moon shot plan

"Who is it?" An Ran frowned, guessing: "...It can't be Anna?"

"Anna? We are more used to calling her Her Royal Highness Santa Ana." Old Holt said.

An Ran felt weird when he heard this. He thought that Huo Te and Anna had a good relationship, at least they were friends. Why did they become so estranged after so many years?Is this just because Anna has become the Madonna everyone admires?

"Why did you stay here to guard the tomb? I remember when Anna asked you to run to the church for help... Did you see the bishop in the end?" An Ran asked him.

Old Holt laughed: "I saw the bishop, to be precise, I saw him through the crack of the door."

"Then did you tell him about the disaster that happened in the town? Why didn't he open the door to let the townspeople in?" An Ran asked again.

Old Holt was silent for a while, opened his arms, and showed him his distorted body: "I thought you should be more curious about why I became like this - since you know a part of what happened back then, you should have seen me in a normal way .”

"Of course, back then you were not like you are now..." An Ran said, "How did you become like this, and...how did you survive until now?"

A smile appeared on the corner of Old Holt's mouth: "Hehe, this is all thanks to the bishop."

"What did the bishop do? He made you into this?" An Ran asked suspiciously, "Why did he do this?"

"Or to put it another way, I became the person I am now, because he set up that damn barrier..." Old Holt raised his eyes and looked at him faintly: "At that time, I He ran to the church door in one breath and knocked loudly for help. The bishop opened the door a crack and told me not to worry. Then he asked me what happened. I also reported to him that there seemed to be some big rats that could bite people on the street..."

"Who would have thought that the bishop would slam the door shut with a 'bang' after listening to it, no matter how much I shouted, he would not respond anymore, and then the townspeople and monsters rushed over, and I was almost squeezed into a meat paste by them ...I thought I was going to be buried in the mouth of a monster, or trampled to death by those townspeople, but at this moment, Bishop Philip actually activated the double barrier..."

"Then, what happened later?" An Ran hurriedly asked.

"What could happen? Guess what?" Old Holt sneered twice, looked down at his twisted fingers, and continued: "I just happened to be pushed forward by the people behind me, and hit me On the gate... At that time, I just felt as if I had been electrocuted, and my whole body was numb. Before I could stand up, the second barrier appeared again, and His Royal Highness Santa Ana said that it was an invisibility barrier..."

"So...you are trapped between these two barriers?" An Ran guessed.

"Yes, that's it." Old Holt smiled bitterly: "Those are two very, very, very terrifying forces, at least to me back then, they were like two tyrannical giants, day and night, for a long time Put pressure on my body, I heard the sound of bones breaking one by one, I heard the sound of skin being broken inch by inch..."

An Ran murmured: "But you still survived..."

"Yes, because I ate the communion bread, which is a good thing, you know." Old Holt sneered: "His Royal Highness Santa Anna taught me back then, never commit the crime of gluttony... But I didn't Listen. I lied to her back then, how could I only eat two pieces of that delicious food?"

"I couldn't count how much I ate. At that time, I just thought how could there be such a delicious and soft bread in the world. Not only would I not be hungry for a day after eating it, but I would also be full of strength...so I became more and more controlled. I can’t help myself, I have to eat a lot of pieces every day, and I reluctantly leave until the bishop drives me out, and then sneak in again the next day..."

Seeing that he was reminiscing, and the obsessed look began to show in his eyes again, An Ran hurriedly interrupted him: "So it's because you ate a lot of sacrament bread and gained a certain amount of divine power, that's why you didn't die in the barrier ?”

"Divine power? You think too much. I'm just a mortal, and I'm not favored by the gods. How can I have divine power? Those communion cakes just changed my physique to a certain extent, allowing me to survive." Old Huo Special said.

"But...how long have you been trapped? How did you get out in the end?" An Ran asked again.

Old Holt's eyes were dim: "How long have you been sleepy? I've been sleepy for a long time. I just remember that before I went in, the monastery in the town was still holding a requiem mass. There was a beautiful blonde girl there. I usually call her Anna... …However, when the seal that had tortured me for so many years was finally opened, I saw only ruins everywhere. The old town had already become a den of demons, and the girl back then had become a place that everyone admired. Her Majesty the Virgin..."

"The town was already infested by demons when you came out? Did you see Santa Ana and Bishop Philip afterwards?" An Ran continued to ask.

Old Holt replied: "Of course I have met Her Majesty Santa Ana. Don't forget, she told me to stay here and tell you everything that happened in the town over the years..."

An Ran was concentrating on listening to him continue: "It was Her Highness Santa Anna who broke the outer invisibility barrier and released me, but she didn't break the innermost holy power guard barrier, even though she could do so ...she entrusted this task to you."

"Give it to us?" An Ran was stunned, and smiled awkwardly: "She thinks we can open the barrier?"

"She has entrusted the unsealed sacred artifact to someone else for safekeeping. As long as you can find that person and get the sacred artifact back, you can easily open the barrier." Old Huot said nonchalantly, "Anyway, there are gluttonous monsters in the church." Demon King, I can assure you, killing him will not be difficult."

"Holy artifact? Who is that person who keeps the sacred artifact?" An Ran asked.

Old Holt's eyes flickered: "I don't know."

An Ran felt that he was really suspicious, but she didn't dwell on this issue, but asked: "Then are you a human... or something else? People in the town died, and even after death Turned into a monster... If you are human, how can you live until now?"

Old Holt laughed: "They did that because they committed a crime, couldn't resist the temptation of delicious food, and ate the honey oil brought by the devil... But I was always trapped between the gaps in the barrier, When I was hungry, I ate the leftover sacramental bread to satisfy my hunger. After such a day, I didn’t feel hungry for a long time, and I finally got used to not eating.”

"No hunger..." An Ran frowned, and asked again: "How do you know what crimes those people committed? Santa Anna told you?"

"No, of course not. When His Majesty Santa Ana came, the town had already been engulfed by demonic energy... Do you know who sealed those evil souls?" Old Holt looked into his eyes and continued: "It's Your Royal Highness Santa Ana."

"I was tortured in the seal of the enchantment, but the holy power contained in the communion cake has allowed me to survive until now...Through that layer of twisted enchantment, I saw Allen riding a horse from here However, the townspeople cheered and sprinkled flower petals and nectar to the sky to welcome him...but he brought eternal suffering..."

"Alan? Who is this?" An Ran wondered.

Old Holt glanced at him, but did not answer, but Xie Yi beside him suddenly said: "Before he was crowned as the lazy devil, his original name was Allen."

"Lazy Demon King?" Both An Ran and Xu Heng were taken aback. Xu Heng asked, "I remember correctly, right? Isn't this place run by the Gluttonous Demon King?"

"There's nothing strange about it. This is all one world, and every place is connected. The Devil King has been here, and the Holy Mother has also been here. It's all about who stays here in the end." Xie Yi said.

"But..." Xu Heng swallowed with difficulty: "Then what did he mean? Why do the townspeople welcome a demon king?"

Old Holt said: "The devil? No, he was not one of the seven devils back then... It should be said that there were no so-called seven devils at all. At that time, people knew that there was only one devil, and he was just one of the seven devils. It’s just a demon in human skin.”

"As for why those people welcomed him...it's also very simple, because those people thought he was the emissary of His Highness Santa Ana, and those crystal golden honey oils were all gifts from His Highness..."

"The gift from His Highness..." An Ran was taken aback when she heard this, and then guessed: "Could this be the so-called 'Gift of the Virgin'? Those townspeople thought the honey oil was a gift from the Virgin, so they rushed to eat it." ...But in fact, all this is a trick of the devil?"

"That's right." Old Holt shrugged his shoulders: "It's so pitiful, isn't it? They thought His Highness Santa Anna finally remembered the land that gave birth to them, but in fact His Highness never sent any envoys here, if not In the end, Churchtown became a den of demons, and she would never set foot in the land that hurt her deeply."

"Wait, that's not right... Could it be that the townspeople believe what that demon says? They welcome him with great fanfare... He is so eloquent that everyone thinks he is the messenger of the Virgin?" An Ran hurriedly asked road.

"Hehe, now I really wonder why His Highness must entrust you with the task... Do you really understand His Highness? Don't you know that His Highness was best friends with Allen?"

"There was a rat plague in the town back then, causing countless deaths and injuries... Later, a heavy rain brought toads that can suck souls, and most of the surviving townspeople also suffered from the disease of losing their souls. Bishop Philip abandoned us, only His Highness persisted in taking care of the sick and saving the dead, but I was still trapped in the barrier at that time, and the only person with her was Alan, so it can be said that Alan was the person His Highness trusted the most."

"But he is a devil?" An Ran said in surprise, "Would the Virgin be deceived by a devil?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he remembered Xie Yi once said: "Anna was once deceived by demons when she was a nun..."

So... is that demon Allen?

An Ran subconsciously looked at Xie Yi, who nodded slightly to him.