This isn't a souls-like game at all.

The voice that answered him came from a middle-aged man, his tone full of indifference.

"But lobsters usually sleep. Even when they wake up, they look for food and won't run around... Could it be that someone has entered the pipe over there?" The young man's voice was worried.

"Quite perceptive..." thought Ye Ling, who had eavesdropped on their conversation.

"Come in? Hahaha!"

The middle-aged man laughed disdainfully upon hearing this, and then spoke with a gloating look.

"Your guess is correct. Someone might have entered, but ever since the Archbishop captured an ancient slave from the smelter and repaired the elevator here, no one has been using the pipe over there.

"Even if someone gets in, so what? Do you know what happened to the last mercenary who left here?"

"What happened?" the young man asked curiously.

"What else can I do? Of course I was eaten alive by the lobster."

The middle-aged man laughed and teased, “Audacious mercenary, I don’t know how many lives he has left, he just walked past here.

"It'll take at least a whole team of knights to take down that giant lobster, and a few unlucky souls will die... I tell you to stop worrying about it. Let's go, it's time to go back and rest until someone comes to relieve us tomorrow morning."

"OK then."

As the conversation gradually died down, Ye Yiyi quietly leaned back and looked.

With the help of the torches on the wall, he could see two Holy Blood priests, one tall and one short, turn into the right side of the pipe and disappear.

"Shift change? That means the defense of this place shouldn't be tight." Ye Yiyi thought.

"But come to think of it, there's an elevator inside, so there's no need to waste time rushing through the tunnels. Not only is it easy to get lost, but you might also end up in the stomachs of our animal friends.

"Those ferocious creatures are the best guards here!"

While the [Silent] effect was still on, Ye Yiyi ran towards the place where the two people disappeared.

When he came to a fork in the road, he stopped for a moment, stuck half of his head out and looked to the right.

At the end of the pipe, a metal wall blocked the way.

But at the bottom of the wall, there was a thick, narrow iron door that was open.

At this moment, the two priests, one tall and one short, were walking towards the iron gate.

"Let's take this opportunity! Otherwise, once the door closes, I won't be able to get in!"

Ye Yiyi immediately took out the Living Amber Wand and shot out a tracking magic arrow.

At the same time, he took out the ferocious cutting fangs and launched a combat skill to charge and stab!

The magic arrow drew a white trajectory and landed directly on the middle-aged priest's forehead.

With a "bang", the middle-aged priest fell to the ground without a word.

At the same time, Ye Yiyi also attacked the young man from behind with a spear in his hand.

The spear pierced through the neck, blood splattered onto the iron gate, a fatal blow!

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"Everyone in the Holy Blood Cult deserves to die!"

Ye Yiyi pulled out his spear, quickly searched the corpse, and found a wallet and a keychain from the middle-aged priest.

The young priest had nothing on him, not even a wallet.

After stabbing the middle-aged priest again and dragging the two bodies to the corner of the pipe, Ye Yiyi changed into the robe of the Holy Blood Priest and then stepped into the iron gate.

"Secret Church of the Holy Blood! Here I come!"

Chapter 74: Holy Blood Knights and the Church's Upper Class

He put on the robes of a Holy Blood priest, hid the dung beetle in his arms, and then put on the hood of the robe to cover his eyes.

Ye Yiyi then stepped into the iron gate and closed it gently.

At this time, [Silence] has lost its effect, so there is no need to worry about being discovered.

"This place...is not quite what I imagined." Looking around, Ye Yiyi thought to himself.

After all, the word "church" always makes people think of a "sacred" atmosphere and environment.

But that doesn't seem to be the case here.

The dark, damp, and stern steel walls exude a cold feeling from the inside out.

On the ceiling, the poorly connected lamps emitted a flickering cold white light, adding to the eerie atmosphere.

"This should be the interior of the ancient ruins."

Ye Yiyi stared at the empty corridor and walked deeper into it.

"After all, there's an extremely complex drainage system here, so there must be a control room to measure the water pressure in the pipes and operate the diversion gates and pipe openings."

The place under your feet is most likely the control room.

So the Order of the Holy Blood found this place and transformed it into the Church of the Holy Blood.

Due to its extremely remote geographical location and the dangerous roads, it is very suitable for doing some shameful things.

Taking advantage of the fact that no one was around, Ye Yiyi took out the keychain he had found on the middle-aged priest and checked it.

[Secret Holy Blood Church Keychain]

Item Description: A keychain held by the Gatekeeper Priest.

Can open most of the doors in the secret Holy Blood Order.

"Most of the doors, that is to say, there are still a few doors that cannot be opened."

After putting away the key, Ye Yiyi continued to move forward.

When he reached the center of the corridor, he suddenly discovered that the wall on his side was replaced by a translucent window.

Through the glass, he saw a row of humans hanging from the ceiling, their skin peeled off, revealing the muscle tissue underneath...

"Grass……"

Ye Yiyi was startled, and the expression on her face froze instantly.

But these people who had been skinned were not dead at this moment.

The muscles on their chest rose and fell as they breathed in deep gulps of air. In their muscle tissue, tiny insects emitting a dark red glow crawled back and forth.

On the side, several Holy Blood priests gathered around a table with a skinned person on it.

The Holy Blood priests carefully observed his muscle tissue and sprinkled a dark red powder on it.

As the powder fell, it quickly absorbed into the muscle tissue like salt dissolving in water.

After a while, crimson worms crawled out of the body and crawled back and forth on the muscles.

The Holy Blood priests behind the glass cheered, and then a tall knight wearing black armor, a bucket helmet, and more than two meters tall came from the corner.

He picked up the person on the table and hung him on the ceiling nearby.

At the same time, the door of the room opened and two priests brought in another human body with all its skin peeled off.

The priests took a short break and then continued the previous process.

During this process, Ye Yiyi could not see any blood flowing out.

Those who were skinned were obviously conscious, but they did not resist and just let the priests do whatever they wanted to their bodies.

"What on earth is going on..." Ye Yiyi muttered to himself in his heart.

The scene was not bloody, after all, there was no bleeding... But the sight of skinning a human being, manipulating him, and hanging him up like bacon still made Ye Yiyi feel creepy from the bottom of his heart.

This should be a human experiment, and definitely not an ordinary individual experiment!

"and……"

He looked towards the corner of the room.

There stood a giant knight like a "tower" quietly.

More than two meters tall, wearing heavy black armor, he exudes a suffocating and terrifying sense of oppression.

"...This is the Holy Blood Knight."

A powerful knight who once received the descent of the Lord of Holy Blood and can use the weak power of blood.

"It turns out that the Holy Blood Knights in the game, who are almost always a head taller than the players, are really this tall." Ye Yiyi muttered to himself.

In games, due to considerations of combat perspective and to highlight the oppressive feeling of powerful enemies, developers often design some enemy models to be unusually tall.

This makes the player look very short in front of it, like an immature short stature...

But Ye Yiyi never thought that the first elite knight enemy he saw was actually that tall.

“This is a powerful knight of the elite level, who can take on an entire team of Eagle Claw Knights by himself.

"I don't know how many enemies like this there are in this church. It seems I have to be careful and not expose myself."

He withdrew his gaze and continued walking deeper into the corridor.

After passing through several glass windows with skinned human remains hanging on them, Ye Yiyi finally arrived at the end of the corridor.

Walk to the right and you will enter a spacious corridor.

The corridor ceiling is illuminated by cold lights, and there are many Holy Blood Priests underneath.

They either knelt in the corner, holding hymns, and prayed; or gathered in pairs, discussing their understanding of the hymns; or hurried into the corridor, pushing carts with skinned people lying on them.

The corridor is wide enough to accommodate many people.

There are corridors on both sides leading to the depths. The laboratory that Ye Yiyi just saw is in the first row on the right.

At the end of the corridor, in front of the wall, stands a tall stone statue, with many wooden chairs in front of the statue.

Only when I got here did I feel a little bit like a church.

Ye Yiyi quietly took out the Holy Blood Hymn Book and held it in front of him. He lowered his head and walked towards the statue at the end of the corridor without saying a word.

Without being exposed, first find out the number of troops stationed here, and then find out the location of the bishop.

In the game, the final boss of the Secret Holy Blood Church is a bishop of the Holy Blood Order.

Although this bishop can use hymns to attack, his health is not high and his resistances are almost non-existent, making him a fragile boss.

But now that the game has become reality, the appearance of the Holy Blood Church has changed drastically, and Ye Yiyi is not sure whether the BOSS is still the bishop.

If the bishop can be found, assassinating him in advance is also an option.

After all, it’s not impossible to assassinate the BOSS. Killing it means you don’t have to fight a BOSS battle, and the rewards and soul echoes will not be reduced. Isn’t this better?

Relying on the protection of the Holy Blood Priest robe and hymn book, Ye Yiyi did not arouse any suspicion and successfully walked through the corridor to the stone sculpture at the end.

Looking up, I saw a naked man with a stern face and long flowing hair.

"Lord of Holy Blood..."

Ye Yiyi silently recited the name of this foreign god in his heart and looked down at the same time.

Well... there is no dick, and it's smooth down there, which is very consistent with the original game.

Gods are not human beings, and human gender is meaningless to them.

But in terms of appearance, the image of the Lord of Holy Blood is closer to that of a man.

According to the original game plot, the Lord of Holy Blood should be located in the highest tower in the upper city, waiting for the player's challenge.

But now it seems that this deity has become a prisoner of the Holy Blood Cult and is imprisoned deep underground in the royal capital.

In other words, somewhere in the sewers.

Ye Yiyi didn't know exactly where it was, but the bishop should know.

Looking back and around, seeing that no one noticed him, Ye Yiyi calmly walked past the statue and headed towards the stairs in the corner.

There was a path leading to the upper level, and he planned to go up and explore.

There are too many people down there, and walking around might arouse suspicion.

After successfully stepping onto the stairs and walking around the corner, Ye Yiyi breathed a sigh of relief.

No one noticed...it's great.