Chapter 1 I am a sacrifice
Cold and wet.
The squeaking of rodents echoed in my ears, shrill and harsh.
Chen Lun opened his eyes with difficulty, and a 90-degree tilted image appeared in his blurred vision, giving him an extremely unreal sense of detachment.
"Hey man, how do you arrange these guys?"
"Ha...according to the priest's wishes, they will be sacrificed tonight."
Chen Lun clutched his stomach and struggled to get up from the ground.
He held onto the slippery and disgusting wall beside him, enduring the burning hunger in his stomach.
As his vision slowly returned to normal, Chen Lun slowly regained his true feelings.
In the dim environment, he looked intently towards the source of the sound. Beyond the prison bars, two tall and thin figures in fur coats stood at the door.
These were two men, leaning casually under the torches on the corridor wall, leaving two shadowy shadows behind. Chen Lun noticed that both of them had a short sword hanging on their waists.
"Where am I?"
Chen Lun was a little confused.
He vaguely remembered that he was playing a holographic online game called "The Age of Secrets". It was one of the most powerful masterpieces of the new generation. Countless players around the world spent their sleep time in this game.
Efficient use of sleep time has long been recognized as a truth in the new generation, and holographic games are one of the most important ways. Among them, "The Age of Secrets" is the pioneer, and it is undisputedly rated as the most popular game world.
Chen Lun's memory still lingers on the last moment, which is the moment when he lay down in the sleep cabin, the door slowly closed and connected to the game world...
"What happened in the end...?"
As he recalled, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in the back of his head. Chen Lun hissed and reached out to touch the back of his head, only to feel something warm and sticky in his palm.
In the faint light of the fire, he saw some blood on his hands that had not completely dried.
Chen Lun cursed secretly.
"Holy crap! I was shot in the head!?"
A scene he had watched while watching a short video suddenly appeared in his mind. A sturdy old man at a barbecue stall picked up a beer bottle and smashed it with force. The bottle shattered on another man's head, and then he fell straight down. The comment section was full of good night.
Chen Lun shook his head slightly and stopped thinking.
He didn't know what happened to him. Maybe there was a malfunction in the sleeping cabin equipment, so he sent it peacefully in his sleep.
What now?
Am I still in the game? Or...
"Brother Will's team has not produced results for several months. I hope this group of guys can have a surprise tonight."
"Hey, I think you are addicted to alcohol, and you have started to have unrealistic fantasies for the reward of two hundred copper coins..."
The tall and thin figure couldn't help coughing, as if there was phlegm stuck in his throat. He moistened his throat with saliva, took a long breath and said with a sinister smile:
"With the damn thing our group has, it will be useless to fill in hundreds of lives!"
"What does it matter... Anyway, these guys are orphans adopted by the church since they were young. It's time for them to devote themselves to the church!"
The two guards slowly turned their heads and looked into the prison with their backs on.
"Just die. If the results come out and the priest is happy, we will also have money..."
"Hahahaha..."
Two pairs of cold eyes glanced at Chen Lun, who quickly lowered his head and did not look at them.
After a while, the footsteps gradually faded away, and Chen Lun could only vaguely hear the two guards meeting to go out for a drink. Others would come to take shifts later.
But Chen Lun still kept his head lowered.
If one looked at his face from below, he would have seen a look of shock.
Just now, when the two guards turned back, Chen Lun caught a glimpse of the pattern on the side of their brimmed hats. Under the light of the torch, the pattern of a red apple shone brightly.
"Red Apple Church..."
Chen Lun murmured the name.
How is that possible! ?
Wasn't the Red Apple Church in "The Age of Secrets" completely destroyed two years ago? Why does it appear again now! ?
I traveled back in time! ?
wrong!
"Exit the game!"
Chen Lun raised his head and thought silently in his heart.
After waiting for a full two minutes, Chen Lun didn't dare to express his anger, but nothing happened.
The translucent data frame in his impression did not appear in sight, and his heart sank.
At the same time, he noticed that there were seven or eight other young men and women detained in the prison.
In the dark and humid environment, they huddled together and huddled against the wall. Most of them only had a thin, tattered linen garment and bare feet, and were abandoned here like animals waiting to be slaughtered.
Trembling, silent.
Chen Lun stood up tremblingly. He was basically certain of one thing.
He probably really traveled through time, not just back to the past, but also into the game world of "The Age of Secrets"!
What awaits him will be the sacrifice in the mouths of the two guards.
"Just tonight..."
Chen Lun rubbed his face in a state of collapse. He didn't realize that the hand holding the wall just now was stained with a lot of moss and dirt, making his whole face dirty.
He endured a strong sense of hunger, lifted his feet weakly, and slowly walked to the door of the prison.
The movement was very light and slow, but it also attracted the attention of other people in the prison. There was a trace of doubt in their frightened eyes, not understanding what the guy who was locked up with them wanted to do.
Chen Lun's hands touched the cold iron bars and then held them tightly.
He looked around and saw that the corridor with a torch hung every few meters was empty.
Chen Lun took a deep breath, then began to exert force on his hands, slightly shaking the prison bars, but they did not move at all. He tried to push the door open again. The iron door was stronger and heavier than the railings.
"Don't waste your efforts."
The sudden sound startled Chen Lun, and he looked at a woman in the prison opposite.
Under the firelight, the woman's dirty face was expressionless, with a hint of ridicule at the corner of her mouth.
"No one who was caught here has ever escaped."
The woman was sitting at the door of the prison where she was, her head stuck between the two iron bars, staring straight at Chen Lun.
"Even if you escape from here, there are still countless guards outside...and even those monsters!"
Speaking of this, Chen Lun saw extreme uneasiness and fear in her eyes.
"Everyone will die, and they will die miserably...haha..."
The woman stretched out her hand from the prison. Her arm was very white, but the moving eyeballs on it ruined the beauty. Instead, there was only a twisted and grotesque feeling of nausea.
"Look! I'm going to die too, just like them, hahahahaha!"
Chen Lun suddenly felt nauseated and retched, and his head felt as if someone had hit him with a hammer.
In a daze, he felt like the world was spinning, and he fell straight back.
Everyone in the prison screamed in surprise.
At the last moment before he fell into coma, a voice seemed to ring in Chen Lun's mind:
【Witness the mysterious pollution! Sanity value reduced by 1 point! 】
【Notice! When the sanity value reaches 0, you will enter a state of immediate death! Current sanity value is 4/5! 】
[Activate the character panel! 】
Newcomer, new book, all beauties, take care of me! hey-hey!
(End of chapter)