"So it is." Su He whispered, leading the two of them towards the night watchman.
The power of the domain brought the night watchmen into the interference range. Su He appeared in front of the night watchmen. The night watchmen finally realized the existence of Qi Leren and others, and looked at them with surprise and vigilance: "You guys Who is it?"
"It's the same foreigner you mentioned, who is investigating the cause of the New Moon Calamity, trying to find a way to end this nightmare." Su He said gracefully.
The night watchmen looked at them scrutinizingly, and being looked at by this kind of deformed and weird face, Qi Le people had a very uncomfortable feeling. It didn't mean that their eyes were full of maliciousness, it was just that hideous and terrifying face. uneasy.
"I know you, coming here from the outside world through the fog, maybe you're the key to ending it all. If you're wondering, well... This disaster started eight years ago..."
The hoarse voice of the night watchman sounded in the darkness, telling the story of the disaster of the new moon.
More than 20 years ago, the holy city was invaded by demons. After that, I don’t know what happened. The whole city was surrounded by fog, but the demons disappeared. The holy city returned to peace. Out of the fog, no matter how far you go in the fog, you will eventually return to the holy city.
Since then, no woman has become pregnant, no new baby has been born, and the city has grown old alone in the fog...
Until a new moon night eight years ago, the nightmare began.
"At least a tenth of the people disappeared that night, no one knew what happened, the whole city was in a state of panic, and on the second new moon night after that, another group disappeared. … Slowly we found the pattern. Whenever the night of the new moon comes, we must not stay awake until the sun rises, otherwise it will disappear. After that, people gradually got used to this kind of life, and when the night of the new moon came, we must not stay awake until the sun rose. , they will drink sleeping pills to ensure that they sleep until dawn, and the number of missing people begins to decrease, but there are always accidents... For example, the friend who almost became the devil's food just now."
The young man who was still lying on the ground shivered a bit, hugged his head tremblingly and sobbed, knowing the truth of the New Moon Calamity made him on the verge of collapse, as long as he thought that he might have eaten a living person more than once, he fell into The fear of not being able to ascend to heaven.
"I've been sleepwalking since I was a child. On a certain night of the new moon, I was sleepwalking, but the strange thing is that during this sleepwalking, I was awake. I 'saw' my wife took off her pajamas and her body slowly Transforming into a demon, I was terrified at that time, but when I looked at myself, I had also become a monster, and I followed her out of the house..."
"That night, I saw a holy city like hell. My wife and the group of demons were looking for and chasing their prey. They found a living person who was not asleep and attacked him frantically and devoured him. My life I have never seen such a brutal and savage scene, a group of people eating people like mad dogs, they pluck bloody pieces of meat from the screaming living people, greedily stuff them into their mouths and chew, as if it was given by God Food, I tried to stop the atrocity and pushed my wife away and she slammed her head against the wall and woke up bloody."
A weeping smile appeared on the Night's Watch's weird face: "She's awake."
Everyone was silent, even the sobbing young man held his breath and forgot to sob, and in the deep darkness, the terrifying night watchman wailed: "She turned back into a human, looking at the darkness The demons shredded with flesh and blood screamed. I approached her and wanted to protect her, but in her eyes I was a demon, she couldn't listen to me at all, and just ran away screaming. Those terrifying, The dehumanized beasts rushed up... I roared and struggled to fight them, I wanted to wake up at this moment, even if I died with my wife... I hit the wall with my head, again and again, my head was bleeding , but couldn't wake up, I was trapped in a nightmare. The dream was too long and too hopeless..."
"The demons had a full meal, and I don't want to admit that I was as hungry and thirsty as they were, and I used my last human dignity and reason to not fall down and compete with them for the flesh and blood of my wife. Before the sun rose, They returned to their homes in an orderly manner, and even a few demons spontaneously cleaned up the traces of prey, washed off the blood on their bodies, and awoke back to the bed to greet the dawn as if nothing had happened. Dying, I lay on the ground waiting to die, In the east, the day dawned, my body became human, and all wounds healed. What happened in this bloody night can only be borne by me alone. After dawn, the neighbors who had eaten my wife returned to their human appearance, concerned about Ask me how my wife and I slept last night, they have no idea they just killed her a few hours ago. I can't even say it all! I can only stay in hell in silence, alone, in In hell!"
"Susan, my wife, became a person who disappeared in the New Moon Calamity, forever." The night watchman, who witnessed all this with his own eyes, chose to keep this secret.
"Later I rescued a few living people, one of them was a pharmacist, he prepared a medicine that can make people lose their memory temporarily, mixed with sleeping medicine, we will let the rescued people choose whether to join us or To drink the potion and forget all this, most of them chose to drink the potion and forget this terrifying experience. Those who choose to stay will become one of us and keep this secret together. Let’s study sobriety together The method of sleepwalking on the earth, researching the cause of the New Moon Calamity, and researching how to appease this group of demons who keep hunting for the living. But the more you persist, the more desperate you become..."
"This city, which was once full of devout believers, may not have a soul to ascend to heaven."
There was a convulsion in his stomach, and Qi Leren pressed his hand on his abdomen. The night watchman's confused and desperate narrative made him dragged into this emotion together. Sleeping people become demons, killing awake people and people who know the truth. In order to protect more people, they can only cover up their crimes and keep tight-lipped. In this sinful night of the new moon, this tragedy has been repeated for eight years. , despairingly long.
They desperately kept the secret that would make everyone fall into hell. It was too late. In the first few moon disasters, too many people had committed unforgivable crimes, and more The scary thing is that no one knows whether they are innocent or not. Those who know the truth will always think about whether their missing relatives and friends once whined in their belly.
"Take it, let him drink it." The night watchman threw a bottle of potion up, Ning Zhou caught it, and handed it to the man who was kneeling on the ground. The man took the potion tremblingly, and was so panicked that he couldn't open the bottle several times. He only opened the cork with his teeth and drank it without asking.
The person who drank the potion sat on the ground dejectedly, looked at the silver cross embroidery on Ning Zhou's gloves that was slightly reflective, and murmured, "Can God still forgive me? Can I still go to heaven?"
The potion had already started to take effect, and tiredness was rising. He looked up at Ning Zhou, his desperate eyes even full of pleading.
Ning Zhou's fingers curled up, and the grief swept over him. He recalled Maria on the sickbed, leaning against the pillow, holding his hand, her blue eyes welling with tears.
"I have to go back..." she said angrily. "Once I die, the power there will be completely out of control. If there are still demons lurking there, everything will be over."
"But I can't go back. In the past thirteen years, I have tried everything I can to open the dead domain. But it is dead. It is no longer a door that can be opened and closed at will, but a tight door. A locked door that cannot be opened without a key... Behind the door, some evil force has begun to move."
The sickly-faced Maria shed tears silently: "My self-righteous salvation may be the greatest evil. I must... I must save them... Promise me... "
Ning Zhou, who was half-kneeling in front of the bed, took her hand and nodded silently.
Eight years later, he really came here, but the holy city that Mary guarded with her life has long been a hell on earth.
"In the name of God, I forgive your sins and grant you peace of mind." Ning Zhou put his hand on the man's forehead, and a faint holy light emanated from the white gloves.
The man showed a relieved smile and slowly closed his eyes.
As he fell asleep, his body began to change, his face was twisted, his body swelled, and the clothes on him were torn. He let out a low growl and opened his eyes that were no longer inhuman.
The sound of the vigil's piccolo appeased its appetite, and it swayed and jumped off the roof, landing heavily on the ground, and then walked away, returning to the ranks of the demons.
The headed night watchman let out a heavy sigh and whispered, "Sometimes we even doubt whether we are saving humans or demons, or maybe we are just saving ourselves."