I Was Once a Legend

Dong Zheng successfully found a dark room nearby based on the church structure deduced after some exploration, and told Dong Linhai to hide it well.

The dark room is about [-] square meters long, and it is on the edge of the church. If Dong Zheng hadn’t surveyed and drawn the internal and external structural drawings of the church’s detailed scale from the core, it would be difficult to find such a sandwich.

Dong Linhai sat down against the wall. There was an upside-down metal cross on the wall above his head. Jesus was nailed to it with his head down. This was the mechanism to open the darkroom from the inside. Dong Zheng had seen exactly the same one at the door of the darkroom where the woman was. .

Seeing that Linhai's condition had deteriorated to such an extent in just half an hour, Dong Zheng felt as if a big stone was pressed on his heart and he couldn't breathe. The body of the heretic in the kitchen could not have decayed to that degree at all. The "plague" spreading in the church may be more serious than all of them imagined.

Is this the "curse of the heretics" mentioned in the book of blood on the coffin?

The situation is not very optimistic, but before Dong Zheng left, he still tried his best to comfort Linhai, saying: "Don't worry, nothing will happen, I will find Victor as soon as possible."

"Don't worry bro." Linhai nodded, his voice had become hoarse, panic and fear of death reached the peak at the first hemoptysis, and then slowly fell down.

After staying here for three years, he had already realized that he would die in the pure white realm, especially after Alan's death.Seeing with his own eyes the tragic death of his partner who was alive and well a few hours ago in Xueyuan, Dong Linhai suddenly realized that such a fate could befall everyone anytime and anywhere.

Dong Linhai can only try not to let himself affect Dong Zheng, brother is fine now, he must not drag him into the water.

"Okay, then I'm leaving." Dong Zheng was about to turn around and leave, at this moment, Dong Linhai reached out and grabbed him: "Wait a minute! What's on your face?"

"What?" Dong Zheng raised his hand and touched his face, feeling nothing at all.

Dong Linhai stared at him, dark red lines were slowly creeping up from his neck to one side of Dong Zheng's cheeks, just like the burns that would never go away on the faces of criminals in the Middle Ages.

"A pattern appeared on your face..." Linhai wanted to reach out his hand to touch the still-growing brand, but thought that he had probably turned into a large pathogen, so he withdrew his hand halfway, with a serious expression on his face, and said, "As the Son of God, I saw this pattern in the dark room when I woke up. It represents the unforgivable sin."

"I committed a crime?" Dong Zheng suddenly realized something, and took out the Pinocchio puppet that he had been carrying all the time. The puppet boy's nose was a lot longer than when he just got it.

"You lied?" Dong Linhai was astonished, "Where is it? Is it the words to comfort me that nothing will happen? Is this also a lie?"

"It's too late to worry about so much. I'll go to Victor. Be careful yourself." Dong Zheng couldn't think about what kind of variables the appearance of the brand would bring. He raised his hand and touched his face, and the brand seemed to appear directly on the In his skin, he couldn't feel it at all.

Watching the door of the darkroom close from the inside, Dong Zheng immediately set off to look for traces left by Victor. The appearance of the brand made him feel uneasy. He had come to confess his sins, but committed a new sin. It will definitely not be a good thing to greet him.

He quickly went down to the first floor. The entire church had been explored, and so far only Cui Zuojing's mark was found. He needed to go to the rose field and cemetery outside to check the situation.

Dong Zheng ran towards the back door, the pink sky outside was still unchanged, he stopped when passing by the window, and saw the imprint on his face through the image reflected in the glass.

The sound of heavy footsteps came faintly to his ears.

Dong Zheng looked vigilantly at the direction of the sound. The footsteps were going down the stairs, accompanied by the sound of dragging, as if someone was dragging a very heavy thing.

He dodged and hid in the unlocked small room next to him, and opened the window so that he could jump out and escape at any time. The sound was getting closer and closer, coming in his direction.

When the black mist supporting the armor appeared in Dong Zheng's line of sight, Dong Zheng judged at a glance that it was beyond his ability to deal with it. The armor came straight towards him, and the two scarlet spots on the helmet looked like Soul fire, cold and inorganic.

It was his sin that drew it.Dong Zheng is clearly aware of this, and the next thing he will have to deal with is the pursuit of this thing.

Dong Zheng didn't hesitate anymore, and jumped out of the window. At this moment, he heard a scream, not far from the back door.

anyone?

Dong Zheng estimated the time it would take to get to his side under the armor, and it took less than half a second to make a decision, and he ran quickly to the direction where the call came from.The place where he jumped out of the window was only [-] meters away from the back door. Dong Zheng ran halfway, and saw a black figure flying out from behind the pillar like a meteor!

A tall man with short platinum-blond hair appeared from behind the pillar. He strode up to the man in black robe who had fallen to the ground, grabbed his collar, swung him whole and smashed it onto the pillar!

The body of the man in black trembled a few times like an electric shock, and a bloody arrow spewed out from his mouth. He struggled desperately to break free from Victor's iron clamp-like hands, but he couldn't shake the Russian man in front of him at all.

"Victor!" Dong Zheng was overjoyed.Hearing the familiar voice, Victor turned his head and saw Dong Zheng running.

He let go of his hand, and the black-robed man slumped to the ground weakly, almost paralyzed. Victor controlled his strength very well, and possessed the strength of the master of his body. Those who fell into his hands would only be beaten badly, while Not life-threatening.

Victor noticed the brand on his face and said in surprise, "This is—"

Dong Zheng glanced at the pagan who couldn't get up for the first half of the day, said in a low voice without talking nonsense: "Linhai is infected with the plague and needs treatment."

Dong Zheng's words seemed to turn on a certain switch, and the heathen suddenly raised his head. He looked at Dong Zheng with a look of horror, and there was imperceptible...pity in his eyes?

"Can you understand our words?" Dong Zheng squatted down, looking straight into the pagan's blue eyes, and asked, "You brought the plague?"

The heretic let out a mocking laugh, and he opened his mouth to let out an unintelligible syllable.

Seeing that he couldn't get anything out of this man's mouth for the time being, Dong Zheng had no choice but to give up. He couldn't waste time here. The sound of footsteps in the corridor was already close at hand. He gave Victor a look, and the two ran towards Dong Zheng. The position of jumping out of the window left the heretics who couldn't get up for a while.

When the two of them were about to turn over the window and re-enter the church, the armor propped up by the black mist also reached the back door. When they saw the pagan lying beside the pillar, the soul fire in its eyes jumped, and it swung the extremely heavy sword——

"How is the situation in Linhai?" Victor quickly followed Dong Zheng to the dark room where Dong Linhai was hiding.

"At first he had a cough, and then he started to have a fever and hemoptysis. He became ill very quickly, and it became very serious after just over half an hour." Dong Zheng said, "We once found the mucus left by the plague-infected people in the coffin of the nave. , and the corpse of the infected person in the kitchen, Linhai may have accidentally touched it."

Victor frowned. He had been investigating in the cemetery behind the church before, and when he was about to enter the church to explore, he encountered a black-robed man who wanted to attack him. He didn't find any of the clues Dong Zheng investigated: "You Are you sure it's the plague?"

"I can't think of anything else but this."

Victor: "However, it takes a certain amount of time for the virus to enter the body, invade cells, and replicate. The most potent virus known so far, Ebola, takes at least one to two days from infection to onset. An hour, this rate of infection does not comply with medical rules."

Dong Zheng also felt that it was too fast: "Is it possible that Kether made a move?"

"Let's go and have a look at Linhai first. If it's the plague, it's easy to deal with. I'm afraid it's something else."

The two arrived at the place where Dong Linhai was hiding before at the fastest speed. Dong Zheng found the mechanism to open the secret door. With the operation of the mechanism, the secret door slowly opened.

But there was no one in the dark room.

"Linhai?" Dong Zheng walked in, he searched around, but found no trace of Dong Linhai.

There was a pool of blood on the ground, showing an ominous message. The upside-down Jesus and the cross were quietly on the wall, unable to tell them anything that had happened here.

Would Dong Linhai leave the secret room when he was already sick like that and promised Dong Zheng to wait for him?

The answer is self-evident.

Linhai... where did he go?

He didn't show it, but Victor could still feel Dong Zheng's panic at this moment. He raised his hand and pressed Dong Zheng's shoulder, and said in a low voice: "If Linhai left voluntarily or was forced to leave, he will definitely find a way to help us. Leave a mark."

Dong Zheng nodded. He took a deep breath and searched the small dark room with Victor. Soon, they found a mechanism in the corner near the ceiling.

As the mechanism was activated, a secret passage appeared in front of the two of them. The secret passage was so narrow that adults had to crawl to pass through it, and it was pitch black inside.

Victor turned into a cat and went to check the situation first. After 2 minutes, he ran out and said, "The inside is sealed."

The only hope turned into bubbles in the sun. Dong Zheng clenched his fists hanging by his side. He still clearly remembered that his younger brother was sitting here 10 minutes ago. Let him go with peace of mind and wait for him to come back at the same place.

But he lost Linhai.

Dong Zheng couldn't say a word for a while, he had never recognized a reality so clearly - this is a box where the queen and the heir must be involved, and in the last box where Kether intervened, he lost Ai Lun.

After a long while, Victor whispered, "Go look elsewhere."

Dong Zheng took a deep breath, the brand on his face was still there, the armor would not stop chasing him, and apart from Linhai, he had other companions whose whereabouts were unknown.

He closed his eyes hard, and when he opened them again, the sadness and fear were gone.

"Let's go."

"Cough...cough cough!"

Dong Linhai woke up choking on the blood gushing out of his mouth.

He opened his eyes and found that his surroundings had changed.

After Dong Zheng left, his fever became more and more severe. Although he knew that he must not close his eyes under such circumstances, Dong Linhai still fell into a drowsy sleep.

There seemed to be something else in the coughed up blood. Dong Linhai looked around with difficulty. Compared with the dark room he was in before, this was a small but slightly spacious room. A corpse in a priest's robe sat In front of him, dark green rot had already appeared on most of the body from the neck.

This is a...confessional.

A pendant of a cross was hung around the priest's neck, and the pink skylight cast from the window behind Dong Linhai, casting his shadow on the floor.

...how come here?

Dong Linhai wanted to stand up and leave here, but he couldn't use the strength at all. The unspeakable pain was tormenting him, as if all the bones in his body were about to melt and turn into blood together with the internal organs.

He started to cough again, and there was something in the coughed up blood. Dong Linhai stared at the blood on the floor for a while, and finally realized that it was his internal organs.

It seems...it's no longer possible.

Consciousness gradually blurred. Dong Linhai didn't know how long it had been since Dong Zheng left. Brother found Victor and went back to the dark room. Seeing that he was not there, he must be very worried, right?

Dong Linhai leaned against the wall, his moon white robe was already soaked in blood, facing the priest's unrepentant corpse, he struggled to breathe.

The air entered his nasal cavity, organs and lungs, like a knife, cutting through the fragile tissues, bringing out pieces of blood.

Dong Linhai could imagine that he was like a cloth bag now, with a puddle of blurred flesh and blood inside his skin, which would burst if poked.

It hurts so much.

He never imagined that humans could endure such pain without dying.

The wrist guards on the forearms of both hands fell off, and the silver-white metal slowly turned into the shape of a pistol in the boy's trembling hands. Two bullets were made and loaded into the magazine.I don't remember who I heard said that if you want to prepare glory bombs, you must prepare two, anyway, just do it.

After doing all this, he paralyzed there for a long while, and he did not recall those important scenes in his life as described in those literary works, because the pain had already occupied all his nerves.

He grabbed the gun and managed to stuff the muzzle into his mouth.

Squeeze the trigger with all your might.

The author has something to say: The plot has been a bit abusive recently, but it will be fine soon!

Happy New Years Eve everyone!There is another update in the evening, I will accompany you to celebrate the new year while coding hahhhh