Chapter Seventy-Four: There Is an Inner Ghost, Terminate the Transaction

Duncan didn't end up digging more memories out of his mind either.

Although the original owner of this body did care about Nina, and the things related to Nina were indeed the deepest memories in his mind, years of illness and abuse of spirits and drugs had severely damaged these things, and when the cultist named Ron exhaled his last breath, there were not many warm memories of his family left in his numb mind.

Only one thing is certain, eleven years ago, there was a fire in the lower city – the fire that took the lives of Nina's biological parents and changed the course of the child's life forever.

This may be a coincidence, but there is a more possibility that there is really something to do with the "sun fragments" that these solar cultists are looking for.

An innocent citizen lost his life, a child orphaned in the fire, and a few years later, the child's only remaining relatives became one of the cultists who followed the sun......

In the dark, there seems to be a bad fate, which revolves around the sun, as if trapped in gravity.

At this moment, Duncan's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden voice among the surrounding believers: "I have inquired about the surrounding residents these days, and I have not heard of any of the more famous fires in the lower city eleven years ago...... Instead, it was mentioned that there was a leak in a factory that caused the toxic gas from the tank to spread for several blocks, causing many people to hallucinate and go crazy, and the incident was in the newspapers at the time. ”

Duncan looked up in surprise and saw that it was an ordinary-looking female cultist.

However, before he could seriously think about what the other party said, he noticed that the cult leader's gaze turned to him: "Fellow, you happen to be a local here, do you know the situation in this regard?" ”

Duncan was stunned, and suddenly realized that he had become the focus of the sceneβ€”for this group of out-of-town Christians who were trying to gather information, his own locals who "lived in Lower Plain" were undoubtedly a good source of information!

Noticing a few lines of sight around him, he thought about it for a while and came up with a rhetoric: "I didn't live here eleven years ago, so the specific situation is not clear, but the leak of the factory has indeed been mentioned by people......

While doing this, he looked at the female disciple who spoke just now: "Eleven years ago, was there really no fire in the lower city?" ”

"At least as far as I've heard," the cultist nodded, "as far as I've heard, there hasn't been a major fire in the lower town of Plain for at least twenty years...... There are small fires, such as kitchen fires, but they are obviously not on the table. ”

Duncan blinked and said nothing.

He clearly remembered that Nina's parents died in the fire eleven years ago! The memory fragments in his mind even have images of "himself" rushing out of the fire with Nina!

What went wrong? Is it that this body is deranged when it inherits its memories? Or was the fire not in the lower city? Or...... It's just that the cultist in front of him hasn't been able to find out the real situation......

There was a faint doubt in his heart, because the matter involved Nina and "himself", he subconsciously paid attention to this matter, and at this moment, he heard a voice coming from the other side, it was the girl named Shirley: "The factory leak incident eleven years ago...... Was it the one that happened in the Sixth Block? ”

"Sixth Block? Well...... It seems to be true," the female believer nodded, "It is said that this incident had a great impact at the time, because the chemicals left a lot of people with sequelae, and many residents of the lower city still remember it to this day. ”

A few of the disciples next to him nodded in agreement, and it seemed that they had also inquired about the similar situation.

"Factory leaked ......" The leader in the center of the assembly hall suddenly broke his silence, and his deep and majestic voice also interrupted the conversation between the disciples at the scene, "The production accident on the surface is very likely to be an extraordinary event disguised by the authorities, and it happened to be at this juncture eleven years ago...... This is a very important clue. Let's investigate in this direction to see if the so-called factory leak points to a sacred fragment of the sun. ”

The cultists at the scene immediately nodded their heads in response, and then the masked leader said, "In addition, we must pay attention not only to the extraordinary events that happened in the lower city eleven years ago, but also to the unusual events in the city-state of Pland in recent times.

"Although the Sun Fragment is still asleep at the moment, its awakening day is approaching, and its activity is increasing every day. Four years ago, our fellow Church members tried to awaken the fragment in advance, and although the attempt failed, and even the failure of the ritual led to a frenzied strangulation by the Deep Sea Church, the attempt at the time was not completely without effect - the stimulation of the awakening ritual deepened the connection between the solar fragment and the real world, which was enough to give it the power to interfere with reality in the short period of time before it fully awakened, which may help us find it.

"Recently, pay a lot of attention to the newspapers and rumors in the streets of the city-state, everything that seems unusual may point to the fragments of the sun, don't let go of any clues, understand?"

The cultists bowed their heads and respectfully accepted the order, and Duncan noticed another key point mentioned by the leader:

Four years ago!

Four years ago, the Deep Sea Church of the city-state of Pland destroyed the city's largest solar heretical stronghold, and it is said that it was a great event at the time, and it was the battle of the current city-state's inquisitor "Vanna" - and since then, the Suncultists in this city have been in ruins, and they continue to this day.

For a long time, Duncan only knew this part of the superficial information, and now it seems that the truth of this matter is actually because the Sun Cultists in the city at that time wanted to wake up the Sun Fragment sleeping somewhere in advance?!

Before he knew it, a series of hidden truths from the past were revealed in front of Duncan, and he quickly assembled the known fragments of information in his mind, while thinking about how to get more information from the mouths of these cultists, but at this moment, a strange smell suddenly entered his nostrils.

It smelled like burning sulfur and had a pungent sour smell like some kind of chemical agent.

In the next second, the surrounding ordinary cultists also smelled this pungent and obvious smell, some of them looked at each other, as if looking for the source of the smell, and the leader standing in the center of the assembly hall reacted instantly, and he suddenly took out a talisman that imitated the sun from his bosom - the talisman was exactly the same as the sun talisman that Duncan carried, and its surface was burning with illusory translucent flames!

The pungent smell came from the flames.

"Dirty impurities...... The flames have been deceived! The leader glanced at the burning sun amulet, and his voice suddenly became angry, "There's a heretic lurking among us!" ”

There was an uproar at the scene, and Duncan's first reaction was that he had been exposed, although he didn't know how he was exposed, but the sun talisman carried by the leader seemed to have finally recognized himself as a "heretic" who didn't believe in the sun at all.

Thinking of this, he sighed slightly, and was about to release the pigeon, but before he could make a move, he heard another sigh coming from the opposite sideβ€”

The sigh came from the girl in the black dress, a girl named Shirley, who shook her head regretfully: "I knew that Ah Dog was unreliable, and the disguise couldn't last for three hours at all." ”

Before the words fell, a pitch-black flame suddenly burst out on the girl's side!

The flame was born out of thin air, in the shape of fire, but it was as black as a shadow, it ignited on the girl's arm, and in a second it spread to nearly a third of her body, and the next moment, the right half of Shirley's body seemed to turn into a black firewood, and in the crackling sound, the flame flowed down, and the part of it in mid-air turned into a pitch-black chain, and the part that fell to the ground condensed into a monster with craggy bones and burning all over his body in the blink of an eye!

It was a pitch-black demon dog, a huge dog more than half a man tall, its body seemed to be made of countless twisted and stacked bones, the place that should have been flesh and blood was filled with burning black fire and wriggling shadows, its head was rugged and hideous, and the place that should have been eyes was empty, and there was only blood-red light mist inside, full of boundless hunger and malice!

A pitch-black chain stretched from the giant dog's neck to Shirley's arm, and was faintly integrated with the girl's body.

"Secluded Hound...... Summoner of the Annihilation Sect?! The leader in the center of the assembly hall was furious when he saw this, "What does this mean?!" Are you ghostly worshippers going to war with the followers of the sun?! ”