Trying to pretend to be human today

Chapter 157
"Speaking of... haven't we seen human corpses on the road?" An Xiangwen asked suddenly.

Thinking about it this way, according to the pursuit logic in this dream, they have never seen it.

"No." Qi Zhuyue looked away from the statue full of flowers with difficulty, "I've seen it before."

She was referring to the female corpse that she ran into when she had not met Baisu and An Xiangwen. At that time, she just ran away and only picked up a hair rope from the corpse.

Thinking about it now... She seemed to have glimpsed some lush grass under the other's loose hair.

Mainly she was not paying attention at that moment, thinking that it was just drilled out of the cracks in the floor tiles.

Looking at it now, the stone bricks all over the place fit perfectly, so where would grass grow?

So the corpse just now was also... Qi Zhuyue turned around to take another look, but unexpectedly the scene outside the house changed.

The white dog that had always made her want to keep a distance no longer squatted there, but stood on the dark floor tiles, its limbs elongated, as if stretching.

Then, it hiccupped.

For a while, Qi Zhuyue didn't really want to find out where the human corpse outside went, it shouldn't have been eaten... right?

The black-haired girl turned her eyes to An Xiangwen for solutions, An Xiangwen was silent for a few seconds, then turned her head suspiciously, avoiding Qi Zhuyue's sight.

An Xiangwen didn't know the answer either.

But if you didn’t see it, you didn’t eat it, don’t worry about it!

The two humans tacitly skipped the question of where the corpse went, and they found that the white dog was already a little interested in the furnishings in the house.

An Xiangwen said decisively: "I'm going out to pet the dog. Ms. Qi, you can watch here. It just so happens that I was injured too, so it's okay."

Qi Zhuyue thinks it's okay.

Anyway, the house is... a bit messy.

It must have been turned over by someone, Qi Zhuyue sighed, maybe it was the attacker in front.

An Xiangwen's footsteps gradually moved away, and the voice of him communicating with the white dog came from the door. The humans seemed to be discussing whether he could use his excellent dog-handling skills to exchange the white dog for a later dinner.

What a deceitful "dog".

Thinking of this, Qi Zhuyue reached out and picked up a book that was not completely stained black from the mud on the ground.

Because it was soaked on the ground, the footer was glued and it was a bit difficult to open.

Qi Zhuyue didn't really want to touch it directly, so she found a piece of table cloth from the side and wrapped it in her hand, wrapped it several times thickly, and then flipped through it.

This is indeed the place where the abbot lives.

On the side, you can see a bed with no sundries, and a pile of scripture books, but there is no trace of flipping, just for show.

So the previous mopping-up human skipped over there, and Qi Zhuyue thought the same way.

Do you have any clues... This is where the abbot who is going to preside over the ceremony lives, so there should be some...

The mood is a little anxious, and the quieter the surroundings are, the clearer the human thoughts will be.

Classics, spells, incantations... It can be seen that this abbot has studied a lot, not only the things of his own temple, but also a lot of messy books.

"This symbol..." Qi Zhuyue drew a few circular arcs on the inside page of the book he opened now, and the shape was extremely familiar.

Isn't this the cult they've been looking for in their department?Fuzhao Temple actually has a connection with the other party - no, that's not necessarily the case.

Qi Zhuyue glanced around, and there was someone talking about Yutoumen beside him, it should just be that the abbot likes to collect more.

If it wasn't for the time constraints, she really wanted to sit down and flip through the pages.

I really want to seal this place after I go out... But why do I feel like I can't do it?

Qi Zhuyue thought about it for a while, but continued to search. After finding An Xiangwen, who was almost unable to stop the white dog, she finally found something.

"Mr. An!" Qi Zhuyue called out.

An Xiangwen outside made a move immediately. He rushed in with the white dog in his arms, threw the creature in his hand towards the statue, and the white dog happily bit the statue's head.

As soon as it closed its teeth, half of the statue's head was gone.

Taking this opportunity, the two humans took the book they cared about out of the abbot's house.

The humans stood back under the light, and the creaking and creaking in the room had nothing to do with them.

An Xiangwen breathed a sigh of relief, and he rubbed his hands in distress: "Miss Qi, if you don't come out, I won't be able to stop that guy."

The hands of the curly-haired young man were sore, some licked the dog, and some blocked it. The white dog's strength is really great!
An Xiangwen heard some tinkling noises in the house, turned his head and asked Qi Zhuyue: "What did you find?"

"Here!" Qi Zhuyue's voice concealed excitement, "This spell can—"

In the middle of speaking, she quickly lowered her voice.

It is not sure whether the white dog is related to the white lizard, or not to pay too much attention to it.

Qi Zhuyue squatted down, and waved to An and Wen.

The curly-haired youth squatted down obediently, and the two got together like thieves.

Qi Zhuyue pointed to the opened paper, and clicked on a line of words on it: "This spell can remove the mark!"

An Xiangwen looked along, and after a short reading, he understood the meaning of that line.

It is said to be a spell, but it is actually a slightly long incantation. The difficulty is that it is difficult to pronounce at one time, and there are words that are so difficult to recognize that you want someone to check the pronunciation.

Also, this mantra can only be recited to others.

In other words, he and Qi Zhuyue should help each other.

Help... An Xiangwen lowered his eyes.

Qi Zhuyue was still studying how to pronounce the two difficult-to-pronounce characters, and complained that it was really inconvenient not to have a mobile phone.

An Xiangwen's thoughts drifted away, and he glanced at the other books Qi Zhuyue brought out from the corner of his eye.

After a while, the curly-haired young man stroked his chin and asked, "Does Ms. Qi have any opinions on the identity of an outsider after getting rid of the sacrifice?"

"It seems that I have read the explanation of the ceremony before. If there are outsiders who are not sacrifices in the dream, the ceremony will not start."

Regarding this question, Qi Zhuyue paused for a while before answering: "Leave the dream, or pretend to be a believer."

She raised her head and said, "I don't know the way to leave the dream, but since the abbot of the temple can come in... that means there is such a possibility."

"As for pretending to be believers..." Qi Zhuyue frowned, "I also said that, we want outsiders, as long as we become believers, we are not considered outsiders, right?"

Originally, she wanted to add a question about pious believers, but after thinking about it, they couldn't reach the height of piousness in a short time, so they were overthinking.

"Then—how do you pretend to be a believer?" An Xiangwen asked earnestly.

Qi Zhuyue didn't answer either, she was thinking about whether she could use a certain spell in the book at hand... Although she had never used it or learned it, what if she used it?
"That." An Xiangwen suddenly said, "Do you want to try hypnosis?"

The black-haired girl looked back in shock, and sized An Xiangwen up and down: "You know how to hypnotize?"

"Well...it will." The curly-haired young man smiled, "I'm not talented, I've learned some messy things, how about it, Miss Qi, do you want to try it?"

"Anyway—it can't be worse than being a sacrifice, can it?"

(End of this chapter)