The girl in another metal cage trembled, and soon she uttered a weak and unbelieving voice: "Lucy... An?"
"Shh, be quiet." Lucian said, "It's best if others can hear it."
The girl nodded vigorously. There was only a faint moonlight in the basement, but Lucian could see the tear marks on her face and her long, smooth hair - this made Lucian very confused.
She seemed to be cared for.
In addition to them, there were several cages further away in the room. Lucian chatted with Elizabeth through the fence, trying to figure out why Elizabeth was trapped here.
"… They wanted to take me home, but they were not heading to Greenwood. On the way, I tried to escape from the carriage, but I lost my ring and was caught and brought back… After that, I was locked up here. There are several other people who were also tied up here, all of them are young people, boys and girls, or children…" Elizabeth said, "They would take me out to wash regularly, and when I opened the door, I would see the faces of those who were also tied up here."
Lucian glanced at the cages and said to Elizabeth, "What do they have in common? You have something in common, too."
"Something in common?" Elizabeth was stunned. "What is something in common?"
"Body type, social class, hair color, eye color..." Lucian patiently listed them one by one, "Any common points will do."
Elizabeth shook her head in fear and said, "I don't know."
She hadn't observed anything related to it.
"...Yes, listen to them, they are the sacrifices! The most suitable sacrifices..." Elizabeth suddenly became excited, "They want to use them to perform mass, to summon, to summon..."
"Monsters. They're trying to make monsters out of something..."
Lu Xian thought for a moment and asked, "What kind of thing is that?"
"have no idea… "
"It's just flesh and blood." A weak voice came from the other side. The little girl said, "It's just flesh and blood."
Lucian walked towards the direction of the sound, somewhat surprised at the calmness and young age of the little girl who made the sound.
The little girl looked less than ten years old, but her posture and expression in the cage were calmer than Elizabeth, who was nearly ten years older than her. She had light chestnut hair and eyes of the same color, a childish face, and a habitual and wandering temperament.
"You are so beautiful..." Lucian asked her, "What's your name?"
"Belinda."
"Belinda, do you know what that is?" Lucian asked softly.
He could feel the little girl staring at him for a while. After a long time, she said intermittently: "I don't know, they are a heart, or a flesh. They are little kids, they are not afraid to show off in front of you. They are... what..."
"What?"
"More than a decade ago, they thought that 'that experiment' had completely failed and was impossible, so they lay dormant for many years. Two years ago, they finally discovered that they had not failed, but had succeeded once..." The little girl tried to recall those words, "so they planned to find us and try to repeat that success..."
Lucian tried to say a few words to her, but unfortunately he couldn't say anything - the little girl's knowledge was really limited. Her only advantage was that those devil's fanatics despised her age and were not shy about discussing their conspiracies in front of her.
He turned to the little girl's own information. The little girl's father was the eldest son of a manor owner and a devout believer in the Illuminati. Because of this, she was fortunate to receive the best education when she was young. However, her father later fell in love with his father's new young wife (his stepmother), and after his father's death, he not only developed an incestuous relationship, but also lost all the family property. Her father listened to the instigation of his stepmother and wanted to offer his daughter, who was once regarded as a jewel in the palm of his hand, to a local master as a prostitute. The little girl started wandering because of a crime, but she didn't expect that the person who caught her here was actually her parents, who used to be very good friends with her and kindly invited her home for dinner when they saw her wandering...
Aunt Haley.
"Madam Hailey?" Lucian said, "I had never heard of this noble before when I was in the royal city."
"She is the wife of a local noble lord." A boy's voice came from not far away. He was a little older than the little girl, between ten and twelve years old, and had not yet grown up. "My father is a jeweler, and I have heard of this lady. She married the lord two years ago. After the war ended a year ago, her husband died without an heir. She sold her territory and settled in the royal city. She likes art very much and occasionally holds tea parties."
Lucian finally understood why he had never heard of this Lady Hayley. At this time a year ago, she had already died and only a body was left here.
There were seven other people in the room besides Lucian. Lucian, the little girl, the boy, Elizabeth, and the other four seemed to be in a coma and did not notice anyone. Lucian saw the boy closing his eyes and making a sun cross on his chest with trembling hands under the dim moonlight. His movements were smooth and standard, which surprised Lucian.
Generally speaking, businessmen do not have a strong belief in light, nor do they educate their children to understand such complex and standard prayer postures.
"My father is also a faithful believer of the Church of Light." The boy's voice still carried the childish pride of a boy of his age. "My family donates a lot of money to the Vatican every year, and we also report those businessmen who only care about money and don't have a devout belief in the Church of Light to the church for punishment. Father, it is because we are so devout that our business is so successful."
—It turns out that their family worships Guangming as the master of wealth. Lucian's mouth twitched slightly.
The moonlight gradually moved downwards. Lucian allowed himself to be caught here, and he also wanted to know what these people were doing. Now that he thought about the plot in the book, his curiosity was satisfied.
He roughly guessed what the flesh and blood were, and what the so-called "experiment" was.
After all, it is related to Vader.
The so-called flesh and blood is actually the heart left by the fallen. The heart was nailed to the ground until an archaeologist from the Cecil family found it. After the archaeologist was bewitched and pulled out the nail, the entire Cecil family was cursed.
The heart did not fall into the hands of the Cecil family, but wandered around. Wherever it went, countless bizarre and terrifying things happened - pregnant women gave birth to different fetuses after touching it, and dense flowers, men's organs bifurcated and eventually strangled themselves to death as if they had life, and snakes with their heads chopped off screamed like the mother of a hunter... Until finally, it was taken in by a powerful gray-robed wizard, and eventually fell into the hands of the Fallen Cross.
The Fallen Cross decided to use it to summon the Fallen and perform black sacrifices with human sacrifices. They tried to use sacrifices to make the Fallen come to the world again. Vader's father, Dalton Cecil, knew the existence of this organization. As a believer of the Fallen, he gave them some money and support, and also used them to deal with some difficult things. For example, after the birth of Vader, his illegitimate son with a beautiful woman, he threw the baby to the Fallen Cross to "dispose of it", but the baby was used by one of the crazy fanatics, the Gray Robe Mage, as a material for the sacrifice. He knew that the Cecil family awakened the heart for the first time, and had been looking for opportunities to use the blood of the Cecil family for sacrifice.
The sacrifice caused an explosion. The failed sacrifice caused the heart to shrink by half, the Gray Robe Mage to die, and the baby, who was stimulated by extreme pain to discover the heart for the first time and the curse of the Cecil family bloodline, almost gained all the energy and corrupted blood of the heart. Dalton Cecil discovered this afterwards, but he only regarded Wade's survival as an accident and ordered him to be thrown out again.
The abandoned child was found by Vivian, a maid who was kicked out of the manor for stealing. She thought that keeping the child was enough to blackmail the Duke of Houston and the female opera singer who had once been famous in the royal city and disappeared after giving birth to the child, so she took the child away to raise. Later, she did not abandon Vader after she could not find any blackmail opportunities, which was due to her instinctive fear of Vader.
However, she eventually discovered that the mistress was having an affair with her adopted son while washing clothes for another noble family. She obtained a large sum of money through blackmail, and planned to fake her death to avoid the mistress's revenge and Wade and run away with the money. Unfortunately, she did not escape the mistress's revenge in the end and died in the river.
This is Vader's rebirth. Now, the unrepentant Fallen Cross has found other children from Vader's childhood and used the remaining hearts for the final sacrifice. Oscar Huston, who was originally going to die in this sacrifice and be disemboweled, survived because of the butterfly effect of his transmigration, but somehow became the most fanatical believer of the Fallen, while being an accomplice to the tiger, he also avenged his arrogant father and brother who despised him because of his disability. And these people accidentally learned two years ago that Vader's fallen bloodline had awakened. They could not control Vader, but they envied his power and knew that the power of the Fallen could indeed be summoned and given. From then on, the Fallen Cross, which had been silent for a long time, began to become active again.
And today, the prisoners in this basement have achieved the results of their activities - they plan to use these seven people as sacrifices, with their hearts as guides, to summon the Fallen to come again.
As for these seven sacrifices… Although he had only talked with three of them, Lucian got the same message from their words—they all came from families that were devout to the light, but such beliefs were all malicious and distorted.
The little girl's father is a devout believer in Illuminati, but he sent his youngest daughter to be a prostitute; the boy's father is a believer in Illuminati, but he only sees it as a tool to make money and uses it as a means to report and suppress other businessmen; the Green family believes in Illuminati, but they exploit the blood and tears of the slaves in the plantation and donate them to the Church of Illuminati to maintain their lofty status among the nobles...
Seven people...
"Lust, greed, and arrogance." Lucian said lightly.
No one saw his mouth moving, but Lucian suddenly understood something.
Seven sacrifices, these are the seven deadly sins! On the surface, they believe in light, but in fact they have committed seven sins, the seven deadly sins.
They want to execute these seven sacrifices who devoutly believe in light, and use their power to summon the fallen!
Lucian called out the system in his mind and gave it his own thoughts. The system was already used to Lucian turning it off in silent mode, but this time it couldn't help but applaud Lucian's reasoning: "Number Five, you are really smart."
"Thank you, you have always been so smart." Lucian said, "Give me some help, help me monitor the movements of these prisoners, and call me if there is anything unusual."
"Okay!" the system replied, "But according to your reasoning, why did those people capture you and lock you up with these sacrifices?"
"Perhaps it's because he was once the Son of Light, but has now fallen." Lucian said, "If you want to summon light, how can you not find the most suitable person to congratulate Him on His return?"
system:!!
"Perhaps my appearance here is just what they want." Lucian said.
"...Aren't they afraid of angering Vader?" the system asked cautiously.
Lucian: "These fanatics are all crazy. You can't expect a group of crazy people to be rational."
…The system felt that Lucian was right.
Lucian shook the chain. His curiosity was satisfied, and now was the best time to think about how to escape from here. The system looked at his expression and suggested: "Dear host, aren't you going a little too far?"
"Um?"
"Have you ever thought that if you can't escape..."
Lucian glanced at it in confusion: "Isn't there still Wade?"
system:!!!
"You... You actually!! You really did!" the system screamed, "Number Five!!"
"What are you thinking?" Lucian asked, "Do you think Wade will let me die in the hands of others?"
System: "Although I know you don't mean that, I still feel like something is not right..."
Click.
Outside the room, someone whispered, "Open the door."