Duncan quickly withdrew his gaze from the Golden Mask, allowing himself to lower his eyes slightly like the ordinary cultists around him, as if he was ready to listen attentively to the teachings.

He has not heard anything useful and cannot prematurely attract the attention of this cult.

And at the moment when he lowered his head, the feeling of being swept by someone's gaze came over again.

Duncan frowned slightly, and looked at the feeling, and sure enough, it was the girl in the black dress with the strange bell around her neck who was secretly observing herself—and when she looked away, she turned her head silently.

This made Duncan wonder.

He was sure that he didn't know the other party, and in the memory of the original owner of this body, there was no information about this girl - why did a follower of the sun god who met for the first time pay so much attention to him?

Is it because the pigeons on your shoulders are really chic?

He thought about it for a moment, and then he heard the voice of the leader of the believers suddenly come from the front - after putting on the golden mask, the leader had become the embodiment of some kind of divine power, and even the voice when he spoke seemed low and majestic, I don't know if this was because he deliberately controlled his voice, or if the mask really mixed another consciousness into his voice:

"The prayer is over, the Lord has witnessed our piety and reverence—grace has shone on our souls, brothers and sisters, be thankful that we have endured one more day in this difficult and dark world, and we are one day closer to the day when the scorching sun rises and order is reestablished."

The "priest" wearing the golden mask opened his hands and spoke in a very demagogic tone, and then his gaze suddenly fell on the corner of the believer's world, and his tone was calm and intimate.

"But before we begin today's rally, we would like to welcome our two compatriots who were trapped in darkness during difficult times, but who were able to reunite with the Lord's guidance...... Introduce yourself, it's easy. ”

Two compatriots?

Duncan remembered that the leader seemed to have told him that he was not the only stranger to be present at the assembly, and then he looked in the direction the leader was staring—he saw the girl in the black dress.

For some reason, he wasn't surprised.

"You can call me Shirley," the girl said with a natural step, "My parents are both believers, but they were killed by the minions of the Deep Sea Church four years ago, and I have been hiding in the Cross Block all these years, and I have not been in contact with any other siblings...... Good thing you're here. ”

Her voice was not loud, and she sounded quiet and well-behaved, and it was really difficult to connect such a child with a bloody cultist unless she had seen it with her own eyes.

"Welcome back to us, young sister," the leader nodded, then looked at the congregation, "Shirley's parents were killed by the Church Purge four years ago, and we found her parents' names on that year's list—another compatriot next. ”

The leader's eyes finally fell on Duncan.

"Duncan, live in Downtown," Duncan had already prepared and took a half-step forward very calmly, "I am a survivor of the sacrifice ritual that the Deep Sea Church destroyed in the sewers a few days ago. ”

He was brief, but his attitude was sincere and frank enough, and the news of the raid on the Sewer cult stronghold by the Deep Sea Church was also widely known, occupying the front pages of several newspapers, so as soon as his words fell, several cultists around him began to talk in low voices, and the leader in the center of the assembly hall nodded and added the situation: "This is also a well-tested compatriot, after experiencing the mutilation of those hyenas of the Deep Sea Church, he is still trying his best to return to the arms of the Lord - he has the emblem of blessing on his body as a token, is credible. ”

The leader's voice fell, and the disciples who didn't know the situation at the scene suddenly cast their eyes on Duncan, some nodded and some sighed, while Duncan continued to cover most of his face and memorized the multiplication table upside down......

"The brief introduction is over," the leader finally spoke to the part of Duncan's interest, "and then the update." ”

Duncan's ears immediately pricked up.

“…… At present, a large number of our compatriots are still gathering in this city-state, including both the common believers of the faith and the powerful messengers and priests, and our power in the city-state is gradually increasing, and the day of order restoration is near......

"But it is undeniable that the minions of the Deep Sea Church have also reacted, and in recent times, the city-state authorities have become more and more strict in their investigation of the foreign population, and we have several gathering points that have been destroyed by the authorities, so the siblings operating in the city must be careful, and the collection of sacrifices can be slowed down - the Lord's heir has issued a decree, and the power we have recently gathered is more than half, and there are still vacancies, and the Lord's heir will solve them himself......"

The surrounding cultists seemed to be greatly moved, and began to praise the love and greatness of the sun god, and Duncan immediately remembered the sacrificial ritual he had seen in the sewers before—these cultists were indeed using that ritual to gather strength, and it sounded ...... The group of behind-the-scenes manipulators known as the "Sons of the Sun" actually participated in it this time?

At the moment, it seems that the power gathered by this group of cultists is insufficient, because the town hall and the church of Poland have already detected their activities, but if those heirs also go into battle themselves...... I'm afraid the plans of these cultists will continue to advance!

Just then, he heard the leader continue, "...... At present, our main task is to determine the exact location of the sun's debris. Remember, our goal is always to bring the real Sun God back to life, and finding the lost pieces of the Sun is the most important part! ”

Duncan's heart moved - fragments of the sun? What's that?

Can a stack of sun shards make Arden's spear wide?

He felt the pigeon on his shoulder suddenly become restless, and Ay shook his body vigorously as he let out a low cooing sound in his throat.

Through the connection of the spirit fire, he could vaguely sense what the pigeon was trying to do.

It wanted to push, it wanted to force loudly, it wanted Duncan to take the solar-powered tomahawk and reassemble another wave of troops.

But it can't open its mouth - it's just a pigeon here.

It can make it depressed.

"Quiet." Duncan could only mumble a whisper and rub the back of his hand against the pigeon's head as a reassuring gesture, while a cultist closer to the leader asked, "Can we now determine the approximate location of the sun's debris?" Is there any way to ...... Did you detect it? ”

"The Sun Fragment is currently asleep and cannot be detected by any means," the leader shook his head, "but the Lord has sent down a guide, and the Fragment should be hiding near the lower town of Purland." Also, in view of the fact that new compatriots have joined today, I would like to explain the situation one more time:

"According to the information we have, the fragment first appeared in the human world eleven years ago, and it is very likely that it caused some kind of large-scale extraordinary phenomenon - it could be a large fire, it could be an unusually high fever in the whole neighborhood, or it could be a spontaneous combustion of the collective human body, a group illusion, which is the direction of our current investigation.

"The city-state authorities have detailed information about the transcendent phenomena over the years, the great gods are already trying to find these records, and there may be ordinary people living in the lower city who remember the 'strange thing' that happened here eleven years ago, and our task is to gather clues about this in order to deduce the location of the sun fragments.

"But be careful, all inquiries must be done with care, and while the authorities have always been lax in their management of the lower city, the hyenas of the Deep Sea Church have a particularly sensitive sense of smell at times...... They are already on alert. ”

The leader explained the current situation to the surrounding congregation, and Duncan's mind was spinning rapidly, and he paid special attention to the time point of "eleven years ago" - according to the leader, eleven years ago was the day when something otherly called "Fragment of the Sun" appeared, but Duncan noticed this point in time because of something else.

Eleven years ago, at the age of six, Nina lost her parents.

It seems to be because of a fire.

Is it just a coincidence? Is there such a coincidence?

Duncan struggled to sort through the messy and broken memories in his mind, but most of these memories had dissipated with the death of the original owner of the body, and he could only remember one or two vague fragments: the original owner of his body rushed out of the fire, holding his dying niece in his arms, an illegible building burning and collapsing behind him, and in the distance, the distorted, dim, phantom city streets, countless frenzied crowds screaming and running through the streets......