The interior of the half-body Buddha statue was indeed hollow.
Bai Xiaoyi's spirit body passed through the stone wall and entered the half-body Buddha statue.
After about ten meters inside the stone wall, Irin's "eyes" suddenly opened up.
In front of Bai Xiaoyi was a passageway that led to an unknown place.
The passageway was very simple and crude, as if it had been dug by an excavator. It could only accommodate one person.
On the walls of the passageway, wires had been pulled from somewhere and extended all the way to the depths.
Above the passageway, an old energy-saving LED light bulb was hung from time to time, providing limited light.
Irin noticed that there were many exhaust windows around the passageway, and the shadows of rotating fans could be seen inside.
"Although the facilities here look old, considering the difficulty of digging, it shouldn't be completed in a short time. It seems that this is one of the secret strongholds of the Church of Dawn. It has been here for at least a few years. "
Irin and Bai Xiaoyi's minds were connected, and Bai Xiaoyi floated along the passageway.
But after floating for about thirty meters, Irin felt a stabbing pain between his eyebrows.
Obviously, this distance was the limit of what he could bear.
Irin helplessly pulled Bai Xiaoyi back.
The interior of the Buddha statue had been transformed into a fortress.
The people of the Church of Dawn should be hiding inside.
If there were no accidents, the missing persons of Li Tai City for the past three months should also be there.
Bai Xiaoyi floated beside Irin, her expression full of curiosity.
After all, she had not come out for a breath of fresh air for a long time. Now that she had come out, she saw that her master seemed to be in trouble again. This … made her very excited.
Ah! A mediocre life would be devoid of passion!
"Oh right, master, I seem to have heard some strange sounds."
Just as Irin was thinking about the next step, Bai Xiaoyi suddenly said.
"Hmm? What sounds? Did you hear what they were saying? "
Irin and Bai Xiaoyi only shared "vision", but not all five senses. Therefore, Bai Xiaoyi could hear the strange chanting more clearly inside the passageway than Irin, who was outside the half-body Buddha statue.
"There seem to be many, many, many people inside."
Bai Xiaoyi tried to open her hands, trying to describe the scene of "many".
"They seem to be chanting some slogan, like …"
Bai Xiaoyi seriously recalled the strange voice that echoed inside the Buddha statue. She lowered her voice and whispered, "You're right.
"They are demons … We are God's servants … Awakening, pain … Dawn, and so on."
Bai Xiaoyi's level of education was limited, so she could only understand a little.
"Embrace Dawn?"
Yi Lin thought of the slogan that Sheng Chunrou kept repeating.
"Yes yes yes yes yes yes, that phrase! Master, you are so amazing! "
Bai Xiaoyi was very quick-witted and took the opportunity to flatter him.
Irin frowned. His expression was solemn.
Bai Xiaoyi could only hear bits and pieces of the conversation clearly, but she couldn't provide much information.
Demons?
God's servants?
Who were "they" referring to?
Awakening? Pain?
Irin suddenly had a bad feeling.
He felt that this matter was getting stranger and stranger.
It was as if a storm was about to come.
Ah no …
Irin wiped the rain off his face.
It was indeed raining.
Irin recalled the AVI he had seen in Sheng Chunrou's house.
It was the video Sheng Chunrou had crudely created when her mental state was not normal.
"Sheng Chunrou knew that there was something wrong with the Church of Dawn, but she still went in."
"At first, she thought that with her identity as an apostle, she would not fall here."
"She probably did not have a deep enough understanding of reality and was careless. In the end, she threw herself in."
"It seems that she did it for that 'painting'. But what is that 'painting'? Could it be a prop left behind by an apostle? Or a spiritualized weapon? Otherwise, as an apostle, Sheng Chunrou would not take such a risk for that 'painting'. "
"Oh right, she said something in the video …"
"They don't have much time."
"Why don't they have much time?"
"This is also why someone in the Church of Dawn, knowing that we are investigating this matter, still took the risk to continue abducting humans from Li Tai City."
Just as Irin was thinking.
"Let's go!"
"Follow!"
In the distance, a few faint shouts could be heard.
Irin's heart skipped a beat. He quickly put away Bai Xiaoyi.
Like a shadow, he hid in the shadow of the Buddha's feet. He did not move.
A few minutes later.
In the darkness, a few flashlights appeared.
With the appearance of the lights, a few figures in raincoats quickly walked in this direction.
"It's actually those six people?"
Irin's gaze froze.
He did not expect that.
He actually arrived at the feet of the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha before those six people.
Was it because his stamina was better?
Irin quickly found a reason.
As expected, different people's physiques could not be compared to one another.
When Irin was climbing in the dark, he was worried that he would fall too far behind. He did not rest for a moment.
As Irin thought, he silently activated [Pursuing Shadow] in the darkness.
In such an environment, the effect of [Pursuing Shadow] was maximized.
Unless the other party's flashlight happened to hit Irin's face.
Otherwise, even if they accidentally walked past Irin, they might not be able to detect Irin's presence.
Ka ka ka.
After the six people arrived at the feet of the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha, they did not stop. They directly walked towards one of the 'toes'.
Although it was a 'toe', that toe was much taller than Irin. It was equivalent to a flat stone wall.
The leader of the group, a man who looked to be in his thirties, was fiddling with something on the stone wall. In the darkness, Irin could only hear the sound of stone grinding.
From where Irin was hiding, he could not see what the leader was doing. It was a pity.
But it was nothing more than an entrance.
Irin did not immediately appear to stop them.
It was meaningless.
It was very likely that these people were just small fries of the Church of Dawn. They could not know the deeper secrets.
After a few minutes, the flashlight disappeared, and the movements of those people completely disappeared in front of the pot-bellied Maitreya Buddha.
After Irin confirmed that those people had entered the interior of the statue, he walked out of the shadows.
"It should be here."
Irin walked to the toe where they had been facing the wall.
As expected, in a very hidden depression, there was a compass carved with words.
The compass was about the size of a palm. From the inside to the outside, there were nine layers. Each layer was carved with many words.
"A, B, C, D …"
"One, two, three, four …"
"Metal, wood, water, fire …"
"Hmm? That's an ancient mechanism. "
But Irin thought about it. Perhaps it was this ancient mechanism that could prevent anyone from prying into it.
No matter how high-end the password lock was, or whether it was fingerprint, iris, or facial recognition, as long as it was a program, there would be loopholes.
Everyone knew that the AI programs that were popularized in the real world were all pseudo-AI. They were not truly AIs that could think and evolve on their own. There was a possibility that they could be hacked.
Ou Lele, for example, had once said that there was no program in the world that he could not crack.
Of course, he had cheated and cheated. It could not be measured by pure skill.
On the contrary, it was this ancient password lock that made people unable to do anything.
Even if Ou Lele came, it would be useless.
Irin smiled. "But I don't need to open the lock."
While talking to himself, Irin carefully searched the surroundings.
A moment later.
Irin found the crack.
The entrance seemed to have been cut open by some kind of machine. After creating the mechanism, it was put back in place.
If he had not personally witnessed the six people entering the half-length Buddha statue from that position, he might have mistaken the cracks for the Buddha statue's own veins.
"Shadow Slay."
Irin's body suddenly twisted and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After activating the skill, Irin turned into an agile shadow. Up and down, left and right, there was nowhere he could not go. As long as it was a terrain that could leave a shadow, there was no blind spot for Irin.
After Irin activated the skill, the shadow that turned into instantly entered the crack and disappeared.
Behind the crack was indeed a passage.
On both sides of the passage, it was the same as what Irin saw in Bai Xiaoyi's vision. There were simple LED lights hanging on the passage, so it was not too dark.
Irin did not cancel the skill. After all, after entering the shadow state, he could afford to burn 3 Psionic Points per second.
Inside the Buddha statue, the passage was not very complicated.
There were a few simple forks that led to a few areas.
In the shadow state, Irin quickly explored the interior of the Buddha statue.
In one of the areas, there were caves that could only fit one person on both sides of the passage. The caves were sealed with thick iron bars. This was a prison.
Irin quickly moved inside the Buddha statue.
He passed by the cafeteria, the dormitory, the leisure area …
If he had not seen it with his own eyes, Irin would have found it hard to believe that the ruins of the potbellied Maitreya Buddha had been developed into a small fortress with all the essentials.
After a while.
The chanting sound that echoed inside the Buddha statue became clearer.
Irin had been following this strange sound and crawling forward.
It became clearer and clearer.
It was the sound of countless people murmuring in low voices. It sounded like ravings, prayers, and hymns.
The inexplicable words, whose meaning was unknown, were chanted without any emotion. Combined with the gloomy environment around them, it gave people a sense of horror that made their hair stand on end.
In the shadows, Irin was shocked.
He quickly moved forward.
A moment later.
Irin's eyes suddenly lit up.
It was a spacious space.
If he guessed correctly, he should be in the "stomach" of the potbellied Maitreya Buddha.
Drip, drip, drip —
Above his head, water droplets seeped out from the cracks in the ceiling from time to time and dripped down … It was raining outside.
Irin glanced at the remaining Psionic Energy Value on the apostle panel. He quickly changed back to his "human" appearance and curled up in the shadows.
In the hall.
Many "people" with empty eyes, thin bodies, and ragged clothes were crawling on the ground.
At this moment.
Irin, who was hiding in the dark, finally heard the content of their chants —
"They destroy all living beings,
"We save all living beings,
"Ah,
"The great Master of the Void, the light of dawn, the imprisoned God,
"We are willing to sacrifice our humble flesh and blood,
"We beg for your arrival,
"To bring pain to this foolish world,
"We will awaken this world,
"We will use our blood to bring endless dawn to this world,
"Embrace the dawn …
"Embrace the dawn …
"Embrace the dawn …
"…"
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