well overtake me directly, how about it?" ”

n.