Restarting the myth

Jianhe County is located in the north of Lundan, less than 100 kilometers away. It takes one hour to get there by train from the Cathedral Railway Station.

But if the train is delayed, everything will be different.

If you drive by yourself, it takes about two hours to reach the base of the Natural Church in Jianhe County from the West District of Lundan.

In the era without automatic navigation, it takes even longer to grope on the road for the first time.

Considering the above, Wayne chose to drive.

In addition to worrying about train delays, there are many other considerations. He has to clock in at Jianhe County twice a month, and it is good for him to be familiar with the road conditions.

At 8 o'clock in the morning, the black car drove out of Lundan City and headed north.

Wayne drove according to the map, and the speed was not fast.

He did not call the base, and he had already planned that this trip would focus on a surprise inspection of the leaders. If it is found that someone is slacking off at work, receiving the salary of a civil servant of the church but leaving the post during working hours, then sorry, I will add another new official to the three fires of taking office.

What, the leader is also slacking off?

It's so funny. Can you call it slacking off when doing the leader's work? That's called a business trip, that's called further study.

Half an hour later, the car drove into a road marked 'No. 114'. The air pressure gradually dropped, and the gloomy fog gradually filled the air.

Wayne stepped on the brakes, and the car stopped on the side of the road with the lights on. He took out the map and looked at it.

On the passenger seat, the white pigeons jumped back and forth, cooing and sorting corn and wheat grains, as if counting their own property.

"The road is right, but..."

Wayne looked at the rearview mirror, and the surrounding fog became thicker and thicker, giving him a very uneasy feeling.

I can't tell, but there's something strange.

"Once you leave Lundan City, there are monsters everywhere. What kind of God-chosen continent is this? The Demon Continent is more like it." Wayne complained speechlessly. Facing the mysterious foggy area, he decisively chose to turn around and return.

It's not suitable to go out today. Take the train to Jianhe County tomorrow.

Highway 114 twists and turns. The car passes by, tearing a hole in the foggy veil, causing ripples, and soon returning to calm.

As the fog gets thicker, the trees on both sides of the road become more and more blurred, and the headlights struggle to pass through the haze. Everything is exceptionally quiet and mysterious.

Wayne has turned around twice. The car seems to have entered an unknown area. The front, back, left and right are blurred. The headlights open up a narrow passage in the fog, bringing him a few lights.

Wayne did not continue to stare at the map. It had nothing to do with getting lost. If the information is correct, he may have encountered an urban legend.

To be more precise, this is not the city, it should be called an out-of-city legend.

The last time he encountered a similar situation was the last time. In addition to him, there was a woman, a cat and a gay in the car. This time there was only a silly pigeon.

Wayne looked down and saw the white pigeon counting, and its little claws were picking the grains of wheat, as if the grains would become more if it was picked a few more times.

The fourth time he turned around, he couldn't leave the foggy area. Wayne released the white dove and entered the other party's perspective. Looking down from the sky, he saw a mysterious and hazy sea of ​​fog.

No one knew where the end of the foggy sea was.

"Too weird!"

Wayne took back the white dove and frowned, "If I had known it would be like this, I should have brought Valkyrie with me when I went out. It's not like the trunk couldn't fit it."

He raised his head and raised his chin, white light flickered in his eyes, black smoke rose from his whole head, and his flesh and blood disappeared, logging into the Death Knight's account.

Today the knight didn't ride a horse, but drove a car.

Wayne wore heavy black armor and squeezed into the narrow driver's seat. He felt very uncomfortable, but his sense of security was off the charts.

No matter how thick the fog was, he had nothing to fear.

"Hehehehe————"

He raised his hand and waved, and the white dove on the passenger seat instantly turned into a skeleton bird.

"Gugugugu!!"

Half an hour later, the road surface was mottled and the road conditions became extremely bad. After passing through a tunnel, the fog dissipated slightly, and some lonely and short houses gradually appeared around.

The shape was old and not modern.

Wayne did not stop the car rashly, and he had no intention of getting off the car to ask for directions. The fog meant something ominous. It was hard to say whether the people living here were human. If some strange guy came out, the picture would be scary.

Moreover, there was a continuous mountain range in the distance of the road. The black mountains were towering into the clouds, and had nothing to do with the northern plains of Lundan marked on the map.

He was not in the Chosen Continent now!

"Keep driving, maybe you will leave while driving."

Wayne's curiosity could be big or small. When studying magic, he wanted to get to the bottom of it. In this situation, he would only be cautious. Even if a giant of light appeared outside the window and beat a small monster, he would never stop the car.

Suddenly, a voice came from the distant black mountains.

The sound was mixed with mysterious and ancient information, deep and powerful, and echoed in the air.

Wayne had never heard such a sound before. If he had to say something similar, he could only think of whales, and speculated that the creature that made the sound was very large.

Ten minutes later, a tunnel appeared in front of Wayne again, and he drove into it.

As the car drove out of the tunnel, the light in front of him was bright, and he returned to the original Highway 114. There was no fog around, and there was no trace of the tunnel in the rearview mirror.

Wayne released the skeleton bird, the scenery was leisurely, peaceful, and he could see other vehicles coming and going from a high place.

"It's getting more and more weird!"

Wayne touched his bald head, and after calling back the white dove, they both returned to their original appearance. He drove back to the entrance of Highway 114, and this time he did not encounter fog.

When he was still an ordinary person, he couldn't understand this world. After becoming a magician, he couldn't understand this world even more.

Mystery always comes unexpectedly, without any defense or worries, just like that.

Wayne suspected that there was something wrong with his physique, otherwise it would be difficult to explain why the weird things always approached him. He glanced at the Book of Greed and threw the pot over.

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'County' is the second-level administrative division of Windsor. Below the district is the county-level unit. Lendan is more special and belongs to the county-level administrative unit. They are on the same level.

From another perspective, Lendan is even more special. The county belongs to the secondary administrative unit of Lendan.

The administrative division of Windsor is very complicated and is a historical problem. Wayne has never figured it out. He only knows that Jianhe County covers an area larger than Lendan and governs five urban areas.

In terms of population, Lendan is far ahead and can leave Jianhe County with ten five-consecutive hairpin turns. The gap is so large that it can't be caught up even with nitrogen.

The base of the Church of Nature is located in Jianhe City, Jianhe County, a university town with a long history. It has preserved many medieval buildings, theaters, art galleries, museums, and libraries everywhere, and the literary atmosphere is marinated.

Wayne wasted a lot of time on the road and arrived at the base at tea time. Like the library at the headquarters of Lundan, this base is also a library.

There are two floors above and below, with lush trees and elegant environment, which is very suitable for sleeping while reading.

In Jianhe University City, there are more than three digits of similar libraries. The base of the Church of Nature is not very eye-catching. After Wayne entered the library, he did not show his identity card at the first time, but took a circle in the library.

No one in the library cared about it. Only a few couples snuggled together to read books. The earthy taste of love made Wayne very uncomfortable. He gave up the idea of ​​pretending to be a literary youth and walked into the office on the second floor.

Perhaps because it was tea time, there was only one woman on duty in the office.

She was not very old, about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a light green long skirt, wearing thick glasses with bottle bottoms, and looking down at a literary masterpiece.

Seeing someone push the door and walk in, the woman slowly raised her head and said, "It's afternoon tea time now. The staff are not here. If you have any questions, you can go to the front desk on the first floor to ask."

Obviously, she regarded Wayne as a citizen who borrowed books.

It's impossible for him to be a college student. Wayne's clothes were carefully matched by Fla, and he also had the same slicked back hair as Auston. He didn't look like a student at all.

Hey, I still have such a good thing under my command?

I didn't pay attention just now. After the woman raised her head, Wayne saw the other person's appearance clearly. Her face was clear, her eyes were bright and peaceful, and she was full of elegant intellectual beauty. She was a standard literary girl.

Wayne felt that he was in love again.

Because he would fall in love once in a while, too many times, he gradually became numb. After a brief surprise, he showed his church pastor certificate and stated his identity.

The literary girl was slightly stunned, put the bookmark and closed the book, stood up, pushed the glasses on the bridge of her nose, and introduced herself slowly.

Otilia Ferdinand.

Otilia is a disciple of the goddess of nature, but not a church official. Because she often borrows books, she is familiar with the civil servants in the base and helps to guard the office during afternoon tea time.

"Thank you very much for your help, Miss Ferdinand. You are not a church official. You can just call me Wayne. You don't have to add the position of pastor." Wayne stretched out his hand and shook hands with the other party politely.

"Okay, Mr. Wayne."

Otilia smiled slightly and said politely: "Everyone calls me Otilia, you can call me that too."

After that, she sat down and continued to read, immersed in her own little world. Everything around her had nothing to do with her anymore.

A weirdo!

Wayne made an evaluation in his heart, and because the other party was beautiful, he added a label of "good-looking".

A good-looking weirdo.

Otilia claimed to be a disciple of the goddess of nature, not a believer. Wayne guessed that she was a magician, but they were not familiar with each other, and the other party was not in the mood to chat, so he didn't ask after asking.

Afternoon tea time was over, more than a dozen civil servants returned to the office, looking at the strangers who came uninvited, all puzzled.

Wayne showed his ID and looked at his watch again: "Afternoon tea ends at three o'clock. You are twenty minutes late. I will record this account."

Everyone wailed in their hearts. The leader didn't come earlier or later, but came today when the group went out. It's a pity that they had done enough in the past few days. Now, they ran into the gun directly, and their performance in the past few days was in vain.

"Where is the person in charge? Who is the third-level deacon Darcy?"

Wayne looked at the list of employees on the wall of the office and raised his eyebrows and said, "He is paid the salary of a third-level deacon, but he is negligent in supervision. He is so lax and still a person in charge. He might as well go to the first floor to look after the gate."

"..."xn

The person in charge was not there. Everyone looked at each other. One of them stood up and said, "Deacon Darcy was invited to the South Jianhe County District, and five colleagues went with him. There has been some unrest there recently, and there has been a plague of insects."

"Pest plague?!"

"Yes, the bishop of the Heavenly Father Church invited..."

The villages of South Cambridge County are gathered. Wayne passed by there when he was driving. Some time ago, there was a sudden fog, and then there was a plague of insects.

Deacon Darcy, with his many years of experience, believed that there must be a connection between the two. There was no pastor in the stronghold, so Darcy decided to go there in person to investigate.

If there is indeed a problem, he will issue an investigation report and send it to Lundan, which will be handed over to the scalpel agency at the headquarters for processing.

Just then Bishop Keith from the Church of Heavenly Father came to visit, and the two hit it off immediately. There was strength in numbers, and there were many helpers available when there were problems, so they set off together.

It's heavy fog again. Could it be the same thing as the heavy fog I bumped into?

Wayne pondered for a moment and asked a big question. He looked at the middle-aged man who spoke: "What is your name? Can you drive?"

"Andre, you have a driver's license."

"You will accompany me to South Cambridgeshire. The others will continue working. Remember to go to and from get off work on time. Don't get caught by me next time." Wayne picked up the phone and called Fola. He won't be home after working overtime tonight. .

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South Cambridgeshire, 5pm.

It was still some time before the sun went down, and a thin layer of fog appeared on the roads in the countryside. The fog came out of the woods and appeared in all directions, but the specific source could not be found, which was very strange.

It can't just appear out of thin air, right?

A group of more than ten people were walking on a country road, led by two men in neat suits, namely Bishop Keith from the Holy See of Heavenly Father and Deacon Darcy from the Natural Church.

With different beliefs, it stands to reason that the relationship should be very cold, but these two are obvious exceptions.

As a grassroots deacon, Darcy just wants to focus on his career. Bishop Keith is not like the bishops of other dioceses who are airs and pleasant in dealing with people, and he does not have special hobbies like little boys.

Of course, another possibility cannot be ruled out. The Heavenly Father's Holy See is declining in Windsor, and he can't even think about it, let alone develop special hobbies.

Both of them were experienced magicians. They followed the clues and exchanged opinions and soon discovered the clues.

"I remember that the fog started to break out in July, and a big event happened during that time. The death knight appeared in Lundan." Bishop Keith said.

"Yes, since the appearance of the Dark Knight, the church has suffered heavy losses and the position of pastor has been vacant for a long time. The cult's minions hidden in the dark are not as honest as before." Darcy kicked away the earthen barrier in front of him.

The rustling insects crawled around and burrowed into the soil along the surrounding ground cracks.

This is a striped arthropod that looks very similar to a centipede. Its scientific name is 'Millipede', also known as millipede. It has many segments, and each segment has a pair of tentacles.

Millipedes are both arthropods and carnivores. They are smaller and mainly eat herbivores. Because they damage crops, they are generally regarded as pests.

What makes people most uncomfortable is Malu's appearance.

Darcy frowned as he watched the millipedes disappear into the soil: "A few days ago, the university issued a report. Entomologists explained in detail the reasons for the millipede outbreak. The reasons were so good that I almost believed it."

"I have also read that report. It is said to be a new species with extremely strong reproductive ability. The city government has set up a pest control team for this purpose..."

The two looked at each other and shook their heads.

If it were that simple, it would actually be a good thing.

"Darcy, do you think it was the mist that changed these bugs, giving them unprecedented reproductive capabilities, or was it the work of pagans?" Bishop Keith asked.

Darcy said nothing. From each other's standpoint, everyone was a heretic.

Keith noticed his speech error and changed his words: "Are the beliefs of death and darkness playing with bugs?"

"As far as I know, no one likes bugs, and the possibility of mist mutating is very high..."

Darcy didn't dare to say that he was just an ordinary silver mage, and this question was a bit too much for him.

"I do know that several evil gods from hell are related to insects."

"..."

Darcy looked at Keith displeased. If you have something to say, just say it. Don't hide it. It's not good for everyone if it delays the time of reporting to the superior.

"It's impossible. The evil gods are sealed in hell. Their power cannot affect the human world. Even if there is faith spread, the number of people is pitiful. In comparison, I prefer two possibilities."

Keith explained his speculations. The first one is that the mist mutates, and there are many similar examples. The second one is that a black magician is conducting forbidden experiments.

Black magicians are not magicians who believe in the goddess of darkness. They mainly refer to wanted criminals in the magic world. They pursue the so-called true meaning of magic and do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.

At first glance, they sound very similar to magicians with freedom of belief, but the methods of black magicians are much more brutal. They are more greedy. In order to obtain powerful power, they often perform cruel evil sacrifices, and the targets of gaining power are mostly the evil gods of hell. .

The two talked while walking, and soon came to a pasture. The owner of the pasture was cleaning insects from the forage. When he learned that the group of people were investigators from the entomology department of the university, he immediately started complaining.

"These bugs are no longer satisfied with forage. They also eat meat. They came to the cowshed in a group last night. I'm scared to think about the dense scene..."

"I heard that there was an unburied corpse in the next village. Half of it was eaten by bugs in one night. When he was found the next day, his stomach was full of bugs."

The rancher described it vividly and showed everyone his exploits last night.

The dead bugs are piled up into a hill one meter high, with their sticky sap flowing and emitting a foul odor. The image is dedicated to overeating.

The group of people watched from a distance, unwilling to get closer.

Darcy's heart skipped a beat. He didn't know what he found, so he picked up a wooden stick and inserted it into the pile of insect corpses.

Wisps of undetectable white mist dispersed, instantly attracting Bishop Keith's attention.

Fog has something to do with bugs, they can create fog!

The two looked at each other and led their men to leave the ranch, speeding up their pace.

"The first fog changed these bugs. They have become part of the fog, including their offspring. The city government's pest control team can't solve these bugs. I will report to the headquarters of Lundan and ask them to send people to completely eliminate these bugs." Darcy was worried. The fog was very dangerous and it was hard to guarantee that the bugs would not continue to mutate.

If they dare to eat corpses today, they will dare to eat living people tomorrow!

"I still think it has something to do with the black magician, otherwise it is difficult to explain that the fog only mutated the bugs and did not change other creatures." Keith held a different view.

The two had their own guesses, but they both planned to report to their superiors. There were too many bugs and they could not clean them up with limited manpower.

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At dusk, the fog on the road in the countryside became thicker. As the last ray of light fell, the rustling sound of crawling became louder.

The group boarded the bus and returned to Jianhe City along the highway. The crackling sound of the tires rolling over made everyone's stomachs churn.

At this moment, the bus suddenly stopped.

The driver stared ahead in amazement, the headlights shone on the road ahead, countless insects spread and crawled, gathered into thick lines, covering the entire road like a fishing net.

Darcy's heart was chilled, and his scalp was numb by the dense scene. Keith, who was standing next to him, closed his eyes and sensed: "There is no magic fluctuation. It seems that it is not the work of the black magician. Rush over, there are just a few more insects."

The driver nodded, raised his hand and drew a cross on his chest, started the bus and began to accelerate.

The crackling sound was endless. There were too many insects, so many that everyone in the car could clearly feel the bumps of the tires. The driver had to slow down because the tires slipped.

The millipedes were endless, coming out from the farmland and woods on both sides, filling the road with a black mass.

Keith's face became more gloomy: "Something is wrong. Everyone, get ready for battle. These bugs are coming for us."

As soon as the words fell, countless millipedes piled up into a high wall, blocking the direction of the bus.

"Don't stop, speed up and drive forward."

Keith jumped out of the window and climbed onto the roof, holding a Bible in his arms and reciting poems silently.

The white light illuminated the night sky, and the warm holy will dispelled the filth and evil spirits. The vast momentum stretched for miles. Wherever it passed, the millipedes disintegrated and fled quickly into the shadows.

The high wall formed by the bugs collapsed on its own, and Keith held the Bible in his hand to illuminate the way forward.

Behind the bus, the swarm of bugs that were unwilling to fail rolled in, and soon gathered into a large irregular rolling ball. The rustling sound continued into a piece, eroding Bishop Keith's mind and making him faintly dizzy.

Darcy jumped onto the roof of the car and slapped Keith in the face.

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Keith was slapped with an unknown magic material. The pungent smell refreshed his mind and had the effect of burning nerves, so he was no longer sleepy.

"What is this? My trachea is about to burn." Keith was choked to tears.

"How do you feel about the hell pepper I cultivated? Are you more energetic?"

"Damn it, I'm a clergyman, how can you give me hell peppers!" Keith became even more angry.

It's not a real hell pepper, just an analogy.

Darcy didn't waste any words and said directly: "You look ahead, and let me deal with the bugs behind."

As a disciple of nature, Darcy has mastered a lot of faith magic, but unfortunately his talent is average, and he is neither high nor low. It is difficult to deal with the big scene in front of him. Based on the principle of saving magic power, he chose the elemental magic for magicians.

A wall of fire rose from the ground, five meters wide and ten meters high, blocking the movement of the insect swarm.

Just as the swarm of insects dispersed and prepared to move to the left and right sides, a storm came, and the fire took advantage of the wind, and the fire wall turned into a rolling heat wave and spread fiercely, sizzling and burning with black smoke all over the sky.

Faced with the scorching fire wave, the momentum of the swarm of insects came to an abrupt end.

Darcy breathed a sigh of relief. The situation was still under control. If nothing unexpected happened, after this wave of effective blocking, the swarm of insects could not catch up.

Rustling! ! !

The dense crawling sound sounded in all directions, and Darcy's face changed suddenly. Within the perception of the spreading spores, countless millipedes drilled out from the ground.

The number was so large that it was impossible to count, as if all the millipedes in the world gathered here.

Darcy couldn't bear such a dense scene, so he propped up three walls of fire to block the left, right and back, and shouted, urging the driver to step on the accelerator.

Good news: The report has been found, and there is a black magician nearby.

Bad news: The black magician has no intention of letting them go.

Millipedes attacked from all directions, no longer afraid of the light and flames, and attacked the speeding bus. Seeing this, the magicians in the car each used their own methods, either fire wall storm or holy light disc machine evil, to help their leader.

Looking from a distance, the bus was roaring with flames all the way, driving quickly on the night road.

If there were only a few insects, facing such a battle, it would undoubtedly be a mantis trying to stop a car, but there was no end to the sea of ​​insects, and there were too many of them.

Insects rained down sparsely in the sky, and the swarms of insects on the left and right and rear broke through the fire wall again and again, fiercely hitting the car windows, and a layer of sticky and smelly juice was stuck on the glass.

The stench spread, and the magicians in the car staggered and wanted to fall down. The driver forced himself to be energetic and took out the custom-made hell pepper from his arms to refresh himself.

Darcy and Keith on the roof were a little bit exhausted, especially the former, whose magic power was seriously depleted and it was difficult to continue to control the fire wall to block the insect swarm.

The defensive flames were drowned by the insect swarm, and the coverage of the fire continued to shrink. Countless insects fell from the sky.

At this critical moment, Bishop Keith burst out his magic power, and the holy light turned into a heavy hand, waving his sleeves to block this disaster.

Darcy was at the end of his rope, and Keith's remaining magic power was in danger. The two stood on the roof, looking at the roaring sea of ​​insects behind, and they all smiled bitterly and were speechless for a while.

The sea of ​​insects rolled in and suddenly climbed up. The huge high wall covered the night sky, blocked the pale full moon, and pressed hard against the slowing bus.

Darcy and Keith closed their eyes tightly, and they both felt regretful. Buried in the belly of insects, this way of dying was too bad.

Boom! !

The violent hurricane rolled over, shattered the bus window glass, and swept away the pungent stench.

The wind pressure was so strong that it blew the bus backwards, causing the tires to slip. The huge hand of the sea of ​​insects that was just about to cover it collapsed instantly and fell to the ground like raindrops.

Darcy and Keith barely managed to stabilize their bodies and opened their eyes in surprise.

It's you? x2

How could it be possible. x2

There are masters! x2

In the darkness, a figure rushed over at high speed, rushed to the front of the bus and jumped up, jumped over the two people who were looking up on the roof, and jumped directly behind the bus.

Rumble! !

The ground shook continuously, and the four earth walls rose from the ground, blocking the rustling sea of ​​insects coming from all directions.

Wayne stood on the earth wall, looking at the swarm of insects rolling over like a rolling ball, closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

The restless fire elements gathered from all directions, easily tore through the mist, and drilled under the soil.

After a brief silence, flames gushed out from the ground.

The sea of ​​fire stirred the vortex curtain, rumbling and blooming with a scorching red light, slowly spreading in the air...

The flames lit up the night sky.

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