"Speaking of which...haven't we seen human corpses on the road?" An Xiangwen suddenly asked.
Thinking about it this way, according to the logic of the pursuit in this dream, they had never seen it.
"No." Qi Zhuyue looked away from the flower-filled statue with difficulty, "I have seen it before."
She was referring to the female corpse she ran into before she met Bai Su and An Xiangwen. At that time, she ran away and only picked up a hair rope from the corpse.
Thinking about it now...she seemed to have caught a glimpse of some lush growing turf under the other person's disheveled hair.
Mainly because her attention wasn't there at that moment, she thought it was just coming out of the cracks in the floor tiles.
Now it seems that the stone bricks all over the place are tightly connected, and there is no grass growing anywhere.
So the corpse just now was also... Qi Zhuyue turned around and planned to take another look, but she didn't expect that the scene outside the house had changed.
The white dog that had always made her want to keep a distance no longer squatted there, but stood on the dark floor tiles, its limbs elongated as if stretching.
Then, it burped.
For a moment, Qi Zhuyue didn't really want to find out where the human corpse outside had gone. It probably wasn't eaten... right?
The black-haired girl turned her questioning eyes to An Xiangwen. An Xiangwen was silent for a few seconds, turned his head suspiciously, and avoided Qi Zhuyue's sight.
An Xiangwen didn't know the answer either.
But if you didn’t see it, you just didn’t eat it, so there’s no need to delve into this!
The two humans tacitly ignored the question of where the body was. They found that the white dog was already a little interested in the furnishings in the house.
An Xiangwen said decisively: "I'm going out to play with the dog. Miss Qi, you can watch from here. I happen to be injured too, so I won't be in the way."
Qi Zhuyue thinks it’s okay.
Anyway, this room is...a bit messy.
It must have been turned over by someone, Qi Zhuyue sighed, maybe it was the attacker in front.
An Xiangwen's footsteps gradually moved away, and the sound of him communicating with Bai Quan came from the door. The human seemed to be discussing whether he could use his excellent dog-catching skills to exchange for Bai Quan's late arrival at dinner.
What a "dog" that is easy to deceive.
With this in mind, Qi Zhuyue reached out and picked up a book from the mud on the ground that was not completely stained black.
Because it was soaked in the ground, the footer was sticky and difficult to open.
Qi Zhuyue didn't want to touch it directly, so she found a table cloth from the side and wrapped it in her hand. She wrapped it in several layers thickly before starting to read.
This is indeed where the abbot lives.
On the side, you can see a bed with no clutter, and a mountain of scripture-like books, but there are no signs of reading, just for show.
So the previous human being swept away skipped that place, and Qi Zhuyue had the same idea.
Are there any clues... This is where the abbot who is going to preside over the ceremony lives, so there should be some...
The mood is a little anxious. The quieter the surroundings, the clearer human thoughts are.
Classics, spells, incantations... It can be seen that this abbot has a wide range of knowledge, not only things from his own temple, but also many messy books.
"This symbol..." Several arcs were drawn on the inner pages of the book Qi Zhuyue was opening, and the shape was extremely familiar.
Isn't this the cult their department has been looking for? Fuzhao Temple is actually connected to the other party - no, that's not necessarily the case.
Qi Zhuyue glanced around. There was also a fish-headed man nearby. It was probably just the abbot who liked to collect.
If time conditions didn't allow it, she really wanted to sit down and read through the books one by one.
I really want to seal this place down after I get out...but why do I feel like I can't do it?
Qi Zhuyue thought for a while, but continued to search. After finding An Xiangwen Bai Quan, she finally made a discovery.
"Mr. An!" Qi Zhuyue shouted.
An Xiangwen outside immediately took action. He rushed in with the white dog in his arms and threw the creature in his hand towards the statue. The white dog happily bit the head of the statue.
As soon as its teeth closed, half of the statue's head was gone.
The two humans took this opportunity to take the book they cared about out of the abbot's house.
The humans stood back under the light, and the chirping sounds in the room had nothing to do with them.
An Xiangwen breathed a sigh of relief and rubbed his hands in distress: "Miss Qi, if you don't come out, I won't be able to stop that guy."
The hands of the curly-haired young man are very sore. Some of them are stroking the dog, and some are trying to stop it. The white dog is really strong!
An Xiangwen heard some ding-dong-dong sounds coming from inside the house, and turned to ask Qi Zhuyue: "What did you find?"
"Here!" Qi Zhuyue's voice was filled with excitement, "This spell can-"
Halfway through her words, she quickly lowered her voice.
I’m not sure if Bai Quan and Bai Su are related, but I’d better not pay too much attention to them.
Qi Zhuyue knelt down and waved to An Xiangwen.
The curly-haired young man squatted down obediently, and the two of them got together like thieves.
Qi Zhuyue pointed to the opened paper and clicked on a line of words on it: "This spell can remove the mark!"
An Xiangwen looked over and after a short reading, he understood the meaning of that line of text.
It is said to be a spell, but it is actually a slightly long incantation. The difficulty is that it is difficult to read out at once, and there are also words that are difficult to recognize and want people to check the pronunciation.
Also, this mantra can only be recited to others.
In other words, he and Qi Zhuyue have to help each other.
Help... An Xiangwen lowered his eyes.
Qi Zhuyue was still studying how to pronounce two awkward words, and complained that it was really inconvenient not to have a mobile phone.
An Xiangwen's thoughts drifted away and he glanced at the other books Qi Zhuyue brought out from the corner of his eye.
After a while, the curly-haired young man touched his chin and asked, "Does Miss Qi have any insights into the identity of an outsider after getting rid of the sacrifice?"
"I seem to have read the description of the ritual before. If there are outsiders who are not sacrifices in the dream, the ritual will not start."
Regarding this question, Qi Zhuyue paused for a while before answering: "Leave the dreamland, or pretend to be a believer."
She raised her head and said, "I don't know how to leave the dream, but since the abbot of the temple can come in...it means that it is possible."
"As for pretending to be believers..." Qi Zhuyue frowned, "As I said before, we want outsiders. As long as we become believers, we won't be considered outsiders, right?"
Originally, she wanted to add a question about devout believers, but after thinking about it, she realized that they would not be able to reach the height of piety in a short time, so she was overthinking it.
"Then - how to pretend to be a believer?" An Xiangwen asked seriously.
Qi Zhuyue didn't answer. She was thinking about whether she could use a certain spell in the book at hand... Although she had never used it or learned it, what if she used it?
"Well." An Xiangwen suddenly spoke, "Would you like to try hypnosis?"
The black-haired girl looked back in shock and looked An Xiangwen up and down: "You know how to hypnotize?"
"Yes... I can indeed do it." The curly-haired young man smiled with his eyes, "I'm not talented, and I have learned some messy things. How about it, Miss Qi, do you want to try it?"
"Anyway - it can't be worse than becoming a sacrifice, right?"
(End of chapter)
