The rising sun shatters the darkness!

Chapter 212 Black Zhen School, Sky Sea, a Deal (asking for monthly tickets)
Storm Mountain House is huge.

Bigger than the raging waves of Suki Herrera.

The road to Storm Mountain Villa is narrow and long.

Longer than her round legs.

"Well, you guys go wait for me in the car, I'll be back soon." Xu Shu pointed outside the city gate.

Gu Pan hesitated for a moment: "You go in alone? Isn't it a bit too risky? If..."

She glanced at Suki Herrera, obviously afraid that the other party would turn against her.

Xu Shu smiled confidently: "Hey, don't worry, can't you see that? This Su Ji is unwise, and the other nuns are not smart enough. They are nothing in front of me. Besides, this time she actually needs my help, and I just have some questions to ask her. I'd better take advantage of this opportunity."

"Okay, then be careful."

Seeing this, Gu Pan knew that Xu Shu must not have told her everything, so she did not insist. She and her aunt returned to the carriage and watched quietly on the hillside outside the city gate.

The nuns stood on both sides, like ceremonial soldiers, very orderly. Sotost buried its head in the ground until Xu Shu and Su Ji passed the corner one after another. Then it recovered its body with hot air coming out of its nose, and viciously grabbed the thigh meat that it had not finished eating and continued to gnaw on it.

Xu Shu walked alone behind Suki Herrera, admiring the 1.80-meter-tall beauty as she twisted her waist and swayed her hips with an elegant and arrogant posture, like a queen, moving forward.

The two of them walked one after the other and quickly passed through the narrow passage, climbed the stairs back and forth, and headed towards the interior of the castle in front.

At this point, Xu Shu was no longer afraid of her turning against him, because through a series of tests, he was completely sure that Su Ji Herrera had no intention of taking action this time, so it was okay for Gu Pan and the others not to follow.

If they wanted to fight, they would have already started, having tortured the gatekeeper Sotost like he did just now.

The castle in front is shaped like a "mountain". It is a standard medieval castle style. It is located on the north side of the villa. Under the moonlight, the towering bell tower and watchtower give people a mysterious and ancient feeling.

On both sides of the walkway, there are long strips of low stone houses. Each stone house is lit with relatively cheap and practical luminous stone lamps, and even so late, there are still people working inside.

Some of them were women sitting on the ground, surrounding a pile of herbs, constantly comparing them with the pictures on the wall, sifting and selecting;
Some were lighting a fire in front of the stove, blowing hard, and an unknown sticky liquid was boiling in the pot;

There are also some older but useful small and medium-sized machines for tasks such as metal cutting, ore grinding, potion soaking, etc.

As Xu Shu walked over, he counted silently in his mind and found that there were at least four to five hundred people gathered here.

They are all human beings, normal humans, humans who have not undergone any mutations.

They usually live in a room with three to five people, including men and women, young and old.

It was understandable that most of these people looked skinny and hungry, but what was unexpected was that although their eyes were tired, they were still clear, without the fanaticism of being brainwashed by a cult.

This place seems to have become a relatively large refugee shelter in the wasteland.

"It seems to be completely different from what I imagined..."

Xu Shu muttered something.

It's strange, the patrol troops come to this nearby supply point at least once a month.

It seems that this place was formed less than a month ago? This scale doesn't seem possible.

He immediately thought of the nearby lighthouse supply point (15, 19), which had been abandoned for a long time, but was not too desolate, and seemed to have people passing by occasionally.

It seems that Suji's men are deliberately pretending to deal with the patrol soldiers passing by?
Xu Shu had some idea.

At this time, Su Ji was already in front. She looked back with a faint smile on her face: "Mr. Li Toyota, it seems that you are very curious about why there are so many civilians living here? Maybe you will know the answer when you come in."

Xu Shu walked up to him, shook his head and said, "What I'm more curious about is that it's already past midnight and they're still working. Do they get overtime pay? If it's not overtime, if it's shift work, is it three shifts or two shifts? How much rest time do they have during the day? Is the food in the cafeteria cheap? Do they have one day off a week?"

He asked a series of questions in rapid succession, which made the smile on Suki Herrera's face freeze and she was speechless for a moment.

Seeing that she didn't say anything for a long time, Xu Shu thought he would not embarrass her, so he changed his tone and sighed, "Okay, I am indeed a little curious."

"Then you will see next..." Su Ji's eyes lit up and she was about to speak.

As a result, Xu Shu continued, "I'm curious how long it took you to capture so many people. Did anyone try to escape? What happened to those who failed to escape? Were they all eaten by the guy at the door?"

Su Ji raised her head and said, "Oh, if I say that they all stayed here voluntarily, what do you think?"

"Then I can only say that you are talking bullshit." Xu Shu sneered.

Who would want to live in the same place with a giant janitor that eats people?
Suki: ???
No, can we still have a good chat?

She got angry, shut her mouth, and decided not to dwell on this issue any further. She pressed the switch and slowly opened the door.

Amidst the harsh creaking sounds, the two wooden doors opened inward, revealing a spacious hall on the first floor. The walls and ceiling were lit with wall lamps and chandeliers made of white candles.

The middle aisle was covered with a red carpet, and on both sides of the aisle were rows of "H"-shaped red wooden gathering benches. On the wall, there was a vertical poster every other span, with some propaganda slogans written on them. They were written in the current common language of mainland China, and they were similar, such as "God loves the world", "Those who believe in the Lord should be blessed", "Those without faith are naked", etc.

At first glance, the first floor of this castle looks like a huge church.

Seeing this, Xu Shu suddenly understood.

Well, what do you mean by voluntary stay? Look, look! Isn't it just a cult's brainwashing method? It's just that the doctrine may be relatively mild, and those people have not yet become crazy people who make living sacrifices every day.

What was surprising was that the statue in the front was covered with a large red veil, completely obscuring it.

This is considered a very disrespectful act in religion.

I don't know what this secret religion is from, and whether I have ever seen it...

Xu Shu had seen quite a few esoteric religious groups.

Among these, there are actually not many seen in the real world, and here it seems that the four major cults that worship the devil are the main ones.

But in the legend as 'Arthur', he had seen many evil cults, and the people in that world were more spiritually empty.

Xu Shu saw a few familiar sentences in it. After recalling for a while, he asked in surprise: "The Church of Light?"

The Church of Light is very strange; it is a "completely dead sect".

In fact, it was very popular in the early days of the Cataclysm, because the world was experiencing shocking changes at that time, and horrific disasters occurred everywhere. People prayed for the arrival of light, and the Church of Light came into being.

But later on, the light really came, but His name was not the God of Light or something like that, His name was the God of Arrays.

Star towers form safe zones, dotted across the land, forming alliances and solidarity.

At the same time, the three major churches that emerged during this period, the Dawn Church, the Star Church, and the Moon Church, all told everyone that the so-called "Gods" were all fake and were harming mankind, and only the Sun, Moon, and Stars are now barely worthy of worship.

Among them, the sun is especially important. The Dawn Church does not even promote the worship of God. It tells everyone that there is no God and that we should praise the sun because it brings light and warmth. For publicity purposes, it even told a lie, saying that as long as you praise the sun, you will be blessed by the array.

Therefore, under the control of the Governing Bureau, although most esoteric sects could only develop believers with difficulty in the cracks, they still had their own sects.

However, since the Church of Light had many overlapping doctrines with the Church of Dawn, it was natural that it died out completely.

Alas, it is dead, but because most of its teachings sound good and positive, they are used by real cults to deceive people.

For example, Xu Shu once met a principal named Yang Chong in an underground secret room in a shelter. The old witch from the Slaanesh sect that Xu Shu believed in used the teachings of the Church of Light to make money and secretly offer sacrifices to her own gods.

Yes, the Church of Light is so miserable. It can only be said that some churches appear to be still alive, but in fact they are already dead.

really.

When Xu Shu asked Su Ji if they were members of the Church of Light, the latter answered decisively: "Of course not, they believe in the Great Mother, the Mother Goddess who controls life."

Speechless, the Mother Goddess Church again?
Xu Shu rolled his eyes secretly. However, these people were working at night and not paying attention to others. This must be a fake Mother Goddess Church.

The real Mother Goddess Church only wants to create villains, don’t think you can fool me.

There are many esoteric cults these days that like to use the name of the Mother Goddess Church. This is probably because such churches are more likely to attract couples whose children have died and who want to have another one. And so on…

"You just said, they? So you are not?"

Did 'they' refer to the human residents here, or the combat maids? Xu Shu looked at the other party suspiciously.

Suki Herrera nodded: "I am not."

"then who are you?"

"I'm Suki Herrera, the current high priestess of the Black Chastity School. Our school has hundreds of years of history and has been dedicated to clearing the name of witches. Our research topics are the differences between body and mind, and the fusion and separation of spirit and flesh." Suki acted like a scholar.

Xu Shu was confused.

He didn't understand what Suki said at all.

What is the Black Virgin School? What is the mind-body divide? It sounds a bit like studying schizophrenia...

But I somewhat understood the second half of the sentence.

The fusion of soul and body, right?

He looked at Suki's figure, secretly wondering if this girl asked me to come here alone to create a private space, in fact, she wanted to have an interracial relationship with me, beyond friendship, to achieve the fusion of soul and body, right?

I don't have to be responsible for something that comes to my doorstep, and I don't need to have any psychological burden.

But, but...

But she only looks beautiful now, probably because she is covered in human skin. In fact, I have seen her true form, and her face is like an octopus head, disgusting and ugly!

Xu Shu looked at Su Ji's beautiful red lips, towering breasts, plump waist and hips, and slender and smooth thighs. For a moment, he felt it was hard to accept from the bottom of his heart, and he was also a little distracted.

He has always been a man of both meat and vegetables, and in order to vent the strong physical needs and desires of a young man, he has used quite a few inhuman monsters as Fiji cups.

But, most of them are monsters with pretty faces.

To put it another way, those monsters, the beautiful snakes, the seductive flower puppets and even the evil monsters are all like "mermaids with human heads and fish bodies".

But this Suki.

Xu Shu remembered very clearly that when she was summoned from the Book of Demons, she had a "fish head and a human body".

This is a bit hard to say...

After thinking about it, Xu Shu gave up this dirty idea and stopped.

"There's no one here, let's talk here." He leaned against the door and didn't walk far into the church.

He still had to be cautious; he didn't want to let himself get close to something inexplicable.

Su Ji glanced at him and did not force Xu Shu to go in. She sat on the back of a bench, her two long white legs crossed and folded together, and said in a rather suggestive tone: "You know, in fact, your current situation is very dangerous."

Xu Shu glanced at her and said, "Why? You think my forehead is black and if you want to get rid of the bad omen, I have to listen to you, right?"

"how do you know?"

"Ah."

Isn't this the opening line often used by fortune tellers?

I've seen a lot.

Su Ji said seriously: "I am serious. I have a suggestion for you. You can choose to leave here as soon as possible. The farther the better. Your situation is not safe. Don't look at me like that. There are some things I can't say. The only thing I can tell you is that the sky and the sea have converged, and changes are about to come."

Huh? Xu Shu was stunned and looked at her in confusion.

What's wrong with this guy?
You want me to do something for you, but you probably want to get back the "Book of Demons", right?

You said this right at the beginning. What the hell is this? You told me to run? Then I leave?
Xu Shu was really curious this time. He hesitated for a moment and asked, "What is the sky sea?"

"I can't explain this to you, and I can't say it. Those who understand will understand without explanation, and those who don't understand won't understand even if I explain it to you." Su Ji shook her head.

Xu Shu's mouth twitched when he heard this.

Damn, you are also a riddler?

You can't be in the same group with Wuxin, or belong to the Qunxing Society?

Xu Shu nodded and said, "I understand. I'll leave now."

After saying that, he turned around and walked out the door without any hesitation.

Now Suki was confused.

She hurried forward, grabbed Xu Shu and said, "Hey, hey, hey, don't leave. I'll tell you some news first. I've already shown my sincerity. Why are you leaving?"

Xu Shu vomited blood.

Being a riddle teller is also a way of showing sincerity?

It's really against the will of heaven.

He asked back, "Didn't you tell me to leave here, the farther the better, otherwise it would be dangerous? Stop talking nonsense, I want to run for my life."

Su Ji was shocked: "No? You don't have to leave so quickly. I mean, you will be in danger in the future! But not now."

"No, I am a gentleman and I will not stand under a dangerous wall. I will leave now." Xu Shu said with a stubborn look.

"No, wait a minute, wait a minute!"

Su Ji grabbed Xu Shu's sleeve tightly and refused to let him leave.

However, he found that Xu Shu was so strong that he couldn't hold him at all, and instead his body was dragged out.

Seeing that Xu Shu was determined to leave, Su Ji Herrera hurriedly said, "Li Toyota, aren't you a little worried about that crazy woman from the Star Club? What if I tell you how to fight her and make a deal with you to do something for me?"

Xu Shu stopped.

He turned around and looked at Su Ji.

She commented on Wuxin like this. It seems that she is not a member of the Star Club, but she is somewhat related to them.

Sure enough, the damned Dizang really told this Su Ji everything about my journey and what happened after I left His territory!
However, it seems that this guy's strength is no less than level three, no worse than Wuxin. That is to say, we are in the wasteland now, and she can't do anything to me.

Is there any chance to kill her now and take away the corrosive crystals in her body?

Not very safe...

Xu Shu rolled his eyes and decided that there was no foolproof plan, so he was not in a hurry to take action.

Although he is not afraid of the other party inside the line, he is also on guard against any means of mutual destruction from her. This guy seems to be from the same school as Master Jizo, and he can also suppress his own strength and hide in here. Who knows if he is fine now, but if he is killed by me, will he suddenly explode?

If I were to be hit by a self-explosion by a level three monster, I would most likely not survive.

First, find out what she wants to do, and wait till dawn to figure out the rest...

After coming up with a plan in mind, Xu Shu smiled and said:
"You've already said that, can't you finish it? Now tell me what you want me to do."

(End of this chapter)