Chapter 1114 Fifty-two. Freshmen

  The rough hemp rope connects everyone together, leading to the end of the trip and the end of their lives, the gallows.

   "Please let me go... I won't cause trouble to the refuge area, really, please believe me, I won't betray humanity..."

   Young Allen begged sadly, mixed with the surrounding cries.

   He didn't know whether to hate overly cheap food, or the tainted pieces of meat sold by black-hearted merchants.

   Soldiers who were as cold as the armor ignored people's prayers and took them to the gallows where Allen had applauded countless times, then became silent, and finally felt the same.

   Those old selves stood around the gallows, doing the same things as the old selves.

   As the icy noose touched the skin of his neck, Aaron had cold goosebumps from the fear of death.

   "I am human... I am not polluted..."

   Dream-like pleas have become Allen's subconscious behavior.

   "I curse you! You executioners will be hung on it soon!"

   But there are also people who become hysterical from extreme fear.

  The infected person quickly stood under the ten nooses of the gallows. Just when life was about to come to an end, a team of knights came from a distance to save them.

   "Mr. Mayor and His Excellency the Exorcist have asked to send them over."

  The knight showed the order signed by Mateus, rescued the ten people who were almost hanged, and went to the inner ring with nearly a hundred low-sanity syndrome and polluters who did not know what happened.

   "Where are we going to be taken?"

   "Maybe use us as drudgery... I heard some nobles are doing this..."

   "We should find a way to escape..."

   But someone who heard the knight's voice said: "I heard them mention the exorcist."

   "I heard the exorcist too... We're going to be sent to the Land of Light!?"

   "How could such a good thing happen..."

  The knights did not stop their whispering, and brought these people who attracted strange attention to the park in the inner ring, a cave that was much smaller than the core cave.

The    knights then revealed the reason for bringing them here: Lu Li and his allies came to the Wiener Refuge. He takes pity on these poor people who will be driven out and killed, and gives them the opportunity to become followers of the Twisted Shadow and gain new life.

   "What if you don't want to be a believer?" someone asked.

   "Where are you going?" said the knight captain in charge of the answer.

   "Can we go home?!"

   "Back to the gallows."

   "Will the exorcist take us back to the land of light?" someone else asked.

   People who had to be killed before were looking forward to watching the knight.

"meeting."

   Then this is no longer a multiple-choice question, especially after learning that being a believer does not kill consciousness.

   "My wife is about to have a deformed limb, can you bring her too?" Someone wanted to bring their family.

  The Knight Captain nodded, turned his head towards the team members and said, "Follow him to the residence and bring people back."

   Allen has no family, so he, like most people in the park, lined up in front of one of the park’s new sheds.

   "Is the exorcist really here?"

  The ragged young man behind him spoke to Allen.

"I have no idea……"

   Allen shook his head and looked for the legendary figure with "black hair and black eyes" with him. And then he really saw-

   As if glory and light were focused on him, clean middle-aged men, young women and cloaked silhouettes surrounded him.

  Arun guesses that it's the Mayor, Ana and the Twisted Shadow.

   But soon, the surrounding voices pointed out his mistake: the young woman was a twisted shadow in the form of a saint, and the outline of the cloak was Lu Li's companion Ophelia.

   A twisted figure enters the shack, followed by the first resident.

  People look out and wait. A few minutes later, a terrifying figure appeared in front of the door as if coming out of the deep sea.

   Four octopus tentacle-like soft tentacles piled up and squeezed into the trousers, the bare skin became deep and smooth, the nose degenerated into flat pores to present the face, and the tiny cilia like beards wriggled in the lower jaw.

   The first converted believer acts as a "show" as he walks through the queue and talks to people gripped by fear.

   "Will we become like this?"

   "That's right..."

  The wet and sticky believer replied, his voice was like a murmuring of water, and when he got close, he could hear the sound of the tide in his body.

   "I feel the power..."

  The believer stretched out the webbed webs with a layer of translucent film adhered between the knuckles. Clear water appeared invisible, and the palms were sticky and flowing like silt.

   "And...I'm still me..."

Everything that happened    was like a dream to him, and even the terrifying appearance softened.

  Others remembered that they were allies of the exorcists, inhabitants of the Land of Light... It doesn't seem unacceptable to be like this.

  Becoming a believer might not be so bad…

  More and more residents walked into the mysterious shack, and when they came out, they turned into aliens with tentacles. Occasionally, some people who went in did not come out. Allen guessed that the hapless one failed.

   Prayed that he would not fail, Allen stared at the transformed people, trying to get used to this look.

   The line behind him is getting longer and longer. When there are more than a dozen people left in front of Aaron, more residents come to the park to become believers than at the beginning——

  The residents from the outer ring and the inner ring who suffered from low sanity syndrome and aberration were notified that they chose to believe this because of the exorcist's reputation and came here.

   He even saw the Knights drive out some of the populace from the ranks at the back—those who were healthy and uncontaminated.

   They want to take this to the land of light.

   Getting closer to the mysterious transformation hut, Aaron lifted the corner of his clothes and tucked the cilia from his abdomen into the tight trousers. But the passing knight stopped him.

   "Show it, and no distortion will be cast out."

   "Oh oh..."

   Allen did what he did, not only did not hide the cilia, but made it more conspicuous.

   But other people around did the same thing, revealing the deformed parts, and those with low sanity were worried about gains and losses, worrying that they would be driven out as normal people.

   It seems that everything is turned upside down in the park: normal people become excluded...

   There were only a few people left in front of him. Allen thought excitedly about what to say to the exorcist. He saw many people talking to Lu Li, and Lu Li responded to them.

   It just made him regret that the exorcist and the mayor left the park when it was almost his turn.

"Next."

   The knight captain who maintained the order said while standing outside the shack.

"name."

   "Ah, Alan...no last name."

"go in."

   Allen buries nervously into the shed, the wooden door closing behind him, drawing him into the shadows.

  When he was terrified by the sudden darkness, a kind of gentle aura emerged from the front, as if taking him into the warm embrace of a mother he had never seen before...

   (end of this chapter)