Chapter 38: Offline
The corpse breathed, as if it had wandered around the edge of the kingdom of death, and then turned back to the earth.
The black-robed disciples in the room looked at this scene in a daze, some of them didn't even realize that the man in front of them had actually "died" once just now, because the moment of this life and death rotation was so short that they couldn't even distinguish it if they didn't pay close attention, they just felt that the breath of the dying "compatriots" in front of them suddenly became stable and powerful for some reason, which was extremely surprising.
The next second, the man lying on the ground opened his eyes.
He seemed to have been in the dark for so long that the oil lamp in the room was not bright enough to dazzle him, and he blinked his eyes to adjust to the light, and then his eyeballs slowly rolled, as if he had just noticed the three black-robed men gathered around him.
"Thank the Lord for your protection!" A relatively young black-robed cultist finally reacted, and couldn't help but praise excitedly, "You survived!" I thought you were going to ......"
"Wait! Wrong! Back off! The cultist with a low voice suddenly reacted to something, he stopped the other people's movements, and at the same time stared at the newly awakened man with vigilant eyes, and said in a threatening tone as he stepped back, "His breathing has completely stopped, I am absolutely not mistaken...... Something is not quite right! ”
Duncan finally adjusted to his surroundings, and the tinnitus noise gradually faded from his mind, and he saw the figures around him clearly, and his first reaction was - how could this still be these people when he opened his eyes? How is this still in the sewer?
The spiritual world should be random, and when he chooses the target, he is completely following his intuition, but he didn't expect that the two times he opened his eyes would fall in the middle of this group of cultists, what kind of evil fate is this?
But then, he sensed that something was wrong from the reactions of the people around him, and the next second, he noticed the black robe on his body.
Duncan was silent for two seconds, his mind already dawning.
In the last round, he was a sacrifice sacrificed by a cultist, and then his eyes were closed and his eyes were opened, and now he is a "cultist".
He really has a relationship with these people.
“…… Something is not quite right! ”
At this moment, a low voice full of hostility suddenly interrupted Duncan's confused state of mind after "waking up", and he followed the sound and immediately met a cold gaze full of vigilance.
The owner of that line of sight was staring at him coldly, and beside him, the other two black-robed disciples also reacted with hindsight, and they all stepped back to make a defensive posture.
Duncan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he might have possessed a corpse like last time.
I'm cheating the corpse in front of these cultists!
After understanding the situation in front of him, the nervous reactions of these cultists also became logical, Duncan's mind was running rapidly, he felt that the remaining numbness and dullness in this body had not completely dissipated, and now it was extremely inconvenient to move, and it seemed not easy to do things under the noses of several cultists, so he could only find a way to stabilize these people first-and just as he was quickly looking for a way out, a little bit of fragmented vague memories suddenly appeared in his mind!
In that fragmented and vague memory, he suddenly "recalled" many fragments of experiences that did not belong to him—he remembered that "himself" hid in the sewers, remembered that "he" offered his family's money to the messenger of the sun, remembered that "he" participated in those dark, crazy, bloody and sinful rituals in order to heal diseases, and drank the blood of innocent people in exchange for "the blessing of the sun......
At the end of a series of messy memories, he "looked" at the scene of the sacrifice ceremony, and saw a large number of people in black robes like himself standing next to the high platform, and a young sacrifice was pushed onto the high platform, and the young sacrifice with a stiff and strange expression made the whole ceremony fall into chaos......
He saw the "messenger of the sun" sacrificed to the heart, everyone around the altar went into madness, the cultists were killing each other, raging flames overflowed from the sun totem, angry roars and nihilistic murmurs filled the assembly hall, and the original owner of his body and the last few remaining believers fled in a hurry......
Duncan didn't know how long he had been sluggish, but maybe it was only for a moment, and the strange memories that had surged in his mind calmed down again, and a sad and hateful life became a series of pale fragments, lying in his heart as if for others to read—like some kind of "nourishment".
This is the memory of the original owner of his own body - although there is not much left, there is no doubt about the source.
Duncan blinked, this was a change that had not occurred during the last "spirit walk".
Last time, he hadn't been able to get any memories from the possessed corpse, and the "sacrifice's" brain was blank...... Why this change?
Is it because the shell I occupy this time is still very "fresh"? Or is it because the pigeon "Aye" strengthens the brass compass?
Duncan slowly sat up from the ground, knowing that no matter what the reason behind this change was, now was not a good time to be in a daze, and the nervous cultists had apparently realized that their "resurrection" process was wrong.
As Duncan got up, the three cultists immediately took half a step back, and then the black-robed man with a deep voice broke the silence by pressing his waist with one hand: "Don't move yet—tell me, what's your name?" ”
“…… Ron," Duncan recalled, quite naturally, the name he had just learned from memory, "Ron Strayne. ”
"His name is Ron." A young black-robed cultist on the opposite side immediately lowered his voice and said to the black-robed man with a low voice who had faintly become the leader of the three.
However, the black-robed man did not let his guard down in the slightest, he just stared at Duncan intently, and then suddenly recited in a strange syllable tone: "In the name of the sun, may the glory of the Lord shine, and in the name of the sun, may the blessing of the Lord come!" ”
Listening to the sudden madness of the cultist on the other side, Duncan was stunned for a moment, and then he felt a burning heat in his chest, and he subconsciously reached out and took out the thing that was heating under his clothes, only to see that it was a golden sun amulet - a strange heat was coming from the surface of the amulet!
In the next second, the talisman suddenly ignited a raging flame, and the flames seemed to be full of malice, rushing towards Duncan's heart!
"The glory of the Lord is against him!" Seeing this scene, the cultist who had just recited the prayer instantly reacted, and he drew his short sword at his waist while shouting, "His soul has been replaced!" Kill this heretic! ”
The other two cultists were noticeably slower, but then they reacted, and those who had thought Duncan was a "fellow countryman" a moment ago did not hesitate to draw their short swords and daggers that they carried with them, and shouted as they pounced on him with murderous intent, "Kill him!" ”
Duncan held the sun talisman that had already begun to burn brightly, and watched three figures swoop towards him, and in the next second, another shadow suddenly appeared at the edge of his sight!
A ghostly undead bird with a glowing green flame tore through the air, swept across the roof with a stream of icy flames, its eerie screeching and its wings flapping and scattering invisible ashes and feather fragments.
The three cultists were rightfully attracted by this "undead bird", and they subconsciously glanced up at "Aid" who had transformed into a spirit form.
The next moment, all of them froze in their movements, as if the connection with the real world suddenly became distant and sluggish, and the figures of the three black-robed men pulled out overlapping afterimages in mid-air like a frame-by-frame animation of card by card, and they slowly landed on the ground with comically slow movements, and finally fell to a complete standstill less than two meters in front of Duncan.
With great horror in their eyes, they watched the undead bird hover around the ceiling and then landed on the black-robed "compatriot" opposite, and they saw that the sun talisman in the man's hand was still burning, but in the next second, those burning flames turned a faint green, and turned into the same form as the flames on the "undead bird".
Duncan pinched the sun amulet in his hand, and the green spirit fire wrapped around the surface of the amulet, and the flames gushing out of the amulet circled half in front of him, and then stopped like a pet, slowly circling around his arm like a flattering man.
Holding the Sun Amulet that had been completely occupied and transformed, he unhurriedly came to the three cultists, he looked into the other's frightened eyes, and his tone couldn't help but carry regret: "How good it would be for you to pretend that you don't know anything. ”
In the next second, the figures of the three cultists suddenly flickered violently in mid-air a few times, and then disappeared.
The bone-like "undead bird" wrapped in green fire staggered twice on Duncan's shoulder, and in the crackling sound of the flames, it let out a high-pitched hoarse cry: "Oops, the page is gone, try to refresh it?" ”