Chapter 83 The Grave Digging Trio

The reincarnations once again formed a large group and headed for the village of Biertan.

Fu Qinghai actually didn't want to go to Biertan Village right now. He also wanted to dig in the ruins of St. Cartha Monastery to see if there were any other clues.

From the ruins, it can be seen that this was a fairly large monastery with a cellar, a tower, a front yard, a back yard and an inner courtyard.

Now only a charred ruin remains.

Because Fu Qinghai felt that the development of things was a bit passive now. It seemed that no one here except Rusfan had seen the movie "The Nun". In this case, Rusfan became the only source of information and the only person with the right to speak. Others could only believe what he said.

This made Fu Qinghai feel a little uncomfortable.

Fu Qinghai has always been a very suspicious person. He began to suspect Ogedei from the very beginning because of a silver coin from the Warriors Association. Until now, Fu Qinghai also vaguely felt that something was wrong.

But there is no way. According to the survival rules of horror movies summarized by curious netizens, the first rule is not to act separately. This rule has a higher priority than not acting at night.

According to the convention of horror movies, Fu Qinghai should be with the main force at this moment instead of digging the ruins of the monastery alone.

Fu Qinghai, who was walking in the team, heard a reincarnation approach Lu Sifan and ask:

"Sir Rusfan, why is there a small bell in front of the tombstone in the cemetery we passed before? What does it mean?"

Fu Qinghai walked and listened attentively. This was actually his problem too.

Rusfan patiently explained, "According to the movie, there was a plague in this area. In order to prevent people from being buried in the grave, they put a small bell in front of the tombstone and pulled a line to the coffin. If the person is not dead, he can pull the bell and be found if he is lucky."

Fu Qinghai nodded in his heart. This was indeed a good way. Determining whether a person was completely dead was actually a very technical job. It was not as simple as looking at the breathing or feeling the pulse. With the continuous development of medical technology, human beings' definition of death was also constantly updated. In ancient times when medical technology was underdeveloped, it was not uncommon to bury people alive who were not yet completely dead.

During World War II, when planes and tanks were fighting outside, people here were still using backward horse-drawn carriages. This area called Transylvania was obviously not a developed place.

As they walked, Fu Qinghai looked around and suddenly discovered that the woman in black, Zhang Yuning, who had been following the group, was gone.

Not many people care about this Lone Ranger.

But Zhang Yuning's disappearance reminded Fu Qinghai something. He quietly slowed down his pace and slowly moved to the end of the large group.

Now everyone was walking down the hillside, and Fu Qinghai, who was walking at the end, could easily see everyone.

One, two, three, four... Fu Qinghai counted the people one by one.

Then I discovered that three people were missing.

Fu Qinghai, who came to this conclusion, remained calm on the surface, but was secretly thinking in his heart.

When did they disappear? Where did these three people go?

Fu Qinghai didn't say anything. They were all experienced reincarnations, and he didn't believe that he was the only one who was sharp in the entire team.

Sure enough, after a while, someone suddenly shouted loudly:

"Hey, did you notice that there seem to be a few people missing?"

When he shouted, the whole team stopped and everyone looked at each other. It seemed that the number of people had indeed decreased.

At this time, the sound of branches being stepped on suddenly came from the nearby forest. Two people came out laughing, scratching their heads and saying:

"Excuse me, everyone. I just had to go to the bathroom. Haha."

Seeing these two people return and join the team, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense atmosphere that had just arisen dissipated.

This is the advantage of the reincarnation world not distinguishing between camps. Everyone knows that there is no assimilation point reward for killing each other, so there is naturally less suspicion between each other.

Only Fu Qinghai grinned playfully.

There is still one person missing.

As mentioned before, Tony Stark's electronic soul backup has the characteristics of an electronic brain. Fu Qinghai reads books like scanning. He can read ten lines at a glance and remember everything he sees. Before setting off at the entrance of the town, he quietly counted the number of people, so he would definitely not be wrong.

Fu Qinghai saw that the two people who claimed to have just gone to the toilet walked up to Lu Sifan and whispered something. Then Lu Sifan nodded, said nothing, and continued to lead the team forward.

There is something wrong with this team, a big problem...

Fu Qinghai looked deeply at Rusfan's back. Just when the team went around a huge rock in the mountains, Fu Qinghai, who had been at the end of the large group, turned around quickly and quietly, left the large group, and went into the bushes.

He no longer cared about the horror movie rule that one cannot act separately, he wanted to go back the same way and investigate what happened to the missing person.

Fu Qinghai ran quickly up the mountain. No longer needing to hide or follow the crowd, he moved forward at full speed, and his speed was three times faster than when he came here.

Fu Qinghai first came to the ruins of the monastery. Fu Qinghai jumped into the ruins, pushed open pieces of stone, and searched carefully, but he found no useful clues and gained nothing.

The ruins of the monastery were too large to be searched by myself.

He was the first one to check the ruins. The missing person should not be here. Fu Qinghai looked up and looked around, thinking secretly.

Where could it be?

Could it be... Fu Qinghai thought of a place, jumped up from the ruins, found a direction and ran towards it.

It was getting dark when we arrived at the cemetery area covered with weeds and tombstones.

The surrounding woods were dim and visibility was slightly reduced, but it did not affect Fu Qinghai who had visual control organs.

Fu Qinghai walked into the cemetery area and unexpectedly saw someone he didn't expect to see.

A tall woman with slim shoulders, dressed in black.

He was standing alone in a forest of steles, with his back to Fu Qinghai.

"what are you doing here?"

Looking at the woman's back, Fu Qinghai spoke, and this sentence was in Chinese.

Zhang Yuning did not turn around, did not look back, did not answer Fu Qinghai's question, but looked ahead and said calmly:

"There is a living person buried here."

A living person... Could it be that? Fu Qinghai's heart was slightly shocked.

Fu Qinghai took a few steps forward and came to Zhang Yuning's side. He turned to look at the indifferent woman and asked,

"Where is he?"

Zhang Yuning gently closed his eyes, felt for a few seconds, opened his eyes, pointed in a direction and said:

"there."

Fu Qinghai ran forward and soon noticed that the soil in front of a tomb was obviously fresher than the surrounding soil, while the stone tombstone in front of the tomb had long been corroded by wind and rain and became uneven.

There is a small bell in front of the surrounding tombstones, except for this one.

Zhang Yuning, a woman in black, also came to the tomb.

Fu Qinghai looked around, pulled out a wooden cross, and used it as a hoe to dig into the soil!

The soil was loose and not buried deep. Fu Qinghai dug up the coffin lid in a short while. He could already hear the sound of twisting and banging inside the coffin lid.

Fu Qinghai pulled open the coffin lid, and the copper lock on the side of the coffin broke with a "snap", revealing a young man who was tied up tightly inside.

Fu Qing untied the cloth that bound his mouth.

The young man with brown hair, a high nose, light freckles on his face and blood all over his head quickly sat up and gasped for breath. After taking a few breaths of fresh air, he looked up at Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning and said gratefully:

"Thank you, thank you for saving me!"

Fu Qinghai frowned and asked, "Who are you?"

The young man's chest rose and fell as he panted as he answered, "I'm Ron Bentham, a reincarnation in Rusfan's team. I've seen you before. You're the muscle enhancer they were talking about."

Fu Qinghai asked: "Why are you here?"

Ron Bentham calmed his breath, glanced at Fu Qinghai, and said:

"Can you untie me first?"

…

Fu Qinghai untied the young man's tightly bound hands and feet. The young man climbed out of the grave. In the coffin behind him were crushed black bones.

Ron Bentham patted the bone fragments attached to his back and began to explain to Fu Qinghai and Zhang Yuning.

Ron is a reincarnation who decided to follow Rusfan's group in the small town. He has no special abilities. The only advantage of this copy world for him is that he has seen the horror movie "The Nun".

At the beginning, Ron Bentham did not tell anyone around him. He also knew the plot of "The Nun". He just quietly mixed in the team and followed everyone.

After staying in Rustfan's team for a while, Ron gradually became familiar with the two reincarnations around him and had some private exchanges with them. Until the large group of reincarnations arrived at the ruins of St. Cartha Monastery, Ron Bentham quietly told the two familiar reincarnations that he felt Sir Rustfan seemed to be holding back when retelling the plot of the movie, and there were some settings that he did not fully mention.

Ron thought less.

He thought that they were the same as himself. The two lone reincarnations were actually spies arranged by Rusfan in the team and were all Rusfan's men.

Outside the monastery, everyone dispersed and began to look for the traces of another group of reincarnations according to Fu Qinghai's instructions. At this time, the two took advantage of the situation to subdue Ron, tied him up and buried him in a grave.

The blood and wound on Ron's head were caused by a heavy blow from behind.

Fu Qinghai asked what he thought was the most unreasonable part of this passage:

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

"Why don't they just kill you? Wouldn't that be easier?"

Ron replied, "Because if they kill me directly, the assimilation points will be deducted by the reincarnation world. They want me to die slowly in the cemetery. It would be best if I could still be alive when the copy world ends."

Fu Qinghai glanced at Zhang Yuning's face and found that she looked normal, so he guessed that what Ron said should be true.

That is, if reincarnations who do not distinguish between camps kill each other, not only will they not receive any assimilation points as a reward, but they will even have assimilation points deducted.

Fu Qinghai didn't want to expose the fact that this was his first time entering the dungeon world, as it would appear undignified.

Fu Qinghai nodded and asked, "So what plots did he hold back on?"

Ron muttered, "It's nothing, actually. Rusfan has a high reputation among this group of people. I didn't mean to question him at the time. I just said: The Sir didn't seem to mention how this demon came to the monastery."

"Oh?" Fu Qinghai became interested and immediately asked:

"So how did this demon Valak come to this monastery?"

Ron said, "The movie says that in the Middle Ages, this place belonged to a man called the Duke of Saint Cartha. This monastery was originally the castle of the Duke of Saint Cartha. The Duke collected and recorded various witchcraft spells and rituals on weekdays, and held dark and bloody summoning rituals in the castle, trying to summon the evil forces of hell for his own use."

"At the last moment of the summons, the Duke was killed by the Catholic army. The bishop used the blood of Jesus to seal the gate between hell and the human world, and then turned the castle into a monastery. Pious nuns sent by the Vatican guarded it day and night until World War II broke out. You all know what happened next."

After saying that, Ron complained, "It's nothing. I just helped him fill in the blanks, but when the two reincarnations heard it, they immediately decided to kill me."

Ritual...summon the devil...Fu Qinghai muttered these key words in his mind.

Fu Qinghai feels that this wave of settings is still very crucial, which means that the demon Valak was not in the monastery at the beginning, but someone planned to summon him from hell. The summoning was interrupted halfway and then sealed.

But what does this have to do with Rusfan's intention to silence him?

No matter what ulterior motives Rusfan had in forming this team and placing his own agents in it, at least Rusfan's own reincarnation mission is the same as that of all reincarnators, which is to seal the demon Valak.

This is also the reason why many reincarnations trust him so much, because the reincarnation world did not issue a second mission.

Or is he simply trying to maintain his voice in the ranks of reincarnationists and his status as a key opinion leader (KOL)?

There is no need to kill people to silence them. There are obviously people who are like proxies in the team. All we need are a few proxies to help maintain Rusfan's authority and Ron's voice can be completely suppressed.

Bury Ron Bentham in the cemetery. If he dies prematurely, his assimilation points will be deducted.

Fu Qinghai thought of a key point and asked, "After the seal in this monastery is blown up by C4 explosives, should the demon Valak be completely unsealed and come to the human world, or should he completely go back to hell?"

Ron Bentham thought for a moment and said, "Neither. The plot shown in the movie shows that the real body of the demon Valak from Hell was interrupted before it completely came to the human world. What is trapped in the monastery now is only a trace of Valak's power. Even if the seal is completely destroyed, if Valak wants to come to the human world completely, he should still need to continue the ceremony of the Duke of Saint Carta. At least that's what He did in the movie."

"How did He do it?"

"In the movie, the female trainee nun is a psychic and very devout to God. Valak finally possesses the nun and seems to be planning to sacrifice her and use her to complete the summoning ritual."

A psychic, or a medium, or someone with the ability to see ghosts or spirits, it doesn't matter what you call it, it all means the same thing.

It refers to a person who can see monsters and demons that ordinary people cannot see.

This kind of person can be found in many supernatural horror movies. He is either the protagonist or the thigh that the protagonist needs to hold on to. He plays an important role in advancing the plot. After all, psychics can at least see the existence of ghosts. Regardless of whether they can perform any exorcism spells, it is better than ordinary people who can't see anything and just get beaten.

"Psychic..." Fu Qinghai muttered to himself, remembering something. He turned to Zhang Yuning on the other side and asked, "How did you know that Ron was buried here?"

Zhang Yuning still had that cold expression on her face, nodding her head and saying, "Yes, I am a psychic."

Zhang Yuning continued, "But I know he was buried here, not because of his psychic abilities."

Ron Bentham is a living person. The Yin-Yang eyes can see ghosts, which logically has nothing to do with spiritualism. Fu Qinghai asked:

"What kind of ability is that?"

Zhang Yuning turned around, looked at Fu Qinghai expressionlessly, and said, "It will do you no good to know."

For a moment, this look seemed to contain extreme hatred and malice, which made Fu Qinghai's hair stand on end.

Zhang Yuning turned her head away and stopped looking at Fu Qinghai. The hatred and malice disappeared. The feeling just now seemed like an illusion, but the hairs still standing on Fu Qinghai's arms told her that this was not an illusion.

This woman also hides many secrets... Fu Qinghai's heart trembled.

You know, Fu Qinghai is not a coward who can be easily scared. In the Warhammer 40K universe, he has faced death several times and walked on the edge of life and death many times. Ordinary terror is not enough to make him react so strongly.

However, as mentioned earlier, psychics are very useful in horror movies. Knowing that Zhang Yuning is a reincarnationist and has the same reincarnation mission as herself, she should indeed be given the same trust as Rusfan.

The same trust as Rusfan, in short, not much trust.

But it is obviously impossible to follow Rusfan now, because another person who has seen the plot of the movie is right next to him, and this person was discovered by Zhang Yuning, so Fu Qinghai can only choose to believe Ron's words and trust Zhang Yuning a little more.

At least for now, Zhang Yuning's status in Fu Qinghai's heart is better than Lu Sifan's!

And Lu Sifan, who chose to kill other reincarnations, has been thrown into the wolf's pit in Fu Qinghai's heart.

At present, the only result of the monastery being blown up is that this strand of Valak's power can run around the human world uncontrollably, possessing this person today and that person tomorrow, causing the reincarnations' sealing mission to be unable to be completed, and ultimately having one reincarnation life deducted at the end of the copy world.

It was completely dark. In the dark cemetery, there were only three people and a kerosene lamp brought by Zhang Yuning. Zhang Yuning was as cold and silent as ever. Fu Qinghai was frowning and thinking. Ron Bentham beside him suddenly thought of something and said excitedly:

"Oh, I remember, there is an important clue in this cemetery!"

"What important clues?" Fu Qinghai asked.

Ron said, "I have a deep impression of this movie. In the original plot, the priest was tricked by Valak into falling into a coffin in a grave. He was almost suffocated in the coffin, but was finally rescued by a trainee nun. In the coffin, there was a pile of ancient books and materials, which seemed to record the content of the ritual of the Duke of Saint Carta summoning Valak."

Before Fu Qinghai could say anything, Zhang Yuning's eyes lit up and she said excitedly, "Where is the grave? Take me there!"

Fu Qinghai frowned in confusion, thinking, "Why are you so excited?

" Ron Bentham said, "The movie gave a close-up of the tombstone at that time. I have some impression of it, but you have to take me here to look for it. I will see if I can find the tombstone."

The two men carried kerosene lamps and took Ron to search the tombstones in the cemetery one by one. Finally, Ron stopped at a tombstone that read "HERE LIES FATHER ANTHONY RURKE".

"Father Anthony Luke is buried here..." Fu Qinghai looked at the tombstone and whispered.

In front of the tombstone was an open, deep grave with a coffin lying quietly inside.

Ron said affirmatively: "It was in this coffin that the protagonist priest found several ancient books that the Duke of Saint Carta used to summon Valak. In the books, the hero and heroine learned the origin of Valak and also knew how to seal him."

Fu Qinghai stepped into the grave and opened the coffin lid.

This was something that none of the three had expected.

The coffin was empty.

...

　Thanks to three book friends, Love Rainy Days, lussii, and DK Love Song, for their rewards. A book cannot be full of rushing and killing all the time, which will cause aesthetic fatigue. I will try to take a suspenseful approach. I wonder if you can adapt to it?

　　Although this plot only lasts for a short time in the dungeon world, the Conjuring Universe will still play a role in subsequent adventures, so I will spend some more time to lay the groundwork for the world view in advance.

　　The Conjuring Universe is one of the few horror movie series with a universal worldview setting.

(End of this chapter)