MTL - I Like This Dream!-v2 Chapter 139

"The righteous Urban and those who were willing to follow him went north and offered their bodies to the gods. There was a righteous man named Tolan who had a wife and son and was willing to listen to the will of the gods in the secular world."

"God blessed Urban and those who were willing to follow, and said to them: You will be my shepherds, and everyone on the earth will be my lambs. But you have promised me your life, and you will not be with me again. People match to have children."

"God blessed Tolan and his children and said to them: I will put the crown of the earth on your heads, and those who walk with you must obey you. You must multiply and fill the earth."

Interpreting this passage of the Bible in a popular and realistic way, Pope Urban I founded the Holy See of Light to maintain the church with religion. The first king, Toland, founded the Toland Dynasty, which maintained the royal family and nobles by blood. The power of supernatural powers is passed down through the blood. Although some people in the Holy See have raised lovers and illegitimate children, they cannot see the light, and it is impossible for them to prosper like nobles. From this point of view, the supernatural beings of the Holy See should be far smaller than those of the nobles.

but it is not the truth.

The Holy See and the royal court have the most supernatural beings in Yamenan, even if the speculators attached to their power in the past are removed, this point remains unchanged. Even in many periods of history, there were more supernatural beings in the Holy See than among the nobles.

When you factor in the holy water, things make more sense.

King Richard I, who forced the Holy See to make an agreement, was a great talent. The most important part of the agreement was not a change in status or power, but a mandatory requirement for the Holy See to share enough holy water with the nobles every year. However, out of consideration for their own status, the royal family concealed the truth about the holy water together with the high-level officials of the Holy See. In the end, they were put together by the Holy See, and there was an information gap. Under the long-term confrontation and osmosis, they forgot the real secret of "divine grace", and finally the unworthy descendant Richard II appeared, who himself rejected the holy water of the Holy See.

Alva once believed that the function of holy water was to catalyze the activity of noble blood, but now it seems that this is not the case. Holy water is a mass-produced product. The Holy See can use some means to mass-produce holy water, and it can also use holy water to mass-produce supernatural beings. They have been doing this for a long time, and they don't care about the side effects at all.

No, if people who drank too much holy water were just as weak in their sense of autonomy as Lydia showed and obeyed unnamed instructions, the upper echelons of the Holy See would probably welcome this side effect.

"I'm going to Alingu." An Xu said, "If the Holy See has formed a puppet army, I have to get rid of them before they kill them. Don't let anyone stop me."

Karina cast a worried look at the absence of the mayor Charlotte, who was in charge of worrying, but no one objected.

"Be careful, what you have to face is not only an army poured out of holy water." Alva said, "I really hope that the Holy See will extract the raw materials of holy water from some unconscious plants and minerals, but judging from their generous work, the 'raw materials' It's most likely alive, like the Firebird."

"I know." An Xu nodded, wondering if she would talk to the raw material and say that she would definitely have a fight with Noah. She said again: "But it's better to take the initiative than to be knocked on the door. I don't believe that everyone can live in peace."

Alva nodded in agreement, he is also a ruthless person in his bones.

"I'll go too." Lydia said suddenly.

Three pairs of eyes aimed at the ascetic monk in the prison, her face was a little pale because of the retching just now.

"Sister Lydia, I'm afraid your condition is not suitable for long-distance travel." Karina said tactfully.

"There might be a fight, but I may not be able to protect you well." An Xu said bluntly.

"I'm going." Lydia repeated, "I know where the Great Ascetic Monastery is, and I know what the ascetic monks are thinking. As soon as you remove your protection, you can see the influence of that power on me gone."

Lydia grasped the point very well. She didn't mention that she was a doctor or a healer, nor did she mention the ability to assassinate. She knew that Anxu didn't need these. She makes sense, but it doesn't have to be. An Xu wanted to say that she could detect the penance by herself, and there was no need for Lydia to take risks.

An Xu looked at those firm green eyes, and finally said nothing, just nodded. Lydia looked pale and weak, but her eyes were very bright, burning faintly like two will-o'-the-wisps. An Xu could see the desperate persistence and pleading, and she felt that it would be too cruel to keep Lydia out of this matter.

Anxu didn't stop Lydia, and couldn't get rid of Chris. "I've been able to help," Chris said. "You said you'd walk with me to the finish line, and now you're going to risk it alone and leave me behind?" Ann Schmidt admitted that he said it very well. reason.

The three of them are not bad, Anxu, Chris and Lydia have returned to the golden triangle team that Anxu wanted to form at the beginning. When brushing the final boss, a team of fighters, mages and priests was formed, which sounds quite the drama of ancient RPG games. They have nurses who are both assassins and priests, paladins who are especially resistant after being upgraded, and demigod plug-in output. Thinking about it this way, there is really no sense of tension.

They made their preparations, and the three-person team set out lightly for the day.

They jumped a few teleportation arrays until there was nowhere to go. The holy city of Alingu and a large area of ​​surrounding counties belonging to the church are surrounded by mountains, and only one-way roads can be entered and exited. When this road is destroyed, it becomes very difficult and dangerous to enter, and it takes a lot of time.

It's like this for ordinary people.

Sometimes An Xu thinks that every game needs to cross mountains and rivers, and go around the map to get to the Demon King City. In addition to considering the upgrade of the protagonist, eight out of ten #9 are just to delay the plot. That's right, in a game where there is only one final boss, no matter how cool the big devil's character is, no matter how gorgeous his skills are, and no matter how many skills are required to knock him down, players with a tricky mouth will still not have much interest. Because the fun of the game is originally on this 90% of the journey.

But if you don't play this as a game, it is undoubtedly more efficient to go straight to the point.

The squad flew.

An Xu is no longer the trumpet who relies on the flesh to lead people. She can easily wrap the paladin and the grown-up bound milk with spiritual power, and easily accelerate the flight. This level is not a burden to her at all, she blocked the wind pressure in front of the three of them, found the right direction and flew over.

She didn't intend to blindly bump into the muzzle of the enemy's guns, the shield that wrapped them was so hard that it could touch a small meteorite, and outside the protective shield with a diameter of about five meters, the mental tentacles scanned every inch within a radius of more than ten kilometers The land, the information brought back builds a lifelike model in An Xu's mind.

If the spiritual power is tangible, the people below will probably see a giant sea urchin, the sea urchin's spines are still soft, stroking everything passing by without stopping.

An Xu didn't fly fast, but just like a racing car looking unhappy in front of a jet, even in this relatively cautious way, they approached their destination before sunset. Just a few kilometers away from Alingu, An Xu felt his spiritual tentacles touched something. It was colorless, odorless, matterless and invisible, like a giant plastic film, covering a large space in front of him.

She tentatively "poked" the space, and the enchantment pudding trembled.

It is not hard, and An Xu feels that he can easily break through it. It's better to say that she thinks this thing is too childish to be vigilant, as if the owner of the enchantment didn't even think about guarding against her.

However, once you enter, it's like breaking open the door of someone else's house, and the owner will definitely know that someone is coming.

"We're almost there." An Xu reminded, telling his teammates what he sensed. Then, she drilled inside.

An Xu thought about several possibilities. She felt that after entering the undetectable area, she might see the Great Demon King and his army in full battle, and all kinds of powerful forbidden spells were ready to be released, just waiting to greet her . She may also be faced with ruins, a dead city created by the Great Demon King, filled with mourning, and the people living in dire straits. An Xu even thought about the peaceful situation inside, maybe she found the right timing, A Linggu was the same as what she had seen before, ordinary people do what they want, and the conspiracy is only flowing in the dark.

However, after entering, An Xu found that there was not any possibility she had thought.

That elastic and fragile enchantment is not the "shell" that An Xu expected. She slammed into it aggressively, but it was like entering a big jelly, the inside felt exactly the same as the outside. In other words, the area close to the holy city of Alingu is not a package wrapped in plastic wrap, but a solid gel. After entering the outer layer, the power to prevent detection does not disappear, but Anxu and his party are wrapped in inside.

An Xu is like a pedestrian who has crashed into the fog and lost the ability to see into the distance.

She turned back and turned back again, the mountains and forests of this generation looked very similar, boundless. You can't see anything with just the naked eye.

An Xu had encountered a similar situation before. When she confronted the giant bird, the domains of the two "quasi-gods" collided with each other, and the domains of each other repelled each other, and they could not see the situation in the other's domain. The giant bird's domain clearly repelled An Xu, and the collision between the two was like hot oil hitting water, which aroused both sides' fighting spirit, and they both wanted to tear each other to pieces immediately. But now things in this similar field did not make An Xu feel hostile, like cold water poured into cold oil, there was no reaction, it was simply incompatible.

Not Noah? Who is that? what is it

"What's the matter?" Chris asked, looking at An Xu who had stopped after a few turns, his expression became serious.

"It's okay..." An Xu said with a little embarrassment, "I can't find my way."

The mountains and forests of this generation are very similar, with the same ups and downs. Without the ability to scan mental power, An Xu couldn't tell the difference at all. Turning around made the situation worse, and it wasn't even clear where it came from just now. where am I? Where do I come from? Where are you going? The maze is definitely the most annoying map, bar none.

"Over there." Lydia pointed in one direction and said, "Great Penance."

An Xu followed Lydia's fingers and looked into the distance. In the distance, there was a very thin line of khaki, hidden among the branches and leaves of trees. If he didn't stare carefully, he thought it was the ground exposed by Luo.

They flew in that direction, and not long after, the most mysterious institution of the Holy See appeared in front of them.

The Great Ascetic Monastery in the mountains is very inconspicuous, its khaki-yellow exterior walls are like the dusty robes of ascetic monks. Not to mention compared with the gorgeous Alingu Cathedral or St. Andrew's Theological Seminary, even compared with the simple churches in Gospel City, this place is not much better.

Like ruins, like the poor houses of this era (although the scale is much larger).

Nothing could be seen from the top of the Great Ascetic Abbey, and An Xu and his party descended. They landed at the front door of the asylum and found it open.

"Lydia, is the Great Penitentiary usually open?" An Xu asked.

"I've never seen it before," Lydia said. "Very few people come in and out, and they all come in and out through the small door."

So the door is open to welcome guests?

One door was wide open and the other was ajar, not in a deliberate arrangement, but as if it had been knocked wide open and bounced back. They stood at the dark gate. The light in the penitentiary was dim, and the inside was quiet and empty, like a haunted house.

An Xu tried to probe again, but still to no avail. The mental power was severely suppressed in this weird place, and he could only use it within four or five meters of himself. But this suppression is only reflected in the range. An Xu can feel that her attack power is not diminished, and her defense is still strong. Even if a ghost pounces on her, it will be a ghost. They discussed it, and Lydia took the lead and walked in together.

The monastery was very quiet.

The light here is very good, and the lighting design can be said to be the most similar place of the Holy See in this penance. Possibly the only one. The walls are embryos made of earth and stone, without any decoration, and have nothing to do with beauty. The ground is a bit uneven, and the rough stones can be felt through the soles of the shoes. Lydia said that no part of the Great Ascetic Abbey used powers, and the ascetics built it themselves.

"The floor is really bad, and it's not even at all." An Xu complained.

"All the floors can't be polished, they have to be smoothed with your feet, which is part of the penance." Lydia said, "This is the corridor with the most people. We have to walk on this road four times a day, barefoot."

They followed Lydia through the cafeteria, corridors, auditorium, etc., but the most crowded places in the past were empty. There are no lights, and the sun slanting to the west passes through various windows, leaving a not-so-bright light inside the monastery. The sun would be setting in a few minutes, and Chris held up the torch, and the light reflected on the rough walls made it look like a cave.

Lydia had led them through all the areas where the ascetic monks were active, without encountering a single living creature along the way. The manna in the kitchen was rotten. Chris sniffed it and said that the food was still fresh, and it only took two or three days to rot. Manna is not durable, and it will go bad in this kind of weather for at most two days.

"It's about the same as the day when Lydia suddenly had problems." An Xu said, "Have you been to all the places?"

"There's another place out there," said Lydia.

They went to the last place, the afterglow of the setting sun disappeared into the horizon, and the temperature suddenly dropped a lot. Go around the last corridor, open the small door and go out, the front suddenly becomes clear. The buildings of the ascetic monastery have already appeared here, and there is a large open space between the mountain forest and the ascetic monastery, densely packed with cross trees.

A cemetery.

"The ascetic is buried here," said Lydia.

This is really in line with the atmosphere of this time period, will there be a group of skeletons popping up? An Xu looked at the cemetery, and mentally checked the seven or eight surrounding graves in a flash. Each of the graves was close to each other, as if to save space. The bones overlapped into a ball, occupying a small space.

"They were buried standing up?" An Xu asked.

"Ascetics don't rest," Lydia replied, "and even after death."

"Are all the ascetic monks of the Great Ascetic Monastery here?" An Xu asked again, "Is there no other cemetery?"

"All the bodies that can be recovered are here," Lydia said.

An Xu didn't speak, and hovered over the cemetery, quickly inspecting every grave. The mental power has analyzed every skeleton, and there are thousands of them here. She flew back and landed in front of her teammates, with a strange expression on her face, she said, "Lydia, have you ever seen an old ascetic monk?"

Lydia thought for a while and said, "I've seen a middle-aged man, he looks in his forties."

"Forty years old." An Xu said, "There are so many corpses, the oldest one is forty years old."

There is a joke that says a man wishes to be young forever, and his wish comes true. The man died unexpectedly the next day. He died young and would never grow old.

Ascetic cemeteries are like the joke.

Alva said that Anxu's flesh and blood may awaken people's abilities, but the side effects will cause premature aging and may shorten their lifespan. Now someone has put similar side effects in front of them, and the sample size is very large. Ascetic monks live in a simple room like a prison, and live every day as if they are being sentenced. Fortunately, this life of suffering is not long. They are favored by God and will never grow old.

An Xu felt a bit of chill at the cemetery. Even though she was already strong enough not to be afraid of ghosts and corpses, the ability of human beings to torture their own kind still made her shiver.

"I found nothing." Chris broke the stagnant atmosphere, "Shall we go to the inner city of Alingu?"

An Xu shook his head and said, "There is still one place left."

This time Lydia also looked at her, not knowing what she was talking about. An Xu didn't explain much, and led them back to a confessional room, and demolished a wall.

Behind the wall is empty, and there is a small room inside. Lydia had already taken them around the entire penitentiary, but the places they walked did not match the size of the penance that Anxu saw in the sky. Anxu's upgraded brain can already mentally calculate the difference. where. There was no decoration in the small room, An Xu didn't bother to look for the mechanism, so he simply and roughly lifted the floor.

The stench hit my face.

What is the smell of something rotten? The smell is unbearable. Compared with it, the smell of rotten manna can be called a fragrance. Chris subconsciously took a step forward and stood in front of An Xu. This experienced soldier knew the smell, the smell of corpses.

In fact, he didn't need to block it. After the floor was lifted, the things below were clear at a glance. There was a huge basement about the size of an ascetic's dormitory, with stairs, neatly arranged beds, and corpses along the way.

The farthest body fell under the bed, the nearest body was left on the steps. An Xu's mental power rolled over them, and the information carried by the corpse was received in An Xu's mind.

There is information that can be seen just by looking at them, such as that they are all dressed as ascetics, their limbs are stiff, and they are obviously moving violently before they die.

There are also things that need to be scanned with mental power to realize, for example, they all starved to death; they were either alpha or omega, no beta;

Pregnant, or have recently given birth, or have had multiple births.

An Xu felt chills all over, and then his anger overflowed like magma. Her hands clenched into fists, trembling with force. Chris called her name worriedly, she barely pulled the corner of her mouth, and suddenly flew up with Chris and Lydia.

"Is there anything you want to take?" An Xu asked Lydia in a tense voice.

Lydia thought about it for a while, then shook her head.

"Okay." An Xu said.

As soon as the words fell, the ugly but large-scale penance suddenly ignited a fire. The flames ignited in the widest range that An Xu could control, and with the help of the strong wind she controlled, the flames burned more and more fiercely. The air was filled with the scorched smell of burning, and the flames illuminated the night sky brightly, quickly engulfing the historic Great Penitentiary.

"I know where the other two genders of the ascetic monastery have gone." At this time, An Xu calmed down a little, and smiled nervously, "I also know where so many ascetic monks come from, so I just said , if the Holy See does charity and picks up orphans as ascetic monks, why are there so many orphans out there?"

Lydia said that there are only betas in the Great Ascetic Abbey, and those who differentiate into alphas and omega will be taken away.

Lydia said that the ascetic monks in the Great Ascetic Abbey are all orphans who grew up here.

Combining the two, the problem is easy to explain.

The Great Penitentiary only keeps betas, they are the most stable puppets and assassins, not easily bothered by **** and orgasms. As for alpha and omega, they drank so much holy water before they split up, shouldn't it be wasted? Naturally, the Holy See would not trade at a loss. Commoners knew that if they wanted to have meat all the time, it was unrealistic to expect to hunt prey every day. Breeding would be much more convenient.

Alpha and omega will be taken underground after differentiation. Here they reproduce, give birth to the little ascetics of the future, and repeat, repeat, repeat, until the end of their lives. If An Xu probed further down the cemetery just now, he would find another cemetery underground, which contained alpha and omega. They will never come to the ground again in their lives, because priests are supposed to dedicate themselves to the Lord, and reproduction is unclean. These people cannot see the light, and from the day they become unclean they will remain underground forever.

The ground is a prison, and the basement is a breeding farm.

Chris' expression froze, and soon turned into righteous indignation mixed with sadness, and he realized what An Xu was saying. Lydia opened her eyes without blinking, not knowing whether she understood or not.

Probably better not to understand.

When Lydia is summoned by an invisible voice, all the ascetics of the Abbey are called. Those who could move ran out, so no one could open the mechanism on it. It seemed that the leaders of the Great Ascetic Abbey were really worried about these alphas and betas. They couldn't open the secret door from below, so these people starved to death inside.

An Xu shook his head and pulled his thoughts out of the crazy human exhibition hall below. She exhaled and said, "I know the direction."

Those people were already dead, but their newly dead bodies were affected by the holy water...or should I say infected? The part infected by the substance in the holy water still retains its activity, like the piece of meat that fell from Anxu's body. Like marionettes, these living parts still listen to the call from afar, restless in the corpse.

An Xu's spirit grasped the thread and followed it to the hand pulling the thread.

It's not far from here.