Volume 13: The Son of Darkness, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Happy One Chapter 33 Mission Process
Precisely because they retain this hope, these cult members did not give up, and many of them still stick to their posts, waiting for the salvation that will be brought by successful research.
Of course, there are also members of the cult who have already given up.
When Lu Mei discovered that there were too many cult members in an area, she sneaked into the sewer there and found a rotten bug.
The bug collapsed in a corner of the sewer, and the gorgeous cult robes on his body had been taken off and thrown aside.
"I didn't expect that a stranger would come here." The insect even spoke, and had no desire to attack Lu Mei.
Their area was already very famous at this time. It was the place where time stood still and had attracted a lot of attention.
Many people wanted to obtain this so-called eternity, so naturally a lot of outsiders flocked in in the early days.
More than one battle broke out between locals and outsiders for the land, but in the end most of them turned into zombies.
A small number of people who had just come in and had not yet been contaminated by the Time Worm managed to escape through a special passage. After spreading the horror of the Eternal Land, they attracted another group of people to come.
However, after most of these people stayed in the Eternal Land, gradually no one entered the Eternal Land anymore.
In the early days, some people wanted to obtain the method to unlock the Eternal Land from the Insect Cult, but they all failed.
At this point, they will either become experimental subjects of the Insect Cult, or turn into zombies out of despair.
"I want to untie this land." Lu Mei directly stated her purpose. At present, the insect's body was shriveled in various places. Although it was not a zombie, it was not healthy either. In this case, direct communication was the best way.
"Haha, you all have the same idea." Chongzi said with a smile, but immediately provided the relevant information.
"When the Eternal Land mutated, the leader of the city's academy, Hollander, noticed something was wrong. He conspired with a group of outsiders to seize the holy relics that the cult had used to perform rituals, and then used the relics to open a hole at the edge of the Eternal Land."
"Most outsiders escaped through this opening, which is now the small gate of the South Garden."
"In addition, there were three holy relics that he took away."
"One was transformed into a key by him, but the other two have been lost."
"Because the cult lost the holy relic, no matter how hard they researched, the results they obtained were pitifully small."
"You are the only one who can achieve all this now."
"Only me?" Lu Mei asked with a frown.
"That's right. In order to ensure that there would be no problems with his own door-opening ceremony, Hollander created a lantern to repel most zombies."
"You should have seen it ."
Lu Mei nodded. The lamp she had seen not far from the city gate was the so-called expulsion lamp.
The "old man" living inside is still alive, but the other zombies dare not approach.
The lamp exudes the will to drive away any zombies that approach.
"The people in the cult suffered heavy casualties in that battle. Even the cult leader who had transformed most completely into an insect had traces of zombies on his body."
"The southern garden is surrounded by the lights of expulsion. No one from the cult can enter. We can only wait for the arrival of outsiders."
"However, we sent out several outsiders who had not transformed into zombies, and they would simply "disappear" in the garden. I don't know if there was some kind of danger there that killed them completely, or if they found the key and simply chose to leave."
"In short, the three holy relics, the Time Source Worms created by the ritual, and some Time Fragments produced during the ritual are all closely related to the entire Eternal Land."
"Only by finding them all can we find a way to reverse the impact of the original ritual and eliminate this eternal place."
"Have so many things been thrown away?" Lu Mei couldn't help but ask.
"Don't underestimate the impact of despair on people." Bug said, "With the loss of the holy relic, the research progress of the cult members has been slow to advance."
"More and more members are desperate, and the signs of zombie transformation on their bodies are also increasing. Now is the time to think about ourselves."
"The Time Origin Worm ran away not long after it was born. They couldn't find it, so they naturally took the Time Fragment for themselves."
"These fragments allow them to enjoy the glory of time in this eternal place."
"Since there is no hope of unlocking the Land of Eternity, they want to find a place to live in seclusion and use the Fragments of Time to make their lives better. This is what they want to do."
"If your real purpose is just to leave the Eternal Land, then don't go through so much trouble."
"As long as you find the key of Hollander, at the small door of the south garden, as long as you are not contaminated by the Time Worm, you can leave this eternal land."
"Although there may be unknown dangers in that garden, it is better than falling into despair here."
As Chongzi was talking, he turned over and ignored Lu Mei.
It was as if the NPC had explained everything and was just waiting for the game process to complete before they could communicate again.
Lu Mei digested this information, most of which should be true.
Thinking of this, Lu Mei continued to infiltrate the cult.
It was discovered that most members of the cult, although seemingly very busy, were actually doing nothing.
They are using this method to fight against the degeneration of their own souls.
Over and over again, they performed the timeless ritual they had developed previously, in the absence of the key thing.
If it fails once, do it again, and again and again, in this way, praying that one day the ritual will suddenly succeed.
Lu Mei walked around here for a long time and found that these people's reactions to the outside world had regressed to a certain extent.
As long as you don't approach them as a living person, they will not react but continue to do their own things.
This shows that their transformation into zombies has reached a certain level of severity.
Lu Mei found the information about their rituals.
What is recorded in it is not much different from what was said by the rotten bug, just a little more detailed.
The Bug Cult believes in eternity and they pursue eternal life.
By chance, they discovered the holy relics, which were accumulations of objects with high-level powers.
The power of time is contained in it, so they want to use this method to create a bug that can stabilize its body condition and fight against time.
Then, this worm and the human body will coexist in symbiosis to achieve the eternity of the human body.
Later, they used two holy relics related to eternal life as the cornerstones of the ceremony.
Then the ceremony began.
The ceremony went incredibly smoothly and they completed the relevant preliminary work easily.
And they successfully created the insects they wanted to create, which are the so-called time source insects.
The source worm had no ability at the beginning and only stagnated for a part of the time.
They used the source worm as the mother worm and began to produce a large number of time worms, and strengthened the rituals.
In the end, the Time Worm merged into this area, and the Source Worm decisively escaped and disappeared without a trace.
Only with the help of the ritual, a few fragments of time were peeled off from the time realm and fell into the hands of these people.
The Eternal Body became the Eternal Land, and the entire area was transformed into its current situation.
Then Hollander discovered the problem, and led a group of residents, as well as outsiders attracted by the mutation, to seize the holy relic.
Then, using the southern garden as a base, they created a lantern to repel the enemy and opened the small portal.
As a result, a group of people were seriously injured in the fight with the cult, and died more than once. Their bodies had already been parasitized by the Time Worm.
Even though Hollander opened the small portal, they couldn't leave the Eternal Land.
As a result, civil strife broke out in that team.
Some of them took away two other relics and hid them somewhere unknown.
And it was under such circumstances that the Lamp of Expulsion spread to all parts of the Land of Eternity.
It was at this time that word reached the cult about being able to leave through the small door in the garden.
Afterwards, there was really no one left in the garden. Those who could leave left, and those who could not leave gradually began to behave like zombies. Unable to withstand the large number of driving away lights in the small garden, they were all driven away.
They didn't want to mix with the zombies, so they could only take a small lamp to drive away the zombies, trap themselves, and start an endless wait somewhere in the city.
Afterwards, the cult suffered internal strife, and several pieces of time fragments were stolen by some people in the cult. Except for the rituals, nothing was left of the entire cult.
Lu Mei then looked through some of the information the sect had collected.
It contains information about the whereabouts of the Fragment of Time and two holy relics.
Among them, the "old man" who had previously advised Lu Mei to leave quickly was suspected by them of holding a holy relic.
After memorizing all the above information, Lu Mei began her collection journey.
During this process, she also felt something subtle, as if it was about to invade her body.
However, she used anchors to fix this intrusion and stopped it.
If nothing unexpected happens, those invading creatures are the so-called time worms.
The Time Worms are lost in time; they are invisible and formless and basically unobservable.
In this eternal place, as long as there is change, you will slowly be infected and parasitized.
If injured, the speed of infection and parasitism will continue to accelerate.
Eventually, when it reaches a certain limit, it is completely connected to this eternal land and can no longer be separated from it.
However, Lu Mei has not yet mastered the power of the time world, so she still needs to solve the problem here as soon as possible.
Otherwise, we would have no choice but to leave early through the small portal and give up on rescuing this place.
