Chapter 22

In the corner of the seminary, in the open space behind the warehouse, a group of people are waiting here.

This was the first group of investigators dispatched to the underground waterway, consisting of priest Louisa of the seminary, Rulsa and Athos of the Owl District Police Department, and thirty temple guardians.

Not long ago, after Rulsa reported their speculation to Rajel, Rajel assigned a team of temple guardians, and Luisa led them to reconnaissance of the underground waterway.

"Going in from here is the underground system." Louisa's expression was serious, and the guards behind her pulled out their spears and pried open the slate on the ground.

The foul breath poured out from the opened hole, and no one present frowned and retreated, they were all waiting for the next step.

Looking at this one-meter-wide hole, Athos could not wait to jump down to find his sister, but he still held back.

"Before going down, I will add a dark vision magic for you." Luisa spoke a lot faster than usual, "Be sure not to let go of the slightest bit of strangeness and bring the children back safely."

"As ordered!" Captain Guardian replied calmly.

Louisa closed her eyes, her originally serious expression gradually softened, like a mother who embraced everything, a gentle but majestic feeling emanated from her.

"Mother of the earth, the protector of the deep earth that embraces all things, the great mother Yemendro." Luisa prayed softly, "Here, I pray to you, and I pray that you will grant us the eyes to see through the darkness."

Athos felt a wonderful and warm force covering his eyes, like a thin film, but it did not affect eye movement.

He glanced at the dark underground passage just now, and now there is no difference between it and the outside world, and he can see everything clearly.

"It's alright." Luisa opened her eyes. "When Dark Vision lasts for twelve standards, after you go down, you should explore separately. If you find something, return immediately and gather everyone to go there together."

Under Louisa's orderly arrangement, the 30-person temple guardian team first stepped into the underground waterway, and then Athos and Rulsa also walked down, and finally Louisa came down.

The Guardian team began to explore in groups of five below, and Athos and Rulsa followed one of the teams and also began their exploration.

Selancha's underground water system is connected vertically and horizontally. For a huge trading city with a population of 800,000, the underground water system is intricate and complex, and it can be said that no one can fully understand it.

Not to mention the mere 40 people, who said they were searching, were actually no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

But Athos was unwilling to give up. He would rather find a needle in a haystack than wait for the result in place.

Time passed minute by minute, and Athos's heart was pinched inch by inch.

As a patrolman, he knew better than anyone that the longer he was missing, the slimmer the chances of finding him.

But as a big brother, he couldn't help but want to hold on to the expectation of 1/10,000, hoping that at the next intersection, he would be able to see Lucia running straight out.

At this moment, Athos God's Hope This is Lucia's prank, she hides deliberately, trying to scare everyone.

As long as Lucia could come back, Athos swore that he would never blame her, that he could forgive everything.

At this moment, Athos's heart beat heavily.

His footsteps stopped.

Not only him, everyone's footsteps stopped, enveloped by a nameless atmosphere.

what has come.

What comes out of the unknown.

The voices of the little aborigines in the underground waterway also disappeared, as if they were afraid of something.

Athos was the first to return to his senses and ran in the direction of the inexplicable feeling.

He had an inexplicable intuition in his heart that Lucia must be there.

He vowed to bring Lucia home intact.

This strange and inexplicable power faded like a tide, and gradually poured into the underground magic circle and gathered on the tall and thin figure.

He was finally transformed into a real entity.

It feels weird to have a body, like forcing something too big into a cramped container.

Mistry adjusted to her body and looked at the little girl who was still praying with her head buried in her heart. She looked tired and strong, and there was no fear on her delicate face.

Is this what it feels like to see a human being as an entity?

"Okay, Miss Lucia." Mistry bent down and touched Lucia's head, "It's over."

Lucia, who was still praying with her eyes closed, opened her eyes and saw the "people" in front of her.

He looked like a normal human with a pale face, with thin lips and a faint smile. His black curly hair was only slightly longer with bangs, which half covered his dark eyes.

He was dressed in a black cloak, a little above his knees, under which was a full set of gowns ranging from black coats, white

vest

The white shirts inside were all buttoned up. The black Poirot tie was buttoned with sapphire and pressed against the flat shirt.

Apart from being overly genteel and handsome, He looked no different from a human being.

"Eh? Mi, Mistry..." Lucia hesitated for a moment, but added her honorary title carefully, "Sir?"

"Of course, Miss Lucia." Mistry replied politely, reaching out to Lucia.

Lucia carefully put her little hand on Mistry's and was held.

"It's very strange, you look a little bigger like this." Mistry held Lucia's hand and gently kissed the back of her hand, "Very cute."

If there was still only a voice, Lucia would definitely push back, but in the face of this finely crafted face, Lucia is really... Really can't do it!

"You are also very handsome." Lucia replied politely.

"Well..." Mistry laughed, "Sorry, Lucia, this is nothing like your usual."

Lucia held her breath again, she wanted to push back directly, but when she met Mistry's smiling face, the breath disappeared inexplicably.

Now Lucia suddenly understands the reason why others are so tolerant of him, it must be because of his face!

"Go save people first." Lucia changed the subject and tried her best to take her eyes off that face, "I'm a little worried that someone else is coming..."

The words stopped abruptly, and Lucia's eyes fell on the guard here in shock.

They can no longer tell that they are human. The closer they get to the guards of the magic circle, the more serious the alienation becomes.

Like folded iron bars, and like buds of ferns, they made incredible movements that humans could not do, and murmured incomprehensible words in their mouths.

"There's no way." Mistry explained mildly, "It's too close to the circle, so they've been affected a little bit."

"..." Which is some?

"Now, go save your classmate first, Miss Lucia."

"That's right." Lucia tried to stand up, and as soon as her legs were exerted, she fell to the ground in pain.

"What a pity." Mistry asked softly, "Can I carry you with me?"

Lucia replied: "Yes, thank you."

Mistry gently picked up Lucia, let the petite her sit on his left arm, and said lovingly, "If you are tired, you can sleep for a while."

"...I really can't sleep." Lucia felt that she was mentally polluted, and she simply turned her attention to the Mistry collar flower and carefully studied the living ant above.

"Do you like it? This is proof that I belong to Miss Lucia."

Lucia was dissatisfied: "This ant is not good-looking, it doesn't look like me at all!"

"Huh? I copied it exactly in the form of a real ant." Mistry asked curiously, "Am I copying it wrong?"

"No, you have to learn to exaggerate in art." Lucia coughed, "For example, the fluff on this ant... I don't think you need to copy it next time."

"The exaggeration of art, this is another strange thing about you humans." Mistry said with great interest, "Teach me next time."

"Then go back first."

While they were talking, the two had already walked into the passage they had just come from. Mistry walked for a while and found the room where the two girls who were taken away were.

It seems to be a heavy place here, and there are still four guards to guard, but these four guards have lost their minds at this time, murmuring meaningless words, some laughing, some crying.

Finding that such a far place was affected, Lucia couldn't help but worry: "Mistry, will my classmate be okay?"

"It doesn't matter, they are all in a coma now, maybe they all thought they had a dream." Mistry replied, walking forward, "The next step is to bring back these two classmates of yours."

"Yeah." Lucia breathed a sigh of relief.

The gate was stopped by a muttering guard, and Mistry gently pushed him open with his hand when a crisp crack was heard, and the guard's arm was broken.

"I'm very sorry, it's my first time to come, I really can't control my strength." Mistry's voice can't hear any guilt, "Did I hurt you?"

Mistry was only answered by a miserable cry.

"It looks really painful." Mistry said regretfully, "I can only ask you to go to the side. It hurts. I'm blocking me here."

Lucia watched Mistry gently kick aside the moaning man who was still lying on the ground.

"..." This Mistry was surprisingly polite.