Outside the guard's hut, on the path leading to the morgue, the pile of charcoal that barely retained a human shape still remained in place. Several church guards were preparing to transfer the wreckage into wooden boxes. After seeing the "gatekeeper" and the cemetery keeper appear, they temporarily stopped.
Gatekeeper Agatha pointed at the pile of charred remains and said, "What you saw yesterday should be him. Of course, what is left here now is just a body. The 'visitor' who once occupied this body has indeed left."
The old guard came to the wreckage, lowered his head and observed for a moment, frowning slightly: "He is one of the four cultists disguised as priests last night, if I am not mistaken," Agatha said lightly, "This body died due to the backlash of the deep demon symbiosis."
The old guard remained silent with a serious expression. He was thinking about something. After two minutes, he suddenly raised his head and said, "The body you brought in last night..."
Agatha nodded and pointed in another direction: "It's over here, but its state...is a little weirder."
Led by the gatekeeper, the old guard came to an open space on the edge of the morgue, where the processed "samples" and other key evidence ready to be sent back to the cathedral were stored.
The old guard looked in astonishment at what Agatha pointed to him.
It was a bunch of glass jars of all sizes.
"I mean... is this the body you sent yesterday? The 'restless man' who talked to me for a long time in the coffin last night?" The old man stared at the pile of bottles and jars for a long time, and finally couldn't help turning his head to look at Vanessa suspiciously, "After just one night, he was even able to knock on the wooden board in the coffin with great energy!"
He must have known that the "gatekeeper" would not deceive him. He had no way of connecting those things with the "restless person" who was mumbling in the coffin yesterday.
The atmosphere seems pretty good.
He paused and pointed to one of the largest jars.
As soon as Aga entered the room, he saw Morris correcting Nina's homework, while Nina was supervising Shirley, Agou and Alice spelling words at another table not far away.
"We are not that despicable." Vanessa said lightly.
"I feel like... something is watching our city. The days ahead may not be too peaceful."
"Two blocks away, in full view of everyone, this pile of debris suddenly fell at the intersection," Agatha said, "along with it, there appeared a bird-death demon that was clearly out of control. This demon lasted less than a few seconds in the real world before it collapsed and disappeared. Passersby at the scene called the sheriff."
Aga came to Morris and handed him a letter: "It's from your wife."
Aga came to the restaurant before evening.
"My opinion is that this heretic probably saw the 'visitor' you saw last night - the eyes of the Abyss Demon are more likely to see the 'truth', so her death bird went crazy and fled into the Abyss with her master in madness," Vanessa analyzed calmly, "Judging from the wreckage, this heretic was torn to pieces by other Abyss Demons before being backfired by the symbiotic contract. This is a typical characteristic of falling into the Abyss without protection."
"Ah? You went to Frost to investigate?" Morris was taken aback and couldn't help but exclaimed, "When did you go?"
Somewhere on the cement floor, there lay a pile of debris that only vaguely revealed human outlines. The debris had obvious signs of burning—just like the pile of charcoal at the door of the guard’s hut.
"..Brown Scott's fifth letter arrived, just three days after the first letter was sent," Li Shiying did not hide anything, but her tone was a little strange, "Her mental state in the letter was obviously not right. Mary was worried that the letter carried something unclean, so she burned the original, but relayed the content of the letter - Brown was very uneasy and dissuaded him, asking me not to get close to Frost."
"... In the name of the God of Death, what on earth did you deliver yesterday?"
The old guard blinked and suddenly his expression became serious: "You forged
To deceive the family of the deceased by stealing the body?"
"Remember that four heretics entered your cemetery yesterday?" Vanessa raised her head.
He handed the piece of paper directly to the old man, "You killed two, and one was turned into charcoal in your hut. Now, we have found the whereabouts of the last Annihilation Cultist."
The expression on the judge's face was somewhat strange.
The old guard thought for a moment and shook his head gently: "I'm not an expert in this area. Just tell me what you think."
... ..It seems that his friend has discovered some of the truth," Aga said thoughtfully, "Unfortunately, when I went to investigate Han Shuang's situation, it was not very smooth, and I was unable to find out about your friend's situation."
"What did the letter say?" Aga asked curiously, but then added, "Private matters don't need to be discussed."
The church guard whispered something quickly to Vanessa and then handed her a thick piece of paper.
Then she turned her gaze away and looked at the pile of creepy-looking glass jars in the sample storage area.
The "gatekeeper" said this fiercely and let out a light breath.
Morris nodded, took out the letter and looked at it slowly, and as expected, he frowned subconsciously.
"From Mary?" Morris stopped grading homework and looked at the letter the captain handed over with some surprise. He then took out the letter opener he carried with him and muttered as he opened the envelope, "She said in the letter that there is no need to rush to reply."
"Well, the dead turned into mud, and weird things always happen together," the old guard finally sighed, "Now that things have come to this, how should I explain everything to the family of the deceased? They will come to the cemetery to say goodbye to their loved ones, and then I will tell them that a few Oblivion Cultists sneaked in to make trouble yesterday, and there was also something like a warp shadow, so your family members somehow turned into a few jars of liquid?"
"Anyway, the stamp only costs a few French fries," Aga said casually with a smile, "Let's see what's written inside. Maybe it's urgent."
These things have no outline of any biological tissue, and are dark red mixed with black and gray, like mud at the bottom of the water.
Obviously, it was the backlash after the symbiotic relationship with the Deep Demon was severed.
The old guard frowned and stared at the strange substances in the glass jars. Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly heard a snapping sound not far away.
She looked into the old guard's eyes.
The old guard didn't speak for a while, but looked a little worried. At this moment, a church guard in white suddenly came from another path and came to Vanessa in a roundabout way.
"There used to be a few bones here, but now there's just this weird goo."
Morris was a little worried: "... Is Duncan okay?"
Although it is not known when it started, this restaurant seems to have unknowingly become a place for the crew to gather and have fun in their spare time.
"They found another body - a worker who fell to his death in this shaft at noon today. It's exactly the same body we brought here last night."
"I'm fine," Aga waved his hand and answered for Li Shi, "I just have some PTSD."
Duncan was sitting near the window of the restaurant, reading a church book attentively.
"It happened last night," Aga did not hide it. After all, we are all family members here. "She borrowed a body. It's a pity that we didn't find out much information. It wasn't that troublesome last time in Plender."
After a long time, he suddenly came back to his senses and subconsciously turned his head to look at the platform not far away - on this platform was the luxurious coffin that was sent to the cemetery last night.
"Yes, but when the guards found this pile of stuff, they could only collect it with shovels and put it in cans as much as possible. Only its remaining outline and location could prove that it was indeed the dead we sent to the cemetery last night." Vanessa shook her head. "As he saw, a pile of semi-solid... mud, barely
There are some traces of biological tissue left, and these few remaining traces are rapidly turning into something like mud over time."
Li Shi and Morris looked in the direction of the sound at the same time and saw the book in Duncan's hand fall to the ground.
"It's this man..." The old guard frowned and looked up at Vanessa, "He's dead? How did he die? Where?"
"Oh, you don't have to worry about that. Their families won't bother you anymore," Vanessa just shook her head expressionlessly. "They completed the farewell ceremony at the No. 5 cemetery next door. The miner who died in the well will be sent to the furnace as scheduled."
"What happened?" the old guard asked casually.
"We will investigate," Vanessa said. Her expression rarely changed, but at this moment, she looked more or less serious. "The only thing we can be sure of now is that the body sent to Cemetery No. 5 should be 'real'. It did not become agitated or collapse. The body we sent here yesterday... was tampered with by a supernatural power."
The old guard took the piece of paper and found that it was a photograph.
The old guard stared with a slightly stiff expression.
Vanessa glanced at the contents of the paper, her expression didn't change, she just nodded slightly: "Got it."
"That... …"