Secret: The years I served as a foreign aid for the Aurora Club

Chapter 265: Do you guys want to play cards?

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[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein]'s "Chaness Gate Infiltration Plan" has officially begun!
[Magic Mirror - Arrodes] activates the skill, and "Dwayne Dantès's Phantom" is equipped.

[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein] successfully disguised himself as a cleaning servant of the Church of Evernight!

[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein] successfully disguised himself as the old guardian of Chanis Gate!
[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein] met Leonard Mitchell, the "Pendant of Pales Zoroast", in the Chanis Gate!
"Pallez Zoroast" chose to remain silent because he found that Klein's disguise was beyond Leonard's ability, and exposing him would expose his own existence. Therefore, "Leonard Mitchell" did not notice that the old guard in front of him was an acquaintance in disguise.

[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein] successfully entered the Chanis Gate.

[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein] felt the call of "Antigonus Family's Notes" and he approached the notes.

[Hidden Angel 0-17] appeared.

[Master of Secret Dolls - Klein] was hidden.

Klein fell out of this world.

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In short, after omitting the nearly 10,000-word process of stealing the notes, Klein was sent to Mount Honachis under the red moon.

The first thing that caught his eye was the fog that permeated the surroundings and the deep and cold night, and not far away, there was a small town.

The most eye-catching building in the town is a very old-style spire church. It is completely black, has no bell tower, and black crows are circling around the top of the church.

There are many buildings scattered around the church, including ordinary two-story houses, simple wooden houses, a bakery with a sign hanging on it, and a gray-white mill powered by a water wheel, but there is no pedestrian, and they seem to have fallen asleep in the quiet and peaceful night.

As a fortune teller, Klein instantly felt that this town was very familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere!
After a brief moment of recollection, he remembered what this meant.

This is the source of danger at night in the God War Ruins!
After entering the easternmost area of ​​the Sonia Sea, when night falls, if anyone does not sleep and enter the dream world, when the sky brightens and noon comes, they will be discovered to have disappeared silently. Klein once woke up from a dream because of the "Black Saint" and saw such a mysterious and strange foggy town in the distance of the sea, shrouded in the quiet night!

This town hides a huge danger. Klein did not dare to be careless and quickly began to check his own situation.

He took out the "Creeping Hunger" and put it on his left hand, and heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that it was still usable.

Klein then herded Louis Wayne, but the "Traveler's Gate" did not appear. He used his spiritual power to try to travel through the spiritual world, but found that he was still in the same place, but his body became transparent.

The reality and the spiritual world here seem to be completely isolated!

Klein was not too surprised by this situation, because the people who disappeared in the "Ruins of the God War" have never been found. If the spirit world can be included, the missing people who are good at communicating with spirits will definitely not disappear silently.

Then, he took four steps backwards, preparing to use Sefirah Castle to break the blockade.

But this time, after he silently recited the four names of Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun, no gray fog appeared in front of his eyes, and his spirituality did not rise!

Klein's pupils shrank as he suddenly realized the seriousness of the problem.

All along, he has always relied on Sefirah Castle's help to escape danger, but now, this last trump card cannot be used!
Phew, it feels like my cheat has been banned... Klein used complaints to ease his tense mood.

Based on his own knowledge of mysticism, he initially suspected that the foggy town before him was most likely related to the true God, because only in this way could he explain the problem of being unable to enter above the gray fog.

This place is closely connected to the night, and I was "sent" here because I encountered the church's high-ranking officials... Could it be that this is a "prison" built by the goddess herself? It's possible. She is the "Mother of Secrets". Maybe she can directly turn people and objects into a "secret" state, so that people in the real world can never find them... Klein thought seriously for a while and decisively decided to enter the foggy town to explore, because that's where the way out is most likely to be hidden.

He examined himself, then took out the "Blood Admiral" whose condition had become somewhat worse, let him walk in front, and slowly walked into the town in the distance.

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In the town, many doors of houses were still open, as if welcoming guests from a foreign land. With the help of the secret doll, Klein saw that on the table inside were half-eaten white bread, glasses of red wine, and messy silver knives and forks...

It looked like someone was enjoying dinner, but no one was there. The owners of the different houses seemed to have suddenly disappeared from life.

Evaporation... This word suddenly popped up in Klein's mind, and he quickly asked Senior to turn his attention to the gray-white mill.

In the mill, the stone mill was still turning silently with the help of the wind, but no flour was coming out, and a lot of flour was spilled on the ground.

The town was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. Although the millstones, windmills and waterwheels were turning, there was strangely no sound of wind.

The red moon is still hidden in the clouds, but the gray-black clouds are moving slowly.

Klein roughly estimated the speed at which the clouds moved. This was an area closely related to the Goddess of Night, and the red moon was a symbol of the goddess. Now that there was no moonlight, perhaps he should pay attention to whether the town would change after the moon appeared.

He walked along the widest road in the town, following his secret doll from a distance, and looked through Senior's eyes at this town that seemed to have suddenly stopped at a certain moment in its daily life.

Is there no one here?

Klein looked around vigilantly. He was ready to fight, but he didn't see a single living person.

Where did all the missing people go?
The houses and streets were clean, and the food showed signs of having been eaten, but there were no corpses or bloodstains.

No, there was a blood stain.

Senior suddenly stopped.

Right in front of him, there was a large, sticky, dark red bloodstain on the clean ground, almost filling the entire street horizontally.

The bloodstain was very fresh, with no signs of drying up. Senior took a step forward, and tiny bubbles suddenly appeared in the bloodstain, surging as if there was life.

The dark red camouflage faded away, and the bloodstains turned bright red as if they had just been spilled. Dark shadows appeared everywhere on the surface, as if countless monsters were trapped underneath and were now awakened by fresh life, scrambling to get out.

The ground was obviously flat, but the bloodstain slowly extended towards Senior.

From a distance of several meters, strange changes immediately appeared on the body of the secret doll Senior. Strange bulges appeared on his head and shoulder blades, as if something was trying to come out from under the skin.

His limbs and arms began to swell, his knee joints twisted strangely backwards, and the color of his skin rapidly darkened.

Klein even suddenly felt the spiritual thread in his hand begin to shake. It seemed that a new personality was born in the body of this secret doll and began to compete for control of Senior!
In just two seconds, the image of the Blood Admiral had undergone an unimaginable change. If it weren't for the facial features that were still there, Klein would hardly believe that this was his secret puppet!
Klein was horrified. He quickly ordered the Blood Admiral to retreat, but the blood seemed to have found Senior's location and quickly spread out a blood line to follow.

Senior's transformation became more serious, and Klein gradually saw his appearance after the transformation.

demon!

At this moment, the world around suddenly brightened. The dark clouds in the sky slowly dissipated, and the bright light of the red moon spread across the earth.

Klein saw the somewhat out-of-control Senior Marionette freeze in an instant. Then, he suddenly felt the sense of crisis coming from all directions like needles piercing his temples!
He didn't have time to think, and immediately took back the motionless Senior, then took a leap and rolled to hide in the nearest house.

The next moment, this originally deserted town suddenly had a lot more residents. They seemed to have emerged from the ground, walking naturally in the streets and alleys, greeting each other, and discussing whether to buy only bread today, or be a little more extravagant and order a pound of beef.

The foggy town suddenly came alive!

However, the vague figures did not try to enter the houses on both sides. They seemed to be walking back and forth on the street, and the sounds they made were hard to believe that they were talking. It was more like the low roar of wild beasts.

"Can not Go Out!"

Klein couldn't imagine what the situation was like outside. He only knew that the town had suddenly become extremely dangerous.

What would have happened if he had been a step slower? He didn't dare to think about it.

The dark curtains were drawn tightly, and blurry silhouettes moved back and forth like shadow puppets.

Klein released Senior again and used the Spirit Thread to control him once again. However, the changes that had already occurred did not disappear. It was estimated that even if Senior was alive now and looked in the mirror, he would not recognize himself.

"A demon was injured in the foggy town? He left bloodstains. And because he is very strong, the traces are preserved. Just getting close will contaminate you..."

The devil is the "criminal" path, and it happens to be adjacent to Senior's "prisoner", so it mutates so quickly?

Klein suddenly thought of someone.

"It seems that Edward Vaughn... indeed disappeared immediately after I reported him."

He was a little bit incredulous, but also felt it was reasonable. He felt that the possibility of his guess being right was very high. Klein felt horrified for a moment: "Is He still here? No, it's impossible. Senior is walking around the town so openly. An angel can't fail to see it. If He wanted to do it, I would have been dead long ago!"

"He's not here, or He's dead!"

Klein's spirits perked up. Under the current special circumstances, he hoped the answer would be the former, because it represented a chance to escape.

The "shadow show" outside is still going on, and I don't know when the red moon will be covered up next time.

Klein waited patiently for a while. Seeing that the people in the town were still repeating their daily lives, he couldn't help but start thinking of other methods.

He examined his own and the magical items' extraordinary abilities one by one, and suddenly, his eyes lit up and he found a solution.

This method originated from the "opening of the door" of the "traveler" which he originally thought was the most useless!
Under normal circumstances, this extraordinary ability is completely covered by "teleportation", but in this mysterious and strange foggy town, it is more useful with the help of the special power of the spiritual world!
Klein did not act in a hurry. He took out the gold coin where the "ghost" Senior originally lived, and used divination to inquire about his own spirituality, and got the answer that he should "pass through the wall."

Since he could not obtain symbolic revelations directly from the spirit world, he could only choose to trust himself. He immediately walked to the wall shared with the house next door and pressed his hands on it.

Silently, Klein penetrated the stone wall and entered the next room.

When passing by the pool of blood, Klein saw many figures around him living and talking normally, even though there was no one on the other side.

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The crow on top of the church overlooks the whole town.

In the night church in the center of the town, under the gaze of countless hanging corpses, Zaratul, who was dozing with his eyes closed, felt a light sound of footsteps approaching him.

He opened his eyes, his pupils were dark.

He saw a young man - judging by his spiritual brilliance, he should be a "Master of Secret Dolls" - standing in front of him, looking at him warily, and also looking at the pile of interesting old board games placed at his feet.

At the feet of this young "Master of Secret Dolls", in the dark shadow there is an eye as clear as a stick figure's black and white.

It seemed that because this place was isolated from the outside world, his eyes just turned left and right periodically in a slightly dull manner, looking at the surrounding situation.

"Finally, another 'Fortune Teller' has arrived here..."

The young man opposite stood a few steps away and asked without showing any fear:

"why would you say so?"

"Do you want to escape from here?" He seemed to know nothing, so Zaratul avoided answering, "I can tell you a way."

The young man was not impressed and immediately asked:

"Then why are you still here?"

Zaratul smiled: "Because I have been dead for a long time."

It is good for physical and mental health to digest the "Weird Mage" occasionally. The young "Master of Secret Puppetry" was frightened and fell silent.

Zaratul stared at the eyes in the shadow of the "Master of Secret Puppetry" and chuckled twice:
"It seems that person has finally picked his candidate..."

He looked at the doubtful visitor and said in a vague and low voice:

"Young man, it looks like we all need some help from each other."

He stretched out his hand and grabbed the collection of board games. He glanced at the other person with a proud look that said, "You, a youngster, must have never seen the crystallization of entertainment culture from ancient times." He laughed softly and said,
"Now that you are here, you can't leave for a while, so come and kill some time with me, an old man."

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Edward took a sip of his homemade milk tea, skimmed off the milk cap with a spoon, and looked at the person across the table with a hint of disgust.

"What are you still doing here?"

Richard looked around and tried to take the silver spoon away. He smiled and said, "Have you heard a story recently? A group of mental illness broke out in a small rural town in East Balam. The patients would wear red dancing shoes and dance crazily until they died of exhaustion."

"Oh?"

"This group of mental illness seems to have started to appear frequently last month. Once they start dancing, they cannot be stopped by any means. Even if they lose consciousness in the middle of the dance, they will continue to dance after waking up until they are exhausted to death. This epidemic first occurred in a small rural town, and later spread to the city. The church once suspected that it was a member of a psychological alchemy society who was conducting rituals or experiments."

"It feels a lot like a story I've heard before," Richard said. "Even the red shoes are exactly the same. Is this a mysterious reappearance?"

Edward took another sip of milk tea: "Is it difficult to solve?"

"It's not difficult. If there is no demigod to help, theoretically we just need to confine the disease to a certain area and wait for all the patients inside to die of exhaustion." Richard sighed, "I was planning to help, but I didn't expect that I have become a wanted criminal."

"But the incident was a bit strange. No matter how we scoped it, the 'Red Shoes' kept spreading outward. Later, the church realized that the source was still there, and then they captured a pair of wooden feet wearing red shoes and dancing. Now they are the first-level seal of the Storm Church."

After he finished speaking, seeing that Edward had no reaction, Richard poured himself a cup of milk tea and said with a sigh:

"The Church of the Northern Continent has begun to close down my organization and restrict the power of the Foundation!"

"I just evacuated all the people in the Rorsted Islands. Now at least 100,000 people in the Northern Continent have lost their homes and hospitals. Only at this time will those guys react quickly."

Richard rubbed his hands and said, "Teacher, can the Rose School lend me some people? Is there anyone who is not completely crazy? I want to go to the Northern Continent. Anyway, they won't give me money this year. I have no morals, so I want to rob people."

"Why don't you ask the Church of Death for help?"

Edward said: "Spiritual Wandering and Underworld Gate Teleportation are much more useful."

"The Death God Church is under pressure on the front lines, and they still have to manage the rear. After occupying one and a half counties, they don't have any extra manpower."

Richard spread his hands and said, "It will probably be a period of stalemate, but we can continue the fight. After all, the Aurora Society's 'War Angels' have already joined the battle. It all depends on what the Emperor of the Balam Empire thinks."

"Can I borrow it?"

"You can go ask who is willing to help you."

"Thank you very much. By the way, where have you been recently?"

"abyss."

"Are you planning on getting promoted?"

"I'm waiting."

"Oh. Treanor has been complaining to me recently about the 'War Angel' forcing him to train soldiers and fight guerrilla warfare. He asked me if he could switch to my job. What suggestions do you have?"

"Yes, if he wants." Edward remained calm, "The agreement between me and the true creator is unbreakable..."

"Then I'll ask him later."

Richard asked again, "Have you sent your followers to act recently? There are frequent traces of demonic activity along the coast of the northern continent, and they are very simple and crude traces. The local church has invested a lot of manpower in the search, but to no avail. The murderer always slips away due to various coincidences."

"coincide?"

Edward, who had been staying near the abyss recently and had to rely on prayer to learn about the outside world, frowned slightly. Although the current demon followers were all under his control, it was not impossible for a lone demon to commit a crime. But, coincidence?
A feather pen and a stick figure holding the pen with "Sequence 4" written on his head appeared in his mind.

"…What is the writer up to?"

TBC
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Northern Continent: I am innocent.

Richard: I am a barbarian.

Klein: I am super, the King of Gaming, the Rich Man, and the Flying Chess player. Could they be from the same hometown as me?
The truth about Klein entering the town: one eye suddenly went dark.

(End of this chapter)