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There was a dead silence around, only the footsteps of Sean and Elijah echoed in the stone-built dark corridor.

Since they continued to walk deep into this tunnel, the thick white fog gradually faded, and the area illuminated by the holy lamp continued to expand. It didn't take long for their vision to return to normal.

It's just that this tunnel seems a bit too long.They had already walked a distance of at least several hundred meters, but the tunnel seemed endlessly long, which made Sean and Elijah feel a little anxious.

They walked for a while in silence, and then stopped before a fork.

This was the only fork in the road they encountered.The two roads are the same, equally deep and dark, and of the same width, and there seems to be nothing worth paying attention to.

In this tunnel without white mist, Sean no longer had to stay close to Elijah.So the two of them explored at the two entrances, and then Sean shouted to Elijah:
"There seems to be signs of an open door here!"

Elijah walked over immediately.He saw Sean squatting in front of the wall on the right, but didn't see anything unusual there, and then saw Sean turn his head to look at himself and said again:
"Here, come and take a look."

After a short hesitation, Elijah squatted down beside him.Looking in the direction Sean was pointing at, there was indeed a very unusual and shallow circular arc mark on the ground next to the wall. If you didn't squat down and look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see it.

His serious expression finally softened. At the same time, Sean groped the wall carefully with his hands, and quickly said happily: "There seems to be a secret door here! There is a vertical crack!"

Elijah also reached out and touched the stone wall, then turned around and walked to the side, without looking back, he said, "Look for the switch."

"it is good."

Sean suppressed the excitement in his heart and searched the vicinity carefully.

Elijah watched around with a lamp.He touched all the stone walls with his hands, carefully inspected the nearby ground, and even checked the ceiling, but still found nothing abnormal.

Seeing that Sean was also carefully observing every corner, Elijah thought for a while, then turned to the entrance on the other side to fumble, and slashed heavily across the rock wall on the left with his hand.

Suddenly, a stone dented inward under his palm with a silky clang.

The ground began to vibrate slightly, and the heavy roar caused by the rubbing of stones continued to echo in this small space.

Elijah hurried to the opening on the right, and Sean watched the stone wall continue to turn outward.

There was obviously another space behind that stone wall, but when it opened to a width of about half a meter, the stone door suddenly stopped.

The entire tunnel fell into dead silence again.Elijah went straight forward, holding the lamp in one hand and probing into the dark and lightless space behind the stone wall.

It was an extremely small stone room.There are two bookshelves on the left and right sides of it, on which various books are neatly placed, and in the middle is a small wooden desk and stool. On the table is a red book with a gilt cover and a candle lamp with a golden base. Except for being a little small, it is almost like a secret study of a "noble person".

Seeing this situation, Elijah turned to Sean and said, "You wait outside, I'll go in. Be vigilant."

"it is good."

Sean nodded immediately in agreement.He watched Elijah enter the room, lit the candle on the desk with the holy lamp, and then walked back to the door and handed the holy lamp to him: "This lamp is for you first."

Sean hummed, took the lantern, and continued to observe the surrounding corners while releasing the wind.

Elijah walked back to the desk, opened the delicate red book and flipped through a few pages.

It is full of content related to religious theology.He found it meaningless, and felt more and more disdainful, then he threw it aside and looked at the two bookshelves beside him.

Now, Elijah had a plan in mind.If there is anyone who can dig such a long tunnel under the village of Norson and hide a secret room in these tunnels, that person must be Cesar.

He casually flipped through a few books, moved one of the bookshelves away, and carefully observed the stone wall behind it, and then heard Sean running over suddenly, standing at the door and whispering anxiously to him:

"Someone is coming, let's go!"

Elijah's heart tightened, but he hesitated a little, and asked him in a low voice, "How many people?"

"It seems to be one, I only heard a footstep," Sean said in a hurry, and found that Elijah seemed to be hesitant, so he asked, "Didn't you find any useful clues?"

"Well, I want to find out more—"

"No, that's not right." Sean interrupted Elijah suddenly.

At this moment, he looked at the depths of the aisle with horror on his face, and urged in a hurry: "Come out quickly! Those white mist are coming again!! It seems that he came here with that person!"

"—!"

Elijah's body shook violently, he grabbed the candles on the table and ran away, but stopped suddenly when he was about to leave the stone room.

"Come on, what are you doing?!"

Sean urged anxiously in a low voice, and even felt that his back was so tense that cold sweat began to ooze.

The surrounding temperature is getting lower, and even the light of the holy lamp can't dispel this weird cold air.Intuition tells Sean that the "thing that is coming towards them" is a powerful enemy that they are far from being able to fight against.

However, Sean noticed their luck at this moment—there happened to be a big corner not far in front of the secret room.

This corner blocked the line of sight of the person coming over there, and even blocked the light from the holy lamp in his hand, which made the other party completely unaware that someone had broken into this place.

The sound of steady footsteps was getting closer, and the thick white mist gradually diffused around the corner.Sean quickly covered the holy lamp with his clothes to weaken its light, and at the same time urged Elijah again: "Go! That man is going to pass the corner soon!"

At this moment, Elijah finally hurried out of the stone chamber.

He and Sean walked quickly to the depths of another fork with as light a footstep as possible, while looking behind frequently, and it took a long time before they dared to stop.

There was silence all around, and there was no sign of fog. The enemy should not have chased him.

Sean breathed a sigh of relief and was about to say something when Elijah suddenly said in a deep voice:
"Sean, we have to leave this strange land tonight."

Sean was slightly taken aback.Seeing that Elijah had hurried forward again, he trotted a few steps to keep up with him and asked:

"why?"

"I only saw it before I left the secret room. Three lines of very small characters were engraved on that stone door..."

He said with an ugly face, gritted his teeth again, and continued under Sean's nervous gaze:

"April is a period, and the cycle repeats. The dead will come back to life, and the living will come back to death. On the day of the witch in the seventh cycle, the world will usher in its final destruction. The third Sunday in June."

"Today is……"

"Saturday. The third Saturday in June."

Elijah interrupted Sean before he could finish speaking, and then saw the latter showing a frightened expression: "You mean, the 'third Sunday in June' refers to the time of the Witch's Day? Isn't this tomorrow——"

"If these three sentences are true, either Lauren and the others lied to us, or they were also lied to."

Elijah's face was as gloomy as a thundercloud, and his eyes were dim and uncertain.He didn't tell Sean that there was a stick figure smiling face drawn under the three lines of words, which made him feel a deep and terrifying malice.

"...that multi-handed woman didn't even want us to get out alive."

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The sound of steady footsteps echoed in the tunnel.

Cesar walked around the corner with the lamp in his hand, his gaze immediately fell on the slightly opened stone door, and he stopped in his tracks.

"Cesar, what's wrong?"

Beside him, the creature made of lines tilted its head, and its body began to sway slowly from side to side, like a balloon blown by the wind.

"...It's nothing, it's just that a little mouse has come here." Cesar had a faint smile on his face, and looked at him beside him with deep eyes, "Didn't you hear anything?"

"I seem to have heard it? I don't seem to have heard it." He shook his body, then laughed a few times, and hung the topmost "ball suspected to be a head" in front of Cesar with a line and asked, "Do you want me to catch mice for you?"

"No, let them struggle for a while."

Cesar said calmly.He took a closer look at the elliptical sphere flowing with dark red light, suddenly smiled, and said, "Actually, you look good like this."

Upon hearing this, the creature immediately shrank its head back: "No, that's not acceptable. I want a body, which you promised me."

"Well, I won't break my promise, I'm just telling you what I think."

As he said this, he walked towards the stone chamber, and the creature's humming voice filled with joy continued to be heard in his ears:
"The witch is going to have a body soon~ Put the body first, then the hands and feet, and finally the head~ tear them apart with hands and feet, eat them with the mouth, digest them with the body, and finally become them~"

"So happy." Cesar looked back at him and said with a smile.

"Of course~" These human figures made of lines are walking lightly with those thin lines, and even put a few lines on Cesar's body, with a cheerful voice that makes people think that he is talking with a smile, "This is already the ninth cycle. I have been waiting for this day for too long..."

As he said this, his voice suddenly sank: "...If it weren't for those two damned guys, I would have gained enough power long ago."

"One is the chosen person who is too smart and blessed by good luck, and the other is a powerful king who has no blood or tears and only cares about himself," Cesar said flatly, and walked sideways into the stone room, looking back at him who followed behind him, "...But if they come to Norson Village at this time, they will not be able to compete with you."

"I hate that woman, very much."

These lines swayed slightly, making a sound of disgust, but seemed to suddenly think of something, and chuckled suddenly: "Hehehe... But I like this little girl very much. She is not afraid of me, and she is also very interesting—it's a pity, why can't I use her body?"

"Don't be greedy, you don't expect something to go wrong, do you?"

"...well, just use her hands."

Cesar listened casually, glanced at the room, and immediately saw the bookshelf that had been moved to the side, and couldn't help laughing: "Oh, this little mouse has really bad luck."

Then, he walked to the bookshelf on the other side and removed it, pressing his hand on the slightly raised stone.

A heavy roar sounded immediately, and the stone wall that was originally behind the bookshelf began to turn inward.

This study is just a disguise.Compared with these unimportant books, here is another room where they are the most important place.

Following the opened secret door, Cesar looked towards the wide stone room inside.

On the ground in the middle of the stone room, there is a huge brown magic circle.Slender candles were placed in every corner of the magic circle, and in this bright candlelight, the patchwork humanoid object was hanging on the wooden stand.

Seeing this scene, Cesar showed a satisfied smile.

He turned around gracefully, and made a "please" gesture to the linear creature standing beside him:

"Come on, a wonderful world is waiting for us."