After passing through the last road sign, they finally started to see small townhouses. They are all quiet, doors and windows are closed and no life activities have been found out. After driving for another five minutes, they reached to the city center. They found no living people yet. It started to make them felt bad.
It is a small village of nearly a thousand households. They found a church which was opened by the bright church in the center of village.
And things are completely wrong because it is just too quiet and there is no one on the streets.
There is a police car parked in front of the church.
So, Emuel decided to park their car beside the police car. They got out of the car together with their pets.
Emuel looked around and saw every houses were in good conditions. He took a look inside the police car, there is no blood, no fighting traces, all good. He tried to open the door but found out it's locked.
Rose suddenly told him, "It is weird. There is not even a sound of bird. This village is just too quiet."
Emuel commented, "As if there is no living being, right?"
Rose whispered while looking at her phone, "No, signal, no internet."
Emuel's eyes turned into golden color, then he looked around again slowly and seriously. He said, "There is a condition. It seems, someone has placed a small space array here. But don't worry, there is no divine power involved. We can expect it is a handwriting from a being under tier three."
Then, he took everyone into the church building.
As soon as they entered into the hall, they saw various stone statues in cheering postures. The statues entirely composed of young and strong people. Then, they saw a horrible scenes at the end of the hall, many old people are hanged and dozens of young children were nailed. The white marble floor was tainted by blood.
Rose counted and she said, "Too few people, although these people were petrified by something. The number is not right. There are only over a hundred people here. What about the others?"
Emuel suddenly looked above, at the ceiling, many corpses were hanged. Rose also looked above, she muttered, "How is it possible?"
Alex whispered, "The king is not afraid, the king is strong, the king is not afraid, the king has strong peasants."
Kate and Sora, who were just besides him, looked him in disgust.
Emuel told them, "Let's go back to the car first. We need backups to handle all of these messes."
Rose asked, " How? There is no signal here."
Emuel silently took out his identity card, "With this."
Then, he posted a mission to let everyone nearby to come to this village. As for the reward, he put one divine crystal and there is no limit of participants but it has time limit of one hour.
Well, just yesterday, he checked his space ring and found the mountains of divine crystals inside it. He didn't expect he had these, otherwise, he would just stay at ease in the fortress for a night.
They just patiently waited in the car for several minutes. Soon, several cars parked beside them and men and women in various outfits came down.
They looked around and just waited patiently. More and more people came and one hour quickly passed.
Emuel came out of the van and he introduced himself to the people waiting outside, "I am Emuel Steller, the cardinal and the founder of heart school and it was me who asked you to come here."
He causally glanced and estimated the strength of various people, thirty tier one and five tier two, well, not bad actually.
He told them, "You only need to clean up the mess inside the church and you would be able to get your reward. This is your only mission and some of you who haven't entered any influence, welcome to join the heart school if you want."
When they heard it, they were excited. Some are excited because they don't have to fight and take risk. Some are excited because they can join the influence of the cardinal. Most of them are descendants of ordinary people and they couldn't able to join into any influence for various reasons. It makes them lack of resources and knowledge. Fortunately, they can enter the origin church and pick up various missions for resources.
They couldn't be happier than ever if they would be able to join a good influence easily, especially when the other party is still a cardinal. What is a cardinal? My brother, that is a giant of tier four, a living demigod.
Most small influences and middle level influences don't even have a tier four powerhouse. Only high level organizations or influences have demigods sitting in them. Of course, they don't even know about the existence of god families, it is too far from them.
So, a group of people excitedly entered into the church building. And that's when they saw a vicious scene. Although they were still have some preparation in their mind, the thing here is quite hard to accept.
While a group of people he called were handling the dead bodies, Emuel was floating at a hundred meters above the village and searching for the souls.
He couldn't help but wondered as he found no soul in the area of village. Things are really strange.
At that time, several cars entered into the village again, two cars at the front are from San Cristobal church and four cars behind are police cars, they might come from the San Cristobal police department.
Soon, they also entered the church building after Rose told them to go inside. They saw the most tragic scene they had ever seen in their life.
Fortunately, the sheriff is the old man who works together with the church for a long time and knows the mysterious side of the world. So, he prevented some officers who wanted to stop the gang of people handling the dead bodies.
Several police officers swallowed what they wanted to say and they also went around to search some living people and their two missing officers. But strangely enough, they couldn't find them.
The middle-age sheriff came out with the old pastor and lit up a cigarette. He smoked several times in silent. The old pastor looked at the sky or exactly at the mysterious cardinal. He was shocked and deeply admired at the strength of the cardinal.
After several minutes, Emuel came down in disappointments, he still found no soul, as if the village has become a soulless zone.
The old pastor paid respect to Emuel and asked the situation. Emuel just shakes his head in respond meaning he also has no understandings in this matter.
The sheriff stayed silent all the time. But his shaking fingers shows he is not calm.
A policeman came and reported him, "We have searched the entire building but Pedro and Tina haven't been found yet, not even their traces."
The old man silently shed a tear, Tina, she is his second daughter, he never expected a normal patrol mission would make her went missing without a trace.
As a father, he is deeply worried about his daughter . So, when he got the news, he really wanted to lead someone to search for his daughter. But as a rational person, he still understood to avoid meaningless losses for personal problem, so he informed his old friend Billy who is a pastor at the local origin church as he should.
He didn't want to put his subordinates into the same risk as his daughter too since they already smelled the danger, and they also have their families.
He was still hoping things wouldn't be that bad until the church called him to go to the village today. He had already prepared his mind but still he couldn't help but felt really sad.