Doomsday Harvest of Cthulhu

Chapter 16 The Underground Cave
With a heavy heart, the four dragged their weary steps towards the address given by Arias.

The sky had just dawned, and the fog had lightened a little. The four of them came to a two-story building on the side of the road.

Ren Xingzhi knocked on the door, and after a while, the sleepy Arias opened the door and yawned and said, "Hey, Ren Xingzhi, it's so early."

Ren Xingzhi looked around and saw that there was no one around, and said, "Let's go in and talk."

The four entered in a file, and after putting down their backpacks, Ren Xingzhi told Arias what happened just now.

Arias thought about it carefully: "You have been exposed, the situation is very dangerous now, why don't you go back to Arkham City first."

Scott patted the table and said angrily: "No, we must avenge Wood and Hayley, and I must smash the Dagon Secret Cult to pieces!"

"It's dangerous for you to stay here, and we stay to help you, so the investigation will be safer," Wibson told Arias.

Arias said with a bit of concern: "But you have been exposed, I am afraid that your appearance has been recorded by someone who cares."

Allen patted his thigh and said excitedly: "I know what the problem is!"

Everyone looked at Alan and waited for the answer, while Alan looked at Ren Xingzhi and Scott and said, "It's the policeman. He should have heard your conversation at the station, and then he took you back with an excuse and knew the address, so Only at night."

Arias said: "Police? Is this a policeman?" He roughly described the policeman's appearance and figure.

After hearing this, Ren Xingzhi said, "Yes, that's him."

Arias suddenly realized: "That should be it. I have always felt that someone is following me these two days. I found out that it was the policeman. He should be following me, and then found that you were also following you after talking with me. .”

Wimpson said: "He should be a member of Dagon's secret sect."

Scott said: "Then let's go to him now, interrogate him, and ask them what their purpose is!"

Ren Xingzhi persuaded Scott from the side: "Calm down, he is a policeman on the surface, if we go to trouble like this, he will be imprisoned by him on various charges."

Scott said: "Then what should we do, we can't just let it go!"

Allen thought to the side: "There is another place, the Church of Universal Salvation. Last time I suspected that the priest had something to do with mysterious religions. Maybe I can find some clues this time."

Ren Xingzhi thought about it, so he could go and have a look.After that, the four of them planned to go to the Church of Universal Salvation together, and Arias continued to investigate the matter at hand. Arias gave the four of them a car and house keys, and they made an appointment to meet here at [-]:[-] pm.

All four wore large hoods or cowboy hats to hide their faces and not be recognized.

Then they drove straight to the Church of Universal Salvation, and the four parked their car on the side of the road and quickly went to the church.Just when he saw the door of the church, Ren Xingzhi keenly noticed that four men in black had entered the church.

Ren Xingzhi signaled the other three to lower their bodies, and walked lightly towards the church.

The four of them approached the door of the church and heard a loud noise coming from inside.Everyone sneaked a look and found that there were two men in black holding long knives, one on the left and one on the right, besieging Father Lin En on the altar and asking what to do. The two men in black were randomly chopping with long knives in a church smashed.

Scott whispered to the three of them: "It seems that they are not in the same group."

The three looked at Scott at the same time and said in unison: "Is it hard to see???"

Scott stuck out his tongue, smirked to ease the embarrassment, and then Ren Xingzhi said: "The enemy of the enemy is a friend. Let's go and deal with the man in black first, and then ask Father Lynn what's going on."

The four nodded, and rushed into the church together when the four men in black in the church did not notice the door.

Allen and Webson took the lead, and the shotguns in their hands sprayed out powerful projectiles, knocking the two who destroyed the church to the ground.

Some projectiles penetrated the body of the man in black and hit the wall of the church, and many shattered gravel fell to the ground.

The two corpses fell powerlessly to the ground without making a sound.The two men in black on the stage saw someone invading, and one of the men in black raised his long knife and jumped off the stage to charge towards the crowd.

After changing the ammunition, Allen knocked the rushing man in black to the ground with another shot. Blood flowed from the torn wound on his stomach, and his intestines spilled all over the floor.

The man in black on the stage said angrily to the four people below the stage: "Where did the little thief dare to challenge the majesty of the ocean?!"

Ren Xingzhi said, "Are you from Dagon's esoteric religion?"

The man in black laughed: "You know it, and you dare to offend us. You are very brave."

Allen looked at the man on the stage, took out a .22 pistol from his arms, and shot the man in the chest.

But the bullet passed through his body directly, and the place where it was hit emitted a little mist, and then returned to its original appearance.

The man in black smiled: "You will all be part of the sacrifice." Then it turned into a cloud of black mist and rushed out of the gate and disappeared.

Everyone chased them out to check, only to find that the man had disappeared without a trace.The four returned to the destroyed church and found Father Lynn slumped on the ground with muddy tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.

He cried and murmured: "It's me who didn't protect the church of the Lord. It's me who attracted this group of people. It's all my fault."

Scott went up and helped Father Lynn to sit on the bench next to him, and said, "What's going on, Father, why did those people come here?"

Father Lin En seemed to be drained of energy, and said weakly: "In the past, there was a large food storage area underground in this city, which was also used to store items and food."

He sighed and continued: "There are three secret passages in the city that can lead there, and there is a secret passage under the pulpit of my church. I thought that a long time had passed, and this secret passage was forgotten."

Ren Xingzhi said: "Then their purpose is"

Father Lynn continued: "The underground cave is often visited by people from the Dagon Esoteric Cult. They want to use me as one of their strongholds, so that they can easily enter every corner of the city through secret passages."

Wimpson said, "Then blow it up, and don't leave it to the Dagon Esotericists."

Allen shook his head and said, "First, we don't have gunpowder for engineering blasting. Second, I think we still have to go down to see if the statue is there. Third, this is someone else's church! Brother! Just explode!"

Wimpson coughed twice and said awkwardly, "Oh, yes, that's right. I'm sorry, Father Lynn, I'm a little impatient."

At this time, Father Lynn wiped away his tears and stood up, picked up a long knife from the ground and was about to chop off his own neck. Ren Xingzhi and Scott at the side grabbed one of the priest's arms and stabbed him. get it under control.

Scott yelled: "Don't be impulsive, Father, he didn't blow up, he was joking!"

Ren Xingzhi also persuaded: "No way, really no way, Father Lynn."

Wipsen was also so frightened that he hurried over to comfort Father Lynn.

The knife in Father Lin En's hand was taken away by Ren Xingzhi, and tears were still rolling in his eyes.

The priest choked up and said, "I don't blame you, it's because I don't have the ability to guard the church of the Lord and shame the Lord. I don't deserve to live in this world, so just let me die."

(End of this chapter)