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The two of them took small steps and quickly returned to the lumberyard.

Compared to the previous noise and hustle and bustle, there is only a little idle movement of machines in the lumber yard now, and there is no more harsh noise of cutting wood.

The ground was full of workers lying on the ground, motionless, but everyone was staring with round eyes and expressionless faces, and they looked particularly infiltrating.

It seems that with the 'dismissal' of the supervisor, these workers have all fallen into a state of 'unmanageable'.

I don't know if there will be a chance to save them in the future......

Passing by the workers, Contin, probably feeling empty-handed and insecure, stooped down and picked up a logging axe, which was not enough, and grabbed two short-handled hand axes and a few logging blades and pinned them to his waist.

Belch......

Lloyd's impression of this man was that of a well-mannered scholar at first......

Maybe this is the system of redemption? Use an axe to redeem others?

Lloyd whispered in his heart again, and took Condin to the storage area, where he found the place where the two workers had disappeared.

"That's where they disappeared."

"Well, I've seen this place in the process of channeling, and it seems that there is a different space hidden in it?"

Condin said, raising his logging axe again and waving it at the air, as if to split it.

Then the axe swung into the air.

Since it is a different space, of course, it is not so easy to enter, and a specific method is required.

But in the director's memory, Lloyd didn't find a specific way to open the other space, but he saw him come here, stretched out his hand and waved it in the air a few times, and the next second, his eyes flickered and he entered a dark and gloomy space.

So the wave of your hand should be a certain action to match spiritual power, right?

"Do you know how to get in?"

Lloyd asked.

Kang Ding shook his head and said helplessly:

"I haven't seen much with the help of [psychic], and his memory is missing for some reason, maybe it's because he's been alienated into a monster, right?"

As he spoke, he turned his head to look at Lloyd again and asked:

"What about you? Is there any way to do it? ”

Of course, Lloyd could only shake his head.

"Think of a way with your three relics?"

"Holy things are not omnipotent......

Lloyd was a little speechless, but immediately thought about it, maybe the holy relic would not work, but what about the brooch at Mizkatok University?

The function of this thing seems to be to open some kind of spatial portal?

Thinking of this, Lloyd hurriedly took out the brooch, twisted it with two fingers, and stretched it out to the area where the two workers suddenly disappeared before.

The brooch did react, exuding a strange spirituality, and a little bit of aggression, like a toothpick poking Lloyd's finger one by one, showing a unique frequency.

Lloyd hurriedly wrote down this frequency, and then waited until the spirit on the brooch no longer moved, and then hurriedly mobilized his spiritual power, according to the frequency he had previously recorded, and tapped the brooch one by one.

A moment later, a crack in the air appeared in front of him, and a black wooden door was wrapped inside.

"Space Relic?"

Contin's eyes widened as he looked at the brooch in Lloyd's hand.

It seems that he doesn't understand why this young judge has so many holy relics on him.

Which young master is you? Isn't the family a little too rich and heavy?

Lloyd didn't have as complicated ideas as he had, nor did he explain the origin of the brooch, but he just used inspiration to test the back of the door a little, and did not feel the mental pollution and danger warning, so he said tentatively:

"There should be no danger behind the door, but I'm not sure where it leads......"

"Then I'll come first."

Condin acted as if he was in charge, picked up the logging axe in his hand, pushed open the wooden door first, and then walked straight inside.

His figure then disappeared into the darkness inside the door, and nothing could be seen from the outside.

But his voice could be heard:

"That's right! This is what I saw when I was channeling. ”

Lloyd also hurriedly drew his short sword, clenched his revolver, and followed in.

As his vision darkened, he came to the 'holy place' he had seen in the director's memory.

It was pitch black, only a few oil lamps on the wall provided some illumination, but the light was not a normal orange, but a ghostly blue, and the light emitted was also blue, which looked particularly gloomy and weird.

Lloyd couldn't help but remember the divination he had made before he set off, and what he saw at that time was this ghostly blue fire.

But he was trying to divinate the 'gate' position of Mizkatok University......

I can't imagine that two things came full circle and actually reached some kind of coincidence in front of my eyes?

Lloyd was pondering, and saw Conding next to him take out a flashlight with his free hand, turn it on, and shine it around.

At the same time, he was scolding and saying:

"Damn, this damn place, just breathing the air here makes me feel creepy......"

Then, he shone his flashlight at the wall next to him, and saw that strange and disorderly patterns were drawn on it, showing a very sticky and thick dark red, which looked like a madman scribbling on a messy line, which seemed to have no specific meaning, or that normal people could not interpret it.

But as long as you look at it a little more, you will feel the invasion of mental pollution, which will cause a slight tingling sensation in Contin's brain and eardrums.

"Damn, these patterns are weird, don't look at them!"

Kangding scolded again and quickly removed the flashlight.

But he found that Lloyd next to him, even without the lighting of a flashlight, was still watching intently, and one after another, savoring it, as if he was participating in an art exhibition to 'take in the full view' of these strange patterns.

"You...... What are you doing? ”

Kangding hurriedly asked, unconsciously clenching the handle of the axe in his hand.

"Huh? It's nothing. ”

Lloyd replied very casually, and asked rhetorically:

"Didn't you turn on your vision?"

This time, Kangding was directly dumbfounded.

"How dare you turn on your vision in a place like this? Are you dying? ”

"It's nothing, the holy relics on my body have the function of enhancing reason."

Lloyd explained casually, and just looked at all the patterns on the left and right, and then a series of panel prompts sounded in his ears:

【Ding~Madness +100】

【Ding~Knowledge Fragment +1】

【Ding~Madness +100】

【Ding~Knowledge Fragment +1】

In his eyes, these patterns were actually some kind of forbidden knowledge that had been diluted.

The mental pollution that can be caused is not strong, but it is a little difficult to understand, and Lloyd should not have been able to understand it.

After all, I'm a normal person, and of course I can't understand this kind of thing drawn by a madman.

But the "Book of Truth" in his brain suddenly came out and brushed a wave of existence, helping him to 'translate', so there were those fragments of knowledge.

Lloyd glanced at it roughly, he had some special knowledge, but he should be able to use it.

It's just that he doesn't have time to deal with this for the time being, so he stretched out his hand and pointed to the deepest part of this place.

"Jacquesson, they're there, let's get over there."

"Uh......"

Although Conding had a melancholy look, Lloyd had already taken the lead, and he had no choice but to follow.

He felt that this young layman was more confident than himself, an old fritter who had been in the industry for 20 years......

But in fact, this kind of move is very reckless and hasty, and no one knows whether there will be any ambushes and traps in the dens of such cultists, or what fierce monsters will be hidden......

At least in the previous [psychic], Conding did not see the real situation here, and could not make a judgment.

It's just that the life and death of the two companions are uncertain, and he can't care about it so much.

Fortunately, Lloyd was different from him, and he had confirmed through the director's memory that no one was playing any traps or tricks.

I don't dare to ......

This place is regarded as a 'holy place' by their cult, and it has a status of 'not being allowed to be desecrated', who dares to mess around?

As for the possible invasion of foreign enemies, the director obviously didn't think that far, because it was hidden enough that ordinary people couldn't even find the door.

Surely I didn't expect a freshman at Mizkatok University to find his own holy place in the 'search for the school gate'.

So Lloyd and Condin came to the depths of this place safely and unimpeded.

This space is not large, just the area of a regular warehouse, and the interior space is arranged more casually, and the whole is empty, except for the oil lamps and patterns on the walls on both sides, only a statue is erected in the depths.

The statue was completely hidden in the darkness, but it was not purely visually dark, but shrouded in some strange force.

Even if Lloyd opened the Spiritual Vision and the [Pupil of Wisdom], he couldn't see anything, only vaguely saw that there seemed to be a humanoid silhouette?

He only watched it for two more seconds, and his inspiration and strange instincts began to beat gongs and drums again, reminding him that it was time to eat if he looked any further.

Even the square ring in his hand automatically withdrew from the [Pupil of Wisdom] state, making Lloyd suddenly enter a colorblind state that could not distinguish colors.

He had no choice but to look down at the two investigators under the statue.

The two investigators who had been brought in earlier were being held in place by a strange 'hand and foot scaffold', and their limbs were tied to the 'hand scaffolding' with hemp rope, and they were forced to put their hands together and bow their heads in a prayer posture.

Although the two of them are still alive, they are in a miserable state of bleeding from their heads, and their heads are still bleeding.

The mental state is even worse - Lloyd looked through [Probe] and found that they had both fallen into [mild madness], and these four words were still flashing, indicating that they were constantly suffering from mental pollution and were moving towards the abyss of madness.

And their original [rationality] of more than 50 points and [cognition] of more than 30 points are constantly decreasing, and there are only about ten points left; And [Inspiration], which was originally only in its 20s and less than 30, is now hitting the peak of 80 points.

It looks like I've washed a little bit while playing a game, and then it's all on [Inspiration].

If this continues, the two of them will definitely be made into active vegetative people like the villagers outside, so Lloyd hurriedly stretched out his hand to rescue them.

But Condin stopped him at a critical moment.

"It's dangerous, let me come."

After all, he was a veteran investigator, and he didn't shrink behind Lloyd, a newcomer, in such a potentially dangerous moment.

With that, Condin picked up his logging axe and cut the hemp ropes from the two companions with delicate force and angle, freeing them from the shackles of the 'scaffolding'.

The two investigators immediately fell to the ground weakly, but in Lloyd's eyes, their mental state no longer flickered, and their [rationality] and [cognition] also stopped decreasing, and began to slowly rise up little by little.

On the other hand, [inspiration] has also begun to decline gradually.

It seems that it should have been saved.

Lloyd couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

But Kangding still looked nervous, and suddenly seemed to notice something, and raised his head inexplicably and looked at the statue hidden by the darkness.

He had been very cautious before, and had never looked up at the statue from beginning to end, let alone shook it with a flashlight.

It was this strange and abnormal sudden rise that made his whole person stunned in place, and his body began to tremble slightly involuntarily, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying.

After a second, wisps of black blood began to ooze from the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and the skin bulged with green tendons, surging like worms.

This is a symptom of an uncontrolled depravity......

Maybe for another two or three seconds, he will degenerate into a runaway......

At this critical moment, Lloyd did not hesitate to make a move, pushing Conding violently, causing his body to fall to the side.

But in the next second, he felt a sight from above his head, as if it had crossed a long distance from some very distant place and landed on him.

In the line of sight, I don't perceive human emotions, but I have many very complex and incomprehensible feelings.

This made Lloyd involuntarily raise his head and look at the statue.

At some point, the darkness around it had dissipated, revealing itself before Lloyd's eyes.

He was still roughly humanoid, with a normal human body and limbs, and was in a posture with his hands folded in front of his chest, as if he were holding something.

But his head is a crystalline hexahedral structure, each side is crystal clear and smooth, like a mirror, revealing human faces.

On a physical and optical level, it would have been impossible for Lloyd to see every side of the hexahedron at a glance.

But the six human faces were presented in front of him one by one at a strange angle and in a strange way, so that the six faces above were all clearly visible, and Lloyd felt extremely familiar.

It was all his own face reflected on it.

(End of chapter)