Abyss Express

Chapter 830 Ordinary Love⑥·Clergy

[Part①·The evil beast of Hercules]

I believe it all has something to do with St. Stephen's Cathedral.

This ancient building, built in 1147, experienced two fires and was transformed into a Gothic-style church.

Margaret and Elayne are both doctors, and likewise, they are both church volunteers.

Because we didn’t have much money, Margaret and I originally planned to borrow a church venue for our wedding——

——If there is no such thing.

In the study I found a text on invocation spells about ritual magic. This is what Miss Elan entertained me with.

It's called "The Hidden Corner of Hercules" and it's a niche book written in old Icelandic.

If you want to ask why can I understand it? Because ancient Icelandic is also a European-Indian language, a branch of North Germanic. I know Finnish, German and English, and a little bit of Danish - can recognize the words.

This storybook introduces a mysterious society that uses force to maintain the social structure, namely the Church of Hercules. Its members use a kind of insect to obtain incredible witchcraft power. And the bugs will select the right people, develop their potential, and give them the power of immortality.

This power is afraid of sunlight, but can live underground.

The underground world is located near the bottom of an extinct volcano in Reykjavik, Iceland, and there are some human settlements.

The Order of Hercules is deeper and more distant in the underground mountains.

In addition to the sect's artistic paintings and graphic introductions, this book also explains in detail how to summon spiritual beings - when I saw these things, I just thought it was ridiculous.

But just now, a deformed monster almost ate me, and Margaret was also half-dead. I had to re-examine these strange spells.

"The Hidden Corner of Hercules" focuses on the process of trials, which are used to select the most suitable power seeds, absorb these people into the cult, and make them new members of the church.

The host of this ceremony regarded Margaret as a sacrifice, divided it into sixteen small pieces, and sent them to sixteen different objects in Neusider County and the city. Peanuts and walnuts are also invited.

After these invitees received the blood sacrifices, they became insane and crazy, and could no longer control themselves. Arousing the deep dependence or love for Margaret in their hearts, they will involuntarily start killing each other.

The last one left was Heracles, the new Hercules and the new member selected by the Order.

Ms. Yilan is obviously unwilling to participate in this kind of ritual. She seems to know the secret and has set an ambush at home——

——Walnut and Peanut became her watchdogs. This transformation ritual seems to be related to another book.

Thirty-six pages from "Galahad Magic and Sorcery", there is a complete set of detailed descriptions of [Walkers].

"When we need to conduct some dangerous chemical experiments and magic-related psychic experiments, we can't get started immediately."

"At this time, partners from the spirit world may be able to help us. This ritual can turn dead corpses into living things, such as the more common walking corpses. They can help stir containers, deliver medicine in dangerous environments, and do... Various experiments with psychic compounds.”

"The Wanderer was born. We don't need a complete corpse. It may be too difficult to maintain. Just use a hand or an arm. Prepare enough deodorant for it and do a good job of embalming it. The situation will get better. a lot of."

When I read these inexplicable magic instructions, I just felt like I was living in a movie story.

Was Margaret turned into a waddle by some evil wizard? Her body has become a blood sacrifice used by that mysterious cult to perform evil rituals to induce us to kill each other.

The monster Miss Yilan left behind at home is more powerful than ordinary human walking zombies - just want to use bullets to deal with it? That's too difficult.

It is more than 150 centimeters tall and more than 500 centimeters long. For this weight, it cannot be killed without a shotgun.

If it hadn't been so stupid and clumsy, its body was stuck in the spear thorn of the fence, it bled to death, I really don't know how to deal with it.

How many people did Yilan kill with peanuts and walnuts? Judging from the flesh and blood of this monster, seven or eight invitees must have died here.

I looked at the photos on the wall——

——Although I don’t know how Elan got the list of invitees, at least she did a detailed investigation.

In the apartment building opposite the train station, three German brothers from Madrid, who were often cared for by Margaret, were dead. Turned into dog food.

The landlady of the apartment also died. Margaret and I often visited her with gifts. She almost regarded us as her children. She has six unfilial descendants who are waiting for her to inherit the property when she dies.

The resident of EP·M36, Krim Street, was a conductor at the railway station and a classmate of Margaret in yoga classes. She died.

A Volkswagen salesman who was Margaret's ex-boyfriend with whom she had not had contact for nine years also received Margaret's body and died.

The cleaner who served under the Bayer pest control line came to the apartment every two months to do the pest control work. She was not familiar with Margaret. She may have had a crush on my fiancée. She also died. I was a freak with a deformed head. The yellow plaid fabric seen inside the body is the employee’s clothes.

There are also two retired elderly people from the city hospital. They are a couple. They dislike the coldness of the nursing home and plan to stay in the hospital for a few months. Margaret sent them to live in an apartment. They often talk to each other and like to watch American football. Sai, Margaret who occasionally accompanies them in gardening - died.

There are nine people in total, plus the two portions of walnuts and peanuts.

Wait a minute, I'll double check.

I found the photo of the gift in the apartment building and opened it anxiously. Almost unbelievable -

——It was indeed two parts, Margaret's head was originally split in two.

Her body was so horrible that it looked like a plate of human flesh cake, a small Halloween gift used as a prank. Divide the walnuts and peanuts in half, and then slowly add them together.

So add walnuts and peanuts, and Tom and Naomi.

There were a total of thirteen invitees, as well as Ilan and Ilan, and the fifteen sacrifices should all be in this room, and most of them fell into the hands of Miss Yilan.

Where is the last one?

I rummaged through the desk, and there should be the last invitee, Roger Forgan from the city fire department—this young man once interned at the city hospital, and Margaret took him under his wing for a while. He was only twenty-one years old. age.

In his photos he looks energetic, very young and strong.

His eyes were like two flawless sapphires. After the trial training in the hospital, he went to work in the fire brigade and appeared at Margaret and I's parties more than once.

This young man is very honest, and he also works for a government agency. He has a strong attachment to Margaret, his eldest sister. He lost his mother when he was young - his father was an alcoholic. He needs this kind of warmth, but cannot force it. Maybe it would be better to be friends, but I'm afraid one day we won't have to be friends anymore.

I don't want to fight to the death with Brother Roger. He is so young and a little hero of the city fire department. But this damn curse seems to be ineradicable. It has not spared anyone, except me.

I don’t have those weird hunger pangs, nor do I lose my mind with this morbid possessiveness.

So the question is, where are Margaret’s other limbs? Have they been eaten by these crazy people with dementia?

I went back to the freezer again and found a thigh in the refrigerated section.

Went to the basement and found a part of the frozen, dry body and another arm in another large freezer.

In the small attic bedroom, a movie projection room, I found part of Margaret's waist on the bed. It seemed that Miss Elan had gone crazy - she didn't dare to put Margaret together for fear of Marguerite. Li Te left her after regaining her mobility.

It took me almost three hours, almost dawn, to find all these things.

Back on the first floor, I pieced the body together. All fourteen parts were put together. The naked fiancée could barely stand up. She still had one leg and one hand was missing.

She took a few deep breaths——

——I was almost so nervous that I couldn't breathe. I started crying again. I didn't know how to face all this.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" Margaret gradually exhaled hot air from her mouth. She limped to the cloakroom, found Ms. Yilan's skirt, put it on casually, and then jumped to find it. In the bedroom on the first floor, I borrowed underwear from Miss Yilan.

[Part②·Ritual]

When she came back, she finally remembered me——

——The way she looked at me was like looking at a drowned puppy. Her eyes finally became misty, as if she recognized me, and her head became a little smarter.

"Sam!"

I held her in my arms for what seemed like an eternity.

"Sam! Sam Sam!"

This is my familiar lover, my most important and inseparable partner in life.

I remember how hard she pressed her back. We hugged each other almost every day for more than two thousand days and nights.

"Oh my god." Margaret's hair gradually returned to burgundy. It was like dry straw. "You are almost turning into a little old man."

The little old man was actually talking about the Schnauzer, which is a small dog with dirty hair. Everyone looks fierce.

Maybe I didn't shave, and the past few days have left me with no time to take care of myself. I don't know what to say -

——I just want to hold her tightly.

She had no right leg to support her body, and her calves and soles of her feet were hollow below the knees. The same was true for her other arm. Starting from the half of the upper arm, it looked like it had been cut into two pieces with a sharp knife. There was no blood flowing out of the cut surface of the bright red muscle texture.

This is really weird, but I can feel her heartbeat, the bloodshot eyes in her eyes are fading rapidly, and her breathing, which was originally muddy, slowly returned to normal.

That was her body odor. I knew she had a little bit of Germanic body odor and often used perfume to deodorize. This means that her metabolism has returned to normal and she seems to be really alive.

"What's going on, honey?"

I have so many questions, so many questions.

"I don't know!" Margaret spread out one hand. If she had two hands, she would be scratching her head crazily: "I don't know, my dear! You last month."

I was not in a hurry. I found two bottles of mineral water from the refrigerator and asked Margaret to tell the story slowly.

"I found my death certificate in the hospital? Why?"

Margaret was not good at twisting the bottle cap and did not ask me for help. She naturally turned the bottle cap with her teeth and drank half of the bottle of water. She seemed to have regained some strength. She was thirty years old and already Not a little girl anymore.

"Yes! You were killed by a log falling from the train, Sam!"

When I heard this fact, I could hardly think-

——If I die, who am I now?

On the way to deliver the letter, I was crushed into eight pieces by a train? So why am I still alive?

Have I become a zombie too? Became a shambling monster?

Margaret is a witch? She actually.

"I felt like I couldn't breathe." Margaret interrupted my thoughts: "When I found you in the hospital that day, I felt like the sky was falling apart, Sam."

"It took me all day to come to terms with this, but I couldn't help it"

Margaret pursed her lips aggrievedly and shook her non-existent palms.

"Going back to the path next to the lakeside, I saw the little flower seller under the setting sun——"

"——In the past, when you got off work early on Friday, you would always take care of his business."

"Give me a flower? Buy one for me?"

As Margaret talked about this, she shed more and more tears.

"It seems that he also knew about the car accident. He saw me coming alone and didn't ask where Mr. Sam was."

"I can't accept it. I always feel that you are still with me."

"The flower boy saw me walking to the lake alone, and he followed me. He started crying, and I started crying, Sam."

"It seems that I am getting married next month. This is how I am preparing - but no matter how much I prepare, it seems that I can't defeat God's will."

Margaret went on to say——

"——I went back to the church and continued volunteering, and Elan was with me."

"In the evening, the choir dispersed and everyone was very sad. Father Kevin came over and asked about you."

Kevin Richard, a clergyman at Stephen's Cathedral and Margaret's guide. All volunteers are under his control.

"I told Mr. Kevin the whole story, and he asked me to try again and gave me a bottle of holy water." Margaret's eyes gradually lost focus as she recalled these things: "I found the funeral parlor of the hospital. Steal your body, Sam."

"It's a pity that one or two bones are missing. It's in the soft spot on the back of your left chest, in that place."

"I sprinkled the holy water on you and you seemed to be in pain."

"But he survived in the end."

"I was freaking out because you were screaming and screaming."

Margaret described it as she kept raising her arms to make gestures, with worries on her face.

"I want to find some light source in the house. It's too dark in the woods. Take out the kerosene lamp and flashlight, and you will disappear."

"I found Kevin at St. Stephen's Cathedral again. The old gentleman told me that there is an evil spirit attached to your body and you need to perform exorcism rituals. As long as you complete these rituals, you can truly come back to life."

"I promised him and then I don't remember anything."

Margaret said in a daze——

"——In the darkness, I seemed to feel that something was approaching me."

"I can move my arms and I seem to be able to see the packaging box."

"My legs, feet, and limbs all seem to be disobedient."

"Where are they? Where have they been sent? Why can the flesh on my body feel different temperatures? Have I been torn apart?"

"My diamond ring is going to be taken off?"

"That's when I touched your hand, Sam."