Xu Shen's face changed slightly. There was indeed something unusual under the church.
Illuminated by the copper lamps on both sides, the few people walked up the stairs and saw a dark prison in front of them.
There were only a few dim copper lamps on the wall with flickering wicks inside, not the electric lights outside.
Xu Shen knew that the magnetic field of the electric light would show signs of instability under the erosion of the magic force, and the magic force could interfere with it at any time, causing the light to short-circuit and go out.
On the contrary, this ancient oil lamp will not be contaminated by the power of the world.
Waves of rotten, fishy smell like pig offal filled the air.
Xu Shen looked around at the dark cells, where he saw the outlines of hideous figures imprisoned.
The iron bars of this cell are made of Xu stone and are specially used to imprison Xu beasts. They can also be seen in the Xu world.
So many people are imprisoned under this church!
The more Xu Shen looked, the more frightened he became. After he became the leader of the Light Chasing Society, he also learned about the floors of the prison ruins in the Light Chasing Society’s headquarters building, as well as the number of prison ruins. However, compared with what he saw in front of him, it was obviously dwarfed.
"Here it comes, hide quickly."
"Hehe, don't let them see it. Oh, they've already seen it..."
"Woo woo woo, let me out, I want to go back to see my child, my child hasn't eaten for several months..."
"My head hurts so much. Who is talking behind my head? Is it... my sister?"
Various whispers and strange noises were heard.
They were hidden in the darkness and Xu Shen could not see them clearly, but he could hear their voices clearly.
"Do you know what's imprisoned here?"
Seeing Xu Shen's expressionless calmness, the woman behind him couldn't help but speak up with a playful smile in her eyes.
She felt a little regretful for putting the bracelet on Xu Shen to restrain his power, otherwise, when he saw the scene in the cage around him, who knows what kind of interesting reaction he would have.
"What do you want to do?" Xu Shen didn't answer, but asked back.
The scene before him made him realize that the Moon God Cult was by no means an orthodox religion.
Or are these religions no different from other forces and are all like this?
"You'll know soon." The middle-aged leader said coldly.
The woman glanced at Xu Shen's face, with a look of regret in her eyes.
Soon, everyone followed the aisle in the center of the cell and came to a place that looked like a torture chamber.
Seeing the numerous torture instruments stained with black blood on the wall, Xu Shen's face turned ugly: "Are you trying to abuse lynching? If I hurt me, I won't let your dead be resurrected. If you are willing, I can be loyal to your Moon God Cult."
He only hoped to delay time and hold out until the reinforcements that Mu Wang had mentioned arrived.
Or you may have the opportunity to use your own trump card.
"Don't get me wrong."
The old man in the white robe in front turned around with a compassionate look on his face: "This is not torture. Punishment will only make the criminals afraid, but they will not truly repent. This is a purification field to purify the sins and stupidity in your heart."
"Is there any difference?" Xu Shen gritted his teeth.
"Of course."
The old man in the snow-white robe clasped his hands together with a pious look, and said: "You have committed a sin. According to the law, you should be executed directly, but our Lord, the Moon God, has mercy on the world. Even for criminals who have sunk into the abyss, he is still willing to redeem them. From now on, you will listen to the Moon God's teachings here, and guard the ruins here to atone for your sins."
Xu Shen looked into his kind eyes and was shocked to find that there was not a trace of malice in them.
But that feeling made him feel even colder.
This old man has gone crazy!
"Is it Xu who is imprisoned here? If I am to guard them, I need to remove the bracelet." Xu Shen immediately said, "I am willing to cooperate."
"I'm willing."
The old man in the snow-white robe showed a gratified look, took Xu Shen to the chair next to him, and put his hands on his shoulders: "Sit down."
Xu Shen was forced to sit on the chair.
The black metal chair was covered in blood, and there were sharp protruding metal spikes on the armrests. In the corners of the chair seams, there were sticky minced meat and slippery broken internal organs.
Obviously, something extremely cruel happened on this chair.
The moment he sat down, Xu Shen smelled a strong stench emanating from the chair, completely surrounding him.
At this moment, Xu Shen seemed to be back home again.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Shen realized that something was wrong. In his eyes, the old man's kind eyes looked like a devil's smile.
"You are a sinful body, and a ruin slayer. Your filthy body must be baptized and reborn. Only then will you be qualified to listen to the Moon God's teachings and raise these sinful beasts for my master."
The old man in the snow-white robe smiled and said, "Otherwise, if the holy voice of our Lord falls into the ears of the sinful body, it will be our blasphemy."
Xu Shen was a little surprised and angry, "How to baptize? What exactly do you want to do?"
"Since it is a sinful body, it is natural to deprive it of its sins..." The old man in the snow-white robe said softly. He lifted the chain on the chair with his palm and locked Xu Shen's hands to the chair.
Xu Shen tried to struggle, but his strength was restrained at this moment, and he was easily pinned down by the old man's dry fingers.
Seeing the different expressions of the people in front of him, Xu Shen's pupils widened, but anger and powerlessness surged in his heart. He regretted following them into the inner city, but the painful thing was that he had no other choice.
Escape, where can you escape to?
Being unable to change and having no other choice is despair.
"I was framed." Xu Shen gritted his teeth and tried to persuade: "Besides, I am the leader of the Chasing Light Society and I am also working for the big shots in the inner city. Give me some time, I will definitely help you find the murderer!"
"Being framed is also stupid." The old man in the snow-white robe sighed and said, "This is a sin, child."
He gently stroked Xu Shen's head with his palm, bringing warmth.
Like a kind old grandfather loving his grandson.
But Xu Shen had seen through the madness hidden under his compassionate face, and hurriedly asked: "But the real murderer is at large, are you just going to let it go?"
"You don't need to worry about this. If there really is a murderer, we will investigate further." The middle-aged leader sneered, "Besides, you have already come here. Do you think you can leave without any trouble?"
Xu Shen felt a chill in his heart.
Indeed, at this point, killing people has nothing to do with him.
After seeing the true face of the church, they obviously wouldn't let him leave easily.
"Clean knife."
The old man in the snow-white robe said softly.
Someone immediately took down a small, black, blood-stained scimitar from the wall and handed it to him.
"What are you going to do?" Xu Shen was shocked and angry.
"You are plagued by sins, and we can only peel off your sins along with your skin. If you can survive, it means that you have been blessed by our Lord, proving that you are qualified to be redeemed." The old man in the snow-white robe said softly.
Xu Shen's pupils contracted.
Skinning?
Seeing the look in the old man's eyes, Xu Shen got a certain answer. The other party wanted to... skin him alive!
"I'm the leader of the Light Chasing Society, I... I know the Mo family, I know the Jiang family!" Seeing the blade getting closer and closer, Xu Shen could smell a strong odor on it. He hurriedly reported the forces he knew, hoping to delay time.
"It doesn't matter who you know. In front of my Lord, we are all mortals."
The old man in the snow-white robe said kindly, "It is precisely because you are the leader of the Light Chasing Society that you have the opportunity to receive the blessing of our Lord. Otherwise, you would be executed directly. Do you understand?"
As the words fell, the blade fell.
The knife hit Xu Shen's eyebrows. Xu Shen immediately felt the cold blade cutting along his eyebrows, and a burning pain came out.
Then the blade cut along the scalp.
The severe pain made Xu Shen scream out.
"I, I am still the captain of the Xumi Bureau!"
"It's useless, they are just the power of Dicheng." The old man smiled, as if he was chatting with someone he was familiar with, but the blade in his hand was extremely sharp, his palm was steady, and he cut all the way along the scalp.
It was the first time that Xu Shen was so close to death and felt such personal pain.
Blood flowed, staining his eyeballs red, and his hands were tied, making him unable to struggle.
"Recite the Bible of our Lord. It can help you relieve your pain." The old man's voice was full of compassion, and he said softly: "You teach him to recite, and recite the seventh chapter, the one about our Lord, the Moon God, saving the evil master of the Ruins Sea and bringing light to the world."
The five people beside him nodded slightly and chanted in unison:
"O Lord, God of the Moon, please hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me."
"We must be like infants in order to enter the Kingdom of God, for the Kingdom of God belongs to children."
"Honor the Lord, and He will love Him; seek the Lord earnestly, and He will come to you."
"True life can only be seen in the loss of oneself..."
The voices of several people overlapped, like ancient scriptures, surrounding Xu Shen in this dark torture chamber.
The scripture is accompanied by screams, which is out of place.
"True life can only be seen in the loss of oneself ..."
During the recitation, the blade in the hand of the old man in the snow-white robe moved extremely skillfully, slowly cutting through Xu Shen's skin. Soon the head was completely peeled off, revealing the bloody scalp and face inside, which looked hideous and painful.
With a gentle expression and steady technique, he began to cut towards the neck.
"Don't move. It's easy to cut the blood vessels and arteries here." He said softly.
Xu Shen screamed in great pain. The words around him were sometimes clear and sometimes blurred. Without the protection of the epidermis, his flesh and blood were exposed to the air. At this moment, Xu Shen felt like billions of sharp needles piercing his face. The burning pain made his entire face feel like it was burning, burning him so much that he could hardly think.
The sound of chanting vaguely permeated my mind.
True life can only be seen in the loss of oneself...
Real life...
Xu Shen gritted his teeth, feeling the blade passing over his neck. Despite the severe pain, he did not dare to struggle and tried his best to restrain himself.
"You must recite and repent along, so that you can receive the blessing of our Lord." The old man said softly.
Xu Shen gritted his teeth and said nothing.
The old man did not say anything, but just cut with the blade, and the speed of skinning increased significantly. The severe pain of tearing made Xu Shen's back wet, and blood rolled down his forehead and face, dropping like sweat beads.
Neck, shoulders, arms, chest.
The blade cuts through the epidermis and then separates the fascia and flesh underneath.
Xu Shen fainted due to the severe pain.
But soon, Xu Shen woke up in pain again.
He forced his eyes open, and in the blood-red blurry darkness, in addition to the old man in front of him, he saw a figure standing in mid-air behind the old man.
Maeve...
Xu Shen opened his mouth slightly, he looked at Maeve's pure face and wanted to call her name.
But when the words came to his lips, he held them back.
If Maeve came and killed them all, how would she treat herself?
If she was really willing to help her and help him escape from here, how far could he escape?
The entire real world...where is there a place for me?
Moreover, once this boundary is broken, will they still be able to accompany each other... simply like they do now?
Looking at Xu Shen's blurred and painful eyes, Maeve was also staring at her quietly. The usual smile on her face was gone, and she was just staring at Xu Shen's eyes quietly.
She seemed to be waiting, waiting for Xu Shen's sincere call.
But seeing Xu Shen's eyes gradually closing, Maeve couldn't help but sigh and feel depressed, and whispered to herself: "After all, are you still reluctant to give up your own world?"
Xu Shen closed his eyes in pain.
He clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, and said nothing more.
The skin all over his body was slowly cut off by the blade. The old man looked at the young man who was trembling all over but clenching his teeth. A glimmer of light appeared in his eyes, and he was a little surprised. Such tenacious willpower was beyond many people he had seen.
As the blade turned, half of Xu Shen's skin was peeled off.
With his flesh and blood exposed, Xu Shen didn't dare to lean on the chair back again. The uneven metal particles on the chair back and the rotten flesh and blood remaining on the particles made his skin feel stinging, inflamed and infected.
The five moon-robed law enforcers all showed a solemn look in their eyes. The endurance of this young man from Dicheng was beyond their imagination.
As the skin and flesh peeled off, soon all the skin on Xu Shen's body was cut off.
Blood had already flowed down the chair, and the entire chair seemed to have been fished out of the blood, with blood falling like rain.
If it were an ordinary person, he would have died from such severe pain.
Even if he could endure the pain, he would most likely die due to such a large amount of blood loss.
But Xu Shen is a Xu Cutter, and he has Xu power to protect him, so skinning is not fatal enough for him.
After all, someone like Mo Qinghao can regenerate his head even if it explodes. Although Xu Shen is not a user of reconstruction ability, he has entered the second form after all and is already an extraordinary life.
As the almost complete skin was peeled off, the old man in the snow-white robe threw it on the table next to him. He then looked at the bloody young man on the chair. At this moment, he could no longer see the man's face and his body was a mess of blood and flesh.
But he could see that the boy was awake and not fainted.
“Does it hurt?” The old man said softly, “Thank God’s blessing, you have successfully washed away your sins. I hope you can take good care of these sinful ruins for me in the future, so that they can also receive God’s grace.”
Xu Shen's teeth and eyes were tightly closed, and he said nothing.
"Unlock the restraining ring on his feet and just lock it on his feet." said the old man in the snow-white robe.
The middle-aged leader nodded slightly, took out the key and unlocked the ring in Xu Shen's hand. With a click, the bracelet opened. He glanced at Xu Shen and was not worried that Xu Shen would suddenly attack him at this moment.
He was already prepared, and Xu Shen had no weapons with him, and his combat uniform had been peeled off along with his skin.
He locked the restraining ring on Xu Shen's feet.
During this process, Xu Shen felt that his power was slowly recovering.
The moment the bracelet was untied, the internal energy slowly emerged, like tightly kneaded cotton, gradually becoming fluffy. He could feel it, but it was extremely weak.
As his feet were locked, this vague perception seemed to weaken a little, but he could still barely perceive it.
Xu Shen immediately mobilized his strength to stop the bleeding.
But he found that the force could only be mobilized to the area above the chest, from the abdomen to the waist and below. The force could not sink down, as if there was some kind of resistance.
The resistance comes from the rings on the feet.
This ring can force back the internal force, but it doesn't seem to be as advanced as Xu Shen imagined. It is not a full-body blockade. At this moment, it is locked on the feet, which can only block the internal force of the lower body. No wonder it was locked on the wrist before, resulting in both the upper and lower parts being blocked.
"Now, take away the sin from your body."
The old man in the snow-white robe said softly.
Xu Shen suddenly opened his eyes.
"Don't worry, kid. We won't hurt you. We're just removing the Xu soldiers from your body. These things are no longer suitable for you." The old man in a snow-white robe said kindly.
Xu Shen looked at him deeply, gritted his teeth and did not resist.
At this moment, he is like a fish on the chopping board. In front of him is not just the old man, but the power behind him.
It was this power that forced him to follow them willingly.
As long as you live in reality, you cannot escape it.
The old man in the snow-white robe suddenly patted Xu Shen's chest lightly. Xu Shen suddenly felt his heartbeat suddenly burst and his breathing stopped.
The next moment, weapons fell from his bloody body.
The brief attack earlier caused Xu Shen's Xu force to break, and the Xu force in his whole body was blocked. This blockade was more thorough than the rings on his feet, making it impossible for the Xu soldiers in his body to sense the Xu force.
Gloves, black blood, masks... As the soldiers fell, the old man in the snow-white robe immediately grabbed them all with his palm.
When he got the mask, the old man in the snow-white robe let out a light exclamation and his expression changed slightly.
"Jiang family's mask?"
Thinking of Xu Shen's previous words, the old man in the snow-white robe couldn't help but look at Xu Shen. He didn't expect that this young man from Dicheng actually knew the Jiang family, and was the Ghost Moon General of the Jiang family!
"Why is his last name Xu according to the information?" The old man in the snow-white robe looked at the five moon-robed law enforcers around him with a gloomy expression.
The five people also saw the mask and were all shocked. They didn't expect that Xu Shen was actually a member of the Jiang family.
Could it be a hidden chess piece buried by the Jiang family in the bottom city?
Including Xu Shen's surname...
"Lord, Bishop, we were not aware of this." The middle-aged leader said hurriedly, cold sweat oozing from his forehead.
The old man in the snow-white robe held the mask, frowning. After a moment, he sighed and said, "The Jiang family was close to our Pope in the early years and received God's grace. Unfortunately, the Jiang family gradually deviated from the will of our Lord and failed God's grace. Well, if I had known that you were from the Jiang family, I would have sent you back to the Jiang family for our old friendship."
"But now that things have come to this, you have been cleansed of your sins, so stay here."
He shook his head, took off the mask, and turned to look at the five people around him: "The people you arrested are only the criminals in the bottom city, do you understand?"
The five people turned pale and lowered their heads hurriedly: "Understood!"
The old man in the snow-white robe nodded slightly. This matter was also related to these five people. He believed that they would not talk nonsense.
"you……"
Anger welled up in Xu Shen's eyes. He thought he saw hope, but he didn't expect that they were actually planning to cover it up.
"You should take good care of yourself. When your wounds are healed, get up on time tomorrow and listen to prayers." said the old man in the snow-white robe. He put away his weapons and ordered someone to take away the leather bag next to him.
Upon hearing that, the woman immediately stepped forward and picked up the bloody skin that had been peeled off.
But as soon as her fingers touched, her pupils suddenly contracted rapidly, as if something in her mind was triggered. She screamed "Ah", her eyes rolled back, tears and blood flowed from her eye sockets, and she fell down.
This sudden scene startled the people who were about to leave. Their faces changed and they quickly took defensive postures and looked at Xu Shen.
From the information from the Light Chasing Club, they knew that Xu Shen was the second form.
So do they.
But the Light Chasing Club is not clear about Xu Shen’s abilities.
"What's going on?" The old man in a snow-white robe frowned. His expression was relatively calm. He glanced at Xu Shen, and then his pupils turned dark gray. He activated his Xu Eye and looked towards where the woman was.
He even suspected that it was an attack from Shen Ceng Xu.
But after checking with the Xuyan, no signs of Xu were seen.
He frowned slightly, walked up to the woman, picked up her body, and found that she was dead and not breathing.
The second form... died so easily?
Although this woman is not a user of reconstruction abilities, her vitality is definitely not so fragile.
Could it be an infectious disease?
The old man glanced at Xu Shen. At this moment, Xu Shen's power was blocked, so it was impossible for him to take action.
He believed that the second form could not kill people right under his nose.
He looked at the skin that Xu Shen had peeled off, reached out and touched it, and found that there was nothing wrong.
He had touched every inch when skinning the animal before, and nothing had happened.
He watched the blood oozing out of the woman's ears and eyes. His eyes moved slightly. He took out a clean knife, cut open the woman's head, and immediately saw a strange scene.
The woman's intracranial tissue turned into maggots.
There was something squirming inside its head, and there was a hole in it, as if... someone had pierced it with a finger!
The old man's pupils shrank slightly. He found such a strange scene difficult to understand.
Could it be that this woman had died a long time ago?
"this……"
The other four people also saw this horrifying scene and saw the maggots wriggling in the woman's brain. These maggots were extremely large and were crawling and surging.
It was hard to imagine that with such a scene in her mind, the woman could still talk as if nothing had happened.
"Perhaps this is some terrible disease that has never been seen before."
The old man in the snow-white robe covered his mouth and nose slightly, covered her head, and said in a low voice: "It is her sin to desecrate this sacred place. Take her out and send her to the Steam Association to let them see what happened."
The four of them looked at each other and could only bite the bullet and pick up the woman's body.
"Nothing happened on your way to the bottom city, right?" the old man asked with a frown.
The four of them looked at each other, and suddenly someone remembered that when the woman tried to violate Xu Shen in the car, she suddenly screamed and covered her head, as if she was feeling a little uncomfortable at the time.
The man immediately explained the situation.
Several people looked at Xu Shen, and the old man asked, "Did you put a confinement ring on him at that time?"
"Yes." The young man scratched his head, confusion in his eyes. Does that mean it wasn't Xu Shen who did it?
The old man in the snow-white robe groaned for a moment and said, "Take him out first and let the Steam Association take a look."
Seeing this, the few people could only agree. They suddenly became more wary of Dicheng. They had heard that the place was dirty and messy and that plagues had occurred there many times. They didn't expect that such a big thing would happen when they just went there.
Taking the woman's body, several people left the place one after another.
Xu Shen saw their backs as they left and the chains that had not been untied. He tried to break free, but to no avail.
The woman's death was obviously caused by Maeve.
As for how she did it, Xu Shen didn't know.
Pain and coldness came over me.
At this moment, Xu Shen's thighs and buttocks were pressed against the seat. The sticky blood almost stuck his body to the chair, and the stinging and burning pain seemed to burn his sanity away.
"Hehe, there's more delicious food coming."
"The one I sent last time was eaten by you guys, and I didn't have time to enjoy it. This time it's my turn."
"My child hasn't eaten yet. He hasn't eaten for several months. It's my turn."
As the old man in the snow-white robe left, the sounds in the dark cage became clearer, and all kinds of strange tones and strange words were heard.
Xu Shen sat on the bloody chair, surrounded only by darkness and ruins.
At this moment, he felt like he was back at the dining table at home again.
Only this time, there was no dining table.
Moreover, he was in more pain than at home.
"Mom" said it was dangerous outside...turns out it's true.
But... I'm already out.
How can these dangers be avoided? If they cannot be avoided, then what should we do?
Should we... eliminate all these dangers?
erase……
Erase all...
Xu Shen's gaze became deeper and deeper in the darkness, as if he had completely merged with the darkness.
The strange laughter around him seemed to affect Xu Shen's emotions, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.
Just erase it...
In the darkness, one cannot perceive the passage of time or the change of day and night.
The weakness caused by excessive blood loss made Xu Shen's mind gradually become confused. The surface of the flesh on his back had dried up, and the blood skin was like wrinkled peanuts after drying, but with a layer of dry and hard scab.
The scab-like skin that looked like coagulated flesh and blood allowed Xu Shen to lean back on the chair.
He slowly leaned back and fell asleep.
for a long time.
for a long time.
In the darkness, Xu Shen heard the sound of scriptures being chanted coming from above his head.
"As long as my Lord is here, therefore I live..."
"…hide your face from my sins…"
"True life can only be seen in the loss of oneself..."
Xu Shen slowly opened his eyes.
But what he saw was still the dark torture chamber around him and the hideous figure looming in the cage.
After a few hours, the scripture disappeared. Not long after, Xu Shen heard footsteps and saw an old man in a snow-white robe walking out of the darkness.
The old man glanced at Xu Shen who was sitting on the chair. At this moment, Xu Shen was covered in blood and flesh. Although the bleeding had stopped and the wounds had dried up, he still looked extremely hideous.
There was a look of satisfaction in his eyes, and he smiled and said, "Congratulations, you have completed your new life."
Xu Shen stared at him.
"Don't hate me. When you feel the grace of our Lord, you will thank me." The old man smiled slightly, untied the chain on the chair for Xu Shen, and said, "From today on, you have to start working."