Breitwen is a subordinate village and town in the northwest of Bozhi City, and it is only separated by dozens of miles from Bozhi City.

It used to be the famous hometown of melons and fruits, and if you look at it from the perspective of modern people, Breitbun is probably a vegetable and fruit planting base.

Just as most large cities have to rely on surrounding towns for their fruits, vegetables and vegetables, Breitwen has always relied on Breitbon to provide a richer and more balanced food pairing.

Of course, this vegetable base is not only for the city, but also for the army.

More than 100 miles southwest of Breitbon is the strongest military fortress of the Bacchus Empire, the Fortress of Leila.

This fortress originally guarded the main road to Siyuan City and Bozhi City, so a large number of soldiers were stationed all the time.

Similar to the Seven Forks Fortress in the Lion Kingdom, this purely military fortress has no inhabitants, so supplies are provided by nearby villages and towns. Breitbon is mainly responsible for providing vegetables and fruits.

But when the lord led the team to Breitbon, this place did not look like a land of melons and fruits at all.

Large tracts of vegetable fields and orchards are deserted, and most of the winter fruits such as oranges are ripe, but no one picks them, so they just fall under the trees and rot.

Most of the vegetables in the garden have also rotted in the ground.

Some of the melon sheds still have shelves, the buckets hanging from the shelves are still there, and the farm tools leaning next to the trees are still there.

But there were no residents in sight.

Anson was also not found in the village.

The whole village was so lifeless that not even a dog could see it.

The problem is that it doesn't look like a mess either, there is no blood or bones on the ground, and there are no messy objects left in the village.

"What's going on in this place? If it's a disaster, it shouldn't be so neat, right? Now like this...... It's even more frustrating."

Leon looked up and around—there was indeed no living creature to be seen, not even birds.

This is obviously very abnormal, the ground is full of ripe melons and fruits that have fallen to the ground, and it is impossible for birds and beasts not to come and eat.

And even if all the people here run away, they will probably bring their daily tools with them, and the farm tools leaning under the trees don't look like they were thrown away, but no one has taken them with them.

"My lord, there seems to be a temple over there...... Something doesn't look right."

Klose pointed to a relatively tall stone house in the village by the lake.

The house was very large, and the roof had a rough statue of the goddess Damia.

It is indeed a temple, and a vegetable and fruit planting base like Breitwen will naturally worship the goddess of harvest.

Klose said that the temple didn't look right, mainly because the temple didn't have doors or windows.

In other words, all the doors and windows were closed, and they were closed in a regular manner, presumably with stones, and they were re-limeed.

How can a temple close its doors and windows?

Leon waved his hand and asked his brothers to surround the temple.

Klose leaned against the wall and listened: "No sound......

Then he sniffled, "But it smells of blood...... There's a problem here."

"Here! See...... Look in the water!"

Sigismund suddenly shouted loudly.

The temple was built right next to the lake, and the road on the side of the house extended to the lake with a small plank pier.

The wharf is small and should only be used for small barges moored on the lake, just like those inland wharves behind Changhe Town, from where vegetables and fruits can be transported directly to Boshi City.

Sigismund was visiting at the docks at this time.

At this time, the water in the lake near the pier is reddish-brown!

In addition, there are dense carcasses of small beasts such as birds and rats, and there are many carcasses of fish.

No wonder there were no birds, they all died in the lake!

The back of this temple

The water in the lake is all reddish-brown.

Only when a large amount of plasma settles in the lake water will the surface of the lake be dyed this color.

Sigismund drew his sword and stared at the water, then slowly walked along the dock to the back of the temple, followed the blade and pointed at a crack in the stone behind the temple: "Blood...... It's what comes out of it!"

"Brothers, cover your nose...... Go to the city of Bothia and tell General Creon that it is best not to drink the water of Lake Sava during this time, the blood may be poisonous......

"Come, smash this house open and see......

Li Ang took a few steps back, put on his mask, thought about it and felt uneasy, so he simply put on the helmet and mask, and then motioned to the macho men of the silver hand to work.

Seeing that the lord was so careful, the macho men also did a good job of protection, and then they began to use the hammer.

It really worked to equip them with hammers, and it came in handy so quickly......

The hammer was very good at striking stones—the greatest function of the eight-pound hammer when it was not in war was to knock stones or nail stakes.

A group of fierce men smashed around the temple for a while, but the walls of the temple were extremely strong, until a wall was deeply knocked inward and deformed, and finally a big hole was opened in the house.

And after knocking through the wall, the masonry actually fell outward.

Then, a group of people all took several steps back.

Several mutilated corpses, along with the masonry, fell out of the large hole that had been knocked out, bringing out a puddle of sticky blood.

I couldn't see through the holes inside the temple, because countless corpses were piled up on top of each other to form the inner walls, and the corpses covered the holes that had just been knocked out like bricks and stones, and I didn't know how high they were.

No wonder it didn't move, there was obviously a mountain of corpses inside supporting the surrounding walls.

Even with a mask, the stench still makes everyone's scalp tingle.

「…… Knock down all the walls, and wrap the brothers around their bodies, so that the blood from the corpses does not stick to them."

It was not easy for Li Ang to hold back and not spit out, retreat into the distance, and beckoned everyone to come together.

Hundreds of sledgehammers were picked up together,

The temple is full of ...... It's all corpses.

Most of the corpses' skin was festering, and a thick red pus was constantly falling, making them look like the corpses of a red death disease.

But it wasn't the Knights of the Radiant Cross who sealed the bodies inside - the Knights of the Radiant Cross would burn the bodies of all the infected, and would never pile so many corpses in the house.

It looks more like an evil ritual.

Because all the corpses were naked, they were piled up on all four sides of the walls of the temple, and they were piled up more than three meters high.

And in the middle of the temple is a square pool......

It was a pool of blood, four meters square.

The viscous blackened blood had filled the entire pool of blood, probably due to the shock of the sledgehammer just now, and the plasma was shaking slightly.

In the middle of the pool floated a four-pointed star-shaped platform, slowly swaying in the blood pool, on which a person was tied with an iron chain.

Or rather, a torn shell that looks like it's barely human, after all, no one knows if it's human.

The chest and abdomen of the shell were torn open, and two huge openings, one horizontal and one vertical, ran through the entire body in the shape of a cross, and the large pieces of flesh on the chest and abdomen were deliberately pulled apart and rolled over, so that the gaps in the chest and abdomen also took on the shape of a four-pointed star.

Almost all of the internal organs are exposed.

It was an altar, a poisoned blood altar built from the blood of countless Red Dead patients.

Leon and Sigismund looked at each other and blurted out, "Castro!"

Yes, that's what the tough gladiator who died at the hands of Wendy once went through!

Li Ang originally thought that as long as he killed the army of the Snake Worshippers, he would solve most of the problems

Finish...... But now it seems that the threat of the Serpent Cult is not over......

"I'm afraid thousands of corpses were used for this wicked ritual...... But the dissected guy looks dead!"

Klose said with a frown.

Since the temple was full of corpses and viscous plasma, no one went in to touch it, lest they catch the Red Death.

But from the outside, you could tell that the shell above the four-pointed star must be dead.

After all, the heart is *** outside, and there is no movement at all at the moment, and there is no sign of resuming its beat.

"That's a good eye...... Nine hundred and ninety-nine bodies of adult males, and the body of one Chosen One...... That's exactly a thousand."

A harsh, strange voice suddenly picked up Klose's words.

The voice was so sharp that I couldn't even hear the men and women, but it felt like it had suddenly appeared in my ears.

A group of people turned their heads to look around, but they didn't see anyone.

Leon and Klose immediately drew their swords, they were no strangers to the sudden appearance of voices without seeing people—a vocal technique they had seen with the Three Prophets, very similar to the sound of the Three Prophets reciting the sacrificial prayers.

"Haha...... Maybe you're the perfect chosen body...... What a strong warrior......

The strange voice rang out again.

"Who's pretending to be a god! Come out!"

Klose understood that the voice referred to as the Chosen Body seemed to be himself...... After all, Klose was clearly the strongest of them all.

He was extremely nervous now, and he understood Amy's panic when she faced Lady Bella in Long River.

Lady Bella was a heretic in the worship of the goddess of darkness, and the doom seizer at the time had said that Amy was the perfect goddess carrier.

And now, having encountered the altar of the Serpent Cult, he himself is said to be the perfect chosen body......

"Your Excellency...... I think the Serpent Cult may have something to do with the heresy of worshipping the Goddess of Darkness...... There seem to be a lot of similarities in their paths......

Klose kept looking left and right, cautiously approaching Leon's side.

"I think so too......

The lord was also moving cautiously, constantly looking for the person who made the sound.

"Uh-huh...... Come, come to me, and I will tell you everything...... Huh?!"

The voice seemed to tease the lord, but it stopped abruptly in the middle of the sentence, and then fell silent completely.

"Your Excellency! There's an army of the Bacchus Empire outside, and it's a few miles away......

Summer, who was on guard on the outskirts of the village, ran in, and before he could finish his sentence, he saw a group of people around Leon standing guard with their backs to a room full of corpses.

He stopped, looked left and right, drew his sword and lowered his voice: "My lord, here...... Are there any enemies?"

Leon rolled his eyes and yelled very suddenly, "Don't run! Catch him!"

A large group of men hurriedly looked around, but they didn't see who Leon was asking them to arrest.

In fact, Lord Lordship is bluffing......

He wanted to see if he could trick the mysterious man into making some noise.

But it didn't work.

Leon looked around again before he put down his sword: "I can't cheat it, that bastard should be gone...... Summer, what is the banner of the army outside?"

"It looks like the banner of Governor Keros. My lord, Governor Kairos shouldn't be an enemy now, right?"

Summer, somewhat uncertain, asked.

The ships and food sent to Metenheim before came from the Governor of Kairos, although this was a deal for Keros, but the people of Metenheim actually had some affection for Keros, and naturally they didn't want Keros to become an enemy.

"Kelos...... How did he end up here......

Leon frowned, turned to look at the altar blood pool behind him, and then shook his head, "Could it be that he is here to find this sacrifice

Altar, right? We'd better get out of the way for a while......

……

"Keros, I still can't believe that you're driven by snake worshippers...... I thought it would be possible for anyone to join the Snake Cult, but you would never ......."

Emperor Marius was now sitting in a beautiful prisoner's cart and whispered to Keros, who was riding a horse beside him.

The prisoner's carriage was quite exquisite, and it was even a luxury four-wheeled carriage with a sofa that was rare in the entire Pander continent, except that the windows were iron-barred and the doors were locked.

If Leon had seen the car, he would have recognized it - this was the carriage he had "sold" to Governor Keros last year.

"I didn't take refuge in the Serpent Cult...... I knew I couldn't explain it, and maybe I wouldn't be able to forgive myself until I died, but I had to...... I'm sorry, Your Majesty......

Keros's complexion was a little withered, and his eyes were blank, but a man in his fifties looked like he was seventy years old.

Obviously, he himself has suffered a lot in the past few days.

"Then tell me, why are you doing this? Maybe I can help you!"

Emperor Marius still does not seem to have given up hope of a solution.

"You'll find out soon...... We've come to ......."

Kairos looked at the village in front of him, stopped talking, and silently escorted Emperor Marius to the village.

"This ...... What's going on! What's going on!!"

As soon as he arrived in the village, he saw the temple from a distance, where most of the walls had been knocked down, and Keros suddenly panicked and rushed forward, but he did not dare to enter the altar.

"It's over...... It's all over...... Antonius ...... My Antonius!"

He ran around the perimeter of the temple like a headless fly twice, then sat down on the ground and cried like an old peasant.

"Antonius? What's wrong with your son? Keros ...... Tell me, what happened to you, what happened to these corpses here?"

Emperor Marius struggled left and right, broke away from the hands of the two soldiers who had grabbed his shoulders, looked at everything in the temple, and then looked at Keros who was sitting on the ground, his frown furrowed into deep furrows.