Chapter 3226

Bruce and the Pale Face drove on the highway, rushing back to Faraines at the fastest speed.

This time the Pale Face was driving, and Bruce was checking something with a newly bought phone. The Pale Face glanced at it, and he seemed to be chatting with someone.

"What are you doing?" the Pale Face asked.

"Finding someone to ask for clues," Bruce said. "I just got in touch with a guy and asked him about the situation of the Siltek Company."

The Pale Face's curiosity about him grew heavier, but he didn't directly ask about things outside the game, but said, "You said before that you were an agent, so the identity of a psychologist was your disguise?"

"You could say that," Bruce said.

"Who do you work for?"

"Is this important?" Bruce said without looking up, "You're a lawyer, and I didn't ask who you work for."

"I don't have a very clear employer. In my own setting, I just need to investigate monster events and collect more favorable evidence. Of course, according to previous inferences, I might also be involved in insurance compensation cases."

"I'm about the same," Bruce said.

Since he wasn't willing to say, the Pale Face didn't ask much. Just then, the Pale Face braked sharply. Bruce was shaken and hit his forehead, but the Pale Face stared tightly ahead.

Two black cars drove from the opposite direction, and when they approached their car, one turned and blocked the intersection horizontally.

The Pale Face saw the road sign for Faraines. They were almost approaching the village entrance, but they were blocked at this time. The other party must be coming with bad intentions.

Sure enough, without waiting for the Pale Face to react, several people rushed out of the black vehicle in front. They were all fully armed, not only holding guns but also wearing bulletproof vests and riot shields, immediately surrounding their car.

The Pale Face instinctively picked up his gun, but the other party was aggressive, large in number, and well-equipped. A head-on collision really wasn't a good way.

Bruce gave the Pale Face a look, and the two could only get out of the car. The group of people surrounding the car was led by a woman. She shook the gun in her hand, signaling the Pale Face to throw down the gun in his hand.

The Pale Face hesitated slightly, but finally threw the gun on the ground. Someone immediately walked over, handcuffed their hands behind their backs, put hoods over their heads, and stuffed them into the car.

The Pale Face used his sense of direction to judge that the car was driving towards the village, which meant that this group of people was very likely from the church. The church was guarding even more strictly than they imagined.

The car drove for more than ten minutes, driving and stopping for a while. The Pale Face couldn't fully feel the route they were taking, only knowing that they shouldn't have left the village yet.

Soon the car stopped completely. The Pale Face was brought down. He felt himself being pushed into a room. The handcuffs should have been handcuffed to the railing of the extinguished fireplace, so he could only sit on the ground.

He didn't hear any movement from Bruce. He suspected that they were being held separately. Someone wanted to get information out of their mouths.

Sure enough, after a while, a sound of footsteps sounded at the door. The Pale Face's hood was taken off, and he saw the woman who had blocked them earlier sitting opposite him.

There was also movement next door. The Pale Face felt it might be Bruce, and someone had gone over there too.

The woman took off her bulletproof vest and coat, and sure enough, revealed the long robe inside. It looked a bit like a nun's habit, but it was clearly a simplified version, just longer than a priest's robe and without so many patterns.

The woman wore a cross necklace around her neck. After sitting down, she pinched the cross and muttered a few words, then looked at the Pale Face and asked, "What did you do in Sigeltek?"

The sky gradually darkened, and Shiler and Batman had also successfully sneaked into the vicinity of the lighthouse. The two bypassed the woods, and Batman found the door to the power distribution room not far from the lighthouse.

The lighthouse's power distribution room wasn't in the lighthouse, but underground on the east side of the lighthouse. Joker and Batman both modified the electric shock equipment here. The church people didn't seem to know about this and didn't send anyone to guard it, so the two of them got in very easily.

Waiting here until the sky turned completely dark, Batman cut off the power in the lighthouse, and the lighthouse was instantly pitch black.

Shiler heard the commotion. Clearly, the church personnel stationed here didn't expect a sudden power outage. They took advantage of this opportunity to touch the side of the lighthouse.

When the investigator came down from the lighthouse before, he left a rope. It was said before that the lighthouse was particularly large, and it would take a lot of time to go around it. A thin rope wasn't conspicuous, and the church people didn't find it.

The two of them used this rope to successfully reach the window on the second floor, jumped in along the window, and didn't alert anyone.

Shiler observed the situation in the lighthouse. Just as he expected, the lighthouse shrouded in thick fog didn't have any light at all. There was a little light within a range of about one meter near the window, and everything else was pitch black.

It was simply a natural hunting ground for Nightgaunts.

But Shiler didn't rush to take out the Shining Trapezohedron, but went up two more floors with Batman, came to the middle of the lighthouse, that is, next to the ceiling of the fourth floor, and placed the Shining Trapezohedron under the railing of the ceiling.

During this period, Shiler kept shining a flashlight on the box to prevent Nightgaunts from appearing. After putting the box down, he still kept shining the flashlight towards that side until the two of them retreated to the window together, and footsteps came from the stairs next to them.

"... Why did the power suddenly go out? Didn't that group of people go to check the power switch? I didn't bring a flashlight."

"Walk along the wall first, be careful, don't trip..."

As the sound of speaking became clearer, Shiler and Batman had already climbed out of the window. The two hung on the rope again. The moment Shiler turned off the flashlight, a black shadow flashed past the ceiling.

Then a shrill scream came from the lighthouse.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!!"

And the two people hanging outside the lighthouse didn't go down, but went up instead, because through their previous observations, the church people seemed to treat the lighthouse as a base. Now this was their command center, and many people came and went to report, and the person who commanded them should be on the high level of the lighthouse. Even if it wasn't the Grand Prophet, it should be an important figure in the church.

Shiler and Batman didn't enter the highest level immediately, because if the Grand Prophet was really a death-faking guy as he speculated, he was very likely to stay on the highest level, where the security must be the tightest. Rushing in directly was equivalent to throwing themselves into the net.

So they went to the eighth floor. As long as they moved fast and took advantage of the other party being caught in the chaos of suddenly losing light and not reacting, they should be able to break in faster.

Sure enough, when the two climbed in from the window, the church personnel stationed there hadn't been able to adapt to the sudden darkness, and were scared by the screams downstairs. The defensive formation was completely messed up. Shiler and Batman seized the opportunity and knocked down two or three people instantly.

Following the huge ceiling to the other side, they originally wanted to rush up the stairs, but Shiler, who was wearing night-vision goggles, found that many people had gathered in front of another intersection. He instinctively felt that something was wrong.

So he immediately pulled Batman, and the two touched over quietly along the other side of the passage.

That group of people gathered at the intersection looked very chaotic. The sudden power outage caused the circle around the ceiling to be pitch black, and human vision had no effect at all in this environment. Everyone was walking by touching the wall.

As soon as Shiler walked over, he saw someone holding a riot shield, and the weapons in their hands were better than those of the people downstairs, and the personnel configuration was more reasonable. This was clearly a well-trained defensive team.

But why were they guarding this intersection?

Shiler was a little curious. He looked at the stairs. Batman understood his worry, so he said, "The lighthouse's power system has been completely destroyed. It's useless for them to send how many people to repair it."

Shiler couldn't help but give Batman a thumbs up. Having Batman as a teammate was really worry-free. The power system couldn't be restored, so they had plenty of time.

So Shiler took advantage of the chaos of that defensive team and slipped away secretly along the gap in the wall. Batman followed behind him.

Shiler had night-vision goggles, and Batman had X-ray vision. When the two slipped past from the side, the group of people whose vision was completely black didn't notice at all, thinking that the noise beside them was made by their companions.

The two walked inside along the corridor and saw a door at the very end open a small crack. As soon as Shiler pulled the door open, he saw a man's terrified face.

The other party didn't seem to have thought that anyone would come either. Just as he was about to exclaim, Shiler covered his mouth with quick eyes and hands and pulled him into the room.

In a short meeting, he recognized who the other party was—one of the three sages, the Grand Prophet Gad.

Shiler covered his mouth, dragged him all the way to the deepest part of the room, and whispered in his ear, "Shut your mouth, or you're done for."

This kind of short threat was clearly the most effective. When the other party recovered from the initial surprise, he nodded slowly.

When Shiler retreated into the room, he had already discovered that the sofa in the living room was overturned, and ropes were scattered beside it. It looked like someone had been tied here.

Batman locked the door, and Shiler let go and turned on the flashlight.

The Grand Prophet Gad's complexion, which had just improved a little, cracked again when he saw the pattern on Shiler's priest robe.

"This is not important," Shiler said. "I can guarantee that you haven't seen me in the Pope's personal guard."

Gad was stunned for a moment, looked up at Shiler's face, studied it for a long time, and found that what he said was actually true. He lowered his voice and said, "So you're an impostor? You're not the Pope's person?"

"Should I be?"

"You really don't look like the people in the personal guard," Gad took a deep breath and said, "Are you here to save me?"

"Tell me first why you are here," Shiler looked at him and said, "I hope you tell the truth. I think you can also see that only we can solve your trouble here."

After Gad looked at him for a while, he said, "I don't know where your confidence comes from. This place is all the Pope's people..."

"So you aren't here voluntarily?"

"Of course not," Gad gritted his teeth and said, "How could I voluntarily come here to be sacrificed? I'm not crazy!"

Shiler frowned deeply and said, "The Pope wants to sacrifice you? But I met someone on the ghost ship who claimed to be your subordinate, and he wanted to go to the captain's room..."

"No matter who claims to be my person, they are lying to you. The Grand Prophet Gad who appears in front of the public is just a puppet. They are all the Pope's people."

"But I heard the Pope is not long for this world."

"That's true. If it weren't for that old guy being about to die, he wouldn't be so crazy," Gad sighed and said, "He has been preparing for this for many years. If his life hadn't really come to an end, he wouldn't have chosen to act now."

"So what exactly is going on?"