I upgrade points in the Holy Inquisition

Chapter 277 276. Memory fragments that are difficult to look at directly

"Ah... how is this possible? Are you involved in the [pain] system?"

The supervisor of the lumberyard was a little confused for a moment when he saw the scholar who suddenly transformed into a muscular monster.

In his eyes, the scholar Kandin was like a small building with several floors. His whole body was covered with solid muscles that could withstand gunfire. He only used an apron full of blood and oil to cover his private parts, and twisted it with one hand. A bloody butcher's knife, and a meat hook with stumps and various internal organs in one hand.

The supervisor felt that he was like a weak little piglet in front of the other party, who would be casually hung on that meat hook...

But even with the ability of the [Pain] system, it’s not so tall and strong, right?

And why are you dressed like this? Looks like a butcher butchering a pig?

The supervisor was slightly startled, as if he noticed something.

"So it's the power of [intellect]? Want to interfere with my vision?"

The supervisor felt that he had seen through the other party's trick, and immediately put away the fear and fear on his face.

"But the little tricks of the [Intellect] department are no big deal. For me who has abandoned rationality and embraced madness, these false illusions are just a clown's sideshow. Haha, I will not be easily frightened."

After that, he heard a few low-level murmurs pouring into his ears from nowhere, as if the mountain-like muscular monster in front of him was communicating with him.

Although he couldn't understand what these gibberish meant, he could vaguely feel that the other person was cursing someone.

It doesn’t matter, this is still a little trick of the [Intellectual] system, it is impossible for me...

The supervisor was speaking confidently in his heart, but the murmur lingering in his ears suddenly grew louder, as if something was exploding in his ears.

Then, a buzzing sound began to ring in his ears, followed by a sharp pain that almost made him faint on the spot, as if several red-hot steel needles were repeatedly piercing his eardrums.

But before the supervisor had time to scream, he felt a more intense and clear pain in his brain, as if his Tianling Cap had been pried open, and then a lot of messy stuff was forced into his head. In the brain.

In just such a moment, he lost control of his body and couldn't even scream. He could only stay in place, silently enduring the severe pain, and then watched a lot of messy things appear in front of him. stuff.

Memories of nonsense between husband and wife, inexplicable knowledge of art appraisal, and professional skills of how to draw dust, put out wires, and pull out a measuring tape.

This large pile of messy stuff poured into the supervisor's mind, turning his mind into a mass of mush, completely burying his thoughts and consciousness in these garbage piles.

Then, his figure collapsed to the ground softly, veins began to bulge on his skin, and his limbs and flesh began to twist and roll involuntarily, mutating in the direction of the monster.

This is a classic symptom of out-of-control depravity.

Scholar Kandin also stood there blankly, with streaks of black blood oozing out from the corners of his mouth. He was also staggering and almost unsteady on his feet.

Although the injuries and burdens in his body were heavy, his mind was very clear, but he didn't know what happened?

Just a few seconds ago, scholar Kandin watched as he risked his life to forcibly activate [Conviction] and [Purification], and after the other party took them with only two fingers, he was actually mentally prepared to sacrifice. .

In other words, he re-remembered the mental preparation he had made long ago.

After all, he is a senior investigator with twenty years of experience. If he didn't have the consciousness of sacrifice, he wouldn't have been able to work for so long.

However, he did not die in an abnormal incident, but was brutally murdered by a cult member, and he was somewhat unwilling to do so...

But what Kanding didn't expect was that the plot would suddenly take a turn?

The supervisor who could have easily killed him suddenly froze on the spot. The expression on his face changed drastically, and he started talking about something incomprehensible like the "pain system".

Then he heard a voice coming from behind the supervisor:

"In the name of veto!"

Then, I saw this arrogant cultist slowly kneeling to the ground and began to transform towards the monster.

But the expression on his face was fixed in a calm and calm look. There was no struggle, no pain, no crying. He seemed to be completely unaware of the changes in himself, and just calmly accepted his ending.

This suddenly made Kanding feel an indescribable strangeness, and his scalp felt numb.

Then, he saw the young Holy Inquisition executioner Lloyd emerging from behind a tree and asked him:

"Are you okay?"

Cantin didn't answer.

Because he didn't know how to answer...

In other words, I don’t know whether I should answer...

Then, he saw Lloyd pull out the gorgeously made and rather flamboyant new pistol from his waist and point it at the supervisor on the ground who was degenerating into a monster.

Bang~bang~bang~

After three gunshots, Kandin looked at the bullets falling at his feet and seemed to understand something...

He immediately collapsed to the ground weakly and said through gritted teeth:

"Unexpectedly... you are actually with them?"

"Ah... no, there's something wrong with the rifling of this gun. It's not calibrated properly, so it's a bit off..."

Lloyd hurriedly explained awkwardly, put away his revolver helplessly, drew the dagger from his waist, and stabbed the supervisor on the ground a few times, helping him to stop the process of alienation and degeneration.

[Ding~ Madness value +500]

[Ding~ Memory fragment +1]

[Ding~ Knowledge fragment +3]

[Ding~ Skill fragment +3]

What he got was actually a 'memory fragment' instead of a fragment?

Lloyd felt that there were a lot of things in his mind, but he didn't rush to check. Instead, he looked at the scholar Kangding and asked:

"How are you? I see you have been vomiting blood..."

"Huh... At least you are still alive and conscious."

Kangding probably realized that Lloyd was indeed not hostile and the three shots before were indeed missed, so he also let down his guard, sat on the ground and took a few deep breaths, then took out a tube of light blue medicine from his arms and gulped it into his mouth.

Then he cursed again:

"Puh, puh, puh! Damn, it's so bitter! Didn't those bastards in the logistics department tell me that it tasted slightly sweet mint?"

It seemed that this potion was really hard to drink, so much so that a scholar who looked gentle and refined burst into swearing.

But the effect of the potion seemed to be very good. His originally pale face quickly regained its color, and he got up from the ground without Lloyd's help.

Lloyd saw that he had recovered, so he hurriedly asked:

"Why did this guy attack you? Where are your two companions? And! I just found out at the lumberyard..."

He had a lot of things to say, but Kangding made a gesture of pressing his hands down, indicating that he should not be anxious.

"Don't be so impatient, young man. I don't know the questions you asked. Let me hurry up and do some spiritual communication."

After saying that, he walked to the body of the supervisor, which still retained most of its human form, and muttered something in his mouth, and mobilized the little spiritual power left in his body to try to check the guy's memory.

This operation is actually very dangerous, and there is a bit of gambling. Using spiritual communication on such a cult member whose strength is obviously superior to oneself is likely to encounter various unpredictable dangers, and it is easy to get yourself involved.

But the situation is urgent now, Kangding can't care so much, and can only rely on the high mental resistance unique to the [Redemption] system to fight.

Lloyd couldn't dissuade him, so he leaned on a tree next to him and checked the extra information in his mind.

Although what he got this time was a fragment of memory rather than a fragment, it was also intermittent and not completely coherent, and he couldn't see the life experience of this supervisor.

But it was enough to figure out the cause and effect of this incident.

He really came from a group of evil forces called "Chasing Madness".

This group is not as powerful as the illegal associations before, but a real sect!

They believe in a mysterious existence codenamed "Enjoy the Madness Feast", and they are not followers of the regular sects outside, but are real, carrying out religious beliefs, with fixed worship rituals, praying every day, and offering sacrifices regularly.

And the sacrifices they are preparing now are three extraordinary people who are no less than the third level...

They want to use rituals to break their rationality, shatter their cognition, and make them struggle painfully in madness and despair, so as to please the mysterious existence.

Lloyd now knows why the supervisor attacked the members of the investigation team...

And this mysterious existence, in the supervisor's memory, does not have a clear image, but is described with words such as "incomprehensible, untouchable, unlooked up, unlooked at, unpeeked", and "incomparably mysterious, incomparably noble, and incomparably great".

To put it simply, it is probably "like a god", right?

As a result, the cult didn't dare to call the guy by his name, but chose a name that sounded extremely weird, "Enjoy the Madness Feast".

Lloyd didn't quite understand. This name didn't have a clear direction at all. It was just a description of a behavior. Could it be considered a code name?

Is this another form of disrespect?

Or... they didn't dare to call this mysterious being by his name, or a more orthodox title or code name?

Lloyd continued to check the supervisor's memory with doubts, and soon discovered the secret of the storage area of ​​the lumberyard.

There was actually a small space there?

It was similar to the nature of the "Dream Theater", but the scale was laughed countless times, and the overall size was only as big as a normal warehouse.

The supervisor himself didn't know the specific origin of the place, but heard other church members guess that it might be the remnant of ancient civilization and was discovered by the sect by chance.

He didn't know much about the place, and he didn't even discover it. Instead, the cult entrusted him to manage it, and let him use it as a base for activities, and conduct various evil and strange rituals, as well as insidious cult conspiracies.

The supervisor didn't know what kind of conspiracy it was, but he knew that the cult's upper echelons asked him to become the raw material supplier of the Great Development and be responsible for supplying wood there.

So he spent some time thinking about it, and with the help of various cult forces, he successfully persuaded the boss behind the logging yard to invest and build it, and then successfully mixed into the process of the Great Development.

Next, he is planning to further involve the investor and develop him into a member of the sect, and believes that his financial resources and social status will be of great help to the development of the sect.

And his attack on the investigation team was also part of the plan. He used the scale, reputation and influence of the "Anju and Live" investigation team to involve the investors behind the scenes, which was equivalent to forcing others onto the pirate ship.

When Lloyd saw this, he felt a chill in his heart. These cult members were too insidious and vicious, weren't they?

As a righteous young man who hates evil as much as his enemy, even if I have a taboo system, I still have no sworn relationship with these evil forces!

He was filled with righteous indignation, and then searched for clues about the father in the supervisor's memory.

As a result, when I saw it, I felt even colder——

The more than 400 people in the village have all been brutally murdered. Under the brutality of the cult rituals, they have become the kind of walking dead...

They do still have breathing and heartbeats, and can move like normal people, but their self-awareness and rational thinking have been completely erased and destroyed, and they have become the kind of vegetative people who can only perform mechanical tasks. Order given.

Their memories, emotions, perceptions, pain, and even their human physiological instincts have all been erased. They are just like so-called "biological robots" that can execute any instructions tirelessly and without fear of life or death.

In addition to using them to cut trees, help the cult make money and advance its plans, the supervisor also uses these villagers to absorb and filter taboo knowledge through a kind of evil magic.

It is equivalent to making these hundreds of people into a human flesh filter, allowing them to share the mental pollution in the forbidden knowledge, so that they can safely enjoy the forbidden knowledge given by the mysterious existence.

This is why Lloyd [explored] the villagers in the lumberyard and found that their [Inspiration] was extremely high, and they all fell into [Moderate Madness], but they were able to work normally.

They are already dead...

Such cruel and bloody methods made Lloyd feel sick and he didn't want to continue reading...

But he still couldn't find the father who loved to dig graves. He could only frown and force himself to continue looking down.

Unfortunately, no clues about the father were found in the end. The last memory fragment I saw was when the supervisor was discussing and communicating with one of his associates a few hours ago.

The content of the contact was exactly how to deal with Lloyd and the four of them.