After a brief examination to make sure that Layton had fallen asleep and not died under some unknown curse, Angel was relieved, picked up the two used charms on the floor, and left the suite.

Before leaving, she noticed a small wooden box in the corner of the room, the lid of which was open, and it was already filled with a lot of strange copper ore.

This is the "fruit of your efforts" over the past week...... Angel smiled secretly, locked the door, and left the hotel incognito again.

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Early on Thursday morning, Angel, who was fully prepared and carrying all the charms and magical items, came to the entrance of yesterday's mine, and took the lead in entering the mine before the tourists who were mining during the day and mining in their dreams at night had not arrived.

Summing up yesterday's various clues, Angel can almost determine that the source of the abnormality in the mine and even in the town should be the location of the collapse accident half a year ago, and the location excavated by Leiden and others points to the deep pit that has been filled.

After seeing the map of the inside of the mine yesterday, she realized that the mine that had been dug into the underground from the other side of the hill outside the city had gradually returned to the vicinity of the town.

After turning around, she came to the location of yesterday's excavation, and in the vast cavern, a hole that had been dug into a depression of several meters was extremely conspicuous in Angel's dark vision.

Reaching for her "good luck" revolver and pulling the hammer ready to fire, she cautiously leaned in and looked at the cratered stone wall gnawed by the pickaxe, which was no different from the rest of the mine's passages except for some rubble that had not been removed.

No...... How many cracks seem to be in the depths?

Angel manipulated the invisible silk thread to probe into the hole, groping back and forth on the stone wall that had been excavated with a few lines, and quickly reached through the thickest crack until she reached the limit, and then she passed a pinch of black flame down the silk thread into the stone wall, and then ......

Flame Jump!

Unleashing another extraordinary ability of the "Hypocrisy" Ring, Angel instantly passed through the crack in the stone wall that couldn't even reach a finger and came to the other side.

She was glad that the new Faceling's magical item had a more powerful fire jump, and that she didn't need to use the Magic Pocket Watch herself, otherwise she would have faced an additional Achilles heel in ten minutes.

Retracting her reverie, she looked at the area behind the stone wall.

It was the "collapse area" marked out in the accident report in the archives of the Government Affairs Department, and the only access to the main trunk of the mine had been sealed, and it was almost rediscovered under the excavation of Leiden and others.

Behind this equally supported passage is an equally wide cavern, but in the center of the ground there is a cavity that occupies almost two-thirds of the area, and the stone walls on the edge of the cave are irregular, as if they had collapsed naturally rather than been excavated by hand.

Whether it was the man in the trench coat in the dream, or the one that attracted Leiden and others to keep digging, or even everything that caused the strangeness of the residents of Lingang Town, it should be under the cave......

Angel took out a magic mirror that had been smeared with his own blood to strengthen the spiritual connection, and placed it in the corner of the passage as a last resort to save his life, and then jumped down and slowly fell under the effect of "floating".

The cave was about twenty meters deep, about the same width as the mine above, the ground was rubble, it should have collapsed and no one cleaned it, there was a new passage on one side of the cave wall, sloping downward, the slope was very steep, and along the slope, she came to the bottom of the narrow cave in a gradually increasing rancid smell.

It seems to be closer to the small town of Lingang...... As soon as such a thought crossed her mind, she was stunned by what she saw.

In the cavern, the rudimentary wooden furniture had rotted, the uneven floor was covered with dried blood, and in the center was a mass more than a man high, dripping with yellow-green pus, looking decayed, bloated flesh, with a few slender white feathers stuck in it, with some yellow oil.

Runaway monsters!

Angel immediately raised her gun to aim, and several black flames also gushed out from her side, and the surrounding environment quickly cooled under the erosion of the ice under her feet, and even a hazy ice mist appeared.

"You're here."

There was a faint voice in the middle of the meat.

"You're, in Layton's dream last night, man?" Angel asked hesitantly, she heard the other person's voice, but couldn't believe what she was seeing.

"It's me, I'm sorry about what happened last night, it wasn't what I intended. I had already sensed it above, but unfortunately I still couldn't pull you into the dream, but fortunately, you found it. There was some apology in his voice, and his voice was lowered a little, "I'm the senior deacon of the church, Pierce Turner, oh, at least it was." I thought you were also a night watchman, but you seem to be one, witch. ”

Senior Deacons? One of only nine senior deacons in the church?

Angel did not remember all the names of the archbishops and senior deacons, but she was able to confirm that she had not heard of any senior deacons going missing or out of control during her more than two months in Tingen.

You know, they are at least the extraordinary ones of Sequence 5, and there is even no shortage of beings who have stepped into the high sequence and become saints, and the loss of any one of them will be news within the church, even if it is a traitor like Ince Zangwill, it will be known to everyone.

"I was indeed a Night Watcher, but not in the 'Sleepless' sequence, and the reason for my ability to resist nightmares is the blessing of the Sage."

She replied slowly, holding her right hand holding the revolver high, revealing the hidden emblem on her wrist.

I hope this piece of meat that looks like it has no facial features can be seen...... She sneered.

"I see, that's why you're not influenced by me and him."

It seems that Angel's worries are completely unnecessary, and the self-proclaimed former senior deacon, Pierce Turner, sighed with a hint of relief.

"Him?"

"He, he's also Pierce Turner, another part of me, the part that's gone crazy."

Pierce's voice continued to come from the "piece of meat", becoming a little urn-like, and even the pus-dripping epidermis trembled, making Angel's eyelids jump.

"I was Sequence 5 of the 'Corpse Collector' pathway, 'Gatekeeper', and I was preparing to be promoted to Sequence 4 a year ago according to the Templar's plan. Unfortunately, after Ince Zangwill's failed promotion attempt, the 'Undead'' potion license was no longer issued, and I switched to it under the Templar's arrangement...... Try another way. ”

"Do you mean jumping to the 'Sleepless' pathway?"

Guessing that Pierce was hesitant to take on some kind of oath, Angel offered to tell her what she knew about the interchange.

She had also made an oath in front of Ms. Arianna, but the vows within the church seemed to be obsessed with "not telling those who don't know," and if both sides knew something, there was no need to hide it from each other.

"Yes, you know a lot of high-level secret knowledge, so it will be more convenient for us to communicate," Pierce breathed a sigh of relief, "I spent half a year preparing for the ceremony of promoting the 'Night Watch' and the location of the ceremony, right on this island of Parra, in this hidden mine. ”

"Why be here, not in the kingdom under the authority of the Church?"

Angel asked, confused.

The Rorsted Islands and most of the Tempest Sea are governed by the Storm Church in cooperation with the local garrison, even after the Great Smog of Beckland, the Night Church has gained more rights and has not touched many islands in the sea, as the senior deacon of the Church, it is inconceivable to come to this isolated island to complete the ceremony of promotion to demigod.

"It's for the sake of the ritual. To promote the 'Night Watchman', you need to manipulate the dreams of a large number of people through the Nightmare ability, and connect them together, the more real the dreams, the more people, the greater the hope of success. This is not difficult for veteran 'spirit witches', they can do a lot of work with the help of the spirits they collect, but it is the biggest problem for me who needs to jump path, and I think you also know that the 'corpse collector' path does not have the ability to pull people into dreams. ”

"So you made the preparations with the help of charms and seals, which is why you chose a sparsely populated and mobile island?"

"You're smart," Pierce chuckled and continued, "After all the preparations, here I am, through the spell into the 'United Dream', according to the plan, the dream me and the real me will take the imaginary and real potions together, and advance to Sequence 4 under the anchor of the dream, but ......"

There was some confusion in his words, some anger.

“…… Everything got out of control, the dream was suddenly shattered, I hadn't yet detached from the dream, in reality I took the potion, and the promotion naturally failed directly. What's even more terrifying is that I didn't die immediately, but my body collapsed as it is now, the spirit body was torn apart, partly stuffed into my body, partly left in my dreams, and my consciousness became the current me, and another completely crazy me.

"You must want to ask the reason for the failure, I was just as puzzled at the time, but in retrospect, there seemed to be endless lightning and hurricanes on the south side of the island of Pará in the dream, and in reality, the mine cave also suddenly collapsed, and the top of the cave I chose collapsed, and many miners broke into the broken dream and suffered the impact, and I missed the only opportunity because of it.

"Later, I learned from the traveler's dreams that there was a violent storm in the Furious Sea that day, and after that, frequent storms hit the nearby islands almost every week, and heh, I just caught up with that day."

Pierce's tone became low, as if he remembered the day he was trying to get promoted.

"So, you drew me over so that I could inform the church and get them to think of a way to get you out of this state?"

Interrupting the other's musings, Angel asked.

"No, you should know that there may be various ways to prevent it before it gets out of control, but after it gets out of control, there is only one way to solve it."

Pierce's voice slowly came from the "piece of meat".

"I want you, kill me."

(End of chapter)