Chapter 221 Fallen Believers (please vote for me!)
One day later.
Chen Lun stood in front of the gate of Red Apple Church in Honghua Town.
There was deathly silence all around, and no one could be seen.
This town was even more desolate than Bingnuo Town and Youdou Town. From the moment he entered the town, he saw no living person, not even a disease lunatic.
Except for the crows flying by from time to time, it was lifeless, like a dead town.
"Mr. Jack?"
Dongyang spoke from the side.
Chen Lun came back from his thoughts, turned to look at him, and then at the players behind him.
The players who died in Youdou Town have been resurrected and returned to the team. Fortunately, they had established a certain connection with Youdou Town because of the battle, and the resurrection point was automatically refreshed at the entrance of that town, so they did not get separated.
Chen Lun let the crow fly on his shoulder, and then spoke softly:
"There are no clergy in this church, and the people from Red Apple Church have evacuated..."
"Already evacuated?!"
Dongyang and others looked at each other, looking very surprised.
They opened the mission panel to check again and found that the mission completion level this time was "2/3". Obviously, the church in front of them still needed to be destroyed.
"——Could it be because of the tip-off from the Lost Name Guild? So the Red Apple Church was prepared in advance?"
Chen Xi spoke.
"——It's very possible!"
said the centaur.
"——Don't even think about it, it must be those bastards... We have wiped out the church branches in the first two towns. They have suffered such huge losses. They must want to use this method of snitching to get rid of the church branches. Save some goodwill there.”
Kotoujin immediately responded in the team channel.
Others nodded and agreed with his statement.
"Let's go."
Chen Lun turned the silver cane in his hand and gently placed it on his forearm.
He held the black hat and walked in.
Dongyang and others followed closely and also entered the outer courtyard of the church.
The sound of dense footsteps echoed in the empty and silent scene. Everyone passed through the outer courtyard and came directly to the door of the church hall. Chen Lun personally pushed open the large and heavy wooden carved door.
Creak——!
A uniformly whispered prayer suddenly reached everyone's ears.
Dongyang and others took a closer look, only to find that the entire hall was almost full of men, women, and children. They were dressed in the clothes of ordinary residents, kneeling on the ground devoutly, muttering the biblical teachings of the Red Apple Church.
These believers looked very strange, with devout yet fanatical expressions, and their eyes were filled with a color of longing.
"God said that hunger is the natural desire of man, and eating is to obey the original heart..."
"God said that flesh and blood are the root of man, and their growth is the continuation of life..."
"God said that disease is just a necessary part of the journey, and we need to endure the test..."
The chanted prayers come one after another, full of holiness. The sound waves hit Dongyang and the others, sending shivers down their spines and hairs in their hearts.
Chen Lun looked around expressionlessly and found that all these believers had no heartbeats. They seemed to be alive, but in fact they were already dead.
The reason why he is able to behave just like ordinary people as he was in life depends on a method of the Red Apple Church.
Chen Lun still remembers this method.
‘The Red Apple Church, version 1.0 in the previous life, was able to wreak havoc on a large scale within the empire precisely because of an extraordinary creature called ‘Fruit Maggot’… which was a creation secretly researched by the Church. ’
The "fruit nectar" I encountered in Amber City before was exactly the excrement produced by this extraordinary creature after eating apples. Whether taken directly or mixed into pharmaceutical injections, it can increase the vitality of the human body and achieve a certain degree of "treatment" and "strengthening" effects.
The side effect is that it will shorten your lifespan.
Many uninformed people are extremely thirsty for the "nectar" distributed by the church, and even spend all their wealth to donate and donate, just to enable themselves or their family and friends to survive for a while.
Connie's father is a believer who is deeply dependent on this "drug".
Gary, the first leader of the Iron Fist Gang, and the bodyguards found by Councilor Daniel were all strengthened by injections of "drugs".
It can be seen that in the process of secret research, the Red Apple Church spreads the unused "excrement garbage" to make money.
The real research result is to directly implant fruit maggots into the human body and perform a certain ritual of the church to create a group of terrifying "soldiers" of the church.
These people have died during the ceremony, and the fruit maggots will continue to eat in their bodies until they are completely dead. In a sense, they are actually just a body controlled by maggots, full of pollution and chaos, and are very terrifying monsters.
This kind of people... no, they should be called fruit maggot parasites. They have a common name, called "fallen believers."
"Get out of here."
Chen Lun said suddenly.
"This is an empty church shell left by the Red Apple Church, but it is actually a trap."
Dongyang and others were shocked.
"Yes! Mr. Jack!"
They immediately turned around and tried to leave the church hall.
But that's it.
Bang!
The two huge wooden doors closed tightly with a loud bang.
Not only that, the bricks on the wall above the gate suddenly moved away, and a solid iron fence popped up and penetrated straight into the threshold, completely blocking the escape route.
You can still vaguely hear the clicking sound coming from the wall. It is obvious that this is a trigger mechanism that has been set up long ago.
"Oops! We're locked up!"
shouted the centaur.
"Look at me!"
The dog-headed gold shouted, his body swelled, and then he slammed into the wall on the side of the door. He wanted to let everyone leave by destroying the wall and punching a big hole.
Boom!
Bricks flew everywhere and smoke filled the air.
But the expected hole in the wall did not appear. Everyone discovered that the walls of the church hall were not only very thick, but also had a row of very strong iron railings inside.
"When we were building this, were we just aiming at the Steel Fortress?!"
The nugget gold moved his sore arms and complained angrily.
Perhaps because he hit the wall so loudly, all the prayers stopped suddenly, and the entire hall fell into a dead silence.
Dongyang and others turned around and looked at the group of kneeling believers. They were all motionless.
In the atmosphere where you could hear the drop of a needle, a child's voice suddenly sounded:
"Mom, I'm hungry."
A few seconds later, a woman's voice sounded:
"Eat when you are hungry."
Everyone held their breath, and saw the kneeling believers in front of them slowly turning their heads, staring directly at them with pairs of eyes.
"Hungry."
"I'm so hungry too."
"It's better to eat them."
The believers stood up one after another, their expressions gradually became ferocious, their eyes full of desire and madness, and then they gathered around Dongyang and others.
"Shoot!"
Dongyang made a quick decision and shouted loudly.
At the same time, the fallen believers also rushed over hysterically.
Bang bang bang...!
Nearly a hundred muskets spit out fireworks, and countless small steel balls fly out.
A series of dull blows sounded, and small steel balls were shot into the bodies of these believers, splattering with blood. Many believers were covered in blood after being shot and fell to the ground due to the recoil, but they still crawled hard, their eyes becoming more and more ferocious.
suddenly.
Some fallen believers experienced strange changes after suffering severe injuries.
Poof! Pfft...! !
Their bodies twisted, and suddenly disgusting and ferocious tentacles sprouted from their shoulders, backs, and even navels. They were made of intertwined bones and muscles, and even had some unevenly distributed teeth, nails, and hair on them.
The players fired again, but this time, the bullets were much less effective. Even though they were shot several times, these believers still stood firm and even became more crazy.
They quickly rushed to the player, grinning ferociously and waving their tentacles continuously.
Some players tried to fight with it, but the sword in their hands could not kill the opponent at all. Instead, they were pierced and entangled by dozens of tentacles, and finally sent into the maw of the belly full of sharp teeth for chewing and devouring.
Several extraordinary beings from Dongyang also stepped forward to fight, but found that these fallen believers were extremely difficult to deal with. At most, they were one against three, and if there were more, they would not be able to hold on.
Mechanical gloves and bombs are not suitable for use in this closed scene. It is very easy to accidentally injure teammates, and all the trump cards that should be used are used up. Dongyang has no choice but to ask for help:
"Mr. Jack! Please help us!"
Chen Lun stood aside and watched the scene in front of him quietly.
He knew that this was a microcosm of the future of the empire, when such degenerate believers would appear everywhere, serving as "soldiers" in the hands of the Red Apple Church, existing only for madness and killing.
The alienated fallen believers are obviously more violent, and their vitality, resilience and physical fitness have also been enhanced, almost reaching the threshold of extraordinary beings.
The entire hall of the Red Apple Church was filled with the smell of blood, and the originally solemn murals were stained with blood. There are about one to two hundred of these fallen believers, so it is normal for Dongyang and other players to be unable to defeat them.
"Well..."
Chen Lun turned his head slightly, looked at Dongyang and the others struggling to resist, and pondered for a moment.
"Well, after all, this is not something you can handle." (End of Chapter)