The pig corpse stopped next to Sean, and the long purple tongue lifted up again.
Sean didn't want to be licked and was already considering whether to attack the other with a vicious thrust.
At this time, Catherine turned around and roared angrily like a dealer protecting livestock. The resentment swept away as if it had substance, making the gatekeeper take a step back.
Only then did it stop.
Catherine continued to ring the soul-catching bell in her hand and led the three people forward.
It seems that evil spirits often use this method to transport prey, so the evil spirits or evil spirits wandering around do not pay much attention to them.
This gave Sean a chance to observe his surroundings a little.
He saw many gray-white spirits standing in the streets and alleys, some were sluggish, and some were crying with their faces in their hands.
He saw a burning apartment, and there seemed to be ghosts flickering inside. He didn't know whether it was laughter or crying coming from the apartment.
A huge collection of resentful spirits stayed at the corner of the street, like a mountain of flesh with crowded faces. Some faces were moaning helplessly, while others were moaning and begging for death.
Blood-red neon lights flashed, pieced together into weird, bloody, and horrifying patterns and words.
"The Sulfur Tavern... The Blood Pool and the Meat Pit..." Sean looked at the neon sign and muttered, "The resentful spirits here have sunk deeply, so they have a certain ability to think and feel... so they also have the need for entertainment. …”
He never knew that evil spirits could have the instinct to entertain themselves.
Suddenly, Henry, who was walking in front of Sean, staggered obviously and was about to fall.
If he fell in the middle of this undercurrent street, he would definitely receive too much attention.
Catherine turned around and muttered and cursed. Sean looked at the mask of the blood-stained maid and felt that the one wearing him was not Catherine at all, but the "Bloody Lisa" herself.
This kind of acting skills made Sean feel amazed and horrified at the same time.
After "Bloody Lisa" noticed something was wrong with one of her preys, she accelerated her walking speed and led the three of them into the alley of two abandoned buildings nearby.
When he reached the depths of the alley, Sean saw several skinny figures lying on the ground chewing bones. When they heard a group of people approaching, they turned their heads warily, their eyes emitting a scorched yellow light. These figures crawled up from deeper layers. The little ghouls fled like frightened cats.
After confirming that there was no sight around him, Henry finally fell to the ground. Catherine said: "He was excessively frightened and his mental strength dropped to a dangerous state."
Henry's face was pale, his eyes were vacant, he was trembling, and he was muttering something in his mouth. He was already showing signs of delirium.
Sean wasn't embarrassed by Henry. Entering the deep spiritual world is already very bearable. He was even licked by the gatekeeper. He didn't go crazy on the spot and managed to hold on until now before having a panic attack. He is already considered a tough guy.
Catherine squatted next to her and supported Henry to sit up, covering his forehead with one hand, a warm light glowing in her hand, and reciting chapters of the "Holy Book" in her mouth. Her voice was extremely low, as if she was worried that the people in Undercurrent Street would hear someone calling the Holy Father's name.
Moonlight also squatted aside, playing the piano gently, with a light shining between her fingers, playing a lullaby that could restore sanity.
Sean turned to face the alley, making sure nothing was coming.
About ten minutes later, Henry finally started to take a deep breath. He took out the box of smelling salts from his pocket and took a deep breath: "Fuck, I just had a dream..."
"Don't recall it," Catherine warned, "it will only affect your mental state.
“Rest for five minutes and then keep going.
"Go directly to the territory of the Sinker and the Slavemaster Finks."
——
After resting, Catherine continued to lead the three of them through Undercurrent Street.
After an excruciating trek, they arrived at a wasteland that seemed to be made of bones. Catherine stepped on the ground while there was no one around, and said in a low voice: "The peak in the depths of the world extends to this spiritual world—— It’s enough to prove the depth of Undercurrent Street…”
In the dark fog, huge shadows like large fish swim through, and their eyes are like the bull's-eye lanterns carried by night travelers. Whenever such an object floated nearby, Catherine would stop and gently ring the cowbell in her hand.
Then, not long after, they came to a huge building.
That red brick building was like the earliest factory building that appeared in northern New Zealand in the last century. It was huge, ugly, and had a strong sense of oppression and an evil feeling of lack of humanity.
After the ravages of time and the pollution of the spiritual world, this building appears even deeper and more terrifying.
In the pre-mission meeting, Catherine had already explained the destination of her trip - the site of the Sinker and Slavemaster Finks, the Ten Thousand Slaves Cave.
They walked into the building. It was no longer open and they would not be stared at by other evil spirits. Catherine took a lantern from the wall and lit it. The four of them took out their weapons and entered a state of readiness for battle.
While walking slowly in the corridor of the building, Sean recalled Catherine's introduction before the mission...
"...There are five known sinkers in Undercurrent Street.
"The big wine merchant Pinkman, the slave owner Finks, the gambler Jock, the owner of the evil circus Jesse, and...
"And Erx the Long Lost." At that time, when she said the last name, Catherine's eyes blinked.
"The last existence I mentioned is actually not recognized by the Questing community as a Sinker. I just followed the categorization habits of the Questers.
"Because its existence is too ancient, the occult academia believes that it is something even more evil than the Sinker of Undercurrent Street. It cannot be clearly identified as an evil god, but it is close to the category of an evil god...
“It should have experienced the Age of Glory and the Age of Gods’ Voyage, and maybe it already existed when humans were still painting on rock walls… The seed of Undercurrent Street that I mentioned before is it.
“However, it has been in a state of wandering and contemplation for as long as it has been recorded, and it has not shown any malice or aggressive tendencies toward life and spiritual beings – it seems to have been immersed in thinking.
“The reason for this mission was that multiple gang members had their organs removed on Thirteenth Avenue.
"As far as I know, among the five fallen men, the ones most likely to do such a thing are the evil spirits of the slave owner Finks - Finks is involved in the sale of souls and bodies. His His subordinates had collected human hearts for some kind of ritual. Although not all the victims of this missing organ incident had lost their hearts, the methods and purposes were very similar.
“Although the Quest Association currently does not have the ability to disperse the Undercurrent Street, the Sunken are still afraid of the Quest Association.
"Doing evil directly in New Testament City may lead to violent conflicts between the two parties and damage their own strength. Therefore, the cunning Sinkers will not do anything too outrageous in New Testament City.
"So the most likely scenario now is that one of the subordinates of the slave owner Finks, for the sake of profit, lured the gang members into the outer layer of Undercurrent Street and then stole their organs...
"So the destination of our trip is Finks' Ten Thousand Slaves' Cave. After finding the evil spirit that committed the crime, dispelling it and bringing back the corresponding evidence, the mission will be completed.
"The Sinkers are not sharp, so we can sneak in and kill the target. The cleaner and faster the assassination and evacuation are, the less dangerous it is!"
Sean's mind returned to the present, following Catherine through the Ten Thousand Slaves Cave.
Although the Sunken have the ability to think, their subordinates are all evil spirits who act on malicious instincts and are very difficult to manage, so their defenses are not so tight.
Catherine seemed to have some kind of sensory ability. When walking through the corridor, she would stop the team from time to time and wait quietly to avoid passing guards.
Deep in the maze-like factory building, Catherine reached out her hand again to stop the team, and the ectoplasm instantly extinguished the flames in the lantern.
Then, from the horizontal corridor ahead, a flesh-and-blood creature with jet-black leather straps all over its body walked out. The leather straps had grown into its flesh, and its huge body was covered in a bloody mess. Because it was taller than its head, it could only walk in the corridor with its head tilted.
If you are an ordinary person, you will definitely have trouble breathing when you see the things in front of you.
The four masked explorers abandoned their concentration at this moment and lurked in the darkness, as if they didn't exist.
The tall guard turned his head and looked around. He didn't seem to notice anything unusual in the darkness and continued to move forward.
"It's so dangerous..." Catherine half-knelt in the darkness, beckoning the three of them to gather, "This is almost the center of Wannu Cave...
"The current plan is this..."
