I hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and said, "How do I sign a contract?"
Allen hesitated and said: "Time is tight, keep everything simple! Stretch out your right hand."
After I raised my right hand forward, a series of strange sounds sounded from the black fog rolling in the air.
Is Allen chanting some kind of spell or some kind of ritual
As soon as a thought flashed through my mind, the black mist floating in the air began to swirl up, like a tornado spinning horizontally in the air, pointing the conical tip toward me and into my palm.
I just felt like my palm had been severely cut open between the skin and flesh with a knife, and bright red blood dripped from the edge of my palm.
Before my blood drops even dripped to the ground, they evaporated out of thin air and turned into wisps of smoke in mid-air, floating around. The whirlwind spinning on my palms was still moving my palms all the time. As my right hand began to numb from the severe pain, a burning pain suddenly arose.
The moment my arm tensed up, the whirlwind clinging to my hand also retreated a few meters away and turned into thick smoke again.
Only then did I look at my palm. The other person carved a reverse pentagram on my hand.
One second, the anti-pentagram array in my palm was still bleeding; the next second, the wound deep in my palm began to heal quickly, turning into a dark red scar in the blink of an eye.
I pressed my fingers twice on the scar, and there was no other feeling except for the slightly raised flesh ridge underneath. I then raised my hand and said, "Is this your contract?"
"That's right!" Allen said, "It's an equal contract. One of my hands is buried under the reverse cross. Take that hand and we can leave."
I gave Ye Xun a wink, and the latter quickly dug out a severed hand that had turned into withered bones from the wall. That hand was obviously about three times larger than an ordinary person's, especially the joints that seemed unusually thick. These few joints alone were enough to prove that this magic hand was powerful enough to explode.
After Ye Xun knocked the dagger twice on his palm, Allen immediately screamed: "Stop, stop it quickly. That's my demon body, don't break it."
Ye Xun ignored it and knocked it several times before standing up and saying, "This is a bone."
I put away my hand and said, "After we go out, you should immediately set up a church, and it's best to set a fire."
"It's up to you!" Allen made black smoke that suddenly dissipated, but his voice kept swimming near us: "How much fire do you need?"
"It's enough that people can see it." As I spoke, I walked out of the church and stood in the cold, dark valley. The shaky beam on the roof of the church also crashed to the ground the moment we walked out of the door. The entire church was like a toppled building block, collapsing from all sides toward the center. Before the billowing dust and smoke raised by the broken walls had dissipated, a raging fire shot into the sky in the center of the church. The flames shot into the air, instantly illuminating a hundred-meter radius, and the dark castle came into view.
Anne whispered: "Why did you set the fire?"
I sneered and said, "Ask the nearby adventurers to come quickly."
I turned to look at Annie: "From the moment my whereabouts are exposed, it means that we cannot face the secret of Dunhuang alone. The people from the Wugui Sect must be here. The difference lies in where they go."
"The Wugui Sect will not let go of the secret of Dunhuang. They are just waiting and watching. My purpose is to make them come in quickly."
I turned my head and said to the air: "Alan, do you know a place where we can hide for an hour or two? Just one or two hours will be enough."
Allen said: "There is such a place. However, it is a shelter established by the church, and there are uncomfortable things everywhere... Forget it, I will take you there!"
Allen led us into a cave, and my eyes couldn't help but narrow slightly: "Is this the Holy See Sanctuary?"
If you just look at the decoration in the cave, it is indeed made by the church. The cross on the wall, the Bible, the vessels for holding holy water, the swords, armor, and weapons used by the Vatican knights are all available. However, there were four corpses sitting close to the wall.
Those four people were tied to chairs and their heads were fixed when they were alive. They still kept their bodies upright and sat upright until they died.
A dripping stalactite hung above the heads of each of the four corpses. The turbid mountain water fell from the sky drop by drop, continuously dripping into the four cracked skulls.
This is obviously the legendary dripping water torture.
The so-called water-dropping torture is based on the principle of "drops of water piercing the stone". The water droplets continuously fall on the person's head until the prisoner's scalp is completely corroded and the prisoner's skull is pecked through.
Most people believe that the dripping water torture was a punishment invented by later generations. Theoretically, although the prisoner's head is fixed, it can still shake slightly, and the water droplets cannot drip in one place. Moreover, the execution time is likely to last one to two years, and it is impossible for anyone to have the patience to carry out the execution. Such a long death sentence.
But the four corpses that had died under the water-dropping torture appeared in front of me alive.
Allen said: "Those four corpses all died in the hands of Arlin, and the punishment was his imagination. Later, although the church was forced into the cave by the devil, it did not touch the four corpses. Just let them sit in the cave."
I touched the bones a few times with my dagger: "Where did the church people go?"
"All dead!" Allen sneered: "They either died outside or were starved to death in the cave. Holy knights, servants of God, haha... When their humanity is exposed, they will not even be able to defeat the devil. Not as good as any other servant."
Allen was extremely disdainful of the church and was unwilling to even mention it.
I said calmly: "Since you said that the curse of the devil is omnipotent, how can those people from the Holy See escape the curse in this sanctuary?"
Allen said: "At that time, they were carrying a sacred weapon. That sacred weapon was so terrifying that I didn't even dare to take a look at it."
Allen smiled bitterly when he said this: "But, they couldn't get out of here even with the sacred weapon. They fell on the road together with the sacred weapon."
I asked: "Where was the sacred vessel lost?"
"Probably..." When Allen was unable to describe the specific location, Elena said: "If I'm not mistaken, the place where the sacred artifact was lost should be in the Cross Jungle."
Allen took out the parchment and pointed to a place marked with a cross and said: "This is the jungle of crosses."
That's the only area marked yellow on the entire map. Elena explained: "Red on the map represents danger, black represents extremely dangerous, and only yellow represents semi-safe. In other words, the yellow area will still be dangerous, but it is relatively safe."
"Yeah!" I nodded slightly and said, "Rest where you are for a while. Let's wait for our friends outside."
I calculated that the adventurers and Wugui Sect would follow us as we approached the Dark Castle, but I did not calculate how many masters they would come to.
Later I learned that there were far more people gathered in the dark castle this time than I imagined.
We just left the church, and a large number of experts had already gathered on the cliff behind the church. Someone reported back from the top of the mountain: "Pluto, there is a fire at the bottom of the mountain, and Wang Huan and the others are nowhere to be found."
Standing in the crowd, "Pluto" said coldly: "Can't you handle such a small thing? Gouge out your eyes."
The scout responsible for spying on the news suddenly raised his head and looked at Hades. He lowered his head obediently, stretched out two fingers and stabbed his own eye sockets fiercely, then clenched his teeth and passed out on the ground.
The man refused to scream even under the severe pain of self-inflicted eyes, which shows how powerful Pluto is.
But Pluto seemed to have seen nothing: "Explore again and report again."
"Wait a minute!" Just as the scout was about to leave, he was stopped by a middle-aged man who walked out of the crowd.
If I had been there at that time, I would have exclaimed Lan Moying.
Pluto, who was leading the team, turned to look at Lan Moying: "What do you mean?"
Lan Moying said calmly: "You don't have to worry about finding someone, Wang Huan, that guy must be hiding. We wait until the fire below is extinguished, and then it's not too late to find someone."
The man looked at Lan Moying and said, "You seem to know him very well?"
"I don't know Wang Huan at all." Lan Moying said: "But, I know that Wang Huan is a person who doesn't want to suffer. Your whereabouts are exposed too early. Wang Huan will definitely guess that someone is following you behind your back. If I want to reap the benefits, I will definitely not risk my life at this time."
Lan Moying pointed to the blazing fire on the cliff and said, "I bet you that this fire was set by Wang Huan. Do you believe it or not? His purpose of setting this fire is for me to let us enter the valley quickly."
Pluto looked at Lan Moying: "You think too highly of Wang Huan! Now there are two of the four kings of Wugui Sect. Are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat him as a junior?"
Lan Moying shook his head slightly and said: "If possible, I would rather look down on him. Although Wang Huan's skill is not as good as you and me, his mind is enough to compete with any king of the four sects. I dare not treat him Any oversight."
Seeing that the other party was disapproving, Lan Moying added: "Don't forget Qin Baiyi. Her cultivation level is not inferior to yours or mine, but she also died in Wang Huan's hands. Huang Cang, I know, you I’ve always had nothing to lose, but sometimes it’s better to listen to someone’s honest advice.”
Huang Cang sneered and said: "A junior who just came out of the world can kill Qin Baiyi? I think Wang Huan is trying to put money on his face regardless of life and death. If they die in my hands, then Wang Huan should really thank me, because, He didn't meet Qin Hongzhuang."
Huang Cang's voice paused and said: "Taking a step back, even if Qin Baiyi died in the hands of a junior, it would be due to her incompetence. She is even less qualified to compare with me."
Lan Moying couldn't help but shook his head when he heard this, but Huang Cang didn't continue to send scouts.