It wasn't until the wine bottle was empty that the two of them left Mirror Labyrinth, which blocked the outside world, and returned to the dark wilderness.
It was already the second morning of intense lightning. Angel packed up the tables, chairs and leftovers to avoid being discovered by Amon or other Mythical Creature passing by. Then he looked at Klein with satisfaction and asked:
"What's the reason why you asked me to come here early this time?"
She and Klein originally agreed to "deliver meals" every six weeks, but now it was only one month since the last time, and it was through the message conveyed by Mr. "Fool" that Angel thought something had happened to Forsaken Land of the Gods and hurried over.
Before losing his energy, Klein, who looked a little sluggish, picked up the lantern from the ground, pointed it in a direction with the dim light, and replied:
"There are some interesting things over there. I think I should ask you to come and take a look."
"I would have been more interested if you had said that last night."
Angel chuckled, looking far away at that location, only to find that even with the help of Dark Vision, his field of vision was far beyond that of ordinary people, and he could not see through the darkness that enveloped the entire Forsaken Land of the Gods.
"I mean business."
Klein added helplessly, holding the lantern and walking forward.
"Of course I'm telling the truth."
Angel murmured, recovering from the tender satisfaction, looking around warily, and followed closely behind him.
The conversation between the two disappeared into the darkness with the dim light of the lantern.
"City of Exile" Molora Behind Knowledge Church in the center of the city, three Exile men in cloaks fumbled their way into the cemetery with the help of the dusk light.
This cemetery surrounded by shrubs is so big that you can barely see the edges. The tombstones are neatly arranged, with large tombs protruding from the ground. There are also several entrances with arches and stone steps, leading to the Underground Mausoleum section.
These luxuriously decorated entrances that were completely different from Molora and City of Exile were the goals of the three people. They quickly gathered in one of them and looked at each other. One of them said in a hoarse voice:
"This is it, go in."
"Go in."
"Let's go."
The other two people responded one after another, but they refused to take the lead in walking down the stone steps into the dark Underground Area.
The teasing gradually turned into a quarrel, and then into a push. The three of them managed to calm down before they were about to fight to the death. The Exile leader with a hoarse voice thought for a moment, snatched the lantern from the hand of the smallest companion, kicked him, and said:
"You come first, I come second."
He knew that if he didn't set an example, tonight's operation would be considered a failure, and he could only put himself in second place and let the other party explore the way first.
After another argument, the three reached an agreement, lined up, and entered the dark entrance of the mausoleum one by one.
Then they never came out again.
At the top of a three-story building in the distance, William put down the telescope that had been looking at the three Exile people, and wrote in the notes in his hand:
"Most Underground Area entrances in the cemetery lead to different ossuaries, which allows the cemetery with a limited area to accommodate more than a million corpses... But one of the entrances leads to an unknown location. Although the 'white mice' who entered carried lanterns to keep the lights on, they were not blindfolded. After three consecutive batches entered, they all disappeared without reappearing, and no monsters that looked like them returned to the ground...
"Judgment: They encountered an accident before they entered the depths of Underground Mausoleum, and did not come into contact with the dangerous Sealed Artifact."
After blowing away the dust on the notebook, he closed it and put it away carefully. William took one last look at the huge cemetery that was gradually shrouded in darkness. He had the illusion that he was facing a giant beast that was devouring the living.
He shook his head and jumped directly from the third floor. His limbs touched the ground in a delicate way of unloading force. He stood up as if nothing had happened and arrived at the main entrance of Knowledge Church.
Today, the last group of Exile who were sent to Molora walked out of the church at this time, looking at the bustling streets with excitement or confusion, exactly the same as the day when William and others came a month ago.
Yesterday we counted 30 dead, and today we brought 50 more. No wonder we need such a big cemetery... William sneered in his heart and stood in the corner waiting for the group of newcomers to disperse. Then he walked into the Prayer Hall of Knowledge Church and found Ilian Sauron in the library-like hall.
The red-haired beauty was currently wearing an outfit that was not charming but rather neutrally charming. She was holding a thick book in her hands and sitting at a long table brightly lit by candlelight, reading.
William took a closer look and found "The Making and Maintenance of Puppets" written in Lenburg language on the cover of the book.
The captain has often come to Knowledge Church to read in the past half month. If she hadn't been investigating other organizations that had infiltrated Molora every day and continued to carry out the tasks of Miss Angelica, I almost thought she was going to change her faith to "God of Wisdom"... While thinking, William approached Helene, casually picked up a copy of "Principles of Sealing" from the bookshelf, sat across from the long table, and whispered under the cover of the book:
"Those three 'white mice' didn't come out, they should be missing like the first two batches."
Helene looked away from the finely drawn puppet map, looked at William, nodded and said:
"Consistent with the information we know, without blindfolding, even if you enter Underground Area with a light, you won't be able to go very far... There are no other cemeteries or mausoleums in Molora. It seems that what we are looking for is underground in this cemetery, buried under Knowledge Church..."
Her voice stopped suddenly. After a moment, an old man in white robes, aged sixty or seventy, with gray hair, came up with his hands behind his back. He looked at Helene with gentle eyes and asked with a smile:
"Have you read all the books I gave you?"
"The only thing missing is this one, Archbishop Your Excellency."
Helene answered honestly, his expression was unclear whether it was relief or Affliction.
Archbishop Hella Berg, who received several people when they entered Molora, nodded with satisfaction and continued:
"After reading it, come to me and get a paper. Only when you get full marks can you truly learn this knowledge."
It's over. The captain has really joined Church of Knowledge, but he still has to take the exam. Should I consider changing to another fleet... William's mind flashed through the years of studying and taking exams on "Golden Dream". He watched the white-robed bishop walking away in stunned silence. He glanced at Helene and found that she was equally shocked, and then he felt relieved.
"Do you really want to take the test?"
he asked tentatively.
"He said that to complete my mission safely, I must learn this knowledge. Knowledge is power and wealth..." Helene replied in a low voice until Hella Berg disappeared between the bookshelves. Then he returned to his normal tone, "It seems that he knows the purpose of our coming here. Tia said before that it was this bishop who saved her from the Demoness Sect. I'm afraid the whole thing was what he expected." "
"Anyway, I plan to do as he asks. Fortunately, before I became Beyonder, I developed the habit of reading under the influence of my family..."
By the way, the captain is Sauron Family, who is a little more cultured than the other "Hunter"... The figure of Fourth Mate on "Golden Dream" flashed in William's mind, and he took the "Principles of Sealing" and left the church together with Helene.
Forsaken Land of the Gods, Angel and Klein came to a wilderness.
This place is different from the flat wasteland before. The ground is a series of criss-crossing ravines. In addition to the darkness that never fades, there is also a layer of gray-yellow mist in the sky. They are not pungent, but they give Angel a premonition of danger.
"Is this what you call 'interesting'?"
Angel asked, pointing around.
"I have been exploring the area for the past few days and confirmed many facts. This fog covers an area of nearly a hundred kilometers in radius, and there are countless undead creatures inside, all of which should be formed by the influence of the fog..."
Klein replied, his voice a little hazy in the thickening fog.
"I tried to use Marionette and Historical Projection to go deep into this thick fog, but soon Marionette would die and become a cursed person lingering in the fog, and Historical Projection could not tolerate this curse.
"The only successful attempt was when I asked Historical Projection to summon the projection of 'Staff of the Stars', which reproduced the disease that you had reached the level of Angel and came with a curse. It neutralized the influence of the fog and was close to the core area of the dense fog.
"There is a Cyclops that is dozens of meters tall and is dead but still constantly producing curse-rich mist. I judge that he is probably a Angel... at least in life.
"Besides that, there's a weird building there, which is what I wanted you to see... the interesting thing."
As he spoke, Klein stretched out his hands and used the illusion of "Magician" to create a somewhat blurry picture between his arms.
Angel squinted at the static painting and saw a touch of gray-white in the equally thick fog in the painting.
It was in the deep ravine that traversed Earth Mother, and seemed to be a continuous building embedded in the ground. They were embedded in each other, and their appearance was as smooth as cement pouring. They were in the form of sharp-edged rectangular parallelepipeds with no doors or windows, and they looked like they were composed of "sarcophagi" of different sizes.
No, that is a "sarcophagus" made of cement!
Angel frowned, trying to see more clearly in the blurry illusion. This scene originated from Klein's Historical Projection's glimpse in the distance, only the outline of the building.
But just by looking at the outline, she was able to match it with a certain building in her memory.
It was a research institute located in Eastern Europe during the era of Angel, which was used to study the re-production of oil from dry oil fields after the oil depleted.
It was the Calamity place that was completely sealed with concrete due to some kind of disaster leakage and preserved as a "sarcophagus".
That was when the earth entered a mysterious era, Devil continued to emerge, and Qidian entered the countdown to the arrival of Apocalypse.
In the history books in Angel's memory, it is called "Chernobyl".