Gazing at the sheepfold with nothing but haystacks and grains of dung left, Ryan frowned and said, "The underground altar was repaired so quickly?" ”

He suspected that the three sheep had been pulled for sacrifice.

"Those cultists may have some special abilities." Valentine replied with a look of disgust.

Listening to the discussion between the two, Lumian suddenly remembered the sheep cry that he had vaguely heard last night.

Could it be the sound of one of the men when they were sacrificed? With such doubts, he told Ryan and Valentine his guess.

"Unlikely." Ryan shook his head, "The church is hundreds of meters away from your house, and the altar is underground. ”

What he meant was that even if the "hunter" had enhanced hearing, it would never be possible to pick up the sound originating from the underground of the church.

Lumian himself thought so, but there was no way to explain why he heard the sheep cry, and, at the same time, there was a noticeable burning sensation in his chest, and the black thorn symbol was half-inspired.

You can't fake it!

Burning sensation...... Lumi was relieved to remember something the mysterious lady had said:

Pray to yourself...... The principle of proximity··

Thinking of the ritual of praying for the power of the "dancer", the black thorn symbol on his chest also stood out, and he suddenly had a new guess:

He could hear the sound of the sheep at the time of the sacrifice, which was related to the occult!

To put it simply, when the parish priest and others held a ritual and prayed to the hidden being, because of the principle of proximity, it also pointed to the pollution in Lumian's body, and the black thorn symbol was half stimulated, so that Lumian could faintly hear a sheep's cry from such a distance.

Since he didn't respond, and he didn't know how to respond, after all, the contamination was sealed by the owner of the blue-black pattern, and the priest of the parish finally "contacted" the secret being in their ritual.

By the time the ceremony was over, the burning sensation in Lumian's chest had naturally subsided.

In this way, there was no invisible, strange force that eroded into Aurore's room last night, it was simply that the anomaly in my body was half-stimulated by the ritual of the parish priests...... Lumian probably figured out the cause and effect.

At this time, Ryan reminded his companion:

"It seems that our exploration of the underground of the church has caused the parish priests to have a strong sense of crisis, and they have managed to repair the altar and pray for strength in advance.

"From now on, we need to be doubly careful not to feel that the situation is becoming dangerous until Lent."

"If it weren't for the worry of restarting, they would have been solved a long time ago!" Valentine said hatefully.

Then, he added sullenly:

"Can you stop calling the priest of the evil god's servant? He doesn't deserve it! ”

Why did he become a parish priest when he was unworthy? Lumien didn't dare to say the words in his heart.

He wasn't scared this time, but mainly wanted to maintain his image in the eyes of Valentine, after all, he might have to convince the fanatical believer to do certain things, such as using suicide to verify the nature of the cycle.

Ryan nodded: "Let's hurry up and visit Lady Pualis, replenish food and water, and try not to go out if we can." ”

Lumian didn't say much and turned away from Shepherd Pierre. The back door of Berry's house, towards the hill where the castle is located.

Through the purple and red garden, the man came to the gate, which was only half open, and said to the male servant, who was wearing a red coat and white trousers, "We have something to see Madame Pualis. ”

"Wait a minute." The valet glanced at Ryan and Valentine, turned around hurriedly, and disappeared into the doorway.

Not long after, the "midwife" in a long gray dress walked out.

Compared with last time, her face is more and more blue, and her eyes are so cold that they are sick.

If it weren't for Lumian telling Ryan and Valentine in advance that the "midwife" wasn't "dead" yet, they would have been shocked by now.

It's just that the dead have become living corpses, they have seen a lot, the "Sun Priest" is dedicated to dealing with this kind of thing, there are not a hundred similar things that have been purified by Valente, there are dozens of them, but the human beings who have been split into pieces of flesh can still reproduce their original appearance, and they are closer to the living than the corpses, which is not something they can understand now.

The "midwife" opened her mouth and said in a tone that did not rise or fall at all: "Madame does not want to see you, let you go back." ”

"We have something very important." Lumian didn't shy away from it, and asked directly, "Isn't Madame Pualis worried about the underground one ruining her subsequent arrangements?" ”

The midwife kept her tone: "Madame said that it would not affect her. ”

Hearing this, Lumian suddenly felt cold all over his body.

This meant that it would be difficult for them to get the help of Madame Poalis, a powerful man, afterwards.

Lumian laughed, not seeing any frustration or decadence, and he looked at the midwife and said, "But we may go and explore that burial chamber." ”

His implication is that in the process of exploration, no matter which side has an accident, the cycle may be restarted early. The expression of the "midwife" did not change, and she was still so stiff and dull:

"You can try, and it will only disappoint you."

What do you mean? Lumian couldn't understand for a moment what Madame Poualis was trying to say.

She means that although we explore, she will provide some help at critical moments, but we should not find any valuable clues? The more Lumien thought about it, the more she felt that Madame Pualis should not have guessed what she meant, otherwise she would not have directly rejected the request to meet through the "midwife".

Without waiting for Lumian to think of other possibilities, Ryan asked thoughtfully:

"Lady Poalis is trying to tell us that the one or those bits in the tomb can easily control us and successfully stop us from investigating without touching the loop?"

"Yes." The midwife nodded slowly, turned around, and walked into the depths of the castle.

Lumian, Valentine, and Ryan glanced at each other, and they all left the place a little helplessly.

Their next destination was the old tavern, where they could buy a lot of ingredients and barrels of cheap wine.

Compared with perishable water, wine is easier to store, and as long as the degree is not high, it can be used to replenish water in the later stage.

Entering the old tavern, Lumian immediately looked around and saw no sign of the mysterious lady.

Slightly disappointed, he withdrew his gaze and walked all the way to the bar and told the owner Morris what he was going to buy. Bene.

Waiting for Ryan and Valentine to carry the barrel out, Lumian asked in a suppressed voice:

"Where's the other lady?"

Maurice, Bennet shook his head:

"I don't know, maybe in the room, maybe somewhere else in the village, maybe in Liège, anyway, she paid the rent until the 9th, and she tossed as much as she liked."

Number 9? Twelfth night? Lumian nodded thoughtfully.

April 9 was the so-called "twelfth night" that he and Aurore had calculated.

This also means that March 29 is indeed the first day of the cycle.

And if Ryan and the three outsiders didn't happen to enter the village of Kordu on the first day of a cycle, it means that as soon as an outsider intrudes into the area, the cycle will start immediately, starting on March 29th.

"Oops." Lumian patted his head and said to the tavern owner Maurice. Bene said, "My stomach is not very well, go to the bathroom of the lower league, you tell them to wait for me." ”

Morris. Bene had a "what bad thing do you kid want to do again": "Don't mess with me!" ”

The bad side of a bad reputation has reappeared...... Lumian laughed and said, "Don't worry, it's really just a loan to the league bathroom!" ”

He waved as he spoke, and ran to the entrance of the stairs.

He did want to borrow the washroom, but he borrowed the one upstairs.

Morris. Bennet glanced at his back and muttered, "Spring is here, this bastard boy is also in heat......"

His voice was just right for Lumian to hear.

Ascending to the second floor, Lumian came to the opposite side of the bathroom and stood in front of the mysterious lady's room.

Knock knock, he knocked on the door.

No one responded.

Seeing that there was no Do Not Disturb sign hanging on the handle, Lumian knocked on the door twice, louder and louder each time.

Unfortunately, the mysterious lady never appeared.

Lumian thought for a moment, pulled out a thin piece of wire, and pried it at the keyhole a few times.

The door creaked open, and it was empty, no one was there.

The quilt on the bed was neatly folded, as if no one had lived in it during this time.

Lumian exhaled silently, closed the door without trying to enter.

In the afternoon, under the pretext of teaching Lumian Hermis and urgently improving his strength, the siblings gathered in Aureor's bedroom.

Lumian suppressed his voice and told his sister about his experience exploring the ruins of the dream last night, and finally asked, "Do you have anything to add?" Hunting for flame monsters. ”

Even if he was prepared and possessed the abilities of "Fallen Mercury" and "Stealth", he still didn't have much confidence in hunting the Flame Monster.

That's a sequence of qualitative changes in the "Hunter" pathway!

Aurore laughed: "You've thought about everything, the only thing I can add is ......"

She raised her hands, clenched them into fists, and shook them slightly:

"Come on!"

"......" Lumian was defeated by his sister's joke at such a time.

But the tension in his heart has been soothed a lot.

Aurel then added: "All that remains is something uninspiring:

"Be careful, be careful, be careful."

She then sighed:

"It's a pity that the mysterious lady isn't here, otherwise I could have made some simple, secondary charms. Together with the 'Integrity Brooch', it will take you into your dreams. ”

"yes." Although Lumian was lost, he was not depressed and had no intention of giving up on his actions.

At nine fifty o'clock in the evening, Lumian left Aurore's bedroom and walked to the bathroom.

He intended to empty the burden of his lower abdomen before the night.

Under the crimson moonlight, the room was dim, only the area where the toilet was located was still clear.

Lumian leaned over and unbuckled his belt.

The shadow on the wall behind him suddenly wriggled and turned into a figure with an axe held aloft!