Missing people?

After hearing the old woman's words, Li Xiao's eyes showed a hint of abruptness.

The daring old woman mistakenly thought that they had come to find those who had disappeared in Salimmoor.

And Li Xiao also nodded quietly, pushed the boat down the river, and then continued with the other party's words: "Then do you know where they are?" ”

The old woman shook her head when she heard this: "I don't know about this." ”

Looking through the window at the approaching cultists outside, the old woman looked worried.

Under the orders of the masked man, those disciples were searching from house to house, not even letting go of any corner, in order to find out Li Xiao and the others.

"You'd better get out of here quickly, if you are caught by them, you will definitely be lucky."

The old woman kindly persuaded her.

"As you know, we entered Tucker Town at great risk to find the missing people, and the whereabouts of this Tucker Town, and we will not give up until we find out."

Looking at the change in the expression on the old woman's face, Li Xiao said earnestly, and between his words, he set a ban around this hotel to block interference from the outside world as much as possible.

"This..."

The old woman fell into a deep groan, her shriveled mouth pursed, her sunken eyes lit up, and finally it seemed that she had made a difficult decision, and then she said: "It seems that if you don't investigate, you will still be in danger, well, then I will tell you about this Tucker town." ”

As soon as this statement came out.

Li Xiao and Xiaoqiang's expressions froze, wanting to get the answer from the old woman's story.

"Tuckertown was originally a small town on the island of Salimor, on the border, without any quarrel with the world, everything was so calm and simple."

"Many places have their own gods, and Tuckertown is no exception, and we have believed in the sun god since ancient times, because the sun symbolizes the source of life and can be said to be the foundation of survival, especially in such a remote and inhospitable island...... We prayed devoutly that the sun god would bless us. ”

"In the decades before that, the sun god blessed us, the wind and rain were smooth, the grains were abundant, although it was not too rich, but at least we had no worries about eating and drinking, and we had a worry-free life."

"However, eight years ago, a sudden change changed the town of Tucker."

"I don't know why, the sun god who has always blessed the world has not played a role anymore, and even has to send down punishments, the climate of Salimmore is getting hotter and hotter, as if a furnace is baking, the sky is full of wind and sand, the sun is blazing, the heat is unbearable, it is unbearable, some crops are also withering, losing their vitality, the hot environment makes people dehydrated, people fall into endless pain, starvation, mourning."

"Half a year has passed, and everyone has been tortured, and even many people have the idea of crossing the ocean to survive elsewhere..... Seven years ago, however, things finally took a turn for the better. ”

"A priest came to Tuckertown without warning, and he said he was coming to preach, to deliver us from fire and water."

The old woman's tone was deep and vicissitudes, as if she was telling a long-ago event.

"Priest, could it be the man with the black iron mask?"

"Well, it's him."

Facing Li Xiao's puzzled gaze, the old woman nodded undeniably: "It was his arrival that ushered in great changes in Tucker Town. In front of all of us, he conjured a clear and sweet spring on a dry and scorched earth, and then a field in the cracked mountain forest, as if a god had descended into the world, bringing life and hope to the devastated town of Tucker, as if opening up a new world in the chaos of the last days. ”

Listening to the old woman's words, Li Xiao's sword eyebrows raised slightly.

This masked man was able to conjure a clear spring and farmland with his bare hands, could it be that the creator couldn't do it?

But Li Xiao is still skeptical of this statement, if this is the case, it would be incredible, Li Xiao is still more inclined to the other party to cast some kind of trick or strange spell.

"And then?"

The old woman took a deep breath and continued: "Immediately afterwards, he advocated that we abandon the sun gods and thus believe in new gods, he said that although the sun brings light, it also means drought, destruction and catastrophe, and only the dark gods and the sea gods can bring eternal peace, eternal and eternal, as long as we believe in them, we can always be in good weather, live a prosperous life, have no worries about food and clothing, and live the life of dreams. ”

"At the same time, he also made three chapters with us."

"First of all, let us believe in the dark gods, and never go against the will of the gods."

"Secondly, we must live in this Tucker Town for generations, and we must not cross the thunder pool for half a step, if we anger the Dark God, there will be heavenly punishment."

"Finally, we must make all our followers conclude a contract with the sect."

"In that case, we can only compromise and agree to the priest's request and start believing in the dark god, but now it seems that that is the beginning of the real nightmare, everything is not getting better but getting worse, we are like puppets with our souls extracted, we become insensitive, unconscious, everything has to be done according to the orders of the dark god, it is like living in an infernal purgatory."

The past came to mind, and the old woman sighed infinitely.

Li Xiao vaguely felt that he seemed to be getting closer and closer to the truth, and after a slight groan, he asked tentatively, "What is the contract you are talking about?" ”

"The contract..."

The old woman hesitated for a moment, then slowly rolled up the sleeve of her left arm.

When they saw each other's arms, Li Xiao and Xiaoqiang's faces changed slightly, and they looked at each other.

I saw that the old woman's thin half of her arms were all covered with rows of fish scales, shining with a silver luster under the moonlight, and the pus flowing out of it could be faintly seen, and a rotten breath diffused in the room.

"How could this be, why is your arm covered with a layer of fish scales, is it some kind of strange disease?"

Xiao Qiang couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart and asked.

The old woman shook her head, and a bitter smile appeared on the corner of her mouth: "This is a kind of contract I have concluded with Jiaohui, they call it the Mark of the Sea, and only by concluding such a mark can I become an official member of Jiaohui." ”

An astonishing thought rose in Li Xiao's heart, making people shudder.

Li Xiao's pupils shrank slightly: "In other words, all the members of the sect have a kind of sea mark on their bodies, which is the imprint left by the dark god and the sea god on his disciples?" ”

"That's right, if we betray the Dark God and the Sea God, we will be attacked by the Mark of the Sea."

The old woman nodded, and the words she said also confirmed Li Xiao's conjecture.

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