On the way down slowly.
The only sounds in Bai Tao's ears were his own breathing and the burning of candles.
The unusually quiet feeling around him and the seemingly endless underground passage made Bai Tao feel that the atmosphere was becoming increasingly tense.
In this unusually quiet space, Bai Tao felt as if he was being pulled by some kind of force. Perhaps it was an illusion caused by the depressing space. He felt as if he had entered an endless passage.
It was as if he was being led by something. It was the same feeling as when he was refining his body with the power of the abyss under the body refining tower.
There was a vague evil will that was bewitching and inducing him. All the sounds seemed to be coming from all directions. He felt like he was being pulled by this force, as if he would be taken away at any time.
The intensity of this kind of induction is not high, and it may be fatal to people with unstable minds, but it is nothing to the long-tempered Bai Tao, and it can also make Bai Tao more certain that this basement is inevitable. What secret is hidden.
He clenched the spiritual sword and spiritually modified pistol in his hands, always prepared to face possible attacks that would come from nowhere.
Now, he is confident that he can react calmly in various situations.
Raven 12138 on the shoulder is also in this place where spiritual perception is inexplicably suppressed. He must be alert to pay attention to everything around him.
Not long.
The narrow downward stairs reached the end, and the surrounding view suddenly broadened.
This is a big basement.
There weren't many lights inside, making it difficult to see clearly, but for Bai Tao's trained and enhanced eye sensitivity, the weak light here was enough for him to have a rough look at everything around him.
The overall decoration style here is very dark and strange.
The entire basement is full of patterns that make people look uncomfortable: splattered blood, torn skin, exposed muscles, and twitching tentacles. I felt uncomfortable all over afterward.
A creepy feeling arose spontaneously.
But after all, Bai Tao is an outstanding student of Chenxi Academy and a reserve member of Yongzhou in the future. There are special targeted training courses for the ability to tolerate these things, and I have already tempered myself.
Bai Tao simply ignored the weird decorations around him and looked towards the middle of the basement, where there was a round table.
Sitting on the round table were the two men Bai Tao had seen here before.
As Bai Tao expected, they were not surprised by his appearance. Instead, they had a smile on their faces that they didn't know how to describe.
They stared at Bai Tao, as if they had been waiting here for a long time.
One of the men slowly put down the strange staff in his hand.
Faced with such a strange situation, Bai Tao swallowed his saliva and tightened his grip on the sword and pistol.
"We are all His people. He will show us the way and lead us into the eternal kingdom."
Among them, the bald and bearded man who Bai Tao had been following looked at Bai Tao with a face full of enthusiasm.
"Him?"
"who is it?"
Bai Tao did not relax his vigilance, but he also did not take action rashly.
Before the meeting, the two of them had the intention of preaching to him. Bai Tao decided to listen first, whether it was to delay for a while or to get information.
“Everything in the world was created by Him, and all matter in the world was created by Him.”
"He is one and all! He is you and I!"
The tone of the bald and bearded man became even more enthusiastic.
Obviously, Bai Tao's words happened to hit the realm where he wanted to talk, benefit, and preach crazily.
He started talking excitedly.
Bai Tao frowned when he heard this, and his frown became tighter as he listened.
one? Complete?
Create everything?
Is this plagiarizing the setting of a certain creator? Or is it that these religious guys will esteem the so-called gods they believe in to such a high level?
Or could it be said that these people originally had Christian beliefs in the past, but now, after being bewitched, induced, and distorted by the will of the abyss, they integrated their brand-new belief in the will of the abyss into the Lord?
Anyway, no matter how you put it, the overall decoration style here definitely doesn't look like you are worshiping any decent gods.
Coupled with the feeling that he felt when he was here, which was very similar to the energy reaction under the Body Refining Tower, Bai Tao could roughly confirm that he really met Yong Zhou and mankind's mortal enemy, the Abyss, here.
"Welcome to join us."
The bald and bearded man said, opening his arms and showing an expression to Bai Tao as if we were already friends.
Bai Tao was stunned for a moment, his mind running wildly, and in an instant he understood the meaning of the man's words, as well as some of the doubts he had just now.
Obviously, the two fanatical believers in front of them were convinced that he would become their companions, so they took the initiative to open the door of the secret passage without any precautions and invited him, an uninvited guest, to break in. .
Because they are confident that Bai Tao, the intruder, will become one of them on the way down.
And if he thinks about it this way, then the certain call and bewitchment he felt while going down the stairs was not an illusion, but the erosion and induction from the power of the abyss, trying to make him become a believer in the abyss!
Perhaps, the power of induction comes from the man holding the staff.
only……
That power was so insignificant to Bai Tao that he could only barely feel that it was a bit like an abyss. After Bai Tao usually finished exercising in the Body Refining Tower, the remnants of the abyss power exported from his body by those humanoid puppets were many times greater than the power here.
And the intensity of this induction is not high.
It may be fatal to those with a weak mind, but it is nothing to the long-tempered Bai Tao.
In Chenxi Academy, Dean Chen Sheng has always placed the highest priority on the character, character, and will of the members. When he comes to give lectures every week, he will routinely lead everyone to sharpen their xinxing.
The function of Xuehai in Chenxi Cave allows students to be pulled into the fantasy world to exercise on their way to and from get out of class every day.
Therefore, when the bald and bearded man opened his arms and looked as if he wanted to hug his partner, Bai Tao remained silent and did not move.
The atmosphere fell into silence for a moment, and the scene became awkward for a while.
Bai Tao showed an awkward yet polite smile. Theoretically, if he went over and gave him a hug, he should be able to break into the organization.
There is obviously no way to identify each other among the members of their organization, otherwise they would not mistakenly regard him as one of them.
But the problem is, Bai Tao is a little worried.
I'm worried that the guy in front of me is just pretending to be like this, and is preparing to use his weird ability to hit him hard the moment he gets close.
To be cautious, Bai Tao remained unmoved.
The two Abyss believers also stayed there for a moment, with expressions on their faces frozen, as if they didn't understand why Bai Tao didn't come over to hug him.
For a moment, the two of them suddenly opened their eyes wide.
The bald man with beard and beard puffed his nose and stared angrily, while the other man holding the staff calmly and slowly stretched his hand under the table.
"So, you were using special magic to try to brainwash me when I was walking down the stairs?"
"If that's the case, then who were you brainwashed by in the first place?"
Bai Tao continued to ask curiously, breaking the temporary peaceful atmosphere.
But the two people who had already reacted obviously would not answer his doubts.
The expressions on their faces were stunned at first in disbelief, and then twisted to the extreme with anger.
"heresy!"
The bald and bearded man roared angrily.
The next moment, the strong man with a bald head and beard stepped forward, running wildly and trying to attack Bai Tao with a heavy punch.
With the build of this strong man with a bald head and beard, his strength is naturally far beyond that of ordinary people.
It's just that his opponent is Bai Tao, an outstanding student who has been trained in Chenxi Academy for a long time and one of Yong Zhou's reserve members.
Even if he hasn't eaten mulberries to officially activate his spirituality, his physical body has been polished by various extraordinary means and is basically close to the quasi-extraordinary level.
Bai Tao just turned slightly to avoid the punch, then held the long sword in his hand and used the hilt to hammer the bald man on the back of the head. The precise position and the right force made the strong man instantly stunned. He fell to the ground unconscious.
Just in case, Raven 12138 also used a spiritual power spell on the bald and bearded man lying on the ground to keep his coma.
"It's great to be young, just fall asleep."
As Bai Tao spoke, he fired the pistol with almost no hesitation in his other hand, targeting another man on the side who made some small moves.
Having trained to the extreme, he used the Mozambique shooting method without hesitation, aiming at the man with two shots in the torso and one in the head.
Two shots for the body and one for the head, even the gods shook their heads when they came.
The man who had just taken out the portable rocket launcher from under the table was directly dealt with by Bai Tao at this moment. The staff and the portable rocket launcher fell to the ground without a chance to react.
Then, Bai Tao first asked Raven 12138 to keep the unconscious person on the ground from waking up.
Then he cautiously stepped forward and put aside the portable rocket launcher on his body.
Then he came to the man who was shot, aimed at his head and heart, and fired one last shot each without hesitation.
The body of the man who had been shot three times did not appear to be in any special condition after Bai Tao shot him two more times.
He stared at the staff on the ground carefully and did not pick it up without authorization.
But no matter how he looked at it, he always felt that it was an ordinary staff toy, with even small English letters on it.
Out of caution, Bai Tao temporarily decided not to touch it without being sure whether it was a real toy or a real staff.
After standing up, Bai Tao looked around and couldn't help but frown.
Is that all these two guys have? It seems that there is no power beyond ordinary people, and no ability to resurrect corpses.
This made Bai Tao feel a little silent.
Before coming out for the social practice assessment, Vice Dean Zhang Zihang did explain the detailed mission situation to them, and indeed gave a general description of the situation of these abyss believers: Basically, they are not too powerful, but special circumstances cannot be ruled out.
However, he didn't expect that these two people were really just ordinary people.
Apart from being able to pull out a rocket launcher, there doesn't seem to be anything special about it, and I don't know if the staff is real or fake. Just a week after he joined Chenxi Academy, he was already able to easily handle ten batches of such goods.
But for him now, let alone that.
However, he did not ponder for too long. He quickly came to his senses and then carefully searched the entire basement according to the search techniques taught in Chenxi Academy.
The entire small basement is almost unobstructed. Bai Tao had already seen almost everything when he first came in.
Here, he didn't find anything of note. Those weird decorations are all normal items that can be bought in reality. Many products have the words MADE IN CHINA on them. There are no special items with spiritual reactions.
As for the stairs he came from, Bai Tao probably went back and walked them again, and he didn't feel as vaguely confused as before.
Everything seems to have returned to normal.
However, Bai Tao naturally would not draw a conclusion directly. The specific and more detailed reconnaissance situation would have to wait for the arrival of the support he called before.
Conduct a thorough appraisal of everything in this room, including the staff.
Bai Tao's eyes gradually became serious as he looked at the survivor he had specially left behind, who was kept unconscious by Raven 12138's continuous spells.
Bai Tao sat at the round table and pondered while waiting for the arrival of the support he had called for earlier.
The believers in the Abyss are indeed what Vice Dean Zhang Zihang said. They are just a group of people with unstable minds who suddenly started to believe in the Abyss.
The Abyss doesn't use much power, so these Abyss believers don't have much power except being crazy enough and listening to the Abyss.
We can only accumulate enough power to cause trouble by waiting for a long time and under the guidance of the abyss.
The two Abyss believers that Bai Tao discovered now had only become believers not long ago, and the strange changes in their personalities only appeared a week ago, so naturally they were not strong.
This may seem like nothing to worry about.
However, the most difficult thing for Abyss believers is precisely because Abyss does not use much power, so it can avoid Yongzhi's perception on a large scale.
At present, there is a high probability that there are Abyss believers all over the world, lurking in the depths of the entire real human society.
Even the two Abyss believers that Bai Tao met were determined to be Abyss believers because they were suspected of being able to cast some kind of spiritual spell.
The number should not be small and the concealment is better, making the problem of dealing with the abyss believers a long-term problem.
At this moment, Bai Tao realized the importance of this social practice assessment.
All mankind must continue to carry out the plan to eliminate abyss believers and include cults and other behaviors in long-term key plans.
To ensure that these traitors will not cause trouble during the long incubation process.
"It seems like there is no crisis, but in fact there is already a big problem."
"But fortunately, humans still have eternal daylight."
Bai Tao murmured, his eyes shining.
Yong Zhou had already considered this aspect, which made Bai Taogang feel relieved again.
With such an ancient and mysterious salvation organization, everything seems to be settled.
The defense is over. There are still many things to do next, but they are all messy things. At least I can find time to maintain basic updates every day.
Thank you all for your understanding.
(End of chapter)
