Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 140 It’s not the evil god that descended into the body

"On the island? What do you mean? Was she sent here too?"

"No." Chloe paused. "She joined the Fire Moth and came here with us."

Xius blinked and said, "That's good news. Tell her and ask her to come over and take a look."

"No, it's not that simple." Chloe's tone was a little low. She looked up at Hughes and said, "It was probably after the dinner. I found out that you knew a lot about our sect, so I wanted to find out where the secrets were leaked."

Know a lot?

Zeus does know a lot, such as Chloe's true identity, etc., but these are not leaked by the Fire Moth, but because he can descend into the body of the worker Zeus.

This is hard to say.

Xiu Si showed a subtle expression: "It's not that someone leaked the secret. I have other channels - other channels in the supernatural field."

"Really? I thought it was that body that leaked the secret."

Xius felt as if his head exploded.

Shell?!
What was she talking about? Did she find out that I could be transported into the body of the worker Hughes?
How is it possible, how did she connect me with that body?!?

At this moment, Zeus used all his strength to barely control his expression. His deepest secret was discovered just like that?
No, not necessarily. Let's test it out first and see how much she has discovered.

After calming down, Xius asked with a hint of doubt:
"What shell?"

"You come with me."

Chloe shook her head and walked straight to the church.

Zeus hesitated for a moment before following, and secretly contacted the Banshee using a mind link. Ash and Nini had both taken their people out, so Zeus had to contact Finelle in the perfume workshop.

"So you're saying that you might be in danger, my lord?"

"Just a quick note. It's probably safe. After all, if they want to deal with me, I probably won't have a chance to contact you. This group of people seems to have the ability to block perception."

He thought of the body of the worker Hughes, and the fire moths that made it almost impossible for him to hear his prayers.

"Okay, I understand. If you don't contact me regularly, I will inform Ash and the others."

Zeus felt a little relieved. This group of fire-chasing moths really had a lot of cards up their sleeves. Not only could they rely on summoning evil gods to solve the pollution, but they could also block the perception of the Moth Lord.

They seemed to be very good at dealing with various gods, and they mistakenly believed that Zeus was an Outer God.

Following Chloe into the church, Hughes saw Brother Keschi in a side room.

He sat quietly in the chair, not moving at all.

Zeus didn't have the energy to ask more questions now. He just glanced at her and followed Chloe all the way to a trapdoor.

Chloe opened the door and walked down the ladder. Hughes looked down.

It was an ordinary cellar with a few baskets of potatoes piled in the corner.

Taking a deep breath, Hughes also climbed down the ladder.

As he passed through the door panel, he suddenly felt something in his heart, and a magical feeling emerged, as if he had jumped into the water and broken through a certain boundary.

When he looked around, he found himself in a corridor with different rooms on both sides. It was obviously not the cellar he had just seen.

Is this the hiding place of the fire moth?

Chloe led him into a room with ease, and Zeus saw that the room was full of cages.

Most of the cages were empty, with a few containing wild animals. In a cage near the back, Hughes saw a human figure. She was about five feet tall, with brown hair, brown eyebrows and eyes, and was very thin.
"It's her, Lina. She was our partner a few days ago, but now she has become like this."

Chloe leaned against the wall.

"We were searching for traitors that day, and we happened to find her eavesdropping, so we planned to examine her."

"But before we even started, she turned into a shell like this."

Body?

Zeus's eyes focused, and he carefully observed Lina in the cage.

She looked like someone in a daze, with empty eyes and a dull expression. Apart from that, she was no different from a normal person. Her face was rosy, as if she was just in a daze.

But Zeus was very familiar with this state. He had stared into such bodies countless times on the Golden Throne, and then they seemed to be injected with souls and came back to life.

Xius subconsciously looked into her eyes.

There seemed to be some spirit in her eyes suddenly, and her eyelids moved.

Hughes was startled and took a few steps back.

"Huh? What's wrong?"

Chloe heard the noise and walked over with a frown on her face.

Xius swallowed his saliva, and when he looked at Lina again, he found that she was still like a puppet, with no other movement at all.

Hallucination?

Hughes tried to look into her eyes, but this time it was no use, there was only dullness in Lina's eyes.

"What just happened?" Chloe stepped forward and carefully examined Lina before turning back.

"Well, it's okay. I was just startled. Her eyes were so scary." Xius breathed slowly for a while, and his stiff brain started working again. He suddenly reacted.

"The shell you mentioned before, is that her?"

"Yes, she has now become an empty shell. The soul inside has disappeared somewhere. We use this shell to summon the evil god."

It turned out that the connection between him and the worker was discovered. Zeus secretly breathed a sigh of relief. However, this body was indeed very similar to those he had seen between the thrones. Could there be any connection?

"What's going on with this kind of shell?"

"do not know."

Chloe shrugged. "We summoned evil gods from recently deceased bodies, keeping them alive through certain rituals. But she was alive and well, and suddenly became like this. It seems she's a traitor."

"Could it be that someone else, uh, had their soul leave their body and then enter her body?"

"How is that possible? Everyone's soul can only enter their own body. Soul and body are one. I used the word 'shell' just for convenience."

Are the spirit and the flesh one?

Wait, how did he come here? Is he really a god?
——This alone is absolutely impossible.

Xiu Si was thinking subconsciously, and suddenly his thoughts changed. He asked, "Aren't you using the body to summon the evil god? Doesn't that mean the evil god can descend into it?"

"That's completely different. It's like my boots. If I take them off and ask you to wear them, you won't be able to fit into them. But if I pour water into them, they will fill up. Summoning an evil god doesn't mean finding a body for him, but summoning a soul within the body."

Hughes' eyes widened.
(End of this chapter)