Chapter 201 Interception
Chapter 201 Interception
Obviously in the morning was still sunny, now the sky is somehow gloomy again – gray clouds and mists covered the city-state of Prand from top to bottom, the distant clock tower and chimneys seem to be in this misty background turned into a shadowed ink, the cold wind is blowing, the wind direction is turbulent.
Two cars pulled out of the Underwoods’ mansion, one of them heading straight up the avenue in the direction of the city center, while the other turned onto the shortcut road to the lower city and drove off into the distance under the overcast sky.
Maurice sat in the driver’s seat, cautiously maneuvering the vehicle down the side streets as he probed the weather outside.
The sky was a few more degrees more overcast than it had been a few moments ago, and the chaotic wind was almost whistling, swirling and flapping haphazardly against the colorful flags on several nearby towers.
The suddenly awful weather gave him a vaguely uncomfortable feeling, and reminded him of his last trip to that antique store.
It seemed to be just as bad weather then.
The old man raised his right hand and patted his head so as to refresh himself even more, while also glancing at the stone string on his wrist out of the corner of his eye.
Between the knots of the delicately constructed string, there were only four colored stones left, and these graced by the gods shimmered faintly in the dim light of the sky, carrying with them a calming atmosphere for the soul.
Rahm’s enchantment could keep scholars alive for a while in the face of knowledge beyond comprehension, but it had only limited utility in the face of truly dangerous subspace shadows, and Maurice had no idea what awaited him on this trip to the antique store, or whether the stones would protect him as well as they had last time.
Still, he set off on his way to the antique store.
As long as he kept his curiosity in check, as long as he didn’t turn on his Real Eyes again, as long as he didn’t make a fool of himself by looking at Mr. Duncan and his surroundings, he would be safe – the Subspace Shadow was friendly (though that was unbelievable), and as long as he didn’t cross the line on his side, he would be safe. The Subspace Shadow was friendly (though it was unbelievable), and as long as he didn’t cross the line on his side, he wouldn’t do him any harm.
He might even offer help.
Maurice took a gentle breath and let his pounding heart slowly calm down.
He knew that he had touched some terrible truth beneath the peaceful surface of the city-state, and as a scholar of history, he had already roughly guessed what it was all about, but instead of choosing to report the matter to the Church himself, he ran to an unnamable being from subspace.
This was unquestionably an act of disobedience and even heresy.
But he still made this bold decision.
Hetty had gone to the cathedral, her move to seek refuge and the cryptic message she had sent should alert Bishop Valentine, he himself had prayed briefly before he set out, and if Rahm was still watching, he had done his duty in alerting the church, and now he was going to head for that antique shop-three ways Going at the same time would at least improve the chances of success.
Something might have happened to Vanna, and the fact that she was the Inquisitor of the Church of the Deep, and that even she could be in trouble, deterred Maurice from pinning all his hopes on the Church.
Just hope that at the very least, the cathedral itself has not fallen, and hope …… that his choice of letting Heidi go to the cathedral to seek refuge and signal the police is correct.
A thunderclap suddenly rang out, and after a loud boom, noisy voices came from the distance.
Morris, who was driving while considering the problem, was startled by this sudden movement, and he subconsciously looked in the direction from which the noisy sound came, and vaguely saw that there was thick smoke rising above a building in the distance.
It seemed that falling thunder had ignited the roof – bad weather, bad luck.
The building was in the direction he was heading, and Morris couldn’t help but mutter a dark curse before choosing another side road and driving in.
However, he didn’t drive for long before he saw several crazy wolf dogs suddenly sprang out from the alley in front of him, and there was also an inebriated drunk man holding a stick following those crazy dogs, that drunk man saw the car driving into the small road, immediately rushed up cursing and waving the stick in his hand randomly, even as if he wanted to come up to intercept.
“Where to come out of the crazy ……” Morris immediately frowned, pressing the horn hard to let the drunkard sober up a little bit to get out of the way, but the other party heard the horn sound but even more disregard, cursing and rushed to the front of the car, waving up the stick will be smashed in the The hood of the machine was smashed with a club.
Morris was startled by the thud, and seemed to suddenly react to something, immediately staring at the drunkard’s eyes, his voice lowly reprimanded: “Moda Zoro Geometry Law!”
The ponderous and confusing knowledge and memories suddenly poured into the drunken man’s mind and set off a short-lived storm of thoughts in his surface consciousness, and that reckless man, who was afraid that he didn’t even use addition and subtraction of more than two digits very often on a regular basis, instantly let out a pained and terrified shout and frantically ran away. Morris, on the other hand, immediately restarted the car and rushed straight past the rabid dogs that were still barking furiously on the side of the road to the increasingly gloomy street ahead.
Having shaken off the temporary trouble, Morris’s face did not relax in the least, and his bad feeling was finally confirmed after a large, abrupt ditch appeared in his field of vision, and a steam pipe by the side of the road suddenly burst, sealing the way with its hot gases.
It wasn’t the weather that had suddenly turned bad, it wasn’t the trouble that had suddenly sprung up, it wasn’t his own bad luck today.
It was something that was stopping him – stopping him, the “perceiver of truth”, from moving on.
This is not a forceful block, nor is it a direct fatal threat, but a series of unexpected events that are more like a kind of “stress reaction”, like an automatic warning rule.
How did this cautionary rule come into effect? How did “they” find themselves? Is it because of their own “awakening”? Or was it a specific action?
I had only vaguely realized the truth, and had not directly confronted the masterminds, so I had encountered a series of “obstacles”, so what about Vanna? What exactly did she discover, and what happened to her that caused her to disappear into the dimension of reality?
Murmuring the holy name of Rahm, and confirming the colored stones on his wrist out of the corner of his eye, Maurice drove around the obstacles in front of him, and chose an avenue that led to the fourth block and drove all the way there.
How were “they” going to stop themselves on the open, straight avenue?
Morris blinked, and suddenly he saw a figure other than himself in the rearview mirror.
A “man” clad in tattered ascetic robes, withered and shriveled like a skeleton, with a grotesque smile on his face, was sitting on the back seat, and through the reflection in the rearview mirror, this shriveled and bizarre man was staring at Maurice’s eyes.
“Good afternoon, Mr. Morris,” the shriveled, grotesque figure suddenly spoke up, even politely, “Where are you going?”
“I should have thought …… when Mr. Duncan and I were discussing the ‘Wilhelm summons incident’ that it was you so-called ‘preachers’ ‘ ……” Morris slammed on the brakes and turned slightly to look at the figure sitting in the side and rear, “…… When did you sneak into this car ?”
“It’s hard to say, it could have been yesterday, or it could have been 1889 – when you and your wife first bought the car,” the withered figure seemed to smile, the dried flesh and blood of his face wrinkled into a frown as a result, “you are in such a hurry, is it something important?”
Morris returned silence, but the withered final preacher was unimpressed and simply continued politely, “Wherever you are going, forgive me for not being able to let you go – but I won’t take your life, after all, no matter what, you also prayed to subspace during that fire, so let’s just say that you are also half of our Compatriots …… ah, you will not until now do not know who you were praying to, right?”
Maurice’s face suddenly changed twice, and finally turned into a bitter smile, “I see …… so”
“As we often say, Subspace is the Promised Land, which will respond to all the wishes of all beings and grant fulfillment in a fair manner ……” The Final Preacher raised one hand and spoke reverently and gently, then his gaze fell on Morris, and “What will you do next? Attempt to banish me? I have learned of the power that the God of Wisdom bestows upon his followers, and it is said that your words can turn knowledge and memories into power, making spoken words as powerful as bullets, which I would love to see ……”
“Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang Bang!”
A series of six deafening gunshots suddenly exploded inside the car, and before the Final Preacher could finish his words, he had already been beaten into a corpse by a large-caliber revolver, two of which were in the heart and one in the forehead.
That dried up body flew into pale broken pieces, and then floated away in the wind like dust.
Morris produced his right hand from the angle concealed by the seat at his side, a revolver still smoking.
“I have bullets what am I wasting words with you ……”
The old scholar muttered a few words and casually changed the bullets for the revolver while starting the car again.
He knew that his trip was still not a good one, and there was no telling what was still in front of him – killing a bad-brained Final Preacher would not end it all.
This Final Preacher might even continue to haunt himself tomorrow – since this guy dared to get into this car, it meant that he didn’t care about dying at this moment.
(End of chapter)