Ke-style law enforcement officers

Chapter 819 The Upside-Down Tree
So they successfully dragged Rebecca to the living room.

The next steps were as follows: First, place petite Enid on the table, then have Rebecca sit down, then turn to the corresponding page of the diary and push it in front of her:

"Come on, read this passage aloud."

"1840 years..."

"No, just read on, and start from any section in the middle."

"Um... my dear Chief Enforcer pulled my legs around my waist... what the hell is this?!" (Almost flips the table)
But Milo pressed the table down with one hand.

He clearly sensed a slight fluctuation in the dormant will within the Enid doll, so he said to Rebecca, "Start reading from the third paragraph."

Seeing that Milo's serious expression didn't seem like he was joking, Rebecca was still skeptical, but she took the diary back and continued reading the text:

"I love Rebecca's expression, especially when the chief enforcer finally sat on my face... I fucking LOVES!"

Rebecca really didn't have the ability to read the rest aloud herself.

The vivid words in that diary were like hot irons, the smoke stinging her eyes while simultaneously searing and defiling her soul.

Even just a quick glance revealed that Rebecca's neck and above were already frighteningly red; one might mistake her for a descendant of the Balrog.

...

"Another roast duck, please?"

Rebecca turned her head and found that Emma had moved a chair over and sat down next to her at some point, her hands supporting her chin and her eyes shining.

“Then I’ll read it.” Milo snatched the diary from the side and read aloud in a reciting tone: “I messed up the case, and the chief enforcer said he’d punish me severely…”

Click!

The chief of staff was truly desperate; she drew her gun and pressed it against Milo's head.

Milo wisely tossed the diary to Emma.

Emma tilted her head and glanced at it:
"Hiss... Little Yi even dreamed about your habit of handling guns... Listen to this—she put the barrel of that revolver, still warm from her body, into mine..."

"boom!"

Rebecca fired a shot straight at the ceiling.

The gunshot successfully masked the word Emma was about to utter.

...

Moreover, the shot precisely severed the chandelier's fixed position, causing it to crash down with a loud bang, shattering its glass structure into pieces.

At that moment, Yan Zheng pushed open the door and entered.

Lord Night Demon was startled again.

In his mind, when those three women came together, the Valrocan family home would be one of the most dangerous places in the world, and something terrible was bound to happen there sooner or later, and no one could save the family.

So when he saw the smoking gun barrel in the red-haired madwoman's hand and the shattered chandelier on the ground, he didn't waste a second of thought and immediately turned and ran.

...

That red-haired madwoman has somehow honed her skills over the years; she can now blast a huge hole in the face of someone in a high position with a single shot.

As for that black-haired madwoman, she's even more formidable. It's said that even when she was just an ordinary person, she dared to blow up a noble count in the street. During the Blood Moon Cataclysm, she even planned to detonate something terrifying with Milo, perishing together with the gods.

If this fight really breaks out, even ten Night Demons wouldn't be able to hold it back.

The wisest choice is to make a quick getaway.

...

"stop!"

As expected, Yan was stopped in his tracks as soon as he turned around.

"Sigh..." He sighed and muttered, "I love you, Xiao Yan."

Then he walked firmly back to the living room of the Valrocan family.

……

Yan breathed a sigh of relief only after understanding the whole story.

The farce ended in failure to awaken petite Enid.

Enid remained unmoved, lying face down on the table, while Rebecca was the one who got really angry.

...

With a combination of coaxing and persuasion, they finally managed to calm the person down.

Milo finally had a chance to ask Yan: "Why are you here in the middle of the night instead of going to the city to stir up trouble?"

"Oh!" Yan then remembered the purpose of his trip and quickly said:

"I almost forgot! I came to tell you that the fog on the outskirts of the city has lifted a bit, and the church has reappeared!"

"what?"

Milo carried the petite Enid.

"Go, have a look."

……

...

Behind the majestic high bridge stands a clock tower that keeps people at a distance.

That familiar scene, etched against the backdrop of the gathering mist, appeared both profound and magical.

The Milo family has deep ties to the church and the Golden Tree; their fates are intertwined, and the source of all turmoil can be traced back to this high bridge.

...

When they first returned to Nanwei City, neither Takahashi nor the church could be seen here.

But Yan wasn't lying; they really did appear.

This indicates that the church exists in Enid's dream.

...

"I hope Dirac won't pop out of there in a minute."

Milo muttered to himself.

They walked straight across the bridge to the familiar Prayer Square, but Dillachao did not appear.

In fact, the believers who could be seen even late at night were nowhere to be seen at this time. Not only believers, but even the church's clergy could not be seen.

The entire prayer square was deserted.

There were no hymns emanating from the cathedral above the steps.

Yes, the church was empty, with no one inside, yet the surrounding inanimate objects did not appear old or dilapidated, and the holy water for washing one's face in front of the cathedral had never ceased, as if a grand prayer ceremony had been held here just yesterday.

Nowadays, the only thing that still has a semblance of "human presence" in the corridors is the collection of unfamiliar faces depicted in the murals.

...

The cathedral, corridors, dormitory area, Star Tower, and main cathedral were all deserted.

If I had to pinpoint any difference between this church and the one I remember, it would probably be the golden tree sculpture deep inside the church.

In the church of the enlightened world, the golden tree sculpture is a vibrant image, and the young archbishop, who has lived for countless years, often kneels before the sculpture to pray.

But now the sculpture has become an upside-down golden tree.

It looked as if someone had dug it out of the ground.

Every branch and leaf withered and decayed, drooping towards the ground like the feet of a notorious criminal hanged under a high bridge in the old days...

The once lush and vibrant branches and leaves have now been replaced by grotesque and twisted roots.

...

Upside-down golden tree...

What kind of omen is it?

Does this mean the God of the Golden Tree has met with misfortune? Or... has some kind of anomaly occurred? Whatever it signifies, Milo feels a sense of déjà vu about this scene.

After thinking carefully, I quickly found a corresponding pattern in my memory.

...

A hint of seriousness appeared in his eyes.

...

That was a rainy night several years ago.

Milo entered the underground pipe network from the storm drain at the South City Enforcement Office.

At a fork in the road, he saw the first ancient totem he had ever acquired in his life, or at least he had always thought it was one of the ancient totems.

Driven by some inexplicable and bizarre force, Robben's daughter's body painted on the wall a totem of an upside-down golden tree.

It was that totem that became the opportunity for Milo to advance to the level of a Spy.

He always believed that it was just a sign or script left by ancient gods.

But the church sculptures now prove that things are far more complicated than Milo thought.

At least, after all these years, he has never figured out what that grotesque totem of the upside-down golden tree really represents.

……

...

"There's nobody else around."

At this time, Yan, Emma, ​​and the others, who were scattered throughout the church, also returned one by one.

Rebecca returned to the church and shook her head at Milo, saying:

Daisy isn't here.

However, Milo said:
"I think I know another place."

...

……

He had been to that place more than once.

Unseen lands.

In the unfinished latter part of the church, there are the ruins of the Sumerians. Through a series of broken ancient bridges, mechanical elevators and ruin tunnels, one can reach the ancient ruins beneath the surface and finally arrive at the Sumerian altar.

Here, Milo and his companions finally found the only thing in the entire church that could be considered a "living thing".

That thing is at the bottom of the worship pit.

...

"This is where the golden tree once took root, and it was also the altar of the Sumerians."

Milo walked to the edge of the dark, giant pit.

"The Golden Tree died in the world of lucidity, but was reborn in the dream world through the power of faith, and thus achieved its divinity. The remaining remains, the part that was not completely burned by fire, were eaten by an insect."

He did not mention to Rebecca that Daisy had thrown abandoned believers into the worship pit to feed them worms.

Instead, after a moment of silence, he shouted into the worship pit:
"get out!"

...

The termite at the bottom of the pit knows Milo.

It must have died in the Blood Moon Cataclysm, when the Unseen Lands had become the Crimson Mountains.

But for some reason, in Enid's dream, in the created city of Nanwei, the termites came back to life.

Perhaps this is what the Three Ladies of Sorrow meant when they said that fallen gods might be able to return from the abyss with the help of powerful dream weavers...

But how exactly?
...

……

The sound of heavy objects wriggling began to emanate from the worship pit.

After some time, a bulky object peeked out from the darkness.

It was a giant worm.

Besides its countless tentacles and fangs that are separated to the left and right, what is most chilling about its head are the four pairs of insect eyes on the top of its head.

...

But Milo sensed something was off the moment he saw the guy.

"Something's wrong."

Countless jet-black roots pierced through its massive, fleshy body below its head, each one deeply embedded in its trunk—or, to be precise, the roots grew out of its body.

These roots, twisted and grotesque in shape, are exactly the same as those depicted on the upside-down golden tree sculpture deep inside the main cathedral...

...

When the termite's gaze locked onto Milo, its four pairs of eyes revealed extreme malice and unfamiliarity.

The real termites are dead.

Now, something else resides within it.

...

It opened its mouthparts and hissed at this person.

"hiss!!!!"

But the next second, the terrifying roar turned into human speech.

The voices were a mix of those of elderly women, young children, adult women, and men.

"Valrokan..."

The termite's eyes were not ultimately fixed on Milo, but on the petite Inid hanging from Milo's waist.

The distorted voice vomited out the words it wanted to say, one by one:
"Since...you...are unwilling to kill the possibility of the god's return..."

"Then please... erase all living things that could become divine bodies."

“Remember… all those who will return from the abyss… will no longer be the gods of yesteryear…”

“I… am no longer the golden tree I once was…”

"Therefore, it is imperative to...eradicate them..."

"hiss!!!!"

The desperate, sorrowful words ceased, and the hissing of the termites once again took over.

...

The terrifying roots within the massive body of the woodworm began to wriggle.

This scene resembled the one when Milo was cursed with roots, but he knew very well that the roots that had once clung to him were merely a trick used by the servants of the Golden Tree, while the ones currently inside the worms exuded a strong aura of chaos.

Daisy also told Milo that the termites that gnawed at the remains of the golden tree were essentially taking over the only blessing He had left in the waking world.

Now, it has been resurrected and become the so-called "divine body".

...

He was quite familiar with this title.

...

"So, can we start now?"

Looking behind him, he saw that the revolver and the Night Demon's wings were ready to strike.

(End of this chapter)