Chapter 6 The Great Goddess of the Night
The public cemetery is located on the northwest side of Orange County, a mountainous hilly area formed by a bunch of small hills and depressions.
The hot wind in early autumn blows away the lush greenness of the sparse wild forests. The changing seasons of nature are like a child who has just learned to paint. He grabs the unique tender yellow of the fruits and paints the wild forest with a mottled harvest background.
The red-eyed jackdaw was originally staying in the pile of dead branches and leaves, and spent the most difficult time of the day with the humid and hot air released by the natural fermentation of humus soil.
However, the footsteps of several humans who returned to the public cemetery woke the gatekeeper again.
The old jackdaw has not had a few days to live. He has no power to flap his wings and fly to the branches. He can only shrink his neck and drill deeper into the pile of dead leaves. But he forgets that his tail is exposed outside. He is probably old and lives like an ostrich.
"Tread... creak... crackle!"
As the footsteps at different rhythms get closer, the dead branches and leaves covering the road are trampled by trampling, making a crisp breaking sound, breaking the tranquility of the public cemetery.
The person who came was Yuri, Oroye and Lanster. Originally, the junior investigator Dmitry wanted to come, but Yuri looked down on his strength at all, let alone not injecting the "anti-curse vaccine". Even self-protection was a problem. Maybe others would have to be distracted from taking care of him, so of course he could not bring it with him.
The three of them stood in the classic triangular formation. Yuri volunteered to head forward, Oueri covered his right wing, and Lanster always watched the safety of the team behind and forward Yuri on the left.
Oruoye looked at the foggy cemetery, worried that Yuri would not know the inside story and quickly reminded him: "Around 8:10 in the morning, when we came, the fog in the cemetery was still very large, and the distance was more than fifteen feet, so he couldn't see each other's faces clearly. It was precisely because of these fogs, coupled with the enemy being too cunning, that they were sneak attacked by undead creatures, and almost lost a main member of the operation team."
Yuri looked at the thin fog and observed his effective field of view. It was about two hundred feet. He could see the fountain in the center of the cemetery. He felt that it was inconsistent with the rumors. Then he felt that it was hot and sweating on his forehead. He quickly looked up at the sky. The scorching sun in early autumn must be the reason for the dissipation of the fog.
However, the light and heat from the sun that was approaching noon still did not change the gloomy and cold air emitted from the cemetery, just like a cold spring hidden deep in the cemetery.
Yuri is also a junior investigator. He is not qualified to obtain a certificate and has not received any long and short firearms. He can only pull out the necessary weapons for investigators from his belt and crowbar!
The flat front end is specially opened by Yuri, which can be used as the tip of the gun. The texture of forged steel gives the crowbar a good toughness and can be used to pry open an ordinary sarcophagus and is also very useful for dealing with wooden coffins with long nails. In particular, the crowbar acts as a slightly curved grip of a cane, and opens an acute angle "v" mouth with a very small angle, which can be used as a nail lifter.
Yuri grabbed the crowbar with both hands and felt much more at ease. The silver wine glasses on his double-eared belt seemed to be the "old seal" he had obtained by believing in the old god. In fact, the small gourd as big as a palm in the inner pocket on the left side of the jacket is the genuine old seal he owns.
Every once in a while, the old gourd-shaped seal will condense a small amount of alcohol. If you gently sip it, it will reduce the pain after the injury by half, and the injury will heal itself twice.
Lanster, a senior investigator standing on the back of Yuri's left, just based on his own observations, especially his mastery of Yuri's back muscles, vaguely guessed that this novice who was so true that he was also surprised that he must be the old god.
"Very interesting! A believer of the old god actually knows so much about the Holy Seal of the New Holy Lord of the Holy Light, and even knows how he did the Three Holy Seals seal magic?"
Senior investigator Lanster thought of a legendary figure among the demon worshippers. A monster called the blasphemy of the priests could silently steal the divine arts of Bishop Holy Light. It was incredible that he was a dirty and despicable demon who was only worthy of staying in the sewer and corpse, but he could exert the power of the divine arts without any fault.
After Yuri stepped into the cemetery, the gourd with the old sacred emblem carved on the surface began to absorb the surrounding mist and condensed drops of wine.
It was an oak cane wrapped around grape vines, with a golden pine cone on top.
The holy emblem of this old god is very similar to the God of Medicine, who is also a series of holy mountain. The messengers of God are probably because their divine nature comes from the same divine source.
Unfortunately, at this time, Yuri had only a cold forged steel crowbar in his hand, rather than an oak cane that imitated the old sacred emblem.
A group of three people walked on the dead branches and leaves all over the ground and came to the place of the large fountain in the middle of the cemetery without any danger.
Yuri looked back at Oruoye on the right. The senior investigator knew his questions, spread his hands and looked embarrassed.
"Probably the fog dissipated, and the wandering living dead people hid! Don't underestimate these undead creatures. Although they are relatively slow in their actions, they are extremely powerful. Just like a wolf pack that is hunting in cooperation, they even know how to set traps!"
Yuri immediately understood and showed a proud smile on his face: "The defense professor in the training class explained that this is the [big zombie] born in a very small probability. If there are groups of big zombies appearing, it means that the necromancer who masters the transformation equation is nearby!"
Yuri said this, reached into the left pocket of the jacket, took out a "garlic necklace" as big as an eighteen children's fists, and threw it at the feet of the statue group of large fountains.
This is a group of statues of the old gods of the Holy Mountain, with the themes of the Gemini gods, the God of Death and the God of Sleeping. Their facial features are covered under the smoke-black curtain.
The night curtain like silk is like the gurgling water of a stream in the mountains, covering the unknown true face of Gemini God, and combining with the flow of the big fountain, it is simply perfect.
The water-like curtain can appear in the form of a statue, which is enough to reflect the master's skills back then, and it can be called the hand of a god.
As for the goddess who hides and does not show up, only the mother of the two gods who sleep in the dead, the ancient goddess of night is qualified to show an extremely broad mind, embrace the gods and the dead who sleep forever, and give them equal peace.
Although Yuri is not a believer of the Goddess of the Night, the gods among gods, he understood the meaning behind the cemetery's fountain statue group, so he quickly threw away the "garlic necklace" and respectfully bowed his head to express his highest respect.
Unexpectedly, and reasonably, a little imperceptible glory jumped out of the smoke-black stone curtain of the statue group and fell on Yuri, giving him the right to move freely in this public cemetery, and was also given a dark night shelter like the [Hidden Technique], a very common but very rare blessing of divine grace.
Commonly, it means that there are also hazy techniques in the sequence of divine arts given by the Lord of the Holy Light. Rarely, it means that the blessings of divine grace come from ancient gods, and this ancient god is famous for not showing miracles easily.
This time, I gave Yuri such a face and gave him blessings from ordinary junior investigators with divine grace. This is really the first time I have ever given him face.
Could it be that Yuri's identity is unique, not only the owner of the Knight's bloodline, but also some hidden identities?
For example, the returnees of the descendants of the divine blood, the heavenly fortunes of God who elected the destiny, the favored people of the will of the world, etc.
However, it is rumored that these people are responsible for commanding on the front line of fighting against the demons, and are even extremely active on the crisscrossing front line. It is absolutely impossible for the remains to be lost.
Senior investigator Ou Ruoye was in a daze and suddenly found Yuri's figure dim in the noon sun. From his perspective, the junior investigator almost integrated into the dark background of the group of statues.
Based on the professional philosophy that everything is doubtful and must be investigated, Ouruoye just wanted to say hello.
Unfortunately, the "smell" emitted by the three of them aroused the interest of the undead creatures wandering in the public cemetery. They were driven by the eternal hunger that they fell into when they woke up by the radiation of death magic. They walked out of the base camp of the wealthy gentleman's area to the north of the cemetery, and staggered to spread hunting nets.
[Supernatural Incident Investigation and Prevention Bureau] Three investigators at the Orange County Secret Police Department Operations Team expected the worst, but did not expect that the real situation was worse than expected.
Yuri has a constitution that is immune to the highly toxic curse and takes the initiative to stand up when danger is approaching.
"The enemy hidden in the dark is more cunning than expected. Perhaps the mastermind behind the scenes inferred that we will face the difficulties and rush to the most dangerous core area according to the concept of beheading tactics. I am not as good as he wants!"
Yuri turned around and rushed towards the straight road when he came. The two senior investigators did not expect that the rookie investigator who had just been in office for a few days was so experienced.
Auroye and Lanster also turned around and ran away, following Yuri tightly.
"Prudence is the first rule of survival for our supernatural incident investigators! From this perspective, the old guys in the General Administration training class trained this group of rookies very well!"
Even if the investigator trio escaped in time, two "big zombies" still appeared on the way to escape.
Two senior investigators saw Yuri rushing forward without stopping. A big zombie whose power restrictions were lifted due to brain death seemed very slow, but in fact he quickly punched a straight punch.
With a "bang", a piece of black objects with unknown specific faces passed by the two at an astonishing speed.
Oruoye thought it was Yuri's head. After looking carefully, he found that the rookie investigator was lying on the ground without any damage, as if he had tripped by a stone on the ground, and he could barely avoid the killing attack of the big zombie.
As for the true face of the flying thing, Lanster glanced at the big zombie and found that its fist disappeared.
"Once the high-level undead creatures that have lifted the power limit, once they shoot down in the air, the unparalleled brute force that bursts out will often launch a part of their body like ordinary shells!"
Yuri fell to the ground, but seized the opportunity to use the close-fitting mechanic technique similar to the dwarf's lower plate slash, "Scorpion Tail-Swinging Soul-Snatching Stump", also known as "Scarlet Poison Needle Burst Skull Strike".
Yuri only showed the first half of the stance and narrowly avoided the killing attack of the big zombie. At this time, he was sweating in his back, which really underestimated his opponent and overestimated himself.
Yuri held the crowbar tightly in both hands, used it as a needle sword, and stabbed it hard from bottom to top into the throat of the big zombie, pressing against the thick skull, and pushing out half of the cervical spine!
Chapter completed!