Chapter 909: Exorcist Detective, Heaven and Hell

Before Stein arrived at the Bada Port naval barracks, he hadn't even entered the gate when a thick smell of blood came from this military restricted area.

A sound suddenly came from behind him. Stein turned his head to look, only to see the local guide who had brought him here disappear on the horizon as quickly as a rabbit chased by a dog. Turning his head back helplessly, Stein's face gradually became a bit solemn.

The place where the sentry should have been at the gate was empty. Stein approached with a black handbag, but only saw a dragged bloodstain at the post, and a few bullet casings left on the ground.

He squatted down halfway and used his hand to rub a white line stained with blood on the ground.

The fresh blood on it had already condensed into a ball with the white powdery substance.

Stein applied a little force with his fingertips to crush it, finding that this bloodstain was at least half a day old. But for something to happen to the barracks near Bada Port, and for only him, this exorcist detective, to rush over to investigate after half a day, was itself a very strange thing.

Sniffing slightly at the powder mixed with fresh blood, Stein's face became even more solemn.

"It's salt!"

He stood up and scanned the barracks. Salt surrounded the entire barracks.

In occultism, salt is something that can banish evil spirits and isolate mysterious invasions.

The Holy Church has always claimed that salt is a symbol of purity and holiness, but in Stein's view—salt is a fence in occultism. For some reason he doesn't know yet, salt can destroy the continuity of the present world space in the spirit world.

If the present world is a mirror, then the smooth transition of the mirror should also be smooth and continuous in the light and shadow reflected in the spirit world.

But if you sprinkle salt, this smoothness is destroyed.

It's like when you travel from the present world to the corresponding position in the spirit world, the place isolated by salt can no longer be easily discovered.

Similarly, if an existence from the spirit world is splashed with salt, its 'body' existing in the present world will become unstable.

Therefore, salt is widely used in secret rituals and invisible arts.

Even one of the most widely known recipes for the church's holy water is salt!

"The first element of exorcism is that the spirit world belongs to the spirit world, and the present world belongs to the present world."

Stein frowned tightly. Mastering the true names of evil spirits and demons, using salt and holy light to destroy their stability, and cooperating with secrecy and spells to banish them. This is a basic cognition for all exorcists to confront evil...

Even the most dangerous terrifying monsters from the 'Abyss' can be skillfully banished using this method.

It is not rare for mortals to be harmed by evil existences; it is just a bit strange that the victims are the army!

And from the salt circle, the army even made sufficient preparations, as if they knew such a massacre would happen.

Under these circumstances, the barracks still suffered a near-annihilation blow, and the salt circle still showed no signs of damage. This performance is enough to make 99% of exorcists give up the commission.

Even Stein—the legendary exorcist detective of Camelot, an exorcist who has retired evil gods, has to weigh it carefully.

Stein smoked a cigarette on the spot, then grabbed a demon horn and pressed it against his throat.

"I'm looking for Claude!"

Stein asked in a low voice with a relaxed expression toward the demon horn.

There was silence for a long time inside, and then came a wonderful scolding: "You rotten XX, shameless bitch, rotten goods who deserve to be fucked by angels ten thousand times, Stein! I owe you a favor. You sent me to hell with your own hands, but that's my own fault. I shouldn't have traded with dark creatures, this violates the neutral stance of exorcists. You sacrificed the heart of a demon viscount to me, making me a demon and mastering some power in hell. Good, this is very good! I am willing to inquire about some news for you in the spirit world. After all, in the spirit world, 'Hell' has ten thousand times more dealings than 'Heaven'."

"But you want me to contact a black-robed priest of the Holy Church?"

"I am a demon, I don't have a back door to Heaven!"

"So you can contact him, right?" Stein took a deep breath, flicked the cigarette butt away, and said: "You should know that the blood moon appeared in the present world..."

"Yes, I know! Something big happened in the present world. The Pope, that bitch, ascended to heaven? It's my first time seeing a Pope fall into hell? As soon as he came, he shouted loudly, 'The Savior is dead', 'The Lamp Father is about to be resurrected', and then he was kidnapped by a few fallen angels doing dirty work!"

Hearing such explosive news, Stein frowned subconsciously.

He touched the cigarette case on his body and asked the voice in the demon horn: "The Pope fell into hell? Then aren't you guys rich? A Pope who fell into hell will definitely not be stingy with some secrets of the Holy See. Many big shots will give a high price for this."

The voice in the demon horn said depressedly: "Forget it! Stein! That's not something we can touch. His soul is being watched by the Seven Original Sins!"

"Original Sin Demons?" Stein was even more puzzled: "Didn't they get banned from entering the present world by the Goddess of Original Sin?"

"Back to the blood moon..."

The demon was impatient and didn't want Stein to prostitute its information anymore!

Stein bit on a cigarette again and said vaguely: "I don't have any specific clues right now, but I was commissioned for a very dangerous task. A naval barracks of the Camelot Royal Navy in the port was inexplicably killed by something!"

"I think, at such a sensitive time, with such a big case, it's hard not to be related to the blood moon night a few days ago, so I investigated, and guess what?"

The demon in the demon horn became interested instantly: "What happened?"

A faint smile appeared on Stein's face: "Two warships docked in this port carried out a secret mission a few days ago. It's not in the logbook and attendance records, but the logistics and ammunition depot show that they carried out a short-distance mission, fired six bases of ammunition, and consumed a lot of fuel!"

"I found the brothel that the sailors often go to and spent a lot of money to learn that seven days ago, on the night of the blood moon, they went to Kafas to carry out a mission. But specifically, even the drunkest sailor didn't say anything, you know..."

"Oath Art!" The demon there said firmly.

"I contacted Claude the priest for you. That was a favor I managed to get from an angel in Heaven. Thank God, it didn't disappear on the night of the blood moon, otherwise the cost of the eighteen cruel demons I found to serve it would be money I earned bit by bit with hard work!"

The demon complained: "Heaven lost at least one hundred thousand angels. Quite a few angels from Heaven came to get drunk these past few days, and even more angels called cruel demons. I suspect they are all going to fall!"

As he spoke, there was no movement from the demon horn. After a long time, a voice came from inside: "Who is looking for me?"

"Claude!"

Stein roughly explained the situation. Claude, the bearded priest who was confused by the spirit world transmission from Heaven, woke up instantly!

"Stein, don't get involved in this muddy water. I can only say, they deserve it. This will be a long, cruel trial and vengeance. Believe me, dying here is the best result for them. Don't investigate, don't look for the truth... although I know these are all nonsense to you!" Claude sincerely advised his old friend.

"Regardless, the truth will not hurt us. Even if someone is hurt because of this, the cause has already been planted, and retribution just came a bit later." Stein replied calmly.

Claude was silent for a long time before speaking slowly: "The military came to the church for help!"

"The church refused... because they had no way to deal with those things. They will not be banished back to the spirit world, because they might not belong there? They will not be harmed by most exorcism means, and even divine arts and holy light can't do anything to those things... But they possess things that the official, the church, and the Blood Cup all want! It's very dangerous, Stein, your situation is very dangerous!"

"But if you want the truth, then they might not hurt you, but the military will definitely want you dead!"

"So I don't know how to guide you. If you don't investigate the truth, then you can't resist those things at all. And if you want to investigate the truth, then you have to be careful of the bullets from behind..."

Claude chose a limited hint.

Stein blocked the demon horn, completely ignoring the demon's impatient questioning, and sealed the intimidation, coercion, threats, and curses in the demon horn.

Then he decisively crossed the salt circle and stepped into the barracks.

The ground of the camp was reddish-brown, with some white scratches.

Stein stared at this reddish-brown ground that was spread out for a long time.

He roughly estimated that the entire parade ground was covered by this reddish-brown color. If you grind people on the ground, using flesh and blood and bones to rub on the ground, it's like a crayon being used up bit by bit on white paper.

To smear the entire parade ground, it would take over a hundred people.

And this was almost one-sixth of the number of people in this barracks!

His leather shoes stepped on these 'paints' and came to the barracks.

Several corpses were lying in the corridor. Stein leaned over to check. They were all broken by a powerful force in a bone that was important, or had their internal organs torn out by something, and died in extreme pain.

Looking at these young faces, Stein was silent.

He closed the young soldier's eyes and said in a low voice: "If what you did was from the orders of your superiors, from the instructions of the upper levels, then what kind of crime would it take to make you deserve it?"

"If you deserve it, then what about this country? The Queen?"

"Isn't it unforgivable?"

Just at this moment, Stein felt something behind him.

He turned his head fiercely, but saw a 'person' wrapped in blood stains. The 'person's' eyes sprayed red light, like burning blood.

Looking at each other, Stein only felt an endless anger shrouding himself.

The anger almost evaporated all the blood in his body!

"You have the resentment of many people on you, they want to take revenge on you!"

A low voice came from the evil spirit's mouth.

But Stein only felt horrified—evil spirits don't have wisdom, but their wisdom is always dominated by paranoia, and their reason is always drowned in intense emotions, so evil spirits are basically impossible to communicate with.

But this blood spirit, it was actively communicating with him?

Although it was saying 'revenge', the blood spirit had no intention of doing anything at all. It said in a low voice: "But there are more blessings, you have completed their revenge for many people!"

In the hollow gaze of the blood spirit, the red light dimmed. It muttered in a low voice: "We will not hurt you, we don't want to hurt anyone either..."

"But, we have no choice!"

Its voice gradually became high-pitched, and the endless regret and anger turned into surging red light.

Stein was constantly changing exorcism magic tools, the Archbishop's holy lamp necklace, pendulum crystal, flower of purity, Eastern talismans, voodoo dolls, and a handful of amulets.

But these things that could banish evil spirits were of no use at this moment. Under the red light, their spirituality was all being extinguished.

Looking at the little things Stein took out, the evil spirit sneered.

Just as it turned to leave, Stein shouted: "I need a truth!"

The evil spirit turned its head slowly, staring at this little bug that it had spared. Not only was he not timid, but he was even pushing his luck.

Stein took a deep breath: "I think we all need a truth..."

A deep red blood-colored flame appeared in the evil spirit's hand.

It arrived in front of Stein in an instant, easily grabbing his head in that giant bone hand. The blood flame burned him until he screamed, and a scar like a brand was left on his left face.

"Truth? Things that are bestowed are never qualified to be called reality. If you want to know it, you need to sacrifice your wisdom, courage, and conscience. Weigh it! See if it's worth it, and finally exchange it with your soul. But from the moment it is revealed, it is worthless!"

"Only the most stupid people pursue the truth. Truly smart people only pursue what they want."

"And we, what we want is not the truth, but revenge!"

Stein said with difficulty: "Revenge? What can be called revenge? Revenge is just a process of repeating pain, radiating the anger in your heart, but you will never get inner peace and tranquility? Revenge only has torture, it has no results! Pursuing revenge is a path with no results! Only the truth... the truth is a certain result, it is a rest!"

"If there is no truth to draw a rest for your revenge, then the fire of revenge will eventually swallow you together..."

The evil spirit was slightly stunned, and the red light in its eyes dimmed slightly.

It said indifferently: "You might have a point... but we don't care!"

The evil spirit smiled cruelly and used its long fingernails to carve a symbol on his face.

That was a lamp.

A lamp drawn with blood... ===== CHAPTER 910 =====

A lamp drawn in blood...