"'When the seventh day comes'... 'the seventh day'."
After Jiang Fang repeated it twice in a low voice, he ruffled his loose silver hair and shook his head lightly.
Nan Zhou also shrugged.
… This is just a point of concern, and it’s not yet known how much value it has.
It is too reluctant to seek a breakthrough from this vague time point, and it is very easy to turn into a stubborn horn.
Nan Zhou took Jiang Fang out of the study and went with him to Guan Junliang's resting room.
After seeing that someone took over, Nanji Xing slipped away with peace of mind and went out to look for food.
Ban Hang told Guan Junliang, who woke up, about Su Qingyao being chased to death last night.
Speaking of sadness, Ban Hang put his hands on his knees and sighed like a moan in his throat.
Guan Junliang also seemed to be infected by his emotions, closed his eyes, and his eyelashes were trembling with exhaustion.
Song Haining lightly touched Ban Hang with his elbow and shook his head at him.
Brother Guan has the softest heart among them. Whenever a teammate dies, he will suffer for a long time.
He had just witnessed his teammates fall off a cliff yesterday. When he woke up, he knew that a teammate had passed away, which would be a big blow to his spirit.
However, she is also clear in her heart that Guan Junliang should have the right to know, and Ban Hang also needs to "discharge" the backlogged emotions to the limit through the actions of "telling" and "sharing".
Guan Junliang buried himself in the quilt, turned his back to them, and said in a loud voice, "... I'm sorry, I'll sleep for a while."
Aware that Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang had entered the room, Ban Hang wiped away the tears with the back of his hand as if nothing had happened, took a breath of his nose, and when he turned around, there was only a little moisture on his eyelashes.
Nan Zhou suggested, "Let's make up our minds together."
Ban Hang made a subtle "um" sound.
Ban Hang is also an old man in the team. After his release, he didn't really know the priorities.
However, in order to take care of Ban Hang's emotions, the leader of Pan Si was given way to Nan Zhou by Jiang Fang.
Four people sat in a circle, plus Guan Junliang who was resting in bed, there were five people in total.
Nan Zhou looked around at them, and first suggested: "Think about the purpose of both sides."
Jiang Fang: "Let's start with the pastor."
Song Haining immediately followed: "From the letter we found, it can be proved that the priest and the duke have an unusual relationship, so his purpose must be to cure the duke's illness—"
Ban Hang spoke with a faint nasal voice: "Isn't he calling the devil to cure the Duke on the other side?"
Having said that, he became irritable again.
Didn't they think of this step long ago
However, because the NPC "Pastor Keith" was too cautious, all the clues in the church with little value were completely destroyed.
...even the fact that he "summoned demons" is debatable.
They believe that there is a "devil" because Pastor Keith was slaughtered to death by the cross for no reason, while Hua Xixi was silently taken away from the church, and disappeared for more than ten hours for no reason. , and inexplicably appeared on the edge of the cliff.
But in the end, this is just circumstantial evidence, not a real hammer.
Keith's bookshelf, like the rest of the clergy, naturally had books on exorcism.
After discovering the book, they did not sit idle either. They collected all the exorcism-related items mentioned in the book from inside and outside the church, and put them in the storage slot for easy access at any time.
But the devil hides in the darkness, and he takes every step of the way, hiding his own image and shadow.
If no one has seen the true face and form of the demon, can't know the demon's name, and can't find the item it really fears, then it's a waste of time.
Seeing that the progress of the plot is about to fall into an endless loop of ghosts hitting the wall again, Nan Zhou said softly: "... Is that right? Just to cure the disease?"
This question made everyone stunned.
Is this… worth asking
If the pastor is not for the cure, what else can he do
Nan Zhou didn't dig deeper on this issue, but turned to Ban Hang: "Do you remember the attic you found?"
Ban Hang nodded.
"... The deacon told me." Nan Zhou said, "the priest and the duke have a contract to light the lamp. As long as the priest agrees to the operation, the priest will light the lamp in this attic. When the signal is received on the west bank, we will do something to our people. , to catch them as raw materials for surgery."
Hearing this, Ban Hang buried his head deeply and was overwhelmed, and his jaw clucked uncontrollably.
... That attic, he discovered.
Nan Zhou's intricate analysis forced him to face the fact in his heart that he was most unwilling to face:
The culprit who let Su Qingyao die and even put other teammates in danger might actually be himself.
He still remembered how proud he was when he discovered this hidden little attic, and felt that he had contributed to the copy.
The smugness at that time has now turned into a heavy pressure, and his tears have been squeezed out.
If he hadn't opened the attic then...
If he hadn't lit the light to check...
Are the teammates on the West Bank safe and sound now
Was it his own recklessness that killed them with his own hands
With the deepening of thinking, Ban Hang's heart has been falling into the endless abyss.
Until Nan Zhou pressed his palm on his knee.
His voice was cold and calm, with clear and rhythmic characters, with a force that could not be ignored: "Banhang, look at me and answer my question."
Ban Hang raised his gray eyes and looked at him in confusion.
Nan Zhou asked, "Is there a lot of dust accumulated in that attic?"
Ban Hang nodded slowly.
"How did you open the attic?"
Banhang rolled his eyes with difficulty and was forced to recall his stupidity: "I... forcibly opened it."
… For this, he tore off the shutters of the attic, and was hit on the head by the falling escalator.
Nan Zhou: "No key?"
Ban Hang: "I found it, but no."
Nan Zhou asked again: "...No?"
In Nan Zhou's repeated questions, Ban Hang was finally willing to give up his mind to think rationally in the confusion: "Brother Nan, really no, didn't we search the entire church, all the important keys It's all on Keith, and I even took the keys to compare them, and none of them could match the attic keys—"
Song Haining suddenly understood something, and slapped Ban Hang's thigh abruptly, making Ban Hang's face pale.
She forcibly suppressed her excitement, but her emotions were already beyond her words: "So, the priest and the duke made this agreement a long time ago. But the priest didn't plan to fulfill the contract at all, and he didn't plan to climb up to the attic to light the lamp!"
Nan Zhou was quite calm: "So I couldn't find the key in the church. I'm afraid he has already dealt with it."
This was also confirmed by the deacon who fell off the cliff.
He had said that the operation the Duke was going to do was against the norm and was extremely dangerous.
With their feelings, the priest would not allow the duke to risk his life for surgery, but he would also not sit idly by and watch the duke die of illness.
Therefore, the pastor must have resorted to some supernatural force and secretly planned a certain plan.
He wanted to ask Hua Xixi to come to his office at one time, but because Song Haining rushed out halfway, he could not execute it smoothly.
From this, it can be seen that the conspiracy must be more convenient to execute when it is alone with people.
Later, he tried to repeat the same trick on Nanzhou, but the car overturned.
Nan Zhou concluded: "So, lighting the lights was something that Keith did not expect, but it was something we had to do."
For normal players, there are parts in the game scene that are "explorable under objective conditions, but temporarily unexplorable because of the blockade", which is bound to be seen.
In particular, there are too few useful clues in this copy.
If they don't take the initiative, they can only sit back and wait.
In the end, whether they are cheating or stealing, they will try to open those closed doors.
As Nan Zhou had speculated before, the attic was completely dark, with no light source except for the moonlight. If they wanted to see the internal structure clearly, they had to turn on lights.
Once the lights are lit, they are sending signals to the West Bank in disguised form, thus inducing a crisis for the players on the West Bank.
This is a dark mine that was planted before the start of the dungeon, and it is an inevitable trend under the guidance of step by step.
Unless they choose to do nothing and let this priest who has summoned supernatural powers be fished, the West Bank will be safe and sound.
Otherwise, there will be chaos.
"That's the logic of the copy. It divides us on purpose, and it doesn't leave us alone."
After thinking about this, Ban Hang felt a little bit of a feeling of breaking the clouds and seeing the sun.
But after removing a layer of cloud and fog, it was still five miles of fog.
He murmured, "Then what does that mean? What exactly is a demon?"
Song Haining speculated reasonably: "Is there no demon at all? The priest was actually killed by someone from the West Bank?"
She analyzed it in detail: "This background, coupled with the religious background, will not allow such an ambiguous relationship between the priest and the duke to exist. Could it be that someone on the west bank is protecting the duke and wants to kill the priest and save the duke's reputation?"
After she finished speaking, she shook her head helplessly, rejecting her guess.
This is a good reason, but unfortunately it is not practical enough.
Infiltrating the church, killing Keith, and kidnapping the caretaker Hua Xixi might be possible under someone else's hands.
Completing this series of actions under the noses of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang, and still being able to do it quietly, is hell-level difficulty.
Nan Zhou raised a question: "I don't doubt that Keith died because of some supernatural force. My question is, why did the demon have to kill Keith at that point in time?"
"The logic of the devil is that the summoner usually sacrifices his life, right? At the beginning, Keith most likely chose to sacrifice us, but he was only bound, and we didn't show any intention to kill him. It's not that there is no chance to fight back, why is the devil so anxious to kill him?"
Thinking of the attic problem just now, Song Haining's thoughts became clearer: "Could it be that he is using his life to curse us? Because we may go to the attic to light up the lights to signal, we don't know what will happen, but he knows that once the Duke sees When the lights in the attic are on, you will choose to take risks?!"
Nan Zhou nodded: "At that time, it was indeed him who was most anxious."
Ban Hang: "... If he summoned the devil to curse us, he chose to commit suicide and sacrificed himself to the devil. It is understandable, but why did the devil neither stop us from searching the church, nor go to the West Bank to report the news, but instead sent the people who did not participate in the search.偲偲 took away?"
Nan Zhou: "If I want to make a more accurate judgment, I need more information."
Taking Nan Zhou's gaze as the wind direction, everyone's attention shifted to Guan Junliang, who was quietly listening on the bed at the moment.
Nan Zhou asked, "Junliang, tell me, what did you see yesterday on the edge of the cliff?"
The author has something to say: the script kills the idea time x