Unparalleled Double Harmony

Chapter 526: The First Ringing of the Death Knell
Early in the morning, on the outskirts of town, at the Gaoying Circus.

"I... I have already told you all about the organization... What else do you want..."

At this time, Balde had changed his usual high, cold, cool and arrogant attitude; he was tied to a chair, sweating profusely, gasping for breath, his expression and tone were full of fear.

"Really?" Old Feng still looked him up and down with suspicion, fearing that the other party was hiding something.

"Really! It's absolutely true! I swear to God! Please don't let those two guys come over to perform comedy tricks for me anymore! My head is about to explode!" As Balde said this, he stared at his eyes so wide that they were about to bleed.

"Hmm..." Old Feng stared at Balde's face carefully. After thinking for a few seconds, he groaned again and said, "I don't believe it. Why don't you watch another part." As he said that, he turned around and prepared to go outside the tent to call An Zhui and Migen in again.

"Kill me! Just kill me!" Balde screamed when he heard it.

The next second, he began to struggle desperately, which soon caused the chair he was tied to to fall to the ground.

Balde did not stop after falling to the ground. He immediately banged his head against the ground, trying to kill himself... Unfortunately, the ground was all mud and not very hard, so he could only get some bruises at most.

"Okay, okay, now I believe it." Seeing this, Lao Feng finally felt relieved, and was sure that the other party should have confessed everything he knew, so he stepped forward again and pulled Balder up, "Then let's assume that... the words you just confessed were not mixed with too many lies to cover up your evil deeds... Based on this, what kind of punishment do you think your God's Ring Society should receive?"

Balder calmed down a little when he saw that Lao Feng didn't seem to plan to invite An Zhui and Mi Gen in. He thought for a moment and continued, "You don't need to ask such questions to humiliate me. I admit... we deserved to die. I just want to know... who are you guys? Don't tell me you are really just a circus."

"What?" Old Feng is a seasoned man who won't lose easily in a verbal battle. "Can't we be 'just a circus'? Ha... or... do you think we must have some kind of 'qualifications' to be worthy of dealing with your Order of the Ring?"

"I'm just curious..." Balder looked directly at Lao Feng, "When you say 'clean up', do you mean to destroy us... or replace us?"

"Your question is an insult to us, Brother Balder," Old Feng responded, "Don't assume the same thing about everyone just because you and Father Norchi have fallen."

When saying this, in order to show the sense of oppression and that he was very serious, Lao Feng deliberately leaned closer and pointed his rough face at the other person.

In this posture, Balde just happened to see the cross exposed on Lao Feng's neck.

The moment he saw that thing, Balder suddenly understood many things: "You... are also..."

He was about to say something else, when suddenly...

"Hey! Lao Feng, did you hear that?" Coman poked his head in from outside the tent and asked in a rather urgent tone.

"Hmm? What did you hear..." Old Feng wanted to ask this subconsciously.

But he stopped talking halfway because he heard it too.

At this moment, everyone in the town heard... the sound of church bells floating in the distant night sky.

Hearing the voice, Lao Feng's expression changed. He immediately ignored Balde and walked out of the tent in a flash.

When we got outside, we saw that all the rangers were attracted by the bell and the camp was already filled with noise.

"What's going on? Did something happen to Tyrael and the others?"

"Sure enough, it's too risky for only three people to go explore the enemy's base camp."

"The Divine Ring Society has over a hundred people, and I'm afraid the three of them are in great danger..."

Everyone was talking about it, and generally agreed that the bell was an alarm, which meant that the situation of Sun Huang and Tyrael was not optimistic.

"What do you say, Old Feng?" Seeing Old Feng coming out, the brave man stepped forward and said, "In my opinion, we shouldn't wait any longer. We should gather all our men and charge over quickly before daybreak. If we're lucky, maybe those three can be saved."

"I agree with Zhuangke this time." Coman crossed his arms over his chest and said seriously, "Based on my understanding of military operations, now is the time when the enemy is in internal chaos and therefore relaxes its external defense."

"Since you all said so... then we have no choice but to do it." Lao Feng said, and looked back at the tent behind him, "By the way, let's take this hostage with us, maybe he will be useful."

Obviously, Lao Feng felt that even if Sun, Huangtai and the other two were still alive, they would most likely be caught, so he was already considering "exchanging hostages" if necessary.

But what is actually happening at the church?

Let’s put it this way, the people from the Divine Ring Society are even more confused than them at the moment.

Whether it was the guards on duty or the monks who had already gone to bed, they were all wondering - what the hell was this clock ringing in the middle of the night?
You know, on weekdays, the super-large bell on the top floor of the church (Norch specially ordered people to enlarge the bell after the Order of the Holy Ring came to power) would only ring during Sunday morning services, and when there were major events in the town and all townspeople needed to be urgently summoned to the square in front of the church. And the person responsible for ringing the bell was Father Norch himself.

No one else, unless they received orders from Norchi, was even qualified to enter the bell tower on the top floor of the church, let alone ring the bell.

In a sense, Norch has turned the act of "ringing the bells" into a symbol of his dominance over the town.

However, this "midnight bell" appeared for the first time in the Moldavian town of Slanic in all these years.

The members of the Order of the Lord were also thrown into panic, but no one thought that "an outsider had sneaked in to ring the bell". After all, that was too unbelievable... So they still gathered towards the sound of the bell with doubts.

There were also a few people with quick minds who immediately thought of going to the priest's room and knocking on the door to see if the priest was still there.

After knocking for a long time, they found that there was no movement in the house, so they pushed the door open while saying "Sorry, Father, excuse me for disturbing you."

Then they discovered... that the room was empty.

But the window was open.

Moreover, from the bedside to the window sill, for some reason, under the dim moonlight, a faint trace of feces appeared.

How can I describe this scene... The first thought in the mind of the person standing at the door was something like "Did I open it the wrong way?"

After a moment's pause, they went back into the house to check.

At this time, the boxes in the room and under the bed were naturally emptied.

They came to the window and looked out, but they couldn't see anything except the pitch-black night. In addition, the feces trail... after being dragged for a while on the land outside that was covered with some weeds, gradually became invisible.

Of course, if you really want to track it, it's no problem. Just take a torch and climb out the window, and continue following the smell. Even an ordinary person can follow it to the end.

But...this window sill, let me ask you this, if you were in my shoes, would you dare to climb out from here?
If you really want to track him, you should first exit through the door, then make a big circle and chase him at the other end of the building.

But, those people at the scene... As I said, they are some of the smarter people in the Order of the Lord. At this point, they would have thought about it... What is going on?
If there was nothing at the scene except an open window, they might think that the priest had an accident, but now there is such a trace, it seems very much like...

"Oh……"

A few people looked at each other and thought: That's right, go out from this window and turn the corner to the toilet. I think the old priest must have encountered an "emergency" and it was too late to walk from the door to the toilet at the other end of the dormitory, so...

Of course, judging from this trace, the priest was still a few steps slow after all.

As for the bell sound... maybe the priest is in a bad mood after his "attack", so he is going to do something. Let's go quickly.

At the same time, on the third floor of the church, the entrance to the bell tower.

dong dong dong-

"Father, it's me, Brother Guivan. What's the matter?"

The Ji Wan who was shouting at the door was also a small leader of the Order of the Divine Ring, and was at the same level as Brother Paul mentioned in the previous document.

At this moment, Guivan took it for granted that it was Father Norchi who was ringing the bell in the bell tower, so he was very respectful when he knocked on the door.

Click, squeak——

After Ji Wan knocked on the door, within a few seconds, he heard the sound of the bolt loosening from inside the door, and then the door slowly opened.

"Come in alone." Then, half of Brother Paul's face appeared from behind the door.

At this time, there were indeed two minions following Ji Wan. When they heard these words coming from inside and knew that it was said by Brother Paul, they would definitely not be suspicious.

"Okay." Ji Wan responded while gesturing with his hands behind his back.

Seeing this, the minions behind him stopped and let Ji Wan go in alone.

After the door was closed again, Ji Wan saw Paul, whose face was covered in cold sweat. Paul had been threatened by Huang Donglai with poison and had obeyed his orders, so he would not reveal anything to Ji Wan. He just led the way and said, "Follow me."

"Hey, you don't look well, are you okay?" Ji Wan asked in a low voice from behind as he followed Paul up a circular staircase of the bell tower.

"I... I'm fine." Paul didn't dare to say a word.

But even so, Ji Wan still didn't have any suspicion, because Norchi's "unpredictable and capricious" approach was too effective, making his subordinates nervous when dealing with him.

At this moment, Ji Wan thought: It must be that the old priest is showing off his power again. Several monks under Paul had just been punished in the evening. Paul is in a difficult situation now. No wonder he is so nervous.

As I was thinking about it, I had already finished walking up that short flight of stairs.

Then, in the attic at the end of the stairs, Ji Wan actually saw... a man with a very strange appearance, pushing the hammer and striking the bell intermittently.

Please note that, generally speaking, the bells in Western churches are "rocked" and have handles on the side. They are not very complicated mechanical devices... Only temples in the East use a horizontally hung round wooden hammer to strike the bells.

But at this moment, Sun Yixie did not use the handle, but used Father Norchi and an iron chain... and made a horizontally hanging "bell hammer" and pushed it there for fun.