Chapter 626 Digging Graves The endless darkness, the cramped environment, and the confused thoughts made Lumian extremely irritable even in his dreams. He wanted to tear open this cage and smash everything he saw. He gradually realized that he was dreaming, and tried hard to open his eyes and wake up, but he failed. Every time, he spent a lot of effort and felt that he finally woke up, but in the blink of an eye he fell into deeper darkness and a heavier dream. After an unknown amount of time, Lumian woke up naturally and saw a little light seeping in through the window with the curtains drawn. It's six o'clock in the morning. Lumian raised his right hand and wiped his forehead, and found a layer of cold sweat that was almost drying. "Is this a spiritual warning, or did I recall the afterimages of the 'Samaritan Woman' and the 'Blood Emperor' when I was thinking about the death atmosphere on Hant Island yesterday? I also considered that witnessing the mysterious death of the devil is similar to the ghost of Montsouris, so I have a connection with them and suffered a shallow level of contamination?" Lumian could not accurately interpret the full meaning of this dream. He could only remind himself to be careful next time and remember his original purpose of coming to Hant Island: It's just about investigating the devil legend, not solving the devil. Putting aside whether he has the strength to deal with the devil and whether he needs to ask for help, the fact that the "Mother Earth" Church has been operating here for more than a hundred years and has not completely eradicated the target shows that even if the major arcana cards of the "Tarot Club" come together, they may not be able to completely solve this matter. Lumien got out of bed, took out the gold-cased pocket watch he got from the Breeze Ballroom, opened it and took a look: A quarter past six. Although it was still early, Lumian felt the urgency. The "Berry" would leave Hunt Island the day after tomorrow morning. He only had two days to investigate the legend of the devil, roughly figure out the truth, and identify the corresponding suspects. If he could achieve this, then his "Conspirator" potion would most likely be digested.

The collection, screening and use of information is also an important part of the conspiracy! If Lumian was a Sequence 7 Detective of the Reader pathway, the fact that he successfully investigated a century-old unsolved case involving high-level forces in just two days would be enough for him to make the leap from preliminary digestion to complete digestion. ………… At nine o'clock in the morning, on the outskirts of Hunter Harbor, "Return to the Cemetery". Lumian was holding a bunch of yellow flowers as he walked through the tree-lined cemetery. With Ludwig's information and the dream he had last night, he revised his previous plan. Instead of rushing to the forest to look for the remains of the missing, he came here and planned to dig a grave! He wanted to investigate what kind of problems the victims who died mysteriously after witnessing the devil's figure deep in the forest died of, and whether they would show symptoms of self-mutilation, like those killed by Montsouris' ghost. According to the intelligence collected, the last person who reported the devil's presence to the "Mother Earth" Church is lying quietly in a corner of the "Return Cemetery". His name is Antonio Elias. Soon, Lumian, holding a bunch of yellow flowers, found the cemetery. On the stone tombstone, in addition to the name, birth and death dates of the deceased, there was also a short epitaph: "The poor man was taken away by the devil." Lumian bent down and placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone, then stood up and stared quietly at the stone-covered grave. In his mind, Antonio Elias's information quickly went through: A local, not an outsider, with parents, a wife and children, he saw a wandering devil while hunting in the forest nine months ago. He was very afraid of his impending death, so he stayed in the church and monastery of the "Mother Earth" Church for five months. After that, he planned to be a sailor for three years, away from Hant Island, to avoid potential dangers. Who knew that when he went out to sea with the ship for the second time, he was found dead on the bottom of the cabin... Lumian glanced around and picked up a dozen or twenty dead branches from nearby trees. He inserted them in a circle around Antonio Elias's grave, forming a short, simple, and ineffective wall. Finally, he placed a dead branch flat on two adjacent branches, so that they formed a rickety door that was impossible for people to pass through. After doing this, Lumian crossed the "wall" and came to the cemetery. Then he bent down, stretched out his right hand, and touched the crude door made of dead branches. At the same time, a black mark on his body was activated. In the blink of an eye, from the outside, Lumian's figure disappeared, and there was no movement in Antonio's grave, except for a circle of dry branches. In reality, Lumian had pulled out the newly purchased iron chisel, shovel and other tools from his "traveler's bag" and was prying open the stone slabs and digging the soil. "Bottle of fiction"! Lumian used the "wall" and "door" he built to complete the contract ability of "Bottle of Fiction". In less than two minutes, relying on his observation of the cemetery structure and two precise explosions, Lumian cleared the soil on top of the coffin and pried open the black-painted wooden boards.

A strong smell of decay suddenly emerged, and Lumian lit it on fire. After waiting for a while, he squatted down, put on gloves, and looked at the white bones with no flesh and blood left. The first thing he picked up was the skull of Antonio Elias. With just a quick glance, he found that there were cracks on the inside of the skull, but the outside was intact. “The cause of death was an explosion of the brain?” Lumian imagined the possible injuries that could have caused this phenomenon, and felt that no matter what ability caused it, Antonio’s cerebrum, cerebellum, and brain stem should have exploded into a pulp when he died—it didn’t make sense that the hard inside of the skull would be cracked while the soft brain would be fine. Lumian checked Antonio Elias's other bones again and found no other injuries, and the stains left in the coffin did not provide any other information. At this point, Lumian initially determined that the cause of Antonio's death was an explosion in his head from the inside out. The physical destructive power of the explosion was not strong, and even the skull was not completely blown open, but it was enough to destroy the brain. "I use 'Fire Injection' to precisely control the quantity and quality of the flame, which should be able to achieve a similar effect. How does the devil do it?" Lumian's understanding of the "devil's" path mainly comes from his sister's notes, the information provided by the Tarot Club, and Franka's narration. He has only dealt with a devil above Sequence 6 once, and that was Napolidisli. He suddenly recalled the feeling when Napolidisli's desires and emotions were aroused, and the other party's muttering that came through the gray fog when he was driven away and the resulting fluctuations in desire. "For ordinary people, the brain may be blown up if the fluctuation of desire is induced first and then directly detonated. As long as the intensity is increased... it should not be difficult for a demigod creature like the 'devil' to do it... Moreover, it can also use that kind of muttering to accomplish this at a long distance?" When Lumian completed the reasoning, he basically confirmed that there was indeed a devil hidden on Hunt Island, a devil of the "criminal" path, a devil above the sequence of "demon" and "apostle of desire". After confirming this, Lumian believed that it would be quite easy to find the devil if he really wanted to. Of course, the premise is to find out rather than solve it, and at the same time risk your life. Taking off his gloves, he reached his right hand into the "traveler's bag" and touched the hard "torture" gloves. After the events of "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun" and "Great Mother", Lumian had been guessing that the "Mother Tree of Desire" was the evil god standing at the top of the three paths of "Prisoner", "Criminal" and "Miser", so the "Hedonistic Faction" of the "Rose School" and some members of the demon family would believe in Him and follow Him. In this case, the "torture" gloves made from branches of the "Shadow Tree" which is closely related to the "Mother Tree of Desire" have a high probability of attracting the attention of demons within a certain range, just as its negative effect is to be watched by certain hidden beings and be influenced and attacked by some dangerous creatures! “Huh, there are no useless items, only Beyonders who don’t know how to use them.” Lumian laughed at himself and retracted his right hand that was touching the “torture” glove. He gave up the idea of ​​fishing the devil out directly. This is because the devil is still active on the island and still killing people, and the "Mother Earth" Church has not completely eliminated it! After going through so many things, Lumian has a considerable understanding of the strength of the Orthodox Church. He knows that if the Church of the "Mother Earth Goddess" is really determined, it can kill all the residents who are suspected of being demons and destroy the island, just like what the "Storm Church" did to Bansi Port. The reason why the Church of Mother Earth did not do so is definitely not because they did not want to, but because there was some reason preventing them from doing so. This reminded Lumian of the valley burning with sulfur flames deep in the forest. He felt that the devil could not be killed under normal circumstances, but could only be sealed and restricted. Since the Church of the "Mother Earth Goddess" couldn't do it, Lumian didn't think he could do it either. Then, fishing the devil out would lose its meaning and would instead put him in extreme danger. Lumian's idea now is to rely on his own false identity and attraction to the evil god to wander around in the forest, and then take out the "torture" gloves at the critical moment to see if he can gather near the mysterious valley burning with sulfur flames and investigate the source of the devil legend. ………… Deep in the forest where many huge trees grew, Lumian walked along a road that seemed to have not been walked by humans for many years, neither fast nor slow. Occasionally he would take out the "torture" gloves, choose the direction entirely by intuition, and then put them away after ten or twenty seconds. Nearly an hour later, the huge forest suddenly became sparse. A terrifying brown bear emerged from behind a tree and walked heavily towards Lumian. "Stop, stranger!" The giant bear made a humming human sound. (End of this chapter)