Elena lost her cool the moment the fire snake appeared: "The devil's contract, the devil's contract has begun."
"Calm down!" Annie slapped Elena hard on the face, and the other party calmed down a little.
After a moment, a large amount of blood surged out of the hole under the cross, flowing to the ground like running water.
Annie saw the blood on the ground flowing in circles to the left and right, and shouted urgently: "Get back to the middle, don't touch the blood."
The Tulip members all moved closer to Anne, and the bright red blood soon drew a huge circle on the church ground.
The flowing blood did not stop because it met in the middle of the church. Instead, it divided into five blood streams, showing straight lines and dividing into the inside of the circle in different directions.
"Spread out! Don't step on the blood, stand in the open space. Don't move around." As Annie shouted, the Tulip members jumped over the blood lines flowing on the ground and stood in the open space that was not contaminated by blood.
I looked at the five-pointed star that was gradually taking shape on the ground and said, "What's going on?"
"This is the five-pointed star array." Ren Tianqing explained: "The devil's contract ceremony is about to begin."
Then I suddenly remembered the legend about signing a contract with the devil in black magic.
According to legend, if European magicians want to sign a contract with the devil, two things are essential.
One is an inverse cross entwined with poisonous snakes, which represents that he has abandoned God's love and salvation and is determined to throw himself into the arms of Satan, the lord of hell. The function of the blood sacrifice of the reverse cross is to summon the demon to come. The other one is the pentagram array used to protect the magician himself.
Because the five-pointed star can be drawn in one stroke, Europeans and even Japanese onmyoji believe that the five-pointed star can prevent the invasion of demons and evil spirits.
In the five-pointed star array, the circular magic array is used to protect the magician himself, while the five-pointed star is used to seal the devil. The five intersection points of its lines are considered to be the "doors" that seal the devil. In the pentagon in the middle of the pentagram.
Therefore, the church calls the pentagram the "devil's crest", "witch's cross", "magician's star" and "witch's feet", and even claims that there is a pentagram on the heel of the wolf.
The black magician uses the reverse cross to summon demons and uses the pentagram to protect himself, which sounds very contradictory. In fact, it is the key to the devil's contract.
According to legend, the demons sleeping in hell will become furious once awakened by humans. The first thing he has to do is not to sign a contract with the summoner, but to eat the summoner directly and drag his soul into hell, regardless of whether the other party is a believer in Satan or not.
The five-pointed star array can exactly block the demon's attack. As long as the magician sticks to the array, the demon cannot harm the opponent. However, the devil can use various methods to lure the magician out of the magic circle.
After a long battle of spirit and will between the two parties, if the devil still cannot eat the other party, he will choose to compromise and sign a contract with the magician, lending the other party infinite magic power, and even being driven by the magician. Of course, magicians also have to pay a certain price, such as their own relatives or their own souls.
During the entire contract process, the magician must not leave the five-pointed star array. Even if he goes out even slightly, he will be killed.
After the contract is completed, the pentagram will be inverted, from a positive pentagram to a reverse pentagram. The pentagram turned upside down is the symbol of Satan. It is said that the cover of the Satanic "Dark Bible" has an anti-pentagram symbol printed on it.
The process of the devil's contract was spinning rapidly in my mind, and the five-pointed star array was completed in an instant. The blood on the ground became more and more intense, and even brought out a pungent smell.
"Stand still, everyone stand still... don't be afraid. The devil can't enter the star formation, no one should mess up!" While Annie was constantly comforting the Tulip members, more than a dozen firelights suddenly lit up in the corners around the church.
When I looked at the fire spots on the ground, several fire spots were like spiritual snakes clinging to the white wall and climbing up. They concentrated on one point and slowly gathered into a fireball as big as a lantern. The whole church was as bright as day under the firelight, but it felt even more terrifying than before.
Just a moment later, there was a creepy friction sound from all around the church. It sounded like someone had squeezed into the wall from the outside and was dragging his body through the cracks in the wall into the church little by little.
Soon, I felt an invisible person appear in the church, walking in a circle along the five-pointed star array.
Someone trembled: "I... Why do I feel like someone is looking at me? He must be looking at me..."
"Shut up!" Another Tulip member snapped and stopped. The two people's eyes lost focus at the same time. They turned around like puppets on strings and stepped out in the same posture.
Although the two have different heights, the distance they take with one step seems to be measured. Not only is it exactly the same, even the position of the back foot is kept on the same horizontal line.
Ye Xun and I looked at each other, stood up and ran straight at the same time, reaching out to grab the two people from behind. However, before the two of us touched each other's shoulders, the two of us had already stepped out again, and I and I When Ye Xun's palms fell into the air at the same time, I was suddenly shocked. The hands that Ye Xun and I stretched out were actually in the same position, and even the long fingertips were retracted in the same rhythm.
When I glanced at Ye Xun's palm from the corner of my eye, his body seemed to open his fingers again uncontrollably, and his left foot on the ground also took a step forward. Next to me, Ye Xun stepped out at the same speed and in the same weird posture just like me. Just one second later, we were standing in the same position again.
In my panic, I suddenly blocked Ye Xun with my hand and took him two steps back.
The two Tulip members suddenly fell to the ground when we retreated. Half of their bodies fell outside the magic circle, but they still stayed in the magic circle from the waist down. The continuous flowing blood was just like that. It was like a red belt, attached to their waists.
Ye Xun and I grabbed between the two's heels again, and Annie suddenly shouted: "Don't move, you can't drag them in, the devil will follow."
Ye Xun and I were stunned for a moment, and our outstretched palms stopped in the air.
At the same time, I saw the body thrown out of the magic circle, as if it had touched an ice cube in hot water. Most of its head disappeared in an instant, and the missing part was still moving towards the body of the body. spread. After a blink of an eye, the two limbs seemed to have been wiped out of thin air starting from the chest, and four arms were scattered on both sides of the body at the same time.
Ye Xun and I didn't have to discuss it. We grabbed the ankles of the two corpses at the same time, and with a sudden force, we lifted the corpses into the air. As the two corpses turned continuously, they disappeared quickly. Strangely, there was not a drop of blood from the mangled corpse, and only yellow sand as fine as flour flew into the air.
The two limbs fell to the ground like two pieces of sand that were thrown to the ground. The fine yellow sand spread close to the ground like water among the flying dust. Although there was no blood, it made people feel even more heartbroken. cold.
As I continued to fall back, I looked back at the Tulip members, only to find that they were all covering their mouths to prevent themselves from making any sound, but their tears couldn't stop pouring out.
I turned to look at Annie: "What's going on?"
Annie opened her mouth before sighing: "You still spoke! You can't make a sound in the pentagram array. As long as something representing your breath appears outside the pentagram array, the devil will follow your traces and rush in. The magic circle will take you out and devour you.”
Anne explained: "Legend has it that there was a magician who was frightened and incontinent in the endless fear. His urine flowed outside the magic circle. The devil followed the urine to find the other person and ate him alive. However, as long as it can be completed, Once the contract is made, the magician will reap huge benefits. Therefore, countless people will take risks for it."
"Voice is also a part of a person. Each person's voice is his own unique symbol. The devil will definitely follow the sound to find him."
As Annie spoke, she walked towards the space of the star array where I was: "The two of them died because of talking. Now, the two of us also talked. Let's stand here together! If anything happens, we can face it together. .”
Just when I was about to nod, Ye Xun suddenly said: "Why does the devil have to capture us instead of killing people within the magic circle?"
"How did you..." Annie didn't expect Ye Xun to speak even after she gave her solemn warning.
Ye Xun said calmly: "Between brothers, we should live and die together."
"But..." Anne couldn't understand the meaning of "live and die together" and could only say: "The five-pointed star array can not only defend, but also seal demons. Even if he can break through the first layer of the magic circle, he will not dare to break through the five-pointed star array." He acts rashly in the star formation unless he can break the core of the five-pointed star formation."
According to Anne, only standing in the central pentagon of the pentagram array is the safest place. But Arthur's petrified body also happened to be lying in the center of the five-pointed star.
The result of standing over is to guard a curse and wait for the devil.
Just when I was about to speak, Ren Tianqing suddenly exclaimed: "Look at the magic circle on the ground."
I turned my head to look between the edges of the star array, and my head buzzed.
Just now, when Ye Xun and I threw the body outside the formation, we ignored the four arms scattered on the ground. After just a moment, the four arms had completely turned into sand, and the scattered yellow sand was mixed with the blood on the ground.
Just now, it looked like circulating blood, but it turned into yellow sand in the moment we spoke.
The dark yellow color representing death is spreading along the outer circle of the magic circle to both sides.
The magic circle is going to be erased!