Chapter 42: Higher creatures and patron saints

　　After entering the interstellar age, the Earth Federation classified the higher intelligent creatures in the earth, mainly including four levels: Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Omega.
Among them, ordinary humans are regarded as the lowest alpha level, humans with superior intelligence and super body are regarded as beta levels, and psionic ones are gamma levels. As for the scope of the recognition of omega levels, most people think that they can use Own behaviors that interfere with the operation of a planet can be counted as Omega levels, and the most famous of these is the planetary will, also known as Gaia will.
Now Leo actually found a piece of wreckage of an omega-class higher species from the ashes of a monster. Such a thing would definitely become a world news if it is placed in the Earth Federation, because the value of this piece of wreckage in his hands is enough to buy it. A fourth-level resource star.
Leo certainly wouldn’t think that the monster he had burnt to death would be an omega-class advanced creature, but he thought the monster appeared because of the wreckage in his hand, and if he didn’t make a mistake, such a wreckage There are more than forty pieces, this discovery also made his breath a lot thicker.
　　 At this moment Leo's contemplative state and the slightly changed expression on his face made Catherine, who was already suspicious next to her, notice. It’s just that she apparently misunderstood what Leo was thinking about. Instead, Leo had two inexplicable questions before, thinking that Leo found something related to her, such as why the stone pendant in her hand was here. Wait.
Although it was only a misunderstanding, I have to admit that part of Catherine’s misunderstanding was a guess, so I saw that Catherine was also very serious and said to Zhao Leiou: "You just said that if we want to cooperate, some Things cannot be concealed, so I also hope you can tell me what you have discovered now."
　　 Hearing Catherine's inquiry, Leo frowned slightly, and looked at the stone pendant that Catherine was holding tightly. She immediately understood why Catherine said that.
　　 So he was silent for a while, and some words were focused, saying: "Do you really want to know? To know some things is not to know as much as possible, sometimes know too much, but will..."
　　 "I want to know." Not only was Catherine not persuaded, but she was even more curious about what Leo found, and said very positively.
Seeing this, Leo slightly concealed a part, did not tell the story of the wreckage of Omega-class advanced creatures, but only talked about his speculation that the forty-five of the original founders of the Aknaya Church had become monsters. come out.
"Impossible! It's impossible!" After hearing Leo's guess, Catherine did not hesitate to deny the statement, except that the look of pain and sadness on her face and the look of the ashes all showed her. I have believed this speculation in my heart.
Leo was also observing Catherine's expressions and emotions while telling about the forty-five founders of the Aknaya Church. Although her emotions were completely in Leo's guess, she was so It's weird to accept Leo's speculation soon.
"Unless my speculation is related to something she knows?" Leo looked at Catherine, guessing vaguely, and after Catherine's mood had stabilized a little, she said: "You have nothing else to say Say it? For example, what exactly turned them into monsters like now?"
　　 "What do you know?" Catherine looked at Leo suspiciously.
"What do you think I should know, such as how these monsters came about, Martin you know should know, and the three high priests of the Aknaya church should also know, as for you?" Leo said, will He reached his head very close to Catherine. The two were so close that they could feel each other's breathing and looked at each other for a while, as if to see her heart clearly, and then slowly let her body back, with a positive look. Said: "You may not have known it before, but you must know it now. Do you think I'm right?"
Catherine did not immediately respond to Leo. Instead, she looked down at the stone pendant in her hand and sat in the pile of ashes. After a moment of silence, she slowly said, "We found the catacombs by accident. Some ancient books were found in, and we know that we are probably descended from the slave kingdom at that time. And we also found from other older ancient books that the slaves who overthrew the French Empire were not originally slaves. They had their own country and Civilization, they are Neilgard."
　　 Leo pointed to the surrounding houses and said, "Are people living in this underground city?"
"According to the ancient language of the French predecessor Velen, Nirgard means living underground." Catherine explained a little, and continued: "The Nirgard built this underground city and formed a city-state Kingdom, the degree of prosperity is not lost to the city-states that became legends on the ancient Weilun continent. According to the records in the ancient books, a force of evil emerged from the ground, affecting the guardian deity of Nilgad, corrupting him, and letting him From the patron saint to the of destruction."
　　 "Guardian?" Leo froze.
"In the ancient city-states, every city-state would find a patron saint for themselves. For example, Lanxi's earliest patron saints were the gods of killing and fighting. But most of those gods are only symbolic, not true gods." Catherine said Here, there is some lack of confidence. Obviously, the incident just gave her a big shock, making her doubt her past perception.
But soon she recovered and continued: "Although the Nirgaard defeated the corrupt patron saint and divided his body into countless segments, he used the power of the earth to completely suppress his residual body, but the evil power However, the corruption was still inevitable, so the Nirgaards were forced to leave the place where they lived and went to the ground to live like everyone else."
　　 Hearing this, Leo couldn't help but hold the piece of higher biological debris tightly. He felt that the debris in his hand might have come from the corrupted patron saint.
"The later rise of the French Empire destroyed the city-states built by the Nirgaards on the ground, and built Lanxi on the ruins of the city-states of Nirgad, turning all surviving Nirgads into slaves. "Catherine stopped here and sighed. "Later, it was the history of the empire of the French Empire."
Leo now clearly understands why forty-nine people encountered anomalies at the same time, but only four survived, and even gained some supernatural powers similar to psionics. The rest of the people were genetically collapsed and turned into monsters because they were not All descendants of slaves are Neilgard.
　　 At this time, Jason couldn't help but ask, "What does the history of the Nirgaard have to do with the creation of this monster?"
Catherine hesitated before saying, "We found a note left by some people who took refuge here before the slave kingdom was destroyed in the catacombs. In the note, it was written that King Yassin was defeating the French Empire. The great gladiator of He was able to defeat the elite troops of the French Empire because he discovered the remains of the patron saint at the ruins of the ancient city of Niergard and created a group of possessions through the power of the remains Warriors of spiritual power. It was only afterwards that these warriors were corrupted by evil forces and turned into monsters, which made the subsequent slave kingdom weaken quickly."
　　 "Do you believe these things?" Leo asked.
"I don't believe it! At least I didn't believe it at the time, because the note didn't know who wrote it, and the text behind it was also a mess of graffiti, so we think the note is the nonsense that the man went crazy before he died." Catherine honestly After responding, I looked at the pile of ashes and the stone pendant in my hand again. I was a little confused and said, "Now...I don't know clearly now."
Catherine paused a little, and then continued: "Martin they should believe this statement, because according to the notes, if you want to create a warrior with spiritual power, you need to sacrifice on the altar that banned the remains of the patron saint, and The sacrifice offering needs to be a person with the blood of the gods. I think this is why Nelson will be targeted. I once mentioned Martin’s life experience with Martin unintentionally, so he...

　　 Catherine, full of guilt, didn't go on, and Leo was silent for a while, as if digesting the information she had just received.
Leo then said to Catherine very seriously: "Now the development has deviated from the purpose of our initial visit to the catacombs, and it is no longer the evidence for collecting any cases. I even suspect that these cases were Martin Luther or the church. Yes, here may be very dangerous, or there may be some things you don’t want to see, if you want to leave now, Jason and I will send you away first, and then come back to the doctor... "
　　Not waiting for Leo to finish, Catherine immediately responded: "No! I am a grown-up cage, not as fragile as you think."
"In this case, find a doctor first, and then consider other things!" Leo made a decision. He did not choose to go to the area likely to be the laboratory of the Aknaya church to kill the monsters and obtain the remains of other higher creatures. , But chose to converge with Nelson first.
　　Although he was still very interested in the wreckage of higher creatures in the dozens of monsters, Catherine was not doing well when she was around. In addition, he did not know how to use this wreckage of higher creatures for the time being.
According to the practice of the Earth Federation, it is natural to directly extract genes from the wreckage, cultivate it into a genetic stock, or try to clone higher organisms, but Leo as a warrior does not understand these things at all, and even if he understands, there is no such high-tech With the aid of tools, he can't do anything, so now the higher biological wreckage is like chicken ribs to him.
After the decision was made, Leo also adjusted the equipment a little bit. He asked Jason to refill the arrow box of the strong crossbow, and every five ordinary arrows contained a special arrow with a flame effect. He also put the flintlock's ammunition in a place where it was easy to take, and he could pick it up and refill it at any time.
　　 After the outfit was finished, Leo took the two along the route taken by Nelson and the others, and chased down.
　　Just before Leo left this underground residential area, two teams of Aknaya church priests igniting torches came here one after another from the other two underground passages in this underground residential area.
　　If Leo is still here, he must know that the two teams are from the garrison priest in the previous residential area and the cleric in the laboratory area.
　　 In addition, he will also find that the clothes of these priests are the emblem of the Aknaya Church on the front, but on the back are the chaotic symbols he saw on the walls of the parish.
These priests, except for the badge symbol on their clothes and the priest on the ground are different, each of them wears a mask, the exposed part of the body is completely covered by the clothing, and even the head is put on a hood, Give people a mysterious feeling.
Among these priests, there are also experts who are proficient in tracking and exploration, which makes them quickly find the place where Leo and the monster met just now, find the piece of ashes, and even barely piece together the process of fighting through the traces around them. ~EbookFREE.me~ Have a rough assessment of Leo's strength, and finally judged from the footprints on the ground how many people were there.
　　 It's just that when they judged the state of people from the depth of their footprints, they mistakenly described Leo, who was carrying a heavy flintlock, as a big fat man.
After 　　, a group of priests coming from the laboratory area walked out like a leader. I saw that he gave a few words to the other priests, and then the two teams were divided into three.
　　 A team stayed in this area to continue searching. It seems that they wanted to find out the reason why Leo and others sneaked in silently, that is the secret way.
　　The other team returned to the previous area, which should be intended to block the passage and prevent people from fleeing.
　　 As for the last team, the team with the largest number of people, they followed the footprints of Leo and others on the ground and followed them all the way, but they did not know that the footprints they found were left by Leo deliberately.
Leo, who is proficient in special operations, has hundreds of ways to cover up his footprints, making it impossible to trace, but he did not do so. He even expects the people of the Aknaya Church who were shocked by his gunshots to follow up, so he You can use these priests to deal with the team that brought Nelson here.
Although from the various data collected, the team of chaos in the shelter should not be malicious to Nielsen, but Leo, who always likes to put things in the worst situation, is habitually doing some coping Pre-arranged.
　　 It’s okay for the team to have no problems. He can join the pair to solve these priests.
　　If the team had problems, he could use the power of these priests to create chaos and rescue Nielsen, and by the way, when the two gangs played similarly, they solved them together.