All the evil beasts in the world, I feed on demons and monsters

Chapter 126: Strange Things in the Church
The night is silent and the moonlight is clear.

A Gothic-style steeple church appeared in an open space. The horse's hooves slowed down, trampling over the gentian flowers on the ground.

It was obvious that this was a large farmland, but it was cleared and built into a towering church.

The entire church covers a large area, at least more than thirty acres.

The pale moonlight cast a bright hue over the church, reflecting a hazy, phantom light from the large, colorful glass windows on the outside of the main hall. The church's exterior walls were damaged in many places, with large, charred areas visible.

Even on the towering church spire, there were patches of bloodstains exploding.

Mutilated corpses lay scattered across the ground, some clearly not human. Some had thick limbs like a giant, hairy ape, while others were slender and thin, with smooth, dark skin. And there were also parishioners dressed in blue and white missionary attire.

It was obvious that a battle had just taken place here. Although the church had lost some strength, it still held on.

The only odd thing is that these corpses are headless.

Howling!
Ji Ran reined in his horse when he was some distance away from the church.

"You wait here and keep watch. I'll go in and take a look."

"me and you togather!"

Li Yan spoke immediately. Ji Ran glanced at him and said, "If we encounter a situation similar to the previous one, I may not have the chance to save you."

“Life and death are determined by heaven, but destiny is determined by man.”

Li Yan's childish face was filled with a hint of cruelty as she said, "Go ahead and do your work, my dear Tai Sui. I'm only willing to go in and kill a few red-haired beasts."

"Ambitious."

Ji Ran nodded, dismounted, and tied the horse to a dead tree. Going further, there was no more cover on the road.

Since this kid is brave, let's go together.

As Ji Ran and Li Yan walked, they took out a grayish-white mask-like object.

Painted Skin (Ordinary)

Effect: A piece of leather left by the Painted Skin Yaksha, which can be transformed into different appearances and can be used three times.

Ji Ran has always been a very intelligent person, otherwise he wouldn't have to tormented himself so much during his student days. However, after becoming a walking person, he found that many things, even if he spent a lot of time thinking about them, would still end up being done, so he gradually became too lazy to bother.

Moreover, in the heavens, the people you encounter are either man-eating monsters or harmful ghosts. To deal with these monsters, you still need to be good with your fists.

But this doesn't mean that when he encounters something, he will just rush forward.

The corpse on the ground and the memory of the hanged man told him one thing - the red-haired ghost in this church was extraordinary.

The Yihe would attack the train from here, so there must be more than one altar coming and going! In other words, at least two altars, or even more, failed to take down this church! Although there was also the reason that the eldest brother saved his strength to go to the front line and did not fight hard, it was still enough to attract attention.

Ji Ran could see that among the corpses lying on the ground, there were two black-haired werewolves, who were not much smaller in size than the alchemist hunters he had killed before.

There were also a few pitch-black, mandrill-like creatures that gave him the impression of being at least level 1. Climbing the stairs was no easy task, but in this world, especially for those in the West, it seemed easy.

At least, in the second-level world of Southern Han, he had never seen a first-level cavalry that appeared in an organized manner like the Cossack cavalry.

Of course, the Cossack cavalry wasn't physically strong enough. At least, they weren't as strong as those Southern Han level 1 Yakshas. Even a single strike from that Yaksha wouldn't have seriously damaged him. Even with the incense ash that had boosted him to peak level 3, it still took him three rounds to slay a level 1 Yaksha!
And these cavalrymen could be chopped down with one axe, both the men and their horses.

Just as they were thinking about this, Ji Ran and Li Yan had already arrived at the church door. The outer wall of the church was almost gone, so naturally, no one was there.

But inside the church, you can vaguely see some flickering lights.

"come here."

"Okay." As soon as Ji Ran said that, Li Yan jumped over without asking any questions.

Snapped!
Ji Ran slapped him on the shoulder, then picked up a dead branch and started writing on the ground.

Bird in a cage!

Li Yan watched Tai Sui Ye enter the main hall. He then turned a corner, skirting the church and entering a dungeon. The entrance was dark, and there was a faint murmur of movement within. Li Yan entered, only to find a thick iron fence. Being short, he shrunk his neck and squeezed through. A group of lanky black figures howled as they rushed over, tearing him to pieces.

"Once you're inside, don't go to a dungeon on the edge of the church."

"oh oh."

Ji Ran continued to sketch
Li Yan discovered the dungeon entrance and went around it. He entered a side hall of the church with sealed windows, where strange artifacts were placed. Before Li Yan could react, a book clamped his head. A blood-red eye swiveled in the cover, and a sharp, toothy mouth emerged from the pages, biting off the upper half of Li Yan's body.

"Don't go into a room with the windows sealed."

"Ah? OK."

Li Yan bypassed the strange side hall and ran into a priest in the back garden. The priest was up late at night, admiring the flowers, which were making a buzzing sound. Li Yan jumped up and tried to attack him, but his vision went black and he died.

Ji Ran sighed and said, "Why don't you just not go in."

"Do not."

"Then come with me."

"No need, Master Taisui. I'm just a nobody and I'll waste time following you. I'll just go in and kill a few of the lone ones."

Ji Ran glanced at him. Is it possible that you will be the only one left alone when you go in?

"Then stay away from the garden behind the church."

"Uh. OK."

Li Yan was a little confused. How could Tai Sui Ye be so familiar with this place? Could it be... was he drawing talismans to summon the gods?
Li Yan, who graduated from prenatal education, was naturally illiterate. Seeing Ji Ran drawing talismans on the ground, she thought it was some kind of Taoist magic and her expression immediately became serious.

Li Yan skirted the garden, only to hear a woman's wailing from within a house. Peeking through the window, she saw two naked bodies, one black and one white, entangled together. It was none other than the burly Wang Ermaizi and a woman. Li Yan quietly entered, intending to smear Wang Er's neck. Suddenly, she saw a dog-like face on the back of Wang Ermaizi's head, grinning back at her! Before Li Yan could react, his head went limp and he died.

Ji Ran tried a few more times and gave Li Yan a glimmer of hope.

I also figured out the structure of this church: a main hall, a side hall with strange props, a dungeon where monsters were kept, a priest in the back garden at midnight, and a room on the side for the Japanese invaders to live.

Ji Ran put the painted skin mask on his face. As Li Yan was stunned, he turned into a man with pointed eyes, broad shoulders and a fierce face!

It was that cowardly and ruthless scoundrel, Liu Sanyan!
Ji Ran didn't even change his clothes. He just picked up a relatively intact church robe from the ground and put it on.

Immediately, he patted Li Yan's forehead and warned, "You will go to the dungeon in a while. Be smart. When you hear the movement in the dungeon going to the left, get in and go straight to the right!"

"There's a man imprisoned there. If you can open his shackles within ten seconds, you'll live. If you can't, you'll die."

"dare?"

The short Li Yan suddenly straightened his back, his face gleaming with anger as he said, "If you utter the word 'no', you're not a man from Tianjin!"

"So brave!"

The dry branch in Ji Ran's hand moved slightly, and he added a few words on the ground.

Then they threw away the dead branch and ran straight to the church.

(End of this chapter)