The distant and mysterious bell suddenly rang in the small town. Even the archbishop of the Eternal Sleeper couldn't help but get nervous because of this sudden change. The three archbishops, including Daniel, raised their heads at the same time, looking for the direction from which the bell sounded. , Selena noticed the changes in the town for the first time
Starting from the far end of the street, those houses that were originally closed and dark inside were lit up one after another as the bells continued to ring!
In this scene, it was as if there were suddenly residents in those abandoned houses, as if this dead town was rapidly waking up.
Seeing the houses with lights spreading rapidly towards this side, Selina Geerfen reacted immediately, and shouted loudly to the hut behind her: "Get out immediately!"
The three priests who were investigating the situation in the hut seemed to have not heard the bell at all, but after Selena gave a loud order, they rushed out immediately, returned to the street with a little confusion, and looked at the Those lights quickly spread from afar.
In just a few seconds, the hut they were investigating before was also lit with soft and warm lights, and the door that was opened just now seemed to be pushed by an invisible hand and slammed shut.
There were vague sounds of conversation, walking, and moving tables and chairs in the cabin.
This eerie scene made people on the street look at each other in blank dismay, and the three high-ranking priests wearing owl masks couldn't help pulling their collars, showing a trace of fear.
Gawain frowned, and came to the window of the hut that had just been lit up, and looked inside through the gap in the wooden planks of the window.
A priest of the Eternal Sleeper wearing an owl mask also approached, as if he also wanted to observe the movement in the house through the window. Gawain stepped aside slightly when he saw this, and looked into the hut together with the other party.
The priest of the Eternal Sleeper knew nothing about it.
Inside the hut, the lights are warm and bright, but no one can be seen. There is only a bright lampstand placed on the square table in the center of the main room. In the empty house, various indistinct sounds echo.
It's weird, Gao Wen thought.
"It's weird," the high-ranking priest who was observing the situation inside the house with Gawain withdrew his gaze, and reported with a trace of nervous vigilance, "Except for a light, no residents appeared inside, and the voice came from out of thin air. "
"...It may be the reverberation of memory, the sounds and incomplete scenes remembered by the collective consciousness remain in the abandoned mental space, and they are played in a loop as time goes by," Archbishop Yuri calmly analyzed, "Considering that this is an overflow pollution area, a similar situation is likely to occur.”
"... It seems that there are no additional changes." Selina Geer nodded after hearing Archbishop Yuri's analysis, and turned her eyes, looking at the warm and soft light of the street from every window and door crack The iron-black street lamps on both sides of the road were all lit up at some point, and this abandoned town shrouded in clouds was still empty, but it was already illuminated by lights, but the seemingly warm lights could not bring The slightest sense of security for people, on the contrary, makes every visitor feel a chill in his heart.
But apart from these lights and various inexplicable sounds, the town really hasn't changed much, and nothing dangerous has happened.
Selena looked away and asked the high-ranking priests who went to check the house before: "Did you find anything inside?"
"It's empty, Archbishop, and there's a long-abandoned 'atmosphere' that we suspect is some lingering emotional resonance..."
"There is almost no dust on all the utensils, there is still clear water in the water bottle, and the flowers have not withered. It seems that there were people living in it one moment, and suddenly disappeared the next moment, and this is somewhat different from the 'abandoned' 'atmosphere' Contradictions, do not know why."
"The light is suppressed inside, and the lighting technique can only illuminate a few meters away, and the edges are blurred."
"The dark shadows in the corner of the room are very weird, and you can't see any details in the shadows. It feels like nothingness is hidden inside, and it's a bit like those undefined areas in the dream city."
Listening to the priests' reports, Selina nodded and turned her gaze to another direction of the street.
Her vision suddenly froze.
"That church over there..." She frowned tightly, pointing the lantern in her hand to the small square at the end of the street, "Did it exist before?"
Several gazes turned to the direction Selina pointed at at the same time, and everyone's eyes widened in astonishment.
A gray-white church with a simple shape, a steeple and two small towers is quietly standing in the eyes of everyone. The church is dark and quiet, in sharp contrast with the surrounding lit houses, but the church does not seem to be completely It was pitch black, and through a glass window in front of it, Gawain seemed to vaguely see a faint light in the very depths of it.
The shape of the church itself is not important, what is important is that it does not exist before the bell rings!
It was just an empty square!
The three archbishops couldn't help but exchanged their gazes. Yuri then stretched out his hand and pressed several times in the air, and a shimmering rune appeared beside him. When Gawain guessed whether the rune was some kind of more powerful While using the mind protection spell, he heard the gentle and refined archbishop say: "Monitoring team, are there any new mind fluctuations around us?"
The group of runes shimmered in the air, and a young female voice came from the shimmer: "Report that the archbishop has not observed any new spiritual fluctuations."
Yuri nodded to Selena beside him: "It seems that this thing is not sent in from the outside, and there is no new overflow."
Selena frowned, stepped forward and asked those runes: "Then have you observed the phenomenon of consciousness awakening or secondary dreaming?"
"Reporting to the archbishop, there is no monitoring showing that there are no large-scale spiritual fluctuations on your side."
Selena thought for a few seconds before responding: "Understood, continue to monitor."
After the runes were scattered, Yuri asked hesitantly, "Do you want to check that church?"
Selena looked at the people who brought her, then glanced at the lantern in her hand, and nodded after some weighing: "Check that we have never observed such an abnormal change in the overflow projection before, and it is still a" Church'...that thing might reveal to us what Sandbox 1 is going to be."
The Eternal Sleepers team began to cautiously approach the church not far away, while Gawain blinked behind him.
This... It turns out that when they acted, there was a monitoring team behind them assisting them
With a sigh in his mind, Gawain shook his head, and followed Daniel and the others who were about to arrive at the door of the church.
The small church with gray and white exterior walls stood quietly on the edge of the square, but there was a faint light flickering behind the dim windows. The team of eternal sleepers came to its door and found that the door of the church was concealed A gap.
All the houses in the whole town seem to have their doors and windows closed, but only this church, its door is actually ajar.
This abnormal situation made people more vigilant. Selina and the others did not enter rashly, but began to collect information about the church from the outside, trying to guess its situation.
Selena shook the lantern in her hand slightly, and the mysterious and elegant lantern emitted a calming white light. With the illumination of this white light, she approached the door of the church and carefully observed the pattern on the ancient door. And the patterns on the walls on both sides of the gate.
Gawain showed some curiosity, and Daniel immediately stepped forward and asked, "Archbishop Selina, what are you looking for?"
"Sacred mark," Selina replied indifferently, "this is a church, and there should be a sacred mark to mark which god it worships. Perhaps, we can use this to figure out where the pollution in the No. 1 sandbox came from. Where."
Gawain instantly understood Selena's intentions, and also learned a new piece of information. It turns out that the Eternal Sleepers haven't figured out which god is polluting the No. 1 sandbox until now? !
He couldn't help but become curious about this, and began to follow Selina to check the patterned symbols on the gate and the wall.
Sandbox No. 1 should be designed to be a "world" without gods, and the minds entering the sandbox have also been strictly adjusted and amnesticized to ensure that no one will retain memories of gods or have the idea of worshiping gods, so Theoretically, there is no such thing as a "church" in Sandbox No. 1.
In other words, as long as there are churches or other similar "sacred elements" in the projections leaked from the No. 1 sandbox, it must be related to the god pollution suffered by the sandbox!
However, after some inspection, neither he nor Selena saw any sacred symbols that matched their memories.
They saw only one mural on the side wall of the church, which depicted a palm covering the sky and the earth below it.
This mural also appears on every house wall in the town.
Gao Wen couldn't help frowning. Could it be that this picture is actually a "sacred symbol", a religious symbol of the "residents" in this small town
While he was thinking, Selena and the others had already completed the external inspection of the chapel, and after some discussion, they decided to enter the interior of the church.
Gao Wen had no choice but to temporarily put aside the doubts in his mind, and followed in the footsteps of Daniel and the others.
Pushing open the half-covered door, the wooden door that looked old did not make any sound. Daniel followed Selena and Yuri into the church, only hearing a few footsteps echoing in his ears.
The old mage raised his head and saw the "Outsider Wanderer" just beside him, walking like a stroll in the dimly lit church, and he was slightly relieved.
Several high-ranking priests wearing masks walked around the three archbishops. Some of them lit up the lighting technique, and some activated the spell of mental protection. In the dim and flickering light and shadow, the scene in the church came into everyone's eyes
Rows of empty seats are arranged in a church that is not too big. The old wooden floor is slightly pitted. The desk, beside the desk stood a black lamppost, and a candle that seemed to be extinguished was placed on the lamppost, burning quietly, illuminating a small area around the pulpit.
While the candlelight was flickering, Daniel and the others suddenly saw a figure in a gray-white robe kneeling in front of the pulpit, as if silently praying.
Due to the dim light, no one noticed that there was a figure who looked like a priest kneeling there before!
Everyone raised their vigilance for the first time. Pale golden runes appeared in the hands of Archbishop Yuri, and a simple staff appeared in Daniel's hands. staff, or took out the magic ball, or silently prepared the spell, or unfolded the spell book that recorded the spell. , everyone is on the verge of an enemy.
But under the necessary caution and restraint, everyone did not attack rashly.
Selena gestured to the others to be vigilant, while holding a lantern in her hand, she slowly walked towards the figure kneeling in front of the pulpit.
The latter only reacted when Selena was only a few steps away. The gray-white robe shook for a while, and the praying man in the robe slowly stood up. With everyone's nerves tensed, The figure turned his head and saw the uninvited visitor entering the church.
It was an ordinary-looking and kind-hearted old man with white beard and hair and wrinkles all over his face. He didn't seem to feel the tense atmosphere around him, but he was just a little surprised and smiled happily: "Ah, so there is a guest, There are not many visitors to the church on a day when the bells are ringing."
"A mind that seems to be communicable," Archbishop Yuri, who summoned the golden rune from a position slightly behind the Eternal Sleeper team, whispered as if talking to himself, "suspend the reset process."
Gawain glanced at Yuri indifferently.
On the other side, Selena stood calmly in front of the old man in a gray robe, the lantern in her hand gave off a soft light that made people feel immersed in it, and she asked in a very natural tone: "What church is this?"
The eyes of the old man in the gray robe seemed to be confused for a moment, and then he said, "Of course it is... a church dedicated to the gods..."
Selena frowned: "God? Which god?"
The old man's eyes became even more confused. It seemed that someone had raised this question, which had greatly violated his three views, but after a short hesitation, he still slowly replied:
"The gods... of course... the upper storytellers..."
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