Volume 2 Illuminati Chapter 153 "New Life"
Xu Shen's face changed slightly, and there was really something unusual under this church.
The copper lamps on both sides shone brightly, and after a few people walked up the steps, there was a dark prison in front of them.
Only a few faint copper lamps on the wall lit it, and the wick fluttered inside, not the electric light outside.
Xu Shen knows that the magnetic field of the electric lamp will show signs of instability under the erosion of the ruin force, and it can be disturbed by the ruin force at any time to make the electric light short-circuit extinguished.
On the contrary, this ancient oil lamp will not be infected by the ruins.
A rotten, fishy, pig-like smell of innocence permeated the air.
Xu Shen looked at the dark cells around him, and the hideous silhouettes of the figures inside were imprisoned in them.
The iron bars of this cell are made of ruin stones, which are specially used to imprison ruin beasts, and they will also be visible in the ruins realm.
Under this church...... So many ruins were imprisoned!
The more Xu Shen looked at it, the more frightened he became, after he became the leader of the Light Chasing Society, he also knew the floor of the imprisoned ruins in the headquarters building of the Light Chaser Society, as well as the number of imprisoned ruins, but compared to what he was looking at, it was obviously a small thing.
"It's coming, it's coming, hide it."
"Hee-hee, don't let them see it, ah-oh, they've seen it......"
"Woo woo, let me out, I'm going back to see my child, my child hasn't eaten in months......"
"My head hurts, it hurts, who's talking behind my head? Be...... Sister? ”
All sorts of murmuring, strange sounds came out.
They were hidden in the darkness, too deep to see, but their voices could be heard clearly.
"Do you know what's being held here?"
Seeing Xu Shen's expressionless and calm appearance, the woman behind couldn't help but say something, with a playful smile in her eyes.
She had some regrets about putting a bracelet on Xu Shen and imprisoning the ruin power, otherwise he didn't know what kind of interesting reaction he would have when he saw the scene in the cage around him.
"What do you want to do?" Xu Shen didn't answer, just asked rhetorically.
The sight in front of him made him realize that this Luna Cult was by no means an orthodox religion.
Or are these religions no different from other forces?
"You'll find out soon." The middle-aged team leader said indifferently.
The woman glanced at Xu Shen's face, and there was a look of regret in her eyes.
Soon, the crowd followed the aisle in the center of the cell to a place that resembled a torture chamber.
Seeing the torture instruments stained with black blood stains on the wall, Xu Shen's face was ugly: "Do you want to abuse lynching?" I will not resurrect your dead if you are wounded, and I can be loyal to you Luna God if you wish. ”
He only hoped that he could delay the time and hold out until the reinforcements that King Mu had said arrived.
Or you may have the opportunity to play your hole cards.
"Don't get me wrong."
The snow-white robed old man in front of him turned around with a compassionate face: "This is not torture, the punishment will only make the offender afraid, but it will not truly repent, this is a purification field, purifying the sins and stupidity in your heart." ”
"Is there a difference?" Xu Shen gritted his teeth.
"Absolutely."
The old man in the snow-white robe folded his hands together, his expression was pious, and he said: "You have committed a sin, and you should have been put to death directly according to the law, but my lord Moon God has mercy on the world, even if it is a criminal who has sunk into the abyss, he is still willing to give redemption. ”
Xu Shen looked at his kind eyes, and was shocked to find that there was no trace of malice in the other party's eyes.
However, that feeling made him feel even more chills.
This old man is already crazy!
"Are there ruins imprisoned here, and if I'm guarding them, I'll need to untie the bracelet." Xu Shen immediately said: "I am willing to cooperate." ”
"If you want."
The snow-white robed old man showed a look of relief, took Xu Shen to the chair next to him, and pressed his shoulders with both hands: "Sit down." ”
Xu Shen was pressed to sit on the chair.
The black metal chair was covered with blood, with sharp and raised metal thorns on the armrests of the chair, and sticky minced flesh and slippery broken internal organs in the corners of the chair.
Apparently, something extremely cruel had happened in this chair.
The moment he sat down, Xu Shen smelled a strong rancid smell emanating from the chair, completely enveloping him.
At this moment, Xu Shen seemed to have returned home again.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Shen realized that something was wrong, and the old man's kind eyes were like a demon's smile in his eyes.
"You are a body of sin and a ruin slayer, and your filthy body must be baptized and reborn before you are qualified to listen to the teachings of the moon god here and raise these sinful ruin beasts for my lord."
The snow-white robed old man smiled and said, "Otherwise, it will be our blasphemy for the holy voice of our lord to fall into the ears of the sinful body." ”
Xu Shen was a little angry, "How to baptize?" What exactly do you want to do? ”
"Since it is the body of sin, it is naturally deprived of sin...... the old man in the snow-white robe said softly, his palm lifted the chain on the chair, and wrapped Xu Shen's hands around the chair.
Xu Shen tried to struggle, but at this moment, the ruin force was imprisoned, and under the old man's dry fingers, it was easily held down.
Seeing the different expressions of the few people in front of him, Xu Shen's pupils widened angrily, but there was a sense of anger and powerlessness in his heart, he regretted following them into the inner city obediently, but the pain was that he had no other choice.
Flee, where can you flee?
Neither being able to change nor having any other choice is despair.
"I was framed." Xu Shen gritted his teeth and tried to persuade: "And I am the leader of the Light Chasing Society, and I am also working for the big people in the inner city, you give me some time, I will definitely be able to help you find the murderer!" ”
"It's stupid to be framed." The snow-white robe old man sighed softly, "This is the sin, child. ”
His palm gently caressed Xu Shen's head, bringing warmth.
Such as a kind old man who loves his grandson.
But Xu Shen had already seen through the madness hidden under his compassionate face, and hurriedly said: "But the real murderer is at large, are you just letting it go?" ”
"You don't need to worry about this, if there is a real murderer, we will investigate again." The middle-aged team leader sneered: "What's more, you've come here, do you think you can still go out without anything?" ”
Xu Shen's heart was cold.
Indeed, at this moment, it has nothing to do with him killing people.
Seeing the true face of this church, they obviously won't let him leave easily.
"Pure knife."
The snow-white robed old man said softly.
Someone immediately removed a small, bloodstained black scimitar from the wall and handed it to his palm.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Shen was furious.
"You are full of sins, and you can only be stripped of your sins and your skins, and if you survive, it means that you are blessed by our Lord, and you are worthy of salvation." The snow-white robed old man said softly.
Xu Shen's pupils constricted.
Peel?
Seeing the old man's eyes, Xu Shen got a confident answer, the other party was going to ...... him Skinned alive!
"I'm the leader of the Light Chaser Society, and I'm ...... I know the Mo family, I know the Jiang family! Seeing that the blade was getting closer and closer, Xu Shen could smell the strong smell on it, and he hurriedly reported the forces he knew, hoping to delay time.
"It is useless for you to know anyone, in front of my lord, they are all mortals."
The snow-white robed old man said with kindness on his face: "It is precisely because you are the leader of the Light Chasing Society that you have the opportunity to obtain the blessings of my lord, otherwise you will be directly executed, do you understand?" ”
As the words fell, so did the blade.
This knife was between Xu Shen's eyebrows, and Xu Shen immediately felt a cold blade, cutting along his brows, and a hot stinging pain came out.
Then the blade slashed down the scalp.
The severe pain made Xu Shen can't help but scream.
"I, I'm still the captain of the Ruin Secret Bureau!"
"It's useless, it's just the Undercity forces." The old man smiled, as if chatting with someone close to him, but the blade in his hand was extremely sharp, and the palm of his hand was stable, cutting all the way down the scalp.
It was the first time that Xu Shen was so close to death and felt such personal pain.
Blood flowed, staining his eyeballs red, and his hands were bound and unable to struggle.
"Recite the Lord's Bible and it will ease your pain." The old man's voice was full of compassion, and he said softly: "If you teach him to read, you will recite the seventh chapter, the one where my lord Moon God saves the lord of the ruins and brings light to the world." ”
The five people next to him nodded slightly, and chanted in unison:
"Hide thy face, O lord moon god, from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities; Create a pure heart for me, that within me there may be a spirit of uprightness. ”
"We must be like babes to enter the kingdom of God, for the kingdom of God belongs to children."
"Exalt my Lord, and My Lord loves him; earnestly seek our Lord, and our Lord will come. ”
"The real life is only seen in the loss of ...... self"
The voices of several people overlapped, like ancient chanting scriptures, in this dark torture chamber, surrounding Xu Shen.
The scripture is accompanied by screams that are out of place.
"The real life is only seen in the loss of ...... self"
In this recitation, the blade in the hand of the snow-white robe turned extremely skillfully, and it slowly cut off against the deep epidermis, and soon the head was completely peeled off, revealing the bloody scalp and face inside, which looked hideous and painful.
His expression was gentle, his hand was calm, and he began to cut his neck.
"Don't move, it's easy to cut the arteries here." He said softly.
The huge pain made Xu Shen scream, the words around him were sometimes clear and sometimes blurred, without the protection of the epidermis, the flesh and blood were exposed to the air, at this moment Xu Shen felt hundreds of millions of sharp needles piercing his face, and the hot sting made the whole face seem to burn, burning so much that he could hardly think.
In my mind, the voice of the chanting permeated vaguely.
The real life can only be seen in the loss of oneself......
Real Life ......
Xu Shen clenched his teeth, feeling the blade on his neck pass by, although the pain was severe, he didn't dare to struggle, and he tried his best to restrain it.
"You must recite and repent, so that you may be blessed by our Lord." The old man said softly.
Xu Shen gritted his teeth and said nothing.
The old man didn't speak, but the blade cut off, the speed of the peeling hand increased significantly, and the sharp pain of the tear made Xu Shen's back all soaked, and on his forehead and face, blood rolled down and fell like sweat beans.
Neck, shoulders, arms, chest.
The blade cuts through the lower epidermis and sticks to the underside of the epidermis to separate the fascia from the flesh.
Under the severe pain, Xu Shen fainted.
But soon, Xu Shen woke up again.
He barely opened his eyes, and in the blood-red blurred darkness, in addition to the old man in front of him, he saw a figure standing in the air behind the old man.
Maeve ......
Xu Shen opened his mouth slightly, he looked at Maeve's pure face, and wanted to call her name.
But when the words came to his lips, he held back.
If Maeve came and killed them all, what would she do to herself?
If she really wants to help her and help him escape from here, how far can she escape?
The whole real world...... Where is there a place?
What's more, once this boundary is broken, they can still ...... each other as they are now Is it simply companionship?
Looking at Xu Shen's blurred and painful gaze, Maeve was also staring at her quietly, the usual smile on her face was gone, just staring into Xu Shen's eyes quietly.
She seemed to be waiting, waiting for Xu Shen's sincere call.
But seeing Xu Shen's eyes gradually closing, Maeve couldn't help but show a hint of sighing and depression in her eyes, and whispered to herself: "After all, are you still reluctant to give up your own world?" ”
Xu Shen closed his eyes in pain.
His fists clenched, his teeth gritted, and he didn't say anything more.
The epidermis of his body was slowly cut off under the blade, and the old man looked at the young man who was trembling all over, but clenched his teeth, and a glimmer of light appeared in his eyes, a little surprised, such tenacity and perseverance had surpassed many people he had seen.
As the blade turned, half of Xu Shen's body skin was peeled off.
The exposed flesh and blood, Xu Shen didn't dare to lean on the back of the chair anymore, the uneven metal particles on the back of the chair, the rotten flesh and blood that remained on the particles, all made his skin feel stinging, inflamed and infected.
The eyes of the five moon-robed enforcers also showed a bit of solemnity, and the endurance of this young man in the bottom city was beyond their imagination.
As the skin and flesh peeled off, soon, the epidermis of Xu Shen's whole body was cut off.
Blood had flowed down the chair, and the whole chair seemed to be fished out of the blood, and the blood was raining down.
If it were an ordinary person, under such intense pain, he would have died a long time ago.
Even if you can endure this pain, under such a large amount of blood loss, it is very likely that you will have already died.
But Xu Shen is a ruin slayer, and he has ruin power protection in his body, and skinning is not fatal enough for him.
After all, Mo Qinghao's kind of head can be regenerated when it explodes, although Xu Shen is not a person with the ability to reconstruct the system, but after all, he has stepped into the second form and is already an extraordinary life.
As the skin bag was nearly intact peeled off, the old man in the snow-white robe threw the skin bag on the table next to him, and immediately looked at the bloody young man on the chair, he couldn't see the other party's face at the moment, and the flesh and blood all over his body were blurred.
But he could see that the boy was awake and had not fainted.
"Does it hurt?" The old man said softly: "My lord blesses, you have successfully washed away your sins, and I hope that you can take care of the ruins of these sins for my lord in the future, so that they can also receive divine grace." ”
Xu Shen's teeth and eyes were tightly closed, and he didn't say a word.
"Untie him and lock it on his feet." The snow-white robe old man said.
The middle-aged team leader nodded slightly, took out the key to unlock the ring in Xu Shen's hand, and with a click, the bracelet opened, he glanced at Xu Shen, and was not worried about Xu Shen's sneak attack at this moment.
He was already prepared, not to mention that Xu Shen had no weapons around him, and his combat uniform was peeled off with the skin.
He locked the forbidden ring on Xu Shen's feet.
In this process, Xu Shen felt that the ruin power was slowly recovering.
At the moment when the bracelet was unfastened, the ruin power in his body was slowly emerging, like kneaded cotton, gradually fluffy, allowing him to perceive, but extremely weak.
With his feet locked, this vague perception seemed to be weakened a little, but he could still barely perceive it.
Xu Shen immediately mobilized his power to block the bleeding.
But he found that the ruin force could only be mobilized above the chest, from the abdominal cavity to the waist and below, and the ruin force could not sink in, as if there was some kind of resistance.
This resistance comes from the rings on the feet.
This ring can force back the ruin power, but it doesn't seem to be as advanced as it is imagined, it is not a full-body blockade, and it is locked on the feet at the moment, and it can only block the ruin power of the lower body, no wonder it was locked on the wrist before, resulting in the upper and lower being blocked.
"Now, strip yourself of the sin in your body."
The snow-white robed old man said softly.
Xu Shen suddenly opened his eyes.
"Don't worry about the kid, it won't hurt you, just strip the ruins out of your body, these things are no longer suitable for you." The snow-white robed old man said with kindness on his face.
Xu Shen's eyes looked at him deeply, gritted his teeth, and did not resist.
At this moment, people are swordsmen and I am fish and meat, and in front of him, it is not just the old man, but the power behind him.
It was this power that made him willing to come with them.
As long as you are born in reality, you can't hide from it.
The palm of the snow-white robe old man suddenly lightly slapped Xu Shen's chest, and Xu Shen suddenly felt a feeling of his heart bursting, and his breathing was stagnant.
The next moment, pieces of ruin soldiers fell from his bloody body.
The previous brief attack made Xu Shen's ruin force break, and the ruin force of the whole body was blocked, which was more complete than the ring on his feet, so that the ruin soldiers in his body could not perceive the ruin force.
Gloves, black blood, masks, ...... As the ruins fell, the snow-white robed old man immediately grabbed his palm and caught them all.
When he got the mask, the snow-white robed old man sighed lightly, and his face changed slightly.
"The Jiang family's masks?"
Thinking of Xu Shen's previous words, the snow-white robe old man couldn't help but look at Xu Shen, he didn't expect that this young man in the bottom city really knew the Jiang family, and moreover, he was also the Jiang family's ghost moon general!
"Why is his surname Xu on the information?" The snow-white robed old man looked at the five moon-robed law enforcers beside him, his face gloomy.
The five people also saw the mask, and they were all shocked, but they didn't expect Xu Shen to be a member of the Jiang family.
Could it be the Jiang family's hidden chess in the bottom city?
Including Xu Shen's surname......
"Lord, Your Excellency, we don't know this." The middle-aged man who led the team hurriedly said, cold sweat oozing from his forehead.
The snow-white robed old man held the mask, his brows furrowed, and after a while, he sighed lightly and said: "The Jiang family was a little close to our pope in the early years, and also received divine grace, but unfortunately, the Jiang family has gradually deviated from my lord's will over the years and failed to live up to divine grace, no matter what, if I had known that you were a member of the Jiang family, and remembered the old feelings, I would have sent you back to the Jiang family." ”
"But it has come to this, and you have been cleansed from your sins, so stay here."
He shook his head, put the mask away, and turned to look at the five people around him: "You only arrested criminals from the bottom city, understand?" ”
The five of them turned pale and hurriedly bowed their heads: "Understood!" ”
The snow-white robed old man nodded slightly, this matter has nothing to do with these five people, he believes that they will not talk nonsense.
"You ......"
Anger surged in Xu Shen's eyes, he thought he saw hope, but he didn't expect them to plan to cover it up.
"When the wound is healed, get up on time tomorrow and listen to prayer." The snow-white robed old man said, and at the same time put away the ruin soldiers, and ordered people to take the skin bag next to him.
When the woman heard this, she immediately stepped forward and picked up the bloody skin that had been peeled off.
But as soon as her fingers touched, her pupils suddenly contracted rapidly, and it seemed that something was triggered in her mind, and she screamed "ah", her eyes rolled away, and blood and tears flowed from her eyes, and she fell straight down.
This sudden scene shocked several people who were about to leave, their faces changed, and they hurriedly made a defensive posture and looked at Xu Shen.
From the information of the Light Chasing Society, they knew that Xu Shen was the second form.
The same goes for them.
But Xu Shen's ability is not clear to the Light Chasing Society.
"What's going on?" The snow-white robe old man frowned, his expression was more calm, he glanced at Xu Shen, and then his pupils turned dark gray, and he activated his ruin eyes and looked at the place where the woman was.
He was even more suspicious of the attack of the deep ruins.
But under the investigation of the ruins, there was no trace of the ruins.
He frowned slightly, stepped forward to the woman's side, picked her up, and found that he had lost his breath and was not breathing.
Second Morphology...... How did he die so easily?
Although this woman is not a reconstructor ability, her vitality will never be so fragile.
Could it be a vicious infection?
The old man glanced at Xu Shen, at this moment, Xu Shen's ruin power was blocked, it was impossible for him to make a move.
The second form kills people under his own eyelids, and he believes that he can't do it.
He looked at the skin that Xu Shen had peeled off again, reached out and touched it, and found that it was nothing.
He had touched every inch of his skin before, and there had been no incident.
He watched the blood continue to seep out of the woman's ears and eyes, his eyes moved slightly, took a clean knife, cut the woman's head, and immediately saw a strange scene.
The woman's intracranial tissue turned into maggots.
It squirmed inside its skull, and there was a notched hole in it, like a ...... Who saved a finger!
The old man's pupils shrank, and such a strange picture made him feel incomprehensible.
Could it be that this woman is already dead?
"This ......"
The other four also saw the horrified sight, and saw the maggots wriggling in the woman's brain, which were extremely large, crawling and surging.
It's hard to imagine that with such a vision in my head, this woman could still talk like no one else.
"Maybe it's something I've never seen before."
The snow-white robed old man covered his mouth and nose slightly, covered his head, and said in a low voice: "It is her sin to desecrate this sacred place, take it out and send it to the Steam Association, let them see what the reason is." ”
The four of them looked at each other, and could only pick up the woman's body with a hard head.
"Nothing happened on your way to the undercity, did you?" The old man frowned and asked.
The four of them looked at each other, and suddenly someone thought that when the woman wanted to violate Xu Shen in the car, she suddenly screamed and covered her head, as if she was a little uncomfortable at that time.
The man was about to explain the situation.
Several people looked at Xu Shen, and the old man asked, "Did you give him a forbidden ring at that time?" ”
"Up." The young man scratched his head, with doubts in his eyes, didn't Xu Shen do this?
The snow-white robed old man groaned and said, "Take it out first, and let the Steam Association take a look." ”
Seeing this, several people could only agree, and their hearts suddenly became a little more jealous of the bottom city, they had long heard that it was dirty and messy, and there had been many plagues, but they didn't expect such a big event to happen after they only went there.
Taking the woman's body with them, several people left the place one after another.
Xu Shen saw their departing backs, saw the untied chains, and tried to break free, but in vain.
The woman's death was apparently Maeve's work.
As for how she did it, Xu Shen didn't know.
Pain and coldness hit.
At this moment, Xu Shen's thighs and buttocks were pressed against the seat, and the sticky blood almost stuck his body to the chair, and the stinging pain burned his reason as if it was about to burn out.
"Hee-hee, there's food again."
"The one I sent last time was eaten by you, and I haven't had time to enjoy it yet, but this time it's my turn."
"My child hasn't eaten yet, he hasn't eaten in months, it's my turn."
As the snow-white robed old man left, the voice in the dark cage became clear, and all kinds of strange tones said strange words.
Xu Shen sat on a bloody chair, surrounded only by darkness and ruins.
At this moment, he felt like he was back at the dinner table at home again.
Only this time, there was no dining table.
Moreover, he was also more miserable than at home.
"Mom" says it's dangerous outside...... It turned out to be true.
But...... I'm already out.
These dangers...... How can it be avoided? If there is no way to avoid it...... So what?
Shouldn't it...... Wipe out all these dangers?
Erase......
Erase them all......
Xu Shen's gaze became deeper and deeper in the darkness, and it seemed to completely merge with the darkness.
The strange laughter around him seemed to affect Xu Shen's emotions, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled.
Just erase it......
In the dark, it is impossible to perceive the passage of time, the change of day and night.
The weakness caused by excessive blood loss made Xu Shen's thoughts gradually dull, the flesh and blood on his back had dried up, and the bloody skin was like crumpled peanuts, but there was a layer of dry and hard scabs.
The scab was like flesh and blood, allowing Xu Shen to barely lean back on the chair.
He slowly leaned back to sleep.
Long.
Long.
In the dark, Xu Shen heard the sound of scripture chanting coming from above his head.
"My Lord is here, so I am ......"
“…… Hide your face from my sins......"
"The real life is only seen in the loss of ...... self"
Xu Shen slowly opened his eyes.
But what I saw was still the dark torture chamber around me, and the hideous figure looming inside the cage.
After a few hours, the scriptures disappeared, and not long after, Xu Shen heard footsteps and saw an old man in a snow-white robe coming from the darkness.
The old man glanced at Xu Shen on the chair, Xu Shen looked like flesh and blood all over his body at this moment, although the bleeding had stopped and the wound had dried up, he looked extremely hideous.
There was a look of satisfaction in his eyes, and he smiled: "Congratulations, you have completed your new life." ”
Xu Shen stared at him.
"Do not hate me, and when you feel the favor of my Lord, you will thank me." The old man smiled slightly, untied the chains on the chair for Xu Shen, and said, "From today onwards, you are going to start working." ”