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Chapter 82 - 64: The Evil Sacrifice Under the Mass (Please Follow and Vote for the Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 82: Chapter 64: The Evil Sacrifice Under the Mass (Please Follow and Vote for the Monthly Ticket)

The noise came quickly and vanished just as rapidly, after a shout or two, it abruptly stopped and disappeared.

But Xu Shu heard it very clearly.

It was clearly a cry for help.

"Fine, fine, fine, holding a silver party in the middle of the night without sleeping, and forcing trades, huh?"

"It really got me excited."

Xu Shu yanked up his pants, put on his clothes, and then quietly turned the door handle without making a sound,

He looked around and saw that no one noticed him; the corridor was lit by peculiar oil lamps, their dim, flickering flames mixing with the gloomy moonlight created an eerie and tranquil atmosphere.

Gu Pan’s door was closed; it seemed she wasn’t awake yet.

Xu Shu didn’t wake her, fearing the noise might draw attention, so he became extremely cautious, tiptoeing as he followed.

From a distance, he saw three men capturing a woman in the corridor, heading toward the exit.

Despite her struggles, the woman couldn’t escape the grasp of three strong men, and soon she ran out of energy, only managing to let out feeble cries.

Xu Shu followed behind without rushing to intervene.

It’s worth mentioning that earlier in the evening, along the way, he passed rooms where mating activities were taking place; now, all those doors were shut with loud snoring sounds echoing intermittently.

They slept like logs; even the loud cries for help from the girl didn’t wake them.

It seemed that in that atmosphere, every couple had exerted themselves fully and were now completely exhausted.

The rooms here also had little glass windows on the doors, somewhat similar to the prison Xu Shu had stayed in before.

Xu Shu noticed that as he passed by a few rooms occasionally, young girls with timid faces would peer out the windows, staring at him fearfully.

If he remembered correctly, these were the rooms from which no wolf-like cries emanated earlier; it seems the Mother Goddess Church still had some lines it wouldn’t cross, refraining from preying on underage girls.

The girls’ complexions looked slightly yellowish under the light of the fire, their lips dry and peeling, yet their eyes remained relatively bright.

Xu Shu gestured a shushing sign with his index finger to these dry-looking little girls.

Each of them quickly nodded in fear and retreated back inside, wisely making no noise.

"Strange, don’t they have a way to avoid these girls’ prying eyes?"

"Why did they only capture one?"

"To turn her into Star Rage Power?"

Xu Shu was contemplative as he continued tailing them; soon, they left the residential area and entered a semi-circular building.

The three burly men carried the unconscious girl to the side entrance of the building, looking around vigilantly as they knocked several times.

After a while, the door opened from the inside, and they quickly slipped inside.

"Ah, it turns out to be an underground passage."

Xu Shu leaned against the wall and saw the men heading downstairs.

After they disappeared, Xu Shu followed suit.

"This underground should originally be a parking lot, right? It looks like the other real entrances are all blocked. Are they down there to ’educate’ disobedient girls? Something doesn’t feel quite right here."

Xu Shu stroked his chin in thought.

"Forget it, stop thinking, just sneak in and take a look."

The iron door was locked, but that didn’t pose any problem for him.

Running up to the door, Xu Shu imitated the rhythm of the men’s earlier knock on the iron door.

A moment later, a man opened the door with visible impatience: "Wasn’t it said that we only needed one sacrifice tonight? How come there’s... Who are you!"

He had just unlocked the door when a strong hand forcibly reached in and grabbed his neck, lifting him off the ground.

The disparity in strength was too great; although this man appeared to be about one meter eighty and weighed around 180 pounds, in Xu Shu’s hands, he was like a small chick.

"Cough~ You are... who...?" The man struggled to speak.

"Keep quiet, or it’ll be an ugly death for you. By the way, are you a Patrol Soldier?" Xu Shu made a throat-slitting gesture while noticing that the man was wearing a Patrol Soldier’s uniform.

"Yes, yes, I promise not to yell..." the Patrol Soldier agreed meekly.

Xu Shu then let him down, slid the bolt of the iron door with one hand, and kept the other hand on his neck to prevent any sudden outcry.

"What’s going on down here? What sacrifice?" Xu Shu asked directly.

The man swallowed nervously, eyeing Xu Shu’s muscular physique and the terrifying grip emanating from his hand.

After a brief hesitation, he confessed, "It’s for a sacrifice!"

"Sacrifice?"

Xu Shu’s eyes brightened, "Tell me more!"

"I don’t know the details, Yang Chong arranged it. We are responsible for capturing people and sending them to the basement. Details of the sacrifice are only known to those who joined the church. We just get paid to do the work, sir, I have nothing to do with this."

Join the church? What church?

Yang Chong, the headmaster did this?

That guy seems so genteel, I used to like him, but he’s engaging in such heartless activities? Xu Shu was quite surprised.

But then again, it makes sense!

That Yang Chong, respected and authoritative in the shelter, no one else but him could stir up trouble in this place...

Getting such a result, Xu Shu felt it was both unexpected and reasonable.

After thinking about it, he asked again, "Do they have any Transcendents?"

"No, there are no Transcendents," the man said.

"Huh, still daring to lie." Xu Shu laughed.

Seeing that he couldn’t hide it, the man immediately corrected himself, "I apologize, sir. I got confused and forgot, there is one! We’ve never seen them, but previously a brother tried to seize power and mysteriously died afterwards. That’s when we knew that Yang Chong, that old guy, really has a Transcendent backing him up."

"Oh, I see," Xu Shu nodded. He had some recollection—Gu Pan and the Patrol Soldiers who had come with him had mentioned that this refuge was so large, it indeed must have had a Transcendent.

It seems they were talking about this person.

"Is there any other news?" Xu Shu asked.

The man hurriedly said, "Sir, I have already told you everything I know..."

"That’s also true; then you can die. I’ll make sure your death looks good," Xu Shu nodded.

"What? You just promised me. You can’t kill me. I’m an official Patrol Soldier. If you kill me, you’ll be judged—argh~"

Bang!

Xu Shu gently clapped his hands on the temples of the man, and with a snap, the man’s skull burst open.

Warrior entry, basic attack, strong hand skull split!

Xu Shu didn’t deceive him; indeed, he didn’t let him die horribly.

The blood splattered beautifully and vibrantly. Isn’t that nice to look at?

"Still trying to trick me, are you your mother’s Patrol Soldier? I remember now; you’re part of that gang of robbers. I was wondering why you looked so familiar." Xu Shu spat out.

Yesterday morning, on his journey, he hadn’t encountered any monsters, but near noon, Xu Shu killed a group of robbers who tried to rob him.

However, he later entered a legendary realm, and by the time it ended, it was nearly evening, so he couldn’t be bothered to go find them.

After all, robbers are a migratory group; they definitely wouldn’t stay in the same place past that point.

Moreover, killing robbers doesn’t increase Contribution Points, so Xu Shu didn’t want to waste time.

Unexpectedly, as fate would have it, he ran into them here again.

"So, it seems that gang of robbers is also from this refuge! Probably they were all out the day before, so they didn’t recognize me. Just happened to bump into each other. Think about it, it really is quite a coincidence."

"But come to think of it, this refuge is so big, so many mouths to feed. It truly can’t be managed just by scavenging."

"These people, probably act like saints in front of Patrol Soldiers with Transcendents, but once they leave, they show their true criminal nature."

Xu Shu cleared his mind, then he continued forward, moving quietly.

As a Warrior, he was now engaging in stealth activities.

This staircase was just a normal one leading to the underground garage; there was nothing special about it. There were lifts on the side, of course, but they had long been out of service.

He walked down about four loops when he faintly heard some noise. The parking space below was vast, with a ceiling of about fifteen feet high, thick load-bearing columns stood everywhere, and many cars that could not be driven away during the disaster years ago provided perfect cover.

Xu Shu quietly sneaked down; no one noticed him. He hid behind a car that had been scrapped for who knows how long and began to quietly observe.

"Light guide us, light envelop us, thank you, my lord, for blessing us with light."

"Those who stray from the light shall suffer sin."

"Non-believers remain unclothed, abandoners go hungry."

"Only my lord eradicates disasters, keeps away fear, all other beings suffer bitterly..."

"Suffer bitterly..." (Note 1)

About seventy to eighty meters away, where the firelight was bright, there was a large group of bare-chested men and women, holding hands, singing and dancing, moving their feet and hands in dance.

They danced frantically, but their chanting was quite orderly, giving a very awkward and disconcerting feeling.

It seemed that with such dancing, they ought to be howling.

And those complete prayers should be chanted in clean, tidy cathedrals, not in this dim, cramped basement.

Xu Shu saw that these people were drenched in blood, odd tattoos that looked like they were branded on with a hot iron marked their backs.

As they spun around, gaps allowed glimpses of a man and a woman in the center of the firelight, engaged in an act, both looking extremely fervent.

And behind them, the three men who had brought people here knelt on the ground. The girl they had brought was thrown to the side, appearing to have fainted.

Beside her, there were a few other people whose heads were covered with black cloth bags, both men and women, all bound at hands and feet.

There was also a Divine Woman-like figure at the scene with saggy breasts and an extremely corpulent abdomen, her entire body layered with folds of skin, pouring blood from a basin onto the heads of these three people.

"Thank you, granny, for the baptism~"

"Thank you for the lord’s grace~"

They devoutly kneeled on the ground, sobbing, continuously kissing the toes of that obese old woman.

"Ugh~"

Xu Shu felt sick to his stomach.

No, wait!

This was definitely not a moonlight Mass!

Applause of love is the moonlight Mass.