The ferry walked in the night, dark.

A thin sea mist gradually shrouded the surroundings, and the moon in the sky was also lost.

The ferry moves quietly like a ghost ship, and it is easy to lose your sense of orientation in the sea where it is difficult to distinguish between east and west.

Except, of course, people like Shi Tiexin who have been in the captain's room.

I don't know when he replaced a sailor and operated the instruments in the captain's room. These sailors don't talk, they don't talk, they don't tickle, they don't burp, they don't have any personal movements and entertaining interactions, which makes his lurking especially easy.

After a while, a dark object gradually appeared in front of the ferry, which was the shadow cast by the cliffs by the sea in the dark night. Some further onwards, in a very leeward, hidden position, the ferry docked.

"Let's all get off the boat." The priest beckoned the people to disembark. The waiters came ashore from the old wooden pier and found a small fishing village in front of them. This fishing village is like an ancient village a hundred or two hundred years ago, deserted, dilapidated, all wooden huts, crunching in the sea breeze, and you can feel a mysterious enchanting atmosphere from a distance.

"This, this is not the same as what was promised, this is not a peaceful country!" Some of the waiters began to panic.

"Silence, this is the sacred soil, the land blessed by the Mother of God. You are to worship here, to be baptized, to shed away the filthy old self, to become the holy new self, and then to a new kingdom in a new way. The priest's voice was a little gloomy and a little terrifying: "Now, all of them move forward, forward!" ”

Many of the crew members stood on the left with blank faces, although they did not hold weapons in their hands, but the threat was unmistakable.

The waiters couldn't think about it, some were forced, but some of them took the initiative to go to the fishing village like crazy.

More than 200 people, including waiters and crew, walked down the dock and walked towards the dark fishing village. When I got closer, I found that there were still many residents in the seemingly deserted fishing village. These residents peeked out behind broken windows and broken doors. They don't turn on the lights, they don't turn on the fire, and they don't have any language communication, and there is something eerie about them, which makes people shudder.

The crowd gathers in a small square in the center of the fishing village.

There is a large old tree here.

The skin of this ancient tree is dark and hideous, as if there is dark purple blood flowing under the bark. The tree is not tall, but it is very thick, and the upper end spreads out a few sparse branches, and I don't feel the vitality that the tree should have.

The priest shouted, "Go, offer your piety to the sacred tree!" ”

With a creak, one broken wooden door after another was pushed open, and one after another ragged villagers came out of the door, surrounding the small square from all sides, coldly watching everything that happened in the middle.

The murderous old lady who changed (harmony) also came, and when she saw this scene, she shrank a little, but she still asked without giving up: "Lord Priest, is this sacred tree the incarnation of God?" Offering piety to it can restore youth? ”

"Yes, this sacred tree dwells the Son of God, through whom God can see our images and hear our voices." The priest spread his hands: "Now, let us pray to God." ”

The priest began to pray, the villagers began to pray, the crew who came with them began to pray, and many of the attendants began to pray, speaking the scriptures they had memorized. But this scripture is not Japanese, nor English or Chinese, but a completely foreign language.

The humming sound of prayer blended together, making people a little dizzy.

There was a creak in the ancient tree, as if the wood was tearing and reorganizing. The bark was churning, and something was about to come out of the trunk.

It's a face.

That face went from blurry to clear.

Then the neck, chest, shoulders, arms, abdomen, waist.

It is a tall figure made of wood, which appears like a relief on the surface of the trunk. It is more than three meters seven tall and looks like a male.

The tall and handsome people in the wood are like the wood carvings of the golden age of ancient Greece, which contain the infinite exploration and pursuit of beauty, reverie and sustenance of human beings. The moment you see this person in the wood, you will feel in your heart that this image is not referring to a person, because human beings will never be so perfect, and it must be some kind of higher existence that shows its own sacredness.

The old lady looked stupid directly, and said frantically: "God! Really God! I believe in you devoutly, and I humbly pray to you, youth, I want youth, I want eternal youth! ”

"Then give yourself to God, draw yourself close to God, and draw near to eternity." The priest pointed to a wooden frame: "Go, complete your conversion." ”

"Good!" The old ladies hurriedly got on the shelves, walked past a suspended board, and finally came to the top of the ancient tree. She looked down at the top of the tree, and she didn't know what she saw, and her face suddenly burst into ecstasy, and then she jumped down and fell directly into the tree.

It seems that there is a hole in the tree.

The strange sound of Si Si Suo sounded densely in the tree, and there seemed to be people cheering in the tree, but when you listened closely, it seemed to be screaming. A large amount of dark purple liquid suddenly flowed from the small hole in the trunk of the tree, winding down the trunk and converging in a small pool, and it seemed that this tree was the source of the purple liquid.

At least one of the sources.

Looking at the bottom of the tree, an ovoid more than a meter tall fell as if it were laying eggs. This egg has no eggshell, only a thick membrane. Through the membrane, you can vaguely see a person, floating in a group holding his body, as if some kind of unpredictable change is taking place.

"She's on the pilgrimage road thoroughly, and it's your turn." The priest smiled stiffly, and pointed his finger at the waiter like a dry twig.

Some of the waiters who still had their sanity were obviously scared and ready to find a way to escape.

But there are also many with strange and uniform smiles, and seem to be very happy to accept their new life.

The most active one walked up the wooden frame without saying a word, and came to the end of the plank step by step, the place that seemed to be diving on a high platform.

She was professional, her expression was in place, she seemed to be extremely religious, and she threw something into a hollow in a tree.

She's Yoyo.

She turned and ran.

Bang!

A violent explosion occurred, right inside the ancient tree. Shi Tiexin didn't know where she got the explosives, but I have to say that Yoyo is really good at blasting, and the explosives she uses are particularly powerful. With a deafening sound, the ancient tree erupted like a silo erupting a large amount of fire. The man in the tree roared, and then the skin was blown apart with a click.

The ancient tree burst open, and a huge figure staggered to the ground. But when the figure stood up, it was discovered that the creature was not at all as beautiful as it had been in the tree, but a huge and terrifying deformity.