"Boom!" The sky above the castle was covered with dark clouds, and with the flash of light in the clouds, a thunderstorm exploded out of thin air.
"Push, push it away!" The stone bridge of the castle was already densely packed with human heads, and the thick gate blocked the townspeople holding torches.
"Creak..." The thick door bolt made an ear-piercing sound, and fine cracks slowly appeared on the surface.
"Bang!" The door bolt finally broke in two, and the townspeople poured into the castle courtyard like a torrent. The neat lawn just persisted for a while before it blended with the soil.
"Levi, did I do something wrong!" The healer Totti sighed, and turned to look at the mayor of Odia Town next to him.
"No, Totti! There hasn't been any exorcist in Albert's castle until now. That doctor Stan is right. It seems that the epidemic that broke out in the town is indeed related to the Albert family. Otherwise, Nova and the others It should have appeared in front of the door by now to stop everyone."
The middle-aged mayor shook his head with a wry smile, "We don't have the power of exorcists, so we can't stop the Albert family. We can only mobilize the townspeople to help Nova and the others."
"Well, I just hope that Albert Castle can survive this turmoil." Totti Lay Healer sighed helplessly, "You and the other mayors and sheriffs try to restrain the townspeople and don't let them hurt innocent castle servants."
"My little Wellington, you should be fine!" The angry and distorted faces around her made Catherine feel both familiar and unfamiliar. She clasped her arms nervously to protect her chest, and was dragged forward by the flow of people. .
The proprietress of the inn didn't even expect that when she heard that the source of the epidemic was Albert Castle, and her little lover hadn't returned yet, she became dizzy with worry and rushed out of the hotel to join the townspeople's denunciation of Albert Castle. force.
When Catherine came back to her senses, she had already appeared in the courtyard of Albert Castle, surrounded by Odia civilians who had lost their minds.
Since this period of time, the epidemic in the Odia area has become more and more serious, and the death toll has finally exceeded 1,000. In addition, there are more than 2,000 people struggling to the brink of death, accounting for more than 15% of the total population. In other words, one out of every six people in Odia is dead or dying.
This ratio almost allowed the disease to spread to every civilian family in the Odia area. It can be said that in the Odia area, everyone felt the death near at hand from the sick relatives.
At this time, even the ordinary Odia civilians, who are usually mild-tempered, feel that their sanity is collapsing, and their hearts are full of madness and tyranny. And on the verge of everyone's collapse, they heard the news that Albert Castle was the source of infection.
In fact, no one explored whether the news was true or false. In their hearts, they had believed the rumor for a long time. After all, more than a year ago, those two outsiders died of illness in the small town after visiting Albert Castle.
As soon as the news spread, scattered crowds appeared on the central road in the small town of Odia. They held torches and slowly moved towards Albert Castle. This small team grew into a torrent in just a few tens of minutes, and along the way, countless civilians from nearby towns joined in.
Qin Lun raised the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows of the banquet hall, looked at the torrent rushing into the courtyard of the castle and smiled slightly.
"As a theoretical master of human genetics, the first time I saw the dark green plague virus, I knew it was not a germ. Its role is not to make people sick, but more like a transformation , for genetic modification." Qin Lun put down the curtains, turned around and said with a smile.
"Human genes?!" There was a trace of bewilderment on everyone's faces. They were not doctors, and there was no concept of human genes in this era.
"Oh, by the way, you don't know what a gene is, so let's just take it as the source of life." Qin Lun pinched his nose awkwardly, and continued to explain, "The reason why those patients with the epidemic died is because the gene that transformed the source of life Strength belongs to the power of immortality, and the physical fitness of ordinary human beings cannot sustain the transformation successfully, and they will eventually die due to exhaustion of vitality."
"Master Stan, if according to what you said, the plague virus is an undead plague and its function is to transform the human body, then... there will be at least one reformer!" Lima with silver hair and golden pupils looked at Albert gloomyly. baron.
"Well, Lima, you are right, there is at least one reformer!" Qin Lun smiled and raised a finger, "I accepted Baron Albert's invitation at the time, just because the baron wanted to help me track down the reformer. However, after seeing Master Miller, I immediately realized that this reformer was probably a member of the Albert family... "
"Doctor Stan, your judgment is too arbitrary. Couldn't the disease on Little Miller's body be the masterpiece of a servant?" Meier asked with a frown, "It may also be that his mother, Witch Mary, made a failed one." test."
"Hehe, it is indeed possible, so I played a trick at the time!" Qin Lun said with a smile.
"I wiped all the glass test tubes in my medicine box clean, and sprinkled a small amount of stone powder. Human fingerprints are actually unique. Since the reformer made Xiao Le sick, he couldn't cure him. I I think it must be very curious about the potion that can cure the disease, so I want to get its fingerprint and catch it."
"No wonder they were so active in taking away our wine glasses that day. They wanted to compare some fingerprints!" Bonny's face darkened, he looked at his palms carefully, and muttered softly.
"Have you got its fingerprint?" Ms. Nova couldn't help asking when she heard this. Even Baron Albert's face moved, and his eyes glanced in a certain direction.
"I got it! In fact, it was very impatient, and I got its fingerprints on the second day I came to the castle!" Qin Lun sighed, "With the help of Frank, I compared all the AI fingerprints of members of the Burt family, and the results were quite surprising."
"Who is that reformer?" Lima clenched his fists tightly, his golden eyes were cold.
He never forgot that his father tossed and turned on the sickbed, suffered for two whole weeks, and finally died of rotting all over his body. The protective power in the exorcist's body vetoed the transformation of the epidemic virus, and his strong body made Lima's father's death even more painful.
"Although I got its fingerprints at the time, Frank met a gargoyle immediately, and I became an exorcist, and learned that there are witches and exorcists in this world, and at the same time I learned that Stephen A. Burt's matter. These intelligences made me realize that the truth is not that simple, and there are several other suspects!"
Qin Lun spread his hands and said helplessly, "That fingerprint does not belong to any man in Albert's family, but to a young and beautiful lady. Miss Laura, you have entered my room without authorization and touched my body Medicine kit, eh?"
"Laura? Miss Laura!" There were buzzing voices in the hall.
"Yes... yes, I... because I'm worried about Miller's condition!" Laura lowered her head a little awkwardly, and said softly, "I found a piece of letter paper with words in your room, I thought it was a prescription, but it's a pity …was blown away by the wind. And then… rummaged through your medicine chest.”
"I don't blame you, I think it should be like this! When I first came to the castle, you showed love for Little Le and questioned me!" Qin Lun said with a smile, "However, please understand , At first, this alone could not dispel your suspicion."
Laura didn't speak any more, but nodded silently.
"Just when my investigation was in trouble, I got the opportunity to enter the Maya Great Forest. At that time, I was thinking that the Maya witches are the group who know the undead power best in this world and are the best at using it. Maybe I can get a breakthrough from them!"
Qin Lun walked slowly in the hall with his chin propped up, raised his head and said with a smile, "In fact, our sacrifices in the Maya Forest were valuable. The witch notes I got from the witch hut finally allowed me to put all the clues into Connected in series, we have a complete guess and know the identity of the mysterious reformer!"
"Are you referring to my elder brother Stephen Albert, or Miller's mother Mary Claire?" Boni looked at Qin Lun with burning eyes.
"Doctor Stan, don't say any more!" Baron Albert glanced at Miller, suddenly seemed to be more than ten years old, and said bitterly, "I accidentally infected Miller when I was developing the werewolf. Undead plague, I will take on everything."
"Hehe, Your Excellency the Baron, you can't afford it, I won't..."
"Doctor Stan, since Your Excellency the Baron has already taken the blame..." Ms. Nova gritted her teeth, interrupted Qin Lun, and looked at the doctor pleadingly, "What should have happened has already happened, the most important thing now is to stop it from happening." The spread of the disease, why do we have to force it down?"
"If possible, I would not like to destroy a family of exorcists who have been guarding Odia for more than three hundred years." Qin Lun lowered his eyelids and said lightly.
"However, only those who are bathed in fire can be reborn! Only by finding out the culprit can we eliminate this disaster and prevent the same thing from happening again. Ms. Nova, I ask you again, you became an exorcist to protect The Albert family, or to protect the tens of thousands of civilians in the Odia region?"
"Okay, I'll just watch here. If your accusation against Albert has no real evidence, I won't let you go!" Nova blushed and roared with shame and anger.
"Ms. Nova, I respect that you are a senior in the Odia area, but if you threaten Lord Stan again, you will be my enemy!" Lima raised his hand expressionlessly and tightened his black gloves.
At the same time, Andre and Jamie also took a step forward, standing on the left and right of Lima, expressing their positions with stern faces. At this time, even the two neutral exorcists took two steps closer to Qin Lun, looking at Nova warily. With Baron Albert pleading guilty, they too had to start giving up their neutrality.
"Nova, calm down!" Maier put his hand on Ms. Nova's shoulder seriously, and shook his head at her.
"Stephen and Mary Witch named Nina are indeed very suspicious, but they are not the mysterious reformer. Maybe even the mysterious reformer himself doesn't know what kind of Pandora's box it opened!" Qin Lun's face said. With a very strange expression, he said slowly.
"More than a thousand years ago, in the final battle between the immortal believers and the undead wizards, the immortal believers realized that neither the immortal power nor the undead power should continue to exist. They sealed the immortal power and immortality in this world with their lives. Undead power. Except for a small amount of undead potion remaining in the hands of witches, this world can no longer rely on faith and magic, and birth of immortal believers and undead wizards.
However, the mysterious reformer of the Albert family used genes, the source of life, to create two kinds of creatures including werewolves. Look at the old butler Jason, he is a wise werewolf. The servants of Albert Castle here are obviously the wisest of the two creatures.
The transformation of the source of life is different from the way in which immortal believers and undead wizards were born in the past. Their children will directly inherit the undead power to unlock the seal from the blood. These people are neither magical creatures nor contracted creatures, they are two new types of human beings! "
At this point, Qin Lun cast a strange light in his eyes, turned around suddenly, and roared at the exorcists, "Don't you understand? The mysterious reformer of the Albert family did not create an undead plague, it discovered Another way of birthing the undead has stepped into the realm of the gods! Human beings all over the world will face extinction!"
The banquet hall of Albert Castle fell into a dead silence. Qin Lun's roar echoed in everyone's ears for a long time, and their minds went blank. The faces of Nova and Maier slowly turned pale, and then turned livid.
"Don't let any one go!" Lima's cold voice rang in the ears of all the exorcists, and the five exorcists behind Qin Lun quickly dispersed, surrounding the Albert family and all the castle servants.
"Nova..." Maier looked at Bawanghua who was stunned in place, sighed, turned to Bonny and said, "I'm sorry, Bonny!"
"You don't have to apologize to me, I'm an exorcist first, and then a member of the Albert family!" Bonny's eyes darkened, and he shook his head firmly, "I'll never forget Odo and Bramen Bravery against evil, I will not forget my oath!"
Bonny tore off the bandage on his face, revealing half of the bloody tendon knot, bare bones, and a face like a ghost. He walked slowly to a corner of the encirclement, drew out the two swords at his waist, and pointed at his original family members.
"It seems that the Albert family can at least leave the last bloodline!" Maier sighed softly, and was about to take a step, but found that Nova walked past him silently, walking towards the encirclement with a blank expression.
With the addition of the three of Boni, apart from Qin Lun, the remaining eight exorcists finally reached a unity again. The prospect the doctor painted for them was so dire that even Nova and Bonnie couldn't sit still. As Boney said, regardless of their personal status, they are first and foremost exorcists who swore to protect the human world.
Baron Albert slowly raised his head, the cold light in his eyes solidified, fixed on Qin Lun, and asked in a hoarse voice: "Doctor Stan, I am also an exorcist. I just want to know, what is your opinion about that Is there any real basis for the accusation of a mysterious reformer?"
"Of course there are!" Qin Lun grinned and nodded gracefully, "When I became an exorcist, I discovered from the Odia exorcist's oath that not every member of the Albert family It's an exorcist, at least half of Albert's names are not on the oath, and the mysterious reformer is one of them.
A family of exorcists who swore to protect the Odia region for thousands of years, how could half of the members not be exorcists
In my guess, the only explanation is that these members are guarding the Odia region in another form. They are the original origin of the two new creatures, and they are also the core force of the Albert family fighting against the Maya witch. .
Each generation of Baron Albert signed servant contracts with these members and became another form of summoner. Of course, the contract with the undead creature also made them pay a heavy price, not only offsetting the protection power, but also having a shorter lifespan than ordinary humans. "
Hearing this, the hearts of all the exorcists present were moved. What Qin Lun said was indeed true. It's just that everyone has never doubted this aspect, but simply thought that members of the Albert family had special physiques.
"I don't know when, the mysterious reformer of the Albert family could no longer bear the death of the servants around him, so he turned the transformation that was originally only for Albert members to ordinary castle servants. Of course, these servants themselves Without the blood of the Albert family, many people would not be able to transform successfully, which is also the main reason why some werewolves have no wisdom."
A flash of understanding flashed in Boni's eyes in the corner of the encirclement. He thought of the old man who returned to human form after death. According to the doctor, the old werewolf should have been a former castle servant.
"However, for some unknown reason, it decided to transform the underage Xiao Le into an undead. However, it was such an important transformation, but it made a mistake.
The reason is very simple, Miller not only has the blood of his father Stephen, but also the blood of his mother Nina, and Nina is an out-and-out Maier witch—Mary Claire!
Stephen's bloodline is biased toward the power of immortality, and Mary's bloodline is biased towards the power of immortality. Originally, these two kinds of powers have been sealed and cannot be unlocked at all. However, that mysterious reformer is not only a member of the Albert family, but also an undead, and also possesses two kinds of power.
By chance, it unlocked the seal on Xiao Le's body.
Perhaps, without even realizing it, there is a flaw in the unsolvable seal left by the believers of the immortals, and this flaw is it!
However, these two conflicting forces are too huge, so huge that it makes Xiao Le sick! Due to this ridiculous reason, Witch Mary exposed her identity as an undead.
On the way to the Maija forest with her husband and son, they were hunted down by Baron Albert. Witch Mary died on the spot, and the core was poached by another witch, Mesa, who was in charge of monitoring the outskirts of the forest. This almost wiped out our entire army in the witch's hut.
Witnessing his mother being killed by his grandfather and his father transformed into a werewolf, Miller collapsed as soon as he returned to the castle. From then on, he was bedridden in a coma, and the unfused blood in his body began to produce undead plague gas with breathing.
But for this kind of thing, the Albert family could not ask for help from the exorcist organization, so they had to ask ordinary doctors for treatment one after another, and infected them with the undead plague, and finally the current major epidemic broke out.
Witch Mary is dead, and Stephen has been turned into a werewolf and imprisoned at the bottom of the military fortress. Baron Albert and Bonny are exorcists, and it is impossible to have undead power in their bodies. Xiao Le has undead power in his body, but he is the victim, and he is not the mysterious reformer either.
Hehe, with this calculation, there are only two members of the Albert family who did not appear on the exorcist oath and lived in Albert Castle for many years! One of them was Miss Laura...
However, based on another piece of evidence I have, I believe she is not the mysterious reformer!
The mysterious reformer of the Albert family... is you!
The undead princess of Albert's family—Elizabeth Albert! "