Chapter 23: Unsealing

"Why did you run over there?" An An asked angrily and funny.

"What 'ran over there'?" I said blankly, "I ran after you, why are you gone?" ”

Hearing this, An An didn't speak, Yuan Mengxian said to me with wide eyes, "Brother, I don't want An An to do this, you look back." ”

"Huh?" Her words were strange, but when she looked back, she suddenly wanted to slap her head in anger.

It turned out that less than half a meter next to the dark passage I drilled into, there was a more spacious tunnel, An An should have run there, but I was blind in the black light but recognized the dead end, no wonder there was a supernatural phenomenon that An An was in front of but disappeared out of thin air.

I didn't want to mention it again, so I pointed to the thin old man and said, "Where did this goods come from?" ”

"It's all his doing!" Yuan Meng said fiercely.

It turned out that when we first entered the underground church, Yuan Meng keenly caught a strange smell in the air. So he immediately showed the skill of "stealth" and touched the suspicious place.

Sure enough, I found the high priest hiding behind the crucifix, this guy was sneakily staring at the battle between me and An An, and seeing that the situation was not good, he actually released the devil's worm.

As soon as Yuan Meng, who was in the dark, found the location of the high priest, he found that he released the worm, not because he didn't want to stop it, but because the battle was progressing too fast, and she was unaware of the sneak attack, and in order to be cautious, she could only approach slowly, so she was half a beat slower after all.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, she asked the high priest to call back El, otherwise I would really die.

Yuan Meng understood it all in a few simple words, looking at this dead old man, I really had the urge to rush up and put it down with a punch. Our bad luck tonight is probably all planned by this thing, and the dead and wounded guards are nothing more than execution.

But listening to Yuan Meng's meaning, this old man is still useful, so I resisted the impulse, and suddenly I remembered, one thing and asked, "Meng'er, what did you find strange when you came in, why didn't I feel it?" ”

Even the high priest pricked up his ears when I asked, and it seemed that he could not understand how he had been exposed!

"Perfume!" Yuan Meng smiled slightly.

The high priest suddenly realized and closed his eyes in pain.

And I wondered, why can't I smell it at all? It wasn't until later that I realized that I had always been by An An and Yuan Meng's side, always smelling the woman's body fragrance, and naturally I would not be sensitive to the smell of perfume. But they are different, and the perfume smells like a guiding light. Naturally, I found out at once.

After figuring out this joint, I couldn't help laughing, this product is called self-inflicted! Perfume subdued the demon worm, but it was the key to revealing himself, no wonder the high priest who heard the real reason looked so depressed.

"Take us to meet Elizabeth. Countess Bathory! Yuan Meng ordered.

The thin old man showed god-level consternation, "Who are you going to see, I don't understand?" ”

An An sneered and said, "Don't pretend, let's say, what generation of high priest are you?" ”

The thin old man pleaded aggrievedly, "I'm not a high priest, they are screaming nonsense, I'm just a small leader!" ”

Seeing his self-confessed unlucky appearance, I believed him, but An An said coldly, "It turns out that you are not the high priest, so it is useless to keep you," he said, took out a sharp Swiss Army knife, slashed the ground, and stabbed directly at the old man's throat.

"Wait!" The thin old man was frightened, screamed in horror, and hurriedly tried to grab An An's hand, but there was a chill on his neck, and the blade was already against his throat.

"What other words do you have!" An An said emotionlessly.

"I'm High Priest Deco, don't do it!" The thin old man admitted in frustration that he never expected An An to really hurt the killer, and he was merciless, and he could only put down his disguise and admit it under the fear of death.

An An smiled coldly, "I already knew that you were, and I really knew that I would pretend, and said, you are the Count of Turso who left to take care of Elizabeth. The first generations of high priests of Bathory. ”

The high priest's eyes widened, and he looked at An An in amazement, and couldn't help asking, "How do you know that she is still alive, who are you?" ”

An An sneered, "It's nothing to tell you, my father is Count Dracula!" ”

High Priest Deco gasped and pointed at An An in astonishment.

An An pushed him, "Take us there, otherwise, I'll go by myself, but you won't be useful!" ”

High Priest Deco opened his mouth and finally closed it, shook his head, and turned to walk towards the front of the underground church.

I found out that the high priest Deco seemed to have something to say, but she was blocked back by An An, probably suspected of her own **, and I didn't care too much. I felt inexplicably excited and nervous about seeing the final boss soon.

The high priest led us to the end of the underground church, to the great crucifix, and with a press and brush in an inconspicuous place on the altar, a boxy entrance flashed on the ground in front of the altar. He took out an ancient oil lamp from under the altar and turned it on with a few twists under the base.

I'm afraid that this thing will be weird, so I took the lead in front with a flashlight, and Yuan Meng and An An sandwiched the high priest in the middle. Walk down the stairs at the entrance.

The dark passage is dark and cold, narrow and can only accommodate two people walking side by side, and the thirty-odd level will reach the bottom. A forward corridor straight forward. In the dim light of the flashlight, it looks dark and deep, as if leading to the lair of demons and monsters.

After walking forward for more than 20 meters, the road came to an end, and when I walked out, I was in a secret room.

This secret room is all made of granite, which is unusually strong, but because there are no vents, the air is very dull, and these people feel that they can't breathe smoothly when they come in all of a sudden.

But the secret room is empty, what a reason!

I glared angrily at the high priest and was about to speak, but I saw that he placed the oil lamp in his hand in the center of the secret room, and by the light I found that the stone slab on the ground was engraved with many intricate patterns, but the lines were not complicated, but they were composed of meaningless circles and mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols. It's just that there are a lot of these patterns, connected together, and in the dim light and shadow, it seems a little mysterious.

The high priest walked barefoot to the center of the pattern, first knelt down on his knees against the wall directly opposite the exit of the Yongdao, and bowed reverently. Then he stood up, took out a sharp knife from his waist, and cut his right palm at once, the wound was very deep, and blood immediately gushed out.

I was curious about his self-harm, but I saw him carefully smear the blood of his right hand on the wall where he had knelt down. Soon, a clear portrait was revealed.

The lines of the portraits carved on the wall are very shallow, and it is difficult to find with the naked eye when the light is not strong.

The lines of the mysterious portrait are simple and rough, and a few strokes outline a picture of a person wearing a cloak and stepping on a poisonous snake, although the face is blocked under the cloak, but the blood-stained portrait does look very strange under the lamplight.

The high priest reverently and carefully anointed himself with blood, and when the portrait was filled with blood, he bowed down and retreated to his original place, knelt down again, and prostrated again.

I didn't understand what he was worshipping, so I looked at An An, and she explained to me softly, "That's the witch god Hecate!" the goddess of the night, also the goddess of ghosts and magic; The first god to appear, one of the founders of the world, created hell. represents the dark side of the world. ”

In the course of An An's explanation, the high priest had finished the prayer and began to circle around the mysterious patterns on the ground, chanting strange incantations loudly in his mouth, which was extremely uncomfortable to listen to, and goosebumps swept over his body one after another.

I don't know if his spells are magical, but the shadow created by an ominous feeling is multiplying.

After the high priest had circled the mysterious pattern a few times, he suddenly felt a wriggling thing from his waist, and I was shocked to see that it was a living snake. Who would have thought that this thing actually had a living snake hidden in its body.

I saw the high priest Deco, holding the two-meter-long live snake, chanting words in his mouth, and the whole body of the big snake was coiled around his arm. The old man muttered a spell, suddenly opened his mouth, and bit the snake's neck with his big yellow fangs, tearing it apart.

The serpent twisted in pain, but his body was grabbed by the high priest and could not resist.

The high priest sprinkled the snake's blood on the pattern on the ground in a seemingly casual but well-conditioned way, and filled the grooves with the snake's blood very evenly. In the process of bloodletting, the incantation in his mouth became louder and faster.

As we read it, the high priest Deco suddenly snorted, startling us at the same time, the snake blood on the pattern actually ignited spontaneously without fire, burning violently like gasoline.

At this time, the snake's blood had been drained, but the serpent was not dead, it was still moving, and the high priest threw it directly into the fire, and then began to dance under the flames. It seems to have the same effect as the dancing gods in Northeast China.

Originally, I thought that this thing set the snake blood on fire, and it was quite godly, but this convulsion seemed to jump and made me feel twelve points absurd and cola.

I couldn't figure out what this old man was doing, so I looked at An An and wanted to ask. saw An An's expression suddenly become nervous. It's as if things have reached a critical juncture.

So I shut my mouth and watched intently as the high priest danced.

At this moment, the wall depicting the witch god suddenly clicked and trembled, and then a thin crack cracked through the wall, and my eyes picked up, and I finally understood. It turned out to be a ritual to open the seal.

As the high priest danced wildly, the crack grew bigger and bigger, and finally a large opening that could fit a person through actually flashed out.

I held up my flashlight and looked into the opening, and there was a dark sarcophagus lying in the corner.