Mystery: Big Alarm Clock Ghroth Path

Chapter 362 Promotion, Trickster (Thanks to reader 20…15 for the Qidian Coins donation)
At 9 a.m. the next day, the city hall of Fenneport was crowded with people, and almost everyone's face was filled with joy and anticipation for the festival celebration.

As the clock struck the hour, the sound waves swept through the capital city of Feneport like the pulse of the earth. After the King of Feneport and the Speaker of the Council delivered their National Day speeches, the Mayor of Feneport declared the National Day celebrations of the Kingdom of Feneport officially open.

Roger, carrying a briefcase, stood amidst the sea of ​​people watching the ceremony and saw the clergy of the "Church of the Earth Mother," draped in ramie and gold thread, slowly drive into the central square atop an oak palanquin inlaid with turquoise.

The chariot, pulled by a white ox with painted totems symbolizing farming and led by two giant bears symbolizing the forest, rolled over a stone path that had been sprinkled with lavender shavings, the crushed petals rising in purple smoke.

Following the palanquin were the parade floats participating in the National Day performances. These floats were filled with performers dressed in various costumes, who, as the convoy slowly moved forward, spared no effort in showcasing their life's work to the onlookers.

In the center of the square, a bonfire of grapevines suddenly ignited on the towering altars, the flames outlining a colossal image of the Earth Mother Goddess holding ears of wheat and a baby.

Three hundred monks, arranged in advance, carried earthenware urns on their shoulders and surged toward the altar. The newly brewed wine poured from the urns flowed into a scarlet stream, mingling with the firelight to form a boiling bloodline.

Upon seeing this, the surrounding crowd erupted in enthusiastic cheers, praising the Mother Goddess and the Castile family endlessly, and even the glass on the surrounding buildings trembled slightly.

"It's really lively."

Roger couldn't help but sigh, and at the same time he looked up at Flannery Jenkins on the viewing platform across the square, and the two young people, a man and a woman, standing behind her, dressed in black suits.

Even though they were far apart and their hands were exposed, Roger could still use his "Secret Insight" to determine that both of them were Sequence 5 Extraordinary Beings, and that they were most likely "Red Gloves" from the "Night Watchers" team.

Besides them, Roger could also see some extraordinary members of the Church of Mother Earth disguised as police officers standing on both sides of the street, maintaining order while vigilantly looking around, seemingly on guard against any possible anomalies.

"I didn't see Dunn and Leonard... nor did I see Klein."

He looked around at his surroundings, his heart filled with anticipation for what might happen next.

In the underground cemetery on the outskirts of Fenneport.

Danitz, disguised as "Flame," glanced at the somewhat gloomy sky, then placed the middle-aged gravedigger on his day shift, who was now completely limp, on the ground and leaned his body against a wide tombstone.

He then turned his head to look at the name on the tombstone and sneered:
"Hugo Ackerman... for now, he'll be in your hands since he's been helping you guard the grave."

"Hopefully, the medicine the captain prepared will help him sleep longer."

After saying that, he stood up and looked at the somewhat eerie entrance to the underground tomb in the distance.

"That guy Gehrman knows perfectly well that I don't like coming to such unlucky places, but he still leaves this kind of thing to me."

Danitz swallowed hard, then steeled himself and walked toward the black iron gate.

As he walked, he pulled a small glass bottle containing some kind of blue liquid from his pocket.

"They said it's some kind of pathogen that causes plants to wither... that's harmless to humans... Bullshit! They went through all that trouble to bring me to Fenneport just to weed?!"

Muttering curses, Danitz finally arrived at the iron gate and looked at the lock engraved with strange symbols.

Without the permission of the "Earth Mother" clergy, the lock could prevent most living matter below Sequence 5 from entering. Therefore, Gehrman Sparrow specifically instructed him not to try to crawl inside, but simply to throw the small glass bottle into the catacombs, and to throw it as far as possible.

But even without his additional instructions, Danitz wouldn't want to go in and take a look—having once explored an underground catacombs in the Rothschild Islands out of curiosity, he still occasionally felt uneasy about the hundreds and thousands of skulls he remembered.

"Get in!"

He struggled to throw the test tube in his hand into the iron gate, and listening to the crisp breaking sound coming from the bottom of the underground tomb, Danitz finally turned around and ran out of the cemetery with a sigh of relief.

……

The city center of Fenneport, almost diagonally opposite the location of Roger and Bandit, is the other side of the city hall.

Klein Moretti, who had already used his "Faceless" ability to disguise himself as an ordinary young man from Fenneport, was standing about 150 meters apart from Maggie Lopez, who was wearing makeup, a long dress, and a wide-brimmed hat to cover her face.

"Danitz should be almost done too... I hope that the mystical pathogen that Maggie created specifically to kill plants with spirituality will work."

After several days of investigation, divination, and analysis atop the "Source Castle," Klein felt he had grasped the most crucial part of the Ince Plan.

That is, by sacrificing living people to the "primordial moon," and then using the latter's mystical connection with the "farmers" to influence Archbishop Mattiada, thereby causing her to lose control and thus triggering chaos.

In this way, Ince could use Jacqueline Iverson's access to enter the Church of Life and steal the seal that corresponds to the extraordinary characteristics of the "Bishop of Fear".

Klein knew without a doubt that Ince had already exerted influence on Mattiada multiple times through the active guidance of Jacqueline Iverson, the "chosen one," which could have caused her to lose control.

Although some details are still unclear, Klein has made multiple preparations for today's plan within the limited time available.

He'll take care of that bastard Ince Zangwell here, no matter what.

“Daniez Dubois has successfully carried out the task I assigned to him.”

Klein opened his hand, and before he knew it, a gold coin had popped out. The king's head on the coin was facing upwards, indicating that Klein's divination had been confirmed.

He paused again and said in a low voice:

“The wooden carving of the ‘Moon Messenger’ has entered an irreversible state of decay.”

The divination again yielded a "confirmed" result, which finally relieved Klein.

During his investigation of Ince, Klein discovered that Ince had stolen a wooden carving used by followers of the "Primal Moon" for human sacrifice. This carving shared a mystical similarity with the "Primal Moon," and it was through this fact that Klein deduced Ince's plan.

Further investigation revealed that the wooden carvings would come to life during the ritual, growing plant roots rich in spiritual energy that could absorb the life force of living beings.

This level of activation and the corresponding rank is slightly lower than the rank of the ritual officiant who offered their own blood—and coincidentally, Maggie Lopez, as a high-ranking member of the "Witch Cult," had once planned a terrorist attack against the Church of the "Earth Mother Goddess." Therefore, for this reason, she had carefully studied the relevant knowledge and developed a pathogen that could cause spiritually rich plants to wither quickly.

The pathogens that Daniz Dubois had previously released into the catacombs were among them. If the sacrificial process of the "Moon Messenger" wooden sculpture were interrupted, the living people who were to be sacrificed could avoid their unjust deaths, and Ince's plan could be stopped.

This would disrupt the other party's plans and force them to take some emergency measures.

Given that Ince was unable to enter the depths of the "Church of Life" without Jacqueline Iverson's help, Jacqueline Iverson's next move became crucial.

After quickly reviewing the plan in his mind, Klein took a deep breath and looked back at the center of the square.

At this moment, the celebration has reached its climax.

As the monks performed a dance of reverence, Archbishop and High Priest Mattiada slowly walked up to the altar, immediately drawing everyone's attention.

Unlike the silent crowd outside the square, this beautiful and voluptuous woman smiled and raised her hands, then began to lead the three hundred monks below in chanting hymns to the "Mother Earth."

As the song reached its climax, the drummer pounded the oak barrel with his mallet—

"boom!"

As the liquor exploded into a rainbow-colored mist, refracting light patterns of swirling wheat ears, the onlookers finally began to cheer in unison.

They loudly praised the grace of "Mother Earth," their voices almost shaking the ceramic bells hanging from the eaves.

As the tinkling sounds resonated with the church organ version of "Hymn to Mother Goddess of Life," the green ceramic pot totem with golden tassels wrapped around the flag hanging high next to the city hall fluttered in the strong wind, as if the hand of the Mother Goddess was gently caressing the world.

At that moment, Jacqueline Iverson, the deputy high priest, holding a bronze scepter made of wheat ears, ascended the altar, knelt on one knee, raised her hands, and offered the scepter to Mattiada.

Mattiada nodded slightly, but just as she stepped forward to take the scepter from Jacqueline's hand, Roger, who was watching the ceremony below, suddenly felt a strange sense of unease.

Sure enough, the moment Mattiada took the scepter, thorn-like things seemed to sprout around it and unexpectedly pierced Mattiada's hand.

As the blood flowed, the emerald at the top of the scepter was stained crimson, and Mattiada, who had been dignified and solemn, suddenly seemed to fall into a semi-conscious state, lowering her head and trembling violently.

When she raised her head again, her wide-open eyes bulged out strangely, and then Mattiada gave a creepy smile that sent chills down the spines of many present.

Her lips curled upwards unnaturally, and her originally voluptuous figure suddenly swelled up.

The scene was so bizarre that among the thousands of people closest to the altar, those who reacted quickly erupted in screams of terror and sounds of commotion.

However, before those in the back could even see what was happening, the upper half of this "benefactor's" head suddenly flipped up, with his lips, which stretched almost to his ears and revealed his gleaming white teeth, as the axis. His lower jaw separated from his upper jaw in an exaggerated manner, like a python feeding, pointing towards the sky, like a bottomless red-black abyss.

Upon seeing this, Fura Jenkins, who had been sitting calmly on the viewing platform, suddenly stood up and, as if by reflex, used the power of the "Bishop of Fear" to cast a dense darkness over Mattiada, enveloping her in layers of darkness!
The purpose of this was to prevent Mattiada from undergoing further mutations or partially revealing its mythical creature form, which would cause the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people who came to witness the ceremony but lacked divinity to simultaneously go out of control and mutate, making the situation extremely serious and uncontrollable.

However, Fura's reaction was a little too slow. Before that, a deep red light flashed in Jacqueline Iverson's hand, and the next instant, a pair of open bronze doors appeared behind the demigod of the "corpse collector" pathway, sucking her in completely.

Just as the dense darkness released by Fla Jenkins enveloped Mattiada's body, Roger, through "Secret Insight," saw something beginning to spew out wildly from the archbishop's deformed, gaping maw.

Some of these things were plant roots and leaves, while others were pieces of flesh resembling placentas and fetuses. This "ancient alchemist's" twisted and swollen body was like a creative furnace, frantically producing all sorts of semi-finished life forms.

This archbishop is almost out of control!
Upon witnessing this disgusting scene, Roger couldn't help but curse. At this moment, he understood that when Jacqueline handed the scepter to Mattiada, she must have used this medium to transmit some kind of strong pollution to Mattiada, causing the uncontrollable tendencies that were already present in her body to suddenly erupt!
However, before he could react, Roger heard a sudden groan of pain from the crowd not far away.

A thick cloud of blood mist erupted there, and it seemed that dozens of people died in an instant. Roger, through his "Secret Insight," immediately saw through the blood mist a nearly 2-meter-tall undead creature made entirely of white bones, resembling a lizard!

Just now, it was this undead creature that suddenly appeared through the "Gate of the Underworld" and began to slaughter civilians, catching the official extraordinary team off guard.

"GC's Ince, you're asking for it."

At this point, Roger finally stopped holding back and cursed. Bandit immediately responded, using the "Apprentice's" ability to pass through the briefcase and land on the ground. In an instant, a large amount of fog appeared, obscuring the view of the surrounding crowd!

With the help of the mist, Roger flashed into the blood mist. Before he even landed, he made a strange gesture with his left hand, pressing the tip of his index finger between the eyebrows of the lizard-like undead creature.

"Asteroid eruption!"

Suddenly, a triple light composed of red, blue and earthy yellow burst forth from Roger's fingertip, and the lizard-like undead creature was instantly blasted into dust as if hit by a cannon at close range.

These fragments were flung backward by the force of the "stellar explosion" and disappeared in an instant.

Meanwhile, the sounds of battle rose and fell all around, as if a large number of undead creatures had emerged and begun to fight against the official extraordinary beings of the Church of the Earth Mother.

Not far away, Dunn and the others naturally noticed the anomaly. Luo Yao, holding a strange compass, spoke up:

"Captain, there has been an abnormal spiritual reaction at 2-061. It seems that a large number of undead creatures have appeared in the direction of the square, and the danger level is not low!"

Should we go over and help?

Before Dunn could answer, Daly suddenly reached out and grabbed Dunn's sleeve:
"Dunner, don't forget, our mission is to keep a close watch on the Church of Life. If these are Inscans, he will definitely come there."

"Not to mention that those undead creatures are of a very high level, and we wouldn't be able to help much if we went there. It would be better to leave them to the Church of the Mother Goddess... For now, we can only leave them to them."

The group was currently positioned on the only road leading to the Church of Life. According to the previously planned battle plan, their objective today was to keep a close watch on this place and ensure that it did not leave.

"it is good."

After a slight hesitation, Dunn nodded in agreement. He had been waiting for this opportunity to seize Ince for far too long and absolutely could not give it up today.

However, before he could say anything more, he saw Leonard's expression suddenly change.

"What's wrong, Leonard?"

Dunn asked.

"Church of Life, let's go!"

Leonard had no time to explain how he knew so much; instead, he sprinted toward the Church of Life, which was not far away!

"Let's go, follow him."

Dunn and Daly exchanged a glance, then immediately gave the order, leading everyone to follow closely behind Leonard and run towards the Church of Life.

……

The Church of Life is located in front of a stone door on the basement level.

Ince Zangwell appeared out of nowhere with Jacqueline Iverson, whose eyes were vacant. Behind them, a phantom bronze door was slowly closing and then disappearing.

The former silently surveyed the fallen guards and clergy, then chuckled, took out the "Moon" blasphemous plaque radiating a deep red light from his hand, and looked at the double doors in front of him.

On either side of the gate is a different coat of arms. The coat of arms on the left is a full moon entwined with thorns, which seems to symbolize the power of life and the moon, while the coat of arms on the right is a heavy shield, which seems to symbolize safety and protection.

This is the "Secret Chamber of St. Mary," the place where the Church of the Earth Mother Goddess used to store various sealed objects deep within the church.

Although the specific sealing method is somewhat different from the Charis Gate of the Church of the Goddess of Night, the basic principle is similar. That is, the core of the sealing array is formed by the power of certain level 1 or even level 0 sealing objects, and the door of the "Saint Marlene's Chamber" can only be opened when certain conditions are met.

As for the door to the "Secret Chamber of St. Mary" in the "Church of Life," the condition for opening it is that a "Graceful One" of the demigod level and a "Blessed One" of the same level place their hands on the door together, and the door can be opened successfully.

When Jacqueline Iverson handed the bronze scepter to Mattiada earlier, she had already concealed the "Moon" blasphemous card within the scepter's head. Due to Ince's special design, this "Moon Messenger" blessed card has now become the new vessel for the unfinished ritual magic from the previous day, and the demigod whom Ince promised to sacrifice to the "Primordial Moon" is none other than Mattiada, who is serving as the high priest today.

Therefore, Ince, who currently holds this "blasphemous card," already possesses, in a sense, the characteristics of a false high-ranking "Moon" pathway extraordinary person. Thus, he can completely disguise himself as a "given person" and open the "St. Marlene's Chamber" with Jacqueline Iverson.

As expected, when Ince and Jacqueline placed their hands on the two emblems, one on each side, a series of strange noises came from behind the door of the "Secret Chamber of St. Mary." A moment later, the door clicked open, and the double doors finally cracked open, casting a faint, flickering light from behind.

Ince was overjoyed, but just as he was about to move forward, his right shoulder was suddenly pierced by a long ice crystal spear. The enormous force pushed him back a few steps, and he immediately knelt on the ground.

"who is it?"

Incredulously, Ince turned around and saw a scholarly-looking young man in a black double-breasted long dress, carrying a silver-trimmed cane and wearing a top silk hat slowly walking out.

Beside the young man stood a woman in a long dress and a wide-brimmed hat, with an exquisitely beautiful face.

"Ince, do you remember me?"

Although Klein was smiling, his eyes flashed with undisguised coldness.

His words startled Ince, who momentarily forgot his pain and looked at the other person intently.

Ince didn't recognize the woman behind him, but he felt that the former looked somewhat familiar.

"Here's a hint: Tingen City, Blackthorn Security Company."

Upon hearing Klein's words, Ince's eyes widened suddenly:
"Klein Moretti? Aren't you dead?"

"Thanks to the goddess, I am still alive."

Klein stared at Ince with a mocking look, then added:
"Here I am, here to take your life."

"Just you?"

Ince snorted coldly:
"Overestimating yourself. Although I don't know how you survived... you don't really think you can do anything to me just because you control a Sequence 4 Mystic, do you?"

Currently, Ince not only possesses the unique characteristics and high status bestowed by the "Moon" blasphemous card blessed by ritual magic, but also has another demigod under his control fighting alongside him, making it difficult for him to lose.

However, Klein looked at Ince as if he were a fool:

"You may not know this, but your sacrificial ritual has failed."

"Failed?"

Ince paused, then glanced at the "Blasphemy Token" whose deep red light had dimmed somewhat, and frowned as he asked:

"what have you done?"

"It's simple, you've been tricked."

Klein scoffed:
"The sacrificial ritual you were performing in the catacombs has been interrupted by my friend by releasing a 'mystical pathogen' that can poison plants."

"impossible!"

Ince stood up unsteadily:
“That wood carving is not such a fragile thing… I also checked the ventilation there. It’s upwind. Unless someone from the ‘Earth Mother Goddess’ church opens the door and then directly injects or does something to allow the ‘Moon Messenger’ to absorb a large amount of it, the concentration of pathogens directly released will not be enough to completely kill it.”

"Yes, so I made two preparations."

Klein shrugged:

"Among the offerings you prepared earlier, one is my secret doll. I have already injected an excessive amount of the same type of mystical pathogen into its body beforehand... When you use the 'Moon Messenger' for the sacrifice, its roots will extract the pathogen on their own and poison itself."

"With that, plus the medicine my friend administered, it should be enough no matter what."

Upon hearing this, Ince finally showed an expression of disbelief.

In fact, for a demigod, distinguishing between a living person and a puppet is not a complicated matter. However, coincidentally, the mask that Klein had seized when he killed Mr. "White" came in handy.

The mask appeared to be a talisman-like item made by the "Secret Order" using some kind of secret method, possessing some of the characteristics of a high-ranking "Faceless Man". It could change the wearer's appearance, confuse and conceal the aura emanating from him, and even extraordinary beings at the demigod level would find it difficult to detect.

Roger was affected by this thing before, which is why he couldn't determine the sequence level of Mr. "White" immediately. The only drawback is that this thing can only be used three times.

Mr. White had used it once before, and Klein used it again when investigating Ince's whereabouts. After tricking Ince this time, the thing was ruined.

"That's not all, I have more bad news for you."

After saying this, Klein took out a simple pocket watch from his pocket, glanced at the time, and said with a teasing smile:
“You were also deceived by Mattiada. You did not succeed in causing her to lose control. The one on the altar was just a substitute she created using a portion of her own body cells and the ‘Life Alchemy’… In other words, you have completely betrayed your promise to the ‘Primordial Moon’, and now it will no longer protect you.”

In ritual magic, especially in ritual magic targeting evil gods, fraud is a very serious crime. Not to mention whether Ince will be punished for it, and whether the blessing on the "Moon" card will be removed, Ince may be eliminated by the counter-security mechanism when he enters the "Saint Marlene's Chamber" later.

Upon hearing this, Ince felt a wave of dizziness.

He tried to calm himself down, then sneered:

"so what?
"Don't forget, I also have... well, other offerings. In fact, I made preparations for this a long time ago."

"As for the missing sacrificial offerings...aren't the ordinary people who died outside just right?"

"Although I did not use the 'Moon Messengers' for sacrifice, the sheer number of them made up for it, so my promise will still be fulfilled."

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, the surface of the "Moon" brand once again lit up with a deep red light!
At the same time, Jacqueline's hair began to turn white from the tips. Ince turned around, ready to rush her into the "Secret Chamber of St. Mary," but then heard Klein say loudly:
"No leaving this area!"

Immediately afterwards, Ince and Jacqueline seemed to have run into an invisible wall, and both of them were forced back when they were only one step away from the "Chamber of Saint Marlene".

"you wanna die!"

Ince seemed to have not expected Klein to have such a method. At this moment, he became anxious and immediately controlled Jacqueline Iverson to attack Klein from the left and right!
However, Klein remained calm. While controlling Maggie Lopez to fight Ince, he looked at Jacqueline Iverson, who had a door-shaped mark appearing between her brows and had summoned two demigod-level underworld creatures, and spoke again:
Hypnosis is prohibited here!

Upon hearing this, Jacqueline Iverson staggered, and the two Netherworld creatures stopped moving and began to sway.

At the same time, Ince, who was originally entangled with Maggie, suddenly slowed down and was then hit by Maggie, flying backward at an incredible speed and crashing heavily into the wall.

However, after only a few seconds, Ince struggled to get up again thanks to his strong physique as a "corpse collector" with extraordinary abilities. But whether it was his imagination or not, Ince felt that his physical strength was much worse than before.

At this moment, his eyes burned with fierce flames as he looked at Klein with extreme resentment.

Because "hypnosis" has been banned, Ince is temporarily unable to use the seal on his body that corresponds to the extraordinary characteristics of a "manipulator," which means that Jacqueline will temporarily be out of his control.

But that doesn't matter, because Ince can still summon a large number of underworld creatures to entangle Klein. As long as he deals with that troublesome Sequence 4 level puppet, he can free up his hands to quickly kill Klein, who is only at Sequence 5 level.

However, at this moment, Klein laughed again.

The laughter grew louder and louder, and after a moment, a few tears streamed down his face.

Under Ince's suspicious gaze, he looked at the former with a sympathetic gaze:
"You don't actually think I'm here to kill you without being fully prepared, do you?"

He immediately stopped laughing:

“Look at Jacqueline, is there any sign that she is still being drained of life?”

Ince paused for a moment, then looked at Jacqueline, who had been unhypnotized and was in a semi-conscious state.

At this moment, the demigod's hair had stopped turning white, and even his skin hadn't changed much.

Ince frowned and hurriedly took out the "Moon" blasphemous card from his pocket, which was still glowing with a deep red light.

The next second, Ince exclaimed and threw the "blasphemous card" on the ground.

He looked at his hands, which were now wrinkled, dry, and aged without him even realizing it, and his face was filled with fear.

Not only that, Ince also felt countless dense, meaningless whispers in his ears. Each sound made Ince feel extremely confused, as if he were about to explode from the inside out at any moment.

Even though he tried his best to use his reason to suppress those voices, he could only hold out for a short time, and as time went on, Ince found it increasingly difficult to maintain his composure.

At this moment, he finally despaired.

"A little suggestion: in your next life, you can be more careful with your speech... just like those third-rate stories you wrote. After all, cultural literacy is still very important."

"Oh, I'm wrong, you probably don't have a next life."

Klein uttered nonsensical words while his smile widened.

In fact, when Ince tried to sacrifice Jacqueline Iverson, he had already used the "Concerto of Light and Shadow" to interfere with Ince's speech, preventing him from using a clear personal pronoun to refer to the specific identity of the sacrifice.

Under these circumstances, Klein successfully twisted his intentions, turning Ince himself into a sacrifice to be offered.

In fact, with only the strength of a Sequence 5, he never intended to kill Ince with his own strength. Even though he possessed a Sequence 4 puppet, he could not fight against Ince, who was also controlling a Sequence 4 saint.

All Klein could do was to use the various external and internal conditions to create an intricately linked plan, and to use the sealed artifacts he had earned from Mr. "Wheel of Fortune" to exploit loopholes in the rules and give Ince a final push to send him on his way.

He smiled at Ince, and then pressed the "Concerto of Light and Shadow" button for the last time, "granting" the other a chaotic idea.

Then Klein flashed in front of Ince and took something that shimmered with silver light from him.

As Ince's rationality finally collapsed completely, his abdomen began to swell rapidly, as if he had gone from conception to childbirth in an instant.

Taking advantage of this opening, Klein threw Jacqueline into the "Saint Marlene's Chamber" and closed the door.

He himself disappeared into the darkness with Maggie Lopez.

A few seconds later, Ince's abdomen finally ruptured.

Seemingly a punishment from an evil god, the rupture caused an extremely violent explosion, with large amounts of blood and amniotic fluid gushing out, instantly flooding the entire stone chamber and flowing upwards through the drainage pipes.

……

The arrival of those undead creatures had caused unprecedented chaos in the square. Although most of the people had no idea what was happening, the sight of living people exploding and turning into blood mist all around them still instilled a deep-seated fear in them.

Screams and cries of agony echoed all around as people began to try to scatter and flee to the outskirts, but due to the large number of people, stampedes occurred one after another.

Because some roads are too narrow, if one person falls down, more people will trip and fall, creating a chain reaction.

However, at that moment, a flash of light appeared, and the thousands of people who were about to trample on those in front and fall suddenly disappeared. An invisible gravitational field spread out, separating the people in front from those further back.

A figure dressed in a business suit and wearing a wide-brimmed hat suddenly appeared in this invisible dividing line, and then, a kind of dazed singing voice resounded all around.

Under Roger's vocal control, the figures of those fleeing in the back slowed down, as if they had temporarily gained a sense of peace and had even forgotten the extreme fear they had just experienced.

Just then, Roger saw an even stranger scene unfold.

One of the two brown bears that was originally at the front of the parade floats suddenly stood up and roared into the air.

The roar seemed to awaken some kind of natural force, causing a large number of plants hidden underground to break through the soil, penetrate some of the less solid stone slabs, and rush towards the seriously injured people.

As these plants came into contact with them, the injuries of these people began to improve dramatically, and those who were on the verge of death quickly regained their vitality.

At the same time, the huge brown bear rapidly transformed, and soon, Mattiada's graceful and dignified figure appeared.

This made Roger breathe a slight sigh of relief, but then a thought struck him, and he turned to look in the direction of the Church of Life.

The ground began to tremble slightly, and a moment later, countless streams of amniotic fluid, a mixture of clear yellow and bright red, shot violently into the sky from the surrounding manholes and drainage ditches!
This scene is filled with a bizarre and magnificent spectacle, as if at this moment, some indescribable great being is also cooperating with the "Earth Mother Goddess" in this grand celebration.

At the same time, a figure dressed in a double-breasted long dress and a half-high silk hat, with a white rubber mask covering half of his face, appeared in front of the "Church of Life".

The figure made an elegant "curtain call" gesture towards the crowd looking over.

The next second, the man pulled a glass bottle from his pocket and drank the liquid inside in one gulp.

Klein closed his eyes and quietly felt the changes in his body until those familiar yet unfamiliar footsteps approached him.

As Klein opened his eyes, he finally saw the people around him.

The people he thinks about day and night, the people who haunt his dreams.

(End of this chapter)