Chapter 205: A Mole!
Most of the vigers seemed quite simple, judging from their conversations. Or maybe they went numb with despair and have given up onplex thoughts, like NPCs in an RPG.
It took her less than ten minutes to converse happily with another viger, and she got all the information she needed as if she herself were a native viger.
Turns out that the old man, Ze Mengrao, had a bad reputation in the vige. Whenever he was mentioned, the vigers would sneer in hatred.
<i>The same vigers remainplicit.</i>
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<i>If I hadnt burnt that old man to ashes, I wouldve lifted up his coffin and bludgeoned all of them.</i>
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She soon learned a couple of swear words in their nativenguage, and the sound of musical instruments stopped for a moment. The deformed Old Lady stood up and whispered to the priests behind her before a cacophony of wails could be heard.
The vigers suddenly became inexplicably excited as they cheered.
It felt like sharks that smelled blood from a mile away.
She looked around nkly, not sure what was going on, until she heard, Dinner is ready!
The Old Ladies finished their meal, so now it was the vigers turn.
With the sound of a bell, the vigers scrambled towards each stall near the centre.
She merely watched as the vigers fought over food like wild beasts.
Mixed into the crowd, even through their masks, she could feel the ferocity on their faces, as if their amiable selves were but a faade.
Just as the old man said, everyone here is deformed in some way, and only newborn babies can be saved.
But where are they?
There werent any young vigers, or children, for that matter, and even the vigers were being hush-hush over it.
All she could think of were the dark wooden boxes carried in by the priests, but
There was no way to get close to those boxes, so she could only wait for an opportunity.
The scene currently was like a zombie apocalypse movie, and vaguely, she could understand why the Night Division exists.
All though they seem wildly inefficient, their existence has indeed prevented hellish scenes like these from happening in the outside world.
<i>And maybe, if I be an official member, I can try to change the world.</i>
For almost five minutes, she watched as the vigers devoured their food until the viger she talked with rubbed his belly and came to her side.
Why havent you eaten?Did somebody steal your food? Tell me, and Ill deal with them!
Her cousin triple removed waved his unusually thick arm and patted himself on the chest.
Uh, no! Ill go eat right away.
Wait! her cousin said. You dont have a bowl! Ill lend you mine.
He thrust a bowl into her hands and looking into the bowl, it was stained with an unknown mucus.
She smiled at him and reluctantly followed the crowd towards a stall.
Gu Qianqian, saving the world is not about eating dinner.
Im just taking a small bite!
That thing is probably poisonous! the system warned. You are not a viger here! If you take a bite, I dont think I can call the ambnce from outside!
Even just a sip of the soup?
Meanwhile, a group of priests hurried from outside the vige and went straight to the Old Ladies. They knelt down and said something to them in a panic.
Sacrifices contaminated
The next moment, the deformed Old Lady stood up and let out a scream that deafened the ears.
Lu Yibei felt that she waspletely pushed to the front by the surging crowd.
The priest was like a chef from hell, looking at her with strange eyes. The priest eyed her up and down, and seeing that she had not handed her bowl over, he began to babble wordssimple, frightening, simplebut she could understand it very well.
There is a mole! Stop the ceremony!
In an instant, a filthy atmosphere spread to every crevice of the vige, and the sticky humidity spread through the crowd like a snake.
Her hands trembled violently, and her head felt numb as she tried to figure out what went wrong.
The music stopped, and the light of the scarletnterns illuminated the panicked faces of the vigers, and it was silent.
The sky became gloomy, with faint thunder booming within the clouds, and heavy rain poured down in an instant, sticky and painful upon her skin.
Under the cover of the rain, ck shadows flew out from the deformed Old Lady as they swam through the crowd.
Thenterns began to flicker, and she felt a burning pain in her eyes. She could clearly see the ck shadows that swam every time the scarlet light shed on them.
Vague human shadows with a head like a snake.
Like hounds, they swam past each viger, only stopping to circle around a certain viger before flying to their next target.
The vigers who were touched would immediately convulse and fall to the floor, their eyes staring nkly into the air.
The temperature continued to drop, and she could hear whispers in her ears like insects pestering her.
She deserves it.
Not pious enough.
In a ce like this, surrounded by imminent dangers, she couldnt me them. She would be fearful, too.
She was still unable to calm down, and the words of praise in her mind were intermittent. Seeing the shadows approaching her, she gritted her teeth and opened her red lips, reciting a spell in a low voice.
Golden pce; jade houses; iron walls
With each word, she could feel that her psychic energy was being drained out, but the spell was like a greedy beast, delving deep into her body top up all the energy within her body.
<i>But why did my dad look fine when he cast it? Its unfair!</i>
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She continued to chant as she felt herself losing consciousness. At this moment, a very familiar shout came from not far away, interrupting her chants.
Dont get any closer! Or Ill smash your head in!
<i>Oh, Gu Qianqian.</i>
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Unexpectedly, she appeared before she had the time to find her, but thankfully
The shadowy figures stopped their pursuit, screaming as they rushed towards Gu Qianqian instead.