Walking in the dark tunnel, there are only flashlights that are temporarily borrowed as light source.

Aoye suddenly figured out something in his heart.

It was like a meteor passing through the sky, or it was like some existence that had been ignored before finally appearing, and was immediately captured by Aoye.

But at the same time, it also brings greater doubts. The fastest update is mobile::

Aono asked Hino Aika.

"Senior Aixiang, do you have more detailed information on the group of believers you mentioned before?"

“Eh?”

Suddenly hearing this question from Ao No, Aika Hino seemed a little surprised.

The only vivid right eye revealed a little confusion.

"Huh? Didn't I explain this carefully?"

She muttered secretly, her lips slightly moved.

It seemed that something was wrong, but this "disorder" did not cause her much attention. She just thought it was her negligence for a moment.

"It must have been ten years ago?"

Aya Ka Hino recalled the contents of her memory and told Ao No as briefly as possible what happened in her impression.

It is estimated that it will take some time to move forward in this tunnel. It is also appropriate to take advantage of this time to understand more about possible enemies.

"There is such an unusual group of believers who call themselves withered believers."

"The so-called doctrine is quite pessimistic. For example, all things in the world are destined to wither and the end of all is death. In fact, seriously, this sentence cannot be said to be wrong. The end of all things is destruction, and life is destined to die."

"It's just that it's not so normal to think of this view as a sect."

At this time, we happened to walk a fork, and the inside of the lava tunnel was not a straight passage. This was a naturally formed tunnel, not artificially built. It was not surprising that no matter how complex and diverse the terrain would appear.

Hino Aika temporarily kept her mouth shut.

In this situation, dividing troops is undoubtedly an unrealistic and irrational behavior.

Just like in a horror movie, the protagonist and his group are exploring in a haunted house, and there are few people who have to go to explore separately, it is undoubtedly a desperate act.

Then, finding the right path is the problem that needs to be solved now.

Before Hino Aika asked, Aono pointed to the passage on his right hand.

"Go here."

In this place, the remaining aura of Fujiang is already very obvious.

For Aoye, who is familiar with this aura and even has part of Toojiang's blood in his body, it is easy to find her location.

After walking towards the passage to the right, Aono waited for the next description of Hino Aika.

But she didn't speak again.

"Senior Aika? Please continue to talk about it."

"Um?"

Aika Hino tilted her head, puzzled.

"What are you saying?"

But when Aoye heard this, his hair was slightly raised on his body, and a stronger sense of abnormality swept across his heart.

“Message about the withered believers.”

Even so, there was no abnormality in Aoye's expression.

"Oh by the way, I was talking about this just now."

Hino Aika blinked her eyes, thought for a moment, and said apologetically.

"Look at my brain, it's not working well."

"Oh, I'm old and useless."

Aoye understood clearly that this was by no means explained by forgetfulness.

Before answering the question, Aika Hino was like a slow machine, pausing for two or three seconds, as if there was a special force that distorted her cognition and temporarily "forgot" the topic just now.

Not only that, Aoye also discovered that neither Kanda Yukie nor the Swordsman showed any awareness of this.

In other words, if Aoye had not reminded again, this topic would have been very likely to be ignored again.

This is probably why Aoye failed to learn the information of the believers before.

At the same time, there was no prompt on Aoye's panel.

It is an abnormality among abnormalities!

Aoye focused his attention to the extreme and refused to let go of any details.

“At the beginning, the withered believers acted very normally and did not engage in any special activities.”

"So when we first received the report, we could not classify them as the X religion, and it had nothing to do with extraordinary things, but just a religion with strange doctrines. In Japan, there are still many such small religions."

"We can't arrest them without any reason and evidence. So at that time, we were just monitoring and investing some attention."

Ayaka Hino sighed, as if regretting her decision.

If there were more surveillance forces invested at that time, maybe what happened later might not have happened.

“It was too late when we found out that they had the first case.”

"Their heads, from somewhere, received a special ceremony."

"It's the kind I've seen in Shishan's grandma's room."

"They attempted to summon the gods by rituals, so that they could have a better life after their lives withered."

Aoye listened carefully: "So that's it."

Looking at the many religions in the world, there are actually many such doctrines. As long as you believe in a certain god, you can ascend to heaven after death, go to the Western Paradise, or be in the Immortal Class, without falling into hell and suffering many hardships and pains.

At its root, people will die.

No matter how many scenery you have seen or how beautiful you have experienced, the end will not change.

And there is only one, that is, death.

Only death is eternal, which coincides with the doctrine of the Withering Sect.

However, when people find it difficult to change the miserable situation of reality, they place their minds on gods and Buddhas, trying to get "beauty" and "happiness" after death, and thus get spiritual comfort.

The birthplace of Buddhism was in ancient India, and it was not without reason.

The people at the bottom cannot change the oppressed reality of the lower castes, so they can only expect to live in the "Pigeon World" after death.

For rulers, this is a great tool to eliminate people's real resistance.

In short, the Withered Sect is actually no essential difference from other religions.

But what they prayed for was the terrifying existence from the inner world!

Generally speaking, any existence in the inner world, even those weak subordinate creatures, is extremely harmful to ordinary people.

Most of the gods believed in by many x believers cannot communicate with them in a true sense.

Just like the ants lined up on the ground and moved forward in a queue, it is indeed possible to attract people's attention.

But what awaits the ants may not be fine bread crumbs and friendly gazes, but a pot of boiling hot water.

Believing in them often won’t have too good results.

It is more likely to cause people to go crazy themselves, or to become their own food.

But then again, most of their x-speakers themselves are also people with abnormal brains, and they complement each other and have similar smells.

"The first few cases discovered were all products of the failure of the ceremony."

Hino Aika continued to explain.

"We only saw the deadly and miserable dead, and some strange patterns, like the pattern of a withered flower. At that time, we did not even classify this as a case in the religious field, but as a serial murder case."

"Similar to Jack the Ripper, it will leave special traces to prove that they committed the crime."

"But we were soon at the crime scene and encountered that kind of thing."

"That kind of thing?"

This time the question was asked was Kanda Yuki next to him.

"It's the residue of the mysterious ritual."

Speaking of this, Qingye and the others all had an impression that this could only be the "dirty" remnant in the corner of Shishan Jingzi's room.

Kanda Yukie asked again: "Has the ceremony been successful?"

"No, it didn't work."

The young woman in iceberg shook her head.
To be continued...