Chapter 351: Sacrificial Square (Seeking monthly votes at the start of the month)

Friends disappeared? Lu Mian, holding a white candle, looked at the young man rushing over and moved his eyebrows slightly.

In the catacombs, disappearance is normal. What's not normal is how this guy still remembers that there were a few friends, and remembers that they disappeared weirdly?

He wasn't a tomb manager, and he didn't have an angel sealed in his body!

Once a matter shows signs of abnormality, there must be a problem!

"Stop!" Lu Mian used his empty right hand to draw his revolver and aimed at the pale young man with black hair and brown eyes.

Amidst the flickering candlelight, the young man shook his head crazily:

"Help! Save me!

"They all disappeared!"

He only slowed down slightly and didn't stop his steps.

Bang!

Lu Mian pulled the trigger of the revolver directly, letting the yellowish bullet fly past the young man's body to the distance, disappearing into the darkness that the candlelight couldn't illuminate.

The young man felt Lu Mian's will to stop him by shooting and finally stopped, revealing an imploring expression:

"Save me! Save me!"

Seeing that "Madame Hela" beside him remained quiet and had no intention of communicating, Lu Mian had to ask himself:

"What exactly happened?"

During the process of speaking, he used the yellowish candlelight held by the three of them to take in the environment at the entrance of the third level of the catacombs.

Unlike the tomb chambers filled with white bones and the sides of the road in the previous two levels, there was a small square here without any corpses.

The square was paved with mottled gray stones, and there wasn't a bit of moss or soil in the gaps, clean to the point of being unbelievable.

In the middle position, two gray-white pillars made of giant stones stood on the left and right. The surface was severely weathered, leaving one peeling mark after another.

But even so, Lu Mian, with his outstanding eyesight, could still distinguish that the two giant pillars were engraved with the "Sun Holy Emblem" and "Triangle Holy Emblem" respectively, and the symbols surrounding them were sunflowers, crankshafts, connecting rods, etc.

Around the square, in the places the candlelight couldn't illuminate, the darkness was thick, as if countless figures stood there, casting gazes that made dense small bumps appear on Lu Mian's skin.

The pale young man with black hair and brown eyes answered with a face full of panic:

"I don't know. We were preparing to walk out of this square for sacrificing to the 'Eternal Blazing Sun' and the 'God of Steam and Machinery' to explore the ancient tombs on the third level. They suddenly tripped over something, fell down one after another, and even the candles in their hands fell to the ground and went out.

"I, I was walking at the very end, and I saw them just like that, just like that disappeared!"

"Disappeared?" Lu Mian asked this deliberately.

To him, the most critical question wasn't how they disappeared, but why the witness still remembered the disappearance.

"Yes, disappeared!" The young man nodded heavily. "They seemed to have evaporated in front of me at an extremely fast speed. I, I was very scared, didn't dare to look for them, and didn't dare to return to the surface. I could only wait in this sacrificial square. Praise the Sun, before my candle burned out, someone finally came!"

It seems that if you aren't corrupted by weirdness this time and can escape successfully, your faith in the "Eternal Blazing Sun" will definitely be much more pious... Lu Mian couldn't distinguish whether the other party had any abnormalities, so he had to ask another question casually:

"Are you university students?"

The young man nodded again:

"Yes, we are students of the Trier Higher Normal School, formed a team to come here for adventure. I, I am called Gerard."

Lu Mian couldn't help but laugh, even wanting to invite this guy to join the action of him and "Madame Hela" searching for the "Samaritan Woman's Spring." Anyway, this kind of student probably wouldn't live to graduate, so it was better to leave him behind as bait to exert his remaining heat.

Just as he was pondering how to determine if Gerard had any problems, "Madame Hela" suddenly spoke, her voice cold:

"We'll send you up."

So kind? Lu Mian felt a bit stunned and tilted his head to glance at "Madame Hela."

In his impression, this lady's blood might even be cold.

Gerard was so grateful that tears and snot flowed out, constantly saying "thank you" while approaching the two.

Lu Mian observed his every move and took a white candle from his canvas bag, throwing it over.

Gerard caught it in a flurry and lit the new candle with the old candle that only had a short section left.

After seeing another cluster of dim yellowish candlelight emerge, this university student relaxed slightly and followed "Madame Hela" and Lu Mian onto the stone stairs leading to the second level.

After walking up ten steps, Gerard suddenly froze.

Lu Mian looked over and found that all the panic remaining on his face had disappeared.

"You can return to the surface by yourself without any problems, right?" "Madame Hela" spoke again, but said something completely different from just now.

Gerard laughed:

"No problem. Thank you for your candle. Hey, losing the spare candle is troublesome."

Uh... Lu Mian moved in his heart and asked tentatively:

"Did you come to the third level of the catacombs for adventure by yourself?"

Gerard nodded proudly:

"Of course, I have enough courage and experience."

Finally forgot those classmates, huh... Before, he didn't forget because he was in the sacrificial square? Ms. Madame Hela saw this, so she proposed sending him? Lu Mian nodded with realization.

Watching Gerard walk up layer by layer along the stairs and leave through the "Entrance to the Old Ossuary," Lu Mian and "Madame Hela" returned to the sacrificial square.

This time, when Lu Mian looked at the two sacrificial pillars belonging to the "Eternal Blazing Sun" and the "God of Steam and Machinery," his feelings for them had completely changed.

That might represent the protection of the gods!

But even if they symbolized the gaze and protection of the gods, those two stone pillars had inevitably shown signs of weathering and corrosion after spending a long time in the depths of the catacombs.

Lu Mian, with the mentality of trying a bit more protection for a bit more certainty, and that trying it wouldn't cause any loss, faced the sacrificial pillar engraved with the "Sun Holy Emblem," tilted his body slightly, and opened his arms:

"Praise the Sun!"

"Madame Hela" watched quietly without interrupting his prayer.

After Lu Mian finished the brief praise, the two of them relied on the black lines on the top of their heads and the road signs at the edge of the square to walk toward the "Krismanna Night Pillar" located in the north.

Lu Mian, holding a white candle, had just left the sacrificial square for a few steps when he suddenly felt a movement in his heart and cast his gaze in front of his feet.

A skeleton piled next to the road, which had grown dark green mold, had fallen down at some point, its hand bone lying across the road, as if trying to grab a passerby's ankle.

If Lu Mian had walked faster just now and his observation of the environment had been careless, he might have been tripped by this corpse!

This instantly reminded him of Gerard's description:

This university student's few classmates tripped over something, fell to the ground, extinguished their candles, and were "swallowed" by the catacombs, with even the traces of their existence completely disappearing!

Did they trip over these fallen skeletons? Lu Mian kicked that hand bone away thoughtfully.

Amidst the sound of "pa," he and "Madame Hela" continued forward, but after a few steps, they encountered another skeleton with half its body fallen on the road.

Lu Mian frowned and subconsciously looked back at the place where he had almost tripped just now.

The yellowish candlelight spread to that side, already very weak, but Lu Mian, with the eyesight of a "Hunter," barely managed to see the details.

His pupils suddenly dilated, discovering that the pale hand bone he had kicked away had returned to its original position, continuing to serve as a stumbling block for passersby!

"Are they still alive? Undead creatures?" Lu Mian tightened his spirit and looked around, then asked.

"No, but it's possible." "Madame Hela" responded concisely.

Seeing Lu Mian's blank face, she further explained:

"They should be affected by the environment in the depths of the catacombs now and possess a certain abnormality. Once the danger and horror hidden in the environment erupt, they will definitely all become undead creatures."

All become undead creatures... Lu Mian imagined that scene and instinctively shivered.

The skeletons on this level, whether complete or incomplete, were at least a million, and it wouldn't be surprising if the number was an order of magnitude higher. If they all became undead creatures that hated the living, the situation would be terrifying to the extreme!

Seeing that "Madame Hela" didn't intend to return, Lu Mian followed. The two of them, relying on the guidance of the road signs and the black lines on the top of their heads, passed through those skeletons that tried to "block" them and walked slowly toward their destination.

I don't know how long it had been, but they, who hadn't encountered any living people, finally arrived at the "Krismanna Night Pillar."

This was a giant pillar made of black marble. Its top touched the cave ceiling, and its surface wasn't engraved with any patterns or symbols, nor were there signs of weathering or corrosion.

Lu Mian was stunned for a moment.

You have to know that in the sacrificial square, the two stone pillars symbolizing the "Eternal Blazing Sun" and the "God of Steam and Machinery" were also weathered and corroded!

Is this more special than the sacrificial pillar?

"Madame Hela" seemed to have guessed Lu Mian's feelings and said coldly:

"Krismanna was a member of the Demoness Sect, which can also be called the Demoness family.

"She herself was a Sequence 2 'Calamity Demoness,' who fell in the 'War of the Four Emperors' of the previous era, fell in that Trier of the Fourth Epoch, but the characteristics were all recovered by the Demoness family.

"Besides the 'Krismanna Night Pillar,' there are the 'Marian Night Pillar' and the 'Lius Night Pillar' on the third or fourth level."

"Who are these two?" Lu Mian felt they should also be angels; otherwise, they couldn't be on par with Krismanna.

"Marian was the Pope of the Church of the Night at that time, and Lius was a follower of the ancient Death, a 'Death Consul.' Their characteristics were also recovered by their respective forces. As for whether other angels fell here, I'm not too sure, but those angels who followed the 'Blood Emperor' definitely fell quite a few." After "Madame Hela" said a few words simply, she pointed to the stone stairs behind the "Krismanna Night Pillar." "Let's go to the fourth level."

Lu Mian said "Hmm" and suggested changing the white candles that were about to burn out before going down to the fourth level.

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After participating in the occult gathering, Franca and Jenna walked along the road they came from toward the underground area corresponding to the Opera House Arcade Street.

After turning a corner, Franca leaned slightly to Jenna's ear and said:

"Someone is following us."

Someone is following us? Jenna was startled.

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