Chapter 129: Digging a Grave
The endless darkness, the cramped environment, and the muddy thoughts made Lumian extremely irritable even in his dreams, eager to tear open this cage and shatter everything he saw in front of him.
He gradually understood that this was a dream, and tried to open his eyes, trying to wake up, but he could not succeed, each time, he took a lot of effort, and felt that he had finally woken up, but in the blink of an eye, he fell into a deeper darkness, a deeper dream.
After some time, Lumien woke up naturally, and saw a slight light seeping through the window with the curtain drawn.
It's six o'clock in the morning.
Lumian raised his right hand and wiped his forehead, revealing a layer of cold sweat that was about to dry up.
"Is this a spiritual warning, or is it that I was reminded of the afterimage of the 'Samaritan Woman's Fountain' and the 'Blood Emperor' when I was thinking about the death breath of Khante Island yesterday, and I had previously considered the similarity between witnessing the mysterious death of the devil and the ghost of Montsouri, so I was connected to them and suffered a shallow level of pollution?" Unable to accurately decipher the full meaning of the dream, Lumien could only remind himself to be careful and remember his original purpose for coming to the island of Khanty:
Just investigate the legend of the devil, not solve that devil.
Not to mention whether he has the strength to deal with that devil or whether he needs to ask for help, just because the "Mother Earth God" church has been operating here for more than a hundred years and has not completely eradicated this goal, it shows that even if the big Arcana cards of the "Tarot Society" come together, they may not be able to completely solve this matter.
Lumian rolled out of bed, took out a gold-shelled pocket watch from the Breeze Ballroom, and glanced at it: six and a half.
Although it was still early, Lumien felt the urgency, the "Berry" was leaving the island of Hunter the morning after tomorrow, and he only had two days to investigate the legend of the devil, roughly figure out the truth, and lock down the corresponding suspects.
If he can do this to this extent, then his "conspirator" potion is likely to be digested.
The collection, screening and use of information is also an important part of the conspiracy!
And if Lumian is the Sequence 7 "Detective" of the "Reader" pathway, it takes only two days to successfully investigate a century-old unsolved case involving a high-level force, which is enough for him to leapfrog from initial digestion to complete digestion.
At nine o'clock in the morning, on the outskirts of Port Hunter, "Return to the cemetery".
Lumien walked through the tree-lined cemetery with a bouquet of small yellow flowers.
With Ludwig's message and the dream he had last night, he revised his previous plan and did not rush to the forest to find the remains of the missing, but came here and planned to dig a grave!
He wanted to investigate the question of what kind of death the victims died mysteriously from witnessing the devil in the depths of the forest, and whether they would have hanged themselves like those killed by the ghosts of Montsouri.
According to the information gathered, the last person to report the devil's haunt to the "Mother Earth Goddess" church is lying quietly in the corner of the "return to the cemetery".
His name is Antonio. Elias.
Not long after, Lumien, holding a bouquet of small yellow flowers, found the cemetery and saw that the stone tombstone had not only the name of the deceased, the date of birth and death, but also a short epitaph: "This poor man has been robbed of his life by the devil."
Lumian bent down, placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone, then straightened up and looked at the grave covered with stone slabs.
Inside his mind, Antonio. Elias's information flew through quickly: locals, non-outsiders, parents, wives and children, nine months ago when he went hunting in the forest and saw a wandering devil, who was very afraid of his imminent fate, in the churches and monasteries of the "Mother Earth" church
After five months, he planned to stay on the crew for three years, away from the island of Hunter, to avoid the dangers that lurked, and who knew that he was found dead at the bottom of the cabin when he went to sea with the ship for the second time.....
Luminian glanced left and right, picked up a dozen or twenty dead branches from under the nearby trees, and surrounded Antonio. Elias's graveyard was intervened in a circle, forming a small, rudimentary, ineffective wall.
Eventually, he placed a dead branch flat on two adjacent branches, allowing them to combine into a crumbling door that could not be passed through at all.
After doing this, Lumian stepped over the "wall" and made his way to the cemetery.
Then he bent down, stretched out his right hand, and touched the humble door of the dead branches.
At the same time, a black mark on his body was inspired.
In the blink of an eye, from the outside world, Lumian's figure disappeared, and there was no movement in Antonio's graveyard, except for a circle of dry branches.
In fact, Lumian pulled out the iron drill, shovel and other items he had just bought from the "traveler's bag", and was priing open the stone slabs and digging up the dirt.
"Imaginary Bottle"!
Lumian used the "wall" and "door" he built to complete the contractual ability of the "imaginary bottle".
In less than two minutes, with observation of the cemetery's structure and two precise blasts, Lumian emptied the coffin of the dirt and pried open the black-painted wooden planks.
A strong smell of decay burst out, and Lumian set them on fire.
After waiting for a while, he crouched down, put on his gloves, and looked through the bones of Bai Sensen, which had no flesh left.
The first one he picked up was Antonio. Elias's skull, just by a brief glance, found that there were cracks on the inside of the skull, while the outside was intact.
"The cause of death was a brain explosion?" Lumien imagined the damage that could have caused this phenomenon, and thought that whatever the ability, Antonio's brain, cerebellum, and brain stem should have exploded into a pulp by the time he died—it didn't make sense that the inside of the hard skull was cracked, and the soft brain was fine.
Lumian checked Antonio again. No other wounds were found on Elias's bones, and no other information was provided on the smudges left inside the coffin.
At this point, Lumian preliminarily judged that the cause of Antonio's death was an explosion in his head from the inside out, and the physical destructive power of this explosion was not strong, even the skull was not completely exploded, but it was enough to destroy the brain.
"I use 'fire' to precisely control the quantity and quality of the flames, and I should be able to achieve a similar effect, but how does the devil do it?" Lumian's knowledge of the "devil" path mainly comes from his sister's notes, the information provided by the Tarot, and Franca's narration, and he has only really dealt with the devil who has exceeded Sequence 6 once, and that is Napoli Disley.
He suddenly remembered how he felt when he was detonated with desires and emotions by Napoledisley, and he remembered the whispers that came through the gray mist when the other person was driven away and the resulting ups and downs of desire.
"For ordinary people, it is possible for the brain to blow up directly if it is first induced by the fluctuation of desire, and then it is directly detonated, as long as the intensity is increased...... For a demigod creature like the 'Devil', it shouldn't be difficult to do...... And it can use that kind of whispering to do it at a distance?" While completing his reasoning, Lumian basically affirmed that the island of Khante did indeed hide a devil, the devil of the "criminal" path, located in the "demon." “
Lust Apostle" and other sequences above the devil.
After determining this matter, Lumian believed that it would be fairly simple for him to find the devil.
Of course, the premise is to find out rather than solve it, and at the same time risk your life.
Taking off the gloves, he reached into the "traveler's bag" with his right hand and felt the hard texture of the "torture" boxing.
After the incident of "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" and "Great Mother", Lumian was already guessing that the "Mother Tree of Desire" was an evil god standing at the top of the three paths of "prisoner", "criminal" and "miser", so the "Indulgence Sect" of the "Rose School" and some members of the demon family would believe in him and follow him.
In this case, the "torture" fist made from the branches of the "Shadow Tree", which is closely related to the "Mother Tree of Desire", has no small possibility of attracting the attention of the devil within a certain range, just as its negative effect is to be under the gaze of some hidden beings, and to be affected and attacked by some dangerous creatures!
"Whew, there are no useless items, only extraordinary people who can't use them." Lumian laughed to himself and withdrew his right hand that had touched the "torture" gloves.
He gave up his plan to fish the devil out of the way.
This is because the devil is still active on the island, still killing people, and the "Mother Earth" church has not completely eliminated it!
After going through so many things, Lumian has a considerable degree of understanding of the strength of the Orthodox God Church, and understands that the "Mother Earth" Church is really determined to kill all the residents who are suspected of being demons and destroy this island, just like the "Storm Church" did to Bansey Harbor.
The Mother Earth Church did not do this, not because they didn't want to, but because there was a reason that prevented them from doing so.
This reminded Lumian of the valley deep in the forest that burned with sulfur flames, and felt that the devil could not be killed under normal circumstances, and could only be sealed and restricted.
Since the "Mother Earth" church can't do it, and Lumian doesn't think he can, then fishing out the devil loses its meaning, but puts him in a strong danger.
Lumian's current idea is to rely on his false personality and attraction to evil gods, go to the forest, and then take out the "torture" fist at the critical moment, to see if he can gather near the mysterious valley that burns with sulfur flames, and investigate the source of the devil's legend.
Deep in the forest of huge trees, Lumien walked along a path that had not been tapped by a human in years, neither fast nor slow.
From time to time, he took out the "torture" boxing gloves, instinctively chose the direction, and then put it away after ten or twenty seconds.
Nearly an hour passed, and the huge woods suddenly thinned.
A brown, terrifying bear spun out from behind a tree and walked towards Lumien with heavy steps.
"Stop, Outlander!"
The giant bear emitted a humming human voice.