Excessive ferocity due to caution

"System, what is a private sanctuary?"

Zhao asked the system about the private secret realm.

[Private instances are equivalent to designated dungeons that are only accessible to individual players.]

The rewards for private dungeons are much richer than those for regular game instances, but the difficulty is also much higher, generally exceeding the "torture" difficulty level.

[Private instances are typically unlocked through special items, and the quests related to these items also require consuming one of the player's monthly instance entry attempts.]

[Players who die in the secret realm will have their resurrection items deducted. If no resurrection item is available, the player will die instantly!]

Zhao Yi was slightly excited to learn about the private sanctuary.

This was a pleasant surprise.

He originally thought the butcher would give him a blue or purple item.

The reward exceeded his expectations.

After finishing his business with the butcher, Zhao Yi went to Guxuan Town and found Warehouse Ghost settling wages with the servants in the manor.

The two arrived at the church in the manor.

This is a place of prayer and repentance built by the former owner of the manor.

The deity it worships is someone who was nailed to a cross.

Sadly—

Its god did not protect it.

It was eaten by the warehouse ghost right below the statue.

The statue, so clean it was almost spotless, shed not a single tear for its death.

The warehouse ghost stood at the church entrance, took the eight-armed statue that Zhao Yi handed to it, its eyes filled with excitement and awe!

"You... you actually got it!"

It examined the statue in its hands carefully for a long time, its fingers trembling.

Suddenly turning around, the warehouseman slowly knelt down on one knee in front of Zhao Yi:

Please allow me to address you as "Sir"!

"From now on, please allow me to follow you forever!"

[Congratulations! The Warehouse Ghost's affection level towards you has increased to 'Loyalty'!]

From this point on, it will obey you unconditionally!

An NPC can retain a "loyalty" affinity with at most one player!

Depend on.

A follower who is halfway to becoming a major villain?

That sounds really impressive!

Zhao Yi looked at the warehouse ghost kneeling on the ground like a knight, patted its shoulder, and laughed:

Get up.

"Also, please don't call me 'sir'."

Call me...Master.

The warehouse ghost paused for a moment, then looked up.

I saw Zhao Yi's mysterious smile.

"Welcome to the... Intercepting Sect!"

The warehouse ghost didn't know what the Jie Sect was, but it sounded really cool!

A surge of inexplicable heat rushed to its head!

The warehouse ghost respectfully said:

"Wu Liang pays his respects to the Master!"

Wu Liang—this was the first time Zhao Yi had heard the name Warehouse Ghost.

At Zhao Yi's prompting, it stood up.

He carefully placed the idol into the tin box on his chest.

The box was filled with a thick, eerie red mist.

This red mist is the source power of the warehouse ghost.

With the statue returned to its place, the aura emanating from the warehouse demon underwent a qualitative change!

A chilling atmosphere permeated the air...

This feeling is even stronger than the Station Ghost I encountered in the Great World Dungeon!

The warehouse ghost tilted its head back and let out a comfortable groan.

The withered, sharp fingertips sliced ​​through the void.

It pointed to the statues of the gods inside the church.

The statue inside the church slowly melted... After a process of blending, the statue had completely transformed into the eight-armed form of Zhao Yi's dark personality!

Numerous fragments of memory surfaced in the warehouse ghost's mind, slowly piecing themselves together.

Finally, a beam of red light shot from its eyes, and it muttered to itself:

"Son of God..."

Seeing this, Zhao asked:

"Did something come to mind?"

The warehouse ghost snapped out of his daze, his expression turning grave.

"A certain church organization wants to summon the Son of God in this area..."

Zhao Yi became interested.

"Son of God?"

"What exactly is that?"

The warehouse ghost shook his head slightly.

"I don't know."

All I know is... that it's extremely unclean!

"The people in that church themselves are extremely averse to the term 'Son of God'!"

"Moreover, they don't just want to summon the Son of God here."

"In my fragmented memories, many organizations under this church have tried to bring the 'Child of God' down in various ways in many different places in the Chaotic Realm, but they all failed in the end..."

Zhao Yi looked at the eight-armed stone statue behind the warehouse ghost, admiring it to himself while casually praising it:

"Wow, so handsome!"

The warehouse ghost didn't understand:

"What?"

Zhao Yi:

"Ah... I mean, what conditions are needed to summon the Child of God?"

Explanation of the warehouse ghost:

"In addition to the head, limbs, and heart, a body is also needed, along with some very special unclean memes."

"but……"

The warehouse ghost's expression turned somewhat strange as he spoke.

It looked around, casually waved its hand, closed the church doors, and sealed them with its power.

"I remember church members saying that the body mysteriously disappeared during transport."

"There are also some people discussing that something went wrong during the previous experiment with that body."

"It is said that...it has developed its own consciousness!"

Zhao's eyes lit up slightly:

"Go on."

The warehouse ghost continued:

"The unclean bodies originally used to summon the children of God were unstable, especially the heads, which were prone to developing self-awareness. That's why the church specially created me to restrain the unclean heads, that is, the station ghosts..."

"But despite all their calculations, they never anticipated that the first thing to develop self-awareness would not be the unclean head, but rather the seemingly weakest and most useless body..."

"It possesses neither the wisdom of a head nor the strength of limbs and a heart, yet it has become the most troublesome entity for the church!"

"Nobody knows where it went..."

"The church searched for it for a long time, but even when the last change came, they still couldn't find it."

"Perhaps it has already flown far away..."

Zhao Yi paced silently in the church for a long time before looking up and saying:

"The truth may be quite the opposite."

"Not only did it not leave, but..."

Halfway through his sentence, Zhao Yi's lips slowly curled into a smile.

He turned around, looked at the warehouse ghost with a puzzled expression, and his words sent a chill down the warehouse ghost's spine...

"Back when the human experiments were being conducted in Zili Village, all the villagers were under the strict control of the church. However, halfway through the experiment, one villager 'coincidentally' escaped the church's control, ran to the back mountain, and awakened the mountain god. In the end, the mountain god devoured the unclean limbs and merged with them..."

"When you were being transported to Moye Village Station, the living church members were clearly the main targets of the attack, but the idol on your chest 'coincidentally' ended up in Zili Village. As a result, your power weakened, and you were unable to control the unclean skull from developing self-awareness..."

"Years later, the station's renovation 'coincidentally' severed the binding relationship between you and the station ghost, allowing the station ghost to grow completely powerful..."

"Finally, one of the four giant chains that locked up the Blitz Heart steel mill also inexplicably and 'coincidentally' fell off..."

"Thinking about it carefully, all these 'coincidences' happened to an unclean body... isn't that a bit too much of a coincidence?"

The warehouse ghost had empty eyes, and it inexplicably felt a pair of terrifying eyes staring at it from behind...

It will make it shiver!

"Master, do you mean... all of this was the work of that mysteriously vanished 'body'?"

Zhao Yi replied:

"Very likely."

"Actually, ever since I learned that one of the sealing chains of the Blitzcrank Heart at the steel mill had fallen, I've suspected that there's a dark hand operating behind the scenes regarding the Unclean Body..."

"However, their purpose seems to be completely different from what I initially imagined..."

"It seems... it doesn't expect the 'Child of God' to come."

P.S.: Goodnight! I'll be opening a private dungeon tomorrow. It'll be a shelter-type dungeon.

Thank you for reading!

good night!

Huh? Did I say goodnight twice?

good night!