Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 516 Winter
This is a form similar to the Black Blade Messenger's projection into the conscious world, except that the starting point and destination are reversed. At this moment, neither Milo nor Dirasha are their complete forms, nor are they projections; rather, they are in a mysterious state similar to incarnations.

Because Milo was summoned, and he also dragged Dirasha along.

Actually, we didn't have to bring Dirasha, but considering that the real purpose of this trip was to "incite hatred," then besides ourselves, the person most hated by the temple was probably this "traitor" who possessed the blessing.

“I feel I need to make a statement: this strange summoning ritual was definitely not designed by me.” Milo squatted down and examined the cold, frost-covered limbs, then shook his head. “Transcending the barriers between worlds is a desecration of order and rules. Almost all summoning rituals require blood as a price, and some are even more demanding and bizarre.”

Like the ceremony that recently took place in Nanwei City.

First, nearly a hundred black goat calves need to be summoned, then a lewd atmosphere needs to be created throughout the city, and finally, the calves will summon the incarnation of the Supreme Mother Goddess.

In comparison, the twenty survivors who died here were not many, but their deaths were extremely cruel.

...

"It seems that the old witch was right. To a soul that is desperate enough, even the devil can be a god."

Dirac, who also served as the funeral director within the church, habitually performed a golden ratio prayer gesture facing the deceased.

For those who perform the summoning ritual, they don't even have the chance to know whether the ritual will succeed or not, because the necessary condition for completing the ritual is to offer their own lives. Even though the price is so heavy, they accept it without hesitation.

The corpses, laid out in specific poses on the ground, were completely frozen.

In the center of their circle was a rusty metal fragment.

This was a material that Milo had never encountered before. He picked up the fragment, but he couldn't resonate with it in any way; it seemed to be just an ordinary piece of iron.

After praying for the severed limbs wrapped in thin animal hides, Dirachoon slowly rose and asked Milo:

"Did you hear their prayers? I mean, these people, who have paid such a high price, must have some demands that they couldn't fulfill on their own."

However, Milo did not respond to this, but instead said, "Do me a favor and bury these people."

……

It is late at night, and some faint lights can be seen in the sky, similar to those that Milo saw in the Tomb of Sin. The Dreamland is a world without the sun, and the source of its warm radiation is those ethereal lights.

However, the light here is very faint.

...

Only after the remains of twenty people were sorted out and buried, completing the most rudimentary burial ceremony, did Milo realize from the perspective of the dead how long the night in the forbidden land would be.

The shimmering light in the sky here will be weak for months during the long winter. Even in summer, there will only be one or two days a week when the intensity of the shimmering light is strong enough to be called "daytime". That is only when the shimmering light of "Os-Nargai" accumulates to a serious excess and leaks into the restricted area.

Every winter, the nights become incredibly long.

The light focused only on the area above "Os-Nargai," a territory recognized by the gods, since the forbidden zone was "uninhabited" by the people there.

There are no large wild animals to hunt in the restricted area, and the long nights make it difficult for any crops to survive. Therefore, most of the plants that can be seen in the windy, sandy, and icy restricted area are not green, and they wither away in large numbers during the winter.

The same applies to the survivors here. The meager food reserves they accumulated during the short summer were insufficient to sustain the entire tribe through the harsh winter. Therefore, when the long winter nights began, some of the sick or elderly tribesmen had to leave the tribe, because they had to leave the remaining food to the younger generation so that the tribe could continue.

These twenty people who chopped themselves up in the dead of winter were the victims forced to leave their tribe on a winter night.

Faced with certain death, these twenty people either clung to life like their ancestors, eventually freezing to death, or they began to kill each other while they still had the strength, resorting to cannibalism. Only the survivors could survive the deep winter by eating the flesh and blood of their own kind.

But at the beginning of this year, a scarlet robe drifted in from the west, giving the survivors a third option.

This is the summoning ritual that has been performed so far.

……

"The belief in gods is not allowed in the tribes of the remnants of the Ming dynasty."

Milo removed his hand from the cold mound of earth and said calmly, "Why?" Dillashau asked.

“Their ancestors were those who fought against the gods,” Milo said, scoffing.

"Did you win?"

"What do you think?"

"Too……"

...

……

Therefore, it is not difficult to understand why a blasphemer like Milo, who would be considered a sinner anywhere else, whether in the waking world or the dream world, could be embraced by these pitiful people in the remote Eastern Forbidden Zone, because the blood of god-slaying flows in their veins.

Of course, not all the survivors were "bewitched" by the Red Witch.

These branches, located in various corners of the forbidden zones, contain some stubborn conservatives who believe that any superior who demands their faith is malicious and no different from the gods.

For them, despite being the defeated in the war of conquest and being driven to this desolate land, they refused to pray to any superior, for it would be a desecration of their ancestral conquerors.

To put it bluntly, in their eyes, Milo and the gods are birds of a feather.

Therefore, those remaining people within the forbidden zone who approved of and followed Milo's god-killing actions suffered terrible persecution.

In some tribes, they became the tribe's food reserves for the winter.

In contrast, among the more lenient groups, they were simply expelled and became victims of the harsh winter.

The twenty people Dirac had just buried were not old, weak, or disabled; some were even teenagers. These people should have stayed in the tribe's cave to endure the deep winter and become the new generation to continue the bloodline. But because of their ancestral "blasphemous acts," they ultimately perished in the cold winter night.

……

"That's fate. Fate has no right or wrong."

If you really delve into the details and analyze the true cause of death for these people, you will eventually find that all the survivors are murderers.

Dillah Shaw said in a deep voice:

"At least they died with hope."

"That's the only way I can console myself," Milo shook his head.

The cold sandstorm swept across the wasteland.

Milo and Dirac's shadows appeared and disappeared intermittently.

But on the wasteland, besides the two of them, there was another figure that was clearer and thinner.

……

In fact, Milo and Dirac had noticed the existence of this... child long ago.

The other party thought they were hiding in a very secluded location.

But the sounds of his hair fluttering, his breathing, and the taut bowstring all reached Milo and Dirac's ears with perfect clarity.

To Milo's surprise, he couldn't see a trace of fear in those innocent eyes hidden in the shadows.

(End of this chapter)