Slaying God: I, the insane and witty god

Chapter 708: New recruits tell strange stories, experts analyze and reveal the conspiracy

Inside the auditorium, the air seemed to have solidified into a solid substance, making it hard to breathe.

Ding Chongfeng's voice stopped abruptly, and everyone's eyes were focused on the slowly opening door.

Squeak—the door hinge made a harsh friction sound, like nails scraping against glass, making one's scalp tingle.

"When we were at the special training base..." Ding Chongfeng swallowed hard, beads of sweat oozing from his forehead.

He tried to steady his voice and continued, "We saw a man... a man carrying a black coffin."

There was an uproar in the auditorium.

"Black coffin?"

"What black coffin?"

The recruits whispered to each other, and panic spread like a plague.

Ding Chongfeng took a deep breath and tried to bring his thoughts back to the nightmarish scene.

"It was one night when our team was on patrol. It was pitch black and we couldn't see our hands in front of us."

"Suddenly, we heard a strange sound, like... like someone was sawing wood."

Ding Chongfeng's voice became lower and lower, as if he was recalling something extremely terrifying.

"We approached cautiously, and then... then we saw the man."

"He was standing in the autopsy room, carrying a black coffin."

"Autopsy room?" someone exclaimed.

"Yes, it's the anatomy room. As you know, there are many instructors in the training base. They will give us practical exercises."

"But...but that night, that man was dissecting the body of an instructor!"

Ding Chongfeng's voice trembled, as if he could not bear the horrible memory.

"He used a knife to cut open the instructor's body, one cut at a time, and then... he stuffed something black into the instructor's stomach."

"His movements were slow and careful, like he was performing some kind of ritual."

"ceremony?"

"What ceremony?"

The recruits were completely furious, and fear was like an invisible hand, tightly strangling their throats.

"I don't know what the ritual was, I just know that the scene was horrifying!"

Ding Chongfeng closed his eyes in pain. "We were so scared that we didn't dare to move at all."

“We didn’t dare run back to the dormitory until the man completed his ritual, carried the black coffin and left.”

"We told other people about it, but no one believed us."

"They all said we were having a nightmare or that we were joking."

Ding Chongfeng smiled bitterly.

"But we know we didn't lie. We really saw the man carrying the black coffin!"

Below the stage, Fang Mo's brows were tightly furrowed.

Ding Chongfeng's description reminded her of someone - the strange man she met in the park.

"Could it be...could it be that they are the same person?" Fang Mo's heart was filled with uneasiness.

At this moment, a weak voice came from the crowd: "But, I remember that the members of the 'Nightfall' team are all quite normal?"

"They usually train with us, eat with us, and teach us some fighting techniques."

"How could they be what you say they are?"

The speaker was Li Zhenzhen, a somewhat introverted recruit.

She listened to Ding Chongfeng's story silently, her heart full of doubts.

However, as soon as she finished speaking, her eyes suddenly became empty.

A strange smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, as if she had become a different person.

"Hehe..." Li Zhenzhen let out a low laugh, her voice was hoarse and cold, completely unlike her usual voice.

"How dare you foolish mortals question the great Church of the Ancient Gods?"

This sudden change stunned everyone.

"Li Zhenzhen, what's wrong with you?" Fang Mo asked in horror.

However, Li Zhenzhen did not answer her, but continued to make that creepy laugh.

"Really!?" Fang Mo wanted to say something, but was stopped by the person next to him.

"Don't go over there! There's something wrong with her!"

At this moment, a new recruit suddenly stood up and shouted, "I've also seen the man carrying the black coffin you mentioned! That night, I saw him walk into an abandoned laboratory."

"I followed him out of curiosity, and then... then I saw him dissecting a monster!"

"Monster?"

"What monster?"

The recruits fell into panic again.

"That monster looks very strange, like... like it's made up of several different animals."

"It was covered in pustules and had a foul odor."

"The man cut open its stomach with a knife and took out some black worms from it and put them into a glass jar."

The recruit's voice trembled, as if recalling the horrific scene, making him feel extremely sick.

"I was terrified and ran back to the dormitory immediately. I swear, I never want to see that kind of thing again!"

"I've seen it too! I've seen it too!"

Another recruit also stood up and said excitedly,

"I saw a demon covered in black fire! He was standing in the corner of the training ground."

"He stared at us with a cold gaze. I felt like he would pounce on us at any moment and tear us to pieces!"

"And me! I also met a perverted man who kept a lot of spiders!"

"Those spiders are huge, some are even bigger than my head!"

"He feeds the spiders every day with...living people!"

The new recruits talked about their horrific experiences at the special training base.

Each story is full of blood, violence and weirdness.

Fang Mo was stunned. She couldn't believe what she heard.

She had never seen the Nightfall squad and didn't know if they were as terrifying as these recruits said they were.

"This...what is going on?" Fang Mo felt dizzy, as if he had fallen into a bottomless abyss.

Ding Chongfeng looked at the agitated recruits below the stage, his heart filled with anxiety.

He knew that if he couldn't calm their panic quickly, something even more terrible might happen.

"Everyone, please be quiet! Please be quiet!"

Ding Chongfeng shouted loudly,

"I know everyone is very scared now, but please believe me, we will definitely find out the truth!"

After Ding Chongfeng finished speaking, he turned to look at Shen Qingzhu who was standing beside him and pleaded, "Expert Shen, now we can only rely on you to analyze it."

Shen Qingzhu nodded and walked to the center of the stage.

He looked around at the new recruits in the audience, cleared his throat, and said, "Everyone, I know everyone is panicking right now."

"But please believe me, our Demon Suppression Division will definitely protect your safety."

"Based on everyone's descriptions just now, I can preliminarily conclude that the 'Nightfall' team has most likely been replaced by members of the Ancient God Church."

Shen Qingzhu's words were like a bolt from the blue, hitting everyone present hard.

"Ancient God Church?!"

"Why are they doing this?"

"What is their purpose?"

Shen Qingzhu took a deep breath and continued, "The Church of the Ancient God is an extremely evil organization. They worship the ancient gods and try to introduce the power of the ancient gods into the human world."

"They will use any means to achieve this goal."

"Everyone must have heard about the Cangnan catastrophe more than a decade ago, right? That incident was orchestrated by the Ancient God Church."

Shen Qingzhu's voice became heavy. "At that time, the Ancient God Church used a special ritual to summon a powerful monster, which attacked Cangnan City."

"That incident caused countless casualties and dealt a devastating blow to Cangnan City."

"As far as we know, members of the Ancient God Church have always believed that the Cangnan catastrophe was a grand tactical attempt by Master Qianmo..."

Shen Qingzhu paused, his eyes scanning the new recruits below the stage sharply. "They switched the 'Nightfall' team this time, I'm afraid they are planning some bigger conspiracy."

Ding Chongfeng immediately pressed the issue, "Expert Shen, what do you think the Ancient God Church's purpose is?"

Shen Qingzhu shook his head and said slowly: "It's not certain at the moment..."

Before he finished speaking, hurried footsteps were heard outside the auditorium.

Shen Qingzhu took a deep breath, and his tone was as solemn as the dark clouds before a rainstorm.

"Their purpose... may be more terrifying than we imagined." He paused, his eyes sweeping across the young and frightened faces.

"Think about it, what is the 'Nightfall' team responsible for?"

A new soldier raised his hand tremblingly: "Guard... guard the border, resist... the invasion of monsters..."

"That's right!" Shen Qingzhu slammed the table hard, making a loud noise that shook the chandelier in the auditorium slightly.

"The Ancient God Church went to great lengths to infiltrate Night Veil, not to play tricks on the training base! Their target... is the border!"

Another recruit's face turned pale, his lips trembling: "Border? Could it be...could it be that they want to..."

Shen Qingzhu didn't answer directly, but instead asked a more frightening question: "Besides monsters, what else is there beyond the border?"

The auditorium was so silent that you could hear a pin drop.

Suddenly, a new recruit seemed to have thought of something. His eyes widened suddenly and he gasped in horror: "Outer...Outer God!?"

"That's right!" Shen Qingzhu's voice was low and hoarse, as if it came from the depths of hell.

"If the border is lost and the foreign gods invade... the consequences will be unimaginable!"

He turned abruptly and strode towards the door, his tone firm and decisive, "Notify headquarters immediately and seal off all border crossings! All members of Nightfall will be immediately interrogated! It's too late!"

He pushed open the door of the auditorium. Outside the door, a man in a black uniform was standing solemnly.

The man whispered, "Report! News from the border..."