The copy has 0 error tolerance, and the last words on the ground are all wrong for me.

Chapter 70: Plague and Evil Spirits
When he heard the words "relatives of the church", Ebbett's cheek twitched noticeably.

He quickly lowered his head and pretended to check the letter so that Wu Chang would not see any more changes on his face.

Seeing that Ebert was upset, Wu Chang did not give him time to calm down and immediately asked, "Professor Ebert, I really need your help."

The word "church" was like Ebert's nightmare. When Wu Chang mentioned it to him in person, it was like being caught cheating.

If he was still calm, he would have easily discovered something strange by just asking Wu Chang's relative's name and how he knew him.

But now, all his energy was focused on not revealing too many flaws, and he had no time to think about the truth in Wu Chang's words.

Of course, if Ebbett were that calm, Wu Chang's method of asking questions would have to change from psychology to physics.

"Be careful of the messenger of God." When questioned, Ebert said hastily.

When Wu Chang saw Ebert give in, he immediately started asking him a series of deadly questions.

"God's messenger, what is a God's messenger?"

“Is it related to the church?”

"Why should I be careful with it, will it hurt me? Why would it hurt me?"

“How can I be careful about it?”

Ebert's scalp tingled at Wu Chang's question, and he answered in a panic: "Briver is a place protected by the gods. The gods will send messengers to punish the evildoers who break the rules. You must not become a sinner."

"What if I encounter it?"

"Then you'd better pray that the crime you committed is not serious enough, and that the sinner is powerless to resist, struggle, or even escape in front of the messenger of God."

Wu Chang: "Can I get rid of the divine messenger?"

"No, unless..." Ebert wanted to say something, but he knew he had said something wrong and quickly covered his mouth.

"I'm tired. Let's stop here for today."

Ebert turned and went into the house as if escaping, fearing that Wu Chang would pester him again and he would accidentally say more things he shouldn't say.

Looking at Ebert's back, Wu Chang narrowed his eyes.

There is indeed something wrong with this old Deng.

The messenger of God that Ebbett just mentioned must be referring to the changes in Marty's body when he killed the previous postman.

The situation of the former postman fighting in Resentment is also consistent with what Ebert said: if the crime is serious, he will be powerless to resist and struggle in front of the messenger of God.

Combined with the qualifier that Ebert said, "Briver is a place of refuge for the gods," it can be inferred that everyone on Brever Island will have a hidden attribute similar to "good and evil value."

By obeying the rules of the island and working hard, your good and evil value will increase, you will gain the favor of the townspeople, and you can easily integrate into the town.

Violating the rules of the island, working passively or even going on strike will reduce your good and evil value, making it easier to be sucked into the other world.

If the good and evil value is lower than a certain number, the messenger of God will come to your door just like the previous postman.

Analyzing the intelligence obtained from the resentment, the messenger of God does not exist in entity and needs to possess the townspeople to appear.

However, judging from what Ebert said, if the good and evil value is not low enough, not only will there be a chance to escape from the God's messenger, but there is also a way to get rid of the God's lock.

But that method was too secretive and he couldn't reveal it.

This is enough.

Sometimes, revealing a secret doesn’t necessarily mean telling the answer to it.

Just showing that you know the answer to the mystery is revealing a lot.

The existence of God's messenger was information that even the senior experts had not investigated, but Ebert spoke of it very naturally.

This means that he not only knows the inside story of the island, but is also involved in it and even participates to a high degree.

The saint was missing, and the church thought of asking him to help find her, so he must have a close relationship with the church, or even be a high-ranking official in the church. He did not directly reject Wu Chang's question, but gave an answer hesitantly, which showed that he had not yet torn his face with the church.

This Lao Deng might be in a period of hesitation before rebellion, or he might have been caught by someone and had to get involved.

But no matter which answer it is, he must know about the disappearance of the saint around Briver!
Otherwise, he would not have taken the initiative to look for the church's letter for help, nor would he have shown relief after not seeing the letter.

For an old man like Lao Deng, he didn't have time to persuade him with love and justice.

It must be resolved quickly!

As an old scholar, Ebert's physique was not as strong as the natives, and at the moment he had a psychological flaw.

So Wu Chang prepared to strengthen Ebert's mind and body.

When a person is tortured both physically and mentally and is on the verge of death, the loopholes in his heart will be infinitely magnified, and he will severely torture his conscience without the need for other people to intervene.

When a person is about to die, his words will be well-coordinated. He should say both what he should and should not say.

Wu Chang dragged the trailer to a hidden corner and activated his innate skills.

Disaster.

"Skill name: Misfortune."

"Skill Description: When you activate the skill, you will enter the evil state. In the evil state, the user will become a spirit and directly attack the target's soul. If the sum of the target's inspiration and will attributes is less than 80% of the sum of the user's two attributes, it will randomly trigger one of "spreading plague", "inviting disaster" and "descending evil"; if it is less than 50%, it will randomly trigger two; if it is less than 20%, it will trigger all of them, and an additional special state will be triggered."

As the evil spirit began to take effect, he entered a state similar to an out-of-body experience, his consciousness transformed into a spirit, and entered Ebert's residence.

He saw that Ebert was setting up a small altar to worship the gods in order to calm himself.

As a double PhD in archaeology and theology, Ebert has many occult items in his home, which can block the harm from the occult to a certain extent.

But in front of Wu Chang, whose inspiration was as high as 90 points, those amulet figurines were no different from ordinary handicrafts.

In the evil state, he saw a ball of white fire of life in Ebert's body.

He pointed at the fire in the air, and a ball of black gas gushed out from his fingertips and sank into Ebert's body.

With a whoosh, all the candles surrounding the altar went out. Ebert wanted to turn around and relight the candles, but he felt dizzy and his eyes went dark, and he fell to the ground.

Ebert did not survive the attribute judgment of the evil spirit.

"The sum of the target's inspiration and will attributes is less than 50% of the sum of the user's two attributes, triggering effects: "Plague", "Exorcism""

Wu Chang was a little surprised. He originally thought that he could trigger all three effects, but he didn't expect that Ebert had something.

But it makes sense. In a world with mysticism, archaeology and theology are both ranked in the T1 tier when it comes to committing suicide. Ebert has lived for so long, so his inspiration value must be very high.

"Plague: When the target is affected by the plague, they will randomly acquire 1-5 major diseases. The lower the current health, the more serious the disease. The more the target's inspiration attribute differs from the user, the more types of diseases there are."

"Exorcism: When the target is affected by the exorcism effect, they will experience hallucinations and suffer mental shock. The effect depends on the difference in inspiration attribute between the target and the user."

Although Wu Chang cannot control which effect the plague and evil spirits will trigger, he can control the strength of the effect after it comes out randomly.

He was afraid of killing Ebert in one blow, leaving him no time to torture himself, so he greatly weakened the two effects.

The weakened plague would only cause Ebert to suffer from crazy diarrhea, high fever, and blurred vision.

The weakened evil spirit will cause Ebert to have nightmares constantly, dreaming about things related to the church and the saint. After waking up, he will be extremely tired and unable to concentrate, and will have visual and auditory hallucinations.

He is so cautious in dealing with the enemy. He really has martial ethics and respects the elderly and loves the young.

After releasing his spirit state, he towed the empty trailer back to the post office.

Halfway through the journey, I passed by a shipyard and saw five or six workers busy at work. Under the shade of a tree outside the shipyard, a familiar figure was lying on the ground, sitting with his legs crossed and lazing around.

Wu Chang raised his eyebrows. He was worrying about how to verify the information he had collected, and now the guinea pigs are here.

(End of this chapter)