After dinner, several people said goodbye to each other. Mistongo returned to York Central Hospital, Cecia returned to the Lucky Stone Church of Destiny, and Suger was sent to the Selling house at the north end of Lilac Street by Angdu.
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Su Ge could tell a lot from Angdu's hesitant expression, but in the end he only heard Angdu let out a heavy sigh.
Su Ge watched Angdu's figure go away. He turned back and looked at the three-story building in front of him. He found that it was much smaller than he thought. The whole house was thin and tall. It seemed that the area was only half of the association, but
Fortunately, it has one more floor than the association, so it can barely make up a little space.
After knocking on the door, Su Ge waited anxiously.
To be honest, he was a little scared of Selin, but on the way back, he asked Angdu and learned that the Leinu Church would conduct strict inspections at night, and everyone who did not work directly in the church had to leave, otherwise they would be interrogated.
And he is only a nominal member of the association now. After tomorrow's purification ceremony, he can truly join. In desperation, he can only follow Angdu's suggestion and come to Selin to stay overnight.
While waiting anxiously and nervously, the door creaked open, revealing half of Selin's face from behind.
"Excuse me, Mr. Selling." Sugar said in a panic.
Selin said nothing, nodded to him, and opened the door to get out of the way.
Su Ge lowered his head and walked in. After looking around, he found that the furnishings in the room were very simple, with nothing superfluous. Although it was narrow, it did not appear crowded.
The most eye-catching thing is the fireplace located on the left hand side after entering the door. There is a rocking chair directly in front of the fireplace with a thick velvet blanket covering it. Just looking at it makes people feel warm.
Sugar looked at the fireplace and rocking chair, and his thoughts suddenly flew away.
He fantasizes that one day he can have such conditions.
One snowy winter, the house was warmed by the fireplace. He lay on the rocking chair facing the fireplace, surrounded by a thick cashmere blanket. The firelight made his face hot, and then he drank a cup of steaming barley tea.
…
Just when he was showing his longing expression, he suddenly heard Selin's voice.
"You can sleep here tonight."
Selin pointed to the fabric sofa beside him and said, "The bathroom is over there, don't walk around casually."
"Okay, okay." Su Ge nodded quickly and was about to say something when he suddenly saw Selin turning around and heading to the second floor.
It's better not to do unnecessary things... Su Ge stood in the middle of the room and scratched his head. He came to the sofa and found that there was a thin woolen blanket stacked neatly on the sofa. He felt a little complicated for a while.
After simple washing and tidying up, Su Ge lay on the sofa, clutching the thin wool blanket covering his body, his thoughts in confusion.
The extraordinary world that Mr. Angdu talked about turned out to be full of mysteries, elixirs, rituals, and formulas... Su Ge reviewed the knowledge he had learned during the day in his mind and consolidated them again so as not to forget them.
When he learned about the true God, he still couldn't believe it. As an atheist, he had read many books and novels, but the gods described in those books were just some concepts or spiritual sustenance.
And not a real god.
So, does the true God that Mr. Angdu mentioned really exist? He said that there is evidence to prove the existence of the true God. I will ask when I have the opportunity. Oh, by the way, Mr. Angdu said that he will arrange courses for me in the future.
I didn’t expect that I would still have to go to class in a different place, alas...
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Su Ge felt a little helpless when he thought of this, so he turned over, put his arms under his head, and continued thinking.
In fact, what he is most worried about now is the purification ceremony he will face tomorrow.
He didn't know if he was really infected by the devil after going through the devil's descent ceremony without realizing it. He was a little worried that he wouldn't be able to survive the purification ceremony.
In addition, he knew that what he was most worried about was the demonic flame hidden in his heart.
If, like Angdu said, the devil's aura is purified without causing harm to himself, he can still accept it. If his heart is injured, he doesn't know what he can do after an important organ like the heart is damaged.
Can't live.
"But there is no other way. We can't coexist with this flame for a long time..."
Su Ge raised his head, looked at the bright moon outside the window, and pulled the thin wool blanket to cover his whole body.
"It's already very good..."
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Outskirts of York.
The moonlight casts its light, but it still cannot penetrate the dense shadows of the trees. In the darkness and gloom, the place is like a messy maze, with no sound of movement in the dead silence.
There is a shallow gap at the root of an inconspicuous tree. Following this gap downward, the originally narrow space suddenly opens up.
In a cave with no end, there are canine-like rocks everywhere. Among the crumbling rugged rocks, there is a narrow path that leads to the deeper underground.
Darkness is the eternal theme here.
In the darkness, a lone footsteps sounded.
A dark figure completely blended into the surrounding darkness, like a lonely ghost, leaving no trace wherever it went, but leaving a creepy sound echoing behind.
After passing through what seemed like endless darkness, suddenly a faint light appeared in front of him, like a twinkling starlight on the dark night. After a moment of pause, the dark shadow quickened its pace.
When approaching the faint starlight, an eerie whisper slowly became clear from blur.
It was as if a witch with long nails was tearing at her scalp and screaming, and the dripping blood soaked her dark green nails.
In this maddening sound, the shadow stopped, and the starlight from somewhere flickered, illuminating his appearance.
A set of wide black robes completely covered his body, and no features could be seen. From his neck up, he wore a terrifying mask.
Two goat horns curled inward, and further down, there is a pair of dark and empty eye sockets. In the bottomless darkness, it seems that there is a pair of sinister eyes hidden, peeking secretly.
In front of him, there was a half-illusory, half-substantial human body, emitting a faint light, which was undergoing interactive movements of expansion and contraction at a slow and steady rhythm, as if breathing.
The mysterious figure came to the human body, looked at the face whose appearance was almost indistinguishable, and said:
"Themis?"
A low voice began to echo in the cave, like a creature that fell millions of years ago, issuing an ancient and vicissitudes of call.
"Themis?"
The mysterious figure said again.
After an unknown number of calls, the half-substantial, half-illusory human body suddenly opened its eyes. On the face that could no longer be seen as human, the two unfocused eyes moved back and forth, and finally focused on something not far away.
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of unknown visitors.
"You've been bitten, don't say anything yet."
The mysterious figure said, "If I guessed correctly, you should be Himes under Gog, right?"
Then he raised his arm covered by the robe and drew mysterious symbols in the air. A transparent wave stirred in the air and then penetrated into the human body in front of him.
The half-substantial, half-illusory human body suddenly trembled rapidly, as if it had remembered something, with almost only the whites of its eyes moving wildly, a crazy expression on its pale face, and drool splattering everywhere.
Under this wave of fluctuations, the half-substantial and half-illusory human body quickly returned to normal. Those weird illusions gradually disappeared, and the skin and muscles became tight again. Although they were still naked, they finally looked like a normal person.
People.
"Do you know me?" After the man named Ximis recovered, he stared at the mysterious man in front of him carefully, and suddenly grinned, as if he had seen something ridiculous, "You think wearing a mask with a devil's design is just
Does it represent the devil?"
Himes let out an unruly and sinister laugh, which didn't sound like a human being at all, but more like the sound made by a ghost who had been trapped in the castle for thousands of years.
The mysterious man did not speak, but his silence exerted a fatal pressure on the other party.
Ximis's face changed slightly, and immediately showed some signs of illusion. He asked in surprise: "Did you help me stabilize? Who are you? How do you know about Lord Gog?"
"It seems I was right," the mysterious man chuckled, "You can take a guess."
"I know that you are Ximis, and I also know that you followed the demon Gog, and I also know that it should have been twelve days ago, right? The demon incident twelve days ago was planned by you."
Every time the mysterious man spoke, the panic and fear on Simis's face deepened. At the same time, the illusory features appeared again in various parts of his body.
"Don't worry. When you see the mask on my face, you will know that I am on your side."
The mysterious man continued, "You accepted Goge's invitation and help a long time ago. While helping him as his subordinate, you were also developing your own power. Although it is not strictly a betrayal, it is
You found that Goge didn't punish you for this, so you became more and more bold, and finally..."
The mysterious man suddenly stopped at this point, faced Himis, and said: "Have you ever thought that Goge knows all the things you have done? After all, he is a demon, and a pure demon understands people's hearts.
How could he not know?"
"Then Master Gog..." Himis murmured, "Then why did he?"
"Don't you understand?" the mysterious man sighed, "because you were useful to him. The demonic ritual twelve days ago was only possible because of the help of you and your men, so it was able to be completed to that point."
"But we still failed. The ceremony was interrupted by the purifiers of the church. We...I became like this, and Lord Gog...by the way, where is Lord Gog now?" Himis said.
"This is one of the purposes of my trip."
Ximis narrowed his eyes slightly and suddenly realized: "Are you the ally that Master Gog said? You, no, you are also a pure devil?"
The mysterious man did not speak, but just looked at Himes. On that terrifying demon mask, a crazy smile appeared on the curved corners of his mouth, making him look creepy.