After obtaining Miss Bevanna's consent, a scribe with the ability of [Weak Acid Corrosion] melted away the wall bit by bit, and found the old man embedded in it.
Since Jenkins can see the light spots of his ability, it means that he is still alive. But even though Jenkins stretched out his hand to treat him at the first time, the old man was still unconscious with his eyes closed.
He had no symptoms of being drained of blood, and his breathing was steady. The frightened Jenkins was about to increase the output of the spirit like he did when he healed the bishop that night, but Miss Bevanna stopped him again.
"Don't worry, this is Father Oliver's [Feign Death] ability, which can be used to survive in extremely harsh situations."
She shook her head at Jenkins: "There is no need for treatment, now you follow the carriage back to the church, and the keeper will help Dad wake up."
"What about you?"
"I want to stay here. Things may be a little bad. After the demons, there may be strange creatures coming to our city."
Miss Bevanna should be referring to the legendary vampire, which is now commonly known as a "vampire". Of course, most of the general public's cognition comes from those extremely romantic novels.
But Jenkins is not in the mood to think about the impact of this incident on himself. He anxiously followed the carriage to transport his father back to the church, and ran at the front, and found the secret keeper on duty tonight in front of the gate of Vientiane. Miss Pei.
This is an old man who likes to wear a hairnet. Jenkins seldom sees her. According to Mr. Smith, this keeper who is more senior than him has more important responsibilities in the diocese.
After simply listening to what Jenkins said about the current situation, she temporarily followed Jenkins to the ground, walked into the room where her father was lying, stretched out her head with her hands behind her back, and observed for a while, then slammed her right palm on his chest .
"Cough, cough cough~"
The old man coughed with his eyes closed, and then opened them suddenly.
"Unfamiliar ceiling."
Jenkins walked over immediately and helped him speak out what was on his mind.
"Stinky boy, this is your idea, not mine~ Whoops, why does my chest hurt so much?"
With the awakening of the old man, what he experienced was also known to everyone.
It's still today... No, it's already past zero. It was still yesterday afternoon, after Chocolate followed Jenkins across the street, Dad suddenly heard a strange sound coming from behind the wall. He originally wanted to yell for Jenkins to come back, but he was worried that he would disturb the people behind the wall, so he left a clue by the wall and turned over alone.
Yes, Pop did leave a mark, but Jenkins never had a chance to step out of the used bookstore to find out.
The unusual atmosphere behind the low wall is more obvious than at night, because it is impossible for such a small alley to be silent on a Saturday afternoon. His first thought was not to investigate in depth, but to return to the church to report immediately. This is very similar to Jenkins, but the other party has already discovered him.
"Who is the other party? Is it human?"
Jenkins asked nervously.
"No, I don't know either."
Dad shook his head, "I didn't see what attacked me at all. The other party probably didn't see me. They just thought that someone had discovered the situation there, so they used their abilities. I can't describe the situation at that time, I only remember a mass of scarlet Surrounded by mist from all directions, that thing is not harmful to the environment, but it is very corrosive to life forms, and I saw with my own eyes that the tree in the alley was completely dead."
"so… "
"So I simply hid. The other party is obviously not something I can deal with."
As the old man said, he nodded to Miss Bevanna who had just rushed over, "Jenkins, you must remember that saving your own life is more important than anything else without violating the rules of the church and your own principles." All important."
"So the laws of the kingdom don't matter?"
Jenkins thought silently in his heart, agreeing with his father's words.
He asked Miss Bevanna again: "Is there any new progress now? Is it..."
"Yes, it is indeed a blood-sucking race. The church's fortune tellers and psychics have completed the first wave of investigations, and the problem is very serious."
She took off her hat and put it aside: "That vampire has an extremely powerful anti-divination ability, although it can't be compared with the believers of the New God..."
Jenkins shivered subconsciously, almost shaking off the chocolate on his shoulder.
"But it has caused a great hindrance to our investigation. This matter has been notified to the other four churches. If there is really no way, I will ask your astronomy teacher, Miss Audrey, for help."
"Is it really that serious?"
"Yes."
Dad patted him on the shoulder: "The study of alien knowledge has not been carried out in depth. What you have learned is just common sense. You can go to the library to look for "Enemy of Man: Alien Deterrence". Remember, you must The fifth edition, the one with the black cover, has detailed records there. The individual strength of pure blood vampires is definitely not comparable to the pure blood demons of the previous few months, but this race brings more trouble! "
"And what about that alley?"
"They are all dead. Tomorrow's newspaper will publish the news. The cause of death is that there was a problem with the gas pipeline in that batch, which caused gas leaks in all the houses in the whole alley, and because of the lack of ventilation in winter, it caused collective poisoning." Incident. The 'culprits' at City Hall and the Gas Company have all been arranged and ordinary citizens won't realize what's going on."
said Miss Bevanna.
"Then follow up?"
"This will be an extremely dangerous and long process, at least there will be no more news tonight."
"Is there anything I can do?"
As he spoke, he stood up straight.
"You need to go home."
Dad said.
"Um?"
"Now go home and sleep. Yes, you will come to the antique store tomorrow morning. Do you want to be late?"
Jenkins opened his mouth slightly, how could the peaceful and safe apprenticeship life and the exciting and dangerous evening activities be connected in this way
"This matter has nothing to do with our field civilians. Do you want to abandon Dad and join the combat force?"
"of course not!"
He hastily retorted.
"Then go home!"
"OK!"
Fearing that his father would say any more sad words, Jenkins grabbed his hat and walked out quickly. Then he came back again, smiled embarrassedly, and picked up the coat that was left behind.