NOVEL ONLINE FREE Chapter 169: The Cult (1)
They were people who had been kidnapped from areas near the Rocky Mountains.
The bulbs blinked ominously, making the dark and quiet atmosphere of the underground space begin to slowly come to life.
People who had been lying on the floor and had lost consciousness began to slowly come to their senses. They were all confused as they woke up without knowing where the place was.
People who asked where they were.
People who yelled to be let out.
People who came to join the Eyes Cult, but asking where they were.
As all the people chattered, the empty space quickly became noisy.
As the murmur of people who had opened their eyes filled the empty space, a man appeared on a high platform on one side of the empty space. He was a middle-aged man with a stylish beard donned in fancy clothes.
The clothes were appropriately colored in white and black, it was also heavily decorated with gold.
“The body is the prison of the soul. Only through suffering can one escape from that prison.”Everyone’s eyes gathered as the man in fancy clothes suddenly said those words with a loud voice.
“Cult leader?”
The man was someone the people gathered in the empty space knew well. He was the leader of the Eyeball Cult.
Then, a man stood up and asked whether it was his doing that they were here now with a loud voice. He also demanded that he let him out if that’s really the case.
Then, the cult leader slowly approached the man who had shouted while repeating strange words with a pious expression.
“The body is the prison of the soul. Only through suffering can one escape from that prison.”
At that moment, the cult leader who stood in front of the man swung his fist. It seemed like he swung lightly, but the result was anything but light.
In the next instance, desperate screams filled the empty space, turning the noisy empty space quiet in an instant.
The man who was hit by the punch began to swell up as if his bones had been broken and sprawled on the floor, sweating profusely and groaning in pain. That groan was the only sound that resonated in the quiet empty space.
At that moment, the people felt something ominous was looming. In fact, it would have been normal for them to shout and cause a scene, but the ominous atmosphere that the man called ‘leader’ had on his body was restraining them from doing so. On top of that, the fact that they had been kidnapped to a suspiciously empty space also played a part.
The leader approached the fallen man and grabbed his wound tightly.
“Ahhhhh!”
Then, the leader’s gloomy voice echoed against the backdrop of the desperate screams of the man who had his bones broken.
“What a pity. To think you couldn’t throw off your demon skin and still caught up in a dream!”
Then he started to strike the man with his fists.
Every time his fists touched the man’s body, an eerie sound of his bones breaking rang out.
Before long, the man was no longer groaning. He was just lying there as if he was dead, unconscious.
The leader who had been striking the man spread his hands in an exaggerated manner and made a sad expression.
“Why! Why don’t you understand my sincerity!”
The man in the fancy clothes suddenly got angry and shouted as if he had a mental illness.
He cried bitterly and then shouted in anger.
He also laughed happily before turning his gaze with a gloomy expression.
His speech was also inconsistent and changed according to his expression.
And then, the moment he raised his fist again and tried to strike the man again…
Bang-!
A loud noise that shook the heavens and earth echoed through the closed space.
Then, the cult leader fell to the ground.
The bullet hit the cult leader’s head, blowing it up.
“Ha, Haha.”
The woman who had fired the pistol was trembling, clutching the gun tightly with a hardened expression, and letting out a dry laugh.
But suddenly, a large shadow appeared behind the woman.
“This is really sad.”
The cult leader with a sad expression suddenly appeared and spoke with a sad expression.
“!”
Bang-! Bang-! Bang-!
In a bewildering situation where it seemed like a dead person had come back to life, the woman fired several more bullets from her gun, making the newly appeared cult leader fell down again with a lot of blood flowing from his abdomen.
“What the fuck is this…”
The woman looked back and forth with a bewildered expression, but he really saw two bodies.
The leader’s body became two.
The people who were frozen in the ominous situation quickly looked for a way to escape from the empty space, but they couldn’t find it anywhere.
At that moment, heavy voices echoed in the empty space.
“This is really sad.”
“This is really sad.”
“This is really sad.”
The leaders, clenching their fists, suddenly appeared among the people and began to speak.
“Oh the almighty God of Eyes. Please forgive me.”
With those words, the leaders began to indiscriminately assault the people.
*********A Blue Reaper was hiding in the Sehee Research Institute security room with a sad expression. Of course, the security staff knew about that fact, but they tried to ignore the Blue Reaper because it looked crestfallen.
My precious human is gone.
Its precious person was nowhere to be seen in either her studio, her workplace, or anywhere else.
< Did my precious human hate me? >
The Blue Reaper wrote some letters in the air, but its magic did not give an answer.
With sad expression and tears welling up in its eyes, the Blue Reaper was waiting for its precious human.
While secretly watching the Blue Reaper, the security staff began to talk.
“The Blue Reaper has been there all day. What is going on?”
“Beats me. I have a guess, but I’m not sure. It’s only been a day.”
The junior staff member asked the senior staff member again, feeling sorry for the Blue Reaper who looked sad.
“If you have any guesses, please let me know. The Blue Reaper is sad, so at least we have to do something.”
“I’m not really sure because I don’t know the Blue Reapers well, but isn’t there someone that the Blue Reaper always follows? I heard she went missing.”
“I thought she was just resting because she was sick, but she had gone missing?”
The security team was working in shifts of 5 and 4, so it wasn’t a big problem if someone didn’t come to work, but the security team knew about it.
“Yeah, I heard that her younger sibling got caught up by a popular cult in Gangdong-gu, so she went to rescue her, but she also disappeared.”
“Oh, so that’s why Deputy Director Seoah was busy going around with the association.”
As soon as the sad Blue Reaper heard that, it felt interested in the story.
Even though it couldn’t understand the words, It could feel emotions like the Golden Reaper and sense a little information from it.
My precious human went to the east. Disappeared. Dangerous?
It wasn’t clear, but it was information about its precious human that the Blue Reaper was waiting for.
Precious human. Have to save her!
After hearing the news about the precious human, the Blue Reaper returned to the Garden of the Mini Reaper with an urgent expression.
*********A giant pot inside the containment room that Yerin had prepared was bubbling. In the meantime, a fluffy towel was wrapped around the rim of the pot while the water inside it was sloshing around.
Inside the pot, tiny wooden bowls that looked like miniatures were floating.
“Okay, it’s done!”
Yerin tied the small towels to the heads of the Golden Reapers, turning them into a goat-shaped towel bandana.
The Golden Reapers who wore the hat raised both of its hands as if saying ‘Hurray!’ before jumping into the pot with a joyful expression.
It was a mini-reaper’s hot spring.
It was a makeshift hot spring made at the request of the Golden Reapers who discovered the hot spring on TV.
Sehee, who saw this pot hot spring, said something incomprehensible like ‘This is it! I have to make a hot spring underground!’ and disappeared.
Inside the large pot, the Golden Reapers and the Black Reapers were splashing around.
The Red Reaper was floating around in the middle of the pot with a bright expression.
The Orange Reaper was lying on the pot with a comfortable expression.
And the Bud Reaper was sleeping soundly in the arms of the Orange Reaper.
The Orange Reaper’s white hair spread out in the water, showing how long and voluminous it was. In the meantime, the Red Reaper occasionally breathed fire to boil the water in the pot, which could easily get cold.
Strangely, the Blue Reaper was nowhere to be seen.
The Blue Reapers seemed to be doing something together. They were probably talking about the humans they were attached to just like before.
A Golden Reaper who was happily wandering around the warm pot suddenly grabbed my finger and told me to come in.
I’m not small enough to fit in the pot.
The Golden Reaper, who became sullen at my answer, returned to the Black Reaper’s side, splashing around.
I looked away from the pot and looked at the TV, which was still noisy with talk about the cult.
Yerin was also watching TV with a serious expression.
“Seoah Unnie has been busy lately because of that cult. That’s why I have more work to do.”
After she said that, Yerin put her head on top of mine and sighed.
While Yerin was distracted by the TV, I floated the ‘dried shiitake mushrooms’ I had prepared in advance into the pot.
Then, the mini reapers just looked at the shiitake mushrooms with expressions that as if saying ‘what is this?’
As a delicious smell started to come out of the pot, it started to look like a real mini reaper stew.
Hihihi!
By the way, the symbol of eyes with five pupils that kept appearing on TV.
I don’t know why, but it bothered me for some reason.
*********Rachel quietly moved behind the bushes.
She did so in order to not get caught by the police who were passing by.
The town where Rachel’s parents lived was currently completely sealed off.
No matter which road she took, she always met the police who were blocking the road. But since it was the village where Rachel spent her childhood, she slowly walked through the dense pine forest and was able to arrive near the village.
“What should I do? Looks like a really big incident had happened.”
Rachel looked down at the village from the tree with a worried expression.
The village was currently blocked by the police, and there were a lot of people from the association walking around inside the village. However, inside the village, there were no villagers in sight.
As she slowly stroked the Golden Reaper to ease her anxious heart, the Golden Reaper patted Rachel’s cheek with a worried expression.
Then, the Golden Reaper raised both of its hands and ran towards the village with an expression that was as if telling her to trust it.
“Wait! Where are you going?”
Rachel called out to the Golden Reaper in a small voice, but the Golden Reaper was already rushing towards the people from the association.
Then, the chaos began.
As the Golden Reaper ran around the village while radiating light from its entire body, the people of the association became chaotic.
Some wanted to continue the investigation, some wanted to chase the Golden Reaper, and some wanted to contact their superiors.
In the midst of the chaos, a gap that would allow Rachel to enter the village appeared.
Thank you, Golden Reaper!
Rachel thanked it in her heart and slowly slipped into the darkness of the village.