After discovering the abnormality of this group of church members, the three of them stopped.

They are hesitating whether to go forward and test it, or turn around and leave, don't cause trouble first, and change the group of church people to communicate.

But they didn't struggle for long, someone helped them make a decision.

I saw a few people who were also wearing church uniforms walking in from the corner of the street, and looking at the "rank" of the uniforms, it was obviously much higher than those members who had lost their shadows.

The leader is even more of a familiar face.

It can't be said that they are very familiar, but at least Nie Yuan and the others have seen this person's photos and resume several times.

It was none other than the Bishop of the Order of the Church of Rui Eucalyptus, Dennis.

As soon as Dennis came, he found Nie Yuan and them, and saw that the three of them were standing still and did not move, looking at him with a smile.

He didn't continue to pretend to be blind, explained a few words to his companions, and walked straight forward.

When he passed under the street lamp, the eyes of Nie Yuan and the three of them all swept to the ground.

Well, there's a shadow, this guy seems normal at the moment.

Dennis stood still in front of Nie Yuan, and even smiled kindly at Nancy on his neck, and stretched out his hand to say hello.

Nancy naturally ignored him, rolled her eyes, and said, "Silly hat." ”

Now that the organization has been found, the curse on his body has been removed, and the church knows about Buck's bookshop's relationship with Count Lilian.

Nancy naturally doesn't have to be forced to sell cuteness for a living, business everywhere, and win sympathy like before.

Parts of one's nature can also be exposed.

Dennis was not very surprised by her performance, as if he hadn't heard it, he said to Nie Yuan:

"Look at the way you guys just looked, you want to exchange information with us?"

"Then it depends on whether you have the same value of information to exchange."

Nie Yuan held Nancy's two ankles and responded like a scarf around his neck.

Dennis laughed and said, "It seems that Buck Bookstore has indeed dug up a lot of information, not like a simple wild road, by the way, what about the other two?" ”

Nie Yuan replied, "They naturally have their own affairs. ”

"So, even if Old Buck isn't here, you can call the shots?"

"You can understand it that way, too."

"Okay, you say, if there is something you find, if the value is big enough, I will definitely respond with the same key clue."

"Although the first one will definitely suffer, who knows if you will fool us in turn, but ......"

Nie Yuan paused for a moment and said seriously: "But it's not a big problem, if you really treat us as fools, I will beat people." ”

"And bites!"

Nancy began her magic mending knife again, revealing an extremely "fierce" expression.

Dennis smiled again and said: "Don't worry, I definitely won't deliberately hide it, at this moment, it's not a deal, if we can solve the situation here together, then it is necessary to work together." ”

Nie Yuan nodded, but still didn't directly say all his findings, but first threw out a tentative remark, saying:

"Have you discovered that the force field in Path Town actually follows some kind of central will? Just like the words of the elderly, you can follow the word. ”

Dennis frowned slightly, and said, "After so many explorations and experiments, we naturally have relevant discoveries, and the elders can indeed represent the will of the entire Paz Town in most cases.

But when communicating with her, we found that some of her words seemed to be just the chatter of the elderly, but they seemed to imply some other wills mixed in.

In other words, she is a little bit of a 'messenger' on a rare occasion.

Therefore, rather than her ability to speak the law, we want to explore who she is helping to speak, or who is giving her the ability to speak must be fulfilled. ”

Hearing Dennis's words, Nie Yuan probably knew that the other party really wanted to exchange information.

Because this is also in line with some of his guesses.

The last time I said goodbye to the elderly, the warning given by the people didn't sound like an old man, just talking about himself there.

Rather, it is a strong warning and intimidation.

Then the existence of making her speak those words may be the root cause of the Path Town incident that gave her the ability to speak her mind.

Judging from the answer given by the handwriting of the truth just now, there may be some deeper relationship between the elder and Adri.

After all, all the strange things were done by the disappeared Adri.

But he is unlikely to be the abstract source of all this.

In the archives, he was a very normal person in his early years, and it is somewhat possible to say that he suddenly became a source of infection, but if he suddenly became an abstract source, the chances are slim.

Nie Yuan thought for a while and continued, "You should also start investigating Karina, Auston, and Adri. ”

Dennis confirmed, "Of course, the picture you have is the one that Lillian has copied from us.

You all know that we have to start with them, and how could we not have thought of it, and we did find something. ”

Nie Yuan was interested and asked, "What is it?" ”

Dennis gave him a "cub" emoji.

Originally, it was good that you threw out effective information first, and then I gave back depending on the situation.

As a result, you just pushed the boat down the river and began to reverse my words.

On the contrary, you didn't shake out any key information.

This guy has a bright brain.

But Dennis still didn't grind, and chose to tell Nie Yuan directly, saying:

"You're coming in that direction, you must have already gone to Edri's mansion, right?"

"Well, I didn't find anything, his house disappeared, and he was a person."

"Yes, we went much earlier than you, and we didn't find anything, and all traces of his existence have disappeared from the world.

But not long ago, when we were looking for the members who had been replaced, we noticed some clues, and that was ......

Adri's old mansion seems to coincide with the elder's home. ”

Originally, the church's actions tonight were like a lonely throw, and we had to quickly come up with something practical and give it to the Wangcheng church.

As Dennis had just said, as long as Buck's Bookstore could help, there was really no need for them to hide it.

"Coincidentally?"

Nie Yuan continued to ask deeply, "It means that Edri's home, and the elder's home, have been spliced together from the inside by some kind of force?" ”

Dennis nodded: "Almost, in the process of going to the elders to investigate, we found that in her home, something that should have been Edri appeared.

From this, the old mansion where Adri disappeared, including the traces of his own existence, should be in the elder's home.

However, we don't know how deep this overlap is, because when we want to explore further, the elders have already begun to drive people out, and we have lost some manpower for this. ”

"Very useful information indeed."

Nie Yuan expressed his appreciation for this and said, "It seems that the church is not as incompetent as imagined. ”

Dennis's face darkened when he heard this, and said: "It's really the same as your master, arrogant and speechless, if I change places, I will definitely have to try the depth of your Buck bookstore." ”

Nie Yuan corrected: "What kind of master is not the master, how ugly it is, it is more ironing to say that it is a partner." ”

Dennis waved his hand and said, "The gap is not big, anyway, you are already bound to Lilian, so what next, can you shake out something, something useful?" If we want to solve the incident here, we will definitely cooperate in the future. ”

Nie Yuan stretched out two fingers, put them in front of Dennis, and said, "Two things, the first one, if the elder is the spokesperson of the will of Path Town, then Adri should be the executor of all the strange things here. ”

"What do you mean?" It was Dennis' turn to ask.

"Literally, Edri has become the embodiment of the rules here, no matter how mysterious things are, in fact, they are invisible and he is enforcing them." Nie Yuan explained.

Dennis pondered, then said, "You mean Edri, already in the town of Paz, everywhere?" Those strange events, it seems to be traceable, but it is all the power of Edri, which is contributing to everything? ”

"Pretty much."

"And how did you come to your conclusions?"

"I can't tell you this, in short, I didn't lie to you, after all, our interests are the same."

"Okay, I'll let people deepen the line of Edri, don't ask if it's superfluous, you must have your own methods, what about the second thing?"

"The second thing, actually, I thought you knew at first, but it turned out that you have been here for so long, and your eyes are normal, and you don't look at the ground, you think you should be completely blinded by the town of Pass."

As he spoke, Nie Yuan pointed to the church members in the distance and said, "Look, isn't it weird under their feet?" ”

Dennis Huo Ran looked back and scanned it from beginning to end, but it seemed that he found nothing.

Then he asked Nie Yuan again, "What do you want to say?" ”

Nie Yuan smiled and said, "Sure enough, they were deceived, didn't you find that many of them have no shadows?" ”

"Shadow??"

Dennis was surprised and said, "What is a shadow?" ”

But after saying this, he suddenly realized, his eyes shrank, and he looked back again.

He remembered.

It turns out that there is such a thing as a shadow in the world.

Just now he thought he had heard something he had never heard before.

But it's a bishop, and between the lightning and flint in his heart, his doubts are infinitely magnified, and he instantly grasps some kind of inspiration.

In this way, he got rid of the blindness of the force field of Paszhen and regained his normal cognition in this regard.

Dennis muttered: "It seems that the force field has strengthened, it is rapidly assimilating us, even if I have been to Paz Town many times and the resistance has weakened a lot, it shouldn't be so fast, there is a cognitive blinding ......"

Nie Yuan said lightly: "Yes, it can also be deduced from this, Path Town is working so hard, only assimilating your cognition in the shadow aspect, there must be a greater calamity brewing."

Maybe it's by taking away your shadow and gradually corrupting everyone, and if no one reminds you, by the time you react, it's already too late. ”

Dennis turned his head and looked at Nie Yuandao, "Then why don't you have cognitive impairment in this area?" ”

Nie Yuan shrugged, let Nancy on his neck sway, and said: "Maybe we have been here less often, so it's not so easy to be targeted like this, in short, stay away from people who don't have a shadow for the time being, maybe we will do some weird behavior." ”

Dennis was about to speak, but suddenly paused.

I saw him slowly take two big steps back in Nie Yuan's surprised eyes, and then replied:

"Okay."

Seeing this, Nie Yuan was stunned for a moment, and then his expression froze.

He didn't look back to verify something at the first time, but stared at Dennis in front of him and said:

"Don't tease me, Bishop Dennis, I'm really good at beating people, my fists are heavy."

Dennis didn't reply, just looked at him quietly, his expression smiling and polite.

At this time, Nie Yuan almost had a result in his heart.

Because Nancy on his neck didn't even answer his words.

Instead, after seeing Dennis's movements, they turned around and looked behind them, and there were dim street lamps in front of them, so the shadows were behind.

It's very vague, but if you look closely, you can still tell it out.

Nancy twisted her body and waved her arms as if to confirm something.

Nie Yuan also slowly turned his head and glanced at the ground behind him.

Well, there are shadows.

But it's very small, and it doesn't extend directly from under your feet.

Nancy twisted her body, just to verify whether this shadow had a part of Nie Yuan.

It turned out that only her figure was projected on the ground, and Nie Yuan's shadow had already run away from home.

Nie Yuan raised his hand, lifted Nancy from his neck a little, and then put it down again.

In this process, he also saw that the black shadow on the ground did not have his own share.

"Vodiu ......"

Nie Yuan couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

Just now I was mocking those little miscellaneous fish, and not long after I came to town, I lost even my shadow.

As a result, when I looked back, I was the same.

This also made Nie Yuan suddenly recall a lot of things.

He thought of the way to Edri's old mansion when he suddenly felt something in his heart and looked behind him.

Aztec and Nancy, on the other hand, did not notice anything strange behind them.

Because at that time, they had already walked past the street lamp and entered the shadow area.

My own shadow should have run away at that time, right?

And then along the way, they didn't pass a few street lights, and Nancy was just on Nie Yuan's shoulder, so there would also be a shadow under him, but it didn't belong to him.

The clear moonlight cast down, making the already dim shadow even more blurry.

There were many coincidences, so that they didn't notice the abnormality in a short period of time.

Or......

In fact, I have already had cognitive biases in this regard?

After all, just now, the Aztecs discovered at a glance that there was no shadow under the feet of those church members in front of them.

And I looked at it twice, but I didn't find anything abnormal.

is still the same as Dennis, when he heard the keyword "shadow", he suddenly realized and reacted instantly.

This damn the town of Paz......

"When you looked behind you?" The Aztecs asked.

"It should be." Nie Yuan sighed.

"Do you feel anything unusual now?" Dennis also asked, he wanted to know from Nie Yuan what would happen if he lost his shadow, so that the people of the church could warn him in advance.

Nie Yuan glanced at him, shook his head and said, "No, I've been communicating with you for so long, can't you see it, and even if I really have a problem, I'm the hardest to notice, isn't it?" ”

"That's true...... You should be no exception. ”

Dennis was also overwhelmed when he heard this.

Because when he looked up just now, he found that there were not a few church members who had lost their shadows.

If these people have problems, once they break out, I don't know what kind of scene it will be.

Not to mention that there is also Nie Yuan, who has also been recruited, and at that time, Buck's bookstore will also become an uncertain factor.

"Do you want to go back the way you came?"

The Aztecs spoke again, and said, "I remember the streetlight that you were aware of at the time, maybe the streetlight is the medium through which the shadows can escape. ”

"Very likely!"

Dennis was still worried, but when he heard this, his eyes lit up, and he said: "It turns out that you are under the street lamp, and you lost your shadow, the street lamp just happens to be something that can project the shadow."

But certainly not every street lamp has this effect, after all, I have passed by a lot of street lights, and I haven't found any problems so far.

In this case, it is necessary to go back and see, and there is also a clue, that is, do not pass under the street lamp! ”

"You have a point."

Nie Yuan first agreed with their words, and then changed his words, looked into the distance, and said, "But let's deal with the things in front of us first." ”

Hearing him say this, everyone also noticed something and followed his gaze.

Then his expression turned positive.

Saw.

On the street, a huge black shadow turned the corner and appeared in everyone's field of vision.

The light of the street lamp pulled the black shadow like a monster with teeth and claws, and almost cut off the entire street horizontally.

If you look closely, the huge black shadow is actually made up of the corpses of fierce beasts.

The corpses were basically intact, and there were no obvious scars on the fur, as if they had died suddenly.

And in front of this mountain of corpses, a strong man shirtless, with a two-finger-thick hemp rope tied around his waist.

It was this hemp rope that tied the beasts behind him together so that they were barely piled up and not scattered.

This fierce man, dragging his mountain-like prey, his steps dull and powerful, walked slowly towards everyone.

His eyes had already noticed that there seemed to be a lot of uninvited guests in the town tonight.

It just so happened that he didn't have the slightest affection for these uninvited guests.

The manuscript left by his father was lost the next day after contact with these people.

On the way back, I was still thinking about it, so why did I have to find the door and ask if it had anything to do with them.

Isn't that a coincidence?

I turned my head and met it.

When Dennis saw the arrival of this evil star, and the flickering eyes of the other party, he couldn't help but lament:

"There had been no news of him in the town for three days, and it was customary for him to go out hunting, often for a week, and when there was enough prey, or when the peels needed to be replenished, he would be on the edge of the town of Paz and cleaned up a little.

Sure enough, we're getting serious, and so is the town of Pass. ”

Hunter.

Return from the hunt early.