Abyssal Invasion, I Wield Dark Authority – Chapter 74

Ch 74: Ningning

“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name…”

“Give us today our daily bread…”

“Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors…”

“And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil…”

“For yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever…”

The fervent and excited prayer echoed.

Here, then, was the enormous underground cavern, hundreds of meters deep, as described by Chen Jiangnian… A black and empty underground world, with a temple-like altar.

The base of the altar was a strange monster carved from giant stone. It lay on the ground, and its body seemed to have scales or fur.

Above its ‘head’, was the altar. In the center of the altar, was a ‘statue’ enshrined.

It was completely entwined with something like tentacles, wildly dancing. Its head was like a snake, hissing, with cold eyes. It was covered in dense scales.

Just looking at it sent a chill down one’s spine.

Beneath this statue, more than ten black-robed people were dancing wildly. They were gesticulating wildly, looking crazy and strange, and making strange sounds with their mouths.

The person kneeling in front was the one whose prayer was coming from.

She was wearing a black robe, but she didn’t wear a mask. It was a woman in her thirties. She opened her eyes, raised her head, and stared at the statue with a devout and fanatical expression. It was like praying, and also like shouting, with an indescribable infatuation.

And behind her, in the circle formed by the dancing of those black-robed people, there was also a small black platform… On the platform, a small figure was lying there.

Although it was far away, Qin Jin-nian recognized it at a glance…

It was Ningning!

But at this moment, Ningning had obviously fallen into a state of unconsciousness.

And beneath the platform she was lying on, a huge pattern was converging… These patterns were all made of black and red blood.

Looking along the pattern, Qin Jin-nian understood… This platform was the place where the blood of those women and children in front had finally converged!

A mass of terrifying black mist was pervading above the platform. This was even more dense, black, and filled with an oppressive sense of evil than all the black mist Qin Jin-nian had seen before!

Under the pervading of these terrifying black mists, these black-robed people became even more crazy. They seemed to have lost their minds, just dancing there and praying.

At a certain moment, suddenly a black-robed person tore open their clothes. Only then did they discover that it was actually a woman. Because after tearing open the black robe, her graceful, white body was immediately exposed to the air.

But before Qin Jin-nian could look at it carefully, something that stunned him appeared…

That woman suddenly and violently thrust one hand into her own chest!

Pshhh!

With a soft sound, fresh blood gushed out instantly, spilling onto the platform. At the same time, some of it also stained the mask she was still wearing…

A feeling of indescribable eeriness spread instantly.

But she seemed to feel nothing from such a serious injury, and was still dancing wildly. She tore open her own belly inch by inch with her own hands, pulled out her own internal organs, and then directly tore them off and threw them aside. Then, she knelt on the ground, bending over, letting her chest face the statue, praying, and one by one, she pried open her own ribs…

Even Qin Jin-nian, seeing such a scene, was directly stunned…

Such a scene was so familiar… Just like the first woman’s corpse he saw when he came to this underground…

Using her ribs, she forcibly arranged them in a ‘welcome’ posture!

But even so, she was not yet dead. She was already barely breathing, but she was still murmuring a prayer that Qin Jin-nian couldn’t hear or understand.

And with her kneeling down, the black mist in the high sky became even more dense and began to rotate and surge.

A terrifying aura began to pervade.

And then, the second black-robed person also acted.

Tearing open the black robe, a graceful, white body full of youthful vitality was also exposed to the air.

Pshhh!

She, like the first black-robed person, thrust a palm into her own chest.

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And in this process, she didn’t make even a single groan, just kept praying.

Finally, but still murmuring…

Then the third…

The fourth…

Qin Jin-nian’s scalp almost exploded.

Even after those brutal human hells just now, his heart was not as cold as it was at this moment!

These people had actually gone crazy enough to inflict such torture on themselves?!

The black mist vortex in the high sky was already becoming more and more terrifying.

The space seemed to be twisting…

Qin Jin-nian immediately understood… He could not watch any longer.

Otherwise, when these people completed this strange sacrifice, something extremely terrifying might really appear. By then, it would be too late to leave!

Thinking of this, his gaze darkened. Without any hesitation, his figure quickly and silently approached the platform under the cover of shadows… In fact, even if he made a little more noise, the End Church’s fanatics, who were now in a state of madness on the platform, might not be able to discover him.

Soon, he approached within fifty meters…

He didn’t know how to interrupt this strange ritual, but he knew where the key point was…

Ningning.

Ningning was the Holy Seed in their mouths. Because of the existence of the Holy Seed, the True God had the opportunity to truly descend… This was the conversation between the headmistress and Teacher Wang.

Then, as long as he took Ningning away from this increasingly strange and terrifying altar… It should be, enough.

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath, and then the shadows around him silently began to spread forward.

Shadows were originally between the real and the unreal. In such a dark environment, that was even a natural camouflage. It was difficult to find it without paying attention… Not to mention in this group of people’s state of such fanaticism and madness.

Very easily, the shadows had already reached the platform… But it was still in a two-dimensional world.

At this moment, Qin Jin-nian’s mood was inevitably a little nervous… He had seen the strangeness and terror of these fanatics.

God knows if there were other terrible things here?

In such a state of fanaticism, he suddenly snatched away their most important Holy Seed. It was conceivable how these fanatics would go crazy…

But since it had come to this, there was no other choice.

He took a deep breath, and his gaze suddenly focused.

The next moment, the shadows suddenly transformed into several large hands, directly grabbing Ningning on the altar.

At the same time as he grabbed her, the next moment, a small shadow shield appeared on Ningning, firmly protecting her entire person. Then, she was pulled away by the shadows and flew out directly!

Qin Jin-nian didn’t even look back. Countless shadow big feet under his body were frantically rushing, and in the blink of an eye, he had already rushed into the passage he had just come out of.

The sound of fervent prayer stopped abruptly.

The next moment, a sharp scream rang out.

“Holy Seed!!!!”

The next second, Qin Jin-nian only heard a loud ‘bang’ in his head. The next moment, he felt as if he had been hit hard. The terrifying power made his head seem to split open.

Even the shadows almost lost control.

His face changed drastically…

A Mind-Type Esper?

And the panel… seemed to only be immune to the mental shock of the dark world!