Chapter 95: The blue holy figure

"Hey."

Zhou Yun turned his head and waved, greeting the gray leather-clad, hooded woman approaching him.

This woman was wearing an extremely simple gray leather suit that clung tightly to her body, while her face was covered by a hood.

She walked almost silently, having followed behind the two ever since they entered the Thirteenth District.

She had just secretly popped her head out, silently trying to approach the two.

If it weren't for Zhou Yun's senses having been blessed by that pale sense of death, becoming increasingly sensitive, it wouldn't have been so easy to discover her.

The woman in the gray leather suit froze in place, somewhat embarrassed; she seemed not to have expected to be discovered by Zhou Yun.

"Who are you?!" Letna turned her head in surprise.

She followed Zhou Yun's gaze and only then discovered this gray leather-clad woman.

If it weren't for the fact that the leather-clad woman wasn't holding a weapon, with only two long daggers tied to her waist, Letna might not have been able to resist firing a psychic cannon at her.

"... I am the Sixth Chief Assassin of the Daughters of Death." The leather-clad woman's tone was low and hoarse as she gave a light Aquila salute to Zhou Yun and Letna.

"Sixth Chief..." Letna observed the leather-clad woman vigilantly.

"Just call me Sixth Chief; only the Chief Assassin of each generation is worthy of having a name."

The leather-clad woman who called herself the Sixth Chief said in a hoarse voice:

"The two of you are Letna and Lord Zhou Yun of the Ark Gang, right?"

The Sixth Chief's gaze swept over Letna and then landed on Zhou Yun, who had a light smile on his face.

Her eyes were filled with some vigilance.

Her skills, honed since childhood, her body formed through flesh and blood modification and various drug injections, her body blessed by the God of Death—she should have been able to move almost completely silently.

Yet this man in front of her was able to discover her... and seemed to have discovered her long ago, just waiting for her to pop out from the shadows.

No wonder the Governor had specifically ordered the Chief Assassin to assassinate him.

The Sixth Chief withdrew her vigilant gaze, suppressed the doubts in her heart, and pointed toward the gray-white church not far away with feigned respect:

"I already know the purpose of your visit, please come this way."

The Sixth Chief gestured, signaling Zhou Yun and Letna to follow.

Zhou Yun walked while looking at the leather-clad woman in front of him with keen interest.

He was thinking, where exactly should that secret phrase be used?

Zhou Yun pondered for a moment, leaned close to the Sixth Chief, and said in a low voice:

"Only sacrifice to death, only worship the God of Death."

The Sixth Chief blinked in confusion, gave an Aquila salute, and said in a low voice: "The God of Death thirsts for death."

And then?

And then there was no then?

Zhou Yun frowned; it looked like this secret phrase wasn't used here.

Could it be that it was only useful when meeting a higher existence of the Daughters of Death?

Just as Zhou Yun was thinking, the three had already arrived in front of the church.

"Zhou Yun, look." Letna leaned close to Zhou Yun and whispered.

She pointed to this pale church.

Between the bricks of the church walls, grim, bleached bones were embedded, twisting hideously like exquisite reliefs.

The entire church seemed to be built of white bones, making one feel a bit chilled.

Zhou Yun raised his eyebrows.

This church was indeed... the one he saw in the bottom-hive illusion.

"The bones of the righteous have shaped the temple of death, and their spirits shall return to the throne of the God of Death."

The Sixth Chief said piously, guiding the two into the church.

After entering the church, there was a deep, pitch-black corridor, gray, dark, and cold, with only a few pale candlelight lamps hanging between the bone-brick walls.

The light shone down, illuminating the stone statues recessed in the walls.

The appearance of each stone statue was not much different; they were all long-limbed women wearing pitch-black leather suits and hoods.

Zhou Yun looked at the text below the stone statues with keen interest; it was written in High Gothic.

He couldn't understand it.

"Chief Assassin... Marika."

"Chief Assassin... Aia."

"Chief Assassin... Cassandra."

"Chief Assassin... Hassan."

"Chief Assassin... Alecto."

Letna recited in a low voice from the side; she knew some High Gothic.

Her gaze stopped on the last statue:

"Chief Assassin, Dixi."

"These are the statues of our past Chief Assassins."

The Sixth Chief walked in front of the two, guiding them while saying:

"Each Chief Assassin, under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs, is able to see the past Chief Assassins in dreams, learn the assassination techniques taught by the God of Death, and receive the name bestowed by the God of Death... that is, the Emperor."

"Each Chief Assassin is a weapon chosen by the God of Death, bringing more death to Him."

"It must be hallucinations brought on by hallucinogenic drugs," Letna muttered in a low voice from the side.

She considered herself a person chosen by the Emperor, but she had never seen or heard the Emperor's voice.

Yet this strange heretical cult in front of her actually claimed that every one of their leaders was personally blessed by the Emperor and received a name bestowed by the Emperor.

Letna couldn't accept it.

"I actually think it might be true," Zhou Yun's mouth twitched slightly.

Because several of the names of the Chief Assassins just now could be found in various literary and game works of humanity's third millennium, and all were associated with assassins.

As for the remaining ones that Zhou Yun didn't know, he guessed they might be names from various human cultural products after the third millennium.

The Sixth Chief Assassin walking in front of the two looked at Zhou Yun with a slightly softer gaze.

"You are more blessed than your female companion, able to comprehend the mysteries of the God of Death."

"Even if you die, you have a chance to return to His throne."

"As long as I'm not pulled up by Him and forced to work for free while burning with flames..." Zhou Yun said something that seemed inexplicable to others.

The Sixth Chief looked at Zhou Yun inexplicably.

Under her guidance, Zhou Yun and Letna were able to enter the deepest part of the church.

The entire church was shrouded in darkness; one could hear faint whispers and light footsteps, and also the sound of leather and stone rubbing against each other.

It took Letna a few seconds to adapt to the darkness.

The church was arranged with rows of pale, rough stone benches, and several young women in white leather suits were kneeling on the benches, praying softly.

The air exuded a strange chill and dullness; Letna could smell a strange fragrance on the tip of her nose.

It smelled like... like alcohol, like fermented fresh blood, like light, floating death.

Letna heard the sound of gurgling water, and her gaze followed the sound.

Blood-red water, turning black, flowed out from both sides of the church, spreading into a circular pool at the end of the church.

Ten women were kneeling piously by the pool, dressed in gray leather suits, praying silently.

And under the gaze of the statue of the Emperor at the end of the church, a woman wearing a tight black leather suit and a hooded chain was soaking in the blood pool, praying with her head bowed.

"That is your Chief Assassin?" Zhou Yun glanced at the Sixth Chief and asked.

The Sixth Chief nodded lightly: "The Chief has not yet finished her prayer; please follow me to the arranged room to rest and wait. After the prayer is finished, the Chief will personally discuss the cooperation with the two of you."

Zhou Yun nodded slightly, and the two followed the Sixth Chief's guidance to a simple room.

The room had two wooden windows, a small table, and a few protein blocks on the table; other than that, there was nothing, revealing a sense of simplicity.

After the two entered, the Sixth Chief gave a light Aquila salute and left.

"Zhou Yun..." Letna sat down beside Zhou Yun and whispered: "I used psychic perception to confirm that there is no danger in the room."

"But those Death-Worship assassins, the more I look at them, the more I feel something is wrong."

"They might..."

Letna made a throat-slitting gesture.

Zhou Yun just smiled and asked in return: "How is the battle situation with the Genestealers?"

"I'm putting out fires everywhere, and with you helping me handle all the affairs, the Ark Gang's material dispatch is much smoother now... we should be able to hold on for a few more days."

Letna's expression was not very good; clearly, the battle situation was unfavorable.

"Rest assured, we will get a batch of new help today." Zhou Yun smiled and said.

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"Are you that confident?" Letna couldn't help but shake her head.

"Anyway, I won't die." After saying that, Zhou Yun leaned against the head of the bed, closed his eyes, and rested to nourish his spirit.

Dixi stood up from the blood pool, black blood flowing down her body.

"Chief." The Sixth Chief saw Dixi walk out of the blood pool and came to her side.

"How are those two?" Dixi asked softly, her voice like the cold wind blowing through the dark church.

"That woman has strong psychic power, but she is not very smart."

"The man's senses are quite sharp; he easily discovered me and seems to know quite a bit about us."

The Sixth Chief's voice sank a bit:

"He seems to trust us, but it seems more like confidence in himself; this person is very difficult to deal with."

Dixi nodded slightly, walking lightly toward the front, and the Sixth Chief hurried to keep up.

"No matter who they are, what their status is, death will visit them equally."

"Death is irresistible, just because the Chosen of Death has descended on Ashford; we must offer more death for his arrival."

Dixi's tone was as flat as the night, making the Sixth Chief feel a sense of peace.

Suddenly, the Sixth Chief remembered the words Zhou Yun had said to her on the road...

"Oh, by the way, Chief, this man is also a bit strange and inexplicable."

The Sixth Chief thought for a moment and said:

"When we were on the road, he suddenly said something in my ear... Only sacrifice to death, only worship the God of Death."

"This is not a prayer in our scriptures; it's really strange... Could this man be from another Death-Worship cult—"

"What did you just say?!"

Dixi's tone suddenly rose, and the look in her eyes as she looked at the Sixth Chief was tinged with horror.

"I said when he was on the road... he said in my ear: Only sacrifice to death, only worship the God of Death."

The Sixth Chief was startled; she had never seen Dixi behave like this.

Because they had received training since childhood, including mental training, normally there would never be such a large emotional fluctuation.

"Only sacrifice to death, only worship the God of Death..."

Dixi's eyes were slightly sluggish, and it wasn't until a moment later that she looked at the Sixth Chief with tension:

"Is he blue?"

"... No, Chief, do you think he is..." A sense of horror also flashed in the Sixth Chief's eyes.

"Not blue, but... how could he..." Dixi's eyes were filled with deep confusion.

According to what she saw in the Emperor's revelation...

It should have been a blue, holy existence chanting "Only sacrifice to death, only worship the God of Death."

That was the Chosen of Death.

She had to go see that man named Zhou Yun.

"She's here."

In the small room of the Death-Worship Cult, the winged figure in the white light suddenly spoke.

A burst of brilliant and dazzling white light, which only Zhou Yun could see, marked out the Chief Assassin Dixi, who was hiding in the shadows of the room and was almost invisible.

It seemed this Death-Worship Cult assassin had some skills; although Zhou Yun had also faintly sensed someone coming in, he really couldn't figure out how she had run into this closed room silently.

She was now squatting in the shadows, watching Zhou Yun silently.

Zhou Yun's mouth couldn't help but twitch slightly.

He really had an urge to ask Dixi: Are you taking a dump?

Zhou Yun broke off a piece from the protein block on the table, rolled it into a ball, and placed it between his fingers.

Boom!

Zhou Yun flicked the protein ball out with his finger.

The ball hit the wall, a light reflection, and shot straight toward Dixi, who was squatting in the corner.

Since returning from the bottom-hive, Zhou Yun found that his shooting skills were becoming more and more proficient, even to an eerie degree.

Zhou Yun also couldn't explain clearly whether this was the effect of the Huang Pizi blessing, or if, as the winged figure in the white light said, his Warp essence was being perceived to a light degree?

Dixi, hiding in the corner, saw the ball flying toward her and hurriedly dodged, however—

Ding!

The ball hit her forehead precisely, making a crisp sound...

There was a deathly silence in the air; Letna turned her head in a daze, looking in the direction the sound came from.

Dixi also stood up from the shadows in a daze, rubbing her forehead.

Not to mention a ball made of protein blocks, she should have been able to dodge even a bullet...

Dixi, Zhou Yun, and Letna were all staring at each other in the room.

Finally, it was Zhou Yun who broke the silence.

"I am the Chosen of Death; the Emperor sent me."

Zhou Yun looked at Dixi with a flat face and said:

"Only sacrifice to death, only worship the God of Death."

"Huh?" Letna looked at Zhou Yun in a daze: "You, the Chosen of Death?"

"Of the three people present, only one wasn't invited by the Emperor; guess who?" Zhou Yun looked at Letna and shrugged.

Letna's expression crumpled into a ball.

"But..." Chief Assassin Dixi said with some wavering: "In the scene shown by the God of Death, by the Emperor, you should be a blue, holy figure..."

"... Huh?" Letna looked at Dixi and Zhou Yun in even more confusion.

"... Blue?" Zhou Yun's eye twitched slightly.

After a moment of silence, he said: "You two go out for a moment."

Dixi bowed lightly and walked out of the room silently.

Letna blinked and also walked out of the room in a daze.

Zhou Yun took out the body clay from his four-dimensional pocket.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 96 =====