Chapter 108: The Brilliant Light, Irresistible

Although he was very resistant in his heart, Thomas still received accurate news from the other end of the communication.

"The church in Black Falls has lost contact. We have activated the Holy Gospel. Now the evil aura in that direction is very serious, estimated to be between level 3 and 4, and there is a strong coupling between the inner world and the material world."

Thomas was silent for a moment, and then he said to Luke on the phone, "Thank you for your help. When this is over, welcome to the Charleston Diocese. We will give you a reasonable reward."

He didn't even ask Luke about the types and specific abilities of the evil spirits. He hung up the phone and said to the other end of the confidential communication in a cold voice: "Activate the Level 4 emergency plan."

On the other end of the confidential communication, a young voice sounded very surprised: "Ah? Really? But..."

"No buts!" Thomas interrupted the young operator's hesitation. "What happened in Fort Lauderdale has not been covered up yet. The Southern Baptist Convention has become a recognized laughing stock. They need a big news to divert their attention. I don't want to be this kind person."

"Over the years, the monsters in the other world have become more and more rampant. We must strike them head-on and hurt them so that they will calm down a little."

"Look, hasn't Fort Lauderdale become much more peaceful since the dawn bell sounded?"

"Okay, I got it." The person on the other end of the communication was convinced by his words and started to execute it immediately.

North of Charleston, there is a hidden valley covered by dense forests. Only a few people know about this place. It is a practice base of the Catholic Diocese of Charleston and the residence of the ascetics.

The young resident priest hung up the communication and walked to the center of the room.

There was a complex mechanical device, its surface engraved with strange runes, which glowed faintly in the dim light. On the top of the device was an inconspicuous button, carved from a smooth piece of obsidian and surrounded by circles of fine copper wire.

The young priest took a complicated look at the device, took a deep breath, and then pressed it decisively.

The whole room began to vibrate slightly, as if some dormant power was awakening. The runes on the device lit up one by one, emitting dazzling light, and the whole room was shrouded in a holy light.

Outside the room, the ascetics who were still awake stopped what they were doing, looked towards the house in unison, then put down what they were holding and walked towards the house in silence.

They sat down in a circle around the old stone house and began to pray silently.

Along with the faint sounds of prayers, the light of the ancient stone house became more pure and holy.

Father Thomas was dressed now, opened the door and walked out, along the quiet path to the church. He went up the winding stairs until he entered a small room at the top that was small enough to accommodate only one person.

Opening the door, Thomas knelt down reverently and slowly moved inside.

The room was empty except for a church classic crucifix standing at the end. One third of the bottom of the cross was already filled with pure white holy light, and as time passed, the white light continued to spread upwards.

Thomas was not in a hurry. After closing the door, he knelt there quietly and waited in silence.

A dozen kilometers away from the church, an armed helicopter had already taken off urgently, and armed priests dressed more professionally than ordinary policemen boarded the helicopter. However, the helicopter did not take off immediately, but hovered over the church.

After all, the armed priests have limited abilities, and if they rashly confront the evil spirits, they will only fall into a trap. They need to wait for Father Thomas to complete the ceremony before going together.

In the wilderness, after hanging up the phone, Luke glanced in the direction of Black Falls Town. At this time, he had completely recovered to normal. The only pity was that although the lignified energy in those hairs had been cleared, their vitality was limited after all, so they dried up and fell off like withered grass and trees, and moved away from Luke.

In other words, Luke now has no hair on his body.

Damn you!
The hatred of shaving hair is irreconcilable!
Luke patted Fares' shoulder and said temptingly, "Let's go back and take a look."

“No, no, no!” Fares shook his helmet so fast that he almost threw it off. “Go by yourself if you want to go. I don’t want to die.”

"Don't worry, I've notified the church, and the puppet man is dead." Luke still wanted to go back and take a look, mainly to see if there was any chance of picking up any spoils.

"How do you know that the church won't kill me as well?" Fares questioned his soul.

Ah this.

Luke was speechless.

He had always stood from the perspective of humanity, and of course he was not afraid of the church, but after Fares reminded him of this, he discovered the blind spots in his thinking.

After all, Fares is also a ghost. If he is discovered by people from the church, it is normal to kill him.

It really can't be forced.

He pondered for a moment. The puppet's ability was very strange, and the sacrifice was so grand, with more people than the one in Fort Lauderdale. If some evil god was really summoned, the church might not be able to withstand it.

But, fuck!

The revenge of shaving!
Luke thought about it again and again, but he still couldn't bear it.

You can mess with dragons and tigers but you shouldn't mess with me. I can't tolerate you even if I have to hold my shit and piss!

"How about this," Luke finally proposed a compromise: "Just drop me off nearby, and I'll go the remaining ten kilometers by myself."

Given their friendship, Fares had no objection as long as they were not going to die. However, he still advised, "Since you have already notified the church, why do you still have to get involved in this mess? Can't you just wait for them to fight each other?"

In Fares's eyes, the church that calls for the killing of ghosts is not a good thing either.

But Luke had made up his mind and would not change it easily. He shook his head and said firmly: "Send me over."

"Okay. If you insist," Fares got on the motorcycle and patted the back seat: "Let's go."

Another gust of lightning.

While Luke was rushing to Black Falls Town, outside Charleston, the ascetics were still praying endlessly outside the stone house. Under the stone house, the traces of time gradually faded from the unknown holy relics, and the holy light bloomed little by little.

Along with the blooming holy light, the cross of Jesus' crucifixion in the top room of the church in Charleston City became brighter and brighter, and the light had spread from the bottom to the waist of Jesus.

In the further Black Falls Town, more than a thousand puppets walked down from the wooden tower and stood in the open space next to the wooden tower. Because there were too many puppets, the open space could not accommodate them, and some stood on the road further away or in the hospital nearby. The only one left on the wooden tower was the weird puppet that almost controlled Luke. It was cursing and dismantling some facilities to redesign the Sacrifice Tower.

The tower had already been completed, but for Luke, the most important sacrifice, it underwent some additional modifications to maximize the effect of the sacrifice.

As a result, the duck in the mouth flew away, and these additional modifications lost their effect and had to be dismantled again.

Three parties, four locations, were all quietly doing their own things.

Fares drove Luke about ten kilometers away from Black Falls Town, braked and stopped, and said to Luke: "Let's stop here."

After Luke got out of the car, he raised his hand and said, "I'll wait here for a while. If you're in danger, call me."

"But I may not go there. It depends on the situation."

"Go ahead, and be careful."

Luke didn't waste any more time, took out the [Melted Gold], waved his hand and left. The remaining ten kilometers of the journey could be completed quickly at his speed.

When he got outside the town, the drone came in handy. He took out the Dajiang brand drone from the [Endless Stomach]. It had four propellers, a compact body, and was painted with camouflage, making it difficult to be spotted in the sky. It was equipped with a high-definition camera that could transmit images back to the display screen in real time.

This small but advanced drone took off silently and flew over the town. Although the propeller made a faint buzzing sound, the telephoto camera enabled it to record from a very far distance. Before the buzzing sound could reach the ground, it was masked by the surrounding natural sounds.

Under Luke's control, the drone's perspective was locked directly on the center of the town. The screen displayed real-time images sent back by the drone. He also saw the puppet man busy on the wooden tower.

Although the puppet's abilities were strange and powerful, he was far from the level where he would feel palpitations in his heart or react subconsciously when seen by others. Therefore, under Luke's gaze, he did not notice anything and was still busy with his own work.

Now, the enemy is in the open and I am in the dark.

While he was wondering why the church members hadn't come yet, he was also thinking about how to kill him. Luke was now nearly ten kilometers away from the wooden tower in the center of the town, and the longest-range weapon he had, the "Javelin", only had a range of three or four kilometers, which was out of reach.

If you want to hit him, you need to get closer than half the distance, which is already very dangerous.

Luke thought about it again and again and decided to wait and see. After all, there were people who were more anxious than him.

Sure enough, within a few minutes, Luke discovered the entry of a third party force.

A light gray armed helicopter flew over from the south, in the direction of Charleston.

On the helicopter, the armed priests surrounded Father Thomas like a star surrounding the moon, protecting him. The middle-aged priest lowered his head, closed his eyes, and clasped his hands on his chest. The cross that was originally placed in the hut was now tightly held in his hands.

Now, the entire cross has become brilliant and shining, and the unconcealable sacred feeling makes the armed priests unable to help but pray in their hearts.

After a moment, the driver reminded: "Father, Black Falls Town is almost here."

Thomas opened his eyes and looked at the town on the ground. He roughly estimated the distance and ordered, "Stop, hover here."

When the plane came to a steady stop, he raised the cross in one hand and pointed the holy image of Jesus toward Black Falls, silently channeling the divine power contained within.

In Luke's vision, the sky seemed to darken for a moment, and then became brighter and more dazzling.

He raised his head and looked carefully. A huge cross shadow several dozen meters high appeared in the sky above Black Falls Town. It was so dazzling and sudden that the sunlight seemed dim for a moment. This was exactly why Luke felt the sky was cloudy just now.

Suddenly, the dazzling holy light obscured the bright radiance of the early morning sun, as if at this moment, even the sunlight was expelled by the holy light, and only the power of the holy light existed above the entire Black Waterfall Town.

The brilliant light was like the power of heaven descending. As soon as it appeared, before the puppet could react, it had already covered the entire town. Not only did it shine on the earth like the sun, but every room, even every basement and every well, had traces of the holy light.

Under the power of the holy light, the puppet was like Harland in the other world facing Luke's full-strength attack. He couldn't move at all, and even his thinking became slow.

"Fake"

"But, in a small town, how can there be a holy relic?"

Previously, Luke was rescued by a demon-like ghost and associated with the devil. In the puppet man's mind, Luke was probably a fellow demon and could not have any connection with the church, so he never thought that he would be so unethical and would directly "call the parents" when he couldn't win.

Under the direct illumination of the holy light, several "puff" sounds were heard around the puppet man. Those were the sounds of several puppets that he brought with him by special means breaking into pieces.

Before a few puffs of black smoke could emerge, they were purified by the holy light, and a camera, a tattered diary, and a mask fell to the ground.

There was no time to feel sorry for these special puppets, as the puppets themselves could not be saved.

It raised its head with difficulty and looked at the cross above. Before it could make any other movements, its two gem-like eyeballs completely lost their luster, as if it had turned into a real wooden puppet.

The priest in the air didn't even look at the puppet. He borrowed the power of the holy relic not to destroy this little jerk, it was just a incidental attack.

In an abandoned mine on the edge of the town, a palm-sized inconspicuous wooden doll broke into two pieces when the puppet died. This was the backup it left outside. Even if the original body was destroyed, this clone made of a part of his body could allow him to reincarnate and start over.

Unfortunately, under the shining of holy light, no backup plan or conspiracy had any chance and all turned into nothingness.

The power of holy light was still pouring down, and with the endless flow of this power, all the puppets beside the wooden tower, on the streets, and in the hospital began to change.

The wood texture on the skin disappeared and began to become soft and elastic, wisdom returned to the eyes, and soon people were able to move freely.

This is why Thomas came to Black Falls.

The residents who had returned to normal had no time to be afraid. They were attracted by the huge cross in the sky and the holy light everywhere around them, and they knelt on the ground devoutly.

After all the residents had recovered, Thomas put the cross back in front of his chest and directed the plane to land.

(End of this chapter)