novelhk Chapter 109: The Favored
Chapter 109: The Favored
Qin Yangming climbed up step by step. He didn't count how many steps he climbed. He only felt his clothes gradually getting wet with sweat.
Finally, he stopped in front of a door, which was quietly placed at the end of this very long staircase.
Qin Yangming took a deep breath, placed his hand on the copper door handle of the door, and turned it gently.
It seemed that due to disrepair, the inside of the door handle seemed to be stuck together by rust. Qin Yangming failed to turn it the first time, so he tried again with greater force to turn the copper door handle.
Accompanied by a harsh sound like nails scratching on a blackboard, this time the brass door handle was finally turned.
The door was opened outwards, so Qin Yangming took a few steps back and stood on a lower step to leave space for the door to be opened.
In addition, he had greeted Jingjian and Mingguang in advance, so that they could come out to help if the situation went wrong, and everyone would retreat together.
The door was slowly opened under Qin Yangming's nervous gaze, and the scene behind the door came into Qin Yangming's eyes.
He opened his mouth slightly, it turned out to be this situation.
So what is the purpose of this door? Is it just to fool everyone who comes here?
Behind the door is a wall.
Qin Yangming shook his head and began to look around, trying to find something nearby.
First of all, this is the only channel that Lucard mentioned to communicate with the outside world.
Then, there was nothing here except the long stairs and that damn teasing door. No railings, no handrails, nothing else. There were only steps, doors, and connected walls in this high space.
Even the light from the fire was Qin Yangming's own flame.
So, where is the exit here, which looks closed at first glance?
Qin Yangming turned his gaze back to the wall hidden behind the door. That section of the wall was no different from the walls elsewhere and it was obvious that it extended over there.
Except... there's a very faint hexagram pattern drawn on it.
Qin Yangming hesitated for a while, but still stretched out his slender white hand and gently placed it on the hexagram on the wall.
Qin Yangming didn't expect anything to happen, but in his surprised eyes, a red light began to shine on the hexagram.
A suction force gushed out from the hexagram and instantly enveloped Qin Yangming.
This force of space could not be stopped, and Qin Yangming could only watch it all happen. In his vision, the scene in front of him was changing rapidly.
This is……
Qin Yangming stood there blankly. In a daze, he saw earth-shaking changes taking place in front of him. There were no longer stairs under his feet, and the door in front of him was gone.
There was a huge hexagram magic circle under his feet. The light of the intricate patterns and spells on the magic circle had just gone out, and then a large group of strange-looking people surrounded Qin Yangming and stared at him.
Qin Yangming stared blankly at everything in front of him that seemed so unfamiliar. However, before he could react where he was, a shrill voice broke the brief silence at the scene.
"Hong, your beloved...why does he look like a human?"
Qin Yangming looked and saw that the person who was speaking was a woman, a woman with a crow's mouth.
This is not sarcasm, but she really has a crow's mouth. The long black beak grows abruptly under her nose. When she speaks, the beak opens and closes, and a harsh, hoarse voice comes out from there.
"Yes, Hong, it seems that you are still a lowly creature without any noble blood!"
This time the speaker was a man with lizard scales all over his skin.
"Just a bastard like you! Just a bastard like Hong!"
This time the speaker had three rows of jagged teeth in his mouth.
"Hahahaha, you lowly bastard! Hong, what happened to you? Have you been cursed?! Hahaha!"
"Yes, the bastards can only summon bastards!"
Qin Yangming heard the words "bastard" one after another. Following the mocking gazes of the crowd, Qin Yangming saw a girl.
An ordinary human girl, without any strange features, was standing there timidly, with her face buried under her short black hair, her body trembling slightly.
It seems that is the girl they called Hong.
Qin Yangming noticed that he was Hong's follower.
He discovered a pattern that appeared on the back of his hand. It was a rainbow with seven colors.
And that hand was the one he had just used to touch the hexagram magic circle hidden on the wall behind the door.
It seems that, by accident, he became Hong's follower.
"Okay, next one!"
At this moment, a stern voice stopped the noise at the scene.
"Shut up!"
An old woman wearing black-framed glasses and a black suit swung her crocodile tail hard, and the thick, scaly tail hit the ground like a whip, making a loud noise.
"Don't make noise during the awakening ceremony!"
"You dirty bastards!"
She was very majestic; no, rather than being majestic, it was more that everyone present was afraid of her.
“Hong! Hurry up and get down with your followers! Next person! Hurry up and get to the center of the awakening formation. Are you still waiting for me to invite you?!”
The old woman's roar was deafening. Hong hurried to Qin Yangming, grabbed Qin Yangming's hand and ran outside.
Hong just pulled Qin Yangming away from there under the contemptuous gaze of everyone.
Qin Yangming discovered that this was a church. He was pulled by Hong all the way to the door of the church. During this period, Qin Yangming saw many unusual things.
The paintings on the stained glass, the reliefs on the high dome of the church, and the strange statues all seemed to tell Qin Yangming that this world was very different.
On the church relief, a glowing egg floats in the air, and below it are countless people kneeling in worship... and some strange-looking things.
Among those strange things were extremely ugly mermaids, humanoid creatures without facial features and with long pink tentacles growing out of their mouths, and giant eyeballs covered with octopus tentacles...
These strange-looking creatures knelt there just like the group of people, worshiping the egg in the air.
There are also reliefs that show a human woman giving birth, but what the doctor delivers is not a normal human baby, but a small monster with slippery, slimy octopus tentacles.
Then, Qin Yangming also saw the patterns on the stained glass of the church, an exquisite egg with intricate and beautiful patterns.
Qin Yangming took a quick look at these things that amazed him, and then was pulled by Hong to the street outside.
The streets were crowded with cars and pedestrians, and the shouts from the crowds formed a wave of sound that surged towards Qin Yangming.
It had been a long time since I had seen such a scene. Qin Yangming was suddenly overwhelmed by the world and was a little dazed for a moment.
"Hey, this light..."
He noticed something and stretched out his hand, letting the light from the sky fall on his hand so that he could examine it more carefully.
"This light... isn't sunlight..."
Qin Yangming murmured, and he subconsciously looked up at the sky.
I saw a fiery red sun hanging in the sky.
That sun, it seems, is not the sun...
More like a giant furnace...
How can a stove be hung in the sky?
Qin Yangming looked up again, and this time he saw the end of the sky.
Where is the blue sky? Where are the white clouds?
There was no sky at all; it was just a series of mountains that stretched above their heads and formed the sky.
Here, the mountains grow in the sky, and the mountains connected to the mountains become the sky.