Chapter 679: Last Year's

Amandina hesitated for a few seconds:

"Since you've blocked us, what other choice do I have?"

When she said this, Amandina's eyes were flashing with inexplicable excitement and curiosity.

This made her words just now sound more like:

I don't want to, I don't want to, you guys forced me to go to Saint Cien Church! Go, go quickly!

Are you trying to broaden your "horizons"? Lu Mian muttered to himself, not going to expose her.

He pointed to the house "Ciss":

"Before going to Saint Cien Church, let's check here first."

Amandina said "Oh":

"Are you trying to find the source of the special nature here?

"Give it up, during the last 'Dream Festival' and just now, I have checked, and there was no harvest."

As she spoke, she followed Lu Mian's side with small, fast steps, somewhat looking forward to what this adventurer who looked quite capable would discover.

Lu Mian arrived at the second floor of the house "Ciss," and Camus and Ruya had returned here to wait.

While looking around every corner, Lu Mian asked Amandina as if casually:

"Are you familiar with Tewanaco?"

Amandina wasn't surprised at all to be asked about this. Since they were looking for the source of the anomaly in Tewanaco's house, they inevitably couldn't bypass mastering more about Tewanaco's situation. She shook her head:

"Not familiar, only met once or twice.

"When he lived in Tizamo Town, I was just a child, and most of the time I was studying at the Iris Grammar School in Port Pylos. Later, he only returned to Tizamo Town two or three times a year, for about a week each time."

It could be seen that Amandina had secretly learned about this person, Tewanaco. After all, she had entered the special dream because she slept in the other party's house, and later maintained complete clarity during the "Dream Festival."

Without waiting for Lu Mian to ask new questions, Amandina glanced at him and added:

"Every year during the 'Dream Festival,' Tewanaco returned.

"Last year's 'Dream Festival,' when Luo Bote and I returned from that black, huge stone, we found someone else approaching that side. We hid behind the giant trees deeper on both sides of the path and saw that the person was Tewanaco."

Tewanaco really had a connection with that black boulder; there were even his figures or the residual imprints of extreme emotions and desires... Lu Mian turned his head to look at Camus, who was watching himself and Amandina stroll around the second floor, thought for a while, and said:

"When was this house of Tewanaco burned down, and when did his family all die?"

Without waiting for Camus to answer, Amandina said quite excitedly:

"I know, I know!"

Right, I'm asking you. Do you think I don't know when Tewanaco became a transmigrator? Lu Mian looked at Amandina with a smile, signaling her to answer.

He had a very clear and detailed grasp of Tewanaco's overt affairs. He asked Camus just now to lead to Amandina's answer.

He wanted to see if the other party would lie and if she had mastered further intelligence.

Amandina said quite proudly:

"Late December, it should be a few days after the 'Dream Festival'."

According to the current understanding, Tewanaco's family should have all died during the "Dream Festival." After returning to reality, fate began to converge, and they were taken away by fire. The question is, why would this house leave anomalies? What exactly happened to Tewanaco's family at that time, or what did they do? As a gifted person in the domain of destiny, Lu Mian found a word with very destiny characteristics to summarize the phenomenon that those who died in the "Dream Festival" would die one after another due to various reasons in the next three months after returning to reality:

Fate convergence!

Of course, he couldn't be sure that the judgment that dying in the "Dream Festival" would be reflected in reality was absolutely true, but looking at Amandina's expression and listening to her tone, Lu Mian believed that she thought so too.

After searching the second floor and finding no difference from reality, Lu Mian walked up the stairs to the third floor, and Amandina followed closely with an excited posture of finally having a chance to do something a Beyonder should do.

Lu Mian glanced at her and asked as if chatting:

"What impressive things did you encounter during last year's 'Dream Festival'?"

Amandina's expression of hidden excitement darkened, as if she had been hooked by some unpleasant memories.

She covered her mouth and nose and said after a few seconds:

"Luo Bote and I found many people who were cruelly murdered in the town and in various plantations. Their stomachs were opened, their internal organs were taken away, and their expressions were very painful, as if they had been tortured to death..."

"'Serial killer'?" Camus, who had been focusing on listening to the conversation between Louis Berry and Amandina, blurted out.

This made him think of Tewanaco.

This "Desire Apostle" vented his killing desire in the "Dream Festival" so that he could appear restrained in normal times?

So that's how it is... Lu Mian roughly understood how "Ciss" completed his promotion ritual:

He followed the ritual, killed enough people in this sufficiently real dream, and ate the internal organs of the victims. After returning to reality, these people died one after another, and from the perspective of fate, they indeed died because of "Ciss's" killing, which satisfied the most core part of the ritual requirements. "Ciss" only needed to truly eat a part of their internal organs again before the victims were buried, and he should be able to complete the ritual, consume the potion, and promote to "Desire Apostle."

In reality, completing serial murder and stealing part of the corpse's internal organs are two things with completely different difficulties!

What Lu Mian couldn't quite understand was that according to the records of "Demonology," this kind of promotion ritual requires that every killing must be separated by three days, otherwise it is easy to lose control, and the longest interval cannot exceed nine days, otherwise the ritual will reset.

"Ciss" clearly used the "Dream Festival" to complete all the killings in one night. After returning to reality, when that primitive tribe attacked, all the "people who should die" died on that day, without dragging on to the next month. Lu Mian believed that this had the effect of the prank by that "April Fool's Day"—they took advantage of the chaos to send all those who had already died but hadn't been cleaned up in time by the primitive tribe to hell. This could be verified from the statements of several peripheral members of "April Fool's Day."

That is to say, the interval not exceeding nine days was satisfied, but Lu Mian didn't know how "Ciss" achieved the point of being higher than three days.

Did he use the special nature of the dream always being a dream to circumvent the problem of at least three days interval? When killing in a dream, it hasn't been reflected in reality, so it's not so easy to lose control? Lu Mian thought about "Ciss's" promotion ritual while turning around in every room on the third floor.

After searching the room where Tewanaco slept, he smiled at Amandina:

"Besides serial murder cases, what else did you encounter?"

Amandina pursed her lips, frowned, struggled for a while, and complained:

"I'm so cooperative, will I be awarded a medal after returning to reality?"

Her father, Petit, had won the Intis Legion of Honor, so he could be called a Sir.

Without waiting for Lu Mian to respond, Amandina said herself:

"Also encountered a crazy woman.

"At that time, I originally wanted to go to the Buriu Hotel to see what kind of performance the gentlemen and ladies who came to Tizamo for hunting would have in such a dream. I was very looking forward to seeing their other side.

"I arrived at the door of one of the rooms and heard several people singing strange songs inside. Then, that crazy woman appeared behind Luo Bote and me. She also maintained consciousness.

"She looked quite good, just very crazy, and I was like a child who got a new toy at that time, always wanting to try my own ability, feeling that with Luo Bote's cooperation, I should be able to easily deal with most Beyonders, one controlling, one attacking.

"As a result... the two of us were caught by her. Luo Bote was knocked unconscious, stripped of his clothes, and hung on the clock tower, with a pile of mosquitoes beside him. I, I was hung, hung in a cesspit, falling down bit by bit, bit by bit..."

Speaking of this, Amandina had a look of wanting to vomit.

In Tizamo Town, except for a few places like Buriu Hotel, Saint Cien Church, and Police Headquarters, no one used flush toilets.

Camus imagined such a scene and couldn't help but sympathize with Amandina.

"Crazy woman"? Were those singing the peripheral members of "April Fool's Day" participating in the Tizamo Town prank? Lu Mian finished turning around every room on the third floor and looked at Amandina with a smile:

"And then?"

Amandina eased her breathing and said:

"She also asked me why I maintained consciousness. After I told her about Luo Bote and Father Cali, she ran to Saint Cien Church very happily, completely forgot about me, and later, I slowly got out of the predicament."

Lu Mian nodded lightly:

"Let's go, go to Saint Cien Church now."

He planned to obtain more intelligence from Father Cali and that Luo Bote before considering whether to use the "Secret-Peeping Glasses" and "Eye of Truth" in the house "Ciss" in the dream.

"Okay." Amandina tried hard to make herself look not so expectant.

She was really looking forward to seeing how her fiancé Luo Bote got along with Father Cali.

The five people left the house "Ciss" and rushed toward Saint Cien Church. Lu Mian didn't use "Teleportation" because he didn't want to waste spirituality, and turning into a fire spear couldn't carry others.

Fortunately, Tizamo Town was not big, and they soon followed the shadows by the road and returned to the intersection where the Buriu Hotel stood amidst various calls and shouts.

Lu Mian pointed to the Buriu Hotel and reminded Amandina:

"Don't go to the second floor of the Buriu Hotel, believe me, that will be even more terrifying than the encounter that crazy woman brought you."

Amandina's eyes condensed:

"Okay."

The five people turned into another street and soon passed Bunia Cafe, Police Headquarters, and the small square, arriving outside Saint Cien Church.

Lu Mian didn't rush to go in, circled to the side, pried open a stained glass window, and looked inside.

With this look, he and Amandina, who leaned to his side, were almost "blinded."

In the church hall, in front of the altar of the "Eternal Blazing Sun," four or five men were kneeling naked. They were all Northern Continent natives, among whom was Amandina's fiancé, Luo Bote.

Father Cali was also not wearing any clothes, holding an open holy scripture in his hand, walking back and forth between Luo Bote and the others with an excited expression, chanting:

"He walks in the light, He sheds warmth, He illuminates the world..."

Every time he completed a sermon, Father Cali seemed to be more excited, excited in every sense.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 680 =====