Priest Augustus found the location of the tomb through the records of the cemetery. And when the two were searching in the cemetery, the occasionally startled snakes and the mice hiding in the ground became the only things that would surprise them.
Because the cemetery is not big, the two quickly found their target.
It was an inconspicuous small tomb near the fence of the cemetery on the west side of the stone building that served both the functions of "church" and "catacomb entrance". The tombstone slightly higher than the ground said that the person buried here was named Mushir Lee Nem, and this poor guy died half a month ago.
Apart from this information, there is nothing on the tombstone, no birth date, no cause of death, and no biographical comments left by others paid to bury. But considering that this is just a small cemetery in the countryside, this situation is understandable.
After all, being able to have an undisturbed formal cemetery after death is considered a treatment that many poor people can't imagine.
"This is it, Shad, come on, dig it up with me."
Priest Augustus spat twice into his palms, then rubbed his hands to get to work.
"Priest, do you have any enmity with this gentleman?"
Xia De asked hesitantly.
"Of course not. I have done good deeds all my life. Even if I have some unfriendly acquaintances, I will not touch their graves."
The priest replied, and told Xia De not to waste time, the ceremony must be arranged before two o'clock in the morning.
"Then you are..."
"Oh, you are wondering about this."
The priest smiled while shoveling the soil, and Xia De put the cat on the fence and was ready to work. At first, I wanted to warn the cat not to touch the rats that must have infectious diseases, but seeing Mia squatting on the stake of the fence, squinting her eyes and raising her head to bask in the moonlight, it probably wouldn't bother of chasing mice.
After all, the city cat, Mia, doesn't look like the kind of cat that is good at catching mice.
"A few days ago, I met a believer who came to the church from the countryside to confess. The woman was a peasant woman from a nearby village. She confessed through the small window in the prayer room that she didn't have a good funeral for her husband."
"Isn't this a nice cemetery?"
Shade took off his coat, and he and Priest Augustus were digging on the left and right, and the shovel piled the soil under the fence.
"She and the dead gentleman were outsiders, and there were no acquaintances in the village to help with the funeral. So, the peasant woman entrusted a man who happened to be boarding in the village and claimed to be a scholar to help with the funeral. Everything went smoothly, but after the funeral A peasant woman always dreamed of her husband, and the dead man claimed in his dreams that his soul had been tortured."
The priest struggled to lift the soil from the grave, and when he told the story, his words were intermittent:
"The scholar who received money to help with the funeral has already entered the city, and the peasant woman suspected that the scholar had desecrated the corpse, so she went to the church to ask the gods to forgive her contempt for the funeral. That woman never thought of digging up the corpse to see Condition."
From this point of view, this matter is indeed strange.
"Then why don't you let the church handle this?"
"This is not a matter in the city, and there is no clear evidence that this matter is related to the ring warlock. Even if the church accepts it, it will take several weeks to send people to check this matter. After all, the really important things in the city are not A lot."
The priest explained, and Shad understood what he was saying. The three entrusted tasks that Iluna gave him last week are things that have been backlogged in the Blackstone Security Company and are not taken seriously.
The results also proved that although those things sound strange, there is really no need to deal with them urgently.
"Then how did you determine that there is a problem with this matter? If you have to check it yourself every time you encounter similar things, I think there must be too many things to deal with."
The priest nodded, panting heavily and looked up at Xia De:
"From this point of view, how did your skin become so good, what happened to you recently... Oh, I probably haven't mentioned it to you, I have a strange ability, when a person confesses, he can I can vaguely discern whether he is lying. This vague feeling allows me to easily distinguish what the believers are trying to express. This is not an easy task. When I listen to people’s confession, I have seen countless dark stories .”
Shade was very fortunate that when he prayed to the priest on the grounds of "falling in love with many girls" in order to report Darkness in Lengshuigang, that distant priest did not have the ability of Priest Augustus.
"However, is this the special ability of Father August's 'other me'?"
Boom~
The shovel in Xia De's hand hit something, because the inside was hollow, so the dull sound was completely different from the sound of digging soil and hitting stones.
"etc."
The priest immediately knelt down on one knee and pushed aside the floating dirt, and he saw the unrotten wooden coffin lid:
"found it!"
The priest was very happy. The old man came out so late, and even invited Xia De in the name of Angel Potion, just to confirm the contents of the coffin, not for reward.
From this point of view, Priest Augustus was probably one of the most virtuous men Shard had ever known, although he always thought of a dark heart.
The corpse was not cremated. After the coffin lid was lifted, the choking smell made Shad and Priest Augustus frowned. After summer, the corpses buried deep in the ground were severely decomposed, and the bugs nourished by the corpses even swelled in large swaths under the moonlight.
Enduring his nausea, Xia De raised his head and glanced at Mia. The very timid cat also saw this scene, but it didn't seem to be scared at all. Probably in the cat's eyes, it's just an ugly thing.
"Priest, don't tell me we're going to move this body out... Are you wearing gloves? I'm going to wear three layers."
Xia De frowned and asked, the old priest also held back his nausea, covered his nose and replied in a muffled voice:
While talking, Priest Augustus also mentioned the lantern he had borrowed from the cemetery, and illuminated the disgusting scene over the tomb. The moonlight on Xia De's fingertips also lit up, and the silver light shone on the corpse, and there was actually a faint black mist rising upwards. This at least meant that there was something evil about this corpse.
"Look at this!"
Priest Augustus pointed to the hands clasped together on the chest of the corpse. The rotten hands could almost see the bones, and the flesh and blood in the skin seemed to be hollowed out by bugs. And in his hands, there was actually a black dagger.
No matter where in the Kingdom of Delarion, it is not customary for the buried person to hold a dagger.
"It's not a relic, and there are no traces of sensory elements."
Xia De covered his nose and said in a muffled voice.
"That's good news, look I'll get it out."
The priest rationally did not reach out, but used the spell [Move Object] to carefully remove the dagger from the corpse's hand.
However, just as the black metal dagger was completely out of the corpse's hands, those hands actually grabbed the dagger upwards, grasped the dagger in their hands again, and then returned to its original position.
The cemetery fell silent for a moment, Shad and Priest Augustus looked at each other in surprise.
"Detective, I shouldn't be dazzled just now, right?"
asked the priest in surprise.
"I saw it too."
Xia De said, thought for a while and asked:
"Priest, if you don't mind desecrating the corpse, then I'll cut off the corpse's hands."
I thought the priest would disagree, but he thought about it and nodded:
"Okay, we'll sew it up later."
Shad sincerely hoped that "we" meant the priest and the cat, not the priest and the detective.
He didn't call out the Moonlight Great Sword. This sword is too sharp, and it will pierce through the corpse if you are not careful. Xia De took out two Rhodes cards from his pocket, flicked them lightly, and the sharp cards flew towards the two wrists of the rotting corpse.
call out!
After the card was cut through the relatively cool air in the middle of the night, the next second, it was pierced through the center by a sharp dagger.
"Oh, I knew it wouldn't be that easy!"
Xia De and Priest Augustus retreated at the same time, while the cat waiting on the fence ran up to the big tree beside the tomb, looking down with its eyes wide open. In the dark night, the cat's eyes seem to be glowing.
The corpse, holding a dagger, sat up from the grave.
"Priest, is this what you expected?"
Xia De asked to prepare to fight, but after the corpse climbed out of the tomb, it actually rushed towards Priest Augustus.
The old priest dodged in embarrassment, and then kicked him. He intended to kick the corpse, but he didn't expect that his kick penetrated the fragile belly of the corpse.
Rotten pieces of meat, worms, and pus flowed out from the corpse, and it silently raised its dagger and stabbed at the head of Priest Augustus.
The old man stretched out his hand and spoke quickly the ancient spell words representing the power of the elements:
"wind!"
The invisible wind is like a ribbon, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com wrapped around the hands of the corpse, and then Xia De, who ran from behind the corpse, raised his sword in both hands, and made a big jump, moving from top to bottom, neatly The body was split diagonally in two.
The black dagger fell from his hand and pierced the ground. The land that had been covered with green grass immediately began to turn black and smelly with the dagger as the center.
Priest Augustus didn't pay attention to the dagger, and hurriedly took out a bottle of brown liquid that Shad was familiar with from his pocket. After falling on the corpse, the old hand pointed again:
"fire!"
The raging flames immediately ignited on the corpse.
That bottle of liquid was the strong kerosene that Xia De and the doctor used once when they shot people and set fire to the banknotes.
"Priest, does this count as desecration of a corpse?"
Shad was amazed at the priest's skillful movements.
"This is an undead, not a corpse. Detective, this kind of basic common sense error cannot be made."
The old priest said, and with Shade's even more surprised expression, he squatted down and pulled out the black dagger directly.
The dagger that corroded the earth immediately had a more terrifying effect on the priest's right hand. The arms, which were originally thin due to the aging of the body, immediately shrank and turned black and dry.
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