Forces of Temptation

"'When the seventh day comes'...'The seventh day'."

After Jiang Fang repeated twice in a low voice, he tousled his loose silver hair and shook his head lightly.

Nan Zhou also shrugged.

... This is just a suspicious point worth noting, and it is not yet known how much value it has.

It is too reluctant to seek a breakthrough from this vague point in time, and it is very easy to become a dead end.

Nanzhou pulled Jiang Fang out of the study room, and together with him came to Guan Junliang's resting room.

After seeing someone take over, Nanjixing slipped away with peace of mind and went out to find something to eat.

Ban Hang told the waking Guan Junliang about Su Qingyao being chased to death last night.

Speaking of sadness, Banhang put his hands on his knees and let out a moan-like cry from his throat.

Guan Junliang also seemed to be infected by his emotions, he closed his eyes, his eyelashes were trembling with fatigue.

Song Haining nudged Banhang lightly with her elbow and shook her head at him.

Brother Guan is the softest among them, but whenever a teammate dies, he will suffer for a long time.

He just witnessed his teammate fall off the cliff yesterday, and when he woke up, he knew that a teammate had passed away, which would be a great blow to his spirit.

However, she also knew in her heart that Guan Junliang should have the right to know, and Ban Hang also needed to "release the flood" of the backlog of emotions to the limit through the actions of "telling" and "sharing".

Guan Junliang buried himself in the quilt, turned his back to them, and said softly, "...I'm sorry, I'll sleep for a while."

Sensing Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang entering the room, Ban Hang wiped away his tears with the back of his hand as if nothing had happened, sucked his nose lightly twice, and when he turned around, there was only a little moisture on his eyelashes.

Nan Zhou suggested: "Let's think about it together."

Ban Hang gave an imperceptible "hmm".

Banhang is also an old man in the team, and after his release, it's not that he really doesn't know the priorities.

However, in order to take care of Ban Hang's emotions, Jiang Fang gave way to Nanzhou as the leader of Pan Silu.

The four sat in a circle, plus Guan Junliang who was resting in bed, there were five people in total.

Nan Zhou looked around them, and first proposed: "Think about the purpose of both sides."

Jiang Fang: "Let's start with the pastor."

Song Haining immediately followed up: "From the letter we found, it can be proved that the pastor and the Duke have an unusual relationship, so his purpose must be to cure the Duke's illness—"

Ban Hang spoke with a faint nasal voice: "He summoned the devil, isn't it just to treat the Duke on the other side?"

Having said that, he became irritable again.

Didn't they already think of this step?

However, because the NPC "Pastor Keith" was too cautious, all clues of any value in the church were completely destroyed.

...even the point that he "summoned a demon" is up for debate.

They believe that there are "demons" because Pastor Keith was killed by a cross for no reason, and Hua Sisi was kidnapped in the church without a sound, and disappeared for more than ten hours for no reason. , and inexplicably appeared on the edge of the cliff.

But in the final analysis, this is just circumstantial evidence, not real hammer.

Keith's bookshelves, like the rest of the clergy, naturally contained books on exorcism.

After discovering this book, they were not idle, and collected all the exorcism-related items mentioned in the book from inside and outside the church, and put them in the storage tank for easy access at any time.

But the devil hides in the darkness, taking every step of the way, hiding his own image perfectly.

If no one has seen the true face and form of the demon, cannot know the name of the demon, and cannot find the object it is really afraid of, then it is still a waste of work.

Seeing that the progress of the plot is about to fall into the endless loop of ghosts beating the wall, Nan Zhou said softly: "...Really? It's just for healing?"

Everyone was taken aback by this question.

Is this... worth asking?

If the pastor is not for healing, what else can he do?

Nan Zhou didn't dig deeper into this issue, but turned to Ban Hang: "Do you still remember the attic you found?"

Ban Hang nodded.

"...the deacon told me." Nanzhou said, "the pastor and the Duke have an agreement to light the lamp. As long as the pastor agrees to his operation, the pastor will light the lamp in this attic. When the West Bank receives the signal, it will light on our people." Let's do it, catch them as raw materials for surgery."

Hearing this, Banhang buried his head deeply overwhelmed, and his teeth clucked and trembled uncontrollably.

... The attic was discovered by him.

Nan Zhou's detailed analysis made him have to face the fact that he was most unwilling to face in his heart:

The culprit who caused Su Qingyao's death and even put other teammates in danger may actually be himself.

He still remembered how proud he was when he discovered this hidden small attic, and felt that he had contributed to the copy.

The complacency at that time turned into a tremendous pressure now, forcing out his tears.

If he hadn't opened the attic then...

If he hadn't lit the lights to check...

Are all the teammates on the west bank safe and sound?

Was it his recklessness that killed them with his own hands?

With the deepening of thinking, Banhang's heart has been falling into the endless abyss.

Until Nan Zhou pressed his palm on his knee.

His voice was cold and calm, and the characters were clear and rhythmic, with a force that could not be ignored: "Ban Hang, look at me and answer my question."

Banhang raised his ashen eyes and looked at him in confusion.

Nan Zhou asked: "Is there a lot of dust accumulated in that attic?"

Banhang nodded slowly.

"How did you open the attic?"

Ban Hang rolled his eyes with difficulty, forced to recall his own stupidity: "I... forcibly opened it."

…For this reason, he tore off the attic baffle, and was hit on the head by the falling escalator.

Nan Zhou: "No key?"

Banhang: "I looked for it, but there is none."

Nan Zhou asked again: "...No?"

During Nan Zhou's repeated questions, Ban Hang was finally willing to think rationally in the confusion: "Brother Nan, there really isn't one, didn't we search the entire church, all the important keys It's all on Keith, and I even took the keys to compare, and none of them can match the attic keys—”

Song Haining suddenly understood something, and slapped Ban Hang's thigh so hard that Ban Hang's face turned pale.

She forcibly restrained her excitement, but her emotions were already on the surface: "So, the pastor and the Duke made this agreement a long time ago. But the pastor actually didn't plan to fulfill the contract at all, and he didn't plan to climb to the attic to light the lamp!"

Nan Zhou was quite calm: "So I can't find the key in the church. I'm afraid he has dealt with it long ago."

This point was also confirmed by the deacon who fell off the cliff.

He had said that the operation the Duke was about to perform was unethical and extremely dangerous.

Based on their feelings, the priest would not allow the Duke to risk his life for an operation, but he would also not sit back and watch the Duke die of illness.

Therefore, the pastor must have resorted to some kind of supernatural power and secretly plotted a plan.

At one point, he wanted to call Hua Sisi to his office, but because Song Haining broke out halfway, he couldn't execute it smoothly.

It can be seen from this that the conspiracy must be more convenient to carry out when it is alone with people.

Later, he tried to repeat the same trick on Nan Zhou, but was overturned.

Nanzhou concluded: "So, the lighting of the lamp is something that happened unexpectedly by Keith, but it is something we must do."

For normal players, there are parts in the game scene that are "explorable under objective conditions, but temporarily unexplorable due to blockade", so they must be seen.

In particular, there are too few useful clues in this dungeon.

If they don't take the initiative to attack, they can only sit and wait.

In the end, whether they are cheating, stealing or stealing, they will try to open those closed doors.

As Nan Zhou had speculated before, the attic was completely dark, and there was no light source other than the moonlight. If they wanted to see the internal structure clearly, they had to turn on a lamp.

Once the lights are lit, they are sending a signal to the West Bank in disguise, thus triggering a crisis for the players on the West Bank.

This is a hidden thunder that was planted before the start of the dungeon, and it is an inevitable trend under the guidance step by step.

Unless they choose to do nothing and let this priest who has summoned supernatural powers eat and drink, the West Bank will be safe.

Otherwise, there will be chaos.

"This is the logic of duplication. It separates us deliberately, and it will not let any of us be alone."

After thinking about this point, Ban Hang felt a little bit of a sense of seeing the sun behind the clouds.

But after removing a layer of cloud and mist, there is still five miles of long fog.

He muttered: "Then what does this mean? What exactly is a demon?"

Song Haining speculated reasonably: "Is there no devil at all? The pastor was actually killed by people from the West Bank?"

She analyzed in detail: "The background of this age, coupled with the religious background, will not allow such an ambiguous relationship between the priest and the Duke. Could it be that someone in the West Bank is protecting the Duke and wants to kill the priest to save the Duke's reputation?"

After she finished speaking, she shook her head helplessly, rejecting her guess.

This reason is indeed sufficient, but unfortunately it is not practical enough.

It might be possible to sneak into the church, kill Keith, and kidnap the watchman Hua Sisi under the hands of others.

To complete this series of actions under the noses of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang, and still do it quietly, is hell-level difficulty.

Nanzhou raised a question: "I don't doubt that Keith died because of some supernatural power. My question is, why did the devil have to kill Keith at that point in time?"

"The devil's logic generally requires the summoner to sacrifice his life, right? At the beginning, Keith chose to sacrifice us with a high probability, but he was obviously just tied up, and we didn't show any intention of killing him. He It's not that there is no chance to fight back, why is the devil so anxious to kill him?"

Recalling the attic problem just now, Song Haining's thoughts became clearer: "Could it be that he is cursing us with his life? Because we may go to the attic to light a light to signal, we don't know what will happen, but he knows that once the Duke sees When the attic lights are on, will you choose to take risks?!"

Nan Zhou nodded: "At that time, he should be the one who was most anxious."

Ban Hang: "... If he summoned the devil to curse us, he chose to commit suicide, and it is understandable to sacrifice himself to the devil, but why didn't the devil stop us from searching the church, nor did he go to the West Bank to report the news, but instead took the people who did not participate in the search Cai Cai took away?"

Nanzhou: "To judge more accurately, I need more information."

Taking Nan Zhou's gaze as the wind direction, everyone's eyes shifted to Guan Junliang who was quietly listening on the bed at the moment.

Nan Zhou asked: "Junliang, tell me, what did you see on the edge of the cliff yesterday?"