Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 219 Chloe, you tricked me!

You lost my body?!

Zeus looked at Chloe and felt a headache. Apart from Lord Zeus, he only had one usable body, and you lost it?

That's too unreliable!
If I had known earlier, I would have kept the body no matter what. Now, I don’t know where it has gone.

Xiusi suddenly reacted. He could just descend and go over to see where the body was. Wouldn't that be the end of it?
Moreover, the body of the worker Zeus can listen to the prayers of believers, and perhaps he can contact the outside world. After all, Isaac and others are still in the north.

Damn, how could he forget that.

"Where is the missing box approximately?"

"Uh, it's almost here." Chloe tapped the ground with her toes. "It's the former base of the Fire Moths."

Hughes recalled that their hiding place was at the trap door of the old church.

"Come to think of it, I haven't seen the church since it was remodeled. Where did you open the door?"

"The Guardian Inscription was modified once before. I put the door in the inscription."

Xiu Si's eyes widened. "You want to return to the hiding place now? You need to go to the Guardian Inscription? Wait, why do I remember that the Guardian Inscription was completely sealed?"

As the core of the entire Castel, the importance of the Guardian Inscription is self-evident. Zeus built a six-meter-thick reinforced concrete wall to surround it, and at that time directly cleared out the iron ingots that had been accumulated in the steel plant for a long time.

"That's when the Guardian Inscription stops functioning. We really need to go to its main body to enter." Chloe blinked. "And when it's activated, every place covered by the Guardian Inscription becomes a door."

Hughes took a deep breath.

"That is to say."

"That's right." Chloe tore the air open casually, and a passage opened up. "In most of the cathedrals, you can enter directly."

"Wait, this is indeed impressive, but doesn't the protective inscription cover most of Castel? Why is it only accessible from the cathedral?"

"Because our hiding place isn't that big."

"What do you mean?"

"You can think of the hiding place as a mezzanine in the wall. The door can be opened at any time and anywhere. I can just choose a spot on this wall to enter. The hiding place is real. We just hide its entrance. It doesn't connect to a new world."

"So, this is more like some kind of sleight of hand, only much more sophisticated?"

"Yes," Chloe nodded affirmatively. "I designed the cathedral. I placed my hiding place beneath it. If you hollowed out the entire cathedral, you'd still be able to get in even if you didn't know where the door was."

Xius rubbed his chin, pondered for a moment, and suddenly said, "So, the box you lost is in the hiding place?"

"Yes."

"But you don't know where it is exactly?"

"We know the original location of the box, but it must have opened the door to the hiding place for some reason. We don't know where this door will lead to. Theoretically, it could be anywhere in the cathedral."

Zeus nodded. It seemed that the box was in the church. He would go down and sense it later.

"Chloe, you go back first. I'll ask Connor to help you find the box. Draw a picture of the box. By the way, is the box locked?"

"It's locked," Chloe hesitated. "But the lock is mainly for the inside. The so-called box is more like a seal. It's easy to open from the outside." Oh my god, it's not easy to open the box even after the advent.
Hughes had a headache.

Chloe returned with a guilty look on her face. She was also leading people to look for the box. This disappearance was a bit strange, and she was worried that something might have happened to the things in the box.

That's an Outer God.
After Hughes made sure Chloe had left, he closed the door and found a comfortable position to lie down in the armchair.

He planned to go and check the situation first. If he was sealed in the box and couldn't get out, then there was naturally no way, but if he could move freely
Zeus slowly lowered his head, his eyes gradually becoming empty. When he came to his senses again, he had already arrived on the golden throne.

『￥%……#&%*（……！#』

A burst of noise sounded in his mind, and Zeus subconsciously covered his ears, but found that he was not "hearing" it, but sensing it.

This feeling is very familiar - a spiritual connection.

Wait, isn't the mind link part of the symbiotic contract? Only Lord Zeus can use it, and Worker Zeus can't use it?
The noise disappeared in a flash, as if what I just heard was just an illusion.

"Hello?"

"Is anyone there?"

"Are you talking to me?"

Hughes asked a few questions tentatively, but there was no response. After thinking for a while, he still had no further clues, so he had to turn and look at the worker Hughes.

The worker Xius slowly raised his head, his wooden expression quickly became lively, and soon, his consciousness sank.

When he woke up, he found himself lying on a shelf?
It was a little dark around, and it took Xiusi a while to get used to it. He found himself in a room.

The room was a little messy, but Xius didn't have time to check it carefully. He was surprised to find that he could actually move!

He had no idea how many times he had descended into the body of the worker Zeus, and each time he was bound, with either complete darkness around him or complete inability to move.

But now I can actually move, this is the first time.

"It seems someone has destroyed the box that sealed me. Where am I? The cathedral?"

Zeus moved his hands and feet. The long-term restraints did not make his body stiff. He roughly checked his body in the dark. There didn't seem to be much change. It was still the same as before, with a huge penetrating wound on his chest, and no blood was flowing out.

Zeus touched his heart and it seemed that only half of it was left and it was not beating. He tried to hold his breath and counted to 200 but still did not feel any suffocation. This feeling was really wonderful, he seemed to have transcended the constraints of life.

Suddenly, Zeus paused and slowly lowered his head to look at his feet.

Why did he feel the wooden floor beneath his feet shaking?

Listening carefully, the night was quiet, but he could occasionally hear the sound of waves, and the sea breeze with the scent of the tide also made him feel very familiar.

"Why does this place feel so much like the sea?" Zeus's eyes twitched. Feeling the slow shaking under his feet, he quickly guessed where he was.

"Chloe, you're tricking me. Didn't they say the door opening would only be in the main church?"

"Why is the cathedral on the sea?!"

(End of this chapter)