Qiugong Yue stood up from the chair suddenly, blinked in disbelief, and looked at the empty table in front of her and the playing cards on the table.
There was a room as a separation last night, but now, the three of them disappeared right in front of her.
No, maybe it wasn't the three people who disappeared, but something went wrong.
Is it a mental problem?
Qiu Gongyue suppressed the shock in her heart and looked up at the clock on the wall - three o'clock in the middle of the night.
It was twelve o'clock just now, and now it's three o'clock all of a sudden. The time flow rate on both sides may be different.
The lights in the room have dimmed, and the temperature has begun to drop.
Qiu Gongyue quickly calmed herself down and took matters into her own hands. It seemed that this situation was only for her.
She has never been a timid person. Since someone is targeting her, she should be prepared to be found out.
Qiu Gongyue walked to the closed door and reached out to open it. The outside was as dark as ever, shrouded in light mist. The oil painting on the wall that disappeared during the day returned, depicting the moon.
"Um?"
Qiu Gongyue raised her head and glanced at the moon oil painting on the wall of the corridor, and suddenly noticed something was wrong. She looked closer and found that there was a small black spot on the moon on the painting, which was not there last night.
Although you can't tell what the black spot is, it gives Qiu Gongyue the feeling of a person standing on the moon.
"Isn't it the same painting?"
She immediately walked to the next oil painting and found that a small black spot also appeared on this oil painting. She continued to look at it and found that each painting had changed.
Either the words have been collectively replaced, or the painting itself will change.
"Da da da……"
Before Qiu Gongyue could figure out why the oil painting changed, clear footsteps suddenly came from the distance.
She turned around and saw a woman with disheveled hair emerging from the darkness and staggering towards her.
Qiu Gongyue hid aside and had no intention of alarming the other party. She had killed a dozen such women last night and knew that these wandering Moon God believers could not communicate at all, and it was just a waste of time to entangle with them.
As long as they don't speak, they won't attack.
The woman staggered to Qiu Gongyue and suddenly stopped.
This kind of reaction that did not appear last night immediately made Qiu Gongyue wary.
The next moment, the woman suddenly raised her head, staring at Qiu Gongyue with her blood-red eyes under her messy hair. She suddenly swung the kitchen knife in her hand and slashed her head.
Qiu Gongyue turned away and was very surprised at the same time. She obviously didn't alert the other party, why would she attack her?
The woman stabbed the wall with her knife, and with sparks flying everywhere, she slashed the wall with a kitchen knife, creating a deep ravine that penetrated to the opposite side.
She turned around and stabbed Qiu Gongyue again, with a faint edge on the blade.
Qiu Gongyue grabbed the kitchen knife, and quickly struck forward with her other hand, hitting the woman's neck, and strong energy spurted out from her fist.
puff!
The woman's neck was instantly cut off by the sharp energy, and her head flew out like a football, falling to the ground and rolling around.
The headless body fell to the ground, and then struggled to get up. It was groping with both hands, as if trying to find its head. After walking more than ten steps in the direction of the head, it suddenly fell to the ground again, lost. Breath of life.
Qiu Gongyue looked at this scene and frowned.
This woman showed greater strength than last night. Both her strength and speed were twice as strong as last night. Her vitality also increased significantly. She could survive for a while even after her head was chopped off.
Moreover, if they didn't make a sound last night, these women wouldn't have any reaction, but now they will attack immediately if they just get closer.
Qiu Gongyue turned to look at the paintings on the wall, wondering if these changes were related to the black spots on the moon?
She entered a few rooms next door and found no one else. She came to this strange place alone.
After thinking about it, she decided to do two things first.
One thing is to look for Ellie to see if she came in with her, or if she has become like these Luna believers wandering around.
The second thing is to find the woman named Mia.
Among the Luna believers, there is a pope who also serves as the patriarch. However, according to Ellie, this patriarch never shows up. Most things are left to Mia, the director. Mia is the most powerful person in this castle. people.
She wanted to see if this leader had gone crazy like the others.
Ellie's room was not far away. Qiu Gongyue quickly found it and opened the locked door. There was no one in the room.
In this case, it is impossible to determine whether Ellie did not follow the reward or whether she wandered with the Moon God believers.
Qiu Gongyue searched around, but after finding no clues, she immediately turned and left, heading to Ms. Mia's office.
She didn't know where the other party lived, so she could only go to the office to take a look.
There were many wandering Moon God believers encountered along the way, and the number was obviously more than last night. Qiu Gongyue used the killer's lurking skills to successfully avoid these Moon God believers without getting entangled with them, and quickly arrived at Mi. Outside Asia's office.
Before she entered the office, she heard a slight sound, the office door was opened, and a familiar figure came out.
Qiu Miyazuki recognized Mia's secretary Nina at a glance, the woman who took them to have their blood tested after arriving at the castle on the first day.
"who?"
Nina seemed to feel someone staring at her from behind, and she suddenly turned her head and looked back, only to see a dark corridor with not even a single person in sight.
"Illusion?"
She shook her head and continued walking forward.
Above the corridor, Akimiya Yue was clinging to the ceiling like Spider-Man, staring at Nina's leaving figure.
She was extremely careful, but she didn't expect Nina to be so alert, which far exceeded the strength she showed during the day.
Moreover, judging from Nina's reaction, she is not like those wandering Moon God believers at all, she is still rational.
Qiu Gongyue didn't alert the other party, she stayed close to the ceiling wall and followed him quietly.
Nina walked through the maze-like castle and met many wandering Luna believers along the way. However, these madmen who launched a crazy attack on Qiu Gongyue without any explanation completely ignored Nina.
There were even those who were blocking the way, but she kicked them away without mercy, without any reaction.
Soon, Nina came to a door and knocked on the door.
The knocking on the door echoed far away in the dark and silent castle.
The wooden door was quickly opened, and two pointed hats came out.
"Lady Nina."
The two pointed hats bowed like Nina.
Nina looked down at her watch and said, "It's almost time, let's get started."
The two pointed hats nodded, then waved toward the door, and soon more pointed hats came out.
At the same time, they were carrying something like a stretcher on their shoulders, and a man was tied to it.
The man struggled desperately, but his hands and feet were tightly bound by bandages, and his mouth was covered with thick tape, and he could only let out a helpless whimper.
The pointed hats who came out of the gate actually formed a long team. It was roughly estimated that there were more than a hundred people, and more than twenty men were carried out by them.
Akimiya Yue was very surprised when she saw this scene. During the day, she asked Rika Indo to count and found that there were no more than ten men living in the castle. Where did these strong men in front of her come from?
With doubts, Qiu Gongyue followed quietly, wanting to find out.
This long team shuttled through the castle, and soon they walked out of the castle gate and onto the playground outside.
Qiu Gongyue did not follow her out, but hid in a window somewhere in the castle, looking out through the window glass. Only then did she realize that there was an extra one on the playground that looked like it was specially used for religious sacrifices. high tower.
More than a hundred pointed hats placed more than twenty men under the altar. Nina followed the steps, climbed to the altar step by step, and stood at the top.
Looking from the position of Qiugongyue, you can see the huge moon hanging behind the altar. Nina's entire figure seems to be leaning against the moon, bathing in the moonlight.
She turned around, looked down at the twenty men below, and then waved.
The men with pointed hats stepped forward with sharp daggers and disemboweled the twenty or so men. For a moment, the scene became extremely bloody.
More than two dozen men struggled desperately, and one of them broke free of the tape on his mouth and let out a very shrill scream, adding a bit of terror to this gloomy night.
Qiu Gongyue frowned slightly, this scene reminded her of some kind of cult sacrifice.
The Luna Cult, created by the Saint Lady race and believed in the moon, was once prominent in the United States, but has it now become a cult?
Soon, the hearts of more than twenty men were dug out, placed on plates, reverently picked up by pointed hats, and sent to the altar.
Nina turned and looked up at the moon, raising her hands in the air.
"Praise the moon, great Luna, Lord of the Silver Moon, God of Tides, Mother of All Things, please allow us, our devout descendants, to offer you the most delicious sacrifices..."
Following Nina's praise, more than a hundred pointed hats below also knelt down towards the moon, constantly making postures of prostrating themselves to the ground.
Qiu Gongyue also stared at the moon in the sky. If she wanted to find the truth about this place, she might be able to get a glimpse of it from the sacrifice in front of her.
Suddenly, she saw the bright moonlight in the sky actually gradually condensed together, forming a female figure that resembled a lake.
The figure slowly fell from the sky, with the huge bright moon hanging behind it, looking like a goddess walking down from the moon.
All the pointed hats looked at this figure who appeared out of thin air with fascination, and were so excited that they shed tears, as if a child who had been away from home for many years finally saw his mother.
Nina, who was standing on the high platform, had tears in her eyes at this moment.
"The great Lord of Silver Moon..."
She raised her hands and shouted, like a child wanting to return to its mother's arms.
This hazy figure also lowered his hand and lightly touched Nina's hand.
The next second, the figure in the lake was like a puff of smoke, flowing into Nina's body, making her tremble all over.
A few seconds later, Nina slowly turned around, her eyes emitting light as bright as the moonlight, and her whole person's temperament had become sacred and inviolable, like a high-altitude god.
She was about to use the delicious sacrifices offered by the believers when she suddenly noticed something. She suddenly turned her head and looked towards the castle from a distance, looking at Qiu Gongyue who was hiding.
An extremely terrifying spiritual power burst through the air in an instant and invaded Qiu Gongyue's brain along the line of sight.
Qiu Gongyue was shocked. The fluctuations of murderous intention seemed to be suppressed and the bullets automatically counterattacked. The two mental powers collided fiercely in her brain.
"ah!
"
Qiu Gongyue groaned in pain, feeling as if her brain was being pricked by needles, with intense stinging pains.
When she raised her head and looked out the window again, Nina's eyes were still locked here. The more than one hundred pointed hats had stood up from the ground and all turned their heads to look this way.
Their eyes turned blood red and shone red in the night, like a pack of evil wolves.
Qiu Gongyue was ready to fight. Nina, who was possessed by the mysterious power, put more pressure on her than Yue Yue.
But at this moment, she suddenly felt as if her wrist was grabbed by something.
She turned around in surprise and saw a petite girl appearing out of nowhere and grabbing her hand.
"Let's go!"
The girl dragged Qiu Gongyue's hand and quickly escaped into the castle.
Outside the castle, more than a hundred pointed hats were already chasing this way like crazy.
Qiu Gongyue did not resist and ran closely behind the girl who suddenly appeared.
Soon she was surprised to find that this girl was extremely familiar with the environment and could accurately avoid the wandering Moon God believers in advance.
"heresy!"
There was a terrifying roar from behind. Qiu Gongyue looked back and saw that those pointed hats outside had caught up.
However, they were not running on the road with two legs, but beating rapidly on the walls and ceiling with four legs like wild beasts. With their blood-red eyes and beast-like roars, they looked extremely scary.
"This way."
The girl pulled Qiu Gongyue and rushed into a narrow door. With a smooth pull, the boxes piled on both sides of the aisle fell down, blocking the road.
The girl moved Qiu Gongyue back and forth in the dark and complicated environment. After running wildly for half an hour, she finally got rid of the pursuers.
"Bang!"
After closing the door tightly, the girl leaned against the door, breathing heavily.
At this time, Qiu Gongyue had time to look at the girl in front of her. She was about seventeen years old, with a very cute baby face, and her temperament looked like that of a girl next door.
Qiu Gongyue did not relax her vigilance just because the other person helped her. Apart from Nina, this was the second person she met who seemed to still retain her sense.
Under Qiu Gongyue's gaze, the girl walked to the table nearby, poured herself a glass of water, drank it down, took a deep breath, turned to Qiu Gongyue and asked, "Do you want to drink?"
Qiu Gongyue shook her head: "Who are you?"
"My name is Kelly, a resident of the castle, and I can be considered an unlucky person."
The girl walked to sit on the bed next to her and asked, "What about you? What's your name?"
"new moon."
Qiu Gongyue stared at the girl whose legs were swinging gently beside the bed and asked, "What exactly is this place?"
"I don't know where this place is. I come here every night when I fall asleep, and everyone else becomes so strange."
Kelly sighed deeply, and then said to Qiu Gongyue: "It seems that your experience is the same as mine, but it's best not to run around and stay in your room every night. The night will pass soon. , it will be safe during the day.”
Qiu Gongyue walked to the chair opposite Kelly and sat down: "Do you know why those people outside are like this?"
"I don't know. After all, they can't communicate."
Kelly shook her short, silky hair and reminded Qiu Gongyue with a serious look on her face: "You'd better not go investigate. I've met many people who have entered here by mistake like us, and they all want to find out. Eventually they all disappeared.”
Qiu Gongyue probed: "But I come into this place every night when I sleep. If I don't find out the matter, how can I solve this situation?"
"Leave the castle."
Kelly shrugged and suggested: "As long as you leave the castle, you probably won't come in again. Someone who listened to me once has never come to this place again."
"Then why don't you leave?"
"I'm leaving, who will remind you?"
Kelly chuckled: "Don't worry, I have a special talent, and I am already very familiar with this place. Those people can't find me at all, but it's different for you. If nothing happens, wake up tomorrow and leave the castle as soon as possible." , don’t linger here.”
Qiu Gongyue finally met someone with whom she could communicate. How could she let him go? She immediately began to test him by making insinuations.
But no matter how she tried, Kelly always had no clue. Instead, she kept trying to persuade Qiu Gongyue to find an opportunity to leave the castle.
Time flows faster here than outside, and it’s four o’clock in the morning again in the blink of an eye.
Kelly interrupted Qiu Gongyue's temptation and said, "I'll take you back. Otherwise, you won't be able to leave when the black mist comes."
Qiu Gongyue asked doubtfully: "I have to go back to my room? Can't I stay here with you?"
"No, you have to go back where you came from. If you stay here with me, you will most likely end up trapped here and never go back."
While she was talking, Kelly had already opened the door and walked out sneakily. Qiu Gongyue had no choice but to follow her and walk out of the room together.
As expected, Kelly was very familiar with the environment here. She hid with Qiu Gongyue, easily avoiding the wandering Luna believers, and quickly sent Qiu Gongyue back to her own room.
"I have to go back quickly. Goodbye, no...it's better never to see you again. I hope you never come back to this place."
Kelly smiled and waved goodbye to Qiu Gongyue, then turned and left.
Qiu Gongyue said nothing, used the assassin's hidden skills, and followed quietly.
A few minutes later, standing in the empty corridor, Qiu Gongyue looked suspicious of life, and she actually lost track of him.
Kelly looks like an ordinary person, maybe with better motor skills, but Qiu Gongyue, a person with super powers, is actually thrown away by her.
It was almost impossible, but it just happened to her.
Qiu Gongyue still remembered how to get to Kelly's room. Just as she was about to go there, she found that black mist began to penetrate outside the corridor window, swallowing up the front in the blink of an eye.
Seeing this scene, Qiu Gongyue had no choice but to turn around and return to her room, close the door, and prepare to look for Kelly again tomorrow night.
To unravel the truth about this place, the key may lie in this mysterious girl.
Sitting in the cold room, Qiu Gongyue looked calm. This time she did not intend to close her eyes, or even blink. She just stared at the clock on the wall.
Time moved by minute by second, and soon it was five o'clock in the morning.
Without blinking, Qiu Gongyue felt that her thinking was very clear and undisturbed, but soon, she vaguely heard someone talking.
At this moment, Qiu Gongyue's consciousness cheered, and when she came back to her senses, she found that she was lying on the bed.
Yin Tenglixiang and the other three were standing not far away, seeming to be arguing about something.
"Wow... no, she's awake!"
The Snow Wolf God who was the first to notice spoke up to remind him.
The three of them all turned to look at Qiu Gongyue and hurriedly gathered around.
"Ayue, how do you feel?"
"Sister Yue, you scared us to death."
Qiu Gongyue declined the support of the three people, sat up from the bed, and asked, "Did I appear suddenly? Or have I always stayed in the room?"
Indo Rika said: "You stayed in the room the whole time."
Yin Fulin added: "You fell asleep suddenly last night, and no matter what we did, we couldn't wake you up."
Dinah held her chin with her hands and leaned to the side: "Sister Yue, did you go to that strange place again last night?"
"Yes, I'm in again."
Qiu Gongyue gently rubbed her forehead with her hands. She had a mental battle with the mysterious force that possessed Nina last night, which left her with tingling pain in her temples.
The three of them looked at each other, and they watched helplessly as Qiu Gongyue ran into that strange place again, and her body was still left behind.
"Is that place a dream?"
"Do dreams affect reality? The injuries Ah Yue caused to those people are still there."
"Maybe, because the spirit will definitely affect the body."
Yin Tenglixiang and Yin Fulin started discussing each other word by word.
Qiu Gongyue suddenly said: "Go and help me do two things."
After listening to her request, Yin Tenglixiang and Yin Fulin both went out. Dinah stayed with her, fearing that she would fall asleep accidentally again.
A few hours later, the two people who left came back and brought back the situation Qiu Gongyue wanted to know.
"I searched the whole castle and asked everyone here, but I couldn't find a girl named Kelly."
"Nina's condition is normal. I specifically exchanged a few words with her and she didn't show anything unusual. Besides, there are only eight men in the castle."
After listening to the situation brought back by Yin Tenglixiang and Yin Fulin, Qiu Gongyue fell into deep thought again.
Kelly does not exist in reality. Is she lying, or is the situation special?
"Ayue!"
Yin Tenglixiang stretched out her hand worriedly and waved it in front of her: "Are you okay?"
Qiu Gongyue shook her head and showed a calm smile: "Don't worry, there is someone hiding behind it just to make things mysterious."
