Forces of Temptation

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

After Jiang Fang whispered twice, he ruffled his loose silver hair and shook his head lightly.

Nan Zhou also shrugged.

…this is just a point of concern, and it’s not yet known how much value it has.

It is too reluctant to seek a breakthrough from this vague point of time, and it is very easy to become a bit of a slapstick.

Nan Zhou took Jiang Fang out of the study and went with him to Guan Junliang's resting room.

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

Ban Hang told Guan Junliang, who woke up, about Su Qingyao being chased to death last night.

Speaking of sadness, Ban Hang put his hands on his knees, and sighed like a moan in his throat.

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

Song Haining touched Ban Hang with his elbow and shook his head at him.

Brother Guan is the softest of them all. Whenever a teammate dies, he will suffer for a long time.

He just witnessed his teammates fall off the cliff yesterday. 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 "discharge" the backlogged 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 in a loud voice, "...Sorry, I'll sleep for a while."

Aware that Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang had entered the room, Ban Hang wiped away the tears with the back of his hand as if nothing had happened, sucked his nose lightly, and when he turned around again, only the eyelashes were still there. With a little water vapor.

Nan Zhou suggested: "Let's make a plan together."

Ban Hang made a subtle "um".

Ban Hang is also an old man in the team. After his release, he didn't really know the priorities.

Only, in order to take care of Ban Hang's mood, the leader of Pan Si was given way to Nan Zhou by Jiang Fang.

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

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

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

Song Haining immediately followed: "From the letter we found, it can be proved that the priest 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: "Isn't he summoning the devil to cure the Duke on the other side?"

Here, he became irritable again.

Didn't they already think of this step?

However, because the NPC "Pastor Keith" was too cautious, he destroyed all the valuable clues in the church.

…Even the fact that he "summoned demons" is debatable.

After disappearing for more than ten hours, he inexplicably appeared on the edge of the cliff again.

In the final analysis, this is only circumstantial evidence, not a real hammer.

Keith's bookshelf, like the rest of the clergy, naturally had books on exorcism.

After discovering this book, they were not idle either. They collected all the exorcism-related items mentioned in the book from inside and outside the church, and put them in the storage slot for convenience Available anytime.

If no one has seen the true face and form of the demon, can't know the demon's name, and can't find the item it really fears, then it's a waste of time.

This question shocked everyone.

Is this… worth asking?

The pastor is not for the treatment, what else can he be for?

Nan Zhou did not dig deeper on this issue, but turned to Ban Hang: "Do you remember the attic you found?"

Ban Hang nodded.

"...The deacon told me." Nan Zhou said, "The priest and the duke have an agreement to light the lamp. As long as the priest agrees to his operation, the priest will light the lamp in this attic. The signal is received on the west bank. , we will attack our people and capture them as raw materials for surgery.”

Hearing this, Ban Hang buried his head deeply overwhelmed, and his jaw clucked uncontrollably.

…He found the attic.

Nanzhou's intricate analysis made him have to face the fact in his heart that he was most unwilling to face:

The culprit who made Su Qingyao die and even put other teammates in danger may actually be himself.

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

The complacent at that time has turned into a heavy pressure, and his tears have been squeezed out.

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

If he didn't light up to check...

Are the teammates on the west bank safe and sound?

Is it my own recklessness that killed them?

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

until Nan Zhou pressed his palm on his knee.

His voice was cold and calm, his words were clear and rhythmic, with a force that could not be ignored: "Banhang, look at me and answer my question."

Ban Hang raised his gray eyes and looked at him in confusion.

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

Ban Hang nodded slowly.

"How did you open the attic?"

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

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

Nanzhou: "No key?"

Ban Hang: "I found it, but no."

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

During Nan Zhou's repeated questions, Ban Hang was finally willing to give up a little mind to think rationally in the confusion: "Brother Nan, there really isn't any, we didn't search the entire church. Over and over, all the important keys are on Keith, I even took the keys to compare, none of them can match the attic key-"

Song Haining suddenly understood something, and slapped Ban Hang's thigh suddenly, making Ban Hang's face pale.

She forcibly suppressed her excitement, but her emotions were already beyond her words: "So, the priest and the duke made this agreement a long time ago. But the priest didn't plan to fulfill the contract at all, nor did he plan to climb up to the attic. Light up!"

Nanzhou was quite calm: "So I can't find the key in the church. I'm afraid he has already dealt with it."

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

He said that the operation the Duke is going to do is against the norm and is extremely dangerous.

With their feelings, the priest would not allow the duke to risk his life for surgery, but he would also not sit idly by and watch the duke die of illness.

So, the pastor must have resorted to some supernatural power and secretly planned a plan.

He wanted to ask Hua Xixi to come to his office at one time, but because Song Haining rushed out halfway, he could not execute it smoothly.

From this, it can be seen that the conspiracy must be more convenient to execute when you are alone with people.

Later, he tried to repeat the same trick on Nanzhou, but the car overturned.

Nan Zhou concluded: "So, lighting the lights was something that Keith did not expect, but it was something we had to do."

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

Especially there are so few useful clues in this instance.

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

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

As Nanzhou speculated before, the attic was completely dark, with no light source except the moonlight. If they wanted to see the internal structure clearly, they had to turn on the lights.

Once the lights are lit, they are sending signals to the West Bank in disguised form, thus inducing a desperate crisis for the West Bank players.

This is a dark mine planted before the start of the dungeon, and it is an inevitable trend under the guidance of step by step.

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

Otherwise, there will be chaos.

"That's the logic of the copy. It divides us on purpose and doesn't leave us alone."

I want to understand this point, which makes Ban Hang feel a little bit like seeing the sun.

But after removing a layer of cloud and mist, it was still five miles long.

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

Song Haining reasonably speculated: "Is there no demon at all? The priest was actually killed by someone from the West Bank?"

She analyzed it in detail: "In this background, coupled with the religious background, such an ambiguous relationship between the priest and the duke will not be allowed to exist. Could it be that someone in the West Bank protects the duke and wants to kill the priest? To save a little reputation for the duke?"

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

This is a good reason, but unfortunately it is not practical enough.

Infiltrate the church, kill Keith, and kidnap the caretaker Hua Xixi, maybe under someone else's hands.

Complete this series of actions under the eyes of Nan Zhou and Jiang Fang, and still do it quietly, that is the difficulty of hell.

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

"The logic of the devil is that the summoner usually sacrifices his life, right? At the beginning, Keith most likely chose to sacrifice us, but he was only bound, and we did not reveal If you want to kill him, it's not that he has no chance to fight back, why is the devil so anxious to kill him?"

Reminiscent of the attic problem just now, Song Haining's thoughts became clearer: "Could it be that he is using his life to curse us? Because we may go to the attic to light the lights to signal, we don't know what will happen, But he knows that once the Duke sees the lights in the attic, he will choose to take risks?!"

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

Ban Hang: "...If he wanted to curse us, he summoned the devil, chose to commit suicide, and sacrificed himself to the devil. It's understandable, but why didn't the devil stop us from searching the church or running to the West Bank? Reported the letter, but took away Xi Xi who did not participate in the search?"

Nan Zhou: "To make a more accurate judgment, I need more information."

With Nanzhou's gaze as the wind direction, everyone's attention turned 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?"