Chapter 16 Prelude to Death
Two days later.
The lively town festival was finally held.
The whole town was filled with a cheerful atmosphere.
Colorful flags were hung in every corner of the town, and people in the town were wearing special costumes for the festival.
The town's central square was filled with agricultural products sold by the townspeople.
The bustling crowd was filled with noisy voices.
Azu followed Peter and was dazzled.
"Hey, Mr. Patrick."
Neil, dressed in festive costumes, greeted Peter enthusiastically.
Lana, standing next to him, was wearing a light green dress and a wreath on her head, and greeted Peter shyly.
"Uncle Patrick."
"Lana is beautiful today."
Touching the wreath on Lana's head, Peter replied to Neil: "Just call me Peter."
Neil, who is tall and long-legged, has a mature style, and she looks unique when she dresses up.
Peter glanced at Azu.
I thought the other party would be like Clark, who likes to chase little girls like Lana.
Unexpectedly, A-Zu's eyes kept secretly glancing at Neil.
Peter was full of black lines.
This kid really didn't change his bad habits!
He was reborn, but he was still interested in mature women like in his last life.
No!
Peter stroked his chin and pondered.
In this life, A-Zu still didn't have a mother. Would he feel that he lacked maternal love, so he awakened this soul of mature women?
Or he could find a mother for A-Zu to make up for his lack of maternal love.
Wonder Woman, Aquaman, or Catwoman?
These female superheroes he was more familiar with entered his list of choices.
There was no way, he only knew so many female superheroes.
Normal people were not in his choice range, he was afraid that A-Zu would crush people to death with one force.
In the trouble he brought upon himself, it soon became night.
In the auditorium in the center of the town, the townspeople began to watch the song and dance performance.
Before the performance began, Father Norma, who had not appeared for a long time, finally appeared and gave a speech on the stage.
Peter stared at the guy who had been in the Metropolis for the past few days and had never been seen, and his eyes narrowed.
After saying a few words, the old guy hurried into the backstage.
After saying something to Neil next to him and asking her to help look after A-Zu, Peter immediately followed him out.
After Norma left the auditorium, she rushed to her home.
Entering the basement of the study again, taking out the black magic book, Father Norma left in a hurry.
After he left, Peter slowly emerged from the shadows.
Standing in Father Norma's house, he entered the study, pushed open the study door, and entered the basement.
The basement was very dark, and the canvas piled in the corner of the wall exuded a smell of old paint.
The altar was placed in the middle of the room, and dim shadows stood around like sentinels.
Peter's visual senses could still see everything clearly in the dark world.
He walked slowly towards the altar.
The altar was filled with candles and sacrificial skulls, and the bones sparkled like an amber lagoon.
His eyes turned to the yellowed calendar on the wall.
On the calendar, someone had vaguely drawn the outline of a shadow with a red pen.
Looking at everything around him, Peter frowned.
Is this old guy Norma performing black magic?
He immediately linked the resurrected zombies to Norma.
At the same time.
In the auditorium, there was a soft dark light under the orange-yellow light spot, as if the afterglow of the sunset was burning like a flame.
Clark stood on the periphery of the dance floor, looking at the crowd inside.
"If you want to dance, Clark, you can invite a girl."
Azu stood behind Clark without knowing when.
"I can't dance, Azu."
"Neither can I. It's normal for children not to dance, so you don't need to envy me. Hey, Lana."
As Azu said, he turned around and greeted Lana.
"Hello."
Lana greeted the two generously.
Clark blushed a little. He secretly glanced at Lana and thought that Lana's clothes were very beautiful today.
And Lana smelled of Avon soap and orange gum, which made him a little nervous.
"Lana, I... We frightened your horse last time, sorry."
Clark thought for a long time and finally found a reason to chat up.
"I have forgotten it."
Lana said that she didn't mind, "Uncle Padraic saved me, and Aunt Neil asked me to thank Uncle Padraic."
She had a good impression of Peter and felt that he was the standard knight in her impression.
If she were a princess, she would definitely let such a knight protect herself.
But soon she became frustrated.
Aunt Neil said she was Cinderella.
Cinderella turned into an ugly duckling at midnight, which made her a little frustrated.
Just when Lana was struggling with why Cinderella's magic disappeared at midnight, she suddenly heard a scream.
She turned around in astonishment and saw a scene that she would never forget.
The man, with a pale face and sticky blood all over his face, and his mouth almost torn to the back of his head, suddenly launched a mad attack on the audience in the auditorium.
"Swish!"
Blood spurted out from the neck of the audience being bitten.
The monster growled in its throat, and instantly killed the closest people.
All this happened within a minute or two. No one understood what happened, and everyone was stunned.
Clark and Azu also saw the scene in front of them, slightly opened their mouths, and looked at the shocking scene in front of them in shock.
Then there were screams, and the crowd made terrified sounds and began to flee in all directions.
Azu was the first to react, pulling Clark and Lana to run towards the door.
According to the escape knowledge Peter taught him, the first thing to do now is to escape from this closed environment.
When Azu and his trio ran to the gate, they found that everyone had the same idea as them.
Countless spectators crowded near the gate, but the sturdy door was suddenly locked, and locked tightly.
No matter how hard the crowd pushed and smashed the door, the iron door did not move.
The crowd that rushed over first was squeezed and gasped, and cursed and cried.
"Clark! Zu!"
Jonathan and Martha were separated by the crowd and were carried forward by the flow of people, shouting their names.
Neil was extremely anxious at this time. Not only was her niece missing, but Zu, who Peter asked her to take care of, also disappeared.
"Fire escape!"
Zu, who was almost suffocated by the squeeze, immediately shouted to the two people: "Dad said that in case of an accident, you can - escape through the fire escape."
As he said this, he pushed forward with all his strength, pulling away the crowd blocking the way.
Clark counted very clearly, in the middle, Zu slapped two boys and punched a screaming man in the eye.
