As the footsteps approached, the others all showed uneasy expressions. A waiter in a scarlet cloak held a lamp, and the light swayed and finally stopped at a cage.
Lucian's cage.
"Take him out of here." A hoarse male voice sounded, "Someone wants to see him."
When the keys clattered, Elizabeth's face turned pale - she was obviously nervous. The boy closed his eyes, trembling again, and made the sign of the sun cross on his chest.
Lucian was also very nervous. He was racing against the man who unlocked the cage to quickly put his wrists back into the shackles.
When the lock was opened, a reassuring "click" sound came from the shackles. The people who took him away all wore silver masks and scarlet cloaks, making it difficult to see their faces. They took Lucian out of the cage. After Lucian left, the other sacrifices were pale and relieved, and some even felt lucky that they were not taken away.
Lucian was blindfolded until he entered a room. He was placed on a sofa and felt that there was another person in the room besides him.
The waiters left quietly. A cool breeze brushed Lucian's face, and the man reached out to touch Lucian's nose and took off the ribbon. Lucian spoke.
"Long time no see." He said with a smile, "Mr. Oscar Huston."
The fingers paused, and Lucian said: "Aren't you going to untie the ribbon on my eyes? Or..."
"Should I apologize for accidentally revealing this 'surprise'?"
The ribbon was untied. Lucian saw Oscar Houston's pale and handsome face. Unlike the cowardly one he saw in the lounge, his slightly crazy look was his true appearance. He stared at Lucian for a long time, and after a while he smiled and said, "Long time no see, former Saint Son."
Lucian blinked.
"To be honest, I didn't recognize your identity at first. So when I kidnapped you from the emperor and took off your mask... I was really shocked." Oscar Houston said, "Who could have imagined that the emperor's favorite succubus slave is actually the 'rebel son' of the Holy See of Light? He and you are even related by blood..."
As he spoke, he held up a strand of long white hair, his eyes were full of meaning as he said, "You even have such white hair... Does he treat you as his lover, or is he using you, his former enemy, to satisfy his lust?"
Lucian didn't answer him - the relationship between him and Wade was unclear, and they even had murderous intentions towards each other. Strictly speaking, the only relationship between them that could be confirmed was that of an owner and a pet, with "blood" as the bond.
Oscar thought Lucian was unwilling to answer because of shame, and he felt a little pleasure in humiliating him. He looked carefully at the Son of God in front of him. As the shame of the Houston family, he had no chance to go to the temple.
Lucian was much more beautiful than in the portrait, with a hint of erotic charm. There were even some bite marks on his neck and collarbone, and anyone could imagine the action scenes when they were decorated... Oscar's breathing was slightly rapid, and he began to understand why Wade didn't kill him.
—Lucian is indeed the best.
"You are a smart man, Lucian. When you were the Son of God, you must have had a lot of dealings with us..." Oscar calmed himself down and continued his confrontation with him.
"That's really not true." Lucian said.
Oscar was stunned for a moment, and suddenly he had some intimate thoughts: "We are not such petty people, dear Lucian. We should do our job well... and you have worked so hard as the Son of God for so many years, and hasn't the Fallen Cross prospered until now? And strictly speaking, you have solved a big problem for us."
"The Pope. You assassinated the Pope." Oscar twisted his hair with his fingers. "You had some kind of nocturnal relationship with him, and that's why he discovered your succubus bloodline. Speaking of the Cecil family, it's really ridiculous... Is this true?"
“Ah.” Lucian retorted as he expected, “No.”
Oscar began to enjoy this process. He originally called him here with the intention of severely humiliating the former Son of God and now the succubus Canary, but now he found it very interesting to be with him. He wanted to listen to Lucian's pale rebuttal with great interest, but he heard Lucian say: "It's not my fault that I didn't discover the existence of the Fallen Cross, but..."
"You have been too inactive in the past ten years. The Vatican has judged you to be too weak to even be worthy of being personally wiped out by me," said Lucian.
Oscar: …
"Since you've asked me this question, isn't it my turn to ask you a question now?" Lucian said, "Oscar, why did you join the Fallen Cross? If I remember correctly, weren't you also a victim of this organization?"
This didn't sound like a question because he said it softly. Lucian tilted his head, with doubt in his eyes. Oscar smiled and said, "You found out all this? Well, I'll tell you..."
He lifted up his trouser legs, revealing his naturally atrophied legs.
"Because of this natural leg, and because my father believed that I was not blessed by the God of Light since birth, I will always be a scum of the Houston family living in the shadow of life." Oscar said coldly, "In that kidnapping, I learned my own value. I was born on Friday, June 6, at midnight, and I was the most suitable main sacrifice for the Fallen Angel. Unfortunately, I was not healthy enough, and the sacrifice was interrupted by the people of the Church of Light. But from then on, I knew about such a fascinating organization in the world—"
Lucian remembered that Elizabeth’s birthday was also June 6, midnight, a Friday.
He finally understood why they had gone to so much trouble to capture Elizabeth.
"I contacted them with my knowledge of the formation, and eventually became a member of them. Not a sacrifice, but a member." Oscar laughed twistedly and excitedly, "We are determined to carry out the second sacrifice, using the remaining flesh and blood of the gods. In the process, I found that Miss Green is a good sacrifice - it's ridiculous that she mocks me and bullies my blood brothers all day long, but in front of her, she is as humble as a dog, and I go to great lengths to prepare gifts for her life. He doesn't know that I am very grateful to him for finding a suitable sacrifice for me that belongs to 'arrogance'."
"It's not easy to capture Miss Green. There are always too many people around her. So I created a chaos at the charity dinner and took revenge on my arrogant family. We originally wanted to rely on Mrs. Haley to lure her out, but surprisingly, you showed up - but fortunately, we achieved our goal in a thrilling and roundabout way. Do you see the big moon in the window?"
Lucian looked out the window. Behind the window, the moon in the sky was reduced to a curved string, and would be lost in darkness in a few days.
Moonless night.
“Are you planning to perform the sacrifice on a moonless night?” Lucian asked.
Oscar nodded.
"At that time, we will summon the greatest being ever, who was slandered and spurned by the world as the devil." Oscar finally revealed his mentally ill nature, showing an extremely excited look. After chattering some nonsense, he hugged himself with both hands and gritted his teeth and said, "And my arrogant father and brothers will also repent for their ignorance. They believe in the so-called God of Light? Laugh! Ignorant, really ignorant, they don't even know that the devil is the greatest master..."
"They are indeed ignorant." Lucian said.
"What?"
"They are indeed ignorant, but it's not that they don't know that the devil is the 'greatest master', it's because they actually spit on their own children for the sake of the illusory gods. They regard the unfortunate disability of their own children as a punishment from the gods. Oscar, your leg is not a punishment, it is a misfortune."
Oscar stared at Lucian in a daze. He had never expected that this sentence would come from Lucian, the former Son of God. In order to cover himself up, he said forcefully: "Weren't you the Son of the God of Light? What, an illusory god? Aren't you afraid of..."
"God has never answered my prayers, whether it was when I discovered my life experience or when the Pope tried to... me." Lucian looked at him without blinking, "But I wonder, if someone could appear next to you when you were a child, give you a hug, and tell you that God doesn't exist, would you..."
“Less lonely, but more smiling?” Lucian said softly, “If I had met you when I was brought to the Dalton family by my adoptive father as a child, I would definitely tell you that they were wrong.”
Oscar was stunned, and he realized that something deep in his heart was deeply touched.
After the conversation was finally over, Lucian was taken back to the cell by the scarlet-robed waiters. On the way, he said to the system in his mind, "Look, Oscar is so easy to fool."
system:…
"Children like this with an Oedipus complex are the easiest to deceive." Lucian said, "Do you believe it? He will come to me every day to ask about the time of the Queen of Heaven and the ceremony."
System: ...Okay.
"Are you planning to run away?" the system said.
"Weid will come find me." Lucian said, "and..."
"I'm relying on Oscar to prepare, right?" he said.
System: "Sometimes I think the name Oscar is more suitable for you."
…
What happened next was just as Lucian had expected.
After that impromptu conversation, Oscar visited him several times. It took only a few days for this vicious Fallen Angel believer to go from being anxious at first to being obedient in the end. It was not until he began to preach his belief in the Fallen Angel to Lucian that Lucian said to the system: "See, it's that simple. But he wants me to believe in my 'lover's' father, which is really heavy."
system:…
"Maybe Wade is a special case who is not easy to deceive." Lucian said.
Lucian also figured out where he was now—in an abandoned cathedral on a cliff, where ceremonies would be held on moonless nights. The other four prisoners were locked on the other side of the room, with red-robed guards guarding the door, and Lucian had no way to communicate with them.